BUILDING PERMITS / FORECLOSURES / PUBLIC NOTICES KAY’S COOKING CORNER GCAR ANNUAL ECONOMIC LUNCHEON P4 P10 P11 Volume 103 | No. 29 Single Copy 50¢ CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE July 15-21, 2016 EVENTS Chattanooga Local artist honors slain military Remembers Memorial Service servicemen with mural On July 16, 2015, Chattanooga lost five heroes: Lance Cpl. Squire “Skip” Wells, Sgt. Carson Holmquist, Gunnery Sgt. omas Sullivan, Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith. From 9:45 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 16, 2016 at the River Front, Mayor Andy Berke and the City of Chat- tanooga will present a memorial service in honor of these men. e event will include a Manning the Rail ceremony (a method of rendering honor using naval vessels), the Pre- “I want people to see the faces of the sentation of the Colors, a performance of “e Star fallen servicemen, not the face of the Spangled Banner,” and the shooter, when they think about what happened.” reading of a proclamation Artist Kevin Bate honoring Chattanooga’s Fallen Five. At 11:00 a.m. Photo by David Laprad (the approximate time of Artist Kevin Bate has completed a mural honoring the five servicemen killed July 16, 2015 in a mass shooting in Chattanooga. The tribute is located on McCallie the first report of gunfire Avenue, on the Tennessee Wholesale Florist building. on July 16, 2015 at the Navy Operations Support By David Laprad ‘Welcome home, daddy,’” Bate children. “Twenty or 30 years on Frazier” is his, too. Center) the USS CHAT- says.” ey thought he’d be safe from now, if this building is rough these and other TANOOGA bell will ring A 110-feet long, 22-feet at home, but he wasn’t. I have a still standing, the children will works, Bate became known for five times as planes from high strip of cinderblock that son about Wyatt’s age, so that be able to come here with their his large-scale portraits. But the U.S. Navy pass over- runs along McCallie Avenue hit me hard.” kids and say, ‘is is where I there was a time when he never head. is now a memorial to the five e artist has given each of helped to paint a mural of your wanted to paint another face NoogaStrong blood drive servicemen killed July 16, 2015 the four U.S. Marines and one grandfather,’” Bate says. again. He blames this phase on in a mass shooting in Chat- sailor his own portrait on the Also, Morse code is visible art school. In honor of the five tanooga. On the wall, which wall. Each man is depicted in at the bottom of the portrait “When I was in art school, U.S. servicemen who lost is part of the building that his military dress along with his of Wells, but Bate is tight- we had to do faces all the their lives in Chattanooga houses Tennessee Wholesale name, a Purple Heart, and the lipped about what it says, and time. I’d stare at myself in my on July 16, 2015, Blood As- Florist, muralist Kevin Bate has American flag. about the location of the other bathroom mirror and sketch surance is hosting a blood painted the faces of Gunnery Bate wanted to individualize secrets. “I encourage anyone my face, over and over. So I drive through Saturday, Sgt. omas Sullivan, Staff the portraits, so not only does who’s interested to come here stopped doing them,” he says. July 16 at donor centers Sgt. David Wyatt, Sgt. Carson the name and the flag look dif- and figure it out. I don’t want “But when I got back into across the region. To be Holmquist, Lance Cpl. Squire ferent in each one, but the Pur- to tell people where to find painting a few years ago, I tried eligible to donate blood, K. Wells, and Logistics Special- ple Hearts are also unique, and things,” he says. doing them again, and I got donors must be at least ist 2nd Class Randall Smith, represent something personal Some of Bate’s previous hooked. 17 years old, weigh at 110 killed at the Navy Operation- about each man. For example, forays into faces can be seen “Now when I’m out, people pounds or more, and be in al Support Center by a lone the portrait of Smith contains throughout downtown Chat- will catch me starting at them, gunman. See EVENTS, page 9 three tiny Purple Hearts – one tanooga. His portrait of Martin trying to figure out the details Bate, a Chattanooga resi- for each of his daughters. Luther King, Jr., is located on on their faces, like why one eye dent, was moved to paint the Bate also brushed other M.L. King Boulevard, near the is higher than the other. Or I’ll INSIDE portraits when he saw a photo distinctive features and even building in which the local meet people who are related to of