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Death of Pegram Pastor’s Wife
Cheekwood
Seeks
Designers
for Fairytale
Exhibition
Art and architecture merge
with fairytales in this open call
for designers to create storybook settings for Cheekwood’s
Summer Garden Installation
for 2008, Happily Ever After.
Building on the success of
Once Upon a Garden,
Cheekwood’s 2007 summer
exhibition, Happily Ever After
will consist of 8 designed storybook settings in the landscape. In addition to the magical settings, last year’s installation offered Cheekwood the
opportunity to offer rich programming opportunities that
appealed to a diverse audience.
The vision for this project
is an exciting, whimsical, storybook wonderland that captures the imagination of our
young and young at heart visitors and draws them into the
magical world of books. In
addition to the interactive qualities of these stories and their
places, Happily Ever After also
promotes literacy and activities
that can take place in groups or
with families.
Stories
include:
Rumpelstiltskin, Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves, Sword and
the Stone, Three Billy Goats
Gruff, Little Red Riding Hood,
Princess and the Pea, Three
Little Pigs, and Rapunzel.
Happily Ever After opens
Memorial Day weekend and
closes September 7. Designers
interested in participating
should call Leigh Anne
Lomax, Botanical Garden and
Horticulture Manager, at 615353-6969 or email at [email protected].
Cheekwood is located at
1200 Forrest Park Drive in
Nashville.
By Cynthia Regas
Well over one thousand
people converged to the town of
Pegram, TN to pay their
respects to the family of Evette
Allison, young wife of Pegram
Church of Christ Pastor Jason
Allison this past week. Evette
was 33, mother of three, was
well known in the area for her
love and service to people. She
died suddenly from unknown
causes Saturday, January 12,
2008 at the couples home in
Kingston Springs, TN.
Lines formed early and
people waited for hours just to
be admitted into the large sanctuary full of people. Calling
hours went over by several
hours just to give those in attendance a chance to express their
condolances to the family. The
huge outpouring of supporters
was a testament to the work she
and her husband have accomplished in the community. As
the public shared in open
forum-style, all could see a life
describing the example of the
Proverbs 31 woman. One by
one they extolled her many
virtues and selfless life of service and giving. Their descriptions and anecdotes gave examples of the verses of the passage, to reveal the Christ-like
character she was known for.
"Who can find a virtuous
woman? Her price is far above
rubies. "
A 1992 graduate of
Harpeth Middle School and
High School, she attended
MTSU, Nashville Tech, and
TSU. She met her husband
Jason at Lylewood Christian
Camp at Indian Mound, TN, as
middle schoolers and later, in
1997, they were married there
at the camp where they met and
later worked as counselors. She
also worked for Vanderbilt
Children's Hospital as a Care
Partner. She worked tirelessly
along side Jason in their ministry to the community, where
he has been pastor since June
1994. She taught the Cradle
Roll class, headed up the First
Impression ministry responsible for welcoming guests and
providing information to the
visitors, supported the Ladie's
Bible Study. She served at
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Shelley Jennings Nominated for Momentum Awards
IndieHeaven.com, the leading organization supporting
independent artists in Christian
music, is pleased to announce
that Shelley Jennings has been
nominated as "Female Vocalist
of the Year," Contemporary
Artist of the Year," and
"Worship Artist of the Year" in
the 3rd annual "Momentum
Awards". These prestigious
awards will be handed out at the
upcoming IndieHeaven CIA
Summit 2008 conference
March 29, 2008. IndieHeaven
founder and CIA Summit director Keith Mohr states, "It's
important to recognize and
applaud the efforts made in
recent years by artists who are
independent. By providing
them the recognition they have
earned, we hope to increase
their platform and awareness.
There are many independent
artists who are doing an incredible job with their music and
most importantly their mission.
We look forward to the awards
being a part of our annual
artist's conference." Visit
www.ciasummit.com for more
information about the Christian
Independent Alliance Summit.
Shelley Jennings is a native
of Houston, TX, now living in
Bellevue, where she is a contemporary Christian artist and
worship leader. For the past 15
years, Shelley has been
involved in various ministries
that have provided her the
opportunity to tour and lead
worship nationally ranging
from small youth and college
retreats to major events with
attendance nearing 50,000.
Shelley has also been a featured
soloist on nationally released
records with Women of Faith
and Passion ministries.
In 2006, Shelley and her
husband John began 311
Ministries Inc., a concert and
speaking ministry. She also
released her first 2 solo records.
Numberless Blessings is a collection of well-known praise
and worship songs and classic
hymns. Redeemed is a 10-song
collection of music penned by
Shelley. Of Redeemed Shelley
says "I want people to know
who God is - who HE says He
is, not who we say He is; and to
help them come to know that
He loves them. That's what I
want and need for myself, so
sharing is like reinforcement
for my own soul. I hope this
record reflects all of that, in
some way."
To register your vote for
Shelley Jennings as "Female
Vocalist
of
the
Year,"
Contemporary Artist of the
Year," and "Worship Artist of
the Year" in this year's
Momentum awards, please
visit:
http://www.indieheaven.com/m
omentum_awards.php.
Westview
JANUARY 29 &
FEBRUARY 5
Genealogy at Knowles
Advanced
Genealogy
Classes at Knowles Senior
Center, 174 Rains Ave.
Nashville, TN will be held
January 15, 22, 29 and
February 5 from 12:30 -- 2:30
p.m. The instructor is Virginia
G. Watson, president of the
Middle Tennessee Genealogical
Society.
Free to Knowles Center
and
participating
Senior
Centers, $20.00 for non-members. Call the Knowles Center
and register -- 615-743-3400
JANUARY 26
Boaters Education
Class
If you were born after
January 1, 1989, you must
show a Tennessee Wildlife
Resources Agency issued card
as proof of successful completion of a nationally approved
boater
education course
approved by the T.W.R.A. to
operate a boat in Tennessee.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary
is an organization of volunteers
that promotes boating safety by
teaching classes to the public,
by on-water safety patrols,
courtesy vessel safety checks,
and marine dealer visits.
Before you come to class,
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you must first purchase, for
$10.00, a boating safety exam
permit from any business
(license agent), that sells hunting and fishing licenses
(Walmart sporting goods, bait
stores, marinas, etc.).
There is a boating safety
course being taught nearby at
The Woodmont Hills Family of
God Church on Franklin Road,
near Woodmont Boulevard, on
Saturday January 26, 2008 at
8:00 a.m.
You can register and get
more information by calling
Michael Willey (615) 516-7173
or Randy Ventress (615) 5096025. If no answer, please leave
a message and number where
you can be reached.
This course is also for
adults. You may qualify for a
discount on your insurance policy.
JANUARY 26
FEBRUARY 2
Inline Hockey
Signups
Youth Inc. Inline Hockey
Leagues will be conducting
registrations for the 2008 spring
season on Saturday, January 26
and February 2. Signups will be
held at all three Youth Inc.
hockey facilities from 10 a.m.
until noon. The rinks are located in Bellevue, Lavergne and
Spring Hill. Recreational Inline
Hockey is for boys and girls
www.westviewpublishing.com
ages 4-17, as well as adults.
Youth Inc. leagues are fully
sanctioned by USA Hockey.
Our focus is on sportsmanship,
skill development and most all,
fun! For more information,
contact Gary Curtis at 615-8650003 (office), 615-397-1947
(cell) or by email at
[email protected].
FEBRUARY 4
Poor Boys Classic
Chevy Club
Monday, February 4, 7:00
p.m. at McEwen Elementary
School Cafeteria (220 Swift St.
East, McEwen; in Humphreys
Co.). Enthusiasts of all makes
and models of classic cars are
welcome!
For information, call 931 +
582-3038 or [email protected] or 931-582-3940 or
[email protected]
FEB. 2 & 9
South Cheatham Little
League Sign Ups
South Cheatham Little
League Sign Ups at Harpeth
High School from 10:00 a.m. –
4:00 p.m. The fee will be $
90.00 for Tball, coach pitch and
little league $100.00 for junior
league and up. Registration fee
is required at sign ups. If you
have any questions please call
Lawrence McNeely at 3647613.
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West Of Nashville
Seniors (WONS)
meets Wednesdays
West Of Nashville Seniors
meets every Wednesday at Say
Cheese in Bellevue Center Mall
at 10 a.m. to play cards, board
games and socialize. This is a
free group and everyone is
invited.
Harpeth View
Toastmasters
“A Friendly Place to Meet and
Speak.” -That’s how Harpeth
View Toastmasters describe
their club meetings. You too,
can discover how fun and easy
it is to build self-confidence and
overcome your fear of public
speaking; skills necessary in
today’s business world. Visitors
are always welcome! Meetings
are held weekly on Saturday
mornings at 7:30 a.m. on the
second floor of St. George’s
Episcopal Church on Harding
Road (park in spaces located
between the church and Belle
Meade City Hall). For more
information call 654-4819.
Singles Volleyball
Friday's 6:30-8:30 p.m. single
men and women play at West
End United Methodist Church
(across from Vanderbilt Univ.).
No charge, all skill levels welcome. For details, call Rodney
at 615-443-1896 or Emily 615975-4672.
American Singles
Golf Association
The American Singles Golf
Association is a national organization. The Nashville group
meets every third Tuesday at
the Dan McGuiness Irish Pub at
5:30 p.m. For more information, please call 615-872-7788.
Nashville
Cribbage Club
The only Nashville Area
Cribbage Club meets at various
local coffee houses on the 3rd
Thursday of every month.
Everyone from longtime players to the “Cribb-Curious” are
welcome to the free event. For
more info, please call (615)
673-2899 or email D.R. Fay at
[email protected].
Calendar - Ongoing
Franklin. Visit www.giuseppe
verdilodge.com or call Joe
LoCasto at 474-6619 or Dan
Solomon at 373-3352 for more
information.
MOMS Club
The MOMS Club of
Bellevue-North meets at 10:00
a.m. first Thursday of the
Month at the Western Hills
Chruch of Christ (Charlotte
Pike near Sawyer Brown Road)
at 10:00 Contact Barbara
O'Hara at 352-6335 or
[email protected]
for more information. Free. The
MOMS (Moms offering Moms
Support) Club was designed
specifically to help at-home
mothers overcome the challenges of isolation, frustration
and boredom that accompany
the joys of raising children.
The MOMS Club of
Bellevue-South
meets
at
10:00am the first Thursday of
each month at the Bellevue
United Methodist Church, 7501
Old Harding Pike. Free. The
MOMS (Moms offering Moms
Support) Club was designed
specifically to help at-home
mothers overcome the challenges of isolation, frustration
and boredom that accompany
the joys of raising children. For
more info, call 266-1442.
Toastmasters at
NSCC
Nashville State Community
College Toastmasters Club
meets on the second and fourth
Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1:15
p.m. at Nashville State
Community College, 120 White
Bridge Road. The meeting is
open to anyone interested in
improving his or her speaking
skills. For more information,
call 673-2145.
Bowie Outdoor
Club schedule
The Bowie Outdoor Club:
HIKE, BIKE OR RUN
Meets the first Saturday of
each month at 9:00 am at Bowie
Nature Park in Fairview
(excluding June, July &
August). Information: Kristina
Giard at 799-2389 x112, or
h t t p : / / w w w. f a i r v i e w tn.org/bowiepark
of Brook Hollow and Davidson
Road in Nashville. Contact [email protected] for more
information.
floor conference room from
10:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M..
To register call Medline at
615-343-1910
Caring for the
Bellevue Creative Hillsboro-Harding
Exchange Club
Caregiver support
Activities
group meetings
The
Hillsboro-Harding
Playgroup
Road
Breakfast
Exchange Club
CARING
FOR
THE
CAREGIVER--an
ongoing
support group open to anyone
caring for an elderly relative or
spouse..
Meets
alternate
Monday evenings from 5:00
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Jewish
Family Service at the Gordon
Jewish Community Center. No
charge. Please contact Teri
Sogol at 354-1662 to register.
ABC Educational Playgroup meets the 1st & 3rd
Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to Noon.
There are Creative Projects,
Games, Recreation, Reading &
Writing for children 2-5 Years,
Siblings encouraged to attend.
RSVP to Samantha Kirchner,
Coordinating Parent, 615-6460960.
Bellevue
Courthouse
Quilters Guild in Exchange Club
The Bellevue Exchange Club
White Bluff
meets on Tuesday mornings at
Courthouse Quilters Guild
meets the second Monday of
each month. Basic quilting
classes are taught upon request,
projects for the month start at
5:00 pm, business sessions
begins at 6:30 pm. There is a
"Sit-N-Sew" each 4th Saturday,
service projects are worked on,
classes taught or work on a personal project. Meetings are held
at the White Bluff Church of
Christ, 4416 Hwy 70 E., White
Bluff, TN across from the Post
Office. Visitors are welcome to
attend.
For more information call
(615) 730-7585, (615) 7631034, (615) 412-9941, (615)
797-9662
or
email
[email protected].
Bellevue Rotary
meetings
Bellevue Rotary meets at
Loveless Café Wednesdays
7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. join
Bellevue’s fastest growing
service club for breakfast at one
of the nation’s most beloved
and historic eateries. Every
Wednesday Morning the Rotary
Club of Bellevue meets for a
full Loveless Café breakfast
and an hour of friendship, fellowship and timely discussion
of current club service projects
and events. For more information contact club President
Larry Musick at 615-210-2981
or
email
Larry
at
[email protected]
Order Sons of
Italy meetings
No Longer Bound
Grace Fellowship U.S.Coast Guard
There is freedom from addicAuxiliary Flotilla
tion; alcoholism, drug addic-
The Order Sons of Italy in
America encourages the study
of Italian language and culture
in schools, preserves and celebrates our Italian heritage and
reaches out to the needs of our
community. The Franklin chapter is the only nationally chartered Order Sons of Italy in
America in Tennessee. We meet
the last Tuesday of every month
at 6:45 at St. Philip Catholic
Church, 113 Second Ave.,
tion. Our ministry is for reconciliation with God who has the
power to change anyone. Our
purpose is to be a non-judgmental fellowship group for support. That we may be firmly
rooted and built up in Christ in
order to live a free and productive life in the power of the
Holy Spirit. Weekly meetings
every Tuesday and Friday night
from 6:30-8:30
at Brook
Hollow Baptist Church, 678
Brook Hollow Rd at the corner
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(615) 516-7173 or Randy
Ventress at (615) 509-6025 or
visit
our
website
at
http://a0821105.uscgaux.info/
for more information.
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
Flotilla 11-05 meets on the second Monday of each month at
Woodmont Hills Family of God
Church, 3710 Franklin Road,
Nashville, at 7:00 p.m.
The U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary is an organization of
volunteers that support the
Coast Guard in the missions of
Homeland Security as well as
promoting boating safety.
For more information
please call Michael Willey at
www.westviewpublishing.com
7:00 a.m. at Shoney’s in
Bellevue. Guests are always
welcome. Call Bob Allen at
218-4580 or Rod Frank at 3546464, Steve Smith at 476-4120,
or Charlie Tygard at 243-3295
for more information. The program for January is:
1-8-2008 - No morning meeting - Night meeting – Business
meeting – no speaker
1-15-2008 - Richard Dunn DEA - "Drug trends in Mid TN
and the South."
1-22-2008
- Eric Kehn
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
bureau.
1-29-2008
- Chief Mark
Anderson Air Force Recruiting.
meets at 7:30 am every second
and fourth Tuesday of the
month at the White Bridge
Road Shoney's restaurant.
Guests are always welcome.
Call Winston Caldwell at 3837321 or Henry Hopton at 8327388 for more information.
Friends Learning
in Pairs (FLIP)
FLIP is seeking caring people aged 55 and over to serve as
tutors for children in grades K4 in the Fairview and Bellevue
areas. Volunteers go to a school
one day a week and spend 30
minutes each with 3 to 4 students who are struggling with
reading. Please call Carolyn
Warnick at 615-948-3102 or
email [email protected] for
more details.
