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FEMA, TEMA reps arrive, encourage residents to register for disaster assistance
(Local News ~ 05/15/03)
A team of federal and state officials arrived here Tuesday with one key goal: to encourage storm survivors to register for federal disaster assistance. Ernest Jones, a community-relations field officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Steve Smith, an employee of the state Department of Children's Services who is temporarily working with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, plan to bring that message to Dyer and Lake county residents...
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Dyersburg Guard unit oversees barrier construction between U.S., Mexico
(Local News ~ 05/15/03)
SAN DIEGO -- "If you need it, we'll find it." This isn't the official motto of area support groups -- the Army's equivalent to eBay.com -- but perhaps it should be. Since March 8, 2003, the 230th ASG, an Army National Guard unit based out of Dyersburg has conducted operations from Coronado Naval Base in southern California to support rotating units here to conduct their annual training...
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DPD investigator graduates from FBI Academy
(Local News ~ 05/15/03)
Dyersburg Police Investigator Jim Joyner graduated among 254 law enforcement officers from the FBI National Academy Program at Quantico, Va. on March 21. Joyner follows the footsteps of previous graduate Billy Williams, who graduated from the National Academy on June 16th of 2000...
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Fugitive Adams caught hours after newspaper article appears
(Local News ~ 05/15/03)
An item in Sunday's State Gazette about a man for whom CrimeStoppers of Dyer County had offered a reward got quick results as he was captured Sunday morning. "We had been looking for Scotty Adams and he had been evading our officers," said Capt. Larry Bell of the Dyer County Sheriff's Department. "We thought we had him Saturday afternoon, but he got away from us."...
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Cornerstone, turning lemons into lemonade
(Community News ~ 05/15/03)
It has been the title of many a sermon in Protestant churches across the South: "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!" That is precisely what the congregation of Cornerstone Church of God on Lake Road has been trying to do ever since a tornado shredded the roof of their sanctuary on May 4 less than two hours after members locked the doors after Sunday evening services...
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Area nursing homes observing National Nursing Home Week
(Community News ~ 05/15/03)
National Nursing Home Week is being held May 11-17 this year with the theme "Reflections of a Lifetime." Sponsored by the American Health Care Association, the week spotlights the crucial role nursing facilities play in delivering quality care to the nation's seniors and disabled Americans, 1.5 million of whom reside in nursing facilities...
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