Various Training and Recovery Techniques Contribute to Success During Twilight Amateur Races4/30/2019 Over the weekend, several amateur cyclists participated in this year’s Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium. A number of amateur races, based on age and skill level, were held Saturday morning on the greenway race course on Willow St. to determine participants in the amateur finals.
Many of the leading qualifiers had varied training approaches, as reported in The Red & Black. “I have a big engine,” said Matthew Warren, who won the Cat 4 men’s race Saturday morning. “Some of the guys out here aren’t training as much, and that gives me a big advantage.” Based on a cyclist’s skill level, cats or categories go from cat 1 which is the highest level to a cat 5 which is the lowest level. The day before Warren also took home the title at the Spartanburg Regional Criterium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Warren said his training included races that are multiple days in a row, which he uses for practice to have the endurance for events like Twilight. “I’m usually better on the second or third day of the stage race,” Warren said. For Rosie Levy, the winner of the Cat 3 women’s race, she said she was going to walk around to keep her blood flowing between her morning race and the night race, but other than that she just planned to rest. Saturday was Levy’s second Twilight and last year she received third place in the Cat 5, so her win this year was a big step up. “You practice five days a week, and you do things like practice races, practice crits, and then you kind of do a lot of resting and a lot of tapering for the week up before,” Levy said. “Just a lot of miles.” Warren and Levy had a different approach to their training techniques, but each had an early morning win to qualify them for an evening ride in the amateur finals. Call Pachuta Insurance Today @ 706-769-2262.
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Imagine dancing under the stars in a lovely garden with a wonderful view of a motion-activated, 60-foot, LED wall sculpture. That’s exactly what the Georgia Museum of Art’s Museum Mix event offers.
As reported in The Red & Black, Michael Lachowski, public relations coordinator of the Georgia Museum of Art, began Museum Mix over the summer of 2012, right after he began working there. At the time, Lachowski was a DJ and knew many local DJs. Lachowski said he thought having a night where a DJ performed and the museum stayed open after hours would draw in new people. Lachowski said that Museum Mix is a social environment in which students and locals come with their friends and dance while enjoying art. “When you go look at art exhibitions with other people, it’s its own dynamic,” Lachowski said. “There’s more of a conversation going on and different points of view coming out.” This is one of the Georgia Museum of Art’s largest events because it’s free. Taylor Chicoine, supervising producer at iHeartRadio, will be one of the DJs at the event. Chicoine, who attended a few of the Museum Mix events before, says it’s exciting when the weather is nice because it is an outdoor event. Chicoine will co-DJ from 8-11 p.m. with his girlfriend, Alex Spina. “It’s kind of a big deal in my mind,” Chicoine said. “I’ve always enjoyed these parties so I want to keep that streak going.” Before Museum Mix, there will be a Master of Fine Arts Speaks event in the auditorium of the museum. Graduate students will give short presentations on their exhibitions and show off some of their recent work. The MFA Speaks event is also open to the public and may give insight for better conversations about the art if you wish to go walk around the museum later. The MFA Speaks event ends right before the Museum Mix event, which allows for a perfect transition into a night of dancing and visual art. Call Pachuta Insurance Today @ 706-769-2262. Over the weekend, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center held a flag-raising ceremony at Prince Tower One to honor the donors and recipients of life-saving organ donations.
Like many hospitals across the country, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center participates in Donate Life Month every April. Candi Wiercioch, the director of cardiac and adult critical care services at the Athens Regional Health System, is responsible for helping to organize this ceremony. Since 2009, the Donate Life America flag-raising ceremony has been a celebration of organ donors. Donate Life Month encourages communities to bring attention to the importance of “organ, eye and tissue donors,” Wiercioch told The Red & Black. More than 113,000 people nationwide are on the transplant waiting list with over 5,200 from Georgia alone, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Every 10 minutes, someone gets added to the waiting list and about 20 people die each day on the waiting list, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We started about five years ago doing a remembrance ceremony in April,” Wiercioch said. “We have a Tree of Life, an actual wood carving, that was made by a UGA student for us.” The Tree of Life was created by Juan Espinosa, a former student at the University of Georgia. His brother was an organ donor, Wiercioch said. Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center partnered with him through UGA’s art department and the tree was incorporated in 2017. “We have gold leaves that we engrave with each donor name each year, so that’s where we start our ceremony,” Wiercioch said. There are three parts to its Donate Life Ceremony including the remembrance ceremony beginning at the Tree of Life, continuing at the flagpole, where the hospital raises the Donate Life flag and then the ceremony moves to the Healing Lodge where an azalea tree is planted in honor of organ donors. Call Pachuta Insurance Today @ 706-769-2262. Being frequent customers at Bruster’s Ice Cream in Canton, GA, Andrew Rowe’s family decided to sell their home and open the franchise in Athens after finding out that there wasn’t a location in the Classic City.
