Stories

Second chances

After spending 12-and-one-half years in prison Buddy Love opened his barber shop on the northeast side of Muncie, Ind., with the hope of influencing the young men in what he sees as Muncie's forgotten black community to not follow that led him to a murder conviction at a young age.

Buddy Love, center, and Mike Bradley, right, laugh at a story Howard McCallum, left, was telling during the Saturday morning rush at Buddy Love’s Barber Shop on Highland Avenue in Muncie.

Tre Cook, 8, gets his hair cut by Buddy Love at Love’s East Highland Avenue barbershop in Muncie.

Buddy Love cuts Martice Redfield’s hair at his barber shop on Highland Avenue on Muncie’s east side.

Mickey Hill, 11, points to his king as his brother Noah Hill, 7, moves one of his pawns. The brothers were playing chess while they waited for haircuts at Buddy Love’s barbershop.

Michael Long (right) and Cedric Powell talk about growing up in the Whitley neighborhood on Muncie’s northeast side. Powell and his son Jordan Powell, 8 (not pictured), were waiting for haircuts at Buddy Love’s Barber Shop on a busy Saturday morning. 

Buddy Love laughs as Adrian Barrett argues with other customers about whether or not pop music star Michael Jackson was guilty of child molestation in the barbershop on a Saturday morning.

Debbie's dream team

For Debbie Brewer, hospice care has not been with her just at the end of her life, but for more than four years. Surrounded by a team including a registered nurse, a social worker, a pastor and others, Brewer, who suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and her family depend o that team to keep her quality of life as high as possible. "They do everything," Brewer said. "I don't know what we would have done without them."

Stacey Hartshorn, left, hugs Debbie Brewer during one of the Hospice of Central Ohio nurse's visits to Brewer's home in Newark.

A tear forms in Debbie Brewers eye as she undergoes a breathing treatment.

Pastor Tom Myers leans back in his chair after finishing writing one of the four funerals he's writen in a week for patients at Hospice of Central Ohio Thursday morning, May 20, 2010, in Newark.

Debbie Brewer laughs as she talks with Hospice of Central Ohio Social Worker Ruth Robson during one of Robson visits Brewer's home during which the two discuss what Brewer's feeling.

Stacey Hartshorn, left, talks to Debbie Brewer during one of the Hospice of Central Ohio nurse's visits to Brewer's home in Newark. Brewer has been homebound for the past four years with COPD and has spent that time in the care of hospice group.

Stacey Hartshorn holds Debbie Brewer's hand as the nurse and patient talk during Hartshorn's visit.

Stacey Hartshorn sorts Debbie Brewer's medication for the week.