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Jodee Damron: The Ultimate Giver

Jodee Damron: The Ultimate Giver

It may be the season for giving, but while for some the time translates into grandly presenting big-bowed and flashy-wrapped presents to acquaintances, Alto residents Jodee Damron and her husband, Don, have quietly been giving back to strangers all winter long for decades. Jodee has been the perennial treasurer for the Ski Apache Adaptive Sports (SAAS) program and a force behind the annual Silent Auction while Don has donated services and maintained equipment, consistently offering expertise in a field with…

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Turning Personal Tragedy into Global Accomplishment

Turning Personal Tragedy into Global Accomplishment

When she was 17 years old, while walking on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona, a drunk driver hit Mona Patel. Her lower right leg was crushed. She was airlifted to UCLA Medical Center where the orthopedic team told her distraught parents that amputation would be the easiest course of action. It was possible that she could be walking in three to four months. The plastics crew told her parents that they could try and salvage what remained of her…

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