Children’s Parade: “Games we like to play!”
Once again, kids 12 years of age or younger and their accompanying adults can join all the fun – characters in costume, small floats and walkers – in the Fifth Annual Rivers & Spires Children’’s Parade to be held Saturday, Apr 18 at 1:00 p.m. The theme for this year’’s parade is “Games We Like to Play!”
Children and groups are encouraged to enter the Children’’s Parade theme contest. A group may be defined as a non-commercial organization, commercial organization, schools (public or private), daycares, neighborhoods, families, performing groups, etc. Entries will be judged on creativity and the parade theme. Special thanks to Five Star Radio Group, who once again is sponsoring the prize money for the best group, best individual and best float in this year’’s parade.
You can apply for this year’’s parade online by clicking here. Once you sign up, you will receive additional information via email to this FREE event. here’s what you need to know:
Theme: “Games We Like to Play.”
Date of the Parade: Saturday, April 18, 2009.
Time of Parade: 1:00 pm.
Line up Time: 12:00 Noon
Line up: Downtown Commerce Street (front of the First Baptist Church).
Awards Judged: 12:00 Noon
NO CHARGE: FREE to Enter
If you have additional questions about registration or the Children’’s Parade, you may email Shirley Taylor, or call 931-553-8160.
Women’s Health highlighted in “All About Women” health fair
The Hispanic Organization for Progress and Education (H.O.P.E.) will host its annual Health Initiative Outreach “All About Women” Health Conference dedicated to National Women’s Health promotion.
The conference will be held Saturday, May30, 2009 at the Riverview Inn Hotel, 50 College Street, Clarksville, TN 37040, from 10:00 a.m. to 4p.m. (www.theriverviewinn.com).
The aim of our event is to enhance partnerships between women and Montgomery County health professionals in order to improve the health of women in our community and promote health awareness, in general. [Read more]
Relay for Life events planned
The Relay for Life teams have join together for a fundraiser event to be held May 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sam’s Club parking lot. The relay will run in tandem with a yard sale / kids carnival. This preview event leads up to the Relay for Life event slated for June 5. Relay for Life raises both awareness and funds for the American Cancer Society.
If you are interested in donating talent, supplies, prizes, or support for the fundraiser event, or wish to make a donation to the American Cancer Society, contact www.relayforlife.org/montgomerytn
For more information, please contact Gale at unicorngale@yahoo.com or call 731-616-2631 or 931-552-0733.
Project WET programs scheduled at APSU
National Environmental Education Week in Tennessee is April 12-18, and the Project WET Tennessee program at Austin Peay State University successfully requested a proclamation signed by Gov. Phil Bredesen to commemorate the week.
Bredesen signed the proclamation March 19 in Nashville. The proclamation supports environmental education in K-12 schools and non-formal settings such as nature centers, zoos, aquariums and museums.
The 2009 theme for National Environmental Education Week is “Be Water Wise.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates the average person in the U.S. uses about 100 gallons of water a day.
“And much, much more water is used to produce our food, clothing, paper and other goods,” said Michelle Rogers, coordinator of Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) Tennessee at APSU.
APSU’s program will be among other environmental educators across the state and nation participating during the week to promote environmental education prior to Earth Day, April 22.
Project WET at APSU will participate in the annual conference of TEAMS (Tennessee Educators of Aquatic and Marine Science) in Eva. Rogers said her office would present water-related lessons for K-12 students.
Teachers expected to participate at the conference are classroom teachers of K-12, pre-service teachers, college professors and many others interested in freshwater and marine science.
For more information about Project WET or National Environmental Education Week, contact Rogers by telephone at (931) 221-6480 or e-mail at rogersm@apsu.edu. Also, visit online at http://www.eeweek.org or http://www.apsu.edu/wet.
“Curing Chronic Pain” author to speak at Borders
Dr. Robert T. Cochran Jr. will be reading and signing copies of his new book, Curing Chronic Pain, on Saturday, April 4 at 3 p.m. at Borders on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville.
“I believe you will marvel, as I constantly do now, at just how much a doctor can learn in four years.” — Robert T. Cochran Jr., M.D.
