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Communities The Leaf-Chronicle www.theleafchronicle.com Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Page B6 DQTSOIWJUf SPOTLIGHT DDE pays to city The wild West comes a little closer to home til r.l .1 i ke 1 Contributed photo Clarksville Department of Electricity President Kenneth Spradlin, left, recently presented the utility's annual In-lieu-of-tax payment to city Mayor Don Trotter. The utility paid $1 .87 million to the city of Clarksville for the fiscal year 2004-05. By VERDA NAPIER Communities correspondent It could be a scene from the musical except this buggy doesn't have a fringe on the top. Last Saturday, my neighbor Judith Tate traveled with her wanderlust hiker husband, "Model-T," and 12-year-old granddaughter, Rebekah, to Livingston County, Ky, to sample a bit of the old wild West. "Cowboy Days" is an annual bash put on by Eddie and Linda DeFew for friends and neighbors who like to don western garb, spin some tall yarns and eat a lot of barbecue.

Linda DeFew is the mother of Matthew Hatchett, who works at Dunbar Cave and is a friend of Model-T. While in Kentucky, Judith met her cousin, William Miller, whom she hadn't seen in nearly 30 years. William who lives just across the Ohio River in Illinois, had driven his horse, Caroline, and buggy across on the ferry. Needless to say, Caroline got a good workout, taking folks on rides around the area Model-T wowed die Western aficionados with a talk about the Appalachian Trail. I would give "my petunias to have gone with the Tates, but Roy wasn't up to the trip.

Perhaps another time. FARM BUREAU WOMEN Frost to be rodeo bullfighter Sitting in the buggy drawn by Caroline Rebekah Pousson and Judith Tate. Mrs. Louise Johnson celebrated her 91st birthday June 22. Louise is a patient at General Care Convalescent Center and was given a surprise party by some of the members of Dot-sonville Baptist Church.

Those attending were Pastor Herbert and Ann McFadden, their daughter and granddaughter, the Michael Martin family and Cecilia Bowles and her grandchild. After singing happy birthday to Louise, the group en- Isaac Frost of Clarksville has been selected by Lone Star Rodeo Co. as their rodeo bullfighter. The Lone Star Rodeo Co. travels In 11 states.

Frost was trained by the nationally famous Sankey Rodeo Schools. "Isaac was an exceptional student," Lyle Sankey said. "His athletic ability and desire propelled him into his current position. I expect great things now and in the future A fel fit Contributed photo from Isaac' CHS student shares lessons learned at citizenship event for service Mary Wyatt of Clarksville recently retired from Fort Campbell High School after 24 years of working as a food service worker and later as cafeteria supervisor. She was honored by food service director Sandy Durham and the Fort Campbell School System May 26 with a dinner and was honored by Elaine Gallivan, Kenneth Killebrew and the Fort Campbell High School staff on May 27 with a retirement breakfast If it Kristen Lynn Wayne, Clarksville, graduated from the University of Mississippi with a master's degree in business administration Kathryn Hatcher recent-lv oraHuated from Transvl- vania University, Lexington, Ky, witn a bachelor's degree in business A graduate of Northeast Hign Hatcher School, Hatcher is the daughter of Hugh and Joy Hatcher of Clarksville.

Julia Grace Adames, 2005 graduate of Montgomery Central High School, has been selected to attend LeadAmerica's Congressional Student Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. The CSLC is a college-accredited invitational leadership program for our most academically talented and promising young leaders. Exceptional high school students who have a record of academic achievement and extracurricular and community involvement are invited to participate from across the United States and internationally. Adames also was awarded the Cumberland Electric Membership Corp. scholarship and the University of Memphis Emerging Leaders Scholarship.

