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The Chamber Jeffersontown mission hasn’t really changed over the past halfcentury. They still “serve and assist their membership by encouraging community spirit and involvement.” What started more than 50 years ago as a way to create and grow the community of Jeffersontown and its local businesses has now flourished to a non-profit organization with strong ties to its J-Town community as well as throughout the region. As the second largest Chamber of Commerce in the area, they serve more than 900 organizations while hosting 60-70 community and business events yearly. With five full-time employees, it is quite impressive what this team can accomplish with the help of the many who volunteer for each event. Most of the volunteers are people coming from the member businesses themselves. “We couldn’t do it without all that external help,” says John Cosby, The Chamber Jeffersontown president.

Gaslight Festival alone relies on at least 200 different volunteers to pull off the fifth largest festival in the region. On average, the Gaslight Festival will have about 250 booths, half are business booths and the other half are arts and crafts. Booths can be for members or nonmembers. There are usually an estimated 200,000 visitors during the eight-day street party. That’s what it started as in 1969. A “street party” was the idea of two founding members of The Chamber Jeffersontown, Peg Weber and Jack Durrett. It gets more popular every year. The City of Jeffersontown lends a big hand as well by keeping everyone safe with the presence of the Jeffersontown Police and Fire Departments. Not to mention the city employees who help, too.

J-Town and welcomes about 10,000 people. There are events for everyone. If a motorcycle rally calls your wild side, they have it. For 15 years people have been gathering on their bikes for this ride. And if swinging your 9-iron gets your blood pumping, you can join there, too. The Golf Scramble moves from course to course yearly. Several courses are members of the Chamber as well. “We like to think we are integrated in the fabric of this community,” Cosby says. “We support this city, being visible here.” There are many community-wide events hosted by The Chamber Jeffersontown and manned by its members.

“It’s the way it is organized, how it’s community-driven, well run and it’s fun to be associated with,” says Mike Ratterman of The community events have grown over the decades, keeping the people of Jeffersontown, Ratterman and Son’s Funeral Home. businesses and surrounding areas always Ratterman’s has been an active member of in mind. Whether it is the community 5K The Chamber Jeffersontown for 30 years. run, which has been happening for more than 25 years, or the popular Balloon Glow that started 15 years ago at Skyview Park in While the people of Jeffersontown certainly

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It is important to The Chamber Jeffersontown to have an array of activities and services to offer members. According to Cosby, “One size does not fit all. People’s lives are pretty busy, pretty full. So we do something for everybody.”

their goods, their talents and their services. Usually, there are approximately 140 businesses who set up booths, and you can count on about 1,000 people visiting the Expo for the day.

employees of any member business. This gives the employee the chance to finish that degree, whether Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s or a certificate from a trade school. The schools must be accredited.

The Chamber Jeffersontown wants to help the community and its businesses grow and flourish, and one way is by offering a scholarship. They give out four scholarships each year for $2,500 each to working adults,

This year’s scholarship winners were announced in June at a scholarship breakfast, with a job fair to follow at the Community Center. The Chamber received about 30 applications this year.

If a breakfast networking event is better, then the Chamber offers a bi-monthly Business at Breakfast. Members drop their business cards in a fishbowl and a half an hour later, if their card is randomly picked, they get to show off and fine-tune their best elevator speech for their peers. The cost is only $5 and it gives attendees the chance to meet and learn about each other. If evenings work best, then the monthly Business Blast could be the answer to meet other members in a relaxed environment. The Chamber has also hosted the Chamber University for years, an opportunity at no charge to its members, held quarterly. After breakfast and a

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and amblyopia (lazy eye) that can affect reading and comprehension. As business partners, Drs. Young and Bowersox also do a lot of work with the neuro rehab community in Louisville, working closely with the Brain Injury Alliance. In a video shared to the center’s Facebook page on December 20, a patient named Kayla, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being kicked in the head by a horse, demonstrates the benefits of vision rehab. “She was frustrated because she struggled with walking for months after the accident,” Dr. Bowersox says. The video shows Kayla walking down a hallway, struggling to take more than a couple of steps without keeping her head down or grasping the wall for support. She says the floor looks mountainous, and that she cannot see Dr. Bowersox’s face, who is standing just a few feet in front of her. After putting on a pair of prism glasses that were specially designed by the Bowersox Vision Center team after consulting with Kayla as part of vision rehab, she proceeds to walk down the same hallway with total confidence. The huge smile on her face at the end says more than words ever could. “It’s absolutely life-changing what we’ve been able to do with our patients,” Dr. Bowersox says. “Other doctors often refer to us for neurological problems and unusual binocular vision problems. We can fix those problems and send them back to their regular doctor.” Bowersox Vision Center can even work with athletes interested in improving their hand-eye coordination to further excel in their sport of choice. Sports vision training involves high-level eye tracking, depth perception and hand-eye coordination exercises to improve reaction and timing without the use of glasses. “Vision therapy, vision rehab and sports vision sound different, but they all use the

