Stories from Saturday, May 20, 2006

Shelbyville Central and new head coach Jason Hardy closed out spring football practice with a scrimmage against Blackman Friday afternoon at SCHS Stadium. Each team's varsity ran a total of three 10-play series and 30 offensive plays. Blackman scored twice during their first series on a pair of long touchdown runs, both of which could have resulted in tackles for a loss...

Well, the president made his speech on the immigration issue Monday and the opinions on it are as mixed as they've ever been. Bush stated he was sending 6,000 National Guard troops to the 2,000-mile border, but only to provide intelligence and surveillance support to US Border Patrol agents. The troops will not catch nor detain illegal immigrants...

Boycotts directed against movies and TV shows are often spectacularly counter-productive. In many cases, they give the target product free publicity which results in more people, not fewer, checking it out. In addition, they make it look as if the boycotters are trying to take choices away from people. They turn the powerful positive message of Christianity into a message of nay-saying: "I don't like this movie, so you can't watch it."...

A memorial service for Freeman Y. "Trip" Wheeler III of Wheel, who died May 16 in Colorado Springs, Colo., will be held 4 p.m. MST Thursday at Colorado Springs First Presbyterian Church. Another memorial service will be held locally at a later date, probably at Three Bandits Hunt & Clay Sport Club on Jack Pickle Road, of which Wheeler was owner/operator.

William Edward Anderson Jr., 45, of Shelbyville, died Thursday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Bird Street Church of Christ, where he was a member, with Anthony Booker officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Blakemore Funeral Home and Directors is in charge of arrangements.

The 36th Annual Celebration Spring Fun Show will return to its traditional schedule of classes when the show opens a three-night run on Thursday at Calsonic Arena. One of the most important spring shows in the walking horse industry, the Fun Show has been a springboard toward the World Grand Championship for many of the top horses of the breed...

A Shelbyville horse farm and its president, who's a member of the Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame, have paid civil penalties and accepted suspensions from their business as a result of federal allegations of soring. A related case that was set to be heard by an administrative law judge in Nashville this week has been rescheduled in Shelbyville during two weeks in January and two weeks in March, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

The terrifying event that led to an appreciation reception Thursday at Bedford County Nursing Home happened several years ago in the hospital at Murfreesboro. "My nurse started hollering 'Code Blue! Code Blue," Edward Dillingham, 79, explained calmly in the hallway between two nursing stations at the county-owned nursing home on Union Street. "The next thing I knew was hearing the nurse say, 'He's waking up.'"...

Charges were filed against two women early Thursday after police were called to a Farrar's Trailer Park home to remove an unwanted person. Purses were left behind and inspected in the area they were found after Denise Lavon Ransom, 29, and Barbara Gail Ransom, 49, both of Thompson Street, were taken to Bedford County Jail about 5 a.m., Officer Tim Fox said...

Shelbyville's building official Wayne Williams was terminated from his position last week following action he intended to take in regards to a controversial asphalt plant. Williams, a 12-year employee of the city, was notified of his dismissal on May 10...