TRIBUTE In January of last year, about four months after her sister Laney Rickman passed away, Dorothy Paterson (center) and her daughter Audrey (second from left) attended the National Parrot Rescue and Preservation Foundation conference with: friend Robin Showakis (far left); Bennet Hennessey (second from right), who works with Asociación Armonía in Bolivia saving the Blue-throated Macaws; and friend Lewis "Buddy" Waskey (far right).
Balloons and giggles punctuated Karen Nakfoor's 60th-birthday party. From left are Cathy Smith, Margaret Pfeiffer, Susan Doherty, Helen Perry, Rosanna Blalock, birthday-girl Karen, Dorothy Paterson, Kitty Vann, Betsy Elick and Terry Harmon.