EP: 20 "The 2026 Ice Storm”

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Howdy, and welcome to episode 20 of Hello Fairview, your local podcast made right here

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in Fairview for people in Fairview and the surrounding areas.

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This is a weekly show released every Wednesday featuring stories that aim to inform and inspire.

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Local radio stations and newspapers don't exist in small towns like ours,

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so we use Hello Fairview to fill that void with news related to Fairview.

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longer and some will be shorter but I always try to do my best to keep things relevant.

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Traffic time. Well, icy busy where you can literally wait no time to make a left or right

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in the morning or afternoon between Cumberland and 100 because everything is still closed

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and many people still have even left their homes since last this previous Saturday when the snow

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and ice storm started. There are no construction updates because no one's been doing anything

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other than scraping the road. Red light update. We're still at three red lights, Old Cox, Publix,

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and Walmart. And we'll see how some of those new red lights come in there. City center, just like

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we talked about last week, still they laid out a bunch of mulch and grass and retaining and hay

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and stuff like that to start framing some of the areas. But they're still working on the drainage

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and utilities of that. There's still a giant pile of dirt, if you haven't noticed. And until that's

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done that we're there. We're also, we talked about last week about how the perimeter trail and how

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that's kind of coming into there and some of these development codes are coming up and this is your

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chance to do those types of things. Definitely make sure you're going to those meetings and

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paying attention to that. We're growing. Well, city news. It's a mess outside. It's been a crazy

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weekend for the city, but it's also been a testament to the city and its people. There have

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been lots of posts on Fairview then and now asking about heating options, road conditioning,

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getting rides, getting food and help, and so many other things between pets and parents and friends.

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It's been great to see all the number of people who have jumped in to help, and that's why this

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city is so great. We're not out of the woods yet with this weather. There are still some without

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power, but it's way better than it was when over 14,000 people were without power in western

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Williamson County in the Fairview and surrounding areas. There were some issues with lines from the

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TVA that feed our two substations on Pinewood Road and one across from Jingo Market. With those two

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not having power, most of the city did not have power and many of the other problems in the lines

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couldn't be found because there isn't a way to troubleshoot without power going down the road,

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at least a little bit, until you find something's broke here. There's a transformer exploded there.

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thanks to the city county workers for helping clean up and all the road maintenance they've done

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along with t-dot and everyone in middle tennessee electric and you could go we'll go ahead and lump

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in nes there of working tirelessly uh since saturday to get power back to people and help

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people along the way um and i was in burns in 1994 when the ice storm came and we didn't have

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power for two weeks and you know we were one of the lucky ones it only was 14 hours for us

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but there was people in Chester and Fernvale and some of those surrounding areas that were days

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and some are still waiting without power I'll even post the latest power outage map for Middleton

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Electric so you can still see and other city news the city manager Tom Daughtry declared a state of

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emergency for the City of Fairview. With the ongoing severe conditions, this proclamation

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allows the city to pursue reimbursement for employee time, fuel equipment, and supplies

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utilized by our essential workers and public safety personnel as they continue responding

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to this weather event. The City of Fairview remains committed to helping the safety and

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well-being of the residents. We encourage everyone to stay safe, stay warm, checking on your neighbors,

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especially the elders and those in need, as we work together to get through this emergency.

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so this type of proclamation will help them pay back some of the overtime and things like that

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along with the things that they mentioned there so this should actually help the city out a little

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bit so the development code and planning commission they rescheduled the uh they have one still set

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for the 27th which is tomorrow uh i would or it was yesterday so they've rescheduled that so we're

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waiting to see when that is, but that'll be the next board of commissioner and planning commission

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meeting still on the calendar, uh, from the last one, which, uh, we've, we recapped a little bit

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in this show here houses, uh, right now there's 211 for sale from one 99 last week. So we're

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getting a little bit more. The highest, most expensive is 3.495 million for 70 acres and a

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three bed, four bath. And the lowest is now $245,000, no acres, two bed, one full,

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one partial. Um, and there, so we see them team meet town meeting updates. So last week there

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wasn't any of our normal things like planning commissioner, board of commissioners, town hall,

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landscape board, round town coffee, but there was the development code review meeting, uh,

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which I put a lot of comments on on the Facebook side.

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But overall, that couple hour meeting was going through the list of things

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that each commissioner had found and talking through it.

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So there was lots of good ones based on traffic study updates and all that.

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If I did a recap of that, I would actually have to almost recap everybody verbatim.

