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When Andy Plank, 57, started having chest pain in early 2002, he knew he couldn't wait. "I went to Ascension Saint Thomas West ER immediately," Andy said. Andy has a family history of heart disease. "My dad died of a heart attack at age 56 and all of his brothers passed away with the same disease, so I instantly knew this was something I needed to take action on."

When Andy went to the ER, they found he had a blockage in his right coronary artery. Shortly after, he had triple bypass surgery. Over the next 19 years, doctors provided Andy with stress and echo tests to monitor his blockage and he received multiple stents in his heart to try and repair his clogged arteries. Unfortunately, it didn't seem like anything was a long-term fix. Earlier this year, Andy knew something was wrong again when he started getting short of breath. "It was a familiar feeling," Andy said. "I've felt this before, and I knew there was another blockage in my arteries." When he went back, his doctor realized they needed to take additional action on Andy's heart health after finding that his right coronary artery was 100% blocked, again.

Drs. Kemp, Kerrigan, and Haddad with Ascension Saint Thomas Heart offered Andy an innovative approach. They performed a specialized coronary intervention opening a 100 percent blocked artery followed by intracoronary brachytherapy, a procedure that helps improve chest pain in patients with stents that have re-narrowed (sometimes called "collapsed") and reduces the chance of them narrowing again in the future. Dr. Kerrigan and Dr. Haddad are usually able to perform this procedure through the wrist instead of the groin, allowing patients to recover much quicker than with a traditional heart catheterization. Early this year, Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West became the first Ascension hospital in the country and the only medical facility in Tennessee to offer intracoronary brachytherapy.

In May 2021, they performed the first part of Mr. Plank's multi-stage procedure, opening his 100 percent blocked right coronary artery. He then returned to have the opened artery treated with radiation to keep the vessel open. "My last doctor's appointment was at the end of July 2021 and Dr. Kerrigan was pleased with my recovery," Andy said. "I am so happy with the outcome. The doctors and staff educated and encouraged me to ask any questions during the process. I have felt much better since the surgery and I am back to walking about 3 miles a day without any problems. I have high hopes this will be a permanent fix for a lingering problem."

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On Tuesday, September 14, Ascension St. John will join other health systems, businesses, and churches throughout the region for Light Up the Sky, a tribute to our healthcare workers and first responders, according to a press release.

All Ascension St. John associates, providers, affiliates, and volunteers are invited to our outdoor prayer services for healthcare workers and first responders, to be held at each Ascension St. John hospital at 8 p.m. September 14.

According to the press release, Ascension St. John in Sapulpa will have luminarias (which include flyers that can be placed in a window of your home, business or vehicle), blue ribbons, and glow sticks for community members to take home. Luminaria bags, with glow sticks inside, will be placed on sidewalks at the ceremonies. Local churches will play music at many locations. During the prayer service, we will have a moment of silence to honor the lives of those lost to COVID-19.

Location: Parking lot in front of the emergency roomScheduled Speakers: Mike Christian, President, Ascension St. John Sapulpa, or Nate Paris, Chief Nursing Officer, Ascension St. John Sapulpa; Fr. Louis Obirieze, Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchMusic: Sacred Heart Catholic Church

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The PGA Champions Tour kicks off the Ascension Charity Classic in St. Louis today with a really fun Pro-Am featuring Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Ozzie Smith and Craig Berube. The tournament itself will feature 18 of the top 20 money leaders on tour competing for the Charles Schwab Cup, which is currently led by Bernhard Langer with just over $35,000 coming into this week.

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Date: Sept. 10, 2021

Time: 3:30 p.m. ET

TV Channel: The Golf Channel

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For the Pro-Am, Nicklaus will pair with Smith and Watson will pair with Berube. The format of the tournament requires the teams to play two roundsFriday and Saturday before a nine-hole competition Sunday followed by the trophy presentation.

Langer is the money leader for the Charles Schwab Cup, butJim Furyk andJerry Kelly are right behind him whileErnie Els and Miguelngel Jimnez are also inching closer. The purse is $2 million or this tournament.

The DraftKings betting odds have Furyk at +600 to win, +120 for a top-five finish and -200 for a top 10 finish. Retief Goosen (+900) and Langer (+900) have the next best odds. Kelly (+1200) has solid odds and is close to the top of the Charles Schwab Cup, so he will have all the motivation.

With the Pro-Am and the tournament, this should be a really fun week of golf in St. Louis. There's a lot at stake on the PGA Champions Tour and the opportunity to raise a lot of money for local charities.

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(MURFREESBORO)The Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation is pleased to announce that Jimmy Wheeler, Jeff Younginer and Sydney Boerner will join the Foundation as board members.

We are excited to welcome Jimmy, Jeff and Sydney as members of the Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation, said Gordon Ferguson, President and CEO, Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford. All three have deep community ties and years of experience in leadership roles. We know they will each be a tremendous asset to our board.

