Debra Foster has known Ciara Smith “since before she was born,” so when she dusts off a story from the Anniston councilwoman-elect’s childhood it’s fresh and largely cobweb-free. Decades haven’t faded it, though they will in due time.
“I will never forget years ago,” Foster says, which means before Smith was class president at Anniston High School , and before she served on Anniston’s Main Street board of directors, and before she interned with U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, and before she attended a Congressional Black Caucus Institute boot camp in Washington, D.C.
Ciara Smith happily holds up a campaign sign at the August general municipal election.
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