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Veterans Day at UC high school

The annual Union County High School Veterans Day Pro-gram will be held Wednesday, Nov. 11, with registration and refreshments at 9 a.m. and the program starting at 10 a.m.

Everyone is invited to take part in this program. Special recognition will be given to veterans. There will be music, readings and speakers. Info: 640-5670

Free car seatExpectant parents or those

with an infant younger than 3 months are invited to learn about free, in-home parent education and support 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at Food City in Maynardville.

Tricia Davis will answer your questions and help you register for a free child car seat.

Mentors sought for local students

State Rep. Dennis Powers is encouraging residents to sign up to mentor high school students through Tennessee Promise.

“A key aspect of the Ten-nessee Promise is mentorship. Students are paired with men-tors that help them navigate the college application process and provide guidance and encouragement.

“I have had the opportunity to serve as a mentor and found it be a rewarding endeavor.”

Currently, Union County is at 56 percent of the state goal for mentorship. If you are in-terested in serving as a mentor for these students or would like to learn more, visit tnachieves.org/a-mentor

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By Shannon CareyFive acres of land at Narrow

Ridge Earth Literacy Center, just over the line in Grainger County, have been set aside for a special purpose.

The beautiful meadow with a spectacular mountain view is Narrow Ridge’s Natural Burial Preserve, where families may lay their loved ones to rest in the most earth-friendly way possible. Nar-row Ridge volunteers even con-structed a timber-frame pavilion for services using local wood.

Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, di-rector of the center, said the pre-serve is an extension of the Nar-row Ridge values of sustainability, “and doing things that are the least harmful to the Earth.”

The site was dedicated Nov. 1, “to those who came before, those who are here now, and those who will come after,” Wood-Von Miz-ener said. “It’s dedicated to the generations of life and death.”

Families may inter loved ones on the site for free as long as they follow certain requirements, al-though Narrow Ridge asks that families consider a donation within their means. Families are responsible for the expense of opening and closing the grave, ei-ther using an approved service or by hand.

Requirements include no con-crete vaults or non-biodegradable containers or caskets and no em-balming fl uid. Shrouds or natural caskets may be used. Monuments must be fl ush to the ground, no more than one foot by two feet,

By Shannon CareyUnion County’s high school

students and the public got expert help with crafting resumes and ap-plying for jobs last week as the Ca-reer Coach made a stop at the Al-ternative School in Maynardville.

Tennessee’s Career Coaches are mobile job centers, with Internet access and trained professionals aboard. Career Coach services in-clude resume help, instruction on interview skills and help register-ing on jobs4tn.gov.

With a jobs4tn.gov profi le, stu-dents can apply for jobs in their areas of interest, and employers can search for those needing work.

Transition Coach Bridgett Cal-fee and Work-Based Learning Coordinator Leanne Friebel work with students at the Alternative School and all over the county to provide job-readiness training and teach “soft skills,” like han-dling workplace drama, dress-ing appropriately, self-advocacy, shaking hands and more. Friebel

even helps place students in jobs.“We provide hands-on oppor-

tunities with a safety net,” she said.

“Our whole goal is to help them be employed in something they want to be employed in,” Calfee said. “We help get them prepared.”

No work experience? No prob-lem. Students learned how to translate skills like yard work or babysitting from school and home into compelling resume content.

“We have to fi nd those skills

and areas of strength,” said Frieb-el. “You’ve got to be creative.”

But sometimes, students just need a vision for the future, a clear path to a career, and the Career Coach did just that, guiding stu-dents over the intimidating hurdle of applying for jobs.

“If you’re not trained and you don’t have people who know how to help you be equipped for a 21st Century workplace, really it’s fall-ing on the schools to do that,” said Friebel.

A grave decorated with love at the Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center’s

Natural Burial Preserve. Photos submitted

Tom Miklusiak helps Kenneth Mattingly create a resume aboard the Career Coach. Photo by S. Carey

Natural burial off ers return to nature

Career Coach revs work force enginesLodge to serve lunch to veterans

J.C. Baker Lodge members will serve lunch to veterans Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the lodge. All veterans and their families are welcome.

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Peters honoredBonnie Peters, Union

County historian and weekly columnist for Shopper News, is one of 10 winners of the East Tennessee Preservation awards, presented Oct. 24 in Knoxville.

