News 2015

Woodland Honor Students for Third Nine Weeks 
The faculty and staff of Woodland Elementary School would like to recognize the Honor students of Woodland Elementary for the third nine weeks of the 2014 -2015 school year:
 Principal’s List
Students on this list have achieved all As on their report card during the nine week grading period.
 Ms. Larna Martindale’s Third Grade: Jenna Bushand Reese Vance.Mrs. Dawn Witty’s Third Grade: A. J. Armstrong, Mattea Ciramella, Ethan Hargrove, Ashlan Reed, and Jacob Robinson.Mrs. Beth Northcutt’s Fourth Grade: Shelby Duggin andEthan Powell.Mrs. Stacie Bryson’s Fifth Grade:Carter Cawthorn, Walker Cawthorn, Jalin Fann, Natalie Heisey, Karen Lopez, and Cassidy TaylorMrs. Theresa Bush’s Fifth Grade:Kaylee Armstrong andAva Bond.Mr. Nathan Brazle’s Sixth Grade: Macey Ciramella, Jadyn Davis, Emma Edens, Cole Jones, Bradi Mason, and Addison Melton.Mrs. Suzette Sissom’s Sixth Grade: Madison Arnold, Brady Bryson, Zettie Elrod, Cassie George, Shelby Smithson, and Tyler Southworth.Mrs. Mary Jean Cook’s Seventh Grade: Caroline Blanton, Madison Blanton, Lily Brazle, Jessica Kauffman, Rachel Laxton, Austin Powell, Joel Smith, Kaitlynn Trail, and Zoe Witty.Mr. Roy Finchum’s Seventh Grade: Blake Bush, Kristin Fann, Kelsie Foster and Abbie Judkins.Mrs. Tracy Hale’s Eighth Grade: Bryson Bell.Mrs. Pamela O’Hara’s Eighth Grade: Jameson Southworth and Cierra Thomas.
 
 Honor Roll
Students on this list have achieved all As and one B on their report card during the nine week grading period
 Ms. Larna Martindale’s Third Grade:Alexia Kennedy.Mrs. Dawn Witty’s Third Grade:Graham Edens, Lola Odom, and George Seybold.Mrs. Beth Northcutt’s Fourth Grade:Bryant Robinson and Ella Simmons.Mrs. Carla Parker’s Fourth grade:Taylor Ross.Mrs. Stacie Bryson’s Fifth Grade:Jadyn Romines and Maleah Sissom.Mrs. Theresa Bush’s Fifth Grade:Chloe Thomas.Mr. Nathan Brazle’s Sixth Grade:Dalton Coppinger, Lori Pittard, and Shelby Reed.Mrs. Suzette Sissom’s Sixth Grade:Hunter Davis, Dalton Hale, Austin Harper, and Naomi Nelson.Mrs. Mary Jean Cook’s Seventh Grade:Kallie Kemp.Mr. Roy Finchum’s Seventh Grade:Sadie Jones and Anna Grace Sissom.Mrs. Tracy Hale’s Eighth Grade:Austin Taylor.Mrs. Pamela O’Hara’s Eighth Grade:Kailee Means.
 