Holmquist’s wife, Jasmine, hard-to-find secrets onto the chapter of the NAACP is lo- each other, and I’ll notice they n FINANCIAL FOCUS P3 and son, Wyatt, holding a sign wall. For example, Wyatt’s shirt cated; his portrayals of Robert have the same chin.” welcoming Holmquist back n I SWEAR P18 is covered with green hand- Johnson and Bessie Smith grace Bate had a different plan for from deployment. “One sign prints. ese are the actual the old Whole Note building the wall on which Chattanoo- said ‘We’ve waited 244 days for handprints of Wyatt’s wife and on the same street; and “Faces this moment,’ and another said, See MURAL, page 2 2 | July 15-21, 2016 Hamilton County Herald www.hamiltoncountyherald.com Judiciary remembers Justice Robert E. Cooper, Sr. “e entire judicial family law degree; his daughters Susan is saddened by the passing of Hodges, Bobbie Martin, and former Tennessee Supreme Kelly Smith; his son, Robert E. Court Justice and Chief Justice Cooper, Jr., who is an attorney Robert E. Cooper, Sr., and with Bass Berry & Sims and extends condolences to his served as the Tennessee Attor- family, friends, and all who had ney General from 2006 to 2014; the pleasure of working closely and six grandchildren and with him,” Chief Justice Sharon three great-grandchildren. Lee said this week about the e family will receive passing of Justice Cooper. “Jus- friends from 4-8 p.m. on Fri- tice Cooper was highly respect- day, July 15 at Chattanooga ed by members of the judiciary Funeral Home, located at 404 and legal community. He South Moore Road. Services diligently served this great state will be held Saturday, July 16 Submitted photograph for nearly 40 years as a public The members of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1984 (L-R): William J. Harbison, William H.D. Fones, Robert E. Cooper, Sr., at 11 a.m. at Second Presbyte- servant. A Chattanooga native, Ray L. Brock, and Frank F. Drowota, III. rian Church of Chattanooga, Justice Cooper left a proud and located at 700 Pine Street, with lasting legacy [that includes] important changes, including the Tennessee Code Commis- assistant attorney general from visitation in the church begin- his strong intellect, his tireless the adoption of a more uni- sion and was a member of the 1951 to 1953. He practiced law ning at 10 a.m. Burial will be at work, and his commitment to form Code of Judicial Con- Tennessee Judicial Standards in Chattanooga from 1949 until Chattanooga National Ceme- his state, his community, his duct, creation of the Board of Committee. 1951. Justice Cooper graduated tery at a later date. Memorial church, and the judiciary.” Professional Responsibility, and Before serving on the Su- with his B.A. from the Univer- contributions may be made to Justice Cooper served as adoption of rules of evidence preme Court, Justice Cooper sity of North Carolina in 1946 Shriners Hospital for Children, a Justice on the Tennessee and rules of criminal and served as a judge on the Ten- and his J.D. from Vanderbilt Second Presbyterian Church, Supreme Court from 1974 to appellate procedure. During nessee Court of Appeals from University in 1949. and Hospice of Chattanooga. 1990. He served two terms Justice Cooper’s time on the 1960 to 1974, as a Circuit Court Justice Cooper is survived Source: Tennessee Supreme Court as Chief Justice. During his bench, he served as chair of the Judge in Hamilton County by his wife, Catherine Kelly tenure, the court made many Tennessee Judicial Council and from 1953 to 1960, and as an Cooper, who also earned her MURAL From page 1 ga’s Fallen Five now reside, but he changed direction during the aftermath of the shooting. en, with the blessing of Ten- nessee Wholesale Florist owner Doug Williams, he began a nearly year-long journey to completion. Photographs by David Laprad “I didn’t expect it to take as The portraits show (L-R) Sgt. Carson Holmquist, Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Randall Smith, Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan, Lance Cpl. Squire K. Wells and Staff Sgt. long as it did,” he says. “I knew David Wyatt. I could paint in the winter, but I didn’t anticipate the amount the most inventive of the five Hixson gave Bate the tools he Avenue. A WTCI documentary ested in accolades; he merely of rain we had. at stretched portrayals, with the image of needed to do the job. about the making of the mural wants to help preserve the it out.” Wells overlaid with a transpar- While the mural of the five will be shown first, then, once memory of the five men who Bate didn’t contact the fami- ent U.S.