Stories from Thursday, April 19, 2007

Funeral services for Peggy Ann Manire, 62, of Shelbyville, who died Thursday at Bedford County Medical Center after an extended illness, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Doug Mitchell will officiate and burial will follow in Cothran Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-9 p.m. Friday.

Funeral services for Elizabeth Troxler Wesson, 86, of Rowesville, who died Thursday morning at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma, will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. De Hennessy officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will be 4-7 p.m. Friday.

Editor's note: Continuation in a series by the Times-Gazette covering issues related to the walking horse industry. Horses in competitive events, specifically the walking horse, is a special concern of Friends of Sound Houses, Inc. (FOSH). Spokesmen for the organization stress the effort of promoting "sound" naturally gaited horses...

The new Bedford County Medical Center will apparently not include space for Bedford Home Health, members of the county commission's courthouse and county property learned Tuesday night. County Mayor Eugene Ray discussed details of the meeting with the Times-Gazette on Wednesday...

Host Shelbyville Central and Coffee County combined to score 27 runs and bang out 23 hits Wednesday night as the final score -- 14-13 in favor of the Eagles -- resembled a football, rather than baseball, game. "We might have grown up a little bit as a team in this game," Shelbyville coach Brad Frasier said. "We got behind and fought back a couple of times and there at the end found a way to get the win."...

Community continues to play shorthanded due to various and sundry reasons. That is never a good thing for a team that is already thin at most positions and depend solely on a group of young men that are barely into their teen years to compete against older, more experienced teams...

Forrest pitcher Shelby Stinnett picked up where she left off from her previous performance against Cascade in which she was a hit away from a perfect game. On Wednesday, the Lady Rocket freshman hurled a no-hitter and did not issue a walk, but her defense made a single error behind her to prevent perfection in the 10-0 Forrest home victory...

Webb took down host St. Andrew's-Sewanee 5-0 thanks to a trio of goal scorers on Tuesday. Sung Joon Hwang opened up the Feet scoring trend in the 20th minute off an assist from Mic Floeter. Chris Hoover followed with a pair of goals thanks to assists from Sean Kim and Kwun Ho Jeong...

Bedford County Medical Center broke ground Wednesday on a new $35 million hospital which officials say will serve as an economic development tool for the community. Construction on the hospital is expected to begin in two to four weeks and take 15-18 months to complete, with the hospital to open in the second half of 2008...

The Spring Classic, a quarter horse show sanctioned by the American Quarter Horse Association, will be held Friday through Sunday in Calsonic Arena. Action begins at 9 a.m. each day, and there's no charge for spectator admission. AQHA shows test horses' abilities in competitive events. Some of those, as described by the AQHA web site, include:...

Editor's note: Continuation in a series of stories regarding the walking horse industry. Every action has a reaction! Mothers across the world have taught this lesson for years and for most children, the idea has set a standard of obedience and the learned lesson of choosing between right and wrong. Repercussions for those straying from those standards are often costly and life altering...

Funeral services for Jessie Mae Harvey Majors, 71, of Mt. Juliet, who died Sunday at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tenn., will be 1 p.m. Friday at Victory Baptist Church in Mt. Juliet with Frederick Jenkins officiating and Harold Searcy as eulogist. Entombment will be at Hermitage Memorial Gardens...