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On a sunny spring afternoon, we visited Knox County Commissioner Larsen Jay at his home to see how he decompresses after a long day. He’s an avid gardener and loves to spend hours tooling away on his grandfather’s old Ford pickup truck. We wanted to know what else Larsen does in his spare time, so we hope you enjoy our off-the-cuff piece on him.

We also talked to Dr. Justin Kennon, an orthopedic surgeon who is excited about new technologies and techniques used in shoulder replacement surgery at Parkwest. The Georgia native is proud to call Knoxville home and is eager to help people regain their range of motion and live fuller lives again.

We continue to be grateful for the monthly partnership with The Knoxville History Project.

Be sure to peruse the shoebox photos they’ve shared with us, featuring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Colonel David Chapman, and the Union Soldier Monument.

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INSIDE THE ISSUE JUNE 2021

FEATURES 12 A Career Comes Full Circle Dr. Justin Kennon Returns to Knoxville with New Technology in Shoulder Replacement Surgery

16 Shoebox Collections The Knoxville History Project Shares Local Photos from the Past

20 Raising the Next Tennessee Football Stars VFLs Teach Character, Hard Work, and Leadership

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30 Meet Larsen Jay Knox County Commissioner Shares His Hobbies and Passions

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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

A CAREER C OM E S FULL C I RC L E

DR. JUSTIN KENNON RETURNS TO KNOXVILLE WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY IN SHOULDER REPLACEMENT SURGERY

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ARTICLE JENNIE TREADWAY-MILLER

These are 3D-printed replicas of shoulder joints from Dr. Kennon's patients.

LIKE MANY DOCTORS, JUSTIN KENNON’S INTER-

“I didn’t want to ask my mom for help with medical

EST IN MEDICINE IGNITED WHEN HE WAS A

school, so I took a job working in business and ended

PATIENT HIMSELF. He was in high school in Georgia

up in the orthopedic industry as a product specialist,”

and had damaged his knee in such a way that it required

he says. “I’d teach doctors about total knee and hip

surgery. The physician who cared for him left a positive

replacements. Surgery had been done the same way for

impact, so much that young Justin started shadowing

a long time, but technology was changing. This was the

the doctor and taking an interest in orthopedics.

early-to-mid-2000s, and there were better ways to do it.”

However, at the same time, there was another immeasur-

This would be the foreshadowing part of Dr. Kennon’s

able strain on the family. Throughout most of Dr. Kennon’s

story - a young businessman fresh out of college in

childhood, his father had been sick with a rare form of can-

Knoxville, in a Parkwest Hospital operating room along-

cer. Five rounds of treatments over 15 years translated to

side orthopedic surgeons teaching them about new

a lot of time spent in and out of hospitals. When his father

technologies. He wasn’t scrubbed in, mind you, but

passed away, that left his mother, an elementary school

he was part of the process. He could’ve stayed in that

teacher, and him to bear the weight of grief.

role and accepted it as his life’s plan, but not being the

“I’d spent a lot of time in the hospital. I’d go to school,

surgeon meant he wasn’t following up with patients. He

then drive an hour to Emory to visit my dad. I’m an only

wasn’t seeing them a year down the road to see for him-

child, so Mom had a lot to deal with. It was not a normal

self how their lives had improved.

high school situation. I’d been around health care and

“I felt like I had a calling to do more. So, I took the

dealt with life and death things,” says Dr. Kennon. “I had

MCAT, not sure if I’d pass because I hadn’t been in a

an opportunity to make this the death of me, or I could

biology class in four years. But I took it and did fine, so

not. I could make it a motivating force.”

I applied to a few places. Within 48 hours of getting

He attended Georgia Tech as a pre-med student on an academic scholarship. Yet, upon graduation, Dr. Kennon hit pause and decided not to pursue medical school right away. Instead, he went to work.

accepted into medical school I was offered a promotion at my job,” he says. “It was an easy decision.”

Dr. Kennon moved back to his home state to attend the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and stayed there

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an additional five years for his residency. Yet, there was

into the operating room and import imaging from

one more stop on his journey back to Knoxville.

your shoulder,” he says. “It’s like Google Maps.

