Fowler’s coaching run comes to an end
Posted: March 10, 2012 at 8:50 am
by Adam Carrington acarrington@mdjonline.com The Marietta Daily Journal
Hillgrove coach Sheryl Fowler looks at the scoreboard as she inserts her final substitutions in Fridays game. Staff photo by Jon-Michael Sullivan
After leading Hillgrove to a 26-5 record and an appearance in the Class AAAAA state championship game, Fowler is calling it a career after 30 seasons on the bench.
The Cobb County native spent her first seven years at the original Campbell High School, then 16 years at McEachern before wrapping up the final six years of her career with the Lady Hawks.
Fowler never won a state championship, but after two appearances in the state finals, four trips to the semifinals and racking up 568 victories, theres nothing for her to be ashamed of.
The veteran mentor coached her final game Friday against her former McEachern team in the Class AAAAA state championship. After making a third-quarter surge to get within striking range, the Lady Hawks fell 69-36 to the undefeated Lady Indians (33-0), a team that may have made a strong case at finishing as the nations top-ranked team.
She has always distinguished herself as a great coach, and we hated to see her go, McEachern athletic director Jimmy Dorsey said. What she and (current McEachern coach) Phyllis (Arthur) have been able to do with girls basketball (at McEachern) is a testament to both of them. Since shes retiring, Im happy she got a chance to end her career in a state championship game.
Fowler is known for building teams and dedicates many hours working with varsity players and youngsters. Shes a fundamental coach who emphasizes the basics of dribbling, shooting, rebounding and passing.
Fowler applied the simple basics when she was hired to rebuild the McEachern program in 1990. She turned the Lady Indians into a regular 20-win team and ended her stay at McEachern with nine straight postseason appearances.
When I first took the McEachern job (in 2006), I heard they had gone to state nine years in a row. That made me nervous and wanted to go to state, Arthur said. I remember telling the girls that were not going to be the ones that mess it up.
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Parkland Health Center’s Twelve Days of Fitness winner
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For the seventh consecutive year, BJC HealthCare and Trek Bike Co. have teamed up to reward employees who make time for fitness during their hectic holiday schedules. BJC employees were given the opportunity to document their fitness efforts during the holiday season and then enter the contest. Winners of the Twelve Days of Fitness contest were recently announced. One winner from each of the BJC hospitals was chosen to receive a custom-fitted Trek bike.
Tracy McMillen, M(ASCP), was the winner from Parkland Health Center. Tracy has worked in microbiology in the lab at Parkland Health Center for five years. I was so surprised to hear that Id won, said Tracy. I love bicycling, and my husband and I have been running and biking for fitness, so a new bike is a great reward. Its such a great thing to do for your employees.
The Twelve Days of Fitness Contest is one of a number of initiatives administered by BJC HealthCares health literacy team.
Parkland Health Center is part of BJC HealthCare which also includes St. Louis Childrens Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the teaching hospitals for Washington University School of Medicine. For additional information about Parkland Health Center, please call (573) 756-6451 or the physician finder service at (573) 431-3338 or visit http://www.parklandhealthcenter.org.
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Perkasie Parks Day to promote health and wellness
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By Erin DuBois Journal Register News Service
The parks and recreation board is envisioning a health and wellness day to be held at Kulp Park on Second Street June 17, with June 24 set as the rain date. Visitors can participate in best-of contests in various athletic endeavors such as running or slam-dunking a basketball. Space will be available for rent to local gyms, nutritionist, fitness and health food businesses to promote their services.
Its yet another event trying to foster more use out of our best-in-class park system, Perkasie Parks and Recreation Committee Chairman Rich Brummett said.
Perkasies parks are one of the main reasons Brummett moved to the borough in 2005, and he joined the park board almost immediately after arriving. Although Kulp Park has tennis and basketball courts and a baseball field, it is underutilized by residents who do not participate in those sports. Perkasie Parks Day will allow people to see what the park system has to offer them, according to Brummett.
Limited parking near Kulp Park doesnt have to pose a problem for the event.
At a health and wellness event, wouldnt it be great if people had to walk a half mile to get there? Councilwoman Florence Frei said.
