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Monday, December 31, 2012

Mokena's Top 10 Stories of 2012

See which articles were among the most read during the past year.

As the year draws to a close, Mokena Patch revisits some of our most read stories of 2012. The articles below were among those that most captivated readers during the last year: 1. Mokena Barber Cuts Hair With Fire: VIDEO Paper beats rock, scissors beat paper and, for Mokena, IL, barber Tony Dina, Jr., sometimes fire beats scissors ... to read more, click here. 2. Five-time Cancer Survivor Says 'Remain Positive' For New Lenox's Edith Saurer, a 75-year-old survivor of five different forms of cancer, the words "give up" never entered her mind ... to read more, click here. 3. Mokena Teen Killed in Homer Township Crash A 16-year-old boy was killed Tuesday night in a one-vehicle crash in Homer Township, the SouthtownStar is reporting ... to …

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Mokena Barber Cuts Hair With Fire: VIDEO, Five-time Cancer Survivor Says 'Remain Positive', Mokena Teen Killed in Homer Township Crash, and 11 more ›

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Five-time Cancer Survivor Says 'Remain Positive'

Five different forms of cancer over four decades haven't gotten 75-year-old Edith Saurer down.

For New Lenox's Edith Saurer, a 75-year-old survivor of five different forms of cancer, the words "give up" never entered her mind. Having twice endured the symptoms of skin cancer—the first time when she was in her late 30s and again in 2007, cancerous polyps in her esophagus and colon in 1984, and breast cancer in 2001 or 2002, she has a message for those diagnosed with cancer: "Never give up." Standing about 5-foot tall, the woman with a thick Austrian accent, is a dynamo when it comes to withstanding the punches that life throws. Growing up during the 1950s in the Soviet-occupied portion of Austria during the Cold War, Saurer said she learned how to cope with adversity. "There was never enough food." Alone and at the age of 16, Saurer …

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