Please attend (or donate to) the East TN/Roane County Labor Day Picnic (850kb PDF flyer attached).

Place: Roane County Park, 3515 Roane State Highway (Highway 70) in Harriman
Cost: $10 adults, children under 12 free. Tickets may be purchased at the picnic or in advance by calling 865-332-1289.

It is a wonderful feast of food for the whole family. And, this year Park Overall will be the guest speaker. Tommy Santelli will be there too, for music and fun.

If you live in Loudon County, please email or phone Don Scott at drscott40 @ charter.net or call 408-1712. Don has tickets for $10 and knows from experience how good the food is!

-- OneTahiti

McMillan, an attorney from Clarksville, joins Nashville businessman Ward Cammack among those officially seeking the Democratic nomination. Four Republicans have announced they will run.

"I know that tough times call for leadership that lifts us up and brings us together," McMillan said in a release. "I'm running for governor because I believe I can bring Tennessee together."

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The following words are not mine but were put together by an old friend who was from imigrant Belgian family (probably illegal), definitely of the "working class" and a deacon in the Catholic church.

This subject keeps coming up and the Democrats consistantly seem to somehow shoot themselves in the foot every time it re-appears: