Making a difference: Program provides shoes
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Christy Smith, president of the Port Charlotte Sunrise Club.
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Shoe Trophy winners were a big part of the Shoes for Kids project.
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Kiwanis members saluted the Spirit Award winners who helped with their Shoes for Kids drive.
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Teachers, principals, school nurses and one superintendent came to celebrate the Shoes for Kids project.
Dr. Lori Carr, principal of East Elementary, has a student who’s taken to spotting classmates with shabby shoes and letting the school office know they need new ones.
“She came in one day and told me about a student whose shoes were ‘talking,’” Carr told a group during breakfast last week, making a talking motion with her right hand. “That means they were flapping as the student walked down the hall.”