East Tennessee’s physical and built environment is rich and diverse and these annual awards celebrate the commu-nities, places and individuals who ensure future East Ten-nesseans will have physical evidence of its heritage, ac-cording to the press release.

Info: knoxheritage.org/etpa

and native stone like limestone.“As each section fi lls, that sec-

tion will be allowed to return to forest,” Wood-Von Mizener said. The forest will have paths to the

gravesites.While the idea of natural burial

may seem unconventional, the concept has resonated with many folks in the area.

“This is the way people have been buried for a long time, and we’re not going that far back,” said Wood-Von Mizener. “No matter what you do, no matter what cas-ket or container you put us in, our bodies are going to return to the earth. The idea is not to pollute.”

But environmental concerns aren’t the only reason people are choosing natural burial. There are fi nancial reasons, too.

“There is a lot of expense that people face that is not essen-tial, especially during one of the hardest times a family will face,” said Wood-Von Mizener. “We are thrilled to help them in their hour of need.”

Wood-Von Mizener said that Narrow Ridge followed state guidelines in the creation of the preserve as a community cem-etery and even met with the Board of Funeral Directors under the state Department of Commerce. She said there are no laws in place requiring concrete vaults or em-balming fl uid.

So far, fi ve people have been interred at Narrow Ridge. Wood-Von Mizener recalled one family whose mother had passed away. Her husband wanted her buried at Narrow Ridge, but her sons were skeptical at fi rst.

“They came away with the sense of it being very therapeutic and memorable,” Wood-Von Miz-ener said. “It meant a lot to grab shovels and cover the grave them-selves. It’s really been amazing.

By Rebecca Williams Taking home a total of

30 awards, four wine mak-ers and members of East Tennessee’s Thunder Road Wine Trail earned high honors in the 2015 Wines of the South Regional Wine Competition, hosted by UT Knoxville’s Food Sci-ence Technology Depart-ment. Winners were an-nounced Oct. 29.

Thunder Road Wine Trail opened in September, join-ing six independent winer-ies in East Tennessee. Visi-tors to the wineries travel on the scenic and historic Thunder Road and Cop-perhead Road moonshine trails. But today award-win-ning wine is offered along the way.

The Winery at Seven Springs Farm in Maynard-ville, Eagle Springs Win-ery in Kodak, Goodwater Vineyards in Mosheim, and Watauga Lake Win-ery in Butler, all took home awards from the competi-tion, including 12 gold med-als, seven of which were concordance gold (unani-mous gold ranking), 12 sil-ver medals and six bronze medals.

These four wineries have been in operation less than three years, with The Win-ery at Seven Springs Farm opening in September 2015.

“This is really great news,” said Rick Riddle, founder of Thunder Road Wine Trail. “This new gen-eration of vintners is cer-tainly making their mark on the wine industry in the United States.”

The Winery at Seven Springs Farm received fi ve

c o n c o r -dance gold m e d a l s , i n c l u d i n g sharing best of Musca-tine, and three silver medals for the eight wines pro-

duced by winemaker Nicole Riddle.

“Every winemaker seeks the elusive, perfect wine,” she said. “Exactly what ‘perfect’ means is specif-ic to the winemaker and the many decisions made when the grapes reach the winery.”

Nicole Riddle describes her winemaking style as fruit forward and balanced. She uses modern technol-ogy and technique to shape the vintage. Nicole wants the fruit to dominate, pick-ing the grapes at the mo-ment when acidity level and sweetness are perfectly in balance. Her Vineyard White, a concordance cold winner, is characteristic of her style; a vibrant wine that bursts with fl avor, while remaining crisp, fresh and aromatic.

Wines of the South is an annual regional wine com-petition designed to pro-mote and celebrate the great tastes of Southern vintages. Wineries in 14 states are invited to submit wines for the competition, and 2015 marked the 14th annual year for the Wines of the South competition.

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nomic and Community De-velopment Commissioner Randy Boyd and 18 busi-ness leaders from Tennes-see, including three from Knoxville, recently re-turned from a trip to Israel to “sell” Tennessee as a site for new business.

The biggest challenge, Boyd says, is that the only thing most Israelis know about the state is that it’s the home of Jack Daniel’s and Elvis Presley.

