DWS & SES Kindergarten and Pre-K Registration Thursday, May 6

May 2, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

Smithville Elementary and DeKalb West School will register children for Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten Thursday, May 6 for the 2021-22 school year.

Registration for DeKalb West School will be Thursday, May 6 from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the school. Please come at the assigned time according to child’s last name. Pre-K Registration forms for DeKalb West can be picked up on Thursday, May 6 from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at DeKalb West School. Completed registration paperwork will need to be returned to Michelle Burklow at the Board of Education office.

Smithville Elementary School will register for Kindergarten Thursday, May 6 from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at the County Complex. Pre-K Registration forms for Smithville Elementary can be picked up on Thursday, May 6 from 8:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at Smithville Elementary. This will be done in a drive-through fashion. Completed registration paperwork will need to be returned to Michelle Burklow at the Board of Education office. For Kindergarten registration please come at the assigned time according to child’s last name:
Last names A-D: 8 a.m.-9 a.m.
Last names E-H: 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
Last names I-L: 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
Last names M-Q: 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Last names R-T: 12 p.m.-1p.m.
Last names U-Z: 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
Open: 2 p.m.-3p.m.

KINDERGARTEN

Please bring COPIES of the following documents to DWS and SES Kindergarten Registration:

– Certified copy of birth certificate

– Current, up-to-date, physical examination and immunization record (These must be on a
Tennessee Department of Health Certificate of Immunization, which can be obtained from
your doctor’s office or the Health Department)

– Proof of residency for DeKalb County (i.e. gas/electric bill)

– Your child (they will be tested on registration day)

— Children who register to attend kindergarten must turn five years old on or before August
15, 2021.

PRE-K
COPIES of the following documents must be submitted with your DWS and SES Pre-K registration form in order for it to be complete:

– Certified copy of birth certificate

– Current, up-to-date, physical examination and immunization record (These must be on a Tennessee Department of Health Certificate of Immunization, which can be obtained from your doctor’s office or the Health Department)

– Proof of residency for DeKalb County (i.e. gas/electric bill)

– Proof of income for all household members

— Children who register to attend Pre-K must turn four years old on or before August 15, 2021.

By: Dwayne Page

Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad again presents Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour Sunday night, May 2 from 5-6 p.m. on WJLE.

The program airs once a month, on the first Sunday night of each month, from 5-6 p.m. featuring recorded local talent performing gospel music.

Sunday night’s program will showcase the music of the Joyful Praises and the Faith Singers.

Tune in the first Sunday night of each month for the Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour from 5-6 p.m. on WJLE AM 1480/FM 101.7.

WJLE is proud of our partner sponsors of religious programs each week and hopes you will tune in often and let them know you listen.

*7:00 a.m. Saturdays: Amazing Facts: A 15 minute program featuring Joe Crews presented by the Smithville Seventh Day Adventist Church.

•Got A Minute?: 60 second message presented by the Smithville Church of Christ with Dan Gulley-Twice a day Monday-Friday each week (various times morning and around noon).

•Cross Connection sponsored by the Upper Helton Baptist Church featuring Jimmy Arms: Monday-Friday at 11:55 a.m. each week

•Morning Devotion: A 5 minute daily devotional by a different minister each week Monday-Saturday at 7:25 a.m.

The following are weekly sponsored Sunday programs:

•7:30 a.m.: Royce Moore of the New West Point Freewill Baptist Church (The Way of Life Ministry)

•8:00 a.m. Elders Joseph and Ricky Arnold for the New Bildad and Mount View Primitive Baptist Churches (The Firm Foundation)

•8:30 a.m. Outreach Baptist Church with Nathan Thomason (The Outreach Pulpit)

•9:00 a.m. The Keltonburg Missionary Baptist Church (Only Through the Blood)

•9:30 a.m. LOCAL NEWS

•9:35 a.m. Trent Colwell of the Smithville Church of the Nazarene (The Living Word)

*10:00 a.m. Jason Wheeley with the Old Fashion Missionary Baptist Broadcast

•10:30 a.m. Bobby Thomason of the Covenant Baptist Church (Fountain of Faith Ministries)

