“Being a member of the Pediatric Family Advisory Council (PFAC) at Duke is a club no one wants to be in, yet you are the only [people] who understand,” Carrie Tuttle explains. PFAC was started at Duke to place more emphasis on patient family-centered care, a movement in medicine to bring patients and families back …
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Food insecurity is a reality for more than 50% of the children in Durham Public Schools (DPS). They qualify for the free or reduced price lunch programs and often have little connection to where fresh food comes from. This is one problem Stan Holt works on as a vice president at the United Way of …
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Retired Durham Police Chief Steve Chalmers served on the force for more than 32 years, but he was not necessarily born into law and order. “When I was a student at Hillside High School, there was a boy who I did not get along with,” Steve says. “We eventually got into a fight. Assistant Principal …
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Nine years ago, when Betty Brandt Rouse was in her first year at UNC, she thought she wanted to be a special education teacher. To explore that interest, she started volunteering at Reality Ministries, a community center in Durham for teens and adults with developmental disabilities. What she ended up walking into was a program …
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Downtown retailer Jennings Brody shares a bit of her history starting the beloved restaurant and gift store Parker & Otis, and previews her new baby and children’s clothing store, Tiny, opening next to her Parrish Street housewares and gift store, Chet Miller.
Durham Magazine‘s Dana Lange chats with Capitol Broadcasting Company‘s Michael Goodmon about the upcoming bond issues in Durham. He’s all for them.
Glenna Maynus had never heard of Cornucopia Cancer Support Center – founded in 1995 – when she had breast cancer 10 years ago. It was not until later when she answered a call put out on her Northgate Park listserv to help drive a neighbor with cancer to the hospital that she learned about it. On the way home from …
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“You’re never fully dressed without a shine,” is the tune of Nick Nichols, who can be found at Classic Bootblack, his shoeshine stand between Saladelia and the American Tobacco Barber Shop in the Crowe Building of the American Tobacco Campus. “Shoe shining is a necessity, like cleaning your clothes,” Nick tells me as a customer …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] While selling ads on ESPN Radio by day and volunteering at many nonprofits – from Ronald McDonald House and being a Big Brother – during his spare time, Joey Powell realized something was missing. “I needed to do something more meaningful in my life.” He started small. “I had access to a lot …
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Make an impact. That’s the goal of so many young professionals these days. But how can 20-somethings really do that when they are busy building a career and a network, and still have time for a social life? College friends Adam Compton and John Coggin – wanting all of those things – decided to put those …
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