Filmmaker and entrepreneur William Adams has his sights set on establishing himself in the entertainment industry. Adams is a resident of Fort Valley, a small town south of Macon, Georgia, which is known mostly for Fort Valley State University and the Blue Bird Bus Company. I had a candid discussion with Adams, who mentioned that …
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“We give kids their parents back.” So says the running headline on the Salvation Army’s Combat-Addiction webpage. Through its addiction recovery program, the Salvation Army helps over 150,000 people per year suffering with drug addiction, helping make families whole again. They provide free counseling, housing, employment assistance, and support for individuals suffering from long-term alcohol …
What started as a summer trip to study abroad in Ghana has turned into a life mission for one Macon native. In the summer of 2014, Kokayi Bakari Postell traveled to Ghana, a country of approximately twenty-seven million people on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. The coastal country boasts sandy beaches, mountain waterfalls, …
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Britney Asbell is a birth doula. “Doula” is a word of Greek origin, meaning a servant woman. But a birth doula is more than a mere servant. The modern doula is an American creation, born of the changes in childbirth practices that proliferated during the 1960s and 1970s, as mothers became conscious, active participants in …
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Guest post by Clarence Thomas, Jr. On December 1, 2017, an iconic voice in local radio will step away from his morning gospel show microphone and into ministry full time. That voice is WNEX-FM 100.5 The Light’s Bobby Clark, a staple in Middle Georgia listeners’ daytime radio diet. What began in 1977 as a favor …
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(Macon) – “It all began with 3 small drums and a dream,” says Charlene Waller, CEO of Streetline, Inc. Macon-Bibb County high school graduate Cedavean Waller was still a Central High School student in 2009. He was up late, enjoying a midsummer night of nostalgia. Waller spent the night reminiscing about his high school friends, …
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They say don’t judge a book by its cover, so it only fits not to judge a restaurant by its name. If you have ever swung by the Prado in North Macon, near the Museum of Arts and Sciences, you might have seen a sign for a place called FOJ, which is short for Fountain …
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Guest post by Katrina Martin “Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not in imagination.” — C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Through my eyes, my family are extraordinary people working through enormous, life-altering events. We struggle each day to defeat the grief that is …
