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BY ELIZABETH KANE
en 4- to 6-yearold students hopped off their bus from the Primrose School of Chapel Hill at Briar Chapel
in April to brighten the day of a few
residents at Galloway Ridge at Fearrington as part of the Adopt-a-Grandparent program. It was the first time since the pandemic shutdown in March 2020 that adopted grandmothers Nancy 94
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN MICHAEL SIMPSON
White, Fran Spaeder, Marie ABOVE A group of preschoolers from the Primrose School of Chapel Hill at Briar Chapel make drawings for their “adopted grandmothers” at Galloway Ridge at Fearrington. RIGHT Connor Allen shares his artwork with Marie Barbieri.
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Barbieri, Phebe Johnson,
and Barb Gordon welcomed the young children into a community room to play games, make crafts and enjoy story time together. For the majority of this school year, students from one elementary, one kindergarten and two pre-K classes crafted greetings, posters and drawings for their “grandmothers,” according to Janice Greiner, curriculum coordinator at Primrose. Marge Snelling