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Tullahoma Love Your City Clean Up Day

TullahomaThe Think Green Tullahoma Committee is sponsoring a city clean-up day Saturday, February 14, 2015. The Love Your City Cleanup Day runs from 8:00 a.m. until noon.  Volunteers are needed to spend as little or as much time as they can to make Tullahoma more attractive.
Four times a year the Tullahoma Public Works Department organizes a Clean-up Day and asks for the help of volunteers.
“I am convinced 99.5% of Tullahoma citizens want to live in a clean and attractive community,” said Mayor Lane Curlee. “I know 100% of the people that want to invest in Tullahoma want to invest in a clean and attractive community.”
To report an area needing to be cleaned, call Public Works prior to the event.
“Organize your church group, business, or even family and join me in making a difference by helping to clean up Tullahoma.   Although the official day is Saturday, the 14th, if another day works better for you and your team, go for it,” said Mayor Curlee. “We need your help. Last month, Public Works removed 93 bags of litter along Highway 55.”
Please don’t make an excuse.  Public works will supply the bags and grabbers to pick up the trash.
If you want to be officially counted for service hours, Volunteers should call Public Works at 931-454-1768 to sign up and then meet at 8:00 a.m. at the Tullahoma Public Works Department, 942 Maplewood Avenue for supplies and assignments the day of the event. Or you can do it on your own schedule, but if you need supplies, contact Public Works sometime in the morning before 10:30 am and let them know what you need and when you will be there to pick up bags or gloves.
Rain date is February 21.

1/31/15 — Elaine Brown Killingsworth Cummins

flower 4Elaine Brown Killingsworth Cummins, age 79 of Tullahoma passed away Wednesday, January 28 at Harton Regional Medical Center. Graveside Services will be held Saturday, January 31 at 11 AM at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.
A native of Knoxville, she was the daughter of the late Reid and Margaret Robinson Brown. Mrs. Cummins was a realtor in the Chattanooga area for many years. She was a member of the Hixson United Methodist Church in Chattanooga. She enjoyed gardening and cooking for her family and was an avid sports fan. She especially enjoyed watching her grandsons play football and soccer.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her two husbands, Ronald Killingsworth and David Cummins and her son, Mike Killingsworth
Mrs. Cummins is survived by her daughter, Debbie Wheeler and her husband, Brian of Tullahoma; one brother, Steve Brown of Soddy Daisy; two grandsons, Paul Wheeler and his wife, Lindsey of Tullahoma and Michael Wheeler and his wife, Mackenzie of Nashville and three great grandchildren, Weston Paul, Pierce Colley and Harley James Wheeler.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorial donations be made to the East Lincoln Sunshine Fund, East Lincoln Elementary School, 700 E. Lincoln St, Tullahoma, TN 37388

Online condolences may be made at www.davesculbertsonfuneralhome.com.
Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

1/28/15

birthday cakeBirthdays:
Shannon Farless — Pizza Winner!
Roger Guess
John Roger Roberts
Vickie McCart

1/27/15

birthdayBirthdays:
Katie Young — Pizza Winner!

School Merger Meeting Is Thursday— Unscientific Survey Says People Are In Favor

Screen shot 2015-01-26 at 3.05.38 PMA joint meeting of the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the city school board will take place Thursday, Jan 29 beginning at 5:30pm at city hall. This meeting is to discuss possible cuts in the school system budget and merging with the county school system.
Last week WMSR started an online survey concerning the merger issue. The results are in and 1,147 people participated. Question 1: Are you in favor of Manchester City Schools merging with Coffee County Schools? 763 voters said yes and 380 said no. 4 people did not vote. Question 2: Are you a resident of the City of Manchester? 919 yes and 198 no. 30 people did not vote. Question 3: Do you have a child who attends a Manchester City School? 683 voted no and 435 said yes. 29 did not vote.
The survey was conducted on WMSRradio.com for 6 days and the votes were volunteer. More survey graphs below.
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2015 Citizens’ Trooper Academy Starts In March

THP 3The Tennessee Highway Patrol is accepting applications for the 2015 Citizens’ Trooper Academy in March.
The academy consists of about 30 hours of training. It’s designed to develop a better understanding of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, as well as its parent agency, the Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
Topics covered include investigations, special operations, homeland security and many other areas of the patrol.
Participants must be at least 21 years old, available to attend weekly three-hour sessions with no more than one absence and have no criminal history.
The Nashville session is scheduled to begin March 10, and the Knoxville class will start March 12. Both sessions will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time weekly.
To apply, visit: www.tn.gov/safety.

