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Government Official

Bradford Cochran

“I met my wife on a blind date, and because I was unfamiliar with the area, we decided to meet at The Varsity.  We have joked for years that we met at the Varisty.  I couldn’t believe that evening actually happened to me.  I am the most blessed person that I know.  We have been...

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Food Industry

Todd Summers

“Believe it or not, I was a suit and tie, 9-5 guy for a very long time. I was paid a salary and had benefits. I brewed my own beer in our garage in my spare time and gave it out a parties. It was always a hit. Everyone encouraged me to take it further,...

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Business Owner

Spenser Patrowski

Spenser started his first company at age 11. He recalls that there were 3 kids in his neighborhood that were each wanting to do lawn care for people. Spenser offered to find them jobs. He did. He found more jobs than they could handle, so Spenser found other teenagers that wanted to cut yards, too....

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Business Owner

Camila Hancock

“My father is a preacher and his father was a preacher.  My mother’s father was a preacher.  My husband and I are thinking about having children.  We are under lots of pressure for them to be good kids, I guess.  Ha!  Ok.  My two passions in life outside of family are my online marketing business and...

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Military

Charlie Dyer

“Joining the Marines at 18 years of age changed my life in so many great ways.  It was incredibly difficult, but looking back, it was one of the two most important decisions I ever made.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, mel nusquam scriptorem ea, vis ad liber phaedrum rationibus. At aliquam perfecto per, feugiat dissentiunt...

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Military

Sam Winters

“I could not wait to enlist. I saw the posters everywhere. You know the ones, ‘I want you’, with Uncle Sam pointing right at you. I lied about my age so I could go do my part. I grew up in Cedartown, GA. I never liked school. Too boring. I did like a girl at...

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Business Owner, Military, Musician

Andrew Smith

Meet Andrew Smith! Many of you know Andrew from shopping at Green’s Grocery in Gainesville. Andrew moved to the area in 2005 and has worked at Green’s Grocery ever since. He is an outdoor enthusiast and loves traveling and enjoying the Hall County area.   We recently caught up with Andrew to find out more...

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Student

Kasey Deal

“I am blessed to have received football scholarship offers from 3 SEC colleges, 2 ACC colleges, and 1 Ivey League college.  If I accepted any one of them over Georgia Tech, my grandfather would have been crushed.  I will be starting in the fall of 2018 as a Biomedical Engineering student in Atlanta and I...

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Government Official

Lisa Porter

Lisa Porter may not live in our community, but we can all find comfort because she works here to protect our community and our way of life. Lisa commutes to work here five days a week and volunteers here with the Humane Society several times per month. Lisa is a Georgia State graduate and has...

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Business Owner, Retired

Marvin Westbrook

“When have I felt the happiest in my life? Right now. I am an incredibly happy husband. I am a very proud father of two and grandfather of five. I sold my pool construction company a few years ago and now I have a lot of time to spend with my family, which is and...

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Business Owner, Food Industry

Christopher McDonald

Meet Christopher McDonald! Christopher is a longtime resident of our community and co-owner of his own coffee shop on Market Street. He has lived here since 1987 and said he became highly interested in coffee because “it runs in the family.”   “I have an uncle that owns a coffee shop in Charleston, my grandfather...

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Medical

Hemlata Gupta

“I always talked about being an astronaut when I was a child. I wanted to be the first woman to walk on the moon. I would make space shuttles out of card board boxes and spend hours ‘flying through outer-space’. Then my best friend got sick. It had such a profound effect on me. I...

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