Know Your Neighbors: Mary Snow , Wal-Mart Distribution Center employee/student
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Mary Snow, 23, drives a forklift at the Wal-Mart Distribution Center near Sterling and studies psychology at Sauk Valley Community College.
She and her son, Brayden Snow, 5, live in Sterling. She is the daughter of Gary and Jeanette Rhoades of Prophetstown, and has two brothers, Charles Rhoades, 36, of Montgomery, and Daniel Rhoades, 27, of Prophetstown, and a sister, Christine Rhoades, 39, of Sterling.
On-the-job lesson: Always strive for something better.
Alma mater: I got my GED from Wallace School in Sterling.
Philosophy: The only person you can control is yourself.
Oughta be a law: I’d eliminate nuclear weapons.
Hearts: Weightlifting, writing poetry and watching “The Doctors” on ABC.
Hero: My mom. She’s the strongest person I know.
First job: I sewed mink bears at a shop in Prophetstown when I was 15. I didn’t like it.
First car: A Ford Escort station wagon when I was 16.
Read this: Any book by Erma Bombeck.
Phobias: Heights and stage fright.
Guilty pleasure: Lounging.
I’d like to meet: Edgar Allan Poe.
In the dictionary next to: Determined.
Trading places: I’d like to be a psychologist, since that’s what I’m going to school for.
Trading spaces: I’d like to visit Venice, Italy. From what I’ve seen, it’s beautiful.
Shout out to: My mom.
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