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Find out if ‘Mr. and Mrs.
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Vol. 39 No. 60
One TROT
visit will
hook you
By SAMUEL SMITH
Today Staff
When Lynette Green
heard about Therapeutic
Riding of Texas (TROT),
she got involved because
she loved horses.
Twelve years later, she
serves as one of the organi-
zation’s three certified rid-
ing instructors because of
the difference she sees in
disabled children’s lives.
“You only have to be
around our clientele for a
few moments before you’re0
hooked,” Green said.
“When you hear the par-
ents' testimony about how
our program has helped
their childrens’ confidence,
balance, self-esteem or
whatever they needed help
with, you realize how im-
portant what we do is.”
TROT is the only
NARHA (North American
Riding for the Handicapped
Association) Premier acc-
redited therapeutic riding
center in Dallas County.
TROT's therapeutic horse-
manship curriculum includ-
es safety, grooming, sad-
dling and ground*handling
as well as riding.
TROT's services are pro-
vided by certified instruc-
tors and qualified volun-
teers from all walks oflife
are trained to assist rider^
On June 2, the newest
group of TROT v#lunteers
began their training. Green
said the organization only
asks for consistency from
volunteers. •
“We ask that people who
start commit to working
throughout an entire eight-
week session,” Green said.
“We have found over the
years th^t the people we
help do a whole lot better if
they are comfortable with
the people working with
them than if they are con-
stantly living to get to
know sotft ^ e new.”
* TROT »erafes from
April to Oc >ber and nor-
mally serves about 45 dis-
abled people every year,
according to the organiza-
tion.
Because of the kind of
work that they do and the
needs of those who they are
helping, a TROT session is
labor-intensive.
“We generally need three
people for every rider,”
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Thursday, June 9. 2005
‘Home’ team outdoes Cowboys
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Combined might of .police, fire departments surpasses ex-NFL players
Today pholos by CHRIS HUDSON
A group of former NFL players, most of whom played
for Tom Landry with the Dallas Cowboys, took on mem-
bers of the Cedar Hill police and fire departments in a
charity softball game June 4 at the Duncanville High
School softball stadium. Top photo, Cedar Hill Rotarian
and former Dallas Cowboys player Jimmie Turner (5)
challenges a Cedar Hill firefighter during a water-filled
bucket race after the third inning; left, Cedar Hill fire-
fighter Norman Prewitt (right) bravely challenges for-
mer Cowboys offensive lineman Phil Pozderac; above,
Turner tries fend off a charging Prewitt and score a run
for his team. The police and firefighters emerged with
an 18-14, come-from-behind victory.
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Alan Sims insists he was
just adding a note of levity to
the proceedings when he jok-
ingly asked for divine help for
the Cedar Hill police and fire
departments in their charity
softball game against former
members of the NFL.
Turns out somebody up
there must have been listening
to the city manager during his
pregame invocation, because
the hometown, herpes fought
back from a 13-7 deficit to
trump the former football play-
ers 18-14 with a seventh-inning
comeback in the first S;ife At
Home C harity Softball Game
presented by the'Rotary Club
of Cedar Hill.
Rpns gathered at Duncan-
ville High School's softball sta-
dium to watch the game and
get some autographs, and they
came away plenty entertained
The football players, almost
all of whom played for the
Dallas Cowboys under Tom
Landry, included Cedar Hill
Rotarian Jimmie Turner. Bills
Joe Dupree, Doug Donley,
Michael Downs. Jesse Penn,
former Pittsburgh Steeler and
Waxahachie Mayor Chuck
Beatty. Angelo King. Preston
Pearson, Doug Dennison and
Phil Pozderac.
Some, particularly Donley
and Downs, still had good
speed around the basepaths.
but the police and fire person-
nel, dubbed “Guns and Hoses '
were no slouches, either
“I’m good for the short run,
not the long run," said fire-
fighter Norman Prewitt, who
was one of the most entertain-
ing players on the field for both
teams. “I’m not sure how you
can call me fast when they
threw me out. That’s not fast
enough ”
Prewitt and Cedar Hill Po-
lice Lt. Steve Lafferty assured
fans that, though a lot of first
responders and law enforce-
ment personnel were in
Duncanville, the streets of
Cedar Hill still had plenty of
protection.
The evening was light-
hearted from the beginning,
but real life did interrupt in
dramatic fashion halfway
through the game when
Pearson, “one of the greatest
players ever to wear a Dallas
Cowboys uniform.” announcer
Jody Dean said, fell short of
home plate trying to score and
lay motionless for several min-
See HOME, Page 8
Chiropractor brings high-tech feel to her job
I
Today photo by LOYD BRUMFIELD
Dr. Lisa Ansell of Cadar Hill uses the Pro-Adjuster on
patient Dalila Nasser! of Duncanville. .
By LOYD BRUMFIELD
News Editor
Dr. Lesa G. Ansell, a chiropractor based
in Cedar Hill, hopes that patients eventual-
ly come to view her job as more than just a
“bone doctor,” but as a preventative spe-
cialist, much like people view doctors and
dentists.
“Everyone knows they’re supposed to
go to the doctor and dentist once or twice a
year, but they don’t look at us that way,”
said Ansell, who moved her practice from
Dallas three months ago. “Dentists took the
lead back in the 1960s when people’s teeth
were falling out all over the place. They
educated people to think about going to tly*
dentist for regular checkups.
“That’s what this profession needs to do.
Yes, it’s good to see the dentist, but if your
teeth fall out you can always replace them
(with implants, etc.). You can’t replace your
spine.”
To ease patient anxiety about seeing chi-
ropractors, Ansell has brought in a new,
sophisticated piece of equipment called the
Pro-Adjuster.
Developed by an acquaintance of hers in
Pittsburgh, the Pro-Adjuster is part com-
puter and part spinal adjustment machine.
The computer looks like any PC, but it’s
attached to a device that looks like a mas-
sage chair. A wand that uses several differ-
ent kinds of detachable instruments is
attached to the computer, almost like a
mouse.
Ansell uses the wand on different scc-_
tions of a patient’s spine. The computer
supplies a readout of how much the spine is
in or out of position and then prescribes the
proper adjustment, which is also done with
the wand rather than human hands.
“Everyone is walking out of place,”
Ansell said. “They just don’t know it."
Ansell is using one of 2,000 Pro-
Adjusters in existence 1,500 are in use
in the United States.
Her friendship with the developer led to
her acquiring one, and she's had it since the
move to Cedar Hill three months ago.
But the device isn’t just for spinal
adjustments, she said. Each vertebra con-
tains nerves that regulate different func-
machine, in making the proper adjust-
ments, can also treat other ailments people
might not connect with spinal work, such
as anxiety, depression, asthma and other
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