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THE TENNESSEAN FRANKLIN REVIEW APPEAL COMMUNITY NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013 -3 PARKS RECREATION AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY Cool off this summer in county's outdoor pools sary. If you have papers about your problem, please bring them. Questions? Call the Legal Aid Society at 615-244-6610. Teen Girl Book Club: 2 p.m. Sunday.

Join us for a discussion of "Fever 1793" by Laurie Anderson in the Story Theater. Ages 13 and up. Treats will be served. Dig Deep into Reading with Mr. Barry: 4 and 6 p.m.

Thursday. Magic, storytelling and puppet Sam the Turtle provide reading inspiration. COLLEGE GROVE 8607 Horton Highway 615-368-3222 lib.williamson-tn.org GEO-Blast! 11 a.m. Wednesday. Explore the earth with a room-sized, interactive map.

LEIPER'S FORK 5333 Old Highway 96 615-794-7019 lib.williamson-tn.org Save the Date for Friends of the Leiper's Fork Library Book Sale: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. July 26 and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July 27. FRANKLIN 1314 Columbia Ave. 615-595-1250 lib.williamson-tn.org Groundbreaking Reads, the Summer Reading Program for Grown-Ups: No sign-up required.

Read a book and write a book review to be eligible for prizes. Reviews can be turned in at any branch or emailed to us at See the complete list of free Summer Reading for Grown-Ups events atwcpltn.org. Reference USA Database Class: 2-4 p.m. Thursday in the computer lab. Come learn about our Reference USA database; this is a great free information resource for job seekers researching companies, businesses creating mailing lists, locating alumni and more.

Call 595-1243. Digging into Organic Gardening: 10 a.m.-noon Saturday. Workshop presented by John Cahill of Green Life. Legal Aid Clinic: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Free. Open to low-income people with a civil legal problem. No appointment neces STOP IN OR CALL The Franklin Recreation Complex is at 1120 Hillsboro Road. To register for upcoming programs at the complex, call 615-790-5719, ext. 2010.

For more information, visit www.wcparksandrec.com. Youth volleyball is also accepting registration through July 31 for fall leagues. There is an introductory league (fourth and fifth graders) and intermediate and advanced leagues (sixth to eighth graders, with a mandatory selection day of Aug. 10). Practices are at area schools starting Aug.

19, and games are in Franklin and Spring Hill on Saturdays starting Sept. 7. To register, download forms from www. wcprathletics Our outdoor pools are open on July 4 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., but all indoor facilities will be closed. Debbie Sims is a public information assistant for the Williamson County Parks and Recreation Department.

Contact her at 615-790-5719, ext. 2042, or debbiesims williamson-tn. org. does the July 22-25 tennis camp at the Franklin Recreation Complex. Register in person at the Franklin Recreation Complex.

Another option is the FREAQS sports performance camp, July 29-Aug. 2 at the Robert A. Ring Indoor Arena, 1878 Downs Franklin. FREAQS, for kids ages 8-14, works on core strength, balance and flexibility. To register for FREAQS, go to www.wcprathletics.org.

Former local standout and WNBA star Karen Booker is offering her basketball skills academy June 29 (offense), July 6 (defense), July 20 (one-on-one) and July 27 (teamwork) at Academy Park Gym. Grades 1-3, 3-6 and 7-12 meet in separate two-hour sessions between 9 a.m. and June may be coming to a close this week, but Williamson County Parks and Recreation still has lots of summer fun in store! With the hottest months of July and August ahead, Take some time to cool off in one of our outdoor pools, located at the Franklin Recreation Complex, 1120 Hills-boro Road; the Longview Recreation Center at Spring Hill, 2909 Commonwealth or the Fairview Recreation Complex, 2714 Fairview Blvd. Outdoor pools are open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday; and 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is included in annual facility passes, or you can buy a summer pool pass or multi-visit pass. General admission rates are $3 for youth and adults, $1 for seniors and free for children 3 and younger. There are still spaces available in a few summer sports camps for kids ages 8-13.

