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  • We are ordinary people seeking healing

    Bonetta Hutson, Guest columnist|Updated Sep 3, 2017

    Last week was full of confusion, pain, heartbreak, anger, and so many emotions I cannot name them. I have cried tears for people I don’t know and even more for people that I do know. Clovis and all her inhabitants became the focal point of the news, nationally and abroad; we became the subject of Facebook and all other types of social media; our lives became the talk of friends, family, strangers and more. Because of one senseless act of unimaginable violence, lives are destroyed. And no one can tell us why. We are all t...

  • Thank you, Gevion, for legacy you left

    Bonetta Hutson, Guest columnist|Updated Jul 30, 2017

    On Wednesday afternoon, The Living Word Church was filled to capacity (and then some) as family and friends, teachers, classmates, and others gathered to say their final goodbyes to Gevion Lewis. Gevion would have been amazed at how he touched so many lives. His laughter, his smile especially, uplifted his teachers and coaches. His ability to play baseball, basketball and track, which could have made his friends (and sister) envious of his talents, was the gift that everyone...