My focus this week is on the available COVID-19 vaccines available here in Troup County. I’ve brought in District 4 Public Health representative, Hayla Folden to discuss the various vaccines and their side effects, efficacy and answer your questions. I was very appreciative that Hayla sat down to speak with me and I hope you find the interview informative and engaging! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

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52. Hayla Folden, Covid-19 Vaccine Representative

This week’s interview gets heavily political as I interview Kevin Littlefield, the Chairman of the Troup Democratic Party and a member of the State Committee for the Democratic Party. He is also a veteran of the Iraq War. We talk about both the Chairman position and his service in the army during the war throughout the interview. As always, I hope you enjoy listening. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

51. Kevin Littlefield, Chairman of the Troup Democratic Party

This week’s guest is Holly Roberts, Coach for Circles of Troup County. Holly was an inspirational guest! She lights a fire under me and reinvigorates me for service in my community. Her servant heart is just contagious. Holly shares her story, how she left the local school system and how she joined Circles. From there she discusses all that she loves about Lagrange. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

50. Holly Roberts, Coach for Circles of Troup County

The episode this week has a very special guest: Casey Duffield of The Foundation for Casey’s Cure (www.caseys-cure.org). I first met Casey when she moved to GA. The friend she talks about in the interview was actually my next door neighbor at the time. Her son sat with Alastair and I while my wife taught Art Appreciation at West GA Tech on Tuesday nights when she was diagnosed. Casey and I have history. I didn’t consider interviewing her, however, until I saw the Casey’s Cure float in the LaGrange Christmas Parade. From that point it was just a matter of reaching out and setting it up. In this interview Casey talks about the darkness of being diagnosed with the same disease that took her father, the hope of finding a cure and her love of her newfound home of LaGrange. I hope that you enjoy listening as much as we had doing the interview. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

49. Casey Duffield of The Foundation for Casey’s Cure

This week is a special episode. We at Hey, LaGrange! Have partnered with the Rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church to bring you an abbreviated version of their annual ‘Longing for Light in the Darkness’ special Christmas service. The full service may be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pb2uXKxMvBU or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stmarkslg I hope that you enjoy it and have a good week, regardless of your religious tradition. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

48. Christmas Episode: Longing for Light in the Darkness

RERELEASE: My interview this week is the Reverend Allen Pruitt of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on North Greenwood St in LaGrange, just outside of downtown. The interview was fun and lighthearted. He goes into how he made a potato gun and how he and his wife didn’t hit it off the first time they met. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed doing it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

47. Rev. R. Allen Pruitt of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (RERELEASE)

My interview this week is local fashion mogul (though that’s a touch of an exaggeration. He might be there someday tho!), Demetrius Jones. Demetrius is a LaGrange native and owner of Dedicated Grind Clothing Company. We don’t get to it until the very end of the interview, so I’ll rectify that by promoting the website right at the outset: http://www.dedicatedgrind.org Check em out. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

46. Demetrius Jones of Dedicated Grind Clothing Co.

My interview this week has been featured in your mailbox and on your tv for the last campaign season. He’s State Representative, Bob Trammell. Bob hails from Luthersville, Georgia but has his office in LaGrange and represents much of LaGrange in the State Assembly. Thus, I thought it would be good to sit down and pick his brain and figure out what he’s all about. Our interview covers topics as diverse as his role in the State Assembly, how long he’s served, his role as a father at home, his favorite memory of LaGrange and which part of the chicken is the finger. I had a lot of fun with this high profile interview and hope you enjoy listening. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

45. Representative Bob Trammell

My interview this week is Leon Childs Jr, Executive Direct of the A.G.C.A.O. The Adaptive Growth and Cultural Organization. He dedicates he and his family’s lives to the mentoring and academic advancement of disadvantaged youth. He shares in the interview about his past, present and future vision for the program. He also dishes on how he leveraged donations into tutors and other creative ways that he’s drummed up funding since launching the program in 2015. I’ll stop there so as to not steal all the thunder from the interview. This week’s a real slam banger. Hope you enjoy the ride. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

44. Leon Childs Jr., Executive Director of the A.G.C.A.O.

This week’s interview is Associate Minister at the First United Methodist Church in LaGrange, Ben Wills. Ben talks about his brief time in LaGrange and how he’s adapted to living in LaGrange. He talks about the ordination process, per my request. And doing ministry post-coronavirus. Overall it was a fun interview. (Florrie suggested I name it the “mcguiver” episode bc my phone died midway through one of the questions and we had to juryrig something to finish the interview. We finished ahead of time without issue.) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

43. Ben Wills of First United Methodist Church of LaGrange

This week’s interview is something new. I interview fellow media mogul, Ms. BeeTV April Ross. My interview with April extends from her time at The University of Alabama at Montgomery to finding an unexpected opportunity along the side of the road and a career spiraling out of that happenstance opportunity. We also discuss what April loves about her hometown of LaGrange, Georgia. I hope you’ll join us as we venture on through the diverse community here in LaGrange. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

42. April Ross of BeeTV

This week’s interview is straight from the heart. This week I interview Anthony Talley, Mr. $1 Thursday, Mr. Get Fed with his partner and 1/4 of the United Leaders of Georgia. He stays busy. He just finished handing out 1,400 pre-loaded backpacks full of school supplies, for free, with the AGAOC at Hope Academy over the weekend. The backpacks went in a little over 2 hours! We sat down and talked for about an hour. Our conversation went from what $1 Thursday is, his time working at Charlie Joseph’s, his concept of #LevelUp that he’s popularized, and a variety of other topics. The man’s story is truly inspirational. I know I was moved and I hope that you will be --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

41. Anthony Talley of $1 Thursday’s/ Get Fed/ United Leaders of Georgia

This week’s interview is Al Brannon, co-owner and manager of The Marketplace on the corner of Bull and Vernon st’s. My interview with Al is about 30 minutes in length and covers his time with antiques, his history with LaGrange and what he does in the community outside of running his store. It was great to finally sit down with Al, as I’ve been looking forward to it since talking to him about it in March. I hope that you enjoy the interview! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

40. Al Brannon of The Marketplace on Bull St.

This week’s interview is Chris Hagebak of 809 Gallery of Art and also is an internationally known artist. The interview stretches from his childhood in northern Michigan, where he lost a finger in a lawnmower accident, to learning ping pong from President Jimmy Carter when he was 10. Chris’ stories border on being too big to be true but he is legit and the real deal. And just when you think the stories can’t get any better he drops another one that is even bigger than the one prior. It’s uncanny. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

39. Chris Hagebak of 809 Gallery of Art

My guest this week is Daniel Evans, writer, editor-in-Chief, publisher and general guy in charge at The LaGrange Daily News, here in LaGrange, and the Valley Times News, over in Valley, Alabama. Daniel sat down and talked with me over the phone for about 35 minutes this Father’s Day weekend about the newspaper business, and more importantly the LaGrange paper’s recent articles about COVID-19 and Troup county’s meteoric rise to the top of multiple New York Times lists for COVID-19 ‘hot spots.’ We also discuss the efficacy of mask wearing, if you’re still on the fence about that issue. I then take a lighter note and, after the break, take a note of how he came to LaGrange, GA from Selma, AL 3 years ago with a wife who was 8 months pregnant. That created some stories I’m sure you’ll want to hear. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/HeyLaGrange/support

38. Daniel Evans of the LaGrange Daily News

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