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Even though the weather’s getting colder, there’s tons of ways to keep warm this fall! Burn some calories with the Go Commando race on October 21, and then sashay over to the Salute Saturday Chili Cook-Off in Hopkinsville. Then before the chili food coma takes over, check out the recently released Green Eagle app that will show you everything you could ever want to know about recycling at Fort Campbell, from household cardboard and plastic to asbestos and oil. And for the pièce de résistance, we rounded up the best of the best Halloween events so you and your family can have the best and spookiest time this month.
Sean McCully, Editor sean@creativeinktn.com
There’s so much in October to be excited for and I hope you have a great month!
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Honeysuckle Hill Farm has had 15 years of sharing traditions and making memories with Tennessee families and is the best place in the state for family fun on the farm. We are a 200 acre family farm centrally located in Springfield, Tennessee. Join us for the huge month-long Fall Festival offering rides and attractions everyone will love, special events, delicious concessions and a Farm Market to take goodies home with you. t1765 Martin Chapel Church Road, Springfield, Tennessee 37172 Open Sept. 23, through Nov. 4 Monday: Closed • Tues-Thur: 9:00 am till 2:00 pm Friday: 9 am till 10 pm • Saturday: 10 am till 10 pm • Sunday: Noon til 6 pm HoneysuckleHillFarm.com
Boyd Farm is located in Clarksville, Tennessee and offers farm tours in the fall including of pumpkins, gourds, squash, and a corn maze, which has been in operation for 7 years. Our pumpkins are a Tennessee tradition, which have been grown on our farm since 1984. 1425 Hwy 76 Clarksville, Tennessee 37043 Open Sept. 30, through Oct. 31 • 7 days a week 8:30 am to 6 pm Pumpkins sell for $.25/lb • Corn maze is $4 for ages six and up, five and younger get in free BoydsPumpkinPatch.com
Upon arrival, make your way to our store inside an old tobacco barn. You will find snacks and drinks for sale as well as an assortment of gift items. And then the fun begins. We have two corn mazes–an easier one and the more challenging one. Pumpkins range from tiny to nice decorating size. Pick your pumpkin from the patch or from around the barn. At the corn crib you can shell and grind corn to feed the animals. Then there are more rides...on the lawnmower train. Young and old alike can ride. 19590 Linville Road Hopkinsville, Kentucky 42240 Open Monday through Saturday 10 am until dark Farm admission is $7 Pumpkins sell from $2 to $7 each ChristianWayFarm.com 5
Halloween Fun
Halloween is almost upon us, and with that comes all the pumpkin carving, corn maze exploring and haunted house scaring that a person can handle in a month. Check out our list of the spots to celebrate this spooky holiday.
Additional Pumpkin Patches & Corn Mazes
Fright on Franklin
Patterson Place Farm
Franklin St., Clarksville, Tennessee Oct. 28 from 3 to 6 pm • Free
2480 Patterson Road, Woodlawn, Tennessee 931-206-7430 Pumpkin patch • Hayrides • Corn maze • Petting zoo
A-Maize-ing Farms 715 E Broadway, Mayfield, Kentucky 270-705-4992 Corn maze • Hayrides • Corn cannon • Inflatables Petting zoo on Saturdays only
Not-So-Scary Fall Fest Governor’s Square Mall Oct 21 9 am Halloween Breakfast • 11 am Costume Contest & Crafts • 5 pm – Zombie Walk for Charity
Trick or Treat Downtown Hopkinsville Between 7th and 14th Street Oct 31 from 5-6 pm
