May 2013 8607 Horton Highway * College Grove, TN 37046
www.fiftyfoward.org
Rummage Sale It's time for Spring cleaning! Please support our center by donating items. We are now collecting items for the rummage sale. This is a great time to weed out items from closets and garages. We will accept household items, dishes, decorative items, jewelry, tools, craft supplies and holiday decorations. No furniture, appliances, clothes or broken items. Items will go on sale as soon as we get items in and organized on tables. Wednesday, May 15, 11:30 a.m. Birthday Potluck: Century Farms and TN Barns Caneta Hankins, MTSU assistant director of the Center for Historic Preservation and Director of the Tennessee Century Farms program, has the responsibility for this statewide program that documents and recognizes farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years. The Center provides the main dish, so please bring a covered side dish. Thursday, May 23, 1 p.m. - SHIP is a national program that provides free and objective, one-on-one counseling, information distribution, and assistance to people with Medicare, potential Medicare consumers, their families, and other advocates. Linda Abate, RN and Certified SHIP Counselor, will be at the center to help any members with questions. Please sign up if need assistance. Thursday, May 30 -Cook Out and Corn Hole Join us for an afternoon of great food and fun. Walgreens is sponsoring the cookout and donating the center a corn hole game. Corn hole is a lawn game where players take turns throwing corn hole bags at a raised platform with a hole in the far end for points. Bring a friend and have a good time. Please sign up if interested, so we will know how much food to prepare. Wednesday, May 8 - GroWild Take a trip to Fairview to tour a native plant nursery. GroWild is recognized as
one of the leading wholesale native plant nurseries in the eastern U.S. There will be some walking involved to view the different gardens, so wear comfortable shoes. Van leaves center at 9 a.m. Van fee $5. Friday, May 31 - Distillery Tour and Tasting Travel to Woodbury to tour Short Mountain Distillery, Tennessee's 6th distillery making authentic small-batch, Tennessee Moonshine, Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey from corn grown and stone-milled on a 300 acre working farm. Visitors can taste and purchase moonshine and can expect to learn about local history and heritage of whiskey making. Learn about organic permaculture farm practices and also take the Cave Spring trail to see how we preserve our natural resources for generations to come. Leave at 9:15 a.m. Van fee $5. Lunch nearby.