West Nashville
Civitan Club
West Nashville Civitan
Club is a co-ed club that meets
at 6 p.m. every second and
fourth Tuesday of the month at
the White Bridge Shoney's.
Normally an outside speaker
makes a presentation on the
fourth Tuesday.
Humphreys Co.
New AA group in
Historical Society
Bellevue
Humphreys
County
Historical Society. Everyone
welcome! For information on
meetings, call 931 + 296-2094.
West Nashville
Go Club Forming
Do you enjoy chess or
other strategic boardgames?
You'll love Go, the oldest
games in the world! Already
play? Join other Go players
from West Nashville. Just curious? All are welcome! For more
info, please call 615-598-1104
or email Corey Todaro at [email protected].
CHADD meeting
in Franklin
Do You Have a Child with
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder? Do You Want to
Learn More about AD/HD?
http://lib.williamson-tn.org
A new AA group for 25 and
younger is now being held at
7700 George E Horn Road,
Bellevue, Tennessee (New
Beginnings Church – main
auditorium) at 8:00 p.m. on
Monday nights beginning
September 24, 2007. If you
need additional information,
please call Tammi N. at 2518805, ext. 201.
Poor Boys Classic
Chevy Club
Poor Boys Classic Chevy
Club holds monthly meetings
at 7:00 p.m. and held in the
McEwen Elementary School
Cafeteria (220 Swift Street
East, McEwen). Remember,
you do not have to own a Chevy
to join---just your interest and
enthusiasm gets you in the door.
Enthusiasts of all makes
and models of cars welcome!
For information, call 931 +
582-3038.
Horizon Medical
hosts Alzheimer
Group
Horizon Medical Center
will host a Alzheimer Caregiver
Support Group on the 2nd
Tuesday of each Month, 2nd
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Westview Opinion Pages
The
Daughter’s
View
by Paula Underwood Winters
I woke up Monday morning at 4:30
and my brain started working and thinking about what to write my column
about. I had it all mapped out in my
head. It’s now Tuesday and I can’t think
of any of what I had in my mind.
I have been doing a lot of research
on presidential candidates and I’ve
decided I think I really like Ron Paul.
He’s a little more conservative than I
am on some issues, he thinks a little differently than I do on some others, but
mostly, I really like a lot of what he
says. He really believes in getting back
to what the Constitution dictates.
I was sad to hear about Fred
Thompson, but I have been wondering
if he could pull it off after waiting so
late to enter the race. So, I guess I’m
really not surprised.
I like some of what some of the
Democrats have to say, but not enough
to vote for one.
But, I’m not going to get on a soapbox this year about politics. I’ve decided that it’s just not worth it. I get
enough flack from some of my family.
***
I went and had my annual mammogram done last week. I must admit, it’s
been more than a year, but many of you
will remember that I wrote about one
that was rather unpleasant. Well, I’m
happy to say that the Woman’s Center at
Centennial was wonderful. They were
friendly and nice, they have pads on the
machine and it wasn’t even uncomfortable. So, if you have a choice, go to
them! Just go!
My sister is home recovering from
breast surgery and she is doing great.
So, the key is definitely catching things
early!
And men, don’t think you’re off the
hook. Remember that you, too, need
annual exams.
***
Recently, I went to a PDS/USN
Alumni get together at Bar Twenty3.
There were people there from decades
of classes. Some of the folks I went to
school with who were there were (and
I’m using maiden names): Belinda
Davis, Debbie Prince, Henry Martin,
Connie Heard, Amy Kurland, Mike
Shmerling, Brooks (Bucky) Katzman,
Sidney Singleton, Liza Beasley, and
I’m sure I’m leaving someone out. It
was a blast and I hope they do it again.
Peabody was very small and I love seeing everyone.
Lew Millet - Rhymes with Bayonet
If one were to “Google” the name
Tennessee. Colonel Millet was living
Lewis Millet (which Vet’s View has not
(retired) in West Tennessee, having
done) chances are the response would
unsuccessfully run against then—incumby John Furgess
refer to the fact that he is a recipient of
bent Congressman Ed Jones. Somewhat
Past VFW
this nations highest military award, the
sheepishly Vet’s View called him one day
Medal of Honor. But, okay, there is so National Commander
that spring and said something like
Westview Columnist
much more.
“Colonel Millet, I was a Second
since 1979
It was January, 1966, and this ol’ Vet
Lieutenant at Fort Devens in 1966, and
had reported in to the Officers Student
would you like to serve the VFW as West
course, Army Security Agency (ASA) School, Fort Devens, Tennessee Americanism Chairman?” He said, “Fort Devens,
Massachusetts (outside Boston). Having been on active duty 1966, you were one of those Lieutenants were you—well,
all of about ten weeks (following a Lieutenants Course at yes—I’ll take that job!” And he did.
Fort Benning, Georgia), driving to the school was quite an
Colonel Millet soon moved to California, and spoke
experience. The route took Vet’s View from Nashville to from time to time at various meetings, especially anything
Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, and all over to having to do with the Medal of Honor Society. But fast forBoston and Fort Devens. The night before reporting in to the ward, again to December of 1985, when the news headlines
school, Vet’s View decided to stop en route, and spend the screamed, “Gander Crash Claims 148 from Fort Campbell.”
night at the Holiday Inn, Buffalo. If you have been up there Colonel Millet’s young son, a 101st Airborne soldier, was
in any January, you guessed it, this ol’ Vet’s car was absolute- among those killed. A memorial service was held one frigid
ly covered in snow the next morning. A hotel employee, day, later that month, at Fort Campbell. Vet’s View waited
snow shovel in hand, asked, “About where did you park?” anxiously to spot Colonel Millet in the group of family memVet’s View could only reply, “Well, about there!” He found bers. There he was, then in his 60”s, looking ramrod straight
it, and off to duty it was.
in his Army green uniform, without overcoat. That famous
The Post Commandant gathered all the Second big mustache still there. I quietly moved forward, and shook
Lieutenants in the theater that first morning. His name was his hand. “Fort Devens ‘66, sir,” was about all I said. His sad,
Colonel Lewis Millet, and for bravery in leading a buoyant red eyes looked straight at me as he said, “Hello,
charge in Korea, that Medal of Honor around his neck was Commander. Thanks for coming.”
testimony to his courage. “Let me make sure you Lieutenants
More than twenty years have passed since that cold
get one thing straight,” the Colonel barked to the hushed morning at Fort Campbell. A grove of trees stands silent senaudience, “My name is Lew Millet, and it rhymes with bay- try to the memory of those who died in the crash. Now, in his
onet!” God help the poor soul who pronounced it like chick- mid 80’s, Colonel Lew Millet is still called upon to speak at
en feed!
various military and veterans functions. Lew Millet, Medal
Fast forward to 1978, and Vet’s View was serving as the of Honor, Korea. God grant that we have more like him. At
first Vietnam veteran to be State Commander of the VFW in least, that’s this Vet’s View. What’s yours?
Vet’s View
Why even bother to protect yourself from identity theft?
Why even bother to attempt to protect yourself from identity theft? This is
the question I asked myself when I
received the attached letter from Ray
Barrett, Administrator of Elections,
Metropolitan Government of Greater
Nashville and Davidson County.
I am a voting citizen with good
credit. I pay my taxes. I follow the
rules. I have gone through two papers
shredders in the last two years shredding document after document containing my personal information to protect
myself from identity theft. All these
efforts are in vain, now that there has
been “a breach in security resulted from
a break-in of the Offices of the
Davidson
County
Election
Commission”.
The only advice the election commission provided was “You should notify any agency of this loss of your personal information as you deem necessary.” They are supposedly notifying
Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union.
The letter states “we are preparing
Fairview/White Bluff Editor
Richard Edmondson
Graphic Artist
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Advertising Consultants
Linda Scolaro
Cynthia Regas
Webmaster
Hugh Daniel
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Donnie Winters
Sports Editor: Dick Green
Founded in 1978 by the late Doug Underwood and is
an independent, family-owned newspaper.
THE WESTVIEW
is published weekly by the
Westview Publishing Co., Inc.
8120 Sawyer Brown Road, Suite 107
P.O. Box 210183
Nashville, TN 37221
Phone: (615) 646-6131
FAX: (615) 662-0946
E-Mail: [email protected]
Websites: www.westviewonline.com
www.westviewpublishing.com
Publisher.....Evelyn Underwood Miles
Editor....Paula Underwood Winters
a web site with additional information
that may be helpful to you” (
http://www.hnashville.gov/vote/ ), but
as of today I see no link to helpful information on this web site.
The closing of the letter reads “We
regret this breach as occurred and we
are reviewing all aspect of the security
of personal information in the possession of this office”.
First of all, the letter is less than
helpful. The only information that was
actually provided was the fact that my
personal information, which I have
been diligently protecting for years, is
now in the hands of some unknown person for whatever use they desire. There
really aren’t any suggestions on how to
protect my identity at this point.
Shouldn’t the Davidson County
Election Commission, entrusted with
the voter’s personal information, be
responsible for contacting more than a
mere three credit reporting agencies?
And are they providing these three
agencies every name and social security number that has been stolen? Are
they actively trying to recover this
information? What measures are they
taking to ensure this doesn’t happen
again? If my identity is stolen, what
will the Davidson County Election
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Commission do to help me? Will I be
compensated?
Coincidentally, a mere two weeks
later I receive a letter of a different type
from Metro Politian Government of
Nashville and Davidson County (also
attached) – A “Notice to Correct
Violation”. It seems that the person living in my rental property has parked on
the grass in the front yard – and parking
in the grass is against the law (Section
16.24.330). If this is not corrected and
a follow-up inspection made I will be
fined $50.00 per day for each day it
continues and held responsible for all
court costs. That letter adequately
explains all consequences and compensation, doesn’t it?
I wonder if some of the funding
being used to drive around checking on
who is parking on the grass in their
front yards could be transferred to the
account where the funds are needed to
provide a workforce dedicated to ensuring voter’s personal information is kept
secure and identities left intact.
In closing, I am proud to announce
that the grass is now safe from being
parked on. As to my identity…who
knows…
Becki Baumgartner
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
adjacent to the City Center. Their
Once again a Fairview Board of intent is to develop it in accordance
Commissioners is considering selling with the City Center design restrica piece of Bowie Nature Park. This tions, with small shops like a real
time the proposal is a loser from all downtown. If they buy park land, they
perspectives. If park land is sold, the will build a big-box drug store, which
park loses and the City Center loses. A is not in keeping with the City Center
development firm called SouthStar has concept at all. It will be development
bought a considerable amount of pri- just for the sake of development, poorvate property adjacent to the park ly planned, with no coherent vision.
around the current fire hall. This is also (Continued on page 5)
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Politically Speaking
Election Night Party Invitation to
the Entire Community
The South Chapter of the
Cheatham County Chamber
of Commerce invites the
entire community to an
“Election Night Rally”, celebrating our good fortune to
have such a wonderful community and to congratulate
and thank the candidates and
City Commissioners, win or
loose, on their willingness to
serve their community.
With the regular meeting
of the South Chapter of the
Chamber scheduled to meet
on Tuesday, February 5, at the
newly opened Highway 70
Community Center, 2030,
Highway 70, in Belltown,
owner Ray Crouch, Sr., and
the South Chapter membership is taking this opportunity
to invite the entire community
to share the evening with us as
well as visit the beautiful new
Community Center in our
neighborhood. The regular
short meeting will begin at
6PM, dinner, entertainment
and fellowship follows immediately. There will be plenty
of food and libations for the
entire evening and we will
toast our newly elected City
Commissioners after the polls
close at 7:00PM and all the
results are in.
This event will be headlined by members of
“Plaidgrass” and their soul
stirring mixture of bluegrass
and Irish music. Married couple Tim May & Gretchen
Priest are the core of this
incredibly talented group and
are also our new neighbors
Westview
ONGOING
Bellevue Genealogy
and History Club
The Bellevue Genealogy
and History Club meets every
Friday from 9:00 to 10:30 am at
the JLT Lifelong Learning
Center at 8101 Hwy 100. You
do NOT have to be a member of
the YMCA or the Senior Center
to attend. The schedule for
January 2008 is:
Friday, January 11th, 9:00
am to 0:30 am – Speaker,
Margaret Cornell, Archivist –
Bring your precious documents
to the meeting and email your
specific archival questions to
Bob Allen at [email protected] two days prior to the
meeting.
Thursday, January 24th –
noon to 3:00 – Attend play "On
Golden Pond" at Chaffin’s Barn
Dinner Theater – cost for the
play, which starts at 1:00 pm is
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and members in Pegram at the
Musical Heritage Center of
Middle Tennessee. The name
of the business is Fiddle &
Pick. If you were at Cabin
Fever we know that you will
not want to miss this chance to
here them again.
Directions to the Highway
70 Community Center: From
Craggie Hope Road, turn right
onto Highway 70 and go
exactly
1
mile.
The
Community Center will be on
your left. From E. Kingston
Springs Road, turn left onto
Highway 70 and go exactly
5.8 miles. The Community
Center will be on your right.
For more information, call
Ron Twist, 952-9181.
Calendar
$19. A box lunch may be purchased for $8.50 and are handed out at noon.
Friday, January 25th – 9:00
am to 10:30 am – Speaker, Lois
Everly, Author of the book
"Two Furnished Rooms and a
Little Back Porch" – this
delightful book describes the
life and times of Lois’ family
growing up in the Ohio – West
Virginia area in the late 1800’s
and early 1900’s.
Contact Bob Allen at 2184580 or Melinda Hunkler at
646-9622.
Murphy's North Pole
Network Collectors
Club
There are many reasons to
join a local Hallmark Collectors
club. Door prizes are awarded
at most club meetings. Get holiday decorating ideas beyond
the traditional Christmas tree,
and also actively participate in
philanthropic projects that will
benefit our community.
The club meets (for either a
meeting or club event) on the
fourth Tuesday of every month
except January. Currently, the
club meets at Shoney's in
Bellevue (in the private dining
room) at I-40W/Highway 70S with dinner arrival beginning at
6 p.m. and the club meeting
beginning at 7 p.m. Bellevue
Bellevue FCE meetings
Family & Community
Education Club meets at 9:30
a.m. on the 4th Tuesday of
each month at the Lutheran
Church on Bellevue Road.
Guests are always welcome.
For more information, call
662-1270.
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About Metro Schools
By Marsha Warden
Metro Board of Education, District 9
[email protected] 646-0
0741
Looking Ahead To The Future
Many of you are aware that the Board unanimously voted to
accept Dr. Pedro Garcia’s request to leave Metro Nashville Public
Schools on Saturday. I am grateful to Dr. Garcia for the many
good things he did for our schools. The school district has come
a long way in the last Six years. Our reading scores for Third
Graders were less than 50% when Dr. Garcia arrived. Today, that
figure is very close to 90% proficiency. Our schools are in the best
physical shape ever. The roofs don’t leak, the floors are clean, and
mechanical systems work. Our graduation rate has increased by
double digits and is now at 70%. That is not enough, but it is a
tremendous gain nonetheless. Dr. Garcia is gone. We must now
look to the future.
Now is the time to pick up the pace. We must place a laser
like focus on our areas of critical need. We must make sure that
every population subgroup is advancing. Our minority students,
our students who live in poverty, our special needs students and
our immigrant students must be given the attention they need to
achieve. We must direct our human, physical, and monetary
resources to the children who need it most. Math instruction needs
to become a priority. Every student in Metro Nashville Public
Schools must be given the resources they need to achieve.
As we go forward we will look for a leader to move us to a
higher level of achievement. We will look for an inclusive leader
who will make sure all students and families feel welcome and at
home in Metro Schools. I intend to work closely with city leaders
and our Mayor, Karl Dean, as we move on our journey to find the
right leader for this school district.
I am optimistic that we will find the right person. I will share
our search process with you in the coming weeks. Our future is
bright.
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(Continued from page 4)
Picture Nolensville Road.