Just Piddlin Farm
Operation Friendly Ghost
10830 Morgantown Road, Woodburn, Kentucky Corn maze • Pumpkin patch • Corn pit • Trike track Huge tube slide
Trick or Treat hours on Fort Campbell Post 6 pm-8 pm
Fiddle dee Farms
Veteran Picnic Pavilion Oak Grove Carnival games, candy, pumpkins for all children Oct 13 from 5 to 9 pm
7526 Swift Road, Greenbrier, Tennessee 615-669-6293 Pumpkin patch • hayrides • Farm animals
Events & Trick or Treats APSU’s G.H.O.S.T. Fortera Stadium, 601 College St. Clarksville, Tennessee Oct. 29 from 4 to 7 pm • Free
2nd Annual Creepy Kooky Carnival
Floating Pumpkin Patch Haunted Swim New Providence Pool Clarksville Hunt for your pumpkin in the pool 5:30 pm Ghouls and goblins come out for an evening swim 7 pm Oct 21
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3975 Martha’s Chapel Rd Cunningham, Tennessee 931-320-4275 clarksvillezombiehunters.com Open Weekends
8 Attractions at 1 Location is the Zombie Paintball Hayride Experience, where guests ride on a military truck or trailer with a turret mounted paintball gun in front of them. As we take you through the woods on a 20 minute ride, “You. Hunt. Zombies.” Zombies come out of the woods and it’s your job to hunt them down. It’s got glow in the dark paintballs, intense music, pyrotechnics and much more. The Zombie Mission Haunted Trail is nearly a half-mile walk through the zombie infested woods. You’re carrying a pump action zombie assault weapon outfitted with a rail mounted flashlight on a mission to hunt zombies! We also have three escape games, pedal kart racing, Free outdoor movies, food, bonfires, and more. One of our newest attractions is called “Pitch Black” the Dark Maze. It’s a maze where you're given a tiny light to navigate through the darkness and the fog.
Daigre Farms Haunted House is Veteran-owned and a high energy, high impact haunt. (No touch)! We have handmade props that have amazing details, like those of a professional haunt. This year we have three new rooms. Daigre Farms Haunted House offers three attractions all for one price, $5. We have a Haunted House maze with twelve rooms as well as a. Graveyard Haunt and a Haunted Woods sitting on a 10 acre farm. Starting this year you can camp during the Haunted House, either participate in the haunt or enjoy the haunt tour. Daigre Farms has received a 5 star rating as one of the best Haunts in Western Kentucky and Tennessee, from The Tennessee House of Horrors in 2015 and 2016.
1765 Martins Chapel Church Road Springfield, Tennessee 615.382.7593 Open weekends honeysucklehillfarm.com/scream-creek-haunted-woods
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1531 E. 7th St. Hopkinsville, Kentucky 270-344-1429 Open 10 am to 6 pm daily General Admission is $5 facebook.com/daigrefarmshauntedhouse
Venture deep into Middle Tennessee's premier haunted woods experience, located near Clarksville. Your senses will be assaulted with fear like you’ve never known. The creatures of the night are waiting. Our brand new Monster Midway is full of games, monsters and live on-stage entertainment with Hackit the Clown, who will be putting on a show full of live music, dancing, special guests and whatever other crazy antics this mad clown dreams up. The terror jumps out at you in the largest 3D haunted house attraction in the Nashville and Clarksville area! The 3D Circus of Terror is a truly unique experience you won’t soon forget. Hope you aren't afraid of clowns. Not recommended for children under 10 years old.
