News 2012

The Cannon County SAVE Domestic Violence Program will be hosting a free legal aid clinic today.  The clinic will be held from 11 this morning until 1:30 this afternoon.  Attorneys from Rutherford County Legal Aid Society will be on hand to give free legal advice on topics such as divorce, custody, wills, bankruptcy and more.  To make appointments for today please call the SAVE office as soon as possible at 615-563-6690.  Only civil matters can be handled by the Society.  The Legal Aid Society is not able to handle or advise on any criminal situations.  

Retaliation for past actions got a Cannon County man in all kinds of trouble recently.  According to sheriff’s department reports, deputy Eric Moss was dispatched to a residence on Red Hill Road for a break in.  Upon arrival, he spoke with the victim, Ms. Lori Wilder who stated that when she got home she noticed some money missing in the amount of $300, also taken were some clothes, gift cards, video tapes and a lawn mower.  Ms. Wilder was in the process of moving residences and a Ms. Tequlla Miller was helping in the move.  Ms. Wilder she that she had given Ms. Miller a few things and left them on the porch in a box.  Ms. Wilder also stated that Ms. Miller knew where the spare key to the house was at.  When Ms. Wilder returned home, she noticed the box was gone and no damage to the house had been done which probably meant that the key was used to gain entrance to the house.  The next day Deputy Moss went to Ms. Miller’s residence on Hayes Street.  Deputy Moss noticed a push mower on the back porch that matched the description of the stolen mower.  After questioning Ms. Miller and her boyfriend Clayton Adams, they explained they found the mower in the bushes behind their house.  Later after identifying the stolen mower, police went back to Miller’s residence and charged both Miller and Adams with theft and simple possession of a schedule 4 drug as they also found Xanax in the home without a prescription.  While Mr. Adams was being processed at the Cannon County jail, he allegedly threatened Deputy Moss saying that he was going to burn his house and vehicles and physically assault the deputy if he caught him while off duty.  

In High School sports one match on tap on today’s schedule features the Cannon County Lionette High School Volleyball team.  The Lionettes will travel to Watertown today for a set of matches against the Purple Lady Tigers.  Varsity action starts at 5:30 with the JV matchup to follow afterwards.  Thursday the team split a set of matches beating Central Magnet 28-26 and 25-18.  Ariana Kalliponi had 2 aces, 4 kills and 4 blocks in the game. xAfter beating Central they then faced the host Livingston Academy team and lost 25-14  and 25-9 in two straight sets.  The Cannon County Lionette Soccer team got their first victory of the season beating Friendship Christian 1-0.  Jordan Hollis scored the lone goal for Cannon.  

Varsity  CCHS vs. Central Magnet Set 1:  CCHS 26 – Central Magnet 28
Set 2:  CCHS 25 – Central Magnet 18
 
Ace: Ariana Kailiponi – 2
Kill:  Ariana Kailiponi – 4, Abbey Spry – 1
Block: Ariana Kailiponi – 4, Abbey Spry – 1
Tips:  Emily Sissom- 3, Ariana Kailiponi – 2, Abbey Spry – 12, Marion Wallace – 1
Assist:  Hannah Faulkner – 2, Cheyenne Fann -1, Emily Sissom – 2, Ariana Kailiponi -2, Abbey Spry – 2, Shawni Heery – 1, Marion Wallace – 3
Digs: Haylee Mooneyham – 1, Cheyenne Fann -2, Abbey Spry – 3, Marion Wallace – 3
 
Varsity CCHS vs. Livingston Academy
 
Set 1:  CCHS 14 – Livingston Academy 25
Set 2:  CCHS 9 – Livingston Academy 25
 
Kill:  Ariana Kailiponi – 1
Assist:  Hannah Faulkner – 1, Emily Sissom – 3, Ariana Kailiponi – 1
Block: Ariana Kailiponi – 9, Abbey Spry – 1
Tip:  Emily Sissom – 4, Hannah Faulkner – 1, Ariana Kailiponi – 1, Abbey Spry – 1, Marion Wallace – 1
Digs:  Hannah Faulkner – 1, Haylee Mooneyham – 3, Cheyenne Fann – 4, Abbey Spry – 3, Shawni Heery – 1, Marion Wallace – 2
 

