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Bigger than baseball
Coming into this season, the Farragut High School baseball team has a clear goal in mind: to win a fifth consecutive state title. But before they take to the field this spring, the Admiral seniors paid a visit to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital on a recent Monday morning. The event was organized by FHS baseball parents Dr. Safina Kureshi — a pediatric pulmonologist at the hospital — and her husband, Dr. Joey Smith, an emergency medicine physician. Kureshi noted the impact such an event can have on patients and players alike. She has seen it numerous times with Tennessee coaches, such as Rick Barnes and Tony Vitello. Now, her own son, Farragut senior Zain Kureshi-Smith, and his friends had a chance to make a similar impression. “A lot of these guys will be going off to play college baseball,” she said, “so this helps them get used to the public relations side and community outreach.” Kureshi-Smith is no stranger to that, having organized an athletic equipment drive each of the past five years. “I just wanted to put a smile on a kid’s face,” Kureshi-Smith said. “I really love to give back, and it warms my heart. To see what my parents do, I see how they treat people and it makes me want to give back as well.” The Farragut players approached slowly at first during their visit, showing hesitance in their interactions with children across the hospital.
Read MoreParks raises concerns before strategic plan passes
Farragut Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved its 2026-27 strategic plan during its meeting Thursday, Feb. 26, despite concerns about ambiguity raised by resident Kim Parks. “I want to begin by saying that strategic planning is important. Vision matters. Priorities matter. Words matter,” Parks said. “… And that’s exactly why I am here because the language used in the 2026 Strategic Planning Priorities document deserves closer examination. “The document opens with a beautiful vision … but when we move from vision to implementation, the language becomes broader and in some cases, more ambiguous. “For example, the plan states the Town will ‘identify properties that could be strategically rezoned to commercial.’ That single sentence carries enormous weight,” she said. “Which properties? Under what criteria? At whose request? With what public input before identification occurs?” The resolution for the strategic plan stemmed from a Board workshop retreat in January. “The Town of Farragut initiated its first strategic plan in 2010 and hired Raftelis Consulting to facilitate updating the plan in 2017 and 2023,” Town administrator David Smoak said. “The Farragut strategic plan helps identify the vision, mission and values of the organization and guides decision-making by prioritizing critical success factors the Town needs to pursue over the next few years. “Each department in the Town will set its priorities for the year based on these critical success factors, which will also help guide the Town’s budget priorities heading into FY2027 and beyond,” he said.
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