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6—Cleveland Daily Banner—Sunday, January 10, 2016

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Tire dumping
poses problem
in Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA (AP) — A
Marion County sheriff’s detective
on patrol along a stretch a
Tennessee highway has been
looking for a slow-moving truck
loaded with scrap tires.
Sheriff Bo Burnett tells a
Chattanooga newspaper that
someone has been dumping hundreds of tires along the highway,
apparently tossing them from a
vehicle every 20 to 30 feet. The
tires pose a threat to motorists
who sometimes have to dodge
them in the roadway.
“You’d be responsible if you got
somebody killed,” Burnett said.
The sheriff has assigned one
detective to work on the case full
time.
“He’s got some leads but none
of them have panned out enough
to make an arrest,” Burnett said.
His office is considering asking
the district attorney to indict
whoever is arrested for the
dumping on felony charges for
reckless endangerment.
But Marion County is only a
small part of the tire dumping
problem. It’s an urban issue, too.
It’s become so bad in
Chattanooga that Public Works
Director Lee Norris is asking the
City Council to adopt a new ordinance to crack down on dealers
he suspects of dumping used
tires.
Public works employees picked
up some 17,000 scrap tires from
area roadways last year, Norris
said.
Besides the cost in manpower,
the city then has to pay to have
the tires recycled.
Tennessee and most other
states now ban putting scrap
tires in landfills, and the states
require counties and tire dealers
to collect scrap tires and dispose
of them properly.
Tire dealers are required to
collect an environmental fee of
$1.35 per new tire sold to be
used to cover the cost of disposing of old tires. But shady dealers collect the fee and then dump
the scrap tires, according to
Norris.
The proposed Chattanooga
ordinance would force anyone
who deals in tires to keep records
as to how many they have on site
and what they do with them,
including a manifest stating
exactly when and how they disposed of them. That would not
necessarily prevent someone
from dumping tires, but it would
make it easier for the city to
check a dealer’s records if they
were suspected of dumping.
Norris said the ordinance is
not yet in final form, but he
expects to have it ready for city
council review soon.

Cambridge
From Page 1

Banner photo, HOWARD PIERCE

HAnnAH E. HOllEy was recognized for receiving High Achievement on the Cambridge International
Examination series. Holley, a senior at Bradley Central High School, will be attending Lee University in
the fall on a full scholarship. From left are Tracy Penton, co-coordinator of Cambridge at BCHS; Sherry
E. Shroyer, Ed. D., co-coordinator of Cambridge at BCHS; Karen and Jeff Holley, parents of Holley;
Holley; Todd Shoemaker, principal at BCHS; Angie Neely, assistant principal at BCHS; and Kirk
Campbell, dean of academics at BCHS.

Banner photo, HOWARD PIERCE

JAmEs AustIn HAllIDAy was recognized for receiving High Achievement on the Cambridge
International Examination series. A BCHS class of 2015 graduate, Halliday is currently attending the
University of Rochester in upstate New York. From left are Tracy Penton, co-coordinator of Cambridge
at BCHS; Sherry E. Shroyer, Ed. D., co-coordinator of Cambridge at BCHS; Halliday; Todd Shoemaker,
principal at BCHS; Angie Neely, assistant principal at BCHS; and Kirk Campbell, dean of academics at
BCHS.

Banner photo, HOWARD PIERCE

stuDEnts At BCHs, who participated in the June 2015 Cambridge International Examination
series, congratulate each other with high-fives as they walk across the stage after receiving medals for
successfully completing the program during a celebration Friday afternoon in the schools auditorium.

Magazine
From Page 1

In reality, the magazine’s
story is about how Williams’
style of teaching and his students’ continued projects,have
inspired the Cleveland director
of schools to attempt to finds
way of injecting more personalized teaching and learning into
the school system for the betterment of all students.
Last year’s project by
Williams’ engineering students
was published in the Cleveland
Daily Banner in multiple issues.
But, that project is old news. His
students (another group) have
continued with another project
this year.
In the months prior to the holidays, Cleveland High’s engineering student constructed
computers for two local humanitarians, Ann and Ryan
Carmichael, to take back to
Mozambique and Swa