Community Connections: The pain of success

From columnist, Renee Kumor:

There’s a lot to be said for success. And we can find success in a lot of places. Sometimes we make it, and sometimes we benefit from it and sometimes we all bask in its glow. Like the evening I joined many of my friends at the Children and Family Resource Center (look them over at childrenandfamily.org) for a mortgage burning party. I had been a member of the board when we made the investment in the land off Upward Road and signed the mortgage on the construction of the office that we planned to build.

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