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WE GATHER TOGETHER

Stone Oak Local Churches Page 4

FAIRYTALE ENDING

Student Spotlight Page 7

TOUGH BREAK

Physician Profile Page 11

LOVE EVERLASTING

Senior Moment Page 13

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Red Dress 5K Fun Run & Walk—Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 a.m.

Wear red or your favorite red dress when you participate in this 5K on the campus of Methodist Stone Oak Hospital. Entry fee; $20 per person. All proceeds go to the American Heart Association. For more and to pre-register, visit www.SAHealth.com/calendar or call 210-575-0355.

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Casino Royale Wine Tasting & Casino Party— Friday, Feb. 26, 6:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.

The stakes are high at this festive fundraiser.

Benefitting local charities and scholarships, it’s presented by the Stone Oak Rotary Club. Guests can try craps and poker, blackjack and more, along with raffles and a silent auction. Plus, the players can enjoy elaborate food stations and quality wine. Banquet Hall, Holy Trinity Catholic Church. Call 325-1333 for tickets: $85, individual; $150 per couple; and $600 per table.

6th Annual Run for the Heights—Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 a.m.-11 a.m.

Head to Tuscany Heights Elementary School for a morning of health, wellness and fun.

Register for a 5K, sign children up for the Kids’ Fun Run, browse the Health Fair & Sponsor Expo, and let the little ones enjoy kid-friendly activities. Proceeds benefit the Tuscany Heights Elementary PTA. To register for runs or learn more, go to runfortheheights.tuscanyheightspta.org.

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Donation and Dumping Day—Saturday, Feb. 20, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Get a head start on spring cleaning. Bring items to the Stone Oak Property Owners Association office at 19210 Huebner Road.

Escape the Earth! literary discussion— Saturday, Feb. 20, 1 p.m.-3 p.m.

Join a literary conversation at Parman Library that will be out of this world. All things related to speculative fiction and science-related nonfiction will be up for discussion.

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San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo— Thursday, Feb. 11-Sunday, Feb. 28 Stone Oak residents will join the more than 1.6 million visitors who attend each year.

With concerts by Hunter Hayes, Martina McBride, and more, the festivities have star power, along with the authentic rodeo events that attendees expect. Check sarodeo.com for details.

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Rotary Jeans & Jewels Jubilee—Saturday, Feb. 27, 6 p.m.-11:30 p.m.

This festive fundraiser benefits the scholarships of the Northwest Rotary Foundation and Northwest Rotary charities.

The evening features casino-like games, a silent auction, raffles and dinner. San Antonio Firefighters’ Banquet Hall on 1-10 at Medical Drive. For tickets, call 210-5765475 or visit RotaryNorthwest.com: $65, individual; $480 per table.

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We Gather Together Looking for a place to worship? The Stone Oak community offers churches in sizes mega, medium and small.

In styles traditional, contemporary and somewhere in between. Here’s an overview.

By Jennifer Chappell Smith

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he steeples and bell towers rise above the limestoneencrusted landscape throughout Stone Oak—familiar landmarks. But it’s the people—not masonry and stained glass—that make up a church. In fact, the New Testament describes believers as “living stones.”

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“We want to be a community church,” Colvard says. “We’re here to serve.” With a Mother’s Day Out program and a home school co-op, it also shares its facility with an emerging African-American church called Living Active Word. “The bottom line is to open our gates and invite people to come,” he says.

“I always tell people, ‘There are no perfect churches,’ because churches are made up of people who aren’t perfect,” says Jonathan Moore, lead pastor at Northrock Church. “But I think it’s God’s will for people to get connected.”

His church has helped lots of people do just that. Since Northrock moved from a space at Ronald Reagan High School to its own facility just two and half years ago, it’s grown from 350 members to 1,100 members. The non-denominational church lands on the contemporary side of the worship-style spectrum and invites any and all to come learn about Jesus.

But it’s not the church for everyone. “San Antonio has many great churches and a lot of them are in Stone Oak,” Moore says. Indeed, newcomers and even long-time residents may be overwhelmed by the options.

