[00:00:17] Speaker A: You are now watching Cannon County Chamber Connection. And of course, this is brought to you by DTC Communications with our appreciation, because this is good advertising. It is.
And for those of you that watch it every month, you probably will know something after you're done that everybody else that didn't watch it doesn't know.
But I will say today it's been difficult with the weather and the roads and sickness, and so everybody canceled, except I have my co host here, Keith Reddy, and the director of the art Center, Beth McQuarrie.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: And we're both sick.
No, I'm just kidding. We're not.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Well, just don't breathe on me.
That is one of the things that has hampered everything this year. I did have three guests coming on, and our schools have been closed, of course, for the last well over a week, and they are opening late today. So that threw the schedule off. And I also had our mayor, Stan Hollingsworth, and he was called to Cookeville for a meeting.
And Isa Keller, who is administrator of St. Thomas Stone River Hospital.
And he's sick.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: He doesn't have far to go to get care, though, right to the hospital.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: He knows people and he can get taken care of.
But anyway, we're going to go ahead and do this anyway because we didn't do one last month. And of course, this time of the year there's a lull in activities.
It will start picking up as soon as next month, really.
But that's if the weather cooperates.
Now, the groundhog, and there's three of them that come out and give their weather forecast every year, but they seem to think there's going to be six more weeks of winter.
Are you all proud to hear that?
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Well, you know, the groundhog. Here, here. You said you might learn something you didn't know, Phil, however you pronounce it in the history of groundhog, when they started the groundhog stuff in the history, he's only been right 35% of the time.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Well, I'm hoping.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: Latest groundhog. The Latest. Phil, the one. Apparently he's been doing it for 10 years now. I didn't think it was that long, but apparently he's been doing it for 10 years. He's been right 55% of the time.
So there's your little.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Well, I'm so glad that you read up on this, but I know there's three. I don't know which one's right. Probably the one in Florida saying it's gonna be 80 degrees.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Did you count the one in Canada?
No, the groundhog in Canada. They've got one in Canada, too.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:23] Speaker B: And then on the same day as Groundhog Day, it was also Hedgehog Day. We also got to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yeah, listen. Thought you might like that.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: My great grandkids think this is their idol is a running.
It's a running hedgehog.
And I just can't get over it. Of course, in my day, it was a roadrunner and pigs that talked and everything else.
So I guess I shouldn't be surprised at Sonic.
But.
Yeah, the only difference is the Punxsutawney Phil, he's just a little bit bigger than the hedgehog.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, a little bit.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: And he don't come out of anything. They carry him out there.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Cause I can find him if they can find him. There have been two times that he did not come out for Groundhog Day. They couldn't find him.
He was buried, burrowed down deep in this hole.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: How did you know all this?
[00:04:28] Speaker B: Because I do a radio show now, and we had Groundhog Day. And what was so wild about this was there's a. There's a website. It's groundhog.org, i think is what it was. And it was a countdown to when Phil would come out to see a shadow. And so I'm getting prepared for the show and everything, and I'm looking at this website and all of a sudden, you know what I did? I forgot that it existed because it counted it down. We had 34 minutes. So when my show started at 7 o' clock in the morning, we were going to have the announcement because it wasn't on the news at that time. So we were going to have the live announcement and I forgot. And then all of a sudden, I started looking down Days of Observance. I saw it, I was like, oh. So I went back to click it.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: And, you know, we're making light of this, but really, in Cannon county, we were kind of in a bubble because we didn't. I mean, we had ice and snow and rain, but we didn't have it as bad as they had it in Nashville or even Rolford County.
And I have to give a shout out to Middle Tennessee Electric, did a good job of keeping our power on.
And also our people that clear our roads because our main roads have been great. Now, the side roads, we have some places where the sun never shines.
So I'm sure that's one reason the schools have been closed.
Anyway, we have got to get onto our first guest or she's going to leave us because she has work to do.
And Beth is the director of the Art Center. She is also the treasure of. Of the Chamber. And, Beth, what you got online?
[00:06:15] Speaker C: We've got. Coming up. Our next event is Junie B. Jones, that has two. Actually has four public shows. And I didn't write down those dates, but it runs February 25th through March 7th. And I know March 7th is two of the public days and whatever the Saturday is before the other two. We do this mostly for school groups.
So throughout the year, we have three school shows, and they each do. Each one of them has 12 shows.
And school groups come from different schools around the surrounding counties and some from Cannon county also.
And we service about a little over 8,000 kids a year.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: I was gonna say they're well attended.
[00:07:01] Speaker C: They are. And Junie B. Jones is almost full. We still have some room in our public shows. Those tickets are just $10 for adults and $7 for students.
And, I mean, it's really cheap. It's a little bit over an hour, and it's something you can bring your kiddos to.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: Kids enjoy it.
[00:07:19] Speaker C: They do. They're in rehearsals.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: I love to hear them as they come in and as they leave.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: Yes. It's a lot of chaos during the school shows because we do two a day, and funneling 200 kids in and out.
It's a lot.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: But that's the magic of it.
This has done so well to have that many kids to be in and seated for the show and well organized when they leave. Yeah.
