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2A DAILY NEWS TheDailyNewsJournalispublishedonline atwww.dnj.com MAINNUMBER615-893-5860 ADVERTISING615-893-5860 ADVERTISINGFAX615-881-7735 CLASSIFIED615-242-7253 HOMEDELIVERY1-877-424-0203 aboutyoursubscription.dnj.com NEWS615-278-NEWS(6397) SPORTS615-278-5168 SeanLupton 615-278-5181 NewsDepartment 615-893-5860 HOWTOREACHUS FULLACCESSSUBSCRIPTIONRATES CUSTOMERSERVICE Allfullaccesssubscriptionsincludeaccesstodnj.com,tablet, mobileandthee-Newspaper. 1-877-424-0203 Sat.7:00a.m.–1:00p.m.&Sun.7:30a.m.–1:00p.m. AllprinteditiondeliverysubscriptionsincludetheThanks- chargeswillbeaddedtoyourbillingcorrespondingtothe deliverydateoftheedition. EZPayisaconvenientmethodforautomaticallypaying yoursubscription.Tostartorswitchasubscriptionpay- menttoEZPaycall1-877-424-0203. peredition.

Allmailshouldbesentto: TheDailyNewsJournal 201E.MainSt.,Suite400 ADVERTISINGPOLICIES: inthefirstissueitappears.Ifyouradisincorrect,pleasecallusat615-893-5860tohaveitfixed.Thepublisher reservestherighttoeditorrejectanyadvertisingcopysubmittedforpublicationandliabilityforallcontentof advertisements.RatesandadditionalpoliciesregardingthepublicationofadvertisinginTheDailyNewsJournal areavailablethroughourAdvertisingDepartment. POSTMASTERNOTICE E.MainSt.,Suite400,Murfreesboro,TN37130. news jenningsandayers.com TN-0001157082 Age 69 July 16, 2017. Leonard was Pastor of Green Hill Baptist Church for over 25 years. He served as Senior Chaplain for the Smyrna Police Department and StoneCrest Medical Center.

He served our country in Vietnam in the U.S. Marine Corps. Survived by his wife, Linda Waller Rader; daughters, Jenny (Spencer) Barham, Louisville, KY, Lori (Frankie) Mechanicsville, VA Kerri (John) Capps, Smyrna, TN; grandchildren, Easton, Camille Claire Barham, Madeline Talia Bundick, Hannah Wallen Kendall Capps; sister, Martha Ann Rader; brother, Kenneth Rader; mother-in-law, Martha Waller. Visitation will be Friday, July 21, 2017, from 4-8 p.m. at Woodbine Funeral Home, HICKORY CHAPEL, 5852 Nolensville Road and Saturday, from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

at the church. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, July 22, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. at Green Hill Baptist Church, 6309 Burnt Knob Road, Murfreesboro, TN, by Dr. Michael Smith Rev. Danny Henderson.

Interment Triune Cemetery with Military Honors. Honorary Pallbearers: Smyrna Police Department. In lieu of owers, memorial contributions may be made to Green Hill Baptist Church in his memory. Woodbine Funeral Home, Hickory Chapel Directors 615-331-1952. Still Family Owned REV.

LEONARD C. RADER Smyrna, TN Age 71. July 20th, 2017. Visitation with the family will be Saturday July 22nd 4-7 at Woodbine Hickory Chapel. Sunday July 23rd 12-2 at McDonald Funeral Home, Inc.

in Hohenwald. Funeral Services Sunday 2 PM at McDonald Funeral Home, Inc. in Hohenwald with Bill Webb ciat- ing. Mrs. Hickerson is preceded in death by her parents Frank E.

Short and Margaret Mann Short, her husband Terry S. HIckerson and her sister Janice Todd. Survivors include her son Chad Hickerson Daughter Terri Speir (Bill) Brothers Larry Short (Carol), Mike Short (Nancy) Sister Elaine Short and Grandchildren William Speir, Leslie Speir and Jackson Shrigley Speir If you wish to make a donation in Mrs. name please do so to the Association or One by One Ministries. mcdonaldfuneralhomes.

org. 931-796-2207. BEVERLY SHORT HICKERSON Franklin, TN Daniels, Fred Woodbury, TN 69 10:45 am Heartland Baptist Church Smith Funeral Home 615-563-5337 Hickerson Beverly Short Franklin, TN 71 2:00 pm McDonald Funeral Home, Inc. McDonald Funeral Home, Inc. 931-796-2207 Pritchard, Chris Murfreesboro, TN 42 Arrangements pending Wood Memorial Chapel 615-893-5151 Rader, Rev.

Leonard C. Smyrna, TN 69 1:00 pm Green Hill Baptist Church Woodbine Funeral Home 615-331-1952 Death Notices Name City, State Age Death Day, Time Place of Service Funeral Home Phone good Elementary School, afuture Community Technology Center that the Linebaugh Library System is building and a fire station that should be replaced in the next two to three years, the mayor said. hoping this ($1 million grant) will be the said McFarland, who hopes to extend the sidewalk even before the fire station that was built in the 1950s gets replaced. Linebaugh Director Rita Shacklett agreed that sidewalks will be helpful in serving a $1.8 million Community Technology Center she expects to open by May or June 2018. should be a lot of foot traffic, and it would be nice to have the sidewalks going all the way down said Shacklett, who noted the technology center will offer computer access and training for students and residents searching for jobs, as well as meeting rooms for businesses.

Sen. Tracy helps city win sidewalk grant Sidewalks will be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, Gov. Haslam said. The project will include crosswalks with pedestrian signals at traffic lights make Murfreesboro an even better place to said Haslam, a former Knoxville mayor who noted how sidewalks improve the quality of life. Congress established the transportation alternative grant funding years ago for pedestrian projects such as the one for Mercury, Haslam said.

Murfreesboro applied for the federal grant. Local officials including state Sen. Jim Tracy, a Republican from Shelbyville, also helped in the process of the Tennessee government choosing the Mercury Boulevard sidewalk project for the competitive grant, the governor said. Tracy calls sidewalks big deal for Tracy told the audience at Patterson Park that the sidewalk upgrade is needed for this $1 million is a lot for Tracy said. things happen by Local and state officials working together is what it took for Murfreesboro to win the grant the betterment of the community and the quality of life of the said Tracy, a past chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee.

is really a big deal for Tracy said. Reach Scott Broden at 615-278-5158. Follow him on Twitter Mercury Continued from Page 1A ing for she said. contribute all of that progress so far to that. The medical staff at Vanderbilt has been wonderful but I would say the community of Murfreesboro has reached out in ways that I never could have According to the family, everybody from the fire department to the police department, the city of Murfreesboro, local churches and police departments from other parts of the state and country have been reaching out, coming to visit and asking how they can help.

police department have shown their support. The Metro police chief has been down here to the hospital and some of their captains have been down here to visit. The law enforcement community has really also pulled together. even received letters of support from two different locations in Stern said. According to Stephanie Etheridge sister, Carol Cooper, the Sterns met in Murfreesboro, got married here and started their family here.

definitely home to Cooper said. were talking just about how so evident that God has his protec- tive and healing hand on Matt. God obviously still has work for him to do Doctors at Vanderbilt have told the family that Matthew condition is finally got to see him (last) Thursday night, late, which was Stephanie Etheridge Stern said, then to see him able to sit up today is just when I first saw him Thursday, I sure we would ever get to right Friends of the family have set up a Gofundme pageto help raise money for costs associated with Matthew care. just out there for anybody that feels led to donate. He has a long road of recovery ahead of him for sure.

Just the fact that here is such an answer to pray- er. Certainly prayers and support are definitely appreciated for his Cooper said. Stern Continued from Page 1A SUBMITTED Murfreesboro Police officer Matthew Stern and his son Hunter, 1. Stern was injured in a motorcycle crash while on duty last week and is making a slow but steady recovery at Vanderbilt Medical Center. CANTON, Miss.

The United Auto Workers faces a strong anti-union campaign from Nissan Motor Co. as it tries to gain a foothold in the union-averse South by organizing workers at the Japanese Mississippi plant. As many as 4,000 workers will vote Aug. 3 and Aug. 4 at the vehicle assembly plant in Canton, just north of Jackson.

The union promises it would help negotiate better working conditions, benefits and wages at the plant. However, managers warn that the UAW will ultimately hurt both the company and the workers. Union supporters tried to pressure Nissan for years into staying neutral, or at least toning down its anti-union stance. But managers, while saying workers get to decide, are pushing against the UAW. The company is broadcasting anti-union videos inside the plant, and the UAW says supervisors are pulling workers into private meetings to gauge UAW support and persuade workers against unionizing.

The UAW has tried to bolster support among the majority-African American workforce by linking union support to civil rights, but even union supporters admit message is causing some pro-UAW workers to waver. who were for the union are now said Shanta Butler, a union supporter. The stakes are high. The UAW has never organized an entire foreign- owned auto plant in the South, although it did win an election among maintenance technicians at a Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Foreign automakers came South in part to avoid unions, and most benefit from lower labor costs.

Workers at plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, rejected the UAW in 1989 and 2001 votes, but this is the first election in Canton. Though unions have struggled to crack southern auto plants owned by foreign companies, unions have prevailed nationwide in 65 percent of elections from October through June, National Labor Relations Board figures show. The top Nissan executive in Canton appeared in the first video urging rejection of the UAW barely a day after the union announced that it had filed a petition with the labor board to hold the election. know the union will make promises it keep to get you to vote for the Marsh said in a recorded video message to workers. when you see the empty promises for what they really are, and get the complete facts, the choice is Anti-union messages from managers unusual in labor elections, but the pressure can be very uncomfortable for workers.

is often very said Vanderbilt University sociologist Dan Cornfield, who has studied unions. tense because both sides feel a lot is riding on it for UAW Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel said the goal is to help wavering union supporters enough to stick with the union in the face of anti-union messages. Nissan contends the UAW history of strikes and other actions have caused economic losses for workers and automakers; Nissan maintains its workers already have good pay and benefits. never seen a more aggressive Casteel said in a phone interview. Casteel called efforts but Nissan spokeswoman Parul Bajaj rejected that description.

Managers have said giving work- ers the facts about the UAW. respects and values the Canton workforce, and our history reflects that we recognize the rights to decide for themselves whether or not to have third-party Bajaj said. The union alleged any new violations of federal labor law. Following earlier UAW allegations, the NLRB charged, among other things, that managers illegally questioned workers and threatened to close the plant if it unionized. The 14-year-old plant is where Frontier and Titan pickups, Murano SUVs and NV vans are assembled.

UAW supporters have protested against opposition to the UAW around the world, especially in France. The French government owns nearly 20 percent of the Renault Group, business partner. UAW, Nissan pressing high-stakes campaign for votes Employees to decide on union early next month JEFF AMY ASSOCIATED PRESS ROGELIO V. PHOTO Thousands march to Nissan Motor Canton, plant in March 4, following a pro-union rally. The United Auto Workers faces a strong anti-union campaign from Nissan Motor Co.

as it tries to gain a foothold in the union-averse South by organizing workers at the Japanese Mississippi plant. As many as 4,000 workers will vote Aug. 3-4at the vehicle assembly plant in Canton, just north of Jackson..