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Each year Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves and his staff provides toys to over 500 children and food baskets to 250 elderly, handicapped and needy families in Coffee County at Christmas. This is a very important project and can only be accomplished with community support as we provide this service strictly through donations and charity events such as the Christmas Open House.
Coffee Co. Sheriff’s Department Christmas for Charity Open House will be held this Saturday from 9am-Noon at the Sheriff’s Department. Please come and bring a non-perishable food item or unwrapped item or unwrapped toy and enjoy some refreshments with Sheriff Steve Graves and his staff. Tours of the jail will be available to those who wish to participate.

It’s the season for family, friends and most of all – food. Are you trying to decide to make, when to start prepping, how much to serve, or how to make it a bit healthier?
Shari Steinbach, registered dietician and healthy living advisor for Meijer says,”We want to make entertaining as easy as one, two, three”. Whether you’re a first-time host who wants to serve the classics, a pro who wants to put a creative twist on a traditional dish or you want to lighten up your holiday meals but keep the flavor, Meijer is here to help.
Any ideas for changing the traditional dishes a bit? Shari says there are so many options! If you want a flavor kick in the turkey, add a nice herb rub or go with a citrus stuffing. Instead of pumpkin pie, make pumpkin pie pops, served on a stick. Our corporate chef and team of healthy living advisors have come up with great options.
Visit Meijer mealbox.com for helpful tips, tricks and recipes for holiday meals. You can even watch video how-to’s, get step-by-step recipes and entertaining guides.

It’s time for the DIG-N-DREAM GARDEN CLUB “Trees of Christmas”.

The Trees will be shown again this year at the Ada Wright Building, Fred Deadman Park, 328 Woodland Street in Manchester.

The Theme this Year: “A Creative Christmas”

December 1st through December 10th

Saturday and Sunday – 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m.

Monday-Thursday – 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Friday – 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Local KIA dealership owner Russell Barnett has announced a major expansion and renovation to the existing dealership on South Anderson Street in Tullahoma. Barnett purchased the KIA dealership in Tullahoma in 2001. Barnett says they will be adding six new service bays. In addition to the 3,000-square-foot expansion, the entire facility will be getting a facelift, according to Barnett. Earlier this month, Barnett announced plans to re-open the Ford dealership later this year at 1106 E. Carroll St. in Tullahoma under the name Russell Barnett Ford. Barnett was the original owner of the Tullahoma Ford dealership, operating it until 1996.

Franklin County authorities say they have a person of interest in the murder of Tullahoma resident Kayla Qualls. The body of the 23 year-old mother of two was found Monday on the side of Spring Creek Road in Franklin County. Investigators from Franklin and Coffee County Sheriff’s Departments along with the Tullahoma Police Department searched a home in Tullahoma and seized several pieces of evidence, but they would not say what evidence they seized.

Bomb threats evacuated 29 county courthouses across the state on Tuesday.
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt said several of the courthouses are in Middle Tennessee, including Bedford in Shelbyville, Cannon in Woodbury, Cheatham, Clay, Fentress, Giles and Franklin County in Winchester.
Franklin County Sheriff Tim Fuller stated that after a thorough search of the courthouse no explosive device was found. Tennessee is at least the fourth state this month to deal with phony bomb threats at courthouses.
The West Tennessee counties that received threats were Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Chester and Shelby. The East Tennessee counties that received threats were Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cumberland, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton and Hancock.
The federal building in Memphis that houses the federal court and other federal offices were evacuated around 9 a.m. Tuesday for a couple of hours while authorities checked it.
Heidt said the threats were made by telephone to court clerk offices.
The Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security said they were “monitoring the situation and assisting local law enforcement agencies as needed.”
No devices had been found.

A Chevy Tahoe was traveling west on McArthur St. Tuesday afternoon, when a deer ran across the road in front of the driver. The deer was struck and went over the hood and into the windshield. A 56-year-old woman passenger in the Tahoe was taken to URMC complaining of shoulder pain and possible glass
in her eyes. The driver was unhurt.
The Manchester Animal Control was called to take appropriate action with the severely hurt deer.
Manchester Police Department was in charge of the scene.

A Tullahoma man was flown to a Nashville hospital after being robbed and struck by a vehicle Saturday. Stephen Curry Keith, 34, of Oak Park Circle told Tullahoma Police Officer George Marsh that he was walking along East Lincoln Street near Polk Street when he was robbed of $50 in cash, assaulted and struck by a vehicle. Keith told the officer that he was walking along East Lincoln Street when a dark full size pickup truck pulled up beside him. The driver got out and began to “assault him” and took his wallet. The man struck Keith with the pickup after robbing him. According to the police report Keith was transported to Harton Regional Medical Center for treatment and suffered injuries to his chin and the jaw area of his face. He also had a large place on the right side of his face from what appeared to be a tire mark. Detective Tyler Hatfield is investigating the incident.

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a congressional ethics complaint against Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, accusing the Jasper physician of lying when confronted about an affair with a patient.
DesJarlais won a second term this month despite revelations that he once urged a mistress to seek an abortion. During the campaign he disputed allegations he dated patients and wrote prescriptions for them. A court transcript released the week after the election showed he admitted the incidents while testifying at his 2001 divorce trial.
The transcript also showed that DesJarlais acknowledged recording the abortion conversation with his mistress, although he denied that during the campaign.
The congressman’s office did not immediately comment.
A CREW statement demanded Congress to punish DesJarlais for what it called “numerous lies.”

Manchester City Schools Family Resource Director B.J. Fann recently came on WMSR’s Straight Talk program talking about a need for help their Angel Tree program. After an overwhelming response all 200 children have sponsors. In a phone interview yesterday (Nov. 28, 2012) Ms. Fann thanked Thunder Radio for helping get the word out with the interview and free commercials promoting the program. Fann said, “I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming compassion and love they poured out to us. She tells us that the Manchester Police Dept took 54, the Manchester Fire Dept took 12 and Al White Motors raised $1,025 for the Christmas food boxes. Other children are being sponsored by teachers, area businesses and individuals who sponsored the rest! Fann said, “It is AMAZING!!!”