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12 The Ugly Truth about Domestic ViolenceThree women share their experiences and how they survived.

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18 Empowering Women GloballyMegan Milar talks about being an entrepreneur, helping other women and saving the planet.

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What’s Inside

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Publisher’s Note

Welcome to the first issue of N Magazine!

Writing this letter has proven to be the hardest part of doing this magazine. Given everything that it has taken to get to this point, that is saying some-thing.

The concept of this magazine started several years ago. My goal was to start a publication that targeted local women. I realized that women are a diverse group. They are mothers, wives, heads of corporations and leaders in the community. Society has set nearly impossible standards for women to achieve and yet we still achieve them. Women are making things happen and they deserve a platform to let it be known.

I hope you’ll join me in this effort to celebrate the women in our area. This magazine has given me the opportunity to meet some remarkable women. I can’t wait to meet many more and in-troduce them to you. If you know someone who should be featured in N Magazine please don’t hesitate to contact me.

I want to thank everyone who participated in any way, but just saying “thank you” doesn’t really seem like enough. So I ask you, the reader, to thank them also. The advertisers in this magazine are working and living locally. They are contributing and making a differ- ence in your community. Support them and their efforts by shopping and spending locally.

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Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook, is making her voice loud and clear in the media lately. I decided to read her book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” to see what exactly she has to say.

First, this book is not for everyone. While she is careful to applaud the decision of stay-at-home moms, she does make note that we should examine why women so willingly accept that position in life. She also doesn’t address female entrepreneurs, single mothers, or the general working class. This book is directed at the female middle-class, college educated, partnered with or with the intent to have children.

Her message in a nutshell is this: Women are sometimes their own worst enemy when it comes to getting ahead in business. Women want to be “liked” and are afraid of coming off as overbearing and being labeled “bossy” if they speak their mind. So, in order to get along they go along. Women should “lean in” instead of “leaning out” of the conversation and make themselves heard. She also cites historical examples of why women have been held back, like the fact that females still only earn $.77 for every dollar their male counterparts earn and that women have always been considered the primary caregiver in their families, thereby forcing them to decide between career and family.

She suggests that we need more women in power to prove that we are just as capable as men in the workplace. That thought seems to be a catch 22, as studies show that even when women are equal or ahead of men academi-cally they are promoted at a much lower rate.

Sheryl Sandburg functions in a world unlike most working women I know. She talks about making a point to get home for dinner “most nights”. I don’t know about you, but for me, being home for dinner is not optional. When you are on the 2014 Forbes Billionaires list your worries and concerns are quite different than the average work-ing woman. When Sheryl Sandburg drops names it sounds like she is reciting a list straight out of Forbes maga-zine. She notes that her mentor is Larry Summers. Good for her! She has achieved a level in business that most young girls should aspire to. And that is the audience who would probably benefit most from this book.

If you are looking for a motivational book to help you in your career, keep looking.

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the Ugly truth about

Domestic Violence

hockingly, Domestic Violence did not get much attention until the women’s movement of the 1970s. Prior to this, criminal arrests were very rare (occurring only in cases of extreme violence). It was only in the 1990s that rigorous enforcement of laws against domes-tic violence became standard policy. This could be why Domestic Violence Awareness is still gaining momentum in our society. The statistics are staggering.

I recently sat down with three women, who are survivors of domestic abuse, to hear their stories.

Stephanie, Brenda and Charlotte could be anyone’s mother, sister, daughter, co-worker or neighbor. Their names have been changed for this article, however their stories are very real.

Stephanie is a young mother who is working hard to get her life together for her daughter and herself. She was a drug user when she met her husband and the addiction escalated for them both after their marriage. Stephanie says she used drugs and alcohol as an escape from the physical and verbal abuse and would do anything to make herself feel better. She has trouble remembering some of the details from the relationship, which she is working on with a coun-selor. She recognizes that counseling is necessary to keep her from relapsing into her old habits of picking the wrong men. “I always had really low self esteem and I would always pick the worst guys. Almost all of my relationships have been verbally abusive,” said Stephanie. She even ended up in another abusive relationship after getting sober, which is what brought her to Harbor Hill for a second time.

