Alana Hudson: Building a Legacy of Giving

Alana Hudson: Building a Legacy of Giving

ALANA HUDSON is a bright, buoyant eighth grader who, with adult-level determination, has launched her own tradition of giving. When Alana was 8 years old, she came up with the idea — totally on her own — of donating to children in the pediatric ward during the...
Anne Norwood: A passion for pediatric care

Anne Norwood: A passion for pediatric care

Anne Norwood has spent over 30 years as a nurse practitioner in pediatrics. Since she first began her medical career, pediatrics has been her overreaching goal — a calling. She has worked at Johnson Health Center since 2006, a facility that has since grown by leaps...
Michael and Alice McColloch: Making a house a home

Michael and Alice McColloch: Making a house a home

Alice Primm’s background is in the niche specialty of faux painting, a discipline that has a long, fascinating history. Faux painting, said Primm, is quite simply “painting something to look like something it’s not.” Back in the 1700s and 1800s, many people who moved...
Sarah and Shawn Hyska: Shelter From the Storm

Sarah and Shawn Hyska: Shelter From the Storm

Haven on Garland is a warm, supportive temporary residence for four Afghan women who have left that war-torn nation — with its extreme strictures on the rights of women and girls — in order to pursue their dreams of higher education.  That residence is overseen by...