The large crowd attending the Edmonton Metcalfe County Chamber of Commerce Christmas Banquet enjoyed a delightful evening. The Metcalfe County High School Cafeteria was transformed into an elegant banquet room with round tables covered with linen cloths and candle centerpieces. President Jamie Parke made opening remarks before Dr. Benny Lile offered the invocation. Diane’s Cakes and Catering served a delicious meal. Metcalfe County Historian/Comedian/Attorney Herb Sparks presented the 23rd Annual Jim C. Coleman Community Service Award to Metcalfe County Emergency Management Director Emory Kidd (see additional story). The very entertaining Brandon Bell presented awards to retiring Chamber Directors Amy Branstetter, Lorrie Gilpin and Dr. …show more content…
Please excuse any errors that might be in the following as it is quite a task to get everything written down in the fast pace of the drawing. Every donation was greatly appreciated. Rose McQueary won a cordless drill donated by Ace Hardware. Jamie Howard won a plaque donated by Charlotte Atkins. Ann Nance won a Christmas centerpiece donated by Awards, Inc. Roxanna Herald won two tickets to Barn Lot Theater. Bill Lagermann won a Carhartt jacket. Pam Grubbs won a shirt donated by Main Street Apparel. Eddie Shirley won a gift donated by Cave Hill Motel. Brandon Bell won a fondue set donated by D & N Discount Sales. P J Martin won a Christmas arrangement donated by Echo Florist. Erin Garrett won a UK stocking and Sharon Howard won a Christmas arrangement donated by Edmonton State Bank. Rebecca Pennington and Wes Jolly won $25 gift cards donated by Farmers Rural Electric Coop. Donnie Bennett won a gift donated by John Gardner. Allison Piper won a purse donated by H J Shirts & More. Harold Stilts won a decorative lantern donated by Howard & Howard Law Office. Amy Neighbors won a wooden plaque donated by L-S Supply, Inc. Kay Harbison won a shirt donated by Metcalfe Drugs. Austin Coffey won a Christmas arrangement donated by Metcalfe County Schools. Sheila Scott won a gift donated by Traci Peppers. Clinton Smith, John Ray Ford, Doug Smith, Mica Pence, and Cheyenne Walden won gifts donated by Two Cousins Piddling Barn. Mike Shive won cologne donated by Nunn Drugs. Mary Lee Sandidge won a Mary Kay package donated by Pam Froedge. Lu Carey won a decorative lantern donated by The Printing Press. Tommy Garrett won a $25 gift certificate donated by Save A Lot. Brent Parker, Donna Caffee, Torrie Osbon, and Charlotte Sparks won folding chairs donated by South Central Bank. Eddie Jessie, Barbara Branstetter, Hope Sholar and Bonnie Shaw won gifts donated by South Central Rural Telephone. Kathryn Thomas won a Christmas Candle donated
$100,000 cumulatively to the Ensworth School, and have made gifts of $10,000 or higher to Centerstone, Ducks Unlimited, and the Mccallie School. There are also many gifts of an “unspecified amount” to the Junior League of Nashville, Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art, the Nashville Alliance for Public Education and Vanderbilt University.
Just about everyone in the school bought a raffle ticket, and the profit of the tickets
These fundraisers are done in several ways the very first means of donation came from a telethon conducting in 1983 by founders Marie Osmond, John Schneider, Mick Shannon, and Joe Lake. After the success of the telethon with nearly 4.8 million dollars raised, many large corporations joined in the efforts to provide resources for sick and injured children. Many high-name corporations such as Marriott International, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Cosco, Dairy Queen and Ace Hardware are leading participants in donations. These donations are done in the form of tournaments, relays, telethons, and various other marathons. One of the most well-known forms of donations is done though the CMN paper balloon sales.
the town and has been in more than seventy lotteries he likes to go by tradition
One of these is Old Man Warner. Mr. Warner is the oldest man in town and, therefore, having the most knowledge of what the original tradition was all about. He lets us know that there has “always been a lottery” (77). He is repetadly shown “warning” the younger parents and the younger generation of what they are in for if they do away with the lottery.
