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DOYLE DYKES, the iconic finger-style guitarist who lives in Cleveland, offers fans a homespun collection of stories about guitars, music, life and faith in his first book, “The Lights of Marfa: One of the World’s Great Guitar Player’s Amazing Encounters with God.” The Grand Ole Opry veteran, who has more than a half-dozen solo albums to his credit, creates contemporary guitar music that is fresh and sparkles with originality.
Doyle Dykes’ amazing encounters
One of the world’s great guitarists, Doyle Dykes, is sharing his unique insights about life on the stage, road and the famous people he met along the way, in his fun-filled, faith-filled memoir “Th...
May 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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LARRY MANNING, front, smiles, feeling “too blessed to be stressed” after a tornado destroyed his home off Blue Springs Road but somehow missed injuring his family, who were inside. His cousin Rob Miller, back left, rushed down from Indiana, along with his children, to help Larry and his wife, Linda, get back on their feet.
Moving on after the disaster: Residents are not only going through — but growing through adversity
The deadliest, costliest, most destructive storms in the history of Bradley County may have left communities torn and twisted in the aftermath, but local residents are finding a silver lining in th...
May 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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KIM LEDFORD AND HER SON DUSTIN pose for a photo during his high school years.
Kim Ledford: A mom on a mission
Danny and Kim Ledford will never put 25 candles on a birthday cake for their son Dustin.
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MELISSA WORD, a second-grade teacher at Yates Primary in Cleveland, sat on a street corner with second-graders in Cielo, Dominican Republic, assisting them in their education.
Mission trip raises kids’ poverty awareness
When Elementary school teacher Melissa Word visited the Dominican Republic in March, she promised to bring her students something back that would be priceless — awareness of what it was like to liv...
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FINDING TOGO on the map. (Submitted photo).
A world away in our backyard — a people cry out
Pastor and missionary Kokou Loko has sickle cell disease — and he thanks God for it.
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McAFEES have become an international family with the adoption of Kate, Grace and Aiden, who were born “cleft babies” in China. The two girls are students at Arnold Elementary School and Aiden is in preschool at United Christian Academy.
‘Cleft babies’ find loving family in Cleveland
The McAfees have become an international family. With six grown children — three each from previous marriages — Rick and Amy McAfee decided they had a home for three more children. Rick is from Ch...
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YATES PRIMARY second-grade students in Cleveland explained what Easter means to them and what they enjoy most about it. Front left are Tanequa Blair, Matthew Peterson and Elliot Brock. Back left are Brenden Gates, Emma Tolbert and Cole McGinnis. Insets, Coleman Gregory, 10, and Clara Kirksey, 10, said Easter is about celebrating when Christ rose from the dead and being with family. Banner photo, WILLIAM WRIGHT
Children weigh in on Easter
Easter Sunday, considered the most important religious celebration in Christendom, is being celebrated today, 1,978 years after eyewitnesses claimed to have seen Jesus of Nazareth resurrected from ...
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LITTLE ORPHAN FAVOR, above, bonded instantly with Anne Raby of Cleveland when Raby arrived in Uganda.
Out of Africa: Visiting orphans takes one woman on an emotional journey
She may not travel much but when Anne Raby decided to replace her brother on a mission trip to Uganda, she journeyed deeper into her love for children than she ever imagined. Raby admits her farth...
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POSING WITH HIS FAVORITE carved wood subdivision sign in Cleveland, Frank Smickle says, “This is my most restful sign. I made the sketches, selected the colors and did the design in 2009.” Photo by WILLIAM WRIGHT
Frank ‘n’ Signs: Local artist mixes advertising with art
Go anywhere in Cleveland and you’re liable to see the artwork of Frank Smickle, a professional graphic designer and sign painter with a style as recognizable in his field as that of da Vinci or Mon...
Apr 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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“ON GOLDEN POND,” painted by Robert Bradney, this chest could double as a coffee table and is the perfect addition for a summer cottage on the Ocoee or Hiwassee rivers. The loons may be back on Golden Pond, but this blanket chest is in Bradley County for Chair-ries Jubilee.
Paint nearly dry on Chair-ries Jubilee art pieces
Studios, workrooms, classrooms, basements and garages across the community show evidence of creative minds at work.
Apr 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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