The July 22-25 basketball camp at Academy Park Gym, 120 Everbright St. in Franklin, has a few openings, as Franklin INTERSTATE FROM 1 town. "It's definitely an improvement for the city of Franklin," Engineering Director Paul Holzen said. But the widening project has had little impact on commuters traveling from Spring Hill, said Victor Lay, Spring Hill's city administrator. "We haven't noticed any sort of traffic pattern change as a result of that Gardener shares tomato-growing tips traffic improved, officials say his favorite crops.

After moving to Williamson County many years later, he grew them on his dairy farm. When I visited him a few weeks ago, his tomatoes were still green and only the size of golf balls. But soon, he expects to be feasting on the first red, juicy harvest. He plans to give away plenty of tomatoes this year as well as eat them himself. "People always want tomatoes for the Fourth of July, but after that they tend to get burned out on them," he said.

"And by the time school starts, they are really burned out on them." Contact Bonnie Burch at 615-771-5421 orbburch tennessean.com. TOMATOES FROM 1 Water your plants frequently. Burns also likes keeping the containers close to the house to scare off any marauding deer and turkey. "The biggest trick is that people don't know where to sucker them to get the growth," Burns said. To keep the energy in your main stem, pinch out the new side stems that emerge just below the first flower cluster.

This keeps the nutrients in the plant and the tomatoes rather than splitting it among many branches. As a kid growing up in Nashville, Burns helped raise asparagus, apples and peaches, but tomatoes were always one of construction," he said. "All of our traffic is still having to go through the bottleneck at Goose Creek." But he hopes the second phase will make a significant difference on traffic coming through his community as more commuters traveling north take the interstate rather than driving on Highway 31 through the heart of Spring Hill and Thompson's Station. "We fully expect it will 3 p.m. Cost is $35.

Tiny Tots Soccer (ages 3-6) has one more summer camp July 15-19 at the Indoor Arena at Crockett Park, 1485 Volunteer Pkwy. Cost is $35 per child, and you can register by downloading the forms from www.wcprathletics.org. The annual Little Har-peth Junior Slam tournament will be Aug. 2-4 on area courts. USTA members may register now for events at www.usta.com.

The tennis staff is also accepting registration for all fall indoor and outdoor leagues. Stop by the tennis office at the Indoor Sports Complex (ISC), 920 Heritage Way, Brentwood, or call 615-370-3471, ext. 2116 or 2113, for more information about teams, tournaments and classes. Registration for youth indoor flag football leagues at the Robert A. Ring Indoor Arena in Franklin ends July 12.

Ages 7-13 will play an August-October season. Download forms from www. wcprathletics and mail them in with the registration fee of $80 per player. ease up enough that we'll have some rerouting of traffic onto 65 that would normally be on our streets," he said. Greg Langeliers, town administrator for Thompson's Station, also hopes the second phase will make more of an impact on traffic.

"That will help there's no question about it," he said. However, he said adding a new interchange with the interstate also of hotel plan at 400-7 1 7 St discover: Hall discussion on heels RUGfLEANERsl would be a big help. Plans are in the works to add an on-ramp to 1-65 south of Highway 840 near Thompson Station Road. He said that interchange could reduce traffic for his community at least as much as the interstate widening. "It's always an uphill battle with traffic," Langeliers said.

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Back in 2004, consultants recommended that Franklin officials pay attention to deterioration problems, such as leaks in the building. The national financial crisis put a stop to progress on the project. Still, Nashville developer Bill Barkley, who had been trying to draw a hotel company to the city's property, expressed optimism earlier this year that two boutique hotel projects could work in downtown Franklin without oversaturating the market. For now, no one is talking yet about how much money might be spent this year or whether redevelopment of the site would include a private developer at all. But Franklin wants to get the ball rolling on what will take years to finance, design and complete.

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