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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus When Donna Steele urged her husband, Kurt Vetters, to unplug from the stressors of his career and take a retreat with her to North Carolina, she didn’t know he’d return, paintbrush in hand, with a passion that would reshape his plans for retirement. What she did know — from her own artistic journey
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus Pam Belew admits that she didn’t always consider herself a “club person,” but after nearly 15 years of service with one of the oldest chapters of Pilot Club International, she said she wishes she had joined the club sooner. Mary June Jankowiak joined the organization back in her hometown in Florida about 20
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus While most landscapers work in mulch, soil and seed, Andy Brown works with stone and water, often building streams where there once were none. The results can vary from a simple fountain to a koi-filled pond, or even a waterfall cascading down a backyard bluff into the Tennessee River. “I can look at
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By Metrocreative Retirement is often characterized as a carefree time in life when adults who spent years in the workforce get to enjoy the fruits of their labors. But upon retiring, many people find themselves fighting boredom. A recent study from Indeed found that, as of March 2022, 3.2% of workers who retired a year earlier had already reentered the
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Patios continue to be more popular than decks. According to a tabulation of data from HUD/Census Bureau Survey of Construction from the National Association of Home Builders, the share of new homes with patios is on the rise while the share with decks remains low. The NAHB tabulation found that the percentage of new homes with decks was 17.6% in
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus A model employee is lifting morale and bringing smiles to area nursing home residents and physical therapy patients around the Shoals with his infectious grin and loving nature. That star employee stands about two-and-a-half feet tall on four paws and answers to the name Bernie. Now, at the age of two, Bernie is
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By Chelsea Retherford | Living 50 Plus When U.S. Navy veteran Riley Young returned home from Vietnam, he found work as a security officer at the former Reynolds Metal Company factory in Sheffield. When he heard there was a military police reserve unit in the Shoals, he admits that he assumed it was open to Army veterans only. “One of
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