Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 46, Ed. 1 Monday, March 20, 1995 Page: 3 of 8
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a whisper when I came in,"
Kemp said. Now she can shout if
she wants to.
She will go solo, at her home
| nestled on five acres of land,
I during the day but her daughter
i will be with her at night.
The 72 year old said the
best part of the therapy is that "I
can stand and tell people how
wonderful it is."
A 60-year-old Crowley man
joined the therapy regime when
his kidney problem and difficul-
ties with dialysis left him weak.
James Yargar moved to IHS
in February of 1994 but just
joined the therapy program
three weeks ago. He had lost
over 115 pounds, had swelling
in his arm, and couldn't feed
himself. Heisnowwalkingsome
therapeutic stairs with ease, but
that wasn't the case in the be-
ginning.
”1 had to learn how to walk
all over again. It was real bad (to
get on the parallel bars) because
my legs were so weak that I
couldn't stand up. I don't have
any feeling from the knees
down," Yargar said.
Now that he has lost weight,
he wants to tone his body and
continue to strengthen himself
so he can go home.
Winnell Shipley of Cleburne
said it was "pretty scary" to get
up on the bars and learn to walk
again. She suffered both a right
side and left side stroke within a
month. She wears a splint on
her left arm to keep her hand
from contracting. She said she
can't move either arm, but she
can wiggle the fingers on her
right hand. She's workingyon
her speech, feeding herself, and
swallowing.
Nell Barton, 81, of Alvar-
ado, said, "they like what it's
doing to me," when asked how
her children feel about her being
in the IHS therapy. The stroke
victim "needed to get back to
where i could live alone." She is
concentrating on her speech,
strengthening her arms, and
writing. She's looking forward
to mastering the writing, even if
she has to write checks for bills.
Not all of the center patients
who are in therapy will go home,
but Fisher said the therapy is
used to help both the patient
and center staff.
"We try to make them as
comfortable andhighly function-
ing as possible. We work on
strengthening them so when we
lift them or have to move them,
they can bear some of their
weight," Fisher said.
-He focused on tickets for shirt
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said. "I do stuff all the time that
has so many pieces that have to
be incorporated into one thing."
For the T-shirt, Glazener
combined the basic Good Life
Days, and Festival in the Park
elements: music; shopping; fes-
tive atmosphere; (bod; and fun.
"The ticket was just part of
the whole idea of a (estival,” he
said. 'You use tickets to get in,
tickets for rides, tickets for
raffles. Tickets are integral to a
(estival." s , ;■
However, Chris Akey, spe-
cial events director for the Bur-
leson Area Chamber of Com-
merce, Baid everything inside the
(estival will be on a cash basis—
no tickets.
Advanced tickets may be pur-
chased for $1 after April 1 at the
chamber office, from Ambassa-
dors, as well as at The Burleson
Publishing Company, area banks
and some businesses.
At the gate in Chisenhall
Park, the cost is $2 per person.
Festival in the Park is the
culmination event of the week-
long Burleson Good Life Days,
April 15 through 22. The kickoff
evSntls a city-wide sidewalk dale
Saturday, April 15. Sonic hosts a
classic car cruise and car show
that night.
The chamber sponsors a golf
tournament at Mountain Valley
Country Club Monday; the cham-
ber ambassadors, a pancake
breakfast at Golden Corral Tues-
day.
Friday finds Vegas Night at
F&M Bank, with their cospon-
sor, Travel Depot. The next day
is the one virtually everyone looks
forward to.
'We have a true, quality, fam-
ily event, and that's what makes
our festival special," Akey said.
"There are no tickets or coupons
for rides, food, games or any-
thing else.”
Entertainment on the big
stage will include Tori Lee, a
local favorite, who has sung her
Country-Western songs profes-
sionally across the Metroplex.
Another Festival singer,
Sonny Burgess, has played at
clubs on Fort Worth's north side,
and has opened for Pam Tillis
and Leroy Parnell at the
Worthington’s New Year’s Eve
gala.
The headliner act is a famil-
iarone. Perfect Stranger returns
for a repeat performance at Fes-
tival in the Park.
Busy as beavers since last
year, the four-man Country-
Western band has released two
singles, Ridin’ the Rodeo, writ-
ten by Vince Gill, and Right to
Remain Silent. They made a
video with Ridin ’ the Rodeo that
ran for a time on Country Music
Television, and also have an al-
bum called It’s up to Me.on the
Pacific label.* ^ ; /
' Perfect Stranger will play 7
p.m. until around 9 p.m.
Also featured Saturday is a
John Wayne look-and-sound-
alike who reads poetry. Dr. Gene
Howard, of Bryan-College Sta-
tion, also does fancy tricks with
rifle and pistol in true John
Wayne style. Chamber executive
director Ron Taylor said the guy
is so much like the late actor, it’s
spooky.
