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Vanessa always had a true Vision in anything that she wanted to do and she brought this award to our community
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about seven going on eight years ago she felt so strongly about Athena it was she
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was like a dog with a bone with it it was going to happen I was the first Athena winner in Henderson County
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Vanessa was truly more excited I think about my achieving the award than I was any anything she touched anything she
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did she knew that there were women just like herself who were passionate who could go to Great
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Lengths um to make a difference and when you look at that statue today mhm what goes through your mind I envisioned
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Vanessa holding up the sky she deserved that award over and over and over for the work that she did and yet
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she was always happiest when she was helping others Vanessa showed me how one person can make a difference
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she inspired me with her energy with her eagerness with her faith when you're around her you wanted to mimic the same
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things that she was doing