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By Jake Mabe Rob Followell says his
philosophy, whether in rais-ing his kids or serving as a
hospital administrator, is to be fair, fi rm and consistent.
Followell told the Halls Business and Professional Association
at its meeting at Beaver Brook Country Club last Tuesday that
tak-ing care of patients will be the top priority at Tenno-vas
North Knoxville Medi-cal Center (formerly Mercy North) on Emory
Road, where he is chief executive officer.
And to do that, your fi rst focus is taking care of your
employees. If you have happy employees, then you have happy
physicians and if you have that, taking care of patients is going
to be a piece of cake.
Followell says the focus on the spiritual care of a patient
established at St.
Marys/Mercy will continue at Tennova.
That part of the healing will always be there.
Responding to a ques-tion, he says that the nuns whom patients
were used to seeing at Mercy hospitals are still with us. We have
Mass on Fridays and they will continue to be a part of us.
He said the only differ-ence between a nonprofi t and for-profi
t hospital is going to be (that well be) paying taxes. Prices will
be driven by competition and those who cant pay for health care
will not be taken advantage of.
Followell says one change will be that Ten-nova will have access
to capital, being part of a larger system (Health Man-agement
Associates). He says the facility will have $10 million to spend
right
Rob Followell, chief executive offi cer of Tennovas North
Knox-ville Medical Center (formerly Mercy North), speaks to the
Halls B&P at Beaver Brook last Tuesday. Photo by Jake Mabe
off the bat, the specifi cs of which will be released in the
next few weeks, but will be deploy(ed) to provide ser-vices we
havent been able to offer.
Originally from Pad-
ucah, Ky., Followell moved here from West Virginia. He said at
the meeting hes been on the job for five weeks and is in the
process of helping develop a stra-tegic plan based on input
CEO: Patient care top priority at Tennova North from the
facilitys adminis-trative staff, hospital staff, physicians and
from what I hear from the public. The strategic plan is scheduled
to be released by the end of the year.
He said early plans for North Knoxville Medical Center will be
to upgrade equipment, boost orthope-dics and to continue to
re-cruit excellent physicians.
And the No. 1 (goal) is patient care at the bedside, as well as
offering support for families.
I really believe that this (north) campus will be the high
growth campus in the future.
Health Management As-sociates, based in Naples, Fla., owns 66
hospitals primarily in the Southeast and Southwest, including six
hospitals in East Ten-nessee under the Tennova brand.
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Turkeys give thanks for vegetarians!
What, me worry? This turkey at the Ben Atchley Veterans
Home says bring on Thanks-giving. Photo by T. Edwards of
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By Theresa EdwardsTradition says you eat
turkey on Thanksgiving. But 99 out of 100 turkeys we surveyed
disagree and (no surprise) so do vegetarians.
Vegetarians can still cel-ebrate Thanksgiving, of course. And if
youre not into tofu turkey, theres a variety of tasty vegetarian
dishes that can stand in for the gobbler.
Many Knoxville res-taurants offer vegetarian foods. The eggplant
parme-san served up at Bravo! in the Bearden Hill area and at
Johnny Carinos on Lovell Road is a delicious entre and a favorite
of the meat-less crowd.
Touch of Love Catering offers custom menus and catering for
vegans, vegetar-ians and those on gluten-free diets. Owner Rachel
Raegen says, My favorite Thanks-giving entre is stuffed acorn
squash with cranberry glaze. She prepares vegan desserts and can
cater holi-day meals from traditional to the unexpected.
If you want to cook your own vegetarian meal, the tur-keys and
cows recommend vegetarian lasagna. Prepare it as you would
traditional la-sagna, substituting a couple of diced zucchinis and
8-10 ounces of sliced mushrooms for meat. You could also con-sider
using DeBoles organic
Jerusalem artichoke fl our la-sagna noodles.
Still, most of us will gath-er with family and friends this
Thanksgiving for more than ample helpings of tur-key, dressing,
gravy, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie followed by a little
football on TV. And when Uncle Al falls asleep in the easy chair
and snores through the fi rst half, dont give him a hard time.
After all, thats a tra-dition, too.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Education is key
To page A-2
Central High School graduates Dr. Ralph Norman (Class of 51),
the Rev. Billy Wallace (Class of 41), Charlotte Davis (Class of 51)
and Eddie Mannis (Class of 77) were inducted into the CHS Wall of
Fame at a breakfast cer-emony on Nov. 12. Photo by Jake Mabe
Billy Wallace said it best at the Central High School Wall of
Fame induction ceremony Nov. 12 during his invocation.
Were thankful for this school, which was such a big part of our
formative years.
This years inductees all said dur-ing the fantastic interviews
fi lmed with them by retired Gresham Middle teacher David Dixon
that the education they received at Cen-tral High inspired them
throughout their careers.
Tucker attackFormer Fountain City resident Julia Tucker is still
playing politics.
See page A-4
Blowin smokeJake Mabe checks on crematoria in other towns
following last weeks Town Hall.
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Education is keyFrom page A-1
By Betty BeanProsecuting civil rights
violations is one of the Federal Bureau of Inves-tigations most
important historical missions, includ-ing color of law probes of
police offi cers suspected of using excessive force.
Thats why the FBI got in-volved in the case of the fi ve Knox
County Sheriffs Offi ce deputies who were demoted for their
handling of a recent traffi c offense.
Any time an offi cer goes to the trunk of his vehicle and pulls
out a baseball bat (after detaining a citizen), it raises
questions, said Rich-ard Lambert, Special Agent In Charge of the
Knoxville offi ce of the FBI for the past fi ve years. Lambert was
the guest speaker at the Novem-ber meeting of the Knoxville chapter
of the National Ac-tive and Retired Federal Employees.
The FBI closed the case when it was determined that the offi
cers forced the driver to run around the bat until he was dizzy
rather than using it to infl ict physical harm, Lambert said.
Thats not to say there isnt other civil liability, however.
The Knoxville FBI offi ce is located in a new building at Dowell
Springs on Mid-dlebrook Pike that houses 61 agents, 10 supervisors,
12 intelligence analysts and support staff. The regional offi ces
carry out the bu-reaus mission of counter-intelligence work,
guarding against cyber attacks and other high tech crimes and
rooting out public corrup-tion at all levels of govern-ment,
Lambert said, illus-trating his point with a slide
Richard Lambert, Special Agent in Charge, Knoxville FBI Photo by
Betty Bean
Knoxville FBI chief shares stories, insights
Wallace (Class of 41) is an ordained minister who pas-tored
several churches before being hired as the assistant director of
the Department of Correspondence Studies at UT in 1968. It became
the Continuing Education De-partment and Wallace soon began
visiting every high school in the state. He retired from UT in
1987.
Its hard to think about Central without saying Miss Gresham,
Wallace said, referring to former princi-pal Hassie K. Gresham. She
always said, Do something. And be somebody.
I dont belong here. I al-ways enjoyed what I did and did what I
enjoyed. If you can do that and help people along the way, thats
what God put you here for.
Dr. Ralph Norman (Class of 51) holds a divinity degree, two
masters degrees and a doctorate in philosophical theology. He was
recruited in 1966 to start the Department of Religious Studies at
UT.
