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Body of missing man found Funeral to be held in Alabama Thursday By ECHO DAY eday@covingtonleader.com
The cars came one-by-one Saturday afternoon, curiosity getting the better of their drivers. They came from Highway 54 East, turned down Cotton Lake Road, and drove slowly to the spot where evidence flags mark the curve that killed Michael Holland Jr. As a slight breeze blew the short stalks of corn in the adjacent fields, passersby stopped, got out of their vehicles and stared into the water-filled ditch where his body was found.
"His bike was over here," one man said, pointing to the west side of the ditch. "His body was up there." He, like many other volunteers, began searching for Holland last Wednesday after he was reported missing. "I drove over this on Thursday, but the water was so high ... it was up there level with the fields." Debris strewn about the banks shows the waterway, a small creek next to the gated entrance of the Cotton Lake
Hunt Club. The water went down Friday and that's when Holland and his 2011 Harley Davidson was found. The three-day search came to an end north of the Covington Municipal Airport, in the Hatchie River bottoms, Friday night, the Tipton County Sheriff’s Office reported. Employed with the Tennessee Valley Authority, Holland was reported missing Thursday after failing to show up for his shift on Wednesday night. He
was last seen and heard from at approximately 10 a.m. Wednesday. "It's not something he would do," said Rebecca Holland, the wife of Mike Holland Jr. last week. Rebecca said one of Mike's coworkers called to let her know he didn't arrive. "They called me and I said. 'Just go by the house,' because we don't have a home phone, and he wasn't here," she said. "When I got home at 8, I had no contact with anybody. His SEE HOLLAND, A3
Taxes, trash collection key issues in Munford
HASLAM SPEAKS AT RALLY
By JEFF IRELAND jireland@covingtonleader.com Munford took another step toward raising the local sales tax from $2.25 to $2.75 per $100 at Tuesday's Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting. Two meetings and a public hearing were set to pass an ordinance that would put the issue to a vote later this year. The first meeting will be today at 6:30 p.m. The ordinance will be voted on by It's very important the aldermen. On June 6 at to us. We've been 6 p.m. a public hearing will way behind for be held on the issue and the a long time with ordinance will be voted on a fire department second time. If the ordistaffing. nance passes both times, DWAYNE COLE plans will MUNFORD MAYOR begin to hold a special election. Atoka has plans to do the same thing. “To be conservative, we're hoping to have it (the election) in the fourth (fiscal) quarter,” Munford Mayor Dwayne Cole said. “Probably October or November. That's what we're shooting for.” Atoka and Munford each have plans to add one firefighter to their respective departments in the coming months. The increased tax would help fund those positions. “For every $10 pizza you buy, it's a nickel (more),” Cole said. “It's very important to us. We've been way behind for a long time with fire department staffing.” In other business Tuesday, Munford passed an ordinance that will allow the town to have its own track collection services. If everything goes as expected, Munford will be in the trash collecting business by January. Cole laid out the town's plans last month to begin offering the service
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Gov. Bill Haslam greets the crowd during last Thursday's community rally hosted by the Tipton County Republican Party at City Park in Munford. Approximately 200 people were on hand to listen to the governor speak. Photo by Jeff Ireland
Fighting back against breast cancer
Local woman has double mastectomy, hysterectomy By CHRISTIE JARVIS Special to The Leader
Most people who get involved with Relay for Life do so because they have been affected by cancer in some way. Maybe they've lost their father to the disease or their best friend is battling it now. At this year's event, which will take place Friday night, one team captain is living the Relay for Life "Celebrate. Remember.
Kristi Hubbard is pictured consoling her mother on the day of her mother's mastectomy. She was diagnosed with breast cancer the year after her mother's death and has recently undergone a double mastectomy and hysterectomy. Courtesy photo
Fight Back." motto every day of her life. Kristi Hubbard started the Kristi’s Krusaders team not only to remember her mother but also in celebration as a survivor who is
fighting against the exact same type of breast cancer, called Triple Negative, that took her mom in 2011. Kristi started doing self-breast exams after her mother was diagnosed
in 2011 and on Oct. 9, 2012, while on vacation in Florida, she found a lump. She was staying with her best friend and said she didn't even have the nerve to tell her what she had found until the next day because she was scared; she suspected it was going to be cancer. Kristi made an appointment to see a doctor and schedule a mammogram as soon as she returned home. The call with her diagnosis came in on Oct. 25, 2012. In November, Kristi had a lumpectomy and began her three-month ordeal with chemo in December. It was discovered that Kristi has the BRCA1 gene and had a double mastectomy in April. But that wasn't the end of Kristi's major surgeries this spring. SEE RELAY, A3
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