She is the daughter of Leo and Margaret Adames of Cunningham. Montgomery Central High School teacher Mica-hel Brown has completed the Activity Based PhysicsAstronomy Institute for Middle and Junior High School teachers at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Throughout the seven-day program, teachers par ticipated in activities designed to meet the physical science and earth science objectives in the Ten Brown nessee science curriculum This program is in its third year and is funded by a grant from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the U.S. Department of Education through the Improving Teacher Quality Grant Program. Keith Frawley of Clarksville recendy graduated from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

Liberty University is a private, Christian liberal arts university in Lynchburg, Va Clarksville residents named to the dean's list at the University of Memphis for the spring 2005 semester were Caroline M. Averitt, Jefferson R. Brant; Joshua D. Brollier, Jerod S. Byrd, Charlotte Cozzens, Theresa Crampton, Biancha T.

Dar-; den, Alicia MDickes, Joel Fryer, Shelby D. Gardner, Michael J. Gomez, Edmund D. Hadley HL Jessica M. Hauf, Melanie Hedge-speth, Shannon R.

Pickett; Lora R. Pigg, Betty KY Rudolph, Amy Slater, John R. Smithfield, Eric W. Snyder, Toni N. States, Brittany R.

Thompson and Patience A. Winters. Also named to the list was Michael M. Falls of Wood-lawn Students on the list met one of the following criteria for the semester: completion of six to eight graded hours with a semester grade point average of 4.0, completion of nine to 11 graded hours with a minimum GPA of 3.66 or completion of 12 or more graded hours with a semester GPA of 35 or above. To send in an item, write to Spotlight, The Leaf-Chronicle, P.O.

Box 31029, Clarksville, TN 37040, or e-mail lcle.com with Spotlight In the subject line. Include a contact name and phone number. TO SUBMIT AN ITEM Send items for the Wednesday Communities page by 5 p.m. Thursday by e-mail to newstneleafchronicle.com with "Communities" in the subject field, or by mail to Communities, The Leaf-Chronicle, P.O. Box 31029, Clarksville, TN 37040, For digital photos, please use the highest quality setting on your camera for the largest photo size.

et" 'Sat, Mm Lm tmmm Wyatt honored Thompson best Contributed Marlel Thompson, left, and Mary Weakley, far right, of the Citizenship Committee with the local Farm Bureau Women, express gratitude to Susan Head and her grandmother, Eleanor Head, for Susan's report concerning the Citizenship Forum held at Searcy, Ark. photo and ceremony. Contributed photo the horse are William Miller, joyed cake and punch. Harold and Betty Taylor celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary June 21. Nelson and Mary Moore attended a reunion at Paris Landing recently with Nelson's former co-workers.

Happy birthday to Marilyn Campbell and Bonnie Chester. Contributed photo be leaders tomorrow" was well accomplished with a variety of speakers and activities throughout the seminar. Most students have a desire to attend the National Citizenship Conference again, however, it is only available for high school students once. Sponsored by Tennessee Farm Bureau and local Farm Bureau associates, it has become a very desirable award. of the wonderful volunteers who spent their own time, resources and money to make this happen It was such a wonderful experience for my daughter and truly made her love golf even more.

ANNA SANBERS Clarksville 37043 To offer your note of appreciation, write to Tip of the Hat, The Leaf-Chronicle, P.O. Box 31029, Clarksville, TN 37040, or e-mail newstheleafchronicle.com with Tip of the Hat" in the subject line. Include a contact name and phone number. TO PARTICIPATE Parents may register their children in i the Summer Youth Program at any of the following locations: Burt Elementary, 1 10 Bailey St Burt-Cobb Community Center, 1011 Franklin St. Byrns Darden Elementary, 609 ESt.

Crow Community Center, 211 RichviewRoad. Moore Magnet Elementary, 1350 Madison St. For information, call Parks and I Recreation at 645-7476. pated in several basketball relays and shoot-offs. Basketball camp will be held every Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m in the gym of Burt-Cobb Community Center.

