Actor/entertainer Randall Franks is best known as “Officer Randy Goode” from TV’s “In the Heat of the Night,” a role he performed on NBC and CBS from 1988-1993, hosts a visit to the 1890s Day Jamboree in Ringgold, Ga. Memorial Day weekend 2012. Franks highlights the presentation of the Randall Franks Trophy to the top fiddler at the Old Time Fiddlers Convention. Presentation of the award honoring the legacy of Bluegrass Music Legend Randall Franks began by state authority at Lake Lanier Islands, Ga. in 1994. Among the former winners is the late legendary Southern contest fiddler Jack Weeks of Dalton, Ga. In this fiddle off is Doug Fleener of Leitchfield, Ky., from 16-21 age category, Johnny Ray Watts of Lineville, Ala., from 22-50 category, and Mack Snoderly of Clyde, NC, winner of the 51 and up category. The annual event includes contests in guitar, mandolin, fiddle, clogging and bluegrass band. For more information, visit www.cityofringgold.com. Franks once held the title of Georgia State Bluegrass Champion, the International Bluegrass Music Museum Bluegrass Legend and Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame inductee is a former member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, Jim and Jesse’s Virginia Boys and numerous other groups who as a guest star often shared his talents for the Grand Ole Opry. Franks co-hosts the Grand Master Fiddler Championship in Nashville each year. He was part of the cast of “Robert Townsend’s Musical Theater of Hope” on GMC (Gospel Music Channel). He has …