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contentsFeatures20 SpeedTree 26 Polluting Lexington? Troubled Waters32 Vets with Pets40 The Brain 10142 Kid’s Day 201643 Soccer Championships

Columns10 Faith Matters 45 A Letter to Cagney

Departments7 From the Publisher9 Events13 Faith in Action 15 Lexington Leaders 17 Kid’s View 46 Spice of Life

A few weeks ago my daughter Jenna had jaw surgery at MUSC in Charleston. She’s doing great, and finally getting her life back to normal. Every parent struggles when they see their child in pain. We empathize and wish we could take the pain away.

For the first week after surgery, Jen-na’s mouth and jaw were so sore that she couldn’t talk, which made communi-cation between us more dif-ficult. But during this chal-lenging time, something really cool happened. I learned to listen and read her eyes.

Yes, through her ex-pressions and eye move-ments, she began to speak through her eyes. Maybe she’s always done this, but until she couldn’t speak I nev-er realized it. I could hear her say that her throat was hurting, just by studying her eyeballs. She would open them wide sometimes, and narrow them at oth-ers. It was like learning a new language. As I sat with her in the hospital bed, we would talk to each other without saying a word.

The second and third day after surgery, I think we both noticed this unique method

of communication. I learned when to fetch her a drink, suction her mouth, or simply give her a hug. Through her eyes she con-veyed fear, pain, strength, courage, love, frustration, laughter, sadness, and hope. This was quite a departure from the past, when the usual non-verbal communication was a classic eyebrow raising, eye rolling, “Really, Dad?” look she gave me.

We haven’t discussed our newfound method of conver-

sation, even now that she’s talking again. But there are times now when, instead of speaking out loud, we just look into each other’s eyes and listen to what each other is saying. I feel that we’ve grown closer through this ex-perience. As a parent, any extra communica-tion tools that God of-fers are truly welcomed and appreciated. Listen up and take a closer look for yourself.

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Saturday, June 11th“Be a Bee” Program10 a.m., Wingard’s Nursery & Garden Center, 1403 N. Lake Dr., Lexington Learn how to create a “bee friendly” backyard from Danny Can-non, of Bee Trail Farms, in Lexington, and see our working hive in our Fresh Produce Market. $10. wingardsnursery.com/work-shops to register.

Saturday-Sunday, June 11th-12thSouthern Guitar Festival and CompetitionTimes Vary, Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main St., ColumbiaThis two-day festival includes concerts, lectures, classes, solos and ensemble competitions for professionals as well as divisions beginning at the elementary level. For schedule and ticket information, visit southernguitarfest.com.

Saturday, June 18thFather’s Day Papapalooza Event11 a.m.–1 p.m., Wingard’s Nursery and Garden Center, 1403 N. Lake Dr., LexingtonEnjoy the sounds of the Blues while you and dad browse the gardens and sample our newest col-lection of BBQ sauces, rubs and marinades.

Saturday, June 18thColumbia’s First Shrimp and Grits Festival6 p.m.–11 p.m., Columbia Marriott Hotel, 1200 Hampton St., ColumbiaMany claim to have the best, but on the 18th area restaurants will compete for the title of “Columbia’s Best Shrimp and Grits.” Tickets can be purchased at columbiashrimpandgrits.com and

include unlimited shrimp and grits samples from competitors, music, dancing, photo booth, door prizes and more!

Saturday, June 25th Lexington County Third Annual Family Day10 a.m.–1 p.m., Lexington County Museum Complex, 231 Fox St., LexingtonChildren will learn about the history of the county and farming through hands-on educational programs, toys and displays. Free hotdogs and chips. For more information, contact the museum at 803-359-8369.

Saturday, July 2ndLake Murray Boat Parade and 4th of July FireworksTimes and Locations Vary

The annual Boat Parade departs from Bomb Is-land at 12 p.m. Fireworks set off from Spen-

ce Island and Dreher Island State Park at approximately 9:15 p.m. and are choreo-graphed to patriotic music that will air si-multaneously on Z93.1 FM, B106.7 FM, and 98.5 FM. For schedule and details, visit lakemurraycountry.com.

