The All-Star Diner in Mount Zion now has a new female lead - former All-Star waitress, Sara Bradshaw.

After working there for six months, she took over the restaurant with her business partner, Derrick Bradshaw, on June 30. Sara Bradshaw said she had been looking for a business opportunity - preferably a bakery - but jumped at the chance to own the All-Star when the former owners, Matthew and Francesca LaMonica, offered it for sale after they opened the Main Hangar restaurant at the Decatur Airport.

"My kids call it the 'Shiny Diner,' " said Bradshaw, referring to the metal building's gleaming exterior. "I think it's got a lot of potential: the building is in a good location, it's right off of the main road, and I live just a couple of blocks away, so I really couldn't have picked anything better."

She hasn't given up on her love of baking from scratch, either. An expanded menu is now heavy with homemade baked goodies that include chocolate-covered strawberry cake, fresh strawberry cream cake, a chocolate Ding-Dong cake, strawberry-banana pie, chocolate-banana pie, apple-peach and so on.

Bradshaw, 29, also is expanding the range of entrees and says she wants to develop a party and outside catering service.

"We have some big visions," she added.

The All-Star Diner is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Call 864-6962.

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A Decatur tumbling and trampoline coach is ready to call it quits after nearly 30 years working with young athletes.

Cheryl Oglesby plans on closing 360 Tumbling & Trampoline at 4248 W. Main St. at the end of August. Her summer classes ended last week, and she doesn't plan on offering any in the fall when they'd normally start back up.

Oglesby said she has a few minor health issues that she takes as a sign it's time to move on.

"If my body wasn't giving me some major red flags, I probably would hang in there a little bit more; at least through the Olympic year because a lot of kids get inspired to do things," she said. "I always said I wouldn't do it after the age of 50. Well, I'm three behind that. It's time to go."

Class sizes have declined in recent years, too, making it difficult to remain in business, Oglesby said.

She plans on selling her equipment to other clubs that might be in need of it.

Oglesby can be reached at 429-9128.

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Getting ready for school: new backpack, new pencils and a new haircut.

That's part of the lesson plan at Hair Cuttery salons, which will donate a free haircut to children from needy families for every haircut the staff does on patrons aged 18 and under.

The Decatur Hair Cuttery, at 149 E. Pershing Road, is one of more than 800 salons nationwide taking part in what the company has dubbed its "Share a Haircut" program. Hair Cuttery corporate spokesman Diane Daly says it works like this: any haircut customer 18 and under who comes in from today through Aug. 15 will have their haircut rung up under a special code at the cash register.

"We pull that information and will be able to tally up the number of haircuts that have been given in every salon in every one of our market areas," Daly explained. "We then match that number with free haircut coupons which are given out to social service agencies we partner with, and they then give the coupons to children who need them."

Daly says a fresh, neat haircut helps children feel confident as they head back to school, and the Share a Haircut program has donated more than 380,000 haircuts since its inception nine years ago.

"Our stylists are donating their time and compensation by giving these haircuts because they want to give back to their communities," Daly added.

On Biz, published Fridays in the Herald & Review, highlights business developments. Contact Tony Reid at treid@ herald-review.com or 421-7977 or Chris Lusvardi at clusvardi@herald-review.com or 421-7972.