Heights community leader, HHA board member, celebrates 100th birthday

She's no ordinary centenarian. Born on her grandparents’ farm in Opelousas, Louisiana, former HHA board member, Ruth P. Thornton grew up checking on the sharecroppers, inspecting the livestock, running through

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