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Teen honored with Archie Griffin Sportsmanship Award

Posted on July 21, 2025 by FCBDD Communications
Smiling teen girl in red formal dress

Racing around the track, which she does at a blistering pace, Aviva Pearce feels free. Worries and troubles can’t catch her. “I do love it,” the 14-year-old said. “It takes away all my problems.” Aviva was selected by her school as this year’s winner of the Archie Griffin Sportsmanship Award, the highest honor a middle-school …

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Book shares family’s journey of love, resilience

Posted on July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 by FCBDD Communications
Father and adult son smiling with a copy of their book

As he sifted through the scattered photos – there were hundreds, along with videos, letters and school art projects – Michael Ramsey realized he had a bigger job than just organizing his family pictures. “This was his legacy,” Ramsey said of his son Eric, now 36. “And it was the way to tell his story …

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Retiree creates her dream family adopting special-needs children

Posted on March 3, 2023March 3, 2023 by FCBDD Communications
Woman and her three children and one granddaughter standing outside at Lake Cumberland.

Quinn Davis Vogel had always wanted a big family. And the more she eyed the recruiting sign – Do you have it in you to foster? – the more she felt it was speaking directly to her. Never mind that she already had three grown daughters and was about to retire from her nursing career. …

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Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities
2879 Johnstown Road, Columbus, OH 43219
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