Champlain Elementary students net more than 100 soccer balls for Afghans

It's not safe in there. Caution-tape alerts students at Champlain Elementary School in Burlington to the knee-high hazard in Tammy Charbonneau's office: a highly unstable cluster of wall-to-wall soccer balls. Charbonneau, who teaches physical education, appeared far from perturbed Wednesday afternoon. Kids at the school, she beamed, had rounded up more than 100 balls to be shipped to Afghan neighborhoods."It's 'power networking' in the community that made this happen," she said. "Every time I look around I see more balls. Where'd they all come from?"

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