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Harriman Lions serving up pancakes

Members of the Harriman Lions Club are finalizing plans for the club’s annual “World’s Greatest Pancake Breakfast” from 7 to 11 a.m. May 25.

“Mary Long, owner of Harriman Steak and Diner has graciously offered the use of her restaurant and her employees again this year to help the Harriman Lions in this project,” said Harriman Lions Club member John Richards.

Pancakes, bacon, sausage, coffee, milk and orange juice will be available for $5 for adults, $2.50 for children younger than 11.

Prowl for owls on the Obed

Obed Wild and Scenic River will have a spring Owl Prowl beginning at 8 p.m. May 31 at the Lilly Overlook parking lot.

Those attending will hear about the habits and mannerisms of the Eastern screech owl and the barred owl, two of the most common owls in Eastern Tennessee.

They will also be taught how to distinguish between the two owls’ different and unique calls.

Participants will hike to the overlook with park staff as they call out to owls with recorded owl sounds.

The Garden Gate: This column may someday be part of a home for a furry friend

A border of day lilies really dresses up your garden. All the pretty flowers are in bloom for only one day at a time, but the blooms are so prolific and replace each other so fast that it is hard to realize they are so well named. Because that’s what they are, one day at a time, day lilies.

The exuberant and lovely blossoms are among the most satisfactory and easy-care flowers one could imagine for any American or Canadian garden, and they flourish especially well in the gardens of Tennessee.

Tigers rally for 3-A championship

In what will go down as one of the greatest comebacks in Rockwood baseball history, Jake Witter’s squad erased a 10-7 deficit by scoring six runs in their final at bat to defeat the Grace Christian Rams 13-10 Thursday night in the District 3-A Championship Game played at Grace.

Lady Waves advance to region tourney, Harriman eliminated

The District 3-A Softball Tournament came to a close Thursday night at Tellico Plains.

Two Roane County teams, Harriman and Midway, met in the loser’s bracket elimination game. Midway lived to fight another day with a 6-3 win over Harriman. The victory secured Midway a berth in next week’s Region 2-A Tournament.

Lady Jackets come up just short of region

It’s hard to beat a good team three times in a season.

The Kingston Lady Jackets found out just how hard Thursday evening, as despite sweeping Stone Memorial in the regular season, the Lady Panthers ended Kingston’s season with a 2-1 victory in the District 4-AA Tournament at Alcoa.

Hats off to Mom — and Gram
Tigers down Eagles in region opener, 13-5

The Rockwood Tigers kept their season alive and advanced to Wednesday’s Region 2-A title Monday by knocking off Oakdale, 13-5, at Mike “Brillo” Miller Sports Complex in Rockwood.

Oakdale was making their first region appearance since 1998 and the Eagles seemed to have a case of big game jitters as Oakdale struggled in the early going.

Daphanie Lyn-Marie Cofer

Daphanie Lyn-Marie Cofer was born Nov. 7 in Tennova, Knoxville.

She weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce, and was 19 inches long.

She is the daughter of Barry and Stephanie Cofer.

Grandparents are Steve and Deborah Ellison and Fonna Cofer. Great-grandmother is Shirley Plemons.

Daphanie has an older brother, Ayden Newton.

The Garden Gate: Spices are the variety of life

From the days of the earliest civilizations, mankind has known and prized the benefits of those seeds barks, buds, roots and berries we call spices.

But until more recent times, there was great difficulty to obtain them because of their exotic sources.

The scarcity of pepper, cloves, cinnamon and other spices caused them to be sought after as treasures, and the quest for them often led to strange and generally unknown lands.

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