Eagleville Times Also serving Arrington, Chapel Hill, College Grove, Rockvale, Triune & Unionville Volume 9, Issue 2 - 50¢ February 2011 Eagleville, Tennessee Main Street Cafe: Great Food, Good Times By Michele Broxton choices daily. Top it As Southerners, we know comfort all off with your choice comes to us in many ways – from a of homemade biscuits hug to a long swig of sweet tea. At the or cornbread and then new Main Street Cafe in Eagleville, you’ll be ready for a southern comfort comes served piping mouth-watering dessert hot, tasting like it just came from your such as cream pie, favorite grandma’s kitchen. ice cream or cobbler. Brothers Brad and Randy Ganues Yum! are thrilled to brave the winter and Dinner specials economic conditions to bring their include the lunch menu vision to life in Eagleville, TN. “We are plus a traditional meal Happy Valentine's Day so excited to serve Eagleville and the of steak or country surrounding communities,” said Brad, ham and fresh biscuits. longtime healthcare professional with The kids menu offers an excellent reputation for fairness and chicken strips, hotdogs, fun. “The food is great and the price is and other kid favorites. right.” During lunch and With more than 30 years in the food dinner, an “Off the Grill” industry, Randy is a capable and proven menu of cheeseburgers, restaurateur. “Randy has a reputation hamburgers, bacon for great food and running a great cheeseburgers, and restaurant,” said Brad. Great food, boneless chicken here indeed. With a menu that sounds like sandwiches is sure to W Christmas, Thanksgiving, and your tempt your taste buds. favorite Sunday dinner rolled into On Friday and Saturday Brad Ganues (L) and Randy Ganues (R) pictured in front of the to Find one, Main Street Cafe is sure to have nights, wind down your new Main Street Cafe. Main Street Cafe, a fabulous meat & three something to please everyone. week with live music with a “to go” and Sunday brunch menu, will open to the public on and a delicious meal! February 14 at 10 am In popular southern tradition, Main Step Back In On the go? Main Main Street Cafe’s doors open Street Cafe will offer a phenomenal February 14thth at 10am! Main Street Time......................Page 5 meat & three. Fried chicken will be Street Cafe guests have the option to grab something quick or sit down for Cafe will be open to serve you Monday available every day, plus a rotating menu through Thursday 10am – 8pm, Friday of country fried steak, grilled chicken a longer visit. In one part of the cafe, Mayor’s Message..Page 2 guests can order subway-style deli and Saturday 10am – 9pm, and Sunday breast, and meat loaf, with catfish on 10:30am - 4pm. Fridays. Guests will have a fantastic sandwiches as well as pizza by the slice or whole,” said Brad. “The decision to open a restaurant in Obituaries.............Page selection of home cooked side dishes 4 every day including: fried okra, corn, Need some southern comfort in the Eagleville felt like a scene from Field of green beans, hash brown casserole, pinto morning? No problem. Main Street Dreams,” grinned Brad. “’If you build it, [they] will come’. In our case, the Honor Roll.........Page 10 beans, hand-peeled mashed potatoes Cafe will offer a Sunday brunch menu and gravy, creamy coleslaw, turnip that includes: made to order omelets, voice turned out to be Sam Tune, Mayor greens, macaroni and cheese, vegetable pancakes, Belgium waffles, and fruit of Eagleville, instead of Shoeless Joe Worship................Page 10 of the day and two homemade soup selections. Jackson.” Puzzles.................Page 13 Calendar...............Page 13 For your convenience, a drive thru drop- box for your Eagleville Times submissions has been placed at 1084 Hwy 41A, South, in Eagleville, (right across the street from Sewell’s Grocery). FFreeree DDentalental ExamExam TThehe WWeekeek BBeforeefore aandnd OnOn the entire month of VValentine’salentine’s DDay”.ay”. 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Library only because special Please contact him for sign ups, as the teams FRANKLIN, If you ever read or want people have city and and schedule work is under way. community pride. to read Gone With the Wind, this is an Community and civic pride is something that opportunity to learn about the author of this There are so many can not be taught, you have to have it and want talented people in the area; I believe almost epic tale of the Civil War. The Southern it. It is like pride in ownership. We all like to Writers’ Theatre will present a reading anything could be accomplished with a see our yards, landscape and automobiles look combined effort. of “Mrs. John Marsh,” a one-actor play good. As our athletic teams step on fields and about Gone With the Wind author Margaret Our school, every year, brings a new level courts, their uniforms burst with pride as they Mitchell. The reading will take place at 6 of accomplishments. Mr. Key and a group of are proud of their hard work and their efforts to p.m., Thursday, March 17 at the Williamson hardworking dedicated young men have gotten please us all by winning and exhibiting quality County Public Library. the attention of other schools in the county and sportsmanship. Mitchell’s writing of Gone With the Wind was built on the many aspects of state. Our wrestling team is second to none Recently GNRC sent out a survey to homes other. They have made major accomplishments her life as a native southerner, a woman, a journalist, and on her Irish ancestors. in the first phase of the projected sewer line “Mrs. John Marsh,” written by Atlanta playwright Melita Easters and played in just a short time. They represent our school installment. Most people will agree sewer is and city with pride. by Kandace Christian, a local actor, brings to life a span of 90 years of the essential for the health of our city as well as to history, as well as the three wars that those years enveloped, of the nation in Our police department has done an help our city prosper. It is also very valuable which we dwell. The production will be directed by Dr. Jamie Cutler, actor, outstanding job with safety awareness. These for our school, as the current system the school academician, playwright, and Grammy-nominated song writer. men work hard everyday to make Eagleville has is old and in continual need of maintenance. Williamson County Public Library has been the sponsor of numerous play and Rutherford County a safe environment for It is very important that each of you return productions, concerts and other educational programs. The program is free all of us to live. They are here to help each and this survey. The purpose of the survey is to and open to the public. The Williamson County Public Library is located at everyone of us. Call City Hall or the police obtain grant money, free money that we do 1314 Columbia Ave., Franklin, Tennessee. department; these men will be glad to come by not have to pay back. Each survey is worth your home or business to visit and make you approximately $22,000 per household. If we more aware of how each of us can contribute can qualify for the grant it could amount to as Sen. Tracy reappointed Chairman of the to the safety of our city and its citizens. much as 1.6 million dollars for money that the Recently our police department broke up one city will NOT have to pay back. Please, it is so Senate Transportation Committee of the largest theft rings in Middle Tennessee. important that each of you return your survey. State Senator Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) has been reappointed Chairman This would have never happen if it were not for Your survey goes directly to Nashville; no one of the Senate Transportation Committee. The announcement was made by Lt. Chief Barrett’s investigation. He and Officer in Eagleville will have any knowledge of the Governor Ron Ramsey as the 107th General Assembly convened for the 3rd day Leathers are solely responsible for recovering information that you provide on the survey. of the organizational session in Nashville. many thousands of dollars in stolen property, If you have lost or misplaced the survey, In addition, Senator Tracy was also appointed Vice-Chairman of the Senate some stolen from homes here in Eagleville. contact or call Mrs. Von Almen at City Hall State and Local Government Committee and will remain a member of the Our police department lead the investigation and she will provide you with another one. Education Committee. and made other law enforcement agencies Please patronize our local merchants. Help aware of the theft ring. If it were not for our “I appreciate the confidence that Lt. Governor Ramsey has placed in me to them to be successful so they can better serve serve again as chairman of this committee” said Sen.