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Thank you to the businesses, organizations and individuals who advertise in the Northwest Observer and make it possible to provide this community resource at no charge to our readers. Northwest Pediatrics

Business Owner: Janet Dees, MD

As a child, Janet Dees dreamed of becoming a pediatrician. That dream became a reality when she started working with underserved kids through Guilford Child Health and was eventually prompted to take a chance and open her own practice in 2001 near where she grew up.

Though she started out as the only physician at the practice, her staff has since grown to include five physicians, two nurse practitioners and a physician assistant.

Northwest Pediatrics provides well visits, sick visits, adolescent visits, prenatal sessions, medical ear piercing, and comprehensive medical care for newborns to age 21.

One of the unique offerings of the practice is that families can choose different providers for different visits.

“As a patient, you are never ‘stuck’ with the same doctor unless you want to be,” Dr. Dees said. “Also, our staff is outstanding and we are a cohesive team who enjoys working with one another.”

Northwest Pediatrics’ mission statement is “to be bold in showing care and compassion to each other, our patients, and their families as we provide outstanding pediatric care.”

On a personal note, Dr. Dees grew up on Old Oak Ridge Road in Greensboro and she said she took care of her family’s unusual pets, which included peacocks, swans, emus and exotic birds.

She is a Northwest High School graduate (“Go Vikings!”) and was valedictorian of the Class of 1984. She earned her undergraduate degree from Davidson College, her medical degree from East Carolina University, and completed her pediatric residency at the Medical College of Georgia. She returned to Greensboro after completing her medical training and earned an MBA from Wake Forest University in 2001 before opening Northwest Pediatrics.

Dr. Dees said her 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son keep her busy, and she enjoys going to their activities. She also enjoys being outside and said she listens to “a ton” of audiobooks.

Holliday Tree Services

Rob Holliday, owner

As a young adult, Rob Holliday cut and sold firewood, which he said sparked his love of chainsaws. Later, he knocked on doors and asked for lawn work as part of his job in his father’s lawn mowing business.

Holliday and his brother-in-law, who was a fireman and mowed yards on the side, worked together for a year or so before he branched out on his own “with a pickup truck and a push mower.” From See ad on p. 4

there, he picked up landscaping and lawn maintenance work, learning from “the school of hard knocks,” supplemented by classes at GTCC.

It wasn’t until the late ‘90s that Holliday said he “started getting serious” about tree work and decided to become an ISA certified arborist. It was through word of mouth that he began building a tree service business that has survived for almost 25 years.

Today, Holliday Tree Services specializes in tree removal, including ...continued on p. 31

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