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Christopher Adkins plays with classmates during recess at Southwest Elementary School on Thursday. The school is planning a coin drive to raise money for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation.
TILTON – This week, Southwest Elementary School students have been raiding their piggy banks, looking under couch cushions and digging through kitchen drawers for loose change.
It's all part of a "Coins for a Cure" drive to help 10-year-old Christopher Adkins, a fourth-grader who has mitochondrial disease.
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