Norman said that teach-ers such as Nannie Lee Hicks and Pace
Moore Johnston infl uenced him during high school, but that the
very best
thing Central did for me was introduce me to my (late) wife
(Connie).
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they would never
end.
Norman thanked the Cen-tral High Foundation and Alumni
Association for es-tablishing the Wall of Fame.
It reminds us all of what a public school can be.
Charlotte Davis (Class of 51) grew up in Smithwood and became a
staff nurse at the old St. Marys Hos-pital and later head nurse on
the pediatrics ward. She taught nursing students at St. Marys, both
the textbook and the compassionate hu-man side, as Courtney Shea
said during the ceremony.
Davis says she enjoyed her English classes at Central, but that
taking two years of Latin and one year of chemis-try proved to be
providential
and good preparation for the career I ultimately chose.
Eddie Mannis (Class of 77) turned a purchase of 30-year-old dry
cleaning equipment into the successful Prestige Cleaners, which now
has 11 stores, a 15,000-square-foot processing facility and a
divi-sion in Nashville. Since 2007, he has also served as founder
and chair of HonorAir Knox-ville, which fl ies World War II and
Korean War veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the war memorials.
He is the president of the Dogwood Arts Festival and was named last
week as chief operating offi cer for Mayor-elect Mad-eline
Rogero.
Mannis admitted he wasnt a great student while at Central, but
says he was inspired by a business math class and by his
participa-tion in DECA, which pre-pares high school (and col-lege)
students earmarked as emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for
careers in marketing, fi nance, hos-pitality and management.
Being modest, Mannis said that as he heard the other in-ductees
accomplishments, he said to himself, Youre much younger than they
are. Youd better get to work!
Develop a passion for learning, Anthony J. DAngelo once said. If
you do, youll never cease to grow.
Just ask any of the four in-ductees to this years Central Wall
of Fame.
of Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long, who was sen-tenced to a
long prison term after being convicted of tak-ing bribes from drug
dealers and money laundering. But not every allegation leads to
prosecution, Lambert said.
First, we need a credible allegation of corrupt activ-ity on
part of an elected of-fi cial, he said. Then, since the most common
defense is entrapment, we have to show that the individual was
predisposed to engage in that illegal activity.
Perhaps the highest-profi le criminal case the Knoxville offi ce
has brought during Lamberts tenure was that of David Kernell, the
University of Tennessee student charged with gain-ing access to
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palins Yahoo email
account during the 2008 presidential race. The sub-sequent trial
brought an avalanche of publicity when
Palin and her daughter Bris-tol came to town and a one-year
sentence for Kernell.
Did Kernells crime merit the government response?
Yes, Lambert said.Initially he said the rea-
son he had done this was to affect the outcome of the election,
and we take that very seriously.
Lambert doesnt think much of J. Edgar the movie, not the
founding director of the Federal Bu-reau of Investigation and wasnt
impressed with di-rector Clint Eastwoods in-terpretation.
I didnt like J. Edgar, he said. Eastwood took a lot of editorial
license with J. Edgar Hoovers private life, particularly his
relationship with Clyde Tolson.
He was quick to acknowl-edge that Hoover wire-tapped Martin
Luther King Jr. but said that happened because the FBI boss was
worried about Kings as-sociation with the head of the American
Communist Party.
Hate crimes, racketeer-ing and pirating copyright-ed material
for profi t can also get the feds involved, Lambert said.
And what about those dire warnings against pirat-ing on rented
DVDs?
Lambert grinned broad-ly. The only thing were go-ing to
investigate is people doing it for profi t, on a large scale.
Making it for home use, for friends and rela-tives, no.
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By Jake Mabe Controversy continues in
Fountain City where Gentry-Griffey Chapel plans to open Knox
Countys only cremato-ry. Residents at Town Halls meeting last week
raised concerns about mercury emissions, odor and effects on
property values.
Eric Botts, managing partner, said Gentry-Griffey complied with
all state and local requirements and he expects to open in
Decem-ber. The crematory was ap-proved as an ancillary use to the
funeral chapel and did not require rezoning.
Several Town Hall mem-bers expressed regret that Botts did not
discuss the crematory with the commu-nity until after its approval.
One resident, Dan Kelly, said he is looking forward to having the
crematory in Fountain City.
After the meeting, I got to wondering how this issue has played
out in other com-munities.
Spring Hill, Tenn.: According to an Oct. 17 sto-ry from
Nashvilles WKRN-TV, this towns governing body has delayed a vote on
a 3,600-square-foot cremato-ry, pending a $9,000 town-funded health
study.
Reporters talked to resi-dents who live near an ex-isting
crematory in nearby
Columbia to get a sense of their experience.
Weve lived here since 2005 and weve never had any problems with
the fu-neral home, Donna Dugger said. Frank McBride said foul odors
have never been an issue. Its not detrimen-tal, cant smell it, but
theres bound to be a lot going out into the air.
Meredith, N.H.: Caro-lyn Pillsbury complained about a crematory
built 120 feet from her home, accord-ing to The Citizen of
Laco-nia. It was approved as an ancillary use to an existing
business and did not require rezoning. The funeral home offered
Pillsbury a tour, but she declined. Town Manager Phil Warren
visited the site.
Warren said Pillsbury complained about odors be-fore the unit
had even been test fi red. He also visited the crematory during
operation and said he could detect no odor. Town offi cials said
Pillsburys was the only complaint.
Larimer County, Colo.: Funeral home owner Rick Allnut reached a
stalemate with health offi cials over plans to move his crematory
next to a cemetery, according to a story that ran in the Los
Angeles Times on Dec. 26, 2007. The area is zoned ag-ricultural but
is located near
HALLS NOTESHalls Christmas Toy Drive is underway. If you need
assistance with toys this Christmas, go to Cross Roads Presbyterian
Church, 4329 E. Emory Road. Applications are in a red box at the
top of the stairs. Fill one out and slide it under the door at the
end of the overhang. To sponsor a child, call Jeanie at 922-3137.
Toy collection boxes are at Halls Commercial Bank and Halls Senior
Center.
Halls Republican Club meets at 7 p.m. each third Monday at Q.Q.
Pizza in Halls Center. The Nov. 21 speakers will be Property
Assessor Phil Ballard and former assessor John Whitehead,
challenging for the Repub-lican nomination. Info: Ted Hatfield,
925-9606.
The Slocum House Studio Gallery, 6722 Long Shadow Way, will host
an art show and sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec.
3-4. Wood furniture and utensils, cornshuck creations, clay
sculpture and more will be for sale. Admis-sion is free.
Halls Womens League will hold a Christmas home tour of seven
homes in the Halls area 2-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. The tour starts
at the Halls Senior Center. Tickets are $10. Info: Brenda Gaylor,
922-1817 or 679-0184.
Halls Business & Profes- sional Association meets at noon
each third Tuesday at Beaver Brook Country Club. Lunch is $10.
Info: Shannon Carey, 922-4136 or [email protected]/.
Other towns face crematory concerns
homes and schools.At issue are amalgam den-
tal fi llings, reporter DeeDee Correll wrote. Amalgam an alloy
of mercury with another metal such as silver, copper or tin is
commonly used to fi ll cavities. When a body is burned, mercury
from such fi llings vaporizes.
