Jane Thomas has learned quite a bit about overcoming health issues.
Just months after finishing a year of treatment for breast cancer, Thomas allowed a friend to convince her to join the City South Leadership Academy, a nine-month civic leadership program sponsored by the South San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Thomas found it to be some of the best medicine in recovering from surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
“It was really a great distraction for me,” she says. When the class finished, she adds, “I wasn’t ready for it to end.”
She joined the steering committee which plans the class, and then before she knew it she was on the board of the South San Antonio Chamber. “When you sign up for something, you want to know that you’re making a difference,” Thomas says. “I felt like...
