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Shannon Casas: DFCS work is overwhelming. I'm glad someone’s brave enough to try turning around the sinking ship
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Shannon Casas
I’ve got two hats I wear on a daily basis. You see them each week in the tagline of this column: editor of the paper and foster parent.Sometimes those two worlds collide, which was the case last week. In three different meetings related to foster care I introduced myself rattling off a list of titles: Hi, I’m Shannon Casas, editor of the newspaper, foster parent with the private child-placing agency Faithbridge and Promise686 advocate at Gainesville First United Methodist Church.
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Column: A 400-pound statue travels for 13 hours
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Ronda Rich
It’s no secret — in fact, it’s becoming “fabled” pretty quickly — that Tink and I come from worlds as far apart as Mars and Jupiter.
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