REGION TITLE WIN! Lady Cavs advance. B1 Herald-CitizenFRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018 | COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 116TH YEAR | NO. 247 50 CENTS Council approves bid for skate park construction BY LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS services director, told coun- $800,000 Local Parks and Seattle, Washington, de- think it will attract people HERALD-CITIZEN cil members that the total Recreation Fund grant from signed the park with input from other parts of the estimate for the project is the state for the project, from residents following state.” Cookeville’s fi rst skate now $848,000 including the which requires a 50-percent public meetings last year. The 10,000-square-foot park took a signifi cant step design and engineering fees. match from the city. Council members ex- park that will make use of forward Thursday night. That’s $48,000 more than HFR Design of Nashville pressed their excitement for the hole for the old Park The city council approved what the city had budgeted provided architectural plans the skate park, which has View Pool with an eight-foot- a bid from FTM Contracting for the project. But Woods and engineering designs and been a goal for several years. deep section. of Cookeville for $698,000 to said that additional money services for the project, bid “It’s slowly come along Construction is expected to construct the park at the old will be taken from the city’s documents and construction with all sorts of input from begin as soon as possible and Park View Pool. quality of life fund. administration. the community,” Council- be complete by May of next Rick Woods, city leisure The city received an Grindline Skateparks of man Chuck Womack said. “I year. DARK DAY Assassination of state Sen. Tommy Burks still fresh in mind of reporter who covered it 20 years ago BY MARY JO DENTON outside of Monterey, but they FOR THE HERALD-CITIZEN wanted somebody there fast, and the other offi cers had Sometimes now, twenty to come all the way from years later, random details Cookeville,” he told me. of the story fade or blend to- “When I got there, Char- gether, escaping my memory. lotte was cradling Tommy in But the starkest images of her arms. He was dead.” the day State Senator Tom- In the newsroom earlier my Burks was murdered that morning, it had seemed remain etched there. to be just another Monday. We didn’t know it that fi rst We had no idea that a mur- day, but it was a political as- der was about to occur and sassination by his opponent that the bizarre story of it in an upcoming election. It would occupy us for the next was the biggest story I would several years. cover in my 38 years as a Reporters were writing newspaper reporter. various routine stories I can still see the mental that morning, expecting a “photos” formed in my mind smooth fi nish by the 11:30 from the words of my sourc- a.m. deadline. I wrote two es as I frantically worked stories, one about a chemical that fi rst morning to get the spill on the highway and one story before deadline for the about a hit-and-run fatality Herald-Citizen, an afternoon on a city street. I had no oth- paper. er stories planned for that “Is it Tommy?” I asked day’s paper, but stayed at TY KERNEA | HERALD-CITIZEN FILE Sheriff Jerry Abston by my desk working the phone, This photo from barely a month before his death shows Sen. Tommy Burks handing phone late that morning as looking for stories for the one of the pigs from his farm to Marcia Bowman. he worked at the scene of the next day. murder on the Burks farm When I phoned for Sheriff near Monterey and I worked Jerry Abston, the jail dis- in the Herald-Citizen news- patcher told me the sheriff room. was not in, that he had gone “Yes,” he said. to Monterey to investigate a “Is he dead?” shooting at the Burks farm. “Yes.” That’s all he would tell me, I can still hear the voice so I hung up and began later that day of Monterey phoning everybody I knew in Police Chief Bruce Breed- law enforcement, hoping to love, who had been the fi rst fi nd out enough to get a story HERALD-CITIZEN FILE offi cer to arrive on the scene into that day’s paper. Sen. Burks speaks HERALD-CITIZEN FILE that morning. I didn’t yet know who had during an Education Most emergency services personnel in Putnam County “After the 911 call came in, been shot, but I knew that Committee hearing responded to the call to search for the gun used in the they radioed me to get out in Nashville in 1991. assassination of Sen. Burks. to the Burks farm. That’s SEE BURKS, PAGE A2 Several roads closed for Ulta running of the Haunted Half Open Ulta Beauty is BY PAIGE STANAGE the runners,” said Cookeville off icially open in HERALD-CITIZEN Police Lt. Darrin Stout. the Shoppes at The marathon is a 13-mile Eagle Point. The Traffi c at various intersec- loop. store is holding tions in Cookeville may be It starts at Tennessee their soft opening congested Saturday during Tech and goes south toward until their grand the Haunted Half Marathon. downtown Cookeville. Then opening on Oct. The marathon is scheduled runners will make their way 26. The store will 7 to 10:30 a.m. on Dry Valley Road, Shag Rag be open Monday- “There won’t be any road Road, and back onto North Saturday from 10 closures, but we will have offi - Washington Avenue. a.m.