04 Caityln Corley has been making her mark this year across Bulldogette athletics. Despite the doubters, those who said she couldn’t make it, She has been making waves and proving them wrong. Corley is looking to wrap up her high school athletic career and continue the momentum into college.
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Leaving a story to be remembered
The family of mary wells have opened up their memories of their grandparents love story and military careers to the community by teaming up with the Hanger 25 Air Museum to display the history she preserved over her lifetime.
16 Big Spring history runs deep and the stories housed in our community tell the story of families who have contributed to the growth of our community today. Mittie barrett and George Barrett built their home along the Concho, but their journey brought GEorge to Big Spring and the impact they would make began. read a brief history tale provided by the heritage Museum.
19 Big Spring and Howard County will soon be the site of one of 14 teaching veterinary hospitals in the state of texas. an expansion at On the cover:
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Big Spring Veterinary and Diagnostic is bringing a high tech veterinary services to our area.
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By SHAWN MORAN oahoma Bulldogettes' guard and team captain Caitlyn Corley commands attention whenever she steps between the lines on a basketball court. The multisport athlete uses her high sports IQ to diagnose plays before they happen and creates opportunities for her teammates through her vocal style of leadership. Since she first began playing basketball, people have told her that she would never make it to the next level coming out of her small town. She did not hear the haters. “It's been my dream since I was little,” Corley said. “I've always wanted to play in college and everyone here told me 'You're never going to play in college for basketball coming out of this school, softball is your only chance.' I just wanted to prove them wrong so I worked hard by myself every day and I got here so it's my dream come true basically.” Last month, Corley brought her dream to fruition when she signed with Sul Ross State University to continue her basketball career at the next level. The guard was first recognized at a camp that
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the Lobos held when she put her ability to be vocal on the court and lead an offense on display. The coaches that were running the camp took notice of her talent and leadership ability and offered her scholarship not long after. “I went to the camp and they said 'You're very verbal and we love that about you',” Corley said. “I didn't realize that until I got there and no one else was talking. So, I thought I could make myself stand out. I just kept continuing to do that and then they started being interested in me. I just loved the environment, the coach and her mindset, and what she's trying to do with the team. I loved the whole atmosphere about it and no other school stood-out to me like that.” Sul Ross head coach Katie Novak added, “We invited her to a camp in early September. When I saw her play in-person at our camp, I just loved how hard she competed and what a great vocal leader she was. I think she's really, really going to do well in college and we're super happy to have her. It was definitely the way that she played in the camp that caught our eye.” Corley followed up her strong showing at the Sul
HERALD file photo Corley makes her way through Andrews defenders during a game earlier in the season. Ross camp with a bang in the first game of her senior season. The high-scoring two-way point guard knocked down a last-second shot to win the game 47-46 over a trio of Andrews Lady Mustangs defenders. The sheer willpower that Corley put on display during the acrobatic midrange shot was enough to put fear into each opposing defense the Bulldogettes have faced since. The shot instilled confidence in herself as well as her teammates. If there is a critical moment in the game or a game-winning shot to be attempted, chances are Corley is the catalyst behind the play. Some people crumble when all eyes are on them and they are appointed to lead a team. Corley embraces the pressure.
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HERALD file photo Corley poses with her family after she took part in her signing earlier this year. “This year, now that I'm the oldest, I really have taken over,” Corley said. “I love being the oldest and just being in control. Now, I feel like there is no one ahead of me so I just like to take control. They follow me and listen. I love it.” After winning only four games during the 2018-19 season, the Bulldogettes appear to be an entirely different team with Corley leading the charge. Coahoma has jumped out to a 13-4 record through the first two months of the season. With eight district games remaining on the schedule, the Bulldogettes have a chance to have their most wins in a season in over 15 years. With a well-balanced roster that
can score inside the paint and beyond the arc, Corley has stood out from the pack and does a fantastic job directing the Bulldogette offense. Head Coach Jim Kinnear handed the keys to the offense to Corley this season and has not regretted his decision. “She gives everything she has, 100 to 120-percent,” Kinnear said. “When she doesn't do well, it bothers her. But afit doesn't bother her to the point where it af fects her game. She's the team leader on the floor.” After somewhat of a rocky junior season where Corley struggled offensively, she has shown her teammates, fans, and coach the work she put in this past offseason to improve her all-around game. Kinnear has seen even promore improvement as the season has pro gressed. “This year, especially the last three or four games, she's come out of her shell,” Kinnear said. “She's attacking the rim, making some jump-shots, some three-pointers, and she's learned to play defense so basically she has the total game.” On the court, Corley's teammates trust her decision-making and playmaking ability. In HERALD file photo Corley takes the ball up during a game against Andrews earlier in the season. Pictured below: Corley makes her way through Reagan County defenders.