Bikers Who Scare 607 N 1st St Clarksville, Tennessee 931-551-9878 bikerswhocare.org Open weekends
Fright in the Furnace 6400 Hwy 48 Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee facebook.com/frightinthefurnace
Nightmares End Haunted House 1595 Billy Goat Hill Rd Hopkinsville, Kentucky facebook.com/nightmaresendhauntedhouse 270-889-1873
Haunted Hell 1770 Madison St Clarksville, Tennessee hauntedhellclarksville.com 931-503-4355 Open weekends
Copper Canyon Ghost Town Haunted Hayride 14750 Ovil Rd Hopkinsville, Kentucky coppercanyonkentucky.com 270-269-2416
Bell Witch Cave 430 Keysburg Rd Adams, Tennessee bellwitchcave.com 615-696-3055
11th Airborne Divison Monument The Screaming Eagles owe much of their history and tactics to the Angels. These Angels aren’t celestial beings, but rather the 11th Airborne Division who were nicknamed the Angels and left an immense mark on the Fort Campbell community, physically and tactically. The Angels are memorialized with a permanent likeness of their shoulder patch cemented in the lot adjacent to the Don F. Pratt Museum, with their red, white and blue patch accompanied by cement models of the parachutes and gliders they would use during operations. “The 11th has quite a history not only because they lived here, but their history as the Air Assault (Test) Division kind of makes them the first unit that experimented with and used the Air Assault tactics that we use today,” said Post Historian John O’Brien, who quite literally wrote the book on the history of Fort Campbell. “So they’re pretty important to our history.” The 11th was formed in Feb. 25, 1943, and were the only one of the five Airborne Divisions formed during World War II to be deployed to the Pacific, according to O’Brien. Organized at Camp McCall in North Carolina, the division served famed World War II General Douglas MacArthur, and to him, the 11th were his “secret weapon.” “They served in New Guinea and the Philippines and General MacArthur who called them his ‘secret weapon’ used them in the Philippines in a variety of different ways,”
O’Brien said. “He gave them the honor of being the first live unit to enter Japan after the war, and they formed the honor guard for him in Yokohama, Japan, prior to the surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri.” Following their participation in World War II, the 11th Airborne Division relocated in 1948 to the small and impermanent Camp Campbell which at the time had been used as a demobilization station for different units. This of course would later be given the permanent “ Fort” designation, two years later in April 1950. Having been the first unit to inhabit the now permanent installation, the 11th had the naming rights for many of the post’s attributes like Angels Road, which every Soldier takes when venturing to the training area. The 11th Airborne Division’s stay in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was short compared to the 101st, but had it not been for this relatively short-lived division, the base would likely not be sitting on the Bluegrass and Volunteer state’s border. “This place wasn’t supposed to survive. This place was supposed to be closed down after World War II,” O’Brien said. “So when the transition was made from a Camp in World War II that should have gone away to a Fort, which designates permanency, the first residents here who developed family housing and schools and all of those sorts of things were the 11th Airborne Division Soldiers.”
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Fall is officially here. Bring on the boots, scarves, fairs, festivals and chili. That’s right…the chili! Chili is one of fall’s most consumed comfort foods that is not only delicious, but it is one of the most filling. It can be prepared hundreds of ways, and there is no better way to show your appreciation for the hot bowl of stew than by attending the 2017 Salute Saturday Chili Cook-Off. The Christian County Military Affairs Committee will hold its annual Salute Saturday Festival on October 21, at Founders Square in Hopkinsville. One of the most anticipated events of the festival this year, like the previous years, will be the Chili Cook-Off. Do you have a chili recipe that everyone has been dying to get their hands on? Is your chili the talk of the town? If you answered yes to any of the previous questions, then the Salute Saturday Chili Cook-Off is where you want to be. If that wasn’t enough to entice you, there is also a $1,000 grand prize up for grabs, and you and your team will have earned bragging rights for an entire year.
Registered Chili Cook-Off teams will also have the option to participate in the Grilled Cheese Challenge. There will be two grilled cheese categories: Open and Plain. Activities begin at 2 pm with live music by the 101st Band, Kids Zone, Arts District and fireworks. Teams compete for best chili bragging rights. Free admission for activities. Public sampling of chili is $2 per person and free for military Families! For more information visit www.christiancountychamber.com/pages/MilitaryAffairs.
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Try not to take the name of this half marathon too literally! The 7th annual Go Commando run will be held on October 21, and will guide runners through “…the gently rolling hills of the Clarksville city limits,” according to the Go Commando website. The run is sponsored by the Clarksville Rotary Club, and is part of the 2017 ECFT. There will be a kids’ fun run and a Go Commando Shadow Run happening at the same time as the half-marathon. The Shadow Run is for active-duty servicemembers who are stationed overseas. They will participate in the event from an ocean away with free t-shirts, medals and race gear given for free from Go Commando. Admission is $5 for kids run, $40 for the Go Commando 5k run and $65 for the Go Commando Half Marathon. There will be cash prizes for the top three overall winners in each category, and there will be food, drink and entertainment following the race. Parking for runners will be available behind Governor’s Square Mall with buses ferrying participants from the lot to the starting line at Old Glory Distillery. For more information about the run and to purchase tickets, visit www.GoCommandoHalfMarathon.com.
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First Thursday Art Walk Downtown Clarksville • artwalkclarksville.com 5-8 pm Multiple locations in downtown Clarksville displaying local artists
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Ford Tri Motor Outlaw Field flytheford.org 2-5 pm 10/5, 9 am-5 pm 10/6-8 Come see history at your Outlaw Field, and yes you can ride on it. This event is brought to you by your New and up coming Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter. The event is free to enter and free to fly.
Nashville Oktoberfest Germantown thenashvilleoktoberfest.com German culture in a southern setting is the backdrop for the Nashville Oktoberfest, returning to historic Germantown for the 38th year…where festival goers eat, drink and celebrate their German heritage. A Tennessee tradition since 1980, the Oktoberfest is Nashville’s oldest festival and the Largest Fall Festival in the South.
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Days of Knights Oak Grove War Memorial Park thedaysofknights.com Days of Knights is a historically accurate re-creation of several time periods from the era known as the Middle Ages. Walk through a timeline encampment featuring living history enthusiasts re-creating the Norman invaders of Britain in 1066, crusaders from the 1200s, archers and knights from the 100 Years War, and many others.The reenactors are well versed in their periods of study. Historical accuracy is stressed. Visitors will be able to learn about many aspects of the medieval era, including the roles of women and religion in society, medieval foodways, crafting, daily life and more from knowledgeable speakers and demonstrators.
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Louisina Saturday Night 1st Presbyterian Church 4:30-7:30 p.m. loavesandfishestn.org Help out Loaves and Fishes while enjoying an authentic Louisiana Cajun style meal. Loaves and Fishes has been a source of food for the hungry for over 30 years.
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41st Annual Country Ham Festival Downtown Cadiz KY gocadiz.com Live music, arts & crafts, canning and baking exhibits, vintage car show, fireworks, pony rides, racing pigs, children’s entertainment, carnival and quilt show. Voted “Top 3” two years in a row as “Best Annual Festival” in Kentucky by the readers of Kentucky Living. Come sit, relax and listen to original music while you eat a funnel cake, a ham biscuit or some of the other foods cooked here. Enjoy the “country fair” feel on a larger scale. Stroll through historic downtown’s antique and gift shops. Be sure to check out the “Award Winning Quilt Show at the Janice Mason Art Museum. Saturday’s featured entertainment this year is the acclaimed music of Exile. Hoedown on the Harpeth Hayshed Farms, Kingston Springs hoedownontheharpeth.com The 2nd annual Hoedown on the Harpeth features live bands, ample jamming, camping, workshops and square dancing. The line-up includes Gary West, Roni & Donna Stoneman, Mike Compton, Joe Newberry Iron Horse and many more.
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Southern Festival of Books War Memorial Plaza Nashville
Presented by Humanities Tennessee is the 29th annual Southern Festival of Books. The festival hosts popular book exhibitors and three performance stages featuring highlight readings, dramatic literary performances, music by songwriters and poets. The youth stage will have characters, musicians and storytellers.
