Hamlin Students Run A 'Dominic Dash' in Classmate's Honor

For 21 fourth-graders from , Saturday morning's started with a wish. 

The students wrote messages on blue and orange balloons and released them into the air over Rochester just before the race began. The messages were wishes that they had for the family of Dominic Zeleznik, a classmate who passed away earlier this school year after battling cancer.

"He was a great friend to all of the kids," said Kim Mroczek, the students' teacher who helped them train to run the 5K race in Dominic's memory.

Mroczek, the students and some of their parents ran the race in T-shirts they designed in Dominic's honor. The shirts were the colors of the Detroit Tigers — his favorite team — and featured a quote from one of his favorite books. 

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