The park would lose doubly. It would lose its only highway
road frontage, which is the most valuable piece of any property. If
it stayed in the park, we could have a beautiful main entrance,
instead of the entrance we now have, with its views of corrugated
metal buildings. It would also set an unfortunate precedent of
treating the park as development property.
THIS IS NOT DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY! IT IS PARK
LAND! Selling it is a bad idea. It would temporarily enrich the
city coffers, but then the money will be spent, and where will the
city go for more money, to the park again?
The history of various Boards’ attempts to develop Bowie
Park is a story of contention and divisiveness. It is not good for
Fairview. If the commissioners will put the park into a restrictive
covenant, it will signify to everyone that the issue is closed, developers can look elsewhere in Fairview for development property,
and the Planning Director can turn his attention to more viable
projects. According to the opinion of the current city attorney, the
commissioners can place such a restriction on the land. They just
cannot make it permanent. Even a temporary restrictive covenant
will show good faith, and it will send a message to developers that
this land is not for sale. For future boards, it will be another step
they would need to go through before they consider selling parkland. They would at least have to acknowledge that they are violating a public trust, and they would have to publicize the revocation of the restriction in a public meeting agenda.
Park supporters, if you live in Fairview, please contact your
commissioners. Their phone numbers and email addresses are listed below. The next time this particular land sale proposal is scheduled to be discussed is at the February 7 Board of Commissioners
meeting at 7:00 pm at Fairview City Hall. The commissioners represent Fairview city residents. The only way they will know how
to represent you is if you tell them.
Ken Brison: 799-2230 or 799-0900 no email
Eddie Arney: 799-8215 or 533-8215 [email protected]
Wayne Hall: 799-0942 or 812-1063 [email protected]
Stuart Johnson: 799-8462 [email protected]
Darrell
Mangrum:
799-8225
or
300-0582
[email protected]
City Hall 799-2484 [email protected]
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ostalgia
N h ille N
Nashville
Nostalgia
Cabin Fever A Huge Success
By E.D. Thompson
Email: [email protected]
The Civil War
I do not consider myself a
Civil War scholar, but I enjoy
fitting Nashville’s events in history into either Pre-War, or
Post-War years. Just this past
month was the 143rd anniversary of the Battle of Nashville.
History tells us that in
1860, the population of
Nashville was less than 17,000
people. Schools in the city
included the University of
Nashville,
the
Nashville
Female Academy, and the public schools. Nashville possessed 5 railroads. More than
75 river boats were steaming to
Nashville’s Wharf.
Nashville was the publishing center of the South, with 5
daily newspapers and 2 publishing houses. Nashville had
many retail stores, as well as 20
wholesale houses, 5 banks, 3
flour mills, 4 millwork and furniture plants, machine shops,
foundries, and a plow factory.
On December 30, 1860,
Nashvillians met at the courthouse to discuss the secession
of South Carolina from the
Union. It was not until the fall
of Fort Sumter and President
Lincoln’s call for troops that the
governor of Tennessee, Isham
G. Harris, spoke about the situation.
It was on May 6, 1861, that
the Tennessee Legislature
announced that Tennessee
would be leaving the Union.
The vote was 3,029 for secession and 250 to remain in the
Union.
Nashville was a very
important city in the South.
The city had a great complex of
railroads as well as outstanding
river barge traffic. We were
very attractive to the Union.
Governor Harris rushed the
state government to Memphis
on a special train. The suspension bridge was destroyed, and
the railroad bridge was damaged by fire. Federal scouts
appeared in Edgefield, which
we call part of East Nashville
today.
The following day
General Don Carlos Buell
arrived in Nashville with his
Federal troops. The mayor of
Nashville and others formally
surrendered the city on
February 25, 1862.
President Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson to serve as
military governor of Tennessee,
and General Rosecrans set up
Federal headquarters in the
townhouse owned by George
W. Cunningham on what is now
Sixth Avenue North.
Schools were closed and
many important Nashvillians
were imprisoned as Southern
sympathizers.
Churches
became Federal hospitals.
More than half of the trees in
the city were felled. A cedar
log stockade with barricades of
cotton bales were erected
1
6.14 x 9.2
around the Capitol building,
and 15 heavy guns commanded
the area. Under the command
of numerous Federal generals,
including Ulysses S. Grant,
Nashville became perhaps the
most heavily fortified city in
the history of America.
After the burning of
Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate
General John G. Hood decided
to turn north to Nashville and
try to recapture the city which
turned out to be very unfortunate. As Hood crossed southern Tennessee, more than
70,000 Federal troops crowded
into occupied Nashville and
surrounding area.
At the Battle of Franklin,
Confederates lost more than
6,000 men, including 5 generals.
However, 23,000
Confederate troops advanced to
Nashville. Headquarters for
General Hood were at
Travellers’ Rest, the home of
Colonel John Overton near
Franklin Pike. The Overton
home still remains in Nashville
on Farrell Parkway near
Franklin Pike.
On December 15, 1864,
Federal guns at Fort Negley
opened fire to initiate the twoday Battle of Nashville. The
remnants of Fort Negley
remain in Nashville near Greer
Stadium. Today, visitors are
welcome to tour. The fighting
took place between Harding
Pike and Franklin Pike. If you
tour the Belle Meade Mansion,
guides will be happy to show
you bullet holes which still
remain on some of the columns
in front of the mansion.
The remnants of General
Hood’s troops retreated through
Franklin, Tennessee. This was
the last major conflict of the
Civil War.
When President Lincoln
was shot, Andrew Johnson,
who was the vice-president,
became the third Tennessean to
be president of the United
States within less than 40
years—Andrew Jackson, James
K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson.
Tennessee was the last state
to secede from the Union, and
the first state to return to the
Union. The war was over.
Before the end of the
1860s, mule-drawn street cars
were introduced to the city, a
new suspension bridge over the
Cumberland River was completed, a board of health was
organized to deal with problems of sanitation, and a city
government began to evolve.
Our country, state, and city
have lived through many trying, treacherous tribulations
and defeats as well as many
victories as we today progress
on in many healing ways,
growing in economy, and in
some ways even serving as
leaders in the world. Our
Nashville lives on!
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The Harpeth High School
Band of Blue’s annual fundraiser, Cabin Fever, was held
Saturday, January 19th. The
event was a success and helped
raise much needed funds as
well as awareness about our
school’s incredible music program. The band program at
Harpeth High is not limited to
the marching band. Harpeth
High Band of Blue provides
music education to over a hundred students annually in the
forms of a jazz band, indoor
drumline, concert band and pep
band.
Those who attended Cabin
Fever feasted on a delicious
buffet dinner provided by
Charlie McCabe, owner of
Kingston Springs’ newest
restaurant, PaSgetti’s.
The color program for the
event was designed by Band
Booster Pam Case. The owners
of Harmony House Publishing,
Billy and Mary Ella Stevens,
donated the printing services.
The Silent Auction featured
items and services donated by
area artisans, musicians, band
boosters, businesses and community supporters.
The evening’s master of
ceremonies was XM Satellite
radio personality and Opry
Dancer Marcia Campbell.
Marcia did a great job of introducing the performers as well
as telling the audience about the
band program. She also contended with the hilarious antics
of side kick Mr. E.G. Smith.
Opening the show was
Green on the Vyne, young bluegrass talent you will no doubt
be seeing and hearing a lot in
the future. Their musical abilities and vocal harmonies were
phenomenal, especially considering the performers ages range
Dear Dave,
I’ve got the
opportunity
to
take over my
father’s
small
engine shop. He’s
semi-retired and
doesn’t make a
lot with it, but
he’s got about
$10,000
to
$20,000 in inventory already
stocked. He might even just
turn it over to me, but I’d have
to expand it to really make a
living. How can I do this and
avoid going into debt?
Mark
Dear Mark,
Let’s be realistic. If you
were going to start this business from the ground up you
could make almost as much
with it. And if that were the
case you could just buy your
inventory as needed, right?
In this situation you’re
looking at having to buy
inventory in advance that you
may not have bought in the
first place. In essence, you’d
be buying a business that’s
struggling.
You might try making an
arrangement with your dad
based on the inventory sold
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The Felt Shims, incredibly talented musicians, brought down
the house at Saturday night's Cabin Fever Fundraiser to
benefit the Harpeth High School Band of Blue.
from only 12-15 years. The
authentic Celtic music of
Gretchen Priest-Mays and
Plaidgrass was new to the
Cabin Fever line up. Gretchen
and husband Tim Mays are the
owners of Pegram’s Fiddle N
Pick. The beautiful harmonies
of husband and wife Adam and
Shannon Wright closed the first
half of the show.
Immediately
following
intermission, Curtis Bivens
acted as auctioneer for the Not
So Silent Live Auction portion
of the evening. This live auction event featured two signed
Titans footballs, a finely crafted
wood ink pen, two cedar rockers and a cedar porch swing.
The audience showed their support once again for the Band of
Blue as bidding was competitive and generous. Then, bluegrass took a turn for the better
when the Felt Shims took the
stage and brought down the
house. The Felt Shims include
former Harpeth High Band of
Blue students Calan and Ian
O’Bryant and Rocky Lane who
gave credit to the band program
for their talent and love of
music.
The audience was
instead of buying it all outright in the beginning. Maybe
you could structure it to where
you’d buy the first $10,000 of
inventory that leaves the
shelves from him.
That way you don’t have
to worry about financing the
business and running into
debt, because you’re buying it
gradually.
Good luck, Mark!
- Dave
Dear Dave,
What’s the minimum age
at which you recommend buying life insurance? I’m 27years old and married, no kids
and we’re doing pretty well
with our debt-reduction.
Currently, we only have
$10,000 in debt remaining and
this includes some student
loans and a mortgage.
Sheldon
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charmed by this group of
rowdy, fun loving musicians
who take their music seriously
but not themselves.
Bringing the evening to a
close was an entertaining
acoustic set by Patsy Lynn with
husband Philip Russell. Patsy
and Philip are seasoned professionals who never fail to entertain a crowd.
Miss Emmy
Russell, their youngest daughter, made her stage debut
singing “Free Falling.” Emmy
is an adorable young performer
who was totally at home on the
stage.
The Band of Blue wishes to
thank the performers who
donated their time and talent as
well as our community for its
generosity and support. Thanks
to Marilee and Chip Chipoletti
and ChipStar Music for their
audio equipment and expertise
in making every performer
sound their best.
A heartfelt thank you from
all parents and students to our
dedicated teaching staff; Dr.
Dan McNally, Andy Fellows,
Butch
Simmons,
Dustin
Groves, Allison Greer and Lisa
Spann.
Dear Sheldon,
Your wife’s
current lifestyle is
dependent on your
income, so you
definitely want to
look into getting
some life insurance at this point.
After all, you want
her to be well taken care of
financially if something happens to you.
The need may not be quite
as pressing as if you had children, but it would be bad if
you died prematurely and she
found herself saddled with a
bunch of debt on top of losing
you. Grief plus financial hardship is a recipe for disaster!
At your age, good, level
term life insurance is not very
expensive. If you’re healthy,
you can get around $400,000
in coverage for $25 or $30 a
month.
You’ve got responsibilities to think about, Sheldon!
- Dave
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readers, please visit www.davesays.org or call 1-88-22PEACE.
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Joan Willis’ Art Show at Meadows
Joan Willis, a resident at
the Meadows Nursing Home,
was recently surprised and honored by the unveiling of her art
exhibit. Karen Carter, Joan’s art
instructor, spearheaded this
project and all of Joan’s friends
jumped on board and supported
this endeavor.
This special occasion took
place on the Sun Porch at the
Meadeows Nursing Home. The
art exhibits were showcased
around the Christmas tree for
Joan’s guests to view.
Everyone enjoyed lovely
Christmas music, nibbled on
fruit and cheese while sipping
on punch.
Many of Joan’s friends
brought flowers and other special gifts honoring her.
It was truly an afternoon
enjoyed by all.
On the flip side of life
By Diane W. Repasky
If you guys were missing your girls over the
Specifically, something old refers to family.
weekend, I found them! They were (like me) Ties to the past, blessings from ancestors both
n and dead, the expression was as much a
shoulder to shoulder watching the Superbowl A
ofmbitio
living
female movies, namely the newly released “27 prayer as blessing.
Dresses.”
Something new is the futureÉbright hopes for
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, the the bride in her new life.
theme of the movie prompted more than a few
Something borrowed (often jewelry, a Bible,
chuckles among those of us who likewise have a handkerchief) was to remind the bride to lean
closets full of hideous dresses we’ll never wear on friends in times of need. Meanwhile, (and pay
again… (despite the promises and wishful think- attention, as I think we miss this) the item is suping).
posed to come from a happily married friend,
Curiously, one tradition, crossed cultural who likewise lends her happiness to the couple in
boundaries sending me on a search (an expres- starting their new life.
sion seldom said in its entirety):
Something blue hails to Roman times. A
symbol of love and loyalty (think true blue),
Something old, something new
interestingly, before the 19th century, blue was
Something borrowed, something blue
actually the preferred color for the gown itself.
A silver sixpence in her shoe.
As for the coin, the tradition wasn’t bridal,
but rather the groom’s to insert in his shoe. A
The sixpence part dates the origin. (For the symbol for wealth, this token was clearly somerecord, a coin minted in Britain from 1551 and thing the groom (or perhaps the bride’s father)
worth six cents, (go figure). A Victorian rhyme was going to need, if for nothing else than to pay
ensuring blessings of fortune and wedded bliss.
the wedding bills!
Karlin
Evins, author
of “I Didn’t
Know
That,”welcomes
Karlen Evins,
author
of “I Didn’t
Know
That”
welcomes
your
feedback
at
www.ididntknowthat.biz
your feedback at [email protected].
January Birthdays
1 - David Arnold
Caryn Baker
David Galloway
John Grantham
Barry Ivy
Penny Miller
Alex Paseur
Travis Smith
Karen Stanley
Chuck Warstall
Tyler Rae Steffek
John Wilkerson
Debi Tyree
Nancy Lewis
Norma Bates
Virginia Anderson
2 - Bradley Gauchat
Carolyn Russell
Albert Schrader
Albert Schrader
Brielea Utley
3 - Rebecca Beamer
Doris Friedli
Doug Griffin
Matthew Johnson
Brian Reyes, Jr.
Ann Wilson
Glendola Grizzle
Eleanor Bradshaw
Grayson Jones
Hattie Dewalt
Nancy Robertson
4 - Mason Hows
Morgan Hows
Amy Caulkins
Donna Young
Erin Kivett
Romelle Wood
Brian Baker
Tomothy Green
5 - Don Pinkstaff
Judy Matthews
Emily Dueease
6 - Carly Caldwell
Lindsey Dalton
Myra Webb
Bob West
Glen Woodard
7 - Tyler Sadler
Nancy Tull
Jason Wallace
William Hedges
8 - Cynthia Boniol
Caleb Hickman
John Sneed
Michael Rowe
Rhonda Hedden
Terrye Merryman
Billy Fly
Kevin Yates
9 - Jerry Brown
Weechie Mattice
Bill Meadows
Patsy Putman
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Caleb Young
Ginny Plump
Holly Carpenter
10 -Janice Campbell
Kenny Lavender
Barry Rawls
Tim Richards
Lorna Sanders
Aubrey Chambers
Joan Shoup
Rebecca Bates
Susan Mezger
11-Tiffany Beamer
Kila Copley
Andy Gass
Robert Perkins
Chuck Wilson
Leon Wright
12-Dorothy Anderson
Alex Eisenbeck
Mary Ann Kolbrek
Katherine Odum
Susan Taylor
Nancy West
Mark Woods
George Elizer
Amy Martin
Daphne Proctor
13-Heather Allen
Melanie Allen
Cynthia Neely
Robin Pippin
Annese Wells
Bob Duarte
Carole Durham
Sue Davis
14-Gloria Ananaba
Michael Gray, Sr.
