Strong Beginnings
National Catfish Month
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Editor Jenelle Grewell
Contributors Elaine Martinho, Angela Brothers Megan Scales, Ramon Maisonet Bonnie Surie, Katie Lopez
Publisher Creative ink
Creative Director Sears Hallett
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Photography Jenelle Grewell Paula Hallett CynDe Clack Tara Goodson Shutterstock pg: cover, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16
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It is time to get back to school and if you have a four or five year old starting kindergarten next school year, consider signing them up for Strong Beginnings through Child, Youth and School Services! Strong Beginnings will set your children up for success with focused academics to get them ready for kindergarten. August is also Catfish Month so make sure you stop at Cole Park Commons Southern Buffet for some delicious southern fried catfish. Need to work off all that fried comfort food? Try out Battlefront Crossfit or the fitness programs at Estep Wellness Center to get your body moving! August may feel like the end of the summer but it doesn’t need to be the end of fun. Continue to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube and sign up for ENews for more information about upcoming events and activities. Like our new look? Comments? Questions? Anything you want to see? Email us at fortcampbellmwrlife@gmail.com
Jenelle Grewell, Editor fortcampbellmwrlife@gmail.com
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Who can use Strong Beginnings? Anyone who is eligible with Child, Youth and School Services and has a child four or five years old who will be entering Kindergarten next school year. How old does a child need to be to register? A four or five year old who will be going to kindergarten next school year Where? Strong Beginnings will have their own building at 3301 Indiana Ave. When? The center will be open 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Strong Beginnings academic component will be from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Strong Beginnings will follow the school calendar Cost: fees based on total Family income How to register: Visit Parent Central Services at the intersection of 5th Street and Tennessee Ave. What areas of study will children enrolled in the program focus on? Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Technology.
“Our parents will be very involved here. We are going to provide a lot of parent involvement opportunities,” –Karen Watkins-Diouf, Strong Beginnings supervisory specialist
“Children do so much better when they see that their parents have an interest in what they are doing,” Doris Johnson, CYSS administrator
“A lot of research studies show that the number one indicator of a high quality program is parent involvement,” 3
- Mark Ryales, Child Youth and School Services Coordinator
What is Strong Beginnings? The Army’s Strong Beginnings Pre-K is a program designed to prepare children to be successful to enter school. Curriculum focuses on the social, emotional, and physical development of children; and equips them with basic academic and “Kindergarten Classroom Etiquette” skills to enhance “school readiness.” How will Strong Beginnings be beneficial to the Fort Campbell Community? Our goal is to create the best Strong Beginnings program in the Army. We want our children at Fort Campbell who enter into kindergarten to be fully prepared to compete and excel. The program is designed to do exactly what it says; give our children a “Strong Beginning” into elementary school. A strong foundation of skills and abilities that will help them have many successful experiences. Successful experiences in elementary school help build confidence and self-esteem that will carry over into all areas of their lives.
What was the reason behind moving Strong Beginnings to one building? Currently our Strong Beginnings program is implemented at each Child Development Center on post. There is a Strong Beginnings Classroom in each center and each CDC Director is responsible for implementation. This has led to slight differences in implementation and variances in quality and delivery. Aligning our Strong Beginnings program under one roof will enable us to have more control over implementation, delivery of services and overall quality of the program. The staff and management will all be Strong Beginnings experts, trained and coached specifically to implement this program. What special features will the Strong Beginnings facility offer? The facility has a youth technology lab, demonstration kitchen for life skills and cooking projects, huge gymnasium for sports and fitness activities, science studio, library center, arts studio and a very nice playground as well. – Mark Ryales, Child Youth and School Services Coordinator
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“When the children leave our program, they will be more than ready for kindergarten,” - Doris Johnson, CYSS administrator
“Children will be introduced to the three step of conflict resolution during circle time and story time,” - Karen Watkins-Diouf, Strong Beginnings supervisory specialist
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Cole Park Commons Southern Buffet may have a daily buffet rotation with a variety of food themes but one thing that remains a constant every day is their delicious and comforting Southern Fried Catfish! Cole Park Commons Southern Buffet: 1610 101st Airborne Division Road. • 270.798,4610 Hours: Monday through Friday • 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. All-You-Care-To-Eat-Buffet: $10.25 (includes buffet, soup & salad bar, dessert bar and beverage)
All-You-Care-To-Eat Soup & Salad Bar: $7.75 Kids Buffet (beverage included) $0.75 per year of age up to 12 years old.
