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Variety pedals on with annual charity event
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, two children led more than 100 golfers onto the course at Willow Creek Golf Club in Farragut for the 14th annual tournament benefitting Variety, the children’s charity of Eastern Tennessee. Variety provides mobility equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, special adaptive bikes, prosthetics and cranial helmets for children. It also handles grant funding for local organizations where funds are specially placed for direct programming that serves at-risk children and children with special needs. Along with proceeds from this charity event, sponsors Regal, BGIS and LTCI allow Variety to put on life-changing programs like Kids on the Go! — which has provided more than 200 pieces of mobility equipment to local children needing specialized care in 2026. The tournament has been held every year since 2005, and with 114 golfers participating, this year’s event raised the most money ever recorded for the total amount: $416,500. “Without them,” Variety executive director Carol Fusco said of the sponsors, donors and more than 30 volunteers, “this would not be possible.” Children Damian and Piper were on hand with their tricycles for the event, showing off machines giving children with different abilities a new outlook on life.
Read MoreFHS hits home run with ‘Friends on the Field’ event
Every spring, the Farragut baseball players sprint onto John Heatherly Field to represent a historic program that is known throughout the state of Tennessee. After all, such notoriety comes naturally with 15 state titles. But on Wednesday, Sept. 30, several of those same state champions and their classmates cheered on students who got a taste of that glory for themselves. From 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. during the school’s second block, Farragut senior athletes, Leadership 3 students and peer tutors watched as 30 of the school’s special-needs students took the field as part of the second annual “Friends on the Field” program. The event is an extension of the school’s “Anchors for Hope” basketball event, where the FHS basketball teams cheer on special-needs students at Farragut in a smaller version of the Tennessee-affiliated “Hoops for Hope” event that takes place each August. “We took the idea from Hoops for Hope and started Anchors for Hope, so this will be the third year of that,” FHS leadership teacher Abbey Ellis said. “But they wanted to do something other than basketball, too, and they started this.”
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