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Giant steps...one at a time (05/13/12)
It's an unfortunate, but true realization. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn't been affected by cancer in some way. It's the great equalizer that can bring anyone to their knees. But, it also can show how strong a person is, and how great the community around them can rally when called upon...

Harris horse show funds benefit athletic programs (05/11/12)
The Harris Middle School Athletic Department launched fundraising efforts for school programs last weekend at the Walking with Eagle Pride Horse Show. Coordinated by Allison Smith, Dana Edwards and the HMS faculty, proceeds from the event are earmarked for various needs in the school's athletic department...

The WILD blue yonder (05/10/12)
"Are you ready?" they asked. "Oh, yeah!" I said, quasi-confidently as I tried to keep my voice from crackling while the crew outfitted me with a parachute and strapped me into the seat. "Don't touch this lever, that button or that strap," they said. "Unless the pilot tells you to bail -- then pull this, that and that."...

Trainers' Show makes move (12/22/11)
The first big Tennessee Walking Horse show of 2012 won't be held in Shelbyville as in years past. A conference call was held earlier this week by the board of directors of the Walking Horse Trainers' Association (WHTA) to prepare for the upcoming 2012 National Trainers' Show in White Pine, in Jefferson County, which is in east Tennessee...

History lives at Wartrace Horse Show (08/02/11)
It's one of the last shows before the Celebration -- and one of the oldest shows in Tennessee. Come Saturday to Wartrace, and you'll see history walking, running walking, and cantering around the ring at the horse show grounds. "It should be a good show this year," said Heather Beard, secretary for the horse show committee. "All of our classes are sponsored -- there's 25 -- and trainers' response has been real good."...

Mule show a 'great' success (07/13/11)
Hundreds of donkeys and mules, their owners, trainers and fans visited the Celebration show grounds last week for the Great Celebration Mule and Donkey Show. It was, you could say, a braying success. "It went great," said Dale Barnett, marketing and media director for Calsonic Arena. "We had great classes, the crowd was really into it. The rain felt good and the humidity didn't."...

Donkeys, mules hit the ring (07/08/11)
The Celebration offered its own sort of "Hee-Haw and Howdy" Wednesday evening as the mule and donkey show exhibitors trotted into town. While Celebration staff grilled burgers and chicken breasts for the visitors, the mules and donkeys themselves provided the sound track with snorts, whinnies and the occasional bray...

Big donkey, mule show is this week (07/05/11)
When you drive into Clearview Farm on U.S. 231 South, you'll see almost every breed of horse imaginable grazing in the fields or resting in the elegant barns. There will be quarter horses and Arabians, Freisians and walking horses, Appaloosas and spotted saddlehorses...

Folsom Prison escapes with blue (05/31/11)
All five of the stallions vying for the stakes class at the Spring Fun Show had their supporters, and the cheers followed them around the ring at Calsonic Arena like a wave Saturday night. Fans cheered on Star, the Reserve World Grand Champion of last year's Celebration and this year's National Trainers' Show. They clapped and whistled for Puttin Cash on the Line, who won two stakes classes last year, and they "whooped and hollered" for Jail Time, Folsom Prison Blues and Ultimate Power Stroke...

Fun Show visitors often spring back (05/28/11)
The Celebration's Spring Fun Show will end tonight, but many of those who came to watch, exhibit, or both will be back next year. And the next. "It's a family tradition," said Jill Smith of Jackson. "It has been for 25 years." Of course for her and her husband Verner and their children, it's also a family reunion as well as a family tradition...

'Traveler' joins owner at Fun Show (05/27/11)
Angie Runnels of Cape Girardeau, Mo., has been coming to the Celebration's Spring Fun Show for years, but this year, for the first time, she'll have a horse competing. Her 8-year-old Silver's Travelin' Shadow, called "Traveler" around the barn, was entered in the very first class, the Model class...