New York, California and even New Jersey are on the international radar. But Tennessee requires a sales pitch, and Haslam and Boyd did a great job, says Stephen Rosen, managing director of the institutional bonds division at Raymond James.

Rosen, one of several Jewish community leaders who traveled with the group to give cultural guidance, says the sales pitch would’ve worked on him.

“I’m ready to move to Tennessee,” he laughs.

It was Rosen’s fourth trip to Israel. All members of the state delegation paid their own way.

Israel is known for its large number of start-up companies, which Boyd partially attributes to an atmosphere of uncertainty created by political turmoil.

“To start a business is not a big deal in that culture. Risk-taking is natural.”

Hard work and innova-tion also infl uence the busi-ness culture. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education) is part of el-ementary school curriculum, and the military is heavily in-volved in research.

But Israel would rather be a growth nation than a

start-up nation, he says. The goal of the trip was to en-courage business owners to grow their U.S. market from Tennessee.

The state is welcoming, supportive, situated well logistically and economical to live in. But the biggest advantage may be Tennes-see Promise. Two years of tuition-free community col-lege or technical school for the state’s high school grad-uates, which guarantees a future workforce, differen-tiates Tennessee, Boyd says.

The trip was a success on a number of levels. Boyd is confi dent that numerous meetings with potential business partners will even-tually pay off with new jobs in Tennessee.

It was also inspiring, he says. Best practices were shared, and the group learned about Israel’s suc-cess in technology transfer. They were also impressed with Israel’s technical col-lege system, ORT, and hope for future partnerships be-tween ORT and the state’s

Colleges of Applied Tech-nology.

He also values the rela-tionships that developed among the Tennessee del-egation.

Rosen was thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in the trip. The group visited a kibbutz north of Tel Aviv where Clin-ton-based auto-parts manu-facturer MAG was founded. It’s an example of how East Tennessee can successfully grow new business.

“We’re part of the story, too. We’re part of the Wel-come Wagon.”

The delegation got the royal treatment, he says. Haslam met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Is-raeli President Shimon Peres, and he rang the open-ing bell at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

One sight Rosen espe-cially enjoyed was quiet streets with few soldiers. During the weeks that have passed since the trip, that’s changed, he says.

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the fi nal resting place of a loved one by hand at the Natu-

ral Burial Preserve at Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center.

“This isn’t for people of a particular political leaning or specifi c denomination of faith. This crosses those kinds of lines.”

Wood-Von Mizener invited everyone with questions to “be part of the conversation”

about the preserve.As part of Narrow Ridge’s

mission of education, she hopes the Natural Burial Pre-serve will help people consider how they might do things dif-ferently.

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For 24 years I sat by Bon-nie Masingo Page at the au-thors tables at Museum of Appalachia Fall Homecom-ing. This year she was not able to come.

Bonnie Masingo Page passes the torch

Bonnie Masingo Page

Jan. 20, 1920, the daughter of Charlie and Lou Masingo of Speedwell – so – in 1985 she published a book called “Speedwell.”

Bonnie taught school at Pruden, her fi rst teaching job, where she met her fu-ture husband, Donald Page; and guess what. In 1983, she published the book “Pruden.” Donald and Bon-nie married about a week after Pearl Harbor.

Sadly, Donald died of cancer in 1980.

Bonnie began teaching about 1946 at Lake City El-ementary School and taught for over 30 years. In her retirement years she pub-

lished a number of hard- and soft-back histories and worked diligently to keep the history of this region alive.

To my knowledge, her

last work was a history of Lincoln Memorial Univer-sity, co-authored with Cindy Stephenson. The book was done to preserve the history of her alma mater, having graduated there in three years.

On Oct. 21, 2015, Bonnie died at age 95 and having spent only fi ve days at a lo-cal nursing facility. She is survived by her two sons, Kenton and Steve Page, and their families. Kenton Page is the owner of Fountain City Pharmacy.

It is interesting that in her book on Speedwell Bonnie talked about “pass-ing the torch.” As she was

In summaryIt is widely reputed that

Thomas Edison was once asked if he wasn’t disap-pointed that he had expe-rienced so many failures while attempting to invent the light bulb. He suppos-edly replied that he did not consider that he had failed, he had just discovered 10,000 ways that didn’t work.

