Tipton Magazine August 2022

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REAL RESILIENCE CARINNE HENDERSON IS FIGHTING HER WAY TOWARD RECOVERY AFTER A DEVASTATING ACCIDENT

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The Adair Pulling Team won fourth place in the local 4H tractor pull competition this year, and Nichole Adair, who chronicles the team for their Facebook page, says she couldn’t be prouder.

“A lot of Adair family members are involved with tractor pulls - my husband Kurt, uncle Joe, my brother-in-law Cody and other family members,” she says. “We are wellknown in the Tipton area.”

Adair notes that the whole family loves the positive feedback they get.

“I asked uncle Joe’s dad Jody, who is 92 years young, how he felt watching Joe, Kurt and Cody out there pulling, and he said he felt proud,” she says. “He said there is nothing better than seeing someone work so hard at something and do so well at it.”

She says Joe told her it feels good to hear people congratulating him and complimenting him on his tractors.

“Uncle Joe said that with any sport you participate in, you do your best and want to win, but with pulling, you really want your competition to do well too,” she says.

Adair says her father-in-law Brian doesn’t drive one of the competition tractors.

“He just likes to watch his boys Kurt and Cody fill their adrenaline rushes with it,” she says. “He feels proud of them when they get out there and do their best, and loves to see his grandkids all enjoying the action too.”

She created the Adair Pulling Team Facebook page, and she records videos for the page when she can.

“There is no captain of the team per se, unless you want to say that Brian Adair is the captain of our tractor, Fordified, a single-engine modified tractor, and Joe is the captain of his two tractors, Clodbuster, a Hot Farm tractor, and a light pro tractor called Twisted Sisters,” she says.

Fordified won second place overall for the tractor-pulling season last year, and Clodbuster was first place overall for the season last year.

say, ‘Hey, let’s hook this tractor to this weight and see how far I can go before I get stopped.’ ” Tractor pulling in the Adair family began almost 50 years ago with Joe Adair and his dad, Jody Adair.

“Joe and his dad went to a state-fair pull one time, and after seeing the mini rods pull, Joe decided he wanted to do that too,” Adair says. “They went home and started building their own mini rod from scratch. They used parts around the farm, and the heart of the tractor was his late brother Johnny’s engine from his drag-racing mustang named Phony Pony.”

Phony Pony was also the name of Joe’s mini rod.

Adair says tractor pulling involves hooking a tractor to a sled that has a sliding weight on it.

“The further you go down the track, the heavier the weight on the sled gets, making it harder for you to go fast or far,” she says.

“The track length is 300’. If you go 300’, that is considered a full pull, and anything close to that or over it is what you’re aiming for. Tractor pulling is funny. I always say I wonder who decided to sit down and 2 / TIPTON MAGAZINE / AUGUST 2022 / TownePost.com

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“They traveled to Florida and North Carolina to pull, and won second and third in the nation,” Adair says.

They pulled for about 10 years before parting ways with it. Then around 2016, Joe decided he wanted to start pulling again, so he bought his first single-engine modified tractor.

After a year of pulling, Brian decided to purchase a single-engine mod as well.

“His two sons, Kurt and Cody, along with a friend named Schuylar, drove to Tennessee to meet a guy about this tractor,” Adair says. “They met him at midnight, loaded the tractor up and drove all the way back to Indiana in the same day.”

One special part of tractor pulling is that it’s for the whole family.

“It is about family time and the friends you meet along the way,” Adair says. “We are in a club called Indiana Pulling League and we have the best club around. Everyone gets along, even though we are in competition with each other. We are like one big family.”

Joe has been invited to pull at events with the National Tractor Pullers Association, and competitions in Shipshewana.

“We have met some of the nicest people from around the U.S.,” Adair says. “We have met great people in Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin, just to name a few. We even have people outside the U.S. that follow our Facebook page or the Indiana Pulling League page.”

Joe’s Twisted Sisters tractor has the faces of his sisters, Terri and Ruthie, painted on it.

Aaron Beard, a friend who has become like family, hasn’t missed a beat stepping in and helping with the tractors. He drives Joe’s semi with his pulling tractors to all the pulls, and he is always willing to help work on the tractors. He even drives Fordified occasionally.

“On the fenders of Fordified you will see ‘In memory of Don and Shirley, Brian Adair’s mom and dad,’” Adair says. “Clodbuster got its name because that was his dad’s CB handle back in Jody’s trucking days.”

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Pulling wouldn’t be the same without the ladies behind the men, Nichole (Kurt’s wife) and Lynlie (Cody’s wife), supporting them every step of the way and corralling the kids during the pulls.

Adair says the best part of it all is having family come together.

“We all enjoy time together and the irreplaceable memories that are made all summer long,” she says. “Hopefully one day our children will follow in the footsteps of the Adair Pulling Team.”

