Teen Challenge helps recovering addicts find hope in faith
Catherine and April recount long histories of addiction and abuse, waking on forest floors and near death, until a faith based program at Appalachian Teen Challenge offered a path. They describe early drug use, multiple rehab attempts, and a turning moment when their families and mentors urged faith and commitment. Director Jim Nickels oversees the program as she seeks lasting change.
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Catherine
Staci Yontz
Appalachian Teen Challenge
Yontz
Teen Challenge
Michigan
Crack
Ain
Jim Nickels
Teen Challenge opens Georgia center for women in near Gardner
A new Teen Challenge center near Gardner awaits its first female residents as part of a faith based rehab program. The $450000 facility on Unity Road offers residence halls, kitchens and vocational training. Leaders Nickels and Yontz emphasize separation of men and women and community involvement with upcoming open house. April, an early arrival, shares how the program gives hope for sobriety and reunification with her son.
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Nickels
Unity Road
Yontz
Gardner
Teen Challenge
Michigan
Nickels and Yontz
Teenchallengecares.com
Tammie Toler
Ptonline
Growing enthusiasm for home gardening boosts local plant sales
Gardeners seek savings from locally grown yields and winter storage crops. Container gardening on decks and patios grows in popularity. Kim Santolla of Kimberly's Greenhouse reports more vegetable plant buyers, including apartment dwellers. Dwight Hurley of Hurley's Greenhouse notes a 25 percent rise in vegetable production and strong sales again this year as price concerns push novices and veterans to grow their own food.
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Hurley
Route 20
Glenwood
Jett
Kim Santolla
Kimberly
Pisgah
Tazewell County
Santolla
Dwight Hurley
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