High School Football Class 4A Region 4 Expanded to Six Teams with Addition of Upperman

December 19, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

“The Battle of Center Hill” will take on a little more significance next fall.

The Upperman Bees, a familiar regular season opponent of the DCHS Tiger football team in recent years, will be joining DeKalb County and the other four teams that make up Class 4A, Region 4.

As part of their annual rivalry, the Tigers and Bees a few years ago began competing for the “oar”, a trophy which symbolizes what they now refer to as “The Battle of Center Hill,” because the teams are on opposite sides of Center Hill Lake. The winner of the annual grudge match gets to keep the oar for a year until the next meeting.

Tiger Coach Steve Trapp said with Upperman joining the region, the two teams will not only be competing for bragging rights each year but for a region title as well.

“We have been in a region with them before but now they are moving up from Class 3A to 4A so they will be in the Region with us (DeKalb County) Livingston Academy, Macon County, Cumberland County, and Stone Memorial. The addition of Upperman is the only change in the makeup of Region 4. We like challenges and this gives us a chance to step up even more. These guys next year have that opportunity but we have a lot of work to do and we will be replacing a lot of really quality football players but we are excited about some of these guys coming in and up through the program,” said Coach Trapp.

According to Coach Trapp, the 2021 DCHS Football schedule will have the same opponents as this past year with the exception of Goodpasture, a private school from the Nashville area, which will replace Grundy County.

In addition to the region foes, the Tigers will also again meet Warren County, Cannon County , Smith County and Watertown next fall

December 19, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb Emergency Services Association (DESA), in partnership with Adoration Health as well as local businesses and volunteers, will be preparing and delivering Christmas Eve Meals to the needy or underserved on Thursday, December 24.

Although the deadline has passed for the DESA to accept names to be served volunteers are needed to help prepare the meals and make deliveries Christmas eve morning. If you would like to help call 615-597-7411.

Around 570 food trays were prepared and delivered on Thanksgiving morning. Recipients received a meal of baked ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, and a roll along with a homemade dessert.

Cooking and food preparation will begin early Thursday morning, December 24 at the county complex kitchen. Volunteers will then load their personal vehicles with food trays and set out to deliver them in time for the recipients’ noon time meal.

Due to COVID-19, the number of people involved in cooking and preparing the food trays will be limited and the volunteers will wear gloves, masks, and try to keep separated while working to protect themselves and those being served. The DESA is not accepting donations of food this year because of the pandemic. All the food will be purchased and prepared at the county complex and is totally funded by community cash donations.

December 18, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

Children at the Smithville Head Start Center were treated to bags of gifts Friday thanks to the Smithville Police Department’s “Cops4Kids” program.

In what has become an annual event, Police Chief Mark Collins and members of the department made sure each child had a bag of toys for Christmas but due to COVID-19 there was no formal program featuring Santa, Christmas carols, nor a local minister sharing the Christmas story with the kids. All 74 Head Start students were served including the 40 on campus and the remaining 34 off site.

Chief Collins said the effort is made possible due to generous donations of the community and the help of Cash Express who conducted a toy collection drive.

“We always look forward to this although we were not able to interact with the children this year due to the pandemic. Cash Express sets up collection boxes across the community to accept donations of toys. We also have people who bring toys or cash directly to the police department and if we don’t have enough toys donated then we take that cash and go to Walmart and buy gifts for the kids. I especially want to thank my fellow officers along with records clerk Beth Adcock, and the staff here at the Head Start Center who work to make this come together. Hopefully next year things will get back to normal and we can once again put on a complete Christmas program for the children,” said Chief Collins.

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