Beech Bluff comes together over high grass
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BEECH BLUFF, Tenn. — High grass around a neighborhood school brings a community together, but not just to beautify the area. It also was a message of support and love for something they believe their community was built around. “Hey, when something needs to be done in Beech Bluff, we just get it done,” Debbie Gaugh said while sitting on her riding lawnmower. It’s high grass, overgrown shrubs and unmulched soil that brings the Beech Bluff community even closer. “I’ve got three kids here, and the grass is getting a little high,” Beech Bluff parent Jerry Bland said. “I think the contract now is that they cut it every 14 days.” So instead of waiting for the fourteenth day to roll around, volunteers in the community stepped up to give the children at Beech Bluff Elementary a better place to run free. “I am just saying everything everyone else is feeling,” Gaugh said. “They are out here for the same reason I am — for the love for the community and the love for our kids.” “This school is the heart of this community, and it’s right smack dab in the middle of Beech Bluff and we do whatever we can to support it,” Beech Bluff parent Beth Moore said. Beech Bluff Elementary has been around for more than 70 years, but volunteers say it may soon come to an end. “Beech Bluff is a great school,” Gaugh said. “We have great teachers and great people. I just see no reason at all to close Beech Bluff.” The Beech Bluff community said they fear the closing of their school could be a part of the Jackson-Madison County School System’s new Vision 20/20 plan. But volunteers say before they are trimmed out of the schools equation, this might send the best possible message. “If it says anything, I want it to say we love our community and will do anything to keep it,” Gaugh said.