August is National Catfish Month. The channel catfish and the blue catfish are the most commonly eaten species in the United States. On June 25, 1987, President Ronald Reagan established National Catfish Day Catfish is high in Vitamin D. Southern Fried Catfish is made by dredging the catfish in seasoned cornmeal and frying it.
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FREEDOM (What Are You Thinking?)
by Ramon M. Maisonet & Bonnie Surie, Employee Assistance Program Do you remember the fall of the Suddam Hussein regime back in 2003? If not, go to YouTube and look at the video of citizens pulling down the statue of Hussein. In it, you can see the exhilaration of people who had tasted freedom for the first time in their respective lifetimes. I watched as the Iraqi people in the video rejoiced, shouted in joy and sang songs about freedom; and it was a stark reminder for me about the overwhelming power that lies in liberty. We are reminded every Fourth of July to value our liberty – in fact, we value it so much that we go to the polls on Election Day to propagate it, we launch campaigns when we are denied it, and we have even gone to war to defend it. With Fourth of July occouring last month and the Election coming up, freedom is a big theme in our lives. We all desire to live as freely as we can, without restraint or the feeling of being caged or trapped. It is the physical freedoms that we crave and we exert tremendous efforts into ensuring it stays this way. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” once wrote: “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” The kind of freedom that I’m talking about is not about external forces or people keeping you down, and the oppressors are not some enemy army. The freedom that I’m referring to is the ability to live your life according to your own limitations and the “oppressors” are the barriers within you that are keeping that from happening – that is, your own negative thoughts. One of life’s greatest tragedies is to be physically free, yet emotionally bound, to have opportunity and still have dissatisfaction with one’s life, with who we are, not to mention the inferiority that seemingly shrink-wraps our being. How and why is this? For a nation that prides itself in the notion of “liberty and justice for all,” I wonder why so many still feel confined in their own bodies? Maybe I’m asking the wrong question … I wonder what is keeping some you from dreaming, from doing, from becoming and from expression of your authentic self. I wonder if the world is going to see the real you, the “free” version of you before it’s all said and done. Maybe it’s comparison to others that is creating this feeling of bondage. Think about this: with the constant flooding of information from the lives of the more “important people,” it becomes almost impossible to not compare our own life to theirs.
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I’m here to tell you that looking at and measuring yourself up to the “Jones’s” will, without a doubt, leave you feeling submerged in hopelessness, jealousy, envy, doubt, and negative thinking. Thoughts begin to assail you, like: “I’m not good enough.” “I’m worthless.” “I’m not attractive enough.” “I’m not wealthy enough.” “I’m not this, I’m not that, and I never can or will be!” We do this even though it’s been revealed time and time again, that a large percent of the information the news and social media shares is faulty, or exaggerated to a great degree. By the constant comparison and demanding of more freedoms for our physical being, our emotional and mental freedoms become more deprived and limited to the amount of liberty we’re capable of experiencing. Is it possible that the “trapped” feeling is simply because we’re confining ourselves through the thoughts we entertain and choose to act on? Is it our self-liberty that we desire, and we’re allowing it to slip through our own fingers? While those are good questions, here is the better question: “What freedom can I give myself?” Realizing that sometimes less is more, and of course, more is more. How can you help yourself? Try a few of these tips: • Less time on social media and reading the news, and more time actively pursuing your goals that you have the freedom to do. • Less time gossiping, and more time planning a road trip, utilizing the freedom of coming and going as you please. • Less time complaining about the amount of money you earn, and embarking the journey of education, or entrepreneurship, a freedom that you also have the right to employ. You can choose to grow through applying yourself with the freedoms you have, or you can choose to be stagnant in your life and blame the lack of freedom. We have the freedom to choose how we apply it in our own life. We have the freedom to choose not only what we decide to do, but what we think. The way one thinks will ultimately determine the choices they make. And isn’t that what is one of life’s greatest freedoms – the freedom of choice? But Bonnie, I’ve failed in the past. Okay? But Ramon, I’m afraid I’ll make a mistake. And? Just like a chapter doesn't define the whole story of a book, your mistakes don’t define the destiny of your life. If you have made a mistake (or in my case, dozens of them), smile, press forward and keep turning the pages ... you’ll get there. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear,” said Jim Morrison, “after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” I’ll repeat the end: You. Are. Free. campbell.armymwr.com
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Are You Ready to Battle? Crossfit Battlefront Offers Classes at Fort Campbell $70 per month with limited access for a single person
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. • 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. • 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
(up to 12 classes per month)
Tuesday and Thursday 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
$110 per month with unlimited access for a single person
Saturday 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
$165 per month with unlimited access for a couple (couple defined as two registered adults in the same household with MWR)
Fratellenico Physical Fitness Center • 55th and Indiana Ave
Registration: campbell.armymwr.com/us/ campbell/programs/crossfit-battlefront For more information 931-217-0119 crossfitbattlefront@gmail.com
Must attend On-Ramp Class prior to participating in regular classes $45 • Sat 12 - 2 p.m.