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tem and have the chance to contribute immediately. When she enters her first practice for the Lobos, the intensity will be raised and her command over the court will have a chance to shine. “We're really looking forward to having her as a point guard,” Novak said. “She should have a lot of opportunities to really get on the floor. I expect her to be competing for playing time pretty quickly.” Following her successful Coahoma career, Corley influwill miss her team next season but knows her influ ence on the court will be picked up by her younger teammates. “I love them so much,” Corley said. “This year, everyone has the same mindset, everyone wants to win, we all have the same drive, and we're all going whatto go hard in every game. We're going to do what ever it takes to win.” With her outstanding senior season winding down, Corley will be hard at work continuing to prove her haters wrong every time she steps onto the court. HERALD file photos Whether it be on the basketball court or the volleyball court, Corley has made a statement and left a lasting impact on Coahoma Bulldogettes athletics.
addition to her skill with the ball in her hands, Corley also does an outstanding job at pushing her teammates to reach their ultimate potential. “She's very motivational,” Bulldogettes' forward MaKynlee Overton said. “She'll get on your butt when she needs to, which is always a good thing as an athlete. She's always there to encourage us and if somebody gets in a slump, she'll be there to pick them up. She's a true friend and a true teammate.” Corley will undoubtedly bring her leadership qualities to the next level and her new head coach is looking forward to her contributions on the court starting next fall. Sul Ross has a younger team with only a few upperclassmen and Corley will have the chance to step right into the sys-
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LOOKING FORWARD By KAY SMITH
ome tips for artists as we head into a new year and a new decade. Although we all would love to never make mistakes we can glance behind us at the old year or even the year before in reflection. There are times when a judicious repair to a painting can save hours of work. For example, if working in acrylics, and to remove a buildup of paint apply denatured alcohol with a brush and wipe up the softened paint with a paper towel or old washcloth rag. This will not remove the stain from the paper but will reduce it greatly. In order to repaint such an area in a watercolor manner (thinly) apply thin glazes of Golden Mat Acrylic Titanium White until the stain is obliterated. The matte finish allows future repair glazes to adhere better than if regular glossy acrylic is used to bring the paper back to white. If your paper is not as white as the Titanium White acrylic, you may want to add a drop of color to the Titanium White in order to more closely match the color of the paper. Black paper is all the rage now so you may experiment using that as your support, then follow any corrections using black acrylic as outlined above. If you are using Arches paper add a touch of Yellow Oxide to the Titanium White as the Arches pa-
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remembering a family legacy and sharing a piece of history with the community was one of the first thoughts that Kristie Sloan-Green had when she discovered her grandmother’s collection of memories. The collection included old newspaper clippings, photographs, hand written love letters between Kristie’s grandparents – Mary and Sam, and even a few relic pieces from the old military nursing days. After sifting through a good portion of the collection, Kristie and her family reached out to the local museums to see if any of them would be willing to help them preserve her grandmothers memories and a piece of history. Amidst her search, she crossed paths with Amber Stokes at Hangar 25 Air Museum and a connection was made, allowing these memories to find a new home. In December all the memories that had been packed away for so many years found a new home in a new exhibit unveiled at the Hangar 25 Air Museum. This new exhibit not only highlights the life of a military nurse and her husband, but also is focused on featuring an insight to the nursing world in the early 1940s, from the perspective of Mary Ann Findley Wells.
