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Lego Tribute To Honor Breast Cancer Patients

Posted: July 23, 2012

Jericho Brook, 11, (left) and Ellen Somers, 7, help Ellen’s brother Blake, 10, build another plant for his Lego garden as he leads a workshop for kids during the Arts Council of the Valley’s first ever Art in the Park event behind ACV’s office on Main Street in Harrisonburg on Saturday. Blake plans to build a pink ribbon Lego sculpture around 5 feet tall to memorialize Peggy Somers, his grandmother who died last summer after a long battle with breast cancer. (Photos by Justin Falls)
Legos donated by the Arts Council sit on a table for children during the event.
Blake Somers (right), 10, leads a Lego workshop for kids at the Arts Council of the Valley’s Art in the Park event behind ACV’s office on Main Street in Harrisonburg on Saturday.

HARRISONBURG — Blake Somers viewed his grandmother as someone special for a reason any 10-year-old kid would.

 

“She never said ‘no,’” he said.

 

And the way the city boy wants...



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