The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 19, 1996 Page: 1 of 20
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A tribute to a patriarch
and a plea for help
A Tribute Page 3 A
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By Dr. Arlene Thrkel-Editor
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Proper diet - osteoporosis Page 3A
by David Ivy
For The Record
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•novations are expected to be completed by
late July on the new Allied Health Center of
Lamar University of Orange which will add
the driver sped away. Josh's
ensuing fall left him with a
concussion severe enough that
he lay in a coma so deep that
doctors gave him no hope of
ever regaining consciousness.
As Josh lay in a hospital bed in
Galveston, only his subcons-
cious was aware that his
Eighteen months ago,
when the body of his
daughter was discover-
ed at his home, the care and
feeding of three grandsons fell
on the broad but weary
shoulders of Kenneth Faulk, Jr.
Shoulders already bent by hard
times, a hard life, the needs of
his bedridden mate took on
additional burdens, the
► responsibility of providing food,
clothing and shelter for the
three growing boys.
Josh, Nicholas, and Jimmy
were abandoned by their father
and with their mother's passing
became solely dependent on
their grandparents to provide a
home for them. Adrine Faulk
suffers from a degenerative
bone disease and could be of
little help in making a home for
the boys, so the lion's share of
♦ the chores tell on Kenneth
Fauk. Making that home for his
L, wife and grandchildren was a
labor of love.
That love was never more
apparent than when the cruel
hand of fate once again struck a
bitter blow at the Faulks. In
August of 1995 8 year old Josh
Faulk was standing on the
bumper of a pickup truck when
Ithough most people consider
osteoporosis an old woman's disease, a
healthy lifestyle- - starting at childhood- -
can help prevent it in both women and men.
According to research, prevention should start
in childhood and adolescence, the periods of
greatest bone building.
Dr. Wesley Klein, Lamar University at Orange professor,
agrees. "We need to start during junior high doing bone
density studies in females. It's pretty well established that
most women don't receive enough calcium.
By the time they're in their 50's or 60's they are losing
bone density; they should have been
building it up during their teen years.
"We need to start educating girls, especially much
younger ones, about increasing calcium in their diets,"
Klein adds.
Linda D. Harrison, Orange County Extension Agent
of Family and Consumer Sciences, defines
osteoporosis as "a disease in which bones become
fragile and are more likely to break."
"If not prevented or if left untreated, osteoporosis
can progress painlessly until a bone breaks.
These broken bones, also known as fractures,
occur typically in the hip, spine and wrist."
Klein emphasizes that bone fractures can occur
everywhere. "As bones weaken, symptoms
Kenneth Faulk was a true believer, and though his grandson had
mountains yet to cross on the road to recovery, those beliefs,
prayers, words and songs had done what no doctor could do,
waken this comatose boy that Kenneth loved."
Kenneth Faulk (above) with his grandsons, Josh and Jimmy, In the
hospital room following Josh's miraculous recovery in 1995.
OPI donated the 24 thousand-square foot building to
the Lamar University at Orange Foundation. Originally
a warehouse; then a furniture store, the building
belonged to Lovingston Shipbuilding Company for
many years. '.j
* Since funding of $900 thousand from an Economic
Development Administration grant was matched by
$450 thousand from the state of Texas, the campus is
paying only $150 thousand or ten percent, for a
grandfather was beside him
Kenneth Faulk kept a constant
vigil over his small ward,
sleeping beside the boy, talking
and singing to him. Undaunted
by the gloomy predictions of
LU-0 Renovation Near Completion
Late July Projected For Completion Of $1.5 Million Allied Health Center*.
project totaling $1.5 million.
The initial funding allowed LUO to completely gut the
Interior, totally remodel the exterior, instafl a new roof
and finish the first floor completely. The exterior is
expected to look similar to toe rest of the campus.
The new all-glass front entrance win house an
elevator and stairway. Parking tor approximately ninety
vehicles is available behind the building.
The first floor, 12 thousand square feet, wil house
three good sized classrooms, two configured for
computer labs Where students can "plug-in" at their
y of computerized testing,
nurses frequently
use lap top computer when caring tor patients.
♦
Proper childhood
diet can prevent
osteoporosis
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Celebrating the Life & Spirit of the People in Southeast Texas
The Community Newspaper Of Bridge City and Orangefield. The Week of Wedneedey, June ij W
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Turkel, Arlene. The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 19, 1996, newspaper, June 19, 1996; Bridge City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178458/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .