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(GLWRU¡V 1RWH Welcome to the fifth edition of Community Life magazine in 2013. Since our

last issue of Community Life, the Times-Review and Community Life family endured the loss of one of its own, Pete Kendall. Kendall retired in 2011 from the Times-Review after 26 years of service. Despite his retirement, he continued to write articles for this publication as well as other special assignments for the newspaper. He was a terrific newspaperman and a great friend. Before his death on July 29, Pete sent me his final article on July 25. That article was his column for this edition of Community Life magazine. The final words of the column are “Over and out.� I’m going to miss my friend and the community is going to miss his contributions. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about Pete in one way or another. Maybe it’s one of his quirks I’m reminded of or a story topic that comes across my desk. I hope you enjoy his final column. Also in this edition are four feature stories. Amber Washington introduces us to the Edenway Birth Center, where women go to experience natural childbirth in a natural setting. Many women are finding the process relaxing and are more in tune to what giving

birth means. Tammye Nash interviewed the Montgomery family, who has jumped on board the martial arts train, led by daughter Madison, who has become on of the best in the country at her art. Sports Editor A.J. Crisp writes about HITZ, a baseball and softball facility owned by locals Rodney Fowler and Joey Thompson. The venture has grown substantially in almost two years. Finally, we have the Rooks family. Patti and Deahl Rooks have fostered and adopted more than 40 children and are not stopping now. They are not rich, but live within their means to help many children achieve success in life. They are truly good Samaritans. Lastly, Monica Faram dazzles us with her technology knowledge with her latest tech column. Âł 'DOH *RVVHU PDQDJLQJ HGLWRU

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long a busy stretch of Texas 174, tucked away from the road is a charming two-story beacon of comfort, where local natural birth advocates say is the most peaceful place to have a baby. Edenway Birth Center, LLC, opened about a decade ago after a group of local Mennonite men saw the need for midwifery in the Johnson County community. Its presence has given women the opportunity to have a natural, non-medicated birth in the comfort of their home or at Edenway in their own birthing room. The center is located at 805 N. Main St. in Cleburne, in a quaint home that is more than a century old. With two birthing rooms — one in a small cottage behind the home — a full kitchen, waiting room and prenatal room, among other comforts, women say they are more comfortable giving birth there, away from the fear and stress that comes with a trip to the hospital. The team is made up of certified professional midwives, apprentices, a lactation consultant and other women focused purely on each woman’s unique wishes. Women are encouraged to develop a birth plan based on whatever makes them comfortable and happy. That could mean walking up and down stairs during labor, standing, giving birth in water, and anything else that feels natural. “We give you every avenue possible to educate yourself,” midwife apprentice Elise Nichol said. “A lot of people think pregnancy is something you have to suffer through and that’s not true at all. It should actually be a very beautiful time.” &20081,7< /,)(

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Each midwife is versed in how to give oxygen or assist in emergency situations if needed. “It’s whole-woman care — physical, emotional and spiritual,” Nichol said. “Because midwifery is whole-woman care, you can’t just be available for the mother physically. You have to be available emotionally and spiritually. It’s a non-hospital-like setting and as much of a home environment as we can.” However, if the need for emergency medical intervention arises, Nichol said the midwives have a very close working relationship with local doctors and nurses. Midwives are licensed to take care of lowrisk women during child bearing and birth, Nichol said. Midwives view high vs. low-risk pregnancies differently from many doctors. Some conditions — such as being older than 35 years old — are not considered high risk in the midwifery community. Midwives are in school anywhere from three to five years to earn their Certified Professional Midwives’ license. And unlike the medical field, Nichol said, those who choose to become midwives are often not competitively minded. “It’s more of a sisterhood,” she said. The business of birth Certified Professional and Licensed midwife Rosetta Schwartz said becoming a midwife was less of a choice than it was a calling. As a young girl, she loved babies and enjoyed being around them. “My dad’s first wife passed away of cancer and she had four kids, then he married my mom,” Schwartz said. “She had five of us. My older sisters got married and had home births. “In the community where we lived, there was a midwife and we went to her any time there was something wrong with us. I wanted to be the person who knew everything about health.” Schwartz moved from West Virgina to Texas in early 2009 to study midwifery and never looked back. “When I started midwifery, I fell in love with it,” Edenway Clinical Director Melody Morrow said. “It’s addicting. It’s a dream. It’s getting to do your passion. It’s a ministry; it’s wonderful.” Like Schwartz, Morrow, also a CPM LM, felt led to midwifery at a young age. “My mother actually had eight babies at home with midwives,” Morrow said. “I kind