Leaving a story to be remembered By AMANDA DUFORAT
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“Not many people keep their history anymore; it’s really rare to see newspaper clippings in scrap scrapbooks. It’s hard to find, especially nursing items from that era,” Kristie SloanGreen, granddaughter of Mary Wells, said. “She (Mary) kept everything. I don’t think she threw anything away honestly. Some of the Courtesy photos papers we found are Each of the pictured items are so old that included in the exhibit, housed at you have to Hangar 25 Air Museum. These are be careful when look- just a few pieces that mark the ing at them history Mary Wells left behind. because it looks like they could fall apart at any moment.” Amongst Mary Wells history collection were napkins with notes written on them, newspaper articles, piec-es of clothing, cards and this, according to her granddaughter, is only the tip of the iceberg. There were boxes upon boxes of moments in time that had been preserved by her grand-
mother. Mary Ann Findley Wells was born July 29, 1917, in Atmore, Alabama. Her family moved to Big Spring, Texas in 1919 and bought a farm west of town. That farm is one of the many memories and history connections still maintained by the family. She attended Cauble School and graduated from Big Spring High School in 1935. After graduating high school, Mary attended Hendricks Hospital Nursing School in Abilene, Texas, and from there traveled to a nursing school in New York City. Mary would return to her hometown of Big Spring (April 1945) and serve with the Nurses Corp at the Big Spring Army Air Field Bombardier School. She meet her future husband Sam Wells when her mother invited Bombardier cadets from East Fourth Baptist Church to her home for a home cooked meal. The Wells had two children and many grandgrand children that loved dearthem dear ly. Mary passed November 14, 1989. “While she (Mary) was in her school in San Antonio, he (Sam) would fly down with generthe gener als to go and visit her,” Kristie said. “He would go do his visiting and elbow rubbing with the generals, and then he would go and visit her.” She continued, “There was one of the trips – one of the more often told stories of the two – where granddad went to San Antonio with the generals and before he snuck out the General offered to take him in the car to go visit Mary. He turned him down.... He wanted to spend his time with her.” While in the process of moving recently, Kristie found the memories – scrapbooks, old nursing materials/items, love letters, etc – that her grandmother had kept. Going through the memories, Living Magazine
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Kristie and her family decided to share those memories with others. “While both of them had a great impact on military history and were a part of the communities history, their love story is a piece of our family history that will live on for many years to come,” Kristie said. Kristie and her mother recalled a story that Mary used to share about one of the correspondences between Mary and Sam. While she was in San Antonio at work, she had requested for Sam to send a photo so her co-workers and friends could see him. “She wanted to show him basically. All the ladies were wondering what he looked like,” Kristie said. “One day she received a letter in the mail and all her nursing ladies were gathered around her
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as she opened it. When she opened it she pulled out the photo with all in anticipation … however, when she pulled out the photo it was a photo of a hairy gorilla,” she said. “Grandma was so mad at him and probably a little bit embarrassed.” The ladies continued their story, “He actually ended up sending her a real photograph of himself, and she was able to show him off to her friends, but not before he riled her up just a little bit. She kept that photo of that gorilla and that was honestly one of the favorite stories that we have of the two.” Cute, funny endearing stories like the photographed one are a prime example of the love the couple shared. The two were inseparable after the war and whenever you saw them together their love was obvious. The couple constantly walked hand in hand, just as they did in life. “Their story is a piece of history,” Kristie said. “The Hangar (25 Air Museum) houses a lot of amazing stuff out there and it’s things people need to see because it is their history … it’s part of Big Spring history.” In addition to the new exhibit featuring
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Wells nursing history, the museum is working on compiling a new exhibit featuring her husband, Sam Wells. “The children (and grandchildren) of Mary Wells have donated mementos from her nursing career,” Amber Stokes, Hanger 25 Air Museum Director, said. “Through this donation we are able to feature a piece of military nursing history and honor Mary. An exhibit honoring Mary is now housed in the museum.” Included in the display is her nursing uniform, medical equipment, photographs and more. Each piece was carefully chosen to highlight who Mary Wells was as a person in order to preserve her legacy, but also to shine a light on an often overlooked portion of military history – the nursing field, the ones who helps keep our soldiers healthy, nursed them back to health and allowed them to not
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only fight for our country, but return to their families. The Hangar 25 Air Museum is located at 1911 Apron Drive. To contact the museum, call 432-264-1999.