Monday, July 4thLexington County Peach Festival9:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Gilbert Community Park, GilbertCome celebrate! The parade begins at 9:30 a.m. with live entertainment and re-enactments, arts, crafts, exhibits,

antique car and tractor show, children’s rides and a variety of foods available through-out the day. Ends with a dazzling fireworks display at 10 p.m. For schedule and details,

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As I sit on my back deck, enjoying a bit of the cool air this morning before the heat overtakes us, I am noticing how vines of ivy have over-taken several huge oak trees along the tree line.

I am also seeing some new vines beginning to creep up the sides of several other trees nearer the house. I am thinking I will need to chop those vines off at the base very soon, or they will take over my trees, too! Yes, I’ll cut those vines off right at the base of the tree. This makes me think of something I would like to share with you.

If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, as I am, then you understand that when we daily live for Christ, practice prayer, read the Scriptures and are part of a local church, we grow. As a result, our faith grows and spreads into all areas of our life and family.

As I sit here thinking about my plan to ‘cut off’ those vines at the ground, I am reminded of how life’s circumstances, tough moments and even personal neglect of the important spiritual disciplines in our lives can ‘cut off’ our lifeline to God. When this happens, we die – spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. Life and vitality begin to fade from our lives.

Here is my remedy for this problem: why don’t you and I reconnect with our source of life – that is, our faith in God, today? We can do that by making the following declaration and then reinstituting those key spiritual disciplines I mentioned above: prayer, Bible, and church!

Are you ready? Repeat after me: “I believe in God. I believe in Jesus. He is my source! I receive all I need from Him today! AMEN!”

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Pastors Russ and Kathy Thompson start-ed RightConnection Church in July 2009 with a heart for ministering to “the least of these” within our community. They teach the Bible verse by verse, with an emphasis on applying God’s Word to daily life. For Sun-day worship, they teach simplified versions of the adult sermons to the children in order to give a point of reference for biblical family discussion at home.

RightConnection meets in a storefront, be-cause they choose to put the church finances into ministry rather than a mortgage. They worship at 11:00 a.m. every Sunday morn-ing, and they utilize their space throughout the week for children’s ministry, teen ministry, and various classes, including homeschool classes (certified for credit) in art, karate, and music, as well as classes for adults such as core yoga, “Life Group” meetings and band practice for their worship team.

One of their major outreach ministries is to the homeless in Columbia, partnering with a non-profit organization called Resur-rections. Every Saturday, they feed Colum-bia’s homeless in the Suggs Kelly Law Cen-

ter parking lot (with permission). They also frequently provide hygiene items, blankets, clothes and more through the aid of local corporate sponsors.

Another outreach program with which they partner is the Tabernacle Children’s Home (TCH) in Greenville, SC. Tabernacle ministers to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of orphaned and abandoned children who are not in the foster care system or who have outgrown foster care and have no place to go. Russ and Kathy want to see a children’s home in their own community, but until then they continue to do everything they can to help TCH.

The pastors are also Chaplains at the De-partment of Juvenile Justice in Lexington. This positions them in a unique way to personally minister to “the least of these.” As chaplains, they learn of opportunities in which they and their church can step out in ministering to young people and their families in both a tan-gible and a spiritual way.

The greatest desire of RightConnection Church is to be the hands and feet of Jesus, ministering to the whole person in real and meaningful ways regardless of their status in life. Whether by pulling together to help a family in the church, offering services free of charge to someone in need, or feeding and clothing the hungry, they want to touch the hearts and lives of others for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For more information, you may go to their website at www.Right-Connection.us, call them at 803-753-8926, or visit them at RightConnection Church, Hope Ferry Center, 5175 Sunset Blvd. Suite G (Rear), Lexington, SC 29072. n

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Most of the time, Ed Cerny can come up with the right words for the situation of the moment, but when the Greater Lexington Chamber and Visitors Center presented him with the Mike Till Award last February, he was speechless.

“They tricked me into attending the Awards Ban-quet,” he muses. “I thought I was there to make a little talk. Then they called me to the podium for the award, and I couldn’t think of a single thing to say other than ‘Thank you.’ It was a big moment in my life.”