[00:07:46] Speaker C: And they're also sometimes coming here and eat lunch.
They bring their own lunch. But.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: Yeah, it's very busy days, but it's a good thing. A lot of these kids.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: What's your next regular show?
[00:08:00] Speaker C: It is Children of eden. It starts March 27 through April 12.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Is that the one that I thought we joked about a few months ago, wasn't it?
[00:08:09] Speaker C: Yes. Cause you read it wrong.
You read it wrong on the thing. Yeah, it's Children of.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: I still, like.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: I've got new glasses by now, but. So I could probably see it a little bit better. Actually, I can't, but. Cause it's over there. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, I can see. Yeah.
[00:08:25] Speaker C: I mean, I can see.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: It still looks like it's Children of Corn. Yeah.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: But if you think about it, when you. It's Children of Eden design the set for Children of the Corn. Beth is going to have to come up with a cornfield.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: Yeah, we won't be doing that, so.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: No. Well, you got to wait till the farmers come through and the farmer's market and they can bring the corn. There you go.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Doesn't work.
[00:08:47] Speaker C: Well, this is totally on the opposite spectrum, children.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: It's a nice place.
[00:08:53] Speaker C: It's a musical, you know.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:55] Speaker C: Based on the.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: They're not singing about vegetables.
Not singing about veteran. Oh, singing. Singing about the Bible. Okay.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:02] Speaker C: It's loosely based on the Bible, but, I mean, it does somewhat follow.
So it's a beautiful, beautiful story.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: So she's got to go out and now get a garden, because. The Garden of Eden.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: And she can do it.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: She paints the floor. Her. And sometimes she has help, but after every show is over, you know, however long that show runs, Beth repaints the floor.
[00:09:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm not the. I'm not always the one who does it, but most of the time.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Yeah, most of the time she disappears for a few days and I know where she's at. Yep. I'm down there painting all by myself.
[00:09:38] Speaker C: I love it.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: When's your next mute? When's your next concert type?
[00:09:42] Speaker C: That's what I was pulling up. Now it's May 16th. It's Eagle Maniacs.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: Eagle Maniacs. That'll be good.
[00:09:49] Speaker C: And that one is selling quickly. So what kind of music?
[00:09:53] Speaker A: If you're interested, it's the Eagles. Oh, okay. It's the Eagles tribute band as you think it is. Children of the Corn.
[00:10:00] Speaker C: It's the Eagles tribute band.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Who were you thinking of?
[00:10:02] Speaker A: I wasn't thinking of anybody. I just thought Eagle Maniacs. What kind of music?
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Well, there is a band. It's a heavy metal band called Eagles of Death Metal, actually.
But they're not a death metal band. I don't know why they call themselves death metal, but they got some popularity over the last couple of years. They went to London, and while they were in London, they were performing live and a terrorist attack happened at one of their concerts. That was a big.
Yeah, it was all over VH1 and MTV and stuff like that. As far as news, hey, I like the Eagles. I don't know who's going to be in that band.
[00:10:40] Speaker C: I've heard some of their. Their online. You know, you can see some of their video clips. They're really good.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: You know who's on tour with the Eagles right now, performing in the band?
How about Vince Gill? Yes, Vince Gill is a member of the Eagles.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: He was years ago. I saw Joe Walsh and he came up and played with Joe Walsh.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:11:01] Speaker C: So I figured that was coming.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
He and then one of the sons, Jamie Hanna of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has been Playing with the Eagles group.
But Vince kind of took the place of the one that passed away. What was his name, though?
[00:11:20] Speaker A: I think Vince Gill could play with any band.
[00:11:25] Speaker C: I was just gonna say the Eagle Maniacs. It is selling quickly. So if that's something you're interested in, you need to go ahead and get tickets.
And then right after that, which is also selling quickly, is sale on both of those are in May. And that's the Beach Boys tribute band, which has been here before.
Legal Maniacs have not been here before, but the Beach Boys Tribes Tribute band is amazing. Yeah, they are really good and they sell out. So both of those are selling quickly. So you can go on our
[email protected] or you can call us at 615-563-2787 and get tickets for anything.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: What's that little blue one up there?
[00:12:04] Speaker C: Oh, this is conservatory. I was just gonna remind everybody that if you have children or grandchildren, our summer conservatory starts in June. For the junior sessions, we have two of those and then we have a senior session in July. There's more information online also.
And it's just 200 for two weeks for the juniors, 250 for the senior center. Senior center senior session for two weeks. And then after that we're actually adding a tech camp for the seniors. It can be very limited space in that one.
And it's just a one week voice.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: I've already had people asking about the art show that you have outside.
[00:12:42] Speaker C: Yes. In September. I believe this year it's the 12th and 13th of September.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: I think it is too.
[00:12:48] Speaker C: I believe that's correct.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: We talk about.
[00:12:51] Speaker C: We've already talked about 2027, so I may be getting the dates mixed up.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Well, it could either be the 18th and the 19th, or I mean the 19th and the 20th or the 12th and the 13th.
[00:13:07] Speaker C: It'd be the 12th and 13th. It wouldn't be that late.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah. All right.
