Stories from Sunday, October 9, 2016

A nightmare before Christmas by manda allison

"Never quit." That's the message coach Jake Tyre preached to his team in Friday's rivalry, 'Battle of Bedford' against the Community Vikings. Trailing 6-0 with less than a minute to play, sophomore quarterback Colby Melson hit senior Seth Gardner on a hitch, who turned the catch into the game-winning, 35-yard touchdown pass...

Former Bell Buckle mayor Linda Key, now a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, has now survived her first hurricane. Key and her husband moved to Florida 10 years ago, not long after the last major hurricanes to make landfall in Florida -- Dennis, in July 2005, and Wilma, in October 2005. They live about five miles from the beach...

The Bedford Cancer Foundation, and other helpers, cleaned up a stretch of U.S. 231 near Tennova Healthcare last Saturday. The organization cleans the stretch of road as part of the Adopt-A-Highway. Front row (from left): Karen Inman, Leeanne Weaver, Elizabeth Weaver, Pam Inman and Cathy Mercer. Back row (from left): Rebecca Jones, Corey Bates, Emily Campbell, Dr. Navid Monajjem, Connie Nixon-Allen and Ralph Allen. (Submitted photo)

Beth Smith is a teacher at Cascade Elementary School. She is a mother who loves reading and math, as well as restoring old furniture. Do you have a suggestion for Sunday Conversation? E-mail it to sfowler@t-g.com. T-G: Please give your name, grade/subject you teach, and if Cascade is your first teaching assignment. If you have taught elsewhere, or had a previous career, please list it...

Change. Such a powerful word, right? Actually, it's such a powerful word yet so often over-used. When words are over-used they lose their power. It's similar to "amazing, awesome, love" and other words we probably use too frequently. "How is your coffee today, Sadie?" I'm guilty of responding to such basic questions with, "amazing!"...

A management coach has this message for Christians: Don't be frustrated. Be joyful. "Joy does not have to be mysterious," Jeff Spadafora told me. "God is mysterious. But the Master Plan, that's the formula we see in Jesus' discipleship." Spadafora is director of the Halftime Institute's Global Coaching Services and Product Development. ...

Richard Anthony and Deana Elizabeth Stackpole of Shelbyville announce the birth of a daughter, Verity Elizabeth Stackpole, on Sept. 14 in Nashville. The baby girl weighed 7 pounds, 8 oz. She is the granddaughter of Richard and Medina Stackpole, and James and Teresa Wheeler, all of Shelbyville. She is the great-granddaughter of Harry and Elizabeth Molder of Shelbyville...

Abbi Dawn Foster of Shelbyville and Matthew Joseph Grisham of Hendersonville announce their engagement. The bride-elect is the daughter of Steven and Cathy Foster of Shelbyville. She is the granddaughter of Frances and the late Carl Foster, Mattie Ray and the late Bobby Wiser, and the late Paul Riddle, all of Shelbyville...

Butternut squash is fall favorite of mine. I love the sweet flavor and beautiful orange flesh. I had never really had butternut squash until I moved here and Jo Newton served it at a luncheon I attended. It was love at first bite and I've been using it ever since. I make a quick bread with cranberries and butternut. I roast it in cubes for salad with kale and oranges. I roast it with molasses for a side dish. And I puree the roasted flesh for soup. Versatile and yummy...

I got my haircut today. Every time I go to the barbershop I am guaranteed to hear some interesting conversations. Rodney cuts my hair at Yoes Brothers' Barbershop. Today the interesting conversation was about one of the barbers' rings. This Yoes "brother-from-another-mother" has a ring made from the tail hair of an elephant...