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Bob Bowman has eight years of experience making wire art of all types. After growing tired restoring cars, his hobby for more than 25 years, Bowman wanted to find another way to keep his hands busy. He said he always had an appreciation for the more traditional art forms, but he didn’t like the fact that viewers couldn’t touch them. “I love watching people hold and feel my pieces,” he said. Bowman wishes he can get to a level where companies and people commission him to make art.
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In an effort to live greener, Julia and George Bauer are investing in solar panels for their rooftop during the summer of 2010.
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From left, John Moeggenberg, Tyler Johnroe, Stuart Starkweather, Jon Teich, and Mitch Martens will be leading off for Bay City Central’s lacrosse team.
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Some of Aminah Robinson’s work stemmed from the Columbus housing projects of the 60s and 70s.
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Bonnie Morris says sales clerks at American Eagle Outfitters at Easton broke Ohio law when they tried to stop her from breastfeeding her 10-month-old son, Jonah, on a couch on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
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Melissa VerplaMelissa Verplank has three Maremma sheep dogs, from left, Reagan, 1, Pearl, 3, and Cache, 3. She also has six horses. Galvalia, a 7-year-old Friesian is pictured. Rounding off her family are six cats and two chickens.nk has three Maremma sheep dogs, from left, Reagan, 1, Pearl, 3, and Cache, 3. She also has six horses. Galvalia, a 7-year-old Friesian is pictured. Rounding off her family are six cats and two chickens.
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Carol Cook, 64, has been a hardcore Spartan fan since she was 16 years old. She admits to being loud and obnoxious about it at times.
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John Otterbacher takes his dog Chauncy for a walk along the beach at White Lake on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Otterbacher has been a politician and psychologist, and survived several heart attacks before deciding to sail around the world with his family. Facing death, he says, has taught him how to live life.
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Neeta A. Renner is 30 years old, happily married and a senior relationship banker in Alpharetta, Ga.
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Janice Sheffield and her husband Bobby have owned the Priest Theatre in High Springs for over 20 years.
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Tom Hindes, a retired shop teacher/technical writer, has been crafting Noah’s Ark replicas from salvaged high-end wood for 20 years. Early on, someone stole a set from a gift shop. After the initial anger subsided, he thought if people are willing to steal his work then maybe it’s good enough for other people to buy. The giraffes are most populate this year. Last year was skunks.
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Jill and Sean Deken, both 16, from Centennial High School, already have started donating blood. Their parents and older siblings have been giving blood since they were little, so they said they’ve been looking forward to being old enough to donate themselves.
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Edward Aardema restores antique wooden boats in his free time from running Aardema Wood Floors. “It’s kind of the same thing restoring floors, restoring boats,” he said. “The first time I saw a wooden boat I thought, ‘Man, that’s just a piece of floating furniture.’” Aardema sits in a 1931 Penn Yan, which took 100 hours to restore, and a 1959 Slick Craft, which took 150 hours to restore.
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Blare Gooch, 12, has collected more than 7,000 teddy bears for children in Haiti, and that’s just from the Grand Rapids area. The seventh-grader at St. Thomas the Apostle School eclipsed his goal of 2,000 teddy bears in the first week. Now, there are 150 teddy bear drop-off sites nationwide. Blare is part Haitian and wants to help comfort kids there. A soccer player, Blare’s goal is to play soccer for Haiti in the Olympic Games.
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Joe Paladino Jr. has been a professional tree trimmer in Kansas City, Mo., for a little over a year. He says his coworkers tease him for not being a lover or a fighter. Apparently, the technique used to climb resembles a humping motion.
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Joe Paladino has been driving limos for the rich and famous in Kansas City, Mo., since 2008. He said he tries to provide an ultra-private experience.
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Grand Valley State University students Alicia Clark, in black, will play Joanne while Lynnae Meyers, in blue, will play Maureen in the upcoming play “Rent.”
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As of 2007, Tom Morrison, 83, is the oldest active free-fall skydiver in Florida, and he thinks he is the oldest in the U.S.
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Earle Canfield reads in his downstairs library with the company of his 2-year-old, 3-inch mini parrot named Birdie. Canfield founded and runs ANSWER, a nonprofit that helps children in Nepal get an education and careers.
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