This Week in White County History, April 13-April 19

2015

• Jackson Kayak, a locally owned manufacturer, purchased the former Genlyte Thomas Group building and joined the Division of Remediations Brownfields Program to remediate the land of contamination.
• Nikole Pryor, a White County High School senior, was selected to be a member of the UCA Cheer Summer Camps staff helping to coach the next generation of cheerleaders.
• Demolition on the Bockman Way building that housed Riverbank Books began. The building had previously been destroyed by a fire, but the demolition was now causing problems for traffic and other local businesses.

2005

• Gas prices hit a record high at $2.13 per gallon.
• White County received $367,407 from TVA in tax equivalent payments.
• Scepter Hardwoods closed their doors and shut down operations.

1995

• The United Fund in White County received a donation of $3,310 from Cooper Industries and their local Wagner Lighting Plant.
• William Earl Edmonds received numerous medals, including the Purple Heart, that he earned while serving in the Army during World War II.
• Kellie Jolly brought home both MVP and the three-point shootout title form the Tennessee-Pennsylvania All Star game.

1985

• Nena Puckett was named as one of the five collegiate basketball players on the Kodak All-District Women’s basketball Team for District IX for NCAA Division Community Colleges.
• Guy Zimmerman assumed duties of area forester in the division’s Sparta office.
• Sparta’s Fire Chief Charles Hyder officially announced his retirement.

1975

• Jack Franklin, a local attorney, was selected as the drive chairman for the 1975 UGF fund drive.
• Steve Slatten was listed as a member of the Aquinas Junior College baseball team in Nashville.
• Mayor Herman Cowden was sworn into his second term in office.