LOCAL NEWS: SPORTS: Unity Center Cleveland still holds tea party perfect in district for kids: Page 4 soccer: Page 13 Cleveland Daily Banner 162nd YEAR • No. 296 20 PAGES • 50¢ CLEVELAND, TN 37311 THE CITY WITH SPIRIT THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017 Live grenade found under local house By ALLEN MINCEY [email protected] An apparently “live” hand grenade was dis- covered under an Old Chattanooga Pike home Wednesday afternoon, causing that area to be closed down to anyone not associated with emergency services. Contributed photo Bradley County Sheriff’s Office THE MUSEUM CENTER at Five Points’ west-facing wall will soon be adorned with a Tennessee aquatic life mural, which is being created by artist Hollie Communications Director James Bradford said the Emergency 911 Communications Berry and the group of students who went to Argentina as a part of “Waterways: Connecting Communities.” The design has been fully sketched out and paint- Center was contacted around 3:14 p.m. ing will soon begin. Wednesday, with the caller telling dispatchers a grenade had been located under the resi- dence. Apparently, a plumber discovered the Mural to transform Museum Center wall grenade in the crawl space below the resi- dence. Reports indicate that it was a “live” grenade, but no amount of time the device Waterways: Connecting Communities group painting aquatic life had been there was indicated by Bradford. He told the media he believed two armed By SARALYN NORKUS forces veterans lived in the home at one time, [email protected] and it might have belonged to them. No one pointed to any malice associated with the If you’ve driven east down Inman street over the past couple See GRENADE, Page 6 weeks, you may have noticed something new on the side of the Museum Center at Five Points. Now painted blue, the west-fac- ing wall is in the process of undergoing a transformation from plain to extraordinary, as Chattanooga artist Hollie Berry works with the Waterways: Connecting Communities students to create an aquatic-themed mural. The mural project was made possible by grants from the Lyndhurst Foundation and Museums Connect. Berry, who worked on the MLK mural in downtown Chattanooga, is highly skilled in the process. “We’re going to paint a kind of watery, graphic pattern onto the Photo courtesy Bradley County Sheriff’s Office wall and then over the surface of THIS HAND GRENADE was discovered that, the kids are going to help me underneath a home on Old Chattanooga Pike paint a variety of aquatic life Banner photo, SARALYN NORKUS native to our streams and rivers Wednesday afternoon. The grenade was here in Tennessee,” she explained. MEMBERS of “Waterway: Connecting Communities,” from left, Abbey Fuller, Chloe Freake, Jalynn Sullivan and removed by a bomb technician and was to be “We’ll paint those on a special Valeria Ramirez work on gridding out the museum wall. disposed of that same afternoon. type of non-woven fabric. It’s very thin, almost like paper, but tougher. Then we’re going to use a special fabric helps ensure that copperhead, snapping turtle, more. special gel product to adhere that the project follows its timeline, as largemouth bass, alligator gar, The Waterways: Connecting to the wall — it is just as durable the group can work on it indoors sunfish (lepomis megalotis), Communities group is made up of or more durable than painting at a table. Tennessee snubnose darter, stur- five members of Andor and three Mayor Rowland directly onto the wall.” The Tennessee aquatic life to be geon, crawfish, yellow bullhead Painting the aquatic life on the featured include the hellbender, catfish, northern hogsucker and See MURAL, Page 6 Interchange to be dedicated May 5 THEOLOGY ON TAP By BRIAN GRAVES [email protected] The Tennessee Department of Transportation has announced the official Taking deeper sip into dedication of the Honorable Tom Rowland Interchange will take place Friday, May 5, at Banner photo, ALLEN MINCEY 10:30 a.m. Officials and dignitaries will gather at the LUKE Christian discussions site on APD 40 to put the legacy mark on the MATHEWS is community for which Rowland has so long one of the origi- By ALLEN MINCEY served. nators of [email protected] Gov. Bill Haslam signed the bill in 2014 — Theology on Tap, HIDDEN just as the construction bids on the project an international The name may turn some people were released — which officially named the organization that off, but Theology on Tap is designed LEVELAND new interchange at SR-311/U.S. 74 as the to allow anyone of any denomination C “Honorable Tom Rowland Interchange.” previously did to experience different religious top- Talley Construction was awarded the low not have a ics and discuss them in a group set- bid of $22,569,994 by TDOT in October 2014, Cleveland con- ting. Theology on Tap is not unique to to install the new interchange. nection. The Luke Mathews said he, at one this city, as there are other “chap- The interchange will, in essence, become the group began time, thought he might like to be a ters” of the association all across the entrance to the new Spring Branch Industrial locally in chiropractor, but with the encour- country. But, Mathews said, he Park. January, and has agement of others, turned toward the wanted to bring the idea to the area The bill was co-sponsored in the state had three pre- seminary. Mathews is one of the men and began working toward that in Senate by Sens. Mike Bell, Todd Gardenhire sentations since responsible for creating Theology on its inception. Tap in Cleveland. See THEOLOGY, Page 6 See INTERCHANGE, Page 6 AROUND TOWN WEATHER INDEX Dean Tisdale enjoying his new Today looks to be sunny, with a high near Church..................................2 Obituaries.............................2 bicycle on the Greenway ... the 83. Tonight’s forecast calls for partly cloudy Classified.....................18-19 Stocks...................................4 Cleveland Lions Club holding an skies and a low around 58. Friday should be early celebration of fellow Lion C. Comics..................................8 Sports...........................13-15 W. Bedwell’s 99th birthday, as Lions mostly sunny, with a high near 82. 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