In Understanding Chronic Pain, Cochran’s first book, he spoke with patients about their experience with unrelenting pain, developing a “thesis that chronic pain was a form of mental illness, and that by understanding and treating the mental illness one could often cure chronic pain.” Cochran saw links between chronic pain and issues such as childhood trauma, depression, substance abuse and bipolar disorder. In Curing Chronic Pain, that thesis has been developed with much more depth and refinement, and offers examples of dramatic cures obtained by the treatment of underlying mental illnesses, often with drugs not conventionally used for that purpose. [Read more]
City honors Ft. Campbell soldiers with “Warrior Week”
The Clarksville Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee is sponsoring a special celebration honoring soldiers and families the week after Rivers and Spires:
Warrior Week will be held from April 19 – 25. The schedule of events and programs is as follows:
- SUNDAY, April 19th – Church appreciation services
- MONDAY, April 20th – Saturday, April 25th – Business Discount Week
- MONDAY, April 20th, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Military Marksmanship Competition sponsored by Midsouth Shooters Supply
- TUESDAY, April 21st – Wounded Warrior Train Tour, sponsored by Montgomery County & First Command
- TUESDAY, April 21st, 6:30 p.m. – Movie Night at Great Escape, Sponsored by Fort Campbell Federal Credit Union & Operations Eagle’s Nest
- WEDNESDAY, April 22nd – City Wide Discounted Lunches
- THURSDAY, April 23rd – Godfather Tournament sponsored by Dex Imaging and dinner. Donated by Golden Rule Barbeque. 11:00 golf registration and lunch, 12:00 shotgun start Dinner and awards at 5:30
- SATURDAY, April 25th 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.– Picnic and Fun Fair sponsored by the City of Clarksville at the fairgrounds inflatable’s, pony rides, petting zoo, free food, stage with local singing and band talent.
TrainFest 2009 chugs into Clarksville
TrainFest 2009 will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 2 & 3 at the Customs House Museum and the L & N passenger depot on the corner of Commerce and 10th Streets.
This is the fifth year of the festival that celebrates the history and traditions of railroading in Montgomery County. Saturday admission is $5.00 for adults, $2 for students 6-18 and college students with ID. Children 5 and under, as well as members of the museum and the Montgomery County Historical Society, will be admitted free. Admission tickets can be purchased at either location that Saturday. [Read more]
Audubon program connects bird movement with global warming
Dr. Greg Butcher
Dr. Greg Butcher, Director of Bird Conservation at the National Audubon Society, will address the relationship between bird movement and global warming during a special program Thursday evening at the APSU Sunquist Science Complex, Room E103A, at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Butcher’s program, “Bird Movement Reveals Global Warming Threat In Action,” is sponsored by the Warioto Audubon Chapter and the APSU Center for Excellence in Field Biology. The event is free and refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the event. [Read more]
Jazz Festival takes the stage at APSU
The Austin Peay State University Department of Music and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts present the 2009 Mid-South Jazz Festival.
The festival begins with a performance by the John Proulx Trio at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 3 and concludes at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 4, with performances by the APSU Jazz Combo, the APSU Jazz Collegians and guest artist, Jim Ferguson.
The festival will take place in the Music/Mass Communications Building Concert Hall. Tickets for the John Proulx Trio concert on Friday cost $25 for adults, $12 for students. The tickets for the performance on Saturday are $3. Admission to both concerts is free for APSU students with student I.D. [Read more]
Porkin’ in the Park: Music, BBQ and great grillin’
The Kiwanis Club of Clarksville is sponsoring the second Porkin’ in the Park this Friday and Saturday, April 3-4. Admission is free for all events.
Clarksville is now on the Kansas City Barbecue Society Great American BBQ tour. This will be a major for the pro grillers from around the country. There is NO admission charge. Food and drink will be sold.
The schedule of events includes five hours of music on Friday on the Bud Light Stage on Strawberry Alley. The events kicks off with the KCBS BBQ backyard grilling demonstration at 5 p.m., followed by three musical events: Southern Comfort at 6 p.m., Mike Robinson at 7;30 p.m. and the Beagles at 9 p.m. [Read more]