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Writer / Dr. Dave Schroerlucke

“There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory.” -Unknown Yea… we talkin’ bout it, Allen Iverson. Vince Lombardi, the legendary American football coach and namesake of the Super Bowl trophy, famously said, “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” This, of course, begs the question: “What exactly constitutes perfect practice?” I aim to unpack Lombardi’s oft-quoted

statement by describing the essential characteristics of the sort of practice that offers the most efficient path to skillmastery. In order to be most effective, practice must be deliberate, realistic and pressurized.

DELIBERATE PRACTICE “This is a fundamental truth about any sort of practice: If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve.” -Anders Ericcson Anders Ericcson, psychology professor JULY 2019

at Florida State University and one of the foremost experts on expertise, has studied the psychological makeup and habits of the world’s elite performers for the last four decades in an effort to discern how they were able to develop their superior talent. In his most recent book, “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise”, Ericcson argues that the best predictor of extraordinary expertise is deliberate practice, which is presented as an upgraded version of his earlier term “purposeful practice.” Purposeful practice involves practicing with undivided attention toward achieving a specific, well-defined goal. Deliberate practice is purposeful practice

that is also informed by continual assessment, feedback and goal-revision in order to ensure that the level of challenge always remains just outside the boundary of one’s comfort zone. An indispensable feature of deliberate practice is the availability of immediate feedback through the use of meaningful metrics – quantitative measures of performance that serve as an accurate indication of one’s current level of mastery. Such objective performance measures allow for the scaffolding of training goals in a way that constantly demands performance that is slightly better than one’s previous best, thereby promoting rapid incremental improvement. Because deliberate practice involves failing a lot, many people do not find it enjoyable. Elite performers, however, delight in observing gradual, incremental progress toward a longterm goal. They aim at the big, but focus on the small. They understand that in order to reach the summit, they must first start down the trail, and see every step as a step toward their goal.

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(stadium, field, stage) as similar as possible to where you will perform, using the equipment with which you will perform, wearing your actual performance attire, all while blaring an audio recording of a typical audience while practicing. Visual, tactile and auditory cues are important parts of the learning experience, and any discrepancies in the performance environment are possible sources of distraction. One’s internal physical state while practicing and performing is just as important as the external environment. Energy levels and alertness are impacted by sleep quality, time of day, meal timing (blood sugar levels), and the presence of stimulants such as caffeine. Taking NSAIDs for pain relief can have a significant impact on proprioceptive ability. Everyone is different, of course, so it is important to pay attention to the effects of any changes to these internal factors so you know how to create the conditions that

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facilitate your optimal performance. As with external conditions, you want your internal state during practice to as closely as possible resemble that of game day. So be careful about taking ibuprofen for that aching shoulder or a power nap right before the big game.

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psychological awareness that a particular performance carries more weight, that this time matters, is what creates performance anxiety. The truth is that you might never become comfortable with pressure, but you can become more comfortable performing while uncomfortable. To achieve this, you must structure practice in such a way that you always feel pressure to perform optimally.

“Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money” - Lee Trevino Let’s face it. No practice setting can ever perfectly simulate the conditions of an important performance or competition because there is one aspect of performance that is very difficult to replicate – pressure. Throughout this article, a line has been drawn between practice and performance, with the critical difference being that the aim of practice is improving one’s ability whereas the aim of performance is achieving an optimal outcome. The

An objection that might be raised here is that everyone knows that practice is still just practice, and deep down you always know that how you perform in practice doesn’t really matter. Well, you have to find a way to make it matter. I am not saying you have to find a way of tricking yourself into thinking that it matters. For the type of person who is driven to excel, practice actually does matter. Elite performers are so attached to seeing evidence of constant improvement and progress toward their goals that the day-

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to reproduce performance conditions) and pressurized (monitored in a way that carries personal import). This is not an argument that no one can achieve a high level of expertise without following these guidelines. No doubt many have. The claim, rather, is that these principles lead to the most rapid learning and efficient development of expertise that is robust enough to stand up under the pressure of high-stakes performance environments.

