MONDAY 161st YEAR • NO. 63 JuLY 13, 2015 CLEVELAND, TN 20 PAGES • 50¢ DYW 2016 Katie Breland says of week, ‘Amazing!’ By LARRY C. BOWERS Distinguished Young Woman Ashley Stevens, Banner Staff Writer and they discussed what will be involved dur- “It was a wonderful week, and I ing the year. Tennessee’s 2016 Distinguished Young made a number of wonderful “She told me how much she enjoyed the Woman enjoyed breakfast at the IHOP restau- friends. Thus far, it’s been an national competition, and I am looking for- rant Sunday morning. She also talked with amazing experience.” ward to that,” Katie said. the Cleveland Daily Banner about her hopes — Katie Breland The state’s newest celebrity laughingly and dreams, not only for the year ahead, but placed the “blame” on her mom for getting her Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS also for her future. into the competition, but added that her TENNESSEE’S 2016 Distinguished Young Woman of the Year prise at the announcement. By Sunday morn- The young dancing sensation was accompa- close-knit family must also receive some of the Katie Breland, center, is shown with her parents, Jennifer and nied by her parents, Jennifer and Jeremy, ing, she had assumed an air of confidence credit for her victory. and DYW Committee Co-Chairs Traci Fant and assurance about the year ahead. Jeremy, at a Sunday-morning brunch at IHOP. She will be a senior at “They were extremely supportive, and excit- Ironwood Academy in Nashville during the coming school year, and and Nikki Wilks. “Still, it really hasn’t sunk in,” she said ed,” she said, adding that this was her first- Katie Breland was crowned Saturday Sunday. “It’s still unreal.” represented the Music City DYW program in state competition last evening, and dramatically exclaimed her sur- She said she has talked with 2015 See KATIE, Page 12 week in Cleveland. Inside Today Utility, Nissan review lighting New dealership still progressing By RICK NORTON Djokovic wins again Associate Editor A review of the proposed site at Wimbledon layout and planning for future electric and traffic lighting For the second time in as needs are underway between many years, Novak Djokovic got Cleveland Utilities engineers the best of Roger Federer in the and developers of a new auto- men’s championship at Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS motive dealership off Pleasant Wimbledon. The Atlanta Braves HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, volunteers, and patients assembled Sunday in one of the dental treatment areas of the Grove Road at Interstate 75 Exit are ready for an All-Star break Regional Area Medical Clinic at Walker Valley High School. More than 700 people received free treatment for dental, vision, medical 20. from their losing ways, after being and mental issues Saturday and Sunday. As previously reported by the swept in a four-game weekend Cleveland Daily Banner in the series with the Colorado Rockies. May 20 edition, Sonic Tennessee sophomore Derek Automotive Group hopes to Barnett and senior Curt Maggitt ‘One of the best in RAM history’ bring a Nissan dealership to are on the Nagurski watch list. Bradley County near the UEC See Sports, Pages 13-15. Theater once all government entities have given their thumbs ESEA changes Medical event treats more than 700 patients up. The latest came several weeks are being eyed By LARRY C. BOWERS ago when members of the Banner Staff Writer Cleveland Municipal Planning As the landscape of public This year’s Remote Area Medical Clinic at Walker Valley High Commission reviewed plans for education continues its evolution, the development as presented it is important to understand the School will go down in RAM history as one of the very best. Ron Brewer, executive clinic manager for the Rockford-based by Jonathan Jobe, development impact of a Congressional review and engineering director for the of the Elementary and Secondary volunteer organization, said Sunday he was extremely pleased with the two-day session of free dental, vision, medical and city. Education Act. For a perspective The proposed dealership is on changes that need to be mental evaluations and treat- ment. the first project to be reviewed made, according to one in the Interstate Gateway Tennessee teacher, see the guest The free clinic was conduct- “This was one of the ed at Bradley County’s Walker Corridor since municipal plan- “Viewpoint” on Page 16 of today’s best clinics we’ve ever ners, and eventually approved edition. Valley High School. had. It was not only one “There were no incidents or by the Cleveland City Council, of the best for Cleveland, undue excitement,” said created the zoning designation. Forecast but one of the best in Brewer as volunteers and The new zone cites specific RAM’s history.” health care professionals were guidelines for commercial devel- Today looks to