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DR. MICHAEL HOOPS, a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in cosmetic surgery, recently visited Belgium to get a closer look at the technique of world renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Alexis M. Verpaele, an assistant clinical professor from the department of plastic surgery at Gent University Hospital in Belgium. Hoops met with Verpaele, who helped develop the European MACS lift, and uses the technique in his thriving profession. Photo by WILLIAM WRIGHT
Dr. Michael Hoops: The joy of improving appearances
An increasing number of people in Bradley County are enjoying a more youthful and healthier look thanks to Dr. Michael L. Hoops, a local plastic surgeon with a purpose and the skills to make cosmet...
May 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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FLINT SPRINGS RURITAN CLUB members in this 1993 photo, from left front, are Clarkie Grant, Jimmy Blackwell, Ernest Dunn, Sue Emerson and Tom Graham; and back, Bill Varnell, Bill Higgins, Jeff Nichols, Clyde Emerson and Bob Grant.
Club celebrates 60 years of service
This year marks 60 years of continuous service for the Flint Springs Ruritan Club, a community service organization. The club was established Jan. 4, 1951, and has been actively involved in the com...
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DOYLE DYKES, the iconic finger-style guitarist who lives in Cleveland, offers fans a homespun collection of stories about guitars, music, life and faith in his first book, “The Lights of Marfa: One of the World’s Great Guitar Player’s Amazing Encounters with God.” The Grand Ole Opry veteran, who has more than a half-dozen solo albums to his credit, creates contemporary guitar music that is fresh and sparkles with originality.
Doyle Dykes’ amazing encounters
One of the world’s great guitarists, Doyle Dykes, is sharing his unique insights about life on the stage, road and the famous people he met along the way, in his fun-filled, faith-filled memoir “Th...
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LARRY MANNING, front, smiles, feeling “too blessed to be stressed” after a tornado destroyed his home off Blue Springs Road but somehow missed injuring his family, who were inside. His cousin Rob Miller, back left, rushed down from Indiana, along with his children, to help Larry and his wife, Linda, get back on their feet.
Moving on after the disaster: Residents are not only going through — but growing through adversity
The deadliest, costliest, most destructive storms in the history of Bradley County may have left communities torn and twisted in the aftermath, but local residents are finding a silver lining in th...
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KIM LEDFORD AND HER SON DUSTIN pose for a photo during his high school years.
Kim Ledford: A mom on a mission
Danny and Kim Ledford will never put 25 candles on a birthday cake for their son Dustin.
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MELISSA WORD, a second-grade teacher at Yates Primary in Cleveland, sat on a street corner with second-graders in Cielo, Dominican Republic, assisting them in their education.
Mission trip raises kids’ poverty awareness
When Elementary school teacher Melissa Word visited the Dominican Republic in March, she promised to bring her students something back that would be priceless — awareness of what it was like to liv...
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FINDING TOGO on the map. (Submitted photo).
A world away in our backyard — a people cry out
Pastor and missionary Kokou Loko has sickle cell disease — and he thanks God for it.
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McAFEES have become an international family with the adoption of Kate, Grace and Aiden, who were born “cleft babies” in China. The two girls are students at Arnold Elementary School and Aiden is in preschool at United Christian Academy.
‘Cleft babies’ find loving family in Cleveland
The McAfees have become an international family. With six grown children — three each from previous marriages — Rick and Amy McAfee decided they had a home for three more children. Rick is from Ch...
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YATES PRIMARY second-grade students in Cleveland explained what Easter means to them and what they enjoy most about it. Front left are Tanequa Blair, Matthew Peterson and Elliot Brock. Back left are Brenden Gates, Emma Tolbert and Cole McGinnis. Insets, Coleman Gregory, 10, and Clara Kirksey, 10, said Easter is about celebrating when Christ rose from the dead and being with family. Banner photo, WILLIAM WRIGHT
Children weigh in on Easter
Easter Sunday, considered the most important religious celebration in Christendom, is being celebrated today, 1,978 years after eyewitnesses claimed to have seen Jesus of Nazareth resurrected from ...
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LITTLE ORPHAN FAVOR, above, bonded instantly with Anne Raby of Cleveland when Raby arrived in Uganda.
Out of Africa: Visiting orphans takes one woman on an emotional journey
She may not travel much but when Anne Raby decided to replace her brother on a mission trip to Uganda, she journeyed deeper into her love for children than she ever imagined. Raby admits her farth...
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