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Music on Main Ashland City 9:30 am - 6 pm
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Salute Saturday Chili Cook-Off Downtown Hopkinsville christiancountychamber.com Join the Christian County Military Affairs Committee as we kick off our annual Salute Week activities with the Salute Saturday Chili Cook-Off. Activities begin at 2 pm with live music by the 101st Band, Kids Zone, Arts District and fireworks. Teams compete for best chili bragging rights. Free admission for activities. Public sampling of chili is $2 per person and free for military Families! Go Commando Old Glory Distillery, Clarksville gocommandohalfmarathon.com
A half marathon and 5K The 3rd annual Music on Main race that is part of the Festival. provides a fun and festive ECFT. This year will also family atmosphere with a wide array of include a Kids Fun Run music on the main stage in front of the that is for children 10 historic Cheatham County Courthouse. Several businesses years old and younger and is not a timed event. The Half will also be hosting a variety of musical entertainment. Marathon begins at 7:30 am, the 5K begins at 8 am, the Kids Fun Run begins at 10:30 am Clarksville Vintage Fair Beachaven Winery Howlaween Fur Ball clarksvillevintagefair.com Come out to spend a MB Roland Distillery day with friends and Hosted by MB Roland Distillery in an authentic dairy barn. Prepare family. Beachaven yourself for a night of ghosts, Winery offers the goblins, and awesome music. Your perfect location to ticket includes a Boo-B-Que dinner, sample local wines, listen to live music, and shop from handmade artisans in an live music to dance the night away, photo booth, a silent auction and costume contest. intimate venue. Explore booths offering everything from All proceeds go to help provide medical care for pets in antiques, furniture, vinyl records, handmade goods and Max’s Hope Pet Rescue prior to adoption. more. Admission is $3 for adults and children ages 15 and under are FREE. Couples can get in for $5.
Farmers Markets Cadiz, Kentucky - Downtown Every Wed & Sat at 7 am Clarksville, Tennessee - Downtown Every Sat at 8 am (ends Oct 14) Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Downtown Every Wed & Sat at 7 am
Football Tennessee Titans @ Nissan Stadium Oct 16 vs Indianapolis Colts 7:30 pm Oct 24 vs Seattle Seahawks 3:05 pm APSU Governors @ Fortera Stadium Oct 7 vs Jacksonville State 4 pm Oct 21 vs Southeast Missouri State 4 pm
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Green Eagle by Sean McCully
The official Fort Campbell Environmental Handbook has received a 21st century digital makeover, with the introduction of the new free Green Eagle app.
information and want to stay in compliance, or are just curious about what goes on at Fort Campbell and the efforts of the environmental center.”
The app contains all the information on how to deal with everything from household paper and plastic recycling, to who to call to clean up hazardous spills.
This updated app provides service members with information regarding proper disposal of wastewater, asbestos, as well as how to handle pest problems.
It brings a much-needed update to the physical handbook, which is initially handed out to all those stationed on the installation, which can be lost, damaged or otherwise rendered unreadable.
Released in May 2017, the app is still a fairly new release, but the environmental division already has plans for continuing to make it easier to recycle on post.
The app is more ubiquitous than the handbook, as it has the ability to live in every post visitor’s pocket, according to Waste Minimization Environmental Engineer, Jeremy Rains, who works with the Fort Campbell environmental center. “We’ve created a onestop for this information,” Rains said. “It really makes it easier for the people who need this
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Rains said with the editability of the app, they have the opportunity to add any and all pieces of relevant information from a burn index dictating the appropriate size of fires in a given time period, to local weather information to maps of the installation. The app is free on Google Play as well as the App Store.
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Ham Festival
The people in Cadiz, Kentucky, know how to make a good ham biscuit. They should know after all, because they’ve been making them for almost half a century at their annual Ham Festival. Cadiz is celebrating its 41st annual Ham Festival on October 13 and 14 with attractions like face painting, live music, ham, fireworks, pony rides, ham, pig races and more ham. They also make the world’s largest country ham biscuit which requires a 16 foot by 20 foot oven to cook evenly.