“I did a year of subspecialty training at Mayo Clinic

It tells you where you’re at and then it tells you a

in shoulder and elbow reconstruction. When I got

route. The computer tells me in real time where

the opportunity, I knew it was gonna be cold, but

my hand is and where it needs to go. They’ve been

I couldn’t let it pass by me. My wife and two boys

using this technology in knee and hip replace-

moved to Minnesota and I trained with world-class

ments for years, but not in shoulder.”

people - designing the implants, writing all the

The second big technology Dr. Kennon uses is a

papers, doing all of it,” he says. And when the train-

3D printer, not unlike the technology used by NASA.

ing was over, the Kennons knew Knoxville was where

In addition to 2D imaging, he can now hold a 3D

they wanted to be.

model of the patient’s shoulder in his hand for a bet-

Now Dr. Kennon is back in the operating room

ter understanding of how the joint fits together. All of

at Parkwest, not as the product specialist but as

this translates to a quicker, more efficient procedure,

the surgeon. Walking patients through the entire

and most patients go home the same day.

process - from the initial consultation to the one-

“A lot of what I see are patients who started hav-

year, post-op check-up - has been the culmination

ing problems in their 50s and 60s but waited until

of a long-time dream.

their 70s to do something about it. I see a lot of

What’s more, the technologies he’s working with is exactly what Knoxville needed.

“I knew I could make a big difference in the shoulder world. There are successful practices here, but

didates, but they waited too long,” says Dr. Kennon.

“I say do it when it makes you better so you can go out and live more life.

lots of the technology being used is nearly 20 years

“Men are the worst,” he adds. “Hard-headed and

old. You don’t have to go to Nashville or Atlanta to

stubborn about going to the doctor. But I’ll tell you -

get your procedures done with the best technology

you don’t have to live in pain. We have some primary

anymore. The stuff that’s happening at Mayo Clinic?

care doctors who even advise their patients against

I’m doing that here in Knoxville,” he says.

shoulder replacement, but they are often going off of

The majority of patients Dr. Kennon sees are pri-

old statistics and old technologies. Many don’t realize

marily men who’ve lived years - maybe decades -

how far things have progressed in the past five to ten

with pain or limited mobility in their shoulders, many

years. Success rates are better than you might think

of whom are treated non-surgically, whether it be

- 95 percent or better, even in older patients. In the

through arthroscopic procedures or biologic injec-

time of COVID-19, we’ve had so much bad news, but

tions. However, if shoulder replacement is the best

we’ve done a lot to make it safe here at Parkwest. We

option, then Dr. Kennon is the go-to guy.

have a lot to be optimistic about in healthcare here in

“One of the big technologies that I and [Tennessee Orthopaedic Clinics] have been the first to do in Tennessee is called Navigation. We bring a computer

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TIMES PAST

SHOEBOX COLLECTIONS

THE KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT CONTINUES ITS SERIES ON LITTLE-KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED BY LOCALS

Union Soldier Monument

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“KNOXVILLE SHOEBOX” COLLECTION. The Knoxville History Project is always on the lookout for old family and

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We preserve and archive the image and make it available for researchers of the future, always crediting your contribution. Donating was never so easy—and we’ll do our best to make your images immortal!

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SHOEBOX

ARTICLE JACK NEELY AND PAUL JAMES

UNION SOLDIER MONUMENT

Tennessee Theatre

Originally, when first erected in 1901, the striking Union Monument at Knoxville’s National Cemetery

featured a bronze eagle with outstretched wings perched upon a cannon ball. However, three years later a lightning bolt destroyed most of the monument. Rebuilt in 1906, by one of the city’s best known architectural firms, Baumann Brothers, an alternative statue of a Union soldier replaced the bird. A similar looking monument featuring a Confederate soldier can be found at Bethel Cemetery in East Knoxville.

Shared by Alec Riedl.

TENNESSEE THEATRE Big John Wayne’s new film “North to Alaska” dominates the marquee at the Tennessee Theatre on Gay Street early in the Christmas season in December 1960. The theatre was still segregated--the Black man on the far right would not have been allowed entry. That all changed in 1963 following demonstrations outside the Tennessee Theatre led by Knoxville College student activists who helped turn the tide for desegregation in Knoxville. Shared by Dan Proctor.

