From left to right, students McKenna Connelly, Zoey Black, Etta Bynagle, Phoebe Boyle, Eddy Uwekoolani and Hannah Harrington sing.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Paul Banks Elementary School parents and friends packed the Mariner Theatre last Thursday for the school’s spring performance, “Drums Alive!”

Addison Szocinski and Finnegan Mattingly were part of a group playing percussion with sticks on exercise balls.

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