MONDAY 162nd YEAR • No. 175 NOVEMBER 21, 2016 CLEVELAND, TN 16 PAGES • 50¢ Whirlpool ‘Holiday Cards for Heroes’ thanks military, veterans, responders By ALLEN MINCEY Customer eXperience Center spent Banner Staff Writer time in the lunchroom either signing “We take such pride in cards, coloring cards or even creating The Thanksgiving and Christmas being able to make a cards to distributed to servicemen and holidays can be joyous for many, but contribution to the men and servicewomen in the United States and also very sad for those whose loved women that sacrifice so much abroad, but also to many in the local ones may be overseas serving in the for us.” — Shannon Russo area. United States armed forces. For local Whirlpool Customer eXperience first responders, it can also be a time Service has set a goal this year of put- they have to provide services to the we are so honored to do something for ting together 3,500 cards, and were community, and do not get to spend our service members and our veterans halfway to that goal on Thursday. Many time celebrating the holidays as others who keep us safe, and we are proud will be delivered to local nursing do. that we can show our love and support homes, hospitals, the Bradley County To help spread cheer, Whirlpool during the holiday season,” said Sheriff’s Office and Cleveland Police Customer eXperience Center in Shannon Russo, one of the coordina- Department, other local first respon- Cleveland puts together thousands of tors of the program. “We take such ders and veterans’ facilities in the local greeting cards for these men and pride in being able to make a contribu- area. women. tion to the men and women that sacri- “Many of our heroes are serving in Banner photo, ALLEN MINCEY “We have partnered with the fice so much for us.” SIGNING CHRISTMAS CARDS as part of Whirlpool Customer eXperience American Red Cross since 2013, and Last week, employees at Whirlpool See WHIRLPOOL, Page 4 Center’s Holiday Cards for Heroes were Kimberly Jones, left, and Bertha Goldston. BULLETIN Utility’s Hunting accident WRITING FROM THE HEART takes local man’s revenue life in Sequatchie PTS student By ALLEN MINCEY rises in Banner Staff Writer gives voice A Bradley County man died over the weekend from what to others via two of 3 authorities are calling a hunt- ing accident in Sequatchie County. journalism Sequatchie County Sheriff divisions Ronnie Hitchcock said that his By SARA SNODDY MTSU/Seigenthaler News Service See ACCIDENT, Page 6 Water use is up, The boy is the only black student in his third-grade Inside Today class. His family is one of the electricity down few black families in White Plains, New York. By RICK NORTON At the conservative Valhalla Associate Editor School, Kashif Graham feels KASHIF GRAHAM, a Growing water demand contin- largely sheltered — but not Pentecostal Theological ues to build revenue within the exempt — from most of the Seminary student, Water and Wastewater divisions at name-calling and insults many spends some time out- Cleveland Utilities, but income try to shove his way. A male numbers are student, white, suddenly doors using one of his valued typewriters. slightly down in begins shouting “White power!” the Electric in the halls one day at school. Photo courtesy, SARA SNODDY Division; at He isn’t used to hearing such least, for the blatant, hateful rhetoric, so he month of stays quiet, saying less than And he would. He would September. his outspoken younger sister. write short stories, poems, The financial Because he knows there will SIXTH IN A essays and songs. He fell in report was be no consequences for this love with cars, curiously issued by CU kind of racism. enough. Antiques and older Vice President 7-PART machines, particularly type- “The thing a lot of people and CFO Stinnett don’t realize about Northern writers, captivated his atten- M a r s h a l l racism is that it’s very sys- MONDAY tion. If it were something old, Stinnett during a recent gathering Davis honored temic,” muses the now 24- even to the point of being of the Cleveland Board of Public year-old. He’s a man now, and unusable, he’d choose it over Polk County High School hon- Utilities. in a navy blue denim shirt and SERIES Sara Snoddy something shiny and new any ored former Wildkitten coach Ron Stinnett’s next update is sched- khakis, he’s the epitome of day. Davis by naming the school’s uled Dec. 1 when the board recon- clean-cut. He’s free from that That’s not to say his collec- basketball court after him. Davis venes for a formal monthly ses- life and dedicated to his new tion of typewriters is mistreat- and longtime Polk coach Frankie uncomfortable. and buried in his books, then sion. path in Cleveland. But talking ed. Lowery were also inducted into Esther and Kingsley Graham he, too, would make it through According