[00:13:10] Speaker C: It's usually the first.
It's like, like whenever Labor Day is, it's usually the weekend after that, you know, because so many people are out of town during Labor Day.
[00:13:22] Speaker A: You got a full year of entertainment here. And I think the season tickets to all of these are still on sale.
[00:13:29] Speaker C: They will be until Children of Eden starts.
And then because there's a prorated. So it'll be $70 for the next five.
Then after children are beaten, we won't offer them anymore.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: If you like live entertainment. Now, that doesn't include the concerts. Those are separate. And those are usually just one night.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: Of Most of them are one night things.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Who are the other two? Outside of the Beach Boys, the last.
[00:13:56] Speaker C: Two ones that you're going to, Stairway to Zeppelin and End of the Line. So Stairway to Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin. End of the Line is the Allman Brothers.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Allman Brothers. Okay. Yeah, good deal.
[00:14:06] Speaker C: And we've already had the first one in January, which was Ultimate Oldies. They did two days, but most of them just do one.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: The Allman Brothers. The ones that are left just put out a gospel.
[00:14:21] Speaker C: Oh, really? Record.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: I hadn't heard that.
[00:14:24] Speaker C: These guys are really good.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: Yeah, they come.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Okay. Well, Beth, I know you have things that you wanted to get done today.
[00:14:34] Speaker C: I'm sorry.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Well, that's okay. It was good to have you on and find out everything that's coming up because.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Oh, there's auditions coming up for the Hobbit march. I believe it's the third and fourth. I'd have to double check that.
But if somebody's interested, that is not. Even though it's going to be a school show, it's not a junior show, which means any age can audition.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:01] Speaker C: So if something's something you want to be.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: So if you're interested in being. Starting your acting career here as a.
[00:15:08] Speaker C: Dwarf or a Gollum or.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: A wizard.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: Interesting to see who's going to be the dwarfs, you know, that'd be cool.
[00:15:17] Speaker C: That'll probably be kids.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, you're not gonna go out and get.
[00:15:20] Speaker C: No.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: Okay, well, just find some little people.
[00:15:24] Speaker C: Yeah, there'll be kids in it. But anyway, so there's always auditions and there's other auditions coming up for nine to five. So if that's something else you're interested in, that will be. Those auditions, I think are the end of.
End of March, I believe.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: So nine to five is the Dolly Parton. Nine to five, yeah.
[00:15:46] Speaker C: Okay. Oh, there's something here all the time. So just follow us on Facebook or go online and I didn't know if.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: We were auditioning for a job. Nine to five, you know, eight hour day. Okay. Come in. In addition for this, you failed.
[00:16:00] Speaker A: I'll just be part time.
Yes.
[00:16:03] Speaker C: All right.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: All right, Beth. Thank you, dear.
[00:16:06] Speaker C: You're welcome.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: All right. I did want to talk about something that's already happened.
Oh, well, that was our banquet, which we have.
Did I scare you, Keith?
[00:16:20] Speaker B: I knew that's probably what you were going to refer to.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: No, we did according to our.
Promise. When they started the chamber, we would have an annual banquet.
And we do every year. We try to make it in January.
And we had it on January 29 we had a dinner which was attended by 74 people.
So it was a good sized banquet. I was a little afraid because the weather was so bad. I didn't know how many would be able to show up. And then we've had a lot of illness throughout the community, but we had a good crowd for it.
We gave away three awards and that was the legendary chamber member. And that went to Cliff Slope. Cliff was on the chamber when I first started working for the Chamber and he was involved in all aspects of the chamber. But one of his, I guess you could say where he really did shine was during the first time that they had a three star program for three star communities.
And it's different. It was different then than it is now, but it took a lot of coordinating, a lot of planning.
And we, with his leadership and I've got to say that everybody else in our community that had something to do with that jumped in there and we got that done in a year, which they told us was not possible, but we did it.
So I've got to get. And he was instrumental in doing that. And we did go and meet with the governor and they gave us an award for that.
And then governors changed, other things changed. And so they did away with a three star program.
And then a few years back they brought it back, but it was certainly different from the first one.
So that was just one of the things that Cliff was involved in.
The business of the year went to Middle Tennessee Electric.
They are partners with the Chamber and everybody else in town. If you needed anything done during our Christmas time, they strung lights for us, they put up lights, they take down lights, they do it all.
And during this storm that we've just experienced, I don't know, I'm sure there was some power outages in their area.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: But not a week long and not.
I mean they do a great job. And they also plan during the year because they will come out and check and see if your trees are hanging over the electric lines and everything. And if they are, they're very nice about it. But they leave you a little note and tell you they're going to trim those branches.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Well, in Nashville, of course they got hit, but they've got their own electric service, Nashville Electric Service, Middle Tennessee Electric.
Their service area, over 300,000 homes were hit and knocked out of power, but most of those were in Williamson County.
But let's just talk about the Canning county crew for just a second.
Those guys went over to help with Williamson county and the representative that was present at our banquet. Jesse Cunningham was, is a foreman over there with the, with the Cannon county office and he took a crew over and they, they got the job done. You know, they got everybody. Pretty much all of their customers over in Williamson county had power within two days.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Right.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: You know, whereas Nashville was.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: They're still out.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Some hundred and thousand customers are still out of power to this time. So good job MTE But I just.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: Wanted to say that overall for the community, Middle Tennessee Electric is a great partner, they believe because you can call on them for just about everything and they'll. If they can do it, they will.
So we appreciate them along. They're not the only ones. We have several companies that are great partners to Cannon county. So we'll get to them sooner or later.
And then the business, that was the business of the year. And then the community service organization went to the Hilton Stone American Legion Post 279 and they were.
They go into the schools and do some talking and training for kids that are in school just more or less to help them be better community members and be community minded when they get older. Also they have a lot of services for our veterans which we should show a lot of respect for. And they do.
And they are over. What all do they do at the high schools and everything?
[00:22:03] Speaker B: Well, they have several. They do a patriot program to honor the people. First responders that rush to 9 11, but also first responders of today.
They do a veterans day program at the high school every Veterans Day. And here recently, although they pretty much finished this series, but they did a series of Vietnam veteran recognitions.
So those are three. They also do a thing called the Boys and the girls State. They sponsor that. That's through an oratorical contest.
Students enter that for the chance to go to Tennessee Tech and engage in the Boys and Girls State events that basically about government, you know, teaching them about government and stuff. And they get to participate. So.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Okay. But anyway, we had a great banquet.
Of course there was door prizes.
Everybody likes door prizes. Our caterers were Robbie and Faye Catering and they provided the food.
Everyone was given a 60 second commercial and they seem to like that because they can get up and talk about themselves for 60 seconds or longer. We don't have a hook that we pull them off the stage. If they go over that, we don't.
[00:23:34] Speaker B: Have a stopwatch going on.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: But it gives them a chance to tell who they are and what organization they're there with. Most of them are chamber members and we have a lot of service organizations that will probably receive future awards. But we can only do three a year. So those were our three.
But it was a great thing. And if you missed it, I'm sorry. Because the weather was good enough for everybody to get here.
We about ran out of food, but that's probably a good thing.
But anyway, I look forward to that again next year.
And then what's happening right now is on Saturday, February 7, the Mooretown Fire Department will hold their country ham breakfast from 6am to 10am at the Cannon south elementary, which was.
Woodland. Woodland in the past.
Okay. And then I want to remind everybody we have another great organization that deals with our senior population.
And I would put them up against any senior center that I've been to because they do a great job up there. They have a lot of educational people that show up, health related people that show up. They have entertainment, games, exercise.
And this February is known as have a Heart for Seniors at the Senior Center. And of course it is a fundraiser.
And that money goes to provide all these services at the senior center. So if you feel like you can give to that organization or you have somebody that's benefited or even if you don't, this is a very important part of a community is how their seniors are treated and the options that they're given for their health and everything. And they have bingo, they have games, they dance. They dance.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: They do.
What is it that they do?
It's in accordance with bingo. It's probably on their calendar. But they do this bean.
What is it? The bean auction?
Is that what they call it? The bean auction?
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah, because they don't really gamble.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: What it is is that they bring out little bitty.
It could be like a little candy bar or a little, you know, knick knack or something. And they'll bid on it with beans.
Yeah, that's what they do. They get these little beans or black eyed peas or whatever and they bid on those items. And the ones that have the most black eyed peas or the beans or whatever they're using.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: It's a bean auction.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah, they win that particular candy bar, whatever they're giving away.
But they have a. They get a lot of fun and really everything. All their events and activities for the most part, when they have like lunch and learn and whatnot, that starts around 12 noon at the Canyon County Senior Center. And I think I heard what you can be 60 years of age or older. 60, I think they dropped it used to be 65, now it's dropped down to 60.
And you can be a member of The Canning County Senior Center. So I'm fastly approaching that age, by the way. So.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Yeah, but I'm just a couple of years past that.
[00:27:12] Speaker B: Couple. Just a couple. Okay.
[00:27:15] Speaker A: Not too many.
Anyway, they have this month.
Excuse me, this month they will have a Valentine's party on the 13th at 12 noon.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: They'll have refreshments, games, store prizes and fun.
So there you go.
[00:27:35] Speaker B: And it's interesting, they have chair volleyball. Chair volleyball. And they're doing pickleball down at the, at the community center.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: A lot of people are doing pickleball at the community center. It's really a big thing.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: They say it's packed when they do that. Dental trivia.
That's interesting. Now that was probably already past the date that this will air, but that's on February 10th.
So trivia about your teeth, that's interesting.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: If you still have them.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: This is a thing to go to. And even if you don't. Okay. They're going to celebrate Black History Month.
I think that was already been over. But you can celebrate that all year long.
They'll have, they will be closed on Valentine's Day or President's Day.
And let's see, they have all of our different.
Health related groups in the county sponsor a bingo every time. It's called the Butterbean auction.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: Butter bean. That's it. That's it. Yep.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: But if all you have is a black eyed pea, then you can take that too, I guess.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: Actually they give out the butter bean.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: I think they've got a big old pot full of them.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: They do.
Like I say, they have volleyball. Chair volleyball. So you can sit in the chair and play volleyball. I mean, what's better than that?
