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Quakes may have rattled Ridgecrest, but its sense of community isn't shaken

RIDGECREST, Calif. - Opal Goode turned 112 in June, about a month before the big earthquakes that still have this town rumbling.

The local Bank of America, where she worked for 20 years (more than 50 years ago), threw a party, and everyone was invited. It would have been the event of the summer if it hadn't been upstaged by the 6.4 quake on July 4 and the 7.1 the next day.

Members of the high school band played "Anchors Aweigh" - the Naval Air Weapons Station

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