his mom janice, dad hiram treated her as one of their own. >> she was not a girlfriend or whatever. she was a -- she was our family. >> when it was time for kevin to go off to college, he and nona stayed in touch and in love through a wireless world of late night chats, texts and emoticons. when he wouldn't respond promptly she'd wag her finger at him. >> she would send me text messages saying "are you still alive?" sarcastically, trying to get my attention. >> which is why he was so taken aback that day a little more than a week before christmas in 2005. it was december 15th. nona uncharacteristically hadn't reached out to him or answered him since morning. at one point he turned her old taunt back on her, texting, "you alive?" even then she didn't respond. this was not like nona. >> 4 1/2 years we had made a pattern, and that's what we did every day. and if that pattern is broken, it just kind of raised a red flag in my head, why is she not responding? >> were you worried? >> i was concerned. >> who knows why things work out the way they do? on that particular night kevin was supp

meaning a new dam across the cuyahoga near the hiram rapids. the city could begin selling water to the countless towns in the area. but even now, the city of akron uses so much water from the river that in times of low flow, the stream almost stops running. there are those who feel another dam would kill the cuyahoga. that sludge once flowed through the city of kent, but now the river runs somewhat cleaner, though it still is not pure by any means. it is clean enough to support fish and several have been taken from this spot below the kent falls, right in the heart of town. there is even talk here in kent of making the river into a park available to all and we are told the plans for it have been completed. it was a different story five years ago. ♪ >> on the outskirts of kent, where the river heads for cuyahoga falls, is the new kent wastewater treatment plant, which was under construction five years ago. it can provide secondary treatment of some 4 million gallons of waste each day and it is now meeting the state requirements for discharges in

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hiram hanover was a very important figure in all of this because he was the original surveyor for the town. cotton farming was really important in this area in the 19th century. a lot of immigrants, especially italians, who came to texas ended up -- you know, they did not have a lot of funds, so they ended up buying a lot of land along the river, the river bottoms, but it turns out that that land was really great for cotton farming and pecan farming , and we still have a lot of cotton farming around this area today. the temperature and the way the land is along the brazos river was really very good for that sort of thing. we did have -- because we had cotton farming, so there was also slavery in texas in the area, this particular bale is a really early bale. it shows how they put them together. over here, this is actually a hook scale and a hoisting beam so that they could weigh the cotton. this is just a simple cotton gin and lent separator. this was used in the 19th century as well. of course, this is a different kind of bale. they tried this, doing a round bale, but it did not catc

things have been transformed now though partly because of hiram godfrey he is what's known here as a john karr the hindi name means someone who knows all about groundwater 20 veejays as their nickname here live in the surrounding villages. godfrey regularly checks the water levels in the wells and records on the trace of rain. no matter what go guys you are used to feel really strange in front of the other villagers when i 1st started taking the measurements they used to ask me what on earth are you doing. every now and then yogi comes to see her. she works for the marvie project run by a nearby university and poor together with australia's western sydney university the project aims to help people find ways of dealing with the constant water shortage here living on location to be jay's are key participants do they have to be trained up to handle their tasks. they're going to have a new class of medication didn't know so it was a new experience a lot of them that. there are a bunch of them. and learn about things and knowing it was like for 7 days for a 6 month period but it was a big

things have been transformed now though partly because of hiram got 3 he's what's known here as a john karr the hindi name means someone who knows all about groundwater 20 their nicknames here live in the surrounding villages. godfrey regularly checks the water levels in the wells and records on the trace of rain. go guys yeah i used to feel really strange in front of the other villagers when i 1st started taking the measurements they used to ask me what on earth are you doing . every now and then yogi comes to see how. she works for the marvie project run by a nearby university and poor together with australia's western sydney university the project aims to help people find ways of dealing with the constant water shortage here living on location to be jay's are key participants so they have to be trained up to handle their tasks. and they didn't have a new class of immigrants and didn't know so it was a new experience a lot of them that. there are a bunch of them. and learn about things and knowing it was like for 7 days for a 6 month period but it was a big part of the people in thei