Okay, what else do they have here?
Oh, February 6th. That's.
This won't be on by then, but anyway, they also have a great travel schedule and this year I believe they're going to the Amish countryside. And that will be November 16th through the 19th.
In Indiana it's called Shipshewana.
And I think they've had this before and the people that went on this really enjoyed it because it is an Amish community.
And let me see, Alaska's inside package cruise is going to be May 29th through June 6th.
Canada, New England with Norwegian Cruise Lines will be October 4th through the 11th.
And that will be eight days and seven nights.
And you'll be going to a lot of different ports during that trip.
And then in May they will also be sponsoring the good old days event, which is always a great event around the square.
And they have their Senior Scott talent show.
And that's for the seniors at the Senior center.
And let me see. I think they also have something else. 12 noon to 3:30 on May 8th.
I think they have senior bingo.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: Yeah, they'll do senior bingo. And sometimes they do a senior sing along sometimes. Now, I don't know if they've done that. I know they've done that in the past. I don't know if they did it last year.
[00:31:02] Speaker A: Well, that may be. The seniors got talent.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: They get around the piano and all sing as a choir.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: And then they have a Miss Senior Pageant also during that.
Plus they have lots of other pageants and things for the good old days. So it's a fun thing. But if you'd like to donate some money to the Senior center, you can always call them at 615-563-5304 and ask them how you can go about this. Or stop by and give a donation or send them a donation and say it's for have a heart.
It goes to a good cause, I guarantee it.
Let me see. March 4th, the Lions Club will hold their fish and chicken fry at the Lions club building from 11 to 5pm and. And the proceeds from that will benefit the White Cane fundraiser which is what we used to do at the Lions Club as blocking the roads, standing out in the middle of the road, which was very dangerous. And they don't allow that anymore, which is fine with me. But the fish fry brings in.
Brings in a lot of people. And I will tell you, it's some of the best fish I've ever tasted. But if you're not a fish connoisseur, then they also have chicken and white beans.
And let's see, what else? I was playing with a pen and I shouldn't be.
They have. What else? French fries.
Cornbread.
No, Hush puppies and slaw.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: So no cornbread?
[00:32:53] Speaker A: No.
[00:32:54] Speaker B: No cornbread. Okay.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Not for this one.
Well, that's what a hush, buddy. Ham is.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: Ham and beans day. Cornbread and beans day. That's for that. I think they're gonna do that again this year, aren't they?
[00:33:07] Speaker A: I think. I haven't talked to. They haven't got it on the schedule yet, but I'm sure that they may do that. Last year was the first time we did that, and I think we didn't advertise it well enough. We didn't have a huge crowd.
But a lot of times when you start something, you kind of have to give it a little time to grow Right. But that was the president's.
Let's see, what was it?
Carly is. Carly Gannon is a president of the Lions Club this year.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: So they always have a project that they like to do.
Her project was feed the community, which was everybody. It doesn't matter.
It was cornbread and beans.
And I think everybody in Cannon county must have made a pot of beans to bring to that, even though they.
[00:34:03] Speaker B: Didn'T know about it. Right.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: We had beans everywhere. We had beans.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: Yeah, they sure did.
[00:34:10] Speaker A: But that's the good thing. They all get together and make things happen, and they do a lot of good the Lions Club does in our community.
I don't think people really realize all they are involved in. And I will give you a little heads up.
This last year was the first time that we at the Lions Club had had their annual Christmas parade at night.
It was a big success. It was so good, DTC filmed it. And I'm sure probably you can't see it now unless you go back.
Maybe you can. But it was a good parade.
Lots of lights.
Lots of lights.
Our horses that started the parade were Shane Gannon and his wife.
And they had everything on their horse lit up, including the flags had lights on them.
It was amazing. It really was. And of course, we had a lot of other groups that had light up, and I'm hoping that will grow. But they did it at a different date last year. They did it on the Saturday that we have the Country Christmas.
It was kind of.
I guess it kind of confused people. But this next year, they're going to be having it on the Saturday that they usually always do. They have pancakes with Santa. And then that night they're going to have. It'll be the first Saturday of December, and they are going to have the parade again at night because it worked out really well.
And everybody that I've talked to that went to it, with the exception of one man, and he wasn't upset with the parade. He didn't go, but he was upset because his kids didn't get to pick up one piece of candy off the street.
And I just thought, well, buy him a bag of candy and throw it on the street.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Throw it out in the driveway and make them go get.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: You know, this is.
That's petty. That's nothing. You know, we're just. We weren't past Halloween.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: Very long.
[00:36:26] Speaker B: The next month, actually.
In fact, it wasn't even a full month before Halloween.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: But this coming year, they're going to have it again on Saturday night. And that'll be the first Saturday night of December.
So just giving you a heads up ahead of time, but it was a good parade.
On March 21st will be the annual Lions Club Christmas Ball, not Christmas Princess Ball.
And it will be here at the Art center.
And it will be from 6 to 8:30pm and this event is a Father Daughter dance.
And last year we had a record crowd.
We just about outgrew the Art center, which is hard to do.