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of grew up around natural birth being normal and a beautiful process. I was always very fascinated by birth. When I was 17, I decided I was interested in becoming a midwife myself.” Since becoming a midwife, Morrow has participated in more than 1,100 births and taught dozens of students. Looking around the modest waiting room at Edenway, Morrow focuses on new mother Paige Strange. Strange decided more than two-thirds of the way through her second pregnancy to forego birthing in a hospital to relying instead on a midwife. “When I had Eva, my first child, I wanted to have natural childbirth,” Strange said. “And

I thought that because that’s what people had done for thousands of years, I should just know how to do this, my body should figure it out. I ended up having an epidural and ended up having a ‘standard’ healthy birthing procedure.” Though Strange said the hospital experience wasn’t “unusual” by any means, she said she wishes she had known more about available options long ago. “At 34 weeks, I went into my regular doctor’s office for my blood glucose exam and it came back that I had gestational diabetes,” Strange said. “I came in to Edenway just to interview them and see if they had suggestions

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for me. For a while, I floated around with what I was going to do. “I knew textbook how a birth progressed, but I didn’t know anyone that had ever had a natural brith outside of a hospital.” Strange and her husband enrolled in Birth Bootcamp, a course that teaches parents all about natural birth. A few weeks later, baby Caroline was born at the birthing center — no epidural required. “I’m grateful for how everything played out, I really am,” Strange said. “I wish I had known more about birth education courses and that there were other options. Women don’t realize the choices that are available to them across the board and how important it is to arm yourself with education.” Morrow said her experience as a midwife has shown her as well as others that childbirth doesn’t have to be painful, scary or weird. “Often times in many communities, the doctors that have been trained haven’t seen much natural birth,” Morrow said. “Frankly, women are in pain and they may be perceived as not coping well ... Most people assume they are going to have an epidural. They don’t know anyone who hasn’t had an epidural.” First-time mother Nichole Heilbron, who is due in mid-January, recently moved to Joshua and said the decision to have her baby at Edenway stemmed from her research on hospitals and complications from unnecessary medication and procedures. “I believe that the majority of medical profession treats pregnancy as a disease to be

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cured, rather than a natural human event,� Heilbron said. “Rather than do what’s best for the baby and let our bodies do what they were designed to do, the medical profession intervenes when it isn’t necessary. “For example, medical professionals routinely induce labor because you are ‘past your due date’ or it’s more convenient for the mother or doctor. The problem with due dates is that they are frequently incorrect and there’s no exact timeline of when the baby is ready to come out.� Heilbron said through researching birth options, she found that the United States has a high infant mortality rate, compared with other countries — specifically in Europe — where infant mortality rates and the practice of Cesarean sections is much lower. According to the 14th annual State of the World’s Mothers report, compiled by nonprofit organization Save the Children, about 11,300 newborns die within 24 hours of be &20081,7< /,)(

ing born in the U.S. each year. That’s 50 percent more first-day deaths compared with all industrialized countries in the world. Midwives and women who have used midwives during birth say that expanding midwifery in the United States could help save babies and perpetuate a different idea about pregnancy. “Many women report that their birth experience was stressful in a hospital setting,� Heilbron said. “I believe my body is designed to do this. I don’t like hospitals in general and I feel like it will increase my stress and anxiety to birth in a hospital ... I just feel like having a baby is a normal, natural thing and it doesn’t need to be a huge medical event.� Midwife Terry Gyde, who has had her fair share of eventful births — including a stillborn, several miscarriages, C-sections and, finally, a natural delivery — said she entered the profession after assisting women as a doula (a nonmedical person who assists with birth) for

about 14 years. “I knew nothing about natural birth,� Gyde said. “I had no one around me that had done any such thing that I knew of. I had a friend that was going to have a baby back in the mid-80s. Her husband just wasn’t the type to be there for her so she asked if I would be there with her. “I didn’t feel like I was much help to her — I put a warm cloth on her head and held her hand.� When the friend became pregnant a second time, the women went to a birth class together where Gyde said she learned some ways to comfort a laboring mother and ways to help ease anxiety. “At this birth, I helped her, and she ended up having a totally awesome birth,� Gyde said. “I became a pregnancy magnet. Every person that was pregnant, I was either drawn to them or they were drawn to me. About 10 years in, I found out the word ‘doula’ and I

