Good Deeds

Father’s Day is coming up in less than a week. You still have time to make your mark in honor of your dad. A few years ago, Lionel Smith Ltd. started a promotion that honors dads and gives back to the community. The initiative is a perfect fit for a clothier and tailors in business since 1976. Tailor’s chalk is used to make temporary markings on a suit as it’s being fitted. This time, a different type of chalk is being used to mark a memory of your dad. When you

Chris Hudson worked in a grocery store while attending college and understands the financial burdens many students face. Hudson owns the Chris Hudson Law Group, an Augusta practice that specializes in various types of personal injury cases, including accidents, workers’ compensation, and product liability. Since 2021, the Chris Hudson Foundation has provided need-based scholarships to students living in Columbia, Richmond, and Burke Counties. Each year, two students are selected to receive one-time awards of $2,500 each. “We choose two deserving, smart, motivated but underprivileged high school seniors to help with

About 20 local female homebuilders and home services professionals have collaborated to build and donate playhouses to CSRA non-profit organizations. Yesterday, the Augusta Chapter of Professional Women in Building held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the donation of its first playhouse to the Family Y Child Development Academy, located at 1425 Walton Way, next door to the Peabody Apartments. The playhouse is 4 feet high and 8 feet wide. “Right now, we’re working on two more,” said Builders Association of Metro Augusta Executive Officer, Tiffany Heitzman. Those playhouses will be

As a downtown restaurant owner, Ramiro Galvan wants to attract people throughout the CSRA to his eatery on Walton Way, which is why he was excited to participate in a creative project that allows him to build connections with potential customers in a unique way. Galvan, owner of The Munchies Lab, is one of nearly 30 local business owners featured in the new Downtown Augusta Coloring Book, a fundraiser created by a non-profit organization called Beautify Augusta that will use the proceeds from the book’s sales to fund new murals