News 2011

The Cannon County Lionettes continue basketball camp today at MTSU. The Lionettes will play Hickman County at 12 noon followed by a back to back set of games against the Forrest Lady Rockets starting at 2 followed by a game against Grundy County at 3. The JV team will also play three games today. They will kick the day off at 8 against South Greene, then move to playing 9:30 Grace Academy, and Trousdale County at 12 noon. Today is the last day of the MTSU camp

80-100,000 people are expected to visit Manchester this weekend for the popular Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The entertainment starts Thursday night and already there are people camping out in wide open parking lots around Manchester waiting for the opening day. Traffic is expected to be much heavier during this year’s event compared to year’s past as the festival is sold out. The festival is celebrating their tenth anniversary.Tennessee Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Highway Patrol are preparing for the extra traffic. Both organizations are working carefully with the Coffee County Law Enforcement Officers to keep traffic moving on I-24 while also getting Bonnaroo attendees to their destinations. The festival promoters have worked throughout the year on a plan to efficiently handle traffic during the festival
Because of the special 10th anniversary celebration the gates will open Wednesday evening at 7:00. State troopers will be on the job 24 hours a day beginning Wednesday night patrolling on ground and by air. THP helicopters will assist in relaying important information to marked patrol cars and motorcycles on the ground. During Bonnaroo 2010 Troopers wrote 221 citations and worked 39 traffic crashes. The festival winds up Sunday night June 12th

Adopting the annual budget and tax rate for the fiscal year July 2011- June 2012 on second and final reading highlights tonights Town Of Woodbury board of Mayor and Alderman’s regular meeting. A public hearing will take place before the adoption consideration. The board will also consider a resolution to allow the Town of Woodbury to adopt the Tennessee requirement for the OSHA perosnal protective equipment regulation. The meeting will take place at City Hall tonight starting at 7:00

The Cannon County Board Of Education will hold their board workshop Tuesday night at 6:00 before their regular monthly meeting Thursday. The board will discuss several items during the workshop. The board will review bids for main food and food supplies and bread for the 2011-2012 school year, bids for buses, new special education discretionary grant, inusrance agent options and they will also discuss the school budget among other items. The Workshop takes place tonight at the Cannon County Education Offices with the regular monthly meeting Thursday at the Courthouse . Because this is a workshop the board will not take any action on any items on the agenda.

We have all seen photos and video of the recent destruction experienced in Japan. The damage done by the recent earthquake and resulting tsunami was devastating. The photos of the children whose lives have been torn apart are especially touching. Our children at Woodland will be helping to provide assistance to those affected by this act of nature by working with a well-known children’s clothing store to provide clothing and paper cranes.After seeing an advertisement by Oshkosh B’Gosh offering to send one article of clothing to the children of Japan for every origami crane sent in, the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students at Woodland joined the push to send one thousand paper cranes. Working in cooperation with art Teacher Darlene Wetzel, our students are well on their way to achieving this goal. You will find cranes all over our art room as we prepare to send them off to eventually reach Japan.
In the Japanese Culture, cranes are a powerful symbol of health and well-wishes. In fact, the Japanese people believe that anyone who makes one thousand origami cranes will have a wish granted. We hope that the cranes we send, along with our wishes of healing for the people of Japan, will help to make a difference.

Cannon County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Donny Green, reminds producers that, in order to receive USDA program payments, each payment recipient must have an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) verification consent form on file with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).The consent form authorizes IRS to verify for FSA whether a payment recipient’s AGI meets the eligibility requirements for FSA programs. The form became a requirement for payment eligibility beginning with the 2009 crop year, however many program participants have not complied with this requirement.
“IRS and USDA reports show that, nationwide, FSA is still missing the required consent forms from many producers for 2009 and 2010,” said Green. “In order to avoid an interruption of program payments, producers need to check their business records and turn these forms in to the IRS immediately if they have not done so already,” he said.
IRS requires written consent from all individuals or legal entities before verification of the average AGI can be provided to USDA. Individuals must submit form CCC-927and legal entities must submit form CCC-928. Without these forms on file, producers will not receive USDA program payments.
Green further clarifies that these consent forms are required for payments received from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) as well as those received through FSA. Completed forms must be returned to the IRS.
For more information on AGI eligibility requirements or the AGI verification process, contact the Cannon County FSA office at (615) 563-4321.

Over 100 people attended the 911 Emergency Response Expo Saturday at Dillon Park in Woodbury. The Expo featured several emergency response vehicles and fire trucks from the various fire departments in Cannon County. Around 10 Saturday morning, Vanderbilt’s Lifeflight Helicopter landed at the park. An Air Evac Lifeteam which is another emergency response air ambulance service was also scheduled to be at the Expo Saturday but due to an emergency call, they could not make the event. Officials were very happy for the turnout and may return with another Expo around June of next year.

Over 100 people attended the 911 Emergency Response Expo Saturday at Dillon Park in Woodbury. The Expo featured several emergency response vehicles and fire trucks from the various fire departments in Cannon County. Around 10 Saturday morning, Vanderbilt’s Lifeflight Helicopter landed at the park. An Air Evac Lifeteam which is another emergency response air ambulance service was also scheduled to be at the Expo Saturday but due to an emergency call, they could not make the event. Officials were very happy for the turnout and may return with another Expo around June of next year.

The Second Harvest Food Bank teamed up with First United Methodist Church of Woodbury to help bring a grant to the Church. The grant allows the church to provide breakfast to children of Cannon County. Pastor John Hembree says that the breakfasts will be available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8A-9ABreakfasts will consist of a Kellogg’s Breakfast Pack including cereal, snack, milk and juice. Children can get breakfast at the Fellowship Hall of the Church loacted at 502 West High Street here in Woodbury. The Fellowship Hall is through a door on the parking lot side of the church near the back. Breakfast will be available for the kids of Cannon County throughout the entire summer starting today

Travels With Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. The book recounts tales of a 1960 road trip with his French Poodle, Charley around the United States. Steinbeck writes that he was moved by a desire to see the country on a personal level since he made his living writing about it. Steinbeck tells of traveling throughout the United States starting in Long Island New York and roughly following the outer border of the United States, from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, down into his native Salinas Valley in California, across to Texas up through the deep south and then back to New York which is a trip encompassing nearly 10,000 miles. During the Month of June the Cannon County Adult Book club will be reading through the book Travels with Charley. Book club starts tonight at 6:30 at the Adams Memorial Library. Everyone is invited to attend.