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You’re invited to lose a ton of weight with Magnolia
January has come and gone and those New Year’s resolutions to shed unwanted pounds may be waning. So Magnolia magazine and the Rome-Floyd YMCA are teaming up for Health Quest 2010. It’s a f...
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From the Porch Swing: Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias bloom in abundance in the South, and we decided to celebrate some of our local ones this season. The namesake movie and play certainly strike a chord with us Southern gals. The sto...
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Bobbeth Hawkins. Photograph by Ken Caruthers Bobbeth Hawkins
Bobbeth’s father Robert Stoop was a biplane pilot. She remembers him sporting his bomber’s jacket, scarf, leather flying cap and goggles when she was just a little girl. When he was first learnin...
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Edith Frazier. Photograph by Ken Caruthers Edith Frazier
Edith is known for her green thumb. She has a huge Confederate rose that she loves to tend as well as all of the other bounty of her notable yard. She grows tomatoes and loves to share them. In s...
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Shirley Woodard. Photograph by Lindy Dugger Cordell Shirley Woodard
Shirley is a nurse at the Floyd County Health Department. Nursing is a second career for her, as she went back to school in her 40s to get her nursing degree after 18 years in the telecommunicati...
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Pam Gilmer. Photograph by Ken Caruthers Pam Gilmer
Even though Pam has had to face some extraordinary challenges in the past couple of years, she embraces the joyful moments in life and loves to decorate for them. Weddings, birthdays, parties – w...
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Kay Dixon. Photograph by Lindy Dugger Cordell Kay Dixon
Kay’s roots run deep in Texas Valley. She was born and raised on her family’s 100-plus acre farm (where the Rocky Mountain Recreation Area is now). She says the valley was settled and named by he...
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Naomi Williams. Photograph by Lindy Dugger Cordell Naomi Williams
Naomi loves scrap-booking to preserve life’s special times, mementos and photos. And she also loves sharing the craft with others through her Creative Memories business. Naomi Williams is a Stee...
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Mary Ann Long
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Mary Ann is a busy mother of three with a special needs child. This busy nurse has to balance work and family demands, and her personal stress-management regimen is running. Each day she gets up a...
Dr. Barbara Collip-Wyatt
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Barbara has been a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Rome since 1947. “My husband said he’d become an Episcopalian if I’d become an American citizen,” she said. They both did, and her husb...
Cheryl Huffman Freeman
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Those who know Cheryl for her past role at the helm of a local credit union or her work at Berry College might be surprised to know her early jobs were as a short-order cook in high school and a T...
Debbie Malone
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Debbie is a tireless caregiver and advocate. But she does need some time for herself, and photography has become an outlet for her. She started out taking photos to accompany her freelance article...
Having a baby in the Information Age can mean advice overload
by John Bailey
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When you don’t know much about a subject, you take a class right? We followed the path of Bill Cosby in his famous comedy routine about parenting. When we learned of the imminent birth of our son A...
This is not your mama’s Junior Service League
by Charlotte Atkins
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They’re bold. They’re sassy. They’re Blackberry-carrying, e-mailing, carpooling, Internet-savvy, marathon-running, multitasking, educated, incredibly busy women. They are the Junior Service Leaguer...
Magnolias of the Past: Imogene Coulter and Aunt Martha Freeman
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Rome’s history has included women who have helped shaped the course of our community and touched the lives of people here. Each fall, Heritage Holidays events include tours of historic Myrtle Hill ...
Body of knowledge
by Jeff Gable
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As their knowledge about health issues increases, people have started to take more active roles in their medical care. However, despite the wealth of information available and greater awareness fro...