Our 4-Hers are an active group of youth vested in the community. Currently, Tennessee 4-H Foundation has launched a Friends and Family Campaign to provide county 4-H clubs with an opportunity to grow funds, gain new support, and increase awareness of 4-H. Union County joined the movement and is looking to raise funds towards a goal to grow the county’s established endowment fund. This trust provides a quarterly payout to be applied to educational 4-H programs as well as camp and conference scholarships, right here in Union County for years to come.

Union County High School students meet goals set by the Tennessee Department of Education for high school students to attain industry certifications before graduating. Ms. Booker’s Computer Science Foundations students travelled to Walters State Community College to test in information technology. The students took a 75 question exam from the world’s leading tech association, CompTIA. CompTIA is an IT professional association and a leader in certification programs. Their programs set industry standards.

Ethan Dyer, a fellow student here at Union County High School, is one of our seniors on our 2018/2019 patriots basketball team. However, he is unfortunately out due to an injury in his foot. Ethan said his injury started when he rolled his ankle. He stated that he did it once over the summer and then did it again one day in practice. The injury consists of torn ligaments in the ankle and he is afraid he will have to have surgery. If everything goes well, he is hoping to get back on the court after Christmas break.

As Part of the series called:
Things That Make You Go Hmmm?

Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

Mincey’s Musings
Year One, Week Fifty-One

Welcome to 2019! If you are reading this, you have made it through yet another year of successes and challenges and are primed for another chapter of life’s adventure.

With January being National Tea Month, and since most teas are derived from a tree, I thought I’d study and share some things I did not know about the world’s most popular of beverage.

If only we could take them back, for they were not what we had in mind, at all. I’m not talking about returning merchandise to the retailer without the receipt. I’m talking about word mishaps. Sometimes what comes out of our mouths isn’t what was in our brains, or better yet, we just become confused and say the totally wrong words.

At times, these situations can be rather humorous. And at other times, it would be merciful of God to let the floor open up and swallow us.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how many receipts we have; we can never take our words back.

Do you remember your first job? I do. It was a long time ago, but is still fresh in my memory. It was 1944 when I moved in with the telephone operator in our “the wide spot in the road” community. I was in the tenth grade. My folks were in the midst of the in-fighting leading up to their divorce. I looked for a way out of the tensions at home. When the job became available, I jumped at it.

Cold weather is here again. The wind whips around the house stirring up piles of fallen leaves. As soon as it warms up a bit this morning, Anne will be out there with the leaf blower corralling leaves, blowing them across the road into the woods. It is weather like this that calls for a hearty breakfast.

Campbell County author Carol McClain announces fourth inspirational novel.

Knoxville TN: McClain’s latest novel, Yesterday’s Poison, on sale January 7, 2019, deals with the healing that comes from forgiveness. No matter how big or small, forgiveness heals the person’s wounds.

Yesterday’s Poison depicts three incongruous friends whose lives intersect when Torie Sullivan, while in a drunken rage, totals her car. Paramedic Adam Benedict saves her, but he discovers she’s the high school bully who tormented him and nearly ruined his life.