CONWAY — When Parker Coleman suits up in the annual CHaD East-West High School All-Star Football Game in Grappone Stadium at Saint Anselm College in Manchester on July 17 (kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.), he’ll be playing for more than the love of the game. He is playing to honor his good friend Tucker Day, 9, of Conway who has been a patient at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital since he was five.
No one will be cheering louder for Parker than Tucker, an energetic soon-to-be-fifth-grader and the son of Krista and Tony Day, both of Conway.
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