Clarksville Family Magazine — February 2010
The February 2010 Clarksville Family Magazine steps up to the plate with Buddy Ball, explores personality types, and guards the heart.
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The cover feature spotlighted “Buddy Ball — Clarksville's Special Needs Athletic League,” celebrating the program that gives children with special needs the joy of playing ball — an inclusive, heartwarming local story that embodies the community's best instincts.
“Are You a Donald Duck or a Pink Panther?” brought a fun, revealing look at personality types, helping readers understand themselves and the people around them. Fittingly for American Heart Month, “Maintaining Cholesterol for a Healthy Heart” offered practical guidance for protecting cardiac health, while “The Arts and the Homeschool Advantage” explored creative education for the growing number of local homeschooling families and a “My Story” feature shared a personal account. Safety coverage rounded out the issue.
The recurring departments round out a February number that leads with inclusion and heart — a reminder, as American Heart Month unfolds, that a strong community, like a strong heart, depends on caring for everyone in it, especially those who need an extra hand to get in the game.
The Buddy Ball feature asked readers to imagine a different kind of sport: a baseball game with no outs and no strikes where everyone makes it to home plate, a basketball game where a ball out of bounds doesn't matter, a league in which limitations become the greatest asset and competitiveness gives way to companionship — a place where everyone cheers for everyone else, redefining sportsmanship one game at a time.
Table of Contents
- Buddy Ball—Clarksville’s Special Needs Athletic League (p. 6)
- Safety (p. 10)
- My Story (p. 12)
- Are You a Donald Duck or a Pink Panther? (p. 16)
- Maintaining Cholesterol for a Healthy Heart (p. 22)
- The Arts and the Homeschool Advantage (p. 24)
- Lypossage Q&A (p. 28)
- Nature (p. 30)
- Love the Skin You’re In (p. 32)
- The Valentine’s Day Dance (p. 38)
- Summer Fun (p. 40)
- Insight into Breast Augmentation (p. 42)
- Learning to Value the People around Us (p. 44)
- Terminal Rd (p. 115)
Regular Departments
- Family Values (p. 20)
- Faith & Family (p. 34)
- Candid Clarksville (p. 43)
- The Fridge (p. 46)
- Family (p. 48)
- Parent Groups (p. 54)
- Coloring Contest (p. 55)
