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Carroll County Democrats gathered to help kick off the 2012 campaign season for local candidates.

Gathered at the Carroll Bank and Trust Community Room, Democratic candidates Brad Thompson, Wes Bradley, Gina Atkins, and Mark Maddox an-nounced their campaigns.

Thompson is seeking the state senate seat now held by retiring senator Roy Herron. Thompson resides in Obion County, was the district director for Con-gressman John Tanner for 14 years, and is now the economic development director for Martin.

We s B r a d l e y o f C o t t a g e

Grove is running for U.S. Con-gress. He has worked for 17 years with the Henry County Sheriff ’s Department.

Gina Atkins of Huntingdon is the deputy clerk in the office of Carroll County Property Asses-sor. Mrs. Atkins was named first deputy under the administra-tion of the late Johnny Radford. She is seeking the two-year un-expired term of Radford.

Mark Maddox of Dresden is seeking the office of state rep-resentative. Maddox is the tech-nology coordinator for Weakley County Schools and served as representative for 12 years.

Matthew J. Foster has been awarded a $500 educational award in a national compe-tition with other students who are members of Modern Woodmen of America. Modern Woodmen, a fraternal benefit society offering financial ser-vices, has local representatives and is based in Rock Island, Illinois.

Foster, the son of Ricky and Lana Foster of Westport, plans to use the grant to attend Bethel University in McKenzie.

Foster is one of 100 grant win-ners chosen this year.

During the past 40 years, Modern Woodmen has commit-ted millions of dollars in finan-cial assistance to hundreds of students through its Fraternal Scholarship Program.

Applications for the 2012-2013 Scholarship Program will be taken in the fall of 2012.

Local Moder n Woodmen representative is Angela G. Hopper.

McKenzie Pack 78 celebrated their an-nual Blue and Gold Banquet at McKenzie Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Sat-urday, April 21. The Blue and Gold Banquet is an opportunity to recognize the scouts

for their hard work throughout the year. The theme of this year’s Blue and Gold

was the Arrow of Light. This is the highest award a cub scout can earn before becom-ing a boy scout. The award was achieved

by Ethan Ricketts. After the Arrow of Light presentation, there was a cross-ing over ceremony. During the ceremony Ethan crossed over from Cub Scouts to the Huntingdon Boy Scout Troop 73.

South Carroll Relay For Life Rook winners for April 28 are: First Place, Linda Burcham and Vickie Evans; Second Place, Nancy Gatley

and John Mann; Third Place,

Mildred and Hershel Byars;

and Fourth Place, Billy Camp-

bell and Jim Burcham.

McKenzie Pack 78 Blue and Gold Banquet

McKenzie Regional Hospi-tal hosted a Service Awards luncheon for employees who had completed 5, 10, 15 and 20 years of service during the first quarter of 2012. They were recognized and honored for their service and commitment to the facil-ity. Certificates and awards to commemorate the occa-sion were presented. Recipi-ents were: (5 years) Jenni-fer Hilliard - Pharmacy; (10 years) Kyle Smith - Labor/Delivery; Dana Beth Ed-wards – Med/Surg Nursing; and Michelle Wyatt – Med/Surg-Nursing; (15 years) An-gie Connell – Emergency Department and Derek Mer-ritt – EMS; (20 years) Mike Balius – EMS.

Left to right: Darrell Blaylock, CEO; Jennifer Hilliard, Mike Balius, Kyle Smith, Dana Beth Edwards, and Michelle Wyatt. Not pictured are: Derek Merritt and Angie Connell.

McKenzie Regional Employees Receive Service Awards

Democrats Kick Off Campaign in County

Mark MaddoxWes Bradley

Gina Atkins Brad Thompson

South Carroll Relay For Life Rook Winners

Foster Earns Modern Woodmen Scholarship

NASHVILLE — The Tennes-see Bureau of Investigation today released the “Crime on Campus 2011” report which shows a s l ight increase of crime statewide on Tennessee’s campuses after a decrease in re-ported offenses for 2010. Prior to 2010, the state saw a decrease of crime on campus every year between 2004 and 2008 with a slight increase in 2009.

There were 7,493 offenses re-ported in 2011 compared with 7,190 in 2010, a 4.2% increase overall. Violent crime was also up nearly 20% for a second year in a row.

Overview of Reported Of-fenses

• Drug/Narcotics and drug equipment violations have in-creased yearly since 2008 for a total increase of approxi-mately 47% with 2010 to 2011 having the largest increase of nearly 26%. There were 772 of these type of offenses reported in 2011.

• There was a 47% increase in forcible sex of fenses re -ported from the previous year and an increase in the number of reported rapes with 20 re-ported overall.

• 37% of all 2011 offenses reported were categorized as

larceny/theft which is an in-crease from 2010. However, there was an overall decrease of 3% since 2009.

• Overall, assault offenses increased by 6.5% with aggra-vated assaults being down and simple assaults increasing.

• Theft of motor vehicle offenses have declined nearly 25% since 2009.

• DUI violations have de-creased 25% since 2008.

The TBI publishes the an-nual Crime on Campus report pursuant to the 1989 College and University Security In-formation Act enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly. All colleges and universities are mandated to report crime statistics to TBI in an effort t o a s s i s t l aw e n fo rc e m e n t , institution administrations and gover nment of ficials in planning their efforts to fight crime and applying crime pre-vention strategies.

To view a full copy of the “Crime on Campus 2011” re-port, including statistics from each individual institution, go to www.tbi.tn.gov and click on “Statistical Analysis Center” from the “Tennessee Crime Statistics” button on TBI’s homepage.

TBI Releases “Crime On Campus 2011”