East Palestine working on a comeback

EAST PALESTINE — Prayers, well wishes and donations continue to pour into the community, but Mindy Juliana and Donna Heitzman wanted to support the town in a different way. The two walked the downtown Tuesday, opening their wallets — and their hearts — to local business owners. The story doesn’t seem particularly unusual until you consider where they’re from. Juliana, of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Heitzman, of Syracuse, New York, are friends who hadn’t seen each other in 10 years. Juliana flew to Cleveland last week for a work conference and the two met, with the specific goal of visiting the…