Fun Show opens Thursday (05/25/11)
The 41st Annual Celebration Spring Fun show, scheduled to begin Thursday night, is moving back inside Calsonic Arena after being outdoors in the big Celebration arena for the past two years. The show, a traditional kickoff to the summer season and a showcase for World Grand Championship contenders, expects attendance of over 6,000. It will run through Saturday night...

Cool rides on display (05/11/11)
This Saturday's Celebration City Region Antique Automobile Club of America Car Show will be a big event, to be sure, attracting exhibitors and spectators from throughout Middle Tennessee and beyond. The show will feature 29 classes and seven special awards; it's free to spectators, and open to anyone who's got a vehicle they'd like to show off, even if it's not the ultimate show car...

Trainers Show finalists repeat Celebration spots (03/22/11)
It was almost like the last class of the 2010 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration revisited. When Star, a crowd favorite whose registered name is actually Moody Star, was called as the stakes winner of the 43rd annual National Trainers Show Saturday night, the crowd went wild...

Fun for funds (03/17/11)
By the time this weekend is over, some walking horse trainers will have a rainbow of ribbons on their stall doors. Some trainers will have trophies, or new horses or new clients. But by the time Wednesday night was over -- some of them had pie on their faces...

Peaches reaches for top trophy (02/11/11)
Okay -- it's not your usual Valentine story. Sandra Johnson of Waterfall Farms visited a friend's hunting plantation more than a decade ago and fell in love. Her husband Bill didn't mind, since he kind of fell hard himself. Now those who know the Johnsons and their amazing stable of walking horse superstar studs won't be surprised to find out that the object of their affections had four feet and a tail -- but they might be surprised to find out it didn't whinny. It barked...

Cooking Channel is a winner (01/02/11)
In June 2009, I wrote a column for the T-G complaining about how Food Network had de-emphasized cooking shows, especially smart cooking shows, in favor of competition shows and personality-driven shows featuring Guy Fieri shouting catch phrases. I knew that Food Network, which was getting good ratings, was unlikely to change its approach. ...

Taste of the Fair (07/13/10)
Does anything go better together than ice cream and the county fair? As much a tradition as livestock classes, clogging, the Tilt-a-Whirl and canned peaches, ice cream deserves its own spotlight at the fair. This year, it will not only be getting a spotlight, it may be getting some national television coverage. ...

Yee haw, haw, haw (07/08/10)
If there's one thing mule and donkey aficionados share beside a love for long ears and braying, it's a sense of humor. Maybe that's why they like the long ears and braying so much ... The 19th annual Great Celebration Mule and Donkey Show opens today at the Calsonic Arena, and that sense of humor is evident in the T-shirts, the banners, the names of the animals, and the names of the farms and ranches from whence they come. ...

F.A.S.T. horse show on fast track (07/01/10)
If you're looking for a break from the neighborhood kids throwing firecrackers, another round of watermelon, or in-laws visiting over the holiday weekend -- head down to the Calsonic Arena Sunday for the F.A.S.T. Showcase horse show. "F.A.S.T. is the Foundation for the Advancement and Support of the Tennessee Walking Show Horse," said Brenda Carlon, a member of the nonprofit organization's board of directors. "We raise funds to support different avenues of the show horse."...

Skills and talent: State 4-H Horse Championships underway (06/23/10)
The kids crowding the Calsonic Arena and the Celebration grounds this week have more in common than their love of horses and horsemanship. Each and every one is a member of a 4-H club somewhere in Tennessee. The Tennessee State 4-H Horse Championships are being held this week, ending Saturday, as kids from 13 to 18 gather to demonstrate their skills and knowledge...

Entries rise, violations fall at Fun Show (06/02/10)
The numbers were up for the Spring Fun Show -- which pleases the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration CEO Dr. Doyle Meadows. There were almost 400 entries in this year's three-day show -- more than twice the number of last year's. The numbers were also down -- which pleases Tony Edwards, the DQP coordinator for SHOW, the Celebration's HIO in charge of inspections...

