On Wednesday, June 2, the Nashville Advertising Co-op of Sonic Drive-Ins awarded 70 $1,000 scholarship to employees of their drive-ins. Emma Hinson, of Hohenwald, received one of those scholarships.

Over the past 20 years the Nashville Advertising Co-op of Sonic Drive-Ins has given in excess of a million dollars in scholarships to employees of their drive-ins. The program began as the idea of Robert Newberry, owner and operator of the Lewisburg Sonic. At the time the scholarship program started, Newberry and other operators were looking for incentives that would help reduce turnover and att...