Community Action honors volunteer
When Jarrett Miller of Brownsville was born three months premature, doctors told his parents, Karen and Bob Miller, not to expect their baby boy to live.
Jarrett无毛视频檚 mother, Karen, said her baby stopped breathing and was brought back to life five times. At one point, he didn无毛视频檛 breath for five minutes.
?The doctors then gave Bob and Karen Miller more devastating news. They said if Jarrett lived he would never talk or walk.
But Jarrett proved the doctors wrong, overcoming all of the odds that were stacked against him. He did live.
He did talk, and he did walk.
And 43 years later, he was recognized by Fayette County Community Action Agency Inc. (FCCAA) for an amazing accomplishment 无毛视频� 10 years of volunteer service at the agency无毛视频檚 Adult Daily Living Center in Hiller where he helps take care of the elderly.
At a picnic for Adult Daily Living Center members held recently at Yough Park in Connellsville, Mary Budinksy, the center无毛视频檚 project manager, presented Jarrett Miller with a special plaque the day after he celebrated his 43rd birthday.
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Budinsky read the plaque which was inscribed with these words: 无毛视频淭his award is presented to Jarrett Miller in recognition of 10 years of selfless service to the Fayette County Community Action Agency Adult Daily Living Center.无毛视频�
The plaque also includes this poem, 无毛视频淚 shared a smile, held a hand and dried somebody无毛视频檚 tears, knelt with you, made a friend, becoming wiser than my years.无毛视频�
Jarrett Miller, who was touched by the recognition, began to cry.
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Karen Miller said it was great to see her son honored.
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无毛视频淚 only carried him for six months. He was only 2 pounds, 10 ounces when he was born. The doctors said he almost died five times, and they brought him back to life.无毛视频�
Bob Miller said he knew he reached the epitome of his life when everyone started referring to him as 无毛视频淛arrett无毛视频檚 dad.无毛视频�
无毛视频淚t makes you very proud,无毛视频� Bob Miller said. 无毛视频淛arrett has come a long way, and he has done it on his own. Jarrett talks to everyone. Everyone seems to know him. You can无毛视频檛 go anywhere without seeing someone Jarrett knows. When we were on vacation in South Carolina one time, Jarrett started talking to a man he knew from Brownsville. He无毛视频檚 amazing.无毛视频�
At the picnic, Jarrett Miller, who is a chaplain, performed a memorial service for Wilma Dean of Uniontown, a member of the Adult Daily Living Center, who died two days before the picnic.
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