Four Seasons Fire Hall Construction Could Be Completed This Summer

May 31, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Construction is expected to be completed later this summer on a new county fire hall in the Four Seasons Community, a project that has been in the making for four years.

In November the county commission voted 10-4 to award the bid for the project to Johnson Builders of Doyle, Tennessee. Their base bid was $160,820 with alternate deducts of $8,000 for work on the parking lot and $4,000 to add insulation to the building. The contractor had 270 days from the start of construction to complete the project. Inclement weather over the winter forced delays until late spring.

When the fire hall is finished, the county will have a fire truck ready to put in it after having secured grant funds with a local match months ago. The fire truck, 1993 model with less than 25,000 miles was purchased in October for $25,000 from a fire department in Connecticut.

The new fire station at Four Seasons will be the 12th station in the county operated by the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department. The other fire halls are on Short Mountain Highway, Midway Community, Belk, Keltonburg, Cookeville Highway, Austin Bottom Community, Liberty, Temperance Hall, Main Station, Johnson Chapel, and Blue Springs.

May 31, 2019
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On May 4th, 2019, five hundred and seventy four students graduated from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. Lydia Danielle Trail, a resident of Liberty and a first-generation college student, was among the numbers earning her Bachelor of Arts in English-Writing and a minor in Spanish.

After graduating from DeKalb County High School in May 2015, Trail started Lee in the fall of the same year. She became a member of the Student Leadership Council, a leadership council member of Sigma Tau Delta (the university’s English honors society), a community builder of Tharp Hall, a student worker for the Department of Language & Literature and the School of Nursing, a member of the Anthropology Club, and an intern for GenZ Publishing. While at Lee, she also traveled to Guatemala on a university medical missions trip and represented the university at the annual Sigma Tau Delta convention in St. Louis and presented her creative nonfiction piece “I Loathe You, Asthma.”

Trail was a Lettie Pate Whitehead scholar for four years, which is a scholarship awarded to less than 40 female Lee students every year, and was also awarded the Presidential scholarship.

She is the daughter of Heidi Trail, granddaughter of George & Linda Tripp, great-granddaughter of Doyle & Jesse Christian of Woodbury, and niece of Angela Tripp and Cassie Tripp.

May 31, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

If you love gospel music by local talent you are in for a blessing.

Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad presents Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour from 5-6 p.m. Sunday night, June 2.

The program airs once a month, on the first Sunday night of each month, from 5-6 p.m. featuring recorded local talent performing gospel music.

Sunday night’s program will showcase the music of the Joyful Praises and Right on Time.

Tune in the first Sunday night of each month for the Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour from 5-6 p.m. on WJLE.

WJLE is proud of our partner sponsors of religious programs each week and hopes you will tune in often and let them know you listen.

•Got A Minute?: 60 second message presented by the Smithville Church of Christ with Dan Gulley-Twice a day Monday-Friday each week (various times morning and around noon)

•Cross Connection sponsored by the Upper Helton Baptist Church featuring Jimmy Arms: Monday-Friday at 11:55 a.m. each week

•Morning Devotion: A 5 minute daily devotional by a different minister each week Monday-Saturday at 7:25 a.m.

•Amazing Facts sponsored by the Smithville Seventh Day Adventist Church: Saturdays at 7:00 a.m. each week

The following are weekly sponsored Sunday programs:

•7:00 a.m.: Speak Life with Richard Bane

•7:30 a.m.: Royce Moore of the New West Point Freewill Baptist Church (The Way of Life Ministry)

•8:00 a.m. Elders Joseph and Ricky Arnold for the New Bildad and Mount View Primitive Baptist Churches (The Firm Foundation)

•8:30 a.m. Outreach Baptist Church with Nathan Thomason (The Outreach Pulpit)

•9:00 a.m. The Keltonburg Missionary Baptist Church (Only Through the Blood)

•9:30 a.m. LOCAL NEWS

•9:35 a.m. Trent Colwell of the Smithville Church of the Nazarene (The Living Word)

•10:00 a.m. Steve Warren of Faith Chapel Ministries (Faith for the Hour)

•10:30 a.m. Bobby Thomason of the Covenant Baptist Church (Fountain of Faith Ministries)

•11:00 a.m. Worship Services from either the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian (Isaac Gray) or Smithville First United Methodist (Dr. John Carpenter) Churches

•12:00 NOON: LOCAL NEWS

1:00 p.m.: Truth that Transforms with Aaron Wright

•1:30 p.m. The Preaching Ministry of Toy Lawson of the People’s Pentecostal Church

•2:30 p.m. Billy Hale of the Christ Pentecostal Church of Brush Creek (The King is Coming)

•3:00 p.m. Prophet James Ferrell of the Church of Jesus Christ (The Word of the Lord)

•4:00 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

•4:15 p.m. Royce Curtis of the People’s Missionary Baptist Church

•5:00 p.m. Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour (1st Sunday)

•6:05 p.m. Gospel music sponsored by Cantrell’s Furniture and Appliances

•9:05 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

Listen each week on WJLE AM 1480 and WJLE FM 101.7 and LIVE Streaming at www.wjle.com.

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