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STATS: 15, Evans High School sophomore

WHAT: Softball player

HER STORY: Brittnie first picked up a bat when she was 4 and has enjoyed softball ever since.

On an average weekday, Brittnie spends about four hours practicing.

“Its hard to balance softball and school because it’s so time-consuming, but I love it,” she said.

Brittnie plays in the Columbia County Recreation Department and on the Evans High School varsity softball team. She has won more than 20 trophies for softball.

“One of my biggest accomplishments was last year when I became most valuable player for the Evans High junior varsity team. I also had the highest batting average, .525,” Brittnie said.

Although softball is a lot of hard work, Brittnie said it’s worth it.

“When you put so much time and effort into softball, its feels really nice to win in the end.”

Brittnie wants to play softball throughout high school.

PS:

My father W. H. Reeves would be proud…the family sure is!

Billy Reeves

From the Tuesday, March 11, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle

Golf  Balls Gone Wild

Balls at Discount Prices

Lost Your Balls?  Too bad. Hopefully, this will ease the pain slightly.

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How to Tune Your Guitar to Nashville Tuning

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
If you have a spare acoustic guitar or just want to try something new and different on your guitar change your guitar to Nashville tuning, you’ll be amazed.

Steps

1. Go to you local music store and buy some single strings. Use bronze strings for acoustic guitars. The gauges you’ll need are one of each as follows:
2. .010 plain
3. .014 plain
4. .009 plain
5. .012 plain
6. .018 plain
7. .027 wound
8. Take off the old strings, clean your guitar and fretboard with guitar polish and guitar fretboard cleaner.
9. Start putting on strings starting with the first or High E string. This string is .010 gauge. Continue installing strings as follows. Second string .014, third string .009, fourth string .012, fifth string .018, and sixth string .027.
10. Tune first two strings (E,B) as you would normally. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth (G, D,A, Low E) are tuned an octave higher. Don’t he afraid that you are tuning them too high because they are tuned a full octave higher. Your electronic tuner won’t lie to you.
11. Notice that after tuning, when you give it a strum and you will be amazed of what comes out of your guitar. It inspired me and it’ll inspire you too!
12. Play your guitar as you always did but it now sounds like something you’ve never heard before. It’s a cross between a Mandolin, Autoharp and a 12-string. Sounds awesome when playing with another guitar.

Tips

• Keep you strings clean by washing your hands before playing and after playing wipe your strings with a lint free cloth, wash you hands again.
• Be prepared to share your guitar, everyone will want to try it out.
• If you want to change an electric guitar to NASHVILLE tuning email me and I’ll give you the string gauges.
• If you can’t find correct gauge strings individally, purchase a set of light 12 string acoustic strings or email me and I’ll give you a helping hand.

Warnings

• You will not be the same after you play your newly Nashville tuned guitar.
• Be sure to use the correct gauge strings, or you might break the one you are trying to tune.

Things You’ll Need

• New single strings, electronic tuner, guitar and an imagination.

Article provided by wikiHow, a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Tune Your Guitar to Nashville Tuning. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

I remember reading this several months ago and I thought I would share this “Gift of Knowledge” with young workers and people who just want to realize the power of time and money.

Get your savings over by age 21!

courtesy of MSN Money

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“So let me show you how four summer jobs can become your first million.

Let’s suppose that you are 16 years old, in high school, and willing to work. Let’s also suppose that you can clear about $2,000 over the course of a summer, if only because a doting grandparent puts money in the Roth while you take your earnings to school. If you invest in a Roth IRA, it will grow, tax-free, for as long as you have the account. All withdrawals from the account after age 59 1/2 will be tax-free.

If your money is invested in common stocks and you achieve the average compound annual rate on large-capitalization U.S. stocks, 10.7%, your account will grow to $9,378 at the end of the fourth year. You will be 20 years old. Invested in the same way, with no additional savings, the account will grow to:

• $25,917 by the time you are 30
• $71,625 by the time you are 40
• $197,943 by the time you are 50
• $547,037 by the time you are 60
• And $1,114,423 by the time you are 67

And you will have started and finished all of your saving before turning age 21.”

Imagine what the stats would be if one continued making the max contribution to the Roth…Wow!
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Investing/Startinvesting/P73751.asp 

Merry Christmas

Billy Reeves

What better time of year than now is perfect for food and drink. Whether your pallette is dry or sweet, Wines Across America offers a fantastic Christmas deal.

 Buy 4 Get 4 FREE
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Omaha steaks are simply seriously good.

Light the charcoal while sipping on that free wine that was delivered earlier today.

