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Doctors’
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Reubene Scott
news@community-news.com
Editor’s note: This column
originally ran March 30,
2000.
We are retired from the
Harris Hospital Delivery
Room and Nursery Staff. In
March and September each
year we get together to eat,
laugh and reminisce for a few
hours. That’s what we did last
Wednesday when about 35 of
us met for lunch.
Down through the years
we have remained a close-
knit group so we start off with
news of our families then
someone will remember some
incident and one thing will
lead to another. I think we
had a lot more fun than we
were supposed to.
As I relate some of these
happenings, I must tell you
that some of the names have
been changed to protect the
guilty and me!
Some of the incidents
involved shoes. Jenny Roaten,
one of the charge nurses, once
put KY Jelly in Dr. Hawkins’
shoes while this no nonsense
doctor was delivering a baby.
All of the doctors kept a pair
of sorry-looking shoes in
their lockers to put on when
they went into the delivery
room. They were all disgust-
ing and we were always sug-
gesting they invest in a new
pair of sneakers. They never
did. Dr. Andy Bowden’s were
the worst, so we thought we
would shame him into getting
some new ones. We hid his
good shoes and he wore those
awful shoes until we gave up.
It hadn’t bothered him at all
but it sure disturbed a lot of
other people.
There was “Dr. Jones”
who wasn’t anybody’s favorite
and he wasn’t very smart. We
all got the giggles when he put
on his delivery room shoes,
which he had carefully labeled
L for left and R for right.
One of the funniest things
I remember wasn’t funny at
all. Someone brought in a tiny
Oriental woman who was in
hard labor, screaming and
scared to death. She couldn’t
speak a word of English and,
of course, no one could speak
her language. We didn’t even
know what country she was
from and neither did the peo-
ple who brought her.
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GIVING HAS NO AGE
◗ McCall students head
donation drive to send
money to Haiti
By Dominic Genetti
The Community News
Macey Farnham came to school
one day with an idea.
It wasn’t a field trip or a fun class
project.
It was a suggestion for help.
“I just wanted to help Haiti from
the hard times that they were having,”
the 11-year-old fifth-grader at McCall
Elementary School said. “I just want-
ed to give them more stuff that they
could use like clothes, water, food.”
And so the mission began.
Once principal Jason Beaty gave
Macey the green light she rounded up
fellow classmates in the fourth and
fifth-grade to assist her in collecting
donations. The group decided a coin
drive was the best way to collect for
DOMINIC GENETTI/THE COMMUNITY NEWS
those in the island country affected by
Red Cross Parker County Branch Volunteer Larry Bushwar accepts a check from fourth and fifth-graders at McCall
the devastating earthquakes.
Elementary School. The girls pioneered a donation campaign for the devistation in Haiti following the earthquakes. From
“We got together and we planned
left: Sarah Shoptaw, Madline Mcintyre, Kennedy Deegear, Macey Farnham, Larry Bushwar, Sierra Black, Savannah Wahrer
out some flyers and we made our poster and Kendall Lipscomb.
designs,” fifth-grader Kennedy Deegear
said. “It was actually pretty fun.” day was up grabbing those jars and think it’s great. that we’re able to help everybody else
Guidance Counselor Shannon heading outside.” in the world,” fifth-grader Savannah
“It tells us that these kids know
Reynolds supervised the girls as Wahrer said. “I would like to do it
All of the $771 dollars raised is what’s going on in the world. They’re
they prepared and began collecting from now on.”
going to the American Red Cross very active in the community, they’re
money.
Parker County Branch, who will in well educated, they’re knowledgeable; And that’s the plan.
“They made posters, they made
turn send it toward the efforts in the teachers and parents are doing a Next the group wants to help
sandwich signs and they were out
Haiti. good thing.” Chile.
there every day without fail,” she said.
Macey presented the check dur- And it was the whole school that The South American country was
“It was never anything that had to be
ing school lunch March 30 to Larry got involved, not just the parents. hit with an earthquake in February.
reminded.”
It was all just a matter of collect- Bushwar, a volunteer at the Parker From the smallest kindergartener “They’ve just had a big earthquake
ing loose change from parents wait- County Branch. to the oldest student, everyone donat- too,” Kennedy said, “and they’ve had a
ing in the pick-up lane in the school “When children raise funds, ed to the cause. lot of aftershocks.”
parking lot. it doesn’t matter whether it’s $10 It’s something that the small group However, there is a different goal
“Every morning they came to or $100 or $1,000,” Bushwar said. of friends found to be a rewarding in mind.
school early,” Reynolds said. “Every “For them to take the time to raise experience. “I think we should try to earn a
day they were in my office before the the money is just unbelievable and I “It just makes us all so happy little bit more,” Kennedy said.
PARKER COUNTY
Hospital District outreach program making an impact
◗ Immunization count The Outreach Program expand-
ed its efforts during the summer of
grows in the county 2009 when the Texas Department of
Health changed the immunization
Kathleen Durham
Special to The Community News requirements for all seventh graders
entering school. The school districts
In a little more than two years,
in Parker County were overwhelmed
the Parker County Hospital District’s
at the thought of getting all students
Outreach Program is making an enor-
in compliance before the first day
mous impact vaccinating local resi-
of school. “We were asked to set up
dents. This program was the vision of
and provide immunizations to those
PCHD CEO, Randall Young.
in need during registration/schedule
“We were getting a large number
pick up,” said Franklin. “The response
of calls from people looking for a place
was unforeseen as there were at times
to get immunizations,” Young said. “I
over 100 children in line waiting to
realized that Parker County was lack-
receive vaccines.”
ing in a Public Health resource with
The Outreach Program now works
no Department of Health office in the
closely with the school districts in
County.”
keeping the children in compliance,
In 2008 the Outreach Program
which helps the school nurses with
started with providing mobile flu
the overall health of each school. From
clinics to residents at area businesses
August to September the Outreach
and churches. Young hired LVN Lisa
Program saw more than 2500 chil-
Franklin to head up the program and
dren and gave on average two shots
in 2008 gave 3800 seasonal flu shots.
to each child. This year, in an effort to
That number grew to 10,100 in 2009.
be proactive, the program has already KATHLEEN DURHAM/SPECIAL TO THE COMMUNITY NEWS
Also in 2009, the program imple-
begun seeing current sixth graders Lisa Franklin, LVN, administers vaccines during Junior High registration. The
mented a school based flu vaccine
who will be seventh graders in the Parker County Hospital District’s Outreach Program is making an enormous
program which allowed children to
2010-2011 school year. Providing impact vaccinating local residents.
receive the flu shot at school during
these immunizations before summer
the day to make it convenient for the
insures each child will be able to start and they are scheduled at the remain- tant to continue to be seen regularly
parents and child. At the same time
school the first day. ing school districts through the end at your primary care physician. For
the program assisted the school dis-
To date in 2010 the program has of May. Young reminds everyone that more information about the Parker
tricts’ in keeping each campus healthy
provided immunizations to more than while it’s important to be current on County Hospital District, call 817-
through the flu season.
350 sixth graders in Parker County, all immunizations, it’s also impor- 341-2520.
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