Stories from Thursday, September 3, 2015

Frederick 'Chris' Keller, 50, of Shelbyville died Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 at his home. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at North Fork Baptist Church.

Ruby Elizabeth Kilgore Chitwood, 90, of Lewisburg died Thursday, September 3, 2015. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Greg Gwin officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday.

The 77th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration continues at 7 tonight. Call 684-5915 or go to twhnc.com for more information. l The Celebration Trade Fair will be held through Saturday inside Calsonic Arena. Hours are 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. each day...

The annual city/county fireworks display was rained out in July, but it'll be made up at H.V. Griffin Park on Labor Day. The event kicks off at 4 p.m. with the children's Red, White and Blue parade. All kids should be adorned in red, white and blue and their wagons, tricycles and bikes may be decorated at well. Children must also be accompanied by at least one adult per group...

Horses do not have to stay on the Celebration grounds in advance of entering the ring, show officials said Wednesday. The Celebration lifted a rule that horses must stay on the grounds prior to showing in championship classes, CEO Mike Inman said...

Questions are being raised about the condition of a main sewer line running under the section of flume that collapsed in January -- and, if it was compromised, if the line contributed to the failure. Following a presentation to the council of the work completed to date, public works director Mark Clanton said that at the current time, "I think we're OK," but would not give a 100 percent guarantee...

Call them selfies with a purpose. September is National Voter Registration Month, and as we look toward another presidential election season, state and local officials say now is the perfect time to make sure you're registered to vote. The next election in Bedford County will be on March 1. ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has released these inspection and scratch results for the Celebration. Numbers are from the beginning of the show through Tuesday. Entries Inspected 94 Entries Scratched Prior to Inspection 17...

The Harris High School Class of 1965 recently held a reunion. Pictured: (first row, from left) Gene Cooper, Anita Buckman, Mildred Thompson, Louise Collins, Mary Maupin and Mamie Rippy; (second row) J. P. Rippy, Janice Brooks, Carol Washington, Fredia Lusk, Mary Dolce, Dorothy Wright, Linda Harvey, Mose Ransom, Jr. and John Loupe; (third row) Lawrence Evans, Joe Frazier and Glenn Johnson. (Submitted photo)

Southside Elementary School students pose with employees of Kroger, a corporate sponsor, which donated school supplies. Pictured are: first-graders Elijah Derryberry, Delaney Ketterman, Linda Alcala and Corey George, and Kroger representatives Nathan Arnold and Bubba Dennis. (Submitted photo)

Community Middle School students collected a truckload of canned food for Good Samaritan. Front row, from left, are Noah Bowling, Brianna Beech, Calley Hand, Korie Ann Beasley, Good Samaritan director Cathy Miller, Jacie Neeley and Ashley King; back row, Jesa Moore, Ethan Lohn, Macie Lemmons, Gage Ralston and Mackenzie Newkirk. (Submitted photo)

Last year the students at Southside received a grant that provided shoes to all students, faculty and staff. Last Monday, representatives from the Convoy of Hope Rural Compassion came all the way from Missouri to visit Southside School and put faces to the names of the people they helped. Pictured are: School Board member Glenn Forsee, Assistant Principal Layne Talbott, Principal Reita Vaughn, and Convoy of Hope Rural Compassion Representatives Kathy and Randy Cartwright. (Submitted photo)

Lydia Darnell's students from Community Middle School recently toured the Celebration grounds. Pictured in front of the Celebration sign (from left) are: Blysse McKee, Josie Chapman, Case Grizzle, Khari Pentecost, Billy Stallings, Martina Ramirez, Darnell, Tristan White, Nathan Bailiff, Jaqual Holman and Josue Juarez....

The excuses given by the USDA for the increase in horses disqualified at the Celebration each year are being proven erroneous by facts and data readily available on the USDA-APHIS web site...

The other day, we got an opinion submission from someone upset at the actions of a particular elected official. The reader was questioning this particular official's stand on some issue, and he was trying to accuse this official of being in the pocket of a leader from the opposing political party. ...

How many emails do you delete every day? If you are like the rest of us, probably quite a few. Spam, offers from stores you've done business with, that cat video you've already seen -- we press delete and go about our business. But how many of you go to the trouble of setting up a private email server, and then totally wipe 30,000 messages from it? Why would someone do this?...

When the TSSAA redrew classification for the 2015 high school football season, the new format put an added emphasis on region games, since only the top four teams from each region earn a berth in the postseason. On Friday night, Cascade (1-1) will be looking for its first Region 4-AA win at Watertown (1-1)...

After a slow start in Week 1, the Community Vikings got untracked in a big way by defeating Cannon County 53-14 at home to open their 2015 football season. A bye week has given the Vikings a couple of weeks to prepare for their region opener Friday night on the road against the Jackson County Blue Devils...

Levi Michael Berman, 29, of Shelbyville died Monday, August 31, 2015. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m.