My focus this week is on the available COVID-19 vaccines available here in Troup County. I’ve brought in District 4 Public Health representative, Hayla Folden to discuss the various vaccines and their side effects, efficacy and answer your questions. I was very appreciative that Hayla sat down to speak with me and I hope you find the interview informative and engaging! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

This week’s interview gets heavily political as I interview Kevin Littlefield, the Chairman of the Troup Democratic Party and a member of the State Committee for the Democratic Party. He is also a veteran of the Iraq War. We talk about both the Chairman position and his service in the army during the war throughout the interview. As always, I hope you enjoy listening. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

This week’s guest is Holly Roberts, Coach for Circles of Troup County. Holly was an inspirational guest! She lights a fire under me and reinvigorates me for service in my community. Her servant heart is just contagious. Holly shares her story, how she left the local school system and how she joined Circles. From there she discusses all that she loves about Lagrange. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

The episode this week has a very special guest: Casey Duffield of The Foundation for Casey’s Cure (www.caseys-cure.org). I first met Casey when she moved to GA. The friend she talks about in the interview was actually my next door neighbor at the time. Her son sat with Alastair and I while my wife taught Art Appreciation at West GA Tech on Tuesday nights when she was diagnosed. Casey and I have history. I didn’t consider interviewing her, however, until I saw the Casey’s Cure float in the LaGrange Christmas Parade. From that point it was just a matter of reaching out and setting it up. In this interview Casey talks about the darkness of being diagnosed with the same disease that took her father, the hope of finding a cure and her love of her newfound home of LaGrange. I hope that you enjoy listening as much as we had doing the interview. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

This week is a special episode. We at Hey, LaGrange! Have partnered with the Rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church to bring you an abbreviated version of their annual ‘Longing for Light in the Darkness’ special Christmas service. The full service may be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pb2uXKxMvBU or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stmarkslg I hope that you enjoy it and have a good week, regardless of your religious tradition. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

RERELEASE: My interview this week is the Reverend Allen Pruitt of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on North Greenwood St in LaGrange, just outside of downtown. The interview was fun and lighthearted. He goes into how he made a potato gun and how he and his wife didn’t hit it off the first time they met. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed doing it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

My interview this week is local fashion mogul (though that’s a touch of an exaggeration. He might be there someday tho!), Demetrius Jones. Demetrius is a LaGrange native and owner of Dedicated Grind Clothing Company. We don’t get to it until the very end of the interview, so I’ll rectify that by promoting the website right at the outset: http://www.dedicatedgrind.org Check em out. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

My interview this week has been featured in your mailbox and on your tv for the last campaign season. He’s State Representative, Bob Trammell. Bob hails from Luthersville, Georgia but has his office in LaGrange and represents much of LaGrange in the State Assembly. Thus, I thought it would be good to sit down and pick his brain and figure out what he’s all about. Our interview covers topics as diverse as his role in the State Assembly, how long he’s served, his role as a father at home, his favorite memory of LaGrange and which part of the chicken is the finger. I had a lot of fun with this high profile interview and hope you enjoy listening. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

My interview this week is Leon Childs Jr, Executive Direct of the A.G.C.A.O. The Adaptive Growth and Cultural Organization. He dedicates he and his family’s lives to the mentoring and academic advancement of disadvantaged youth. He shares in the interview about his past, present and future vision for the program. He also dishes on how he leveraged donations into tutors and other creative ways that he’s drummed up funding since launching the program in 2015. I’ll stop there so as to not steal all the thunder from the interview. This week’s a real slam banger. Hope you enjoy the ride. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support

This week’s interview is Associate Minister at the First United Methodist Church in LaGrange, Ben Wills. Ben talks about his brief time in LaGrange and how he’s adapted to living in LaGrange. He talks about the ordination process, per my request. And doing ministry post-coronavirus. Overall it was a fun interview. (Florrie suggested I name it the “mcguiver” episode bc my phone died midway through one of the questions and we had to juryrig something to finish the interview. We finished ahead of time without issue.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/HeyLaGrange/support