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If you’re riding around Liberty no doubt you’re going to see Lady Liberty’s dancing and holding signs pointing the way to Liberty Tax Service. Last year we wrote an article on the Marketing Manager Vicki Lemmon, who is now happily married and now goes by Vicki Humble. Vicki moved to North Carolina October of 2008 after being in Hurricane Ike outside of Galveston Texas. We here at Liberty Leader have been inspired by Vicki’s outgoing personality and how she has embraced our wonderful town. If you don’t know, Vicki is putting together a community party to help promote area businesses. In this article we will interview Vicki and ask her a few questions; So what has inspired you to put together this community event?“As I am going business to business marketing for Liberty Tax Service I see some businesses that have closed down and it breaks my heart. Liberty is the town I chose to make my home for the rest of my life and I want to see her grow and prosper.”How do you think this community event will help the area businesses?“Each business will come and set up a booth to show what they have to offer, some are giving away food, while others will be showing off their wonderful wares. We are advertising about the event through radio and newspapers and are expecting to have a wonderful turnout”What businesses are coming to this community event?“At this time we have 26 area businesses so of course I can’t name them all, you will have to come and see for yourself.”Are you planning this event alone or do you have others helping you?“We have partnered with 421 Havana; Nilda Sebastian has been a great inspiration to our town by bringing in many community events since they opened their doors. We are honored to have this event at such a wonderful facility.”I heard you were having more than just area businesses involved, what else is going to be going on at this event?“This event will also benefit Locks of Love; one of our wonderful salons here in Liberty will be helping us with this portion of the event. Randolph health department is coming to help educate us on health issues, and there will be other wonderful things going on, you just have to be sure to come out to the event to see for yourself.”If you wish to find out more about this event see “Family Fun Community Party” on page two.
February 2011 Earth Visions Boot Camp
January 2011
There comes a time in every life when a need just arises to go up against IT. You gather determination; you are anxious, edgy, and awake before dawn, working with IT already in mind. The Boot Camp Recruits of Earth Visions did just this. They looked IT in the face and they won. They sought IT and fought IT- and learned that IT was themselves all along. They accepted the mission of this one month adventure.In November of 2010, Earth Visions prepared the Boot Camp Protocol and began to offer the program to recruits. Every time there came the same response, “What will we do?” The fear of the physical work of it shone through. And there came the same answer, “We have much to do and have only a scant 20 hours, one hour each weekday, to do it.” The answer, perceived to be vague, got many responses. Mostly, the mystery of it captured the curiosity and will of many recruits. Let it be known that Sam and Novella Kennedy of Earth Visions did not really know all of the intricate details, as such a course as this completely depends on the participants. Sam and Novella both knew that it truly was not focused only on the physical fitness of the Boot Camp Recruit. It was SO much more than that.Finally the day came with the bleary-eyed and jittery recruits arriving at 5:45 am, not daring to be late. With only 20 hours at their disposal, Earth Visions created a tight program. A plan designed to guide, challenge and prod that Boot Camp Team in every way imaginable; with discipline, focus, awareness and technique. The first two hours were used to put the Team through grueling tests to check out their physical statistics and fitness level. This would be the base line and would tell the tale in the last two hours, if that recruit had improved and in what percentage. It would test the Boot Camp program. Could we in only 20 hours really make a difference in strength, endurance, balance, running times and everything else?Hour followed hour, week followed week and the bleary-eyed, sore and tiring Team continued to dig in. Every infraction, which included being late or absent or just plain not pay-
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ing attention would result in pushups for their Team, sometimes over a hundred pushups in the hour. Without enough hours in the Camp, the Boot Camp Team worked overtime into their lives. They worked out at home, took notes in journals, learned much about themselves in the bargain. In the end, it would be difficult to choose which part of their work produced such phenomenal results.EVERY hard-working, unrelenting, determined, blood-sweat & tear stained, recruit improved in every test and body statistic that was taken. Many inches were lost from their body measurements, many pounds disappeared from the scale, and in some cases repetitions of sets of the tests DOUBLED . They were stronger, much stronger and quite satisfied with the results of their labors. So were Sam and Novella. Yes, the Program proved to all that it could produce the improvements sought after. The experience has welded this Boot Camp Team together such as a war-time assignment may have done. They sweated, worked, cried and shared the common goal of finding what IT consists of in each of their lives. Just to put it in perspective, the Recruits varied in age from 21 to 68, most being closer to 68 than 21. Congratulations to you all, welcome to being in possibly the best shape of your life. You earned it!
The best vitamin for making friends..... B1 Gwen Taylor - Owner / Preparer 728 S Greensboro St, Liberty (Former Video Villa Location)
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