Third grader Harmony Collins delights in her new coat while looking in the mirror.

Photo by Patricia O’Blenes

WARREN — “See anything you like?” Sue Zacharski asked McKinley Elementary fifth grade student Cora Angel as they looked over a rack of new shirts. “Do you have a favorite color?”

“Blue,” Angel told her.

Together, they picked out one blue and one white shirt, both long-sleeved, for Angel and then headed to the coat racks where Angel picked out a brand-new winter coat before she stopped to get a new chapter book.

Zacharski was one of the volunteers who helped students shop Sept. 23 during the Assistance League of Southeastern Michigan’s Operation School Bell program. The nonprofit organization, based in Rochester, is a group of volunteers who do philanthropic work in Macomb, Oak

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