This is not a town, it's a family

By Kay S. Pedrotti

Barnesville’s Maggie Page calls her breast cancer experience “a little story” compared to the heart-wrenching physical and mental pains that some cancer patients go through.

“But it’s a big story to me,” she added. “That word ‘cancer’ was not something I ever expected to hear. Heart trouble runs in my family, so I spend a lot of time trying to take care of my heart­eating right, exercising, regular checkups, and so forth. There’s no cancer in my family, so ‘shocked and stunned’ describes me when I got the diagnosis in May of 2013.”