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New Emily K CEO seeks to expand the center’s reach
By Tracie Fellers, Correspondent
Valerie Anderson, above, the new CEO of Durham’s Emily K Center, says the best piece of advice she’s ever received came from her mother as she was growing up in Meriden, Connecticut.
“It was ‘try to leave every place better than you found it.’ Now, granted, she was talking about cleaning up after myself and things like that,” Anderson said with a laugh. “But it has really grown on me as a life kind of virtue and value. … So, that is a piece of advice I try to live by.”…