Community Corner

PHOTO: Hanging At The Harvest Festival

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With the help of 100 community volunteers and 600 attendees, the sixth annual Harvest Festival hosted by Verrill Farm in Concord on Oct. 13 raised a record $17,445 for Emerson Hospital’s “coping kits” of therapeutic toys, which are distributed to pediatric patients by the hospital’s pediatric intervention team. Pictured is 3 year-old Gracie Gamwell of Wakefield admiring a Concord fire truck.


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