Rita Miller graduated Drug Court in 2006 and has been clean and sober ever since. She's now a third year at Missouri Western University majoring in Social Work and hopes to be able to help adults suffering from alcohol and drug addiction.

Susan Schantz stands in her living room in South St. Joseph Wedensday November 4, 2009. Susan has early onset Alzheimer's following a trend of generations of women in her family who have also lived with the disease.

Norma Hurst says she doesn't have a title at Wesley United Methodist Church, but she is the leader of the church's effort to adopt around four families through the AFL-CIO's Adopt a Family Program during the Christmas season, getting donations from the whole congregation to help support
local families in need.

A group of Alpaca's wait in their pen to be weighed by the staff at Aconcagua Alapaca Farm in Agency. A full grown alapca grows between 150 and 175 pounds, their fur has been growing in popularity over recent years.

Norma Hurst says she doesn't have a title at Wesley United Methodist Church, but she is the leader of the church's effort to adopt around four families through the AFL-CIO's Adopt a Family Program during the Christmas season, getting donations from the whole congregation to help support local families in need.

Mason Henderson, 3 (left) sits with his cousins Jackson Spinner, 4 (far right) and Madi Spinner, 1eating candy before they go trick-or-treating in their neighborhood near Angelique St. and Noyes Blvd. early Saturday evening.