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Cindy Berg playing the role of Katherine in Taming of the Shrew. The retired theater teacher at Canon-McMillan serves as artistic director for Old Schoolhouse Players.

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Cindy Berg helps with set design at Old Schoolhouse Players.

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Cindy Berg, artistic director at Old Schoolhouse Players, paints during renovation of the 110-year-old building that houses the theater in Hickory.

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Cindy Berg is the artistic director at Old Schoolhouse Players.

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Anthony Resch, a project manager at Regal Industrial Corp. in Donora, is shown with two Donora-Webster Bridge plaques he will be restoring.

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Preston Robison, who lost his mother to a drug overdose, raises money for Harmony Life Center in a quest to help others overcome drug addiction.

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Eleven-year-old Preston Robison donates money he collects in a pink bucket to Harmony Life Center, a Washington non-profit that helps people struggling with addiction. He decorated the bucket with photos of his mother, Melissa Moeller, who died of a drug overdose in 2017.

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The collection bucket Preston Robison set out at his grandmother’s beauty salon, A Cut Above, sits next to a photo of his late mother, Melissa Moeller.