Articles About survivor

• Village manager Bates takes on cancer

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 13, 2015

  

  In her first year in the position, Village Manager Patti Bates has shown what some view as uncommon equanimity in a demanding job. And it turns out she’s come by that equanimity naturally. A four-time cancer survivor, Bates knows what’s worth getting steamed at, and what’s not.

• Luisa Owens’ poems bear witness, honor dead

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 4, 2015

  

  Luisa Owens’ poems describe the terror and inhumanity of daily life in the concentration camp in Yugoslavia, where Owen lived with her family shortly before the end of World War II, from the ages of 9 to 13.