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Emerge Counseling Services: 
A New Name for the New Year – 2013-01-25

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By Katie Sobiech

“A New Year, A New You!” ….These are the types of headlines floating around this time of year. But what does it really take to create a new you? Some would say that it all starts in the heart, mind and spirit. Emerge Counseling Services focuses on all 3 aspects.

Improving the inner self is one of the most important things that a person can do to live a healthy life. For many, this is the time of year for a fresh start, to begin getting to the root of some inward issues.

Emerge Counseling Services may be the place for you. Emerge is a Christ-Centered place where you can find help and hope through counseling, group sessions, workshops and seminars.

Their mission is to “help people become and remain relationally, emotionally, mentally and spiritually healthy so that they can realize their God-given potential and fulfill their God-designed purpose”.

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October 24, 2013
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Elaine Evans Leaves a Legacy through Let’s Grow Akron
 (Part Two) – 2013-01-23

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By Katie Sobiech

Elaine Evans was known as the woman who “wanted to plant pretty things in pretty spaces and make people feel good,” Sarah Vradenburg, Master Gardener, recalls.

As plain and simple as it sounds; much labor was put into the projects that Evans hoped will continue to live on through Let’s Grow Akron (LGA).

Before her death, Evans “passed the torch” to Lisa Nunn, new Executive Director of LGA, who plans to continue this endeavor, spreading the beauty of gardening to the young and old throughout Akron.

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Elaine Evans Leaves a Legacy through Let’s Grow Akron
(Part One of Two) – 2013-01-18

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By Katie Sobiech

She’s been referred to as the “fairy godmother” of community gardens in Akron, Ohio, known for her art of turning “trashed” areas into treasured gardens of beauty.

The late Elaine Evans sure left a legacy and impact on this city that will be remembered forever.

“(There was) a magic that she created by creating these gardens and then watching what happened in the neighborhood. She’s been adding her little gardening fairy dust to neighborhoods that most people would rather just drive through,” Sarah Vradenburg, a Master Gardener, recalls.

“Elaine stopped and took a look around and said ‘This can be better. I can make this better.’ And did that,” Vradenburg, who also wrote an article on Evans for the Akron Beacon Journal, continued.

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October 24, 2013