SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

April 11, 2007

Couple honor daughter's memory by promoting drug education

By Martina Brendel , Staff writer

BEVERLY - Fran Speranza of Swampscott is a sophisticated woman who favors earth tones and wears her blond hair cropped close to her head.

Around her neck, though, she wears a loud red scarf flecked with purple sparkles - a keepsake of her daughter, Laura, who died last year of a drug overdose.Read this article in full with a
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