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Supporters and donors who raised $3 million to buy and restore Joshua House mark the reopening of a campus that has served about 3,000 children.
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Gerard Duignan, 51, of Odessa, right, and Josie Rahn, 29, of Tampa look at a mural painted in one of the rooms of a renovated cottage on the Joshua House campus Friday, May 21, 2021 in Lutz. The 11-acre campus in Lutz was closed last year after owner Children s Home Society of Florida planned to sell the campus. But supporters and donors raised more than $3 million to buy and restore the home. [ CHRIS URSO | Times ]
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Zooming into Ross-Ade Stadium on a motorized couch cart, Nathan Peercy delivered Purdue President Mitch Daniels to center stage, as “Born To Be Wild” played above the heads of more than 5,000 of Peercy s fellow graduation candidates. Well, everything else about your senior year was different, we thought, Why not this? How about a little appreciation for Nathan Peercy and Ethan Cox and this latest demonstration of Boilermaker ingenuity, Daniels said before starting his commencement address.
The May 15, 2021, ceremony was the first in-person commencement event since fall 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first outdoor ceremony since the early years of the university.
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