KNOXVILLE BLUES A collection of illustrated stories highlighting the history and culture of the city’s musical heritage by Jack Neely featuring: The Bluegrass Legends Who First Recorded on Gay Street; Knoxville in the Time of the St. James Sessions; Crazy Tennesseans in Downtown Knoxville: Roy Acuff Started More Than a Career; The Louie Bluie Festival and the legacy of Eclectic Musician Howard Armstrong, The Knoxville Music Festival: Big Ears’ Forgotten Predecessor; Sweet Dreams: The Amazing WNBOX Auditorium at Whittle Springs, and more.

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DAVID CHAPMAN Col. David Chapman (1876-1944) was a Knoxville leader and a wholesale druggist as seen here on Chapman Drug stationery from the 1920s. A veteran of the SpanishAmerican War, Chapman was an early advocate, and later a chief promoter, of the movement to create a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains. Fearless in his approach to acquire thousands of individual privately owned properties, he sometimes came to physical blows with his opponents. Mt. Chapman is the park named after him, as is the southbound road leading out of Knoxville to the park, Chapman Highway. Shared by Cindy and Mark Proteau.

David Chapman

FDR ON HENLEY STREET President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, seen here waving from his motorcade, was photographed by John W. Campbell M.D. with his Brownie camera on Henley Street as the President was leaving the city to head for Newfound Gap where he would officially dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on September 2, 1940. Earlier in the day, the President arrived by train from Chattanooga at the Southern Railway Station where he was met by the Tennessee State Governor Prentice Cooper and local officials. Local schoolchildren and Boy Scouts lined the city streets to greet the President. Shared by Amy CampbellRochelson/©John W. Campbell M.D.

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FOR AS FAR BACK AS JABARI DAVIS CAN REMEMBER, HIS PARENTS WERE SIGNING HIM UP FOR CAMPS - BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, LIFE SKILLS, ACADEMICS, YOU NAME IT. He was an only child, and growing up in 1990s Atlanta, when Deion Sanders reigned king, meant you kept your eyes on the Braves and the Falcons (and the Hawks, too, for good measure).

“We idolized Deion Sanders and everything he did. He was my biggest role model as a kid,” he remembers. “But I was always busy, and by the time I was 9 or 10, people started noticing my abilities.

By the time I was in the eighth grade, I hit the switch on football.”

Jabari played on both the offensive and defensive lines, but running back was his dream position. In addition to years of camps and coaching, he’d work out on his own, running drills in the backyard and building power by running hills, just like he’d learned to do from watching Walter Payton’s “Pure Payton” tape. The hard work paid off as he broke every middle school record and was courted by three area high schools.

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“It was weird,” he says, laughing. “The coaches were coming to my school one locally and two other schools in the county. I had a great middle school football team, and we all wanted to stay together and not go to different high schools. I chose Tucker High School because they had a great football tradition. Our coach actually left the middle school and came to Tucker because he didn’t want to leave us. He said we were a special group, and he thought we could win championships.”

One other detail pulled Jabari towards Tucker - Patrick Pass, current head coach of the Massachusetts Pirates, was a Tucker High School running back who’d just signed with the University of Georgia.

Jabari saw himself in Patrick and wanted the same success. As it turned out, that’s exactly what happened. By the end of his varsity season, after some county and state recognition, college letters started coming, along with invitations to a few camps.

“Your recruiter rankings have a lot to do with what camps you go to, but I got an invite to Countdown to Signing Day. I begged my mom to sign me up. My grandma bought me some new cleats. I ended up going and was number one. I out-performed everyone. I was the camp MVP,” says Jabari. “A week after that, my phone blew up and my mailbox was full.”

Unlike Patrick Pass, who accepted the offer to Georgia, Jabari had another idea. First of all, playing in the SEC was non-negotiable. But second, Tennessee had just won a national championship in 1998, and running back Jamal Lewis, who was from Atlanta, had just been drafted by the Baltimore Ravens. That was enough to warrant a visit to Knoxville.

“It blew me away. The fans, the tradition, the coaching, Neyland, all of it.

I’d been to Georgia, but it didn’t have the

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electricity that Tennessee had,” says Jabari. “I got

Unfortunately a hamstring injury led to an unfor-

hate mail for that. My school was 45 minutes from

tunate senior season, which meant a lost opportu-

Athens. A lot of my teachers had gone to UGA. But

nity to be drafted. Undeterred, Jabari signed as a

I felt like Tennessee was the next best opportunity,

free agent and got to camp with the Buffalo Bills and

and it was still close to home.”

the New Orleans Saints, but he was never healthy

Jabari committed to Tennessee in the spring

enough to make it on the roster. He officially retired

of 2021 and moved to Knoxville that summer.

from professional football in 2007 and returned to

Throughout his four years at UT, he played along-

Atlanta to figure out his next steps.

side what he calls “some of the best players of my

Jabari took influence from another football great

life,” like Jason Witten. That first year should’ve

- this time, it was Reggie White, a former Tennessee

been a championship year, he says, but a loss to

Vol and Green Bay Packer.