Melinda Huang
Liam Jenkins
Daniel King
Cindy Welch
Velma Travis
Roger Patton
Kenneth Pruitt
15-Dennis Miller
Belinda Schmidt
Adam Stewart
Todd Woolsey
Mary Joe Harvey
Marie Greer
16-River Barton
Richard McMullen
Rachel Salinas
Mike Jones
17-Dwight Cole
Jan Pruitt
18-Blake Brinkley
Natalie Farris
Richard Hardy
Joy Nabi
Charles Fentress
19-Kaylup Anderson
Ron Hooper
David Huckaby
Brian Reyes
Paul Gauerke
20-Curt Chelsey
Jason Palmer
Ilsa Person
Emma Warren
21-Nancy Ahmed
Mattie Dorrough
Patsy Grooms
Randy Horner
Chase Wood
Eddie Deason
Kayla Duncan
June Morton
Sam Tyler
David Pruitt
Karen Shaffer
Lindsay Timmis
22-Fran Beliles
Brandon Coffee
Hannah Davidson
Brandy Leap
Linda Little
Jacob Young
23-Annette Becker
Bailey Forte
Kevin McCarty
William Miller
Joseph Gugliotta
24-Amy McCarty
Joyce Payne
Beverly Mimms
Mark Gunter
25-Elizabeth Traugott
Hunter Buttrey
Tami Cantwell
Lynn Jones
26-Ann Ring
Missy Travis
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Mallie Wilson
27-Nicole Smith
Belinda Weathers
Judy Blackburn
Mattie Gentry
Lavenia Osborn
28-AJ Kosinski
Tyler Kosinski
Meredith Marks
Tracie Nichols
Charlie Strong
Julie Moore
29-Penny Forte
Stephen Lovell
Steve Olson
Sandy Weissend
Addison Yates
David Becker
Jerrie Havens
Paul Woods
Scott Williams
30-Brenda Brasher
Robert Frost
Donna Hickerson
Trent Hooper
Steve Lancaster
Kim Pennington
Ted Potter
Juanita Bailey
Kerry Campbell
Sheila Story
Julie Spencer
31-Delbi Collins
Ted Owen
Nancy Ward\
Did you grow up with a
guy named Ray Conniff? Well,
I did (or at least, I know who he
was and for some reason, I’m
familiar with his music).
Anyway, I know he did a song
that goes like this: “A song of
love is a sad song. Hi-li-ly; hili-ly; hi-lo.” (Spelling aside.)
And this “planning-yourdaughter’s-wedding” business
sure has me knowing that, how
ever you spell “hi-li-ly” and
what ever it exactly means, “a
song of love IS a sad
song”...and especially that “hilo” part. And all of this would
be in reference to my “Wedding
Pocketbook,” thank you very
much. (And I don’t exactly
mean any outrageously expensive pocketbook my daughterbride might decide to carry
down the aisle with her
[although why she’d want to, I
wouldn’t know anyway, seeing
that she’ll have her hands full
of WAY too expensive flowers
right then]. No-sir-ee; I mean
MY wedding pocketbook. And
Poor, Broke Father-Of-TheBride’s pocketbook [that would
be “Larry” to anyone who reads
me regularly].)
“Hi-lo” really does explain
what I’ve been through over the
last 24 wedding-planning
hours. (Uh...notice yet that I’m
starting to repeat this phrase
“wedding-planning-this” and
“wedding-planning-that” alot?
That would be because this
Wedding-Planning-Nonsense is
FLAT-OUTRIGHT A DANG
FULL-TIME
JOB!
Grrrrrrrrrr!) Anyhow, back to
my “hi-lo” thing. That’s basically what “The Wedding
Budget” has been in the last 24
hours. Or, rather, more accurately, “lo-hi” is what it’s been.
Here we were, this happy
Mother-Of-The-Bride
and
Father-Of-The-Bride, helping
our darling Bride-Of-AllBrides flit around the city
checking on This expensive
wedding expense and That
expensive wedding expense.
Naturally, before the whole
thing had started (way back at
the “Guess-What- Mom!!-I’mGetting-Married-ThisSummer!!” stage...which was
really not quite 4 weeks ago,
but which seems like a LIFETIME), anyway, naturally, way
back then, we had done a “preliminary budget.” These itemized figures were “semi-educated guestimates,” but they
would form our ABSOLUTE
DROP-DEAD Budget. And we
would HOLD to them. PERIOD. And we wrote down every
tiny-little thing we could think
of, right down to the cake knife
& and the bitty-little candies
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inside the favor bags. And then
we actually started shopping:
Great! (so far). The wedding dress was under budget.
The veil was under budget. So
was the bride’s jewelry. The
invitations were under budget.
(WOW! The HALL surely
wasn’t, but we’d plugged in
that number right up front.)
The guest book was under
budget. The ring pillow was
under budget. —We Were On
A Roll!!
...And then, we added up
the column. —Wait A Minute.
Add That Again? Uh...triplecheck it, okay? Now let’s do it
a different way: Let’s add
ONLY the items we have firm,
absolute numbers on, then total
it. Then, we’ll add the column
still having just guestimates,
then total it. Now add those
two numbers together. —Uhoh: Same total?
—Wow: We Have No Idea
How
This
Could
Happen!...for...even
with
Everything Possible that we
could think of...and even with
Everything that had been so
delightfully UNDER budget as
we went along, we were now
Two Thousand Dollars OVER
budget! And we’d even included 10% Tennessee state sales
tax in our original figures!
HOW IN THE WORLD
COULD THAT EVER BE?!?!
So far, lots & lots of things
were UNDER budget. And we
hadn’t added a SINGLE item!
In fact, we’d eliminated a
bunch of stuff: a tiara, a limousine, bubbles, customized
thank-you notes, bridesmaids’
gifts (now robbed from a different fund), and our special
music. We even got Larry to
agree that the “brand-new suit”
he WILL have to buy (regardless of what he says) can come
out of our “ordinary” budget,
not the “wedding” budget,
since he’ll be able to wear it to
Church well after the wedding.
But it doesn’t seem to matter!
We are STILL Two
Thousand Dollars OVER budget! And, for the life of us, we
can’t figure out where those
Two Thousand Dollars came
from! (Nor does it seem possible to cut them out from somewhere, seeing that This
Wedding is already about as
bare-bones as we think we can
get it, and “still” have it be
“attractive.”)
So, just like the old song
that Ray Conniff did, “A song
of love is INDEED a sad song.”
Sad
For
The
People
Specifically Paying For The
Wedding, that is. “Low-high;
low-high; low-high.”
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of the commercial side of so
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Wednesday
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Prom Dresses and Tuxedo Donations Needed
Now that the Symphony Ball is
over and the holiday parties
have passed, what are you
doing with that formalwear that
seems to just take a portion of
your closet and never gets worn
again?
There are over 700 high
school students in Middle
Tennessee in the foster care
system. As you can expect,
many of these youth cannot
afford prom dresses or formal-
wear at retail prices these days.
Therefore simply because of
finances, many of them will
miss out on one of those magical moments that make high
school worth all the work.
With your help, the Totally
Yours Thrift Store can provide
the dresses, shoes and tuxedos
these young people need.
Totally Yours offers clothing
and household items to young
people who are in, or who
recently aged out of state custody. The youth receive vouchers from case workers and
instructors for appropriately
participating in their own personal development. For example, they may receive a voucher
for attending an educational
seminar on financial planning,
for dressing appropriately for a
court hearing, or for actively
seeking employment. With this
voucher system, the youth
by Seth Almon
I ate in my class. I just had
water. I read a book. I played
with a puzzle about Mickey
Mouse and a mermaid. I already
did a picture. I cut it out and
glued it on to a paper. There was
a little "S" in the circle that you
needed to cut out. I didn't see a
reindeer again. I played with
playdough. I saw a helicopter. I
saw an airplane again. I just saw
two airplanes.
1st Grade
News
by Jenna Snipes
Monday at BHSE we ate
snack and went outside to play!
We did subtract problems in
math. We went out in the front
yard to play for a minute. We
read our Little House on the
Prarie book. We also did our
phonics. We made new little history pockets. We had a piece of
paper that we cut out a part to
glue on the front. In science, we
took some glue and glued them
on to the paper. Oh, dots and fur
and stuff. We studied about
amphibians and how some animals have hair and stuff. We had
girl scouts too! Yea! We learned
about selling our girl scout
cookies and we can get a badge
for the Gift of Caring of we sell
a box of cookies for the homeless. That's all really.
6th Grade
News
by Isaiah Dructor
Hello, Everyone! How are
you doing today? We had a good
time today. In Art, we drew a
bowl of fruit and then shadowed
it. It made it look like it had
shape, three dimensional. It
looked cool. My brother,
Joshua, and I rode with the
Hardin’s to my sister, Caroline’s
house and she drove us home
because my Mom was at nursing
school.
I got a micro-helicopter and
took it school and played with it
before classes began. It flew
really well. I had to attach a
quarter to the front to give it
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enough forward ballast to go
forward. It just flew straight up
and straight down before that.
Caroline has a new puppy
named Jasmine. Jasmine is a
Golden Retriever. Well, I think
that’s it for now. Next week I
will write about the Bible Bowl
we have been studying for. Have
a great week! See ya later.
7th Grade
News
by Haley Butler
Play season has officially
begun. If you don't know what
I'm talking about, I'm referring
to school plays. Our school is
doing a Christian based play
called "Bad Apples". It's kind of
a combination of fairy tales, but
isn't the main part. You know the
story of Hansel and Gretel right?
Well I play the part of Gretel.
Hansel and Gretel run into Zora
Greenleaf (the mean witches
daughter) and have to explain to
her what happened,the pushing
into the oven part. Then a couple
days later, after everything has
seemed to have calmed down,
Zora is escorted to the kingdoms
capitol because the prince fell in
love with her. Well then the
wedding caravan gets attacked
by the bad things, so Zora and
her handmaiden run to her
mothers house. My favoirte
thing in the entire play is when
Zora says to her handmaiden
"Leave it up to a man to design
glass heels!"(Cinderella reference, if you didn't notice). Well
Zora doesn't want to marry
Prince Deverick, so she convinces her handmaiden, Cecily
to trade places with her.
(cough..prince and the pauper
reference!). Later, while Cecily
is unpacking, Zora discovers
that her mother is in fact not
dead, but very much alive. A little dwarf named Fitzwidget
comes into the picture, apparently seeking food and shelter,
but when someone says apparently, we always know it can
lead to no good! Now Prince
Deverick and a prisoner, named
Holt, come to the house seeking
help because Prince D is wounded. Holt and Zora don't like each
other
from
the
start
Donations can be dropped
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never have to pay any cash
amounts for the items they
“purchase” at Totally Yours.
Donations of prom-style
dresses, shoes and tuxedos are
needed. All sizes are accepted
but donations must be wearable
by teenager standards.
Plum Pudding
(*coughs..Pride and Prejudice*)
but they come around to each
other eventually.Then the fairy
folk (Katyana,Tikaani and
Naya, who is pregnant) come
into play, because they are being
pushed out of their villages
because of the bad things too.
Hansel and Gretel return to the
gingerbread house because they
are running from their evil stepmother because she is mad at
Hansel because he sold their
cow for magical beans (*Jack
and the Beanstalk*) So now
everyone is stuck in this little
gingerbread house with three
fairies, two children, a prince, a
common rober, three women
and a dwarf that knows a little
too much. In the end, Fitzwidget
is the Evil one, the bad things
that were trying to kill them
were their sins and they found a
way to make them go away. Holt
is actually the Prince, Zora and
the Prince get married, Tikanni
and Kaya have their daughter,
and the Prince promises to
restore peace to the fairyfolk of
the mountains. All's well that
ends well!
9th Grade
News
by Amelia Everett
Hey everyone,
Christmas break and vacation was great, but I am glad to
be back into school! school is
not my most favorite thing in the
world to do, but it helps to have
a balance with your life. If the
world was all play and fun we
wouldn't get anything done.
When you balance your life with
play and school it makes the
play more rewarding. A lot of
people say they hate school, but
not me. Sure I get overwhelmed
and tiered of it sometimes, but I
always know that it's good for
me in the end. After all, you
need school to help your brain
expand and to go places in this
world that you wouldn't even
dream of. B.H.S.E has a great
learning atmosphere and I look
forward to going there every
week and being around friends
while learning fascinating things
about the world around me.
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Owen, the butler led us through a downstairs atrium where
there were tall windows overlooking a beautiful view of an outside
fountain with a stone angel in the center. The water in the fountain
has green lily pads floating all over the top. I’ll bet there are frogs
hiding somewhere in the fountain. They could jump from lily pad
to lily pad. Maybe one frog might be magical and be a handsome
prince, but I guess I’ll never know because you wouldn’t catch me
kissing a frog. Besides, Nona says they give you warts.
Past the fountain I could see the rolling countryside. In the
distance was a tall stone fence that circled the land. I could see
steps that seemed to lead to the lower meadow.
Soon we were led into a really big dining hall. It has a table
so long; I bet you would have to holler just to have a conversation
with someone sitting on the opposite end. At the far end of the dining table, Aunt Sara was waiting. As she sat quietly, she motioned
for us to come closer and join her. Daddy sat on one side of her
with me and Nona on the other. There were big white cloth napkins sitting on fancy white plates trimmed in gold. At the top and
bottom of the plates, there were pictures of little red and pink
flowers surrounded by small ivy vines. The tall crystal water
glasses sparkled in the sunlight. On each end of the table, there
were huge, golden candlesticks with tall, skinny, unlit candles. In
the very center of the table was another tall bouquet of beautiful
flowers.
Owen pulled out my chair and waited for me to slide onto its
velvet seat. Then he pushed me closer to the table and handed me
the cloth napkin. Next he helped Nona. We were all speechless.
Nobody said a word because we were too busy taking in all the
sights and sounds around us.
Soon we were having piping hot soup served to us in bowls
that matched the plates. The soup tasted really good. Owen served
the soup and sat little saucers of crackers nearby.
Next he brought us plates with fluffy mashed potatoes, and
when I dug my fork inside, there was ground beef hidden underneath. I think he called it Shepard’s Pie. It tasted pretty good, too.
He also served muffins that they called Yorkshire pudding. I
thought that was a little strange, calling a muffin… pudding.
Dessert was served last. It was called plum pudding, but it
looked more like a fruit cake. Aunt Sara said they alway serve
plum pudding during Christmastime, and she had Cook make it
especially for today. She said to be careful while eating it, because
there were no plums in the pudding, but small silver charms that
were baked inside. They’re supposed to bring you good luck. I
could taste raisins, nuts, cinnamon and maybe apples, but none of
us found the silver charms.
Daddy and Nona chatted with Aunt Sara about the lovely
house and grounds. Soon we were finished with brunch and Aunt
Sara said she needed to go back to her room to rest. Before she
left, she suggested that Daddy and Nona stay and enjoy a cup of
hot tea, and maybe I might want some juice or apple cider. Mrs.
Beals then came and rolled Aunt Sara out of the room. She was
actually in a chair that rolled.
After Aunt Sara left the room, Owen served us tea and juice.
Nona remarked about how elegant everything was. Daddy said he
had never seen such sights. We all looked at each other, smiled and
sipped our drinks. Nona laughed as she said she was really enjoying being served our food, and it was certainly going to be hard to
go back home and wait on herself.
As I looked around the room that had a remarkable sight to
behold in every different direction; I thought to myself, “One
day…maybe I would live here, too!” Signing off from jolly, old
England!
Goodnight and God bless!
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Panel Discussion and FREE Robbins-Themed Film Screening
On Saturday, February 2,
the Country Music Hall of
Fame® and Museum will
explore Marty Robbins’ passion
for auto racing in the panel discussion Hell on Wheels: Marty
Robbins at the Racetrack. The
program, which will begin at
2:00 p.m. in the Museum’s Ford
Theater, will survey the singersongwriter’s dedication to the
sport, and even include rare
audio clips of Robbins himself
discussing his racing exploits.