Some of the greatest les-sons in life are learned from many tries to create things

that were never before at-tempted. Sometimes when this happens, the resulting error is the best possible learning experience. I don’t recall ever having such a

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Young Life off ers teens support; coming to Union CountyThe banquet sponsors

were a who’s who of Knox-ville. The table hosts looked like a Finbarr Saunders en-dorsement ad (not the same names, necessarily, but a huge bunch of them).

More than a thousand folks gathered at the Knox-ville Convention Center for roast beef and potatoes at the 2015 banquet for Knox-ville Young Life.

If you’ve not heard of this group, you’re obviously not in high school.

I learned about it through my friend Justin Bailey. He’s a volunteer leader and his wife, Kristin, is on the 12-member staff.

Amazingly, the annual budget is more than $1 mil-lion and the group raised over $700,000 of it at the October banquet.

Gov. Bill Haslam speak-ing did not hurt.

Bill and Crissy Haslam were Young Life kids in high school and remain adult lead-ers, I learned, and Bill has served on the national board.

He said Young Life was there for him as a 16-year-old student at Webb School whose mother died unex-pectedly. He came to appre-ciate the group even more as a parent.

“Forty-one years ago I began an adventure,” said Haslam. In a pointedly non-political speech, he told the assembled adults what he’s learned:

■ The power of a vol-unteer. “We’ve got 200 volunteers in Knoxville and you could have found them last Friday night standing in the rain at a football game.”

God teaches us in un-comfortable situations, he said. “Crissy and I have had a front row seat to Young Life.”

■ People giving back. “This is a different town be-cause of Young Life.” And the ministry continues to grow, now reaching from Moscow to Madrid.

He recalled a teen telling a volunteer, “Every time it mattered, you showed up.”

■ Outreach. Knoxville Young Life has the largest ministry to pregnant teens; it has an outreach to stu-dents at Tennessee School for the Deaf.

■ Government can fi x potholes, but not hearts. “Forty-one years ago I never knew I’d have a government job,” Haslam joked.

Mindy Meyer followed the governor, putting a gen-tle squeeze on attendees to open their checkbooks.

“You help decide whether we grow, maintain or de-cline,” she said.

Checkbooks fl ew out.The governor, TV guy

Russell Biven and some oth-er Young Life leaders did an impromptu dance on stage to conclude the show. Sadly,

dramatic experience as Thomas Edison, but one of the most important things I ever learned happened quite by accident.

Wanda Cox Byerley transferred to Maynardville Elementary when I was in sixth grade. That was the year departmentalization was introduced in the sixth and seventh grades at MES, and Ms. Wanda wound up teaching more subjects in her class block than any other teacher (reading, art and music).

One of her fi rst reading assignments was to write a summary of a story. I had never heard the word “sum-mary,” and obviously no one else had either. Sensibly, we asked what a summary was,

and Ms. Cox replied that it was writing the story in your own words.

Though that seemed simple enough, somehow its simplicity did not make a connection in my brain. I now know I am predomi-nantly a visual learner who probably would have profi t-ed from watching the teach-er model the task before un-dertaking it myself.

Thus began my first experience with plagia-rism. I began copying the story word for word. After probably four pages and a cramped hand, I decided this couldn’t be what I was supposed to do. The first four pages might have been copied verbatim, but the remaining (maybe 10)

pages of the story I actu-ally summarized in one sentence.

Eureka! I had found through self-discovery the secret of summarization. What amazes me is the speed with which I became profi cient. One minute I’m copying every word in the story verbatim onto four notebook pages, and the very next I summarized 10 pages from the book in one sentence!

Did Ms. Cox carefully craft a teaching strategy de-signed to lead her students to self-discovery of the cor-rect method of summariza-tion? Did I appropriately achieve the desired goal of the assignment through self-discovery? Did in this

case both teacher and stu-dent get lucky?

For my part I’m going to give full credit to Ms. Cox for being an effective teacher. I might even give myself a little credit for not being too bad of a student. This is indeed an instance where the end justified the means.

Summarizing is one of the most useful skills I ever learned. It all began with Wanda Cox, later fi ne-tuned by years of practical ap-plication in school and on the job. It would be impos-sible to succeed as a higher education student or school administrator without ade-quate summarization skills.

Next week I’ll share a tale that might seem tactless.

Bonnie was serious about recording and promoting local history. She wrote about the places she person-ally experienced and knew about. Bonnie was born

I didn’t get a picture.Bart Elkins later said he

was surprised at the lack of politics in Haslam’s talk and at his willingness to share personal details.

