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Benton County Tennessee
in conjunction with the
Tennessee River Resort District Committee
Present
The Tennessee River Pearl
FESTIVAL
June 13-15, 2008
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Events All Weekend - All Over Benton County!
Bring The Family and Stay with Us!
* A HeavyWeight Promotion *
Appearances by:
Miss Tennessee 2007 - Grace Gore
Grace is currently a second year doctoral student of Audiology at Vanderbilt University. After high school, she attended the College of Charleston in South Carolina for two years before transferring to the University of Mississippi, where she received a Bachelors of Science degree in Communicative Disorders. Grace spent the summer semester of 2005 studying at Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy.
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Mike McLemore
Mike McLemore has been a name associated with the outdoors for many years. He started out calling ducks when he was a young boy hunting with his father and his uncles. He owes a lot of his success to learning to listen - to the ducks and geese and to other callers. Mike won the Tennessee State Duck Calling Contest twice, in 1972 and 1973. From there, he captured the World Duck Calling Champion title in Stuttgart, Arkansas, in 1973, 1974, and 1977.
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Rob Somerville
Many of you are familiar with on of our show’s top seminar speakers already, whether you have read his weekly syndicated column in one of eight regional newspapers, heard his radio shows, watched him on TV, or seen him in one of the publications he co-owns, West Tennessee Outdoors Magazine.
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PBS Reading Ranger "Rocky T" To Visit Boat Show
Kids! Meet "Rocky T" - one of WLJT's Reading Rangers. Rocky will be on site signing autographs and ready for photo opportunities during that time period.
Local area PBS station WLJT - Channel 11's Education & Outreach Department conducts seminars and workshops throughout West Tennessee teaching parents and educators how to help children get ready-to-learn. With free books for the kids, parents, teachers and caregivers are taught how to open the world of reading to their children. They are provided with tools they can use in their homes and classrooms to help children improve their reading skills. WLJT has given away thousands of books to West Tennessee kids through scores of events and personal visits.
McGruff the Crime Dog
McGruff the Crime Dog is world famous for my advice on how to stop crime before it happens, and for his great sense of humor. His job is to help people - especially kids - learn how to be safe and make their neighborhood safer.
Something else you should know about McGruff is that he goes all over the country to talk to people about how they can "take a bite out of crime." So when you see McGruff in your town, stop by and say hi. You can recognize him by his tan trench coat - he never goes anywhere without it.
Click HERE to learn how McGruff became the Crime Dog.
Smokey Bear
Created in 1944, the Smokey Bear campaign is the longest running public service campaign in history. Smokey's first forest fire prevention message remained unchanged for 50 years until April 2001, when the Ad Council updated his message to address the increasing number of wildfires in the nation's wildlands. As one of the world's most recognizable fictional characters, Smokey's image is protected by US Federal Law and is administered by the USDA Forest Service, the National Association of State Foresters and the Ad Council.
Click HERE to learn the real story of Smokey the Bear.
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