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Group helps build ‘clean’ room for Colony boy battling leukemia

by Pat Coate | June 16, 2009
"I wouldn't have been able to do something like that."
- Charles Heitman, Kevin's father

The whoosh-pop of a power nailer competed with the droning whine of a circular saw, and it was all music to the ears of Kevin Heitman.

The room will be a refuge for Kevin .., It also will be a model for Tony's Room Foundation, a nonprofit, as it seeks to enlist construction-related firms across the country to donate their time and skills toward building such rooms for other kids with leukemia.

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