August 23, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

Thankful for life

People don’t get much more active than Madelyn Porretta was. Eight years ago, the wife and mother from Morrell Park was a 52-year-old dynamo.
She worked in a chiropractor’s office, coached cheerleading with her daughter Lynell at Archbishop Ryan High School and traveled with her husband Ron. She also spent plenty of time as the doting grandmother of her son Ronald’s first child, Ronald III.
Then everything changed on a trip to Myrtle Beach for a cheerleading competition . . .

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EDITORIAL

Sic ’em on Vick

The way society treats its animals, especially man’s best friend, says a lot about how it treats itself.
In a land that coddles some criminals more than our four-legged furry friends, justice is not always just.
Michael Vick, the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons who’s set to plead guilty Monday to participating in animal abuse, is a menace to the animal world and therefore

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