-9 p.m. and cers at the intersections help- The race will fi nish on Sunday from 11 ing to direct traffi c around Tech’s campus. BEN WHEELER | HERALD-CITIZEN a.m.-6 p.m. herald-citizen.com INDEX 2 sections | 20 pages OBITUARIES Page A7 DEAR ABBY A8 COMICS B7 OPINION A4 Gladys Whitaker, Cookeville Dwayne Myers, Cookeville CALENDAR A6 CROSSWORD B6 SPORTS B1 David Allen, Cookeville Charlie Robbins, Cookeville CLASSIFIED B3 LIVING A8 SUDOKU B6 Martha Maynard, Cookeville Carmel Maxwell, Baxter A2 HERALD-CITIZEN FROM PAGE 1 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018 herald-citizen.com 0LOTTERY0 Thursday 10th Street shopping center vote delayed Cash 3 Evening 9-8-7, Lucky Sum: 24 BY BEN WHEELER Cash 3 Midday HERALD-CITIZEN 9-5-0, Lucky Sum: 14 The proposed shopping Cash 3 Morning center on 10th Street and Old 6-6-7, Lucky Sum: 19 Kentucky Road is on hold for another month. Cash 4 Evening The planning commission 4-1-6-5, Lucky Sum: 16 has postponed its consider- ation of rezoning the property Cash 4 Midday to November. 4-3-8-8, Lucky Sum: 23 The planning commission Cash 4 Morning was asked by the developer to 0-9-2-8, Lucky Sum: 19 delay the item until the Nov. 26 meeting because the traffi c Cash4Life study for the project is not yet 07-08-16-20-44, Cash complete. However, the com- Ball: 3 mission will consider amend- ing the Cookeville 2030 plan when it meets Monday. 0READER SERVICES0 “Any rezoning proposal that BEN WHEELER | HERALD-CITIZEN Address: signifi cantly deviates from The corner of 10th Street and Old Kentucky Road is the topic of a possible rezoning for a 1300 Neal St. the plan cannot be approved,” proposed shopping center in Cookeville. Cookeville, TN 38501 James Mills, Cookeville plan- ning director, said. “This one the property to PCD, Planned Planning Commission chair- tension of preliminary plat of Mailing Address: does deviate from the plan. Commercial Development. man James Stafne noted that a Hudgens Court. To even consider that rezon- PCD allows offi cials to desig- similar situation arose with a • Consider letter of credit for P.O. Box 2729 ing, the plan would have to be nate every detail of projects on separate property, and once the sidewalks for one year for the Cookeville TN 38502 changed fi rst.” the property. PCD zoning was enacted, the Glen Abbey Subdivision. The commission will vote to “We think PCD is the only developer pulled out. • Consider to study rezoning Phone: 931-526-9715 label the property in the plan, rezoning we’ve got that would Cookeville Planning Com- 111 Chestnut Ave from Single Fax: 931-526-1209 which will still be zoned RS-10 be appropriate for this site,” mission will meet Monday, Oct. Family and Duplex Resident (single family residential), as a Mills said. “With that, we have 22 at 5:30 p.m. (RD) to Local Commercial (CL) News new land use classifi cation — the opportunity to require Also on the agenda: • Consider to study abandon- [email protected] Commercial Planned. more than what’s typically • Consider fi nal plat of Eagle ing and declaring as surplus a Sports Commercial Planned would required in other zoning dis- Point. portion of the western right-of- [email protected] limit any future rezoning of tricts.” • Consider six-month ex- way on Polly Drive. Advertising [email protected] Living [email protected] Circulation Rent going up for some public housing residents [email protected] Business News BY JIM HERRIN been approved,” he said. “We’ve be plus or minus $800. That’s a said. [email protected] HERALD-CITIZEN given Walnut Village (residents) substantial amount of cash fl ow “After they move into a re- Church News notice.” coming into Walnut Village that modeled apartment, their rent [email protected] Some residents of Walnut Harris said HUD has ap- we need to service the debt and could go in excess of $800.” School News Village, Cookeville’s housing proved two proposed increases cash fl ow the project.” He said lower income resi- [email protected] complex for the elderly and dis- in the “market rents” for Walnut But Harris said not every dents likely won’t have to pay Classified Ads abled, may soon see an increase Village — one to be implement- Walnut Village resident will be any additional rent “out of [email protected] in their monthly rent.