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Marilyn Childress, president of the Veterans Heritage Site Foundation, was the force behind Sharp s Ridge Veterans Memorial Park. The Navy veteran has now set her sights on fundraising and spreading the word about the future site for a French Broad Veterans Memorial Park.
The land for the memorial park, near East Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, was donated by Blue Water Industries to Legacy Parks Foundation about a year ago.
“It is 10-12 acres next to the French Broad River that forms a buffer between the quarry and the river that they weren’t using,” said Childress.
“Originally we were going to make more of a memorial park on Sharp’s Ridge, but it doesn’t allow for large gatherings.”
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Many of us head out for a day in the mountains with a trail in mind the more challenging, the better. But for people with a disability, whether intellectual or physical, enjoying an adventure in the great outdoors often takes a lot more planning.
Considerations like trail width, grade, terrain, crowds and the assistive equipment needed to navigate these aspects are all factors that a person with a mobility issue must address before even arriving at a trailhead.
Organizations like Outdoors for All are changing the narrative when it comes to outdoor accessibility. Founded in 1979 and based in Seattle, Outdoors for All works to make adaptive and assistive therapeutic recreation more available for adults and children.
“This would be a great opportunity to thank a veteran," said Navy veteran Marilyn Childress asking for donations to build a new park in East Knox County.
Shopper Blog: Comics characters and a rethinking of Easter
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WORDS OF FAITH
John Tirro, Shopper News
I’ve been watching WandaVision, in Connecticut, in the last days of my dad’s decline. It’s comforting to me.
Wanda and Vision are comic book characters from my childhood, so it pleases my inner 12-year-old. They’re also movie characters that I enjoyed with my sons when they were 12, and the whole comic book thing ties back to a box of Classics Comic Books from my dad’s childhood, that he gave me early on, which formed a lot of my love of reading (my go-to self-soothing activity) and probably relates to my love of scripture as well. So that’s a lot.