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Legends Bank protects Veterans with Crime Prevention Program in Veterans Homes
Clarksville, TN – Legends Bank has joined with the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation (SHCPF), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and the American Bankers Association (ABA) to ensure that 40,000 Veterans living in 160 state Veteran nursing homes in the U.S. are able to live out their lives in safe, secure, enhanced quality of life environments free from the daily fear of crime, abuse, neglect, hostility and deprivation of personal freedom, as provided through the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation’s Senior Crimestoppers program.
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Austin Peay State University Phi Kappa Phi Chapter awarded top distinction
Clarksville, TN – The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) at Austin Peay State University is one of 19 chapters in the nation to earn the Chapter of Excellence distinction for 2012-13.
APSU’s achievement was formally announced by the national PKP headquarters in Baton Rouge, LA. APSU was awarded this national distinction in 2011 as well. Other chapters in the nation were honored with the Chapter of Merit award.
Families look through free books as part of APSU’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter’s annual Candy for the Mind Project.
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Port Royal State Park by Lantern tour November 8th-9th
Adams, TN – Take a lantern guided tour through Port Royal State Historic Park and meet some of Port Royal’s most famous (and infamous) residents as they tell tales of the frontier, the Bell Witch, Night-Riders and more!
Port Royal by Lantern
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Logan’s Roadhouse Honors Veterans with Folds of Honor Partnership
Nashville, TN – For guests looking to make a difference this Veterans Day, Logan’s Roadhouse has also formed a partnership with Folds of Honor (Folds of Honor Foundation), donating a portion of sales to the foundation to help support families of deceased or disabled veterans through scholarship programs and additional assistance.
The partnership was launched through Logan’s desire to not only help veterans near restaurant locations, but to also create a larger impact on the lives of veterans across the United States and abroad.
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APSU Provost Lecture Series to feature Biology professor Baskauf November 7th
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University biology professor will present the next session of the Provost Lecture Series this week at APSU.
Dr. Carol Baskauf, APSU professor of biology, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, November 7th, in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. She will talk about her work with Braun’s rock-cress, a federally endangered plant found only in Tennessee and Kentucky. The plant has an unusual distribution, with a 250-mile gap separating its Tennessee and Kentucky populations.
Austin Peay State University professor of biology Dr. Carol Baskauf.
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Gwendolyn Rodriguez Shows Art Planters Bank November 7th
Clarksville, TN – Gwendolyn Rodriguez loves to paint pictures that tell a story of a person or a time and place. Her paintings, showing a sample of her diverse interests and places around the world, will be on display at the Planters Bank-Hilldale Gallery Thursday, November 7th – Wednesday, December 4th.
Although born in San Antonio, Texas, Rodriguez spent most of her childhood in Middle Tennessee. At 18, she experienced life as an exchange student in Germany, where she developed a passion for travel and languages.
Gwendolyn Rodriguez paintings on display at the Planters Bank-Hilldale Gallery
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Go Commando Donates Over $50,000 To Charitable Organizations
Clarksville, TN – The Go Commando Half Marathon & 5k, powered by CDE Lightband, announced Tuesday they would donate over $50,000 to local non-profits and community organizations.
The largest recipients, the Clarksville Area YMCA and the Fort Campbell Historical Foundation, were both on hand to accept donations of $15,000 each. Christy Batts, Broadband Division Manager for the Clarksville Department of Electricity, was also in attendance to present the checks to the recipients.
Fort Campbell Historical Foundation check was accepted by Robert Nichols. From L to R: Channel Lemon, Race Director; Christy Batts, CDE Lightband; Robert Nichols; Jessica Goldberg, Race Director.
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APSU student Chris Hayes spends summer at famed CERN laboratory
Clarksville, TN – When Austin Peay State University student Chris Hayes returned to Clarksville last summer, after spending nine weeks at the famed CERN laboratory in Switzerland, his friends and professors asked him what he thought of Europe.
“I said, ‘Well, I think it looks a lot like East Tennessee, except that the signs are in French,” he said. “It felt very much like I was at home.”
APSU student Chris Hayes stands next to the CMS detector, which is part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
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New documentary at APSU explores Sioux Indian buried a century ago in Germany
Clarksville, TN – On a snowy afternoon a few years ago, the filmmaker Bettina Renner was walking through an old, Catholic cemetery in Dresden, Germany, when she came across a headstone with the name “Edward Two Two” engraved on it. The marker further identified the man, who died in 1914, as a Sioux Indian chief.
The grave seemed so out of place in Dresden – a city nearly destroyed by massive Allied bombings during World War II – that Renner set out to learn how Edward Two Two wound up Germany. «Read the rest of this article»
Hope Pregnancy Center to hold Mother Son Character Ball this Weekend
Clarksville, TN – Hope Pregnancy Center announces the first annual Mother Son Character Ball, to be held Friday and Saturday, November 8th and 9th.
Event is open to mothers, grandmothers, uncles or any female role model, and young men in grades K through 12, as well as college age. «Read the rest of this article»
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