Boy With Leukemia Uses His Wish From Make-A-Wish Not For Himself But For His Classmates

This sure was a pizza party like none other, at McKinley Elementary School in Watertown.

At the end of the school day, students and staff come to the playground area and form a block-long greeting tunnel.

The students have come armed with signs and costumes, even as a police escort managed to surprise their classmate 9-year-old Javier Amos.

Javier has been diagnosed with leukemia and is currently in remission, he was granted a wish from the “Make A Wish” foundation.  He did not wish for a trip to Disneyworld or something like that, but what he wanted was a party for his school which included pizza, zoo animals, bounce houses, laser tag, and other games.

Jo Evenson, who heads “Make A Wish,” South Dakota, attended the event, he says he hasn’t seen anything like this before.

The school students partied for two-hours before going home in their school buses. Javier’s wish was granted by Dacotah Bank in Watertown.

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“And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.”

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