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All around Historic Downtown Martin Purchase your tickets at Martin City Hall, or Monograms & More

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Limited number of tickets available Return your tickets to City Hall by 9 a.m. Feb. 12, to be eligible for our Grand Prize Drawing valued at over $200!

You could win a HOBO hand bag (a $100 value), Dinner for 2 (a $100 value) and movie tickets!!

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2nd Annual Chocolate Crawl in Historic Downtown Martin Fourteen downtown businesses plan to participate in the 2nd Annual Martin Chocolate Crawl - Sweets in the Streets event scheduled for Friday.The chocolate tasting event is sponsored by the Martin Business Association and the Martin Historic Business District.

The goal of the Martin Chocolate Crawl event is to bring people from all over West Tennessee to downtown Martin and showcase Martin’s unique downtown atmosphere.

Participating businesses will offer a variety of chocolate dishes to sample. The event will take place from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Participants can enjoy the small town charm of Historic Downtown Martin while sampling, exploring, visiting, and shopping in the retail and non-retail businesses.

This is a ticketed event.

Tickets are available for purchase at Martin City Hall and Monograms & More for $8. Day of event tickets will be $10. The ticket will

serve as a chocolate tasting pass, people’s choice voter card, and grand prize entry form. To enter for the grand prize drawing, tickets will need to be returned to Martin City Hall by Monday, Feb. 12 at 9 a.m. One lucky ticket holder will win a $100 gift card to the Opera House Restaurant and a beautiful HOBO handbag from Sugar and Spice Clothing & Gifts and two movie tickets valued at over $200. All proceeds benefit the Martin Business Association and Martin Historic Business District.

Chocolate tasters are encouraged to post pictures on social media and tag the Martin Business Association and participating businesses. Participating businesses include: Charity’s Chocolates/Six Toe Studio, Claire & Schuster Interiors, Styles on Broadway SalonSpa, Sugar & Spice Clothing & Gifts, Blessed Pet Shop, C.E. Weldon Public Library, Kirkland’s Gifts, Furniture, & Light-

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x x Blake Stevens and Ashleigh Burton, both local broadcast personalities, got engaged Jan. 25 where they met on the UT Martin main campus.

A marriage of television and radio Ashleigh Burton, a 2016 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin, entertains area residents each morning as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gracie Hopper,â&#x20AC;? a weekday radio personality on Froggy 103.7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Morning Splash program, broadcast from Murray, Kentucky.

Burton, originally from South Fulton, visited the UT Martin main campus Jan. 25 to speak to a class of broadcast students. However, as she answered various student questions, she had no idea her long-time boyfriend, Blake Stevens, was preparing to make a different sort of request.

Stevens, originally from Brighton, is an evening news reporter for WPSD Local 6 in Paducah, a position he accepted after graduating from UT Martin in spring 2015.

He and Burton were classmates in the UT Martin communications program and coworkers on WUTM 90.3 FM staff. In fact, they first met

in the UT Martin Communications Building.

In that same classroom, four years later, Stevens interrupted Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation, took a knee and asked her to be his wife â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a question she happily answered, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes!â&#x20AC;?

Stevens and Burton are a true marriage of television and radio.

Both received their UT Martin degrees and walked straight into onair positions in their chosen career fields. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was blessed and lucky to be able to walk right into a morning show, which is what I wanted to do,â&#x20AC;? she told broadcast students Jan. 25. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I started working at Froggy, I was straight out of college working with a lot of people who were older than me who have been in (the field) longer than me.

So I had to humble myself and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know what, if you want me to work this appearance with no

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pay, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m there. If you want me to work 400 Saturdays in a row, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m there.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

However, as Stevens points out, their individual successes create challenges in their personal relationship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In radio, your dream spot is the mornings, drive time. In TV news, in most markets, the reporterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to be on the evening news. So, by default, if she does well, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early, and if I do well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afternoons. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we have,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see each other Monday through Friday. She comes home after Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already left for work.â&#x20AC;?

Burton, who was recently promoted to assistant program director at Froggy 103.7, begins her day at 5 a.m. and is on the Morning Splash from 6-10 a.m. and hosts the stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All-Request Lunch program from noon2 p.m. as well. Stevens begins his

workday at 1:30 p.m. and could be on camera until 10:30, depending on when his stories are scheduled to air. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really makes us consider whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth our energy, I think,â&#x20AC;? said Burton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important to us that we spend the one-on-one time, too. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be constantly going and going and forget about each other.â&#x20AC;?

As for professional rivalry, the couple says their jobs may be in the same industry but are different enough to keep them in separate playing fields. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I make jokes all morning, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very serious recording the news. So they are two totally different beasts,â&#x20AC;? said Burton.

The future is wide open as both Burton and Stevens climb the proverbial ladders in their respective platforms. Yet one thing is for sure: wherever they go, and whatever they do, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do together.

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