W E D N E S D A Y 161st YEAR • NO. 107 SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 26 PAGES • 50¢ TVA to award $3.75 million to Impact Cleveland By JOYANNA LOVE hard in making today’s announcement According to a United Way of Bradley measures.” unprecedented revitalization in the Banner Senior Staff Writer possible,” said Cleveland Utilities County press release, “TVA’s Extreme In order to apply for the funding, a Blythe-Oldfield community and the sur- President and CEO Ken Webb. “It is Energy Makeovers project focuses on public utility had to sponsor the effort. rounding neighborhoods, and is a sus- Cleveland Utilities and United Way of truly a win-win for all of the participat- homes that are at least 20 years old and TVA made the opportunity available to tainable model for serving our commu- Bradley County’s Impact Cleveland ini- ing parties and residents who will bene- located in lower-income communities, all 155 customer utilities. Cleveland nity. We now have the ability to trans- tiative will receive $3.75 million from the fit from these energy-saving measures. making Impact Cleveland’s target neigh- Utilities approached Impact Cleveland form a home’s energy efficiency to lower Tennessee Valley Authority. Cleveland Utilities is honored to be a borhood a perfect fit. The project goal is about partnering to apply for the fund- the expense to an affordable level,” said The award comes as a part of TVA’s participant and partner in this process, to achieve a 25 percent reduction in ing. Other partners including Cleveland Dustin Tommey, executive director of Smart Communities Extreme Energy and looks forward to the day the project each home’s electric energy use through Housing Authority, CLEAResult, the city Impact Cleveland. Makeovers project. is completed and some 300 households cost-effective, whole-home retrofits. of Cleveland, Habitat for Humanity and Many of the homes in the Blythe- “This is great news for our communi- are seeing their heating and cooling Each home will go through a building The Home Depot have also joined the Oldfield community were built sometime ty, and I commend and congratulate all costs reduced as a result of more ener- diagnostic and analysis to identify the effort. of the individuals who worked long and gy-efficient homes.” most cost-effective energy reduction “This project will be a catalyst for See TVA, Page 6 Inside Today EPB says Internet now life’s necessity Rotarians hear COO David Wade By BRIAN GRAVES Banner Staff Writer It was less than a century ago when electricity appeared to be only a fad within the Tennessee Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS Valley, and not THE CHANGEOVER of two Cleveland BI-LO supermarkets to Food City stores will not take place for three weeks, but there is taken very seri- Volley for the win already a name change in place. The Food City tractor-trailer, above, was parked conveniently in front of the BI-LO store in Ocoee ously. The Walker Valley Lady Crossing Tuesday. Current managers and associates at both stores will be retained by the new parent company. Today, that fad Mustangs earned a district volley- is deemed a ball win against the Bradley necessity of life, Central Bearettes. In soccer, the and has become Lady Mustangs picked up a win the base of what over the Cleveland Lady Raiders, is now a public Taking stock of Food City utility system. Wade while the Bearettes cruised to vic- tory over Ooltewah. Two surprise Access to names top the Tennessee broadband Internet service is the Volunteers’ depth chart for “fad” of today and appears on the Saturday’s opener. See Sports, Cleveland BI-LO locations gearing up cusp of becoming the newest pub- Pages 11-13. lic utility. David Wade, chief operating offi- for a brief closure, then re-emerging cer of EPB, addressed that subject Inspecting public to a packed room Tuesday as he records at a cost? By LARRY C. BOWERS Officials with the new parent company Cleveland, said he has been through these spoke to the Rotary Club of Banner Staff Writer said they plan to retain BI-LO personnel. transfers of ownership several times in his Cleveland. The Office of Open Records Food City is already making changes, 42-year career. Wade said part of his job is Counsel is conducting public Cleveland and Bradley County grocery additions and renovations at Chattanooga “I believe our customers will be pleased “watching trends and seeing where hearings in Knoxville, Nashville shoppers have about three weeks before area stores, planning to switch those with the changeover,” said Cochran. the future is.” and Jackson in September to ask the changeover of two local BI-LO stores to shopping venues over prior to the switch “There’ll be some difference in brands, and He told of how the computer on the question: Should the Food City. in Cleveland. Signage has already been pricing, but I believe they’ll be pleased.” the first moon lander had a speed Tennessee