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CityViewNC.com | 21 REAL Entrepreneurship PLUS ® In 8 weeks, you can be in business and ready to pitch for funding! Ice House Methodology Think like an entrepreneur! Ready to begin or build your new business? CORPORATE & CONTINUING EDUCATION www.faytechcc.edu/center-innovation-entrepreneurship/ Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (910) 678-8496 or innovationcenter@faytechcc.edu Headquarters Library • 300 Maiden Lane General Public Sales Friday, Nov. 17 12-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19 2 - 5 p.m. Friends Facebook Group: "Friends of the Library Fayetteville NC" www.cumberlandcountylibraryfriends.com Members Sale Monday, Nov. 13 12 - 6 p.m. You can become a member at the sale. Book Sales Book Sales were en route to help others, and I needed the help," Cameron says. e family pressed through an eight-hour flight to Nairobi and a four-hour drive to the TenWek Mission Hospital in Kenya. It was there, as Cameron lay hospitalized, that doctors found the solution. Cameron ended up losing two and a half feet of his colon in the process of treatment. "It was something that elderly women get in the United States, but in Kenya, they see it commonly in adult men. ey were able to diagnose me right away, and a surgeon I had met the previous summer was able to correct it. Prayer and sharing faith were part of the hospital care," Cameron remembers. Divine intervention A month later, Cameron was back home. A bedside conversation at the hospital led him to decide to pursue a master's at Duke Divinity School. "I was going to school full time and working part time at that point, but it was through that experience that we found out about the Friendship House in Durham," Cameron says. Cameron was spending two or three nights a week in Durham while Avery was in Fayetteville with their three children, Wallace, Glenn and Hugh. One night, she ran across a housing deal that paired seminary students with adults with disabilities called the Friendship House. "It was a new concept and only $450 plus utilities. It was perfect," Cameron says. What made Friendship House different was that it required seminary students to become roommates with someone with a disability. Cameron was open to the prospect, but at the Friendship House's icebreaker, where residents met their roommates for the first time, he walked in and immediately started looking about the room, diagnosing people. "It's what we do (as physicians)," he said. "But that's when Alex, my future roommate, introduced himself." Cameron recalls Alex, who had Down's syndrome, being full of joy, telling the physician how enthused he was that they were going to be roommates. "It was then that I realized that I had spent years telling parents about unmet expectations as a physician, and all of the people I'm diagnosing in the room are

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