There are highly visible, larger churches that anchor North Loop 1604 East, such as Concordia Lutheran Church, with a cross-topped tower lit like a beacon at night; Cornerstone Church, with its celebrity pastor John Hagee; and Community Bible Church, with its come-one-come-all, casual style. The Fellowship of San Antonio has a Hill Country look and feel, with buildings built among rocky outcroppings.

With more orthodoxy and a little more liturgy than some of the area’s non-denominational churches, Colvard’s church still offers a relaxed experience: “I usually call us redneck Presbyterians,” he says, laughing. “We’re somewhat liturgical, but we take prayer requests from the congregation. We’re not slaves to the order of worship, but we’re true to our ministry and true to the leading of the Holy Spirit.”

As congregants faithfully attend and seekers seek, different people will feel affinities for different kinds of worship, different points of theology, different ways to serve. But with all those differences, the church communities share a central faith in Jesus Christ. “The message is the same. It is ancient. It’s Tucked back in quiet neighborhoods are other options, such as eternal,” Moore says.

Crown of Life Lutheran Church and Stone Oak Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where Pastor Kevin Colvard leads a He advises those on the hunt for a church home to “look for a congregation of about 100. church where they buy into its vision and can make it their own.”

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The following is a listing of the churches in the immediate area with their church names, addresses, websites and phone numbers.

Church Unlimited 23103 Hardy Oak Blvd. 78258 wearechurchunlimited.com/sanantonio 361-993-5900 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 945 Knights Cross Dr. 78258 mormon.org 210-497-0512

Living Active Word 20024 Crescent Oaks 78258 livingactiveword.com 210-727-6733

Community Bible Church 2477 North Loop 1604 78232 communitybible.com 210-496-5096

North Central Christian Church 1300 Evans Road 78258 northccc.org 210-481-3083

Concordia Lutheran Church 16801 Huebner Road 78258 concordialutheranchurch.com 210-479-1477

Northrock Church 1270 North Loop 1604 East 78232 northrocksa.com 210-452-4614

Cornerstone Church 18755 Stone Oak Parkway 78258 sacornerstone.org 210-490-1600

Northside Church of Christ 19818 U.S. Highway 281 North 78258 nscoc.org 210-494-1907

CrossBridge Community Church 25700 Overlook Parkway 78260 crossbridgecommunitychurch.com 210-496-0158

Park Hills Baptist Church 17747 San Pedro Ave. 78232 parkhills.org 210-494-5219

Crown of Life Lutheran Church 19291 Stone Oak Parkway 78258 crownoflifesa.org 210-490-6886

St. Thomas Episcopal Church 1416 North Loop 1604 East 78232 tom1604.org 210-494-3507

The Fellowship of San Antonio 23755 Canyon Golf Road 78258 thefellowshipofsa.org 210-402-3672

Stone Oak Bible Church 21045 Crescent Oaks 78258 stoneoakbible.com 210-802-6571

Holy Trinity Catholic Church 20523 Huebner Road 78258 holytrinitysa.org 210-497-4200

Stone Oak Cumberland Presbyterian Church 20024 Crescent Oaks 78258 stoneoakchurch.org 210-497-7974

Lifehouse Church 20825 Wilderness Oaks 78258 lifehousesa.com 210-499-5775

Summit Christian Center 2575 Marshall Road 78259 summitsa.com 210-402-0565

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Fairytale Ending

As Maddie Stokes nears the end of her high school theater career, she won the role of Cinderella. But old-fashioned hard work—not a fairy godmother—is making her acting dreams come true.

Student Spotlight

By Jennifer Chappell Smith

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very little girl imagines being Cinderella: the dress, the glass slippers—not to mention the “happily ever after.” Ronald Reagan High School Senior Maddie Stokes lived that dream, if only for a few nights on stage. She played the title character in the school production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella in early February.

Rehearsing for the glass slipper scene.

When she logged on to the school portal from home to find out what part she got, she could hardly believe it. “I can’t even tell you how excited I was,” she says.

Maddie shouldn’t have been too surprised. While she hadn’t yet starred in a school musical, she was the understudy for the adult Cosette in last year’s production of Les Misérables, and she performed in choruses for that musical and in Jekyll and Hyde. She had played Ophelia in Hamlet and had key roles in other dramatic plays, as well.

