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ALABAMA TORNADOES LESSONS FOR SURVIVING A STORM

MOBILEHOMERESIDENTSGETADVICE: ‘GETOUT’

LoveladyCentermay sellCarraway

Dana Dunnlost hergrand-daughteranddaughterin an April27tornado.

Manufactured housing hasspecial risks, officials sayBy Robin DeMoniardemonia@bhamnews.com

A tornado flattened Dana Dunn’smobile home park on April 27, andshe carries the constant reminders.Jagged scars criss-cross her armsand legs. Bits of pine straw andglass burrow under her skin. Headinjuries that required 200 stitchesmay have left the strangest re-minder of all: a British accent.

“I used to be a good ol’ Southerngirl; now, I’m an old British lady,”Dunn said of the transformation,

which is known as foreign accentsyndrome and sometimes occursafter people suffer brain trauma orstrokes.

Sadly, an Alabama drawl wasn’tall Dunn lost in the tornado.

The Elmore County twister killedDunn’s 5-year-old granddaughterand ward, Kammie, as well as her23-year-old daughter, CandiceAbernathy.

Their absence grieves Dunn

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By Lisa Osburnlosburn@bhamnews.com

The Lovelady Center is considering stay-ing put in its current South East Lake neigh-borhood and selling the former CarrawayMedical Center, said Brenda Spahn,founder and executive director.

The Lovelady Center purchased the52-acre Carraway campus earlier this yearfor a reported $6 million, with the intentionof moving the nonprofit women’s re-entryand recovery ministry there.

Spahn said she has been approached byat least six development companies who areinterested in Carraway, which shut down in2008.

“For this campus to sit there for thatmany years, I didn’t dream we would getthis kind of interest,” Spahn said. “I actuallythought we were taking a property that no-body wanted. But the interest has been veryencouraging.”

Controversy has surrounded Lovelady’sdecision to move its ministry to Carraway.Some residents of Birmingham’s Northsidehave expressed concern that a communal

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The University of Montevallo’s accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was reaffirmed with norecommendations, which is rare. I-65 lane

closingsdelayednear mall

Montevallo hits home runin school accrediting gameUniversity now model for SACS processBy Veronica Kennedyvkennedy@bhamnews.com

The University of Montevallo isofficially a national standard forcollege done right.

When university officials re-ceived notification Tuesday that

the university’s SACS accreditation hadbeen reaffirmed, they also were invited

to serve as a national model for the ac-creditation process, according to UMPresident John W. Stewart III.

“We are so excited,” Stewart said.“This is going to help us build that na-tional reputation we so want.”

Stewart and several other officialsfrom the university attended the annualconference of the Southern Association

of Colleges and Schools earlier this weekin Orlando. It was there that Stewart saidthe accreditation board of directorsasked the university to serve as a modelfor the correct way to submit forms andevidence.

The reaffirmation brought with it zerorecommendations, which is rare.

“It’s the first time for us in our 115years,” Stewart said.

SeeMONTEVALLO, Page 9A

Ramp closing would havedisrupted holiday trafficBy Jeremy Grayjgray@bhamnews.com

Major parts of the $21 million repaving ofa stretch of Interstate 65 in Hoover and Ves-tavia Hills will be delayed until early 2012 tokeep from disrupting holiday traffic, the Al-abama Department of Transportation an-nounced Thursday.

The project, which will repave a 2.34-milestretch from I-459 to U.S. 31, was scheduledto be complete by the end of the year.

However, the next major step would haverequired workers to close the ramp from I-65 south to I-459, something that wouldhave hurt traffic to the Riverchase Galleriaand other shopping centers, said stateTransportation Director John Cooper. Itmight also have confused out-of-town driv-ers, he said.

To keep that from happening, ALDOT re-quested that any parts of the work that re-quired lane or ramp closures be delayed

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