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75 cents Week of June 8, 2016Volume 143, Number 23

In This Issue:

Editorial .......................... 4A

Local .......................... 5A

Genealogy .......................... 5A

Lifestyles .......................... 6A

Sports .......................... 1B

Religion .......................... 2B

Family Living .......................... 3B

Classifi eds .......................... 4B

Location, location...

By COLLIN BROOKSStaff Writer

cbrooks@heraldandtribune.com

A new Boones Creek school location came a vote away from being a reality during the Washington County Board of Education Meeting on Thursday, June 2.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean that site is out of the running.

The vote ended in a 4-4 tie, with Third District member Da-vid Hammond unable to vote due to his absence.

Hammond — whose constituents from the Boones Creek district, Clarence Mabe and Mike Masters, each spoke ada-mantly in favor of the site — said that he was unaware that a site would be up for discussion during the meeting, which he was forced to miss as his wife recovered from a surgery. But he said that he hopes that it might be able to be revisited.

“I couldn’t imagine why it couldn’t be voted on again,” Hammond said.

Hammond wouldn’t say which way he would have voted, but he did say that he voted in favor of the Youngdale Farm site that was selected last year. That is just under two miles down the road from the site that was voted down on Thursday night.

“If you’ll go back a year ago, I did vote for the property that was out in Boones Creek, but it was presented all in one package with the road project and other things, which should have never happened,” Hammond said. “I would have needed

Rain can’t keep pop lovers awayThreatening skies may have dampened Jonesborough’s June 4 “Soda Fest,” but it failed to squelch it as young and old gathered downtown Saturday to sample everything from Cheerwine to Orange Crush. Above, Owen Harvey, age 6, from Wise, Va., tries out another slurp of fi zzy liquid as he moves throughout town with his family. “There’s not a lot to do in Wise,” Owen’s mom, Angie Harvey, told the Herald & Tribune with a smile. Owen was still trying to pick his favorite, though “Kitty Piddle” was in the top running, he said. The event was sponsored by the Jonesborough Area and Merchants Associ-ation. Organizers estimate about 1,000 visitors took part in the festival. For more about JAMSA’s fi rst “Soda Fest,” see the editorial on Page 4A.

PHOTO BY LISA WHALEY

Sippin’ sodas Group offerssupport forcaregivers

By LISA WHALEYGeneral Manager & Editor

lwhaley@heraldandtribune.comThe struggle to care for a

loved one takes its toll, but Tracey Kendall Wilson is deter-mined to provide a way to help Jones-borough “care for the caregiv-er.”

“My grandmother is the one who opened my eyes to the fact that Alzhei-mer’s disease exists,” said Wilson, who is the regional director of Alzheimer’s Tennessee, Inc. “They called it senility back then.”

At that time, she said, her mother, father and aunt helped care for her grand-mother in a three-story building they all shared.

Today, Wilson said, doc-tors understand more about the disease, but the journey one walks with Alzheimer’s is every bit as long.

That is why she has become such a strong advocate of support groups, such as the Alzheimer’s Support Group that cur-rently meets every second Tuesday at the Jonesbor-ough Senior Center.

“It’s a perfect place to realize you are not alone,” Wilson said. “That really bizarre, terrible thing that happened that you are sure has maybe never happened to anyone else in the entire world -- it has happened to fi ve people who are sitting at the same table with you.”

The group, she said, is designed to help caregivers – whether husbands, wives,

Commission sets its sights on a 40 cent tax increase

By COLLIN BROOKSStaff Writer

cbrooks@heraldandtribune.com

Many capital questions came before the Washing-ton County Commission during their specially called meeting on June 6 and still many questions remain.

While the commission committed no monies to any projects on Monday night, they did give the budget committee $0.40 worth of capital projects to sift through. That did not account for pennies that are needed for operational costs for general government and school needs, which could come in anywhere between $0.02 and $0.04.

“These items, if they are approved in the fi nal budget, and if they are funded the way they are noted in the format, than those are the pennies it would require,” Budget Committee Chairman Joe Grandy said “There are different funding structures and other ways to look at it. So the commission is not bound by anything, they won’t be bound until the fi nal budget is in front

Jonesborough City Garage celebrates recent awards

Boones Creek school site hits snag at BOA meeting

See “SCHOOL” on Page 2A

See “TAX” on Page 2A

By LISA WHALEYGeneral Manager & Editor

lwhaley@heraldandtribune.comThey are the soldiers behind the services.

The warriors behind the sirens.Yet, for the most part, these unsung he-

roes who keep Jonesborough rolling along earn few accolades.

That is, until now.Within a few short weeks, Jonesbor-

ough’s city garage has pulled in not one, but two honors. And the men who are responsible for the notice couldn’t be more proud.

“I think if you had come to any of us where we were a little kid and told us we would get to work on cars and dump trucks, that’s exactly what you want to do,” said Jonesborough Fleet Manager Gary Ly-kins. “And we still get excited about that.”

Lykins, along with fellow technicians Jerry Davis and Shane Atkins, are three of the key fi gures who keep Jonesborough vehicles on the road. And they’ve been doing their job so well, they were recently designated as one of the 100 Best Fleets in North America, coming in 51st in the list, as part of the National Automotive Fleet Association’s yearly convention in Austin Texas.

“The designation is a competitive com-parison if you will, of some of the fl eets in north America,” Lykins said. Fleets are judged by 10 criteria of fl eet health. Jonesborough has entered the competition in the past and received no recognition, an honorable mention or two and once came it at 89th in the list of 100.

This recognition, he said, is by far the

Tracey Kendall Wilson

See “SUPPORT” on Page 2A

CONTRIBUTEDMayor Kelly Wolfe, center, presents the 100 Best Fleet award to, left to

right, Gary Lykins, Jerry Davis and Shane Atkins.See “GARAGE” on Page 5A

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