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20 Hops & Vine

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34 Parting Thoughts

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12 The Talk of the Towne Brentwood's Towne Centre Theatre is a true hometown playhouse.

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"The Gift of Music" Presented by The Dustin J. Wells FoundationStars took to The Ryman stage to give "The Gift of Music" on behalf of The Dustin J. Wells Foundation. The event was hosted by Dr. Dennis Wells of Brentwood, in honor of his late son, Dustin, a former Belmont music student. Proceeds benefited the

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and Playing Like a Girl on February 1 at First Tennessee Park. The forum was one of more than 1,000 events that took place across the country for National Girls and Women in Sports Day. The day is devoted to recognizing the progress of girls and women in sports, and the benefits that sports and physical activity can bring to the lives of all girls and women.

Speakers included Mary O’Connor, president/CEO of the WNBA’s Dallas Wings; Olympic gold medalist Michelle Carter; Olympic swim-mer Kara Lynn Joyce; Kennetra Searcy, track and field athlete and wife of Tennessee Titans safety Da’Norris Searcy; Monica Fawknotson, Director of Metro Nashville Sports Authority; Pat Pierce, retired Title IX coordina-tor for Vanderbilt University and pro softball player Monica Abbot, a for-mer University of Tennessee standout and college softball player of the year.

Honorees included Shan Foster, a former Vanderbilt Commodore and NBA player who leads the MEND Nashville initiative that engages male athletes and coaches in violence prevention against women and girls; Christi Beth Adams, owner of Fleet Feet, who donates time and product to ensure that girls involved in the Girls on the Run program have appropriate footwear; and Music City Girls Lead, a leadership acad-emy for local high school girls which was born out of the 2014 NCAA Women’s Final Four at Bridgestone Arena.

For the past 13 years, Play Like a Girl has been empower-ing girls globally and is now working in Nashville to get more girls in the game and expand their opportunities both in sports and in life.

More information is available online at IPlayLikeAGirl.org.

NEW CITY FINANCE DIRECTOR HIREDRichard Parker has been hired as Brentwood’s new Finance

Director. Parker steps into the role held by Interim Director, Karen Harper and previously held for more than 15 years by Carson Swinford, who passed away last year.

Parker brings more than 20 years of private sector management experience in the areas of finance and accounting, primarily with Primus Financial Services and Nissan North America. Prior to accepting his new position, Parker lived near Atlanta and worked as a consultant and regional director for a private retirement plan advisory company.

Parker is a graduate of Belmont University with a Masters of Business Administration and a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.

BRENTWOOD FIRE AND RESCUE MEMBERS RECOGNIZED FOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Thirteen members of the Brentwood Fire and Rescue Department were recognized for their professional achievements at a recent City Commission meeting. Each of the officers have met the criteria of the internationally accepted model of Professional Credentialing through the Center for Public Safety Excellence’s (CPSE) Commission on Professional Credentialing (CPC). The CPC recognizes competence in fire and emergency services and offers career guidance and planning.

The CPC offers five designations developed using a model that evaluates the "whole" officer. Achieving the designation requires a strong educational background, diverse participation in emergency services at the local, state, and national level; and demonstrated involvement in the broader community, all validated by emergency

services peers.The honorees

are Chiefs Brian Goss and David Windrow, Chief Training Officer Designee Russ Peterson, Fire Marshal Designee Nancy Jones, Chief EMS Officer

Mike McCutcheon, and First Officer Designees Jim Roman, Brian Collins, David Harber, Jeff Pender, John LoPiccolo, Blane Newberry, Derek Hyde and John Russ.

Also honored was Managing Officer Tony Dixon. The Managing Officer program is a multi-year curriculum through the National Fire Academy designed to improve a leader’s professional skills in change management, risk reduction, and adaptive leadership. The program consists of nine courses and a community-based capstone project. For Brentwood, Dixon completed a trail marking system at Smith Park designed to identify locations for 911 callers.

