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MADISON HEIGHTS — Edmonson Simple is feeling packed these days.

Every student at the school — and swiftly enough the preschoolers, faculty and staff — has a cardboard clone to call their own.

They be on the take every hall at Edmonson Elementary, every wall in the cafeteria and gymnasium, always smiling, day and unceasingly. They surprise visitors in the lobby, a gaggle of them right by the main doors. Sometimes, they even astound the school’s own staff.

“In the morning, when you come to coterie, you see the outline of the figures in the hallway window, from the driveway,” said Denise Doane, a sidekick cook. “It makes you jump, just for a minute, and then you produce what it is. I’m not the only one who’s expressed that — others have said the same thing.”

Jim Martz, day living, joked it can be spooky.

“This building is over 30 years old, and it creaks and moves and makes noises at 5:30 in the morning,” he said with a sport of.

Source: C&G Newspapers

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