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', 'before_title' => '

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', )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Footer Column 1', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on footer', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'fc-1', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '
', 'after_title' => '
', )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Footer Column 2', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on footer', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'fc-2', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '
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', )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Footer Column 3', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on footer', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'fc-3', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '
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', )); } add_action('widgets_init', 'library_books_widgets_init'); /** * Register custom fonts. */ function library_books_font_url() { $font_url = ''; /* Translators: If there are any character that are not * supported by Roboto Condensed, trsnalate this to off, do not * translate into your own language. */ $robotocondensed = _x('on', 'robotocondensed:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Scada, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $scada = _x('on', 'Scada:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Roboto Slab, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $robotoslab = _x('on', 'Roboto Slab:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Merriweather, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $merriweather = _x('on', 'Merriweather:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Roboto, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $roboto = _x('on', 'Roboto:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Lato, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $lato = _x('on', 'Lato:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Playfair Display, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $playfairdisplay = _x('on', 'Playfair Display:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Assistant , translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $assistant = _x('on', 'Assistant:on or off', 'library-books'); if ('off' !== $robotocondensed) { $font_family = array(); if ('off' !== $robotocondensed) { $font_family[] = 'Roboto Condensed:300,400,600,700,800,900'; } if ('off' !== $robotoslab) { $font_family[] = 'Roboto Slab:300,400,700'; } if ('off' !== $merriweather) { $font_family[] = 'Merriweather:300,400,400i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $roboto) { $font_family[] = 'Roboto:100,300,300i,400,400i,500,500i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $lato) { $font_family[] = 'Lato:300,300i,400,400i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $playfairdisplay) { $font_family[] = 'Playfair Display:400,400i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $assistant) { $font_family[] = 'Assistant:200,300,400,600,700,800'; } $query_args = array( 'family' => urlencode(implode('|', $font_family)) , ); $font_url = add_query_arg($query_args, '//fonts.googleapis.com/css'); } return $font_url; } /** * Enqueue scripts and styles. */ function library_books_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style('library-books-font', library_books_font_url() , array()); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-basic-style', get_stylesheet_uri()); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-print-style', get_template_directory_uri() . "/print.css"); wp_enqueue_style('nivo-slider', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/nivo-slider.css"); wp_enqueue_style('font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/font-awesome.css"); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-main-style', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/responsive.css"); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-base-style', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/style_base.css"); wp_enqueue_script('jquery-nivo', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.nivo.slider.js', array( 'jquery' )); wp_enqueue_script('library-books-custom-js', get_template_directory_uri() . 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As a volunteer at the Frankie Lemmon School for special needs children I didn’t want to infect my little friends with my horrible cold. So I stayed home, opened the newspaper and read about \u201cMs. Pearce\u201d.<\/p>\n

The lead sentence read: \u201cIn 50 years working at Hilltop Home, Etherlene Pearce missed so few days of work, her employees swear she never took a sick day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor shame, Mr. Pat!\u201d said the voice in my head. The article went on. “She came rain, snow, sleet or hail\u2026 It didn’t make a difference if there was two feet of snow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHang your head, Mr. Pat!\u201d said the voice. But I read on\u2026 I learned that Ms. Pearce spent 50 years caring for the developmentally challenged at Hilltop Home (www.hilltophome.org), a private, nonprofit residential center that serves children with severe developmental and medical disabilities. Ms. Pearce retired only last year as the home’s director at age 89. But she\u2019s still going!<\/p>\n

\u201cFor shame! Look away! Don’t look at Mr. Pat!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nRaleigh is just full of inspiring people like Ms. Pearce….For example, Dorothea Dix. In 1841, while teaching Sunday School to a group of women in prison, young Dorothea found her calling. The prisoners, a mix of criminals and the mentally challenged, were kept in dark, damp cells with no blankets or furniture. She was horrified! Dorothea spent the rest of her life lobbying for better conditions for the mentally challenged. She never gave up and in 1856, largely through her work, Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Hospital opened for the care of mentally ill patients. By the 1930s there were over 2,000 patients on a site that at one time included 2,354 acres. Even though she was weak and suffered from tuberculosis, Dorothy never gave up.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh me! Oh my!\u201d said the voice. \u201cYou can never be like Dorothy!\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Frankie Lemmon – the son of Frank and Georgia Lemmon, a Presbyterian minister and his wife. Young Frankie was born with Down Syndrome. In 1965, the Lemmons were appalled to learn there was no kindergarten in Wake County that would enroll a child like Frankie. So, with help from members of Raleigh\u2019s Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church, they opened a kindergarten class for children with mental retardation. Having outgrown the space at the Hudson Memorial Church, the Hayes Barton Baptist Church congregation offered to house the school free of charge within its facility; their mission now expanded to include special-needs children ages 3-5.\u00a0In 2015, the school got its own facility where in three years, 125 students will be able to benefit from Frankie Lemmon’s life-changing education and services.<\/p>\n

Starting this fall (2016), Frankie Lemmon School expanded its services to offer inclusive classrooms educating children with and without disabilities. They participate alongside each other, in a setting that provides rich language models and opportunities for developing social skills within a “global” community.<\/p>\n

The Lemmons knew that Frankie would never get better, but they never gave up.<\/p>\n

Neither do the teachers. If you’ve wanted to meet a saint, visit the Frankie Lemmon School. They are ALL saints!.<\/p>\n

I vowed to never give up, either. There is no shame in failure. The shame is in the not trying\u2026sometimes again and again.<\/p>\n

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