The Season Of Giving Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News by Krys Midgett - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 Tennessee is called ‘The Volunteer State’ with good reason. Charities are abundant, and Wilson County has its fair share of them. I believe that most people want to help. This season, for the most part, tends to bring out the best in everyone. While it’s true that the Christmas charities do need gifts for the kids, other charities could use some extra help. Here are just a few of my favorites and some items that they each need help with on a regular basis. New Leash On Life is an animal welfare nonprofit. They help with dogs and cats by providing an animal shelter, a low-cost spay and neuter clinic, and a pet food assistance program. In the adoption center, its
Meet The Stars At RomaDrama Live Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features Local Events News by Krys Midgett - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 Oh, Christmas movies! Think Santa Claus, Christmas music, hot cocoa, gingerbread houses, mistletoe, lights, hot apple cider, and Christmas cookies. The feel-good movies round out the season. Who likes the predictable happy endings in the Hallmark movies? ME and many, many others worldwide. I do watch them year-round; my husband laughs and says ``Haven’t you seen that one already - like ten times?” Why, yes, honey but Tyler Hynes is in it, or Riley Weston wrote it and it’s awesome. Gabrielle Graf-Palmer and Sara Lunsford saw a need to be filled. There are conventions for pretty much everything, so why not our favorite celebrities from those feel-good movies? In 2019, they started BriteStar Events, LLC and started planning RomaDrama Live. It is
The Christmas that Changed Me From a Future Soldier to Artist…Then Architect! Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News Uncategorized by Stuart Resor - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 I am sometimes asked: “What made you decide to become an Architect?” Well, the Christmas of about 1955 in Indian Hill Ohio, was when my brother and I got BB guns. Several of the neighborhood kids already had BB guns and one of them was allowed to shoot his parent’s shotgun! They would frequently be out of the nearby woods killing just about anything that moved including large swarms of crows and blackbirds and squirrels. My brother and I thought we could enjoy that too. So, we began asking Pop to consider getting us BB guns for Christmas. I remember the excitement! So, on Christmas morning we came downstairs and looked under the Christmas tree. There was a brand-new BB gun for each
Give A Gift They Can Trust Community Features News by Guest - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 written by Darlene Kemp What is a great gift to give your loved one who is living with a disability or has special needs? Something you may not have considered or do not know exists is a supplemental needs trust. This financial vehicle allows you to “gift” money to your loved one, through a third-party supplemental needs trust. In fact, others can “gift” money to your loved one, thus allowing the supplemental needs trust to continue to grow. These gifts give your loved one access to funds, when used properly, that can make an enormous difference in his or her life. You can have a professional organization manage the fund, to ensure all laws and guidelines are followed. Proper recording and financial statements
GAL Toy Drives Local Events News by Krys Midgett - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 Fill Sherry’s Moving TruckDec 2nd 5:30 pm - 8:00 pmMullins Realty Group2323 N Mount Juliet Rd. Mt Juliet Live Music & Snacks MJCC Craft & Vendor FairDec 4th 10am til 4 pmMJ Community Center1075 Charlie Daniels Pkwy, Mt JulietUnique Crafts & Food, door prizes, Toy Drive, Gift Wrapping, photos with Santa OHACC Holiday MixerDec 9th 6pmHermitage Golf CourseFood, Music, and Prizes NMG presents Jingle & MingleHoliday Party2416 Music Valley Dr Suite 110Nashville TNA Night Full of Great Music and Toys ! Drive-Thru Toy DriveShiloh Music Center4056 N Mt Juliet Rd Mt JulietDec 12th 11 pm - 3 pmDrive thru and drop off a new unwrapped gift Patriot StructuresFill The Storage BuildingDec. 1th thru Dec 15th3676 Hwy 109 N Lebanon TN Mt Juliet Nonprofit EventDec 11th 11am -
Nature’s Weirdest Christmas Tree Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News by Stuart Resor - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 In the Spring of 1967, I drove out to San Diego. California, stopping briefly in Nashville to look around and visit the Parthenon replica. After I got settled into my apartment in South Mission Beach, California I began small trips around the San Diego area including the lovely Balboa Park and some of the older neighborhoods like Mission Hills. I could see from the brand-new freeway Interstate 5 some very tall, roundish, unusual, even a little bit freaky pine trees. Some of the biggest of those trees are still there, some are very old. I was told that all these Eucalyptus and unusual pine trees, the Norfolk Island Pines and Monkey Tail Pines, were brought by seed from Australia back
Holiday Mixer & Toy Drive Uncategorized by Krys Midgett - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 On Dec. 9th, The Old Hickory Area Chamber of Commerce is having a Holiday Mixer. The event will be at the Hickory Sticks Grill inside the Hermitage Golf Course. Tickets are only $25 a person or if you are a Chamber member, you get two free tickets. Lakewood Theatre will have Christmas Carolers entertaining the crowd. Dinner, prizes and live music are included in the ticket price. Door prizes are provided by Beehive Home & Gardens. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy for Give A Little Christmas. They are a local Christmas charity for Wilson County, Old Hickory, and Hermitage. Seats are limited so get your tickets before they are gone. Please reserve your tickets at www.oldhickorychamber.com. Happy Holidays
Peace Through Storytelling Uncategorized by Guest - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 written by Molly Smith On October 21st, Cumberland University experienced literary history when National Book Award winner Colum McCann visited as a part of the Cordell Hull Peace Forum. In a reading of his latest book Apeirogon, McCann said, “There is no greater agony than a story untold.” photo by Dustin Aksland for The Wall Street Journal This embodies the message of both events he was featured in, as an effort to spread peace among discorded people through the power of storytelling. His book Apeirogon, the film rights of which Steven Spielberg recently bought, tells the story of two men, Rami Elhanan & Bassam Aramin, born to be enemies but brought together by shared loss. Elhanan is Israeli, and Aramin is Palestinian, but
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS REALLY ABOUT Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News by George Hedges - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 When I think about the kids, it’s the lights, the tree, and the presents. When I was young it was about the excitement of Santa coming to our house and parking his sled and reindeer on our house. Then he would somehow come down the chimney that we did not have, and pops open his bag with all the presents that we picked from the Sears catalog. Yes, we would sit around for at least a month, looking at the Sears catalog. Page by page, as we decided who would get the first pick. Day after day we would go through the entire catalog and pick what we would like to have. That was Christmas to me then. The point
Pot your Amaryllis Now! Gardening Tips by Lucas Holman - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 As we venture into December, now is the time when our stores will be filled with all types of holiday plants. One of these will include the amaryllis. They are one of my favorite holiday bulbs and they will generally be sold by the bulb. These need to be potted up and you’ll have blooms in about 4-5 weeks depending on how well they’re taken care of. One of the unique traits of these plants is that they bloom on a leafless stalk. After they have flowered, then they will send out leaves to store energy for next year’s blooms.When you first purchase an amaryllis bulb, be sure to select a healthy and firm bulb. If the bulb is soft