The First Friday Film Festival is showing The Meatrix & The Ground Truth

By Debbie Boen | June 1, 2007 |

The UU fellowship Clarksville recently purchased a license to show movies at our facility. So they can now pick from several movie distributors, including Universal Studios Home Entertainment, the distributor for The Ground Truth.

Join us as we watch The Meatrix, and “The Ground Truth” which was produced by Patricia Foulkrod on Friday June 8th at 7:00PM. Admission is free and bring a snack to share if you wish.

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Little man meets big trees: Exploring the alien world of Sequoia National Park

By David W. Shelton | June 1, 2007 |

Clarksville Online Across America: While visiting central California, CO Co-Editor David W. Shelton was told that Sequoia National Park was less than an hour’s drive away, so off he went.

Photography by David W. Shelton

While visiting Visalia, CA on business this week, I had a day to explore the area. I was told that Sequoia National Park was less than an hour’s drive away, so off I went. Visalia is in the central valley of California which is about as flat as one could imagine. There aren’t many trees in the area (unless they’re citrus).

Needless to say, I was in no way prepared for the world that I was to encounter.My first indicator that the scenery was about to take a dramatic turn was the sudden onset of hills as I drove along highway 198 toward the park. The instructions to get there were pretty simple: “Get on 198 and keep going.”

Once I reached the entry of the park, I opted for the $20 one-time visit fee, which would have allowed me to come back any point in a seven-day period. Oh, if I only had that much time! I was directed to the welcome center, which was about a mile down the road. I didn’t make it that far before I was distracted by one of nature’s spectacles.

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The Gods visit Drive-In Saturday Night

By Christine Anne Piesyk | June 1, 2007 |

Drive-In Saturday Night will be posted weekly on Fridays through Labor Day. May the Gods be kind to those who celebrate a little bit of yesterday in films now showing in your living room.

My first pick is a film that made it’s debut at the end of the drive-in theater era. It’s an award-winning but far-from-mainstream “what if” flick called The Gods Must be Crazy. Written, directed and produced by James Uys, the story is set in Africa, where a Sho in the Kalahari comes face to face with modern technology in the form of a Coke bottle (back when such bottles were glass) that falls from the sky.

It is a wonder, a “gift” from the Gods that becomes the treasured possession of the tribe, used by all for many things. But greed steps in, and the members of the tribe begin to fight over the treasure, so it is decided the bottle must be thrown over the edge of the earth. So begins one man’s journey to save his people from this now unwanted “gift.”

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An Exclusive Look From Inside the Jeff Burkhart Termination Appeal Hearing

By Terry McMoore | June 1, 2007 |

Clarksville Online has obtained an exclusive interview with former Clarksville City Councilman Gabe Segovia who was present at the appeal hearing today.

A three-person city panel consisting of City Councilmen Bill Forrester ward 11, Wayne Harrison ward 12 and Clarksville Gas and Water Gas Division Manager Tae Eaton voted unanimously yesterday to uphold Clarksville Mayor Johnny Piper’s decision to terminate former Clarksville Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Jeff Burkhart. Jeff Burkhart was fired by Clarksville Mayor Johnny Piper for insubordination in April, after he refused a transfer to the Building Maintenance Department. Burkhart had been with the Clarksville Fire Rescue for 22 years. «Read the rest of this article»

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War Corporatism: The New Fascism

By Bill Larson | June 1, 2007 |

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

In the 1950’s President Eisenhower issued his prophetic warning about the dangers of our nation’s Military industrial complex. We are seeing the fruits of that in our current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the administration’s drive to trigger one with Iran.

During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, later he became the first supreme commander of NATO. He was elected the 34th U.S. President on a Republican ticket, serving for two terms. He is perhaps best known for Social Security, and the Interstate Highway System.

Lets us take a moment and listen to his farewell address to the nation…

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