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Tears For Fears finds its way with ‘The Tipping Point,’ will perform at FirstBank Amphitheater
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By Alan Sculley • For the Williamson Herald
For most of the past 15 years or so, Tears For Fears had done just fine on tours playing mainly the same songs from the four albums this duo of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal had made together.
Eventually, though, the duo realized things were getting stale. It was time for an infusion of new songs. But there was just one problem with that.
“We weren’t ourselves 100 percent sure about what we wanted to do,” Smith said in a phone interview.
So Tears For Fears’ manager at the time, Gary Gersh, suggested pairing Smith and Orzabal with a variety of current pop songwriters to create an album of modern pop songs that would work with today’s music trends. The duo agreed to the plan.
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Nonprofit founded by Ravenwood High grad celebrates 5 years of instilling ‘positivity for the world’
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By Jodi Rall • Staff Writer
To help commemorate its five-year anniversary of serving the community, the nonprofit Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives recently held a “packing day” to provide thousands of toiletry and snack bags for agencies serving the homeless and underserved youth in Nashville.
The event was held June 15 at the Brentwood Point III clubhouse. Volunteers helped to pack 24,000 items, including over 1,000 toiletry bags with 13 items per bag, more than 1,000 snack bags with eight items each, and 408 backpacks donated by HCA Healthcare.
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FrankTown fundraiser helps to build new home
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By Derby Jones • Publisher
It was a beautiful night of great music and generosity as FrankTown Open Hearts held its annual fundraiser to raise money for its future new building.
The event was held last week at The Barn at Sycamore Farms and featured singer/songwriters Casey Beathard and Jeffrey Steele followed by an appearance from Wynona Judd.
FrankTown Executive Director Chris Barnhill opened the evening with a passionate plea for the facility needs of FrankTown. “Jesus never turned away kids,” said Barnhill. “We turn away kids every day. We just don’t have the space or the transportation, [so] we have to say no to some of these kids.”
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July’s Civil War Round Table to present historian and author Heller as guest speaker
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J. Roderick Heller III, the founding chairman of the Civil War Trust, trustee and vice chairman of the National Trust for Historical Preservation, and a former member of the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, will speak at the July 9 presentation of the Franklin Civil War Round Table at Carnton’s Fleming Center in Franklin.
He will present a “deep dive” into the causes of the Civil War in his talk titled “Where Angels Fear to Tread.”
Heller’s accomplishments are numerous, including an M.A. in History and an LL.D. from Harvard University. His work includes time in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Jamica in diverse positions including director of U.S. Aid and international business projects.
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Brentwood Library to hold ribbon-cutting ceremony for new Pollinator Garden
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Herald Reports
At 11 a.m. on July 28, the John P. Holt Brentwood Library will officially unveil its new Pollinator Garden during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Reading Terrace.
The colorful plants currently blooming in this new garden will attract bees, butterflies, moths, beetles and birds.
“The garden was designed to host plants that bloom from early spring through fall, including phlox, dianthus, butterfly weed, bee balm, echinacea, tickseed, catmint, aster, and more,” Sarah Norris, library marketing coordinator, said. “The library Reading Terrace became an obvious location for such a project after the success of the Sensory Garden and the accidental promotion of several endangered caterpillars, thus prompting educational inquiry into the local pollinator population.”
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Commentary: Counting the scratch-offs
while the baby holds steady
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By William Carter • Columnist
I was in Mapco the other day waiting to buy a can of Skoal when the lady in front of me in line at the check-out counter asked me to hold her baby while she cashed in, then bought some more, lottery tickets.
Without giving me — a two-days-unshaven, suffering from Skoal withdrawal, border-line redneck-looking, absolute stranger — time to run away or to even pretend I didn’t hear her, she shoved the baby into my arms and then, absolved for the moment of all parental responsibility, turned back to the counter with a gleam in her eye and a thin sheen of sweat on her forehead and began to spend a whole bunch of what I gratuitously assumed to be either babysitting or diaper money on scratch-offs.
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