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Clarksville Living Magazine — May 2016

The May 2016 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine makes dreams come true at Camp Rainbow, welcomes back the Downtown Market, and confronts panhandling in Clarksville.

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“Camp Rainbow — Making Dreams Come True” leads the issue with a moving look at the camp that creates joyful experiences for children facing serious challenges — exactly the kind of local cause the magazine loves to champion.

“Panhandling in Clarksville” takes on a thornier civic subject, examining an issue many residents encounter but few discuss openly — a piece of substantive local journalism that doesn't shy from complexity.

“Clarksville's Downtown Market Returns” welcomes back the seasonal gathering of local growers and makers, while “Backyard Bird Bounty” invites readers to enjoy the season's natural pleasures closer to home.

The health pages offer “7 Screening Tests for Women,” “Get the Glycemic Green Light” on blood-sugar-friendly eating, and “Play It Safe, Protect Your Face,” and the issue notes that the Father Daughter Ball has moved to June, rounding out a wide-ranging spring number.

The recurring departments and photo pages round out a May issue that ranges from the heartwarming to the hard. A camp making dreams come true for children who need them sits alongside an unflinching look at panhandling, giving the number both compassion and courage. Between the return of the Downtown Market, the backyard birds and the season's screening reminders, the issue captures a community stepping into late spring with its eyes open — celebrating its best instincts while refusing to look away from its harder questions. It is the balance of warmth and substance that has always defined the magazine's approach to local life. The Camp Rainbow feature captures the warmth of the place from the inside — the excitement of campers arriving on a Monday, the shared dinner each evening, and the joy, in one counselor's words, of meeting the new campers and seeing them experience it all for the first time — while the “Backyard Bird Bounty” piece finds its writer watching woodpeckers and dodging the neighbor's cat from a perch on the wood privacy fence.

Table of Contents

  • Camp Rainbow—Making Dreams Come True (p. 6)
  • Backyard Bird Bounty (p. 12)
  • Panhandling in Clarksville (p. 20)
  • Clarksville's Downtown Market Returns (p. 22)
  • 7 Screening Tests for Women (p. 26)
  • Play It Safe, Protect Your Face (p. 28)
  • Get the Glycemic Green Light (p. 34)
  • Father Daughter Ball Moves to June (p. 36)
  • Spring Into Summer Festival (p. 40)
  • Picky Eating: How Does it Happen? (p. 42)
  • Dodgeball (p. 46)

Regular departments

  • Faith & Family (p. 32)
  • Candid Clarksville (p. 50)
  • FT CAMPBELL Families (p. 51)
  • Network (p. 52)
  • Fridge (p. 62)

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