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REAL RESILIENCE CARINNE HENDERSON IS FIGHTING HER WAY TOWARD RECOVERY AFTER A DEVASTATING ACCIDENT 6 / TIPTON MAGAZINE / AUGUST 2022 / TownePost.com

The Henderson family of Sharpsville exemplifies unwavering faith, perseverance and the refusal to ever give up. On June 5, 2020, Tri-Central High School graduate Carinne “Rin” Henderson was riding a motorcycle when she was stuck by an impaired driver. The accident caused multiple injuries. In her two-year recovery journey, Craig and Quincy Henderson have tirelessly sought out every possible means to bring their daughter back to health. Behind them is the support of the community, which includes their friends, family, church, the Tipton County Sheriff ’s Office, former Franklin College teammates and countless others who have extended helping hands.

At the time of the accident, Carinne was on summer break between her freshman and sophomore year at Franklin College, where she was on the women’s basketball team.

She was on her way to the home of her high school coach, Lindsey Sorensen. Her husband, two sons and Carinne were going to take her out for a birthday dinner. That summer she was working at the General Motors plant in Kokomo, assembling ventilators. In the past she had worked at

Harley-Davidson in Kokomo where she sold neurologist on duty told us she would never clothing and merchandise. She had been wake up. Quincy said to the doctor, ‘It’s not intent on her recent motorcycle purchase. all about science.’ We asked them to figure out what they could do.”

“I tried everything to talk her out of buying the motorcycle but she already had her Eight days passed before the Hendersons license,” Craig Henderson says. “Life can were allowed to see Carinne again. During change with the snap of a finger. You really that time they called the hospital every four don’t understand what you have to go hours and kept a journal. The family reached through when dealt a hand like this. The out to the community through Quincy’s first person at the accident scene was her Facebook page to ask for prayers. dentist, Dr. Christopher Hulen. It appeared she wasn’t breathing or had a pulse. She was “When we finally saw her, she looked a broken from head to toe. She had broken fright,” Henderson says. “She was dealing femur and humerus bones, broken ribs, a with a traumatic head injury and they put broken hip, and a broken wrist and knee.” a drain in her head to relieve the pressure.

We had a team of doctors who made the Carinne was transported to the local rounds and talked to us every day. We could hospital. Since COVID-19 mandates were tell Carinne knew we were there. One in place, the Hendersons could not enter phenomenal nurse said, ‘Carinne, wiggle the hospital. They sat in their car in the your fingers and toes. Open your eyes.’ Then parking garage and called for updates. It she did.” was determined that emergency surgery was needed to stop internal bleeding. After From there, Carinne’s work toward surgery was over, the family was allowed to healing took off. She spent 33 days at IU see her for 10 minutes.

Health Methodist Hospital, 30 days at Ascension St. Vincent Seton, and 35 days “In the neuro critical care unit, the doctor at Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. told us that Carinne was the sickest person Henderson is a former Tipton County in the entire hospital and they were not sure sheriff, and when Carinne was able to come she would make it,” Henderson says. “The home, the sheriff ’s department gave the TownePost.com / AUGUST 2022 / TIPTON MAGAZINE / 7

family an escort from the county line.

“At that point we realized Carinne couldn’t learn to walk again until her knee was fixed,” Henderson says. “In December 2020 her Achilles heel was fixed and then she had reconstructive knee surgery in February 2021. Carinne has amazing determination.

She’s walking with a walker and has begun to go to church. She can now stand up for the hymns. She has gained mobility of her broken right arm. Her eyesight is better, and her speech is slow but clear. Her cognitive ability is back to about 85%. She has even given a talk to a group of girls on the importance of staying positive, paying it forward and never giving up. We will keep working until she is back to 100%.”

The Hendersons are completely dedicated to fully healing Carinne. They turned a cattle barn into a rehab facility that includes a stair stepper and a stationary bike.

Swimming and music therapy are also part of her ongoing treatment plan. She travels to Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana two times per week, participates in red-light therapy four times per week, and goes to Compete Training Academy four times per week.

“Carinne is the hardest-working being I have ever worked with, ever,” says Courtney Moses Delks, a trainer at Compete Training Academy. “I count it all joy to have the opportunity to help Carinne in her growth of spirit, mind and body. I believe that she will walk and run on her own because of her determination and the work of a higher power in her.”

Dr. Patrick Siparsky, an orthopedic surgeon at IU Health Methodist Hospital, agrees.

“I have never seen such resilience from a patient or a family in my career,” he says.

“By all accounts, Carinne should have died.

It’s a miracle but it didn’t just happen. You have to understand that this girl and her family have never stopped pushing for new, innovative ways for her to get better, and Carinne does it all with a smile on her face.

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