Volume 3 | Issue 5 | September 2015
Consignment guide
Back to life
This year, consignment sale season features two-day events at several area churches. Read details inside.
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Lucky strike
After a successful season as an emerging sport last year, bowling strikes this school year as an official high school sport.
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Family’s charity supports youngest victims of cancer By SYDNEY CROMWELL As they sat with their 16-month-old son in the cancer unit at Children’s of Alabama, Andy and Jan Thrower thought it was strange that nurses kept pushing them to meet other families in the unit.
Anderson Thrower is now a healthy 8-year-old after completing treatment for leukemia. His family started aTeam Ministries to help other pediatric cancer patients. Photo by Sydney Cromwell.
“I’m sitting here focusing on my child and I didn’t realize at that time there’s such a community with the parents that have a child with cancer,” Jan said. “There’s really nobody else that really understands what you’ve gone through. And so I think there’s kind of a bond even though you may not know them, you
know what they’ve experienced.” Their journey to Children’s started on Christmas Eve 2008, when Anderson developed a limp two weeks after a healthy 16-month checkup. By New Year’s, his stomach was
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The road to Altadena
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City to decide on new park development this month
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By SYDNEY CROMWELL A park can be a beautiful thing for a city, but homeowners near the former Altadena Valley Golf and Country Club have been concerned about the extra traffic a park on the site could bring. As the city moves toward its decision date on annexing the property, city On Sept. 28, the City Council will vote on whether to annex and rezone the Altadena property. Photo by Keith McCoy.
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