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The Anniston Star l Monday, August 3, 2009

MONDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY

Off to work ... with a store owner

Joey George’s store fills hole in Webster’s Chapel By Bill Edwards bedwards@annistonstar.com

Joey George goes off to work every day because he saw a hole that needed filling in the Webster’s Chapel community in northern Calhoun County. It was a hole at the corner Hollingsworth and Mt. Gilead roads, caused when a community fixture known as Hollingsworth’s Store was torn down this past spring. Closed back during the winter after decades of business, Hollingsworth’s sold staples, a little hardware and general merchandise. It was familiar turf, and its existence prevented residents from having to drive several miles to a supermarket. “I waited around thinking somebody else would build something,” said George. Finally, he decided, “if nobody’s going to build it, I guess I will.” So George, 50, and his family went to work. After all, he had a stake in the community, having been a resident since 1968 and later graduating from Alexandria High School. “This community needed it. It needed a store,” he said. His older son, Brandon, and Brandon’s wife, Amy, put money into the venture, and younger son Chris and Chris’ fiancee, Heather, contributed labor, as did friends Gene and Elaine Smith and father Verbon George. Joey and his wife, Beth — “the boss,” if you want to know the truth, he says — already owned land about five blocks from where the old store stood, so that’s where theirs went up, along nearby Rocky Hollow Road. Enclosing about 750 square feet, “it’s as country as you Please see work ❙ Page 3

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Joey George stocks the shelves at The Little Store, his new business in Pleasant Valley.

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