Stories from Thursday, June 10, 2010

Edna Ghee Blanton, 91, of Brentwood, a 70-year resident of Rover, died Tuesday at Alive Hospice in Nashville after a brief battle with leukemia. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill, with the Rev. Dan Reed officiating. Burial will follow at Simpson Cemetery in Rover. Visitation will be from 2-8 p.m. Thursday and beginning at noon Friday.

The Better Business Bureau has alerted Middle Tennessee businesses to the sales practices of Premier Impressions, also known as Universal Adcom of Arlington, Texas. Callers to the Better Business Bureau report that the company is currently selling advertising to create business awareness along with promoting the Shelbyville & Bedford County Chamber of Commerce...

Customers of Bell Buckle's water department will soon see an increase on their monthly bills. At the Tuesday night board meeting of the mayor and aldermen, the board voted to approve an increase in rates and fees. "The justification for that is the maintenance of the lines," said Mayor Dennis Webb, who added that those outside of town would have greater increases because the farther distance usually meant higher costs for maintenance...

The Court Approved Special Advocate program, better known as CASA, held a luncheon Tuesday at the Fly Arts Building to raise awareness and money. CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to advocate for abused and neglected children. CASA recently separated from the Center for Child Development and celebrated its new beginning at the luncheon...

The creation of 34 new jobs and a $7.25 million investment in Bedford County was announced Wednesday at the former location of DESA Industries. Kentucky-based Gold River Feed Products will open a new location at 783 Eagle Blvd. that will employ the workers over the next five years...

Shelbyville Team Camp No. 1 is complete with roughly 261 games in the books from girls basketball action from four different venues across Bedford County. Young ladies were able to bang some of the rust off and work on fundamentals while coaches were able to assess players that hadn't seen as much floor time the prior season...

Cascade's Chelsie Johnson recently became the latest in a long line of Bedford County student-athletes to continue their career in sports by signing scholarship papers with Martin Methodist College. Johnson, who is the first female to earn a soccer scholarship from the Bell Buckle/Wartrace school, takes her game west to Pulaski where the RedHawks look to improve on a successful 2009 campaign that took them all the way to the NAIA national quarterfinals. ...