Peg Eddy remembers offering to host a couple of Australian high schoolers for a school exchange program.

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M. exchange with Jason Tam, a high-school friend.

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In exchange for opening its stage to Medina High School, which did away with its drama program in budget cuts, Lyndonville High sent students to prop up Medina's football and soccer teams and play in its championship marching band.

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