Children use teacher's memorial to share their feelings

CHAMPAIGN – The bulletin board in the hallway at Garden Hills Elementary School is covered with letters surrounding Venita Hubbard's picture. So is the table below it, along with a vase full of red roses.

Written by students, some are thank-you notes to Mrs. Hubbard, a third-grade teacher at the school who was killed in a car accident Monday morning.

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