![]() ![]() Saroo is placed in a juvenile detention center, where he is bullied and beaten. Saroo’s life takes an unexpected turn when a teenaged boy turns him over to the police. He spends the following weeks begging and stealing on the dangerous streets of Kolkata. He gets off in Kolkata and asks strangers for help finding ‘Ginestlay’ and ‘Berampur,’ but most people ignore him. The sun has risen, and the train is moving when Saroo wakes up hours later. Saroo falls asleep, wakes up cold, and climbs on to an empty train. Guddu tells him to wait while he takes care of something. One night, five-year-old Saroo accompanies Guddu to Burhanpur Station to beg for food and money. Saroo’s Muslim father abandoned the family, forcing Kamla to take odd jobs and the children to scrounge and steal. Saroo lives in a one-room house in a suburb of Khandwa called Ganesh Talai, which he shares with his Hindu mother, Kamla, his two older brothers, Guddu and Kallu, and his infant sister, Shekila. ![]() The narrative then looks back at Saroo’s life in India. A year after arriving in Hobart, he tells Sue he is from a place called ‘Ginestlay’ and that he got lost after taking a train at ‘Berampur’ Station. Saroo quickly adapts to life in Australia, but he often dreams of India and his biological family. His parents ease his transition, while showering him with love and affection. Coming from abject poverty, Saroo must adjust to having his own room, being able to eat his fill, and going to school. Saroo experiences culture shock when he first arrives in Hobart, the capital of the Australian island-state of Tasmania. Finding his childhood home empty, Saroo fears his mother died or moved to a distant place until a stranger happens by and takes him to her.Ĭhapter 1 describes Saroo’s early years in the home of his adoptive parents, Sue and John Brierley. The prologue describes the nerve-wracking moments before Saroo reunites with his birth mother after more than two decades. Family Video partnered with the Ohio-based chain in 2015.A Long Way Home includes a prologue, 13 chapters, and an epilogue. In Springfield, Marco’s Pizza has a location in the former Family Video location at 3211 W. I’m not buying office buildings here and I probably won’t open any more pizza places here.” Keith Hoogland, who took over the operation of the company from his father, Charles, in 1995, told the Chicago Tribune last week that Illinois was "a shrinking state" and taxes were "going to get worse before they get better." He added the plan "is to slow growth in Illinois or stop it. "They've been very generous to us in the past and for that we are eternally grateful." "Who knows what the future will bring but that's not even on our radar at the moment. The Hooglands' gifts were "purely philanthropic," Gordon said, and that they never sought a seat on the arts center's governing board.Īt this point, "we certainly have no desire or intent to change the name of the building," Gordon said. "I don't think it's going too far to say if it weren't for Charles and Kathleen, we wouldn't be here today," Gordon said. Just a few years after making the $1 million gift, Charles and Kathleen Hoogland got community members to donate after the arts center was threatened with closing, said Gordon, who became executive director in 2013. location, places DVDs back on the store's shelves in 2014. "They have to make a decision they have to make for a number of reasons but that's never going to diminish how grateful we are for what they've done for our community over all these years."Ī store manager at Family Video's 1614 S. Some of those things wouldn't be around absent their support, so we are grateful for that. "We're honored to have their name and their investment here for as many years as we did, and their impact is obvious. ![]() "The Hooglands have been an enormous part of our community's history and (presently)," McCrady said. Holding companies or trusts connected to the Hoogland family still own the properties of the former video stores in Springfield and NextSite "could assist" in bringing options to their properties, McCrady added. McCrady said the Growth Alliance has contracted with NextSite, a national development consulting firm, to market and promote a number of retail sites around the community. "The best we can do is continue to try to build the best environment for businesses we can here in our community and to do whatever we can to make our community a competitive option for retaining and attracting businesses." We're not in any position to argue or refute any of that," McCrady said. "He was very open about the reasons for his decisions.
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