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FROM OUR PUBLISHER<br />
Sometimes you’ll see it in calendars –<br />
pictures that best depict each month.<br />
There’s never a question about February – it’s the HEART month<br />
– kept true to its theme by Valentine’s Day. Our staff especially enjoyed<br />
working on this month’s content because love is a universal language,<br />
and if it’s the authentic kind, it will always be expressed.<br />
I know you will enjoy this month’s stories that cover the everyday,<br />
thoughtful acts of love, to the extravagant, extremely costly expressions<br />
of love. Perhaps as you read these heart-warming stories, you’ll be<br />
prompted to create your own expressions of love.<br />
We all must agree that love is an action word. When we love<br />
someone, we want to do something for that person. It’s putting love<br />
into action that changes the world around us.<br />
Where’s a good place to start? Reading the love chapter in the Bible,<br />
I Corinthians 13, would be a great place. It will challenge you with its<br />
definition and actions. I remember hearing about a Christian lady who<br />
confessed that she did not love others as she thought she should. She<br />
began reading that chapter multiple times a day for months. Gradually<br />
her life grew into a beautiful expression of love and kindness to all she<br />
knew or met.<br />
I’m grateful for a month that’s associated with love and the joy that<br />
comes with sharing that love. However, I believe God equips His own<br />
with the ability to show love and kindness every month of the year.<br />
Join me in steeping in a verb that the Bible calls “the greatest of all.”<br />
SPECIAL PROJECTS<br />
ASSISTANT<br />
Caroline Hodges<br />
HOMETOWN STAFF<br />
PUBLISHER & EDITOR<br />
Tahya Dobbs<br />
LAYOUT DESIGN<br />
Daniel Thomas<br />
3dt<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE<br />
ASSISTANT<br />
Alisha Floyd<br />
CFO<br />
Kevin Dobbs<br />
STAFF<br />
PHOTOGRAPHER<br />
Othel Anding<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
ASSISTANT<br />
Lexie Ownby<br />
CONSULTING EDITOR<br />
Mary Ann Kirby<br />
STAFF<br />
ASSISTANT<br />
Debby Francis<br />
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE<br />
Nikki Robison<br />
IN THIS ISSUE<br />
The Way We Were 8<br />
Rankin’s Red Carpet 13<br />
J. Gerard’s 34<br />
Reader Spotlight 41<br />
Ways to Say “I Love You” 43<br />
Kids Q&A 60<br />
Kids Who Care 68<br />
Iron Sharpens Iron 74<br />
Hometown Family 78<br />
Garage Treasures 88<br />
The Time Coin 98 ...see you around town.<br />
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