LSU sealed the deal. The fanbase called Jabari the

“He said, ‘Hey, when I die, if all you can say about

“Gator-Killer” on account of so many touchdowns

me is that I was a great football player, then I haven’t

against Florida. He had a good go of it, playing hard

lived.’ That stuck with me,” says Jabari. “I wanted to get

and always stepping up in the big games.

into coaching because sports was still my passion.”

“You become legendary in the big games - what

To fulfill that passion, he moved back to Tennessee

you do when it counts. I made plays and helped win

in 2010, enrolled back in school, and accepted a

football games,” he said. “I did give it my all.”

coaching position at the Episcopal School of Knoxville.

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RAISING THE NEXT TENNESSEE FOOTBALL STARS (CONTINUED)

He was quickly back in the fold with other former Vols, making connections and working with camps.

By 2018, he decided it was time to start his own organization and get former Tennessee football players mentoring, coaching, and raising the next generation of Tennessee football stars.

“Ninety percent of the kids who live in the state grow up wanting to wear the Orange and White. They idolize it. They go to games and dream about playing on that field and running out of that T,” he says.

“What’s a dream without a plan? It’s just a wish.”

Jabari, along with Chris Treece, who played for the Vols from 1986 to 1989, established the Legends of Tennessee Football Camp, a program for ages six to 18 of various skill levels who aim to make their football dreams a reality.

“We give them the plan. It’s about respect, discipline, work ethic, character. The guys who are going to teach you have already been in the shoes you’re trying to get into. You get love and encouragement, building up the confidence, so that one day you’ll get to put on the uniform,” says Jabari.

Camps take place all around the state and are hosted by a rotating group of VFLs dedicated to teaching football fundamentals while also building leadership and teamwork skills.”

Chris grew up in Morristown but moved to Middle Tennessee during high school and played football at Oakland. He graduated with multiple offers and originally committed to play at Texas A&M. However, after his grandmother passed away, he realized he wanted to stay closer to home and contribute to the ongoing tradition of the Tennessee Volunteers. Post-college, Chris went on to work in the mortgage industry, write a few books, and return to football as a coach at area

Chris credits his Little League mentors back home in Morristown

camps and schools. He’s been the defensive backs

for setting him in the right direction from the start, acknowledging that

coach at Webb School of Knoxville for the last few

what people say - that it takes a village to raise a child - must be true.

years in addition to running Legends of Tennessee Football Camp with Jabari.

“The thing I can offer these kids is life after football,” says Chris. “One thing will always happen, no

“If you work hard, you can play hard, but you have to do it the right way. I tell kids, you’re trying to get where we’ve been,” he says. “[In Legends of Tennessee], you’ve got years and years of football experience from every decade. There’s nothing we haven’t seen.”

matter where you are - you’ll eventually be a former

Jabari adds, “Being a VFL, it’s a brotherhood. It doesn’t matter

player. So, the biggest thing you have is your name.

what era you played in. I met Chris at the 2011 VFL reception when

Your name is your brand. If I can teach these kids to

they introduced the VFL program. We keep a tight bond and a

always do the right thing and stay out of trouble, and

shared passion to help these kids. We’ve all succeeded in legend-

keep your grades in check, then everything will be

ary ways, so we want to give back.”

fine. That gives you something when football is over.”

For more information, visit LegendsOfTennessee.org.

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A visit with Christopher Battle of BattleField Farm & Gardens

1. WHAT IS BATTLEFIELD FARM & GARDENS? In short, it is an urban farm collective of community gardens fighting food insecurity in East Knoxville.