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program will find the data collected from the ndividuals looking to gain a better scan beneficial, as it will give them more understanding of how their body insight into the way their body behaves. works now have the ability to get a Individuals who are on a diet or weight-loss BodyLogic Scan at the Shannon program can now see where specifically Imaging Center. With just one short on their body they are gaining or losing X-ray scan from the DXA unit, BodyLbody fat and gaining muscle. Dieticians can ogic creates an Advanced Body Comutilize the data to work with patients with position assessment that measures the diabetes to balance their weight-loss and three main tissues in your body: fat, medication needs. lean muscle mass, and bone. Data for each area of the body is broken An Advanced Body Composition asdown into easy-to-read visuals on the Adsessment can be beneficial for numervanced Body Composition assessment that ous reasons, such as tracking the shows the individual how their muscles are progress of physical therapy, a weight management program or athletic trainMichelle Snuggs, MD: reacting to their training. Coaches, whether ing. Radiologist at Shannon it’s at the high school or college level, can Imaging Center send their athletes over to see how they The BodyLogic Scan is an additional are progressing with certain training that scan performed on our DXA machine, they may be doing. Personal trainers or fitness coachwhich we have been doing for years. The old scan es can send individuals here to see if their workouts only measured bone mass density—how thick and are meeting specific goals. how strong your bones are. BodyLogic, besides imagThe scan will look at the percent body fat and your ing from head to toe, measures your percent body fat. lean muscle mass, but one of the really neat things It gives a true BMI, or Body Mass Index, and looks at that it does is compare sides and visualize how one total lean muscle mass. extremity looks compared to the other side. Maybe Located at the Shannon Imaging Center, the DXA you’ve had a fracture on the left extremity and your machine takes about 7-8 minutes to perform a Bodymuscles have shrunk down and you need to build Logic scan, and 10 minutes to create a full-color, them; you can actually look at how the left leg comdetailed report. The color-coordinated body scan pares to the right leg and go from there. that tells you which color is the fat, which color is the The BodyLogic Scan is available to anyone in the muscle and which color is the bone. It’s very easy to community, and can be utilized as often as needed. read. These results are immediately available to take Although you do not need a referral, your primary care home, as well as keep stored in your medical records doctor or other physician can call and make an apfor a physician to review. pointment for you. The BodyLogic Scan is helpful in showing how a Typically we will obtain a baseline scan so we know patient’s physical therapy is progressing over time. what an individual’s numbers are starting the process. Patients in therapy after surgery, or even after a Then, depending on what your doctor, physical therastroke, can see visual representations of their muscupist and/or trainer wants to do, you may want to get it lar function and improvement. The physical therapist another scan once a month, every 6 weeks, every 6 and/or a primary care doctor or orthopedic surgeon can use these scans to figure out whether they’re actu- months—just depending on what the training and/or therapy may entail. ally building more muscle or if they need to tailor their The scan and report are $75 per visit. For more intraining or their therapy to target more specific muscle formation, or to schedule an appointment, contact the groups. Shannon Imaging Center at 325-481-2339. Athletes looking to create a training and nutrition Living Magazine
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A piece of Big Spring history By:Tammy Schrecengost ittie Barrett would barely tip the scales to 100 pounds. What she lacked in size she made up in her strong will and perseverance. Mittie Elizabeth Mauldin was born in 1852 in Shelbyville, Texas, now known as Shelby County, it borders Texas and Louisiana. After the brutalities and sufferings of the Civil War, Mittie’s mother passed away. She and her four siblings went to live with their grandfather Dr. Eli Maudin on a large farm in Shelbyville County. In 1872, Mittie met and married George Barrett. The couple made their home along the Concho river in a settlement called Ben Finklin to hunt buffalo. When Mittie wasn’t salting the buffalo meat, she was busy utilizing the other parts of the animal. The thick tufts of hair made mattresses
