Sunday Morning Catblogging ::

CHS Alumni News ::

From Johnny Deal:

Members of the Camden High School Alumni Association:

Construction is nearing the end at Camden High. The new wellness center and performing arts auditorium are complete and will have their ribbons cutting/grand opening on Monday at 5:30 PM.

This email is announcing a fundraiser we have organized to "show off" CHS's new performing arts auditorium. Camden musician, Patrick Davis, and some of his friends will be in town, Friday, February 28, for a concert to benefit the alumni association and the "Roger Rules" scholarship fund.

If you don't know Patrick, he is a CHS grad. His Dad, Rusty, owns the guitar shop at Rutledge and Broad St., his mom, Jean, is a school teacher here and his brother, His brother, Roger, was killed in an automobile accident last summer. The family has set up a "Roger Rules" scholarship fund that will be awarded each year to a CHS student. The first award will be made the night of this concert.

Alumni Association members will get first choice of tickets and preferred seating. Please check out the attached flyer for all the details.

Thanks a lot for your support of Camden High School.

Johnny Deal, Chair
Camden High Alumni Association
Class of 1979

If you need more information Johnny can be reached at:

JDEAL151@aol.com

Here are the contents of the flyer-sounds line a good show:

The Camden High School Alumni Association

&

The Roger J. Davis Memorial Foundation

Proudly Present

“NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS NIGHT”

February 28th, 2009 - 7:00PM

Camden High School Performing Arts Auditorium


Saturday, February 28th, 2009 a very special “one night only” concert event featuring 4 of Nashville, TN’s top country songwriters is coming to Camden High School’s just completed Performing Arts Auditorium. Making the trip down to Camden from Nashville, TN for this “Blue Bird Café Style” in-the-round show are Grammy Winning Songwriter Hillary Lindsey, Guitar Virtuoso Jedd Hughes, 2008 ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Dave Berg and Camden’s very own native son Patrick Davis. Together these 4 singer-songwriters are responsible for radio hits like Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel”, Keith Urban’s “Stupid Boy”, Rodney Atkins “These Are My People” & Jason Michael Carroll’s “Where I’m From”, which was of course written about Camden.


All proceeds from this once in a lifetime event will go directly to the enrollment/administration works of The CHS Alumni Association and the charitable works of The Roger J. Davis Memorial Foundation, which will announce the recipients of the very 1st RJD Memorial Scholarships during “Nashville Songwriters Night”.


CHS ALUMNI MEMBER TICKET SPECIAL On Sale Monday, January, 26th (Tickets on sale to the Public begin on Friday, February 6th) $15 General Admission Tickets $25 VIP SEATING & Pre Show Meet & Greet Tickets (VIP Ticket includes Premium Seating and Pre Show Celebration w/ all 4 Songwriters)

Available Starting Jan. 26th @ Camden High School & Davis & Sons Guitar Shop

Alumni may also mail their tickets orders to Camden High School Attn: Laura Horton 1022 Ehrenclou Drive Camden, SC 29020

Make checks payable to the Camden High School Alumni Association


“Celebrate Life but Please Remember The Roger Rules:


Don’t Speed, Always Wear Your Seatbelt and Never, Ever Drink and Drive.”

Friday Catblogging ::

It's cold over here in Alabama tonight! I think we're looking at about 10° as the projected low, but the forecast is for us to go up into the mid 40s tomorrow so that will be a break. I dread seeing my utility bill next month, but utilities are fairly low here. My last bill for December was $185-relatively speaking not too bad.

Missy finds great joy in jumping up on the rail in the garage and waiting for me to scratch her. She's getting to be a pretty fat cat and I may have to put her on a diet!



Everyone try to stay comfortable!

Still Here! ::

I'm still here! It's been a pretty hectic new year so far both at work and at home with new projects. Weekends have been given over to redesigning one of my web sites and I'll be posting the link soon.

I'm hoping to get over to Camden in the next few weeks. I'm running out of Camden photographs to post, but here is one from a previous trip:



Whenever I'm in Camden I try to make it a point to at least drive through Quaker Cemetery and I usually find myself taking at least one photograph. I have always found cemeteries to be wonderful places for photography and when I lived in Atlanta I spent many hours in Oakland Cemetery with the 8x10 view camera!

Clemson ::

once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory! At least the basketball team is playing well!

There are a lot of Clemson grads here in Huntsville and we all bemoan the football team.

Still Having Server Problems ::

The server that hosts the photographs is still experiencing difficulties. This was supposed to have been cleared up, but the techs are still working on fixing the problem. Must be worse than they initially thought!