U.S. Postage PRSRT STD Franklin, TN Permit #357 PAID WIN FREE Wednesday, MOVIE TICKETS April 8, 2009 See the Where’s Wally ad for details on how to win FREE Movie Vol. 33 No. 13 Passes to Bellevue Regal 12! Pasty Cline Returns to Ryman Forty-six years after her The production features death, Patsy Cline is still a hit. more than 20 of Patsy’s most This spring, the popular memorable songs including “I bio-musical “Always...Patsy Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” Cline,” presented by Humana, “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” SpringFest returns to the Ryman and “Sweet Dreams,” which Auditorium and to the stage became a hit shortly after her at Cohn where the actual country death. music legend first rose to Barnett, who originated Senior fame. The musical opens April the role at the Ryman in 1994, 15 and is slated for a 6-week has received rave reviews Renaissance engagement at the historic throughout the years for her theatre through May 23. Vocal uncanny recreations of Cline’s Center powerhouse Mandy Barnett unique and unforgettable The Spring Fest to benefit will reprise her critically sound. Of Barnett’s perform- Cohn Senior Renaissance acclaimed turn as Patsy Cline, ance The Tennessean Center will be held on and theatre veteran Tere declared, “If you closed your Saturday, April 18. there will be Myers will return in the role of eyes, Patsy Cline was there is a pancake breakfast, a silent Patsy’s devoted fan, Louise the room with you.” auction, a flea market and Seger. “Always...Patsy Cline” Patsy Cline and the country store. this will benefit the center which is located at creator and original director, Ryman Auditorium share a 4805 Park Avenue in West Ted Swindley, will helm the rich history. Cline made her Nashville (in the former cafete- production. Grand Ole Opry debut on the ria). Cline and Seger met in stage of the Ryman on July 1, The pancake breakfast, flea 1961 before a show Cline was 1955, becoming an Opry market and country store will giving in Houston, Texas. member there in 1960. After be held from 7 a.m. to noon. “Always…Patsy Cline” is performing “Crazy” for the The price is $5.00 for adults based on the true story of the first time on the Opry in 1961, and $2.50 for children up to age friendship that developed she received three standing 10. between them. The two ovations. In 1985, scenes from The silent auction will be Mandy Barnett, who plays Patsy, is a Bellevue resident. held from 7 am. to 11 a.m. with women corresponded until “Sweet Dreams,” the hit items to be picked up by 11:30 timeless music and remark- it at the Ryman. Patsy’s death at age 30 in an movie based on Cline’s life a.m. airplane crash on March 5, and starring Academy award- able story. Three such fans, The exhibit opens April The Senior Renaissance 1963. The show takes its name winning actress Jessica Lange, Theresa Shalaby, Bill Cox and 15 with “Always...Patsy Center features daily programs from Patsy’s signature on her were filmed at the Ryman. Mark Willix have assembled a Cline” and will be on display for seniors in the area. Each day letters to Louise. She signed Patsy Cline’s fans contin- collection of artifacts and through the end of May as part has something different. each one the same way: ue to feel a powerful connec- memorabilia that will com- of the Ryman Daytime Tour Starting at 8:30 or 9:00 a.m. “Always...Patsy Cline.” tion with her through her prise a new Patsy Cline exhib- (Continued on page 5) each day, the day may begin with card games, pool-a-rama, badminton, or a program with a Enjoy Dancing to Music from the 60s & 70s special speaker. They also have medical screenings, a quilters club, computer classes, cards While Helping Nashville’s Homework Hotline and games, painting classes, exercise classes and one day a All you oldies out there, their website: www.cheap- about 9:00 pm. Besides the ing program in Tennessee and month they have live entertain- want a way to dance your pants erthantherapy.org. music, you can enjoy some has bilingual services in seven ment. They also have special off and help children? Come “It’s just an acknowledg- great New Orleans-style food. languages: English, Kurdish, events such as upcoming cook- out and enjoy good food, good ment of our mid-life crises,” The suggested donation is Spanish, Arabic, Somalian, out, birthday bash and luau. music and good company with laughs band member Tom (a $10, or more. It ALL goes to Turkmani, and Swahili. Following the morning’s Surface Tension at the French math teacher by day). Homework Hotline, which pro- This is a 21 and up event activities the center serves Quarter Cafe. It’s a benefit The show is Saturday April vides free tutoring to low- (beer anyone) so please leave lunch at 11 a.m. Reservations show for Homework Hotline. 