With technology rapidly changing every day, so are trends in home improvement. You might not expect to see these technological advances in the shades and shutters business, but then you’d be surprised. For Robert Reneau, owner of Quality Shades & Shutters, adapting to these changes has been easy with the help of his son.

The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center Life Savers will roar into their 20th year with a fund-raising gala held on Sept. 16 at Sam’s Town Hotel and Casino beginning at 7 p.m. A Roaring ’20s theme will take guests on a blast from the past with a speakeasy, vintage car on display and a variety of silent auction items that can’t be found anywhere else.

For eight years, Marshall Graham worked as a licensed residential loan officer at Aulds, Horne and White Investment. Each morning he woke up, got in the car and drove to work. But when the daily grind became tiresome, a desire grew in Marshall to break from the 8-to-5 mold.

“One of the reasons we use pseudonyms is because I worry that if we write about local government and people know who the writer is, they may want to know what their political position is,” La Cray said. “So long as we have control to remain anonymous, I’d like to keep it like that.