Deborah Eskridge knows firsthand how illnesses can impact day-to-day life. Diagnosed with lupus in 2016 at the age of 19, she spent much of her time adjusting to her “new normal” rather than attending her second year of college as planned. Recognizing that many children and young adults impacted by illnesses may not be able...
Traveling changes you. When placed out of your comfort zone in a part of the world in which there are more obstacles, you grow and never return to the same person you once were. Potosí, Bolivia, is one of the highest cities in the world. It sits on the lower part of the country and...
When you see a service truck from GleamPro Cleaning pull up to your home or business, you might think it is just one franchisee for a large national company with offices scattered all over. It is not. There is only one GleamPro office, and it’s in Jackson. However, the cleaning company serves a wide geographic...
Justin Phongsavanh is no ordinary local resident. He’s a Paralympian. A Paralympic bronze medalist and world record javelin thrower who now calls Henry County home. But how did this man, born and raised in the Midwest, make his way to Georgia? “The reason why I picked Georgia is I could not do snow anymore,” says...
Learning to read is one of the core skills taught when a student first starts going to school. However, not every student learns the same way or at the same pace. At Community Christian School in Stockbridge, Alicia Petry, the school’s literacy specialist, has introduced students and teachers to the Orton-Gillingham method. She is the...
This statement of truth, as viewed upon entry into the Manifest Wellness Spa, is quite apparent. Located on Highway 42/23, in the back of the Vineyard Park facility in McDonough, this unique health center not only offers healing services with discounted packages for paying clientele, but it also offers free services for military veterans and...
Scott Mayo and Matt Settle have known each other for over twenty years, playing high school baseball against each other. Settle played for Stockbridge High School and Mayo for Union Grove. Both men went on to play college baseball. Over the years, the two Henry County men always envisioned going into business together in some...
For the McGinnis family, having several generations living on the same property in Henry County, with each generation having gone to the same school, is something special. “It’s neat three generations have gone there,” says TJ McGinnis, son of the patriarch of the family, Hal McGinnis. TJ followed in his dad’s footsteps by attending school...
It isn’t a secret that Piedmont Henry Hospital is a busy place. The emergency department is one of the busiest in the Piedmont system, the surgical services department hums with activity every day of the week, and the hospital continues to offer new programs and services to care for a consistently growing and thriving community....
A small spot in McDonough continues to make a big name for itself. Ron Pippin opened the Original Pippin’s BBQ in 1986 in a small shed in McDonough, stirring up so much noise that he decided in 1988 to open up a permanent space near the McDonough square, where it still stands today on Sims...