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For many, this article will be redundant, for others it will come to a surprise that I packed up the Red Wing boots, loaded up the old cut-off blue jeans and punched my ticket to rebuild Palestinian homes in Israel/Palestine. 

Some have been following my work overseas since I started back in 2005, working on the ground in Hebron, Palestine with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, while a large majority only know of the work I’ve done through the Jack Pine Tribune. And even some now will just be reading the Tribune for the first time. In the following weeks, I will be doing a series on my peace work abroad in the Middle East, so I’d like to give just a little bit of a backdrop of to how this started, what I do, and why I continued to stay involved so you can have a little context onto why articles like this appear in a publication that focuses mostly around high school sports. 

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Another NSA State Championship for LDE

Coach Jamie Smith and Dave Ruckle, two of the area’s weathered and gnarled softball gurus, garnered the state trophy despite losing one of the top pitchers in the state in Sarah Appold due to an injury. But the Express girls gritted their teeth, hit the ball when they needed to, rode the Sam Willman work-horse through the tournament in her punishing pitching to regain state bragging rights. 

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