Stephanie tells me about her childhood and how she came to think of an abusive environment as normal. Stephanie says, “My dad was an alcoholic and was verbally abusive to me and my mom. The verbal abuse was acceptable to me. I thought that was normal.” Now she says that she is a firm believer in “you teach people how to treat you.”

In 2010 Stephanie’s husband was arrested. With her husband behind bars, she continued their relationship, writing to him and sending him money. Still addicted to drugs herself, Stephanie got into trouble and ended up in misdemeanor drug court. She feels that this is what saved her life. “I was praying for something to change because I was miserable. This was God doing for me what I couldn’t do myself.”

Stephanie counts the friends she has made at Harbor Hill and the staff as her support group now. Her mother has passed away and the only family she has is her daughter. She has a job and continues in drug court even though she has graduated from the program. She is six months clean and is pursuing a divorce from her husband. Stephanie says she doesn’t feel like abuse is talked about enough and that everyone should realize that not all abuse is physical. “The emotional abuse is worse because it breaks you down. And you almost feel like there is something wrong with you. I didn’t want to tell anyone because I thought they would wonder what was wrong with me.”

renda is in her 50s and has been at Harbor Hill since 2011. She was married for 31 years before leaving an abusive husband. Her abuse didn’t begin until after she had been married for a several years. Her husband was possessive to the point of trying to alienate her from her family and she wasn’t allowed to have friends. She worked for her husband’s family owned business. Even with all the control that he had over Brenda, he still ac-cused her of having numerous affairs with men as well as women.

Brenda says her family was not aware of her abuse at first, “I kept as much away from them as possible. When they did find out they tried to get her to leave.”

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When I asked Brenda why she stayed, her response was ad-amant, “Co-dependency. My living was dependent on him. My life was dependent on him. If he was in a good mood, I was in a good mood. If he was in a bad mood I had to try to get him a good mood.” Brenda’s husband also depended on drugs and alcohol to alter his mood.

When Brenda decided to fight back after almost having her jaw broken, her husband began terrorizing her while she slept. “I learned to sleep out of self preservation. I learned to sleep deep so that I couldn’t feel anything. I would wake up the next morning and find things in my bed that had been thrown at me,” Brenda said.

Brenda’s children had witnessed her years of abuse and even issued an ultimatum to try to get her to leave their father. They threatened to sever their relationship with her as long as she stayed with him.

At one point Brenda found evidence of her husband’s infidelities on their home computer. Brenda tried to do everything in her power to keep her marriage intact until a nervous breakdown sent her to the hospital for 2 weeks. A counselor there finally convinced her that she needed to leave her husband before it was too late. “That was the striker to the fuse,” said Brenda.

Even after the abuse and infidelity Brenda still loved her husband. “Without the other stuff, he was a good person. He was a good person to everybody else but us.”

I asked Brenda if she had any regrets? “A lot. If there was any more I could do to change it I would still be there and he would probably still be alive. I knew due to his health, that to let him go and do as he wanted that he would be dead in less than a year. And he was. That’s the regret. A mother had to lose a son.” When I asked Brenda if she felt like that would have been a fair trade to possibly lose her life to save his, she said it was a moot point and she didn’t have an answer for me.

harlotte is 49 years old and has been married three times. Each marriage was abusive in some way. She has suffered from physical, emo-tional and verbal abuse. “I know it’s all bad, she says, “but I honestly think the physical abuse is a little easier to handle. Scars will heal, broken bones hurt for a while, but the emo-tional abuse is there forever.”

