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Firewood is always in demand and the inspiration to create a large-scale firewood distribution model unlike anything ever seen before in the state of Kentucky is something that has been percolating in the mind of Eddie Hager for some time.

Hager’s two partners in Big Timber are Todd Dunn and Rick Gaddy. Though Big Timber is in its infancy stage of operation, Hager, Dunn and Gaddy have been talking about its development for the past year.

“It took money, time and dedication to make this happen,” Dunn says. “We decided to take action and make the dream a reality.”

“No cellulose material is thrown away,” Hager adds. “We’ve not had to haul anything off the property. Everything is being used in every aspect.”

Their combined experience made them the perfect team, with Dunn’s knowledge of streamlining production with the Ford Motor Company and Hager’s business knowledge of pushing his men to get things done.

“And I’m so glad that Rick Gaddy is on board with this production,” Hager says.

“He’s a machine and will work seven days a week, if need be.”

Since Hager had been in tree business for so long, he asked himself what he could do with all the big logs as he hated to see them go to waste.

“Our portions on our wood are hearty,” Hager says. “With the name Big Timber, we want it to be big and better.”

Hager traveled to Turin, Italy to meet with the owner of a factory that produces the TB 900 Pezzolato Firewood Processor,

a computerized state-of-the-art wood processor that can handle 36-inch diameter logs. The machine was mighty impressive but also came with a hefty price tag: $600,000. Ultimately, Hager decided it was worth the cost and he had it imported and set up — a feat that required several cranes to assemble.

“We already had a small market for bulk firewood, but tapping into the firewood industry was my and Todd’s dream,” Hager says. “Now it’s happening as we speak.”

One of the things that Hager felt strongly about was wanting American wood to be sold in America rather than European white birch, which he says is not even a good wood.

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here and put money back into the economy.

We’ve got plenty of wood in America and we want to keep Americans’ homes warm with it.”

An additional way Hager, Dunn and Gaddy serve their country is by supporting Active Heroes, a non-profit whose mission is to support U.S. military service members, veterans and their families through physical, educational and emotional programs in an effort to eliminate suicide.

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), on average, 132 suicides occur each day - more than 15% of those are veterans. Dunn, who is on the Board of Directors of Active Heroes, served in Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991.

“I have two awesome kids, but I struggled with thoughts of suicide,” Dunn says. “I want to help others who struggle with those same dark thoughts.”

President of Active Heroes, Troy Yocum, was so dedicated to raising funds to help military families that in 2010-2011 he marched 7,800 miles across the country.

He’s grateful to the owners of Big Timber who care a great deal about veterans.

partnering with Active Heroes to Hager and Gaddy, they were immediately on board. Not only do they donate a portion of all Big Timber sales to Active Heroes but they also helped build the Active Heroes Retreat Center in Shepherdsville, Ky. Open to military families free of charge, visitors “It is companies like this that really support can relax on the beautiful 147-acre facility the veteran community,” Yocum says. to recharge, reconnect and replenish their “Organizations like Active Heroes that strive mental resources. The retreat offers activities to reduce veteran suicide are impacted in such as family day/camping, archery, hiking great ways from businesses that give back.” trails and a playground.

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“It’s a place for veterans and their families to go to heal,” Dunn says. “And this is important because currently approximately 22 veterans a day take their life, which equates to more than 600 veteran suicides a month. That’s why a place like this is so important.”

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ince he was a young boy, Richard Sullivan has had two loves - baseball and art.

Admittedly, baseball took up most of the Louisville native’s time, but art was something he returned to again and again.

Sullivan says his love of expressing himself through doodling or painting always came as natural as breathing.

“I think it just came naturally to me when I was younger,” he says. “Whenever I was bored, or supposed to be studying or in class, I always had a pencil and paper. It always made me feel at peace and relaxed.

There was never any pressure. It always made me feel really good.”

Earlier this year, Woodford Reserve representatives tapped the Louisville artist to design the artwork for the company’s 2020 commemorative Kentucky Derby bottle. His elegant watercolor design depicts galloping thoroughbreds beneath the twin spires of Churchill Downs as they race toward the finish line.

“There is poetic beauty in this year’s bottle because Richard Sullivan, the human athlete, is celebrating the equine athlete,” says Woodford Reserve Master Distiller Chris Morris.

With the design, Sullivan, 32, says he hoped to convey movement and action.