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But overall, it was great discussions that went back and forth.

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pretty much every commissioner contributed something The TDAC people were pretty helpful of keeping the meeting going and going through all those things which was great So I didn want to add an hour or more of recap because there

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was no way to summarize everything other than lots of stuff was talked about. And if you want to,

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we have it posted in the show. If you want to watch that and go through it, you can probably

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watch it, you know, at one and a half, two times speed, you might be okay and still be able to

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get it all. Next town meetings. Well, February 10th is our planning commission and board of

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commissioners on February 5th, January 29th is supposed to be the pilot commissioner's town hall,

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but the city is closed. So that's not going to happen. So we'll have to see. That means that

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the next town hall will just be in February. And that'll be that. The parks and landscape board

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is on February 2nd. Development code is still scheduled. It was the 27th, but nothing looks

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like that happened. February 11th is around town coffee and there's no beer board planned.

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State of Tennessee. Tennesseans have been very busy managing all the problems with this winter

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storm and keeping things going and doing everything they can help. It's been great to

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see it across the state. It's not just our little town. Bill Lee was out and thanking a lot of the

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linemen and doing as they help restore power in these icy and kind of treacherous conditions

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where even some of their vehicles were getting stuck and everything in there.

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A Tennessee Republican senator is proposing a constitutional amendment to shift local election

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dates to match federal elections. This is Senator Farrell Halley of Gallatin is sponsoring this joint

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Resolution 5151, which would hold local government elections on the same day as federal and state

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elections to save money. We've mentioned this a couple times on the show when we've talked about

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the elections coming up this year. They basically have stuff in the middle of the year and you have

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stuff at the end of the year. Basically move the stuff to the middle of the year to the end of the

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year so that it's all unified and they only have to open up the polls one time, make one ballot,

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promote one thing instead of promoting two things, which is why the voter turnout for all local

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elections and municipalities is so much lower than federal elections because most people don't know.

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In some cases, they don't care, but that's also part of it. This could definitely help,

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and it will save money and a lot of time. A portion of Tennessee's federal grant money from

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the Trump Administration on the Rural Health Transformation Program may depend on their

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ability to pass that. Some Tennessee hospital eliminating the certificate of need law,

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something like this, the Tennessee Hospital Association has persisted for years. The Joint

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Ways and Means Committee voted on it the previous week on January 14th to accept nearly $207 million

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in federal grant monies, but without reservations. So this is basically where you had to have a

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need that you need 26 ambulances uh 33 here whatever the number is based on the population

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and census data and a lot of other things so that's there and then you know this is not last

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but least here but the tennessee department of safety homeland security and the tennessee highway

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patrol and the tennessee national guard uh and homeland security agents have led a coordinated

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effort to conduct welfare welfare checks on the tennesseans that have not been heard from since

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this designated ice and snowstorm started. So thank you for them all working together and helping

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people out. The bills, well, school is out and they are out with over 20 things that were on

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the agenda last week. And only one thing is marked canceled on January 30th. I guess they got all

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their work done right before the storm came rolling in. So good for them. There is still

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the state of the state which is the last one for bill lee on february 2nd at 6 p.m the agenda is

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the link for streaming isn't posted yet so we'll have to see when that comes in

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how's the hill well dangerous and icy but getting better this is the first time we can actually

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report on the passability of the hill yay the weather guessers were really wrong on this blizzard

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winter storm for sure because we had predictions of 3 to 24 inches as we were coming up some ice or

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no ice and I guess you know with that huge range maybe they still won because they got it in the

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range but for this week the weather guessers are predicting highs from 22 to 40 and lows from 11

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to 29 with some rain or freezing rain next Wednesday on the 4th. This could be our best

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chance for our first, uh, you know, time to, you know, keep this going, the snow days and everything

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like that. New businesses, nothing new was spotted. Ace Hardware is getting a lot closer.

