Woman credits Casa Pacifica for helping turn her life around
Children's shelter expects to raise $193,000 with this year's Angels Ball
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
      Shortly after Grace Stott was born, her mother walked out on the infant and her five siblings. Stott was put into foster care, where she spent most of the next 17 years in a cycle of drug abuse and running away from one group or foster home after another.
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Born 1912, woman celebrates 24th birthday
By Eliav Appelbaum eliav@theacorn.com
      Ethel Mortell turns 24 years old today . . . and she remembers the end of World War I. Mortell, who is actually 96, is celebrating only her 24th birthday because she was born on a leap day: Thurs., Feb. 29, 1912. "Well, I do celebrate every year, just not on the same day," said the New ...
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