Most children like to get cash handed to them unexpectedly and when that happened in the first-grade classrooms at South End Elementary School, excited chatter filled the rooms.

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Citizen photo Robin Lee Michel

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Eldon Hafford, executive director of Bread for Life, standing far left, and Victoria Triano, board member, thank first-graders at South End School for their donations to the food program.

Tomorrow's mail pickup will feature more than just first class and maybe some postage due envelopes. The letter carriers will also collect a new type of "special delivery" mail for delivery to the three food pantries that help feed the hungry in town.