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Germantown Weekly EDUCATION
Bodine School head leaving Josh Clark will lead the Schenck School By Jane Roberts robertsj@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2512
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Construction equipment relects in the glasses of Dennis Moore while he works on the Germantown Greenway project along Wolf River Boulevard. Crews have had at least 25 days without a rain delay recently, helping to move the $1.82 million project three months ahead of schedule.
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Hikers and bikers owe a tip of the cap to a work season that has produced at least 25 days without a rain delay. If it continues, they could be oicially using the 1.3mile extension of the Germantown Greenway Trail by Christmas. The $1.82 million project, delayed ive weeks by rain last spring, is now three months ahead. It runs from Kimbrough to Cameron Brown Park on the north side of Wolf River Boulevard, part of the steady push to connect users from Midtown to Collierville. “We’re trying to do all we can
Jef Alsbrook inspects the grade as he cuts a trail under one of the Wolf River Boulevard bridges for the Germantown Greenway project.
now, so if we get rain later, we’ll still be able to work,” said Mike Lawler, supervisor from Rose Construction.
The path is a 10-foot-wide asphalt trail that meanders grace-
Josh Clark, head of the Bodine School in Germantown, will leave next summer to head the Schenck School in Atlanta, one of the best-known schools in the South for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Clark, 32, has been in charge at the private Bodine School since 2011. In that time, he has helped raised $800,000 to train public schoolteachers in worldrecognized techniques for Josh teaching chil- Clark dren with dyslexia. This year, Bodine staf are working individually with teachers at KIPP Memphis Collegiate Elementary on Henry in North Memphis. Next year, the partnership will extend to a second KIPP school. “I love Bodine School and will always be passionate about its mission,” Clark said in letter to parents this week. The decision to leave, he said, was “agonizing.” Clark will inish the school year. He begins at Schenck on July 1. When Virginia and Dick Bodine started the school in honor of their son, Rick, who drowned in Florida, they patterned it after Schenck. Bodine, which has 90 students in grades 1-8, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013. Both schools operate on the
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pools illed with Legos, inlatable bouncy slides, face painting, a manicure station and music and sensory enhancement spaces. There also were many tables set up where parents, friends and care givers could learn about what resources were available at the church, if needed. Hope Church doesn’t just provide space once a year for an event tailored for people with special needs. Hope has a ministry devoted to them called “Hope 4 Macky & Friends.” “Macky” is Macky Oates, who was a young man when his parents came to visit Hope in the earlier years of the church’s his-
By Craig Collier Special to The Weekly
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Hope Church on Saturday sponsored its annual Fall Festival and Talent Show for kids and adults with special needs. The event, which is in its seventh year, is an outreach for both adults and kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The large gym and smaller rooms had places where games were played. Also inside there was a talent show, food areas, a room with swimming
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Anna Albugh, 4, gets a butterly and ladybug painted on her cheek by Chloie Lott during Hope Church’s annual Fall Festival and Talent Show for kids and adults with special needs.
tory. The Oates family was looking for a church the family could call home. Macky has developmental challenges and he wanted to know if the church could be not only a place of worship, but also a resource that could provide services. “Hope’s viewpoint is that we not only welcome the families with special needs
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