News-Argus/Mitch Loeber

George Sasser, a client of the Wayne Opportunity Center since the late 1960s, cheers after adding some soil to a tree planted in memory of the late Carol Peele Bender. Interim Executive Director John Chance, right, watches the ceremony held on the Wayne Opportunity Center lawn in Goldsboro. Ms. Bender was director of the Opportunity Center from March 1990 to December 16, 2004. Wayne Opportunity Center is a private non-profit rehabilitation facility that provides programs to people with various types of disabilities.