ATHLETES HONORED, OLYMPIANS SPEAK AT ‘PLAY LIKE A GIRL’ EMPOWERMENT FORUM

Nashville-based nonprofit agency Play Like a Girl hosted an Empowerment Forum emphasizing confidence, leadership

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enriched through participation in the arts,” says Jim Himelrick, a Brentwood Arts Society Board member.

The building belonged to the early African-American community in Brentwood, and the area from Church Street to what is now Cloverland Drive was known as Hardscuffle. According to

the late Vance Little, a Brentwood native and distinguished author and historian, the street got its name from the nature of the terrain over which it passed. After the Civil War, slaves from plantations on Wilson Pike and Franklin Road eventually settled in this area. The next time you’re at the theatre, be sure to notice the historic marker located in the median of Church Street just east of I-65, commemorating the Hardscuffle area.

The Towne Theatre Players began performing here in 2006 and have entertained the community with numerous outstanding shows

When it comes to paying it forward in the Brentwood arts community, no one does it better than the Towne Centre Players.

The Towne Centre Players perform in Brentwood’s historic Towne Centre Theatre. Built in 1885, the building originally was the one-room home of Williamson County Schools, and became the Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church in 1905 and later, Brooks Chapel. The theatre is a small, culturally-rich building located at the corner of Church and Frierson Streets, which eventually becomes Brooks Chapel Road. “Standing in the building, it is hard to miss the atmosphere of 132 years of students taught, souls saved and lives


including Oliver, The Wizard of Oz, Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, The King and I, and Night of January 16th. The Players will be presenting Souther Hospitality, March 3-18. “Our theater strives to continue the tradition of excellence handed down to us from two beloved actresses who are no lon-ger with us - Marianne Clark and Marsha Lewis Bryan," says Himelrick.

Towne Centre Theatre also offers summer theater camps in June and July for ages seven through young adult, performs numerous youth productions throughout the year and has roles for young actors in many of their regular season productions. “As parents of three now-adult children with whom we have acted, sung, danced and played with

- and who are now doing the same with their children - we can honestly say that nothing builds family, friendships and personal growth like early and active engagement in the arts.” says Karen Himelrick.

Towne Centre Theatre is also available for special events such as seminars, luncheons, recitals and receptions. And for those want-ing a few chuckles, Exit Stage Left is Towne Centre Theatre's resident comedy improv troupe. Founded in the spring of 2012, they perform approximately once a month for packed houses. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online or at the door.

With so much talent and fun to offer, it’s no wonder the Towne Centre Theatre is becoming the talk of the town.

Town Centre Theatre is located at 136

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Towne Centre Players is one of the resident the-

atre troupes funded by the Brentwood Art Society. Founded in 2004, the Brentwood Art Society strives to broaden par-ticipation in the arts by inspiring supporting arts enthusiasts of all ages in the communities they serve. They are committed to independently developing and sponsoring events, pro-grams and classes - in addition to working collaboratively with various community and civic organizations, local merchants and educational institutions to encourage active engagement in all aspects of art.

Most Towne Centre Theatre pro-

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Nashville's Ozgener family makes the transition from cigars to fine arts.ARTICLE MARIA DINOIA | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

When you hear the word “Oz,” you can’t help but think of things like

Dorothy, Emerald City and the wizard. But the Ozgener family has given new mean-ing to the word with OZ Arts Nashville, a performance and event center for innovative and contemporary art experiences. It’s no secret that Nashville and the surrounding suburbs are growing by leaps and bounds and that means more art and entertainment outlets are finding their way here, too.

Tim Ozgener, President and CEO of OZ Arts says, "We love Nashville.

Nashville is a friendly and open minded city, open to all types of people with all types of different backgrounds. We are also blessed to have many wonderful arts organizations in town. We are honored to be able to be contributors to this fertile landscape by bringing contemporary arts in multiple disciplines of performing and visual arts to the city and to the region.”

