Clarksville Family Magazine — July 2008
The July 2008 issue of Clarksville Family Magazine celebrates a success story in Viva Catie, confronts child abuse, and protects the skin you're in.
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The cover feature, “Viva Catie — Success!”, celebrates an inspiring local story of triumph, the kind of uplifting personal profile that gives the magazine its heart.
“Spotting and Reporting Child Abuse” takes on a difficult but vital subject, giving readers the knowledge to recognize the signs and act — the kind of serious service journalism that can protect the community's most vulnerable.
With summer sun at its peak, the health pages deliver “What You Should Know About Skin Cancer” and “Protecting the Skin You're In,” practical guidance for staying safe in the Tennessee heat.
“If a Tree Falls” adds a reflective feature to the issue, and the recurring departments round out a July number balancing an inspiring success story, a hard but important subject and summer health.
The recurring departments and photo pages round out a July issue that balances an inspiring success story, a hard but vital subject and summer health. Viva Catie's triumph, essential guidance on recognizing child abuse, and timely skin-cancer awareness all share the same pages — the uplifting, the serious and the practical together. It is the characteristic substance of a Clarksville Family number, willing to celebrate a local success while confronting a difficult reality that protects the community's children. In the heart of summer, the issue reminds readers to guard their skin against the sun and their children against harm, all with the magazine's trademark care. The child-abuse feature, in particular, showed the magazine's willingness to use its reach for genuine public good, giving readers the knowledge to protect the community's most vulnerable. Set against the summer's lighter fare, it was a reminder that a family magazine's deepest responsibility is to the safety of children. The Viva Catie feature followed its subject's journey with real warmth — a trip to Austin, Texas, that left a lasting impression (“Austin was so big, clean and welcoming,” one recollection runs, describing looking down a hill with the state capitol at the end of the road) — the kind of personal, place-rich storytelling that gave the young magazine its heart.
Table of Contents
- Viva Catie - Success! (p. 5)
- Spotting and Reporting Child Abuse (p. 12)
- What You Should Know About Skin Cancer (p. 12)
- Protecting the Skin You’re In (p. 13)
- If a Tree Falls (p. 5)
- T & Sympathy (p. 18)
- Family Resource (p. 22)
- Marketplace (p. 31)
Regular departments
- Faith & Family (p. 10)
- Coloring Contest (p. 15)
- The Fridge (p. 20)
- Network (p. 28)
- Parent Groups (p. 30)