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6A DAILY NEWS news JENNINGS AYERS FUNERAL HOME jenningsandayers.com TN-0001102472 passedawayApril11, 2016.Hewasanativeof ofthelateAntonand DorothyGalloisMicona. Funeralserviceswill pelwithRev.Dr.John A.Hinkle,Jr.officiating. BurialwillbeinEver- greenCemetery.Visita- tionwillbeFridayfrom rialChapel. Mr.Miconaissurvived byhiswifeof63years, andCynthiaM.Smith (William)ofAdvance, JohnKitchens(Tanda), andLoraSmithandFi- precededindeathbyson- in-lawDavidKitchens; AnabelleHaaksmaand EloiseStracinsky. Mr.MiconawasaNavy veteranoftheKorean Warandanelectrical engineerhavingretired fromCommonwealth EdisoninIllinoisafter 43yearsofservice.He attendedFirstPresby- terianChurchofMur- freesboroandwasalso arulingelderandmem- berofthePresbyteryat theUnitedPresbyterian ChurchofSouthHol- berofTheAmericanLe- traveler.

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VisitationwillbeFri- p.m.atWoodfinChapel inSmyrna. Anonlineguestbookis availableatwww.wood- 615-459-3254 RolandIreland ThomasR.Rowlette, age70ofMurfreesboro, diedTuesdayathishome. HewasborninMurfrees- boroandwasasonof thelateT.R.andBeulah McClanahanRowlette. Hewasalsoprecededby Scruggs. Survivorsincludehis lenandhusbandSeth andMichelleDavyand husbandRaymond; familyandfriends.

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Funeralservicetwillbe at1pmwithScottMoore, andBrettSalomonas pallbearersandBrother BurialwillfollowatEv- ergreenCemetery. Flowersandcondo- lencesmaybesentto MurfreesboroFuneral Home. www.murfreesborofu- neralhome.com AngieMarie Prayter 65 LawrenceFuneralHome 931-364-2233 58 98 615-893-5151 82 615-459-3254 87 615-893-5151 65 MurfreesboroFuneralHome 615-896-2229 70 615-893-5151 DeathNotices If you walked into the Murfreesboro Police and Fire Communications Center anytime this week, almost be able to ear the ocean. A beach heme filled the room, rom plastic sand pails filled with goodies to in- latable palm trees in the corner. Why? This week is National Public Safety Communications Week, and the police and fire departments wanted to let their dis- atch operators know just how important they are.

he dispatchers are there or emergency calls 24 ours a day, seven days a week. are the critical link to keeping our firefighters and police officers said Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue Chief Mark Foulks at a pecial ceremony Wednesday morning at the dispatch center. Karl Durr, new police chief, agreed. provide a critical connection between the public getting help and the resources they said. Lt.

Garry Carter of the Murfreesboro Police Department gave the invocation, commending the dis- atch officers for their patience in dealing with the public, their nerves of steel, their empathy and their courage. He also offered prayers for their families and the sacrifices they had to make. Help them never forget why they chose this job in the first Carter concluded. think they have one the most stressful jobs there said Assistant Fire Chief Kaye Jernigan. Dispatcher Brandy Sweeney was recognized as the ispatcher of the weeney was chosen in part because she akes pride in ensuring compliance with NCIC policies and serves as a role model for others.

does her best to ensure safety of all said Major Anita Flagg at the cere- ony. helps out her fellow workers henever she is need- he will also be recognized at the annual Telecommunicator of the Year awards ceremony hosted by the Rutherford County Emergency Communications District on Frid ay. City Manager Rob Lyons also presented a proclamation on behalf of Murfreesboro Mayo Shane MacFarlane and the city, celebrating this as National Telecommunicators Week. MARY M. REEVES MARY Major Anita Flagg announces Brandy Sweeney as the Dispatcher of the Year for the Murfreesboro Police and Fire a nd Rescue Communications Center while Fire Chief Mark oulks and Police Chief Karl Durr, right, look on.

Brandy weeney, Dispatch- of the ear Dispatchers honored by city NASHVILLE- The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday declined to take up Volks- challenge of a nion vote at its lone U.S. a ssembly plant in Tennessee. In a 2-1decision, the panel refused to consider he German appeal on the basis that it aised substantial issues warranting Volkswagen had unsuccessfully sought to block a union vote among agroup of about 160 work- rs specializing in the repair and maintenance of achinery and robots, arguing that labor decisions should be made by all 1,400 blue-collar workers a the plant. The company also questioned the timing the vote amid its struggles to cope with the fallout of its diesel emissions cheating scandal. The regional director allowed the vote to move forward, and the United Auto Workers won the December election on a108-44 vote, ending a decades-long losing streak in union elections among foreign automak- rs in the South.

ut Volkswagen declined to enter into contract negotiations while challenging the election the federal labor panel. With order, the LRB has clearly stated that it views the skilled- trades election in Chattanooga as a legal and app ropriate step toward meaningful employee UAW Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel said in a statement. call on Volkswagen to immediately ove forward with UAW Local 42, in the German pirit of he said. Volkswagen spokesman Scott Wilson said in a email that the company is the decision a nd evaluating our The effort to unionize only a small portion of workers at the plant followed a narrow UAW defeat in a 2014 union vote among all hourly workers. In the run-up to that vote, state lawmakers warned that state tax credits could be threatened if the union won the election.

A nti-labor groups rented billboards around Chattanooga linking Det woes to UAW success there, and Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker roclaimed that Volkswagen would quickly announce a decision to build anew SUV at the plant if the union was defeated. While Volkswagen publicly denied that there was a link between the nion vote and the plant expansion decision, union upporters argued that he GOP statements had a chilling ef- ect on workers who wor- ied about the future if the new vehicle produced there. As it turned out, Volkswagen announced the new UV would be produced i Chattanooga five onths after the vote.

The lant is scheduled to begin producing the new ve- icle before the end of the ear. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Wednesday aid that he had agreed with chal- enge, and that the ffort to make the union- i zation push at the plant uring the emissions candal a lack of espect for the overall ealth and well-being of the NLRB declines union challenge ERIK SCHELZIG ASSOCIATED PRESS MURFREESBORO he former Murfreesboro police officer ar- ested in November after aTBI child pornography investigation has been indicted by the April grand jury and will appear in court Monday to be arraigned. Kevin Dunn was origin ally charged with five counts of especially ag- ravated sexual exploita- ion of a minor, but the rand jury indictmentin- creased the charges he will be facing. In December, he was bound over to the grand jury in Judge Ben Hall general sessions court.

Dunn is now being harged with six counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of more than 25 incidents of ag- ravated sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of more than 100 incidents of sexual exploitation of a minor. Dunn, who was an active member of the Mur- freesboro olice Dep artment a the time of his ar- est on Nov. 23, was terminated Nov. 24. According to the news release from the TBI issued at the time of his arrest, agents developed inform ation which led to Dunn as an individual ho had distributed im- a ges consistent with hild have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to alleged law violations by our said Glenn Chrisman, who was Murfreesboro police chief at the ime.

to the seriousness of the accusations and the evidence presented by the TBI investigators, the most appro- riate course of action was to terminate his Dunn remains in the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center on a $750,000 bond. Ex-officer indicted in orn case STAFF REPOR Dunn.