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Springtime City Leadership
Team
President:
Dale Tindall
President Elect:
Christy Flees
Vice President:
Frank LaMagna
Secretary:
Jim Ewbank
Treasurer:
Kay Skelton
Immediate Past President:
Kat George
Directors:
Dr. Don Auerbach
Tom Hanley
Cindy Isaac
Daryl Waterman
Naomi Williams
Doug Williams
Roy Workman
Webmaster:
Springtime City Kiwanis
Community Services:
Doug Williams
Human and Spiritual Values:
Open
Membership Growth and Education:
David Browder, Jr
Membership Retention:
Al Fears
Public Relations:
Open
Sponsored Youth:
David Browder
Young Children Priority One:
Dr. Don Auerbach
Youth Services:
Frank LaMagna
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Heavenly Father:, We understand that there are those who are in need of confort and kindness. Open our eyes to their problems and let our ears hear their voices of need. Help us to show our love for you by serving others through Kiwanis. Bless this food to our use and us to Your service. Amen.
Heavenly Father: Teach us that we can discover genuine joy in humble giving and beautiful rewards in caring, generous living. Teach us that Kiwanis provides us with a rare opportunity to help many who are in need so that we many experience this uncompromising joy. And now, bless this food to our use and us to Your service. Amen.
Heavenly Father, inspire us today with the qualities of good leadership. Give us insight to make wise decisions, integrity, to face the truth, courage to make difficult choices and compassion for the needs of others. Let us never forget that our job is to serve, both You and others. And now bless this food to our use and us to Your service. Amen.
Heavenly Father, inspire us today with the qualities of good leadership. Give us insight to make wise decisions, integrity to face the truth, courage to make difficult choices and compassion for the needs of others. And now bless this food to our use and us to Your Service. Amen
The Dash
By Linda Ellis
I read of a reverend who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning…to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date
with tears.
But he said what mattered most of all was the Dash between those years.
For that Dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For it matter not how much we own; the cars…the house…the cash.
What matter is how we live and love and how we spend our Dash.
So think about this long and hard. Are there things you’d like to change ?
For you never know how much time is left. You could be at Dash mid-range.
If we could just slow down enough to consider what’s true and real
and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives like we never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile…
remembering that this special Dash might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy is being read with your life’s actions to rehash,
would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your Dash ?
Benediction:
May the Lord make His face to shine upon you.
May the Lord lift up His countanence upon you;
And give you peace. Amen.
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Triple amputee determined to stay positive
June 18, 2005 started out like most other days for Kevin Trent of Tazewell. He and a buddy had mowed a customer’s yard earlier in the day. They then spent the next several hours enjoying one of their favorite pastimes—fishing.
Little could they have known at the time, but at 10:45 p.m., Kevin would be involved a motorcycle accident that would cost one man his life and Kevin, both arms and his left leg.
Ahead of him was his new reality as a triple amputee. Nothing would ever be the same. After spending 69 days at the University of Tennessee Hospital, Kevin was transferred to the Rehabilitation Center at Lakeway Regional Hospital, where doctors assured him he would spend the next four to six weeks. "I told my family I didn’t know what they were talking about, but I planned to be home in two weeks," he said.
While his family rushed to get the house ready for his return, Kevin worked to speed up his recovery. He went home from the hospital in only three weeks.
As part of the healing process, doctors and therapists encouraged Kevin to come up with a goal for his rehabilitation. He set a goal of being able to go hunting by Christmas. Proving necessity is the mother of invention, Kevin’s family members created a number of devices which, strapped to his right leg and the stumps of his arms, allows him to hold and shoot his crossbow.
True to his dream, last December Kevin went hunting and shot a five-point buck. Amazingly enough, with his modified crossbow, Kevin was outshooting his father and uncle before he was fitted with any of his prosthetic limbs. The first he received was his new leg. Even that was an adventure. Before he could be fitted with the leg, a special foot had to be ordered from California, the only place able to construct the foot to fit Kevin’s six-foot, eight-inch frame and size 18 shoes.
Although he was unable to go far, Kevin said he took his first steps the same day he received the leg. Not happy with needing others to feed him, Kevin also began learning to feed himself as soon as he received his new right arm. :It wasn’t pretty," Kevin said, but he managed his first food the same day he was fitted for the arm—a cookie.
His healing process has not been without setbacks, however. "Things you take for granted, he’s had to start over," said his aunt, Theresa Bolden. "The hardest thing is wanting to do something for him and knowing you shouldn’t," Bolden said. "You want to make everything easy for him, even though you know it’s not helping him."
Although he hopes to one day master getting into his prostheses unaided, for now, he has to rely on his family to help him. "The hardest part is getting used to everything," Kevin said. "Needing people to help you all the time is hard." He misses the independence he had prior to the accident. "That hurt me more than anything," Kevin said.
Prior to the accident, Kevin had completed mechanic training on his job and had purchased a new truck prior to the accident. He and a friend also mowed yards during the summer. He was also helping his father train six bird dogs.
He hopes to get back to much of that, but he still has quite a bit of rehabilitation in front of him. Doctors have assured Kevin once he gets used to his arms, he will be able to do everything he used to do. In the meantime, he is optimistic. "You can’t give up," he said. "You have your good days and bad days, You can’t let your bad days get to you."
During his hospital stay, Kevin said he met many other people with amputations and he felt he learned more from them than from the therapists. "They (the therapists) know how to work my muscles, but they can’t tell me how to work these," Kevin said, holding up his arms.
One patient he met at the hospital in Knoxville gave him advice which has been part of Kevin’s motivation. "He said my prison would only be as big as I let it get," Kevin said. The man had lost both of his arms in an accident 36 years earlier.
He has also been inspired by the stories of amputees he’s seen on the Discovery Health cable channel. "You see people doing things that motivate you to do more," he said. A number of people Kevin doesn’t know have also helped him in his healing. "They held BBQs, a motorcycle ride and other benefits," he said. "People have done more than I thought they would." The benefits have been very helpful. Kevin and his family hopes his insurance and the gifts from strangers will help defray the costs of his prostheses, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars a piece.
Kevin is still making long-range plans. This summer, he hopes to get back to mowing yards again. He also hopes to go to Colorado this fall with his grandfather to go elk hunting. Kevin said he will not let the phrase "I can’t" hold him back.
Anyone wishing to help Kevin can donate to the Kevin Trent Hope Fund c/o Citizen’s Bank. For those wishing to drop him a word of encouragement, he can be reached at P.O. Box 3266, Morristown, Tenn. 37815.
