For Love of Dogs
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Early voting Al Smith led now underway Woodbury to wins See story on Page 15 See Page 4 Home of RALPH COE 128th YEAR - NO. 42 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014 TWO SECTIONS - 50¢ PER COPY He’s got sawdust For love in blood Robinson hails of dogs from long line of loggers Couple saves MIKE WEST Courier Editor Allen Robinson went castaway canines to college to be an envi- ronmentalist but he had sawdust in his blood. KEN BECK from their friends, and their Now he is the latest Cannon Courier dogs, which are continually member of the Robinson KEN BECK photo Upon entering the liv- coming and going, receive family to own and operate Husband and wife Neil Vogeler and Miranda Caff ey-Vogeler operate Short Mountain ing room of Miranda professional att ention from a sawmill. His operation, Dog Rescue from their DeKalb County home. They hold Miranda’s 12-year-old pet Caff ey-Vogeler and Neil Vo- Dr. Gayle Tate of the Can- Laidback Custom Lum- beagle, Jack. geler, a visitor is liable to be non County Animal Clinic. ber, 11630 Jim Cummings sniff ed or licked to death. “He’s our vet. He re- Highway, joined the Can- The husband and wife ally helps us out a lot,” non County Chamber duo provide a haven to sev- said Neil. “We love him of Commerce last week. en dogs, while that number and take all our dogs to “I started, offi cially (in sometimes gets as high as him,” Miranda echoed. the sawmill business) 12, at their Short Mountain Responds veterinarian in 1992 when I fi nished Dog Rescue, a nonprof- Tate when asked about the high school. I was going it they began in 2008. To couple’s passion of caring for to ITT in the morning date they have placed 120 unwanted dogs, “The num- and working at the saw- neglected or abandoned ber of stray dogs is a huge mill in the aft ernoon,” canines in good homes. problem in Cannon County, Robinson said. But, “I “This started when we and there is no public an- actually started working lived on Short Mountain. We swer to the problem what- for Uncle John Robin- are avid walkers and hikers. soever. They provide the son making pallets for We would walk around and best they can for what dogs him when I was 9 or so.” see cars pull up on the side they deal with. What they When he graduated of the road. When the cars provide is a great service. from college, Robinson left , these dogs would be “They’re probably over- initially worked for an left , dropped on the side whelmed because they environmental engineer- of the road,” said Miran- can’t keep up with the ing concern in Nash- da, a Murfreesboro native. number. They can’t ser- ville. Eventually, the “You’d have a car pull vice every dog in Cannon smell and the noise of over and suddenly four County, but they sure try the lumber business … dogs are there. At fi rst we on their scale. It’s a great along with his family’s were like, ‘We should do hardship they put them- roots … lured him back. something,’” Neil recalled. selves through,” Tate said. “I can’t think of anything “We’re gonna do it.” Mi- Miranda, 37, a graduate of I would rather be do- randa exclaimed as she Oakland High School, holds ing,” Robinson confi ded. shared that their mission an outdoor recreation de- “My great-grandfa- “is to rescue, provide sanc- gree from Middle Tennes- ther used to log, I’m not tuary and ultimately to re- see State University. Neil, sure how many genera- home abandoned, abused 34, earned an engineering tions logging goes back and neglected dogs. We degree at the University of in my family,” he said. started taking them in. Most Illinois and designs sheet Robinson bought his KEN BECK photo From the front porch of their home, plunked in a rocky and wooded hollow near Dow- of them are females, and metal dies at Cosma Die sawmill in 1995 near elltown, Neil Vogeler and Miranda Caff ey-Vogeler enjoy a sunny aft ernoon with their most of them had puppies. Technology in Smithville. canine kiddos and cat. That’s what we learned.” Miranda has worked in the See SAWMILL on Page 11 The pair gets a lot of help See DOGS on Page 10 Adams Library seems ideal for new director TONY STINNETT she and her husband had Courier Sports Editor talked about relocating to Summer Reading Program Tina Norris wanted to get away from the cold win- get away from the brutal ters of the northern state. winters of Minnesota and “We did 14 Minneso- gets geared up at library Adams Memorial Library ta winters and this last TONY STINNETT increase in participants needed a new