Several days a week, seniors on Charleston’s East End gather at the East End Resource Center, at 502 Ruffner Ave., to eat lunch, play games and spend time together.

The group offers food, companionship, insurance advice and other resources. But within this community there’s another club of sorts: women who have survived breast cancer. Kanawha Valley

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By Ashley Perham aperham@hdmediallc.com

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Free mammograms

On Wednesday, about half of the around 20 attendees for bingo and lunch were breast cancer survivors, including Karen Williams, East End Resource Center director.

Williams was diagnosed on Christmas Eve 2016. Neither she nor her doctors felt a lump, but a mammogram showed cancer in a

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