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        <description><![CDATA[ Georgia Daniel and Liz Logemann both aspire to serve rural areas through veterinary medicine. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Their lasting contributions to Virginia’s beef, dairy, pork, sheep, and horse industries are now memorialized in the Alphin-Stuart Livestock Arena. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Kim Kirkbride spent more than a decade working for a land trust and started a cattle farm in Giles County before reviving an old dream to be a veterinarian. ]]></description>
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