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[Q]: Seventeen evictions were delayed, giving families additional time to find new housing, Romeo said. And in three other cases, the lawyers were not able to get extensions but were able to avert judgments against the tenants.
[A]: Seventeen evictions were delayed, giving families additional time to find new housing, and the lawyers weren't able to get extensions but able avert judgments.

[Q]: Tate, now in private practice in Marion, was hired as the program's first director in 1972 after a Marion-based community action program secured grant money to establish the Smyth-Bland Legal Aid Society.
[A]: Tate was hired as the program's first director in 1972 after a community action program secured grant money to establish the Legal Aid Society.

[Q]: Steps to the Future Brick Project You may purchase a brick to be placed around the Virginia Clinton Kelley Memorial Garden. You may have bricks as memorials, for celebrations of birthdays, to acknowledge friends or just because you want to.
[A]:
Steps to the Future Brick Project Bricks are to be placed in the memorial garden. You may have bricks as memorials, for birthdays, acknowledgement or just because.