Offi cials wanted Allnut to either install a fi lter sys-tem,
which he said was too expensive, or to remove fi llings prior to
cremation, which he called ghoulish.
Environmental Protec-tion Agency spokesperson Margot
Perez-Sullivan is quoted as saying the EPA does not regulate
emissions from crematories.
Coal-fi red power plants
are the biggest source of mercury emissions, releas-ing an
estimated 134,000 pounds per year, according to the EPA, which
estimates less than 1 percent (600 pounds) comes from
crema-tories.
Cartersville, Ga.: A resident contacted the Georgia Division of
Public Health (GDPH) with con-cerns about emissions from a
crematory near her home.
A June 19, 2006, report from the Chemical Hazards Program of the
departments Environmental Health Branch said GDPH could not make a
defi nitive health call based on available informa-tion, but does
not expect adverse health effects from exposure to chemicals from
crematory emissions.
The report continued: As a gas, elemental mer-cury can travel
long dis-tances in outdoor air and eventually fall to the ground
with precipitation. In stud-ies conducted in the 1990s, the EPA
determined that on average, the amount of mer-cury released from
crema-tion is similar to the amount of mercury released from sewage
sludge combustion, whereas mercury released from medical
incineration is 14 times higher.
In general, chemicals released into the air pose
the highest risk in confi ned spaces, such as in the home or
workplace. Chemicals re-leased into outdoor air are diluted and
dispersed by the wind, which dilutes them further, and then (are)
bro-ken down in the atmosphere.
Health effects related to emissions from incinera-tion
facilities and cremato-ries are primarily respira-tory problems,
the report says. Respiratory problems can be largely attributed to
particulate matter. In some states in the U.S., crematory
regulations include a range of standard setbacks for cre-matories
to reduce exposure to particulate matter and odors, which can vary
from 500 feet or more.
Botts said the machines Gentry-Griffey will use are clean and
effi cient and emit heat, not smoke. He said everything, including
temperatures and opacity emissions, is recorded.
William Schaad with the Knox Countys air quality management
department said the required review included estimations of
emissions.
Not zero emissions from the stack, but not a lot, either. We did
not see anything to not issue the permit.
He said crematories are evaluated yearly and can be requested to
be inspected while in use.
Fountain City Business and Professional As- sociation meets at
noon each second Wednes-day at Central Baptist Church of Fountain
City. Lunch is $10. Info: Beth Wade, 971-1971, ext. 372, or
[email protected]/.
Fountain City Art Center has three new exhibits on display.
Fountain City Art Guild will show work through Jan. 7; a memorial
display of long-time guild member Lib Nicely will
be on display courtesy of her daughters, Kay Nicely Bateman and
Jane Nicely; and a student exhibit of work from Fulton High, Vine
Magnet, Whittle Springs Middle and more will be on display. Hours
are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Wednesdays and Fridays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second and third
Saturdays of each month. Info: Visit www.fountaincityartctr.org or
call 357-2787.
FOUNTAIN CITY NOTES
Eric Botts, managing part-ner of Gentry-Griff ey Funeral Home in
Fountain City. Photo by S. Clark
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News that the state will close Lakeshore Mental Health Institute
is not a surprise although it marks the end of a chapter for this
West Knoxville property which goes back to 1886. This land has been
owned by Tennessee taxpayers for 125 years.
When the current city park at Lakeshore was es-tablished in
1990, I was mayor and consider its cre-ation one of the major
ac-complishments of my ad-ministration. We worked closely with then
Gov. Ned McWherter who made cer-tain of full state backing. Lee
Thomas, superinten-dent then and now, was most helpful. Knoxville
attorneys Thomas McAdams and Cae-sar Stair III were strong
ad-vocates, along with Jimmy Haslam.
At that time Lakeshore was downsizing but not closing. Several
buildings had been vacated and the state was considering what to do
with the land. It might have been sold to the high-est bidder to
generate the cash. Fortunately, common sense prevailed and it has
remained public with rec-reation as the primary use. Now the
Lakeshore walking
Lakeshore land is opportunity
trail is the most used city greenway and the ball fi elds are
popular. Mental health and recreation side-by-side became good
neighbors and a good fi t.
As this latest transi-tion occurs, park advocates should not
forget the needs of those patients served cur-rently at Lakeshore.
It is vital that the state not abandon the most seriously ill
patients who may not be adequately served by private health care
providers. The state has an obligation to offer adequate funding
for local in-patient treatment within commut-ing distance.
The development of Lake-shore Park came primarily from
individual and corpo-rate donations. It will require substantial
funding from private and public sources for the park as it expands
to reach its full potential.
Mayor-elect Rogero has an incredible opportunity to take the
park to its next lev-
el and to translate her cam-paign promise of a green city into
reality almost im-mediately. Rogero will have a willing partner in
Gov. Bill Haslam, whose home is within one mile of the park, to
make a great park become greater as it serves citizens all over the
city, county and even the larger East Tennes-see community.
Many of the existing buildings will need to be removed with the
exception of the historic 1886 admin-istration building and the
chapel.
The park today is man-aged by a nonprofi t corpora-tion called
Lakeshore Park pursuant to a management agreement with the city.
The city has similar agreements for management of the Zoo and Ijams
Nature Center. This park board helped se-cure new land for the
Veter-ans Cemetery which added 25 acres to the park and re-location
of the UT golf prac-tice area which added 15 acres. Members include
the city mayor, Haslam, Stair, McAdams, state Rep. Joe Armstrong,
Charles Ander-son and Margaret Ritchie.
There is much to do and much to be positive about as long as the
needs of the
mentally ill are safeguarded. This decision can be good for all
if handled properly.
Deborah Poplin , city law director, has been ap-pointed federal
court clerk to replace Pat McNutt who has retired effective Jan. 1,
2012. Poplin was the fi rst woman to be law director and her
departure gives Mayor-elect Rogero the opportunity to choose her
own lawyer. Prior city law directors include U.S. District Court
Judge Tom Varlan, Michael Kel-ley, Morris Kizer, George W. Morton
Jr., Jon Roach and former mayors Robert Crossley and John
Duncan.
Bud Gilbert , city pension board attorney and former state
senator, is back on the job as his law license was reinstated Nov.
17 af-ter being suspended a few weeks ago for not complet-ing
mandatory Continuing Legal Education require-ments. Gilbert had to
take the necessary CLE courses to meet requirements which he has
done. Gilbert, who has a reputation as a metic-ulous attorney,
tells me he accepts full responsibility and says he was very
embar-rassed. Knowing Gilbert as I do, I suspect it will never
happen again.
Around 9 p.m. on Nov. 8, a forest green Mer-cedes with bumper
stick-ers marked Burchett and Madeline slid to an abrupt halt in
the parking lot out-side Madeline Rogeros elec-tion night
headquarters at the Foundry. Out jumped Julia Tucker. She had a
mes-sage to deliver:
Julia Tucker: secret weapon
We beat Mose 2-to-1 in Holston Hills!
Mose, of course, would be Mose Lobetti, a not-so-friendly
Holston Hills neighbor of Tuckers for many years. Historically, the
two have generally been on opposite sides of the po-litical fence
and this years mayoral race was no ex-ception, with Lobetti
sup-porting Mark Padgett and Tucker supporting Madeline Rogero.
