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After Bill Jackson, a 96-year-old resident of Morning Pointe Senior Living in Hardin Valley, retired from broadcasting about five years ago, he searched for something to keep him busy. While dealing with the COVID pandemic, he also had double bypass surgery and was the caregiver for his late wife, Dorothy. “I can’t just sit around here and watch TV,” he said. “I wasn’t able to do the things I had been doing,” Bill recalled. “I was faced with ‘what do you do?’ So, I got into puzzles.” Initially starting with jigsaw puzzles with his wife, Dorothy, “we’d put a puzzle out on the dining room table and work on it,” he said. But, the pastime soon bored him. Then, Bill discovered three-dimensional puzzles. On Amazon, “they had a laser-cut three-dimensional wooden puzzle,” he said. “I hadn’t even thought of anything like that.” Now Bill builds intricate wooden three-dimensional puzzles — from little kiwi birds and ponies to globes, locomotives, architectural models and lights and other mechanical designs. “The laser cuts them out so precise, you don’t even need glue,” he said. As a child, Bill made balsa wood model airplanes, which he observed were made similar to the 3-D puzzles. He also was able to use prior woodworking skills.
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On Friday, Feb. 13, Taylor Lunn walked through the main hallway at Farragut Middle School. Little did the 13-year-old know what awaited her. Dressed in gray Tennessee-themed sweats, Lunn rounded a corner with her parents and broke into a wide smile. Some classmates waved orange pom-pons, and others held up signs while “Rocky Top” blared from a nearby speaker. It was a fitting scene on a fully-packed weekend, which began with the Lunn family walking out of the school and into the bright sunshine. There, a black SUV whisked them off to a whirlwind 72-hour experience, all organized by the nonprofit organization, “Dream on 3.” Based out of Charlotte, the organization exists to “enrich the lives of kids with life-altering conditions by making their sports dreams come true,” according to the website. Undergraduate students from the organization’s Tennessee chapter compiled the Lunn family’s festivities, which ranged from a camp with UT cheerleaders to multiple Tennessee basketball games to an Alumni Hall shopping spree. They even had breakfast at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday morning before taking in the Lady Vols’ game against Texas that afternoon. “It’s pretty cool,” Barb Urch, a senior programmer for “Dream on 3,” said during the visit to FMS on Friday. “There are many different levels to it, and I love the collegiate aspect with students working so hard at building this dream.
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