Perlie Murray-Dunn is ‘deeply suspicious’: Haynes Manor Neighborhood Association Vice President Perlie Murray-Dunn, a representative to the Haynes-Trinity Neighborhood Coalition, says, during a rally attended by nearly 50 people in the lobby of the Metro Police North Precinct on 26th Avenue North, that she is “deeply suspicious” that the proposed waste treatment plant will be better than the existing plant. Photo by Clint Confehr
NORTH NASHVILLE, TN — Dozens of Haynes-Trinity Neighborhood Coalition members gathered Tuesday night in the lobby of the Metro Police North Precinct to vent frustrations and tell their councilman they want a waste disposal business moved far from their homes.
Nearly 50 residents stood with their coalition leaders, neighbors and children to oppose the business’ request to Metro Nashville’s City Council for legislation that would allow the waste processing to move within District 2. The residents’ rally preceded Second District Councilman DeCosta Hastings’ meeting that included presentations from representatives of the processing business.
Metro Council is set to meet on Tuesday evening in the historic courthouse in downtown Nashville where a public hearing was conducted Aug. 7 when dozens of residents also voiced their opposition to the proposed relocation of the plant.
See and read more about this subject in The Tennessee Tribune’s print edition set for distribution starting Thursday, Aug. 29. Subscriptions are available at 1501 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn., and by telephone at (615) 321-3268. A previous story is also on www.tntribune.com, and another story is planned before the city council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 4.
DeCosta Hastings hosts discussion: Metro Nashville Councilman DeCosta Hastings hosts a meeting for District 2 residents in the Metro Police North Precinct with more than 100 people attending as developers and their representatives made their plans available for review, including a proposal by Onsite Environmental, 1421 Baptist World Center Drive, to move to 2832 Whites Creek Pike. Photo by Clint Confehr
Onsite Environmental Spokesman: Danavan Hylton, CEO of Hylton Elite Marketing Agency, Nashville, spoke for and with officials of Onsite Environmental, 1421 Baptist World Center Drive, who want to move a processing plant for restaurant grease, oily water and leachate from landfills to a more modern facility to be built at 2832 Whites Creek Pike. Hylton distributed information to people attending Councilman DeCosta’s meeting for District 2 residents. The papers also asked residents to submit questions that the company’s representatives were to answer. Photo by Clint Confehr
Attorney and Engineer Answered Questions: Providing legal and technical answers to questions during a Metro Council District 2 meeting Aug. 28, are, from left, attorney Tom White and Roy Dale, an engineer and representative for Harvey Combs, proprietor of Onsite Environmental a waste processing business. Photo by Clint Confehr
Youth Speaker at Rally: Meronica Forrester-Kent, age 11, a student at Head Magnet Middle school, lives in Haynes Heights with her mother, Haynes-Trinity Neighborhood Coalition Communications Coordinator Winnie Forrester. Miss Forrester-Kent says Haynes Heights is named after the Rev. William Haynes. A son of a plantation owner and an enslaved mother, he was an educator, a real estate developer, and was responsible for moving the Roger Williams University in 1908 from Peabody College to the present site of the American Baptist College on World Baptist Center Blvd. Photo by Clint Confehr
Clint Confehr — an American journalist since 1972 — first wrote for The Tennessee Tribune in 1999. His news writing and photography in South Central Tennessee and the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area began in the summer of 1980. Clint's covered news in several Southern states at newspapers, radio stations and one TV station. Married since 1982, he's a grandfather and is semi-retired from daily news work.
