Consumer Stories

Local entrepreneur blends food and crafts to grow business

Angie Hood is shaking up the CSRA catering world. Charcuterie boards typically contain a variety of meat, cheese, fruit, and crackers. But Hood adds her own signature dishes, such as homemade Brussels sprouts and bacon bite-sized pizzas and stuffed dates with honey, paprika, and goat cheese, to her boards. The owner of Blooms, Boards & More, launched her home-based business one year ago after being laid off due to Covid. She also makes other foods, such as cheesecakes and pound cakes, as well as vegetable wreaths and fruit platters. “I

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Consumer Stories

New business coming to busy Martinez intersection

A new structure being built at the corner of Furys Ferry and Evans to Locks roads will be a liquor store. The building is being built by Peter Patel, who also owns several Dunkin Donuts franchises in the CSRA. The liquor store will be owned by Sam Patel. Duckworth Development is overseeing the construction of the building. There was no information available about the planned opening date of the liquor store.

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Consumer Stories

SRP FCU Brings Easter joy to elderly care residents

The staff of the SRP Federal Credit Union Branch in Barnwell, S.C., decided they wanted to do something special for the disabled and elderly in their rural community for Easter. To do so, their team visited the local Barnwell Pruitt Health Residential Facility with a small gift for each of the approximately 45 residents. The SRP team members visited the residents on Wednesday to deliver Bunny Boxes filled with plush chicks or bunnies, a toothbrush, hand sanitizer, facial tissues, hand cream, chocolate eggs, and a chocolate bunny. Some of the

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Emma Myers

Emma Myers transforms youthful enthusiasm into care for the elderly

Name: Emma Myers Company/Title: Savannah River ProHome Care/Director of Operations Years Served: 8 Contact info: 706-814-5906 or 815-351-1098 Emma Myers was fortunate enough to know from an early age that she loved working with the elderly. At 27 years old, she has an intensity for helping people that usually comes with age. Myers graduated from Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., with a degree in Health Care Administration. She worked in assisted living facilities there and in Chattanooga before moving to Augusta to join her family in 2019. When Covid changed

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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real News Real Estate: Why rent prices have increased

It’s no secret that our real estate market has been steadily increasing in price and demand for the past few years. In that time, our rental market has also skyrocketed to what it is today. MHP Augusta has a substantial rental portfolio that we manage, so I have watched this change at a hands-on level. I’d like to give my input on the situation, and why I think there has been such a drastic change in the market. There are a few things that have happened to get us to

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B2B Stories

Military legal expert to speak at Women in Business Program

If you want to hear a presentation from a top military attorney at this month’s Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Program, you’d better act fast. The deadline to register is today at 3 p.m. Col. Danyele Jordan, a military attorney and legal advisor to the Commanding General of Fort Gordon and the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, will speak at the event, which lasts from 11:30 a.m. to 1 pm. on Tuesday, April 19 at the Enterprise Mill Events Center, located at 1450 Greene St., Suite

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Debbie McCord

WIB Spotlight: Debbie McCord has long history of serving local and state voters

Name: Debbie McCord Company/Title: Columbia County GOP Chairman Years Served: 34 years in various roles with GOP Contact info: 706-833-4731 No phrase better describes Debbie McCord’s rise in Columbia County and the state of Georgia’s GOP better than the ‘apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.’ “My father worked on the presidential campaign for Barry Goldwater when he ran against incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in 1964,” she explained. Even as a child she was paying attention. Civics was her favorite subject in school and politics would become a passion. McCord

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Consumer Stories

Business Lunch Review: The Pot Smoker

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Thursday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad, and tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”. Food

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Office Support

Free Access: Adding more customers can be as easy as sending emails

At Richardson Professional Solutions (RPS), we help you make more time in your business by providing back-office solutions such as bookkeeping, marketing, or project management. This, in turn, provides small business owners the flexibility to do the things that matter most to them, like building their business, continuing their education, traveling, or spending time with family. One of the many services we provide is Marketing Management. At RPS we can handle your social media marketing, content creation, content management, brand management, and/or email marketing. I know what you might be

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