Think your chili is the best around? Tonight you’ll have your chance to prove it as again the city rallies around Ricky Quinn, a dedicated city employee who is also a volunteer firefighter. Ricky is fighting neck and head cancer…
Category: Community Service
Help for Keeping Roof Over Your Head
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Besides helping the spiritual lives of people, churches often see to the physical needs of the hungry, the cold, and the sick. In LaVergne, one church has taken its ministry of care and love one step further. They are professionally…
Making La Vergne Home
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Yesterday, I asked some questions and got some very good answers. I urge you to go read the comments there and start thinking about what you can do to help. I would be glad to help anyone who wants to…
Shelter Available Tuesday Night
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With strong winds and big storm predicted to roll in around midnight tonight, the Box 100 volunteer group is opening the Multipurpose Building behind City Hall beginning at 10:00 p.m. If you need shelter, the building is across from the…
BAD Weather Approaching
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From the mayor, NOTICE: Box 100 has opened the Multipurpose Building behind City Hall for anyone seeking shelter from the major storms heading our way. This is for Thursday, February 24th.
Make Christmas a Charitable Time
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With Christmas just days away, this is a good time to reflect on its true meaning and to practice random acts of kindness. How can you do this? Go through your pantry and find some canned or other non-perishable items…
SHIVER In My Bones Just Thinking About the Weather…
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Quick! The lyrics are from… Okay I’m not really going to tell you. However I did want to mention that we have a yard sale link here on TiLaV. I’ve moved it over to the left hand side of the…
Mashup: Toy Drive & Swearing-In
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For today’s new word, let’s explore Mashup. According to Urban Dictionary.com, mashup is “v. To take elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music and combine them to make a new song. n. A song comprised of elements of…
Clean Up & Trail of Treats Made for BUSY Day
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Ay yi yi… what a busy day in LaVergne! We started this morning at Hurricane Creek Boat Ramp with a clean-up activity. Tons of people showed up, including this old woman with creaking limbs, an out-of-control sciatic nerve, and easily-sunburned…
Contacting Animal Control
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First, thanks to the many kind words today from people passing by our table at the Trail of Treats (some photos to follow). One person asked if the city has any animal control officers and I promised to link some…