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'You are God's divine love'
Woods speaks at FUMC women's luncheon
(Community News ~ 11/02/04)
Imagine a black-and-white photograph from the 1940s of a baby clad in a diaper being held securely by a woman who's flanked on either side by two white-haired women still in their aprons. That image of security, said Andrea Woods, "is the way God's divine love surrounds us."...
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TOMS club creates banners for school system; school board to elect favorite tonight
(Community News ~ 11/02/04)
For members of the Three Oaks Middle School Leadership Day, today is election day. This particular election, however, has nothing to do with politics or presidents. The students have prepared two banners. Tonight, members of the Dyer County School Board will vote for their favorite banner - the one they'll take to the Tennessee School Board Association when it meets later this month in Nashville...
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FCNB gets all dressed up for a good cause
Costumed for a Cure raises $5,000
(Community News ~ 11/02/04)
For as long as anyone can remember, First Citizens National Bank has gotten into the Halloween spirit by dressing up for Costumed for a Cure, a fund-raiser for the National Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. So this year, Connie Hood, campaign coordinator for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Tennessee Chapter, came to see what all the fuss was about...
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Seivers outlines challenges for Tennessee Education
(Local News ~ 11/02/04)
Tennessee Commissioner of Education Lana Seivers spent only an hour in Dyersburg last Monday as she made the announcement that local teacher, Terri Kay Pike, had received the prestigious Milken education award. Then she boarded a private airplane bound for Nashville to meet with Gov. Phil Bredesen the same afternoon...
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State schedules hearing on Reelfoot spillway
(Local News ~ 11/02/04)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation wants to know what you think about plans to build a new spillway at Reelfoot Lake. The state plans to hold an informal public meeting 5-7 p.m. Nov. 30 in the auditorium of the Reelfoot Lake State Park visitors center on the south end of the lake...
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Local schools try new software to measure progress
(Local News ~ 11/02/04)
Dyersburg Middle and Intermediate schools are taking part in a nationwide pilot project to measure their educational progress that will help them achieve goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind law. An initiative known as "Following the Leaders" incorporates a software program that brings a range of classroom and district-level tools to teachers and administrators at participating schools. ...
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Flu shot cattle call draws cast of hundreds; health department accepting appointments for next week's vaccine shipment
(Local News ~ 11/02/04)
What do you have to do to get a flu shot in this town? For some, it meant lining up in front of the Dyer County Health Department at 5 a.m. Monday morning -- 3.5 hours before the health department planned to begin administering the shots on a first-come, first-served basis. Before the day ended, about 280 persons had received a flu shot...
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Killer of bodies found in May still unidentified: TBI agent
(Local News ~ 11/02/04)
The killer of two bodies found in May in a Haywood County barn still is at large, a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent said Friday. "We identified the victims in May, but so far we haven't identified a suspect or suspects," said TBI Special Agent John Mehr. "We think someone in the area knows something, but hasn't come forward to tell us yet."...
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Maude Pickens Cook
(Obituary ~ 11/02/04)
Maude Pickens Cook, 104, of Dyersburg, died Friday, Oct. 29, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She lived alone in the Dyersburg/Finley area until the age of 94. She had resided at Wesley Center for the last several years. Graveside services were Monday in Dyer County Memorial Gardens...
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Joseph E. Flowers Sr.
(Obituary ~ 11/02/04)
Joseph E. Flowers Sr., 87, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004 at West Tennessee Veterans Home in Humboldt. He was an electrician and a World War II Marine Corps veteran. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Highland Memorial Gardens of Jackson with Olin Kern officiating...
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L.B. 'Berl' Phillips
(Obituary ~ 11/02/04)
L.B. "Berl" Phillips, 80, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. He was a carpenter, farmer and retired factory employee, a member of Phillips Street Church of Christ, a U.S. Navy veteran and a member of Woodmen of the World...
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Dorothy Hendren Yarbro
(Obituary ~ 11/02/04)
Dorothy Hendren Yarbro, 82, of Dyersburg, died Monday, Nov. 1, 2004 at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. She was a retired bookkeeper for Colonial Rubber Works and a member of Finley Methodist Church. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg with the Rev. Benny Hopper and the Rev. Ralph Gunter officiating...
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Marvin Nettles
(Obituary ~ 11/02/04)
Marvin Nettles, 92, died Monday, Nov. 1, 2004 at Reelfoot Manor Nursing Home in Tiptonville. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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