2009-09-16 / News

A mission accomplished:

Business opens to help others
By DON TREUL editor@bullardnews.com

(Banner Staff Photos by Don Treul) Priroity Image Owner Jackie Kirgan, right, and Paige Ramsey.  (Banner Staff Photos by Don Treul) Priroity Image Owner Jackie Kirgan, right, and Paige Ramsey. Good deeds come in all shapes and sizes.

For Jackie Kirgan, she wanted to help elderly women stay active.

“It was my ministry,” she said. “It still is.”

To accomplish that goal, Kirgan opened Shape Up For Ladies in August 2004 in what was then known as the Windmill Plaza near Bullard.

“It was a ladies only workout center and we had 100 sign up the first day,” she said.

Within a year, Kirgan knew she had to expand her center and the services she offered. She bought a building south of Bullard on Highway 69, and, along with her husband, began to renovate the structure. A month later, her husband, who was a minister, passed away.

With the assistance of Paige Ramsey, Kirgan overcame the death of her beloved husband and continued renovations. By August 2005, she was ready to open Priority Image Complex, which included the workout area spa and hair dressing services.

Now, four years later, hundreds of clients partake of many services offered at Priority Image Complex. Kirgan said more than 700 clients use the tanning booths. Each booth is in a separate room and Priority Image employees set the time for tanning to control how much light each client receives.

“I’m very picky about how long they tan,” Kirgan said.

Each client interested in tanning has to fill out a form that covers health questions, including skin condition, before they are allowed to use the tanning rooms.

Another service added was LED light therapy, or photo rejuvenation. LED light therapy uses photobio stimulation to prompt the skin’s fibroblasts producing collagen and elastin proteins deep within the dermis. The process is a painless way to treat and even remove wrinkles and background pigmentation.

Kirgan said more than 500 clients use the fitness center, which is equipped with weights and other fitness equipment. Priority Image hosts a weekly Weight Watcher’s meeting as well. Clients use the fitness center at all business hours of the day, including many of the elderly ladies who started out with the center years ago.

The complex also offers hair stylists, nail technicians and make-up artists and services such as spa facials, messages, pedicures and manicures.

“We work on making them feel happy here,” Kirgan said of her clients.

The complex also offers a line of beauty and health products, and is an outlet for laundry and dry cleaners (which is picked up and delivered daily).

“We try to cater to what people need.” Kirgan said.

If that was not enough, the complex is even an official UPS package outlet. Packages are picked up daily for delivery around the world.

So, whether it is to get a new haircut, exercise or to deliver a package, Priority Image Complex can handle it all.

“We don’t have a whole lot of money, but we try to help people,” Kirgan said.

It is a good deed.

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