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SPOTLIGHT

Style In Motion

Staying active and engaged is important
for health and wellbeing, but sometimes
mobility issues can confine a person to the
house, which can wind up more resembling
a hospital than a comfortable home due to
industrial-looking medical equipment.
Jim Howle, owner of medical products
retailer Motion in Lakeway, has more than
a quarter-century of experience in the
sector his store serves. He knows the value
of functional, stylish goods.
“We believe that a bedroom or living
room doesn’t have to look like a hospital
room,” says Howle.
Motion sells adjustable beds, lift chairs
and recliners, power chairs and scooters,

Pet Perks

among other items. By opening a showroom
Fresh Noms for Fido & Fluffy
in Lakeway, Howle allows customers to view
Lakeway’s new Pet Wants can help satisfy four-legged family members’ desires products from a range of manufacturers to
for fresh, healthful food. compare features and functions and style,
Opened in September, the store sells a variety of small-batch kibble for as well as to test equipment before buying.
dogs and cats that’s made fresh every month without byproducts and fillers. For example, the store stocks some 20 KOMBOGIANNIS PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY PET WANTS AUSTIN WEST; MOTION PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF MOTION
The store offers subscription plans for its products, which include a “spaw” different lift chairs.
product line for dogs to soothe irritated skin, heal cracked paws, calm anxiety “Outfitting a home for motion health
and repel biting insects. It offers free delivery to many parts of West Austin. and helping my customers improve their
Alex and Shawn Kombogiannis own the store. Shawn is a native Austinite
who, after spending eight years with Alex in the Big Apple, convinced him to mobile life requires detailed insight and
leave his long-time home in 2014 for the beauty of Lakeway. A year later they understanding,” Howle explains, “and that’s
adopted Winston, a desperately ill black lab whom they nursed back to health what I’m looking forward to giving the
and who is now the store’s mascot. Austin community.”
The Kombogiannis family is committed to giving back to the community.
The store hosts adoption events, and its Buy, Match, Give program donates Motion is located at 801 RR 620 South and at
food each month to an animal rescue.
motionhealthproducts.com.
Pet Wants is located at 1310 RR 620 South and at petwantsaustinwest.com.

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