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1 1 STENSLAND Continued from Page 4 Financing Available 'Free Estimates Fully Insured Siding Doors Windows 'Hot Asphalt -Rubber Roofing 'Hot Coating -Shingles should be. You know, I'm sticking by my man and I know that Larry is a good man." EMERGENCY REPAIRS Sgfl with her sons. She also continues her work with local charities. She declined to offer specifics, but says she and her husband are reinventing themselves for possible new careers. "I'm sad and I'm hopeful for the future," Stensland said.

One thing's for certain Philadelphia is home. "We love it here." Stensland says she holds no bitterness, that in fact, she appreciates her former employer. "I'm grateful to Fox and Roger Ailes the head of Fox's news division for my employment," she said. "I love the people there and I wish everybody well." Fox 29, in turn, released a statement last week: "Fox 29 appreciates Dawn's hard work and dedication during her time with the station." And Stensland being Stensland, she notes all the other staffers who have been laid off at Fox 29 and companies everywhere. "I guess we're like 10 percent of Americans right now.

We're all in the same boat." ment to local media outlets, but not informed Stensland's coworkers, they said. Stensland wanted her family, friends and viewers to hear the news from her so she turned to Facebook and Twitter, where she wrote, "Fox is not renewing my contract. I wanted you to hear that directly from me. Thank you for all your love and support over the years." Stensland, meanwhile, pressed on, writing her script for that night's broadcast. It aired late because the Phillies won the National League Championship Series that night.

It was her last newscast. Stensland, a 20-year-plus veteran of broadcast news who arrived in Philadelphia in 1997, didn't get the chance to say goodbye to Fox 29 viewers, stations sources said. Her chance to connect one last time with her viewers had passed. Dawn Stensland was just poof! gone. Yet Stensland focuses on the positive such as more time Just as Stensland thought she and her beloved family tots David, 3, and Michael, 6, and Mendte's children from a previous marriage, Stacia, 26, and Jonathan, 25 had weathered the worst of a hellish 2008, more bad news came this year.

Their dear German shepherd, Buddy, died at age 10. "He was just a part of the family," she said. Then the news veteran got sucker-punched when her station announced Oct. 21 that it would not renew her contract. Inside the Fox 29 newsroom, Stensland's colleagues were shocked to learn about her departure from an article on philly.com, sources said.

Station officials had released a state PAGE 30 PHIL ADELPHIA DAILY NEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009.