Friday Oct 13 Event Line-up
Saturday Oct 14 Event Line-up
10am - Opening Cermony 10:20am - Cadiz Baptist Church Pre-School Kids 11am - The Vintage Station Band 12pm - Ray Ligon (acoustic guitar) 1:15pm - Courtney Dickinson (acoustic guitar) 2:30pm - Frankie Justin (acoustic guitar) 3:30pm - Bailey James (acoustic guitar) 4:30pm - H & R Agri Power Hog Calling Contest 5:30pm - Hamtastic Drawing 5:50pm - Fire Hula Hoop Girl 6:10pm - Regi Whooten Band (Full band)
10am - Opening Ceremony 10:20am - Biscuit Boy 12pm - Justin Reynolds Band 1pm - Trigg County’s Best Country Ham & Best Biscuit 1:30pm - Amber Hayes (acoustic) 3pm - 4H Country Ham Auction 4pm - Ray Scott (Full Band) 5:25pm - Trigg Wrestling Coaches “Kiss a Pig” 5:30pm Hamtastic Drawing 6:30pm - Exile
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The festival normally draws around 40 to 60,000 visitors every year to come see the festival and its more than 200 vendors. Many visitors are drawn to the festival because of Cadiz’s small-town charm and the community they find in the people coming out to the festival, according to Director of Cadiz tourism Bill Stevens. “It’s not only a family reunion type of atmosphere, but it’s a sense of community that everyone takes part in,” Stevens said. “It’s part of the heritage here in Trigg county, so once people attend this they see the community kinship and love and they feel like they’re stepping back into a time that’s a lot slower paced with a lot more community pride.” The festival originally was born out of the Farm City Week, which was capped off each year with a bar-b-que dinner and baking contest for Trigg county residents. Trigg county has always been known for its country ham delicacy, and the ham festival emerged from Farm City Week as the dominant county tradition for the next four decades. Stevens said it has been such a successful festival for because of the support of the community. “Originally the festival was intended to showcase the local agriculture in the community and now it has a lot of community volunteers,” Stevens said. “It is actually from the very beginning until this day has a Ham Festival Committee that is made up entirely of volunteers that want to see the tradition of the festival continue.” For more information about the festival and a complete schedule of events, visit www.HamFestival.com.
International Credit Union Day Credit unions are responsible for more than just handling money. They handle homes, cars and futures. They handle people’s ability to thrive. To celebrate the legacy of local credit unions, shareholders can celebrate International Credit Union (ICU) day on October 19.
According to the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions, ICU day “…celebrates the spirit of the global credit union movement. The day is recognized to reflect upon the credit union movement's history, promote its achievements, recognize the hard work and share member experiences.” The day will feature different fundraisers, open houses, picnics and parades globally. Altra Federal Credit Union, Fortera Credit Union, and Cornerstone Financial Credit Union all plan to have cookouts and giveaways at their local Clarksville and Hopkinsville branches to celebrate the holiday. Information for each credit unions’ plans will be available on their individual websites and social media closer to the date of the holiday. Credit unions differ from banks in that account holders are considered shareholders in the company rather than just customers, meaning each account holder has a democratic vote in electing board members. Credit Unions operate contrary to banks in that they are not-for-profit institutions and are incredibly stable, and while banks pay their stockholders with declared earnings, credit unions pay back their voting members in the form of higher savings rates and lower loan rates. For more information about the holiday, visit www.woccu.org/networking_education/icuday.
Altra Federal Credit Union 42625 Wilma Rudolph Blvd Clarksville 931-645-3802 1600 Madison St Clarksville 931-552-3363 altra.org
Cornerstone Financial 2100 Trenton Rd Clarksville 931-648-2893 bankcfuc.org
Fortera Credit Union 88 Michigan Ave Fort Campbell 931-436-9423 500 Heritage Pointe Dr Clarksville 931-436-9423 2050 Lowes Dr Clarksville 931-431-6800 ‘145 Dover Crossing Clarksville 931-436-9432 321 Spring St Clarksville 931-431-6800 2193 Madison St Clarksville 931-431-6800 130 Griffin Bell Dr Hopkinsville 931-431-6800 3225 Lfayette Rd Hopkinsville 931-431-6800 2419 Fort Campbell Blvd Hopkinsville 270-885-0508 300 Clinic Dr Hopkinsville 931-436-9427 forteracu.com
Fort Campbell Area Credit Unions Gateway Credit Union 100 Otis Smith Dr Clarksville 931-551-8271 bankcfuc.com
Navy Federal Credit Union 205 Clair Ave Oak Grove 888-842-6328 1488 Tiny Town Rd Clarksville 888-842-6328 navyfederal.org
PenFed Credit Union 2063 Wilma Rudolph Blvd Clarksville 800-247-5626 penfed.org 26
IN JUST WEEKS, YOU CAN BE ROAD-READY.
