Stories from Friday, October 21, 2005

Because she cares -- about friends, family and colleagues -- Brenda Hodge has volunteered to co-chair the 11th Annual Bedford County Heart Walk, coming up Saturday, Oct. 29. "The American Heart Association Heart Walk is very important to me due to personal and professional reasons," asserts Hodge. "I saw my father, Floyd Collins, struggle with cardiovascular disease (CVD) for years. My mother, Mary Collins, suffers from congestive heart failure, but it is being controlled with medication."...

Bell Buckle's planning commission wants to be designated a regional planning commission and will ask for the city council's approval as well as an OK from the county commission. However, the request will not be submitted to the county body until the planning commission approves Bell Buckle's subdivision regulations, which should take place over the next two months...

Strike up the band! Bedford County Board of Education voted Thursday night to allocate a total of $60,000 for instructional expenses related to local band programs -- $20,000 for each of the county's three high school band programs (each of which is also tied in with a middle school)...

An all-volunteer staff is a chief goal for the Bedford County Fair's new president, he told a couple hundred people Thursday in the Agriculture and Education Center at the group's volunteer appreciation banquet. "I'm going to try to get this all back on a volunteer basis," said Raymond Pimental, the man elected to be president of the 2006 Bedford County Fair scheduled for July 24-30. "I ask all of you to help find volunteers."...

Shelbyville will be facing one of Region 5-4A's top running backs when they visit Nashville Maplewood tonight at 7. The Golden Eagles (0-8, 0-5) are still searching for their first win of the season with just two games remaining on the schedule. Maplewood (6-2, 4-1) has been ranked in the state's top 10 all season and is currently 10th with losses to two state-rankede counterparts, McGavock and Hillsboro. ...

Funeral services for Mrs. Algie Marie Green of Manchester will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Gary Irvin officiating. Burial will follow at Concord Cemetery in Manchester.

Funeral services for Irma Banks Lentz, 91, of Shelbyville, who died this morning at Bedford County Nursing Home, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. The Rev. Mark Ashley will officiate and burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery.