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Until a few years ago, Louie and Brenda Cheek would join their neighbors for a cookout at the end of Huntington and Delano drives the first week of July. They grilled hamburgers and passed around the potato salad. Only it wasn’t a Fourth of July celebration for our nation’s birthday. It was to salute the rebirth of a neighborhood.
I began my life in Macon 31 years ago this week. It didn’t get off to a very smooth start.