 Merit List
Students on this list have achieved all As and Bs on their report card with no Cs during the nine week grading period.
 Mrs. Dawn Witty’s Third Grade:Lacie Arnold, Austin Foster, and Gavin Franklin.Mrs. Beth Northcutt’s Fourth Grade: Emma Crabtree, D. J. Moore, and Nicholaus Pelham.Mrs. Carla Parker’s Fourth Grade: Rose Davis, Toby Tucker, and Houston Witty.Mrs. Stacie Bryson’s Fifth Grade: Parker Cawthorn, Michaela Sellars, Kayelyse Strawser, and Ellianna Young.Mrs. Theresa Bush’s Fifth Grade:Nolan Bell, Rebecca Green, Ashley Mooneyham, and Kooper Nemeth.Mr. Nathan Brazle’s Sixth Grade:Hunter Owen.Mrs. Suzette Sissom’s Sixth Grade:Brady Davenport.Mrs. Mary Jean Cook’s Seventh Grade:Joe Overcast.Mr. Roy Finchum’s Seventh Grade:Silas Choate andBrent Hastings.Mrs. Tracy Hale’s Eighth Grade: Ty St. John.Mrs. Pamela O’Hara’s Eighth Grade:Jacob Raines, Branden Schwartz, Brady Sissom, and Dalton Taylor.
 Perfect Attendance
Students on this list were present every day of the grading period with no tardies or leave earlies.
 Mrs. Melisha Simmons’s Kindergarten: Weston Lovett and Brandyn Murphy.Mrs. MaryBeth Young’s Kindergarten: Emily Parker.Mrs. Julie Hackney’s First Grade:Kyleigh Lowery, Mylee Schwartz, and Brett Smithson.Mrs. Alice Whittle’s First Grade: Mathew Austin, Layla Barrett, Jordyn Beaty, Page Mohler, Jaylynn Taylor, and Eli Vassar.Mrs. Amber Phillips’s Second Grade:Rihanna Edmondson Katherine Fann, Madison Foster, Kattie Lack, Mason Lowe, Thomas McGee, Landyn Murphy, and Kathryn Trail.Mrs. Maria Vickers’s Second Grade:Brooklyn Batson, Garrett Crawford, Abbi Davis, McKenzie Merritt, and Connor Williamson.Ms. Larna Martindale’s Third Grade: Jenna Bush and Destiny Hiles.Mrs. Beth Northcutt’s Fourth Grade:Shelby Duggin, Jonathan Fann, Hanna Foster, Konnor Lorance, Tyson Pope, Bryant Robinson, Ella Simmons Junior Strawser, and Kelton Wilkes.Mrs. Carla Parker’s Fourth Grade:Josh Mingle.Mrs. Stacie Bryson’s Fifth Grade:Hunter Althaus, Kolby Duke, Jalin Fann, Natalie Heisey, Karen Lopez, Maleah Sissom, Kayelyse Strawser, Dylan Taylor, and Ellianna Young.Mrs. Theresa Bush’s Fifth Grade:Kaylee Armstrong, Ava Bond, Cynthia Davenport, Rebecca Green, Ashley Mooneyham, and Chloe Thomas.Mr. Nathan Brazle’s Sixth Grade:Summer Casteel, Emma Edens, Shelby Reed, and Autumn S. Young.Mrs. Suzette Sissom’s Sixth Grade:Brady Bryson, Hunter Davis, Dalton Fox, Dalton Hale, Shelby Smithson, Tyler Southworth,and Autumn M. Young.Mrs. Mary Jean Cook’s Seventh Grade:Austin Powell.Mr. Roy Finchum’s Seventh Grade:Hayden Cobb, Kelsie Foster, Brent Hastings, Trinaty Muse, and Anna Grace Sissom.Mrs. Tracy Hale’s Eighth Grade: Bryson Bell, Hunter Harris, Joe Mitchell, Blake Reed, Etta Scott, Austin Taylor, and Ty St. John.Mrs. Pamela O’Hara’s Eighth Grade:Corey Smith and Cierra Thomas.
 
