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Vending machines in public spaces claim revenue to aid blind workers
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
A hearing today in Nashville was scheduled to make permanent rules to allow blind individuals to exclusively operate vending machines on public property in Tennessee. The measure has local officials scratching their heads about the 1937-era regulations, last revised in 1994, that many said they did not know about. ...
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Club leading effort to beautify city park
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
A facelift is in the works for Newbern City Park, located on Nora Drive between RoEllen Road and Grayson Street. The Newbern Woman's Club recently voted to refurbish the park as the newest Community Improvement project to "improve the quality of life in the city."...
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Fort Pillow announces weekend programs
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Fort Pillow State Historic Park will offer a number of special activities this weekend. The park is located at 3122 Park Road in Henning. The phone number is 731-738-5581. The weekend's activities will be led by seasonal interpretive ranger Tims Quinn...
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Benefit for cancer patient Saturday
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
As Dyersburg resident Kim Evans Lee, 37, undergoes chemotherapy treatments for colorectal cancer, family and friends have been hard at work planning a benefit to aid the mother of three with medical bills. The fund-raiser is scheduled to take place on Aug. 4 at Cycle Werkz, located at 180 Highway 51 bypass behind Tobacco Dock...
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Prayers sought for rain
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Drive by area fields and you'll see the same thing -- crops in desperate need of rain. "When you drive around and look, it's pretty bad," observed Mathews George. To do what they can about the situation, members of Tucker Street Church will host a prayer service to pray for rain this afternoon from 3-4 p.m. at the church, located at 436 Tucker St. in Dyersburg. The community is invited to participate...
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Tax-free weekend returns in time for school supplies
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Gov. Phil Bredesen and Department of Revenue officials remind Tennesseans that the second annual Sales Tax Holiday begins this Friday at 12:01 a.m. and ends Sunday, Aug. 5, at 11:59 p.m. The holiday provides statewide sales tax exemption for school and art supplies and clothing priced $100 or less per item and computers priced $1,500 or less. This is the first holiday that art supplies will be exempt...
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For local blind vendor, work is benefit; 'this is wonderful'
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Betty Laws stands in the driveway of her Resthome Road home as two box trucks are loaded with vending goods for the next day's work, her $800 pair of BiOptic glasses held gingerly in her hands. Blind since birth, Laws uses the special glasses to improve her 20/200 vision to 20/20 for driving her vending machine route. Laws is a partner of the Tennessee Business Enterprise, the organization in the Department of Human Services dedicated to helping blind adult Tennesseans find jobs...
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