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Beginnings of a champion Madison was 7 years old when her mother saw a poster at the gym where she worked out advertising classes at a local dojo. It was something she thought her only daughter might enjoy. It wasn’t until a little later when Montgomery saw a new dojo opening down the road from their house that she decided to actually sign Madison up for classes. “Mom saw the dojo opening up just down the road and she said, ‘It must be a sign,’� Madison said. “So I started taking classes.� At first, Madison said, she enjoyed the classes but it was just something to do. “I was 7,� she said. “It wasn’t like I had any real goals or thought about it seriously or anything. It was just fun. “But then, I started winning. That’s when I realized how much I love this sport. That’s when it mattered.� Madison started taking judo in 2006, right &20081,7< /,)(

after Ruben Martin Training Center opened in Burleson. By the end of 2006, the 7-yearold had three medals — a silver and two bronzes — hanging on her wall. A year later, Madison had added 13 medals to the count, including a gold medal at the Texas State Junior Olympics and four gold medals, along with silver medals at the U.S. Judo Association Junior National Championships, the U.S. Junior Olympic Championships and the U.S. Junior Open Championship. In her seven-year career, Madison has finished in the top three at tournaments 83 times. More than half of those — 47 — were first place finishes. Judoka — also called judo players — compete in divisions based on their year of birth and weight. For each top three finish at a national tournament, a player receives points. The players’ national ranking each year is determined by the number of points they have

earned. In 2008, Madison hit national rankings, reaching No. 5 on the U.S.A. Judo National Junior Roster for Intermediate 1 Girls, 38 kilos. By 2009, she was ranked No. 1 in that same division. In 2010, she was No. 2 in Intermediate 2 Girls, 47 kilos. In 2011, she moved up to Intermediate 2 Girls, 52 Kilos, reaching the rank of No. 2. That was also the first time Madison traveled to France to compete in the international judo tournament there, placing ninth out of 19 girls. In 2012, she was ranked second in Juvenile A Girls, 53 Kilos, and went back to France to compete in two tournaments, attending a judo training camp between the two. That year, Madison placed seventh out 17 girls in the Harnes tournament and third out of 14 girls at the Tournoi de Lanester international tournament in Lanester. This year, in the Juvenile A Girls, 58 Ki-

los, Madison pulled in enough points to win the rank of No. 1. That, her mother said, earned her a place on the 2013 USA Judo National Team and on the USA Judo National Elite Athlete Roster — and the right to compete in the 2013 Infantile Pan American Games in El Salvador in November. “When the deadline came for choosing the Pan Am team, Madison was ranked first,� Candice Montgomery said. As of September, Madison was ranked No. 2, her mom said. The rankings are liable to change again as Madison continues with her tournament schedule. She plans to compete at the Go Shibata tournament at Texas A&M in October and the Dallas Invitational in late November, in addition to the Pan Am Games. Madison will be traveling to France in December to compete again at Harnes and Lanester.

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Drive to be the best “I lead a pretty normal life,� Madison said. “I have a lot of friends, in the judo

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world and outside it, too.� Candice Montgomery said that her daughter has to make some sacrifices to be competitive at the national and international levels. “She’s had to give up some things over the years,� Montgomery said. “She’s missed birthday parties, other things.� Madison attended Holy Cross Christian Academy in Burleson for her first eight years of school. This year, she is being home-schooled because of the intensive travel schedule she has to keep up to maintain her ranking. Madison is at Ruben Martin Training Center on Houston Road about five times a week for class. In the summer, Martin holds a six-week camp during which players spend several hours a day at the training center, doing weight training and cardio workouts in addition to their regular class time. That doesn’t count the time Madison spends each week at the Burleson Recreation Center working out with trainer James O’Neal. O’Neal also helps Madison design a special eating program she follows in the weeks leading up to major competitions. The diet, Madison said, “is no dairy, fruit or bread. It’s mostly protein, with a specific number of carbs. Everything is measured. And I eat seven meals a day.� Then, there are the injuries. “There’s probably some kind of injury every class,� Madison said. “Not big injuries, but I always have bruises on my legs. I have scars on my arms and legs from getting cut by