“I’m more drawn toward film acting and commercial acting...but my roots will be on the stage,” she says.

And she doesn’t aspire to a role in a summer blockbuster: “It doesn’t have to be a famous movie like The Hunger Games. I want to be in something that makes a difference.”

She’s got supportive parents, three siblings and three stepsiblings cheering her on, and her memories of high school theater success will carry her to the next phase of her promising acting career.

Maddie, with her lovely soprano voice, has sung in the women’s varsity choir, Bel Canto, the mixed varsity choir Kantorei, and, this year, the mixed, varsity Chamber Choir. But singing developed as a byproduct of her true passion—acting, which she discovered at a 6th grade theater class.

She remembers first experiencing acting magic playing the queen in The Princess and the Pea just a few years ago. “When you step into a character you become that character,” she explains, “and once you get off stage you’re you. That was the first time I felt that difference.”

The “A” student reads plays in her spare time, studying the monologues. She also enjoys exposure to great literature in her A.P. English class. “It helps my acting,” she says.

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Screen Time: Prevent Eye Strain

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omputer at work. Laptop at home. Smartphone and tablets in between. Our eyes suffer more strain than ever from today’s technology. Even kids are at risk during tablet time.

Protect against blue light.

What is one of the main culprits for tech-related eye strain? Blue light emitted from screens of all kinds. Some research even claims that blue light can damage the retina and contribute to a condition called macular degeneration.

Consider investing in eyewear that protects against blue light. Vision Source offers a blue lightblocking lens called Crizal® Prevencia™—an Anti Reflective lens made to stop rays in the blue light spectrum. We’d love to talk with you about the advantages of this type of protective barrier and how it can contribute to your long-term eye health.

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Even if you use glasses to read spreadsheets and emails during computer sessions, you may suffer from eye strain or computer vision syndrome—associated with fatigue, headaches and blurred vision. Adults who work with a computer two hours or more a day may find relief with Computer Progressive lenses.

What’s the difference between Computer Progressives and Traditional Progressives? The traditional version allows the convenience of looking across the den at the TV and then back to a book or newspaper without taking glasses off and on. But computer screens often stand somewhere between those two distances—an intermediate distance. Computer Progressives have a larger range in the lens for seeing a computer screen’s distance away.

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t’s tough to stay motivated about working out when there’s a chill in the air. And February is far enough from New Year’s Day for people to slack on that resolution. To get fit or to stay fit in 2016, follow these tips from Thousand Oaks YMCA Personal Trainer Mechele Burns.

1) Schedule a workout as part of your daily routine. “If you don’t, it’s not going to happen,” Burns says. Beginners may start with working out three days a week and increase to five over time. “Don’t overdo it at first,” she says.

2) Invest in the right kind of clothing for your workout.

“When it’s cold, people will overdress or underdress,” Burns says. Layers of cotton clothing, for instance, can get damp as you work out. Then they’ll feel heavy and leave you feeling chilly.

Here’s one more motivating factor: February is Heart Healthy Month, when the YMCA encourages everyone to get moving.

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Burns recommends clothing that wicks away moisture, such as tops and bottoms made of Coolmax® fabrics and similar materials. From pieces by Nike® and Under Armour® to more affordable off-brands, investing in this kind of gear can make a big difference.

3) Find accountability. Enlist walking buddies. Ask a friend to join a Zumba® or Pilates class. “When it’s beautiful outside, it’s easy to want to work out,” Burns says. “But when it’s not, having workout partners can help motivate you.”

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Tough BREAK After his own daughter broke her arm, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon has more sympathy than ever for the children he treats—and for their parents.

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r. William K. Koeck, an orthopedic surgeon who treats all sorts of sports-related injuries, watched his daughter Claire’s gymnastics class before the accident happened. He left with her restless little sister and missed seeing Claire do her round-off back handspring for the first time. He also missed the injury.

“Class was over, but she wanted to do it one more time,” Koeck says, explaining that she landed wrong and broke both bones in her left forearm—badly. “My partner did the surgery.” And for once, Koeck was the parent in waiting room.

