The Wall's Arrival Draws Near
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The Daily Newspaper of the Upper Cumberland www.herald-citizen.com Accidental Shooting Predators head CLOSED THIS WEEK Two hospitalized after to mountains gun-cleaning incident. Up 2-0: with lead. Playground closed Page A10 Page E1 Monday-Tuesday Page A9 116th Year | No. 89 | Sunday, April 15, 2018 | Cookeville, Tennessee $1.50 The Wall’s arrival draws near The anticipation builds in son Avenue, past the Putnam the Vietnam War. The opening Putnam County and through- County Veterans’ Memorial at ceremonies will provide a spe- out the Upper Cumberland as the historic courthouse square, cial tribute to the those listed the arrival of The Wall That then along North Washington on The Wall from the Upper Heals draws near. The traveling Avenue to the Putnam County Cumberland with a spotlight replica of the Vietnam Veter- Sports Complex just north of on the nine names of those ans Memorial Wall, along with Cookeville High School. from Putnam County. a mobile education center, will After a day of building, The special guest speaker for arrive by police escort Tuesday The Wall will be erected and the opening ceremony will be at 4 p.m. Businesses and local offi cially unveiled Thursday at Tennessee Department of Vet- residents are encouraged to 10 a.m. and will then off er free, erans Services Commissioner line the route, waving fl ags and public viewing, 24 hours a day Many-Bears Grinder. Coun- welcoming The Wall. until Sunday, April 22. try music star Aaron Tippin, The Wall that Heals will arrive by police escort in Cookeville Semi-trailer trucks housing The Wall holds the names along with his wife, Thea, and Tuesday and will be on display from Thursday until Sunday, the contents of The Wall will of the more than 58,000 Amer- April 22, at the Putnam County Sports Complex on North travel down Cookeville’s Jeff er- icans who lost their lives in See WALL, Page A5 Washington Avenue. Algood 400 Homeless Children to buy Numbers increasing in Upper historic Cumberland mansion BY LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS [email protected] BY KATE COOK [email protected] Agencies that seek to provide help to the homeless are noticing an increase Algood will soon be the in the number of people who don’t have owner of a historic home. a place to live. At its regular meeting In 2017, the Cookeville Rescue Mis- Tuesday, Algood council sion served 295 people seeking shelter members voted unanimous- in the fi rst quarter of the year, accord- ly to buy White Plains for ing to Luke Eldridge, vice president of $250,000. operations at the mission. For the fi rst They’ll buy the property quarter of this year, that number is 390. and 2.27 acres from Dr. Scott A little more than 80 percent of those and Mona Copeland, who come from Tennessee, Eldridge said, have owned it since fall 2013. with 257 from the Upper Cumberland City Administrator Keith region, including 131 from Putnam Morrison said the Copelands County. approached the city a few A man named T.J. is one of those. weeks ago. He contacted the “I quit my job to take care of my council members individual- mother,” T.J. said last week from the ly to gauge their interest and mission on South Jeff erson Avenue, organized individual tours where he’s been staying for the past for each of them. month with his 8-year-old son, Brayden. “I spent all of my money trying to stay See ALGOOD, Page A5 in a hotel. When I ran out of money for a hotel room, I didn’t have a choice (but to come to the mission).” Brayden, a third grader in the Put- nam County School System, is one of more than 400 students that have been Five TTU identifi ed as homeless this school year. That’s up from 311 homeless students in the 2015-16 school year. alumni “It’s defi nitely spiked,” said Beverly Dronebarger, homeless liaison and director of the Putnam School System’s honored family resource center. “Some of that TTU — Five alumni of Ten- is identifi cation. It’s constant. It seems nessee Tech University were like there’s more and more coming to honored for their service to this area.” their alma mater and their After getting off the bus last Thurs- distinguished life’s works day, Brayden ran for the candy jar at the university’s Alumni inside the rescue mission offi ce before Association Outstanding asking his dad if he could play with his Awards and Recognition friends — another four or fi ve kids also Banquet Friday. staying with their parents now at the Tennessee Tech’s Alum- mission. ni Association solicits and T.J. is seeking a job and housing, but evaluates nominations in fi nding and paying for child