 A.R.R.R.O.W. Club
Students on this list have exhibited the characteristic of a Warrior: each student has had good Attendance; each students has been Ready, Respectful, and Responsible; and have exhibited Outstanding behavior of a Warrior.
 Mrs. Melisha Simmons’s Kindergarten: Chloe Adcock, Tuff Alford, Edward Heath, Weston Lovett, Jacob Miller, David Mooney, Brandyn Murphy, Marlee Owen, Aubrey Phillips, Katelynn Smyth,  and Rylee Tucker.Mrs. MaryBeth Young’s Kindergarten:Sara Austin, Waylon Crawford, Haley Frame, Alexander Lyle, James McGee, Emily Parker, Baylee Sissom, Conner Smith, Lane Southworth, Gunner Stout, and Alex Williamson.Mrs. Julie Hackney’s First Grade:Madilyne England, Jaysie Hackney, Claire Hargrove, Alex Harper, Carson Henderson, Samuel Holloway, Kenneth Kennedy, Kyleigh Lowery, Gabby Marcum, Allie Melton, Marshall Miller, Riley Miller, Kendra Murphy, Brooklyn Parker, Anna Phillips, Alex Powers, Mylee Schwartz, Adlen Sissom, Brett Smithson, and Andrew Stratton.Mrs. Alice Whittle’s First Grade:Matthew Austin, Layla Barrett, Jordyn Beaty, Brooklyn Bowman, Ziya Dillard, Haylee Foulk, Carlie Gannon, Josh Johnson, Makenna Luttrell, Cayden Onate, Christian Perez, Holly Robinson, Aiden Smith, Landon Smith, Brayden Smithson, Taylor Strawser, Braylynn Taylor, Jaylynn Taylor, Paul Tune, and Eli Vassar.Mrs. Amber Phillips’s Second Grade: Lia Bedwell, Jesse Campbell, Rihanna Edmondson, Ethan England, Katie Beth Fann, Kaige Ferrell, Madison Foster, Foster Kemp, Kattie Lack, Mason Lowe, Thomas McGee, Landyn Murphy, Brennon Parker, and Kathryn Trail.Mrs. Maria Vickers’s Second Grade:Brooklyn Batson, Garrett Crawford, Abbi Davis, Kaylie Hill, Bennett Kauffman, Lakelyn Kilpatrick, McKenzie Merritt, Jacob Smith, Kylea Sullivan, Georgia Wells, Connor Williamson, Cadence Witty, and Izabell Young.Ms. Larna Martindale’s Third Grade: Chris Alfaro, Jenna Bush, Zowee Dillard, Carson Farrar, Gaven Fly-Franks, Katherin Garcia, Virginia Hernandez, Destiny Hiles, Tucker Horsley, Logan Inge, Alexia Kennedy, Emily Lopez, Lucio Lowery, Riley McGuire, Cassidy McTaggart, Kaia Robinson, and Reese Vance.Mrs. Dawn Witty’s Third Grade: A. J. Armstrong, Lacie Arnold, Brianna Bowman, Austin Bush, Autumn Casteel, Mattea Ciramella, Chloe Cobb, Graham Edens, Austin Foster, Gavin Franklin, Ethan Hargrove, Daigon Jacobs, Alexis McClure, Aubrianna McKee, Shauna Pelham, Ashlan Reed, Jacob Robinson, George Seybold, and Waylon Southworth.Mrs. Beth Northcutt’s Fourth Grade: Kylie Bratcher, Emma Crabtree, Shelby Duggin, Jonathan Fann, Hanna Foster, Hannah Jo Foulk, Konnor Lorance, D. J. Moore, Nicholaus Pelham, Tyson Pope, Ethan Powell, Bryant Robinson, Ella Simmons, Kelley