be mostly sunny — Ron Brewer wrapping up treatments and opment and signage near inter- and hot, but with A 30 percent services Sunday afternoon. state exits. In the May gather- chance of showers or thunderstorms. “This was one of the best ing, municipal planners gave their OK to the commercial The high should be near 91, with clinics we’ve ever had,” said the organization’s executive asso- ciate. “It was not only one of the best for Cleveland, but one of development proposals. heat index values as high as 99. At about the same time, CU Tonight calls for mostly cloudy skies the best in RAM’s history.” The weekend’s event was the 765th clinic conducted in the Electric Division engineers were and a 50 percent chance of rain, with history of RAM, but the multitude of volunteers will have little meeting with developer repre- a low around 73. Tuesday should be time to recover. sentatives to review the dealer- partly sunny and hot, with a high The volunteers will be leaving their base of operation in ship’s operational requests. near 91 and a 60 percent chance of Blount County on Thursday to travel to Wise, Va., for another Jimmy Isom, manager of elec- rain. Tuesday night calls for mostly Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS trical engineering for Cleveland clinic. The next week they will travel to Texas. The Wise clinic ONE OF THE DENTISTS who volunteered his services works cloudy skies and a 60 percent is a three-day event and one of the biggest of the year. Utilities, recently updated mem- chance of rain, with a low around 72. The number of treatment opportunities from this weekend on an elderly patient Sunday at the Remote Area Medical Clinic at bers of the Cleveland Board of Public Utilities on the review. Sunset: 8:56 p.m. Walker Valley High School. A number of assistants surround the Sunrise: 6:37 a.m. See RAM, Page 6 doctor. See LIGHTING, Page 6 Index Classified................................18-19 Comics...........................................8 College Hill’s Vanessa Howell now working Editorials......................................16 Horoscope......................................8 MINI Pages.................................5-6 where she once learned respect as student Obituaries.......................................2 Sports......................................13-15 By WILLIAM WRIGHT being around the children at the center TV Schedule..................................9 Lifestyles Editor ERSONALITY and trying to instill the same respect for P others that was instilled in her at College Weather........................................11 Vanessa Howell, a former student in Hill. She said one of the biggest differences Cleveland’s historic College Hill High PROFILE between raising children back then and Around Town School, said she was one of the first blacks raising them today is, “The children back to be transferred to George R. Stuart then — anybody could correct them. It was Philip Willard trying a new Elementary after the all-black school school. “If you acted up she had a bolo the community raising the child. But with video game ... Rhonda Roark burned down in 1966, when she was in paddle to discipline. We got pinched and communities today you have to be careful. enjoying a burrito ... Milan Patel the fourth grade. we had a rubber bolo ball thrown at us to The parents don’t want you correcting greeting many new faces ... Judy Still, nearly half a century later, the get our attention. Mainly, she taught us their children. Some — you can correct, Moore trying the gaming station Cleveland native said what she learned at how to respect. I learned that at an early and they know to respect you. Others you ... Dana Teasley preparing for a College Hill as a child has molded her life age, and it’s been part of my life ever big music festival. can’t say anything to them. But it all and conduct to this very day. since.” starts at home.” Banner photo “I remember Miss Donaldson teaching Today, Howell is the receptionist at According to Howell, children face sever- VANESSA HOWELL is the College Hill Recreation Center, a place she us how to respect others,” Howell recalled al challenges today that have only gotten receptionist at College Hill of the school that instructed black stu- visited often as a youth growing up in Recreation Center in dents from kindergarten through high Bradley County. She said she enjoys See HOWELL, Page 6 Cleveland. 6489076 75112 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Monday, July 13, 2015 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 noon. Memorial Gardens. Interment will follow at the The family will receive friends at Published at 1505 25th Street, NW (P.O. Box 3600) in Cleveland, TN 37320-3600, daily except Saturday Chattanooga National Cemetery the funeral home from 6 until 8 and Christmas day by Cleveland Newspapers, Inc.