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11/16/18 — James “Rabbit” Maupin
Mr. James “Rabbit” Maupin 77, of Tullahoma passed Saturday, November 10, 2018 at his residence. He is the son of the late Buford Maupins and Helen Rice Maupins.
He leaves to cherish his memories: his wife, Emma Jean Maupin of Tullahoma, TN; Son, Troy Ray of Nashville, TN; Grandson, Delano Ray. Host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Visitation Friday, November 16th, 2018 at 11:00 at Shorter Chapel AME Church with Funeral Services to follow at 12:00 Noon at Shorter Chapel AME Church with Pastor Chris Grizzard Officiating and Pastor Coleman March, Jr , Eulogist.
Interment Evergreen Cemetery.
J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements
5,000 High Paying Jobs coming to Tennessee
Gov. Bill Haslam’s office says Amazon’s plans for a Tennessee operations hub is expected to create 5,000 jobs, that represent “the single largest jobs commitment made by a company in Tennessee’s history.”
A Haslam news release Tuesday says Amazon will invest $230 million-plus to locate its Operations Center of Excellence in Nashville Yards, a 15-acre, mixed-use downtown development. Holly Sullivan of Amazon Public Policy says Nashville will become the eastern U.S. hub for its retail operations division.
Amazon’s new 1 million square-foot Nashville office space will host tech and management functions.
Amazon says it will receive up to $102 million in performance-based incentives based on the creation of 5,000 jobs with an average wage exceeding $150,000 in Nashville.
The state says Amazon currently has six Tennessee facilities employing more than 6,500 people.
Fuel Prices Dropping
Fuel prices are plunging. Tennessee motorists have seen gas prices decline 19 cents in the past 31 days. Sunday’s state average of $2.50 is 5 cents less than a week ago, and the lowest since April 12th. Despite the recent discount, we are still paying 16 cents per gallon more than this time last year.
AAA spokesman Mark Jenkins said the price of producing gasoline has dramatically declined during the past month, thanks to concerns of lower global demand and strong fuel supply production. Jenkins said unless oil prices change course, we could easily see pump prices shed another 10 to 20 cents before 2019 and slip below year-ago levels by Thanksgiving.
The national average has declined 20 cents during the past month. Sunday’s national average price was $2.70 per gallon.
The low price for a gallon of gas this week in Manchester was $2.29 as of Tuesday afternoon and $2.45 in Tullahoma.
Motlow State Crisis Assessment and Risk Evaluation Team Wins National Award
Pictured above are Motlow CARE Team members, from left, Dr. Phyllis Adams, professor of communications; and far right, Kirsten Moss-Frye, dean of students. With Moss-Frye and Adams is Dr. Chip Reese, NaBITA president, and assistant vice president for student affairs, and dean of students, at Columbia State University.
The award, presented during the opening of the 2018 NaBITA Conference in San Antonio, reflects the efforts of the Motlow CARE Team in developing a workshop that results in better assisting students to find and utilize support services to promote and improve their well-being.
The Motlow CARE Team designed the workshop as a foundation to assist the campus community in finding the resources needed to help students.
The Motlow CARE Team initially reviewed the reporting system, and as cases began to come in, created a flow chart to reflect practical processes. Each case gave the team more awareness of the communication processes needed to assist students in finding and utilizing support services.
Body Found in Smithville has been Identified
Law enforcement officers with TBI, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department and the 13th District Attorney General’s office were seeking the public’s help in working to identify a woman whose body was found Monday morning in a yard in nearby Smithville.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has now identified the woman.
Police identified the body as 28-year-old Jessica Renee Stephens of Cannon County.
TBI agents were called to the scene Monday after Stephens’ body was found in a yard in Smithville.
Detectives said a cause of death will be determined after an autopsy and toxicology reports are completed.
Christmas Parade is Nov. 24 in Manchester
It is that time of year again to start thinking about how you are going to decorate your float or vehicle for the City of Manchester’s Christmas Parade. The theme this year is “The Joy of Giving”. The parade will be held on Saturday, November 24, 2018.
To go along with the theme of “The Joy of Giving.” The Manchester Rec Center has partnered with the local Good Samaritan to have a city-wide food drive. They are encouraging parade participants to start their own food drives, in order to donate the items, the night of the Christmas parade. The Manchester Rec Center will have drop off locations setup along the parade route to accept donations. For more information about the food drive, please contact Amanda Morton at 931-728-0273 or amorton@cityofmanchestertn.com
Parade lineup starts at 5:00 pm. For more info call A.J. Fox at 931-728-0273 or e-mail at ajfox@cityofmanchestertn.com. The downtown Christmas Tree lighting will take place at 7:30pm.
Coffee County Middle School Basketball Captures Hard Fought Split at Warren County
Alivia Reel of CCMS basketball(file photo)
The Coffee County Middle School basketball teams traveled to McMinnville on Monday night for a conference doubleheader with Warren County. The Lady Raiders held off a late Warren County rally to win 34 to 32 in overtime. Against an aggressive defensive pressure, the Red Raiders fell 38 to 27.
Leading by 6 entering the 4th quarter, Coffee County was held to 1 field goal and went 4 for 14 from the free throw line in the final frame to be pushed to overtime. In overtime, the Lady Raiders were 3 for 4 from the free throw line to get the win. Alivia Reel had 2 free throws in overtime and led Coffee County in scoring with 12 points. Nikki Graham added 7 points and Olivia Vinson finished with 6 points.