A gracious gift from Omaha Steaks.

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Sit back with your friends and enjoy the festive coffees from Boca Java Coffee. A perfect compliment to those fabulous desserts that your Aunt Gladys prepared.
Boca Java Holiday Coffee

Merry Christmas

Billy

PS:

Don’t forget the kids’ Santa Letter!

Make sure you keep a few real warm hats for those chilly bowl games.

Dew Hickies Rock Augusta GA

Pay special attention to our top fan in the video. She loves her some Dew Hickies!

Dew Hickies took first place, October 5, 2007 in The Augusta Chronicle’s annual Singer/Songwriter contest.

Forty-seven entries were narrowed down to six. As a little known 4 month old band, [the] Dew Hickies submitted a “dirt road americana” tune entitled Skeeter Lane which placed those “old codgers” in the final six elite.
Guitars mixed with a little blues harp, banjo and a true story. Enjoy  Skeeter Lane and other Dew Hickies’ Diddies &copy 2007 dewhickies.com at these fine sites.

DewHickies.Net
or
DewHickies.Com

We Love Augusta!

Billy Reeves

October 14, 2007

Crickets’ legs or wings? Which plays the chirp?

By Barberman

• Posted on: Sun, Oct 14 2007 1:08 AM

Cool New Site Approaches One Year In Cyberspace

By Barberman

Associated Mess

(GA) Thursday June 28, 2007

 AUGUSTA — A cool new website which launched July 4th, 2006 is approaching one year in cyberspace. A place to listen to and purchase indie music at ridiculously low prices emerged from the mess of copyright battles and other music downloading obstacles. The concept is so unique, this writer feels it would be in best interest to point readers to the site rather than trying to point out all the sensational things going on with the team over at AimieStreet.Com.

About Amie Street

The writer’s personal AimieStreet page can be viewed at:

AimieStreet.Com/Barberman 

Just yesterday I was discussing song writing with a couple of  fellow musicians. Since we live in the most famous golf city in the world, I thought it would be appropriate to share this beautiful piece of musical poetry written by Dave Loggins of “Please Come To Boston” fame with lyrics help from a very well known Augusta photographer.

“Dave Loggins, wrote the song around 1980, with lyrics help from photographer Frank Christian. They then took it to CBS, which now uses the instrumental version extensively. The words are an ode to every thing Augusta.”

_{Thanks to Doug over at Golfdash.blogspot.Com}

Enjoy!

Congratulations!

 Zach Johnson- 2007 Masters Champion

My Father, W.H. Reeves (1912-2001), would had loved to have witnessed this grand event in Columbia County History, especially since the company he founded had such a large part of the moving process. Evans school arch arrives at new home Down in history By J. Scott Trubey | Columbia County Bureau Sunday, July 16, 2006 When Harry Hennis constructed the Evans Consolidated School arch in 1927, he built it to last. On Saturday, two cranes hoisted the massive rock form, which survived a 1955 fire that razed the school and a relocation several years ago to allow the widening of Washington Road, into position at its new home in the memorial gardens behind the Columbia County Library in Evans. There it joins the school’s seven surviving pillars that, when positioned in coming months, will line a new service walkway to a playground and concession area near the Columbia County Amphitheater. Ultimately, members of the Save the Pillars committee, who paid for and are overseeing the move, hope to donate the new site to a garden club to maintain as a picnic area, said Bill Jackson Sr., a former state representative who organized the group. He described the effort as a mixture of "perseverance, will, desire and commitment." The arch and pillars were moved because the Evans Middle School site where they stood is set to become a shopping center. A new Evans Middle will open on Hereford Farm Road on Aug. 4. Crews from Augusta Crane and Rigging, WH Reeves Construction and Robertson Grading and Paving used a 60-ton and 75-ton crane to lift the 52-ton, 18-foot-tall arch onto a flatbed truck just before 1 p.m. Then police stopped traffic for the half-hour, 1-mile journey to the library down Washington Road to Ronald Reagan Drive. By 5:30 p.m., the arch was positioned overlooking the amphitheater. Molly Boyleston, a former Evans Middle student, was one of about a dozen passing spectators who watched the arch as it was lifted onto a flatbed at the school. She arrived at 8:30 a.m. and said she claimed a chunk of rock broken off from one of the pillars to give to her mother, a former Evans Consolidated School student. Mrs. Boyleston said her mother told her she couldn’t bear to see the arch and pillars moved and came in her stead. She said she was glad the pillars and arch could be saved. "It’s a piece of history," she said. From the Sunday, July 16, 2006 edition of the Augusta Chronicle