Today's Features

Monday -- BBQ pork rib or pizza stick, corn on cob, green beans, pear, mandarin oranges or pineapple, milk

B = Sausage biscuit or oatmeal

Tuesday -- Hamburger or cheese-burger or chili dog, French fries, ketchup/mustard, lettuce/ tomato, salad dressing/ mayo, pickle/ onion, pear, mandarin oranges or pine-apple, milk (Simpsonville has Little Caesar's pizza

B = Sausage pancake bites or breakfast bun

"It was not easy seeing so much ugly," said the five judges, members of Shelbyville Merchants Association for Retail Trade (SMART), who picked the top three finalists for Shelbyville's Ugliest Room Makeover contest.

Interior designer and owner of Surroundings Design Studio Debbie D'Angelo and her design team - Carol Bolton, manager of Tracy's Home Furnishings; Aimee McGruder, manager of Making Ends Meet; Liz Schreff, design consultant at W. J. Andriots and Kelly Craig, also from Tracy's - managed to sort through the 18 entrants to pick the top three.

If anyone has an old photo that they would like to run with this column bring it and the information into The Sentinel-News office or e-mail it to the writer at sharonw@sentinelnews.com. We are also looking for mystery photos. If you have a picture you can't identify, send it in and we'll ask our readers for help.

10 years ago, 1998

Before Nintendo and Wii, farm kids played with pedal tractors.

Before electricity, farmers lit their homes, their way to the barn or their trek into town at night with kerosene (which they called "coal oil") lamps. And before kerosene, they used whale oil or candles.

Shelbyville couple Marvin Crouch and Deanie Logan, who both grew up on farms, collect a little bit of that farm nostalgia. Crouch has a collection of pedal tractors; Logan collects lanterns - kerosene, whale oil and candle. The lantern collection is a hobby that takes them back to their days on the farm.