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By Michael Kennon
Outskirts Press
$10. 95
Review by Dorothy Cox
Remembering vividly his own pain, shame and isolation as a runaway from age twelve to early adulthood, CEO Michael Kennon hopes his story will let the untold thousands of runaway children in the U.S. know that if he made it, they can too.
Kennon said his recently published book, "Memoirs of a Runaway: A Story of Hope," (www.memoirsofarunaway.com), will let teens who have run away or who are contemplating it, know that there are other, better choices, available to them.
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Bill and Pat Carlton of Little Rock have donated $50,000 to One Day at a Time (ODAT), a Little Rock based non-profit company, to help further its mission of reducing substance abuse locally and eventually in other communities.
Now in its sixth year of operation, ODAT publishes a quarterly newspaper, operates a website and develops projects with special emphasis on substance abuse in the adolescent/college, prison inmate and military populations.
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How women can heal from adolescent father loss.
By Laraine Herring
Published by Hazelden
Review by David Palmer
“Every girl needs a ferryman to help her cross the river. When the mythic ferryman figure in her life is missing due to death or other loss, the journey is complicated.”
When you hear the testimony of women in recovery, there is almost always something about the father-daughter relationship. This is a memoir, and we have printed below what Hazelden says about the book on the back cover:
“Commitment, Trust. Intimacy. Self-confidence. Independence. These are critical areas of personal development in the passage from adolescent to adulthood. However, this path toward self–identity can become particularly difficult for women to navigate when, as adolescents they lose one of the most important relationships of their life: their relationship with their father.
“Written expressly for adult women, Lost Fathers is a healing, authoritative guide to understanding how behaviors, relationships and sense of self in adulthood are shaped by the experience of losing one’s father during adolescence to death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration or addiction.
“With gentle expertise, Laraine Herring blends poignant personal stories, the latest information in developmental psychology, and guided writing exercises in this much–needed therapeutic guide.”
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By David Palmer
 Shortly before noon on a sunlit day in May, men and women began gathering at the “Recovery in the Daylight” Narcotics Anonymous (NA) 12-Step meeting at Recovery Central, a new Little Rock facility mainly for NA meetings.
More about the “Recovery in the Daylight” meeting in a minute. First, some background on Narcotics Anonymous and on Recovery Central.
NA meetings came along about 18 years after AA’s founding in 1935 and are similar to AA’s 12-Step meetings in almost every respect. There is one important difference, and that is that AA focuses strictly on alcohol addiction while NA is open to all drug addictions including alcohol.
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 David Palmer
Sports fans were shocked when news broke in September 2007 that Corey Beck had been shot. Beck, who played guard on the national champion Arkansas Razorback basketball team in 1994 and later for the Detroit Pistons and other professional teams, was finished with basketball in 2002 at age 31, and the fans had moved on.
The shooting took place in Memphis in the early morning when two masked gunmen stopped Beck and his friend, Timothy Wilkins, intending to rob them and take their car. When Beck resisted, one of the gunmen raised his shotgun and fired point blank at the side of his face.
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By David Palmer
 When actress Karen McCann put out a casting call in January for her new movie, Step Away From The Stone, 300 actors and would be actors, diverse in both age and race, showed up at Little Rock’s Rep theater for tryouts.
McCann, who heads Rock Productions, a movie production firm, chose 150, and the shooting began three weeks later. The movie, shot in 30 days, is expected to open in Little Rock theaters in August.
McCann, who, in addition to producing the movie, wrote the script and is the leading lady, is not what you’d call your average Hollywood producer. In fact, in early conversations with Hollywood moguls, they suggested that she would not find the talent she needed in Arkansas and should come to California to make her movies.
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Blackouts are periods of intoxication during which the individual is unable to form or store new memories, though he or she appears to be awake and alert. It is not a good sign.
By Ron T
Mark came to at 30 miles an hour. This was just an estimate because his attention was in the rearview mirror. They seemed to be chasing him, these freakish-looking men. As his focus returned he could see carnival booths passing by. My God, he surmised, I am on the midway.
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