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	<description>Invest in a Child, Strengthen a Community</description>
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		<title>Join us to taste 5 wines for $5, and help OpenDoors!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winesday is a wine tasting event hosted by the Wine Studio of Asheville every Wednesday from 5-8pm.  It is a chance for the wine lovers of Asheville to get together, socialize, and try new and exciting wines from around the world.  During the month of January, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiiquan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shiiquan is a third grader at Isaac Dickson, an energetic charmer who loves chess club, football, has excelled in soccer, and is looking forward to trying his hand at baseball in the Spring.  When we met Shii two years ago, he was a child whose cooperative, easy-going nature in the classroom belied the fact that he was failing to learn to read. [...] ]]></description>
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		<title>The Art Affair 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h3>February 25, 2012 The Affair Begins! &#160;&#160;<a class="btn btn-orange" href="http://opendoorsasheville.org/events/the-art-affair-2012/" >Buy Tickets</a> &#160;&#160;<a href="/events/the-art-affair-2012/">Learn more &#187;</a></h3>]]></description>
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		<title>Our New Board of Directors Chairperson Sumner Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it all started by just asking a few questions&#8230; Sumner Smith became involved with OpenDoors in 2009, after seeking advice and resources for a boy in her son&#8217;s class at Isaac Dickson. She enjoyed tutoring the young boy and wanted to do more. As her relationship with Shii grew, so did her her involvement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December News from Jen Ramming, Co-Founder and Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Invest in a Child. Strengthen our Community.</strong>

Dear Friends, Please consider an end of year gift to OpenDoors of Asheville. With your help we support local children at risk, many of whom are born into multi-generational poverty.  Poverty is not their doing, but it IS their undoing.  Please help us BREAK THE CYCLE. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jasmine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the children OpenDoors has the honor to work with, are preschool or elementary school aged. Jasmine, however, came into the program as an 11th grader at Asheville High School. Though her grades were solid, her conduct led her to the brink of losing it all. Believing in her potential, OpenDoors got involved and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Davon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with most of life’s best relationships – the one between 5th grader Davon and his OpenDoors mentors Katherine Brooks and Peggy Weil, began organically. No ‘formal’ match up or introduction, just a great kid two women got to know through school activities and their own children. Katherine says Davon has been a welcome member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is how we &#8220;Du&#8221; it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first annual Dig the Du event on Sunday, October 9th was a tremendous success.]]></description>
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		<title>October News from Jen Ramming, Co-founder and Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Open Doors School of Thought</strong>

There was a fight at Asheville High; it wasn’t the first and it won’t be the last, but what impressed me about this event was that OpenDoors volunteers heard about it even before my son who was on campus did, and we were able to contact one of the kid’s parents immediately and circle that child in crisis with our intentional community. This was possible because of students looking out for other students and having the ability and courage to contact responsible adults in their lives whom they know they can trust.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J&#8217;Von</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The love for and belief in J&#8217;Von by his mentors, served as some of the earliest seeds for what has blossomed into OpenDoors of Asheville. Before his learning differences were diagnosed, J&#8217;Von struggled in traditional school. He couldn’t keep up with his studies, so he went for the laughs instead &#8211; becoming the class clown [...]]]></description>
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