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and the skin made carpets for the floors in the tents as well as reinforcing the tent walls. They found a ready market for the remaining hides, getting $1.00 to $1.50 each. Mittie often accompanied her husband on buffalo hunts. The party of hunters would approach herds of buffalo. Mittie said there seemed to be thousands of buffalo in a herd and as with cattle, you had to be careful of a stampede. The hunters would position themselves in a hidden area and then pick out the fattest animals. Living on the Concho was a blessing and a curse. As George was out on a cattle drive, Mittie found the river was rising at a rapid and alarming rate. She loaded the wagon bed with the family’s possessions and lashed a sheet tightly over the top. Flood waters took the wagon downstream however, it never toppled over in the water and they were able to retrieve their belongings. Mittie’s three young children were all under the age of 7 when she became gravely ill with pneumonia. George was frequently gone, and she was left alone to provide for her children and nurse herself back to health with her grandfather’s remedy of whiskey. In January 1881, George was sent to an area by the springs (Big Spring) to gather buffalo bones. Mittie decided to join her husband’s party along with their three small children and cook for the men. They locked their home in Ben Ficklin and only brought essentials. While they were in Big
Spring[s], the Concho River rose once more and this time it washed away the little settlement of Ben Ficklin along with the Barretts home and belongings. Mittie grieved for the loss of her side saddle and wedding dress but carried on in their new home in Big Spring[s]. Life was not easy as everything had to be cooked over the campfire. Water had to be drawn from the spring and carried to the campground area. Mittie had to wash clothes for her family and the boarders using a scrub board and buckets. She said the area was not as thick and brushy as it later became. The grass was tall, and the trees and shrubs were short. The area around the spring had burned shortly before 1881. More people started arriving at the tent campsite waiting for the arrival of the railroad. Wooden tracks had been laid from Fort Worth up to Colorado City. As more families moved into the area, more hardships occurred. In the beginning the only neighbors were the Hillburns and Robersons. She said little Maddie Roberson was buried just south of the spring. Hillburn and Meeks ran a little Mercantile store in their tent and John Birdwell opened a saloon in his tent and hired Joe Cascaden to operate it. One day Joe approached Mittie and complained that the Irishmen that were working on the railroad construction, were complaining about the white whiskey and did not want it. His sales had almost Living Magazine
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The Barrett’s constructed two tents end to end; one being used for boarders and the other for the family. Some days she would have as many as 15 boarders at a time. She had placed her sewing machine in the middle and did public sewing. Mittie could keep an eye on her cooking at one end and her babies at the other end. Mittie said there were a lot of rough characters back then. Courtesy photo Cowboys would ride into town, George (C.W.) Barrett lived and fought for justice in El Paso until get drunk, and ride their horses his death in 1909. Mittie raised the children and remained in Big through the tents or shoot out the Spring until her death. lights. On one occasion, an amoceased, and he could not get a new stock of the rous cowboy wouldn’t back down so Mittie reached red whiskey. Mittie suggested that he “toast a good in her dresser drawer and pulled out her six shooter. quantity of brown sugar and add to the whiskey.” She told him:“I will shoot you so full of holes that “After Joe added a few plugs of tobacco to the mix, your hide won’t hold shucks.” It worked and she his sales rapidly improved.” said Mittie. didn’t have any more problems with him. Once the trains started steaming their way through She said the Fisher brothers opened their tent Big Spring, the tent boarders picked up and moved mercantile and Joe Earnest had a tent meat marcloser to the tracks. ket. The front of the tent had a mesquite arbor where he hung the meat. The town was mainly located along Front street as none of the streets had been laid out. Mittie would often rise at 4 a.m., cook for the boarders and start sewing. On many days her work was not done until around 2 a.m. She gave up her tent for a new permanent home at 311 Bell where she lived for the remainder of her life. She buried her eight-year-old daughter, Etta, in 1887 and shortly after that her husband, George moved to El Paso where he was known as a “fair and generous lawman and gunfighter.” At the end of her life, Mittie remarked that she had stayed here (on earth) too long and was tired. She reflected “there have been many thorns,” then she smiled reassuringly and said, “but too, there have been the roses.” Mittie Elizabeth Barrett passed 1700 W. FM 700 away in her home on November 26, www.bigspringpediatrics.com 1940 at the age of 88.
