Community News

The Tennessee Farm Service Agency reminds farmers and producers of the April 1 deadline for obtaining non-insured crop disaster assistance coverage on mixed grass pasture for the crop year 2012.  

The program was designed to reduce financial losses that occur when natural disasters cause a catastrophic loss of production or prevented planting of an eligible crop by providing coverage equivalent to catastrophic insurance.

By Louise Warmley, Community correspondent
Last Saturday, the sanctuary was filled with people who attended the Black History Program at Anointed Praise and Worship Church.

Lots of youth from different churches took part in this service. Mary Alice Douglas was the best; she played the part of an old lady who grew up in Tupelo, Miss., and she told how things were then and how they are now. She encouraged the youth to get all the education they can and make the best of it.

By Ellen Probert Williamson
Is it possible that you are a dowser or, as dowsers are sometimes called, a water witch?

Dowsing is an ancient craft using branches of the witch hazel or willow tree to locate the presence of underground water. The dowser holds a wishbone-shaped, forked branch straight out before him and walks up and down, back and forth, over the terrain where he hopes to find a water source and construct a well.

Not everyone has this ability. Perhaps you do.

Tommy Charles never imagined he’d entertain the same bad habit he’d seen consume his father’s life — and even contribute to his death.

But three packs of cigarettes a day and one heart attack later, Charles “got like Dad.”

At 55 years old, Charles’ father died from a heart attack. He smoked three packs of cigarettes a day and was overweight and inactive.

At 46, only nine years younger than the age his father died, Charles himself suffered a heart attack.