Stories from Monday, August 8, 2005

LA VERGNE -- Ever have one of those days where it just seemed like everything you tried to do went wrong? You just want to throw your hands up and give in to whatever power is making that spot on the calendar the worst you've seen in quite some time...

Readers of the Times-Gazette web site, in a non-scientific poll, overwhelmingly favor Harris Middle School over Bedford County Medical Center or the Medical Arts Building for adaptive use as a county office building. Another option -- selling all three and building a new facility -- was ranked second in the poll...

Map reading and improvised explosive devices were two of the topics taught Saturday during the last weekend of National Guard drills before deployment for men of Shelbyville-based B Battery 1-115th. The unit leaves Sept. 11 for the Middle East. Listed as an artillery unit, the battery of some 162 soldiers would appear to be headed for duty as a transportation unit because that's their commander's specialty, but even Capt. Ted Webb isn't so sure...

WARTRACE -- Federal horse inspectors were working at three Tennessee Walking Horse shows last week to the dismay of many trainers and owners, some of whom just loaded up and went home. Only 62 horses were shown at Saturday night's Wartrace show, down from several hundred in a normal year, a show spokesperson said...

Raymond Earl Enfinger, 67, of Donalsonville, Ga., died Sunday. Funeral services will be 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday at Evans-Skipper Funeral Home in Donalsonville. Burial will follow in Corinth Cemetery.

Mary Vincent (Kwapinski) Davidson, a native of Bell Buckle, died Feb. 23 in Lubbock, Texas. Friends and family will gather to celebrate her life at the home where she grew up, 158 Old Coop Road, Bell Buckle, from noon-4 p.m. Saturday.

Mrs. Mary Josephine King Helton, 82, of Murfreesboro died there Saturday. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with the Rev. Marshall Gupton and the Rev. Scott Yates officiating. Burial will follow at Cothran Cemetery in Rover.

Funeral services for Orville VanderReyden, 85, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Mark Ashley officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Violet Road Cemetery in Goshen, Ind.