Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, LaVergne!
Don’t forget Trail of Treats today from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park.
Don’t forget to turn OFF your porch light if you won’t be offering candy tonight.
Parents, go with your children.
Teen kids, stay in groups… stay with your friends.
Everyone, be safe!
BOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Trail of Treats Accepting Canned Food Donations

Let’s hope it doesn’t rain this Saturday – Halloween!  From 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., the Parks and Recreation department of LaVergne is hosting its annual “Trail of Treats” at Veterans Memorial Park.  The walking trail will be lined with various community organizations, businesses, etc. who will be handing out treats to kids.  In addition, there [...]

Prescriptions May Be Turned In

My friend sent me this that she found on another news site:
UPDATED TO ADD FROM COMMENT:  The event has been moved to the front parking lot at City Hall.
The La Vergne Police Department is hosting a “Drug Take-Back” event at the Multi-Purpose Building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 21st. Anyone with expired [...]

Looking for a Job?

If you’re one in ten people who are unemployed right now, help may be close at hand.  A job fair is coming to Smyrna next week (Wednesday, November 4th) at the Smyrna Town Centre from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Here’s the DNJ article.
If you go, DRESS NICE and bring plenty of resumes.  If you think [...]

Congrats on Ruthie Awards

Warm congratulations to the following winners and finalists of the Ruthies…. I tried to find people I know from LaVergne, but it was difficult since we were combined with Smyrna this year. If I’ve left off anyone, please comment and we’ll update to include their kudos here!
WINNER First United Methodist Church – La Vergne [...]

Have you heard of SIMA?

I read in the newspaper the other day about a group of Independent Merchants in Smyrna.  They were banding together to keep the “little guys” in business and to not get “swallowed” by the big box stores.  I thought this was a fabulous idea!  The same day I went with my daughter to get her [...]

The People of LaVergne

I’m thinking about a new writing project here on This is LaVergne. I could write about the housing market and that we’ve currently got almost 300 homes in LaVergne available. I could write about the Walden Pumpkin Farm and ask if you’ve gone yet this year. I could write about the upcoming production [...]

Avon Holiday Preview Party this Saturday

Meet Your Local Avon Representatives!
Date:  October 17th, 2009
Time:  2:30 – 6:00 pm
121 Cedar Ridge Drive
La Vergne, TN  37086

Come check out our new holiday specials, and bring a friend!
Refreshments will be provided!

Prize drawings every 30 minutes
Grand Prize drawing at 5:30 pm

Volunteers Available

From our email, a request:

Does anyone know of any volunteer opportunities for a couple of LHS juniors over Christmas break?  They’re 16 and 17 and really want to do something with animals, if at all possible.  Every place I’ve contacted either requires the volunteers to be 18, or the organization wants more of a time commitment [...]

Free Kittens…

A friend of mine has four free kittens to give away.  If you’re interested, you can find him over at his blog site … just ignore that he hasn’t updated in MONTHS.   Meanwhile, I give you LOLCats because iz funny.