Living 50 Plus Huntsville-Madison
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By Bob Labbe | Photos by Joshua Berry | Living 50 Plus Carlos Mathews strives to be the best he can be while being an enormous inspiration to others. Those two facets of his life help drive him not only in his work of a business owner specializing in hosting government contracts, but as an athlete in the sport of
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By Maria Rakoczy | Living 50 Plus BAAM is downtown Huntsville’s newest spot for good food and good nightlife. It’s the newest venture of longtime Huntsville restaurateur Mark Komara. Komara started in the local restaurant and entertainment business forty-one years ago in 1983 with Sports Page Bar and Deli on South Parkway. In 2009, he took over the Huntsville establishment
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By GraciAnn Goodin | Living 50 Plus Grant and Jenny Sweer’s backyard looks like something out of a fairy tale. Immediately after walking past the open gate, a wide expanse of model railroad tracks and miniature figurines and buildings meet the eye. Vibrant flowers and greenery weave throughout. The sound of a small waterfall trickling into a koi pond and
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By Erin Coggins | Living 50 Plus The Huntsville Hospital Breast Cancer Center is the busiest mammography site in the entire state of Alabama. And thanks to the annual Liz Hurley Ribbon Run, both Huntsville and Madison Breast Centers are fully 3D mammography capable, making breast cancer easier to detect, particularly in dense breast tissue. This is not just a
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By GraciAnn Goodin | Living 50 Plus Margy Pritchett has been an artist for pretty much her entire life. She has always loved painting, especially. She considered it just a hobby, though, and like many hobbies, other things in her life often took precedence. Her husband, Dan, has not always been an artist. Even now he uses the word with
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By Cole Sikes, Alabama Extension Service | For Living 50 Plus Many people associate garden chrysanthemums, or mums, with the beginning of autumn. These floral features are already occupying garden centers and front porches around the country. There are tips and tricks to make sure that every mum has maximum longevity. Lucy Edwards, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System county coordinator,
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By Bob Labbe | Photos by Joshua Berry | Living 50 Plus Table Tennis is more or less a “grown up version of Ping Pong.” Both versions of the sport are fun, athletic and difficult to master, but since 1983 with the formation of what is known as the North Alabama Table Tennis Club (NATTC), Table Tennis has taken on
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