'Cash' pays off (06/01/10)
The heat, the humidity, even the threat of rain couldn't keep the die-hard Tennessee walking horse fans away from the Celebration's Spring Fun Show as it concluded Saturday night. Even as the stakes class approached, massive black clouds rolled over Shelbyville, lightning flickered within, but all eyes were on the ring...

Fun Show springs into action (05/28/10)
Memorial Day Weekend -- it is a time to remember those who have fallen in service to their country. It's also a time to get together with friends and family to enjoy picnics and that first big weekend on the lake. It's also the annual Spring Fun Show at the Celebration, which started Thursday night...

Meadows likes opening night turnout at Trainers Show (03/18/10)
Only a few classes into the 42nd annual Walking Horse Trainers' Association show, there were already several hundred spectators. "I'm very pleased with the turnout," said Dr. Doyle Meadows, CEO of the Celebration as well as the head of SHOW, the horse industry organization that sanctions the Trainers' Show...

Season's local kickoff begins Wednesday (03/16/10)
It's traditionally the first big show of the horse show season -- the first chance fans get to see if their favorites are coming back this year and what the new crop of colts and fillies look like. Last year, however, the Walking Horse Trainers Association's annual show wasn't the kickoff for the season...

Movie critics will NOT tell me what I want to watch (02/17/10)
I've decided I'm not going to read or watch movie reviews anymore. Twice this weekend watched movies that had been panned by the so-called experts -- and I loved both of them. One was "Julie and Julia," which I only watched because I loved Julia Child, even though I can't stand Meryl Steep...

Sweet taste of success follows cooking show (10/25/09)
If burning, red eyes with dark circles under them are indicators of success, I'm OK with that -- today. That's how most of my friends at the Times-Gazette, including myself, look and feel this morning, which happens to be the day after our sold-out relish� Cooking School and Expo...

A night of fun and recipes as chef wows cooking show crowd (10/21/09)
It's hard to tell who was having more fun Tuesday night at the sold-out Times-Gazette/relish� magazine Cooking Show and Expo with chef Jon Ashton -- the crowd, or Ashton. "It's really, really lovely of you to believe in me and believe in the magazine and let us in your life and have a bit of a laugh," the English cook said at the event, staged at the Calsonic Arena...

relish�/Times-Gazette Cooking Show will be high-energy fun, says chef Ashton (10/18/09)
"Lots of culinary entertainment." That's what folks coming out to see Tuesday's relish�/Times-Gazette Cooking Show and Expo can expect, said relish� chef Jon Ashton, in a phone interview Friday with the Times-Gazette. And who better to explain the evening's venue than the British rascal himself -- the star of the evening's comedy-filled culinary show....

Calsonic Arena crew members are quick change artists (10/16/09)
When Calsonic Arena opened in 1989, 20 years ago, officials from the Celebration and from the arena's benefactor and naming sponsor, Calsonic Manufacturing Corp. (now CalsonicKansei North America), said they hoped it would be not only a place for equestrian competition but also for a wide variety of events to benefit the community...

Good Samaritan needs more than just food (10/15/09)
In these hard times, Good Samaritan has had its hands full trying to help out those in the community who need it the most. While they always accept donations of food, there are needs in other areas as well. Food drives that have already taken place have kept the shelves stocked at the non-profit organization, thanks to recent mentions in the Times-Gazette, as well as a lot of cash on hand to buy more foodstuffs when needed, according to director Cathy Miller....

Spice up your life at Relish/T-G cooking school (08/30/09)
Celebrity chef Jon Ashton brings his audiences to life every time he begins his cooking demonstrations with two parts entertaining banter for every recipe ingredient. And Ashton's show is coming to Shelbyville Oct. 20 when Relish magazine and the Times-Gazette team up to bring the renowned British chef's dynamic blend of cooking techniques and showmanship to Calsonic Arena...

Penne a la vodka is simple yet sophisticated (08/30/09)
I think I have become inspired by the new movie "Julie and Julia," even though as of now I have only seen the previews. Once overwhelmed by my growing pile of recipes I've collected over the years, I now feel driven to organize my recipes and put them to good use. ...

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