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Working It Out with Estep Wellness Center By Angela Brothers and Megan Scales
Summer break may be over and ESTEP offers plenty of classes for back to school such as, Total Pump, Spinsanity, Dance JAM and Retro Fitness 2. Why go to ESTEP? Estep Wellness Center believes in strength and wellness inside and out it. It is a belief that has led to the employment of staff that inspire and motivate patrons and clients on daily basis said Megan Scales, Fitness Program Coordinator. Visit the cardio room which features: ellipticals, treadmills, recumbent bikes, AMTs, a Summit Trainer, Jacob’s Ladder and stair climbers. The weight room features: fully equipped with a variety of more than 90 strength and resistance training machines and free weights.
My goal for Estep is to deliver outstanding customer service while providing the most cutting edge and innovative programing and facility that the fitness industry has to offer. At Estep, we strive to cultivate a positive and encouraging health and wellness environment," Summer Broach Aquatics and Estep Wellness Center Manager
For full fitness schedule visit: campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/estep-wellness-center
Total Pump: Designed and choreographed by our own instructors. This is an exciting, energetic weight training class that strengthens the entire body, regardless of gender. Class is performed to selected music using free weights, barbells and an aerobic step. You choose your weights based on the exercise and personal goals. This 60 minute workout challenges all of your major muscles groups by using the most effective exercises like squats, presses, lifts and curls. This class will make you strong, give you confidence and make daily activities easier. You will tone your muscles and raise your metabolism to burn more calories 24 hours a day, even while you’re sleeping! The coupling of great music and weight choice will inspire your body to get the results you came for-and fast.
Zumba® Fitness: This is a Latin-inspired, dance fitness class that incorporates Latin and international music and dance movement which creates a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness system. This class format combines fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body in an aerobic/fitness fashion. You will feel like you are at a party rather than a fitness class, and this is why Zumba’s theme is “ditch the workout, join the party”.
Belly Dancing: Learn the beautiful art of belly dancing! This class will take you through the basics and get you shimmying in no time! From swaying hips to graceful hand gestures, come celebrate the power and beauty of the feminine physique.
Pilates: A form of exercise which emphasizes the balanced development of the body through core strength, flexibility and awareness in order to support efficient graceful movements and improve overall musculoskeletal health.
CIZE™ Live: Classes A professional dance for everyday people! This isn’t one of those dance-lite workouts where you shuffle your feet to the beat. Created by Shaun T, world famous choreographer and fitness trainer, CIZE™ Live breaks down professionally choreographed routines step-by-step. Before you know it you’ll be bustin’ out moves to the hottest new music. It’s so fun, you’ll forget you’re working out! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced dancer CIZE™ Live will be the right move for you!
Cycle: A truly fantastic cardio class. Using stationary bikes the instructor simulates an outdoor bike ride that may include: traveling on flat roads, climbing hills, sprinting and jumps. In addition to the high caloric burn the lower body will tone and firm and weight choice will inspire your body to get the results you came for.
Retro Fitness: August 6 Kickboxing at 8 a.m. Pilates at 9:15 a.m. Cycle at 10 a.m. Zumba Fitness at 10:30 a.m. Spinsanity: August 13 at 10 a.m. Dance Jam: August 20 at 10:30 a.m. Total Pump Launch: August 27 at 9:15 a.m. campbell.armymwr.com
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