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Manchester Police Department is seeking any information in regards to the location of Kayla Chu (16) and Brooke Brindle (17). Both girls are residents of Hendersonville, but were last seen at a residence on Pea Ridge Road in Coffee County last week. The girls are in a 2007, white, Mercedes Benz C320. GPS showed them to be in the Manchester area and GPS information also showed them to be in the Nashville area at one point around Cane Ridge Park and later near the Alabama line. Police departments in those areas have been notified. The girls have texted parents saying they “were sorry”, but that is the only contact from them in the last 24 hours. Both girls are considered runaways at this time.

Manchester Police and Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Investigators are working together on this case. Chief Investigator Billy Butler (MPD) and Inv. Billy Marcrom (CCSD) are working to locate these missing girls. If you have any information of the location they are at or have been seen at, please contact either officer. MPD – (931)-728-2099, CCSD Inv. Marcrom (931)-581-2422.

A Kentucky woman was arrested last Thursday on a charge of bigamy.
43 year old Joan Adele Harmon of Elkton, Kentucky was indicted by the July term of the Coffee County Grand Jury on the charge.
The indictment alleges that she claimed to be married to an individual other than her husband.
After her arrest, she was booked into the Coffee County Jail but later posted a $10,000 bond and was released. She will appear in Coffee County Circuit Court to be arraigned on the charge.
The case against Harmon was investigated by Manchester Officer Bryan Eldridge.

An emergency call came out at 4:30pm Friday afternoon for a fire in the North Coffee area.
It was reported that a barn was on fire and several animals were inside. A couple of North Coffee volunteer firefighters and neighbors helped retrieve the livestock from the barn. All the animals were saved.
The barn became fully engulfed as North Coffee firefighters worked hard for a period of time to contain the heavy smoke and flames. The barn was full of hay and was a total loss.

A group of Tullahoma High School students enrolled in welding classes made bicycle racks for three local elementary schools.
The Tullahoma News reports the schools needed the bicycle racks and they would have cost $400 each to purchase.
The Tullahoma High School Career and Technical Education welding classes were able to make all three racks for just $125 in materials. And the welding students got to hone their skills on a useful project.
Teacher Jeremy Amacher said the racks took a while to build as students worked at their own pace and finished them in steps. The students were excited to see the finished products come together. They delivered the racks to the schools just before the winter break.

Harton Regional Medical Center recently opened its new 14-bed Critical Care Unit (CCU).
The 14-bed all private rooms unit is on the third floor of the patient tower replacing the hospital’s eight-bed intensive care unit (ICU) that opened in the late 1960s.
For those using the facility, you’ll find larger waiting room and a new family consultation room.
The expansion also includes a central nursing station, nursing workstations outside of each patient room, new equipment in each of those rooms, and a new cardiac monitoring system for the unit.

Burning a cleaner fire in that woodstove or fireplace during the winter months is helpful to the health of residents across the state – and also to the state’s climate, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A good way to burn the hottest and most efficient fire is to use only dry, seasoned wood, said Alison Davis, senior adviser in the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. “The reason that this is important is that dry wood burns more completely,” she said, “and that benefits you in two ways: One, you get more energy out of the firewood because it burns more of the actual wood itself, and the other is the fire then produces less smoke.” It’s also suggested that to maintain proper airflow and efficiency, people should regularly remove the ashes from wood-burning stoves or fireplaces. Wood smoke produces fine particle pollution, Davis said, which can be harmful to human health. “When you breathe in air that has fine particles in it, it can penetrate deep into the lungs where it can harm the heart, the blood vessels and the lungs,” she said. “Fine particles are linked to heart attacks, strokes.” In addition, there’s also the danger of smoke filled with toxins or harmful chemicals if certain materials end up in the fire. The EPA advises never burning such items as plastics, foam and other garbage, or wood that’s been coated, painted or pressure-treated. More information is online at epa.gov.

The USDA inspection numbers for The Celebration Walking Horse show in Shelbyville, indicate that 52 percent of swab tests were positive.
A total of 125 swab samples were taken, with 65 showing positive for foreign substances, USDA data shows. Not every horse is inspected.
For blood tests, five of 103 horses tested positive, according to USDA data.
For the 2014 show, The Celebration implemented a Veterinary Advisory Committee to oversee what it called independent testing. The VAC inspections had nothing to do with the USDA inspections.
During the show, 131 horses were radiographed and the VAC found no improper shoeing or pressure shoeing, according to the VAC website. During the show, 407 horses had blood drawn, and of those 230 were sent to a laboratory for testing. Thirty-six horses were found in violation of the prohibited substances.(Story from Shelbyville Times-Gazette)

There have been numerous sightings of the Ice Queen & Snow Princess of Arendale in Coffee County over the past month. From Christmas Parties to Parades & more, the Ice Queen & Snow Princess have delighted many local children in Tennessee. The fun continues tomorrow when the Ice Queen & Snow Princess return to Manchester for an event that will not only excite the children in attendance, but will also help local children in need by raising money for the Coffee County Children’s Advocacy Center. Saturday’s event will be held at the Manchester Coffee County Conference Center and is known as The Arendale Winter Ball Breakfast with the Ice Queen & Snow Princess. We hope you have your tickets and we at Thunder Radio will see you there.