The Young Life members have a secret handshake, it seems. With shared history and a shared vision, they simply stand and give their story. No need for introduc-tions.

Will Acker, who seemed to be in charge, said the tra-dition of Knoxville Young

about the fi nish the book, the Olympic Torch passed through the town of Speed-well and reminded her of how we pass our history and our stories from one genera-tion to the next to keep the history alive.

In “Speedwell” she wrote, “As the Olympic Torch passed through Speedwell on May 29, 1984, we are passing through this life and at the end of a certain point as with the torch we must pass it on to someone younger and stronger who will keep it moving into the future and into other parts of the country and the world.”

Bonnie recalled that her parents taught her fair play, perseverance, inge-

nuity, loving kindness, hard work, obedience and appreciation. Bonnie has passed the torch, carrying these great qualities on to her family as evidenced by their love and care of her and her descendants.

I feel I can speak for all the authors who shared the authors tent and all who knew Bonnie Masingo Page that we extend our deepest sympathy to the Page fam-ily and want you to know we are thinking of you during this time of loss.

Bonnie’s books, “Pruden,” “Speedwell” and “Lincoln Memorial University,” as well as some soft cover edi-tions are available at the Union County Museum and Library.

Life is to tell teens they are loved just as they are by the God of the universe.

Young Life also has a tradition of adventure and laughter, he said.

“High school kids live in a dark place. We take the light into dark places.

“Each high school has its own club.

“We go where high school students are – ballgames, practices, recitals, rehears-als, work, wherever kids are – all in an effort to get to

know students.“These relationships are

the foundation of Young Life.”

With 18 clubs, the nonde-nominational group plans to expand to Union County this year.

How can you not pitch in?I wrote a check, prob-

ably the smallest one there. That mildly warm roast beef dinner cost more than the prime rib at O’Charley’s, but I came away humming a happy tune.

Fall is really here. We’ve had three morning frosts. The leaves have peaked in color in the mountains, and are showing up nicely, spe-cies by species, here on the ridges and in the valleys. The air is fresh and crisp, and those wonderful fall smells are in the air – wood smoke, dry crunchy leaves underfoot, spicy goodies in the oven. The weather is great, and all those smells are great.

Well, ummm, not all of them.

Dr. Bob Collier

And of course it’s impor-tant for everybody to know that smell, just in case there is ever a leak. But does your nose know the origin of that other sulphurous night-time vapor, wafting in your bedroom window at 3 a.m.? That window that you left open to fi nally get to enjoy the cool nighttime air.

Clue: it’s coming not from the big yellow KUB pipes, but from something black and furry, with white

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It happened so fast that later I had trouble remembering the exact sequence of events.

Lewis and I were trav-eling on the interstate in our motor home, which is about the size of a Mack truck, that is to say, im-possible to stop on a dime. To add to the peril, it was raining.

Suddenly, in our lane, there was a car stopped, clearly the result of a wreck that had happened within the past two min-utes. Two other cars were involved, and a tractor trailer was just ahead, ap-parently unscathed and moving on.

Thanks to Lewis’ good refl exes and quick think-ing, we were able to avoid becoming part of the wreckage.

Later, he asked me what I was thinking at that moment.

When my pounding heart slowed down and I could breathe again, I told him, “I wasn’t thinking! I

…my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my strong-hold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.

(2 Samuel 22: 3 NRSV)Jesus, Savior, pilot me over life’s tempestuous

sea; unknown waves before me roll, hiding rock and treacherous shoal.

(Edward Hopper, 1871)

A near miss

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was praying!” No kidding!We never know when

the “rock and treacher-ous shoal” will be right in front of us. We can be assured of two things: there will be danger on occasion, and always, no matter the outcome, God is with us.

Lewis and I were for-tunate: to be unhurt, and to have avoided hurting anyone else. I have to ad-mit, as well, that we were grateful that our motor home was intact.

Such an experience focuses the mind. It also reminds me that there are many across this world who live in constant dan-ger. Let’s pray for them, too.

You may relax and take two deep breaths. Set aside tranquilizers and Pepto-Bismol. Tennessee football is now near the safety net – well, the relative safety of November.

