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County insurance committee lets stand recommendation for 15 percent employee share in health insurance premiums
(Local News ~ 08/09/02)
The Dyer County Commission's insurance committee decided Friday to let stand its two-month old recommendation to charge county employees 15 percent of premium charges for health insurance. "We've signed contract for another year of self-insurance, beginning July 1," Committee Chairman Alan Burchfiel told committee members Friday...
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Program to focus on dealing with child's chronic illness
(Local News ~ 08/09/02)
When a child has a chronic illness or a disability, the entire family has to make adjustments. A program scheduled Aug. 21 will help caregivers understand the stresses and learn how to put the family at the center of the healthcare system. The program will be broadcast live at 10 a.m. in the ground-floor classrooms of Methodist Healthcare-Dyersburg Hospital. The program is free...
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Pleas to robbery, burglary draw 4.5-year sentence
(Local News ~ 08/09/02)
A Dyersburg man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dyer County Circuit Court to two robbery charges and one of aggravated burglary and was sentenced to serve 4.5 years in prison. Rodriquez Fisk, 22, of 805 Custer Circle, pleaded guilty to the charges before Judge Lee Moore and was sentenced by Moore. ...
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TSYABA 2001-01 Tourney Winners
(High School Sports ~ 08/09/02)
Pictured front, left to right, Anthony Campbell, Courtney Sizemore, Kelli Dodson, John McCorkle and Candace Sizemore; back, Trevor Reasons, Robert Jacks, Jonathan Ownby and Jazmine McElrath. Not pictured are Houston Watson and Adam Sipes. Local youths knock 'em down in Johnson City...
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T. Willie Halton
(Obituary ~ 08/09/02)
T. Willie Halton, 89, of Ridgely, died Tuesday, August 6, 2002 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Citizen Cemetery in Tiptonville. H.H. Hudson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include a brother, Clarence Nance of Memphis; and two nieces...
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Linda D. Peckenpaugh
(Obituary ~ 08/09/02)
Linda D. Peckenpaugh, 52, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, August 8, 2002 at West Tennessee Skilled Nursing Center in Jackson. She was a former sales clerk for Wal-Mart, a member of First United Methodist Church, Koinonia Sunday School Class, FCE Home Demonstration Club, Cub Scout Den Mother and a volunteer at Jennie Bell School...
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Jimmy Harris Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/09/02)
Jimmy Harris Jr., of Dyersburg, died Thursday, August 8, 2002 at Methodist Hospital-Central in Memphis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Jane Brown
(Obituary ~ 08/09/02)
Jane Brown, 94, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, August 8, 2002 at Methodist Healthcare-Dyersburg Hospital. She was a homemaker and a seamstress and a member of the former RoEllen Community Club. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Johnson Funeral Home with the Rev. Dan Tilly and the Rev. Frank Gardner officiating. Burial will be in Rehoboth Cemetery in Newbern...
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Dreams come true for four Oakwood residents
(Community News ~ 08/09/02)
The Great River Road turned into a street of dreams Wednesday as four residents of Oakwood Community Living Center had their dreams fulfilled. Earl Owens, John Holland, Elizabeth Livingston and Sally Roddey had a pleasant day for a wagon ride with beautiful blue skies and temperatures in the 80s...
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Jones named Oakwood's 2002 Caregiver of the Year
(Community News ~ 08/09/02)
It wasn't until her freshman year in college that Becky Jones, RN, decided she wanted to go in to nursing. It's a career move that she and many others are glad she made. Jones, assistant director of nursing, was named Oakwood Community Living Center's 2002 Caregiver of the Year on Aug. 2. Her name will go on to the Tennessee Healthcare Association for the state Caregiver of the Year competition...
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