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The Mennonites make the Amazon their home


The Mennonites make the Amazon their home

WANDERLAND, Peru — After weeks of living in jungle tents, the few Mennonite families trying to find a new home deep in the Peruvian Amazon began to despair. As they tried to clear the forest, they were attacked by wasps. Heavy rains turned the road to their camp to mud. As supplies ran out, some […]

Kimball Community Hosts Dismukes Day Celebration


Kimball Community Hosts Dismukes Day Celebration

KIMBALL, W.Va. (WVVA) – Starting in 2022, August 16 will be celebrated as Dismukes Day in the city of Kimball. Dr. Henry Dodford Dismukes opened Henrietta Dismukes Hospital in Kimball in 1929. It was considered the largest privately run African-American hospital at the time. “August 16 is the day he opened his hospital, so every […]