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Purposeful, realistic, pressurized practice is the fastest way to turn So let’s review. If you want to visions into reality. Set measurable develop expertise in the most goals for every practice session efficient way possible, your practice that are beyond your previously needs to be deliberate (intentionally established performance, record designed for measurable your results and get feedback. Then improvement), realistic (structured repeat. Everyday.

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Sherry Howard has spent the bulk of her life and career in education. First as a teacher and then as a principal for various schools in the Louisville area. Much of that time was spent in the area of special needs kids, a unique aspect of her past that reflects heavily on all facets of her life. And none more so, Howard discovered, than in her writing and, particularly, in her first children’s book “Rock & Roll Woods.” After retirement, Howard sought something to fill her time and she found herself with the literal pen — Howard says she still uses pen and paper.

resulted was “Rock & Roll Woods.” As with anything in Howard’s life her family had a large part to play in her book, especially her granddaughter. “It’s acknowledged in the acknowledgments that I asked my granddaughter, who was eight at the time, what she’d like me to write about next because my family is all part of my writing,” she says. “And she said, ‘let’s write about a bear.’ Then we brainstormed a little bit and she said she wanted the bear to be named Kuda. So we named the bear Kuda and I wrote the story.”

Kuda, the star of Howard’s book, is a bear that faces “sensory integration issues,” which is more formally known as Sensory “It was sort of a gradual journey to Processing Disorder (SPD). SPD is a publication,” she says. “Initially, I just wrote neurological disorder in which the sensory for my own enjoyment. I took a lot of online information that an individual perceives classes specific to writing.” results in abnormal responses according to The STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Eventually, she happened upon the world Disorder. It’s an issue that affects many of children’s literature and “fell in love” children — 5% to 16% according to one in part due to her love of children. What study — something Howard discovered JULY 2019

for herself firsthand at a recent school reading. “When I did a reading at Stopher Elementary there were 150 first-graders and when I asked who was afraid of loud noises over half the kids shot up their hands,” Howard says. “And that is a sensory integration issue. But it’s also a universal issue. There can be a lot of overlap in what is typical at a young age and what turns out to be a bigger issue. You just never know.” So Kuda became Howard’s hero for these children but it wasn’t an entirely intentional idea. “I didn’t really sit down and think ‘oh, I’m going to write about a bear with sensory integration problems,’” she says. “I just wrote about a bear and gave that bear the personality of a special needs child I had in my mind and developed the story. After the story was finished I realized that Kuda really is a special needs bear. That what I’d written about was sensory integration.”

Howard’s publisher, Clear Fork Media Group, saw Kuda’s struggle as something that should not only be part of “Rock & Roll Woods” but actually central to the theme. They decided that, Howard explains, “not only would the story itself feature sensory integration issues but that there would be back matter included in the book which is not typical for a fiction book. There’s explanation about what sensory integration is because it’s not really limited to children who have big problems.” For most people, the idea of writing a children’s book seems, perhaps, a daunting prospect but not so much when compared to a full-length novel. Not true, Howard laughs. “In a certain way, those 50,000-word books are easier than trying to write a really good story in 600 words,” she says. That might seem counter-intuitive but Howard explains further: “It’s recognized that picture books are really hard to write because you can’t use very many words in the writing,” she adds. Fortunately, Howard’s background in writing, and specifically poetry, lent itself well to her endeavor though challenges still presented themselves. “Picture book writing is really different,” Howard says. “When you do a picture book you have lots and lots of edits. You

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put it out to critique partners who look at it and you go back and forth and back and forth on it before you ever submit it to a publisher. It was a long process. But being a poet and that background lends itself really well to picture book writing.” Illustrations for a children’s books are as equally important as the words, and Howard was fortunate enough to land artist Anika A. Wolf. Wolf ’s vibrant style brings a crisp and colorful pop to Kuda’s tale. From the outsider’s perspective, it probably seems relatively simple. You write the book and

you get someone to do the art. According to Howard, however, the process lies completely in the hands of the publisher. “The publisher chooses the illustrator and, typically, if you’re an author only rather than an author and illustrator, the publisher and the illustrator go off and do their thing and you’re not really involved with it until the very end,” she says. “Then you’re kind of pulled back in. Typically, they don’t want a writer to pair up with an illustrator outside of their process. It’s very unusual for it to happen.”

