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It takes a village?

It takes a president who believes not only in the potential of his own child, but of all children, who believes not only in the strength of his own family, but of the American family who believes not only in the promise of each of us as individuals, but in our promise together as a nation.

It takes a president who not only holds these beliefs, but acts on them. It takes Bill Clinton.

- First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Speaks at the Democratic National Convention, PBS.org, August 27, 1996.

2. GOLD CANYON, Marta Saint-James loves animals, especially dogs, and if a dog should go missing in her community, she puts that love into action.

“Within minutes,” Saint-James said, “the whole community is on the alert.” It starts with a phone call, email or a post to her website, Gold Canyon Dog Owners Group, when a dog is either missing or found.

Saint-James gets a photo of the dog — and so begins the PAW Alert. “Time is of the essence when a dog is missing or found,” she said. She attributes the success of her system to the many volunteers, to the businesses that get involved and to the “blessing and help” of the employees of the Pinal County and Apache Junction animal control departments.

The adage “It’s not what you know, but who you know” is important in this network-based PAW Alert that boasts a 97 percent success rate in reuniting lost dogs with their families.

Saint-James and her husband, Curt Fonger, have lived in Gold Canyon for 14 years and have been very involved in trying to see an off-leash dog park built in their unincorporated community.