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LAW peace project gets page in Big Book

SHIRLEY -- When LAW third-grader Dana Maloney read "Three Cups of Tea" last summer, the story inspired him, said his mom, Dina Samfield. "He wanted to do something (in terms of education) to help kids in East Asia and Afghanistan," she said.

The result was "Pennies for Peace," Dana's special project.

The joint mother-son effort evolved into a school-wide campaign organized by Dana's class to collect pennies that would go toward schools and school supplies for children abroad through the Central Asia Institute. The successful campaign raised $175 for the cause. The students counted and rolled all of the coins collected themselves, and project sponsor Fidelity Bank checked the change count and provided the check for the CAI, Samfield said.

The "Pennies" project also branched into "Lura White for Peace" by Dana, Michael Woodland and Ian Shack, one of several computer-class projects presented recently at the school.

All the students in Kristen Lynch's class made multicultural collages for the project, using textiles and other touchable materials to create them. The cut-out motif as well as the message was inspired by "Listen to the Wind," a children's picture-book based on the "Three Cups of Tea" story.

The collages will be included in "Pages for Peace," which is arguably the most extensive and longest-lasting extra-curricular project in the history of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District. Sizewise, it may be the biggest student project ever.

Still a work in progress, the Big Book continues to grow, gaining local momentum and national recognition.

Groton-Dunstable Middle School teacher Betsy Sawyer and her after-school student club have been working on the "Big Book" for several years, from the initial concept to collecting letters from "peacemakers" all over the world.

They've raised awareness and are still raising funds to turn a super-size idea into a tangible tome that will weigh about a ton and will require a flatbed trailer for transport and a mechanical arm to turn its 20-foot by 12-foot pages.

The peacemakers have been invited guests at the UN twice and have visited the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, where they met firefighters that responded that day.

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