Patricia Turner, customer relations coordinator for the Helena Post Office, read a story about the post office to second-graders at Kessler Elementary Tuesday morning. Then she helped the students write letters and design a stamp.

After spending the morning at Kessler Elementary, the school's principal, Karen Stout-Suenram, worked at the post office with Turner for the afternoon. The pair went to a meeting at the Myrna Loy Center of Performing Arts in the hopes of scheduling events around a stamp coming out in September commemorating the actor Gary Cooper, who was born in Helena.

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