• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

MONDAY 161st YEAR • NO. 111 SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 18 PAGES • 50¢ Industrial park faces infrastructure needs Spring Branch preparation cost eyed at $6 million worth By BRIAN GRAVES development for the Cleveland/Bradley ty of about 3,600 existing jobs through the saying “the massive, massive facility is like Banner Staff Writer Chamber of Commerce, recently spoke as expansions of 16 existing industries — building a city.” part of the Chamber’s “Food for Thought” some of which we don’t even announce or “I know there has been some impatience The magic number is $6 million and the series and addressed the park needs and talk about because they prefer to work over the time it has taken [to get online],” hopes are if the city and county spend it, benefits as well as an overview of the quietly,” Berry said. “We also have a he said. “The good news is they are begin- they will come. region. steady stream of industries because of our ning to start up processes and are on “They” are industries that can fill the “We have absolutely no reasons as a major regional initiatives and our success- track to finish construction activities at new Spring Branch Industrial Park and community to be unhappy or down about es.” the end of this year and begin the final the subsidiary businesses that may one anything,” Berry said. “We are the sixth Berry said with the area being most rec- phases of production startup.” day surround the area. fastest MSA community to come out of ognizable for its outdoor venues, “We need “This is the best community/company The land itself is sitting ready to be recession according to organizations on to make sure that in everything we do marriage I have been a party to during my worked and the access roads are being the West Coast that evaluate such things.” we’re protecting our natural resources and career,” Berry said of Wacker. “And, when constructed, but the park will still need He said the area has seen the largest environment. That’s a thing I take very you look at the benefit we get as a com- infrastructure to become a viable player growth in the state with a total of $3 bil- seriously because there’s nothing better to munity over time versus the amount of for industry and a revenue stream for new lion invested since 2009. me than a weekend in the woods.” local tax dollars. “We’ve protected and insured the stabili- Berry also gave an update on Wacker See INDUSTRIAL, Page 6 Doug Berry Doug Berry, vice president of economic Inside Today County to elect officers Tuesday Alford, Yarber current leaders By BRIAN GRAVES Banner Staff Writer Hurd, Kamara The Bradley County provide punch Commission will perform its annual selection of officers dur- Tennessee running Jalen Hurd ing its voting session Tuesday got some needed help when Alvin night. Kamara stepped into the backfield Normally, the session would for the Volunteers. The Lee men’s have been held soccer team picked up a win over on Monday but Trevecca. The Lady Flames fell to was delayed Columbus State. The Flames’ because of the cross country team took the top Labor Day hol- spot at the Sewanee Invitational. iday. See Sports, Pages 11-13. The current c o m m i s s i o n Labor Day and chairman is Banner photo, JOYANNA LOVE Louie Alford a long history KENNETH TINSLEY RECREATION AREA is named after Cleveland’s former Commissioner of the Fire and Recreation Department. and Jeff Yarber is serving as Most Americans are off work Alford vice chairman. today. Some are not. In either Under the category, it’s always interesting to standard pro- understand the history of Labor tocol, Alford Day. For some facts, check out Footprints of Tinsley Park will open the the editorial on Page 14 of meeting before today’s edition. stepping aside, Past, current leaders reflect on the origin, a l l o w i n g Forecast County Clerk D o n n a planning behind city’s recreation center Simpson to take nomina- Yarber By CHET GUTHRIE “It started with Larry Presswood bring- tions for the Banner Intern ing it up to the City Commission meeting. offices and conduct the vote. [Then Mayor] Harry Dethero was in charge The new chairman will then Kenneth Tinsley Recreation Center IDDEN of Community Development — that was preside over an agenda with five paints a mosaic of human recreation with H his department,” Cartwright explained. significant items. the crack of bat against ball followed by a At that time, the city was divided into Commissioners will be voting Today should be mostly sunny, cheering crowd, by the sound of children CLEVELAND departments and each commissioner was on the new amendments to the with a high near 87. Tonight’s fore- splashing each other at the pool while yel- involved with specific departments. contract with Santek low-felted balls bounce on the pavement “The mayor saw the idea that we ought cast calls for partly cloudy skies, “Some of us thought that since Environmental for the operation of the tennis courts. to have a new park. Didn’t know where we of the county landfill. with a low around 68. Tuesday’s Kenneth Tinsley had worked so forecast calls for mostly sunny Tinsley was an idea conceived in 1976 would put it. City owned an old disposal The new agreement would when Larry Presswood, former director of hard on trying to get all of this plant out on Keith Street. … But it had allow Santek to double its use of skies and a slight chance of rain, the Cleveland Department of Community arranged and so forth ... it was his with a high near 87. Tuesday night some environmental issues. And it had a the landfill to 400,000 tons per Development, discovered the U.S. govern- department, and we ought to lot of sludge and so forth, and it had to be year and would increase the calls for clouds and 30 percent ment had a series of grants and would name it after him.” hauled off,” Cartwright said. county’s revenue from 6-7 per- chance of showers or thunder- give cities and counties money for recre- — Eddie Cartwright The old sewage treatment plant had cent from the first 100,000 tons storms, with a low around 72. ational purposes. been shut down for several years after the to an across-the-board 10 per- “It was a three-year grant, the way I city had outgrown it through population cent. Index remember it,” said Eddie Cartwright, the At the time it was one of the largest growth. Consideration will also be commissioner of Public Works under grants funded for Cleveland. Joe Edwards was the city engineer at given to a change in policy that Classified................................16-17 Cleveland’s old form of City Commission The first of the three grants was award- the time, and the city gave him the task of would allow county employees to Comics...........................................8 government who worked on Tinsley Park’s ed to the city on Dec. 1, 1976, for getting rid of the waste that still lingered. receive their per diems in Editorials......................................14 development. $257,578. In 1978, the city was awarded He succeeded. advance before attending train- Horoscope......................................8 The city had to meet a matching $501,223, and later that year with ing conferences. amount in order to receive the grant. See TINSLEY, Page 6 MINI Pages....................................5 $110,000. Obituaries.......................................2 See OFFICERS, Page 6 Sports......................................11-13 TV Schedule..................................9 Weather........................................10 Avery McNeese loves ‘art’ of teaching Around Town By JOYANNA LOVE silver pieces that just blow me away,” Anthony “Gomer” Floyd getting Banner Senior Staff Writer McNeese said. “It’s because they weren’t told ready for an outdoor adventure ... ERSONALITY they couldn’t do it, they weren’t told it was Peachess Searles headed to an Avery McNeese could never pick a favorite P too difficult … they just get in there and do equestrian celebration ... the type of art. it.” Bennett Sisters totally surprised Perhaps this is why he enjoys teaching art PROFILE Many of his students are home schooled. by a “Pay It Forward” segment and exposing his students to a variety of “I love the classes,” McNeese said. “I love on area TV ... Pastor Chris mediums. what the kids have come in here and done, Moody and family preparing to “I don’t see any difference between paint- “I want to see how their hands do. I want and I love what some adults have come in move to Mississippi so that he ing, sculpture, icing a cake, making silver — to see how they deal with things in a tactile here and done. People who would have can serve as state administrative it is all art,” McNeese said. way. Even if they are wanting to do painting never picked up a brush, who would have bishop for the Church of God ... He got his start teaching art as a senior in or drawing on the first day, I am still going to never sat at a pottery wheel and done great Zoe Dooley, age 6, teaching high school, providing a class for special stick clay in their hands,” McNeese said. stuff, and found a sense of fulfillment, adults the meaning of “It’s better education students needing art credit to McNeese said he does this to get students because they never thought that they could to give than to receive.” graduate.

Load more

  18

Copy Link