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By:ANNA GUTIERREZ ig Spring and Howard County, along with surrounding areas have a new avenue for healthcare when it comes to their furry, four-legged friends. Recently, Big Spring Veterinary Diagnostic Hospital (BVDH), held a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil their remodeled facility. But, not only was the facility remodeled, it was expanded to better care for the pets and animals in Big Spring and Howard County. “My husband and I started working together back in 2006 in a practice in Austin,” Leslee Hurwitz, Certified Vet Practice Manager and Co-owner of the practice, said. “We retired and sold the veterinary hospital to the two vets who worked there, and retired to Bracketville, Texas. We thought to ourselves, ‘We really love veterinary medicine,’ so we opened up a practice in Del Rio, and then another one in Eagle Pass. When this hospital became available, there was a group of people who approached us and asked if we’d be interested in looking at Big
Spring, so here we are.” Hurwitz continued, “When we took over, the hospital was basically just a metal building, with much of it being used for storage only. So we took it down and completely remodeled the entire hospital. Where we used to have two exams room, now we have five. The old surgical suite was probably only around 200 square feet, and with the renovations it has tripled. We also added a diagnostic imaging department which includes the ultrasound and digital X-ray, as well as CT. So we have taken everything that people would get in a specialty hospital in a large city and brought it to Big Spring. You won’t need to travel anywhere else to get high-end diagnostics like they had to in the past.” Ensuring care was provided for Howard County animals, the renovation process took place around business hours and space. According to Hurwitz, during the renovation process, the hospital stayed open. Staying open during renovations is a rarity because of the issues that could arise and in turn Living Magazine
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possibly make the process more difficult, but remaining open was a necessity, as the animals needed care. Most of the animals served by BVDH are pets, cats and dogs but they would love to have a veterinarian who can work on horses. There is a facility in the back to allow that, but right now they are only doing wellness checks. The most exciting news to be revealed at the ribbon cutting was that BVDH will be used as a teaching hospital for the new Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine that will open in 2021. There were only 14 hospitals chosen to be teaching hospitals in this program. Big Spring will be known in the veterinary community as being one of the best teaching hospitals in the system. It’s worth mentioning that while the ribbon cutting and ceremony were taking place, the staff was busy taking care of a dog that had come in with an emergency. Sandy Hurwitz, DVM, the veterinarian at BVDH introduced the facility to a room full of people who had been given tours of the clinic and were enjoying the BBQ lunch that was provided. During his speech, Dr. Hurwitz mentioned he came from Austin and states, “This is a community of working people, down-to-earth people who come in every day, bring their animals, and tell us about what they do. We enjoy being here. This facility is dedicated to this community. We have a wonderful staff, and they’re local, is family run with the children of Dr. and Mrs. Hurwitz partners and part of the every-day operations. Dr. Hurwitz states that these are the people who are the future of veterinary medicine. “The real story today is not this hospital, it is that
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this is now the face of veterinary medicine in rural Texas and rural America, and that is not a product of this hospital,” states Dr. Hurwitz. “One of people responsible for putting together this new model of veterinary education is Dr. Guy Loneragan. Veterinary medicine is in crisis. We are woefully short of veterinarians, and we are even shorter of talent. When a need arises, a leader will appear, and I feel Dr. Loneragan is that leader.” Dr. Hurwitz believes this new model will create the finest veterinarians in America. In five years, the veterinarians in rural Texas will be better than any vet you can find in urban America, and this is already beginning to happen.” Dr. Guy Loneragan will be the Dean of the Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine. He says it has been 50 years since the talks began about a veterinary school in Texas, and that is now coming true. “When Texas Tech University was founded, it was not founded in Lubbock,” states Dr. Loneragan. “It was written into the legislature that it would serve
Courtesy photo The staff at the clinic is ready to serve the Big Spring community and their pets. Pictured are members of the staff: Back From left to right: Makala Newton, Raegan Deel, Monica Molina, Maggie Pollock, Christina Balderas, Breeanon Ramsey; Front From left to right: Donna Balderas, Camie Tilley, Briana Mendoza, Maya Chavez.
