Stroller Strides
Athena Fredricks is committed to motivating an important community inside our neighborhoods – the moms. Stroller Strides gives these busy women a chance to get in a workout and spend some social time with adults without having to find childcare, but these children are far from neglected. Many of the exercises involve singing songs to [...]
Paron’s Closet: A True Family Business
The pair behind Paron’s closet put a new twist on a “mom and pop” store – Kimberly Homes and Bev Ward are niece and aunt. Even the store’s name pays tribute to a branch of the family tree that goes back for generations, most recently held by Kimberly’s daughter, Paron. November 2010 marked the store’s [...]
Green Care Auto Repair
You may not think that the terms “environmentally friendly” and “oil change“ go together, unless you’ve met Alex Kagarlitsky. He and his team moved into their formerly moss-and-paint-covered home on 45th Street and Corliss Ave about five months ago and as they put it, “We’ve been cleaning the whole time.” The small staff, who had [...]