It’s too early in the season to be scheduling homecoming opponents.  But that’s exactly what the Westmoreland Eagles did Friday night.  Before the football game against the Cannon County Lions the Eagles crowned a homecoming queen and then set out to crown a victory over the Lions 35-0.  Cannon fumbled the opening kickoff, then three plays later Westmoreland scored a touchdown.  After Cannon got the ball on their first drive, Westmoreland picked off a pass and returned it for a touchdown and before the first three minutes had passed in the game the Eagles had a 14-0 lead.  Things wouldn’t get much better for Cannon the rest of the first half as the Eagles exploded for 35 points before halftime.  The clock would run non stop due to the mercy rule and the game was completed in a quick one hour and 40 minutes. Cannon will travel to Jamestown to face the Purple Dragons of York Institute in a game next Friday night

The Cannon County Lions will play the first of two back to back road games tonight as they travel to Sumner County to face the Westmoreland Eagles.  Cannon County is 0-3 on the year coming off a loss to state ranked Dekalb County last Friday.  The Eagles are also coming off their first loss of the early season to White House and are 2-1 on the year having collected victories over Eagleville and Glencliff.  Football Friday starts up at 5:30 this afternoon with Murphy’s Matchups followed by the Friday Night Thunder Crew with pregame reports from high school football fields around the midstate.  Local coverage begins at 6:45 with the Coaches Corner followed by the kickoff of the game at 7:00.  WBRY invites you to listen to Football Friday on AM-1540, FM 96.7 and streaming live on the internet at wbry.com  

 MTSU physics and astronomy professor John Wallin will share his expertise on the $390 million Large Synoptic Survey Telescope at the inaugural First Friday Star Party of fall 2012.Wallin will discuss “The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: A New Telescope for the Digital Millennium” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in Room 102 of Wiser-Patten Science Hall.
The public is invited to the free event, which will begin with a 30- to 45-minute public lecture followed by telescope observing outside, if weather permits. MTSU students, faculty and staff and children also are welcome. Free parking is located behind Wiser-Patten, and a printable campus map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTParkingMap12-13. 
MTSU faculty conduct star parties each semester for the public and MTSU students, showcasing astronomy-related events along with the MTSU observatory and naked-eye observatory on Old Main Circle between Wiser-Patten and the Cope Administration Building.
The giant telescope of Wallin’s lecture topic, which is located on the El Penon peak of Cerro Pachon near Vicuna, Chile, currently is in the design and development phase. The project is a partnership of the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and a number of private contributors.
“The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is going to be the major telescope project from NSF over the next decade,” said Wallin, who is a member of the LSST Informatics and Statistics Science Collaboration Team.
“The purpose of this telescope is to monitor any changes in the night sky,” Wallin continued, , adding that the telescope will have an 8.4-meter mirror.
“To do this, it will take images of the entire southern sky every three days using a 2-gigapixel camera. This project is going to generate approximately 30 terabytes of data per day and 70,000 terabytes of data over its 10-year lifetime.”
The facility, depicted in an artist’s rendering at left, will produce an unprecedented wide-field astronomical survey of the universe using the 8.4-meter ground-based telescope. It is in the midst of a seven-year, three-month building phase and is being built alongside the existing Gemini South and Southern Astrophysical Research Telescopes.
At 3,200 megapixels, it will be the world’s largest digital camera. Its light-gathering power is among the largest in the world, enabling it to detect faint objects with short exposures.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s uniquely wide field of view allows it to observe large areas of the sky at once and move quickly between images. It can cover the sky twice a week and take more than 800 panoramic images each night.
Wallin said the primary science purpose of the telescope is to explore “dark energy,” a force that is pushing accelerating galaxies further and further apart.
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Numerous other projects also will take advantage of this facility, he said, including galaxy-evolution studies, asteroid detection and variable star detection.
He added that the project recently received the final go-ahead by the National Science Foundation.
“We anticipate there being funding available in the 2014 budget, with construction slated to be completed by about 2020,” Wallin said.
For more information about the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, visit www.lsst.org.
In addition to his duties as a physics and astronomy professor, Wallin serves as director of MTSU’s computational sciences doctoral program. His primary research is aimed at understanding the gravitational interactions in the universe.
In recent years, Wallin has become involved in the Zooniverse project, which allows volunteer citizen scientists to contribute their eyes and intellect to analyzing scientific data. Under this umbrella, he created the “Merger Zoo” (http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2012/06/15/merger-zoo) with former George Mason University graduate student Anthony Holincheck. This project allowed volunteers to help match simulated galaxy collisions with real interacting systems.
MTSU “First Friday Star Parties” begin at 6:30 p.m. This fall’s scheduled star parties include:

