SPORTS: Mustangs win (but CU Water Division gets TDEC approval for new lose) against project: Page 6 Bears: Page 13 CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATING ITS 100TH BIRTHDAY: PAGE 4 162nd YEAR • No. 278 20 PAGES • 50¢ CLEVELAND, TN 37311 THE CITY WITH SPIRIT THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017 WGU Tennessee offering new scholarships By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Cleveland State with Tennessee Promise ates, along with an extra $200 off for munity college, when they might other- [email protected] do so with the thought they will contin- the first semester. wise have chosen to attend a four-year ue on to another college for a bachelor’s The statewide Tennessee Promise college. Online university Western Governors degree,” said Dr. Kimberly Estep, chan- scholarship program, proposed by Gov. According to the Tennessee Higher University Tennessee is one of the latest cellor of WGU Tennessee. “They also are Bill Haslam, welcomed its first students Education Commission, a total of four-year institutions to begin offering often looking for a way to do this afford- in the fall of 2015. The Class of 2017 at 33,081 students have enrolled in the new scholarships in light of the ably.” Cleveland State and other eligible insti- state’s community colleges and Colleges statewide Tennessee Promise scholar- Tennessee Promise students who tutions will include the first Tennessee of Applied Technology through the ship program. graduate from one of the state’s 13 com- Promise graduates. Tennessee Promise program since 2015. Partnering with Cleveland State munity colleges this spring or summer When Tennessee Promise was first While some four-year colleges have Community College and the state’s can apply for up to 20 scholarships of introduced, some baccalaureate institu- seen a slight shift in how many fresh- other two-year institutions, WGU $2,000 each to WGU Tennessee. In tions feared the program would affect men and sophomores they enroll, Estep Tennessee has announced the “Fulfilling addition, the institution is offering a 5 their enrollment. The program for stu- said the biggest change is simply that the Promise” scholarship. percent tuition discount for all spring dents straight out of high school saw “Many students who come to and summer Tennessee Promise gradu- many students choosing to go to com- See WGU, Page 4 Dr. Kimberly Estep An Outreach Day, Raider style Hailstorm pelts local car shops and insurance CHS SENIORS agents with biz Robert Anderson, left, and Ridge Shackleford dedi- cate their Raider Damage range Outreach Day to clearing fallen limbs, weeds and brush away from is mild to heavy several gravesites within Fort Hill By BRIAN GRAVES Cemetery. The [email protected] pair of young vol- John Gray was finally able to get a bite to eat at unteers were around 3 p.m. Wednesday. among many who The general manager of Advanced Collision on became a part of South Lee Highway had been fielding calls all day, the eighth annual beginning early in the morning as he was driving event. CHS into work. Principal Autumn The hailstorm which swept through Bradley O’Bryan supports County exponentially increased the number of cus- the class activity tomers requiring the service of his business, which because she feels fixes damaged vehicles. “They started calling me at 7:15 this morning,” the local high Gray said. “We have probably gotten 70 or 80 school should take assignments from insurance companies.” time out to support Gray said most of the vehicles he had seen here the community were either heavily damaged or totalled. which supports it. “We have not seen any light damage,” he said. Banner photo, Mike Weeks, sales manager of Don Ledford DANIEL GUY Automotive, said their sales lot got lucky. “We’re in good shape,” Weeks said. “The west side of town really got pounded. We were really blessed not to have gotten hurt.” County Emergency Management Director Troy Spence said the reports they have received indicat- ed it was vehicles which took the brunt of the storm damage. “We put stuff out on Facebook trying to get peo- CHS seniors take help to community ple to call us, but we didn’t have a whole lot of people call in to say they had storm damage,” Spence said. “One person called in to say they may By SARALYN NORKUS “We are a community school and feel it Cemetery. have to replace their roof and had some window [email protected] is important that we take time out to serve “We are a community school and feel it is damage, but no one has called in to give us an our community.” important that we take time out to serve our exact number. We just don’t know how much dam- Cleveland High School seniors had the — Autumn O’Bryan community,” said CHS Principal Autumn age is out there in the public.” opportunity to make their community a bet- O’Bryan. Spence said he suspected the damage was “not ter place as they participated in the eighth declared Kaden Hernandez. “The class of 2017 was spread across the that bad, or people would have called us.” annual Raider Outreach Day on Tuesday. The students were spread throughout city of Cleveland at churches, health centers, What should one do if they find shattered win- “It’s a way for our students to give back Cleveland from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., doing shelters and schools. This type of opportuni- dows, torn screens, dented cars, and cracked and see different places,” Raider Outreach volunteer work at Arnold, Stuart, Blythe- ty does not only serve the sites they visit, but windshields after a storm like this? sponsor Whitney Harden said. Bower, Mayfield and E.L. Ross elementary it makes a lasting impact on our students Here are some helpful tips for trying to get the For the students, Raider Outreach Day is schools, Life Bridges, Life Care, Brookdale, and teachers.” damage repaired. something that just makes sense. Signature Health, Cleveland Workspace, Trey Walker was at Wesley United “This is the community you live in, so you Westwood Baptist, First Baptist, Wesley should be helping it out and helping it grow,” United Methodist, the Greenway and Fort Hill See OUTREACH, Page 6 See HAILSTORM, Page 6 AROUND TOWN WEATHER INDEX Donnie and Wendy Jenkins Classified............................18-19 Opinion.....................................16 returning home after a wonderful Comics.......................................8 trip to the Holy Land ... Brooke Today should be partly sunny, with a high near Stocks........................................4 Taylor, Briana Gale and Koah Doss 65. Tonight’s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies, Horoscope..................................8 Sports.................................13-15 discussing how they jumped the with a low around 48. Friday should be partly NASCAR..................................20 TV Schedule..............................9 6489076 75112 waves during their spring break visit sunny, with a high near 70. Friday night calls for Obituaries...................................2 Weather....................................11 to the beach ... Harper Whitener mostly cloudy skies, with a low around 55. going on her first fishing trip. 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Thursday, March 23, 2017 www.clevelandbanner.com OBITUARIES (USPS 117-700) Periodical Postage Paid at Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 Post Office POSTMASTER: Send Address Changes to: Banner, P.O. Box 3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 four great-grandchildren: Published at 1505 25th Street, NW (P.O. 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