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IMPACT OF COMMUNITY POWER AND STATE FARM®


A TRIO OF STORIES DEMONSTRATES THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSIST®


By Kelly Roberson


Dave Bratcher, CEO of the Star Center, spends time with one of the kids at the weekly art night for children with autism.


they could find were in California, thousands of miles away from their home in Tennessee. Undaunted, the couple rallied local families and experts to create a support network in Jackson, about 90 miles northeast of Memphis. Staffed entirely with volunteers and located in the base- ment of an elementary school, the Star Center opened in 1988. Te Doumitts soon discovered that the visu- ally impaired and their families were not the


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n the late 1980s Margaret and Chuck Doumitt faced an unforeseen parenting challenge: Teir two children began to lose their eyesight. Te only resources


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