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Spring 2025

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  • Building The Guild

    Building The Guild

    Charleen Isbell and her dear friend Ellen Foster breezily finish each others sentences. A relationship initially constructed by a mutual love for wielding a paintbrush to canvas has become a relationship of profound connection.

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  • The Art Of Grace

    The Art Of Grace

    It is a Friday afternoon and the temperature reads less than scorching and a slight breeze is rustling the trees, causing some leaves to prematurely fall. At South Terrace Apartments, kids at Waco Arts Initiative will be searching through the scattered leaves to use in today’s class.

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  • Life without limits

    Life without limits

    Story By Vanessa Mosharaf Photos By Sarah Griffith When Hilary Gill walks into room 120 at South Bosque Elementary, she is greeted with a huge smile and an enthusiastic “Giillll!” It’s just Ben. Again. One of her favorites. As the physical therapist for Midway Independent School District, Hilary visits the special education programs at each…

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  • Community backbone brings hope to East Waco

    Story By Brittany Hardy Photos By Sarah Groman Shirley Langston, owner of Restoration Haven, is passionate about seeing lives change. Determined and business-like as she relays the details of the organization, tears fall from her dark eyes as she transitions into describing what makes her demanding job worth it. “I’m actually seeing people’s lives that…

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  • Going the distance

    Going the distance

    He is crazy. Out of his mind. Borderline insane. They were all saying that; his friends and family tried to rationalize his decision to no avail. Nobody could figure it out. Why was he putting himself through this? Did he even know what his decision entailed? Not fully aware of that himself, he strolled through…

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