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The pews were overflowing, the voices were overwhelming and the spirit was overpowering on Sunday when perhaps 150 gathered in the little white church to celebrate 200 years of Dover Baptist Church.

The Shelbyville Horse Show Jubilee officially got under way Thursday with the annual breakfast that drew a large crowd into a steamy barn at Undulata Farm.

“Like Christmas it’s rolled around again,” Shelbyville Mayor Tom Hardesty told the assembled crowd.

The breakfast is the first event for the Jubilee, nine events stretched through the weekend and the Youth Art Show, which ends Aug. 4.

After the crowd had finished eating, S.K. Zimmerman, the master of ceremonies, led the group in the singing of a single versus of a few songs.

Shelbyville Historic District Coordinator Gail Reed will step away from her post at the end of the month. Since taking over in Shelbyville in April of 2000, Reed has watched several historic buildings be remade and brought back from near devastation and others torn down.

She has been battling a rare form of cancer for nearly two years now. The treatments have kept her from work, and her bills are piling up.

And now some members of the community want to reach out and lift some of those troubles from her shoulders.

Jamie Wieczorek Andriot, 29, has had two surgeries to remove cancerous tumors resulting from a condition known as carcinoma ex-pleomorphic adenoma, a tumor of the parotid, or salivary, gland.

The call came on March 9. She has had more than four months to prepare. Now the big weekend has arrived for Shelby County High School sophomore Kaitlyn Quach.

This Saturday morning, Kaitlyn and her parents, her boyfriend and a chaperone will board a plane for Los Angeles, where she’ll walk the Red Carpet at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards.

Every year for the past 16 years, a small but select group of men, most of them from Shelby County, has gathered on Lake Barkley for a not-so-unusual practice: fishing for a few days and sharing stories about life and sports.

That these men first met more than 40 years ago may not be odd, either. That they were together but for a scant few of those years, when most of them were boys, is the twist.

Margaret Hall has come up against one obstacle after another in her quest to obtain a van fitted for wheelchair access for her son, Glenn.

But now things may be looking up.

At least, the ball is rolling in that direction she said.

“We had a meeting at church last night and everybody was very kind, and said they would be willing to help with some different events,” she said.

Hall had entered a contest in May to win a fully equipped van with wheelchair access, but did not win.

A fire Sunday afternoon destroyed a mobile home at 320 B Street in Marshall Terrace, a mobile home park in the Hi Point area off Washington Street.

Shelby County Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Ivers said the 911 call came in 1:07 p.m., and heavy smoke and fire were pouring out of the trailer when firefighters arrived.

He said all of the occupants of the home were outside except for one person, who came out shortly after firefighters arrived.