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SEEKING SOMEONE TO HELP, Butch Brown said he felt compelled to help this struggling mother in Japan. He said he learned she has four children 6 years old and under, and also takes care of her aging parents. After being given gifts and $100 by donors in Cleveland he had the money converted to yen and gave the struggling mother a charitable donation, along with gifts for her children.
Butch Brown: Spreading goodwill in Japan
Giving attention to those not getting attention was the purpose of Butch Brown volunteering to travel to Otsuchi, Japan, to help a small village that had been demolished after an earthquake and tsu...
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Banner photo, CHRISTY ARMSTRONG ANDY ANDERSON, a local author and insurance and investment company owner, describes his second book, “The Winter of Our Destiny” as a “spooky, scary love story.”
Local author sends chills in ‘The Winter of Our Destiny’
Cleveland author Andy Anderson said he came very close to naming his second book after a grocery store. “The Winter of Our Destiny,” the story of three young men who travel together and find thems...
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‘Dear Rachel’ author teaches kids how to live in a violent world
Hard lessons in reality is what is offered to children and even parents in the insightful new e-book, “Dear Rachel,” about one father’s efforts to teach his teenage daughter about the realities of ...
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JOELLA BATES is a Wildlife professional and dedicated outdoors participant. She has worked as a naturalist, wildlife officer, fisheries manager and environmental scientist prior to becoming an outdoors promoter. She can do it all: hunt, fish and shoot any type of weapon with considerable skill.
Joella Bates: Champion archer began career in Cleveland
She is the only woman in the world who has taken down a charging lion, a leopard, an elephant, a buffalo and a rhino with a bow and arrow. But champion archer Joella Bates, is best known as a passi...
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BUBBLES provided excitement for Gary Allmon and a group of children from an orphanage in Chiapas, Mexico in 2012. He and his wife, Pat, work as missionaries several months out of the year. Gary and Pat overcame lives of crime to help others.
The Year in Review: 2012 Part III
September through December From the beginning of September to the height of the holiday season, Clevelanders heard about other Cleveland natives doing things like visiting every single county in t...
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HAPPILY MARRIED IN 2012, Peggy and Julian Robinson may serve as an inspiration to generations about the ability to find love at any age. The Cleveland couple were childhood sweethearts at age 4. Below, Terril Littrell posed with some of the girls who live at the Mary Diana Samuel orphanage in India, the destination of the couple’s latest trip overseas.
The Year in Review: 2012, Part II, May through August
Summer in Bradley County brought fun in the sun to a variety of volunteers who chose to serve others in foreign lands, act as extras in a major motion picture, get fit and fall in love in one of th...
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“Molly, a Great Dane, was my brother’s dog,” Vicky Guy said. “They got her when their daughter, Annie, was 2 years old and had been everywhere on vacations.” But Molly recently got cancer and she had to be put down on March 16. Guy said Molly took great care of her brother’s three kids — mostly the youngest, Annie, Molly’s first generation of the Doug and Charlcie Ingram family. Molly stayed long enough to welcome the last member of the Doug and Charlcie Ingram family — their first grandchild, Mason.
The Year in Review: 2012
Part I January through April
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ROCKETTE ABBE GATLIN of Cleveland will be performing at this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
Local dancer turns Radio City Rockette
Inspired by movement, driven by dreams, Rockettes rehearse six days a week, six hours a day to get ready for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. As professional athletes, the dancers are expected...
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Bob Reffner
Meet the man who loves Christmas
Christmas is the highlight of the year for Bob Reffner, who says, “I just love Christmas.” And it shows in the extent he goes to in making the Reffner home the personification of “Deck the Halls ....
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TERRY AND SUE CAYWOOD, above, won a grand prize trip to Ghana, West Africa, and received much more than they bargained for, including some valuable lessons that changed their lives. The Georgetown couple said they wanted to share their adventure with the public.
A call to Africa: What one couple discovered on their prize-winning tour
When Dana Sue Caywood and her husband, Terry, were notified that they had won Africa Channel’s “Know Your Heritage” 2012 Sweepstakes and a free six-night, nine-day trip for two to Ghana, West Afric...
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