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SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018 SENIOR EXPO • RIVER VALLEY & OZARK EDITION OF THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRATGAZETTE
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I started feeling better internally, and my heart didn’t ache quite
as much.”
— Don Potter
Wednesday night, Mom?’” he said. “I knew where I was going to be.”
One day, on a whim, Don and a friend whose wife had died in an accident decided to visit Four Winds Church in Conway. Don said the acceptance of the people there and the help of the local running community are what allowed him to get over his grief and get back to living.
“I started going to church two or three times a week, I started feeling
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Don Potter said that he loves the support he receives from the people of Conway at Chase Race and throughout his time living in the city.
better internally, and my heart didn’t ache quite as much,” he said. “I turned [God] loose, and then he turned me loose from the person I used to be.”
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Potter nears the finish line of the 2017 Chase Race. Potter said that Conway has one of the best running communities in the United States.