Consumer Group Asks McDonald’s To Hold The Antibiotics

PHOTO: In the wake of a new campaign from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, McDonald's is being urged to stop using meat that's been raised with antibiotics. Photo credit: Elliot/Flickr

PHOTO: In the wake of a new campaign from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, McDonald’s is being urged to stop using meat that’s been raised with antibiotics. Photo credit: Elliot/Flickr

A new campaign has been launched urging the largest restaurant chain in the nation to stop purchasing meat that’s been raised with antibiotics. Pamela Clough, campaign coordinator with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics initiative, says there’s a growing public health threat with what she calls the overuse of antibiotics in meat agriculture. They’re asking McDonald’s to take food made with antibiotics off the menu. “They are one of the largest purchasers of beef, pork and chicken in the U.S.,” says Clough. “This commitment from McDonald’s would really help tackle the growing public health crisis of antibiotics resistance.” In 2003, McDonald’s did adopt a policy on purchasing meat raised without antibiotics, but Clough says while it was a step in the right direction, the “Golden Arches” didn’t go far enough. “It only applied to some suppliers and didn’t require the suppliers to only purchase meat raised without antibiotics,” she says. “It had to do with antibiotics used for growth promotion versus disease prevention. So in the end it’s not enough. We need stronger action.” McDonald’s says it recognizes the importance of combating antibiotic resistance, and an update to its policy on antibiotic use in food animals is due out this year. According to the CDC, each year some two million Americans become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. At least 23,000 of those infected die as a direct result of their infections.

New Area Code Coming To Portions Of Middle Tennessee

telephoneThere’s no denying the current 615 area code is quickly running out of numbers, so the Tennessee Regulatory Authority has announced a new area code in portions of middle Tennessee.
The TRA had been gauging public opinion on how best to handle the area code problem, and it decided to go with the overlay option by popular demand.
Cell phones and online numbers have ramped up the use of phone numbers.
Skype allows each user to reserve up to 10 phone numbers, while Google has purchased thousands of 615 numbers for its Google Voice customers.
On top of that, pre-paid phones use tens of thousands 615 area code numbers.
That means the new 629 area code will cover the same region as 615, and everyone will have to dial all 10 digits no matter your area code.
The good news is people who currently have 615 phone numbers will get to keep them, and calls that are local now will still be local when the new rules go into effect.
That is expected to happen this spring.

Insure Program Would Cover 280,000 Tennesseans

Gov. Bill Haslam

Gov. Bill Haslam

Projections for enrollment in Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s proposal to cover low-income Tennesseans have been revised upward to 280,000 people in the first year.
Haslam’s chief of staff, Mark Cate, said Wednesday that new number reflects an actual study and comparisons with Medicaid programs in other states. The original estimates for the Insure Tennessee plan had pegged the expected enrollment at 200,000 or below.
Cate says while the enrollment projections have gone up, the estimated cost per enrollee has gone down enough to keep cost expectations at their original level.
Cate and other Haslam administration officials presented details and answered questions about the plan to state lawmakers in advance of next week’s special session to decide its fate.
Haslam wraps up a statewide tour to promote the plan on Thursday.

Coffee County Middle School Raiders Drop North Franklin on Tuesday Night

CCMS basketball player Andrew Mahaffey brings the ball up the floor

CCMS basketball player Andrew Mahaffey brings the ball up the floor

CCMS Red Raider Weston Hargrove prepares to shoot a free throw against North Franklin.

CCMS Red Raider Weston Hargrove prepares to shoot a free throw

Entering the 4th quarter of their quarterfinal CTC conference tournament game trailing by 5 points, the Red Raiders of Coffee County Middle School doubled their 3rd quarter offensive output to get a thrilling 31 to 29 comeback win over North Franklin on Tuesday night.  Facing elimination, 8th graders Andrew Mahaffey and Weston Hargrove combined for eleven 4th quarter points to extend the Red Raider season to Friday’s semifinals.  Mahaffey, who scored seven 4th quarter points, finished the night with 18 points.  Hargrove, who finished with 8 points, had 4 points in the 4th quarter comeback.  With the win, Coffee Middle advances to Friday’s semifinals as they take on White County.  That game will tip off at 5:00 PM at the Coffee County Middle School gym.