Lukemia and Lymphoma Society fundraiser

A local fundraiser for a good cause is happening tomorrow, and it can also be a fun night out for the family.

March 25, 2011
Smyrna Bowling Center
2:00pm until 5:00pm
12.00 for 2 games and shoes. 8.00 for kids under 10. All proceeds go to the Lukemia and Lymphoma Society
There will be door prizes. Come and have a great time for an awesome cause!
Please RSVP so we know how many lanes to provide!!
If you are interested in making a donation instead, please check out my site for more information

Fruit and Fudge Sale

The Smyrna High School band is raising money by selling fruits and fudges...Mmmmmm!

Sweeten your Holidays this season!

Fruit from Riversweet and Fudge from the Fudge Shoppe of the Smokey Mountains...the finest products available for over 30 years!Support the band by purchasing fruit and fudge from us this Holiday season! We take two separate orders...one for delivery by Thanksgiving and another for delivery by Christmas. We have a variety of products available from Riversweet Citrus and Fruit Co. and the Fudge Shoppe of the Smokey Mountains. Contact a band booster or ask a member to learn how to purchase these tasty items and help support your Smyrna High School Band at the same time!

For Christmas this would be an easy gift to give. Contact Richard Lutz for Smyrna, 615-893-5815 ext. 23739
The deadline to order for Christmas is Nov. 28, with delivery on or after Dec. 10.

Poinsettias

The local middle school is running a fund raiser for a trip to Washington. If you want to get into the holiday mood nothing helps as much as a poinsettias

Eighth-graders at Smyrna Middle are selling poinsettias in order to raise funds for a class trip to Washington, D.C. Standard sizes include a six and one-half-inch pot with one plant and five or more blooms ($10) and an eight-inch pot with three plants and 12 or more blooms ($15). Pots will be wrapped in red, green or gold foil and shipped in a plastic sleeve that protects the poinsettia and provides easy transportation. The sale continues until $14. Checks should be made out to Smyrna Middle School. Plants will arrive between late November and mid-December. For more information, contact Torian Hodges-Finch at hodgesfincht@rcschools.net.

Fund being set up for a local child in need

A local day care is setting up a fund for the child of last weeks murder victim. The youngsters grandmather was also shot so if you have the ability please thing of giving a bit.

The fund is being established for Makhai Brown at Fifth Third Bank in the wake of the death of his mother, Briana M. Brown, 22, according to Shannon Ashford, an employee at Rock Springs Academy. The fund, which is to be transformed into a trust fund, will be active Wednesday, and donations can be made at any Fifth Third Bank, Ashford said.

Smyrna Rescue Squad to hold rummage sale

Do you have some items you'd feel would make a good donation to the Smyrna Rescue Squad? They could really use our support.

A rummage and bake sale is planned to begin at 7 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday this weekend at the Smyrna Rescue Squad, 203 Front St.

The sale will be held inside the Rescue Squad building.

Donations are also being accepted for the sale. Call 615-459-4436 or 615-785-2354 for more information.

Also drop by and buy stuff...give and receives...and smile.

How dirty is your car?

The Smyrna High School band is having a car wash on June 25th as a fund raiser. Plan on taking your car and having someone else clean it.

A car wash from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 25 at Bob Parks Realty on Sam Ridley Parkway will benefit the Smyrna High School marching band.

A $5 donation is suggested.

The funds will help students pay for band camp

Raz'z to host concert

A concert for flood victims will be held at Raz'z here in Smyrna.

Raz’z Restaurant, located at 408 Sam Ridley Parkway, will host a benefit concert for flood victims from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 27.
The event will feature performances from Memarie Gayle, Scott Collier, Josh Connor and Reuben Brock. All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross.

I hope the individual performers links are correct. I did not have any duplicate names so you should get an idea of the music that will be performed.

We Build People

This sounds like a blast, and expect a lot of the county candidates to be there glad handing making the rounds.

The first-ever Taste of Smyrna will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at StoneCrest Medical Center. The event, which features a sampling of signature dishes from more than 20 restaurants and a variety of entertainment, will raise money for the North Rutherford YMCA’s annual We Build People campaign.
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Participants include BlueCoast Burrito, Breaking Bread, Buffalo Wild Wings, Byrd Dog’s, Cheddar’s, Cheeseburger Charley’s, Cabot Vermont, Coca Cola, Famous Dave’s, Hilton Garden Plaza, Jim ‘N Nick’s, Jo’s Custom Catering, Krispy Kreme, Legends, Living Truth Christian Center, Morrison’s, Mi Tierra, Raz’z, Smoothie King, Thida Thai and Zaxby’s.

Live music will be performed by recording artists modern rock group Beekin, along with singers Pam Vallejo and Tara Gess.

This sounds like it's going to be fun and a place to meet people.

