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Student Sells Bracelets To Buy School Automatic Door Opener
December 15, 2005

MILWAUKIE, OREGON--The following four paragraphs are excerpts from a story in the Portland Oregonian:

Emily Lang has to throw her entire body into pushing open the heavy front doors at Rex Putnam High School, and some students in wheelchairs can't open them at all.

The 18-year-old senior, who has limited use of her arms and hands because of congenital deformities, thinks all students, staff and visitors should have easy access to Putnam through the front door. So Lang is trying to raise $1,700 for an automatic door opener by making and selling bracelets for $2.

Last Wednesday, she zipped around Putnam in a limping jog, setting up two small Christmas trees covered in bracelets to sell during lunch. She played Christmas music and did a little jig after one boy bought seven bracelets.

"Wow!" she said. "That was the biggest one I've gotten!"

Entire article:
"Putnam teen draws a bead on opportunity" (The Oregonian)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/1215a.htm

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