Charlotte’s mother cheated on her father and was also a drug abuser. Charlotte’s father killed her mother when she failed to pay the electric bill because she spent the money on drugs. Due to a technicality in the investigation Char-lotte’s father wasn’t convicted. He then married a woman

whom he abused regularly. This created the notion for Charlotte that cheating was the one unacceptable act in a relationship. “You can do anything you want as long as you don’t cheat. You can beat them, you can lie to them, anything. But when you cheat, that’s too far.”

At age 18 Charlotte married a man who was 29 years her senior in order to escape the regular beatings from her father. About 3 weeks into the marriage, Charlotte began being abused by her husband. After 4 months of marriage she got pregnant. Her husband was convinced he wasn’t the father of her child and beat her until she suffered a miscarriage. He then refused to take her to the hospital until 6 weeks later. Due to this she was unable to ever have children.

Charlotte was isolated in her home that was located an hour from the nearest town and miles from the nearest neighbor. She also had minimal contact with any of her family. Charlotte was mostly physically abused and says he didn’t have to worry about hiding bruises because of her natural clumsiness. After a fight with Charlotte’s brother-in-law, her husband took out his anger on her and pointed a .22 pistol in her face. Charlotte said her thoughts at that time were, “God, please don’t let him miss this time. Please just let him kill me and get me out of my misery.” Thank-fully he was so drunk he did miss.

I asked Charlotte if she ever called the police when her husband would beat her. “Oh no! This was back in the ‘80s. You didn’t do that then,” she said. I asked her why not. She said, “Because the police would show up, they would laugh at you and leave and then he would really hurt you.” During this, Brenda interjected with “Good old boys.” These women really felt like there was nowhere to turn for help. Charlotte even preferred death to the almost daily abuse she was experiencing.

After 11 years of marriage she finally left when her hus-band cheated on her. The one thing that Charlotte felt was unacceptable.

It wasn’t long before she ended up in another abusive rela-tionship that would last another 11 years. He left Charlotte after she helped put him through school. It would be an-other 7 years before Charlotte decided to try another rela-tionship. A friend introduced her to the sweetest man she’d ever met. The day they were married she said he started to change. The entire marriage only lasted 6 weeks.

Charlotte admits that she married her last husband, not for love, but because he had medical problems and she felt like he needed her to take care of him, even though she had plenty of medical issues of her own. He convinced

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her to sign herself into a psychiatric facility to get the kind of medical help that he felt she needed. That weekend he cheated on Charlotte.

Charlotte devised a plan to kill herself to get out of the re-lationship, but was unsuccessful. That suicide attempt was what eventually led her to Safe Harbor.

Charlotte realizes that her story makes her sound suicidal and she assures me that she is not. After all she had been through she felt that was the best way out of her life while giving her husband back his.

She says she now knows that she was wrong about that, “Women have got to learn that we can stand up for our-selves. We don’t deserve to be treated like dirt. And the law is on our side now. It didn’t use to be, but it is now. “

I asked Charlotte about her plans for her future, “I’m going to get back on my feet, I’m going to get out of debt and I’m going to stay away from men,” she says with a laugh.

She went on to say that she wondered, “What have I done that I deserve to be treated like this? But this is how it’s played out. What he did was bad but it brought me here. I believe God has a reason for me to be here. I didn’t know this place existed. I didn’t know there was any help. The hospital sent me here. Safe Harbor saved my life and wom-en need to know these places exist.”

She also has some advice for other women who may be in an abusive situation, “If nothing else, fake an appendicitis attack and get to the hospital. There is always, always a way out. Don’t try to pack a big bag and take with you. Leave there with nothing and you’ll be ok.”

If you are in a battering relationship be prepared...

s Plan an emergency escape.s Locate the number of the closest shelter program, such as Safe Harbor.s Collect your important documents: chil- dren’s birth certificates, your social security number, health records, etc.s Put aside some cash for an emergency.