Ed Cerny is the fourth recipient of this award, established by the Chamber to honor the memory of an outstanding Lexington citizen, Mike Till, whose life was cut short at the age of 50. The award recog-nizes an individual who best exemplifies the characteristics of Mike Till: “friendliness, perseverance, and dedication to the Lexington community.” Till, nicknamed “Smiley” for his upbeat personality, owned and operated Subway shops in the Lexington area and served important posts in the Chamber and in his church, Mt. Horeb United Methodist. Through this award, his positive attitude survives him in ongoing community service performed by others.

Ed Cerny is a South Carolina transplant who grew up “all over the world,” he says, as an Army brat. A bout with polio at the age of four put him in an iron lung. At the time, no one would have predicted the great future that awaited him. As an Army officer, he served in Vietnam and Taiwan, landing at Fort Jackson in 1962. He earned a BA from the University of Kentucky, an MBA from Fordham University, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Car-olina. His business career began in sales and marketing at Allied Chemical and Nautilus Companies, then took an academic turn when he became a professor of business at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC.

Along the way, this energetic entrepreneur also became a ball coach for both high school and college teams. Since 1995, Dr. Cerny has led Coach’s Corner, a corporate communications company where, he says, he “creates visioning, leader-ship and team building programs for both large and small companies… [and] also programs on conflict resolution, customer service, goal setting, and time manage-ment, as well as one-on-one mentoring.”

Cerny has published his goal-setting philosophy in four books: An Adventure Through the Seven Levels of Change, Old Coaches Never Die, Notes from the Coach, and Learn to Market Yourself. He embraces the slogan, “Building Leaders, Achieving Goals” and describes himself as an Encouragement Coach.

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WHAT IS A DAD?Ethan: The male parent of a child.Tony: A loving boy that loves his child.

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WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DAD WANTS FOR FATHER’S DAY?Leighann: A new fishing pole.Lilah: A new football. He used to be a

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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST PART OF BEING A DAD?Will: You get to take care of a baby.Tony: You would never be alone.

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It’s easy to forget that you’re still in Lex-ington, when sitting in the Interactive Data Visualization (IDV) office. IDV is the parent company of SpeedTree, the highly successful, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning Software Com-

pany, nestled in a non-descript office on Highway 378 in the heart of Lexington. SpeedTree has somehow found an ex-tremely specific niche in 3D Tree Render-ing, serving clients such as Geroge Lucas and James Cameron and appearing in films like Star Wars and Wolf of Wall Street—all from their Lexington offices.

Director of Business Development for IDV and SpeedTree, Kevin Meredith, who works at two colossal computer screens from a standing desk and exhibits a distinct South-ern California (his area of origin) breeziness, understands the sense of disbelief.

“Nobody knows we’re here” Mere-dith says. “We’re not trying to be a secret. There’s nothing to hide. We don’t have any customers in SC. We’re not a big compa-ny—there are only ten of us. And we just serve this extremely small niche of people all around the world.”

In the worlds of cinema and gaming, however, SpeedTree is not only well known, but is considered to be the world leader in their niche of 3D Tree Rendering Software.

“We had trees in Jurassic World and Star Wars—that is about ninety percent of what you need to know right now,” Meredith

says. “We have three dozen competitors and none of them have gotten the kind of rec-ognition that we have. So yeah, the clients find us. In the last 24 hours, I’ve emailed ev-ery continent except Antarctica—and that’s pretty much the way it always is.”

If South Carolina isn’t their market, then how in the world did SpeedTree headquar-ters end up in Lexington? Well, that would be because their founders, computer en-gineers Chris King and Michael Sechrest, are University of South Carolina graduates. They started the company in 2000. Senior Software Architect Greg Croft joined the firm in 2001 as their first employee and Meredith joined them in 2001, after leaving a career in journalism.

The company originally planned to vi-sualize giant data sets of information but as a young start up started taking any busi-ness that came their way. So when a cli-ent requested a golf course 16 years ago, IDV was happy to oblige. To make the golf

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“So we took the same tree and realized, these trees aren’t half bad. This might be a product for us. Let’s see if we can make it into a little plug in for architects to use—a tree modeling tool,” Meredith says.

A resale company in New Orleans starting reselling the plugin shortly thereafter.