Lobetti, whose major
Julia Tucker Photo by Betty Bean
claim to prominence is his connection to the family of the late
John J. Duncan Sr., mostly works behind the scenes. This year he
laid claim to being a cog in Padgetts formidable fund-raising
machine.
Tucker, who was the only woman ever to be elected to chair the
old city school board, has also been po-litically active for
decades, most recently as a supporter of Tim Burchett, the son of
her late political ally Char-lie Burchett, with whom she served on
the school board. This was one of the few times when she and
Lobetti supported the same candi-date.
Lobetti, 82, is an en-trenched political insider whose
granddaughter was on Padgetts campaign staff. Tucker, 80, is a fi
erce, quirky outsider who was initially supported and later opposed
by Cas Walker, who called her Little Julie Wright and had known her
since she was a kid growing up in Happy Holler. She says,
however, that she learned most of what she knows about politics
from for-mer County Commissioner Wanda Moody and former City
Council member Ber-nice OConnor. She has long been active in
neighborhood issues and has given large sums of money to causes she
supports, like AIDS care and education.
Tucker and her family are strong Rogero support-ers who worked
the polls at Ward 31, Chilhowee El-ementary School. Tuckers
grandson, law student Ty-ler Roy, was a Rogero vol-unteer, as was
his mother, Tuckers daughter Dr. Judy Roy. They also put in a
good
word where they could for Democratic state Senate candidate
Gloria Johnson, who was taking on the pro-hibitive favorite,
Republican Becky Duncan Massey for the 6th District seat vacated by
Jamie Woodson (Massey supporters say that Lobetti didnt get active
in her race because he was so preoc-cupied with getting Padgett
elected. They dont seem particularly distraught.)
Tucker was right on the money with her assessment of the
election day num-bers in the mayoral race at Chilhowee: Rogero 415,
Padgett 205, which means that Rogero won 66.94 per-cent to 33.06
percent.
Contrary to her elec-tion night bravado, Tucker doesnt really
try to claim credit for the Rogero win at Chilhowee, which she
chalks up to Rogeros good reputa-tion and smart campaign-ing. And
one more thing:
People are tired of dirty politics. You cant hide it anymore.
You leave tracks, like mouse droppings.
Few things are more frustrating than being embar-rassed by ones
allies. Last weeks County Commission work session illustrated the
importance of vetting your spokespersons.
The Hillside and Ridge Top Protection Plan served as the
backdrop for some curious constitutional cogitating. Plan opponents
have previously cited the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment
which prohibits the government taking private property for public
use without just compensation.
That argument may yet see its day in court, but it was the
invoking of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution by
Commissioner Jeff Ownby that pushed the issue to the brink of
lunacy.
But were getting ahead of ourselves. Sally Absher, who serves on
the state GOP Executive Committee for Sen-ate District 6, took to
the podium to urge that the plan be considered advisory only.
Absher co-chaired the 2009 Knoxville Tax Day Tea Party.
According to her profi le on the Knox Tea Party website, a few
years ago she started reading conservative books, websites, and
watching Fox News. And now, she adds, talk radio is all I listen
to. Absher is not an unbi-ased witness on the subject of government
regulation.
Abshers remarks at least possessed the virtue of brev-ity; the
same could not be said for Ownbys presentation. He began by saying,
Its not the governments job to tell someone what they can or cannot
do with their land.
Is it necessary to point out thats precisely what zoning
regulations do?
But the commissioner was only warming up.If we pass this (plan),
that will be the start and the end
of the Constitution, Ownby said.If you can parse that cryptic
sentence youre a better
semanticist than I am. While youre working on it, lets move to
the punch line.
Ownby said real estate and construction folks had expressed (to
him) their great concerns about the plan. He was personally
concerned about the attack on our Constitution, specifi cally the
14th and 15th Amendments.
Seriously?Section 1 of the 15th Amendment reads: The right
of
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2 says Congress
can pass laws to protect that right.
Like the 13th and 14th Amendments, the 15th is one of the
Reconstruction Amendments passed following the Civil War. Its
relevance to the slope protection plan is a mystery to me.
Although Ownby didnt state as much, citing the 14th Amendment
apparently refers to its due process clause, which reads nor shall
any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law. But Ownby shot himself in the foot by citing a
1972 Supreme Court deci-sion, Board of Regents v. Roth, which not
only ran counter to his own argument, but could be cited by those
who say the plan does not violate the due process clause.
Emotions run high on both sides of this issue, but here weve
crossed the boundary between reality and Wonderland.Contact Larry
Van Guilder at [email protected].
With friends like these
Benefi t for Bennie MorrisonA benefi t show will be held for
Bennie Morrison at 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, at Holsten Middle School. Mor-rison
recently lost a kidney. He works for the Knox County Sheriffs Offi
ce, and the K-Town Daddy Terry Landell, Sheriff Jimmy J.J. Jones
and more are scheduled to make an appearance. Info: 973-8092.
WhiteheadBallard
Property Assessor Phil Ballard and for-mer Assessor John
Whitehead will tee off in Halls tonight, both invited speakers to
the Halls Republican Club. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at Q.Q. Pizza
in Halls Center. Ev-eryone is invited.
This race for the Republican nomina-
tion is fi erce. When Whitehead was the sole speaker at the
Karns Republican Club, Ballard, his wife, his chief deputy and a
few more staff members attended.
Whitehead lives in Fountain City; Bal-lard is a former
commissioner from the Carter community.
Ready, aim, fi re
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Thanks for helping extend the HopeDonations benefit the children
and families of Appalachia. The Mission of Hope is a 501c3
non-profit organization.
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What if there were no Christmas presents for your kids under the
tree on Christmas morning?The downturn in the economy, has brought
anxiety to a lot of us. But its made life even more
challenging in the rural Appalachian communities of which we
serve. Many of the areas we go tohave lost factories and
businesses; and have no promise that those job opportunities will
return.But we believe that there is always Hope and thats why we
are trying to take Christmas, to almost
17,000 children and their families this year.
So, when did we begin starting sentences with so?
By Sandra ClarkRichard Biggs has ap-
plied the inquisit ive mind and r e s e a r c h skills of an e n
g i n e e r who worked on the space program to the story of the
found-
ing of the Mission of Hope. The more he learned, the deeper he
delved into the life and motives of founder Julie Holland.
Her walk with God is beautiful and heart-rend-ing, he wrote in
asking for a book review. There Is No Hope Here is sched-uled for
release this week. An excerpt is available at
richardbiggsliterary.com.
The events that led Ju-lie to hear Gods whispers are an example
of how God nudges us in the direction He had planned from the
beginning, Biggs writes. And when she stepped out on faith to
minister to (the poor of Appalachia), what she saw was so shocking
she wondered if anything could be done. But she continued walking
in faith and was soon joined by others. And what they began is now
the Mission of Hope, one of the most respected Christian charitable
organizations in the Southeast.
The big blue barrels are out across Knox County. Churches are
sending vol-unteers to the warehouse. Executive Director Em-mette
Thompson is as om-nipresent as Santa.
Nakia Towns talks to teachers at the recent town hall.
