March Into Easter For Charity Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features Local Events News by Krys Midgett - March 11, 2022March 11, 20220 Being one of Santa’s elves is a year-round job. The elves at Give A Little Christmas know this firsthand. The Middle Tennessee area has tens of thousands of families who need a little extra Santa magic. Since 2012, GAL has been taking care of a small percentage (anywhere from 350 to 700 kids) of those families every Christmas. How do they raise money and collect enough toys to help that many kids? Elves have to come up with new and creative ideas to involve the community. This year, they are working on a Christmas album as one of the ways to raise money for the charity and also help the underpaid music community by giving them a paid project to work on. Jingles
Derek Fry – Most Relevant Influencer? Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features Student Perspective by Krys Midgett - March 11, 2022March 11, 20220 Vote Here Local Influencer, Derek Fry, has been selected as a contestant in a new reality show,InfluenceMeTV. The Finalists will be flown to Europe for filming in Schloss Buckeburg Castle. He was selected because of the number of TikTok followers. His next step is to get his fanbase/followers to vote for him. The top 20 influencers from this round will appear on the first season of the show. This is where you come in. Fry will be competing in the pre-show competition and getting votes, while also raising funds and awareness for The Jed Foundation: a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring teens and young adults get the emotional support they need when dealing with a mental illness. The winner per a panel of judges will be dubbed
Finding The Perfect Gift Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News by Beci Ruzek - December 1, 2021November 29, 20210 Yes, it is official. We are in the midst of the gift-giving season! We all want to show our appreciation to the ones we love, neighbors, friends, and even clients and referral partners… the list goes on! But how do we do it all? The answer is simple. In most cases, we can’t. However, we can show them we are thinking about them. In our last issue, we talked about creating a list and breaking that list into different categories and establishing a budget for each. If you did this, you may have had a place in each category for all the people on the list but if you didn’t, that’s ok too. For the people that didn’t fit into a category, you could
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
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
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
Wellness Expert Turns Best Selling Author Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News by Randi Radcliff - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 How many of us have gone to the doctor and been given a diagnosis that you wanted to question but didn’t because you think the doctor must know? After all, your doctor went to medical school and, obviously, must know your body better than you do. Stop right there! Meet Dani Williamson, a Family Nurse Practitioner with a thriving practice in Franklin, TN. Dani suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, lupus, and periodic depression. It was after graduating from Vanderbilt that another medical professional asked her, “What are you eating? Don’t you know your diet controls your disease?” She was volunteering in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake when she found her passion to help others.Her philosophy became ‘Wellness begins at the end of your fork!’ She
No holiday celebrations? What do you do instead? Be Entertained In Mt Juliet Community Features News by Guest - November 30, 2021November 30, 20210 written by Nikki Hatcher A December without holidays sounds impossible for many people. With Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa filling the month, it may seem difficult to escape the bombastic decorations, music, and community parades. There are families of various cultural and religious backgrounds that do not celebrate holidays and choose not to string lights, deck our halls, or go caroling. Here are 5 alternatives that keep our family connected to each other and during this time for family, refreshment, and love. Family GatheringsWhen so many family members travel so far to be together at the same time, schedule a family gathering, i.e., fami-ly game or trivia night on a “non-holiday” day so that everyone can still meet and greet distant family members