“The Woodford Reserve label is very horizontal, so it was a challenge because I like to paint very large-scale,” he says. “It was challenging and fun.”

Before spending his days in a studio where he paints athletes, both human and equine, Sullivan spent most of his time on a baseball field. He attended Ballard High School where his natural ability on the baseball diamond made him a standout.

“When you are naturally good at something, you like that positive attention that comes with that,” he says. “You want your parents or teachers to say ‘Oh, that’s a good job.’”

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his two passions when he signed with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the only art and design school in the country to have a sports team.

He was able to hone his artistic ability while also playing for the school’s baseball team. It was the first time, he says, that he felt truly able to be himself.

Sullivan was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 2008 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. He spent the next six years playing in the minor leagues, and baseball took over nearly every waking moment of his life. His artwork had to be pushed to the back burner.

Professionally, he was living his dream career.

At some point in his baseball career, Sullivan says, the excitement he’d always felt for the sport wasn’t there. He wanted to grow as an artist more than he wanted to be a baseball player. He was released from his contract and found himself pondering what to do next.

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He began by returning to SCAD to complete a degree in illustration, and began painting athletic portraits.

at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He also recently finished a collaboration with Topps trading cards.

His skill at painting athletes, both equine and human, comes from his extensive knowledge of the human form as a baseball player.

Sullivan recently became an officially licensed artist with MLB and is now able to paint any active player. His goal is to expand his audience by selling prints of his work in MLB stadiums across the country.

“There is a connection to my past as a baseball player, especially with pitching,” says Sullivan, who accepts art commissions.

“Every athlete gets into a flow - you get in that flow state. You are so focused, so present, that time kind of stops. You have to be so totally focused in that moment. That’s what it’s like for me when I’m painting.”

Inspiration for Sullivan’s artwork flows from all areas of his life. Two watercolor artists that have heavily influenced him are John Singer Sargent, the renowned American painter, and Charles Reid, an American watercolor artist who passed away in 2019.

Though his work might not reflect it, Sullivan is inspired by nature and by simply getting outdoors.

“I love being in nature, being outside - just being free and being able to let your mind go is refreshing,” he says.

Much of Sullivan’s work centers around a topic he is familiar with - Major League Baseball. In 2017 he was commissioned by his former team, the Atlanta Braves, to paint 18 original paintings that now hang in Truist Park, where the Braves play. Another one of his paintings was accepted into the permanent collection

Sullivan must balance his time between being an entrepreneur and an artist.

Sometimes, he says, it’s hard to stay focused on painting when he must attend to the details of the art business.

When he can spend an uninterrupted day in his Portland studio, Sullivan often cranks up music and starts by drawing. He’ll design a composition in Photoshop and transfer it to large-scale watercolor paper. The last step before painting is to sketch a little on the paper. The process of painting itself doesn’t take that long, he says.

Now that Sullivan has been away from baseball for several years and devotes his time to his art, he wants others to hear his story and to let people know that they can forge their own path.

“I want kids to know they can have more than one passion,” he says. “Playing a sport and being an artist were two very different things when I was a kid. I thought I could only focus on one thing. Life is not just black or white.

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It is amazing to think how one conversation between two individuals can lead to positive change in a community that helps thousands of people. For Bob Callander, a longtime member of Beargrass Christian Church, a chat about transportation for refugee families in Louisville nearly eight years ago led to a mission that keeps him very busy in his retirement.

Beargrass Christian Church in St. Matthews has long been involved with sponsoring refugee families who come to Louisville.

While volunteering at Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) headquarters, Callander noticed someone handing out TARC passes to refugee families and asked some questions. He learned that TARC was the only form of transportation, besides walking, that most local refugees have.

can’t get a license and they can’t afford a car,” Callander says. “I thought, ‘We’ve got 1,300 members. We’ll go into the membership, find old bicycles, and give them so they’ll have something.’”

In the summer of 2013, Callander worked with others to locate and fix up bikes to donate to KRM, and he remembers what a big deal it was to get to 50 bikes. Some media coverage for that project, which became the Pedal Power ministry, led to an abundance of bike donations, and an increasing number of volunteers to help ensure the bikes were cleaned up and safe.

“We were able to turn them around really fast, and we got hooked up with the mayor’s Give A Day,” he says.

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that had clients that needed bicycles,” Callander says.

