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Chris Tarver with Camp Amplify

May 9, 2023 by Tom Sheldon

Northeast Georgia Business Radio

Chris Tarver with Camp Amplify

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Chris Tarver/Camp Amplify

Chris and Lisa Tarver, the founders of Camp Amplify, have been married since 1985 and have two children and four grandchildren. Lisa grew up attending summer camps and at 16 began working in summer camps. Chris has worked in youth ministries such as Young Life and FCA in high school and college. God had always given them a heart for helping others and for young people.

In 2015, the management team at Camp Grace (who continue to mentor Camp Amplify today) showed them a camp model they were using that had worked for 11 years. A year later on a Sunday morning, God spoke to Chris in a loud voice, “I have children who are depending on you”, and Camp Amplify was born.

Since then Chris and Lisa have been “on mission” for Camp Amplify, speaking, sharing, and raising support as missionaries while building campers, counselors, and partners. After years of planning, Camp Amplify’s first camp was in 2018 with 20 campers. In 2022, 64 campers attended.

Kailey Pirkle with Summit Ace Hardware of Commerce

May 2, 2023 by Tom Sheldon

Northeast Georgia Business Radio

Kailey Pirkle with Summit Ace Hardware of Commerce

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Kailey Pirkle/Summit Ace Hardware of Commerce

Ace Hardware is your local hardware store and they are a part of your community. Ace Hardware has over 5,000 stores around the world with the majority of those stores independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. These hard working men and women are part of the fabric of your community. They are small business owners who are local and loyal… just like it ought to be. While others have become large and impersonal, Ace Hardware has remained small and very personal. That’s why they say a visit to Ace is like a visit to your neighbor.

Ace stores come in all sizes and shapes based on the needs of each individual neighborhood. They have small, urban stores, large rural stores and everything in between. Ace stores offer a wide variety of paint, lawn and garden, tools, local niche services and virtually anything you’ll ever need to fix, repair and maintain your home. And of course, Ace is most certainly the place with the “Helpful Hardware Folks”.

Jenn Langston and Jon Langston with Reboot Jackson

May 2, 2023 by Tom Sheldon

Northeast Georgia Business Radio

Jenn Langston and Jon Langston with Reboot Jackson

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Jenn Langston & Jon Langston/Reboot Jackson

Reboot Jackson is organized around the concept of a Recovery Community Organization. It adheres to its goals of recovery-focused advocacy activities, recovery focused community education and outreach programs, and peer-based recovery support services. Since it started in 2018, the organization has been able to provide transportation to its clients through the use of a donated van. Partnered with Lanier Technological College, Reboot Jackson offers GED classes for its clients and connects clients to other resources such as treatment facilities and employment opportunities. The team offers individualized support based on each person’s needs and helps them navigate their own path to a successful recovery that leads to a life of fulfillment.

Jefferey Helms with Georgia Youth Challenge Program

April 11, 2023 by Tom Sheldon

Northeast Georgia Business Radio

Jefferey Helms with Georgia Youth Challenge Program

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Jefferey Helms/Georgia Youth Challenge Program

Through training, discipline, and mentoring, the Georgia National Guard Youth Challenge Program provides the education, leadership, character development, and life coping skills to Georgia’s youth so they may become successful members of society.

Traci Bledsoe with Peace Place

April 4, 2023 by Tom Sheldon

Northeast Georgia Business Radio

Traci Bledsoe with Peace Place

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Traci Bledsoe/Peace Place

Peace Place is a domestic violence agency providing emergency safe shelter and supportive services to adults and children fleeing abusive homes in Jackson, Banks, and Barrow Counties.

Jennifer & Mike Dollander with Alumni Cookie Dough

April 4, 2023 by Tom Sheldon

Northeast Georgia Business Radio

Jennifer & Mike Dollander with Alumni Cookie Dough

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Mike & Jennifer Dollander/Alumni Cookie Dough

Childhood fantasies become a reality at Alumni Cookie Dough, Athens’ first Cookie Dough Café! The first location opened in January 2019 in downtown Athens at 480 North Thomas Street. This Georgia-Bulldog-loving establishment is promised to satisfy all of your sweet dreams. That’s right, you can now enjoy delicious cookie dough by the scoop and no longer worry about the possibility of getting sick. All of the ingredients are of the highest quality and 100% safe to eat raw. However, if you are somehow not able to finish your serving of cookie dough, you can take it home and bake cookies! I mean, how perfect can this possibly get?

There are also options to make a sundae, or their unique “Dream Crème (cookie dough infused ice cream) with your favorite cookie dough and ice cream, cookie dough milkshakes, and of course melt-in-your-mouth cookie dough pretzel bites, and snickerdoodle bites.

Alumni Cookie Dough is the creation of Mike and Jennifer Dollander. Jennifer had always been a closet cookie dough eater, so the idea of actually being able to safely consume this creamy concoction in public is a dream come true! Mike and Jennifer are both graduates of The University of Georgia, so the idea of opening a business in the city they love so much is beyond exciting.

With the success of the Athens location, franchising was finalized a couple weeks before Covid. Since then, they have sold four locations. East Cobb, Milton, Acworth and Augusta. The wholesale division has exploded with over 100 accounts. Be on the lookout for Alumni Cookie Dough cafés opening up near you!

Life’s short… eat the dough!