If you we're in the Niles area last December, you might have heard singing coming from a nearby house just off from Fifth Street in Niles. It wasn't Christmas Carolers spreading Holiday joy to the neighborhood, it was the many great individuals welcoming a new home owner to their newly built house. Christmas came early for a lucky Niles area family as Habitat for Humanity completed another build to someone whom had thought that home ownership was only a dream.
The Texas Lottery Commission created a competition for its lottery logo. Designs from a contracted agency competed against the designs of the general public. One logo from each side was placed in head to head in a competition and the winning logo was a cowboy hat thrown high in celebration. The winner was Susan Holten from Carrollton from the public design, and the logo is still in use today.
Novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, once said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Jimmy Valentine was a safe cracker who had robbed countless banks. During a four year jail stay, Valentine was pardoned by the mayor and took a train down to a small Arkansas town named Elmore. There he changed his name to Ralph D. Spencer, opened a shoe store, and met his future fiance, Miss Annabel Adams, who happened to be the banker's daughter. During a vault inspection, lead by Mr. Adams, Annabel’s niece locked her sister into the vault while they were playing. Valentine cracked open the safe to rescue her, consequently revealing his true identity. Jimmy Valentine is a criminal, but he has demonstrated
The first item that I had was my red WKU towel. I told the students that I really love being a student at WKU and that is why I had a red towel in my box. Secondly, I showed them my Jeff Brohm bobble head. I asked the students if they knew
categories part one of the fee went to the bowling house, part two went to prizes and part
On Wednesday, May 23rd, I attended the College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksongs. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Farnum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs.
Today it seems as though Christmas has fallen victim to materialism and commercialization. Rather than it being a time of loving and giving, it has become a stressful season of greed. Amidst all the hustle and bustle, it is important for us to recognize the true reason of the season, and celebrate in a fashion that exemplifies that reason.
Every year, they are awarded to seven deserving awardees. Five awardees receive The Canada Gairdner International Awards while two others receive either The John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award or The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award. Each of the Gairdner laureates receives a CAD $100,000 prize, which they can use as they please.
We, Aimee Johnson and Jessie Virnig, along with Amy Wilson and Shawn Klimek, decided to try to give the homeless a little hope. The week before Christmas we went door to door and collected food for the local homeless shelter. We decided to focus on collecting food because around the Christmas season, a lot of emphasis is put on toy drives and people sometimes overlook the fact that the homeless still need to eat. In order to broaden our research, we decided to collect food from more than one group of people. We went to an average middle class neighborhood and to a college dormitory. Before we went out into the neighborhood and dorms, we prepared a thank you letter to give to everyone explaining to them who we were, to tell them that we were collecting food for the homeles...
Emma, Marissa and I are in charge of the making the lefse. This has been our job ever since we were little girls, becoming experts through all our years of experience. My grandma makes the most amazing food and always has enough to feed us for a week. After we stuff ourselves full of delicious, lasagna, salads, and hot dishes all made with love and while the adults lean back comfortably in their chairs, us kids go put on our pajamas and troop downstairs to open our gifts. The most memorable gift would be the ring my grandma gave me that used to be my great-grandmothers who died a couple days after my grandma turned fifteen. My great-grandma loved to travel and had a great passion for fashion, so this circle of metal with a little diamond in the middle and a floral pattern surrounding it, had been bought in California and has been in the family since. “Bang, bang, bang!” A huge pounding comes from the front door. Dogs bark, adults grin, and we race to open the creaky door. Santa Claus, eyes twinkling, dressed in red with coal-black boots, and swinging a sack over his right shoulder, steps inside. He plops down heavily; ringing merry bells and passes them off to David, my brother, telling him seriously to keep ringing them so Rudolf won’t fly away without him. With wide eyes, little David shakes the bells with such rigor that if Rudolf was in the North Pole he would be able to hear them. We each take a turn perching on his knee, hesitant at first but then opening up and telling him our age and that, “yes we have been really, really, really good this year.” As Santa’s beard tickles our chin as we lean in close for a picture and his big belly shakes as he laughs at the same time as you start to giggle. Then he opens his sack and pulls out gifts wrapped in colorful paper for each of us. With a few cookies for the road, crumbs in his beard and a