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Grants underscore the technology revolution in auto repair
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
A pair of state grants to the Tennessee Technology Center (TTC) in Newbern underscores the dramatic technology revolution that has taken place in the automotive repair industry. TTC received a total of $20,000 in two grants from the Tennessee Tech Prep program. The money will be used to enhance the school's computer systems to "bring the vehicle into the classroom," said Jim Stafford, automotive technology instructor...
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Zero budget growth sought in count fire budget
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
Dyer County fire department and emergency management agency budgets containing no increases in county funding for Fiscal Year 2003 were recommended Friday by the county fire committee. "These budgets are mostly hold-the-line," county Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director James Medling told committee members. "Since we've lost our arson investigator and the prospects for hiring a new one this year are slim, I have deleted his salary and expenses from the fire budget."...
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Ford turns self in for check law violations
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
Dyersburg businessman Freddie Ford was arrested at 2:15 p.m. Thursday when he turned himself into to the Dyer County Jail annex on two bench warrants for failure to appear. One charge is for violating the check law in an amount more than $1,000; the other is for violating the check law in an amount more than $10,000...
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Locations, numbers of infected birds
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
The Tennessee Department of Health has tested 390 dead blue jays and crows since May 30. Of those, 128 have been infected with West Nile Virus. The county-by-county breakdown of positive results as of Friday is as follows: * Bradley - one blue jay. * Coffee - one blue jay...
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Boy assaults woman, hits police
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
An 11-year-old Dyersburg boy who attacked his foster mother with a knife was apprehended by Dyersburg Police on Friday afternoon. According to reports, he was charged with aggravated assault and vandalism under $500. After undergoing a mental evaluation, he was sent to Timber Springs Adolescent Center in Hardeman County...
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Gun range proposal delayed for planners' opinion
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
Construction on a proposed local shooting range will be delayed at least a month after two county committees decided Thursday to submit the proposal to the Dyersburg Regional Planning Commission. Members of the county commission's law and local government panels told Jimmy Anderson, whose idea it is to build the range, that he must submit the proposal, including a plat and drawing of the proposed site on the old County penal farm, to a joint meeting with Dyersburg planners on Sept. 12...
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Man sentenced for illegal e-mail; federal child pornography charges pending
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
The local man who in March was indicted on federal counts of sending and receiving child pornography was sentenced last week to a prison sentence of eight years for the August 2001 arrest in Dyersburg for aggravated sexual battery. Shaun Jones, 24, of Dyersburg, was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Moore on Monday. He still faces federal charges stemming from the discovery of child pornography in Memphis when authorities served the Dyersburg warrant...
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Protecting your family
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency issued the following guidelines to protect you and your family from mosquitoes. Eliminate them Eliminate potential mosquito breeding areas. Mosquitoes must have standing water for the first stages of development. Get rid of stagnant water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs:...
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City holds first Stormwater meeting
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
Tennessee streams and rivers are increasingly being polluted as a direct result of urban growth. It is a local problem, and the costs of cleanup and pollution control must be borne by local governments. That was the message city board members and several key public works employees heard Thursday when they met with representatives of the U.S. ...
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West Nile Virus is here; dead crow from Dyersburg tests positive
(Local News ~ 08/12/02)
A dead crow found on the parking lot of a Dyersburg church has tested positive for the West Nile Virus. W.D. Hilliard of the Dyer County Health Department said he received a report on the test results late Thursday. He announced the findings Friday during a meeting of health and emergency officials at the health department...
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Preparing for battle
(High School Sports ~ 08/12/02)
Trojans' sophomore quarterback Coley Jamison looks for a receiver during DHS football offensive drills earlier this week. Head coach James Counce looks on attentively as the Trojans prepare for their season opener Aug. 30 at Dyer County.
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Sand volleyball league kicking up interest
(High School Sports ~ 08/12/02)
The inception of the Adult Sand Volleyball League earlier this summer has unveiled some hidden talent from around western Tennessee, while giving both veterans and newcomers to the sport an opportunity to serve up some of the best sand volleyball this area has to offer...
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Bob Fitzgerald (flag)
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Bob Fitzgerald (flag) Bob Fitzgerald, 63, of Texas, formerly of Newbern, died Monday, Aug. 5, 2002. He was former plant manager for NUTONE Corp. in Coppell, Texas, earned his degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a was a U.S. Air Force veteran...
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Jimmie Harris Jr.
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Jimmie Harris Jr., 65, of Dyersburg, died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002 at Methodist Hospital-Central in Memphis. He was a retired maintenance employee with Colonial Rubber Works and a member of Finley Baptist Church. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Bill Phipps officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery...