The Ozgener family, founders of CAO Cigars, sold the cigar business in 2007 and adapted their company’s former headquar-ters into the contemporary performance

and event center that OZ is today. “We had inspiration from similar contempo-rary arts centers across the country," says Ozgener. "Particularly, BAM in Brooklyn, Park Avenue Armory, Mass MoCA, PICA in Portland, and Art Basel along with the Miami Design District, where there are a lot of warehouses that have been converted into contemporary arts centers, much like ours. We saw how contemporary arts served as an economic and community development stimulus for those areas and thought, 'why not Nashville?'

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“All of this came after we sold our cigar business. Premium cigars are a 100 per-cent handmade artisan craft. We applied a lot of color and artistry to our packaging which made our brands stand out. We always like providing a ‘wow’ factor in how we interacted with the consumers, how our cigars tasted, and the packaging. We try to accomplish the same things with the customer experience at OZ Arts.”

It should come as no surprise that the creative arts practically run through the Ozgeners' blood. Tim proudly points out, “We have always loved all kinds of arts. My father is an Armenian from Istanbul and my mom is from Istanbul as well. My father got his master's at Columbia University and my mother was a Fulbright scholar at Bank Street College. While they were there in New York City as students, they always went to standing room only performances at all kinds of arts venues in Manhattan. So I was fortunate, as a child, to also be exposed to all differ-ent types of performing and visual arts.”

He adds, “In the early 2000's, my father almost died of lymphoma cancer. During that period of time, he had an epiphany through a beautiful lullaby that an Irish nurse sang to him when he felt like he was close to losing his battle -- that the arts can inspire one to want to live. He would later say that when things look bleak and dark and hopeless, one will f ind a spark of light there, and that will be art. He also reconnected with the beauty of the world around us through painting and appreciating the color of the sky, grass, and other aspects of nature. When he told me of this experience, and the desire my parents had to plant the seed money to start something positive as a means to contribute to our city, I was all in.

“The arts stimulate us to consider dif-ferent perspectives. It highlights things that are beautiful and things that are not. It opens the door for qualities such as empathy, tolerance, and elicits different viewpoints and motivates conversation. We look forward, at OZ Arts, to continue to push the envelope and raise the bar for us as human beings."


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To say Avery Billington has a lot going on is an under-statement. The Brentwood Academy senior runs

track, is captain of the girls’ soccer team, is athletic editor of the yearbook and is on the student leadership team, to name just a few activities. Yet, Avery still finds time for the pursuit dearest to her heart: volunteering with special needs children and teens.

Her kinship with special needs children began when Avery was in kindergarten. Her best friend had Down syn-drome. That compassion and love blossomed as Avery got older and began helping with the son of a family friend with special needs.

Today she volunteers at her church accompanying a special needs child to Sunday School as a buddy. She also takes part in rEcess, a monthly night out for parents of children with disabilities and their siblings. In addition, she volunteers with teens and young adults with disabilities as a buddy through Young Life Capernaum, a weekly club where they have dinner, bible study and hang out. CONTINUED >

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How does she fit it all in? Avery says she takes it day-by-day, planning everything out on her weekly calen-dar and then going from there.

It’s an approach that has clearly been successful. Tom Cox, Assistant Coach Boys and Girls Upper School Soccer with Brentwood Academy says, “Avery epitomizes the very qualities we strive to instill. She excels as a student, tak-ing on a vigorous schedule with several honors level classes, and she stands out as a conscientious student who works well with her peers. As a captain of our girls’ soccer team, she sets a pos-itive tone and exemplifies everything a teammate should be.”

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her life.” And it’s those beliefs that are leading Avery to continue to volunteer in the special needs community beyond high school. Although she hasn’t yet decided on a college major, she plans to stay actively involved in programs for children and teens with disabilities.

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She encourages others to volunteer as well. “Not everyone is comfortable with special needs and I get that. But when you treat them like you do your own friends it’s so cool. In terms of being dif-ferent, they are, but they aren’t. They’re not intimidating. These kids like the same things, want to do the same things and have fun just like you. You just need to be their friend and care about their lives and it makes such a difference.”

