Towne Lake Business Association
Member Spotlight

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Towne Lake Business Association

Happy New Year!! I hope the Holiday Season has brought much joy and happiness and an opportunity to spend quality time with your family. For those of you who traveled, welcome home. I do have to say, moving down here from Michigan, that it sure is nice to just "visit" snow rather than to have to constantly drive in it or shovel it! I almost forgot what a "pothole" was, until I drove my car into one while in Michigan over the holidays — must have been over a foot deep!! The quality of the roads here in the south are truly appreciated after that.

January brings us resolutions to try to keep. Whatever you resolve this year, I suggest two things. One is to go public with your resolution. You'll be more committed after you tell others about your goal. Second is to make your goal attainable. You will be more focused when you know the mission is achievable. The bottom line is resolutions are ways to analyze yourself and commit to trying to be a better person. I wish you luck and remember — anything worth having is worth working for!

Last month we talked about the available retail space in Towne Lake and asked what you thought we have too much of or what you would like to see in the Towne Lake area. I thank everyone who sent messages to me. Your ideas were great and showed your love and concern for our community. First, what we have too much of — nine banks, eight pizza places, and seven dry cleaners led our list of overkill. Many interesting suggestions of what we needed were made. They included a bookstore with a cafe like a Borders, Kinko's, Einstein's Bagels, a neighborhood hardware store, a shoe store, a Thai restaurant, a Souper Salad, a Boston Market, a family style restaurant like a Ryan's and even a wrap sandwich store. We will pass these ideas onto area leasing agents, developers and landlords, as well as the new Publix center coming soon. I will tell you though, if all of these were to come about, I'd never leave Towne Lake — we would have it all!!

As always, we thank you for supporting our local businesses, and thus, our Towne Lake area community, and for "Keeping Towne Lake Dollars in Cherokee." Have a happy, safe, and prosperous new year!

Wayne Kosbe, President

Welcome New Members:
Chad Adams Wood & Fullerton Goodyear
David Bufton ABC Stoneways, Inc.

Join us for our next
Lunch 'N' Workshop
Tuesday, January 21, at 12:30 p.m.
Featherstone's at Towne Lake Hills.
Please call (770) 517-8210, ext. 550 to RSVP today.

  Visit us at www.tlba.org.

Left to right: Lonnie Peplau, Gina Carr, Wayne Kosbe and Gina Bennett gather around some of the toys donated to the Cherokee County Sheriff's Reserve Unit's "Christmas Joy Program" by attendees of the TLBA's annual Holiday Gala.

As the new year begins, the TLBA presents a directory of our current members. We hope that you will think of them first for their services.

Jim Cady - 360 Solutions, LLC
Kay Lee, LPE - A New You Skin and Body Clinic
David Bufton - ABC Stoneways, Inc.
Kris McKeeth - Allatoona Publishing, Inc.
David C. Cook - Arrowhead Insurance Services, Inc.
Tommy Clay - Atlanta Commercial Real Estate
Beverly Hayes - Atlanta Journal - Constitution
Chad Burrell - Atlantic States Bank
Walter Voight & Mike Mullins - Beef 'O' Brady's
Gina Bennett - Bennett Consulting
Tano Porbandarwala - Best Price International, Inc.
Larry Schadler, D.C. - BridgeMill Family Chiropractic
Gary Moore - buildAccess, Inc.
Duran Dunn - Capital Inventory, Inc.
Mike McNew - Carpet Cleaning Specialists
Gina Carr, MBA - CENTURY 21 Advantage
Charles T. Robertson - Cherokee Co. Magistrate Court
Mike Byrd - Cherokee County Commission Chair
Alan Beckerman, D.C. - Community Chiropractic
Marie Lovallo - Crescent Bank and Trust Company
Derek V. Good - DCG Insurance and Financial Services
Meg Murray - Decorating Den Interiors
Tre' and Victoria Glassman - Eagle 1 Communications
Randall Hill - Edward Jones Investments
Rob van Leer - Featherstone's at Towne Lake Hills
Emily Schadler, D.C. - General Chiropractic
Bobby Hardin - Hardin & Drew Roofing, Inc.
Eric Richards, D.C. - Healthsprout Spine & Wellness
Ed Richman - HOPS Directories
Ken & Debbie Emery - Hurricane Bay Car Wash
Joe Segraves - Joseph W. Segraves - Attorney at Law
Jerry L. Moore - L & M Benefit Plans
Marc Replogle - Law Office of J. Marc Replogle
Michael Dickey - Longhorn Steakhouse
Dawn D. Marr - Marr Brown, Inc.
David Lyons - Merry Maids
Cis Smerek - Millennium Systems Integration, Inc.
Chip Ahrens - Mr. Handyman
Jeff Hamm - Network Telephone
Vickie & Don Holyfield - Peachtree Planning Corporation
Lonnie Peplau - Publix Supermarkets
Chip Rogers - Rogers Broadcasting, Inc.
Larry Singleton - Singleton & Company
Mike Grier - Southeastern Computer Associates, LLC
Ric Zampatti - The Barter Company
Eric Nestark & Jan Cullen - The Hearth at Eagle Watch
April Kosbe - The Salon at Towne Lake
Don Kyle, CPA - The TowneLaker & Sixes Living
Janel Ideker - The Wild Honeysuckle
Tom Goddard - Thomas A. Goddard, LCSN
Wayne Kosbe - Towne Lake Fitness Health Club
David M. Kiesel - Towne Lake Insurance Services
Bob Barr - U.S. House of Representatives
Scott & Wilhelmina Lemmon - Wild Birds Unlimited
Chad Adams - Wood & Fullerton Goodyear
Victoria Benson - www.VictoriaBenson.com