Being an all-star player at Northside Methodist Academy and the school’s first basketball college signee in the 1990s came with many challenging and exciting moments, but nothing could have prepared
Dothan native David Arute for what he was walking into by traveling to Ukraine during the onset of the war with Russia back in the spring.
They watched in horror as Russia invaded Ukraine in February, knowing many of their relatives were in harm’s way. Leaving his wife and children back in Glen Ellyn, Ill., Arute flew to Romania to begin what amounts to a rescue mission of helping his sister-in-law, niece and nephew flee the war zone. “I had told a few people with a few contacts within the state department just because who knows what could happen. I still hadn’t told my parents and didn’t tell my siblings, just because I didn’t want them to freak out.”“The scariest part … I came into Ukraine with zero baggage … so it looked kind of funny crossing from the border from Romania into Ukraine,” Arute said. “Then I was checked at a military checkpoint and I was interviewed.
“The word spread a little bit and now we have about 80 to 90 Ukrainian therapists around the globe,” Arute said. “About half of them are actually Ukrainian refugees themselves, or they are still in Ukraine.
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