And we're hoping we have another big turnout this year. Those girls have a lot of fun.
And the dads and the granddads that bring them, they enjoy. A lot of them don't get up and dance, but it doesn't matter. They brought their daughter or their granddaughter or you have to be. To be an escort to these children.
A lot of times the dad's not in the picture.
You can be an uncle, a granddad, but you have to be over 21 to escort these little girls.
And there will be more information of that being. I will take it out to the schools, but that will be March 21, and that's on a Saturday.
What's going on at the school?
Anything?
[00:38:09] Speaker B: Not much of anything now. They're trying to get back into the routine of things after being out for over a week.
But you kind of knew that this was going to happen because the last time, I think last year we got a real bad icing of things and school was shut down for at least two weeks. You know, they were in danger of using their.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: I didn't realize that was last year.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: I was last year.
[00:38:32] Speaker A: Or the year before, further back.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: It was either one or two years ago. I think it was last year. Bonnie Patterson's final year is the director of school. So that would have been last year. Yeah, they had a. I think it was in February. They had an ice storm come through. And of course, the roads were still iced over. And they had to. They canceled school for about two weeks, two or three weeks almost. And they were in danger of.
They had to come. Come up with snow days because they had run out, you know, and they were in danger. Students were in danger of having to go to school past graduation time, you.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: Know, but, you know, people fuss because your road, if you're on one of the. That was what I was going to say. Our road crews keep the main highways looking great.
They can't get to all of the side roads, but we have some roads that the buses have to go down that never. The sun never shines.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: So let's go.
[00:39:31] Speaker A: And there's a Lot of reasons for school being called off. Some may be plumbing problems, because pipes, when you've been below freezing as many days as we've been and then things start to thaw out, pipes may have broken, heat may be a problem. There's a lot of reasons why school's not in session that really may not have anything to do with the roads, but it's not worth risking a busload full of children's well being, you know, against whether the road is too icy or not. So I've rode those bus routes and I know what some of them are like.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Yeah, tdot, our local TDOT office salts the main highways right.
[00:40:22] Speaker A: And they do a great job.
[00:40:23] Speaker B: The secondary roads are never salted anymore. Simply because I think, think if one of the two happened, whether it be the county or it be the town of Woodbury, the salt truck that the county. I'm pretty sure it's the salt truck that the county had that it was wrecked. It was going down one of these side roads and slipped and fell into a ditch. And they haven't been able to replace it because obviously they don't get a lot of funding from the county.
The city doesn't have a salt truck anymore either. Town of Woodbury, just simply because theirs broke down and they can't get it fixed. It was old.
So pretty much we're depending on Tennessee Department of Transportation to keep the main roads going. But unfortunately the side roads. And you talk about some side roads. I've been down some of these side roads. I have to, because I used to work insurance and we had customers and I couldn't tell you how in the world you could get.
I tell you what, one time I'm going down Bradyville highway and there is a customer we had. They were in.
I don't know what they were into their driveway. But I couldn't get through there in a car. And we called the customer and says, no, there's no car that gets to our place. If you want to come to our place, you better have a truck. So the next day I had access to a truck. So I took the truck down and. And got through there. It still was an act of Congress to get there, but you've got all these roads like Burt Bergen Road was closed up till yesterday. From what I understand in the county, you had Stones River Road. Is that what they call it? Stones River Road? That's a little bitty road that you better not.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: That road was closed.
[00:42:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the one. You better not meet anybody on that road because you'll be in the ditch for sure.
There were several roads that were still closed due to ice. And I live in a trailer park.
And yes, it wasn't enough ice to keep me from being able to move in and out of my place.
But in between my trailer and the next door neighbor, solid sheet of ice in our front yard. You know, it hadn't melted as of yet. The rain came and got to it. So it has melted a little bit. But we had ice build up front for up till like Sunday.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: We had. We still had a little bit of snow at our back door yesterday.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: Right.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: You know, so you don't. I mean, it wasn't that you couldn't get out. It wasn't like that. But I mean, it was snow.
The rain didn't melt at the buses right at our back door.
[00:43:00] Speaker B: And these buses that pick these kids up, I mean, you want safety first.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:43:05] Speaker B: And it's hard to get to some of these places. I mean, even if the kids walk from, you know, like in the sense of that house that insured, even if they walk from the front door all the way out to the road, I mean, even then it's cold weather number one, and it's a long walk. It wasn't no cakewalk there to get to that place.
And I know some other places are a lot like that, too, here in the county.
[00:43:31] Speaker A: Well, see, if you never travel those roads, then you don't realize what a.
An obstacle they face a lot of times until if you go out and drive them, drive down them a little bit. I did want to mention something else that may be coming up this year that we haven't had in a long time. And there's a committee that's working on it as we speak, for a fair out at the. It would be out at the fairgrounds in Woodbury. And I am on that committee, so we should be meeting.
Well, they gave me three options and I told them which one was good for me. Now, I don't know which one they're.
[00:44:20] Speaker B: Gonna take, but is this the committee that Angel's heading up or Angel Cantor?
[00:44:28] Speaker A: No, her name's not Angel.