After a small amount of success, the crew got the idea that their trees might be good enough to be in video games. However, vid-eo games are a world of their own. According to Kevin, in video games the trees have to be blowing in real time, reacting to its environment efficiently and quickly. SpeedTree figured out how to do that and by the end of 2002, had their first couple of video game customers. One was a helicopter-training simulator and one was a traditional video game.

“We just kept going after that. There were some lean years at the start, but since about 2006, we have been going at a pretty steady pace” Meredith says.

Creating trees for video games was more complex than design-ing a plugin for architects, but stepping into cinema was a whole different, higher stakes, ballgame.

“It doesn’t matter how big you are in games—and we were big in games at the point that we stepped into cinema—but if you go to the movies and tell them that you’re big in games, they’ll tell you to go away, because they need higher quality and they can afford higher quality,” Meredith recalls.

Getting the quality of trees that have now been in feature films such as: Malificent, X-Men, Avatar, Snow White and the Hunts-man, Life of Pi, The Wolf of Wall Street, Jurassic Park, Iron Man, and more, required a new level of design and quality for the SpeedTree team.

“One of the hardest things to get right is light, because the hu-man eye is extremely sensitive to light. We know what light is supposed to be doing in the world, but we don’t even think about it. We just take it for granted. Look at the way the light is reflecting off of your cell phone. You don’t think about it, but if you look at your phone and the light isn’t bouncing off of it there’s something wrong. If you want to show something like that in a video game or a movie, you have to calculate all that light,” Meredith says. “

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Once SpeedTree felt their trees were high quality enough for cinema, they released a beta version of the software into the mar-ket to test the waters. The last thing the team expected was for the blockbuster Avatar, one of the biggest movies of all time, to be the film that their movie software debuted in.

One of Meredith’s favorite stories goes that James Cameron had a very specific idea of how he wanted the trees in his movie to look. An Australian company was doing the trees for him at the time, but the release date was nearing and the company wasn’t producing trees fast enough. So they called up George Lucas, who somehow found SpeedTree.

“We had just put SpeedTree Cinema out” Meredith says. “It re-ally wasn’t even public yet, but somehow they found it, and they called me. So I set them up and they got going.”

In the meantime, James Cameron was breathing down the necks of his people, reiterating that he wanted the trees to look just right. The artist got SpeedTree, came in the next morning and between breakfast and lunch created all of the trees that you see in the first 22 seconds of the movie in the flyover scene. They brought it to the viewing room and said, “Here Mr. Cameron. Here is the first 22 seconds of your movie—your flyover is now done.”

A hush fell over the screening room and after the preview was complete, James Cameron said, “How did you do those trees?” Someone replied, “SpeedTree.” Cameron looks at his entourage and said, “Why don’t you idiots know about SpeedTree?!”

That was 2009 and there has been no looking back for King, Croft, Sechrest, and their crew. In 2015 their hard work and suc-cess culminated into a Scientific and Technical Academy Award as well as an Emmy.

“We still have competitors, but don’t know much about them though” Meredith says. “We are so involved in what we are doing here that we don’t want to get lost in our competitor’s stuff. We are the market leaders though, so we have that luxury. We never rest. Our guys are always thinking up some new feature or approach to trees and that has worked for us.”

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One of those boys was Reese Koon, a local 16-year-old high school student who began to feel ear pain a day or so later, according to his mother, Anna Koon.

“A couple of weeks [after swimming in Lower Saluda River], he was complain-ing so badly he thought his ear drum had burst. The ear canal was swollen shut and was visibly red and inflamed from the out-

side,” she explains. “The swimming was the cause. It came from the river.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website indicates that when swimmers come into contact with rivers that contain contaminated germs from sewage they can contract recreational water illnesses such as gastrointestinal, skin, ear, respiratory, eye, neurologic and wound infections. Recent statistics show

that water-related infections are on the rise nationally.

A local wastewater treatment facility op-erated by Carolina Water Service has been discharging inadequately treated sewage into the Lower Saluda River, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Echo website. Records confirm that the facility’s status is frequently and currently rated as noncompliance. Quarterly inspec-tions have detected that the measurements of contaminants in its wastewaters that are discharged into the Lower Saluda, includ-ing fecal coliform and biochemical oxygen demand, often exceed safe levels.