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What is Safe Harbor?Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky is an emergency shelter and advocacy center that provides free, confi-dential, caring and supportive services to all domestic violence and sexual assault victims in Boyd, Greenup, Carter, Lawrence and Elliott Counties. Through the use of resources, education, counseling and advocacy, Safe Harbor provides a safe place for you to consider the impact domestic violence is having on you and your family.

Safe Harbor’s services are free to all victims of domes-tic violence. Safe Harbor provides services without regard to race, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation or handicap.

z One in 4 women will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime.

z Every year, 1 in 3 women who is a victim of homicide is murdered by her current or

former partner.

z Every year, more than 3 million children witness domestic violence in their homes.

z Children who live in homes where there is domestic violence also suffer abuse or neglect at

high rates (30% to 60%).

z Most domestic violence incidents are never reported.

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I have always been one of those crazy moms who cooked dinner every night and required that my children all eat around the table. And before you say it, yes I worked full time. It was just important to me that my family ate healthy. And just like everyone’s crazy lives sometimes it gets difficult to do. It still does take more time and preparation, but it is worth it. I know that I have prepared a healthy meal for my family.

After my oldest daughter got married and moved away, she and her husband started changing their diet and buying organic. She started telling me about all the things that she was learning about the pes-ticides they are putting on foods. So I started researching myself and it was scary! Organic food doesn’t mean diet food or that it is special. It also doesn’t mean that you are going to lose weight just by eating organic foods. Organically grown foods means grown without pesticides, and grow-ing gardens like our grandparents grew their gar-dens. When granny took a bucket to the garden and knocked the potato bugs off into it.

I decided to start switching over to buying organic produce and foods. I use the dirty dozen and clean fifteen list when I buy my produce. In our area or-ganic foods are not in abundant supply and who has time to drive to Lexington multiple times a month. Gradually a little at a time we have switched. Every-

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one says it is so expensive. Well… it is expensive. But when you cut out the junk food from your grocery list it evens out. And when you consider that these pesti-cides are linked to cancer, ADHD in kids just to name a couple isn’t it worth it? AND don’t even get me started on GMO food or the amount of sugar they put in all of our food supply that is a whole other story.

I try to buy all the organic produce that I possibly can, or in the summer grow my own. Farmers markets are a great resource even if it is not or-ganic. Locally grown vegetables do not get radiated and sprayed to keep it a certain color or keep it from ruining before we get it. The biggest change with cutting out the processed foods and

buying more produce is more frequent grocery shop-ping trips. Fresh food doesn’t have a shelf life and ruins quicker. The demand for organic food is growing. The more that we buy the cheaper it will get. Help me sup-port this movement. Let’s demand that we have organ-ically grown foods in our area. By doing that, we are helping to create a healthier community…one organic apple at a time.

Making the Switch

Debra LeAnn Roe is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and is the owner of Organic Hillbilly in Grayson, Ky.

Debra LeAnn Roe

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Empowering Women Globally

egan Milar grew up in Ironton and now calls Cincinnati home. But she didn’t take a direct path north to get where she is today. When Megan’s husband Ken was transferred to India for his job, they moved there with their 4 children.

While living in India, Megan fell in love with the culture and the people there. She volunteered with DIR, Developing Indigenous Resources, a non-profit organization that works with residents in eco-nomically poor communities to develop a sustainable lifestyle through education and employment. Megan explains that the culture is about 100 years behind us and the women don’t really have a voice in their own homes. By creating and selling eco-friendly jewelry and items they earn an income which also earns them a voice in the home. Megan said, “The thing that really hit home with me was that these women wake up every day wanting the same things that we do. They want to provide for their kids. They want to try to improve their lives. And they want to break the cycle of poverty and have a sense of accomplishment.”

When Megan learned that DIR was in danger of shutting down the women’s empowerment program, due to having no sales channel for their goods, she felt compelled to do something. She was in the pro-cess of moving back to the states, but vowed to help keep the organization running.

