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  • ACE creates jobs…even for our four-legged friends!

    Until recently, bedbugs were largely an unpleasant relic of a bygone era, but increased global travel and pesticide resistance have reintroduced to them public areas and, increasingly, private homes. Fortunately, Sade is on the job – and on point. This lovable and highly trained beagle mix is a detection dog for the pests, which her owner…

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  • ACE Board Member, Lara Hodgson, is POW! Award Honoree

    ACE Board Member, Lara Hodgson, is selected by 2013 POW! Awards: Honoring Purposeful Women. Lara, President and CEO of Nowaccount, has succeeded in a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. ACE is grateful for her vision and expertise. As a 2013 Womenetics Atlanta POW! Awards recipient, she is being honored for her extensive and varied professional work…

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  • ACE Board Member, Lara Hodgson, is POW! Award Honoree

    ACE Board Member, Lara Hodgson, is selected by 2013 POW! Awards: Honoring Purposeful Women. Lara, President and CEO of Nowaccount, has succeeded in a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. ACE is grateful for her vision and expertise. As a 2013 Womenetics Atlanta POW! Awards recipient, she is being honored for her extensive and varied professional work…

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  • Iron Accents

    Valerie Kirves started Iron Accents in 1999 as a part-time online business specializing in iron furniture and accessories. It grew over the next couple years into a full-time operation that offers a wide variety of   unique metal pieces supplied by more than 70 individual artists, blacksmiths, manufacturers, and importers. To maintain high levels of quality,…

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  • The motto of Foothills Veterinary Associates is “Where Pets are Treated as Family”

    The Dawsonville clinic brings a wide variety of services, technology, and expertise to north Georgia animals, including preventive medicine (vaccinations, spay/neuter); ultrasonography to detect medical issues;  in-house laboratory services; chemotherapy; and orthopedic treatments. The clinic also offers laser surgery using carbon dioxide-based technology that significantly reduces post-operative pain and inflammation, as well as video endoscopy…

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  • Zion Consulting Expands with Help from SSBCI

    Samuel Prince of Zion Consulting has worked in the stone business for 25 years. A geologist by education as well as a certified stone and marble inspector, Prince has imported granite blocks for resale for more than eight years and brokers blocks to many granite businesses in Elberton, one of north Georgia’s commercial hubs, which…

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  • Falcons Youth Foundation Awards $421,000 In Grants To Improve Access To Healthy Food

    The Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation (AFYF) announced today it has awarded $421,000 to three nonprofit organizations using innovative approaches to increase access to affordable, healthy food for Georgia families. “The Good Samaritan Health Center and HEALing Community Center are using creative medical practices to connect more families to Georgia-grown fruits and vegetables,” said John Bare,…

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  • ACE Women Business Owners Inspire Other Women at Professional Networking Event

    ACE’s clients set examples that demonstrate just how much success in business depends on building relationships and social networks for mutual support. ACE founder and CEO Grace Fricks spoke at a luncheon of the Professional Women’s Information Network (ProWIN), where she shared inspiring success stories about women who have persevered through challenges and adversity to…

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