District’s first therapy dog charts course for kindness

District’s first therapy dog charts course for kindness

Cedar Springs — There’s a new leader at Cedar Springs Middle School — not a superintendent, principal, star athlete or class president, but a golden retriever named River, who’s showing students how to treat one another with kindness and compassion. River, the district’s first-ever therapy dog, is the driving force behind the budding River Way initiative, which asks students to pledge that they’ll treat others with the same unconditional accepta…