Jim McIntyre started each answer with so at last weeks teacher
town hall, and his assistant Nakia Towns did too.
So, next day I noticed both the NPR interviewer and her guest
did it too. Wow.
So, who is Nakia Towns, I asked. Shes one of our Broad Fellows,
said Me-lissa Copelan. We have two others, Ginnae Harley (director
of Title I, federal programs) and Krista Tibbs (deputy
accountability offi -cer). Towns title is director of human capital
strategy. Honest.
So, research on the trusty Internet turned up the Broad Center
where Knox County (Boston, Houston and a few other urban sys-tems)
have turned for in-novative leadership. The Broad Fellows serve two
years in a managerial role, reporting to the superin-tendent.
So, how about the meet-ing? The fi rst big observa-tion was the
absence of teachers. Is everyone happy with the new evaluations or
have teachers just given up? Hard to know, but if 1,000 teachers
had packed the auditorium at Bearden High School their simple
presence would have re-sounded. Likewise, so did the whisper of the
25 who made it.
McIntyre showed a video
Evaluations no big deal
in which one teacher said the new evaluations are no big deal.
Another said, You see the (evaluators) as a resource or mentor.
They are not the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain.
Insisting the evaluations are not a forced bell curve, McIntyre
showed a graphic that formed an almost per-fect bell curve with
about 40 percent of teachers mak-ing a 3 or performing at
expectations, a bit over 20 percent making a 4 or a 2, and the
remaining 15 per-cent spread between 1 or 5.
I feel very, very sad to be graded on a bell curve, said one
teacher. Were not the general population. Most of us have masters
degrees and many have a doctorate.
So, I would agree with you, said McIntyre, if it were a forced
bell curve. Were not talking about how an individual does against
the group, but how one does against a standard. Any number of
teachers can meet this standard and I believe over time more
teachers will reach a 4 or 5.
A couple of teachers expressed feigned sorrow
over the amount of admin-istrative time required for the
multiple evaluations. McIntyre said the prin-cipals and assistants
will take less time over time. And besides, its about the most
important things our administrators do, making sure that great
instruction happens in their school.
The state already has reduced the number of re-quired
evaluations from as high as six to as few as two.
Why stress to be a 4 or 5 if being a 3 is acceptable? asked
Sherry Morgan, pres-ident of the Knox County Education Association.
This is the money question. Teachers performing at ex-pectations
wont be fi red in our brave new world of education reform, but they
probably wont get the rais-es or promotions either.
Stress levels (among teachers) are increasing, said another
teacher, and Im not sure your feedback is true.
So, I am getting candid feedback, said McIntyre, gesturing
around the room where he had been grilled for the better part of
two hours.
NOTES:The school boards mid-month workshop is at 5 p.m. today
(Nov. 21) in the board room of the Andrew Johnson Building. The
board will ap-point the management team for collaborative
conferencing (brave new world term for negotiations).
Deadline to qualify to run for school board is noon Thursday,
Dec. 8. Qualifying petitions are available now at the Election
Commission. Seats up are now occupied by Cindy Buttry, Indya
Kincan-non, Karen Carson and Mike McMillan.
No hope hereThe founding of
the Mission of Hope
Richard Biggs
Donations of new, un-wrapped items will be gathered until Dec. 5
at participating Food City, Chick-fi l-A, Kmart, Home Federal,
Sears, Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union or CVS locations. This
is the 16th year for the Christmas campaign.
In 1996, The Mission of Hope provided for 150 chil-dren. Last
year more than 17,000 children and their families were assisted
with food, new clothing, hygiene items, new toys and more.
Shopper-News was there at the beginning, with a Nov. 18, 1996,
story inspired by two Halls women, Marla Coffman and Marsha
Hel-ton, owners of M&M Clean-ing. When we saw those clothes (in
Julie Hollands basement) and heard her describe the kids, we just
had to help, said Marla.
On their fi rst trip to Kentucky, the women were almost turned
away by the teachers at Beech Fork School, but we told them it was
for Bill Williams and they said OK, said Marsha.
They feel like they know Bill Williams and they trust him.
Julie Holland was in-spired to help by her stepfa-ther, John
Boggs, and by a story Bill Williams aired on WBIR-TV. You are
struck by what you dont see in the childrens eyes, Williams had
said. You dont see hope.
Richard Biggs dug, dug, dug into the story of the founding of
this amazing charity. I started wonder-ing why anyone would do
that. I met Julie and walked away thinking, This is a much bigger
story.
I talked to many people, trying to capture (John Boggs)
personality. I thought, Moses has noth-ing on you!
His was an epic walk with God. And Julie was set apart by God
before she was born.
Biggs writes about Julies struggle with lupus and her
relationship with Boggs. He tells of the old-fashioned prayer
meeting that led to her mothers cure from cancer. He tells of her
vis-its with moonshiners and snake-handlers in the hills of
Kentucky
And he relates how Julie met Emmette Thompson who literally fell
into the job with Mission of Hope.
Biggs, a Maryville na-tive, now lives in the North-shore area
near Pellissippi Parkway. He attends Cen-tral Baptist Bearden,
where Julie and Doug Holland at-tended and which provided initial
volunteers for the Mission of Hope.
If you buy only one book this Christmas, make it this one.
Richard Biggs, man of science and man of faith, has one more skill.
He spins a great tale.
Julie Holland with daughter Caroline, then 6 and now in college.
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A generation after the Civil War ended in 1865, reconcil-iation
had become possible and a reunion of the Blue and the Gray was
proposed for Knoxville.
In March 1890, Capt. A.J. Albers was chosen as chair of the
Com-mittee on Committees (Executive Committee) for what would prove
to be the largest reunion of Civil War veterans ever held in the
South. His 20 committees were responsible for the advertising,
railroad trans-portation, invitations, fi nance, site, meeting
space, entertainment and housing that would be required for the
15,000 to 20,000 veterans that were expected. The citys 1890
es-timated population was 22,000, so its size would almost double
during the event.
When the fi nance committee received pledges for $9,600, the
housing committee was authorized to purchase a tent that would
ac-commodate the indoor reunion activities. They found one in
Mil-waukee, originally made for the Barnum Circus. It measured 212
feet by 262 feet, weighed 8 tons, re-quired two railroad cars to
trans-port and would provide seating for 15,000. It was erected on
the site of Fort Sanders where many of the Union and Confederate
veterans had fought on Nov. 29, 1863.
The reunion date was set for Oct. 7-9, 1890. Gen. Robert E. Lees
Old War Horse, Gen. James Longstreet (1821-1904), was cho-sen to
represent the Confederate veterans. Gen. William H. Gibson
(1822-1894) was chosen to repre-sent the Union veterans.
Longstreet had fought in most of the signifi cant battles in
Vir-ginia, beginning at First Bull Run in July 1861. Sent to the
Western Theater in 1863 to reinforce Gen. Braxton Bragg around
Chattanoo-ga, he was dispatched to Knoxville
in November 1863, where he failed in his attempt to seize the
city from Gen. Ambrose Burnsides occupy-ing Union troops in the
Battle of Fort Sanders.