care out- four categories. The 2018 side of school hours is a challenge. Lindsay McReynolds | Herald-Citizen recipients are professional “He’s a sweet guy, he just needs some Brayden, 8, is one of a handful of kids currently staying at the Cookeville golfer Scott Stallings, Out- Rescue Mission and one of about 400 who has been classifi ed as homeless See HOMELESS, Page A2 in the Putnam County School System this school year. See TTU, Page A2 Index Obituaries, A7 6 Sections — 46 Pages HELPING CAT FAMILIES Lluuana Simpson Grant to pay Abby C6 Opinion A4 Joe Stout for spay, Calendar A6 Schools B1 Norman Beaty neuter of cats, Classifi ed D1 Sports E1 Cleao Dubey Comics F1 Sudoku B5 kittens Community C1 Weather A2 Verble Vickers Crossword B5 Page A8 A2 — HERALD-CITIZEN, Cookeville, Tenn. — www.herald-citizen.com — Sunday, April 15, 2018 LOCAL READER HOMELESS: Numbers, including children, increasing SERVICES From Page A1 Contact us: help,” Eldridge said of T.J. Address: Eldridge said he’s planning to meet with offi cials with the 1300 Neal St. Upper Cumberland Human Cookeville, Tenn. Resource Agency and the Upper Cumberland Develop- ment District this week to see Mailing Address: about the possibility of trans- P.O. Box 2729 portation for residents to and Cookeville TN 38502 from the mission who often need help seeking employ- ment and housing. Phone: 931-526-9715 Lisa Thompson, coordi- Fax: 931-526-1209 nated entry specialist for the Crossville Housing Develop- ment Corporation serving Email: the Homeless Advocacy for News Rural Tennessee, said she’s [email protected] had 63 phone calls to HART’s Sports homeless hotline in March [email protected] this year versus 27 in March two years ago. Advertising “As of today (April 12) [email protected] there have been 161 calls Living this year, 60 of which have [email protected] been from Putnam County,” Circulation Thompson said. [email protected] Cookeville Regional Med- Lindsay McReynolds | Herald-Citizen Business News ical Center is also tracking T.J., left, and Jeff rey Lee Bates, right, sort through donated clothes at the Cookeville Rescue [email protected] the number of homeless Mission. Church News patients treated there. [email protected] Ninety homeless patients Executive Director John Bell. homeless women at the hos- 556-7626. have been treated at the hos- Those patients were treat- pital during that same time To volunteer or donate to School News pital in the past 12 months, ed for conditions ranging period. the Cookeville Rescue Mis- [email protected] according to Cookeville Re- from the fl u to tooth pain. If you or someone you sion, visit http://cookevil- Classifi ed Ads gional Charitable Foundation Two babies were delivered to know is homeless, call 844- lerescuemission.org/. classifi [email protected] Letter Guidelines All letters to the editor must be signed and include the writer’s name, address and phone number. Letters TTU: Five outstanding alumni recognized are subject to editing and/or rejec- tion. A strict 400-word limit will be From Page A1 enforced. Send letters to the mailing standing Young Alumnus address listed above, or email to Award; retired businessman [email protected]. Dick Murphy, Outstanding Service Award; members of the TTU Foundation Board Order a Photo of Directors Ottis Phillips Every photograph taken by a and John Rose, Outstanding Herald-Citizen photographer and Philanthropy Awards; and re- published in the paper is available tired physician Walter Derry- for purchase. Go to www.herald-citi- berry, Distinguished Alumnus zen.com and click on “Photo Gallery.” Award. Also, many photos included in online Scott Stallings rewrote the stories are available for purchase. Tech golf record books during his time as a Golden Eagle from 2003 to 2007. Tech’s only Subscriptions two-time Ohio Valley Con- ference Golfer of the Year, To subscribe, call 931-526-9715. winning the award in 2006 Visa, MasterCard and Discover and 2007, Stallings became accepted. the fi rst and only Golden Rates: Eagle ever to advance to the 3 mo 6 mo 1yr NCAA Tournament, earning TTU Carrier or a spot in the 2006 East Re- Retired physician Walter Derryberry received the Distinguished Alumnus Award at the 2018 Mail: 385 gional. There, he became the Tennessee Tech University Alumni Awards and Recognition Banquet. Zip Code $28 $54 $95 fi rst player in OVC history to Print & qualify for the NCAA Cham- funding for the buildout of the partment of Wildlife Resourc- in Cookeville. A Fellow in the pionships. Since rewriting the Child Development Lab play es, John Rose’s support of American College of Obstet- E-Edition $29 $56 $98 Tech record books, Scott has space.