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Clarksville Living Magazine — May 2021

The May 2021 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine rides the food-truck boom, forgives millions in medical debt, and answers the post-vaccine question on everyone's mind.

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“Food Truck Fever” traces a local movement to a single fateful day. May 14, 2020 was when Shirley Brown and her daughter Desiree Johnson, creators of the Clarksville and Surrounding Area Food Scene, held their first event — and from that beginning grew a thriving mobile-food community the feature celebrates a year later.

“RIP Medical Debt” tells a genuinely moving story. “I almost threw the letter away,” one recipient recalls of the notice that their medical debt had been erased. News Channel 5 partnered with RIP Medical Debt, and the fundraising paid off real debts for real families — a reminder of how much weight a single letter can lift.

“You've Been Vaccinated — What Now?” answers the spring's most-asked question. As more people across the country got their COVID-19 shots, the CDC's social-distancing guidance began slowly shifting, and the feature helps readers navigate the cautiously reopening world.

The three features capture a hopeful turn in the pandemic: a food-truck scene born mid-crisis and now thriving, debts lifted from struggling families, and a community starting, carefully, to gather again.

Around them the issue carries its recurring local coverage — the businesses, history and community stories that anchor each month — giving May the feel of a city exhaling after a long, hard year.

More than anything the issue radiates relief and momentum: a food-truck scene that turned a pandemic into a beginning, families freed from crushing medical debt, and a community reading the CDC's shifting guidance as permission to gather again. It is the sound of a city exhaling, and the recurring local coverage — businesses, history and community stories — carries that hopeful energy through every page.

Table of Contents

  • Food Truck Fever (p. 6)
  • Rip Medical Debt (p. 10)
  • Pet Corner: Calm During The Storm (p. 14)
  • Drake'S Has Something For Everyone (p. 16)
  • Needs More Cowbell: Classic Rock Comes To Oak Grove (p. 20)
  • You'Ve Been Vaccinated What Now? (p. 18)

Regular departments

  • Network (p. 28)
  • Calendar Of Events (p. 22)

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