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RYAN AND ANNA CARMICHAEL, both Cleveland natives, started One Heart Africa, an organization that provides education, food and water for a village in the country of Mozambique called Licilo. Their “one heart” for Africa drew them together, and they got engaged during a trip they made to Mozambique to see how they could help. Now married and making occasional trips to the African country, the couple hope to eventually move there to serve full time.
Couple seek to unite others with One Heart Africa
Not many people can say they started an international nonprofit organization by the time they turned 23. However, Cleveland natives Ryan and Anna Carmichael have done just that, founding an organi...
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IN THE ACCOUNTING INDUSTRY — public, private and governmental — the knowledge and superior skills of a certified public accountant, like Bob Anderson of Cleveland, are respected as the pinnacle of professional achievement.
Bob Anderson: A CPA who understands what it means to ‘render an account’
Talking with Robert Anderson about accounting is almost like listening to a man who has been smitten by his profession. You get the sense that he is on the inside looking out, while you are on the...
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DR. EDDIE AND IRMA WILLIAMS made music together in college, in church and in their daily lives as they wrote children’s songs, hymns, poetry, gospel music and inspirational stories.
Making sweet music together: How Eddie and Irma Williams found the rhythm of love
Not many couples can speak about the power of music in their lives for nearly six decades, publish more than 200 songs and continue to enjoy making beautiful music together. But Eddie and Irma Will...
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ALEX STEPHENS, Above left, a Cleveland native who is studying at Bryan College in Dayton, runs for his college’s cross country team and was a finalist in this year’s “Fit Man On Campus” contest run by Men’s Fitness magazine. Ruthie Forgey, center, corps administrator at The Salvation Army of Cleveland, resolved to lose weight on New Year’s Day 2012. By the time 2013 began, she had lost about 100 pounds by changing the way she ate and exercised. She is continuing her progress and has helped start “Faith and Fitness,” a Salvation Army group for anyone wanting to learn how to live a healthier lifestyle. Tyrone Johnson, right, a Pentecostal Theological Seminary student from Maryland, has been training to become a professional bodybuilder. He has advanced through two competitions in Louisiana and Texas and earned a spot in an upcoming national competition. One piece of advice he has for anyone pursuing a fitness goal is to make gradual lifestyle changes, like exercising one extra day a week.
Clevelanders share advice on fitness in 2013
The new year has inspired many people to resolve to make a fresh start, and one of the most common New Year’s resolutions is to reach some fitness goal. Whether someone wants to lose a few pounds o...
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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...
Jan 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Dec 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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