After he returned to the Virginia campaign, Longstreet was
aligning his troops on the second day of the Battle of the
Wilderness (May 5-7, 1864) when he was fi red on by his own men as
he rode through the dense undergrowth. A minie ball struck him in
the throat, exited from his right shoulder and sev-ered several
nerves in his arm. He never fully recovered and an aide, E.A.
Angier, would read his pre-pared remarks at the reunion.
Gen. William Harvey Gibson was commander of the 49th Ohio
Infan-try Regiment, which fought in 42 battles from Shiloh in April
1862 to Franklin and Nashville in December 1864. He was known for
his propen-sity to personally command in battle and for his
inspiring speeches. He had three horses shot from under him at
Shiloh and was wounded in the battle. After the war, the Ohio
attorney was elected state treasurer and his gift of oratory made
him one of the most sought-after speakers for hundreds of Grand
Army of the Re-public campfi res.
There were 32 members of the 79th New York Highlanders pres-ent
at the reunion. They were in Fort Sanders at the time of the
Con-federate attack on Nov. 29, 1863. They joined other regiments
at a reception at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall on Gay Street
over Brandau, Kennedy and McTeers store. Following several speeches
lauding the signifi cant role of the 79th in the battle, Col. J.C.
Reding-ton sang The Blue and the Gray and the color guard presented
three battle fl ags all tattered and torn. The sight brought tears
to the eyes of the old veterans as they remem-
HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin
Seen on the far left is The Big Tent on the revered site of the
Battle of Fort Sanders, which took place on Nov.29, 1863. Those
attending the 1890 reunion gathered here for the patriotic speeches
of Gen. James Longstreet and Gen. William H. Gibson. Photo courtesy
of C.M. McClung Historical Collection
Reunion of the Blue and Gray
bered their comrades who died in the war.
The reunion of the Fred Ault Bivouac of Confederate Soldiers
occurred at Staubs Theater with the 79th New York Highlanders as
guests of honor. The poignant ceremony began with Crouchs
or-chestra in the pit. Their buglers call hushed the vast audience
and a plaintive air was played as the curtain rose. An old soldier
stood at attention beside a large portrait of Pvt. Fred Ault, a
member of Co. D of the 63rd Tennessee Infantry Regi-ment, who had
died at Petersburg. Post commander William Hender-son eulogized the
heroic soldier and a quartette sang Tenting To-night. There was
hardly a dry eye among the Confederate veterans or their Union
guests.
On the fi nal day, the Grand Parade began at 11 a.m. proceeding
from the staging area at the junction of Broad and Fifth to Depot,
up Depot to Gay, down Gay to Main, down Main to
Walnut, up Walnut to Clinch and down Clinch to Fort Sanders. The
Gay Street merchants had displayed fl ags and bunting on most
buildings and hundreds occupied the balco-nies and the windows on
second and third fl oors to view the thousands of participants in
the parade.
Grand marshal W.L. Ledgerwood and Police Chief J.J. Atkins
stepped out followed by nine divisions of participants. Both the
Knoxville Military Band and Crouchs Band marched with the veterans,
units of the police and fi re departments, and several fraternal
organizations. As the various units passed, they were greeted with
cheer after cheer by the estimated 30,000 spectators who lined the
sidewalks.
When the marchers reached the battle site, they gathered under
the Big Tent for the keynote speeches. Longstreets words summed up
the purpose of the event:
Strangers may not and cannot perhaps know how it is that
surviv-
ing veterans of the Blue and the Gray who once contended here in
deadly array should meet in common as we do today; but, with us,
the war is over and settled upon the basis of mutual esteem and
self-respect.
Thinking of this gathering and looking out on this scene, a man
must be proud to feel that he is an American, and proud to feel
that America will move on and on until the government of
Washington, Lin-coln, Lee and Grant shall enlighten every nation
and every people.
On the fi nal day, the climax was a huge fi reworks display, The
Finest Ever Seen in the South. The news-papers estimated that it
was viewed by 35,000 spectators.
The letter that Edward Albers, Capt. A.J. Albers 8-year-old son,
wrote his grandmother summed up the evening:
You ought of been here dur-ing the Reunion day if you had you
would of seen something pretty. The fi reworks were beautiful.
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I am an East Tennessean to my marrow. I like my land-scapes
green. But I have been to the desert, both literally and
metaphorically.
I have been to the des-ert: Phoenix in May, hostile heat that
assaults you like an Enemy. The Badlands of South Dakota, inhabited
by ghosts and coyotes. Craters of the Moon in Idaho, where the lava
beds will slice your feet like knives. The Mount of Temptation,
utter desola-tion: physical, emotional and spiritual
desolation.
I have been to the desert of the spirit as well, times
Desert placesThen Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the
wilder-
ness to be tempted by the devil. (Matthew 4: 1 NRSV)
And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
(Mark 1: 12 NRSV)
They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars on
stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo
scare myself with my own desert places.
(Desert Places, Robert Frost)
me? (It seldom occurs to us that maybe we have done it to
ourselves!)
One thing I know: Satan is there, waiting for us, just as he was
for Jesus.
Jesus went to the desert, either driven or led (depend-ing on
whose Gospel you are reading), not to be punished. He was being
prepared, ex-panded, refi ned. But Scrip-ture hints that Jesus had
a hard time in the desert, too.
Matthew says the minis-tering angels came only at the end of the
Temptation. Mark says they were there all along.
The truth is that our desert places teach us; they grow us up.
Israel spent 40 years in the desert learning how to be a covenant
people. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert learning how to be a
Mes-siah.
Maybe your time in the desert depends on how fast you learn.
Bear in mind that the word disciple means someone who is learning.
It comes from the same root as
discipline, a fact which im-plies that this is not an easy
course!
One of the hard things we learn in the desert is that our God is
not a domesticated, lap-dog God. Our God is the Holy One of Israel,
the Lion of Judah, the great I AM.
Hear C.S. Lewiss account of just such an encounter in The Silver
Chair, one of the Chronicles of Narnia:
Are you not thirsty? said the Lion
Im dying of thirst, said Jill.
Then drink, said the Lion.
Will you promise not to do anything to me, if I do come? said
Jill.
I make no promise.I darent come and drink,
said Jill.Then you will die of
thirst, said the Lion.Oh dear! I suppose I
must go and look for another stream then.
There is no other stream, said the Lion.
where life was gritty, and dusty, and scratchy. If God was
there, God was deathly quiet. If abandoned by God, then what?
At fi rst I felt punished: driven there for a purpose I did not
understand. What is this all about? I cried. Why have you done this
to
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Christmas events and services
Northside Christian Church , 4008 Tazewell Pike, will hold the
lighting of the nativity scene at the 5 p.m. service Sunday, Nov.
27, followed by a potluck dinner.
Knoxville Nativity Pageant Choir will rehearse 7-9 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 29 and Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Central Baptist Church of Bearden,
6300 Deane Hill Drive. Registration is 6-7 p.m. prior to each
rehearsal. Info: Janelle Witt at [email protected] or
www.knoxvillenativity.com.
Community services
Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Minis-
Scott tospeak at KFL
Scott Haluska will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville
Fel-lowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov. 22. The KFL is a group
of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in
Powell.
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Nativity Pageant The Rev. Eugene Hattaway, director of the choir
and orchestra for the Knoxville Nativity Pageant, directs the
choirs fi rst rehearsal last week at Central Baptist of Bearden.
