By Tom Eastman
CONWAY — For the past few years, Meredith James, 24, has helped her mom, Jen's Friends Cancer Foundation president Wendy Holmes, with the annual Jen's Friends Climb Against Cancer at Cranmore, which this year is set for Saturday, Sept. 14.
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