#CJStrong: Local school supports cancer-stricken student

  • CJ’s classmates and teachers greeted him with signs Thursday morning. MONIQUE BRAND | DISPATCH RECORD
    CJ’s classmates and teachers greeted him with signs Thursday morning. MONIQUE BRAND | DISPATCH RECORD
  • Hanna Springs Elementary School first-grader CJ Cluck, left, is cheered on by his classmates during a drive-by event at the school. He hasn’t seen his teachers or classmates since February, as the student is battling Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. MONIQUE BRAND | DISPATCH RECORD
    Hanna Springs Elementary School first-grader CJ Cluck, left, is cheered on by his classmates during a drive-by event at the school. He hasn’t seen his teachers or classmates since February, as the student is battling Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. MONIQUE BRAND | DISPATCH RECORD

    “CJ! CJ! CJ!”

    A crowd of 700 Hanna Springs Elementary students, faculty and staff chanted the initials loudly Thursday morning at the campus parking lot.

    Their reason? To show support for fellow classmate and cancer patient CJ Cluck, who was diagnosed several months ago with Ewing sarcoma.

    Ewing sarcoma is a cancerous tumor that grows in the bones or in the bones’ soft tissue — often the legs, pelvis…