Strawser, Jr., and Kelton Wilkes.Mrs. Carla Parker’s Fourth Grade: Hannah Bowman, Anita Chittaphong, Gage Harper, Jadon Henderson, Josh Mingle, Brody Morris, Cassie Ramsey, Connor Rodgers, Taylor Ross, Rachel Smartt, Branson Smithson, Toby Tucker, and Houston Witty.Mrs. Stacie Bryson’s Fifth Grade:Hunter Althaus, Hailey Bowman, Carter Cawthorn, Parker Cawthorn, Walker Cawthorn, Lane Crawford, Kolby Duke, Jalin Fann, Natalie Heisey, Karen Lopez, Charles Powell, Dillion Pyron, Maci Sellars, Michaela Sellars, Maleah Sissom, Kayelyse Strawser, Cassidy Taylor, Dylan Taylor, and Ellianna Young.Mrs. Theresa Bush’s Fifth Grade: Kaylee Armstrong, Nolan Bell, Ava Bond, Cynthia Davenport, Karli Davenport, Jackson Farrar, Anthony Garcia, Tabitha Goodwin, Rebecca Green, Stacey Hoel, Emma Grace Hughes, Mikie Lowery, Alicia Miles, Ashley Mooneyham, Kooper Nemeth, Braxton Parker, Alex Ruth, and Chloe Thomas.Mr. Nathan Brazle’s Sixth Grade:Summer Casteel, Macey Ciramella, Dalton Coppinger, Austin Davis, Jadyn Davis, Emma Edens, Alex Horsley, Cole Jones, Cheyanne Lanphere, Bradi Mason, Kelsi Mears, Addison Melton, Hunter Owen, Austin Phillips, Lori Pittard, Shelby Reed, Kaleb Ryan, Heather Wilson, and Autumn S. Young.Mrs. Suzette Sissom’s Sixth Grade: Linsey Arnold, Madison Arnold, Lexi Browning, Brady Bryson, Jasmine Bush, Brady Davenport, Jack Davis, Hunter Davis, Zettie Elrod, Eric Estrada, Maria Funes, Cassie George, Dalton Hale, Austin Harper, Naomi Nelson, Shelby Smithson, Tyler Southworth, and Autumn M. Young.Mrs. Mary Jean Cook’s Seventh Grade: Caroline Blanton, Madison Blanton, Lily Brazle, Seth Brown, Wyatt Crawford, Damian England, Jessica Kauffman, Kallie Kemp, Rachel Laxton, Dalton Mears, Joe Overcast, Austin Powell, McKenna Powell, Derrin Reeder, Joel Smith, Samantha Strait, Kaitlynn Trail, and Zoe Witty.Mr. Roy Finchum’s Seventh Grade: Jordan Bean, Rockwell Bond, Abigail Buchanan, Blake Bush, Christopher Cancino, Hayden Cobb, Kristin Fann, Kelsie Foster, Jesse Frazier, Brent Hastings, Sadie Jones, Abbie Judkins, Kaleigh Lamb, Jessica McCrory, Trinaty Muse, Jackson Simmons, Anna Grace Sissom, and Jayda Smith.Mrs. Tracy Hale’s Eighth Grade:Garett Alexander, Breanna Anderson, Bryson Bell, Yovany Dominguez, Dalton Farrar, Hunter Harris, Sydney Hudson, Emily Keaton, Madison Lowe, Holly Markum, Joe Mitchell, Blake Reed, James Roberts, Etta Scott, Andrew Smith, Ty St. John, Austin Taylor, and Tyler Vickers.Mrs. Pamela O’Hara’s Eighth Grade: Ashlynn Atnip, Patricia Contreras, Nick Fisk, J. W. Henderson, Jacob Raines, Ryan Reed, Branden Schwartz, Brady Sissom, Jameson Southworth, Amy Spry, Destinee Stratton, Dalton Taylor, Cierra Thomas,and Austin Underwood

