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Marking Armed Forces Day Shaw service members volunteer with local Habitat for Humanity BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com There are many ways to celebrate Armed Forces Day, and members of the Shaw Air Force Base Team Shaw Top 3 Organization chose to volunteer part of their day with Habitat for Humanity. More than 15 service members from Shaw came to work at a house in the Fuller Garden Subdivision, which is occupied with houses all built by Habitat. Bob Brown, construction manager
for Habitat, said service members from Shaw regularly volunteer with the organization throughout the year. He said the service members are always hardworking, disciplined and do a speedy job. He said its always a pleasure working with service members from Shaw because he tells them what needs to be done, hands them equipment and they get the job done without any difficulty. Team Shaw president Johnny Hamm said the organization is made of about 750 senior noncommissioned officers who organize a charitable project once every quarter. He said volunteering with Habitat is a great way to give back to the community. Brown said the main focus of Saturday’s volunteer session was to apply a
first and second coat of paint to the inside of the house. He said once that was done, flooring, cabinetry and appliances would be installed. He anticipates that the family will be able to move into the house by July. Theresa White, executive director of Habitat, said individuals must meet three criteria in order to qualify for a Habitat house. She said there must be a need for the home, individuals must be able to afford the interest free mortgage payment and have a willingness to partner with the nonprofit organization. White said Habitat is always looking for more volunteers who can help out any way they can. For more information about Habitat for Humanity, call (803) 775-5767 or visit habitatsumter.org.
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Master Sgt. Tim Martin installs molding on the Habitat for Humanity home being built in the Fuller Gardens neighborhood. Martin is a member of Shaw’s Top 3 program which performs community service in the area.
3K people turn out for Sumter’s Relay For Life BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Cinda Kammermann is keeping a positive attitude despite having been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer that has metastasized to her lungs. Because she has shortness of breath, she has to be on oxygen 24 hours a day. She was diagnosed with cancer two years ago and has recently made the decision to be in hospice at her home instead of continuing treatment. “I am not giving up,” she said. “I just feel that chemotherapy has weakened my body, and I want to stay strong for as long as possible to be able to minister God’s word.” Kammermann, 48, recently became a licensed counselor, and this summer will be ordained as a minister. She decided to become a counselor after seeing the number of people who need support. “Cancer is not discriminatory,” she said. “There are very few people who don’t know someone who has been affected in some way. I just want to be present for people as much I can.” Friday was her first time attending the Relay For Life of Sumter County. “It was incredible,” she said. “It’s amazing to RICK CARPENTER/THE SUMTER ITEM see how much support and kindness there is in Cinda Kammermann, a minister at the Sumter First Church of the Nazarene and a breast and lung cancer survivor, gets a hug our community.”
from Spiderman (Matt Vincent, a member of her congregation) during the Sumter Relay For Life on Friday night. The church decided to create a Relay team this year because so many church members are battling cancer.
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Tom Hanks plays father of local in Spielberg spy movie BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWKSY konstantin@theitem.com
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James B. Donovan speaks at a presidential dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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It’s not every day that you find out that Tom Hanks is playing the lead role of your father in a Hollywood movie directed by Steven Spielberg. But that is exactly what happened with Mary Ellen Fuller, a native of Brooklyn,
New York, who has called Alcolu her home for the last seven years. Fuller is the daughter of a man who was involved in some of the most monumental events of the Cold War. Her father was the late James B. Donovan, the famous lawyer, who in 1962 arranged for the release of Francis Gary Powers, an
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American pilot who was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union. The event made international headlines in 1960 and would become known as the U-2 incident, named after the U-2 spy plane. Steven Spielberg has called James Donovan his hero in various media outlets.
Donovan arranged for an exchange of spies between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, for which he received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. Fuller said that she had no idea a film was being made about her father and the incident.
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