As reported in The Red & Black, the new Bruster’s ice cream shop will be off Epps Bridge Parkway and will be family-run. Rowe and his family — Pam, Natalie, and Alex Rowe — have plans to open the store this summer. After much discussion with his daughter, Rowe thought Bruster’s was the best franchise for his family to work with. “When I attended school here, there was not a Bruster’s in Athens, and I had talked to my friends and coworkers at that time, and they had mentioned that there was previously a Bruster’s in Athens years ago,” Natalie Rowe said. Having worked in the corporate world for three decades, opening a Bruster’s has been an eye-opening experience for Rowe as he and his family went through the process of researching financial aspects including an estimate of the store's success and the process of acquiring real estate and finding a location. The Rowes signed the contract to open a location of the franchise at the end of 2017. Rowe said he thought the store would open earlier, and finding a location with a drive through and the right traffic was challenging. Set to attend training at the Bruster’s headquarters in May, Rowe said most people don’t realize ice cream in Bruster’s is made fresh every day, and the Rowe family will have to learn how to serve and make the ice cream themselves. “We’ll be certified ice cream makers,” Rowe said. Although there have been some Bruster’s closings across the country in the last five years, Rowe isn’t worried about it. “There’s always turnover in franchises, and things like that, and as I learned this, a lot of it has to do with the location you select and the type of store you open,” Rowe said. Rowe said Bruster's is expanding to new markets, and there are nearly 200 stores open, with less than 60 in Georgia. “I asked that question, I said, ‘Well, why is it so successful in Georgia?’ And the response I kept getting was, ‘The people in Georgia just love our ice cream,’” Rowe said. With construction having started in January, the timeframe for opening is June. The Bruster’s location plans on offering special promotions, such as Free Doggy Sundae and PJs day. Rowe said he believes most of his employees will be high schoolers or UGA students. Sophomore entertainment and media studies major Mollie Schilling is from Blairsville, Georgia said her hometown didn’t have a Bruster's location. “I think it’s a good idea, and I might go to it because I like ice cream, and I like to try new things,” Schilling said. Even though Rowe and his daughter are both UGA alumni, Rowe said he hasn’t lived in Athens since the mid-1980s. “We got to learn Athens again, participate in the community, get to know folks out here, attend a lot of the athletic events [and] the cultural events,” Rowe said. Call Pachuta Insurance Today @ 706-769-2262. Vic’s Vintage, known for its large variety of vintage items including vinyl and furniture, is set to close up shop on June 1.
As reported in The Red&Black, Saucehouse Barbeque, which is the restaurant nextdoor, bought the lot and building for more parking spaces and to use the building as an event space, said owner Victor Peel, who hand picks his collection which tell a story. “All in all, it's been a great ride having this store here. Meeting people, conversing with people telling us these stories all over the world, listening to their stories, meeting a lot of really cool people in here,” Peel said. “So things like that in my store, I’m going to miss that part.” Vic’s Vintage first opened the shop on March 31, 2011, but Peel, also known as Vic, has been selling online on eBay when it was AuctionWeb in the 1990s. For nearly 20 years, he continues to sell items he has collected locally and overseas from his travels around the world. As a Navy veteran, Peel traveled the world to places such as Singapore, Dubai, the Philippines, and Japan. While he lived in Japan after his retirement from the Navy, he became interested in antiques because of the country’s culture. He bought items considered useless in Japan for cheap and flipped their value in the U.S. for a much higher price. He needed shipping containers from how much he bought, which are on his lot. Now he must sell all his pieces at reduced prices since he has to leave the building by June 1. Despite the physical location on 768 W. Broad St. will be no longer, Peel will sell all of his items on eBay and may even run a pop-up store due to the bulk of the furniture. “Being a military man, we're used to things being a certain way, not so much change ... that's what I like about this place.” Peel said. “And so this is a change for me to make. And it's hard for me to let go … I grab things and like to hold things, and I am going through that transition now where you got to let go.” Peel says the store closing is bittersweet because he will miss interacting with customers face to face but he will use his time to focus more on spending time with his family and traveling. “I’ve been telling everyone that I’m going from Athens, Georgia to Athens, Greece on June 1 … but I’ll be back,” Peel joked. Jacob Weinstein, a music education senior at the University of Georgia, is a collector of mid-century modern pieces and an avid customer at Vic’s Vintage. Weinstein, who collects mid-century radios, discovered the shop when he was a freshman at UGA. “Some people might say, ‘Oh, it's a junk shop.’ Well, not really,” Weinstein said. “Every single thing in the shop Vic is picked up and it has some sort of meaning and purpose and is valuable for whatever reason.” He has frequented Vic’s Vintage on the weekends when he has free time. The most memorable item he bought there was a Heritage Henredon dresser that he paid $400 for. “I definitely think I really wish they could have stayed open in that location ... Because they're not just people that sell furniture,” Weinstein said. “Vic will take the time to teach you about what he has … going there is an educational experience … And so I'm going to miss that.” Call Pachuta Insurance Today @ 706-769-2262. |
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