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Empowering Women Globally

egan Milar grew up in Ironton and now calls Cincinnati home. But she didn’t take a direct path north to get where she is today. When Megan’s husband Ken was transferred to India for his job, they moved there with their 4 children.

While living in India, Megan fell in love with the culture and the people there. She volunteered with DIR, Developing Indigenous Resources, a non-profit organization that works with residents in eco-nomically poor communities to develop a sustainable lifestyle through education and employment. Megan explains that the culture is about 100 years behind us and the women don’t really have a voice in their own homes. By creating and selling eco-friendly jewelry and items they earn an income which also earns them a voice in the home. Megan said, “The thing that really hit home with me was that these women wake up every day wanting the same things that we do. They want to provide for their kids. They want to try to improve their lives. And they want to break the cycle of poverty and have a sense of accomplishment.”

When Megan learned that DIR was in danger of shutting down the women’s empowerment program, due to having no sales channel for their goods, she felt compelled to do something. She was in the pro-cess of moving back to the states, but vowed to help keep the organization running.

Through her research Megan learned that there were several organizations like DIR around the world that were helping local residents make beautiful handcrafted jewelry and accessories, but they had no business acumen or a resource to market their goods.

Megan’s entrepreneurial spirit combined with her passion for this charitable cause led her to create Arova, a women’s accessories brand that sells handcrafted artisan goods from all over the world. “We search the globe for accessories that you would only find while exploring anoth-er country. We bring them right here to you,” says Megan. Currently, Arova sells items from 5 different countries including India, Africa and Argentina. All of the items are from women’s empowerment groups or artisan co-ops.

Megan also donates a portion of the sales of Arova products to DIR. Arova sells a variety of

handmade jewelry and accessories including necklaces, bracelets, earrings, hair clips, bags and wallets. “The materials used in the jewelry and accessories are eco-friendly,” explains Mi-lar, “They are made out of recycled upholstery remnants, bike tubes, seat belts, and other ma-terials.” That eco-friendly nature is part of what makes up the mission statement for Arova. “Most for-profit companies; their bottom line is just profit. We have a triple bottom line, we are People, Planet and Profit. Every business decision we make we really take into consider-ation the people, the planet and the profits,” says Megan.

Some of the jewelry is made from camel bone and water buffalo horns, but Megan assures me that it is all cruelty free. Water buffalo are highly regarded as their owner’s highest asset. The an-imals provide transportation, income and milk. When the buffalo die the family can offset some

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of the financial loss by selling the hide to the leather industry and the bones and horns are used by the artisans in their crafts. You can see some examples of how these mate-rials are used in this way in Arova’s Natural Selection Collection on their website.

Arova works directly with artisan groups all over the world to acquire quality accessories. “I have traveled to 18 countries and everywhere I went I found unique treasures that received many compliments from my friends back home,” says Milar, “My husband suggested that I should just buy these treasures in bulk to sell here. His suggestions and my work with DIR all worked together to create Arova.”

Most recently Megan has been working to inte-grate Arova into the home party industry. She has done extensive market research to bring her Arova products into the homes of customers

via parties hosted by Aro-va advocates. “We call our sales consultants advocates, because we want them to always be advocating for the artisans,” explains Megan. By structuring the sales of Arova

products in this way she is able to give women the independence of working for themselves by hosting parties while giving the artisans a sales outlet. It really is a global empowering of wom-en. “We want to empower women in the US to become their own business leader. By doing so we are also empowering the artisans. It is just as important to me that we are teaching business skills and mentoring each of the advocates so that they can achieve their own success,” says Megan.

The party industry is not a new marketing chan-nel, but Megan feels that Arova brings some-thing new to the industry by supporting this very worthy mission.

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More about Megan...

Can’t leave home without: my iPhone

Favorite iPhone App: Shockify – my ecommerce site.