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They've made a lot of progress outside. That property across from Core Orthotics is still

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marked under contract. So we'll have to see what that is. Um, other than that, there hasn't been

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anything spotted because the city is kind of strut down other than there are only two other

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commercial properties for sale one on drag strip road and one on loblolly pine boulevard so one

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thing is sold off that list farmer's market make sure you make it the farmer's market every saturday

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morning 8 a.m to 12 p.m mess at chiropractic and fairview fresh deli donuts located across the road

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from publics there are many good places to get great breads treats local beef and pork

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fruits and vegetables along with some hot saucing fishing lures and other gifts all every time of

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the year it was closed this saturday because of the snow and it'll probably still be closed

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this coming saturday so maybe next week the first weekend weekend in fairview uh in february we'll

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have it local business highlight brick and mortar uh we got nash eye care so uh this is our local

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eye doctor so if you're squinting a bit and need some new frames or contact lenses definitely check

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them out. Dr. Nash was born and raised right here in Fairview and has a long history of commitment

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and involvement within this great community. So you'll see them sponsoring things throughout there,

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which is great So we got their link in there So if you need your eyeballs looked at definitely go do it Job openings Well we at 40 from 31 So it basically kind of the same as last week

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So the only difference is that there was a job added at Pilot, which is cashier and

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deli production team member.

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But otherwise, we have basically there's a local job at almost every one of our local

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businesses here.

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Um, big and small.

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And, uh, so definitely check it out, uh, on the list there.

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So you can find those 40 jobs from that history nugget.

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Well, uh, this time we're kind of done with a little bit of Fairview history.

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We'll go to some Tennessee history for a bit in 1540.

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Uh, and we're actually 1539, uh, Henry DeSoto landed at what is now, uh, known as Charlotte

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Harbor in Florida, in the Gulf coast with a military detachment of 640 volunteers.

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Not sure they were really volunteers.

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With an average age of 24, selected to establish a Spanish colony near the Mississippi River.

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After spending the winter in northern Florida with news of gold in the direction of the rising sun,

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he headed northeast in the spring of 1540, crossing Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

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With no success in finding gold, he returned to the west, entering Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama,

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while trying to reach Mobile Bay to meet his ships.

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However, in October of 1540, the chief of Tuscaloosa tribe ambushed DeSoto's army with 100 miles from port.

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In spite of leaving victorious, DeSoto withdrew to the north, passed the Tennessee River so his men could be isolated and were unable to escape to their ships.

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This is kind of our first clash of Native Americans and the Spanish within the United States.

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And some of these tribes that ran into conflicts were the Crete, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Catawba.

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And each one of these tribes ran into kind of early people from the colonies of Europeans over there.

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And so this was at this time, it was pretty much the Spanish were the ones here at those early times.

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Upcoming events.

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Well, recap, basically January 22nd, Herpes Heroes at Bowie Park was canceled because of one of the instructor being sick.

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And I'm guessing the Young Life group membership was probably also rescheduled.

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I couldn't find anything on that.

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And that was going to be at First Baptist Church on January 26th.

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But with the snowstorm and school closed, I'm guessing it got moved.

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January 30th is the seed swap, which I don't know what's going to happen at Bowie Park.

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so we'll see how that goes

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February 7th is still on

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the sweetheart father and daughter dance

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is ages 5 to 14

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is $30 per couple

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at the Williamson County Enrichment Center

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there's a 3.30 to 5

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and a 6 to 7.30 dance

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so we've got the link for those tickets there

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February 26th and 28th

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at 9am to 4pm

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is the winter book sale at our library

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so please go for it here

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we've got a link to their page

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uh april 28th is the fairview titans junior pro first annual four-man golf scramble tournament

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march 28th is our easter egg hunt and may 2nd is our arts and crafts fair

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and we've also got the voting schedule on here basically may 5th is when the county primary

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is august 6th is the state and county general primary and then finally the federal election

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is on November 3rd. So that Senate bill that they're trying to go through, which I guess could

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not happen now for this election year, would eliminate that May and August election and only

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have the November election of those federal elections to coincide with. It's not going to

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co-term things to be federal elections, but just move it to that part of the year. For the kids,

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there's still tons of activities to do in sports here in February to keep your kids engaged.

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There are cheer programs, recreation teams for baseball, basketball, football, and others.

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There's a thriving Girl Scouts and Scouts PSA program.

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If you have a homeschooler, always check out Bowie Park for their schedule and clubs that meet there.

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If you have kids who are interested in dance, gymnastics, or cheer, please check out Lala's Dance Studio or Elevate Gymnastics and cheer.

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Vigilance Martial Arts is our local Taekwondo and Jiu-Jitsu school that teaches way more than moves.

