Mike & Virginia Powell Janess

Family:
  Our daughter, Jillian (age 17), graduated from CCHS June 2002. It's hard to believe how fast the time flies by but I guess that's what we get for letting her skip 1st grade. She received the Nevada millennium scholarship & is planning on attending school in Reno this Fall. We just returned from a family trip to Hawaii to celebrate Jill's graduation & our 19th wedding anniversary.
Career:
  We have been very busy growing our business, Janess Business Services, for the past 10 years. Our small town roots have served us well in our business. Mike's dad, our daughter and a family friend work with us & our customers seem to enjoy the family environment. We enjoy working together, too, although we try really hard not to take work home with us and we rarely work weekends.
Hobbies:
  It's hard to condense 10 years in a paragraph but here's the basics ... About 5 years ago we purchased one acre in the country, built a house & have been very busy landscaping etc. A few months after moving into the new house Ginny was diagnosed with cancer (a rare form of non-hodgkins lymphoma). Surgery & 6 weeks of radiation followed. We are now 3 1/2 years cancer free! Our advice: get any unusual lumps checked out immediately. It's true - the sooner you catch it the better. We've enjoyed traveling with our daughter, Jill, a lot. Trips in the past few years included Florida, NYC, DC & Canada. We are active in volunteer work with the local congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. We are blessed that our families live nearby and to have lots of good friends who made coping with the cancer (& life in general) much easier.