Benefit this Saturday

This is a fundraiser that the fisherman fisherperson in your life might be interested in. An employee of the town is having a hard time and the Murfreesboro Bass Association is hosting this event to help him.

Kenny Davis, who works in our Vehicle Maintenance Department, has been battling cancer. He is now receiving treatment through the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. A benefit fishing tournament for Kenny is being held at Fate Sanders on September 26th

Here is the flyer with details.

Kenny Davis (2)

Next Thursday

Next Thursday there is going to be a fund raiser in town that you might want to take your kids to.

My name is Kim Manning, I am doing a fundraiser for The Domestic Violence Program in Murfreesboro. My fundraiser will be June 11th (thurs) 12:00pm-7:00pm at Jumper's Playhouse located on Murfreesboro Rd. in Smyrna. Jumper's Playhouse is owned by Sgt. Jeff Lucas of Smyrna PD and he is donating some of his proceeds to domestic violence that day. I am a Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant and I will be doing free facials at 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 & 6:00. I really want to make a difference and I am donating a portion of my proceeds as well. I also have a list of needed supplies and I have contacted some local business and asked them to donate what they can. I hope you guy's can get involved in anyway that you can. I am going to place an ad in the Rutherford Times to advertise. I strongly encourage you to pass this e-mail to any woman that would participate in a free facial, they can bring their kids and all is for a great cause. I am also hoping to have a local beauty salon donate a free hair cut & color to raffle off.
Thank you for your time and I hope you can help.

Good luck.

One week to go....

Just an update on how things are looking for our Heart of Tennessee Red Cross fund raiser for May 30th, next Saturday from noon till 4pm. As it looks now there are many things planned for this day. If you are a vendor that is going to be there and confirmed by myself I want you to know you may get there as early as you like to set up. I will be there around 6am and there most of the morning until our big event kicks off at noon.

For those that are attending event: remember I will be selling wristbands for those that want to do the dunking booth, inflatable, rock climbing wall. The Price of wristbands will be $5.00 each. Also O'Charleys will be there selling hamburgers and hot dogs for $1.00 each. The airbrush tattoo airtist will be in the cafe selling her famous tattoo's. Stevie J will be doing karaoke and anyone that wants to sing will be able to donate $1.00 to be able to sing. Also the bowling inside will be going on and I hope everyone will at least bowl one game with shoes. Remember this is for a great cause I want to raise money to help those in future disasters. Our neighbors are counting on us so lets stand up and help them now before anything happens!

for more info please call me at 220-0902

Volunteers and more...

The article in the .D.N.J.
UPDATE AS OF 5/13/2009: I have also confired that Progressive Martial Arts will be demostrating. Also Sport Clips will be there to cut hair and give away coupns. We are now up to about 18 to 20 vendors for our fund raiser.

Silent Auction update: Progressive Martial Arts has given me a 1 yr membership valued at $1045.00. This is great deal as is the 6 month membership from Cox's Martial Arts valued at $650.00. Other itmes donated are some hair care products, a double feature dvd, lunch at Cuzumels in the Boro, Salon Nikki has given me 2 $35.00 gift cert., Krogers in the Boro has given us a $10.00 gift card, StarBucks has given us a pound of coffee, Blockbuster-5 free movie rentals, and much more to come. The silent auction forms will be up on Monday next week so you can stop by and place your bid! see ya then!!!


I am giving everyone an update on the fund raiser for the Heart of Tennessee Red Cross Chapter. The owners of the bowling center have decided to lower the price of bowling. It is now going to be $3.00 for children and $4.00 per adult per game plus shoe rental with half of all proceeds going to the Red Cross. This is going to be a great value that is also helping those in need out. I have confirmed that the firetruck, firehouse from the Town of Smyrna will be coming along with the Dare officers, K-9 unit, D.J., Karaoke, inflatable, dunking booth, airbrush tattoo artist, O'Charleys will be bringing their mobile kitchen, games, P.A.W.S, and much much much more. What I am needing now from the people of our great town is volunteers and items donated for the silent auction. Also O'Charleys is only going to donate one case of small burgers and buns so I would like for those with a group or church to come forward and donate food items to sell to raise money. If you or your group can help please email me at bearroller9640@yahoo.com.

Also we will be selling wristbands for all events except for food and airbrush artist for $5.00 for unlimited play outside.Food will be sold through the mobile kitchen and all money will be donated. So come on Smyrna stand up and help with this event!