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and the Fairview Youth Jacket Wrestling Program is a great option and program with a lot of state

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champions and things like that and there is a new Rec League Fairview Youth Volleyball Division

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that is coming up for ages 7 to 9, 10 to 11, and 12 to 14 and so the practices will begin in the

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week of March 16th and there will be specific ones for that and they already have their game

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days listed on here so check it out and go to the fairview recreation complex to sign up

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school news well no school since uh this week on monday some of the when the blizzard came

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and with the temperatures uh so maybe with the temperatures coming up they may not be back to

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school till next show honestly uh with the snow coming in on saturday it definitely wrecked the

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weekend for most, but really stole two extra snow days from all our kids, and they are very sad.

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But even once they get back to school sometime next week, they only have a week or so before the

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February 12th through 15th midwinter break, President's Day, over that Valentine's Day weekend.

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Hawken Tiger news, nothing new since last week. I haven't been able to get really any updates out

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of their other website or any of the PTO pages or any of that. Falcon news.

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The newsletter was late from last week, so we don't have anything from the latest from this week since school is out.

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There is a competitive robotics team that's starting and information will be available.

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Some new athletic field layouts are coming.

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Maybe this year that might be related to the piles of dirt in the front of the school.

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The top students were recognized from the House of Armor, Honor, and Valor.

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Staff member of the week, which was last week, was Miss Oliphant.

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More discussions about how the school is working to become a reward school which is achievements attendance and growth The Cupid grams are available from the FMS PTO per student with each of those being delivered on the 12th

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which will include a cookie drink and a crush drink and a note.

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This is always an easy way to show your student that you're paying attention to them and their schedule

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and giving a little something to make their day a little more better.

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a bunch of this will have to be rescheduled listed below here because it looks like you know the

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softball meeting on the 26th was probably obviously canceled and rescheduled we don't

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have a date yet for that and the track parent meeting at 6 p.m on January 27th but February

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12th is still spring picture day March 5th is makeup spring pictures rising freshman night at

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FHS is February 18th for all rising families. Eighth grader course selection will be February

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19th through March 5th at the FMS library. The high school counselors will meet with them and

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try to help them get planned in there. If you have an IEP, then all that will be ran through there.

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You can use the link below and contact them for the meeting time. Jacket News, well, they sent a

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newsletter even with the snow day uh and it worked this week yay so next week there'll be the coming

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home week uh where there's dress up days where the first day you're doing a student teacher swap

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dress your age so obviously freshmen or babies white lie shirts where you're going to write

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something on a white shirt disney villains and then friday is jacket pride with the snow i'm

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guessing the lady jackets flag football uh tryouts on the 25th will be rescheduled and even the

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January 30th coming home may be rescheduled because of these snow days. February 13th through

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16th is that midwinter break. March 6th is the end of that third quarter. March 9th through 13th

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is the spring break. And April 3rd is the spring holiday, no school. And May 21st is our last day

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of school for all our schools with 1120 dismissal. The Fairview Recreation Association needs empires

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and they have games starting on January 31st at 10A or tryouts on January 31st and in February 21st

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so definitely check them out for that then below here applications to the Innovation Center and

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the Entrepreneur Center are still open if you're into if your kids wanting to get into that so get

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on ClassLink, you have basically between both programs till February 13th to make a decision on

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either one of these options for the Entrepreneurship Center or the Innovation Center.

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Faith moment. I've mentioned the Founders Bible before, but one of the things I've enjoyed so much

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about this is the stories of our founding fathers, presidents, and other notable historic figures,

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and how the faith and the Bible and the country are one in the same.

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So this time I wanted to do a couple of quotes.

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Some of these are in the book and some of these are not.

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But, you know, George Washington, you know, president number one here.

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You know, it is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible.

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Pretty simple.

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John Adams, the second president.

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So great is the veneration of the Bible that earlier my children began to read it, the more confident will they become by hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society.

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I have made a practice every day for several years to read through the Bible.

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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, in regard to this great book, I have but to say it is the best

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gift from God given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this

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book, but for it, we could not know the right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's

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welfare here and hereafter are found and portrayed in it. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president,

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But hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties.

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Write its precepts in your hearts and practice them in your lives.

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To influence of this book, we are indebted for all progress made in true civilization.

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And to this, we must look at it as our guide to the future.

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Righteousness exalted a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

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And I've got a link to the Founders Bible in there.

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Welcome back.

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I hope you learned a little bit from these quotes and heard from these four presidents that I think we should know and understand.

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I think it's even more important to ensure your children have connection between the country and understand the country, the connection between our country and the Bible.

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We have seen some times of escalating tension and the word of God can go a long way to help.

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but it's also relevant to our country's founding and everyone should know that in the United States of America.

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