2. CAN YOU DESCRIBE BATTLEFIELD FARM AND THE WORK THAT IS DONE? With the nearest grocery store located 2.6 miles away from a majority of East Knoxville residents, I along with a team of community leaders wanted to provide healthier food choices to the community through gardening, education, and the creation of the Eastside Sunday Market. Our goal is to teach people how to grow their own food, how to cook farm fresh foods for better health and wellness, and how to grow community through community gardening. The BattleField Farms and Gardens motto is “Fighting Food Disparity, Building Community”. And it is working, we’ve been creating community and fighting food disparity through our work at BattleField Farm & Gardens and Eastside Sunday Market.

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3. TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF

A large part of improving our neighborhood is

AND WHY YOU CREATED BATTLEFIELD FARM

BattleField Farm and Gardens and the East Side

& GARDENS:

Sunday Market that a group of East Knoxville

I am a former Senior Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist

Community leaders created a few years back. The

Church in Knoxville. I’ve been a pastor for more than

Eastside Sunday Market is now operated by Nourish

30 years. I love the church – I always have. My pas-

Knoxville. If I can get one household in my neighbor-

sion has always been introducing people that are far

hood to cook one home-cooked meal a week, I will feel

from God to his Kingdom on earth. In 2019, I had to

like I have done something.

face the reality that the way we have always “done” church is becoming a less and less effective way to

4. HOW DO READERS CONNECT WITH BATTLE-

do that. Research shows that only 20% of the people

FIELD FARM & GARDENS?

in Knox County attend church regularly – and for the

BattleField Farm and Gardens are always looking

purposes of this research, “regularly” was defined as

for educators and community members to volunteer,

once a month. That means fewer and fewer people

and support the mission. To connect directly with

are coming to church, no matter how good we do it.

BattleField Farm and Gardens, they can be found on

Something has got to change. That’s why we created

Facebook @BattleFieldFarmAndGardens

the Knoxville Underground. The Underground is the church reimagined. It is a community of Christ follow-

Join Amy Campbell-Rochelson weekly at The Tennes-

ers actively cultivating shalom wherever we are. We

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are committed to inspiring, equipping, and mobiliz-

Farming, and Folklore. Listen on your schedule by pod-

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“If I can get one household in my neighborhood to cook one home-cooked meal a week, I will feel like I h av e d o n e s o m e t h i n g .”

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LOCAL LIMELIGHT ARTICLE JENNIE TREADWAY-MILLER

meet...larsen jay ABOU T: KNOX COUNTY COMMISSIONER LARSEN JAY CALLS HIMSELF A SWISS ARMY KNIFE. He’s worked in a handful of different careers - from a theatre set designer and film producer (in Dallas and Los Angeles) to a nonprofit creator

Right now I’m listening to Etta James. The

(Random Acts of Flowers) and business strategist (at PYA). It’s been a potpourri

other day, it was Sam Bush and early

of professional passions that shared a common thread.

bluegrass. When I was working on the car,

“I want to find the challenge, then find the solution, get it delivered, and then find the next challenge,” he says. “I like to produce a good product, whether it’s getting an ice rink for Knoxville, getting flowers delivered, or growing a vegetable garden.”

According to his wife, Adrian, Larsen has two factory settings: On and off. When he’s on, he’s all the way on and focused on the goal. When he’s off, Larsen is tooling away in his garden, working on his grandfather’s 1951 Ford truck, or playing ice hockey. It’s in these spaces where he disengages from the world to recharge.

“I don’t take anything for granted,” he says. “I’ve almost died twice. I almost drowned in a river in college and then I had a very serious accident that took 13 surgeries to put me back together. I don’t spend a lot of time contemplating risk or

I was listening to the Best of the Beastie Boys. I do love podcasts, like “Making Sense with Sam Harris”, “Freakonomics Radio”, and “Sawbones”, which is a history of misguided medicine. Also “Dolly Parton’s America” and “Revisionist History”. Anything that takes a subject and

taking time for granted. I wake up every morning saying ‘Thank God I’m alive’ and

examines why it’s a thing, the history of it,

‘How can I be helpful?’ That’s all I want to do. I don’t have idle time that’s wasted.

and the psychology behind it.

We have no idea how long we have.”

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WOR DS I LIV E BY:

“Advocate for people, do good work, and be helpful.”

SOME THING I ’ M PR OU D OF:

My boys, Henry (12) and Alexander (9).

I’m super proud of the people they’re becoming.

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WHAT I ’ M WATCHING :

+ One of the best Netflix documentaries is “My Octopus Teacher.”

Three labs - Dutch (pictured), Cooper, and Tay.

