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TRANSFORM YOUR OUTDOOR LIVING SPACE 4095 WINCHESTER ROAD • MEMPHIS, TN • 38118 (901)758-2121 • SOUTHERNSCREENS.COM SUMMER Table Contents { 2019 Editor Jane Schneider Art Director Carrie Beasley Production Operations Director Margie Neal Production Manager Frank Murtaugh Advertising Art Director Christopher Myers Graphic Designer Jeremiah Matthews Advertising Director Sloane Patteson Taylor Advertising Traffic Coordinator Kalena McKinney Copy Editor Michael Finger Cover Photo Larry Kuzniewski ••• Publisher Kenneth Neill Chief Operating Officer Anna Traverse Controller Ashley Haeger Director of New Business Development Jeffrey Goldberg Editorial Director Bruce VanWyngarden ••• CITY OF GERMANTOWN Communications and Marketing Team Stacey Ewell, Jessica Comas Page 12 ••• go! GERMANTOWN is published by Creative Content by CMI, Subsidiary of Page 6 Contemporary Media, Inc. / P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101 in conjunction with the City Introduction of Germantown. For advertising information, call (901) 521-9000. Page 9 © 2019. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part of any of the materials Like Mother, Like Daughter contained herein without the express written For the Faught family, attending Germantown’s consent of Creative Content by CMI is prohibited. summer camp is a must. For more information, go to contemporary- media.com. For additional copies, contact the City of Germantown at (901) 757-7200 or Page 12 [email protected]. Bringing Nature Back (Yeah) Page 19 Hang out with Natural Resources Manager Keith Paluso and you’ll learn what’s in store for the city’s parks. Page 16 Farm Life, Suburban Style Bobby Lanier Farm Park focuses on sustainable living. Page 9 Page 19 Summer’s Coming — See You at Camp GTOWN! Page 21 SUMMER Calendar of Events history happening now 5 005_TableOfContents_Go_Summer_2019.indd 5 4/10/19 3:29 PM Dear neighbors, There is no excuse for boredom in our community. Your City produces a wide variety of exciting events that the whole family is sure to enjoy, and the countdown to another lively summer is already underway. Start the summer off by visiting one of Germantown’s hidden gems - the Bobby Lanier Farm Park. You can experience the Farm Park in full bloom during our first May Day celebration and help welcome the warm months to come. In June, dust off your lawn chairs and picnic blankets and join your nationally accredited Parks and Recreation department every Tuesday at Municipal Park for Groovin’, Grillin’ and Reelin’. In July, celebrate Independence Day with our spectacular Firework Extravaganza, a festival that culminates with a truly outstanding fireworks display. End the summer on a high note, peddling away at the family-friendly Night Rider or competing in the ultimate pint-sized competition, the Small Fry Triathlon. Looking to take a staycation this summer? What better adventure than getting outside and exploring any of our city’s 29 community parks. As you’ll learn in the pages to come, your City takes pride in its parks and recreation system. You’ll read about one Germantown family’s connection to the parks and recreation summer camp, how City park rangers are revitalizing environmental education for the modern age and how the Parks and Recreation department is bringing back the old-school summer camp feel with Camp Gtown. In 2018, your elected officials approved a Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan that outlines a systematic approach to making improvements within our parks and filling recreational gaps for a better future. The plan was an eight-month effort with broad based community input and public engagement being at the forefront of the process. Comments, suggestions or questions about City services? We’re ready to answer the call! Reach our friendly Customer Service Specialists at 757-7200 or at [email protected]. Our communications staff works hard to put together this publication and would love to hear your feedback at 757-7202 or [email protected]. As always, you are welcome to contact me directly at [email protected] or at 757-7201. I look forward to seeing you out and about in the community this summer. Mike Palazzolo, City of Germantown Mayor 6 go! GERMANTOWN 006_Mayor_Go_Summer_2019.indd 6 4/10/19 2:41 PM Kaylee and Katie Faught Like Mother, Like Daughter For the Faught family, attending Germantown’s summer camp is a must. By Jane Schneider any people consider summer camp a special hours playing games like capture the flag, box hockey and kickball. time for making new friends and discovering new skills. What can make it better is when that camp “Camp was never something we dreaded,” says Faught. “We wanted is right in your own backyard. Older Germantown to go every day, even if it was raining,” she says with a laugh. residents have fond childhood memories of Mgoing to summer camps run by the City’s Parks and Recreation Now married to Eric Faught, the couple is raising a family of their department — just ask Katie Faught. own in Germantown. They have two children, Kaylee (age 7) and Grady (age 5). Katie teaches fifth grade at Riverdale School, When Faught was growing up in Germantown during the 1990s (she where her children also attend school. was Katie Cerrito at that time) going to summer camp each year was a must. It was a chance to be outdoors all day long while playing games Camp meant field days and talent shows with other kids, testing their athletic skills and exploring the world. In addition to offering regular activities such as crafts and games, Fraught remembers Germantown’s camp program hosting special Her family lived close enough to Cameron Brown Park, where the field days and even talent shows. Most fun for Katie was competing camp was held, that she and several of her brothers and sisters in events like tetherball and the bicycle derby, where kids rode their could ride their bikes together to camp — which they did on a daily bikes around an obstacle course set up in the parking lot. Special basis. Faught remembers camp time being active, campers spent tournaments like an Olympics day would bring kids together from “Summer camp is about getting out there, it’s about experiencing new things you might not want to do and broadening your horizons,” says Faught. “Who knows, it might even make you a better person.” history happening now 9 009-010_LikeMotherLikeDaughter_Go_Summer_2019.indd 9 4/10/19 12:36 PM camps across the City for a day of friendly competition. “My brother, sister and I would always win those competitions,” she notes proudly. “I know we’ve still got some of those awards somewhere in my mom’s house!” For the camp talent shows, Faught remembers performing a version of Happy Days, with her siblings, playing a different day of the week, and they acted as the Brady Bunch for another show. “I was 7 or 8 at the time, but it was so much fun,” she says with a laugh. In her teen years, Faught worked as a summer camp counselor at the Houston Levee location. Some of the friendships she formed during that time continue on today. Camp today When Faught’s own daughter, Kaylee, turned 6 last year, she couldn’t wait to enroll her in Camp GTOWN, so she could begin making special memories of her own. Kaylee attended her first two-week camp session last summer and loved it as much as her mom did.