-Messenger file photo
From left, Kiley Walker, Jozlynn Porter and Maddy Craft count some of the cash collected by the sixth-grade students at Fair Oaks Middle School and donated to Cure Search on behalf of the family of Coleman Larson, who died on Jan. 5, 2009, from brain cancer. The students raised more than $600, surpassing their original goal of $100. Larson’s mother, Peggy, was a first-grade teacher for many of the students when they were at Duncombe Elementary where she teaches.