“I want to write books that kids enjoy and have a feeling about after they read it,” she says. “Rock and Roll Woods” deliberately has multiple layers in it. The first and most obvious layer is a fun, noisy story that kids love to chime in with when it’s read out loud. That level is for all kids, sensory issues or not. Another layer is for the child with sensory issues, who sees a bear (child) struggle with those issues and survive because he has great friends. Another layer is for those parents of kids with those issues. The book gives parents and teachers of kids with sensory issues a little private joke, the grumpy reluctance to accept that is common with a lot of young kids. And, the information at the back gives the adults specific information

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“The important thing about books for children is they all need to see themselves, their feelings, their friends or their families in books,” she says. “Kids really need books like this to help them feel less isolated and give them hope and a voice for something they sometimes

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The missing species of Floyds Fork are not limited to mammals, such as the extinct bison. Two notable birds, the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, now completely extinct, inhabited Kentucky and undoubtedly Floyds Fork. The passenger pigeon, related and similar looking to the morning dove, was the most numerous bird in North America. Flocks of billions of birds migrating south darkened the sky for hours and days.

in Wisconsin (1871) was L-shaped with the long arm averaging 6 miles wide and 72 miles long and the short arm 50 x 8 miles and contained some 136,000,000 birds. Over this forest the birds nested some 90 pairs to a tree, often breaking large branches in old trees.

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I hear it like clockwork when I speak to women as warmer weather approaches. School is almost out, kids are getting restless and vacations are on the horizon. But what is the one thing of utmost priority? “Oh, I’ve been doing (insert fad diet) because we’re going on vacation in a few weeks and I don’t want to look like this in my swimsuit!” “I’m cutting out carbs because I need to slim down before going to Cancun!” I hear it All.The.Time. Insecurity and outward comparison I’m sure play a huge role in making us feel so self-conscious to look our best. But really what do you gain by obsessing over how you will look in that suit? Does it bring peace of mind? Most likely not. And is cutting out entire food groups a sustainable and healthy lifestyle for you? Again, probably not! Well, I’m here to tell you, you will look great! Probably the only person who cares how you look is you. Instead of focusing on the physical, I want to discuss just a few other things to pay mind to as summer comes along. Things that are not about a diet or a number on the scale but can help you feel energized, grateful and get the most out of your summer. 1. GO OUTSIDE FOR VITAMIN D The sun is the best source of vitamin D we cannot obtain through food. We’ve been fear mongered to believe that even an ounce of sunshine will ruin you with skin cancer, but, in reality, going outside and being in nature and sunlight is good for you! Not only is it linked to helping with anxiety and depression, but it keeps your skin and bones healthy as well.

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4. BE PRESENT Sounds easy, right? But being mindful to your inner thoughts and creating gratitude for what’s around you can take some practice. It’s so easy to let the negative thoughts overcrowd being present in the moment. By focusing on what’s behind or what’s ahead of us, we lose sight of what’s right in front of us. Which if you think about it is really the only thing that’s important. Your ‘now.’ Health and wellbeing are so much more than the number on the scale. It’s about your mental health, nutrition and overall disposition of your life. Focusing on the minutia of one number brings you nothing more than an unnecessary stressor and a skewed view of what’s important. So, go outside a little more, enjoy what’s surrounding you and eat food that makes you feel good!

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Family & Children’s Place Fundraising Event Coming Up July 20 Writer / Adrianne Morse

Growing up I never knew what a “normal” household was until my senior year of high school when I moved in with my best friend and her family. I knew that my household wasn’t normal, but I was finally able to, at the age of 18, experience normal and no longer be in fear of what was going to happen when I got home from school or when I was asleep. At the age of 34, I decided to share parts of my story and write everything down that I could remember from my childhood, from the earliest memories I had, the darkest, the saddest and the triumphant. The fight for survival, the recovery, the long road to forgiveness (still a work in progress) and now being an advocate. Many of my friends were shocked to hear of the abuse that took place, as many do, abuse is not something people talk about. Especially the older generation. I feel that with everything taking place these last few years with the Me Too Movement, my generation is saying no more to staying silent. I will speak my truth and hope that I can help someone recover from the abuse they experienced or are currently experiencing. I am a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. I am a survivor of something that was supposed to knock me down and keep down, but I said: “No, you won’t win!” I am no longer a victim. I found my voice and I now want others to find theirs. And to receive the help they need from the Family & Children’s Place. I am a proud board member for this amazing organization and I want to be a leader for the community, for the children. Our children need a voice, they need us to speak for them, for us to advocate for them. Our children are the future and they must know that we care about them and want to protect and heal them. I am hosting a fundraiser at 3rd Turn Brewing in Jeffersontown on July 20, to raise money for the Family & Children’s Place. There will be auction items and donation jars. All money raised that night will go to the Family & Children’s Place. I am asking everyone to please join me to help raise money that night. 34 / JEFFERSONTOWN MAGAZINE / JULY 2019 / JeffersontownMag.com

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