Ginger Skudstad, owner of The Hairport Styling Salon (424 NW 6th Street, Suite 108), is celebrating a couple of milestones this year. It was forty years ago in 1977 that she moved to Grants Pass from L.A., and it was 24 years ago that she opened her own styling salon.

There is a new medical clinic in Talent which has survived the fires, COVID and now the passing of a dear friend and mentor, James Jealous, D.O. the founder of Biodynamic Osteopathy.

If any of you dog and/or cat owners out there are even remotely similar to my household, your pet is considered part of the family. The old adage, “If Brody ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,” is certainly applicable at my house. And in that regard, Sandra Mazurek at Home Away from Home Pet Spa (100 NE Mill Street), is there for all of your pet-pampering needs.

For Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Darlena Pike of Quality Life Family Practice (1201 NE 7th Street), providing quality primary health care is not just a job.

When it comes to health care, Direct Primary Care just may be the wave of the future. Local physician Tamara Powell, M.D., certainly thinks so, and just last November she opened Access Family Medicine DPC, with an office at 1201 NE 7th Street, Suite C.