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Robert Edgar Klutts (Flag)
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Robert Edgar Klutts, 86, of Union City, died Friday, Aug. 9, 2002, at his home. He was a retired farmer and janitor, a U.S. Army veteran who served in World War II, a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4862 in Union City and a member of Graves Chapel Church of God...
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Jerril Joslin
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Jerril Joslin, of Newbern, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Johnson Funeral Home
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Radine Smith Fields
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Radine Smith Fields, 75, of Dresden, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002 at her residence. She was a retired pharmacy assistant and substitute teacher, a 1945 graduate of Dresden High School and a member of Dresden First United Methodist Church. Services were at 11 a.m. today in the chapel of Bowlin Funeral Home in Dresden. Burial will be in Sunset Cemetery in Dresden...
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Robert S. Bell
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Robert S. Bell, 73, of Bonicord, died today at Methodist Healthcare-Dyersburg Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Jerril Clay Joslin
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Jerril Clay Joslin, 76, of Jackson, formerly of Gallatin, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was a local merchant, a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, a member of Humboldt Church of Christ, a former deacon and member of South Waters Church of Christ in Gallatin, and former president of the Quarterback Club of Gallatin High School...
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Fred Vatcher
(Obituary ~ 08/12/02)
Fred Vatcher, 64, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, in a plane crash in Anderson County. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced Dyersburg Funeral Home
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Wills
(Business ~ 08/12/02)
Americans have a 70% chance of dying "intestate," that is to say, without leaving a will. A will is a legal document that communicates your wishes regarding your responsibilities, property, and obligations upon your death. When you die, a will allows you to transfer property, designate a guardian for minor children, create a trust designed to provide for minor children or an infirm adult, and settle any outstanding debt of your estate. ...
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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
(Business ~ 08/12/02)
There are many papers to be completed, some of these include legal certificates and permits, insurance forms, and government forms. Your funeral director will take care of placing the obituary in the newspapers of your choice, but they must be provided with the personal information about the deceased...
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IMMUNIZATIONS -- DIPHTHERIA
(Business ~ 08/12/02)
Diphtheria is a disease caused by the bacterium, Corynebacterium Diphtheria. The organism produces a toxin which causes: 1) a membrane to form over the lining of the nose and throat; 2) inflammation of the windpipe which may cause obstruction to breathing; 3) inflammation of the heart leading to heart failure; and 4) nerve inflammation leading to paralysis. ...
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Macular Degeneration and Lutein
(Business ~ 08/12/02)
The affects of dietary supplementation on Age Related Macula Degeneration (ARMD) have yet to be settle. Researchers have found relationships between Lutein and Zeaxanthin and retinal tissues, but casuality has not been established. Lutein and Zeaxanthin have shown evidence of having antioxident properties that prevent cellular damage. ...
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Whiplash
(Business ~ 08/12/02)
The upper part of the spine--the neck--is the most vulnerable to certain types of injury. Due to the weight of the head and the neck's necessary flexibility, collisions in automobile accidents often cause a type of neck injury known as whiplash. These injuries result from your unsupported head being forcibly snapped either to the front, side, or back. ...
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Don't Let Accounting Scandals Send You to Investment Sidelines
(Business ~ 08/12/02)
If you invest in stocks, then you probably haven't had a lot of good news over the last several months. And with the recent wave of corporate accounting scandals, you may be thinking of getting out of the market altogether. But that might be a mistake. After all, you can find thousands of companies that still work diligently to report their finances thoroughly and honestly. Plus, if you take a "time out" from investing, you may miss some good opportunities...
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Class responds to growing interest in breastfeeding babies
(Community News ~ 08/12/02)
When it comes to breastfeeding a baby, book learning doesn't always help. Dr. Deborah Fernandes understands that. She breastfed her first baby and plans to breastfeed her second child when it arrives. She said she discovered that practical knowledge, passed on from mother to mother, is far better than reading about breastfeeding...
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'It's all about the animals'
(Community News ~ 08/12/02)
Jim Pickard watched in amazement as Kelly Seaton worked with the 6-week-old black kitten, trying to get him to eat. After opening a can of food and realizing the kitten wasn't going to eat it, Seaton stuck some food on her finger and put it in his mouth. With that taste, the kitten then ate some off a spoon...
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Kugler prepares to represent Tennessee at Miss America Pageant
(Community News ~ 08/12/02)
When she was 9 years old, people noticed that Valli Kugler had something different. "She was rehearsing at the Miss University of Tennessee at Martin Pageant as the talent while the girls were changing," recalled her dad, Jim Kugler, a guidance counselor at Dyer County High School. "I was sitting behind the contestants and when she came out with her hair all done up and wearing a green dress, they all commented on how cute she was."...
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