The news was delivered to the Deale Elementary School fifth-grader earlier this month by her gym teacher, Vern Brumfield.
Brumfield, also the schools' safety patrol coordinator, said that when he called Alissa: "She let out a shriek of emotion like she might have seen a mouse or something . . . it really caught her by surprise, because she didn't know she was nominated."
Once she first heard about safety patrol, she thought it...
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