This facility is situated within the Lau-rel Meadows Subdivision off of Leaphart Road in West Columbia, but it is owned by an Illinois-based business called Utilities, Inc. According to their website, this parent company has been acquiring small plants throughout the country since 1965 with the purpose of improving their operations to protect the environment and enhance the communities in which their facilities are located.

According to the South Carolina Depart-ment of Health and Environmental Con-trol, CWS currently operates 104 separate drinking water and 30 wastewater facilities throughout the state. One of the wastewa-ter facilities is the utility in West Columbia, and it currently serves 2,100 customers from the surrounding area. Current records from DHEC report that a monthly average of 710,000 gallons of treated wastewater, also known as effluent, is pumped through pipes into the Lower Saluda River, near the I-20 bridge, every day.

The Federal Clean Water Act is a law that protects the integrity of the nation’s waters and two of the main measures that indicate the presence of water pollutants include the levels of fecal coliform and biochemical oxygen demand. Fecal co-liform is a general term used to describe bacteria that are present in feces. Although some are harmless, others can cause seri-ous diseases.

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Other visible signs that a river is con-taminated include the presence of foam or an oily sheen on the water’s surface, both of which have been documented at the CWS discharge site.

taking actionIn South Carolina, DHEC acts as the

regulatory agency that protects the state’s water quality, and permitted wastewater treatment facilities must monitor their dis-charge and report their findings to DHEC each month.

“We conduct periodic monitoring and inspections of the CWS I-20 discharge to verify compliance with the permit,” says Jim Beasley, the public information direc-tor for DHEC.

Beasley states that the agency began issuing permits to CWS in 1979, when they started overseeing the operations of this facility.

“The goal is to renew permits every five years,” he explains. “If a permit is not re-newed at that time, it may continue to op-erate under the existing permit until a new permit is issued.”

The permit CWS received in January 1, 1995, expired on September 30, 1999, and a renewal was issued in 2001.

“That permit was appealed and that ap-peal has not been resolved,” Beasley adds. Essentially, they are 15 years past due for a permit renewal.

In August 2015, Rick Quinn, a mem-ber of the South Carolina House of Rep-resentatives, helped organize a bi-partisan group of elected officials, which also in-cluded Columbia’s Mayor Steve Benjamin, to insist that DHEC deny a permit exten-sion to the CWS utility at I-20.

About a month later, DHEC publicly

announced their notice of intent to deny the renewal of the CWS permit. However, this decision has not yet been finalized and could be retracted.

“We are still reviewing the public com-ments submitted pursuant to our intent to deny,” says Beasley, “and we do not have a timeline for a decision. The CWS I-20 plant has had occasional violations of some of its permit parameters over the years. The facility has returned to compli-ance prior to meeting any of the enforce-ment triggers established by EPA, which DHEC uses in determining when to initi-ate an enforcement action.”

Any violation could become serious if it is allowed to continue according to Beasley.

“If a facility has a violation but returns to compliance, a formal enforcement ac-tion might not be necessary to return to compliance. Since the CWS I-20 facility has not met the criteria for our agency to take a formal enforcement action, no fines have been issued,” he says.

Congaree Riverkeeper, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Colum-bia, which was established to protect the quality of the region’s natural waters, has taken notice of this issue, and in January 2015 they filed a lawsuit against CWS to hold them accountable for their violations. Documentation of this litigation is posted on their website and provides a detailed account of CWS’s violations, including

scanned records spanning several years that confirm their contamination of the Saluda.

The trial date is set for July 2016 ac-cording to Bill Stangler of Congaree River-keeper, but CWS could make attempts to delay the process in the meantime.

“The Saluda is a tremendous asset that needs to be protected,” says Stangler.

However, the CWS discharge must be removed for this to happen. Stangler proposes that the Town of Lexington or DHEC could condemn the CWS facility, take control of it and begin proceedings to remedy the problems.

