Alzheimer's awareness

By Staff
Meridian Mayor John Robert Smith has proclaimed November as Alzheimer's Disease Month. Pictured here, from left, are Jeanne Fort, Alzheimer's advocate; Smith; Barb Dobrosky,
program director for the Mississippi Alzheimer's Association and local branch director; Henry Daum, director of Lauderdale County Mental Health Association; and Linda Oliver, an Alzheimer's care-giver. Those who witnessed Smith's signing of the proclamation displayed photographs of people who were touched by the disease. This is the 20th year that November has been observed as Alzheimer's Disease Month.
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Nov. 8, 2003