Pizza Inn’s Marion Howard
said he'll again sponsor the Pizza
Inn Spaghetti Eating Contest.
The children’s stage, in the
McNairn Road side of the park,
will feature continuous live en-
tertainment. Expanded roving
entertainers will include magi-
cians, clowns, and stilt walkers.
Naturally, Glazener couldn’t
fit all that onto the T-shirt, but
the ticket is the important part.
Drake said that, going into
the contest judging, the ticket
was not the end-all consideration.
Usingthe T-shirt as both promo-
tion and admission was an after-
thought.
’We’ve had promotional T-
shirts before, but we’ve never
used them this way," Drake said.
"It could set a precedent. If this
doesn't work out, we’ll do some-
thing else next year."
The two runner-ups, Monty
and Mark Collins, were recog-
nized for their efforts, and Drake
said the decision between theirs
and Glazener’s was an extremely
difficult one.
"There were around 30 very
good submissions,” Drake said.
We felt Alan’s design really rep-
resented what the festival is
about."
The winner'll a 1985 gradu-
ate of TCU’s fine arts depart-
ment, with a degree in commer-
cial design. He was hired right
out of college by Tom McBride
Design, and still works for that
firm.
We do the Pizza Inn corpo-
rate account, AT&T, and almost
every logo for shops in eveiy air-
port in the world," Glazener said.
"I’ve done Loews Anatole Hotel,
all their ads, health club bro-
chures, and corporate bro-
chures."
-Air does not recognize boundaries
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controversial measure yet to ad-
dress pollution—centralized
emission test sites—could strike
here.
The air does not recognize
city boundaries, and, sometimes,
neither do residents. Eastland
told of a woman who called him
when he was city manager of
Carrollton, believing because she
lived across the street from a
Carrollton school, she lived there.
He had to explain that she
actually lived in Dallas, but prom-
ised that if she had trouble get-
ting her complaint addressed, he
would see what he could do for
her.
"Maybe where they live is
not as important to citizens as
the services they receive,"
Eastland suggested. "No matter
what one area does for its resi-
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businesses looking for locations
place considerable weight. For
that reason, one of NCTCOG’s
primary goals is to standardize
building codes among communi-
ties to help with economic devel-
opment.
Recognizing accomplish-
ments of some businesses that
have made Burleson their home,
Chris Akey, director of special
events for the chamber, called
three people to the podium fol-
lowing Eastland’s program.
January’s Business Dynamic
Award winner was Schlotzky’s,
with owner Randy Buhler ac-
cepting the accolade. Akey noted
that the Burleson restaurant was
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Schlotzsky’s in the Fort Worth-
Dallas area.
For February, the winner
was Bransom Homes. Akey pre-
sented the award to Rocky W.
Bransom, who she said has been
building 30 to 40 homes a year,
involving more than 50 compa-
nies and contractors.
The March Business Dy-
namic Award went to Mountain
Valley Country Club. It was con-
venient, since the club hosted
Thursday’s luncheon.
Akey called Bill Hill, general
manager, to receive the plaque,
lauding the club for hosting tour-
naments benefiting charitable
and nonprofit organizations. In
addition, Mountain Valley makes
its links available to youths in
golf programs at Burleson and
Joshua High Schools.
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Rehabilitate
the body
Going to a nursing home
isn't always permanent, es-
pecially if you’re a patient in
the rehabilitation program at
IHS of Burleson.
Jean Ann Fisher, rehab
services director, came on
board in December 1994. IHS
has 13 therapists on staff
serving as occupational,
physical, speech, and respi-
ratory rehabilitators.
"They come here to live
for three or four weeks just
for rehabilitation,” Fisher
said.
There are 110 patients in
the center with almost one
third, 35, between 60 and 99
years,old, in therapy. The ail-
ments include Alzheimers,
stroke, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, general
neurological diseases, hyper-
tension, broken bones, and
wound care.
The therapy can last as
much as three months, de-
pending on the severity of the
disease and the goals of the
patient and patient's family.
Once a month the rehabilita-
tion staff, doctors, nurses, a
social worker, and the direc-
tor meet to discuss the prog-
ress of all the patients.
Patients don't go cold
turkey once they "graduate"
from IHS therapy. There is
also a restorative therapy
program in which a therapist
continues to exercise the
patient, sometimes in the
nursing home room, for three
to six months.
"The therapist does his
evaluation, and if needed we
can either pick them back up
in therapy or write another
restorative therapy program,"
Fisher said.
Medicare and Medicaid
pay for the therapy as well as
does some private insurance.
The patients are referred by
the doctors.
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