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Video: Power of letter writing leads to special day for stricken 8th-grader

Mackanzie Chan, 14, an 8th-grader at Willmar Middle School who is fighting cancer, got to meet her favorite country-music artist Carrie Underwood at this year's State Fair --- thanks to a letter-writing campaign by students in Grades 6, 7 and 8.

2024754+web.jpg — Willmar Middle Schooler proved to be "write-on" when it came to making things happen.

By Rand Middleton

September 21, 2015 at 7:06 AM

Mackanzie Chan, 14, an 8th-grader at Willmar Middle School who is fighting cancer, got to meet her favorite country-music artist Carrie Underwood at this year's State Fair --- thanks to a letter-writing campaign by students in Grades 6, 7 and 8.