to the CFO’s latest about his days in New York In fact, these machines of the school’s hall of fame. Lee found themselves as Jamaican anything. numbers, CU’s Electric Division uncovers wounds that reach to the pre-computer era that University swept a hoops twin bill. immigrants making their own Although he was born and paid out 82.5 percent of its retail his soul. Kashif has either bought or Cleveland State got split results way around New York, one of raised in New York, Kashif will sales to TVA for purchased power Then, he was just Kashif been gifted are restored and while on a road trip. See Sports, the toughest states in the always identify as a Jamaican. in September. This is slightly high- Graham, junior and senior displayed in and around his Pages 11-13. country to live in. As the middle brother of two er than the September percentages class president. Always his full But America was the land of sisters, growing up in that office in Lee University’s of 2015 which were recorded at name. Always his accomplish- opportunity. Through the smog environment perhaps took Squires Library. There, he is a 81.5 percent. Forecast ment following. The only piece of the city and the illusory Kashif down a different path public services assistant and Year to date, which represents of information the fathers and calm of suburbia, the hard- than he might have otherwise the evening and weekend the first three months of the new Today’s forecast is for sunny mothers of his rich white and working couple soon found traveled. As it were, exploring supervisor. fiscal year (July-August- skies, with a high near 55. Tonight rich black classmates knew. their way to each other and the culture and nature of Kashif writes his poetry on September), CU has paid out 80.8 should be mostly clear, with a low Few took the time to notice raised three children in the White Plains and playing these typewriters now, but he percent, compared to budgeted around 29. Tuesday should be him beyond his respectable comfort of an area not too house with his siblings would can recall a time when he forecasts of 80.9 percent. sunny, with a high near 61. image, the young man from unlike Cleveland. become invaluable experiences couldn’t feel the glazed texture For the month, electric sales of the dime-sized keys. When Tuesday night calls for partly the well-spoken and polite Their values would always that helped shape his future revenue hit $9,167,450, but this Jamaican family. carry them through adversity. as an aspiring writer. he couldn’t feel his fingers amount was offset by purchased cloudy skies and a low around 38. If subtle racism bleeds onto If you were kind and courteous “That play at a very young punching them down again Wednesday calls for mostly cloudy power costs of $7,567,619. This the page of his life, he still and spoke properly with digni- age really formed my ability to and again, and the feel of the left an operating margin of skies and a 40 percent chance of can’t be sure if it was the color ty and purpose you could tell stories and to create,” he metal carriage jerking to the $1,599,831, which fell short of showers, with a high near 62. of his skin or his being differ- make it through anything. said. “Imagining and creating budgeted forecasts of $1,785,021. Wednesday night calls for clouds ent that made people feel If Kashif kept his head down worlds.” See WRITING, Page 4 and a 50 percent chance of rain, See REVENUE, Page 4 with a low around 48. Index Classified......................................15 Hugh Walker’s life: Coaching and business Comics...........................................8 Editorials......................................14 By LARRY C. BOWERS Knox County’s Inskip Elementary School. Horoscope......................................8 Banner Staff Writer “We won the Knox County (elementary MINI Page......................................5 PERSONALITY school) championship, the last game by As high school and college football one point,” Walker remembers. Obituaries.......................................2 wind down each year, for many people Sports......................................11-13 Knoxville Central High School, located thoughts turn to basketball. near Fountain City, was a huge benefac- TV Schedule..................................9 This is true for one retired Bradley PROFILE tor of the Inskip program. “All 10 of our Weather........................................10 Countian, whose thoughts go back to Inskip players went to Central,” Walker elementary school just outside of said. Around Town Knoxville, through high school at Walker had an outstanding high Knoxville Central, college at Tennessee then at Cleveland State Community school career, but it didn’t last quite as Linda Gambill and family excit- Wesleyan, over 19 years of coaching, and College.