[00:44:31] Speaker B: Gabby.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: Gabby.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: Okay, Same. Yeah.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: It's going through the Canon County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: Anyway, we're going to be looking at starting a fair. You know, people ask me, I was around when we had the original fair.
It took everybody in, in the county to put on that fair. You had to farmers that had their part of it. You had a horse show, you had a beauty pageant. And of course, your main thing is a carnival.
You had a quilt show.
You had baking pie, making pictures that brought in the schools.
It was a big undertaking.
And I don't know that we'll ever be able to do that in that respect again, but we will.
Just having a carnival is not a fair.
So if you want to go to a good local fair.
Warren county has a good local fair. I will say they do.
They bring in a lot of different things. They have the equipment and the place to have it. That's another thing, is we have limited room, but you have to get everybody involved in it, just a little group.
It would surprise me if they could put on a fair like we used to have. And that's what I had calls last year.
This one man called me from Nashville and he wanted to know when our county fair was.
Well, we didn't really have a county fair. We had a carnival.
And I told him that. He goes, that's not a fair.
He says, I want a local fair with farm animals and baking contests. And that's the kind of fair he wanted. And I told him, I says, well, at this point, we don't have that.
But I did tell him that Warren county does, because I believe in giving credit where credit's due.
[00:46:38] Speaker B: You've got Coffee county, that also has a great fair. And DeKalb, they put one in Alexandria every year. That's a great fair. So we've got them surrounding us. It's our time. We're due for a fair, so we are.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: You just gotta have somebody.
And then the other thing is being able to afford. It takes money to put on a fair. Yeah, but we'll see how everything goes at the meetings that they're planning.
[00:47:06] Speaker B: When's your next one? When is your next.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: Well, they haven't really. They gave me three different options.
One of them, I think, was the 5th of February.
[00:47:15] Speaker B: Okay, that's on a Sunday.
[00:47:17] Speaker A: No, no, Thursday.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: Thursday. Okay.
[00:47:20] Speaker A: That would be tomorrow.
[00:47:21] Speaker B: Yeah, we better check.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: But she hasn't called back and said, I know definitely that that was a date.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: We've got a board meeting on the 9th, which is. We had. We were going to have one. And that may be the reason why you haven't gotten called yet. We were going to have one on the third, not this Monday, but the Monday before, and it got canceled because of snow.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: Right.
[00:47:44] Speaker B: So everybody agreed to meet on the 9th. And one of our topics that we're going to talk about is the events committee, and we're going to get a calendar of events because I know, there's going to be a community game night coming up here soon, and then we're going to talk about the fair as well and try to narrow down some dates for meetings because I know some of our board members would like to just come in and attend the meeting, let you, let you guys do the grunt work. Although we'll probably jump in and help.
[00:48:16] Speaker A: But I'm always on that grunt work committee.
I'm going to be in charge.
[00:48:23] Speaker B: I think I might have, I might have suggested me. No, I didn't. I didn't. I actually, I did not. But, but Gabby, you know, she works with, she works in McMinnville with the Warren County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition.
And I think they attend. I'm pretty sure they attend the DeKalb county meetings, too. And of course, they, they haven't jumped in on the fairs yet because they've already got established fairs. Right. This was something that the group figured.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: Well, this is just a planning and.
[00:48:56] Speaker B: It gives back to the community.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: So it does. And people like that. And the more people you get involved in the fair, like the schools and the farmers and the better it is.
[00:49:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:49:09] Speaker A: You know, so we'll see what happens.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: A couple of things that I wanted to mention real quick.
Volunteer income tax assistance is a service offered by the United Way of Rutherford and Canning counties. Now. Now they're actually calling it Southern Middle Tennessee because they've grouped in with some other counties and stuff.
There are appointments that are available and I'm trying to think of when they are. It's Tuesdays and Saturdays and they're going to be at the Adams Memorial Library.
And you just make your appointment by going to the website. Your local uw.org I had to think how to spell United Way for a minute. Your local uw.org There is a section for the Vita or Vita, however you want to pronounce it, program. Click on that section and it's going to show you a listing of Middle Tennessee area locations, including the library. Now, I haven't heard at the senior center, they usually do one, but they usually do theirs more toward April.
The program is going on now through April so you can sign up and come get your taxes done free. Now, most people qualify. You have to $60,000 or less.
And families, this is a free service. Come in and get your taxes done at the Adams Memorial Library. There'll be a volunteer assistant with the United Way to help you out with that.
There's going to be. We nominated. Nominated and did a service award at the banquet.
Canning County Chamber of Commerce banquet for the American Legion Post. But there is going to be a Hometown Heroes Appreciation banquet. It's going to take place on March 27th. I'm not for certain where it's going to be just yet because they have not put that information out. However, yesterday they put some information out that they're looking for nominations for Hometown Heroes. And I guess they're going to nominate like a rescue squad member of the year, you know, Woodbury Police Department, Police Officer of the Year, Canning county, you know, firefighter of the year. Things on that nature. There's going to be awards, door prizes and a dinner. We'll try to get some more information for that and maybe get a guest, I would guess, for the March 4th.
