Each year at Christmastime, the employees at Lowes in Guntersville are given an opportunity to “adopt” residents at Marshall Manor. Arlene Holland, a Lowes Pro Services Team member, collects the profiles on twenty of our residents for willing participants to review in order to personally choose who it is they will sponsor. “Lowes mantra to their employees is, ‘Loving Where You Live,’” Arlene said through a smile, “and this is always one way we can reach out to others in our

I was a music education major in college and my principle instrument was my voice. As part of the course of study, all the vocal performance instructors required each of their students to sing in various languages with clear dialect. I can remember talking to a friend of mine one day about how interesting it was to sing in German with all of the aversive relational history between America (most of the world) and Germany. My friend responded in an off the cuff fashion, “Wel