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The Cannon County Lionettes held the Warren County Lady Pioneers to 10 of 35 from the floor in gaining their 21st win of the season.  Madison Walkup continued her strong play off the bench with 11 points while Abbey Sissom scored 14 and Lindsey Reed added 10.  Cannon had a big 3rd quarter to get the win 60-35.  Lauren Wilkinson scored 15 for the Lady Pioneers.  Cannon County goes to 21-6 with two regular season games left.
The Cannon County Lions dug themselves another hole early in the game against Warren County falling behind by 10 at half.  The Lions would fight continously to get back in the game and trimmed a lead to as close as five before Warren County would answer.  Cannon held Warren without any field goal attempts and once again had more shot attempts than the Pioneers but still lost 56-42.  The Boys record falls to 7-20. Next up for the Lionettes and Lions will be Tuesday night as the teams travel to Smithville for a district grudge battle against Dekalb County

187 words and 29 rounds comprised one of the longest most competitive Cannon County spelling bees in recent history and the marathon contest was won by spelling the word camelot.  Eastside's Lauren Underwood spelled the word correctly and will now be headed to Nashville in March to participate in the Statewide Spelling Bee contest at Belmont University.  23 Cannon County 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders participated in this years event at Westside School Thursday night in which it took sixteen rounds to get down to the final two contestants. Baylee Nemeth from Woodland School almost had it won in the 23rd round when Lauren misspelled disappearance.  Baylee spelled intrigue right but miscued the word impenetrable giving Lauren new life.  Six rounds later Baylee missed the word syringe.  After Lauren spelled insulation correctly, she then spelled camelot for the win.  Baylee Nemeth takes second place, Austin Brock of Eastside finished third, while Kyle Margarito of Westside claimed fourth, and Woodland's Maggie Cook finished fifth. 
 
Student Spelling Bee Participants (*Finished in top of school spelling bees but did not participate in County Spelling Bee)
Auburn
Hunter Vickers
Chloe Dill
Bradly Vickers
Rachel Dorris*
Rachel Hale-Alternate
Eastside
Brittany Klen*
Lindsey Bowman
Lauren Underwood
James Jones
Austin Brock
Jacob Gonzalez-Alternate*

Short Mountain
Caitlyn Miller
Addison Hale
Rachel Alexander*
Katie Reedy*
Erika Taylor
West Side
Kyle Margarito
Michael Buse
Amy Mears
Justin Hill
Joram Hardin
Taylor Cochran-Alternate*

Woodbury Grammar
Abigail Ferrell
Dathan Ring
Jacob Bentley
Josh Walkup*
Micah Fonoti*
 
Woodland
Baylee Nemeth
Maggie Cook
Austin Taylor
Cierra Thomas
Katie Gannon*
 
Judges
Kasi Agee
Chassity Burks
Gloria Simon
 
 

Ms. Robi Turner, Stones River Hospital Employee Health Nurse was nominated to be the Cannon County representative for the regional health council at Thursday's quarterly meeting of the Cannon County Health Council.  Council members Connie Rigsby, Karen Zabriskie, Sharon Stevenson, Lisa Black, Connie Foster, Carla Bush, John Rust, Ann Marie Richards, Michael Ralling and Carl Johnson were present for the meeting.  After the approval of Ms. Turner for the regional council, Michael Ralling of the Cannon County Health Department gave a brief report on the WIC program.  Ralling informed the council that WIC Education is available now online for qualified recipients.  The numbers of eligible population receiving WIC is decreasing at 67 percent.  It is the goal to reach 87 percent of the eligible population.  Connie Rigsby of the Cannon County Senior Center gave an update.  The Silversneakers exercise program takes place every Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.  The Center also has a physical fitness center room where members can use the exercise equipment at any time the center is open.  Ms. Rigsby also touched on the Cannon County Good Ole Days where the Senior Center will be the sole sponsor this year.  They will be adding some new features to the event in May with the Cannonball 5K run that will take place Saturday May 19th and a 1 Mile Fun Run and/or Walk.
Connie Foster, Cannon County Schools reported that Ms. Robi Turner is going to some of the schools in Cannon County and teaching CPR classes.  Ms. Foster spoke about the Safe Routes To School Grant that the School System was recently awarded.  This grant will be used to build sidewalks at Woodbury Grammar School.  Ms. Foster also talked about how successful the Cub Clinic at the Woodbury Grammar School to the point where the nurse practitioner Paula Todd felt certain there were a number of kids that she has seen that would never have seen a doctor if it hadn't been for the services of the clinic.
Taylor Blanton and Carly Gannon students at Cannon County High School are on the Teen Health Council.  The Council made up a video taped public service announcement for the grammar schools that dealt with tobacco prevention and promoting a health lifestyle.
Carla Bush of the UT Extension office gave the council and update.  With the TNCEP programs and personnel cut from the State funded budgets. A TNCEP coalition has been formed.  The program is intended to help All Cannon County Schools and Pre-K programs.  Department of Human Services, USDA Commodity Programs and the Cannon County Senior Center. Ms Bush handed out a needs assessment worksheet for the council to give their input on the needs and specifics of a TNCEP program.  
A proposed by-law change was brought up before the council.  A motion was made, seconded and approved by all those in attendance.  The change deals with the council officers serving a term of two years on the council rather than the one year the original policy stated.  Appointment and election for new officers will still be made by the Council members.
The next meeting of the Cannon County Health Council will be on May the 8th.

The Cannon County Lionettes are hungry for win number 21 on the season.  After back to back losses to powerhouses in Livingston and Upperman, the Lionettes will travel next door to McMinnville to take on a struggling Warren County Lady Pioneer Team.  Warren County has lost 7 of their last 9 and even though they sneaked by Dekalb and a rebuilding Cookeville team during that stretch they were handed a loss by White County Tuesday night 53-35  Warren County's boys team thought they had broken a losing streak. After losing five in a row, the Pioneers claimed a two point win over Coffee County.  Then the Pioneers took a trip to Sparta Tuesday and came back with a loss 76-60
Cannon County has lost their last two in a row but have had more shot attempts than their opponents.  Tonight's games will start at 5:45 with pregame 6:00 with the tipoff on AM 1540/FM96.7 WBRY