Thanks to our volunteers, teachers, coaches and parents, the 1st Annual 4-H Clover Bowl Contest was a success! After 748 members competed in the classroom, teams were chosen to advance to the county contest where all Cannon County Elementary Schools were represented. Clover Bowl is an activity where 4-H members participate in teams that answer 4-H, Tennessee History, Agriculture, and Family and Consumer Science questions in a Quizatron format. The 4-H Honor Club helped with registration and Doug Combs was the Clover Bowl Facilitator. Without our wonderful volunteers, the 4-H program would not be a success! With 19 teams at the CannonCounty 4-H Clover Bowl, winning teams included: Woodland School fourth grade, Woodland Schoolfifth grade, Short Mountain School sixth grade, Woodland School seventh grade andEast Side School eighth grade. Congratulations to each winning team that will represent Cannon County at the Central Region Clover Bowl Contestin May at Tennessee Technological University. For more information about the 4-H program, contact Sarah Malone at the University of Tennessee Extension office at 615-563-2554. 

March is Extension Month in Tennessee. Extension is a national educational program supported by USDA through the nation’s land-grant universities and administered with funding from state and local governments in Tennessee through offices in each of the state’s 95 counties.  Cannon County Extension is commemorating the state’s 105-year-old Extension program.
Extension is the outreach arm of the University ofTennessee Institute of Agriculture and the Tennessee State University College of Agriculture, Human and Natural Sciences. An integral part of the land-grant mission, Extension programs are delivered in all 95 counties in the state by subject-matter specialists, county agents and volunteers.
“Extension means ‘reaching out,’ and University of Tennessee Extension extends the university’s teaching and research missions to deliver research-based information and education to all the state’s citizens through youth and adult programs in every county,” said Tim Cross, dean of UT Extension.
Example programs available through county offices include the state’s award-winning 4-H Youth Development Program including its summer youth camps; family and consumer educational programs; and healthy living courses. In keeping with the traditional view of Extension, information to assist the state’s agricultural producers and foresters is also available, and the increasingly popular courses for Master Gardeners, and gardeners in general, are also conducted through county Extension offices.
UT Extension also performs services for the state’s citizens, including managing the statewide Soil, Plant and Pest Center through which clients can have the quality of their soil and forage analyzed and any insect pest or plant diseases identified. Extension also trains clients in the proper use of pesticides and even operates commercially-certified kitchens where small scale vendors can prepare food items for sale while meeting state guidelines for food safety.
Extension’s programs can be seen in Tennessee as an excellent investment of public resources. The statewide educational programs in 4-H youth development, agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, and community economic development are estimated to impact the state’s economy by more than $493 million from July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014. This amounts to a return of investment of $8.13 for every $1 in public funds invested in Tennessee Extension. 
You can find contact information online at the UT Extension website: extension.tennessee.edu. Just click on the link to local offices and choose your county’s name. Information is also available at the TSU Cooperative Extension website: www.tnstate.edu/extension
Many of UT Extension’s educational resources are also available online. From the UT Extension website choose the link to “publications” and enter the topic for which you need information to search the database of available resources. Most are available free of charge. A publications page is also available on the TSU website, which includes a list of available publications by program area.
The UT Institute of Agriculture provides instruction, research and outreach through the UT College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the UT College of Veterinary Medicine, UT AgResearch, including its system of 10 research and education centers, and UT Extension offices in every county in the state.

Farmers, ranchers and forest landowners who signed Conservation Stewardship Program contracts in 2011 with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) have until Tuesday, March 31, 2015 to renew those expiring contracts.These farmers, ranchers and forest landowners have the option to renew their existing contracts non-competitively if they are willing to adopt additional conservation activities aimed at helping them achieve higher levels of conservations on their operations, said Jason Weller, Chief of NRCS.
Changes in the 2014 Farm Bill will allow CSP participants with expiring contracts to renew them by exceeding stewardship thresholds for two or more existing natural resource concerns specified by NRCS or by meeting stewardship thresholds for at least two new natural resource concerns such as improving water quality or soil health.
About 9,300 contracts covering more than 12.2 million acres are nearing the end of their five-year term and can be renewed for an additional five years. The agricultural producer or forest landowner must complete all conservation activities contained in the initial contract before a renewal can be granted.
 An agricultural producer or forest landowner must meet the minimum criteria established by NRCS to renew an expiring CSP contract. Contract renewal also offers these agricultural producers and forest landowners an opportunity to add new conservation activities to meet their conservation goals and protect the natural resources on their farms, forests or ranches. The 2014 Farm Bill includes an expanded conservation activity list that now includes cover crops, intensive rotational grazing and wildlife-friendly fencing.
USDA’s largest conservation program by acreage, CSP pays participants for conservation performance — the better the performance, the higher the payment. Nearly 70 million acres have been enrolled in the program since its launch in 2009.
USDA offers financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners for the active management and maintenance of existing conservation activities and for carrying out new conservation activities on working agricultural land. Eligible lands include cropland, grassland, prairie land, improved pastureland, rangeland, non-industrial private forestland and tribal agricultural land. Applicants must have control of the land for the 5-year term of the contract.
CSP participants who wish to renew for an additional five years must submit an application indicating their intent to renew to their local NRCS office prior to March 31, 2015, the national deadline.
To learn more about CSP contract renewals, visit your local NRCS office. Visit the Conservation Stewardship Program page for more information about this program.

