This Week in White County History, September 19-25

1972
•White County law enforcement officers were sworn in and took their oaths from Judge David Snodgrass.
•White County High School senior Janice Faye Locke was crowned Fairest of the Fair.
•Lorna Joan Till, whose mother, Joan Harris, and grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. Frank Harris, reside in Sparta, was featured in a television commercial for Chevrolet as well as magazine and billboards for Polaroid.

1982
•Sparta received a federal Appalachian Regional Commission grant of $350,000 for an industrial park and sewer lines.
•Tennessee’s first lady, Honey Alexander, came to Sparta to visit the health department and human services offices on her way to give a speech in Cookeville.
•Deneane Adcock was crowned White County High School homecoming queen. Her attendants were Gina Green, Mimi Wilkerson, Cindy Bradley, and Ramona Prater.

1992
•To alleviate traffic jams at Woodland Park Elementary and Highway 111, the school board voted a new road would be constructed. The road would be located between Winding Lane and Woodland Park and would be approximately 60 yards long.

2002
•Paul Bartlett received the first ever cataract surgery performed at White County Community Hospital. Dr. Colby Stewart performed the surgery.
•Linda Mackie, third grade teacher at BonDeCroft Elementary, was one of 43 Middle Tennessee teachers nominated for the Golden Apple Teacher Award that honors Tennessee’s top teachers.
•Sparta National Guard members were stationed in Ft. Irwin, California, where they trained in preparation for deployment to the Middle East approximately one year after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

2012
•Sparta was awarded a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development for the purpose of sewer system improvements.
•After several months of indecision, White County commissioners finally named Billy Price the county’s director of emergency medical services. Price was a longtime EMS employee and paramedic.
•Tennessee Highway Patrol brought its new Mobile Inspection Station to White County to test the safety of large trucks that could be carrying heavy and potentially dangerous cargo while traveling on Highway 111.