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Everyone invited to Friday Halloween bash
The inaugural Halloween Bash in Manchester is set for Friday night at the old Southern Family Markets building at 2050 Hillsboro Blvd. in Manchester.
The event will be from 6-9 p.m. on Friday.
Everyone is welcome to the free event – trunk-or-treating, a “not so haunted” house, food trucks and more fun. There will be first, second and third place prizes for best decorated trunk and a prize for best costume.
Thunder Radio will be on hand to provide music. Everyone is welcome and the event is free to the public.
Open enrollment for Health Insurance begins Nov. 1
Open Enrollment for health insurance coverage in 2021 begins on Sunday, November 1, 2020!
That means now’s the time to comparison shop and gather more details about plans and coverage for next year.
What should you do? Carefully review plans when shopping on the exchange during Open Enrollment. Review a policy to ensure it provides the coverage for services you are seeking. While it may be tempting to enroll in a plan with the lowest premium, consumers should take into account other potential costs such as co-pays and deductibles.
Open Enrollment ends December 15, 2020. Questions? Contact the TDCI team at 1-800-342-4029 or 615-741-2218.
Last week of daylight savings time
Enjoy the sunlight as much as you can this week.
Daylight savings time will end next weekend, as clocks will “fall back” at 2 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 1
This means a little more sun in the morning, but dark will be setting in around 5-5:30 p.m. in the afternoon.
For those who dread the early darkness, daylight savings time begins again on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Raiders fall to top ranked Oakland in storm-shortened region game
Coffee County’s defense held up well against the state’s top-ranked team Friday, but Oakland finally found some running room and storms cut the game short as the Raiders fell 22-3 at Oakland High School.
CHS Red Raider Ian Weldon split the uprights on a 29-yard field goal with 8:07 to play in the first half for the Raiders’ only points.
Weldon’s kick cut the Oakland lead to 7-3 and helped the Raiders recover after Oakland took a quick 7-0 lead just 45 seconds into the game. The Raider field goal was set up by a Matthew Pittman interception near mid field.
But Oakland proved too powerful offensively, scoring 7 plays after the Raider field goal on a 35-yard gallop from Patriot running back Antonio Patterson. Oakland scored again with just 28 seconds to play in the half and added a two point conversion.
The Raiders were set to return the second-half kickoff, but storms rolled into the area and officials agreed to stop the game with the score as it was.
Oakland improves to 9-0 on the season with the win, the Raiders drop to 4-5 and will host Riverdale next Friday – Oct. 30 It will be senior night. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. and you can listen to the game live on Thunder Radio, beginning with the Friday Night Thunder pregame show at 6 p.m.
Body of McMinnville man who died at Pearl Harbor during Japanese attack returned home, to be buried Saturday
Warren Harding Crim, age 20 of McMinnville, Tennessee, died on Sunday, December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Warren was born Thursday, October 13, 1921 in Daylight, Tennessee. The son of the late Vernon Crim and the late Maude Maie Stubblefield Crim.
Crim was a Navy Fireman 3rd Class who enlisted July 10, 1940. He was assigned to the USS Oklahoma in 1941. Crim had been in the Navy a little over a year when on the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese Aircrafts attacked Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Numerous torpedo strikes capsized the USS Oklahoma. Crim was one of over 400 men who drowned when the ship sank.
Crim was posthumously award a Purple Heart, World War II Victory Medal and American Defense Service Medal.
Crim had one sister Mona Alta Crim Moore. He was married to Hildred Smith.
Warren is survived by his niece Jane Penn, two great nephew Jeff Penn and Bradley Warren Crim, a niece Tammera Lynn Popowski, and many cousins.
The research leading up to being able to use DNA to identify Warren’s body was lead by his 2nd oldest cousin Patricia Crim of Morrison,TN. Jeff Penn was able to help with the DNA used to match with Warrens.
Graveside service for Warren Harding Crim will be on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 1 PM in the Gardens of Memory Cemetery. Military rights will be perform by the U.S. Navy, Deputy Commissioner Tilman Goins and County Executive Jimmy Haley will be officiating. Interment will be in Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Smartt, TN.