Program
participants
include Marty’s son, Ronny
Robbins, veteran driver Bob
Reuther (who drove a car sponsored by Marty) and ESPN auto
racing
historian
and
Fairgrounds Speedway expert
Russ Thompson. Excerpts from
an exclusive interview with
NASCAR great Richard Petty
(conducted by Museum staff)
will be presented during the
program, along with other
audiovisual elements from the
Museum’s collection. Also supplementing the discussion will
be selected images from
Thompson’s personal archive
of over 10,000 racing photos.
Admission is included with
Museum admission (FREE to
Museum members).
In addition to the panel discussion, the Museum is presenting a FREE Robbins-themed
film screening on Saturday,
February 24, at 2:00 p.m. In the
1986 made-for-television mem-
oir Marty Robbins: Super
Legend, host John Schneider
(The Dukes of Hazzard) surveys Robbins’ life from his
early days in Arizona to his
death in 1982. Footage includes
eighteen performances by
Robbins, including “Among
My
Souvenirs,”
“Devil
Woman,” “Don’t Worry,”
“Singing the Blues” and “You
Gave Me a Mountain,” and
interviews with Roy Acuff,
Bobby Allison, Jimmy Dickens,
Ralph Emery, Larry Gatlin,
Brenda Lee, Barbara Mandrell,
Darrell Waltrip, Faron Young
and the Robbins family.
Screening is 120 minutes.
Due largely to the success
of his self-penned hit “El Paso,”
Robbins was able to pursue
what he said was his only true
source of relaxation—auto racing. His racing career started in
1959, when he began racing
micro-midgets. He would later
switch to modified stock cars in
the early 1960s. Robbins
entered his first NASCAR
(National Association for Stock
Car Auto Racing) competition
in 1966, and despite broken
bones, stitches and several
potentially fatal collisions, he
continued to compete on the
NASCAR circuit up until the
final weeks of his life. Although
he never won a NASCAR race,
Robbins finished in the top ten
six times. He gained the respect
of fellow drivers, including
champions Richard Petty and
Bobby Allison, who praised
him for his natural racing ability and good sportsmanship.
Robbins said of his racing
career, “I drive for the fun of it.
I try to stay out of the way of
those other fellows who are out
there to make a living. I just
love to be on the track with
them.”
Both the panel discussion
and the film screening are presented in conjunction with the
biographical exhibit Marty
Robbins:
Among
My
Souvenirs, Presented by Great
American Country Television
Network. The exhibit is slated
to close in June.
These programs are made
possible, in part, by grants from
the Metropolitan Nashville Arts
Commission and by an agreement between the Tennessee
Arts Commission and National
Endowment for the Arts.
Accredited
by
the
American Association of
Museums, the Country Music
Hall of Fame® and Museum is
operated by the Country Music
Foundation, a not-for-profit
501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of
Tennessee in 1964. The
Museum’s mission is the
preservation of the history of
country and related vernacular
music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational
mission, the Foundation also
operates CMF Records, the
Museum’s Frist Library and
Archive, CMF Press, Historic
RCA Studio B, and Hatch Show
Print.
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Troy Gentry at Make-A-Wish Gala
A Reception & Concert
presented
by
Jamison
Bedding for the Make-AWish 2nd Annual Celebration
of Wishes Gala will be held
February 1, 2008 – 7 p.m. at
the Musicians Hall of Fame,
301 6th Avenue South,
Nashville, Tennessee
Scrumptious
Hors
d’ouerves created by Wish
Kids Kiel Hamill, Quinten
Moore, Jillian Pasley, and
Brittany Walker In collaboration with Whole Foods
Market’s finest chefs and
journalist Kay West, with
Dessert by Wish Kid Abby
McLemore
A fanciful vision by 13year old Wish Kid Elise presented in an unforgettable
gala setting designed in collaboration
with
Ark2
Productions
Artistic wish kid Shelby
has donated an original painting to the auction which will
also include wish-kid art, and
the opportunity to adopt
future wishes.
A live concert performance by wish kids Paige,
whose wish was to record a
Christian Music CD, and the
band Kindergarten Circus,
whose drummer Aaron recently received his wish for a
recording studio in his home
Plus A rollicking jam session
by Montgomery Gentry’s
Troy Gentry and friends.
Honorary Chairs for the
Gala are Frank and Linda
Gorrell.
Celebration
of
Wishes Gala Honorary Co-
Chairs are Troy and Angie
Gentry.
Reservations for the event
are $125 per person and can
be made online at www.storiesoflight.net or by calling
615/259-2324 x 15.
Video Review
By Sharon Satterfield
The Statement
Michael Caine stars as Pierre Brossard in this captivating
thriller which takes place in the south of France. Brossard is a
devout Catholic who has been filled with guilt for more than four
decades for having participated in the murder of seven Jews during the Nazi occupation.
Brossard has been living underground since he has committed
crimes against humanity. It has been the Catholic Church who has
provided him with money and shelter. Always looking over his
shoulder, trying to be prepared for the secret attack of someone
who is seeking revenge or justice for his crime, the day finally
comes in 1992 when more than one assassination attempt is made
on his life. The seventy year old man, with a serious heart condition, discovers he is left out in the cold to defend himself. Even the
church is refusing to provide him refuge.
Although it first appears those out to get him are member of
a Jewish commando, this plot takes an unexpected turn when it’s
revealed that another guilty party high in the French political system is trying to protect their sordid, criminal past. They fear if
Pierre Brossard is captured alive, this powerful political figure
will be exposed.
Born in 1933 in London, the celebrated actor, Michael Caine,
earned an Academy Award in 1987 for his role in Hannah and Her
Sisters and a second Oscar in 2000 for Cider House Rules. In
Addition, he won several Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors
Guild Award and a number of Academy Award nominations.
Among his other films are Alfie, Sleuth, Educating Rita, The
Quiet American, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Voice, and The
Man Who Would Be King.
The Director of The Statement, Norman Jewison, has also had
a triumphant career. His successes include Fiddler on the Roof,
The Thomas Crown Affair, and In the Heat of the Night.
To see an engaging film with some of England’s finest actors,
rent The Statement from your neighborhood video store.
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Suzie Cole Joins
The Little Clinic
The Little Clinic has hired
Suzie Cole to join the staff at
the company’s new clinic located in Kroger at Highway 100 in
Bellevue.
"The Little Clinic is
pleased to add Suzie to our
team of healthcare providers in
our Nashville area clinics," said
Sharon Marti, Vice President of
Operations. "She has the experience and education to be a
great asset to the Nashville
community by providing customers with quality, affordable
healthcare services."
As a practitioner for The
Little Clinic, Cole can diagnose, prognose and prescribe
treatments for common illnesses such as bronchitis, strep
throat, respiratory, sinus and
ear infections and the flu, as
well as provide treatment for
minor injuries. She will also
provide wellness care such as
general check-ups, physicals,
back-to-school and sports
exams, screenings and a number of vaccinations.
The Little Clinic in
Bellevue is open Monday
through Friday from 8:30 a.m.
to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday - 8:30
a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; and Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Little Clinic accepts
many major health insurance
plans and most prompt pay
services cost $60 or less.
Appointments are not necessary.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn.,
The Little Clinic is a pioneer in
customer-focused healthcare
with a mission to provide convenient, affordable healthcare
and wellness education. The
Little Clinic healthcare centers
are currently located in
Arizona, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and
Tennessee. For more information
visit
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Get Healthy
by Ronda Biffert
ACE Personal Trainer
Nutrition Advisor
615.506.6433
[email protected]
Inside
and
Out
If our lifestyle in American
does not change it is estimated
that by the year 2030 over 30
million people in this country
will have type two diabetes. The
American Diabetes Association
attributes this epidemic to a
sedentary lifestyle that could be
avoided. Of the people in
America with diabetes 90%
have type 2 diabetes and it is
more common in adults,
although there has been a strong
increase in children due to
childhood obesity.
Type 2 diabetes occurs
because of eating too many
refined carbohydrates that produce an over abundance of
insulin. These foods are high
glycemic in which the sugar
enters the blood stream quickly.
Over time as this cycle continues daily over and over the body
becomes insulin resistant which
means that it prohibits glucose
from now entering the muscle
cells.
By eating low glycemic
carbohydrates the sugar slowly
enters the blood stream and
insulin is also released into the
body slowly. You won’t be having highs or lows if you eat right
carbohydrates like, most fruits,
beans, old fashioned oatmeal,
sweet potatoes, brown rice. But
still watch your portions, which
should be the size of your palm.
Many Americans, when
diagnosed, look for a quick fix
with drugs rather than change
their lifestyle. Regular exercise
can reverse the damage and
make cells better at taking in
glucose and processing it.
Researchers say that people
who did only 2 1/2 hours of
exercise a week and lost 7% of
their body weight lowered their
risk of type 2 diabetes by 58%!
For every 10 pounds of weight
lost you will experience a 20%
improvement in insulin sensitivity. That is good news. So
that is my prescription to you just move! It will help you get
healthy from the inside out and
fight type 2 diabetes!
Groundbreaking Wellness Program Targets Adults
Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deaf-Blind
A groundbreaking wellness
program targeting individuals
who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing,
or Deaf-Blind will provide the
healthcare services they need
and the appropriate communication to help ensure successful
outcomes.
The League for the Deaf
and Hard of Hearing, based in
Nashville, has been awarded a
two-year grant of nearly
$76,000 by Baptist Healing
Trust, Nashville. The funding
will create a wellness program
known as the PLUS Program
(Positive Living for Ultimate
Success) through the League in
partnership with St. Thomas
Health Services’ Wellness
Division. PLUS will offer
health risk screenings, educational presentations on a variety
of health-related topics, intervention programs in weight
management, smoking cessation, stress management, exercise, and social gatherings. All
will incorporate interpreters and
transcribers to assist those with
hearing losses.
“With an unusually high
rate of risk for health problems
in this target population and the
lack of resources in the traditional health services system to
address this group, this program
promises to be a pioneering
effort that could, hopefully,
become a model to be emulated
in other parts of the country or
even the world,” said Les
Hutchinson, Ph.D., League
president/CEO.
The partnership with St.
Thomas Health Services, which
includes St. Thomas Hospital
and Baptist Hospital, will target
a diverse population that is traditionally underserved due to
the communication barriers
they face, according to Dr.
Hutchinson. The collaboration
joins the League and St.
Thomas Health Services, a
leading supplier of health and
wellness services.
Through the partnership,
the League will provide
American Sign Language interpreters, transcribers, and space
for the program, while St.
Thomas Health Services will
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provide appropriate health professionals to do the screenings
and lead many of the activities.
Heading the program for
the
League
is
Jessica
Sponseller. A graduate of
Trevecca Nazarene University
with a master’s degree in counseling, she is fluent in American
Sign Language (ASL) and has
served as an interpreter for the
League as well as a counselor
with Brentwood Counseling
Associates.
“The Wellness Program
will be ongoing service that
addresses the five elements of
wellness – physical, medical,
psychological, behavioral and
spiritual,” said Sponseller. “We
will note the participant’s
progress based on both behavioral and biometric measures
such as marked periods on
smoking cessation or reductions
in blood pressure. Our goal is
to offer this for adults of all
ages, and in the near future, a
parallel program for children
age 8 through teens age 18.”
Wellness activities and
programs will include:
* A health risk assessment to
determine specific risks based
on each participant’s demographics, medical background,
and lifestyle behaviors;
* Biometric screenings such as
height, weight, blood pressure,
resting pulse, abdominal circumference,
and
carbon
monoxide measurement;
* Educational presentations on
topics such as general health
and medical issues, nutrition,
stress, lifestyle choices, and on
relevant legal issues related to
people with disabilities rights
and responsibilities to receive
appropriate health care;
Counseling services;
* Membership social activities;
* Specific intervention classes
on smoking cessation, weight
management, stress management, and exercise routines;
* Clinics for blood pressure
screening, lipid profiles, body
fat assessments, etc.;
* Special membership rates for
those who might want to pursue
more formal wellness offerings
at either the Baptist or St
Thomas Hospital Wellness
Centers; and
* An incentive program to provide meaningful rewards to
those who participate on a regular basis and achieve individual
milestones.
For more information, contact Sponseller at 615-248-8828
(V/TTY) or [email protected].
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“The World Through Lace Curtained
Windows” A Work of Love...
By Linda Scolaro
Local author Clarice J.
Pugh has completed a work of
love and remembrance that has
the ability to touch the heart and
soul of the masses, yet it offers
much more to the family or siblings of unique children that
live their lives with the limitations and challenges of mental
retardation.
The tender story is about
Roger, Clarice’s younger brother. Roger’s life started, like
most infants, in a hospital.
Unfortunately, the Pugh family
did not leave the hospital with a
happy, healthy, baby boy.
And...Clarice’s life would never
be the same. She started a journey that most could never imagine. Roger started a life that
would be changed forever... by
a moment of time. Roger was
dropped on his head and the
resulting impact caused him to
be severely disabled. The
resulting impact to the family is
the devastating anguish and lessons learned that give birth to
their story.
Although the book is meant
to give hope and encouragement to families with such a
child, the author takes several
stances while viewing the challenges that her family faced.
She reflects upon the power of
God to transform our situations
and provide the strength and
courage to endure. She renders
a ministry of encouragement as
she expresses what it was like
to be teased by school friends or
having to explain Roger. The
author reveals what it felt like
to grow up amidst the responsibilities that family members
share, and even when they
leave the family, the guilt and
remorse they carry with them.
The book, The World
Through Lace Curtained
Windows was so named
because that was mainly how
Roger saw the world, as he
knew it, confined to the limita-
tions of his mental disability.
Ms. Pugh, a Chicago
native, has lived in Kingston
Springs since 1996. You may
know her as a previous owner
of Whiskers, Wings and Other
Things. Although this is her
first book, she has had many
articles published in Pet Sitter
Magazine. She claims Roger’s
story had always been in the
back of her mind, and one that
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deserves to be heard. She states
that it is a thrill to see the story
in print, to be shared with the
world. Her brother lived for 29
years, but his life will continue
to touch everyone who reads
this inspirational story.
The World Through Lace
Curtained Windows is published by Tate Publishing, a
publisher who looks for inspirational stories that provides help
and understanding to their
reader.
Ms. Pugh has written a second book to continue her ministry of guidelines and
resources for families who deal
with these issues. She is hoping
to address audiences or groups
with special needs children and
continue her ministry. The
World Through Lace Curtained
Windows will be available
everywhere on January 22,
2008.
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Music at the community center still heats
up weekends—though with some changes
By Richard Edmondson
The weekend music scene
at the White Bluff Community
Center has undergone some
changes in the past several
months—but the scene is still
alive and thriving.
Moreover Kenneth and
Brenda Atkins, who were performing at the Hatchery as far
back as two decades ago, have
announced a comeback to the
stage at the community center
for one show a month. This is to
occur on the last Saturday night
of each month—more about
which in a moment.
The K & B Jamboree—
gracing Saturday nights at the
community center for some ten
years—morphed, in the fall of
last year, into “Southland” after
Kenneth and Brenda, K & B
founders, announced their
retirement.
Southland consists, in the
main, of the same musicians,
formerly of the Jamboree, simply carrying on under the new
name: Larry Patrick on bass,
Tink Tanner on drums, Bill
McCullough and Curt Laine on
lead guitars, Clyde Heberling
on harmonica and steel guitar,
and Grady Nicks on fiddle. In
addition the band has added
Katreena Pulley to the lineup as
lead female vocalist—a role
formerly held by Brenda
Atkins.
In spirited fashion the
ensemble has been filling the
community
center
each
Saturday with a crowd of regulars who take to the dance floor
as the group performs a variety
of country favorites, both old
and new. And band leader
Patrick says music for dancing
is indeed the emphasis.
“We’re trying to learn some
new songs, trying to update a
little bit, and our main focus is
the dancing crowd. We want to
get people to dancing,” Patrick
said.
They seem to do a good job
of that. Heberling, who plays a
red-hot harmonica, and the phe-
Members of Southland perform at the community center
last Saturday night. Left to right are Larry Patrick,
Katreena Pulley, and Curt Laine.
nomenally
talented
McCullough, whose lead guitar
licks can leave you gaping in
open-mouthed wonder, offer up
a combination one-two punch
that your feet may find irresistible.
