Help us support Miss Tennessee Hope Stephens. She is from Livingston and is a TTU student. You can help us vote her into the top 15 for Miss USA now through Sunday Vote at vote.missusa.com every day and during the pageant. There will also be a viewing party at Livingston Academy Gymnasium on Sunday, June 5th at 6pm.

There is a new contemporary bible on the market just released for Apple’s iBooks store on Sunday called “Bible Emoji: Scripture 4 Millenials”. Someone took all 66 books of the Old Testament and New Testament and translated them into EMOJIS and texting lingo. Now, before you start thinking how horrible this is, the reason they did it, is to get the younger generation to read the bible more. it costs $2.99.  By the way, the person who created it is staying anonymous . . . his pen name is “Sunglasses Guy.”

Marilyn Monroe was born June 1, 1926. If she hadn’t passed away in August of 1962, she would have been 90 tomorrow. Here are some things you may not have known about Marilyn.

1. People often think Marilyn was curvier than she really was. In fact, she was petite and weighed just 118lbs. and was 5ft 5in tall. Her weight fluctuated, but her measurements are most often given as 36-24-34 or 38-23-36 for bust-waist-hips.
2. Marilyn was so paranoid about sweat & blemishes that she washed her face up to 15 times a day.
3. Depression ran in the family – her uncle and greatgrandfather both committed suicide.
4. The night she sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy at the old Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, Marilyn was wearing a sheer, flesh-coloured dress with huge 2,500 rhinestones. The gown was so tight she had to be sewn into it.
5. Marilyn married her second husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio, in January 1954. She asked Joe to promise to leave flowers on her grave every week if she died before him. He later kept his promise.
6. She won a Golden Globe in 1960 for her performance in Some Like It Hot. She was never nominated for an Oscar.
7. Marilyn was a huge fan of Nivea moisturizer.
8. More than 2,000 people gathered to watch as she filmed her famous skirt blowing scene for The Seven Year Itch in September 1954.
9. Marilyn wasn’t just a pretty face. She owned 200 books, including Tolstoy and Whitman, listened to Beethoven and took a course in literature at UCLA.
10. Before she died, Marilyn told her personal makeup artist to make sure she he did her makeup if anything ever happened to her.  He did, one last time. She had a bronze casket lined with champagne-colored satin. She was dressed in her green Pucci dress and a green chiffon scarf, a favorite which she had worn at a press conference in Mexico City earlier that year.

Cookeville Mayor Ricky Shelton will serve as the Honorary Race Director for the 57th running of the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 29th. I talked with him about how this came about. We also had a lot of fun with “Sheila’s Random 5” questions to get to know the mayor a little better. Listen to the interview below.

Do you have a drone? Maybe you’ve seen your neighbors with one. What are your rights? I spoke with Cookeville lawyer Brett Knight from Fry, Fry, Knight & Murphy about drones.

Author Melissa Fay Green’s new book Underdogs: Children, Dogs and Unconditional Love is about dogs trained to serve children with disabilities. You won’t believe the stories of these service dogs and how they change the lives of the families involved. Here’s my interview with Melissa about some of these great, true stories and how she found out about 4 Paws For Ability training clinic.  Here is our interview:

A musical based on the life and songs of Donna Summer is in the works. Her husband, Bruce Sudano, is teaming with Dodger theatricals to tell her story. Donna died in 2012 from lung cancer, which she believed was caused by inhaling toxic fumes after the 9/11 attacks in New York City.

A survey has revealed the most annoying things a passenger does while traveling:
1. Backseat driving. 61% of people in the survey said it’s the most annoying thing you can do when you’re a passenger.
2. Being a bad navigator, 11%
3. Hogging the radio, 9%.
4. Falling asleep, 6%.
5. Taking your shoes off, 5%.

Cookeville welcomes the 28th Annual Run For The Wall. Over 300 veteran motorcycle riders will make their way northbound on Jefferson Avenue from Interstate 40 between 4:30-5PM on Monday, May 23. Tennessee resident and wounded veteran Shaun Meadows will be leading the ride into town. You can purchase a shirt that will go toward the bike built for Shaun Meadows. They are $15 at the Cookeville Chamber or Boswell’s Harley Davidson in Cookeville. 

Should your company be banned from emailing you at night? Maybe the French are on to something here.  They are about to pass a law that will BAN companies from emailing their employees at night and on the weekends. One of the members of parliament says it’s necessary because right now, “Employees physically leave the office, but . . . they remain attached by a kind of electronic leash, like a dog.” Ok next on the list let’s ban them from TEXTING us, too.