Today, AAA announced strong opposition to bills that would substantially weaken Tennessee’s motorcycle helmet law. The proposed bill would allow riders 21 years and older, and not insured with TennCare, to ride without a helmet. Tennessee’s current law requires all motorcyclists to wear a helmet, regardless of age or experience of the rider. In October, AAA surveyed Tennessee voters and 91 percent of respondents favored keeping the state’s motorcycle helmet law in its current form. In states that repealed or weakened their universal helmet laws, helmet use declined sharply and deaths and injury rose. “It’s clear that the majority of Tennessee voters don’t think the helmet law should change,” said Tim Wright, Tennessee Regional President of AAA – The Auto Club Group. “Multiple studies of states that have weakened their motorcycle helmet laws show marked increases in both human tragedy—to the crash victims and their family—and financial costs.”
Wright says the bill is essentially a repeal of Tennessee’s helmet law because officers would be unable to determine if riders meet the requirements to go without a helmet. “Imagine officers trying to guess the age of a rider before pulling the bike over, then having no way to positively determine by the roadside if he or she is NOT insured by TennCare. This bill’s unenforceability means motorcyclists could ride without a helmet without fear of being caught, regardless of whether they are legally allowed to or not,” Wright said.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that Tennessee’s existing helmet law saves 46 lives a year and $94 million.  The CDC ranks Tennessee sixth in the nation for lives and economic costs saved due to helmet use. AAA asks legislators to consider the experience of other states that have weakened their helmet law in recent years and how this change could affect all Tennesseans. 
According to research conducted by the Preusser Research Group, if the helmet law was repealed all private insurance companies, residents and the State of Tennessee combined can expect a minimum cost increase from motorcycle crashes of more than 100 percent. The bulk of these costs are expected to be borne by private insurance companies. 
“Tennessee’s universal motorcycle helmet law, enacted in 1967, has saved tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars,” said Richard Miller, M.D., professor of Surgery and chief of Vanderbilt’s Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care.  “At a time when our state and our nation are attempting to reduce health care costs, this legislation, if enacted, will result in increased deaths and substantial financial consequences not only for the crash victims but for all Tennessee taxpayers,” Miller said. 
Historically, states that relax their helmet laws saw a sizeable increase in injuries and deaths. According to a peer-reviewed study published in the American Journal of Public Health, Pennsylvania had a 66 percent increase in deaths caused by head injuries and a 78 percent spike in head injury hospitalizations following motorcycle crashes.  Fatalities in Kentucky increased by 58 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Finally, in Florida the number of hospital admissions of motorcyclists with head, brain and skull injuries increased by 82% after its helmet law was relaxed.AAA urges its members and the public to contact legislators and requesting they vote against changing Tennessee’s motorcycle helmet law. To find a listing of local legislators, please click here.Legislation Information:
House Bill 700 by Rep. Jay Reedy (R-Erin) on Transportation Subcommittee for 3/25/2015
Senate Bill 925 by Sen. Kerry Roberts (R-Springfield) on Senate Transportation and Safety Committee calendar for 3/25/2015
The 2015 Tennessee Public Affairs Survey was conducted online among registered voters in Tennessee. A total of 603 residents completed the survey.  The survey has a maximum margin of error of ± 4.0 percentage points. Overall survey responses are weighted by gender and age to ensure reliable and accurate representation of the adult population (18+) in Tennessee.

Today USDA issued their proposed rule to define what it means to be “actively engaged in farming,” and therefore eligible to receive federal farm payments.  
“The purpose of revising the actively engaged definition was to make farm payment limits more effective,” said Traci Bruckner, Senior Associate at the Center for Rural Affairs. “USDA is, however, clearly more interested in defending the interests of mega-farms by preserving loose definitions that will continue to allow the nation’s largest farms to avoid meaningful payment limits.”
 
“This is not reform,” added Bruckner. “In 2007, while campaigning in Iowa for his first election, President Obama promised to close these loopholes, and so did Vice President Biden. But when given yet another opportunity to fulfill that promise, the White House and Secretary Vilsack took a pass, again.”
 
“The lack of effective payment limitations has resulted in federal farm programs financing farm consolidation and the elimination of many mid-size family farms….Barack Obama and Joe Biden will close the loopholes that allow mega farms to get around the limits by subdividing their operations into multiple paper corporations.  They will take immediate action to close the loophole by proposing regulations to limit payments to active farmers who work the land….Every President since Ronald Reagan has had the authority to close this loophole without additional action by Congress, but has failed to act.” President Barack Obama, writing as a candidate for President in his rural platform – Obama-Biden: Real Leadership For Rural America
 
According to Bruckner, Secretary Vilsack has said since the passage of the 2014 Farm Bill that the bill ties his hands and he can not apply any new rule to farms structured solely of family members.
 
“We have disagreed with that premise from day one, and this rule does nothing more than say the largest and wealthiest farms structured solely of family members are not subject to this new rule or any payment limitation,” argued Bruckner.
 