West Texas, but they didn’t know where it was going. West Texas needed access to higher education to service the residents, and a board ultimately decided on Lubbock. It’s the same with this school of veterinary medicine. We’ve been working on this for five years, and right from the very beginning said that more of the same is not enough.” “There are vibrant communities in West Texas that need veterinarians, but there are not enough to go around. Our philosophy from the very beginning was that to provide students with the very best education, they would have to have hands-on, real-world experience in the Big Springs of Texas. “So we were absolutely thrilled when people like Dr. and Mrs. Hurwitz came and said that they want to help build the next generation of the model. So this model has the fingerprints of Dr. Hurwitz and other community veterinarians across Texas. They own this program, and we are dependent on them to provide that experience to the next generation. Our hope is that by this time next year, we are admitting the first class of students to start in the Fall of 2021.” Dr. Lonergan grew up in rural Australia. He says that if they wanted skilled professionals, they had to
grown them themselves. It’s the same concept with veterinarians; they need vets from rural Texas to come back and work in rural Texas. Dr. Loneragan says that Dr. Hurwitz’s focus on quality is what sets this facility apart from others. “While we have state-of-the-art facilities that are second-to-none, what makes it is the BVDH staff. Teams like this are what will make this practice special and help the school be successful. “We are looking forward to having students in our program working down here. Texas Tech has a long future here in Big Spring.” Dr. Hurwitz concludes, “When we first came to town and immediately met the local people and politicians; we let me tell you how to attract people to rural Texas. all you have to do is introduce them to the culture. In every small community where we are, when we interview students for positions, we take them around the community to meet people. “That doesn’t happen in big cities, only in rural America, and it is because of the people that makes new residents want to stay. So thank you to all of the people who helped bring these folks to Big Spring.” Living Magazine
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n alarming 33 percent of Americans currently suffer from cardiovascular disease. Throughout Heart Health Awareness Month, The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine, a member of the Healogics network, will work to spread awareness about how cardiovascular diseases can affect the wound healing process. Chronic wounds affect approximately 6.7 million people in the United States and, if left untreated, an unhealed wound on the foot or leg can lead to a diminished quality of life and possible amputation. As many as 82 percent of leg amputations are due to poor circulation of the affected limb. Cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, strokes, arrhythmia, vascular disease and other issues with the heart and vessels can causes blockages that obstruct the flow of blood needed for proper wound healing. Differentiating between arterial and venous ulcers may be challenging, but a correct diagnosis can result in optimal treatment options. Careful vascular assessment is key when a patient presents with a lower extremity ulcer as arterial disease is generally contraindicative to compression therapy, the cornerstone of venous ulcer management. The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine offers the following tips to live a heart healthy life. • Live an active lifestyle with 30 minutes of exercise on most days. • Don’t smoke or use tobacco of any kind as it is one of the most significant risk factors for developing heart disease.
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• Eat a diet that is heart-healthy. This includes lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans and other low-fat sources of protein. • Maintain a healthy weight. Obesity can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. All of these chronic conditions can lead to heart disease. • Ensure you get quality sleep by making it a priority in your life. Most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep each night. • Manage your stress in a healthy way with positive self-talk, using stress stoppers, doing things you enjoy, and relaxing on a regular basis. • See your healthcare provider for regular screenings. This includes blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes screenings. • Take off your socks at your next checkup and speak up about any problems with your legs or feet. If you or a loved one is living with a wound and cardiovascular disease, contact the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine at 1501 W 11th Place, Suite 106 or (432) 268-5370. About Healogics Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the largest provider of advanced wound care services in the United States, treating more than 300,000 chronic wounds patients annually across over 600 Wound Care Centers®. The Healogics team is made up of almost 3,000 employees, 4,000 affiliated physicians and a Healogics Specialty Physician practice group of nearly 300. In addition to the company’s network of outpatient Centers, Healogics partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 80 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest
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repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative, an effort launched in 2017 to provide peer-reviewed research, recognizes the value and relevance of big data and advanced analytics to drive continuous, collaborative learning towards a better understanding of how to efficiently utilize healthcare resources for patients with wounds. For additional information, please visit Healogics.com.
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