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MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times
Second grader Emily Elliott prepares to drop an apple into a cider press Wednesday during Harvest Day at West Parish Elementary School in Gloucester. Students harvested vegetables grown with the help of the Backyard Growers program, and learned how to make apple cider from James Harrison of Gloucester, North Shore director of the Food Project, who brought the cider press and invited students to help operate it.

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