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someone’s fingernails or toenails. And the mat burns — those things hurt.� A judo player’s hands get calloused, Madison said, and some end up with broken arms, especially when the arm bar move is used. “She’s too young to use the arm bar now, or to have someone use it on her,� Candice Montgomery said. “She did get a significant shoulder injury at her last tournament.� Chuck Sharp, a black belt at Ruben Martin Training Center and a “trauma therapist� treated the shoulder injury. Madison is quick to point out that she has never incurred an injury that required a visit to the hospital. She was treated for recurring back pain, but that started when she was about 5 and had nothing to do with judo. “She has a really high tolerance for pain, and she never really said anything about it,� Candice Montgomery said. “They did all kinds of X-rays and tests, looking to see if there were any breaks or fractures or anything. But they couldn’t find anything.� The pain, she said, was treated with massage and physical therapy. Then, there’s the asthma, something that Madison has dealt with for as long as she can remember. “It’s hard sometimes, especially during allergy season, and in the summer when it gets really hot. That can make it really hard to breathe,� Madison said. “I use breathing control methods, but I guess it limits me. Training helps, and I work out as hard as anybody else. But it is hard sometimes.�

Her parents’ contributions Madison’s parents, Candice and Eugene Montgomery, have had to make some sacrifices, too, to help their only daughter reach the top in the world of judo. The couple own two businesses — a heating and air conditioning service they have owned for 17 years, and Candice Montgomery’s custom spray tan business they have owned for 12 years. “It’s just me, and I work by appointment only,� Candice Montgomery said. “That allows me to cater my schedule around Madison’s schedule and what she needs. She does some of her school work at home, but we also have converted one of the rooms at the tanning salon into a school room for her. I like for her to do most of her school work there, where there aren’t as many distractions.� While the family travels a lot, Candice Montgomery said it is almost always centered around a judo tournament or camp. “We don’t go places for fun. We go for a specific purpose and that purpose is almost always related to judo,� she said. “Even when we went to France, we didn’t do any touristy things. We were busy doing judo. Or trying to figure out where we were going. “Her dad was sad last year because he didn’t get to go with us. It takes time, and it takes money.� It’s a rigorous lifestyle, but one that Madison said she is happy to live. She may not have had goals when she started taking judo at 7,

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game, he’s hoping they can help younger players avoid injuries, something he experienced himself. “They can get extra work outside of their practice with high school teams,� he said. “They can get one-on-one training. During the winter months or when it’s raining, they can train all the time. I think it’s really helped out. ... I blew my arm out throwing curve balls, and that’s something that we’re doing — teaching the right mechanics and teaching kids how to play baseball the right way and without getting hurt.� While HITZ offers instruction on softball, Fowler said he’d like to see the numbers of softball players coming through their facility improve in numbers. “One of the things that I would like to see more of is our girls participation increase,� he said. “I know how big girls softball is in the Metroplex. I know it’s a really big sport, and I guess if there’s an area that I’m a little surprised in, it’s the lack of girls coming through the facility. “And I don’t know exactly why that is, but I would think that we would be getting more girl participation in here. That’s probably the only area I would like to see improve more be-

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out of their work with their own foster and adopted children. It comes from James 1:27: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.� Renee Sanchez, a Fort Worth attorney who has handled a number of adoptions for the Rooks, said the fact that they decide to adopt many of the youngsters who come in as foster children is noteworthy. Even with subsidies, the amount of money adoptive parents receive drops significantly from foster child rates. “They’re wonderful,� Sanchez said. “It’s very difficult to find foster parents, let along adoptive parents for many of these children.� Yet, Sanchez said, “They’re able to love them unconditionally.� The motive? Patti Rooks thinks a minute, then mentions that they have three grandchildren. The mother is one of their now-adult adopted children. “To see her become a fabulous mother,� Patti Rooks said. “That is the most satisfying

An unlikely father If you know his early life, it’s hard to picture an unlikelier candidate for fatherhood — foster, adoptive or otherwise — than Deahl Rooks. “I never had kids and I didn’t know anything� about rearing them when he and his wife-to-be got together, he said. “I was 46 at the time. I’d never had kids around me at all.� Said Patti Rooks: “His exact words were, ‘You should have told me this before we got married.’� He grew up on a Colorado ranch, cowboyed a little, then drove tractor trailers for almost three decades. At 56, he’s a big dude with massive walrus whiskers who wears bib overalls, a gimme cap and talks in a warm, deep voice. Lifting hay bales and working cattle have left the former ranch hand with a bad back. Deahl Rooks hopes to qualify for disability payments soon, but he can still pilot the black van that transports family groups. It’s the kind of hauler that hotels use to move guests to and from the airport. “I drove trucks for 27 years,� Deahl Rooks said, “so I don’t mind windshield time.� Seated at the opposite end of the living room couch from his wife, Pop, as the kids call him, exudes good-natured patience, even though he does seem a little nostalgic when remembers simpler days. “I was running a ranch at that time. All my kids had four legs,� Deahl Rooks said. “I could yell at them old cows.� His wife said, “We had a mutual friend that introduced me over the phone. This was 1999.� Patti Rooks had about 20 years of retail experience and was managing a Black & Decker factory store in Hillsboro at the time, but decided to move to Colorado and found a job there. In the beginning they were just going to be foster parents, but by the time they returned to Texas at few years later, her biological child was grown and they’d adopted their first two children. “My husband didn’t even want kids,� Patti Rooks said. “Now, to hear him tell it was his idea.� Deahl Rooks grinned. “I was 52 when I changed my first diaper,� he said. “Patti came home and says, ‘It’s on