The funeral procession will leave Gardens of Memory Funeral Home at 415 N. Chancery St. McMinnville at 12:30 PM on Saturday, October 24, 2020 and will head North to the red light at Applebee’s and will turn left onto the bypass heading to the Cemetery at 5210 Manchester Hwy. Smartt, TN.
Online condolences may be made to the family at gardensofmemoryfuneralhome.com
GAMEDAY: Raiders travel to top-ranked Oakland, broadcast on Thunder Radio
Coffee County Central High School’s Red Raider football team will travel to take on the state’s top-ranked Oakland Patriots in Murfreesboro at 7 p.m. Friday.
There will be no tickets sold at the gate. Per standard rules for the season, temperatures will be checked at the gate and masks are required. If you wish to purchase tickets, you will need to do so through Ticket Spice. You can get the exact link you need by clicking here.
If you can’t make the game, you can listen live on your home for all Red Raider and Lady Raider athletics – Thunder Radio. The Friday Night Thunder Pregame show begins at 6 p.m., with kickoff to follow and the Friday Night Thunder Postgame Show (delivered by Riddle Trucking) to follow.
Listen live at 107.9 FM, 1320 AM, 106.7 FM and stream live with the Manchester Go app and thunder1320.com.
Rockets sweep Cascade Thursday night
In a pair of games you heard on Thunder Radio Thursday night as part of The Hometown Sports Series, presented by Mid Tenn Turf, The Westwood basketball teams each picked up wins over visiting Cascade.
The Westwood Lady Rockets got 13 points from Keina Seivers and 11 from Audri Patton to pick up a 33-26 win over the visiting Cascade Lady Champions Thursday night.
Westwood had a 15-10 halftime lead before pulling away in the second half.
To listen to the replay of the Lady Rockets game, click here.
The Rocket boys got an offensive explosion, racking up 58 points on their way to a 58-44 win.
The contributions came from everywhere for Westwood – as the Rockets got points from 12 different players.
Caiden Warren led the way with 12 points, followed by Cayden Trail with 11. Jaiden Warren added eight, Lane Fann six, Jayden Carter six and Blake Hillis four. Brayden Trail, Matthew White, Blake Cummings, Dylen Trail and Skylar Stinson all notched a pair of points, while Matt Moore added a point.
Braves have 3 Gold Glove Finalists
Three different Atlanta Braves have been nominated for Gold Glove awards.
Pitcher Max Fried, shortstop Dansby Swanson and outfielder Ronald Acuna, Jr., have all been nominated for the league’s most prestigious defensive award.
The Braves season ended with a game 7 loss to the Dodgers in the NLCS. Thunder Radio is your home for the Atlanta Braves.
Manchester taking applications to fill vacant alderman seat
With the recent appointment of Marilyn Howard to Mayor of Manchester, the city is now needing to fill the alderman seat that was vacated by Howard.
Howard, who was elected alderman in 2018, was appointed Manchester Mayor Monday, Oct. 19 by a unanimous vote of the city board to take over for Lonnie Norman, who passed away Oct. 12. Howard will serve as mayor until the next regular city election, which is August of 2022.
The alderman seat vacated by Howard also expires in August of 2022, meaning whoever is appointed to this seat will serve until that date.
The seat will be filled by a majority vote of remaining members of the board of Mayor and Aldermen.
To be eligible for consideration for the open alderman seat, this person must be a registered voter of the city of Manchester, be a citizen of the State of Tennessee and a resident of the City of Manchester for one year and must be 18 years old. No person shall be eligible who has been convicted of malfeasance in office, bribery or other corrupt practice or crime.
Anyone meeting these requirements who would like to be considered should fill out an Alderman Appointment form. The deadline for a returned form is Friday, Oct. 30. You can pick up forms at the Manchester city hall at 200 W. Fort St. in Manchester. The form is also below:
Winchester Police Officer arrested in Manchester, fired
A police officer who worked for the Winchester Police Department has lost his job after an arrest that happened in Manchester.
According to the Herald Chronicle, officer Tristan Delacruz was fired after he was arrested on Tuesday and charged with domestic assault. He made $2,000 bond and will appear in court Monday.
