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A5 SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2019 | COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 117TH YEAR | NO. 119 $1.50 Cookeville event to mark D-Day anniversary BY JIM HERRIN 15 years ago when my grandfa- since he got it in 1945, so I just HERALD-CITIZEN ther was still alive,” he said. “I thought it would be fun and a had heard him talk about his way to honor him by putting all The wartime experience of a experiences during the war, and that together in a presentation,” former Cookeville and Colum- then I started going through his John said. bia, Tennessee resident will be collection of photographs and The hour-long presentation is highlighted in a special program memorabilia that he had brought also illustrated with photographs this week recognizing the 75th back with him.” from Wesley’s collection. anniversary of the D-Day inva- Wearing his grandfather’s Wesley Notgrass was born in sion of Normandy. uniform, John steps into char- 1915 and grew up in Columbia, John Notgrass will be present- acter to share Wesley’s life story Tennessee. He joined the United ing a show Thursday, June 6, in a fi rst-person narrative, from States Army in 1941 and served at 7 p.m. at Peachtree Learning growing up in the 1920s and ‘30s for four years in the United Center, 402 N. Walnut Ave., based through his experiences during States and Europe during World Gen. Courtney Hodges, left, pins the Bronze on his grandfather Wesley’s rec- the war. War II before returning to Co- Star on Sgt. Wesley Notgrass in Euskirchen, ollections. “His uniform had hung in a Germany in 1945. “I started working on it about closet for almost all of the time SEE D-DAY, PAGE A2 Cookeville grad heads to Ivy League BY JIM HERRIN HERALD-CITIZEN As Jonathan Socoy stepped to the podium to deliver an address at the Cookeville High School graduation ceremony, he pulled out a speech that had been years in the making. “I had it prepared since before high school,” said the CHS Saluta- torian. “The summer before high LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS | HERALD-CITIZEN school, I was reading a Calculus Matt Matheson skates inside one of the bowls at the new skate park in Cookeville Thursday. The book, and I was introduced to the off icial opening is set for June 20. concept of an integral.” That concept, he said, came to mind as he began to write his City’s fi rst skate park to open June 20 SocoyS speech. “An integral can take the area of a complex curve, using Riemann sums BY LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS fi nishing touches. The fencing park June 20. or small rectangles, infi nite rectangles,” he HERALD-CITIZEN was part of it. We’re doing some “It’s the ‘Apple’ of skate parks,” said. “I love that concept and thought ‘we can tweaks on the restroom facility. longtime skater Matt Matheson really apply this to our lives,’ so I knew what I The long-anticipated skate park The paving is just now being com- said Thursday morning while he wanted to say at that graduation speech.” in Cookeville is still undergoing pleted. Those are the fi nal touches and fellow skater O’Ryan Parker Socoy’s journey to that podium was, per- a few fi nishing touches before it to get everything ready to go. We were trying out the new park. “It’s haps, more diffi cult than most. offi cially later this month. still have things like trash cans not just a skate park. It’s a really “I came from Guatemala City,” he said. “My “It has been done since prob- that will need to be installed, the awesome skate park.” mother is originally from Guatemala. She met ably the 23rd or 22nd of April,” parking lot striped and signs to The 10,000-square-foot park my father in Mexico, and they decided to come Cookeville Leisure Services put up. We’re very, very close.” uses the hole from the old Park to the United States to seek a better lifestyle Director Rick Woods said. “We’re Invitations are being prepared trying to get all the sod laid, doing to hold a grand opening for the SEE SKATE, PAGE A2 SEE SOCOY, PAGE A2 THE SYSTEM: Foster care just part of Children’s Services job BY PAIGE STANAGE This is the second Then there’s overseeing HERALD-CITIZEN foster care. of a three-part In the Upper Cumberland, The Upper Cumberland Foster 706 foster children were in Department of Children’s series about the state custody on May 22, Services has many respon- Tennessee foster Richards said. sibilities to its community “We get our information and about 700 foster kids in care system. on potential child abuse or Cannon, Clay, Cumberland, Children