The South Carolina legislature desig-nated Lower Saluda—the section of the river that begins a mile south of Lake Murray and extends to its junction with the Broad–as a State Scenic River in 1991 because of its value as a recreational re-source. In addition to swimming, the river attracts thousands of other water enthusi-asts every year, who come to escape the urban scene and enjoy whitewater rafting, kayaking and fishing.

Stangler believes an achievable and reasonable solution is possible to resolve this issue, such as looking to the city of Cayce as an example. In fall 2012, the city of Cayce opened a new regional treatment plant, the E. H. Heustess, Jr., Facility, and according the City of Cayce’s website, it is able to process 25 million gallons of waste-water per day and provide services for up to

“the saluda is a tremendous asset that needs to be protected.”

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80,000 customers. The plant is one of the most advanced wastewater facilities in the Midlands, and it currently serves the City of Cayce and most of Lexington County.

When a facility, such as the I-20 CWS plant, is in violation of established pro-tocols, Section 208 of the Federal Clean Water Act encourages the consolidation of these utilities into larger, publicly owned wastewater plants, since the latter operate more effectively and provide a higher de-gree of treatment. Additionally, the Cen-tral Midlands Council of Governments, the regional overseers and executers of the national Clean Water Act, established the 208 Water Quality Management Plan for the area in 1997, and this also requires smaller, temporary facilities to become connected to the larger treatment plants when they become available.

DHEC verifies that the Town of Lexing-ton owns a sewer line that runs near the CWS facility. Additionally, the Director of Utilities for the Town of Lexington, Allen Lutz, states that a new connection between the CWS sewage lines and this new system would only require an extension of about 80 to 100 feet.

“They [CWS] would have to decom-mission the treatment plant and put in a pumping station to pump [the wastewa-

ter] into a force main (or) pressure line,” Lutz Britt Poole, Lexington’s town admin-istrator, confirms this sentiment.

“The town has offered to buy the I-20 and Watergate plants (from CWS) and tie them into our system. We would close the two plants and flow to our joint plant in Cayce for treatment,” Poole says.

The new treatment facility could easily handle the additional sewage and still have many millions of gallons a day capacity left, according to Poole.

The Town of Lexington has been in negotiations with CWS for years, accord-ing to Poole, but no agreement has been reached. However, Lexington has offered to buy the plant at fair market value. In fact, their most recent communications ended in late 2015 when CWS filed suit and named the Town of Lexington as a party, according to Poole.

If the public feels compelled to push for change, Poole recommends that local citi-zens contact the Public Service Commis-sion, SC DHEC and state legislators.

According to Rep. Rick Quinn, the util-ity, which is located in the district that he represents, has had 20 violations of large discharges into the Saluda River over the last five years because their system has not been kept up to code.

“Carolina Water has been a water and sewer provider that is high on price and low on service,” Quinn asserts. “Until that case is resolved, we must keep up the pres-sure on Carolina Water to either tie into the Town of Lexington’s system or sell the system to the town.”

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Visible fecal coliform at the CWS discharge site in the Lower Saluda River

This boy was with Reese Koon in the river that day. His mother furnished Lexington Life

with the picture on the condition of anonymity. His rash resulted in several visits

to a dermatologist. “How could something like this happen in Lexington?” she said.

Dr. Tim Loonam with PeteDr. Loonam’s favorite pet is one of his border collies, Pete.

Pete holds a special place in Tim’s heart because he is named af-ter Pete Meyers, Dr. Loonam’s driver and veterinary technician during a period of active duty and deployment in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Both men survived a horrible roadside bomb when their Humvee was attacked outside Saddam Hussein’s home-town of Tikrit.

Full of energy and intelligence, border collies can be chal-lenging to live with due to their innate instinct to constantly search for and “round up” lost animals. Pete is particularly in-tense in this regard because he comes from a line of competitive and working herding dogs. He even tries to “herd” the fami-ly cats, which drives Tim’s wife Betsy crazy! “We live on Lake Murray, and Pete can’t stand it when people are swimming in our cove or playing on our beach; he’s constantly trying to herd them. He also thinks every wheelbarrow in the world needs to

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Even though Pete is a handful, he is not to be underestimat-ed. “He watches my every move and responds to my moods immediately,” Tim explains. “When I am home, he is never more than a few feet from me (unless he is herding cats), and he travels with me everywhere. Maybe I should buy him some sheep for his birthday?”

