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Ali finds deep peace in troubled land
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Bill Zechman photo Samar Ali, co-director of Vanderbilt’s Project on Unity and American Democracy, spoke to The Rotary Club of McMinnville Thursday.
Samar Ali remembers an indescribable sense of peace in a land scarred by thousands of years of strife, misery and turmoil. Ali and her mother, who grew up in Damascus, were visiting the Syrian village of Ma’lulawhen they called on an assembly of Christians at worship. “They were reciting the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic,” the ancient language spoken by Jesus and his disciplines.
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Pacesetters building inches closer to surplus
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The location formerly known as the Pacesetters building is one successful read away from being declared surplus by the City of McMinnville. During Tuesday evening’s regularly scheduled Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting, the matter was brought forth after it had been recommended by the Building and Grounds Committee in the last February meeting. The committee determined, through data collected by a void analysis, the property was best used as retail or commercial real estate rather than repurposed by the city.
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