Clarksville Family Magazine — July 2008
The July 2008 Clarksville Family Magazine celebrates a success story in Viva Catie, confronts child abuse, and protects the skin you're in.
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The cover feature, “Viva Catie — Success!,” followed an inspiring local story with real warmth, including a trip to Austin, Texas, that left a lasting impression — “Austin was so big, clean and welcoming,” one recollection runs, describing a hill with the state capitol at the end of the road. It was the kind of personal, place-rich storytelling that gave the young magazine its heart.
“Spotting and Reporting Child Abuse” took on a difficult but vital subject, giving readers the knowledge to recognize the signs and act — the magazine using its reach for genuine public good and the protection of the community's most vulnerable children.
With the summer sun at its peak, the health pages delivered “What You Should Know About Skin Cancer” and “Protecting the Skin You're In,” practical guidance for the Tennessee heat, while “If a Tree Falls” added a reflective feature.
The recurring departments round out a July number that balances an uplifting success story, a hard but important subject and summer health — a reminder that a family magazine's deepest responsibility is to the safety of children.
A Faith & Family essay, “Eight-Legged Perseverance,” found its lesson closer to home — in the beautiful, intricate web a large brown spider (a “she,” the writer decided, blaming Charlotte's Web) had spun across the back-deck doorway, and in the small daily negotiation of sharing a home with a resident bug-catcher, whose beautiful, oversized webs had a habit of catching the writer squarely in the face.
Table of Contents
- Viva Catie - Success! (p. 5)
- If a Tree Falls (p. 5)
- Spotting and Reporting Child Abuse (p. 12)
- What You Should Know About Skin Cancer (p. 12)
- Protecting the Skin You’re In (p. 13)
- T & Sympathy (p. 18)
- Family Resource (p. 22)
- Marketplace (p. 31)
Regular Departments
- Faith & Family (p. 10)
- Coloring Contest (p. 15)
- The Fridge (p. 20)
- Network (p. 28)
- Parent Groups (p. 30)
