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MEACHELE MOTHERSHIP MONTGOMERY’S BE FREE PUBLISHED

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Star Route Books has just published Be Free, the much-anticipated follow up to Meachele “Mothership” Montgomery’s to Healing, My Journey Home.

Be Free follows Meachele on her trip along the Colorado Trail, and focuses on how she reacts to the various dangers she encounters during her 36-day adventure in the summer of 2015. The inspirational story features a theme of overcoming abusive situations.

Be Free is also a photographic record of the journey and it includes over 100 color photographs in its 180 pages.
Meachele’s first book, Healing, My Journey Home, published in 2015, was the story of her 2011 thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail after the loss of her husband. Meachele received her trail name, “Mothership,” on that trip.

Both books are 6” x 9”, softcover, designed and developed by Imaging Specialists, Inc., in Sparta, NC, and released through ISI’s imprint: Star Route Books.

Books are available online at shop.starroute.net and at Meachele’s site www.atmothership.com. Books are available in Sparta at Imaging Specialists, Inc., and Sparky’s Coffeehouse.

For more information on Meachele “Mothership” Montgomery, please visit her site: www.atmothership.com. She lives in Crumpler, NC, and is available for book signings, appearances, and presentations, and welcomes correspondence.

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News for Your Organization

PCUMCFeb2016We’re working, this week, on the Spring newsletter for Piney Creek United Methodist Church. This expanded edition features Christmas news and photos of their renovated kitchen area. The kitchen improvements are important to the church. The ladies host fundraising breakfasts in the fellowship hall and needed a more modern facility for their project.

ISI builds the newsletter and adds photography to images and text supplied by the Church. ISI authored, maintains and hosts the Charge website.

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Piney Creek UMC by Imaging Specialists, Inc.
Summer 2015 Edition of the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society Newsletter. PDF file has been optimized for fast download.

 

ISI also produces the newsletter for the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society. The quarterly newsletter contains historical photographs, research articles and current club news for members. ISI designs and produces the entire newsletter for AHGS from concept to printing. Additionally, ISI authored, maintains and hosts AHGS.org.

Newsletters inform, unite and motivate members. They also encourage new membership and donations. Newsletters are effective, in any format- printed, emailed, or on a website. Online, PDFs work very well as they can be formatted for optimum appearance, security and load times. A PDF file will look and reproduce consistently, regardless of the user’s hardware or operating system. Text and graphics display and print without degradation in quality, and PDF viewers are free to the user.

If your group needs an effective newsletter, contact Imaging Specialists, today.

 

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The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area – Heritage Trail Signage in Sparta

HeritageTrailLogoHave you been to Crouse Park lately? If so, you know that Sparta is now the third stop on the Blue Ridge Heritage Trail!

The folks at the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area have built and installed 70 of these beautiful, informative historical markers around western North Carolina. See the interactive map or download the brochure.

The Sparta Revitalization Committee asked Imaging Specialists to supply photos for the sign at the Crouse House and we couldn’t be more proud of the way they turned out.

The marker features images of the Alleghany Jubilee, Robert Doughton and a northern view from Spry Road looking toward Virginia. The background is a scene of the New River taken by Piney Creek native, (and Imaging Specialists, founder) Ron Halsey. The Jubilee and the view from Spry Road are by Jeff Halsey and the Bob Doughton photo is from the U.S. Library of Congress.a

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View from Turkey Knob looking north toward Virgina

We greatly appreciate being allowed to participate in the Blue Ridge Heritage Trails project.

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US Representative Robert L. Doughton, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Alleghany native, on the steps of the Capitol.
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Free Human Support

There’s a national company who is currently offering “Domain + Website + Email For Just $1 /MO” & “Free Human Support.” What did your Grandma always say? “If it sounds too good to be true…”

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Forget that introductory price. (And it is an introductory price.) Companies that offer discounted rates for signing up more than make up the difference in other ways. You aren’t “working the system” by purchasing the service at the discount. You’re being taken advantage of.

You can be sure that these predatory companies will a) raise the rate the next year, b) limit whatever service is provided at the cheaper rate, c) make it difficult to cancel or change service providers at the end of the year, and d) require add-on purchases above the advertised rate, as a condition of the discount. Reviews of their customer service are historically bad.

There are also the Create Your Free Website Today! companies. Here’s a recent testimonial for what we’ll call Company X:

“…when you contact customer support (if that’s what you want to call it), they direct you to FAQ pages that are completely unhelpful. I put up with [Company X] for about 8 months. While the price is great, you get what you definitely get what you pay for – a cheap website. I realized it’s really not worth trying to go super cheap on something as important as my business’s website…”

28176049_sAt ISI, we offer standard hosting packages that include features like text changes and photo swaps. Our clients know what services and pricing they can expect. We work with clients to ensure their sites work the way they want them to.

When you’re ready to deal with some actual, ethical humans, contact ISI.

The humans are in their new office, at 115 Atwood Street, in Office 505.