The pageant, now in its 43rd year, has sched-uled performances for
3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, and 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 12-13,
at the Civic Coliseum. Admission is free. Hattaway is minister of
music for the First Baptist Church of Tellico Village. Photo by S.
Clark
try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each
fourth Saturday.
Graveston Baptist Church , 8328 Clapps Chapel Road, will host a
free walk-in medical clinic 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, in
the student center. Medical doctors and registered nurses will off
er general medi-cal care and limited prescribed medications (no
narcotics on site or prescribed) for all ages. A free food pantry
and a clothes closet with adult and childrens clothing are also
available. Info: 686-0186.
Knoxville Free Food Market , 4625 Mill Branch Lane (across from
Tractor Supply in Halls), distributes free food 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
the third Saturday of the month. Info: 566-1265.
New Hope Baptist Church distributes food from its food pantry to
local families in need 6-8 p.m. every third
Thursday. Info: 688-5330.
Thanksgiving Beaver Ridge UMC , 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will
host a free Thanksgiving dinner 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
24. No reservations are required and everyone is invited. Info:
www.beaverridgeumc.com or 690-1060.
Glenwood Baptist Church , 7212 Central Ave. Pike, will host a
community Thanksgiv-ing service 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. Everyone
is invited.
New Liberty Baptist Church , 5901 Roberts Road, Corryton, will
host an old fashioned turkey dinner with all the trim-mings 3-5
p.m. Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, Nov. 24) for anyone who would be
alone during the holidays. No charge but reservations are required
by calling Charmin Foth at 368-0806 or email charminfoth@
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RevivalsGraveston Baptist Church , 8319 Clapps Chapel Road, will
have Marvelous Mondays the whole month of November. Starting at 7
p.m. each Monday there will be a special evange-list and singing.
Info: 686-0186 orwww.graveston.org.
Warwick Chapel Baptist Church, Warwick Chapel Road in Luttrell,
will begin revival Monday, Nov. 21, at 7 each night. Evangelists
will be the Revs. Shane Pierce, Stewart Skeen, Joe Padgett and Ray
Headrick, pastor. Everyone is invited. Info: 992-8888.
Womens programs
New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike, will
host a Knoxville Day Womens Aglow Lighthouse outreach meeting 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6. Pat Greenlee will speak. Bring a
covered dish and items for the Lost Sheep Ministry. Info: Diane
Shelby, 687-3687.
United Methodist Women Christmas Brunch will be held 10 a.m.
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Bobcat seniors are pre-collegiate scholarsBy Betty Bean
While most of their friends were taking the summer be-tween
their junior and senior year off, Katlyn Watkin and Ronak Patel
were working 12-15 hours a week in labo-ratories at the University
of Tennessee. They both say that participating in the
Pre-Collegiate Scholars Research Program was a fi ne way to spend
the summer.
Katlyn worked for Dr. Paul Dalheimer, a professor of chemical
and biomolecu-lar engineering, on a project that is developing new
ma-terials to deliver drugs to cancer cells.
Ronak was assigned to Dr. Michael Best, a profes-sor of organic
chemistry who is directing research on herbicides that will kill
weeds without harming cul-tivated plants.
Both are excited about where this opportunity could lead
them.
After we were nominated, we were interviewed and had to write
essays about why we wanted to do it, said Ronak, whose favorite
subjects are
Katlyn Watkin and Ronak Patel Photo by Betty Bean
chemistry and calculus.The science department
got together and chose the students they thought would be good
for the program, said Katlyn, who is partial to biology.
They say that these proj-ects are directly related to the fi
elds they plan to enter in college and that their parents were
mightily pleased.
They thought it was re-ally cool, said Katlyn, who
is the daughter of Todd and Michelle Watkin.
At Central, she has been active in DECA and has writ-ten for the
school newspaper, The Scratching Post.
She plans to enter college as a pre-med student, which will give
her several career avenues to explore.
Ive kind of been bounc-ing back and forth between pre-med and
occupational therapy, so either way Im
kind of going to be involved in the medical fi eld, she said. Im
going in as pre-med, and Ill fi nd whatever is right for me.
Katlyn has applied to a bunch of in-state colleges, but my No. 1
is probably UTK, she said. She is working through a list of
scholarships and is working on a leader-ship award to be nominated
by principal Danny Trent.
Ronak, whose parents are Ashok and Jayshree Pa-tel, also plans
to enter a pre-med program in college and become either a
pharmacist or a neurologist. He is a fi -nalist for a Rhodes
scholar-ship and is considering Co-lumbia and Vanderbilt.
He has been active in Cen-tral High Schools National Honor
Society and fi nished in the top 50 in a national mathematics
competition.
They both admit to being anxious to fi nish high school I got
senioritis a long time ago, Ronak said.
Im ready to get started on my college career, said Katlyn.
Halls Middle softball wins championship
The Halls Middle School softball team defeated Grace Christian
and South-Doyle teams to advance to the win-ners bracket of the
middle school softball tournament. Halls faced Seymour for the
championship game and a 5-0 win forced Game Two in the bracket. In
the sec-ond game, Halls defeated Seymour 5-4 to bring home the
championship trophy. Team members are: (front) Emma Webb, Harper
Cherry, Keleigh Galloway, Haley Kingsbury, Paige Calloway, Leah
Sohm; (back) Caroline Cavin, McKinley Snider, winning pitcher
Lauren White, coach Elisha Humphrey, Malory Gardner, Alison Sailor
and Kayla Milen. Photo submitted
Whittle Springs holds Mystery Reading Night
Whittle Springs Mid-dle School held its Title I Family
Engagement Mys-tery Reading Night re-cently and students and their
families were able to practice logic skills at seven mystery
stations. Participants were able to collect clues and solve the
mystery of the missing e-reader and the e-Book Bandit.
At each mystery sta-tion, students interacted
with teachers and admin-istrators to review such logic and
critical think-ing skills as making infer-ences, making
predictions, analyzing fact and opin-ion, and analyzing cause and
effect. Students each received a mystery novel as they entered the
event and one student won the grand prize drawing for an e-reader
at the end of the night to encourage read-ing after school
hours.
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Brenda McPhail and student Aaron Grubb celebrate a mystery case
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Contest season a success for Halls band
By Jake Mabe The Halls High School
band completed a successful contest season at Gardner-Webb
University in Boiling Springs, N.C., on Nov. 5 by fi nishing second
overall at Band Beat.
Band director Eric Baum-gardner said that 20 bands participated
in preliminaries and that Halls High was the only Tennessee band at
the competition.
He said the band had its highest score of the day dur-ing
prelims, taking fi rst in music, visual and percussion. During fi
nals, the band took fi rst in music, second in gen-eral effect,
second in visual, third in guard and fi rst in percussion. Their
score was only 0.4 percent behind the fi rst-place band.
It was a really good day, Baumgardner said. The kids felt like
it was one of if not the best run they had all year.
The bands show was titled Dusk till Dawn.
At the Karns contest on Sept. 24, Baumgardner said the band took
fi rst in per-cussion, fi rst in music, fi rst in guard, fi rst in
general
effect, fi rst in visual, and our drum major did pretty well.
