Longley students make Valentines

: Basra Diri watches her sons Imran Daher, 6, right, and Loukman Daher, 10, make Valentine’s Day cards for “hospital people that are sick,” Loukman said at Longley School on Monday. “We’re going to tell them to feel better and be happy,” he added.

: Liahna Palmer, 7, writes out a Valentine’s Day card to Lewiston firefighters Monday after school at Longley Elementary. When asked why she was making a Valentine for them, she responded, “because they helped us with our house burning down.” Palmer, her mom, Ashley Melina, and brother, Jacobi Joseph, 3, lived in the Pierce Street apartment building that burned in May.

: Liahna Palmer, 7, asks her mother, Ashley Melina, if she can go show her teacher her Valentine’s Day card for Lewiston firefighters Monday after school at Longley Elementary. Palmer, her mom, and her brother, Jacobi Joseph, 3, right, lived in the Pierce Street apartment building that burned in May.

: Janessa Johnson, 3, right, looks to see what her sister, Niya, 6, is drawing on her Valentine’s Day card after school at Longley Elementary in Lewiston on Monday.