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Spotlighting those South Cobb ordinary people doing great things in extraordinary ways.
Last week when one of the only places open for business was the Waffle House on Mableton Parkway, Monique “Mo” Rios was there serving customers. She walked the two miles from her home in the snow and ice to make it to her job, not just to work her shift, but the shifts of others who could not leave their homes due to the icy roads. Walking to the restaurant proved a difficult task, explained the 45-year-old mother of five, ages 18 to 25 and grandmother of one. “It was crazy,” she said. “I was slipping and sliding, but I made it. I bust my butt a couple of times, but I made it. Nothing to cry …

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