Stories from Sunday, May 8, 2011

President George H. W. Bush may not have been a broccoli fan, but he must be in the minority as the average person in the United States eats 4 ½ pounds of broccoli each year. As a cool weather crop, May is the perfect time to enjoy this tasty and versatile vegetable. ...

A moment of silliness captured as the photographer readied a family photo shoot captivated our judging panel and came away with this year's top honors in the Shelbyville Times-Gazette Mother's Day photo contest. "The girls and I already had the giggles because there was a couch sitting outside," said Tina Corley, first place winner. "Angie [Gambill] had told us we were being too silly, and then snapped this photo. "...

Wartrace guitar-maker Don Gallagher and the staff at Gallagher Guitar Co., along with artist Wanda Johnson, have created a unique custom-made guitar which will be given to the winner of the National Flatpick Guitar Championship at this year's 40th annual Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kan...

Bedford County Board of Education will move forward with plans to give school security camera access to local emergency dispatchers in the event of an emergency such as a fire or a Columbine-style school shooting. But the school system, citing a letter from its law firm which raises privacy concerns about allowing outside access, wants a memorandum of understanding relieving the school system of any liability in the event of problems...

Shelbyville's mayor will officially form the city's new recycling committee at this week's regular meeting. Members of the new committee will be councilman Jamie Williams, Kathy Harwell, Kathy Overstreet, Renee Gordon, David Lindsey, Elisabeth Anderson and Debbie Corvino...

A federal lawsuit against the city and county has been refiled by a local wrecker operator to preserve the statute of limitations a year after the litigation was dismissed. Robert L. Bushnell filed a complaint for injunctive relief and damages this week in the same case he filed in 2008 against Bedford County, the city of Shelbyville, its police department and a competing wrecker service, Ray's Paint and Body...

Two Shelbyville Central infield errors in the first inning set the stage for the entire game in a 10-4 loss to visiting Columbia in the opening round of the District 8-AAA Tournament on Friday night. The Eaglette defense committed five miscues in the game. That's not what coach Robin Ayers wants to see at the start of the postseason...

Top-seeded Kasondra Johnson earned an 8-2 singles win for Shelbyville Central over Columbia Central's Stephanie Riley on Friday. Unfortunately for the Eaglettes, that was their only win in a 4-1 loss to the Lady Lions in the semifinals of the District 8-AAA girls team tournament at Woodland Park in Columbia...

Sophomore right-hander Hayden Stone pitched a three-hit shutout to lead top seed Columbia to a 9-0 win over Shelbyville Central on Friday in second round action of the District 8-AAA Tournament at Columbia State Community College. Stone fanned eight batters and walked only one in seven innings of work...

Top-seeded Cascade used a dramatic touch to pick up its first win of the 2011 postseason. With runners on first and second and one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, Champion junior Jared Carkuff launched a ball over the left-center field fence to give Cascade a 4-1 victory over fourth-seeded Moore County in Wartrace on Friday night...

EAGLEVILLE -- Second-seeded Cascade placed five girls in the multi-hit category to bang out an 8-0 win over third-seeded Moore County in the second round of the District 9-A tournament on Saturday. "We played the way we're capable of playing," Cascade coach Ralph Edwards said. "We played today the way we were playing before we had the 10-day break. We hit the ball well, ran the bases well, played great defense...

Happy Mother's Day Ladies! In this week's article I want to talk about a site that will give you ladies a chance to get out of the kitchen. (This might be an article you want to pass on to your husbands, especially if you don't have dinner plans for Mother's Day)...

"Praise be to God" has been Tracy Layne's affirmation for several years now. She and husband Dereck Layne have faced many trials and tribulations along their journey to first-time parenthood and Tracy kept a personal journal documenting their difficult days, ending each entry with those four powerful words...

I have a book of poems, published in 1917, that my mother gave me years ago. It is poems written by her favorite poet, Edgar A. Guest. This book has been a treasure of mine, and I have quoted some of Guest's poems in a number of my sermons over the years...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter was submitted before a selection was announced last week. To The Editor: Most folks are aware that our school board is currently searching for a new Director of Schools to replace our current Director who will retire in June. I hope our school board is cautious in evaluating and interviewing candidates for this position and if the right person has not applied that they take the time to find the right person for the job...