Voices of Thanksgiving Cleveland Police Officer Edwin Millan Has Been Upheld in the Decision of the Independent Hear- Ing Officer, Attorney Mark Travis
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THURSDAY 161st YEAR • NO. 180 NOVEMBER 26, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 24 PAGES • 50¢ Family, low taxes, pound cake draw leaders’ thanks By JOYANNA LOVE causes them to pause and reflect on the nate,” Rowland said. Banner Senior Staff Writer good things. “I will share Thanksgiving with fami- and Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland says ly, and of course, I will be making my he is thankful for the community he popular butterscotch pound cake and BRIAN GRAVES Banner Staff Writer serves. cornbread dressing. I am thankful we “As always, I am thankful for the have a Savior whose birth we are get- Local government officials often find great community in which we live. ting ready to celebrate,” he added. themselves hearing only the negative There is a quality of life here like no Commission Chairman Louie Alford when constituents have problems or other place. I am thankful that this is a said at his age he is thankful “just to complaints. giving and praying place as many wake up every morning.” But even with that almost daily groups and individuals begin to plan for Tom Rowland Gary Davis Janice Casteel Louie Alford George Poe onslaught, the Thanksgiving season a better Christmas for those less fortu- See LEADERS, Page 8 Appeal by fired "#%%#&%%(!*+ "*#+,&++$,-')*(.#+ ,"(+#''#',"(&&-'#,1 police /#," ((+,)%+ (*,""(%#1+ Deloris Anderson Larry Bowers Jim Bryant Leslie Callaway Tiffany Goodwin Pam Green Vicky Guy Bondy Hackett " -'/"#"#+ #+ .(%-',*+-))(*, (*, (&(0+*0), officer ,(!#.'(-,,"#+1* (',#('+&1&#%,(#*+, ''++'$(0 %.%' (* *())( ,#*+,''++ denied '$, #,", Inside Today Case involves Patty Hawkins Glenda Hickman Randy Moore Sheena Meyer Kathy Payne Trish Price Joyce Taylor William Wright Edwin Millan By JOYANNA LOVE Banner Senior Staff Writer The termination of former Voices of Thanksgiving Cleveland Police officer Edwin Millan has been upheld in the decision of the independent hear- ing officer, attorney Mark Travis. Newspaper staff members offer their Travis submitted his appeal hearing decision to the city of Cleveland this week. “The undersigned Hearing own perspectives on being thankful Officer, after full, fair and impar- tial review of the record in this By ALLEN MINCEY matter, finds Banner Staff Writer that the City fol- Raiders, Mustangs lowed applica- This is a season where people ble procedures open new season express thanks for the good established by The Cleveland Blue Raiders things in their lives and try to law and that and Walker Valley Mustangs push any negative thoughts to there is material opened the wrestling season another day. Those who work and credible against Georgia’s Dalton and at the Cleveland Daily Banner evidence to sup- Northwest Whitfield High Schools are much the same. port the City's at Jones Wrestling Center at Newsroom reporters, sports e m p l o y m e n t Millan CHS. Lady Raider Sam DeBien writers, advertising and sales dismissal of has been named to the All-State people, those who put the Edwin Millan for the good of City soccer team. Lee University has paper to computer then to service, which dismissal is hereby bolstered its golf and baseball print, those who work in getting sustained and the appeal of rosters with new signees. See the newspaper delivered, and Edwin Millan is dismissed,” Sports, Pages 17-19. those who work the presses — Travis wrote. almost all have something they The appeal hearing took place Forecast are thankful of this holiday. on Oct. 12, following Millan filing “I am glad that we live in a for appeal of his termination. A Today should be mostly sunny, community that is relatively decision was delivered within the safe and secure in the midst of expected six-week timeline. with a high near 65. Tonight’s fore- the chaos going on around the cast calls for partly cloudy skies, In his letter requesting an world,” said Larry Bowers, long- appeal hearing, Millan claims his with a low around 47. Friday should time newsman and presently a termination stemmed from Police be mostly sunny, with a high near reporter at the Banner. Chief Mark Gibson discriminating 67. Friday night should be mostly William Wright, Lifestyles edi- Banner photo, HOWARD PIERCE against him because of his race, cloudy, with a low around 50. tor, said that he is thankful for THANKSGIVING’S featured attraction is the turkey, as seen here with these wild turkeys cap- and that the move was to gain tured by the camera lens of a Cleveland Daily Banner photographer. However, the holiday is far political favor. See VOICES, Page 10 more than a celebration of food; it is a time set aside for being thankful, and for expressing it. Index See APPEAL, Page 10 Classified.................................22-23 Comics..........................................12 Sunset owner, Editorials.......................................20 Horoscope....................................12 Habitat family eager state agree on NASCAR.......................................21 Obituaries.......................................2 an addendum