Local Elementary School On a Mission to Collect a Million Pennies

WOODRUFF-ARBOR VITAE - Kate Pelham was a Northwoods doctor from 1931 to 1956. Her medical service to the community made her a legend--and it was all done without a hospital. In 1953, students from Arbor-Vitae-Woodruff Elementary School collected a million pennies to help build the area's first medical center. Full Story: WJFW

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