Article: Once in need, woman now gives back.(General News)(Assistance: United Way-funded agencies have been a great help for Laura Mora and her family.)

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth in a series of stories about programs funded by United Way of Lane County during the agency's annual fund-raising campaign.

By MARK BAKER

The Register-Guard

There is a sort of poetic justice at work in the life of Laura Mora.

Once helped by several area agencies that receive funding from the United Way of Lane County, Mora is now the one lending a helping hand.

Born in Mexico in 1979, Mora moved to Oregon with her family in 1990. For three months, they lived in their van in the middle of a Christmas tree lot in Monroe, where Mora's father worked. Seven of them. Mother and father and five ...

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