Friday, Oct. 5 — “Funky Fizix in Films: Having Fun at Hollywood’s Expense,” led by Dr. Eric Klumpe, professor of physics and astronomy;

Nov. 2 — “The Autumn Sky: Our Local Galectic Clusters,” led by physics and astronomy instructor Jana Ruth Ford; and

Dec. 7 —“Supernovae: Nature’s Brightest Candles,” led by Dr. Charles Higgins, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
For more information, call 615-898-2430

Jesse Scott, a Cannon County resident, might think twice before jumping into his girlfriend’s car and riding off with her after an assault incident this past Weekend.  According to police reports, Scott told Cannon County Sheriff’s Deputies Tuesday that his girlfriend Regina Smith, picked him up at his home Saturday morning.  As they were driving down Orville Duke Road, Smith told him that she needed to stop in front of Jimmy Murphy’s house for a second.  As Mr. Scott waited in the car, Mr. Johnny Mitchell stepped out from behind a bush and attacked Scott while he was still inside the vehicle.  Mitchell allegedly pulled Scott out of the car and continued his assault.  Mr. Scott then told deputies that he had to walk home and when he got there he found that he had $115 missing that was in his pocket along with his keys.  Mr. Scott said the reason why Mitchell assaulted him was because Mitchell accused him of stealing tools and guns in which Mr. Scott claimed innocence.  Later while making the ID of the suspects, Mr. Scott stated that he was not for sure if he had his money on him at the time of the attack.  Johnny Mitchell was arrested for assault and Regina Smith was also placed under arrest for facilitation to assault  

 FIRST GRADING PERIODProgress Reports – August 27, 2012
Progress Reports – September 17, 2012
Report Cards – October 11, 2012SECOND GRADING PERIOD
Progress Reports – November 5, 2012
Progress Reports – December 3, 2012
Report Cards – January 7, 2013
 THIRD GRADING PERIOD
Progress Reports – January 28, 2013
Progress Reports – February 19, 2013
Report Cards – March 11, 2013
 FOURTH GRADING PERIOD
Progress Reports – April 8, 2013
Progress Reports – April 29, 2013
Report Cards – May 24, 2013

Happy Fall to everyone!  We have so many things happening at the Adams Memorial Library that it is hard to keep up from day to day.  The addition and renovation continues and we will be closing briefly during the last week of September in order to relocate fax and telephone lines and move materials and equipment to the lower level of the library.  Conditions will be a bit “primitive” for a few months.  We will still offer the popular DVD collection and the new materials for checkout. We will still provide fax and photocopy services. Public use computers will be available, too.  After we vacate the main floor, asbestos abatement folks will come in and make the building safe.  Then Preston Brothers and their crew will remodel the entire floor.  (We picked carpeting and tile today and they are beautiful.)  
At the same time that all this is going on, remember that if you prefer a more peaceful environment, you might want to visit the Auburntown Branch Library at 73 East Main Street.  It is fun to see the old bank building where it is housed.  The Auburntown Branch is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and second and fourth Saturdays of each month from 9a.m. to noon.  They have many items that are not held by the Adams Memorial Library .  Your library card can be used there as easily as it can in Woodbury.  Why not consider a visit?
Remember that the Genealogy Collection is temporarily housed at the vacant church at 213 W High Street in Woodbury.  The collection is available for use from 9a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays.
 
Along with all the other activity this fall, both libraries will be getting a new and more sophisticated library automation checkout system.  We will become part of a large consortium with other Tennessee libraries and many new items will be available for you to reserve at other libraries around the state.  The materials will then be delivered by a weekly courier service to the borrowing libraries.  We expect to switch to this new system in mid-October