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Upon the birth of her newest grandchildren, she felt first hand the critical need to focus upon
the preschool aged in her area. She felt that they were too often overlooked during their most vital
years of development. As importantly, the economic, cultural and social ramifications needed to be explored
and address directly.
In 1999, as a founding board member of Chesterfield's "First Steps" program, she helped to establish
a now thriving organization enabling communities to address the unmet needs of young children and their families throughout
the entire county. To find out more about First Steps click the link above!
In 2001, she helped to rally the first "King Day and the Dome",
a march on the SC State House in Columbia, SC
In 2004, she was selected as a delegate to attended the Democratic National Convention in Boston
in support of VP nominee John Edwards. ...during which she enjoyed a "great" speech given by
"a promising" new voice of whom she was sure she had not heard the last. This was one of the most
taxing periods for her...both physically and emotionally. From here she would rest for several months before attempting
such another stretch.
(3 years later, after marching to "The Dome" to be seated in the spot that she left warm and vacant, her
young man won the SC primary and the democratic presidential nomination.)
Favorites - Still to come
Here are a list of some of my moms favorite things...
Including the last books that she was reading
Here's a list of some of my moms favorite songs/singers
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