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arly Allphin loves to watch baseball. She plays in the Brooke Point High School marching band. But earlier this year, she was told for the third time that she would never walk again. The first sign of trouble began over two years ago. To celebrate her fourteenth birthday, Carly went on a trip to New York City with a few family members. After walking around the city all day, she complained that her back hurt. Her mother, Krista, admitted to having some muscle soreness of her own. Over the coming months, Carly’s pain reappeared with increasing frequency, and she was taken to the emergency room several times. After each visit, she was sent home with pain medication. Little did Locally harvested display as crowds browse and shop the stand operated by C&T Produce at the North anyone know produce her life gets was prime in jeopStafford ardy.Farmers’ Market. This year the total number of vendors has increased to around 30 at the same location, the parking lot of the Stafford Medical Pavilion on the Stafford Hospital campus. The market is open Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. X-rays, physical therapy, doctor until November. ALEKS DOLZENKO | INSIDENOVA visits. Nothing revealed the underlying problem until April 2016 when Carly underwent an MRI. The discovery: a tumor the size of a softball on her lower back. Her admittance to the hospital was fol- Carly Allphin poses with her ‘Beads of Courage,’ which represent steps her journey lowed by a biopsy and a full body through cancer. SUBMITTED MRI, which revealed she had not “The ward was great, bringing in one, but nine tumors. Her diagno- bers was incredible. In addition to sis: Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare cancer his full time job, Carly’s father, An- meals for my family when I was goTRACY BELL investigations andCarly com-said. approval. The grant a 50 internal ing through treatments,” Allphin, servesworks as theasbishop thattbell@insidenova.com is diagnosed in approximately ofdrew is significant, ” Decatur said. local funding plaints Her aunt and grandmother also alfor thematch Aquiawith ward, a congrega200 children and young adults each percent he Stafford County Sheriff ’s cameras are a psychofrom county. cost to Stafternated visits to give tion the of over 400The individuals in the “Body-worn year. Office has applied for a U.S. deterrent to misbehavior onPOINT is $400,000 a year for five the family additional Church of Jesus Christ of years. Latter- logical The outpouring of support from ford Department of Justice grant PAGE 3 sides ofand the to lens.help The benefits Stafford County Sheriff Da- both support Saints in Stafford. friends, family and church mem- day that could fund 100 of its vid Decatur told InsideNoVa that exceed the drawbacks associated deputies with a body cam- implementing a body-camera pro- with the cost and time to manage era. gram is a vast undertaking. The goal the program.” If received, full funding of the of the program is to achieve a high Using the technology in the degrant would allow deputies in the level of transparency with the com- partment’s field operations division office’s field operations division to munity while protecting the rights would allow for the most immedicarry the cameras. of citizens and deputies alike, he ate and expansive contact with the The sheriff ’s office applied for said. community served, Dethe grant after the Stafford County “…The benefit of having video catur said. CAMERA PAGE 13 St af ford C ounty Board of Supervisors gave its stamp footage for prosecution, training,
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