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Article: AmeriCorps opens door for young woman.(News)

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August 4, 2007
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Byline: Bill Johnson, Rocky Mountain News

I had given AmeriCorps less than a thought since then-President Clinton signed the National and Community Service Trust Act into law 14 years ago.

It was a good thing, I figured, give kids something to do. Maybe it would really help a few. So the other day, I ran into Allison Riley.

She is 21, a sweet young woman with a ready laugh and high, trilling voice. She was celebrating, she told me, the near-completion of her one-year commitment with AmeriCorps.

We began chatting. "Wow," was all I kept saying. I have to share her story.

She grew up in comfortable circumstances in Canton, Ohio, ...

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