Hayden Garr of CCMS basketball[file photo]
Coffee County is back in action on Thursday when they welcome South Franklin to the CCMS Gym. Thunder Radio will be on hand to bring you the broadcast as Lucky Knott will have the play by play as part of the 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series. The girls’ game will tip off at 6 PM, Thunder Radio’s live coverage begins with the pregame show at 5:50.
Westwood Drops Doubleheader to Community on Monday
Leonor Moreno of Westwood basketball
The Westwood Rockets hosted Community on Monday night at the Joel Vinson Gym. In a pair of games you heard here on Thunder Radio, Westwood dropped both games to the more experienced Community squad. The Lady Rockets fell 44 to 11 while the Rockets lost 37 to 16.
In the girls’ game, Community closed out the first half on a 7 to 0 run to take a lead they would not relinquish. Westwood was held to 2 points in the 2nd half. The Lady Rockets were led in scoring by Leonora Moreno who had 4 points to be named the Crazy Daisies player of the game. Anna Johnson added 3 points while Rylee Clark and Maddie Sullivan each scored 2 points.
Brayden Dixon of Westwood basketball
The Rockets got off to a strong start too, but Community dominated the 2nd and most of the 3rd period. Brayden Dixon led the Rockets in scoring with 6 points as he was named the Crazy Daisies player of the game. Izick Sierra added 5 points and Caiden Warren and Konor Heaton each finished with 2 points for Westwood.
Westwood will travel to Eagleville on Thursday night to take on the Eagles. Tip off for the girls game will be at 6 PM.
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Preds Earn Point, Fall to Ducks in Shootout
A goal from Kevin Fiala and a behind-the-back save from Pekka Rinne helped the Nashville Predators force overtime, but the Anaheim Ducks prevailed, 2-1, in a shootout on Monday night at Honda Center.
With a point earned in the standings, Nashville’s point streak on the road reached the nine-game mark. Seeing its franchise-record and near-NHL-best road winning mark come to an end, however, wasn’t easy to accept.
“We had a lot more to give,” Preds defenseman Ryan Ellis said. “[Anaheim] played well. Give them credit, they were moving their feet, they were making plays, but I thought we weren’t the best version of ourselves tonight. It comes down to a shootout, and it wasn’t our way this time.”
Similar to their rally in the third period on Saturday afternoon, the visitors hit another gear in the final frame to even the score. Roughly three minutes into the third, Fiala aimed a feed from Kyle Turris toward the Ducks’ net with one fluid motion to tie the game, 1-1. The quick release was Fiala’s second goal of the season, his first at even strength and his first in nearly a month (last on Oct. 19 vs. Calgary).
Defense was the storyline of the night by a longshot, as Rinne and John Gibson surrendered one goal apiece through 65 minutes and combined for 63 saves.
Rinne’s best – coming in the final moments of the game with the score knotted – will likely stand as one of his finest saves from the entire season. Brandon Montour’s point shot deflected at least once before it seemed destined to beat Rinne over the shoulder for a goal that would have delivered the Ducks a dramatic win.
The Preds’ goaltender did something next that’s still difficult to describe: reaching back to twist and hit the puck with the back of his blocker, a flailing effort that ultimately earned Nashville a point.
The first 39-plus minutes of the contest were scoreless, but with 30 seconds to play in the middle period, Ducks Captain Ryan Getzlaf directed a shot past Rinne to give Anaheim a 1-0 advantage.
Fiala then answered in the third to force extra time. Nashville was unable to score on a 4-on-3 power play and scored once in their first shootout of the season thanks to Turris, but Rickard Rakell netted the decisive marker in the breakaway competition.
Nashville finished 0-for-7 with the man advantage, including an opportunity in overtime that saw Gibson make save after save.
“The first half of the game, we tried to switch the units, and it’s really tough to do without practice time,” Predators Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “I’d take that one on me. It was trying something different here and we switched back in the end. I thought we started to get some looks in overtime. We could have won the game a bunch of times on the power play, and it just didn’t go for us… It’s got to be better, but there were an awful lot of looks.”
The point earned by the Preds on Monday was a little consolation, but they won’t have much time to dwell on the loss with a meeting in San Jose looming in less than 24 hours.
“We’re finding ways to get points, but we want two every game,” Ellis said. “We’ve been fortunate in getting points and timely goals, but we have a difficult back-to-back, and hopefully we’re a better version tomorrow.”
Notes:
Nashville’s 10 shots in the overtime session set a regular-season franchise record.
Prior to Monday’s game, the Predators placed forward Viktor Arvidsson on Injured Reserve with an upper-body injury.
Forward Calle Jarnkrok missed his second consecutive game due to a lower-body injury. Defenseman Matt Irwin re-entered the lineup with Jarnkrok out, while blueliner Anthony Bitetto spent time on the fourth line as a forward for part of the contest.
The Predators will head to northern California to face the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday (at 9:30 p.m. CT) before finishing their five-game road trip on Thursday in Arizona.
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11/12/18 — Birthdays
No birthdays to report
Anniversaries:
Kenneth & Janice, 50