While the event will start small, the park and recreation board has big dreams for its future. The board is looking to local businesses to support the event the first year through sponsorships and renting vendor space. After several successful years, the board may ask for up to $1,000 in borough funds to expand Perkasie Parks Day into an event that incorporates other parks in the borough.
Were not hurting for ideas, Brummett said.
Businesses interested in sponsoring the event, renting vendor space, or providing demonstrations should contact Parks and Recreation Director Joshua Aniskevich at 215-257-5064 or parkandrec@perkasieborough.org.
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Children's Hospital and city unite to boost health care in South Philly
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"Kids are generally healthier if their parents are healthier," said Donald F. Schwarz, deputy mayor for health and opportunity.
Schwarz said the idea came up in an unrelated conversation in the fall, when hospital officials asked if he knew of any property on South Broad Street to move their clinic, which now operates out of the former St. Agnes Hospital; the 30,000-patient practice is the fastest-growing of Children's 30 regional pediatric practices.
He did: The city's Health Center No. 2, near Morris Street just a few blocks away, was the second-busiest in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's network of primary-care clinics. The roof leaked water, the original, 50-year-old windows leaked air, there weren't enough examination rooms, and the cost of renovations had been estimated at $7.2 million, just $3 million less than replacement.
And there might be possibilities for the outdated branch library and DiSilvestro playground on the same site.
"The possibility of integrating these three new facilities - health center, library, and rec center - would allow us to provide coordinated services that include much-needed health and wellness programming and literacy training," Nutter said in his prepared remarks to Council. "At the same time we will continue to expand the city's dental care, mammography, prenatal care, and a wide range of other children's and adult health-care services."
Under the conceptual agreement, the hospital will fully fund construction for a building that will house both clinics. The city will charge a nominal fee to lease the land.
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Senate Approves Retirement-Work Hybrid for Feds
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The Senate passed an amendment on Thursday that allows retirement-eligible federal employees to work part-time -- a move designed to offset the costs of economic-development aid in rural counties.
The measure, proposed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., passed the Senate 82-16. It was put forward just hours before the vote as an amendment to the Surface Transportation Bill.
The American Federation of Government Employees feared that the amendment would result in additional, unneeded sacrifices by government workers in a congressional session that already has hit federal pay and benefits -- for instance with a pension contribution hike for newly hired federal employees passed in February as part of an extension of the payroll tax break.
While the change to federal retirement -- a phased, part-time retirement-employment concept -- may be acceptable to the federal-postal community after proper analysis and study, it is completely outrageous for federal and postal employees to be required, again, to serve as the automated teller machine for programs having nothing to do with deficit reduction, Beth Moten, AFGEs legislative and political director, said in a letter to senators on Thursday. She also complained that lawmakers had not made the text of the legislation available.
AFGE spokesman Tim Kauffman explained that the union was not necessarily opposed to phased retirement but took issue with the process of the legislation.What we really have a problem with is using the savings that would come from that proposal to fund yet another program thats unrelated to federal employees, Kauffman said.
Our opposition to the Baucus amendment is in how this assistance for rural schools is being paid for, Moten said. Federal employees have paid -- again and again and again.
National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley echoed those sentiments. NTEU supports a phased retirement program for federal employees on its merits, Kelley said in a statement Thursday. However, we do have serious objections to the use of the projected $450 million in savings from such a program for any use unrelated to federal employees. This includes the rural schools funding initiative.
The Office of Personnel Management included a similar proposal in its fiscal 2013 budget request. Easing older employees into retirement by offering a part-time work program would save the Obama administration $720 million during the next 10 years, the White House estimates.
Many federal employees are nearing retirement, so part-time work could pad federal agencies coffers if they did not have to replace these employees entirely. Under the proposal, part-time employees would receive partial annuities and could earn additional retirement benefits proportional to the amount of time they work. Older employees also would be required to mentor younger new hires and help preserve agency knowledge.
The Baucus amendments passage also stoked old AFGE fears of the Houses Transportation bill, H.R. 7. The most recent version of that bill includes a proposal to eliminate the Federal Retirement Employees Retirement System annuity supplement and changes the annuity calculation for new federal hires from one that uses an average of their three highest salaries to one that uses a high-five average.
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