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Michael Lindeman, at left, looks on Monday, April 1, 2024, as fellow basket of sunshine recipient Connie McGowan reacts to the basket handed her by Ayden Jones, a student at Jefferson City High School. Jones and other students in the leadership class took on the project as their student-led service project. Items in the basket were fuzzy socks, coloring book and colored markers, word and number puzzle books and more. The project's yellow theme was selected to brighten the day of cancer patients as they attend the St. Mary's Cancer Center for treatment.
Ella Jobe wanted to give cancer patients and survivors a basket of sunshine after her aunt was diagnosed with the disease.
"This is a fun, positive way to interact with the community," Jobe said, explaining that quite a few of her relatives and people she knows have had cancer.
