{"id":9510,"date":"2012-01-01T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2012-01-01T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:41:53","slug":"a-new-beginning-for-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/01\/01\/a-new-beginning-for-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Beginning for Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>Written by Richard Garrett<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-101982\" title=\"L.E.A.P.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/leaplogo-480x142.jpg\" alt=\"L.E.A.P.\" width=\"269\" height=\"79\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; New Beginnings Hair Salon owner, Shalonda Walker, invested her time and skills into three LEAP youth interns to help with a new beginning by providing a free hairstyle makeover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Whitney told me about the struggles that the girls in the program had to overcome, my heart immediately went out to them. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to encourage them to keep making positive strides\u201d said Shalonda Walker.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_102640\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/New-Beginnings1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102640\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102640\" title=\"Shalonda Walker, owner of New Beginnings Hair Salon provided a free hairstyle makeover to three LEAP youth interns.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/New-Beginnings1-480x434.jpg\" alt=\"Shalonda Walker, owner of New Beginnings Hair Salon provided a free hairstyle makeover to three LEAP youth interns.\" width=\"480\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shalonda Walker, owner of New Beginnings Hair Salon provided a free hairstyle makeover to three LEAP youth interns.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The girls were selected by LEAP Case Manager Whitney Magee who had this to say, \u201cI wanted to reward the girls for their accomplishments and progress. I\u2019m a firm believer that if you look good, you feel good. When you feel good you tend to have a better attitude and a more positive outlook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shalonda has made a commitment on behalf of New Beginnings Hair Salon which is located at 913-C Tiny Town Road Suite E103 to give free hairstyles to the selected ladies once a month for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the services the salon provides call 931.378.4395.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Richard Garrett Clarksville, TN &#8211; New Beginnings Hair Salon owner, Shalonda Walker, invested her time and skills into three LEAP youth interns to help with a new beginning by providing a free hairstyle makeover. \u201cWhen Whitney told me about the struggles that the girls in the program had to overcome, my heart immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12192,6757,6759,12193,12194,12195,12196,3774,11844,6794],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2to","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}