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Published: 06 May 2026

We are about to move into the second week of Mental Health Awareness Month. This month, the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) is placing its focus on choices we can make to support better mental health. If silence is not the answer, what would you put in its place?

Here are a few alternatives:

Advocacy—Speak out for the needs and rights of individuals with mental illness; e.g., sign up for a NAMIWalks event in Georgia.

Education – Learn more about mental health, and share your knowledge with others.

Support – Offer your support to friends and loved ones, whether by listening or sharing your own mental health story. Or support mental health in the larger community through donations or volunteerism.

What can you add to this list?

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Published: 01 May 2026

Today is the first day of May and the first day of Mental Health Awareness Month, a worldwide commemoration of the power of community to reduce stigma and provide support for those with mental illness and to promote awareness of how we can develop better mental health skills.

Throughout the month, Perry Wellness Center will be providing public awareness through our blog and Facebook page, utilizing educational resources provided by such mental health organizations as NAMI – the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which provides today’s poster.

Check back for more!

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Published: 28 April 2026

 
The 2026 Spring and Summer inventory for Rudy's Happy Patch Market should soon be full on the Perry Wellness Center campus. A variety of plants was recently delivered, including a large shipment of geraniums and other early season blooming plants. 

Visitors will soon see new plants spread throughout the campus and other display sites. In the meantime, hundreds are being checked in by the staff manager and assistants.

PWC founder and CEO Stuart Perry invites current and new customers to stop by and browse our latest arrivals.

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Published: 23 April 2026

A donated pool table has brought enjoyment to several peers at Perry Wellness Center. There is a possibility that more formal pool activities will be set up, including instruction and even tournaments.

Staffer Mulkey McMichael would like to help out with such an option, and has a better knowledge of pool rules than many.Mulkey suggests that five standard games in which peers could receive instruction include: 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Cutthroat, One Pocket, and Straight pool.  Stayed tuned!

In the photo, peers Laurie Slaton and James Foster take a break for a few minutes of straight pool.

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Published: 17 April 2026

By now, our readers know how important growing plants are to Perry Wellness Center founder and CEO Stuart Perry. He is also quite the salesman, which is one reason he places so many blooming plants around the campus – and particularly around Rudy’s Happy Patch Market.

Stuart explains, "I want our customers to arrive being their visit with a smile. I hope bright, colorful flowers will be a reminder to customers to come and shop. We have the east and west entrances blooming with color right now.” The power of suggestion at work: planting ideas along with flowers. (See what we did there?)

Pictured below is one of Stuart’s favorite smile-bringers: a bright bed of yellow snapdragon plants at the entrance to the west parking lot.