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By Teresa Simpson
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WHMC unveils Wally the Walker

 

Teresa Simpson | The Gazette

Cutlin Senior WSU engineering students show Wally the Walker final product. Pictures L-R Roman Sanelli, 23; Cooper Ward, 22; Austin Miller, 23; Max Cheesman, 23; Edgar Rodriguez, 23; Daniel Moore, 62.

COLFAX - WSU senior engineering students presented their finished model of Wally the Walker to Dusty farmer Daniel Moore outside the Whitman Hospital and Medical Center (WHMC) Therapy Services offices Tuesday, May 2.

The project, which Moore stated they'd been working on all year, started with a book he had started writing for his daughter when she was five or six from picking up balloons that would get stuck in fence posts outside their farm. He would put the story away for 25 years before his daughter had her son JP.

"JP was born with Malan syndrome," Moore said, explaining that it made...



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