Amanda Gunter: It’s All About Finding Your Balance
August 4, 2010 by Whitney Aken
Filed under Amanda Gunter, Cover Girls
The rust-orange waiting room walls of the Brain Balance Center in Peachtree City are covered with taped-on gold paper stars and trophies. Each one bears a hand-written acknowledgement of a student’s accomplishments. “Worked hard today.” “Wrote an amazing story.” “Great sit-ups!” “Had an I-can attitude.” The center’s students, with neuro-behavioral disorders such as ADHD, Asperger’s [...]
Read More...Linda North, for the Love of the Game
July 10, 2010 by Sherri Smith Brown
Filed under Linda North
Linda North steps onto a sunny ball field swarming with exuberant Little Leaguers. It is Little League Baseball and Softball tournament time, and she is there from first pitch ‘til the last. It’s part of her job — a volunteer job to which Linda devotes 40-plus hours a week year-round. But it’s also a job [...]
Read More...Maynard Griggs Brown – An Extraordinary Life
June 8, 2010 by Sherri Smith Brown
Filed under Maynard Griggs Brown
Maynard Griggs Brown is content to spend her days in the sun-filled rooms of the house she has lived in for most of her 101 years. She especially enjoys the warmer months when the flowers in her garden bloom profusely and she can don her bonnet, go outside, and do a little digging around in [...]
Read More...For 100th issue, Fayette Woman team takes a bow
May 6, 2010 by Sherri Smith Brown
Filed under Fayette Woman Backstage
It all started last fall during a routine staff meeting.
Joyce, Heather, Gwen and I were sitting around a conference table, planning upcoming issues of Fayette Woman. As the conversation went along, the subject of how many issues we’ve produced came up, and Joyce mentioned that we were at ninety-something.
The realization came abruptly: Fayette Woman, our [...]
Teen author Noni Carter writes, inspires
April 7, 2010 by Abby Brunks
Filed under Noni Carter
If you think inspiring thoughts and words of wisdom are spoken only by people in their senior years, then you haven’t heard – or read – the words of Noni Carter. At just 18 years of age, Noni is already a renowned African-American writer who possesses a remarkable talent for creating fictional stories, a skill [...]
Read More...Still waters run deep
March 6, 2010 by Lynn Parsons
Filed under Kim Schisler
In the saddle since she was 18 months old, as long as she’s riding, she’s happy. Through good times and bad, Kim Schisler has kept this dream alive: to ride at the Olympic level. She does this, and teaches the art of Dressage.
Read More...For Diana Galloway, the sky is the limit
February 5, 2010 by Kristin Girard
Filed under Diana Galloway
February 12, 2009 started out as just an ordinary day for Fayetteville resident Diana Galloway, a flight attendant with Atlantic Southeast Airlines, based out of Hartsfield Jackson Airport.
But by the time it was over, Galloway and the ASA crewmates she flew with that day—Captain Rachelle Jones, First Officer Stephanie Grant, and flight attendant Robin Rogers—had [...]
Ann Yingling: Advocating for our wounded warriors
January 7, 2010 by Sherri Smith Brown
Filed under Ann Yingling
Ann Yingling’s home reflects the experiences of her life. Cuckoo clocks chime and sing on the hour. Polish pottery adorns shelves and a 100-piece Hummel figurine collection stares out from behind a glass cabinet. Korean and German antiques grace the rooms. A vase is from Bangkok; another piece of pottery from El Paso. Dozens of [...]
Read More...