SCV Savage-Goodner Camp Pays Tribute to Confederate Veterans Buried at Mt. Holly Cemetery

April 15, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

Several people joined members of the Savage-Goodner Camp 1513 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Thursday evening for the dedication of a memorial to Confederate Veterans interred at Mt. Holly Cemetery on Allens Ferry Road near Elizabeth Chapel Baptist Church.

About 40 people were in attendance.

The event was held in conjunction with Confederate History month in Tennessee. During that month in 1862, the Battle of Shiloh was fought in West Tennessee. With this bloody battle came the realization the War Between the States would bring unprecedented human suffering. The War also ended in April with the surrender of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in 1865. To recognize Confederate History Month and local Confederate Veterans, the Savage-Goodner Camp 1513 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans dedicated a memorial to Confederate Veterans interred at Mt. Holly Cemetery,. A brief ceremony at the cemetery was held with military and civilian reenactors along with the unveiling of a memorial sign containing the names of the Confederate Veterans buried in Mt. Holly Cemetery.

Those Confederate Veterans being memorialized are:

Jacob Atnip
George Washington Bond
Joseph H. Bozarth
Samual Arch Carter
William Hayes
James S. Holley
John S. Holley
Henry C. Johnson
Bartemus H. Pack
John Pack
W.M. Pack
Arvine Peyton Page
James D. Robinson
Jeremiah (Jerry) Smith
Chesley Taylor
David C. Taylor
Pete E. Taylor
James T. Trapp
John A. Trapp
E. C. Walker
Henry L. Winfree
William Winfree

April 14, 2023
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The Smithville-DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce and the DeKalb County Mayor’s office would like to invite residents across the county to participate in the DeKalb County Clean Up on Saturday, May 6th.

“We are encouraging everyone to form teams at your work, neighborhood, or organization, then post pictures with the name of your team to the Smithville-DeKalb County Chamber or DeKalb Clean Up Facebook Page,” said Chamber Executive Director Suzanne Williams.

The DeKalb Clean Up event will be held in conjunction with the Keep America Beautiful initiative going on across the country.

DeKalb Clean Up volunteers are asked to stop by the DeKalb County Complex on May 6th between 9 AM and 10 AM to sign-in and pick up the provided trash bags, rubber gloves, and bottles of water. “We will be taking a group picture at 9:30 AM for the media if you like to participate in that. If you can’t be there to sign-in, call the Chamber office at 615-597-4163 to be counted as a DeKalb Clean Up volunteer — just give your name and the general area where you will be working,” Williams continued.

“Right now, Keep America Beautiful® is working hard to restore and build more resilient communities across the country to Clean and Green America by 2030! They are doing this through the power of the Keep America Beautiful affiliates, volunteers, and partners,” she said.

The Great American Clean Up takes place annually with an estimated 500,000 volunteers taking part in 15,000 community events nationwide through programs that deliver positive and lasting impact through events focused on waste reduction, recycling, beautification, and community greening.

County Mayor Matt Adcock says, “We invite people to come out and help clean up around our communities and highways. Folks are welcome to pick up litter at places of their choice, or we will be glad to assign a safe place for you.”

“We would like to remind everyone that DeKalb County’s peak tourism season is about to begin, so now is a great time to start getting things spruced up for our coming visitors. Working together, we can better ensure that our public places are beautiful and healthy spaces,” said Williams.

To get a head start on clean up, dumpsters will be set up at highly visible and convenient locations a few days prior to the main event. Dumpster locations will be at the Dowelltown Community Center, Liberty Community Center, Alexandria City Parking Lot (behind square), and the DeKalb County Complex parking lot.

During the week of May 1st to May 6th, State-Restricted, Hazardous-Class materials including Liquid Paint, Flammable Liquids, Asbestos, Medical Waste, and Tires can be taken to Snow’s Hill Dump Site.

“You, too, can become part of this growing movement to beautify and unify communities across the country to transform the nation. Whether you’re cleaning up around a street, a highway, park, ballfield, stream, or your own home, what a difference we can make through working together to make our communities safer, healthier, and more livable,” said Williams. For more information, contact the Chamber of Commerce at 615-597-4163.

April 14, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

Any threat made toward a school ‒ even if it is a joke or prank ‒ will not be tolerated and students will face full consequences.

Director of Schools Patrick Cripps issued that warning during Thursday night’s regular monthly meeting of the Board of Education.

“This is a message for parents and students alike. We are asking you, in light of the recent tragedy of the school shooting at Covenant, that parents sit down and talk with their kids about the seriousness of any threats that they may make on social media, at school during school time, or outside of school because they will be dealt with as a school issue due to it involving the safety of our students, our faculty and staff,” said Director Cripps.

“We have talked to Judge (Brandon) Cox, Sheriff (Patrick) Ray and our SRO’s and had meetings about safety because we can’t take threats lightly. Its very serious and its important that we talk to our children and students about the seriousness of those actions (threats) because there will be consequences and those consequences will be severe,” Director Cripps continued.

“We don’t ever know the mindset of someone when they make a threat and I think it is imperative that parents and students understand that if you make threats, (threatening) comments on social media, or look things up on your computer or phone, those will be dealt with and we will punish students for making those threats at the school level and through the judicial system. It its our goal to send every kid home safely every day. We can’t play mind readers so I beg kids, if they have something going on in their life they are struggling with that they reach out to their parents, faculty, staff, or other adults to get help. Parents, we ask that you reach out to us and allow us to help so that we can prevent a tragedy from happening. It’s a different world we are living in and I want to reiterate that threats, even if it is said off the cuff, will be taken seriously and it will be dealt with and the punishment for students may seem harsh to parents but when it (threats) strikes fear in a community and within a school it has to be addressed. Again, parents I ask that you sit down and talk with your students and we will be sending out reminder messages from our schools asking you to do that and if you should see or hear anything (threatening), please let us know so that hopefully we can help someone before they make a decision that they can never take back. Taking someone’s like, you can’t take back. There is tragedy on both sides of that so I just ask for your help as a community to keep our schools safe,” said Director Cripps.

“This community is lucky because if you go to a lot of surrounding communities, not everyone has an SRO in every building. Kudos to this county because the county commission, sheriff’s department, and school board pay for our SROs (one at each of the five schools) out of their budgets and its all about trying to keep our schools safe. We are thankful for our SROs and the everyone who helps fund those,” added Director Cripps.

In other business, Director Cripps remembered Emma Jean Martin, a veteran teacher of 44 years, who passed away in February. “We appreciate her service and our prayers are with her family,” he said.

In his monthly personnel report, Director Cripps informed the board that Callie Betancourt, Trent Colwell, and Tina Paschal have been granted a leave of absence as requested.

The monthly board of education meeting next month will be Thursday, May 18 at 7 p.m. instead of May 11.

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