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Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, comes the Main Street Brewfest! Held in Historic

Downtown Franklin on Saturday, March 11 from 5-8 p.m., Brewfest is the first outdoor festival of the season and is expected to draw a crowd of close to 2,500 people. Last year, Brewfest had moved to May but this year is returning to its St. Patty’s Day roots.

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and Estate Jewelry! Hence, The Main Street Beer is aptly nicknamed “Meil de Diamant,” which, of course, means “honey diamond.”

In addition, Brewfest has upped the count of exhibiting home brewers. At press time, six home brewers were confirmed, rounding out the count of 80+ craft beers to sample at over 35 tasting sites. Attendees can expect not only the latest local, national and interna-tional brews from an exploding micro-brew-ery market, but live music, Celtic performers, food trucks, merriment and more.

Brewfest Chair, Julie Walton-Garland adds, “Brewfest is always a fun way to kick off the spring. It’s a celebration of everything America’s Favorite Main Street has to offer, from the unique shops to the incredible restaurants. I’m excited to be heading it up this year. We are encouraging people to go ahead and buy tickets early, so they can enjoy the incredible selection of craft beers.”

Sponsors of this highly-anticipated annual event include Lipman Brothers, Homestead Manor, Harpeth True Value Homecenter, Twine Graphics, Ami Marketing, Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant and Boathouse, Walton’s, Signs First, JJ’s Winebar, Landmark Community Bank, Outdoor Classic Structures and Cool Springs Brewery.

Brewfest is the Downtown Franklin Association’s annual fundraiser for the con-tinued revitalization and promotion of the 16-block historic district and will be held rain or shine. Attendees must have a ticket to participate in the beer tasting, but not to enjoy the festivities. Main Street will be open to all pedestrian traffic, and the restaurants and many shops will be open for business.

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As an artist, poet, author and actor, Cory Basil is a ‘ jack of all trades’ who defies labels.

If you aren’t familiar with his work, you might recognize his larger-than-life sculpture, Fishboy’s Perilous Putt, on display at the Nashville Sounds’ First Tennessee Park. A collaboration between Basil and local sculptor Brian Somerville, ‘Fishboy’ sits in full view at the eighth hole of the miniature golf course down the right field line

“I had created the temporary sculpture of Fishboy for a retro-spective exhibit of my career back in 2014,” says Basil. “I had gran-diose dreams of making a giant Fishboy sculpture for the event, but we had very little time and very little budget. Brian and I built a massive sculpture out of Styrofoam and wood and canvas and paint and we were up all night, many nights. I had ambitions to find someone to fund finishing him so he could live somewhere permanently in Nashville. I knew it would take $10,000-$15,000 to finish him so he could live outside. CONTINUED >


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Fishboy's Perilous Putt. Photo: A la Mode Media

Photo courtesy Cory Basil

Somerville had some space in the woods behind his house where Fishboy was stored. Basil tried for two years to secure funding to finish the project but he was unsuccessful until February last year. “It was a ‘who-would-have-thought?’ moment,” says Basil. “I’m very excited that he’s there and he can inspire and make kids smile. It’s cool to see kids walk up to him and climb on him.”

Basil made the move to the Nashville area from his hometown of Phoenix in 2007 to pursue his dream of becoming a singer/song-writer. “I was in a band as a teenager and just wanted to be the cool rock star,” he says.

He had transitioned out of an insular life of a stifling, cult-like religion, survived a divorce and found Nashville to be a liberating place where his creative side could blossom. He subsequently fell into a publishing deal, and didn’t really think about pursuing his art until encouraged to do so by a friend in 2011.

“She’d seen me post my work on various social media over the years and she chal-lenged me to show publically,” he says. “She set me up with a show at Ugly Mugs in East Nashville and I accepted the challenge.”

Basil put together a 35-piece collection of framed illustrations. Much to his surprise, he

sold more than half the images when the show opened on a snowy winter night and it inspired him to do more shows. He went from coffee shops and restaurants, to galleries and pop-up nights to opening his own gallery, Imaginebox Emporium, in downtown Franklin.