We were like, “Wow.” He spends a year visiting the same octopus every year. But if I’m gonna binge something and need audio wallpaper, I could let “The Office” roll.

FAVOR ITE K NOX V ILLE DISH :

My wife rides horses - Icarus, Liverpool, and Calvin. We also have three fish and two snails!

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WHAT I ’ M LIS TE NING TO:

+ My favorite meal, if I could do it every night, is at JC Holdway.

Everything [Chef Joseph Lenn] serves is amazing. If I was gonna go for a cocktail, I’d go to the Peter Kern Library. If I want chili dogs, I’d go to the Vol Market.

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DIY THE PRO GOLFER’S FITNESS JOURNEY

SCOTT

STALLINGS’

WORKOUT ARTICLE CITY LIFESTYLE

SCOTT STALLINGS DISCOVERED HIS INTEREST IN GOLF AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 3.

But it was the “aha moment” for his love of the game that came in 1997 when Tiger Woods won the Masters and would forever change the entire landscape of the industry, as well as what Stallings would aspire to achieve in his future professional endeavors.

Little did he know at the time, however, not just how successful he would become, but also how an unforeseen health compromise would also rock his world, and his cross training, for the better.

He was a seven-time tournament winner and was an All-American while attending Tennessee Tech, and he has won on the PGA Tour three times as a professional golfer.

Flash forward to the year 2016: It became a life-changing year he never would have anticipated; one filled with strife as he learned he had been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and acute adrenal fatigue. It was a result of some unhealthy nutritional habits, both of which affected his ability to continue effectively as a professional athlete.

With the guidance of doctors, surgeons, and his good friend Rich Froning, a four-time Crossfit champion, Scott developed a workout to trim 60 pounds, boasting 10% body fat, revising his daily eating habits, and sleeping healthily through the night.

Had Scott not gone to the doctor because of that innate fear, he never would have known the diagnosis of sleep apnea that needed to be addressed.

Luckily for Scott, he didn’t have an overwhelming, crazy life overhaul. Instead, he was able to find one small thing, delivering simple systematic changes in his workout that led to his improvement in fitness and quality of life.

“You only get one body,” he says. “Golf is a grind, but don’t let physicality get in the way of your game,” Scott says.

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LEGAL COMPASS ARTICLE MITAL D. PATEL, ESQ.

L E G A L T I P S FOR TE N N E S S E E DA D S HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO THE AMAZING DADS, ESPECIALLY TO MY OWN DAD AND TO ALL OF THE GREAT DADS WE HAVE HELPED OVER THE YEARS. Psychologist, Michael Lamb, stated “Fathers are the forgotten contributors of child development” and statistics indicate the same. I couldn’t imagine the woman I would be today without all of the lessons, guidance, and support from my dad.

When I found myself preparing a parenting plan for my own children, it was a priority to maintain the involvement of my children’s father to uphold my children’s best interest. The following are just a few important points to consider regarding dads in parenting plans: 1. Establish Paternity – 40% of U.S. births

documents, your ability to support your child, and your ability to improve your child’s quality of life.

are to unwed parents.* Tennessee is commonly

4. Res Judicata – Remember: an adjudicated matter cannot

referred to as a “Mother’s State” which means

be raised in the future. When you make agreements or neglect

dads have no inherent parental rights to a child

to raise an issue before an order is entered regarding your child,

born out of wedlock until paternity is established.

you are essentially stipulating that the facts and legal arguments

Be proactive! Genetic testing orders or voluntary

existing prior to the date of entry of the order are resolved. You

acknowledgment of paternity forms are methods

are prohibited from raising these issues and legal grounds after

to establish paternity.

the entry of the orders and plans regarding your child.

2. Parenting Plans – Get it right the first time.

5. Be Prepared, Organized and Transparent – Provide

Future modification of parenting plans is costly,

your attorney with detailed and/or sufficient, organized finan-

inefficient, and difficult. Parenting plans should

cial records and detailed facts. Look to maintaining a calendar

focus on quality time instead of quantity of parent-

regarding your child and never hide facts as this could be detri-

ing days. Remember, the parenting plan is for the

mental to your case. *US Census Bureau

best interest of your child.

3. Financially Responsible – Please understand that your Marital Dissolution Agreement or Final Judgment may be the most important contractual obligation you have. Consider the standard of living for your child after the entry of these legal

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