Today we explore neglect through the Nashville DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, hotline. The hotline screens Macon, Overton, the ins and outs the calls, and dispatches Pickett, Putnam, A three-part series them to the respective offi ce Smith, Van Bu- of the Department and we make a response,” ren, Warren and looking at the state of Children’s said Richards. White Counties. The three priorities to Cheri Rich- of the foster-care Services. The responses are based on the ards is the system. third installment severity of the case. regional admin- “Priority one is drop and Richards istrator who will feature go and up to 24 hours (to get oversees its the child). Priority two is 48 operations. TODAY an Upper hours, and priority three is “We do everything from Cumberland three days,” she said. child protective services to The System Many factors of the situ- investigations and assess- foster family. ation are considered before ments,” Richards said. “We picking up a child. also have a non custodial in- with the family. Like the par- just monitor them for a little prevention, which focuses on “We look at the history of home service, which is where ents may be working through bit longer.” truancy and runaway issues the family and gauge where the children are not in state alcohol and drug treatment The department also has with the children and par- custody, but we still work and relapse prevention, so we family crisis intervention and ents, Richards said. SEE FOSTER, PAGE A2 herald-citizen.com INDEX 5 sections | 38 pages OBITUARIES Page A7 DEAR ABBY B2 COMICS E1 OPINION A4 Euneta Kirby, Goodlettsville Wilma Scott, Cookeville CALENDAR A6 CROSSWORD E4 SPORTS D1 Pamela Newman, Whitleyville Keith Wilmoth, Cookeville CLASSIFIED C1 MORE! B1 SUDOKU E5 Ima Clouse, Baxter William Turk, Cookeville A2 HERALD-CITIZEN FROM PAGE 1 SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2019 herald-citizen.com 0LOTTERY0 D-DAY: World War II event set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Peachtree Learning Center Friday FROM PAGE A1 tion about the sacrifi ces of the up, but it didn’t really sink in said. “Younger people may re- Cash 3 World War II generation. until I was in my late teens member words like Pearl Har- Evening5-0-0, Lucky lumbia to work for the news- “My goal is to help people or early 20s,” he said. “That’s bor or D-Day, but what I want Sum: 5 Midday 3-4-2, Lucky paper. He moved to Cookeville understand and appreciate when I personally developed to do is help people today, who Sum: 9 in 1999 and passed away in what it was like for citizen-sol- more of an interest in the don’t have a clear connection Morning 3-4-4, Lucky 2007. diers who had their lives in- study of that time period to that time period, under- Sum: 11 Wesley’s son, Ray, lives terrupted and went off to war and learning more about my stand what it was like and ap- Cash 4 in Gainesboro today, while to do their duty,” he said. grandfather’s experiences.” preciate the sacrifi ces of both Evening 9-3-0-5, Lucky his grandson is based in St. John said he was not always He said the stories of World people in the military and on Sum: 17 Louis, Missouri. John said the appreciative of his grandfa- War II may be fading for the home front.” Midday 7-9-4-3, Lucky presentation is an attempt to ther’s service. some. For more information, visit Sum: 23 educate the current genera- “I knew about it growing “It’s defi nitely fading,” he www.johnnotgrass.com. Morning 3-4-4-2, Lucky Sum: 13 Mega Millions 07-08-26-65-67, Mega SOCOY: Ball: 4, Megaplier: 3 Boy overcomes, language barrier, gets full scholarship to Columbia Est. jackpot: $444 million Tennessee Cash FROM PAGE A1 me to improve.” 02-04-14-17-31, Bonus: 2 Despite being something of Est. jackpot: $675,000 for us.” a prodigy, Socoy wasn’t sure Upon arriving in Cookeville about his longterm prospects. in 2005, they spoke no English. “I didn’t think about going to 0READER SERVICES0 “School, for me, was pretty college at fi rst because I didn’t Address: diffi cult because I knew noth- think I could, but I got intro- 1300 Neal St. ing,” he said. “But I was able to duced to this program called Cookeville, TN 38501 learn everything pretty quick- QuestBridge,” he said. “It’s a ly. I was able to speak English program that assists low-in- Mailing Address: fairly well at a young age.” come, fi rst-generation students P.O. Box 2729 While racism wasn’t an to be able to attend college.” Cookeville TN 38502 issue early on, it began to crop With a lot of work and some up in his later years.

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