Last book you read: The Art of Social Enterprise

Favorite quote: Do not follow where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most influential female: Mother Theresa

Guilty Pleasure: Red Bull

Megan had previously owned four GNC fran-chises and started her own marketing company, but she says that this is fulfilling her passion like none of her previous ventures. “This new con-cept that businesses can be for profit but treat everyone along the way and the planet with respect really hits home with me”, says Megan.

Being an entrepreneur of a start up, Megan is juggling a lot of roles at once. She handles ev-erything from the marketing to filling orders. She is helped by her childhood friend Jennifer Kehoe, who also lives in Cincinnati and is from Ironton. Megan is the mother of 4 kids ages 3, 5, 7 and 8. She involves her kids in the family business as much as possible, counting jewelry pieces and punching holes in hang tags. She also wants to make sure that the opportunities her family experienced in India have not been wasted for her children. “For me, it is important that my kids see that we are continuing to try to make a difference,” says Megan. Even with her

busy schedule, Megan stays involved with entre-preneur networking groups to work with others, who are starting businesses, with the challenges that they may face.

The passion that Megan has, not only for Arova, but the mission behind it, is evident. I have no doubt that she will make Arova a national brand and continue to help women here as well as globally.

Arova offers one-of-a-kind items that you won’t see anywhere else. They offer everything from neutral earth tones of bone and horn brace-lets to beautifully colorful beaded bangles and earrings. For something truly unique check out the up-cycled pop tab clutches. At only $10, the Janta wine bag would make a wonderful hostess gift when paired with a great bottle of wine.

To shop Arova or to find out more go to www.arovastudio.com.

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                       Arova is excited to announce our launch into the home party industry. One of our core values is empowerment. By helping you earn extra income on a flexible schedule, we will also be helping others! Learn more about our simple, hassle-free system that includes free shipping and business supplies with every reorder.

We are calling our consultants “Advocates” because we are always advocating for the artisans!

Here are just some of the benefits of being an Arova Advocate: • Founding Member positions still available. • Increased commissions up to 30% on all reorders. • Online and direct/party sales. • Launch Kits starting at $198 • Simple, hassle-free business model. • Earn personal sales commissions immediately on inventory you carry. • The company pays hostess rewards. • Lucrative compensation structure. • Strong Training Program (by a top expert in the industry). • Fundraising program paid by the company (you lose no commissions). • FREE business supplies with starter kits and all reorders. • FREE shipping on reorders.

Learn more at www.arovastudio.com or call us at 844-MyArova!  

                       

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                       Arova is excited to announce our launch into the home party industry. One of our core values is empowerment. By helping you earn extra income on a flexible schedule, we will also be helping others! Learn more about our simple, hassle-free system that includes free shipping and business supplies with every reorder.

We are calling our consultants “Advocates” because we are always advocating for the artisans!

Here are just some of the benefits of being an Arova Advocate: • Founding Member positions still available. • Increased commissions up to 30% on all reorders. • Online and direct/party sales. • Launch Kits starting at $198 • Simple, hassle-free business model. • Earn personal sales commissions immediately on inventory you carry. • The company pays hostess rewards. • Lucrative compensation structure. • Strong Training Program (by a top expert in the industry). • Fundraising program paid by the company (you lose no commissions). • FREE business supplies with starter kits and all reorders. • FREE shipping on reorders.

Learn more at www.arovastudio.com or call us at 844-MyArova!  

                       

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Making Tracks in StylePhotography by Lee Gibbs

Krystal is dressed in Grace in LA jeans, Lane boots, and Ginger Snap jewelry. Jerri also dressed in Tribal jeans, Spartina 449 handbags, and jewelry by “Accessories by Lucy” available at La Tee Da Boutique. Alice is wearing gingham poplin peplum blouse with criss cross detail at upper back and a denim short with tailored waistband of cotton and polyester by Doncaster.

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Hannah is dressed in a three piece layered top by Urban Mango, white crop pants, and jewelry from La Tee Da Boutique. Jane has on a stretch cotton blouse with three quarter length sleeves and a box pleat peplum with matching boot cut leg pants. Samantha is wearing stretch navy denim matching jacket and jean. Both ladies are dressed in Don-caster.

