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May Features
Adoptions, foster children change a Mt Laurel mom’s life
Farmers markets- Page 7 Editor’s note
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Local runs and festivals
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Tour de Cure
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Hands Free Mama
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Sumners retires
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Senior healthcare center
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School House
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HS correspondents
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Sports
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Restaurant Showcase
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280 Business Happenings
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Business Spotlight
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Kari Kampakis
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Paul Johnson
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Library Happenings
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Rick Watson
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Calendar of Events
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Live music schedule
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Kathryn, Chris, Ty, Amy, Jennifer, Shawn, Anna (Mom) , Alan (Dad), McKayla, Sam, Tqira at their Mt Laurel home. Photo by Keith McCoy.
By KATHRYN ACREE In 1971, a representative from Catholic Social Services spoke to Anna Lee’s fifth grade class at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School about welcoming foster children into their homes. For Lee, those words would lay a path for years to come. “I just had this feeling like something big was going to happen, but I didn’t know what it was,” Lee said.
Inspired by a flier sent home with Lee that day, her parents came to foster 19 children as she grew up. “We grieved when the children left because we knew we wouldn’t see them again,” Lee said of the way the process was closed while she was growing up. “But, each child that entered our lives was not a loss but a gain. We didn’t feel jealous. That
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A stretch of green through Dunnavant Valley Regions Tradition returns June 6-10
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child was part of our family.” Today, she and her husband, Alan, have 19 children ages one to 30, both biological and adopted. The number expands to 52 when counting the foster children they’ve welcomed over the years. But before starting a family of her own,
Friends of Dunnavant Valley Greenway members Ward Tishler and Virginia Randolph walk along the trail they helped create behind Soccer Blast on Highway 280. Photo by Madoline Markham.
By MADOLINE MARKHAM A scenic trail twists and turns 1.8 miles along Yellow Leaf Creek through Dunnavant Valley. Part of the public trail is an old road built in the early 1900s and later replaced
by the current County Road 41. Other segments wind along the curves of the flowing creek over rock gardens and bridges built by Eagle Scouts.
See DUNNAVANT | page 12
When a golf course is designed, it is intended to be innovative. It is a work of art conceived by men to embolden the human spirit to knock a ball some 300 yards off a tee and into a hole—not with anger or aggression but with a certain calm that allays any non-peaceful human emotions. A course should embrace yet intrigue the cerebral abilities of a golfer, either by the physical challenges or the beauty of the landscape. In 1977 Hall Thompson and Jack Nicklaus created such a course: Shoal Creek. Designed to draw major golf outings, Shoal Creek is no stranger to hosting golfing events. In 1984 and 1990, the course hosted PGA Championships. Bringing the Regions Tradition, which started in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1989, to Birmingham has validated the legitimacy of the golf course. For the second year in a row, Shoal
See REGIONS TRADITION | page 13