And when it comes to
vocals Pulley does more than
simply hold her own. Last
Saturday she did a walloping
rendition of “Silver Threads
and Golden Needles” that even
Linda Ronstadt probably could-
Lilian and Stanley Jones, who hail from Manchester,
England, love country music and always take in the
shows at the community center whenever they visit the
area. The couple's son and daughter-in-law live here.
Welcome back to White Bluff, Mr. and Mrs. Jones!
n’t have found fault with.
Plus Southland has also
instituted some new innova(Continued on page 16)
News analysis: In the game of Bordeaubuck-pass who will make the first move?
By Richard Edmondson
The sheriff can’t enforce a
posted weight limit on Arnold
Road because he doesn’t have a
scale to weigh the trucks. But
hey, even if he did have one, it’s
not his job to enforce weight
limits anyway, he says—that’s
the state’s responsibility.
The county road superintendent admits that, yeah, he
did post the sign reading
“weight limit 15 tons” on
Arnold Road—but heck, he
didn’t necessarily intend that it
should actually be enforced. He
was simply, he says, trying to
advise people that 15 tons was
what the road was capable of
supporting.
(Are “speed limit” signs
intended simply as nonenforceable “advisory” measures as well?)
The county mayor agrees
that Arnold Road is being—as
he puts it—“demolished”—but
he says the county has no legal
standing to enforce a weight
limit on that street, or any other,
until the county commission
actually legislates one into law.
The county attorney has
advised the county commission
not to pass such legislation until
the county road commission (a
separate body from the county
commission) has had a chance
to study the matter and come up
with a recommendation.
And come to find out—just
last week—that the county road
commission intends to wait and
see what action the White Bluff
City Council might take, if any,
before moving ahead with an
initiative of its own. That at
least is the word from Road
Commissioner Earl Lerch, who
represents district five, the
region in which Arnold Road is
located.
“We wanted to find out
what the White Bluff City
Council was going to do,”
Lerch said.
The irony here is that the
council, when it met earlier this
month, was advised by City
Attorney Tim Potter not to
impose a weight limit on Taylor
Town Road (which feeds into
Arnold Road) until such time
as, yes—you guessed it—the
county road commission has
acted.
So who will act first? Or
will anyone act at all?
The business at the center
of all this slippery sidestepping
is an enterprise known as
Bordeau Metals, a metal recycling operation located at 701
Arnold Road which was sued
last year in chancery court by
the county over an alleged zoning violation.
Bordeau Metals is, theoretically at any rate, under a temporary injunction to cease oper-
ations “pending further orders
of the court” (something the
company’s attorney disputes),
but residents in the area say
they are seeing large trucks,
often with heavy loads, traveling to and from the site each
day—on roads which were
never designed or engineered
for large numbers of 18-wheel
trucks.
Wear and tear on both
Taylor Town and Arnold is visible. The allegation has been
made that the truck traffic is
causing the roads to become
degraded—or as County Mayor
Robert Stone graphically puts
it, “demolished.” So why do so
many public officials seem to
act as if their feet are glued to
the floor?
Maybe the folks at Parker
Brothers should consider marketing a new board game—call
it “Bordeau-buck-pass” for lack
(Continued on page 16)
...Pastor’s wife
(Cont. from Westview page)
Lylewood Christain Camp as a
counselor and directed elementary week alongside Jason.
Evette participated in mission
trips to New Jersey, East
Tennessee, and the Dallas/Fort
Worth area.
Those who knew her would
also tell you about her love for
John Travolta ever since seeing
Grease when she was young.
She once went to a Jay Leno
Tonight show just to see if she
could meet John Travolta. She
was thrilled to also meet Josh
Turner upon his induction into
the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville.
She would tell you that the
highlights of her life were the
births of their 3 children: Brette
(Sept. 1999), Sydney (Feb.
2002), Blake (June 2006). She
deeply loved her family and
extended family, and was very
active in the Family Reunions
in Sparta, TN. She made it a
personal mission to ensure that
everyone was included in family gatherings.
...Music in White Bluff
(Cont. from White Bluff page)
tions to help draw the crowd in.
“We give away door prizes
also, and that actually is one of
them,” Patrick says, gesturing
toward a large toy doll cradled
snugly in a new box. “My wife
will be bringing a few more
items I think. We usually have
about half a dozen door prizes
we give away.”
In other words, Southland,
in trooper style, has been able
to keep the entertainment flowing here, even in the absence of
the two stalwarts who dominated the stage for so many years.
Now, however, back into
the picture comes Kenneth and
Brenda Atkins, with a newlyformed band—consisting of
Bill Caldwell on bass, Phillip
Wallace on drums, Gary Peeler
on fiddle, Bobby Dotson on
lead guitar, and Brenda and
Kenneth on keyboard and guitar respectively.
“Phillip and I grew up
together—we’re third cousins.
My mom was a Wallace and
Phillip’s dad and my mother
were first cousins, so we’re
third cousins,” says Brenda—
who supplies some additional
tidbits of information on other
members of the new group as
well:
“Gary Peeler—he lives in
Charlotte, and he used to play
at Opryland. Bobby Dotson is
from McEwen and he sings
really nice. And Bill (Caldwell)
goes way back to the Hatchery
too—we all used to play there
some. And then Kenneth and
Bill were the ones who originally came to White Bluff and
got this show started at the
community center.”
For the past three months
Southland has been playing
each Saturday night, but under
the
new
arrangement,
Southland will play three
Saturdays a month, while
Southland and the newly-
...News Analysis
of a better name. And just like
Monopoly, each player would
have a little piece he or she
could move around the board.
Those who can’t seem to figure
out what to do about things like
crumbling roads could go
directly to jail without passing
Go.
Will the road commission
act? That’s what White Bluff
Councilman Dale Whitfield
wants to know. Here’s what
Whitfield said at the city council meeting January 8:
“I do believe those trucks
are tearing up those roads, and
we’re going to have to fix them,
or we’re going to have to stop
them, one. Now we can wait on
the road commissioners to do
it—if they’re going to act. Are
they going to act?”
Whitfield, for exhibiting
this small measure of prescience, would perhaps get to
land on Free Parking and collect the pot.
It should be pointed out
additionally, of course, that the
city of White Bluff has a very
narrow interest in this case.
Bordeau Metals lies outside the
city limits. All of Arnold Road
lies outside the city limits. The
only thing the White Bluff City
Council conceivably could
have a legitimate interest in is
the portion of Taylor Town
Road which lies inside the city.
If the county road commission
In spite of her busy life, she
always had time to serve the
community through service to
Meals on Wheels, constant care
for elderly in community, helping with Girl Scout Troop #
2729, also with Kingston
Springs Elementary School.
She was a tireless worker, who
constantly made time for people to be certain that they felt
"included". Her warm smile
and loving sense of humor were
testimony to her devout love for
Christ and desire to be like Him
in all she did. A congregation
member who had done some
work at their house testified
how she took time to call people from her home, to be sure
they were okay and uplifted,
even with the demands of a new
baby and young family. She
was known to be always giving,
and very humble. Her life
exemplified
the
woman
described in Proverbs 31 and
she leaves a legacy of love and
service to all who knew her.
She will be missed. The family
aske d that donations to the
Lylewood Christian Camp be
made as a memorial, instead of
flowers.
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reconstituted K & B will split
the weekend on the fourth
Saturday. Or as Patrick puts it:
“We’ll do four shows a
month. It will be three Saturday
nights—first, second, and third
Saturday night—and then we’ll
play the fourth Friday night and
Kenneth and Brenda will play
the fourth Saturday.”
In other words, it’s the new
K & B Jamboree, as opposed to
the old K & B Jamboree—
which, uh, now goes by the
name Southland.
Confused? Don’t be. The
upshot of all this is that there is
still gonna be music on weekends at the community center—
the only difference is that on
the last weekend of the month
there will be two shows instead
of the usual one.
Got it? Good! See ya on the
dance floor, then!
This weekend Southland
will perform at the community
center on Friday night, while
the K & B Jamboree will play
on Saturday. Show times are at
7 p.m. both nights.
(Continued from White Bluff page)
chooses to defer to the city in
this matter, the most that can be
expected is that the council
might impose some weight regulation upon the mile or two of
Taylor Town which lies under
its jurisdiction.
Thus the onus for acting (if
action is to be taken, that is)
would seem to be primarily on
the county in this case. But
Arnold Road resident Shirley
Moulton—who attended the
January 8 road commission
meeting and was allowed to
speak that night—says she has
come close to despairing that
anything will be done to
address the problem faced by
her and other residents of the
area.
“They (members of the
county road commission)
apparently are all of the opinion
we’re just trying to put Bordeau
out of business by getting them
to put a weight limit on the
road. And I told them, I said,
‘well I have heard it suggested
that that might do it.’ I said,
‘but that is not the reason why I
am here. I am here because my
road’s falling apart, and I live
on a dead end road and I have
no other way to get out,’”
Moulton said.
So what can be done? The
choices here—for both city and
county—seem to be narrowed
down to four: a) patch the roads
at taxpayers’ expense; b)
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improve the roads, bringing
them up to a level that can support heavy trucks (widening
and strengthening, etc.)—again
at taxpayer expense; c) do nothing and let the roads rot into
chaos (seemingly the preferred
option so far); or d) repair
and/or improve the roads—and
send the bill to Bordeau Metals.
“There is definitely a problem in this county with the road
situation,” Moulton said.
“When you’ve got a road superintendent who sits there and
says, ‘I put signs up after I
repave’; you’ve got a sheriff
who says he can’t enforce
them; you’ve got a road commission that says you can’t
have them; and you’ve got a
mayor who’s worried that you
have them and they’re not
enforceable, or that they’re not
going to hold up in a court of
law. So there’s definitely a
problem—and we’ve got taxpayers who are having to pay
for it all. And there are people
who are wondering why
Dickson County doesn’t have
any money.”
And so around and around
the board we go. How will the
game end? Where will the buck
finally stop? Hard to say. Of
course under the rules you have
to become a player to roll the
dice.
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Expansive Changes at Seven Gables
By Wendy Kovalchick,
Volunteer & Special
Education Teacher
Big
changes
have
occurred at Seven Gables
Farm!
Beginning
Thanksgiving weekend, teams
of volunteers converged on
the Dickson Therapeutic
Riding Stable to begin work
on several improvements
needed to accommodate the
farm’s growth since its opening in April of last year.
Seven Gables offers therapeutic riding activities for cognitively and physically challenged youth and adults. The
facility is a member of the
North American Riding for
the Handicapped Association
(NARHA).
At the core of recent
improvements is a widened,
covered arena, enabling more
riders and expanded movement area during lessons.
Additional improvements will
permit increased use of the
facility after daylight, and in
varied weather conditions.
“During August last
year... parents started campaigning to keep us open during the winter,” explains Betty
Harper, Executive Director.
“They expressed concern
about their riders missing
weekly therapeutic riding sessions during the cold months.
[Since] we can’t change the
weather, we’ve fixed the problem the best we can. We purchased a draping material to
keep the wind out, but let the
sun through.” These tarps –
along three sides of the arena
– are constructed of a 10 oz.
Polymax Material, designed
with a cross-weave pattern to
resist tearing. The material is
thick enough to prevent additional noise or movement.
“Unlike traditional storebought tarps, these are
designed to minimize a flapping sound — something
which could be very stressful
for our clients with Autism,”
commented Mrs. Harper.
They are highly UV-protected
yet they will allow sunlight to
come through during pleasant
days; plus, they can be rolled
up and down as needed and
desired.
Other
improvements
include the addition of an
enclosed arena entrance ramp
to improve wheelchair accessibility; a “ringside” seating
area for client families to utilize during lessons; a heated &
air-conditioned
tack
room/reception area, addition-
al stalls, and a new grooming
area. Brighter lighting has
also been added both inside
the arena, and in the adjacent
“Central Park” area.
With 16 horses, 7 corrals,
2 pastures, and 12 acres of
trails on this farm, there’s
always work to be done! If
you would like to be a part of
the volunteer team, you’re
wanted! Or, if you know of a
child or adult with special
Last Friday of each month features
jazz in Renaissance Center rotunda
The last Friday of each
month this spring will bring the
cool sounds of jazz to the rotunda of The Renaissance Center
in Dickson.
Jeff Martin, director of
music
technology,
piano
instructor and director of The
Renaissance
Center’s
Community Concert and Jazz
Bands, will lead the center’s
new Jazz Combo in two-hour
performances Jan. 25, Feb. 29,
March 28, April 25 and May
30.
Tickets for the 2 p.m.
Friday Afternoon Jazz shows
are $5.
The Jazz Combo will feature Martin joined by various
members of the Community
Concert Band and Jazz Band
performing classic and new
jazz in a variety of styles.
“Jazz is a very encompassing genre of music that takes on
many different sounds,” said
Martin. “It is truly an American
creation that originated at the
beginning of the 20th century in
the deep South, mostly as
extemporaneous performances
by African American musicians. It is best known for solo
and ensemble improvisations
on basic tunes and chord patterns. In more recent styles, it
has taken on more sophisticated
harmonic patterns and even
evolved into free-form performances.”
New Orleans, Chicago and
New York have each staked
claims to influencing the evolution of jazz music as well as
established sounds unique to
musicians of those areas. From
the Dixieland sounds that combined raw African, Caribbean
and gospel influences to the
rhythm and blues influences
that came from the northern
areas to the Big Band sounds of
America’s heartland, jazz is the
first indigenous form of music
that created noticeable influence in music around the world
and can be heard in rock and
roll, hip-hop, rockabilly, blues
and other forms.
The list of notable musicians that can be found under a
general jazz heading would
include such legends as Louis
Armstrong, Count Basie, Dave
Brubeck, John Coltrane, Miles
Davis, Tommy Dorsey, Duke
Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan
Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny
Goodman, Lionel Hampton,
Herbie Hancock, Woody
Herman,
Billie
Holiday,
Branford and Wynton Marsalis,
Thelonoius Monk, Charlie
Parker, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller
and many more.
“You just never know
whose music you might hear
when you join us for Friday
Afternoon Jazz at The
Renaissance Center,” Martin
said. “It’s a great way to end the
week and get ready for the
weekend by sitting back on a
Friday and relaxing with a little
jazz.”
For more information on
Friday Afternoon Jazz performances at The Renaissance
Center beginning in January,
call (615) 740-5600 or visit
www.rcenter.org.
needs, a wounded soldier, or
the family of a deployed soldier, suggest they call. There
is no waiting list and the variety of horses allows for working with a wide range of diagnoses.
For more information
about Seven Gables and its
programs, contact 615-2184100 or visit the Web site at
www.sevengablesfarm.com.
Seven Gables Therapeutic
Riding Stable is a 501c3
Nonprofit Charity.
Natchez Medical Center
Holds Open House
Horizon Medical Center is celebrating the one year anniversary
of the opening of Natchez Medical Park. The community is
invited to attend an open house on Monday, January 28th for
11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Meet the oncologists and radiologists,
have refreshments and tour of the facility. The center is located
on Natchez Park Drive (East on Hwy 46 off of I-40, .7 miles on
your left).
Dickson County
Pets of the Week
beautiful and very sweet. She is
the last of 4 brothers and sisters
that have been at animal control
because their owner had to go
into the hospital. Munchkin's
"siblings" have all been adopted
and she is all alone now.
Indoors only ! Great companion. ID# 7010002
Layla - This is sweet Layla!
She is a great little dog - weighs
around 30 pounds. Beautiful
spotted coat .... outstanding personality! Very sweet & loving,
and will bring a smile to your
face for sure! Desperately needs
home now ! Please help save
her !
Munchkin - This is
Munchkin. She is a 2 year old
spayed, long hair torti. Very
For more information,
please call 615-446-PETS
(7387) or visit HSDC’s Web
site
at:
www.Dickson
Humane.org
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Main Library to hold
Scottish Heraldry Seminar
The Scottish Society of Middle Tennessee and the Williamson
County Public Library invite you to attend a free seminar on
Scottish Heraldry on Saturday, February 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
in the Meeting Room of the Main Library at Franklin.