Beargrass Christian Church members contacted and were contacted by a variety of local organizations to see what needs they had, including Louisville Community Ministries, Churchill Downs (which has a large Guatemalan community of workers and their families), St. Vincent de Paul, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Kentuckiana.

“We’ve got about 15 different groups we give bikes to, but it’s always evolving,” Callander says, adding that addiction and prison re-entry programs also have a need for bikes. “We may focus on four or five for a few months until they get their fill, so we shift to other groups. We try to spread it around to whomever needs the bikes.”

Callander says it has always been a balancing act between having enough bikes, having enough volunteers to fix the bikes, and having enough places to donate the bikes.

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At the same time, due to shutdowns and the loss of many indoor activities, bicycling has exploded in popularity.

“We started getting calls from the bike shops wanting us to come and pick up the trade-in bicycles,” Callander says. “They were and still are donating those to us.”

Many people have also had more time to clean out their garages, which means Pedal Power has been inundated with donated bikes from individuals and families. Scheller’s Fitness and Cycling, the Louisville Metro Police Department and TARC have been some of the biggest suppliers of used bikes for Pedal Power.

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Callander wonders whether affiliating with When Callander thinks about the future of the Pedal Power ministry, he has big dreams. the Norton Sports Health Athletics and Learning Complex at 30th Street and West “I’ve talked to other organizations in town, Muhammad Ali Boulevard might be a good fit for ensuring individuals get bikes they and there is a general consensus that just giving the bikes away isn’t enough,” he says. need, and also acquire training for fixing them so they last longer. At this point, “We would like people who get the bikes he doesn’t know who to turn to in order to have some basic skills and know how to begin that conversation, but he says to fix them. We’d like them to know about bicycle safety and the rules of the road for Beargrass Christian Church can provide the volunteers. bicycles. We’d like them to have helmets outreach programs at Beargrass. and locks. All that has been beyond us In April of 2020, Pedal Power donated its so far - we’re just cranking them out and “We do a lot of this kind of thing,” 5,000th bike to the community. giving them away.”

Callander says. “I think the church prides itself on the fact that much of our ministry “I don’t see much stopping that other In Callander’s experience, bike and repair is outside the walls, not necessarily just on knowledge hasn’t been an issue for refugees than getting enough [people] to fix them,” Sunday morning.” because they often rode bikes in their home Callander says. countries, but he sees many local individuals For more info on the Pedal Power project, The bike ministry is just one of many who could benefit from an expanded visit beargrass.org/pedal-power.

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An avid arts-and-crafts girl since she was young, Kristin Mobley has always pursued her creative side.

“I learned to sew very early in life. I was an only child and a Montessori child so in my free time, I made purses, jewelry, and all sorts of stuff,” Mobley says. When she entered college, she had plans to study art and design but was dissuaded to do so, warned that artists earn a meager living.

Instead, she chose to go to school in Virginia where she studied child development.

While there, she met Mark Mobley, whom she would later marry. When he mentioned that he was from Louisville, Kentucky, she told him, “Take me to the Derby!”

That he did. In fact, the couple moved to Louisville permanently, and for 10 years she worked as a private nanny for several families, many of whom employed their own landscapers, maids and milliners. Each time a milliner came to the house, Mobley was riveted.

“When you have a mother who overdosed on pills, the last thing you want to tell your doctor is, ‘I’m depressed. I need medication to help turn things around,’” Mobley says. “At the same time, after losing my mom, I felt like I had to be the best mother that I could be.”

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“I’d observe these lovely hat makers and would think, ‘I could do that!’” Mobley says.

Though she played around with hat design, Mobley’s daughters Liza Lynn (2) and Caroline Mark (1) have transformed her she never dove in completely. world view — making her appreciate what Not long after she married Mark, Mobley she has and evaluate what she needs. experienced tragedy when her mother, who had battled mental illness for years, took her “It’s been wonderful having children, but I own life. Several years later, when Mobley needed an outlet,” Mobley says. Though she had children of her own, she suffered from resold retro clothing, jewelry and consigned debilitating postpartum depression. items from her closet, she wanted to give return to her interest in hat design.

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After posting pictures to Instagram, her designs began garnering attention.