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Hannah is wearing Mud Pie’s summer tangerine dress with accessories by Spartina 449 and “Accesso-ries by Lucy”. All available at LaTee Da Boutique

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Jerri is looking classic in a black tunic embellished with ivory crochet trim, ivory slacks, and Spartina 449 tote. Jewelry by “Accessories by Lucy” Krystal is on trend in black and white chevron leggings and tunic and jewelry by “Accessories by Lucy”. All available at La Tee Da Boutique.

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Jane is wearing a scoop neck shift dress and matching jacket of Cheetah printed ponti cotton and spandex. Alice wears a white/navy faux-wrap skirt with matching rounded notch collar jacket of linen and spandex. All by Doncaster.

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Samantha is wearing a water repellent trench in citrine. matching 5-pocket jean in citrine and scarf in citrine multi 100% silk. All by Doncaster

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Jane is wearing a jewel neck shirt jacket in black with contrast white self-flange piping at yoke and sleeves. Jeans are white washed denim cotton, polyester and spandex. Samantha is wearing a striped jewel neck tunic in black and white with chino cotton rayon patch pockets and three-quarter length sleeves. Chino trousers are fly front, slight boot cut leg in double face cotton rayon. Alice is wearing a stretch linen chev-ron appliqué jacket with straight waistband ankle length pants in black. All By Doncaster.

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Page 24 - Mud Pie’s summer tangerine dress with accessories by Spartina 449 and “Accessories by Lucy”. All available at LaTee Da Boutique.

Page 25 - Black tunic embellished with ivory crochet trim, ivory slacks, and Spartina 449 tote. Jew-elry by “Accessories by Lucy” Black and white chevron leggings and tunic and jewelry by “Accessories by Lucy”. All available at La Tee Da Boutique.

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City National Bank, one of the nation’s strongest community banks, is proud to serve Kentucky with eight convenient locations. Call or stop by your nearest branch to see how we can best serve your financial needs.

Downtown Ashland Greenup Paintsville Mayo 606-326-2800 606-473-0788 606-788-4983

Cedar Knoll Paintsville Suburban Grayson 606-928-1538 606-788-0044 606-474-7802

Russell Ashland Wal-Mart 606-494-2424 606-920-9625

Page 28 - Jewel neck shirt jacket in black with contrast white self-flange piping at yoke and sleeves in sizes 2-18 missy and 14-24 women. Jeans are white washed denim cotton, polyester and spandex in 0-18 missy, 2-16 petite, 14-24 women. Striped jewel neck tunic in black and white with chino cotton rayon patch pockets and three-quar-ter length sleeves in sizes xsm-xl. Chino trousers are fly front, slight boot cut leg in double face cotton rayon. Sizes 0-18 missy. 2-16 petite. Stretch linen chevron appliqué jacket with straight waistband ankle length pants in black. Sizes 2-16 petite; 0-18 missy; 14-24 women. All available from Doncaster.

Page 29 - Sanibel Sandles, Spartina bangles, Spartina Fiddler’s Cover handbag, Tulip Strachan Bag all available at La Tee Da Boutique. Frank Lloyd Wright jewelry and Otazu Jewelry available at Miss Got Rocks inside Steen’s Antique Emporium.

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If you’re suffering with acid reflux, give us a call today to learn how we can help.

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John McDowell lived with heartburn

for more than 20 years before his

condition became so severe, his health

was at serious risk. Luckily, surgeons at

King’s Daughters were able to fix his

hiatal hernia with a minimally invasive

procedure, and now John feels like he

has a whole new life.

KDMC surgeons Kevin Miller, M.D., Roderick

Tompkins, M.D., and Timothy Wheeler, M.D., perform

a wide range of surgeries, many minimally invasive. This

means less pain, scarring and a shorter recovery time.