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Senior Games celebrating silver anniversary
(Community News ~ 04/13/05)
Organization marks 25 years of fitness, fun for Tennessee senior athletes
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CRD hosts scholarship golf tournament
(Community News ~ 04/13/05)
The Community Resource Development organization plans to hold a golf tournament April 23 to raise money for its scholarship program. "Golfing for Education" will begin with registration at 11:30 a.m. at the Dyersburg Municipal Golf Course. Tee time for the four-person scramble is 1 p.m...
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'As It Is In Heaven' provides look at Shaker culture
DSCC play begins Thursday
(Community News ~ 04/13/05)
Ask people what they know about the Shakers and many answers will probably involve furniture. But as the cast in the latest Dyersburg State Community College Theatre Department production is realizing, there is much more. The department will present Arlene Hutton's "As It Is In Heaven" this week...
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Bark in the Park slated May 14
(Community News ~ 04/13/05)
Don't just take your dog for a stroll around the neighborhood. Take that pooch for a Bark in the Park. Bark in the Park will be held 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 14 in Okeena Park. It will feature a variety of contests and games for dogs and their owners and will help the Dyersburg/Dyer County Humane Society raise money for a new animal shelter...
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Annual rabies clinics to start earlier this year
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
The number of rabies cases in Dyer County doubled last year when two bats tested positive for the virus. Normally, Dyer County doesn't have any rabies cases at all. In fact, rabies is fairly rare in West Tennessee, said W.D. Hilliard, who handles rabies control efforts for the Dyer County Health Department...
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Methodist Market to benefit Reelfoot Rural Ministries
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Members of First United Methodist Church in Dyersburg have contributed to the Reelfoot Rural Ministries "yard sale" for the past two years, but this year the congregation is assembling a Methodist Market to benefit the ministry. The sale will be held Saturday, April 16, from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the church's fellowship hall, located at 100 McGaughey Street...
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Alma Bizzle
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Alma Bizzle, 81, of Fowlkes, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at her residence. She was a homemaker and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Chuck Richardson and the Rev. Calvin Smith officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery...
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Marian Bell Brewer
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Marian Bell Brewer, 79, formerly of Dyersburg, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Maury Regional Hospital. She was a retired teacher and a graduate of Dyersburg High School. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at North Naples Memorial Gardens in Naples, Fla. with Pastor Harold Brown officiating. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Directors of Columbia is in charge of arrangements...
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Marshall C. Fowlkes
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Marshall C. Fowlkes, 84, of Newbern, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 at his residence. He was a retired employee of the Department of Public Works for the City of Memphis, a U.S. Navy veteran, a member of Newbern First United Methodist Church and Operating Engineers-Local No. 369...
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Nola DeMoss Leonard
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Nola DeMoss Leonard, 97, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Oakwood Community Living Center. She was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Raymond Boston officiating. Burial will be Dyer County Memorial Gardens...
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Albert Lowery
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Albert Lowery, 79, of Dyersburg, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at his residence. He was a retired employee of Dyersburg Fabrics, a member and former deacon of Parr Avenue Church of Christ, and a former Boy Scout leader. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Alex Ogden and Scott Owen officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Calvin Simmons
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Calvin Simmons, 83, of Newbern, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 at his residence. He was a retired construction worker and a U.S. Army veteran. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Johnson Funeral Home with the Rev. Jeffrey McLean officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern...
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Della Mai Bartlett
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Della Mai Bartlett, 95, of Ridgely, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Baptist Hospital in Covington. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Zella Mae Thompson
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Zella Mae Thompson, 93, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Funeral arrangements are in-complete and will be announced by Curry Funeral Home.
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Eagles sweep Hiwassee to extend winning streak to 10
(High School Sports ~ 04/13/05)
After starting the season with an 11-14 record, the Dyersburg State Eagle baseball team has rattled off 10 consecutive wins. The last three of those wins came over the weekend as Dyersburg State swept Hiwassee, winning two games on Saturday, 7-2 and 2-0, before wrapping up the weekend yesterday with an impressive 11-1 win...
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DMS soccer Trojans take JCS
(High School Sports ~ 04/13/05)
The Dyersburg Middle School soccer Trojans went on the road to Jackson Christian School to play the Eagles for the second time in seven days on Saturday, winning the contest, 4-0. The Trojans netted the only goal of the first half at the 16-minute mark when forward David Grueser connected with forward Austin Crisp on a cross in front of the JCS goal. Crisp collected the ball and placed it in the back of the net making the score 1-0 Trojans at the half...
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Della M. Bartlett
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Della M. Bartlett, 95, of Covington, formerly of Ridgely, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Baptist Hospital in Covington. She was a homemaker and a member of Cottonwood Baptist Church. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Ridgely Chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Jonathan Lail officiating. Burial will be in New Haven Cemetery in Ridgely...
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Wayne Perry 'Tot' Hays
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Wayne Perry "Tot" Hays, 68, of Hornbeak, died Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was a employee of National Car Wash and a former employee of Dyersburg City Schools. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Elzie Danley officiating. Burial will be in Zion Cemetery in Elbridge...
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Calvin Simmons
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Calvin Simmons, 83, of Newbern, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 at his residence. He was a retired construction worker and a U.S. Army veteran. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Johnson Funeral Home with the Rev. Jeffrey McLean officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern...
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Zella Mae Thompson
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Zella Mae Thompson, 94, of Dyersburg, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. She was a retired employee of Heckethorn Manufacturing and a member of McCullough Chapel Baptist Church. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Curry Funeral Home with the Rev. Don Williams, the Rev. Nick Wright and the Rev. Travis Smith officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Dyersburg...
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Nancy Puffett
(Obituary ~ 04/13/05)
Nancy Puffett, 45, of Bon Aqua, died Monday, April 11, 2005 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
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Mercer speaking at Pearlie M. Qualls Scholarship
Banquet on May 14
(Community News ~ 04/13/05)
Dyersburg Christian Center's second annual Pearlie M. Qualls Educational Foundation Scholarship banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. May 14 at the Lannom Center. The theme for 2005 is "Doing a Great Work Today for Building a Better Tomorrow." The guest speaker will be Luther T. Mercer II, the director of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Martin...
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Dyer County youth go to state finals
(Community News ~ 04/13/05)
Four teams of Dyer County students have qualified for the state-level tournament for Destination ImagiNation in Nashville on April 15-16 after wins at a regional-level event in Milan. Destination ImagiNation is a program that forces young people to develop what educators like to call "higher-order thinking skills." Last month several teams of local participants met students from schools across the region at the Milan Middle School for an all-day exercise in creativity and "brainstorming."...
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County commission approves archery, gun ranges
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Archery and gun ranges may legally be located in Dyer County after the county commission Monday night passed a zoning regulation regulating them. The commission first considered zoning for the ranges in December on a recommendation from the Dyer County Regional Planning Commission, but deferred action by referring the matter to its local government committee and the planning commission for revision...
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CBS debate on Homeland Security missed the mark, say local officials
(Local News ~ 04/13/05)
Local public safety and government officials watched attentively Sunday night as the CBS news program "60 Minutes" featured Tiptonville in a story about "pork-barrel spending" by the Department of Homeland Security. Uniformly, they agreed that the program failed to address the harsh realities police and first responders in rural areas must face when they are charged with protecting Americans from terrorism. ...
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