Sons honored with fundraising block party
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September 29, 2021

Sons honored with fundraising block party

By Ally Lanasa

Colin & Griffin’s Gang, pictured at the Columbus Marathon and Half Marathon in 2019, raise money for Nationwide Children’s Hospital every year in honor of Grace and Derek Chapman’s late sons, Colin and Griffin, who died shortly after birth in May 2017. (Photo submitted)

In honor of their l...

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