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Heidi Kuhn’s mission to replace landmines from the soil and souls of people in conflict-torn countries with sustainable farmland they could prosper from began with an utterly unscripted toast in the living room of San Rafael home.
“May the world go from mines to vines,” she said to a roomful of anti-landmine activists and landmine survivors from around the world on Sept. 21, 1997.
The group was in San Francisco to raise awareness of an international treaty to ban production, stockpiling, export and use landmines. The young mother of three serendipitously offered to host the Commonwealth Club reception in the woodsy hilltop home her grandmother Lucretia McNear Thomas willed to her on the written condition that she “do something for peace.”
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