Part of the renovation in The Journal has included new artwork for the walls. On one of the front walls, we had canvas prints made of The Journal in three different time periods.
The first one was probably made in 1953. The Journal was on the square on the east side of the Bruce Telephone Co. building.
At that time, there were no adjoining buildings, and I don’t even remember The Journal looking like that.
Lisa McNeece
My earliest memories were when Bruce Telephone Co with Harry and Bernie Waller was on one side of us, and Ed Quillen’s Bruce Insurance Agency was on the other side.
Another of the prints is the same building on the square in the 1970s. There is a small pine tree planted on the front lawn. We moved from the square in 1987. The third print is from that location.
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I did make the Butterfinger pie over the weekend, and Joel and I loved it.
He said it tastes like Butterfinger, cream cheese and Cool Whip, and I said yes, but what about the vanilla?
The only substitution I made was using a chocolate graham crust, instead of a plain one. Good choice.
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All three farmers markets in the county are up and running.
Calhoun City’s Walk About Wednesday is weekly from 3-6 p.m. and this week, they will have jumpers for kids.
Bruce’s Throwback Thursday is every week from 4-6 with this week’s kids’ activity from Parker Baptist Church and music by Danny Paul Griffin, and Vardaman’s Farmers Market is every Saturday from 7-9 a.m.
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On my reading list–I’m reading Fourth of July Creek. Next up is Oxford author Lisa Howorth’s Flying Shoes.
Flying Shoes is fiction, but based on the still unsolved murder case of Howorth’s stepbrother in Washington D.C.
Howorth and husband Richard own Square Books in Oxford.
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A new feature starting in the Journal this week is Dog of the Week by the Dog Lovers! League for No-Kill Shelter.
The League will provide a photo of any dogs they have available for adoption.
See the photo under Dog of the Week on page 7.
The group meets the first Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the pavilion at Bruce Park. Call 983-7471 for more info.
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A couple of updates to the Sawmill Festival schedule have been released this week– both concerning the Bruce Theater building.
Ellen Shaw said they plan to show a couple of movies at the first of the week of Sawmill Festival Week at the Bruce Theater. Movies and dates will be announced soon.
The Aqua King/Queen pageant, which has been held at the Multi-Purpose Building the past couple of years will be at the Bruce Theater building this year. The pageant is always on Thursday night of festival week.
It is sponsored by Bruce 20th Century Club.
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