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There is much to be said for the unconditional love, loyalty and companionship of dogs. They don’t judge, and they don’t care how you’re dressed or if you had a rough day. Patient and observant, these faithful animals have the ability to read nonverbal cues such as body language and energy to quickly sense their owners’ moods and adapt as needed. No matter the situation, you are greeted with the same enthusiasm and wet kiss each time you return home.

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Jasmine is a sweet 8 year old female Yorkshire Terrier (Yorkie) who is an integral member of the Chambers family. Retired from a life of successful breeding, Jasmine was in need of a home and a family to love her, and Dr. Nicholas Cham-bers could not resist surprising his wife Candra by adopting Jasmine. “From that day on, Jasmine has been a blessing to our household,” says Candra, “playing and begging for affec-tion with her notorious smile. She is a great companion with a unique personality; her favorite pastime is hunting squirrels and playing with her squirrel toy. Every now and then her mischievous side appears when she steals paper and hides to shred or eat it!”

Yorkies are spunky and typically independent, but they crave human attention and interaction. Even though they eas-ily adapt to new surroundings and require limited exercise, they are a delicate breed. Both doctors have seen several in-

jured Yorkies and other petite dogs in the office due to young children in the home who are not equipped to handle them. Families with older children or an elderly couple that is com-mitted to investing time in loving and caring for a small pet would be the safest home environment for this small breed.

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Golden Retrievers are usually less hyper than Labrador Retrievers, making them easy-to-train people pleasers. The perfect owner for a Golden would be someone who enjoys interacting and being active with their dog. Throwing a ball, taking walks and going for a swim are all things a Golden would enjoy with their owner. They are typically very tolerant of other animals and children.

“Erica loves my cats and kids and enjoys playtime with toys, other dogs and swimming and retrieving. She is my favorite pet because she is the most loving, eager to please, cooperative, trustworthy and faithful companion,” remarks Dr. Barkley. “Her gentleness and patience makes her the perfect dog for my children. As you can see, she is sporting her summer haircut and feels much more comfortable outside in the summer

heat with less hair. Goldens are known for their beautiful hair coat, and owners should be aware that occasional grooming and maintenance is re-quired. Every afternoon, one of Erica’s cutest quirks is to meet me in the driveway with something in her mouth, wagging vigorously, and ‘talking’ to me in an almost-bark to welcome me home.” n

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is that, during a repetitive and mentally undemanding task like showering or ex-ercising, the brain is at rest. When people push themselves late into the night, the brain, just like the body, becomes ex-hausted. Once it is given time to rest, it is able to work on the problem. The reason insights happen in the shower, on a walk, while exercising, or even while asleep is that the brain has been given a break. How often do people go to bed mulling over a problem, only to wake up with the solution?

There are other factors that contribute to good creative thought, namely dopa-mine and distraction. Many chemicals flow through the brain, all with a differ-ent purpose. Dopamine is a neurotrans-mitter. As the name implies, neurotrans-mitters transmit signals to nerves.

Bring your hands together, palm to palm, fingers spread apart, so that the fingers are almost but not quite touching. Like your fingers, nerves don’t touch di-rectly and are all spread out in a network. Neurotransmitters serve to help the sig-nals jump from one nerve to another. Other familiar transmitters include epi-nephrine, serotonin and endorphins.

In addition to rest and dopamine, dis-traction also helps to contribute to cre-ative thought. This fact, on the surface, seems to make the least sense. How can being distracted help to solve a prob-lem or generate new ideas? When in the shower or exercising, the brain is taking a break from its usual activity. This gives it a chance to focus on things that are lurking in the corners. Of course, these all happen to be dopamine-generating ac-tivities, too!

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Imagine sitting in a team brainstorming session until the wee hours of the morn-ing. The team wracks their brains trying to solve a problem that’s been plaguing their business for weeks. Finally, everyone decides to call it a night. You go home and fall into bed, exhausted.

What happens next? For many people, the ideas start flowing when least ex-pected, often when a person is least prepared! It could be in the shower, on a tread-mill, hiking through the woods or during some other ‘mindless’ activity.

