Project Blue Light: Show your support, thank local police

The Tennessee Highway Patrol has highlighted a good cause to consider showing support for this holiday season:

The Tennessee Highway Patrol encourages Tennesseans to support Project Blue Light and display blue lights in their windows this holiday season.

Project Blue Light is an effort by C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police Survivors) The organization asks residents to place a blue light in their holiday decorations or window as a sign of thanks to officers who are now working to keep our communities and highways safe. The blue lights also serve as reminders of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol strongly supports C.O.P.S. and participated in the 7th Annual Project Blue Light Ceremony on Saturday, November 17, 2007, at the Parkway Baptist Church in Goodlettsville.

“The holiday season is an especially tough time for families who have recently lost loved ones. The same rings true in the law enforcement family,” said THP Colonel Mike Walker. “C.O.P.S. is a great organization, but I just wish it never had to accept any more new members.”

Colonel Walker has asked each captain in the Highway Patrol’s district offices and scale complexes to display at least one blue light. A blue candle is also on display in the Colonel’s office at Foster Avenue in Nashville and at his home in support of the effort.

C.O.P.S. is a nationwide, nonprofit 501c organization made up of more than 15,000 surviving families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. For more information on the Middle and East Tennessee chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors, please contact Trina Scott at 931-801-8587.

Thanks to Doug Eckert for passing along this information.

McCabe Community Center meeting Dec. 10

Metro Parks will hold a community meeting on Monday, Dec. 10, at 7p.m. to discuss plans and gather community opinions about construction for a new regional community center to be built on the current McCabe Community Center property. Many of the details, including the exact center location, have not been determined, but the new building will include a pool and a fitness center.
The meeting will be held at the Cohn Adult Learning Center (4805 Park Avenue). The December SPNA membership meeting will follow immediately thereafter.

FWBBC aiming to purchase Gallatin campus

The Tennessean is reporting that the Free Will Baptist Bible College, currently located in the Richland-West End neighborhood, has agreed to purchase land for a new campus in Gallatin. According to the paper, school officials are continuing to work toward the sale of the current campus. Whoever purchases the valuable property will have a major role in reshaping a big chunk of one of Nashville’s most appealing and most affluent neighborhoods.

SPNA membership meeting tonight (Nov. 12)

SPNA will hold its October membership meeting tonight (Monday, November 12) at 7 p.m. in the basement of the Cohn Adult Learning Center at the intersection of 48th and Park Avenues. Hope you can make it!