Basketball games will be held every Friday at 1 p.m For information about other camps, visit the community center. By BARBARA DAVIS Communities correspondent Susan Head and Caidin Castle recently represented Montgomery County at the National Citizenship Conference held at Harding University in Searcy, Ark. Both are students at Clarksville High SchooL Susan shared with Farm Bureau Women some interesting aspects of the week. Communications became an important issue when students were required to carry out activities without speech or touch. What resources may be used to substitute for these tools we use most frequently? The slogan "Life is an attitude" presented the thought, "How do I meet the challenges?" as one speaker at the conference, who was born without hands, demonstrated the use of his feet for everything from driving a vehicle to opening the pull tab from an aluminum can.

Representing Tennessee Farm Bureau, Ken Purser presented thoughtful facts concerning critical issues facing national and state agriculture. There are many issues, ranging from cost-income ratio to education of consumers concerning food and fiber pro- TP OF THE HAT Junior golf tournament wonderful event for kids You tend to see a lot of negative comments from readers of the paper; therefore, I wanted to take this opportunity for something positive. I want to praise Dr. Peterson and his wife, Sally, for organizing the Clarksville junior golf tournament. I also feel that all of the wonderful volunteers and sponsors should be commended, as well as the local golf cours- "WW Sheila Thompson Best 7 N.

Contributed photo Sheila Thompson, employed by New Providence Middle School, was named Best Manager of the Year at The Golden Spoodle awards banquet, sponsored by the Clarksvllle-Montgomery County School System Child Nutrition Department, where she served as president of the local Food Service Association. She also received the Thelma Flanagan Gold Award for the 2004-05 academic year at the state convention In Knoxvllle in June. duction to dealing with wildlife on private property, as well as environmental concerns. Addressing issues of society today was explored after a school shooting in Arkansas. As an experiment, students did not watch television orplay videogames for one month.

The reward of this experiment was a drastic reduction of violence. "Preparing students today to es who donated their facilities. This was my daughter's first year to play in the tournament, therefore we were a bit nervous about what to expect. We worried it would be disorganized, unfriendly, etc. We could not have been more wrong.

This was the most organized, positive and encouraging sporting event that either of my children have ever participated in. I cannot say enough good things about this event and all mine Butler and Te'a Butler. Burt-Cobb Community Center started its summer basketball camp Tuesday afternoon with 25 participants. They learned the proper shooting and block-out positions, how to pivot and follow through. They also partici- manager Bullock, Osborne and Caro also taught the children about the different muscle groups and how to exercise the different muscles in the body by having the kids break into groups and make collages of individuals performing various exercises.

Byrns-Darden welcomed a very special guest last week. Jim Cossingham, a native Indian also known as Eagle Hawk, shared with the kids Indian cultural practices. Cossingham explained that there are 362 Indian tribes in the mainland states and more than 200 Indian tribes in Alaska. The youth learned that every tribe has different cultures and that the elders give names to other members in the tribe by observing them. The kids made headdresses and learned that headdresses show individuals stature in their tribe.

"Thursday, Burt Elementary had its first field day. Activities included newspaper relays, bean- Kids learn how to live healthy at Summer Youth Program A It fuf If E-f vj) Jc By AMANDA TALLEY Parks and Recreation correspondent Last week's Summer Youth Program theme was "Livin' the Life" and was centered on the idea of healthy eating, good hygiene habits and physical exercise. The kids welcomed special guests and participated in fun and exciting activities. Tuesday, Barksdale welcomed Marie Callis, cafeteria manager at Northeast Middle School, to speak on nutrition Kids learned about die food pyramid, how to eat in moderation and the importance of eating healthy snacks. On Wednesday, Glenellen welcomed Mesina Bullock, health educator from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Health and APSU interns Sandra Osborne and Esther Caro to speak about health and nutrition llie youth learned the importance of exercise and living a healthy lifestyle.

Contributed photo The children attending the Summer Youth Program at Byrns-Darden and Glenellen make a splash at Bel Aire Pool during Free Swim on Friday. bag toss, a three-legged race, Around the World, a spoon race and a popping relay race. The kids liked the popping relay race the most All of the kids did well and enjoyed the field day experience. The big winners of the day were Allaina Johnson, Jas.