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Poppy drive-thru set for Blanchester: Donate, and remember, for a great cause
Linda Mider - Contributing columnist
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Poppy Days in Blanchester is slated for Friday, May 28 from 2-6 p.m. at the Municipal Building.
In keeping with the Center for Disease & Control request for social distancing, there will be a fun drive-thru. Cars will enter off Main Street onto Clark Street by the playground and exit onto Cherry Street.
Along the route, which will be marked with cones, there will be posters and signs that local school children made about poppies. At the end of the route will be Little Miss Poppy junior member Montana Jackson, granddaughter of ALA member Susan Jacobs.