As Donald Trump surged to the front of the Republican presidential field, Jimmy Carter announced he was battling cancer. The soft-spoken former president and the
“She was only 4 years old then,” said Ancar, who lives now in a home repaired by Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers.
One of those volunteers was the girl’s father. When he returned home after . . .
“It was indescribable,” said the husky man with regal bearing. “It still brings out emotion.”
Before one of the largest Iowa crowds drawn by any candidate this year, Republican Ted Cruz featured the story of Betty Görtz-Odgaard and Richard Odgaard at an Aug. 21 rally of 2,300 Christian conservatives focused on exercising . . .