Call 800-546-8793 or visit Miller-Motte.edu for more information. 1820 Business Park Dr. • Clarksville, TN 37040 This school is approved for the GI Bill.® MMT.CLA.11431.K.101 Miller-Motte Technical College, Clarksville, is regulated as a commercial motor carrier by the US DOT and THEC. It takes fewer than 300 hours to complete this program; therefore it is not eligible for Title IV funding. © 2017 Delta Career Education Corporation. All rights reserved. DOD, Army, or Federal Government endorsement not implied.
Oct 14 Liberty Park Clarksville 8am-12pm If spending a weekend with pirates and mermaids sounds interesting, then head out to the Community CARES Walk and Expo where there will be children’s activities, vendors and a walk around Liberty Park. The 6th annual Community CARES (Community Advocating for Every Special Citizen) Walk and Expo will be held at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center on October 14 from 8:30am until noon.
to use in special education, as well as the Making Memories program that sponsors trips for 15 families yearly to the Camp for Courageous Kids in Scottsville, Kentucky.
This year’s theme is Keep Adventuring. It begins with the walk around the Liberty Park marina and ends back at the event center where there will be dancing, vendors and free food.
For more information about the walk and to donate to the Clarksville Association for Down Syndrome, visit their website at www.cadstn.org.
The event is sponsored by the Clarksville Association for Down Syndrome (CADS) and the City of Clarksville Parks and Recreation department. The walk seeks to bring “…awareness of health, safety and fun to the community,” according to CADS’ website. It also serves as the primary fundraiser supporting the association’s operations in the community including Technology for Teachers which helps supply teachers with much-needed technology
6th Community C.A.R.E.S. Walk & Expo Oct 14 Liberty Park • 1 mile walk around the pond all special citizens will receive a medal
• Vendors showcasing their services and products • Free chair massages from Miller-Motte • Free Music Therapy sessions throughout the morning from Midsouth music therapy • Free Food • Music • Dance performance • EMS • Zombie Hunters truck • Huge Silent Auction
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The Vietnam War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in American history with more casualties than the Iraq, Korean and Revolutionary wars combined. Soldiers who returned from their duties following World War II were greeted with parades and other brilliant shows of gratitude for these soldiers’ acts of heroism. Vietnam veterans received far less. The parades were few and far between in the highly vitriolic political climate surrounding the Vietnam War. Many Soldiers began their returns from Vietnam with a head filled with images of war in a country that did not seem to care about their sacrifice. Enter the Vietnam Veterans Association. “By the late 1970s, it was clear the established veterans’ groups had failed to make a priority of the issues of concern to Vietnam veterans,” according to the national Vietnam Veterans of America website. “As a result, a vacuum existed within the nation’s legislative and public agenda.” The VVA was initially established in 1979, originally known as the Council of Vietnam Veterans for a few months before changing the name to the Vietnam Veterans of America. They offer all manner of programs for veterans of the conflict, from financial services to help in job searches. Clarksville has an
active chapter of the Vietnam Veteran’s Association, Chapter 396, which hosts ceremonies on Veteran’s day and Memorial day to remember soldiers who lost their lives as active and veteran servicemembers. They also sponsor outreach programs that help veterans escape homelessness, link them with Veteran’s Affairs healthcare providers and aid with PTSD and substance abuse struggles, among other programs. Chapter 396 meets on the fourth Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm at Paul-N Jackie’s Country Kitchen at 1578 Zinc Plant Road in Clarskville. The VVA also offers a paid membership service that includes a subscription to The VVA Veteran magazine, updated information on VVA’s lobbying for Vietnam veteran’s issues and help connecting with other Vietnam veterans. Membership packages are $20 for one year, $50 for three years and $100 for a lifetime membership. The VVA has a few founding principles, though there is one that might stand as more poignant for veterans who fought and tried to come home after the Vietnam war: “Our veterans are committed to ensuring fairness in the treatment of veterans so that never again will one generation of veterans abandon another.”
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