The positive response from fashionforward folks inspired her to enter several hat designs into a contest with the theme “to the future and back” in which designers were asked to submit a hat that was either futuristic or retro. Mobley chose to submit a flower crown, plus three others. In December 2019, when she learned that two of her designs were selected to showcase in the 2020 London Hat Week Exhibition, she was honored.

She was even more flattered when she was told that she was the only milliner from Kentucky with a selected hat.

“I was in shock, honestly,” Mobley says. “My whole life my grandmother told me that with my talent, I could do anything I set my mind to, but you kind of roll your eyes at that stuff. But if London thinks I have talent, maybe my grandma was right!”

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Mobley gleans inspiration for her designs by perusing thrift shops and studying fashion icons like Princess Di. “You can draw inspiration from anywhere,” Mobley says. “I’m openended when it comes to ideas because I love different, unique things.”

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To get a handle on what is currently trending, Mobley follows spring and summer collections by popular designers.

She likes fashion designer Richard Quinn because of his affinity for floral/retro/ polka dots.

“I’m all about the flower power,” Mobley says. “In fact, a lot of my stuff is inspired by my garden.”

That comes in handy since, according to Mobley, everyone wants a flower on their hat for the Derby.

“I’m always looking at the Aussies and the Brits to figure out what to bring to the Derby,” Mobley says. “Having said that, I do have a wild side and I march to the beat of my own drum, to a certain extent.”

When it comes to hat design, Mobley finds that it’s important to sit down and doodle.

That way when the time comes to make the hat, she has a sense of direction. She designs hats for clients for the Kentucky Derby in which she matches a hat design to a dress. She’s already fielding requests for this year’s race.

“I have a local radio host who is interested in having me design a hat for his girlfriend,” she says. “There’s also a local boxer who wants me to work with his date on designing a hat.”

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“Fashion is so fun!” Mobley adds. “It’s fun to get dressed up and stand out. Even if someone doesn’t like what you’re wearing or they say, ‘Wow, what is that?’ I enjoy the curiosity of it all.”

The Derby, of course, is the culmination of fun fashion. In fact, Mobley calls it a “runway of spectacular fashion.”

“It’s just a good time — the verve and the horses. It’s so much fun,” Mobley says. “I could make a coffee table book from all of the awesome hat designs I saw at the Derby last year.

“Millinery can be isolating so I’m looking forward to learning from all these people who are masters at their craft,” she adds.

For instance, she plans to take a class in London from a milliner who teaches how to make a hat out of straw and then a purse to match.

simply finding the time to do it all.

“Setting that time aside to be creative and try new things is the hardest part,” she says.

Currently, Mobley designs for Revelry Boutique, a local gallery that requested to carry her unique hat designs. As far as future plans, Mobley hopes to add jewelry design to her repertoire — mainly earrings.

She likes the idea of offering a hat/purse package as bamboo purses are all the rage right now. In addition, she’s toying with the idea of designing shoes.

“I’m also trying to think of an interesting way to honor my mother,” she says.

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The coronavirus pandemic has, in many ways, caused increased physical, financial and emotional strain. As such, priorities have shifted.

“We’re in such a weird time now because people aren’t spending money on vacations, and they can’t buy swimming pools or bicycles because they can’t find them,” says Chris Brumley, owner of River City Flooring. “People are fixing up their houses instead, making vast improvements to them.”

River City Flooring, which Brumley opened 23 years ago, offers a full inventory of hardwood flooring, carpeting, and waterproof vinyl plank flooring. Brumley recalls that when he started the business in 1997, it offered just two choices - red or white oak. Now he carries thousands of colors.

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“We started selling [vinyl plank flooring] just for basements, but it’s become a redhot product due to its waterproof nature, and now we’re doing the whole first floor of houses,” Brumley says. “It’s amazing how every year products are looking better and better.”

COREtec luxury vinyl flooring is a leader in the industry. River City Flooring also stocks Mohawk and Mannington products, both of which are made in the United States.

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“People want to be warm when they stick “To me, it’s a big deal because these people their feet out of bed in the morning,” are our extended family,” Brumley says.

Brumley says. “If you have little ones just starting to walk, it’s best to have them fall on Last year the staff donated and installed padded carpet.” flooring for Operation Victory, an organization that provides houses for River City Flooring boasts a large showroom, with 3’ by 3’ squares of flooring homeless veterans. They plan to do so again this year. Two or three times per that customers can stand on for a realistic year the staff has also donated truckloads impression. Big-box stores, on the other hand, sometimes put small samples up high of extra inventory, including carpet tiles and hardwood vinyl planks, to Habitat for and at an angle.

