C O N T E N T
46 Stuff You May Not Know About
Women’s Suffrage in Southern Michigan
Fashion 11
Our Favorite Underachievers
BEAUTY 14 Eye Drama
48 Simply Speaking
It’s Straight Up Interesting
50 Keeping It In Stitches A Childhood Memory
PRIME Fitness 16 The Triad of Fitness
Business Spotlight 18
Family Practice Orthopedic Care Center, PC
52 Turn The Page
Book and Author Reviews
54 Life is the Berries Figureouters
Helpful Hints 22
56 Over the Edge
Gray Matters 24
58 3 Boys and a Transplant
To Stop Smoking
Let Kids Struggle to Help Them Grow
Ask the Doctor 26
Not All Wheezes are Asthma
Grow Where You’re Planted 28 Meal Planning
City Pages 30 Hillsdale - 30 Jonesville - 32 Coldwater - 34 Adrian - 36 Manitou Beach - 38 Tecumseh - 40 Litchfield - 42
On the Cover 48
Rachel Stump Nurse Practitioner— Hillsdale Hospital’s Litchfield Health Clinic
Gramma, We Don’t Say That Word! Close to Home
60 Letting Go
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Of Control
62 Valentine’s Day
What is It Really All About?
64 Legal Matters Estate Planning
66 Business Spotlight Ann’s By Design
70 Local Spotlight
Kathy Ladenberger
72 Pinterest Picks
Valentine’s Day Love
74 Travel Michigan
Winter Fun for the Whole Family
78 Home
78 - Chalk Signs 80 - Winter Decorating
82 Recipes 86 PSA
Learn CPR - You Can Do It!
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Rachel Stump considers herself fortunate that she never had trouble deciding what she wanted to pursue as a profession. “I’m lucky,” she says. Her luck in knowing her career path early has been Hillsdale County’s gain. As a family nurse practitioner, Rachel has been treating patients at Hillsdale Health & Wellness for the last year. She is now shifting her focus solely to primary care, moving to Hillsdale Hospital’s Litchfield Health Clinic as its primary provider. For more on this story turn to page 44.
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