Wheeler has been a financial adviser for Edward Jones since 2017. Prior to that, he worked in the real estate industry for eight years. Wheeler is on the board of CASA Murfreesboro and is an active member of the Experience Community Church. He enjoys hunting, fishing, golf, and playing music, along with spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Younginer has worked for Nissan North America since 2006 and currently serves as the vice president of Manufacturing for the Smyrna Vehicle Assembly Plant. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in administrative management from Clemson University. He is a member of The Village Church and is in his sixth year of service in the Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity chapter. He enjoys woodworking, hiking, and cooking with his wife and two daughters.

Boerner retired from the Murfreesboro Anesthesia Group in2014, and devotes her time to volunteering in the community. She was co-chair of theAscension Saint Thomas Rutherford capital campaign with her late husband. Dr. Jim Boerner, was a past volunteer in the NICU of Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford and serves on the advisory board of Alive Hospice of Murfreesboro. She has also served as President of Charity Circle of Murfreesboro. She is an active member of First United Methodist Church, and when she is not busy volunteering, she can be found spending time with her three children and nine grandchildren.

About Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation

Our Mission: Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are struggling the most in Middle Tennessee. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. We are advocates for a compassionate and just society through our actions and our words.

Our Purpose: The role of the Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation is to support the mission of Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford. The Foundation serves the people and system needs throughout Middle Tennessee and the Ascension Saint THomas network of care. We embrace the philosophy and mission of healing and service to those who are struggling as the fundamental purpose of our ministry.

About Ascension Saint Thomas

In Tennessee, Ascension Saint Thomas operates 10 hospital campuses in addition to a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures, medical practices, clinics and rehabilitation facilities that cover a 68-county area and employ more than 10,000 associates. Across the state, Ascension Saint Thomas provided more than $150 million in community benefit and care of persons living in poverty in fiscal year 2020. Serving Tennessee for 22 years, Ascension is a faith-based health care organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable.

About Ascension

Ascension is a faith-based health care organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As the largest nonprofit and Catholic health system in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2020, Ascension provided $2.4 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Ascension includes more than 160,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers. The national health system operates more than 2,600 sites of care including 145 hospitals and more than 40 senior living facilities in 19 states and the District of Columbia, while providing a variety of services including clinical and network services, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical engineering, facilities management, risk management, and contracting through Ascensions own group purchasing organization.

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GONZALES - All Ascension Parish Public Schools are expected to re-open Monday, the school district announced Friday (Sept. 10).

"All schools will return to normal schedules, and student dress code rules will be back in effect," the district said in a note emailed Friday afternoon. Some campuses that were open this week were on alternate schedules and a relaxed dress code.

Normal operations will resume Monday, September 13.

"...Each of our schools has gone through extensive facility checks and cleanings," the district said.

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Dear Ascension Public Schools Family,

Starting Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, all schools will return to normal schedules, and student dress code rules will be back in effect.

We plan to transitionDonaldsonville High, Gonzales Middle, Lowery Elementary, andLowery Middleschools back to in-person learning on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, as well. Power was restored to all schools on Thursday, and each of ourschools has gone through extensive facility checksand cleanings.

Due to moisture and mold issues atSorrento Primary School,we have taken extra precautions and engaged bothenvironmental engineers and professional cleaning services. We are confident their effortshavesuccessfully mitigated those issues and the campus will be safe for students and staff to return for in-person learning on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021.We know that for some families, there still remainchallengesfrom Hurricane Ida. Rest assured, we want to work with you to overcome any barriers to student learning.

INTERIM REPORTSWe arehappy to announce a new and exciting feature for parents.Interim grade reportscan now be viewed on the PowerSchool Parent Portal. Toview your childs interim, log into your PowerSchool Parent account online athttp://apsb.powerschool.com, click "Student Reports" in the left margin, and click on "Interim." Please note, this report is not available in the mobile app.

Have a restful weekend and enjoy thisbeautiful weather!

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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) A local hospital remembered the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, by thanking first responders.

Police officers and firefighters circled Ascension Sacred Hearts main campus Friday morning.

Hospital chaplain Frederick Woods helped organize the event.

The local chaplains here at Bay got together and we had a conversation, and one of the chaplains said Hey why not have the first responders circle around the facility,' Woods said. We were going to offer them gifts anyway but we figured out how would we give them some gifts.

Woods said he was touched to see the first responders return the favor and provide snacks to the hospital staff.

It was pretty successful today, said Woods. I appreciate all the people that showed up and the officers that stayed and provided gifts for our E.R. staff. That was great. But we just wanted to recognize the first responders in all that they do and just tell them to thank you.

Panama City Police Sergeant Joseph Record said taking the time to remember that day in history is more important than ever now.

Theres a lot of people in this world right now that were very young when it occurred, Record said. Some people even that I work with were just born or even some not even born yet when it did occur. A lot of people look at it as something that happened in the past but I believe we should learn from our past and grow from it, get stronger from it. Remembering our past helps us build toward the future.

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DARROW - A break from the humidity Friday is helping some people still without power, but it won't be for long. Power is still a problem for many people who are living through day 12 without electricity since Hurricane Ida. They just want to know when their lights will turn back on.