18, 2009 at the French Quarter income and struggling students. your student at home. Just are required for lunch. So why do these old guys Cafe, 823 Woodland Street Hotline will give 9,600 hours of come, rock, sweat out your Come by for the Spring rock and roll to the music of the Nashville, TN 37206. Doors free tutoring this year to 25,000 mid-life crisis and help Fest and check out what the 60s and 70s? It’s cheaper than open at 5:30. The music will children or their parents. Homework Hotline. Renaissance Center has to therapy, which is, conveniently, start at 6:30 pm and go until Hotline is the largest free tutor- offer. Music Stars Align to Protect The Tennessee Mountains Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Kathy Mattea, and Big Kenny Alphin are working to Each day that passes, Bellevue goes greener and greener and enlist fellow artists to join them greener. What a beautiful community. The trees and flowers are in a new campaign, Music blooming adding color to the landscape. Unfortunately, also Saves Mountains, to help pro- adding color to the landscape are a plethora of illegal signs on tect the mountains of our streets. Check out the website Appalachia by ending the www.nashville.gov/codes/codes_info.htm for a definition of world’s most destructive allowable and prohibited signs. Please note that signs placed in method of coal mining: moun- the public right of way or on utility poles are prohibited and "All taintop removal. This extreme citizens are encouraged to remove such signs and properly dis- strip mining extracts coal by pose of them." using explosives to literally blow up ridgelines to provide easy access to thin coal seams below, with the leftover rock, rubble and mining waste dumped into valley streams below. To date some 500 of Big and Rich. “This cam- which would effectively ban Appalachian peaks have been paign was founded out of the mountaintop removal. flattened, leaving behind respect musicians, and especial- To date, more that a million scarred moonscapes, polluted ly people from Appalachia have acres of Appalachia have been water and shell-shocked com- for our beloved mountains. flattened – from eastern munities. We’re calling on everyone to Tennessee and eastern “This particularly bad form help keep the ‘country’ in coun- Kentucky to southern West of mining literally uses dyna- try music.” Virginia and western Virginia mite to blow the tops off of Currently in Tennessee, — and over 1,000 miles of mountains,” said Crow. “They legislators are debating an streams have been polluted or call this mountain top removal important bill – the Tennessee destroyed by mountaintop and it is destroying some of the Scenic Vistas Protection Act – removal coal mining. Tennessee most beautiful places in the that will prohibit mountaintop currently has at least four active United States, including here in coal mining within 100 feet of and 13 proposed mountaintop Tennessee where I live. I think streams and rivers and will pro- removal sites in Anderson, it is a crime against nature that tect mountains over 2,000 feet Claiborne, Campbell, Fentress, this practice is allowed, peri- high in Tennessee from being Morgan and Scott Counties. od.” leveled. Musicians are asking For more information about On the campaign website, fans to contact Governor Phil the Music Saves Mountains MusicSavesMountains.org, vis- Bredesen and ask him to sup- campaign, visit www.Music itors can learn more about port the Tennessee Scenic SavesMountains.org. mountaintop removal, see what Vistas Protection Act to ensure participating musicians are the safety of the state’s moun- doing to protect the taintops. Appalachians and find out what On a federal level, concerned citizens can do to Congress is considering legisla- help end the devastating prac- tion to curtail mountaintop min- tice of high-elevation surface ing. The bi-partisan Clean coal mining. Water Protection Act has over “The beauty of the 150 co-sponsors in the U.S. Appalachian Mountains has House of Representatives and inspired countless songs in last week Tennessee’s senior country, bluegrass, gospel and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander folk music, and we must do joined Sen. Ben Cardin (D- everything possible to protect MD) to introduce the them,” said Big Kenny Alphin Appalachia Restoration Act, Page 2 -- Wednesday, April 8, 2009 www.westviewonline.com www.publishedbywestview.com Westview NEWSpapers Hillwood Reunion Searches for Classmates Members of Hillwood High HHS Class of ’89 graduates to Hillwood High School’s Nashville School’s Class of 1989 are plan- register and R.S.V.P.