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CORINA WALKER AND DAUGHTER NAHAYLA are preparing to travel to the Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville in July for another open-heart surgery and an MRI to determine if the tumor on her brain is growing. Mother and daughter are hoping the community will keep them in their prayers and are open to any assistance offered by individuals and organizations able to help. Photo by WILLIAM WRIGHT
Open-heart surgery set for ‘miracle child’
After cheating death seven times, baby Nahayla Jae Smasal has been diagnosed with a low-grade tumor on the brain and is scheduled to have another open heart surgery. Her mother, Corina Walker, is a...
Apr 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Banner photos, WILLIAM WRIGHT DOREEN SCOTT of McDonald has taken her love of flowers and gardening and turned them into a dazzling work of art as passersby cannot help but admire her selection and collection of daffodils, tulips, pansies and lilacs with loropetalum and boxwood bushes to help beautify her landscape. These are just a few of the flowers surrounding her house.
Flowers like living rainbows
Gardening is more than a relaxing hobby for Doreen Scott, it is a lifestyle that defines who she is and what she is all about — a person who enjoys the beauty of watching things grow.
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HEAD OVER HEELS in love is what many people called Ann and Clarence Black, who married within a week of first laying eyes on each other. The Cleveland couple have turned their whirlwind romance into nearly seven decades of marital bliss, producing two children, five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, six great-great-grandchildren and a romantic tale for the ages.
Whirlwind marriage surpasses 68 years
They first met on a Tuesday and married that Saturday, but Clarence and Ann Black never regretted their whirlwind wedding which swept them off their feet and united them in holy matrimony more than...
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ROY AND EVELYN BARBER of Cleveland are two fun-loving, wisecracking, sentimental soulmates who know how to make a marriage last and keep a relationship strong. Photo by WILLIAM WRIGHT
Roy and Evelyn Barber: Seven decades of devotion
Only 5 percent of married couples reach their golden anniversary and even fewer celebrate their diamond anniversary of 60 and 75 years, but Roy and Evelyn Barber are not your average couple. The Cl...
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TURNING 100 — Juan Colón Muñoz recently turned 100 and is as feisty as ever. The first technology he ever saw was the Victrola, the first internal horn phonograph. Today, the centenarian lives with his family in Cleveland among the high-tech world of computers and Internet service.
One hundred and Juan
Juan Colón Muñoz recently became what his family believes to be the first known Puerto Rican living in Cleveland to turn 100 years old. Muñoz came to the U.S. for the first time at the age of 97, a...
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SEEKING THE KINGDOM — Emily Owens, 22, posed with a Bible student at a Christian meeting during her visit to Guyana in 2010. The former Meigs County youth said this was a way of expanding her ministry and reaching out to serve where the need was greater.
Youth finds productive life visiting Guyana
For a youth who spent most of her life in Meigs County, Emily Owens decided to take a missions trip to Guyana and, in turn, discovered something remarkable about herself and a life of sacrifice.
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NEW DIRECTOR — Christina Poteet, the new director of service-learning in the office for community and civic engagement at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, is changing the perception of community and civic engagement as being more than just the office that organizes service projects. The Cleveland native, seen above during a Christmas Gift Drive with one of the children involved in the project, sees her office as a one-stop shop for community service, volunteering and service-learning.
Christina Poteet: Raising the bar for service-learning
Christina Poteet, a 2002 graduate of Cleveland High School, is the new director of service-learning in the office for community and civic engagement at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
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IRISH HERITAGE — Irish descendant Sam Malone celebrates Saint Patrick’s Day every year by donning his lucky green shirt and green plaid hat. He adds to his collection of Saint Patrick’s Day memorabilia each year. (Below) Malone’s wife, Pat, makes sure he gets a new Saint Patrick’s Day item every year like the “Kiss me, I’m Irish” badge he’s sporting. And yes, he got his Saint Patrick’s Day kiss. (Inset left) Malone looks over the book he helped to edit: “Malone and Allred Families, Second and Revised Edition,” published by Randolph A. Malone, Thomasville, Ga. Photo by BETTIE MARLOWE
Sam Malone finds ‘Luck of the Irish’
Local genealogist traces ancestry roots to lineal ‘gold’
Mar 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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OPERA ROCKS! — The face of opera is changing with bright young faces like the operatic soprano Sarah Kate Walston, who returns to Cleveland as the featured guest in the Squires Hall Recital series located at the South Wing of the DeVos Center for the Humanities at Lee University. Thursday’s 7:30 p.m. recital is free and open to the public.
Opera’s popularity rises with Sarah Walston
To possess a voice so silvery that it soars among the more memorable classical timbres has made acclaimed opera singer Sarah Kate Walston a musical must-see whenever she performs in Cleveland. The ...
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A GOOD “BAD GUY” — Rodney Wiseman, a former Cleveland resident, is making a name for himself playing sinister characters like his latest “bad boy” role in the faith-based film “Frontier Boys.” The film won the coveted Adam Award for Best Picture at the Sabaoth International Film Festival, in Milan, Italy March 5. Wiseman’s parents are missionaries Gene and Lorene Wiseman, who live in Cleveland.
Rodney Wiseman makes bad look good in ‘Frontier Boys'
Former Cleveland resident shines in his latest award-winning faith-based film
Mar 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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