All in Health

Local expert advice: Keeping young athletes safe

Soon, kids will be back in school, and even before that, student-athletes will be back on the field and in the gym, training with their teammates. Dr. Colton Wood, a sports medicine provider at Novant Health Orthopedics & Sports Medicine – Lexington, discussed ways to keep young athletes safe and healthy throughout the season.

Farmers Market Week: Local Farmers Markets thank those behind the scenes

Farmers Markets are a great way to connect with your local producers, crafters, and artisans and offer a fun atmosphere for friends and family to shop and enjoy all that local has to offer! Though it may seem like it all comes together that one day each week, it takes a tribe to make sure your local markets are successful and enjoyable for all vendors and YOU!

Meet Ava Katherine Socarras, first Miss Lexington’s Outstanding Teen

It was late 2021 when Socarras was named Miss Lexington’s Outstanding Teen 2022. Her passion and social impact initiative, another term for a platform in the Miss America system, is Share a Spare, which emphasizes kidney disease. As an ambassador of the National Kidney Foundation of North Carolina, Socarras has attended meetings with nephrologists, kidney disease patients, recipients of kidney implants and kidney donors; it’s all a way to learn more about kidney disease and how to spread awareness about it.