Stories from Thursday, July 15, 2004

Heather Tait had left behind a career in the music industry -- working for radio stations and record labels -- for volunteer work with AmeriCorps. But the project she was working on closed three months after she relocated to California. "I had nothing to do when the project closed," said Tait. Bored to death, she took scraps of paper from around her apartment and began drawing on them with her favorite writing instrument -- a Sharpie brand permanent marker...

Rainy weather made for a lot of slushy kicks during the 2004 Southern Regional Soccer Championships in Austin, Texas June 24-30. Among the 184 teams with nearly 4,000 players that participated was the Brentwood-based team, Real Madrid, of which Shelbyville resident Hannah Martin is a member...

Brett Rogers and Scott Anderton, both members of Shelbyville Central High School's golf team, tied for seventh in the Boys Masters 16-18 division of a Vince Gill Junior Tour event Tuesday at Henry Horton State Park, shooting 79s. SCHS teammate Greg Embry finished at 87...

Family members reported this morning that 14-year-old Colton Shreve continues to improve from serious injuries he suffered last Thursday in a brush fire, although he is on antibiotics after developing a blood infection Tuesday. Colton, a rising freshman at Cascade High School, was among a youth group with Southside Baptist Church doing mission work when he was burned in a brush fire. He suffered burns on his face, neck and both arms and was life-flighted to Vanderbilt Hospital...

Multiple charges were filed against a unlicensed, uninsured driver after she allegedly tried to drive away -- with her injured, unrestrained small child -- after crashing into another vehicle at the North Cannon Boulevard-North Main Street intersection late Wednesday night...

From T-G Staff Reports Motlow College President Art Walker announced this month that 12 area high school juniors, including Jamelia Brown and Brittany Holman of Shelbyville Central High School, have successfully completed the college's Geier Pre-College Program, a pilot program funded by a Geier Grant through the Tennessee Board of Regents...

There is little shy and retiring about Shelbyville's Sandra K. Avent. She may be speaking out for her Lord -- from the pulpit at Mt. Zion Haley Missionary Baptist Church or one-on-one. She may be working for inmates and their families as field director for Prison Fellowship, or simply discussing Shelbyville's history...