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Betsy Bean

Betsy Bean completed graduate school at UGA in 1972. She was a school librarian for a year and then became a rock and roll DJ for the next 10. Subsequently, she worked as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal/Constitution, followed by public relations and marketing and newsletter publishing and was, more recently, the downtown development director for the City of Anniston, Ala.
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Opinion

Just a thought: Tap and step

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We Boomers began our journey during the poliovirus epidemics in the 1940s and ‘50s, and today we’re ending it with the coronavirus pandemic. Polio...
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Boomer Life

CNAs worked through risk. Home care companies scrambled

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Linda Stephens, 62, began caregiving at an early age in the tiny town of Siloam in Greene County. As a child, she took care...
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19-News

Senior trade group finds silver lining in COVID crisis

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Members of the Athens Senior Resource Network held their regular monthly meeting today through the meeting platform Zoom. Thirteen members representing home care agencies,...
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In This Issue

In This Issue Vol. 3, No. 4

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We’re launching The Boomer Directory in March – 48 pages filled with resources for seniors and their families. Be sure to get your business,...
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In This Issue

In This Issue Vol. 3, No. 4

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Writing and publishing a book is a huge undertaking but there seem to be no end of local boomers who have done it recently....
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Boomer Life

Athens Places in Peril African American sites lead the list

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Melissa Jest, African American Programs Director for the Georgia Historic Preservation Division has worked in three majority-minority cities – Philadelphia, Washington, and Savannah –...
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Boomer Life

Gay couple reflects on long journey

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Frank Scott, 78, and Al Nettleton, 88, have been together 26 years, but both men began their adult lives in heterosexual marriages. Between them,...
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In This Issue

In This Issue Vol. 3, No 3

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It’s the nature of the publishing business that sometimes we start out in one direction, only to veer off or expand into another direction....
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Caregiving

Caregiving: Where to start

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Megan Vogt is immersed in the issues of caregiving. As program manager for the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) at the NE Georgia...
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