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A learning experience While the grown-ups chat, a gaggle of children occupy themselves at the big kitchen table nearby, drawing quietly. The table used to be a door. Every child who’s come through the place has crawled underneath to sign it, Patti Rooks said. Some who’ve made repeat visits have signed more than once. After 40 foster kids — the adoptees were all originally their foster children — that’s a lot of signatures. Under the long bench opposite the living room couch is a long row of woven baskets, each presumably full of kid stuff. Given the fact that the modest frame house is full of children, the wooden floor is amazingly clear of clutter. Tyran McClendon, 18, ambles over to sit in on the conversation. Precious Rooks, 16, appears from a side room. She and her little brother, a bright-eyed

kid named Nico, are Hispanic and from San Antonio, where their biological parents were busted for dealing drugs. She landed in foster care at 5. “I had one person ask me, ‘Is it like ‘Annie’ at your house?’ � Precious Rooks said. Although she said her first foster parents

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“He told me: ‘We don’t have a son named Al Haig. I hope he didn’t hurt you.’” He did. But he’d hurt other wives as well. “When I called Joanne, Al’s widow, to reveal that I was once married to him, there was silence and she said, in a whisper, ‘Did he ever hit you?’ “Al slept with a baseball bat under the bed and twice woke up swinging at an imaginary intruder.” Grange’s father, Robert, later stood ready to hit back if push came to shove. Grange told me, “My dad, a very gentle, elegant laid back kind of sweetie, not a violent bone in his body, had a baseball bat waiting if Al ever came looking for me.” Robert Rutan had been fooled enough to approve the marriage. Like others, he learned soon enough of Al’s flaws. “When Al married Donna, his first wife, he cried during the ceremony,” Grange said. “When he married me, he cried during the ceremony. I thought, ‘He must love me so much. I will try to make him happy.’ My dad thought he was laughing and wanted to belt him. “I spoke to a sociologist not long ago and told him this, and he said, ‘‘You know why he cried? He knew he was going to hurt you.’” Grange never quite lost her fear of the great musician, not while he was alive and not even after he died of a heart attack at 58 in 1982. “In July of 1977, when my little Grangie was 7, I was crossing Valley Road in Upper Montclair, N.J., just coming from the doctor. I was holding her hand and saw a beat-up black rather grungy looking Cadillac with the hood up.

“And there was Al, who had gotten out of the car and was tearing this guy a new one. My heart began to pound like it didn’t even belong in my body. “I accelerated and on a 90-degree angle walked while pulling my little angel away to safety. Al never saw me, but I was fascinated that after all this time I would turn to jelly. “My annulment was final in 1962 ... and now, 10 years later, in my hometown, I see him. He looked like evil wearing clothes.� For Grange, much of the book involved tapping memories, good and bad. Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet legend, christened her Lady Haig. She still answers to the moniker. But Gillespie was part of another memory that would never go away, the death of Al’s young wife Bonnie in 1968. Many believed she was murdered. Haig was arrested, detained and beat the rap. Dizzy paid for his celebrity lawyer. Grange told me, “I have a confession. There is a chapter in my book

where I say how I thought the murder came down. It’s me talking, but I used someone else’s name who knew how scared/afraid I was of Al in the grave. “Keep in mind that when I found out he was arrested for the murder of Bonnie, the papers said he had another wife in California they were looking for to testify at his trial. I thought they were looking for me.� There are sideways slices of other legendary jazz figures such as Stan Getz and Chet Baker in the book. Grange attempted to contact those who had known and played with Al in order to draw a detailed picture of the man. It wasn’t easy. Al didn’t have many friends. “The people who hated him wouldn’t even talk about him,� Grange said. “Gerry Mulligan, Miles [Davis.] I had to beg Dizzy. “Any musician of merit never said anything negative about his playing, but they would not say anything personal. I had to pull it out from other people and then go back and over

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