Most of the few farms this rule would impact, those structured as non-family member operations, will surely work with an attorney to reorganize their operations to be structured solely of family members to evade any payment limitations, Bruckner concluded.
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Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Adams Memorial Library is closing today, March 24, 2015due to an unexpected electrical outage. Electricity should be restored
later today, and the Library will re-open at 9AM on Wednesday, March 25,
2015.

  Two victims remain in critical condition while a third victim is in stable condition after being injured in a fight about 1 a.m. Sunday at a party on Campbell Road, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s detective said. One man suffered a stab wound to the neck, a second man suffered a stab wound to the stomach and a third man suffered a head injury, said Detective Tony Grissom, who is investigating.
Two of the men flew by LifeFlight and a second traveled by Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services ambulance to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Names of the victims are not yet being released.
Grissom charged suspect Jeremy Duke, 32, of Readyville with aggravated assault. A second suspect has been located. Additional charges are expected.
The injuries occurred during a bonfire party off Weakley Lane attended by about 40 to 50 people. People at the party took the injured men to StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna. Sheriff’s patrol deputies gathered information from witnesses at the hospital and at the bonfire.
Detectives spent much of the morning interviewing witnesses and collecting evidence at the crime scene.
Duke is being held on $5,000 bond at Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. A hearing on his charge is pending in General Sessions Court.
            

Tennessee Labor & Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips announced today the Tennessee preliminary unemployment rate for February was 6.6 percent, one-tenths of one percentage point lower than the January revised rate of 6.7 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for February was 5.5 percent, down two-tenths of one percentage point from the prior month.Economic Summary
Over the past year, Tennessee’s unemployment rate increased from 6.5 percent to 6.6 percent while the national rate decreased from 6.7 percent to 5.5 percent.

Total nonfarm employment decreased 800 jobs from January to February. The largest decreases occurred in administrative/support/waste services, accommodation/food services, and local government.

Over the year, nonfarm employment increased 60,400 jobs. The largest increases occurred in trade/transportation/utilities, professional/business services, and manufacturing.

UCHRA Nutrition Program announced today that it will be celebrating Community Champions Week as a part of its annual March for Meals celebration. All of our local city and county mayors across the 14 county region will be participating to show their support for Meals on Wheels and the Upper Cumberland’s isolated and hungry seniors during the third week of March.“We are honored to have Cannon County Executive Mike Gannon, Harold Patrick, Mayor of Woodbury, and Roger Turney, Mayor of Auburntown, along with Board Members and Advisory Board members and local Volunteers participate in our March for Meals Community Champions Week,” said Kelly Dishman Director of Field Operations/ Nutrition program for UCHRA.” This year our nutrition program established a Facebook page.” UCHRA Nutrition” please visit the page, like and share it with your friends and family. Moreover, please donate to our Nutrition department through our Facebook page”.  Danielle Moseley County Coordinator for Cannon County will be working with her elected officials to deliver meals to the home -bound throughout Cannon County. Each year this program brings awareness to the Home Delivered meal program UCHRA provides to the senior and disabled across the Upper Cumberland region. Last year the UCHRA nutrition program averaged serving 742 clients home delivered clients each month.
 
March for Meals is a nationwide celebration during the month of March, organized by Meals on Wheels America, which seeks to raise awareness for not only the vital network of Meals on Wheels programs operating in virtually every community across, but also the needs of the seniors they collectively serve.
 
Throughout the month, Meals on Wheels providers like UCHRA nutrition program, celebrate March for Meals in their local communities through public events, partnerships with local businesses, volunteer recruitment and fundraising initiatives. Community Champions Week is a component of March for Meals that utilizes the engagement of prominent figures in the community to help bring attention to the cause.
 
For a full list of Community Champions from across the country, visit www.marchformeals.com/CCW.About Meals on Wheels America (Formerly Meals On Wheels Association of America):
Meals on Wheels America is the oldest and largest national organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. This network exists in virtually every community in America and, along with more than two million volunteers, delivers the nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks that enable America’s seniors to live nourished lives with independence and dignity. By providing funding, leadership, education and advocacy support, Meals on Wheels America empowers its local member programs to strengthen their communities, one senior at a time. For more information, or to find a Meals on Wheels provider near you, visit www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org