Public Records Act Food City, which purchased 29 BI-LO changed at some of the stores, as it will be Food City will also take over Southeast measuring 4 bits per second. permit the government to charge supermarkets in July (including 21 phar- in Cleveland the third week of the month. Tennessee stores in Dayton, Etowah and “The calculator many students citizens to inspect public records? macies), is making changes at almost all of Cleveland’s two BI-LO stores are located Harrison, and has purchased eight BI-LO where using only a few years later the stores in Southeast Tennessee and See what one person has to say at 2550 Ocoee Crossing off Keith Street, stores in North Georgia — Rossville (two), in classrooms was 100 times faster in a guest “Viewpoint” published North Georgia. Food City officials are and at 2310 McGrady Drive near the Blairsville, Chatsworth, Dalton, Fort than the one on that lander,” Wade on Page 14 of today’s edition. promising a different shopping experience. South Walmart. Oglethorpe, LaFayette and Trenton. said. The two Cleveland BI-LO stores will be Mitch Cochran and Eric Hozouri, man- Steven C. Smith, Food City president Devices today such as laptops closed on Sunday, Sept. 20. The stores will agers of the stores for BI-LO, will be and CEO, announced the recent acquisi- and smartphones are now making Forecast be closed Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 21- retained by the new parent company, as tions. those first computers antiquated. 22, and reopen as Food City supermarkets will all associates. “In 2008, the number of Internet on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Cochran, the manager in South See FOOD CITY, Page 6 See EPB, Page 6 CHS Raider Arena completion Ben Brewer is extradited Today’s outlook is for partly delayed by 1 week due to rain sunny skies, with a high near 89 of updates on the Raider Arena completion date of the $11 mil- to Tennessee degrees. Tonight looks to be mostly By LARRY C. BOWERS Banner Staff Writer project. lion project back by about a By ALLEN MINCEY cloudy, with a low around 69. Architect Brian Templeton of week. Banner Staff Writer Thursday’s forecast calls for mostly The Cleveland Board of Upland Design Group said one The anticipated completion sunny and hot conditions, with a Education continues to wrestle high point in the gymnasium’s date had been Feb. 26, 2016, but Benjamin Brewer, the truck high near 92. Thursday night with problems at track facilities construction is that 80 percent of is now March 2. driver who has been charged in the should be partly cloudy, with a low at Cleveland High School and the roofing is in place. Another positive, according to six-fatality crash on Interstate 75 in June, has been extradited to around 68 and a north wind of Cleveland Middle School, and Also, 80 percent of the elevated Templeton, is that with the roof- was informed of a small delay in concrete slabs are in place, and ing nearly complete, the con- Tennessee. about 5 mph. He presently is incarcerated in construction of the new Raider electrical work inside the new struction is now beyond addi- Sunset: 8:06 p.m. Hamilton County after being Arena during Tuesday evening’s facility is progressing as well as tional weather concerns. Sunrise: 7:15 a.m. meeting at Stuart Elementary other interior work. returned Tuesday evening by local School board members did authorities. School. The downside of Templeton’s approve the addition of a rubber- Index The school board was delight- report is that continued storms CLEVELAND HIGH Principal Brewer has been charged with ized glazing over interior win- Autumn O’Bryan introduces her several counts of vehicular homi- ed to welcome 27 new teachers to through July and August delayed dows in the new gymnasium at a Classified................................15-18 the school system’s family. The the scheduled pouring of con- school’s nine new teachers to the Comics.........................................24 board also received a mixed bag crete and pushed the anticipated See CHS, Page 6 school board. See BREWER, Page 6 Editorials......................................14 Horoscope....................................24 Lifestyles.................................19-21 Obituaries.......................................2 OUD eyes Stocks............................................4 BCSO team approach Sports......................................11-13 TV Schedule................................25 backflow Weather..........................................9 credited for successes guidelines By BRIAN GRAVES Around Town Banner Staff Writer SECOND Wyleen Jones enjoying attend- The Eric Watson era at the Bradley ing Cleveland High soccer by TDEC County Sheriff’s Office had barely begun OF 2 PARTS games ... Deborah Harbin con- By JOYANNA LOVE when the agency announced it had gratulating Rebekah and Andrew Banner Senior Staff Writer solved one of the biggest theft/burglary Watson said.