Stories from Monday, July 9, 2007

The number of incidents of poor sportsmanship and win-at-all-costs attitudes always seem to rise as tensions mount and the stakes get higher for players, coaches and fans during the Babe Ruth All-Star season. Never was that more evident than at Looney Riddle Memorial Field in Manchester on Saturday evening, site of the Babe Ruth District 6 All-Star tournament...

Funeral services for Billy Joe Harden, 45, of Fairhope, Ala., formerly of Shelbyville, who died suddenly Sunday at his home, will be 10 a.m. Friday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Steve Murphree officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.

Ralph Everette Vineyard, 91, died Sunday in Shelbyville. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday at Chattanooga Funeral Home with the Rev. Mike Hubble and the Rev. Rick Spell officiating. Interment and a Masonic service will follow in Hamilton Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at noon EDT Wednesday.

Lois Westbrooks, 91, of Unionville died Monday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Westbrooks Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Tedder officiating. Visitation with the family will be 4-7 p.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.

Jeff Hatcher and I'm Packin' A Pistol added another championship title to their growing list of 2007 Walking Horse championship credentials on Saturday night as the Woodbury Walking Horse Show came to a successful conclusion. Charlene Gibson is the owner of the horse that also claimed the National Trainers' Show title among his spring victories...

The Walking Horse Trainers' Auxiliary hosted the tremendously successful 23rd Annual Money Tree Classic on Thursday. On a perfect summer evening, approximately 3,000 spectators gathered at the Bedford County Agricultural Center to watch 293 entries compete in what will certainly be one of the largest one-night horse shows this season...

Saturday morning hours of July 21 may dawn in the same way they always do for muggles, but for muggles that are fans of the renowned series about Harry Potter, chances are the morning will be quiet. There will be something afoot -- and it's called reading...

Joe Wayne Tucker in Flat Creek is a manager. His concern with the details and his ability to think outside the box has led him to manage his cattle farm in ways that are outside of the norm. An engineer by training and retired from a career that included work at both Huntsville and Tullahoma, he is known by many to pay attention to detail. Engineers do that. Some say that their world is put together in neat little packages, and the details are the important things...

After plating two runs without a hit in the first inning, Shelbyville Senior American Post 23 Legion batted around and scored three more times in the third over Columbia American Legion Post 19. Base hits by Ben Jones, Chad Hunter and Stefin Reed keyed the rally that put Post 23 up 5-0 over the Maury County boys...