Twenty bands partic-ipated in preliminaries.
At the Volunteer Classic, held at Heritage High School on Oct.
8, the band won everything, Baumgardner said, out of 26 bands, to
earn superior ratings for every single caption, taking home a 93.4
(out of 100) aver-age and winning the Grand Champion Sweepstakes in
the A-B Class.
At the Contest of Champi-ons, held at Middle Tennes-see State
University on Oct. 22, the band fi nished fi fth overall, which is
its highest fi nish ever at this event.
Your goal is to be among the top eight bands. Its a high level
of judging.
The band also received a National Band Association citation for
Marching Excel-lence for its 83.25 average.
It was really, really close. Since my fi rst year in 2004 when I
was an assistant, weve gone to this contest six times and made the
fi -nals fi ve times. It was a good day. There was a lot of good
recognition and the kids
Showing the awards the Halls High band has won during contest
season are: (sitting) Aaron Jones (equipment), Melissa Gheen (bass
drum section leader), Stephanie Hill (head majorette), Jes-sica
Fekete (alto sax section leader), Erica Massengill (head drum
major), Caroline Gowin (bass clarinet section leader), Andrea
Co-lyer (music librarian), Elizabeth Moore (clarinet section
leader); (standing) Chasity Hobby (color guard captain), Michelle
Van-Guilder (baritone section leader), Morgan Gililland (music
librar-ian), Sarah Beck (fl ute section leader), Andy Cummings
(band
captain), Daniel Splane (tenor captain), Alan Sharpe (woodwind
captain), Phillip Durham (tuba section leader), Joshua Farmer
(mellophone section leader), Brad Hill (tenor sax section leader),
Justin Splane (brass captain), Clay Leach (drum major), Westyn
Sharp (equipment and music librarian), Cody Caprio (low brass
section leader), Daniel Del Moro (drum captain), Joshua Ander-son
(music librarian), Elijah Little (front ensemble section leader),
Helen Wilds (clarinet section leader) and Taylor Carr (color guard
captain). Photo by Jake Mabe
and the parents were super ecstatic. Most of the other bands had
had practice time in the (MTSU) stadium. The fi rst time we did it
was in preliminaries.
Baumgardner said the band met its goal of show-ing improvement
with each passing week.
The guard got better as the season went on and had some nice
recognition. The third place fi nish at Band
Beat was quite a bit higher than their fi nish last year. The
percussion lost a lot of seniors last year, but we felt like that
particular caption improved. This year is the fi rst time weve won
percus-sion at Band Beat and they won with a 30-point mar-gin
during prelims and a 20-point margin at fi nals.
The band got a lot of great comments from oth-er directors.
Baumgardner says his assistant director, Ashley Waller, is
indispensible, adding, what I dont do well, she does better and she
does a lot of things better. And the band par-ents do such a great
job. We have a grill we use in the concession stand (dur-ing
football games) that they took to the last two contests and the
parents grilled out. They do a great
job organizing and manag-ing things to allow us to fo-cus on
teaching music and marching.
It really was a group ef-fort.
The band will march in the Halls Christmas Pa-rade on Dec. 3 and
will hold the annual Holidaypalooza with drama, choral and art
students at 7 p.m. Thurs-day, Dec. 8, at the Halls Middle School
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Central HighPTSO fundraiser hosted by Salsaritas in Foun- tain
City will be 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Nov. 25-27.
Mention CHS when you pay and the PTSO will receive 15 percent of
the
total purchase. The Bobcat Company and Select Choraliers will
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Musical Monday at noon and 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5.
Halls ElementaryCraft fair will be 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 1. Free admission.
Gibbs students showcase talentBy Ruth White
Gibbs High School has had several students Kenny Chesney and
Den-ver T. Stevens to name two go on after high school and begin
record-ing careers. Ten students competed for the title of Gibbs
Idol and an oppor-tunity to hopefully one day live their dreams of
becoming a star.
Gibbs hosted the sec-ond Gibbs Goes Idol event to showcase the
talent of students and select a winner to represent the school at a
countywide competition later this year in Market Square.
The students performed in front of a packed house and showed off
their singing and musical tal-ents in hopes of being named Gibbs
Idol. Each performer chose a song
Kelsey Northern was named winner of the Gibbs Goes Idol tal-ent
competition. Northern is pictured with runner-up Amanda
Buschermohle. Photos by Ruth White
Senior Kaitlyn Townsend entertained the crowd with her song
Giddy on Up.
Jacob Dalton has been playing the guitar for fi ve years and
sang an original piece during Gibbs Goes Idol.
to ref lect their personal singing style and several played
their own accom-paniment. One student showed her vocal talent by
singing a cappella.
As the judges tallied the scores, Stevens, a 1999 Gibbs High
grad, entertained the crowd with several songs he has recorded that
have been played on a local country station.
This years winner was Kelsey Northern who sang Young and
Beautiful by Carrie Underwood. First runner-up was Amanda
Buschermohle who played the piano and sang You and I by Lady Gaga.
Sec-ond runner-up was Lau-ren Hudson, a self-taught guitarist who
sang Bryan Adams song, Dont Let Go.
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Ridenours celebrate 65th anniversary
Joseph Paris Joe and Marjorie Williams Ridenour
celebrated their 65th wed-ding anniversary Nov 8.
Joe is a U.S. Navy and World War II veteran. He and Marjorie
founded Ridenour Home Building and Supplies at the corner of
Maynard-ville Pike and Emory Road in 1958, built new homes in the
area and developed sev-eral commercial facilities in Halls.
The couple now live in Powell and have four chil-dren: Linda
Bales of Knox-ville, Shirley Denton of Gatlinburg, Steve Ridenour
of Knoxville and David Ride-nour of Powell.
BirthdaysTyler Henry turned 11
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2-car gar, sec sys, gas water heater 2ys old. Plenty of storage
w/floored attic w/walk-up stairs and stand up crawl space. $284,900
(777317)
HALLS 3BR/2.5BA w/bonus, hdwd floors, crown molding, 20x26 LR,
surround sound, sec sys, 3-car gar, level corner lot in cul-de-sac.
$234,900 (774195)
FTN CITY Wow! 3BR/2BA totally remodeled. All new plumb, elect
& more. Beau-tiful 26x9.6 covered front porch w/finished wood
floors, custom built-ins around brick FP. Kitchen has tile and
track lighting, unfin-ished basement & 1-car garage/workshop.
$159,900 (775489)
HALLS 3BR/2BA rancher in cul-de-sac. LR w/gas FP, covered back
deck, level yard, master suite w/2 walk-in closets & whirlpool
tub. Updates: Roof 2010 & wa-ter heater 2008. $149,900
(779359)
MAYNARDVILLE 1 acre w/2-story brick home fea-tures: 4BR/2BA
w/attached 2-car garage, 40x24 brick & metal blg w/electric
& water great for home business, 12x24 metal shed & hay
barn. Lots of possibilities, additional acreage available. $139,900
(755483)
N KNOX Shadow floor plan the largest in subdivi-sion. This
2BR/2BA w/2-car garage features: 19x14 courtyard, eat-in kitchen,
living rm/dining rm combo, master suite w/walk-in closet &
window seat. $129,900 (779135)
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