My Town Franklin articles covering: Memorial

Christmas is almost here. Soon Santa will take to flight in his little red sleigh zipping around from home to home delivering toys to little girls and boys… that have been good… Are you still on his list of deliveries?

Tis the season for everyone to be busy I know. Mine alone has included Toys for Tots, my children’s several different Christmas specials where they sing or act or just stand there with hands in their pockets staring at the ground. These days include my work, Christmas cantatas, and lots of other events. Pictured here are the Cowee’s school teachers standing in as Santa’s Reindeer during the Cowee Elementary Christmas Musical. Read more…

FRANKLIN, NC (December 2009) — The Zeta Gamma Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi recently made donations to two Macon County organizations. A check in the amount of $300 was presented to CareNet’s unrestricted fund. A memorial brick thanking All Veterans was also donated to the Veteran’s Memorial. Read more…

From birthday celebrations to wreath laying, and parades, and flag raisings, and of course veterans helping provide toys for kids this Christmas, if you were looking for something to do this week there is plenty that involves thanking veterans and helping out in your community. You can see a link below that lists some of the veteran events you can enjoy.

Remember Veterans, young and old, present and past, and their families this week for the sacrifices they give to protect our freedoms. I look forward to seeing you out around town at a number of these different events. Read more…

To say the southern highlands of Appalachia have been rainy lately is an understatement. It seems it’s rained continuously for the past month-you know since I stated fall here is typically dry? Not this year.

The Moving Wall was in our town last month. I think it was back in June when my daughter first read about it’s impending arrival in our area. Ever since, she’s been counting the days. Soon after school started she came home tickled pink-she found out her class would be walking down to visit the wall once it arrived-thrilling to her-they’d get 2 class periods to learn about the wall, wander around, and ask questions. Read more…

This morning at an early 4 am I crawled out of the bed, got ready, left the house, drove to Holly Springs Baptist Church to pick up their bus, and then made it to Lowe’s in Franklin by the assigned time of 0500… or O five hundred. That’s 5 am for all you non-military types… Or to me this morning it was ‘Oh’ my gosh it is too dang early’ in the AM.

Actually, I thought the scientific minds of the world had gotten rid of 4 and 5 am in the morning. It has been forever since I was up that early. Did you know they still had two 5 o’clocks in one day? These Veterans did. And in the rain they all showed up and were chipper when they got on my bus. So it motivated me Read more…