Stories from Saturday, July 2, 2005

Area resident learns lessons on life, democracy while teaching in China (07/02/05)
DEXTER -- After living 10 months in a communist country, Dexter native Andrea Essner returned home just in time to celebrate not only her independence, but America's, too. The 23-year-old left the United States last August to teach Chinese children how to speak English at Northeast Hope International School, a modernized boarding school located in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China. She returned home last month...