🌱 How a Bell Buckle veteran’s persistence caught cancer in time
Bell Buckle, Tennessee Patch AM: a 3 min readWhat's up Bell Buckle! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a Bell Buckle veteran’s persistence caught cancer in time
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 87 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: Humid with variable clouds, temps: high: 87, low: 71.
- Sunday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 81 and low of 64 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Prevention Progress (vumc.org) — A Bell Buckle mechanic and Army veteran, Winn Phillips, shares how insisting on a colonoscopy despite COVID-related delays led to a life‑saving colorectal cancer diagnosis. His story, alongside another Tennessee patient, highlights new national screening guidelines, insurance considerations, and why local residents shouldn’t ignore early warning signs or postpone cancer checks. 
📸 Around Bell Buckle
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Wilderness Station's 3rd Annual Summer Photography Competition →
Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Wilderness Station at Barfield Crescent Park - 401 Voluntee
8:00 am -
Metabolic Burn at Patterson Park →
Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Patterson Park Community Center Exercise Studio
8:15 am -
Summer-Long Coloring Contest →
Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Wilderness Station at Barfield Crescent Park - 401 V
9:00 am -
Forever Fit at Patterson Park Community Center →
Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Patterson Park Community Center Exercise Studio
9:30 am -
STEAM at Linebaugh →
Linebaugh Public Library, 105 W Vine St, Murfreesboro
10:00 am -
Slow Flow Yoga at PPCC
Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Patterson Park Community Center - 521 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blv
11:00 am -
Daytime (Ages 7+): Georgie the Rainbow Giraffe →
Painting with a Twist, 2615 Medical Center Pkwy #1750, Murfreesboro
2:00 pm -
Relay For Life of Murfreesboro TN →
Oaklands Mansion, 900 N Maney Ave, Murfreesboro
3:00 pm -
Cannonsburgh Village Evening Tour
Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Cannonsburgh Village - 312 S. Front Street Murfreesboro TN
6:00 pm -
Lunar Love Golden Rainbow →
Painting with a Twist, 2615 Medical Center Pkwy #1750, Murfreesboro
7:00 pm -
human trafficking Awareness Event →
Greenhouse Ministries, 307 S Academy St, Murfreesboro
9:00 am -
Community Yoga Class →
Royal Massage And Yoga Lounge, 423B W Lytle St, Murfreesboro
9:30 am
Friday June 12
Saturday June 13
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Looking for individual electrician to do 30x40 shop.
One outdoor light and 6-8 indoor and some plugs. No one returns calls we’ve been given numbers for and one quote from bigger business seems way over… (Nextdoor Historic Bell Buckle)
- Sam's Club posted a job opening for Orderfiller / Loader / Unloader in Shelbyville. Apply here.
- HHS LLC posted a job opening for Housekeeping in Shelbyville. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Bell Buckle here.
🗞 Nearby News
Shelbyville
- Hometown Heroes of the Week: June 10-16 (thunder1320.com)
- OBITUARY: Betty Jane Davenport (rutherfordsource.com)
Tullahoma
- Tullahoma High School Symphonic Band Named Tennessee Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame Band (thunder1320.com)
- Damron chosen as new East Lincoln Elementary Assistant Principal (tullahomanews.com)
- South Jackson Street Band to perform at Centennial Park (tullahomanews.com)
Ok Bell Buckle! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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