Stocks.............................................4 for 1st Thanksgiving By LARRY C. BOWERS Sports......................................17-19 Banner Staff Writer TV Schedule.................................13 By LARRY C. BOWERS Banner Staff Writer The Tennessee Department of Weather........................................15 Commerce and Insurance has Five-year-old Zander Farris, a student at Black Fox School, has filed an addendum regarding an Around Town many things to be thankful for on this 2015 Thanksgiving Day. earlier consent order against He is thankful for his family’s new Habitat Home, he is thank- Cleveland’s Sunset Memorial Marley Flowers coloring a ful for his first-ever bedroom, his first-ever bed, and for his room Garden, owned by Georgia’s Cecil beautiful get-well picture for filled with toys. L. Lawrence. Lewis Hylton ... Maddie Tran He also plans to give thanks for his Thanksgiving meal, which The Lawrence Group has helping Mom out with the vacu- he said Tuesday he hoped would be “Macaroni and cheese with agreed to the orders of the uming ... Kambry Kennedy deco- hot dogs.” addendum, and it was signed by rating her Christmas tree and Young Zander’s parents, Emilie and Cottey Farris, will host 15 Assistant Tennessee knowing Santa Claus is just to 20 family members at their first-ever Thanksgiving Day dinner Commissioner Brian T. gonna love it ... Kevin Randolph and celebration today. McCormack, Lawrence, attorney enjoying his new ride. Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS They are one of four families to received new 2015 homes from COTTEY, EMILIE AND ZANDER Farris are enjoying their new William G. Colvin for the Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland. This brings Habitat’s con- Habitat home on this 2015 Thanksgiving Day. They will be host to Lawrence Group, and Tennessee struction total to 124 homes, as the local chapter celebrates its Assistant General Counsel 15 to 20 family members as they hold today’s holiday feast. Young Shilina B. Brown. See HABITAT, Page 10 Zander said he is thankful for his first-ever bedroom. 6489076 75112 See SUNSET, Page 8 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Thursday, November 26, 2015 www.clevelandbanner.com West Point OBITUARIES (USPS 117-700) bans cadet Periodical Postage Paid at Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 Post Office POSTMASTER: Send Address Changes to: Banner, P.O. Box 3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 pillow fight Mattie ‘Dell’ Anderson Marsha Chickering McDonald, Larry Stafford and his Published at 1505 25th Street, NW (P.O. Box 3600) wife, Amy, of Wartburg; daugh- in Cleveland, TN 37320-3600, daily except Saturday Mattie Adelle “Dell” Anderson, Marsha Chickering, 92, a resi- ters: Debbie Cooke of Knoxville and Christmas day by Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. 92, passed away Monday, Nov. dent of Cleveland, died and Amy Stafford of Cleveland; Phone (423) 472-5041. after 30 hurt 23, 2015, at Signature Health Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2015, at a grandchildren: Kellie Freytag and WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Care in Cleveland. local health care facility. her husband, Matt, Jay Cooke Stephen L. Crass Jim Bryant She moved to Tennessee in Survivors and funeral arrange- and his wife, Marissa, Davey Editor & Publisher General Manager Cadet pillow fights like the bloody 1993 from Indiana. She attended ments will be announced by one that left 30 injured this sum- Stafford and his wife, Ashliegh, Old Salem Baptist Church and Grissom-Serenity Funeral Home Jake Stafford; a very special Member of The Associated Press mer will be banned and actions loved her church family. She & Cremation Services. granddaughter, Bryliegh Stafford The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches are being pursued against many loved to crochet, enjoyed work- and Avery Stafford; great -grand- credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, and also the local news of spontaneous or igin of those involved, U.S. Military ing crossword puzzles, was a children: Jameson Cooke, Anna herein. All rights of all other material herein are as reserved. ©2014 Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. Academy officials said fabulous cook and candy maker. Mae Freytag, Cayden Stafford SUBSCRIPTION RATES Wednesday. She was preceded in death by and Sara Beth Stafford; brothers: her husband, John Anderson; Publishser Reserves the Right to Change Rates Without Notice First-year students, known as Doyle Stafford and his wife, Print Only 3 months 6 Months 1 Year Monthly Daily “plebes,” organize the annual pil- parents, John and Essie Mae Nancy, Donald Stafford and his Carrier Collect Rate * $6.75 Cherry; brother, Edward Cherry; wife, Barbara, and Rickey low fight as a way to build cama- and son-in-law, David B. Gray. By Carrier Home / Business Delivery $20.00 $38.00 $75.00 raderie after a grueling summer of Stafford and his wife, Pam, all of By Mail inside Zip 307 $25.00 $45.00 $85.00 She is survived by her daugh- Ooltewah; and several nephews. By Mail outside Zip 307 in TN, GA $38.00 $55.00$105.00 training. But the pillow fight on By Mail Outside TN $38.00 $67.00 $ 130.00 ter, Darlyn A.