director. one was brutal,” said Courier Sports Editor and reading each summer. It proved to be the perfect Norris, who is original- Reading is just as im- This is something adults situation for Norris, who ly from Fresno, Calif. portant in the summer and children can do to- interviewed for the open- “We had been looking to as it is during the school gether and it keeps young ing and was named direc- relocate. We visited South year so Patt i Chappell is people active in reading tor of Adams Memorial Li- Carolina and Georgia in the hoping Cannon Coun- throughout the summer.” brary, where she began her fall. Tennessee was also on tians once again take ad- Sign-ups for the fi ft h new employment in March. our short list of places to vantage of the Summer Adams Memorial Library “When we came to Wood- relocate. I was doing a litt le Reading Program at Ad- Summer Reading Program bury to visit the library my job searching. I saw the job ams Memorial Library. will begin May 1. Anyone TONY STINNETT photo husband (Greg) said he in Woodbury and decid- More than 200 children, interested in participating Tina Norris was seeking an escape from the cold winters could see the wheels spin- ed to apply and see what teen-agers and adults par- may sign up at either Ad- of Minnesota when she spott ed a job opening at Adams ning and my eyes light up,” happens. My husband and ticipated in the program ams Memorial Library or Memorial Library in Woodbury. Tina and her husband Norris said. “I just fell in I came here and we fell last summer and more its Auburntown branch. fell in love with Tennessee. love with the library when in love with Tennessee.” than 3,500 books were The reading begins May 1, I walked in. It’s beautiful. Norris will complete her read in a seven-week span. as far as keeping up with There is so much poten- Masters of Library Science Norris said. “I really want their child’s fi rst teacher “I have just been amazed the total of books read. tial here and the staff is Degree, May 8, and she al- to promote literacy for the so I want to work with lit- at the success of the Sum- Participants who read wonderful. We are go- ready has an array of ideas entire community. I want eracy in that age group, mer Reading Program,” throughout the month ing to do great things.” she plans to implement at to work with parents and but I also want to pro- said Chappell, an assis- are eligible for prizes Norris, who spent 14 years Adams Memorial Library. help them understand mote literacy for all ages. tant at Adams Memorial and giveaways at each in Montrose, Minn., said “I have so many ideas,” them understand they are See LIBRARY on Page 10 Library. “We have had an See SUMMER on Page 10 Events galore in The Cannon Blast! On Page 7 PAGE 2 CANNON COURIER APRIL 30, 2014 CANNON OBITUARIES Sue Taylor Marlene Rose Deangeles Jimmy Ray Green Connie Sue Taylor, 73, of Woodbury, passed away Mrs. Marlene Rose Deangeles, 67, of Bradyville passed Graveside services for Jimmy Ray Green, 61, of Sunday, April 20, 2014 at Vanderbilt Hospital. away April 18, 2014. She was a native of Chicago, Illinois Woodbury were conducted by Smith Funeral Home at She was preceded in death by her mother, Nora Hollis; but called Bradyville home for about the last 20 years. She Cherry Cemetery on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 11 a.m. mother-in-law, Bessie Bush; father-in-law, Benton Taylor; was preceded in death by her parents, James Joseph Greg Mitchell officiated. sons, Steve E. Taylor and Bobby Schaal; son-in-law, Joe Eroncig and Katherine Betty Eroncig. Mr. Green passed away Wednesday, Brown; brother-in-law, Eddie Taylor; sister-in-law, Mary She is survived by her husband, April 23, 2014 at his home. He was McBride and several brothers and sisters. Selvio Deangeles of Bradyville; son, born August 16, 1952 in Cannon Sue was a member of Living Springs Church and was Eric and Carrie Dierberger and his two County, Tennessee, the son of the late retired from Colonial Corp. as a seamstress. children, Zachary and Reagan Oscar Cecil Green and Thelma Ruth She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Ralph Taylor Dierberger of Chicago, IL; daughter, Messick Green. He was also preceded of Woodbury; daughters, Penny Brown, Mary Ann Schaal Ryan and Jason Robinson and their in death by his brothers, Junior Green, and Denise (Donnie) Vickers, all of Woodbury; daughter, Riley Robinson of Tullahoma; Billy Green, Marvin Green and Don grandchildren, Daniel (Danielle Goynes) Vickers, Brandy brothers, James and Barbara Eroncig of Green.