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s a child, Anissa McLendon
learned the importance of “love thy neighbor” from her grandmother, Martha McLendon. “She taught me to help people and had me doing missionary work, [taking] meals to people [who were in need],” Anissa recalls. It was a lesson the Chapel Hill High School grad took to heart. Upon earning her bachelor’s degree in 1989 in physical education at UNC, Anissa spent the next decade working for Residential Services, Inc. and later for the Carrboro Recreation, Parks, & Cultural Resources department. In
December 1999, with a little nudge from then-police Chief Carolyn Hutchison, and after completing an officer training program at Wake Tech, Anissa spent six years as a Carrboro
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