<font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hey everyone --<br><br>Happy New Year!<br><br>I just wanted to let you all know about a cool feature Patch wrote on some Riverdale Park business owners -- </font></font><span class="short_url_link"><a href="http://patch.com/A-dp2s">http://patch.com/A-dp2s</a>.<br>
<br>We spoke to Emily Fanning, Loreen Arnold and Audrey Bragg. </span>Here's a part of it...<br clear="all"><p><i>Emily Fanning went on a vacation with her family in Mount Vernon when
she was 8-years-old. During one of their excursions, they visited a
gift shop. Fanning’s eyes scanned the sales floor and landed on a doll
made of hickory nut. She begged her father to buy her the doll, but it
was out of their price range.</i></p>
<p><i>“We couldn’t afford to buy the doll, so my father said, ‘there’s a
hickory nut tree in the backyard, you can make your own doll,’” Fanning,
now 71, said.</i></p><p><br></p><p>Thanks,<br></p><p>Sonia<br></p>
<br>-- <br><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sonia Dasgupta</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Editor | </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://riverdalepark.patch.com" target="_blank">Riverdale Park-University Park Patch</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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