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Pink Cadillac to kick off 1960s bash
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Lisa Hobbs
Updated: Jul 13, 2011, 12:45 AM
Published: Jul 13, 2011, 1:45 AM

Pink Cadillac will be taking the stage this Friday night for the next installment of Main Street Live summer concert series. The band will be a kick off to the Southern Standard Back to the 60s Bash on Saturday.
Band members met on Craig’s list and have been together since January 2010. This will be their first visit to McMinnville, says guitarist and vocalist Mark Miller.
“I advertised on Craig’s list so everyone from this band came from that,” Miller said. “We play on the weekends and really enjoy it. We play about three to four times a month. We’re looking forward to playing Main Street Live. This will be our first visit to McMinnville. I hear there is always a good crowd.”
Miller is a former member of the 1960s band The Grass Roots. The band performed on many national and local TV shows in the 1970s including Midnight Special, Shindig and the Dick Clark Oldies Show. Hits include “Sooner or Later,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes,” “Two Divided by Love,” and “Live for Today.” Miller was a semi-regular on “The Gong Show” in 1989.
Pink Cadillac has a wide array of songs in its list including “Lets Stay Together” by Al Green, “Baby I Love You” and “Chain of Fools” by Aretha Franklin, “Pink Cadillac” by Bruce Springsteen, “Money” by The Beatles, “Rocky Top” by Bryant Brothers, and “Brick House” by Commodores.
Rounding out the band’s other members:
• Keith Stacey, on keyboards and vocals, studied music at Witchita State University and at Lee University, where he accompanied the prestigious Lee Singers. Since then, he has been active as a music director, pianist, producer and composer.
• Matt Coen, bass player and vocals, is out of Nashville. He has a bachelor’s degree in music from Eastern Michigan. He draws his musical influences from everything Motown, as well as the Beatles, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Wilson Pickett, Frank Zappa and the Clash.
• Johnny Allen, drummer, comes from West Virginia and has been in the music business for 20 years playing everything from bluegrass to rock and country.
• Patty McHugh, vocals, is originally from Long Island where she enjoyed a long career as featured vocalist in the legendary oldies band, The Dimensions. She sang with Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge, Larry Chance and the Earls, Bobby Rydell, The Shirelles and Lou Christie, to name a few.
• Michael Vincent is on keyboards, sax, fiddle and vocals. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music education with a performance major of violin, piano and trumpet as minors, he toured with Donna Fargo, Helen Cornelius, Tom T. Hall and Freddy Fender. He also worked with Shelby Lynne, Little David, Melba Montgomery, Barbara Fairchild, Les Taylor of Exile, Orion (an Elvis tribute band), Kenny Durham (John Denver tribute band), and Dan Evans.
Friday’s Main Street Live will be a kick off to the Southern Standard Back to the ’60s Bash to be held at the Warren County Fairgrounds the following day. Opening ceremony begins at 11 a.m. with a salute to Vietnam veterans.
Throughout the day, local entertainment will be featured. A wide array of activities and vendors will be offered — FTW Wresting, a car show, craft vendors, food vendors, an inflatable park for children, an Elvis look-alike contest, and a cornhole tournament.
Admission into Back to the ’60s is $5 on the day of the event. Advanced tickets can be purchased at the Standard office for $4. Children under 12 are free, but must be accompanied by an adult.
During Main Street Live, there will be a variety of food and beverages available from food vendors. Parking and admission are free so bring a chair and enjoy the music. Come early and stake out a good spot.
Pink Cadillac will take the stage and begin entertaining at 7 p.m. on the West Lawn of Security Federal downtown. Food and beverage vendors open at 6 p.m. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited. Smoking is not allowed in the crowd.
Main Street Live summer concert series is a production of Main Street McMinnville. The events are free to the public due to sponsorship by Dr Pepper, the Law Offices of Galligan and Newman, Security Federal Savings Bank, River Park Hospital, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, Ben Lomand, McMinnville Electric System, city of McMinnville, Peg Broadcasting and the Southern Standard, your source for local news.
Local farm partnership brings fresh beef to Warren County Schools
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Published: Apr 2, 2025, 11:31 PM

Warren County Schools has beefed up lunch menus this school year through a new community partnership. Thanks to a collaboration between the district’s School Nutrition Department and Barton Creek Farms, students at Warren County High School, Warren County Middle School, West Elementary, Eastside Elementary, and Dibrell Elementary are enjoying locally sourced, farm-fresh beef in their lunches as part of a pilot program.

The initiative, spearheaded by Terri Mullican, Director of School Nutrition, has already shown great promise in its first few months. The partnership with Barton Creek Farms, located in Rock Island, Tennessee, ensures that the beef served is not only local to Warren County but of the highest quality. Barton Creek Farms specializes in farm-to-fork beef, with grass-fed and grain-finished cattle. Each calf is born and raised in Rock Island and goes through USDA-inspected processing, ensuring it meets the strictest safety and quality standards.

“When the opportunity arose to provide fresh, local beef, we knew it was a no-brainer,” Mullican said. “The fact that it’s a product from right here in our community makes it even more special. We can’t wait to implement it district-wide.”

Barton Creek Farms delivers fresh ground beef to the district monthly, and the nutrition

department incorporates it into homemade recipes such as lasagna, meatloaf, chili, and tacos.

As of now, the beef is being served at five schools, but the ultimate goal is to expand the program to all ten lunch-serving schools in the district.

The pilot program originated from a conversation between Mary Roller of Barton Creek Farms and Mullican. Roller, recognizing the farm’s potential to support local schools, reached out to gauge the district’s interest in serving local beef to students. Around the same time, a Warren County school board member contacted Mullican to share information about a similar partnership in neighboring Dekalb County, which helped push the initiative forward.

The timing worked in the district’s favor, as the nutrition department was able to fund the purchase of the beef using existing resources, eliminating the need for additional funding. Now that the pilot program is enjoying a successful run, the department has budgeted to extend the partnership district-wide for the 2025-26 school year.

Dr. Grant Swallows, Director of Schools, praised the program’s economic approach to student nutrition.

“This pilot is a perfect example of how we can use local resources to continue providing nutritious, healthy meals for our students,” he said. “We are grateful for partnerships like this one that benefit both our students and our local community. We always strive to support our local businesses when we can because our community is so good to us.”

In addition to working with Warren County Schools, Barton Creek Farms also partners with local restaurants to offer farm-fresh beef on their menus. The farm’s offerings include ground beef, steaks, roasts, and custom cuts by the quarter, half, or whole cow, meeting diverse consumer needs.

As the program continues to grow, the district hopes to expand its focus on farm-to-school meals, benefiting students’ health and connecting them to the agricultural roots of the community