UPDATE: Confirmed today that the National Guard will be bringing a rock climbing wall along with one of their Hummers

Fund raiser update:

As the month of April comes and goes and we get ready for the month of May, I am working hard on a fund raiser for the Red Cross, Rutherford county chapter. I have secured a dunking machine that is provided by the La Vergne Lions Club, also an airbrush tattoo artist, A d.j. spinning 70's music, Smyrna fire dept will be bringing a firetruck, and our very own congressman Bart Gordon is going to try to attend this event. What I need from the people of Northern Rutherford county is things for donation to the silent auction. I am also needing volunteers to help with getting things together plus help out the day of the fund raiser. anyone want to work the dunking booth would be great too! Our state is known as the Volunteer state so Smyrna and La Vergne step up and lets make this event one to remember. Feel free to comment here or email me at bearroller9640@yahoo.com.

UPDATE: I have now reserved an inflatable from spacewalk of Murfreesboro and they also own Cox martial arts which they are donating a gift cert for 6 months of martial arts class valued at $650. this is a great item for our silent auction!

update #2: Our sponsors:

I wanted to give a big shout out to our sponsors so far that are helping us with this huge event coming up at the end of May. I want to thank them and hope we get many more that want to attend this event.

here are their links:

Totally connected D.J. service

Spacewalk of Murfreesboro and Cox Martial Arts

Check these great people out and do business with them because they care about our community!

Tampa Bay Pro Pitcher coming to town next week

Baseball fans get ready to meet one of the locals best Pro baseball players coming up on Feb 7th at the Smyrna Bowling Center.

The David Price Benefit has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Feb. 7 at the Smyrna Bowling Center. The benefit is to raise money for an endowment college fund at Blackman High in memory of Nathan Stephens. Stephens, a former basketball teammate of Price's at Blackman, suffered a seizure and died while playing basketball in August 2007 in Knoxville. He was 22.

Price, a former Vanderbilt pitching ace, was the No. 1 overall Major League Baseball draft pick in 2007. After making his Major League Baseball debut in September, Price pitched in both the World Series and American League Championship Series for the Tampa Bay Rays, getting the save in the title game of the ALCS against Boston to earn the team's first World Series appearance.

A silent auction wil be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There will be an autograph session starting at 10:30 a.m. with bowling beginning at noon.

Click here for more information on times and ticket prices

"Promise me I'll live another 15 years, that would make me 30 "

OK people I have an update on Brandon Brewer and this update is one that is going to make your heart heavy. I have heard from his mother today and she informs me that Brandon is in the first stages of liver failure. The doctors told her that he has about One year to live if he doesn't get the transplants that he needs. They are making plans now to head to Pittsburgh this weekend to see the doctors and try to figure out what to do next.

As a 15 yr old young man I couldn't deal with this like he is dealing with this.I was told by his mother that Christmas is his favorite time of year and mine as WELL! They are going to be putting up the Christmas tree this afternoon and they are going to leave it up until he is feeling better. As most of you know I had a fundraiser this past month at the Smyrna bowling center and we ended up raising about $3837.00. Which will help with medical bills. The family has to pay out so much per month that they don't get to do anything for the family. I have decided that maybe we should do another fundraiser but this time make it a Christmas party/fundraiser. I know of a great band called Soul Incision and they are a group of doctors and such at Vanderbilt Hospital and by night they play music and when I heard this band I fell in love with them. I am going to see if they play for the event I will be planning. I would like to see if anyone out there would be able to help me plan a special night with music and food and gifts or donations? I would also need someone to donated a place to hold this event. Either a church or nightclub or a multi- purpose room would be great. I would like to have as many people in the area involved with this to make this such a special night for Brandon because people, this might be his last Christmas. Anyone that is willing to help out please email me at bearroller9640@yahoo.com. Check out his site here for all the updates He did the other day tell his mom and I quote "Promise me I'll live another 15 years, that would make me 30 " This tears up my heart something bad. I pray that he gets the much needed transplants and soon. want to donate alittle something then you can. Want to help me with doing another event please call me at 995-2636 and lets make this a great night for Brandon!!

The family of Brandon Brewer has a trust fund set up to help the family defer the enormous cost of medical bills. Send money to:
First Tennessee Bank
c/o Christopher Brandon Brewer
770 Nissan Drive
Smyrna, TN 37167

Fundraiser for Smyrna High School

Smyrna High School is planning on building a soccer field. Rutherford county has set aside a limited amount of funds for the project, but not enough. The Smyrna High School boosters are having a golf tournament to raise the remaining amount.

Smyrna High Soccer Booster
Golf Tournament

Saturday May 12th, 2007
8am Shotgun start

Smyrna Municipal Golf Course Format: Four man scramble
$75 per player
$300 per team
$150 hole sponsorship

Prizes
2-long drive holes
4 closest to pin
3 flights

Mulligans and Ladies Tees will be available for purchase day of tournament

LubePro's, at 320 S Lowry St, has forms available for those interested.

More contact information.

For Tournament information call Chris Burke @ (615) 355-9319

Make checks payable to Smyrna High School Booster Club
send payment to:
111 Creek Ct
Smyrna TN 37167
Please reply by April 12th as teams will be limited!!

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