His partner, Dr. Jeffrey R. Warman, established Pediatric Orthopedic and Scoliosis Center of South Texas in 2005. Koeck came on board the Stone Oak practice, in part, because of his interest in treating scoliosis and his knack for connecting with kids. “If I wasn’t a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, I’d probably be a pediatrician,” he says. “I’m kind of a kid at heart.”

He enjoys making a boy who has a broken leg smile. Or seeing a teenage girl saddened by scoliosis blossom with improved selfesteem after surgery. “A kid is in pain, and I can do something to make them feel better,” Koeck says.

The son of a U.S. Air Force pilot, Koeck grew up a military brat with stints living in San Marcos and Lubbock, and he has family connections to Wimberley. He majored in biomedical science at Texas A&M University, where he met his wife, Heather, and served as Commander of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band.

Photo by Ross Benton; studiobenton.com After school at his Stone Oak practice, Dr. William K. Koeck greets his daughters, Cassidy, 6, and Claire, 9, sporting her neon green cast after a recent tumbling injury.

The University of Texas Medical School grad did his residency at UT Health Science Center in San Antonio and won a fellowship that gave him experience working in Houston at Texas Children’s Hospital and Shriner’s Hospital for Children. Appointed to the faculty at UT Health Science Center, he practiced there for three years and also served as chief of orthopedics at Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital in 2010.

That experience paired with his kid-friendly bedside manner draws patients to his practice. And after experiencing his own daughter’s injury, he’s more qualified than ever to help. “I got to see things from the other side,” he says.

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Love Everlasting A Stone Oak resident recalls life on an Apache reservation more than six decades ago—and the husband she loved and lost too soon.

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hen a young Wisconsin minister, Allyn “Schup” Schuppenhauer, and his wife, Evelyn, moved to an Apache reservation in Arizona in the late 1940s, they never knew what crisis might come with a knock on the parsonage door. But Evelyn, who is 92 and now lives at Independence Hill Retirement Resort Community in San Antonio, always opened it ready to help.

Knock-knock: An Apache couple’s daughter had swallowed kerosene. Knock: Someone had swallowed a suppository. Knock: A woman giving birth was struggling in her Apache shelter, called a wickiup. Evelyn, a nurse, found solutions that helped each survive.

“I learned things I never learned in nurse training,” she says, recalling scorpion stings that brought Apache women to her door and how she’d soak the wounds in warm water to draw out the venom and sit with them until the pain went away. “I could hear them crying as they were coming up the road.”

She did all this while having three children within three years, always making herself available to what she calls the “very stoic” Apaches. “We gained their trust,” she says.

Then came a terrible knock three years into the couple’s marriage: Schup’s car had been hit by a train. He died, and her grief remains. “I miss him terribly. I loved him, and love him still,” she says, reaching for snapshots of the handsome, young Lutheran minister who once took her to live in the Southwest desert.

As a widow and single mom, Evelyn returned to Beaver Dam, Wisc., raised her children, and practiced nursing for the next 50 years. She never married again. “I just couldn’t. None ever compared to Schup,” she says.

Evelyn Schuppenhauer, 92, has lived for 12 years at Independence Hill Retirement Resort Community. “I’ve made some good friends. You get to be like family after a while,” she says.

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• Spay or neuter your pet. An estimated 5 to 7 million animals enter shelters each year. Having your pet spayed or neutered is the best way to prevent this problem from getting worse.

• Do your research on the best vets in the area. Your pet’s health should always be top priority. Research the best area veterinarians before you add a new member to the family.

• Pet proof your home. Don’t forget easily overlooked items that can harm your pet, such as household plants, cleaning products, and certain foods. Keep these and other items where your pet can’t reach them.

• Always keep an ID tag on your pet. Whether you have an indoor or outdoor pet, animals have sneaky ways of escaping. So keeping an ID tag on them 100% of the time increases the chances that they will come home safely. Another way to keep your pet safe is to microchip them.

• Feed your pet properly. Keeping your pet on a regular, portion-controlled diet not only helps with weight management, but also prevents weight-related health problems. Feed your pet the same type and amount of food every day.

• Teach Basic Commands. Teach your dog basic commands, such as stay, come, down and walk nicely on leash. Training makes your life easier and stimulates your dog’s mind.

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