Caymen Winnie had been waiting for this day for weeks. And with the mantle of leadership upon him, he soaked up every moment.
Caymen, a second-grader at La Monte Elementary School, spent Friday’s half-day of school as the physical education teacher for the day, an honor he won by raising the most money in the school’s recent Hoops for Heart campaign to benefit the American Heart Association.
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