Biker Airlifted After Saturday Crash

June 7, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

A man on a motorcycle was airlifted Saturday after plunging down an embankment off Dale Ridge Road in the Cove Hollow area.

Trooper Bobby Johnson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 67 year old Edward Presnar of Gallatin was on a 2005 Harley Davidson motorcycle traveling north on Dale Ridge Road when he failed to negotiate a curve and went off the highway hitting several trees as he plunged about 30 feet down a steep wooded hillside.

Fire and rescue volunteers brought Presnar back up to the highway where he was loaded onto an ambulance and transported to a helicopter landing zone and then airlifted to Vanderbilt Hospital.

June 7, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

An effort is underway to make sure families have plenty to eat this summer.

Local churches, TVA, Caney Fork Electric Cooperative, and Second Harvest have joined forces to sponsor a weekly food drive.

Similar to the food distribution during the spring, this is a drive through and is being held on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. until 12 noon at DeKalb Middle School.

Chad Ramsey, Pastor of the Smithville First Baptist Church, invites everyone with a need to take advantage of it.

“We have been able to get a lot of support from the local churches who have come together financially and with volunteers to help pass out food and right now we have a lot of non-perishable food to pass out. TVA has really stepped in through Caney Fork Electric Cooperative with a grant to help support us in keeping this food ministry going through the summer. Second Harvest has also started a program that we are now part of to provide food for families and children through the summer. Both TVA and Second Harvest have really come together to allow us to continue to pass out food and to help people in our community and we have churches who are in the midst of it all. It started in the spring with kids and we are still ministering to them but we now want to minister to our entire community so be sure to drive in this summer on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. until 12 noon at DeKalb Middle School to get a bag of food because we have plenty to give out,” said Ramsey.

June 6, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad again presents Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour Sunday night, June 7 from 5-6 p.m.

The program airs once a month on WJLE, on the first Sunday night of each month, from 5-6 p.m. featuring recorded local talent performing gospel music.

Sunday night’s program will showcase the music of the Dessa Ray and Right On Time.

Tune in the first Sunday night of each month for the Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour from 5-6 p.m. on WJLE AM 1480/FM 101.7

WJLE is proud of our partner sponsors of religious programs each week and hopes you will tune in often and let them know you listen.

•Got A Minute?: 60 second message presented by the Smithville Church of Christ with Dan Gulley-Twice a day Monday-Friday each week (various times morning and around noon).

•Cross Connection sponsored by the Upper Helton Baptist Church featuring Jimmy Arms: Monday-Friday at 11:55 a.m. each week

•Morning Devotion: A 5 minute daily devotional by a different minister each week Monday-Saturday at 7:25 a.m.

The following are weekly sponsored Sunday programs:

•7:30 a.m.: Royce Moore of the New West Point Freewill Baptist Church (The Way of Life Ministry)

•8:00 a.m. Elders Joseph and Ricky Arnold for the New Bildad and Mount View Primitive Baptist Churches (The Firm Foundation)

•8:30 a.m. Outreach Baptist Church with Nathan Thomason (The Outreach Pulpit)

•9:00 a.m. The Keltonburg Missionary Baptist Church (Only Through the Blood)

•9:30 a.m. LOCAL NEWS

•9:35 a.m. Trent Colwell of the Smithville Church of the Nazarene (The Living Word)

•10:30 a.m. Bobby Thomason of the Covenant Baptist Church (Fountain of Faith Ministries)

•11:00 a.m. Worship Services from either the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian (Isaac Gray) or Smithville First United Methodist (David Lunsford) Churches

•12:00 NOON: LOCAL NEWS

12:30 p.m.: House of Prayer with Zach Murphy

1:00 p.m.: Truth that Transforms with Aaron Wright

•1:30 p.m. The Preaching Ministry of Toy Lawson of the People’s Pentecostal Church

•2:30 p.m. Billy Hale of the Christ Pentecostal Church of Brush Creek (The King is Coming)

•3:00 p.m. Prophet James Ferrell of the Church of Jesus Christ (The Word of the Lord)

•4:00 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

•4:15 p.m. Royce Curtis of the People’s Missionary Baptist Church

•5:00 p.m. Fiddle Dee Dee on Broad Gospel Hour (1st Sunday)

•6:05 p.m. Gospel music sponsored by Cantrell’s Furniture and Appliances

•9:05 p.m. LOCAL NEWS

Listen each week on WJLE AM 1480 and WJLE FM 101.7 and LIVE Streaming at www.wjle.com.