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Clinton Connie Trenta takes a hike at the Prescott National Forest in Arizona, experiencing Brother and sister Gary and Courtney Nicholas of Barberton, both Army staff sergeants, nature’s beauty at 6,000 feet above sea level. She visited fellow Barberton native Lisa visit the Ohio Veterans Memorial Park while home on leave. Feingold (Robinson) and also went fi shing. ‘Call the Midwife’ by Jennifer Worth ahamas A memoir of birth, joy and hard times he B Reviewed by: Mary Kay home deliveries T Ball were still very common in Jennifer Lee Worth the East End. trained as a nurse at the Jenny, her fellow Royal Berkshire Hospital midwives, and in Reading, England. She the Sisters later moved to London worked tirelessly to train as a midwife. Th e to provide safe fi rst book in her three part and quality care memoir, Worth’s “Call the to their patients Midwife,” recalls stories, and families. coworkers and patients The midwives she nursed while at the often travelled Nonnatus House. Jenny, to their patients’ as she was called in her fl ats in the dead memoir, worked with the of night on a Sisters of St. Raymund bike carrying Nonnatus ( a pseudonym their supplies for the Sisters of St. John the and instruments Divine) who ministered to with them. Matthew Toth and his parents, Brian and Dana, take a break after getting off the the working poor in Poplar The memoir Disney Dream cruise ship in Nassau, Bahamas during spring break. in the East End of London. is not entirely Jenny’s stories are heart serious. Worth sprinkles Fortescue-Cholmeley- CCheckheck ooutut oourur wrenching and uplifting. in light-hearted stories Browne, aff ectionately called Working as a midwife, she about her coworkers and “Chummy” by her mates. develops loving relation- the tender-hearted sisters Chummy’s awkward but ships with her patients. with whom she lives. cheerful disposition wins wwww.youtube.com/ww.youtube.com/ over the meanest bullies in bbarbertonheraldarbertonherald In the 1950s, when Jenny One favorite character is worked as a midwife, the six-foot-two Camilla Poplar. Th e popular series is now a widely-popular television WWEE LOVELOVE FLOORS!FLOORS! series. Worth’s “Shadows of the Workhouse” recounts stories of some of the many SSmith’smith’s HHouseouse ooff CCarpetarpet people who were served by 11215215 KKenmoreenmore BBlvd.lvd. the midwives. Th e third part of the memoir, “Farewell AAkron,kron, OOHH 4443144314 to the East End” tells of Chummy’s courtship and 3330-753-650530-753-6505 wedding, and the further “adventures” of the eccentric Sister Monica Jones. Worth died in 2011 FREE PAD shortly before her memoirs became a media sensation. with any special order carpet Th ey are a testament to the many women who served CARPET, METAL AND SEAM REPAIRS the poor and downtrodden in London’s East End. We Carry a Full Line of Wood, Vinyl & Laminate Anyone is welcome to check out Worth’s “Call the Midwife” at the Barberton CComeome SSeeee Public Library in any of the available formats: book, OOurur NewNew ebook, audiobook CD, or as a downloadable audiobook. SShowroom!howroom! Patrons can check out all three seasons of the show “Call the Midwife” on DVD or Blu-ray, as well as a music CD featuring music SScottcott & MarieMarie SSmithmith wwww.smithshouseofcarpet.comww.smithshouseofcarpet.com from the fi rst two seasons.