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The Review July 8, 2014

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Father, son and spirit to serve Woodards find beauty, success after hardship BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN

A .51-caliber round to the shoulder. Being told your childhood dream was just that. There are less painful ways for the course of one’s life to be altered. But therein lies the glorious mystery, says Terry Woodard. “God’s got a plan, and it’s just repeating itself,� he said. Had he not taken that round toward the end of his service in Vietnam, who knows where Terry’s life would have gone? One thing he’s pretty certain of is that he wouldn’t have met his wife, Linda. And then the world might not have been blessed with a logistics

guru like Breck Woodard, the Sterling couple’s son and an equally dedicated family man. Similarly, Breck’s course took a turn when he was medically disqualified from flying ejection seatequipped aircraft. His father earned nine awards, among them the prestigious Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross, as a medevac pilot in Vietnam. And about age 9, Breck decided he wanted to fly, too. He watched films. Read books. After graduating from Sterling High School in 1990, he got his flying readings out of the way while attending the University of Dubuque. SPIRIT CONTINUED ON PG. 2

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Saturday, July 26th, 2014

8:30am Meadows Park in Dixon

This race is to celebrate Sarah Schnake’s life in Christ. We want to remember Sarah for the joyful, fun-loving, beautiful girl on the inside and out that she was. We want to take this day to remember her and celebrate her life. Proceeds from this memorial run will go to benefit another family in this area enduring hardships from a similar diagnosis or to a local non-profit organization who has positively impacted the lives of those who have endured these hardships. Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is nothing on Earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and portion forever. ~ Psalm 73: 25-26

Registration forms are available at the Dixon YMCA, or online at http://getmeregistered.com/5kfortheKnockout or www.Facebook.com/SarahsFightClub


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