[00:51:40] Speaker A: Taping of the Give me a name.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: I'll be glad we can do that. That's going to be Gannon, the can't remember her first name.
She works out the 911 center.
[00:51:53] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:51:55] Speaker B: So it's going to be her. That's been the face of it. So that's what she's going to put that together.
So we got Vita, we got the appreciation. Oh, also, speaking of meetings, I've got a meeting today at 12 noon to get everything set up on March 28, Saturday, which is right here at the Art Center. The Cannon County Child Advocacy center is going to be doing their annual Cannon runs for children 5K run and walk. And we'll start that up, our pre. Pre warm up, I guess, registration, everything. We'll start around seven. We'll give our awards away and then the race itself will start at 8. Now, I'm going based on last year's information. I don't think it's going to change, but it is March 28 here at the Art center of Canning County, 1424 John Bragg Highway.
So those are three of the things.
[00:52:54] Speaker A: That gets bigger every year.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: Yeah, of course.
[00:52:57] Speaker A: Our Child Advocacy center is a big part. One of our partners, too. They do a lot for the children in Cannon County. So they certainly have to have funds because they are a nonprofit.
All right. Is that.
[00:53:17] Speaker B: That's all I've got.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: All I've got, too.
[00:53:20] Speaker B: Not a whole lot. Like we said, that's happening right now.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: But I will tell people that if you have events coming up or if you're planning something, be sure and call the chamber and let me. Let us know.
We'll be glad to give you some advertisement for that. And the other thing is, if you're planning something around our square, call the county executive's office.
Christian will Be glad to let you know if there's a date available. The square gets booked up quickly during the year and you have to remember that they are open for business.
So you really can't block off the square on days that they're open for business.
So remember that. But if you're planning an event, call them and see if it's available because we have people that are wanting to come in and set up things, but they don't ever notify anybody. So you may be running into another event.
[00:54:24] Speaker B: And one thing, other that on that note about events and stuff, the Cannon County Community center is open, the gymnasium is open and they're renting it out on the weekends for birthday parties, wedding receptions, weddings, whatever, you know, those type of events. And, and I told Greg after it was over with, I was, by the way, I was going through a little bit of illness during the banquet and everything. And after I introduced Greg and everything and he got up and he spoke about the county executive's office, I told him, I said, you know what? I should have asked you about the community center. Should have asked you about this new stage that's gonna be coming up at the fairgrounds. Of course they're busy right now getting. In fact we Thursday. I know this is a taping. So during their Canning County Commission meeting they're going to get the funds approved for the EO center, the emergency operations center. Which by the way they did activate the emergency operations center. I guess it's the rescue squad building now. They operated that during the storm, during the winter storm and stuff. So they'll have a full $1 million building is what it's going, the process.
[00:55:40] Speaker A: That'S going to be our emergency management.
[00:55:42] Speaker B: Yep. And that way everybody's got a chance to meet all the first responders, have a chance, a building to meet in and do daily briefings or whatever the case might be in case of a storm or some other type of weather related event.
[00:55:58] Speaker A: And you got to remember most of these organizations like the rescue squad and most of those are volunteer workers.
Most of your fire departments are volunteers.
So you know, if all of our volunteers decided to go on strike, we'd be in bad shape.
So you've got to remember this when they do fundraisers and things, it's not to pay the volunteer workers, it's to keep in operation the things that they do. And the rescue squad shows up at everything.
So you know, well, our fire departments do too, if they're called.
But just keep that in mind and everything that we have a lot of People that work every day or hold other jobs, but they also volunteer to keep people safe, too, so.
[00:56:51] Speaker B: Well, we did it.
What? We did it. 55 minutes.
We didn't know we were going to be able to pull this off, but we did it. And not one bad joke did I tell. Unless you're talking about the groundhog. So I'm going to end it on this. I'm going to end my portion on this. They are making a sequel to Groundhog Day, by the way.
Now, how that's going to go?
They're going to re release the first movie that's single. That's the sequel to Groundhog Day. Get it?
[00:57:24] Speaker A: I hated that show.
[00:57:27] Speaker B: Never mind.
That was my first home joke of the day.
[00:57:31] Speaker A: I guess there was one chance it was dubbed.
[00:57:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it was.
[00:57:39] Speaker A: There's one channel that shows Groundhog Day all day and all night.
[00:57:46] Speaker B: Really? I don't get that channel, thankfully. I don't think.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: I never liked that show. I still don't. I think it's so boring. It's the same thing over.
[00:57:54] Speaker B: What was that movie? It was a scary movie.
I can't remember the name of it, but the same thing happens. They go to bed.
All of a sudden, they hear this weird sound. They get up, they go check out the weird sound. They go back to bed.
[00:58:09] Speaker A: And then it goes on.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: And then it goes on and on until, oh, all of a sudden, the weird sound, the monster or whatever it is comes out and attacks them a little later and they die. You know, this is the kind of movie that Groundhog Day is. I don't want to spoil it for anybody who's never seen it.
[00:58:24] Speaker A: I didn't see him murder anybody or anything, but it was a boring movie and they showed it all day and all night.
Okay, that's all, folks. We'll see you next month.
[00:58:38] Speaker C: Sa.
