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Blessed to have a happy home

We’ve all heard stories that will be engraved in our memories forever — ones we’ve been told so many times, we can retell them in the deepest of slumbers. I have a lot of those stories, but the one that really hits home for me is how — and why — I was adopted from Seoul, Korea. I was found abandoned on the street, but my birth mother knew enough to take me to a police station with a note asking for me to be placed with a family who could provide for me. I never knew my birth mother — and still don’t have any way of contacting her — but my parents of 40-plus years ...

Beating the heat

Ava Miduri (left), 12, helps her friend Avery Skutch (right), 12, with her brother, Hudson Dull, 2, all of Duncansville, as they swim at Hershberger Memorial Pool in Martinsburg on Wednesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

An uphill battle

Despite the summer heat, D.J. Jones mows the embankment in front of his Fifth Avenue home in Altoona on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski