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Season for Caring's seniors still have items on their Christmas lists His grandsons call Cline Meredith their superhero. His wife calls him her best friend.  For the 66-year-old from Elgin, who has stage 4 metastatic kidney cancer that has recently gone to his brain, this Christmas and every day after are important. “His biggest thing he loves to do is go fishing, and he can’t do what he loves,” said wife Velma Meredith, 63. “We love to carry on conversations together, but now he feels so bad he sleeps most of the time. Or when he is up, his mind doesn’t work as well as it used to...

Families hit hard by pandemic, illness need plumbing, remodeling work Cancer spreading to the brain and then his wife losing her job. The music industry going silent because of the pandemic.  For three of the Statesman Season for Caring families, these are the lasting scars from 2020. It's also the reason needed home repairs have fallen so far down their lists.  Every year, the Statesman Season for Caring program highlights the needs of 12 featured families nominated by local nonprofit organizations. Those families' needs are taken care of first and then the organizations use monetary donat...