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What to do about itThe problem with the tendency for

ideas to come at random moments in life is that they come when people are unpre-pared. Who can jot down an idea while in the shower? How many people have a notebook beside the bed or in a pocket for jotting down ideas?

A good idea is to get a small notebook and keep it close by all of the time. One of those little 3x5 notebooks that almost any store sells for less than a dollar, a spiral bound index card set or anything similar can serve the same purpose. Some folks may be able to carry something a little bigger. It’s important to lay it beside the bed at night so that ideas generated during sleep can be captured as well!

What about group brainstorming ses-sions?

What can be done in a group brain-storming session if everyone begins to feel stuck? Here are some options:n Take a break - turn on some music, take a walk outside, search YouTube for funny cat videos or something else that is

a complete distraction from the taskn Grab a snack - take a moment to eat something healthy like granola or fruit to replenish your energyv Find some random stimuli - go to Google and search “random,” then click the “Images” option, scroll through the pictures and see what happens

If all else fails, agree to meet again. Sometimes people just ar-en’t in the brainstorming mode. They may have too many other things on their mind - the wrong kind of distractions.

Always be prepared!The bottom line is that it is possible to help ideas to come along by taking a few simple steps – rest; stimulate some dopa-mine through exercise, music or other ac-tivities; and find a distraction (which will probably come in the form of whatever stimulates dopamine). Be ready to write down any ideas that come, regardless of the location or time of day. n

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Dear Cagney in Malvern, Arkansas, You’re four years old now. Your parents

asked me to write concerning wisdom. Wisdom is a deep well you’ll spend your whole life digging.

All of us are God’s children. Some of God’s children think wisdom and God are silly topics. Be kind to these folks. The rain falls on the evil and the just. Everything works for the best for those who love the Lord. These two pills are often hard to swal-low. Be patient. Look at the sky and trees at least twice daily. Smell every flower in your yard when it blooms. Move turtles out of the road. You can’t have too many friends. Make mudpies frequently. Anything worth building can be built in a sandbox with scraps of wood.

If you are lucky, your parents will spank you just enough to teach you respect. Be grateful for these spankings. Later on you will find you have friends who need one. They won’t be so lucky as you, and will be given television instead. One book is worth one thousand television shows.

The King James Bible contains God’s poetry. Read Proverbs and First Corinthi-

ans 13 over and over and over again. Read-ing books of wisdom from other cultures will help you see the Bible more clearly. The smartest people use only four percent of their mind. Stand on the four yard line of a football field. Look at the goalpost 96 yards away. This will provide a good idea of your potential.

Learning what it’s like to be hungry will eliminate the troublesome trait of being hard to please. Tip good waiters and wait-resses well. Say “please” and “thank you.” Open doors for others. Say “yes, ma’am” and “yes, sir.”

Learn how to check your oil and air pressure. Learn how to change a tire. Al-ways have a flashlight with good batteries.

Some things are made to sell, not to use. Trade with locally owned stores. Sing daily. Play a musical instrument.

The long-term damage caused by not hearing birds and frogs and crickets is far worse than not having air conditioning. If you find yourself living in a place without birds and frogs and crickets, make arrange-ments to move.

Doing one’s best increases one’s ability to

do one’s best. The point of school is not the diploma. Sometimes you will get kicked in the teeth when helping others, but self-re-spect is more important than teeth.

Remember, people are human. Every second counts. Decide to be happy. Trust God. Lack of forgiveness causes much of the world’s trouble. Help change that.

Beauty comes from inside of you, not from a jar. Wrinkles will come. Wrinkles formed from smiling are the greatest signs of beauty. A prayer’s most important part is when we finally shut up and listen.

Don’t blame God for the failings of church folks and religion. Live life with the end in mind.

Memorize the light in your parents’ eyes. One day they will close. n

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fer potatoes to prepared baking sheet, spreading them out in a single layer. Using a heavy mug or glass, smash each potato to about ½-inch thick-ness. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove potatoes from oven and turn each with a spatula. Drizzle with olive oil and continue baking for 20 addition-al minutes. Once baked, sprinkle with vinegar, chopped chives and salt and pepper. Serve hot.

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