Titled “There is No Family Coat of Arms,” the seminar is
being conducted by LCDR John Glynn of Glynstewart and Lord
Montgomerie, both members of the Society of Scottish Armigers.
Glynn also belongs to the Heraldry Society of Scotland and FSA
Scot. Lord Montgomerie is the heir presumptive to the Earldom
of Eglinton. They both hold Scottish Arms.
Answering the question “Why do we have coats of arms?”
these two interesting speakers will discuss the elements of a coat
of arms, the Scottish Arms Authority – Court of the Lord Lyon,
and the American College of Heraldry, and will show examples
of Scottish arms.
Reservations are limited to the first 50 applicants for this very
interesting (and very British) event. Registration forms for mailing can be picked up from the Information Desk at the library, or
reservations may be made over the phone by calling the library at
595-1250. Please sign up by February 9.
Some light Scottish refreshments will be provided.
The Main Library is located at 1314 Columbia Avenue.
Do You Have a Child with Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
CHADD of Franklin invites you to join us for an Open
Discussion/Support Group Format Thursday, January 31,
2008, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Williamson County Public
Library, 1314 Columbia Pike, Franklin. http://lib.williamsontn.org . We will be discussing various topics related to children
with ADHD in a support group setting. Meetings are free and
open to the community. For more information contact Cathy at
516-8024 Email: help4adhd@gmail.
BGA Accepting Scholarship
Applications Through Feb. 15
Battle Ground Academy
(BGA) is now accepting applications for the Pratt Family
Academic Scholarship Program
and the Board of Trust
Scholarship Program for the
2008-2009 school year. The
deadline for applications is
Feb. 15, 2008.
"Through these scholarship
programs, BGA is able to offer
a strong educational experience
to young scholars based on the
ideals of character, scholarship
and excellence," said Dr. John
Griffith, Headmaster. "Many of
our most successful students
have benefited from programs
such as these and many more
will continue do so."
Based solely on academic
performance,
the
Pratt
Scholarships are available to
public school and home-school
students entering fifth through
eighth grades. The program
will fund one $6,000 scholarship and two $3,250 scholarships. Applicants must have a
strong academic record and
meet the BGA acceptance policy.
The Board of Trust
Scholarship Program is open to
current BGA students as well as
Seated Left to Right: Harper Parkey, Bailey Fuqua,
Anna Grace Sharpe Standing Left to Right: Annika
Virden, Jordan Tutler, Jamey Huffnagle, Thomas Day.
public school and home-school
students that will be entering
the ninth grade. The program
will fund four scholarships—
one full, one half and two quarter scholarships. Applicants
must have a strong academic
record and meet the BGA
acceptance policy.
Applicants will be required
to submit an essay, participate
in an entrance exam and interview for the selection committee. For more information
regarding the scholarship programs, contact the BGA
Admissions Office at 615-5679014.
Five SCI Centers receive national accreditation
Janet Jernigan, executive
director of Senior Citizens, Inc.
(SCI), has announced the
national accreditation of five
centers operated by SCI in
Davidson and Williamson
counties.
Recently the National
Directors of the five NISC-accredited centers proudly display their official plaques of recognition. From left to right, front row: Lori Corley,
Madison; Sally Solesby, Knowles; Jane Schnelle, Donelson. Second
Row: Williamson County directors Gayle Bradley, College Grove, and
Joyce Keistler, the Martin Center.
Institute of Senior Centers
(NISC), a unit of the National
Council on Aging, announced
that the NISC board of directors
has granted accreditation to five
SCI centers: College Grove,
Donelson, Knowles, Madison
and Martin.
Among the nearly 15,000
senior centers through the
country, only 155 are accredited
by NISC. Each center is judged
according to nine standards:
mission, community involvement, governance, administration and human resources, program planning, evaluation
processes, fiscal management,
records and reports, and the
facility itself. Centers must
apply for accreditation renewal
every five years.
Prior to the recent
announcement, only one senior
center in the state of Tennessee,
in Johnson City, had earned
NISC accreditation.
Over the past year,
Accreditation Committee chair
Bart Bartleson and Fran
Mazzaferro, SCI associate
executive director for programs
and services, guided the five
centers’ staffs and volunteer
accreditation
committees
through the lengthy and thorough application process. “We
are thrilled to receive this designation,” Mazzaferro said.
“We’ve worked hard to provide
the best possible programs and
services at our centers. NISC
accreditation validates both our
work and the experience of our
center members.”
“Two of our centers were
too new to undertake the
accreditation
process,”
Mazzaferro commented. “We
look forward to seeking accreditation for them in the future.”
In letters of congratulations
to SCI’s two Williamson
County centers, the Martin
Center (960 Heritage Way,
Brentwood), and College Grove
Enrichment Center (8607
Henry Horton Highway), the
NISC Accreditation Board
commended each for “demonstrating outstanding leadership
and commitment to quality pro-
grams and services.” Among
strengths noted for The Martin
Center were its beauty, accessibility and community location;
its innovative programming and
its “creative use of volunteers,
members, sponsors, municipal/county
government
resources…”
The College Grove Center
was commended for its outstanding programs in a small
community, its dedicated and
knowledgeable staff, and its
community partnerships – especially
the
support
of
Williamson County government.
Now in its 52nd year,
Senior Citizens, Inc.(SCI) helps
adults 50 and older live fuller,
more productive lives. At seven
centers in Davidson and
Williamson counties, members
participate in hundreds of educational and wellness programs.
SCI also provides needed assistance to those wanting to keep
living independently in their
homes and offers exceptional
volunteer opportunities.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Board takes no action
on Bowie Park land sale
By Richard Edmondson
The city was awarded a grant in the amount of $14,440 last
week from Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Left to right are:
Commissioners Stuart Johnson and Darrell Mangrum, City
Manager Shirley Forehand, Mayor Ken Brison, and Diana
Lehman of Fireman's Fund.
City awarded $14,000
Fireman’s Fund grant
By Richard Edmondson
The city Fire Department
was presented with a $14,000
check last week in the form of a
grant from Fireman’s Fund
Insurance Company—the second such grant the city has
received in the past three
months.
The award—in the amount
of $14,440—was announced at
last
week’s
Board
of
Commissioners meeting, and
comes on top of a nearly
$20,000 grant awarded to the
city by the company’s Heritage
Program in November.
“We are extremely pleased
to be here today awarding a
grant to an amazing fire department whose firefighters put the
needs of the community before
their own every day,” said
Diana Lehman, of Fireman’s
Fund. “Our company was started in 1863 with a mission solely to support firefighters, and
that’s why we started the
Fireman’s Fund Heritage
Program.”
Lehman was contacted several months ago by Chad
Hollingsworth, training officer
for
the
Fairview
Fire
Department, who spoke to her
about the department’s needs.
She said the grant application
was submitted in conjunction
with Kyle Ruf, of the Insurance
Group of Tennessee.
Ruf called the evening a
“special
occasion”
and
remarked upon the timing of
the grant, coinciding as it does
with the opening of the new
sewer line linking Fairview to
the Jones Creek Treatment
Plant of the Water Authority of
Dickson County. Ruf, in addition to his work with the
Insurance Group of Tennessee,
is also chairman of the WADC.
“The timing on this I don’t
think could be any better. As
most of you probably know, the
line is open now, the much
awaited sewer line, so I know
that additional prosperity is on
its way to Fairview in many
forms and fashions, and I think
there’s no better time than for a
grant like this to support a fire
department whose needs are
going to be growing as well,”
Ruf said.
Hollingsworth said the
grant will be used for new
equipment as well as for training purposes. One training
exercise already scheduled for
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The Fairview Board of
Commissioners deferred-both
in discussion and action-last
Thursday on a controversial
proposal to sell off approximately 15 acres of Bowie
Nature Park for commercial
development.
But the board did hear a
presentation on the matter from
City Planning Director Donn
Lovvorn, who showed a slide
show and announced to commissioners, "Our proposal is
that the city would sell
SouthStar the 14.4 acres to
allow for this development."
SouthStar is a Franklinbased developer which has
overseen projects in many
Middle Tennessee and other
states, according to the company's web site.
Lovvorn said several privately-owned parcels of land
around city hall are already
under contract, and that should
parkland be added to the pack-
Katelyn Laney, a student at Fairview High School, prepares
a protest sign on the front steps of city hall. Students were
back out in force at last Thursday's Board of Commissioners
meeting to oppose the sale of a portion of Bowie Park for
commercial development.
age as well the ensuing development would consist of a large
food retailer, a "major pharmacy", as well as several smaller
stores.
He said he does not know
which establishment would
appear, but he added, "This will
be one of the first developments
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very colorful. Just so many different textures and colors are in
a wood duck—red eyes, orange
bill, lots of yellow.”
The exhibit also includes
several close up shots of does,
made near his home in
Bellevue, and of a large buck,
snapped
at
Cheekwood,
Weaver said.
“These have gotten used to
me,” he said of the does. “The
bucks I’ve been getting over in
Cheekwood, so they’re a little
more used to people being
around, and they don’t run as
quickly, so you can get a shot.”
The exhibit also includes
two very striking shots of frogs
surfacing in a pond which
Weaver photographed in the
Warner Parks in Nashville, two
shots zooming in on red tailed
hawks, and a close-up scene of
an ermine moth resting on a
milkweed plant.
While he has dabbled in
amateur photography for years,
Weaver said he has never sold
any of his photos, and that the
current exhibit at Bowie is
actually his first show.
“This is my first show ever.
I’ve never even considered it
before, but some of the park
folks saw my pictures and
asked me if I would show them,
so that’s what I’m doing,” he
said.
“I’ve been taking a lot of
pictures in the Warner Parks
and Radner Lake and behind
my home—I back up to the
acreage on the other side of
Warner Parks. It took a lot of
work this summer. I get off
work at 3:30 and then from
3:30 till about 5:30 I would be
over at Cheekwood or Edwin
Warner, and then here late in
the fall I found Bowie—so I’ll
be spending more time this
spring out here in Bowie
because of the diverse nature,”
he added
Photo exhibit opens at Nature Center
A new photo exhibit, featuring the work of Bellvue photographer Richard Weaver, has
opened at the Bowie Park
Nature Center and will be on
display through March.
The photographer says he
only just “discovered” Bowie
Park in the fall of last year, and
that many of the photos in the
exhibit, including three views
of a rare wood duck with iridescent plumage, were made right
here.
“I had someone come in
and tell me about Bowie Park. I
live 15 miles away and never
knew it was here,” Weaver said.
But once he made his way
to the park, he says, he liked
what he saw.
“I’ve never been able to get
a picture of a wood duck until I
came over here,” Weaver said.
“All three of these are of the
same duck. They’ve got a
hood—now he’s not got his
hood out very well. But they’re
Fairview News Briefs
Lifeguard training
The Williamson County
Department of Parks and
Recreation is set to begin its
annual lifeguard certification
training courses. Classes will
be offered at the Fairview Rec
Center, the Indoor Sports
Complex in Brentwood, and at
Longview Elementary School
in Spring Hill.
Swimmers ages 15 and up
are invited to choose class sessions where, upon passing the
pre-course swim test, they will
be educated in the skills necessary to become a certified
American Red Cross lifeguard
within the 2008 guidelines.
The first class runs Feb.
16-March 8. Registration must
be done in person at the Indoor
Sports Complex. Cost is $100.
Call 370-3471 ex. 22 for more
info,
or
email
[email protected].
Church summer camp and
preschool
Westview
United
Methodist Church is now taking enrollment for its preschool
as well as its summer day camp
program.
WUMC summer day camp,
for kids ages 2-12, is held on
Thursdays in June and July
from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Participants
will enjoy enriching activities
including special guests, arts
and crafts, games and more.
Registration fee is $20; tuition
is $136 total for first child;
$123 for each additional sibling.
The church’s preschool,
open to young ones ages 2-prek, provides a loving, Christian
environment on Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Classes are now forming for
Fall of 2008. Registration is
$30; tuition $136 monthly;
$123 monthly for each sibling.
Visit
www.westview
umc.org for more info or call
Kim Tenney at 799-0630.
Church seminar
Take a trip back to the
withered roots and vanishing
values of America’s past in a
DVD seminar entitled “The
Silencing of God” with Dave
Miller. The presentation examines the collapse of the spiritual
and moral underpinnings of
American civilization and
examines the premise that
Biblical values are being
stripped from public life.
The DVD will be shown
simultaneously at Liberty Hill
and Fairview Churches of
Christ throughout the month of
February on Sunday nights, 6
till 7, and again on Sunday
March 2.
Men’s basketball
Williamson County Parks
and Rec is collecting teams for
a Mon. and Tues. night Men’s
Basketball League in Fairview.
League play begins March 3
with full court practices available Feb. 19, 25, and 26 at the
Rec Center.
A 10-week season plus a
tournament will be played.
League fees are $350 per team.
Deadline for signup is Fri., Feb.
15 with a coaches meeting Tue.
Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.
Contact Arnold King for
info and registration at 3703471 ex. 14 or email him at
[email protected].
Superbowl party
The Rec Center will also
hold a Superbowl party for kids
ages 12-14 on Sun. Feb. 3,
kicking off at 4:30 p.m.
View the game on largescreen TV, “tailgate” in the Rec
Center with chili and lots of
munchies, and enjoy the most
exciting game of the year with
your friends. Cost is $6.
Registration required no later
than Jan. 30. Call 799-9331.
Family night
Ken Karter and his “Funny
Dummy Show” will be part of a
Rec Center family night Fri.
...Bowie Park Land Sale
(Continued from Fairview page)
in Fairview to be under the guidelines of our new
design review manual, which is most stringent."
"As far as the parking lot and the asphalt,
you're not going to see as much of that because
the design criteria is going to allow for heavy
landscaping in the parking areas and adjacent
around the buildings," Lovvorn said.
Under Lovvorn's proposal, after the 14.4
acres are sold to SouthStar, commissioners
would then set aside an additional 12 acres of
parkland as a "buffer zone" that would remain
under city ownership but would separate the
commercial center from the remnant of the park.
"This area in red here is a 12 acre buffer. the
city staff will ask the Board of Commissioners to
pass an ordinance that this remain a perpetual
buffer zone between this commercial area and
the park," Lovvorn said. "This area-it's not anywhere near the nature center or Joann's
Classroom. It is adjacent to the France Plant here,
which is industrial."
But immediately after the slide presentation
City Attorney Larry Cantrell advised commissioners that the buffer zone mentioned by
Lovvorn could not be designated as "perpetual".
Last year Cantrell issued a legal opinion that
Bowie Park could not be protected by a perpetual conservation easement. The only type of easement which could be adopted, Cantrell said at
that time, is one the commissioners would be
empowered to recall at any time. And speaking
last week, Cantrell said the same principle would
apply in the case of the buffer zone.
"The area that would be up there as a buffer
zone-if this board passed any type of restriction
in that-that ordinance would be subject to any
revisions of this board or future boards because
anything of a permanent nature would be violative of the provisions of Dr. Bowie's documents
that transferred the property to the city," Cantrell
said.
Commissioners gave no hint as to how they
might ultimately vote on the matter, however,
one commissioner, Stuart Johnson, has previously said that the sale of parkland would be something he would consider supporting.
Should the proposal go forward it is almost
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certain to ignite a renewed wave of controversy
in the city, as evidenced by the fact that two former mayors of Fairview spoke out at last week's
meeting-both expressing opposition to any selloff of parkland for development.
John Stark, one of those former mayors, said
that a number of years ago the city had adopted a
master plan under which the park would be protected entirely with the lone exception of the 7acre portion of the park where City Center has
since been built-and Stark called upon commissioners to "keep your vision, stay the course."
He also noted that SouthStar could proceed
with a smaller project design using only the privately-owned parcels which have already been
contracted for, including the strip of buildings
where Binkley's Country Music Shows formerly
took place-and that a sale of parkland was not
necessary for this to occur.