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As work-from-home jobs become more common, many people are looking for ways to turn their homes into functional working spaces. Fortunately, it doesn’t take a lot of money or a lot of space to create an effective home office.

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to keep everything organized. You can also use decorative baskets or boxes to keep things handy and tidy if you don’t have drawers.

To tame all those computer cables, phone chargers and other cords, purchase fabric cord covers or cord storage boxes to keep everything hidden but accessible. Bookshelves provide plenty of additional storage, or use floating shelves if you’re tight on space.

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For the most part, it’s a one-man operation though Wise has recruited his wife, kids, and father to assist with book pick-ups and deliveries. In addition, his dad, Tom, has graciously loaned Wise his van. Since Wise is busy weekdays with his full-time job, he usually does book pick-ups and deliveries on Sundays.

“We do not add any books to landfills, although a small percentage may be recycled, depending on their condition,” says Wise, who notes that around five to ten percent of the books are sold to recoup some of his overhead costs. The remaining books are donated to those in need around parts of Louisville and surrounding counties.

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means, but that’s okay because that was never the point,” says Wise. “Basically, I want to take books anywhere they will be used.”

Wise admits that it’s rather easy finding books during yard sale season. He simply contacts people who are having sales, explains his mission, then asks that if they have any books left over following the sale if they would mind if he picks them up.

“The response has been really good,” says Wise, noting that one time he came across a former teacher who gave him ten boxes of children’s books, which he donated to a large nonprofit in Louisville called the Home of the Innocents, whose mission is to enrich the lives of children and families with hope, health, and happiness.

“They were so appreciative to get the books,” says Wise. “That’s my favorite donation so far.”

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Sometimes Wise collects a handful of books.

Others times it’s a box or two or three.

“Right now the back of my van is full of books. So is my garage,” says Wise. “They’re spilling into the house.”

But as quickly as he collects them, he works to find places to give them away.

He’s already distributed hundreds of books to several nonprofit organizations as well as some Little Free Libraries. Going forward, he wants to focus mainly on providing free used books to inner city schools, daycare centers, hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, churches, homeless shelters, Little Free Libraries, and any other organization that would

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both from the donors and recipients of the books, has been extremely positive.

“There have been several pick-ups where people tell me how glad they are that their books are going to a good home,” says Wise.

Since the organization is still in its infancy stages, Wise is not yet set up as a nonprofit organization so any book donation is not tax deductible. In the future, however, he does plan to take the legal steps necessary to become a nonprofit organization. He would also like to find a way to partner with thrift stores, used bookstores, Goodwill, and/or the library—anyone who has an abundance of books. But his ultimate goal is to be known as “the book guy.”

“I want people to think, ‘I’ve got books.

I’m going to call Chris!’” says Wise, whose motto is, “Used Books, New Life” (#UsedBooksNewLife).

Not surprisingly, one of Wise’s favorite pastimes is reading.

“I have a nightstand with ten books on it—mostly nonfiction. Lots of biographies,” says Wise. “I like to read a chapter or two every day.”

Right now, Wise’s main goal is to spread the word and let the community know that Book Rescue Louisville exists.

“It may sound cliché, but my purpose is to give back to others—to do something positive for the community,” says Wise.

“If I can somehow help get a book into the hands of someone and that, in turn, helps someone who is maybe going through a hard time or is in need of a boost in their mood or their life, well, that makes this job worthwhile.”

As his organization grows and gains momentum, Wise hopes to also provide donations to prisoners in jail as well as seek out additional homeless organizations.

“I’d like these folks to read books and get inspired to better themselves,” says Wise.

“Knowing that I could aid in some small part of that really propels my purpose.”

One thing that makes Book Rescue Louisville unique is the free personalized pick-up service. According to Wise, no other organization in the area does such a thing.

And his pick-up services currently extend outside of Louisville to surrounding counties.

“Perhaps one day it will spread across the whole state,” says Wise. “Book Rescue of Kentucky? Hey, you never know.”

If you are an organization that is interested in donating books to Book Rescue Louisville, contact Wise. For more information about Book Rescue Louisville, call (502), 780-6484, email chris@bookrescuelou.com, or visit www.bookrescuelou.com.

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