There are about 200 homes in an Ascension Parish community that have gone 12 days without power. Resheta Smith tells 2 On Your Side she only thought it would be a few days, but now those days seem to never end.

Smith has been driving her family to Houston on the weekends for a little relief from the heat since hotels in the Baton Rouge area are full. They use a generator to power the fridge and a small window unit, but fuel has gotten expensive.

She says they've watched every neighborhood around them light up and wonder why it's taking so long for them.

"All the surrounding areas have lights and we don't," Smith said. "It's like this one little neighborhood we're still in the dark, right here in Hillaryville and Darrow."

Smith says it's been a struggle, especially for the kids.

"The kids are hot, aggravated, so am I," she said.

Another neighbor says there are people in the neighborhood on oxygen and have been having a tough time in the heat.

Smith says she's been calling Entergy trying to figure out when they'll get power back. Time estimates have come and gone.

"They gave me the seventh, they gave me the eighth, when I called yesterday they told me they just didn't have no information on when they would turn the lights on," she said.

Entergy told 2 On Your Side Friday morning the power would be back on by the end of the day, and that's still the goal. Friday afternoon Entergy brought power back to some of the area but found a more localized issue affecting about 70 homeowners, and one of them is Smith. Entergy says there's a pole down in the area and it's not a quick fix, but it's working to resolve the outage.

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Hurricane memories

I've lived on the same piece of property most of my life. Hurricanes are nothing new to me and my family. For more than seven generations, my ancestors have been through many storms on our Ascension Parish homestead.

But just one sparked long discussions most of my life: Hurricane Betsy. I was 7 when Betsy blew through. Betsy began as a tropical depression Aug. 27 north of French Guiana and moved northwesterly before looping north of the Bahamas. It hit south Florida on Sept. 8 and turned its winds to the Louisiana coast, hitting Grand Isle on Sept. 10 as what we now would call a Category 4 hurricane. Once inland, Betsy was slow to weaken and persisted for two more days before degenerating into an extratropical storm.

My dad and grandpa boarded up all the windows, and grandma started cooking as we prepared to ride out the storm in my grandparents' home. She had a gas stove and a freezer filled with beef and pork, all raised on our property. They picked whatever we had in the garden. Grandma, a devout Catholic, prayed the rosary every hour in French. We had puzzles, crayons, coloring books and board games to keep the young folks busy.

This was before the internet or 24-hour news stations. We gathered around the black and white TV to get the latest track and used a paper tracking chart to follow the storm's path. Betsy was headed our way.

It blew through like a locomotive, loud and determined. The house started to shake, and it was so loud I couldn't hear my sister scream. The house we were in had a tin roof, and we worried the roof would get peeled off. After a while, the noise lessened and my dad and grandpa suited up in rain gear and ventured out. My grandpa's 3-car carport and shed were ripped from the house, and pieces were strewn as far as they could see. They survived the damage and quickly ran back in the house as more bad weather struck.

We were in the eye of the hurricane. The house shook, the wind howled and I was terrified. I went over to my grandma for comfort, and she was on her knees praying in French. My grandpa shook his head and warned me not to disturb her when she was praying, especially when she was reciting prayers in French.

My grandmother was raised by her uncle, who was a Catholic priest. His native language was French; he immigrated from France as a priest. So, grandma spoke mostly in French. I remember a lot of French being spoken that night. It's the language my parents used when they didn't want us to know what they were saying.

My sister and I kept close. I peeked through a tiny space between two boards covering a window. It was night, and we couldn't really see much, but I did see the barn blow up and a cow fly. My sister didn't believe my cow story and doesn't to this day. But I'm sure I saw the cow elevate as the barn burst into thousands of pieces and fly toward the house. That's when I started to cry.

After the storm, we eventually returned to our home and did homework by candlelight. We were without power for a long, long time.

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As a teen living in Denham Springs, we did evacuate for a storm in the 1970s but I don't remember the name. We ended up sleeping at a nursing home, where my mother worked as a nurse, and were able to return home the next morning. No flying cows or memorable stories resulted from that evacuation.

Since I married, my husband never wants to evacuate. I bring up the flying cow story, but he is not moved. So, as Ida entered the gulf, I knew he wouldn't consider leaving. We did our best to prepare, but is it ever enough? We lost power at noon on Aug. 29. Our son arrived from New Orleans that afternoon, and we started the countdown.

While I didn't see a cow fly, Ida brought back memories of Betsy. I remember grandma cooking every day and grandpa bringing food to our neighbors. And then there was the daily trip to the train depot to get blocks of ice. We spent a lot of time outside, together as a family. We played cards, board games and worked on puzzles by candlelight.

For Ida, the only house damage we had was the loss of ceiling fans on our porch. A large oak tree was uprooted and fell across our driveway, and several trees fell over our private road. Our neighbors and son were able to remove the tree on day three. A generator has been a blessing, and as of this writing we are still without power.

All in all, we made out better than most. Thanks to everyone who has offered help. We hope your family made it through Ida safely, and please let me know if you saw any flying cows.

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