Lovvorn seemed to acknowledge this in his
presentation when he spoke of options that could
be available to the developer should parkland not
be relinquished.
"He presently has property under contract
adjacent to city hall which he had proposed to
build one building that will consist of a major
pharmacy. He has also asked the city to sell some
of the park property, approximately 14.4 acres, to
allow for a much nicer development," Lovvorn
said.
But Stark says "big box retail does not need
to be near city hall", and he appealed to commissioners to approve the smaller project and allow
for a big box development to occur elsewhere.
"Approve the proposal to develop between
the fire hall and city hall containing an extension
of Chester Road to City Center Boulevard. This
will make an attractive area for smaller buildings
and a good location for a new fire hall," Stark
said.
A large acre tract of land, ideally situated just
slightly further southwest along Highway 100, is
in fact available for sale. At 25.61 acres, the tract,
which is presently listed by a Fairview realtor,
Preferred Country Realty, would be ample for a
big-box-type development and would not require
the taking of any parkland.
www.westviewonline.com
Feb. 8, 6:30-8 p.m.
A ventriloquist and seasoned performer, Karter and his
hilarious dummies provide
hearty laughs, silly jokes, and
tons of animated fun for the
kids. Cost is $6 per person
(children 2 and under free), and
includes two slices of pizza
from Pizza Hut, beverage, and
dessert.
Registration required by
Feb. 6. Call 799-9331.
Library book sale
Friends of the Fairview
Public Library are currently
accepting donations of books
for a book sale to benefit the
summer programs at the library.
People are encouraged to
bring books, CDs, and DVDs,
and drop them off at the library.
(Not accepted are encyclopedias, magazines, or out-of-date
course books). The sale will be
held in April, with the exact
date yet to be announced.
The Friends of the Library
were active up until a few years
ago, and are currently re-forming and welcoming new members. For more info call Gerry
Stark at 799-0267.
Income tax help
Tax assistance for low and
medium income persons is
available at the Fairview
Library through the Volunteer
Income Tax Assistance program, sponsored by United
Way of Williamson County’s
CASH program (Community
Assets Savings and Hope).
Starting January 31, VITA
volunteers will be at the library
on Tuesdays, 2-7 p.m.;
Thursdays, 2-6 p.m.; and
Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Qualified persons will receive
help in securing an Earned
Income Tax Credit refund.
Call the library at 7990235.
HeART to Heart luncheon
The Patricia Hart Society, a
group of Williamson County
women who provide assistance
for a variety of community
needs, will present the 4th
annual “HeART to Heart”
luncheon to benefit United Way
of
Williamson
County
(UWWC) and its 35 partner
agencies.
Co-hosted by country
music artist Wynonna Judd and
Channel 17 news anchor Laura
Faber, the event will take place
Friday, February 8, in Jamison
Hall at The Factory in Franklin.
Keynote speaker will be Jim
Williams, nationally acclaimed
author, child advocate, and
motivational speaker.
Chairing this year’s event
are Tara Alford, of Fifth Third
Bank, and Jennifer Schenck, of
The North Highland Co.
The 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
luncheon will include the presentation of the “Woman of
Achievement” award—given to
a woman who has made a positive impact in Williamson
County through her involvement in some aspect of
UWWC. A silent auction will
also be held, starting at 10:30
a.m.
Last year’s event raised
almost $17,000. Call 771-2312
for info or to reserve seats. The
goal of the Patricia Hart Society
is create an opportunity for
women to take a leadership role
in positively impacting the
community.
...Fireman’s Fund
)(Continued from Fairview page)
the near future is a simulated
aircraft crash which is to take
place February 2 in Bowie
Park.
The exercise will involve a
“crashed aircraft simulator”
and will be conducted jointly
by
the
Fairview
Fire
Department, the Civil Air
Patrol,
and
Vanderbilt
LifeFlight, taking place in a
remote section of Bowie that is
inaccessible by vehicle.
“Firefighters will conduct
the rescue and treatment of the
survivors, and LifeFlight will
fly the patients out,” said Fire
Chief Mike Cooper.
Hollingsworth
said
Fireman’s Fund Insurance has
been “absolutely wonderful to
us” and expressed gratitude to
the company on behalf of his
department.
“I just want to say how
appreciative the fire department is to Fireman’s Fund
Insurance,” he said. “This is to
help out the fire department
with much needed equipment
and for rescue and training
opportunities that we will have
in the future.”
Ruf called Fireman’s Fund
“top to bottom a quality organization” and said the compa-
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ny’s Heritage Program has supplied fire departments all
across the country with much
needed help—help which often
arrives in times of diminishing
budgets.
“It’s sort of a rare occasion
for me to be able to combine a
couple of things that I care very
deeply about. One is—my profession obviously is an insurance agent. I’ve been in the
insurance business for 20 years,
and 13 of those years my most
important insurance company
alliance has been with
Fireman’s Fund,” Ruf said.
“Top to bottom it’s just a quality organization, and it’s been
my pleasure to represent them
much of those 13 years, and
even worked for them for a
short time during that period.”
The
Fairview
Fire
Department covers a 93square-mile area, including a
three-mile stretch of Interstate
40. With the grant money
received last November the
department was able to purchase new equipment, including a thermal imaging camera
to help locate victims in house
fires and pinpoint blazes and
hotspots smoldering behind
walls and other barriers.
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MON - FRI
8:30 am - 1:00 PM
M U S T H AV E
GOOD DRIVING
RECORD
CALL
9 52 - 9 51 1
STYLIST WANTED - Busy salon in
Bellevue has station available for
booth rental. Call 952-4455 or 9733356
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Now
accepting
applications
for
a
receptionist position. Please fax
resume 673-0195.
JOB OPPORTUNITY - Part-time
administrative help, 20 hrs a week,
answer phone, light proof-reading,
office work, some spanish helpful.
Send
email
&
resume;
[email protected]
SALE
A full sized matt/box New w/frame
$140 394-0861 Can deliver.
A QN Matt set w/ warranty. Brand
name, P-Top $120 New. Can deliver
574-5992
A King Matt set w/warranty. Brand
name, P-Top $190 New 394-0861
Can deliver
A 5pc Cherry BDRM set. All new in
boxes. Lists $1000. Must sell $550
Can deliver 574-5992
A new leather sofa/love set in boxes.
Retails $2599. Will sell $1299 3940861
A New 5pc Dining Set Solid Wood
Pub w/Leaf. Retails $900 sell for $500
394-0861
FIREWOOD
Firewood for sale,
call 440-3938,
seasoned oak & hickory.
Pick-up or delivery.
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WESTVIEW BUSINESS SERVICES
PLUMBING
Air Conditioning & Heating
No service call charge.
SPRINGER HOME
MAINTENANCE, INC.
646-4185.
Handyman without the Middleman
CARPENTRY, LIGHT ELECTRICAL,
PLUMBING, TILE, & DECKS
Bath Remodel
FREE ES
MAT
ESTI
Eric Smith
REASON
ABLE
RATES
516-2216
H OME R EPAIR
Painting-Drywall-Plumbing
Electrical - Kitchen & Bath
Installation & Repairs
Pressure washing
Handyman Repairs
John Scher
Scher er
615-957-6802
EXPERIENCED
Plumbing & Electrical
FREE ESTIMATES
HOME MAINTENANCE
$40 to $100 Paid
$25 OFF WITH THIS AD!
THE RAIN GUTTER CLEANER
• Gutters Cleaned
• Drain Spouts Cleaned
• Try My New Air Cleaning System
• FREE ESTIMATES
Michael Tabb
4025 Murphy Rd. Nashville, TN 37209
Voice Mail: 365-0959 Cell: 415-8234
Tired of repair persons not
returning your phone call or not
showing up on time if at all? Then,
if the job is done, is it first quality?
JUNK
REMOVAL
H
y Curran Plumbin
e
l
i
a
g
646-3014
master plumber #550
“Serving Bellevue for Over 18 Years”
Repair
Water and Sewer Lines
Remodeling
Water Heaters
For Junk Cars,
includes removal
Call 618-6973
WE BUY
junk cars, trucks, tractors, farm
equipment, heavy machinery,
for questions or service call
931-670-6921
or 615-945-1939
APPLIANCE
Let us prove we are the best.
Licensed & Insured
R E P AIR
SEWING MACHINES and Vacuum
Cleaners Repaired in your home Written guarantee, All makes.
Service calls: $2.95. 367-0972.
Over 30 years experience.
We Do It All
Springer
Home Maintenance, Inc.
Ph: 646-4185
Fax: 646-0253
U PHOLSTERY
Art’s Upholstery
459-4232
The Miles Company
Remodeling & Repairs
646-3303
If it’s got wrinkles in it,
call Mr. Ed’s
CARPET REPAIR
& RESTRETCHING
615-496-2016
BUY CARPET AT
WHOLESALE
PRICES!!!
HEAT & AIR
FENCE BUILDER
Replacing & removing
patio fences & debris from the premises. Also offering fence staining.
Lived in River Plantation 17 years.
PA V I N G
RICHARD’S PAVING
Get
$10.00 OFF
*DRIVEWAYS *PARKING LOTS
*RE-SURFACING OLD PAVEMENT
with mention of
this ad!
Work Guaranteed
Free Estimates
Call Robert Ammonette at
646-5068.
P AVE NOW - S AVE NOW
860-00 309
TOWING
Edward Charles Home Repair
“Get it right the first time”
Finish trim, tile, electrical, plumbing, kithchen & bath, painting
Full remodel - no job too big - no job too small
Call 615.717.7828
YOUR HOME HANDYMAN - small
job specialist. We arrive on time!
646-4900. “Honey-do” lists welcome!
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want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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LAWN & GARDEN
PAINTING
Serving
Southern
Gardens, Inc.
Nashville since 1979
T R E E
S E R V I C E
Since 1983
“In all things, treat others
the same way you wish to be treated.”
Landscaping & Irrigation
Residential & Commercial Services
Tree and Stump Removal
Quality Professional Pruning
Member
Fertilization and Root Stimulants
Emergency Service / Insurance Work
Pre Construction Site Analysis Certified Arborist
Insured
#502881A
• Landscape Design & Installation
• Landscape Maintenance
• Lawncare Services Including:
Year
Ro
Prog und Main
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te
(Mowing Overseeding, Fertilizing, Aeration, Sodding)
Avai nance
l
a
ble!
• Irrigation Systems / Installation & Repair
• Landscape Lighting
• Lawn Renovation & Care
• Tree Trimming & Removal
• Shrub Trimming & Removal
• Grading, Drainage & Excavating Back Hoe Work
• Masonry Work/ Patios/ Retaining Walls
• Driveway Patio Sealing
• Drainage Work, Grading & Topsoil
Mike's
Painting
GOLDEN RULE
The proper prep work
makes all the difference!
Jim LaBerge
385-9391
LICENSED
TENNESSEE
CONTRACTORS
Interior - Exterior.
Pressure Washing.
Excellent references.
NO COST Estimates!
All work guaranteed.
CALL 615-308-0211
FULLY INSURED
10% OFF
IRRIGATION AND LIGHTING
INSTALLATION
For A Free Estimate
Call 646-6030
UP TO $250 MAXIMUM
[email protected]
Expires 12/24/2007
BOB’S LANDSCAPING & LAWN SERVICE
Residential / Commercial
M
M Affordable Design & Installation M Quality Work
Landscape Renovation M Aeration / Sodding M Light Grading
Bob Fagg
Phone:
646-0481
Pager:
M
Mulch
736-1044
CONDO LANDSCAPING AVAILABLE!
Randy Ingram
MISC. SERVICES
PAINTING
Residential & Commercial
INTERIOR & EXTERIOR
Detailed Prep Work
The Piano
Doc
Repairing
Rebuilding
FREE ESTIMATES!!!
Tuning
952-2280
496-3055
Bp. James A. Johnson, RPT
(registered piano tech)
Free tuning estimates
Used, rebuilt, &
remanufactured
PIANOS for sale.
Prices starting at $598.
DECK AND FENCE
Free appraisals
Call for appt.
773.0607 804.2206
A-1 APPLIANCE CO.
Where Our Customers Send Their Friends
SALES - PARTS - SERVICE - INSTALLATION
Free Financing Available
Visit Our Showroom at 5410 Harding Rd.
352-5174 www.a1appliance.com
Freezers • Disposers • Washers • Dryers • Ranges
Air Conditioners • Dishwashers
Dishwashers • Refrigerators
Low Prices • Washers • Dryers • Microwave Ovens
PAINTING &
PAPERING
Removal & Installation
Kathy 242-3658.
PAINTER BRO’S
5 GREAT PAPERS...
ONE LOW RATE...
Commercial &
Industrial coatings
Since 1950
The Westview
The White Bluff Gazzette
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The Williamson gazette
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* apartments painting
including drywall patching
* also paper removed
and hung
* some repair work
* mildew treatment
* custom painting interior
646-6131
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352-4594
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 -- Page 23
Keith Anderson Headlines
Bellevue Y Fundraiser
The Bellevue Family
YMCA and J. L. Turner
Lifelong Learning Center is
excited to present a live performance by country music
recording
artist
Keith
Anderson as part of its We
Build People annual giving
campaign
on
Monday,
January 28. We Build People
represents the YMCA's commitment to keep its programs
and services available for all-
regardless of income or ability to pay-through the Open
Doors program.
The event begins at 7
p.m. and will be held at
Chaffin's
Barn
Dinner
Theater in Bellevue. Light
refreshments will be served.
Tickets to the event are $25
per person. For more information, or to purchase tickets,
please contact Cathy Smith at
646-9622.
Westview Real Estate
FOR SALE BY OWNER
HILLWOOD
Just off Hillwood Blvd.
Refurbished ranch brick on
1/2 acre level lot.
Master suite w/private deck,
New Kitchen, Rec. Room or 4th
Bedroom w/Western Cedar.
Central HVAC, 2 Full baths,
Hardwoods, Basement garage.
App. 1,800 Sq. Ft.
Minutes to hospitals & Vandy.
6608 Wilhugh $269,900
Bailey--579-5004 373-2880
What separates average producers
from top producers?
Nancy
Hutcherson
Broker, GRI, CRS, ABR
26 years experience!
cell:
615-210-3001
The Lipman
Group!
Sotheby’s
INTERNATIONAL REALTY
ALL OFFICES OWNED & OPERATED INDEPENDENTLY
office:
463-3
3 333
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% ABSOLUTE AUCTION %
Saturday, January 26th
at 11:00 am
Ideal West Meade Family Home!
6620 Clearbrook Drive, Nashville
3 Bedroom, 3.5 Bath, 3400+/- sq.ft. on 1 acre
Open for inspection 9:30 a.m. day of sale only
www.WoodmontRealtyAuctions.com for map & photos
Totally renovated. Entry foyer w/slate stone, open living room,
hardwoods thru-out, new appliances and cabinets, den w/stone
fireplace opens to enclosed sunroom. Master bdr has great view
and bath w/dbl vanities, jet tub, large walk-in closet w/built-ins.
2 car garage, central heat/air, central vac, and many more fine
amenities. Walking distance to West Meade Elementary.
Directions: From Nashville take West End Ave./Harding Rd. to
right at Hwy 100/70 split. Turn RT at Carnavon Pkwy, RT on
Clearbrook to home on left. See signs.
Terms: Cash. Make your financial arrangements prior to sale and
bring your checkbook to auction. 10% of total purchase price
required at auction, balance due within 2 weeks at closing. Deed
and Title furnished. Terms thru Pinnacle Financial Partners, call
Jeff McGinnis at (615) 744-3782 to pre-qualify.
NO BUYERS PREMIUM • $50 CASH TO BE GIVEN AWAY
Tommy Anderson, Broker & Auctioneer (615) 292-3552
Announcements day of sale take precedence over all other advertising.
SPECIALIZING IN
REAL ESTATE
AUCTIONS
Tommy Anderson
Broker and Auctioneer
292-3552
www.WoodmontRealtyAuctions.com
F.L. #5257
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