•11:00 a.m. Worship Services from either the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian (Isaac Gray) or Smithville First United Methodist (David Lunsford) Churches

•12:00 NOON: LOCAL NEWS

*12:30 p.m.: House of Prayer with Zachariah Murphy

*1:00 p.m.: Truth that Transforms with Aaron Wright

•1:30 p.m. The Preaching Ministry of Toy Lawson of the People’s Pentecostal Church

•2:30 p.m. Billy Hale of the Christ Pentecostal Church of Brush Creek (The King is Coming)

•3:00 p.m. Prophet James Ferrell of the Church of Jesus Christ (The Word of the Lord)

•4:00 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

•4:15 p.m. Royce Curtis of the People’s Missionary Baptist Church

•5:00 p.m. Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour (1st Sunday)

•6:05 p.m. Gospel music sponsored by Cantrell’s Furniture and Appliances

•9:05 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

Listen each week on WJLE AM 1480 and WJLE FM 101.7 and LIVE Streaming at www.wjle.com.

May 1, 2021
By: Bill Conger

“I’m just a farmer that owns a farm, runs a sawmill, and makes sawdust every day,” professional storyteller Roy Haney says modestly. But the Liberty man, who runs the Haney Family Sawmill, has been featured on stage and television with his talents. Today he’ll be the special guest at the 16th Annual Dot’s Storytelling Day at the DeKalb County Complex from 1 o’clock to 3:30. Sponsored by the Smithville Study Club, this year’s event will operate under the theme “Tales, Tidbits and Tornadoes.”

“It was just normal that on a Friday night we’d go sit on the front porch at my ma and pa’s house-my grandmother and grandfather’s house,” Haney recalls. “It was the normal thing to do. We’d turn off all the lights because you don’t want to draw bugs. You didn’t have to worry about a fire because the doggone yard was bare from all the chickens beating the grass. That was the time that tied our (family) history together. I heard stories from the Civil War as if it were first person. You’ve got to understand. Ma talked to the people that these stories happened to. In my family, as it turned out, there’s always one or two storytellers. By circumstance I became the storyteller. I thought and didn’t really realize until I was an adult that not everybody was told stories one after the other of their family lore.”

Haney says a storyteller isn’t an entertainer, but he says he does entertain.

“One of the stories I’ll probably tell Saturday is of America. America is my fourth great grandmother. America saw the Civil War. My grandmother almost died when she was 3 years old in the Civil War because she found a plumb bob—that thing that goes back and forth on the grandfather clock. As these renegades are stealing it, they left it on the mantle, she grabbed it, ran outside and said, “You got the clock. Come back and get the plumb bob too.” This was life and death. Man ran up on a horse, brought that horse to a stop, stepped off that horse and saluted that young 3-year-old girl, took the plumb bob and rode on. That’s a true story.”

Haney enjoys being playful with his storytelling.

“I’m a little vindictive. I ought to be whooped every once in a while because I love to tell a story and get that one person hooked so bad, so strong, especially on tall tales. Not everything I tell is the truth. Once in a while I’ll have a little fun. When you see that child that there’s nothing in this world except hearing about that story, hearing about that dog run that rabbit, chase that coon, run it up a tree maybe—and you see them tied in, there’s not a better feeling in this world. Then, when it’s a tall tale and they have taken it hook, line, and sinker and the husband (true story) starts elbowing his wife, “Inside joke; inside joke”— because she’s about to cry.”

“That’s one of the things you’ve got to realize. Storytelling is like a seed. If you plant it, and you take care of it right, telling it right, giving it warmth, giving it moisture, giving it nutrients telling that story, that seed grows and that story gets told again. That’s your family becoming larger. There’s nothing more important right now than us taking care of our family. That’s what it’s all about.”

Other storytellers from the community are invited to join the 16th Annual Dot’s Storytelling Day that was started by the late Dot Tittsworth, who loved the art of storytelling. Money raised from today’s event benefits the DeKalb Imagination Library.