The 39-year-old finds his inspiration every-where and by just about everything he encoun-ters – be it a simple moment in time, the beauty of a view, an old romance, history, music, etc.

He doesn’t discriminate about what lights his creative soul on fire. He found his inspiration for Eternal Embrace from the ‘Lovers of Valdaro,’ a pair of human skeletons dating back almost 6,000 years, which were discovered by archaeologists in Italy in 2007. The two skeletons appear to have died facing each other with their arms around each other, bringing to mind a lovers embrace.

“This was very inspirational to me,” says Basil. “We put so much effort here on Earth with love, with our families, with relationships, marriage, significant others. Essentially, we build every-thing on love. For me, I’ve always questioned what


becomes of us after this. And right along-side that is what becomes of love after this? All the time, effort and energy and spiritual emphasis on connection – what happens to that as soon as we expire?

“And those questions just dove off the page at me when I saw this photograph of the couple embracing. So with that, I created an entire series based around that question – ‘what is love and what happens to it when our time here on Earth is up?’”

You can check out Basil’s extensive scope of

work by visiting his gallery and studio, at 311

North Margin Street in Franklin. Or you can

visit the studio online at CoryBasilArt.com.

THIS WAS VERY INSPIRATIONAL TO ME,” SAYS BASIL. “WE PUT

SO MUCH EFFORT HERE ON EARTH WITH LOVE, WITH OUR

FAMILIES, WITH RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE, SIGNIFICANT

OTHERS. ESSENTIALLY, WE BUILD EVERYTHING ON LOVE.


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ARTICLE LINDA DOHSE | PHOTOGRAPHY CHRIS PHILLIPS

Scott Phillips, standing, watches as Mary Cameron McFarlane tutors Marjorie Suber on the iPad's finer points.

THE “FIX” IS IN

There was no large scale celebration when Scott Phillips opened his technology

repair shop in the Marketplace at Maryland Farms. Instead, the opening presented an opportunity to give back to his community in a generous and heartfelt way: by presenting iPads, Otterbox cases and accessories to the Brentwood YMCA preschool.

Phillips and his wife, Chris, came to know the school all too well during the summer of 2009 when Scott was recover-ing from surgery to remove a large brain tumor. During his extended hospitalization and rehabilitation, the preschool welcomed their son William, who was three at the time, with open arms - giving him a place to play, learn and grow. (Their second child, Charlie, was born in 2011 and attended the YMCA preschool as well.)

"It was an honor to be able to give back to an organization that has become like family to us over the past 10 years," says Phillips. "Tracey Jernigan and her incredible staff loved, nurtured and readied our two boys for elementary school while instilling in them the YMCA's core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. We are eternally grateful for the excellent start the YMCA

preschool has given our children."

Chris Phillips says the Brentwood YMCA preschool was a refuge for their fam-ily during dark times. "I was able to devote the time I needed to help my husband recover while knowing our sons were safe, happy and well cared for.”

Last year, Phillips donated an iPad to Generations Connected, a newly formed club at Ravenwood High School. Phillips and the club’s founder, Ravenwood senior Mary Cameron McFarlane, then presented the tablet to Marjorie Suber, an assisted living resident at Morning Pointe of Brentwood.

“I started Generations Connected because I saw how rewarding it has been for my grandparents to get connected to relatives through the Internet,” she says. “I wanted to share this with other seniors in our commu-nity and I’m so thankful for Scott’s donation. It’s fascinating to hear stories from senior cit-izens about connecting people my age with people like Marjorie.”

Members of the club visit Morning Pointe weekly and help Marjorie and other residents learn how to use their devices and become connected to friends and family through technology. Phillips is also working with local schools, businesses and hospitals to develop discount programs and business accounts.

Phillips is a franchisee of UBREAKIFIX, a chain that specializes in repairs for electronic devices like computers, smartphones, tablets, game consoles and “pretty much anything else with a power button,” says Phillips. Last month he opened a second location at 2222 Medical Center Parkway in Murfreesboro.

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