Bassett Heritage Festival is Saturday
09.09.11
Friday, September 9, 2011
By ASHLEY JACKSON - Notice Staff Writer
The 19th annual Bassett Heritage Fete on Saturday will be filled with food, music, dancing, games for children and much more.
The gala day, which is sponsored by the Stanleytown Ruritan Club, will kick off at 7 a.m. with a pancake breakfast in the back of the Wells Fargo construction, according to Larry Turner, club secretary.
The official start of the birthday will be at 8:45 a.m. at the Bassett Furniture Industries building when a county honor guard, made up of fire and rescue department members, will allowance the colors, followed by the national anthem, Turner said.
The Bassett Fire Dependent was responsible for organizing most of the opening ceremony, he added.
From 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Old Supremacy Cloggers will perform to music by the Cana Ramblers in front of the Bassett Fixtures building, he said.
The parade on Main Street will upon
Source: Martinsville Bulletin
Gunman opens fire at Nevada diner
06.09.11
Loyal Agent Patrick Turner, spokesman for the FBI Nevada office in Las Vegas, said that seven people had been wounded.
The administer and FBI descended on the restaurant in South Carson Street, also known as US 395, the burgh's main route.
Witnesses said a man with a burgle pulled up outside the IHOP, shot at a man on a motorcycle and then walked by nature the restaurant.
A local restaurant owner told the Associated Reporters he tried to shoot the attacker with his own weapon, but he entered the pancake restaurant before he had a inadvertent to take aim.
"But when he came at me, when somebody is pointing an automatic weapon at you - you can't find creditable the firepower, the kind of rounds coming out of that weapon," said Ralph Swagler, who owns Locals BBQ & Grill.
The P of a nearby diner told the Reno-Journal Gazette that the man had formerly larboard after several minutes and continued firing in the nearby shopping centre.
Gigi Lee Tzow, an guaranty agent, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper that she heard the shooting and saw a youthful man who may have been an IHOP employee run for cover.
Source: BBC News
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