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Spiritual recovery focus of Crossroads ministry

Last updated Friday, April 6, 2012 - 4:47pm

UINTAH -- Everyone -- of any faith -- who struggles with any issue they believe is holding them back is invited to participate in a new recovery ministry offered by Crossroads Christian Fellowship.

The church will hold its free recovery ministry meetings from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, beginning this week at the church, 6545 Combe Road, in Uintah.

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Charla Nash, of Stamford, Connecticut, pictured March 21, 2012, was so severely mauled by Sandra Herold's 200-pound pet chimpanzee Travis, that she lost her hands and face. Nash received a face transplant in 2010 and is now filing a claim that would allow her to sue the state of Connecticut for allowing a dangerous animal to reside in Herold's home. Nash has not been home since the attack and resides in a Boston-area rehab center. (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant/MCT)

Chimp attack victim hopes for a better future

Jon Lender The Hartford Courant

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 10:03am

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Charla Nash says she still can't remember the brutal attack by a chimpanzee that tore off her face and hands and blinded her on Feb. 16, 2009 -- but she recalls the moment she finally heard a recording of the horrifying 911 call from that day.

People around the world have heard the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold, pleading on that recording with a dispatcher to "send the police up with a gun" to shoot her rampaging, 200-pound pet, Travis, but when Nash heard it on the news, what caught her ear wasn't Herold's frantic voice.

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Jeromy Sampson, an agent with Adult Probation and Parole, falls into the tank during the Recovery Day celebration at the Ogden Amphitheater on Saturday in Ogden.

Recovery Day raises awareness and support for addicts

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 11:32pm

OGDEN -- Despite a judicial no-show at the dunk tank Saturday, organizers were calling the turnout for Weber County's third Recovery Day celebration a success.

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Washington Heights addiction-recovery program a success

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 3:10pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- A Bible-based recovery effort at Washington Heights Church similar to a 12-step program has been so successful, organizers are encouraging other churches to offer similar groups.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Cayden Rawson, 11, stands near the silo he fell from June 5 on his grandmother’s Hooper farm. He suffered brain and other injuries when he dropped 21 feet onto his head and side. He was in a coma for three days, and his doctors and nurses say they are amazed by his recovery.

'God's hands' save Hooper boy after 21-foot fall on head

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, August 6, 2011 - 11:17pm

HOOPER -- No one knows better than Cayden Rawson's parents how lucky he is just to be alive.

The look from paramedics as they arrived June 5 after the Rawsons' 11-year-old son fell 21 feet, landing on his head and side, told it all.

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Little healing for victim of sex abuse

Sonia Krishnan Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 3:22pm

SEATTLE -- The memories come without warning, darting through Martin Santos' head.

He is under a bridge, in a park with two older boys.

Shut up and take off your clothes, they say. Don't make any noise.

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Road to recovery 'harder' than face transplant patient expected

Sherry Jacobson, The Dallas Morning News McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 3:16pm

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Dallas Wiens' fingertips danced around his new face in search of feeling.

"The sensation came back in my left cheek first," said the 26-year-old Fort Worth man. "It's kind of amazing, since that was the side that was most injured in the accident."

Wiens, whose face was destroyed in a 2008 electrical accident, received the nation's first full-face transplant three months ago in Boston. Although he returned home in early May, he sat down only this week for a series of interviews with local reporters.

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