This is the time of year when coaches preserve jobs. Some even get raises and contract extensions in the name of progress – because teams look much better against inferior competition.

Oh no, this is no guar-antee of four consecutive victories and a holiday bowl outing for the Volun-teers but South Carolina, North Texas, Missouri and Vanderbilt do sound more favorable than Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama.

Tennessee has not always fi nished strong but there have been Novembers to re-member.

John Majors’ teams sometimes ran out of fuel in his fi rst eight seasons (11 late losses) but the Sugar Vols of 1985 got it all straightened

Vols approaching safety net

out. They went 5-0 down the stretch, on their way to a Southeastern Conference championship and a histor-ic trip to New Orleans. They walloped Rutgers, 40-0, de-feated Memphis State by 10, Ole Miss by 20, Kentucky by 42 and Vanderbilt by 30.

Once they found the for-mula, Majors’ teams won 22 consecutive November games, lost to Notre Dame and won 11 more before the end.

Phillip Fulmer teams went 42-4 in his fi rst 12 Novem-bers. Losses were to Mem-phis State, Arkansas, Miami and Notre Dame. Alumni leaders should have known better than to pick Miami for homecoming. North Texas is

a much better idea.Fans do remember what

the Vols do in November. Fifteen times Tennessee went undefeated from 1985 through 2004. Fulmer teams were 10-6 in his last four Novembers. Lane Kif-fi n was 3-1. Derek Dooley was 7-4. Butch Jones is 4-4.

Tennessee numbers have been skewed through the years by near-total domi-nation of Kentucky and Vanderbilt. Not so much lately. Tennessee has been down near their level.

I haven’t noticed any change in pulse rate but incoming South Carolina fi gures to be a somewhat different story on Saturday. We’ll have to get by without anguished expressions, vi-sors sailing through hot air and futile sideline searches for somebody to blame, in-ept assistants or thought-less Gamecocks.

It was sad to see Steve Spurrier give up the swim in midstream – just plain quit.

He coached players to per-severe but when things got tough, he took down the fl ag and surrendered. Getting his full $4 million stopped the bleeding and soothed most of the pain. He undoubtedly has another part-time job at ESPN or the SEC Network.

I blame Butch Jones in part for Spurrier’s decision. What Joshua Dobbs and the Tennessee defense did to South Carolina this time last season took a lot of fun out of coaching.

Professional critics didn’t help. One asked Spurrier a loaded question: If you can’t beat the Vols, who can you beat?

South Carolina, even without the old Ball Coach, one of the best ever in col-lege football, does not proj-ect as a pushover. This is another must-win game for the Volunteers. All are. There are no shortcuts to saving this season. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

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both owl and skunk are out and about at the same time of the night. So, yummy! for the owls, and may they en-joy many more such snacks. Just not in my yard.

stripes and a bad attitude. Known to my Granny as the henhouse-raiding, chicken-stealing polecat, our culprit is more properly known as the striped skunk. Skunks are on the list of creatures that we could stand a few less of, around our yards and under our houses, along with raccoons, ’possums and mosquitoes.

We don’t see them all that often in proportion to how often we smell them, mainly because they’re mostly out and about at night.

This time of the year, they seem prone to getting into territorial disputes over who gets to dig up your yard, squalling and growl-ing like cats, and often end-ing the fray by fi ring a shot of malodorous spray into the otherwise delightful night air.

Not that skunks are all bad. If captured and de-scented at a very young age, they are said to make a nice house pet, sort of like a cat. Up north, skunks are trapped and their pelts used to adorn coats and jackets. One would presume that such an activity would in-volve a good deal of know-how to make it a tolerable source of employment.

Besides in your hen-house, skunks do create some problems in your yard. They will eat almost anything, including your pet’s food left outside, and the seeds on the ground un-der your bird feeder. They help to rid your lawn of var-ious grubs and insect lar-vae, the only problem there being all those tell-tale lit-tle digging holes all across your carefully-tended turf.

(In my yard, this doesn’t

matter.)The most serious social

problem the skunk has, though, is its odor situation. Skunks have evolved a high-ly effective defense mecha-nism that makes them close to predator-proof: the abil-ity to shoot a spray of oily, sickeningly odorous liquid at any apparent threat, man or beast.

And so, they waddle across lawns and parks with an obvious attitude of be-ing absolutely untouchable. They’re pretty much right.

The combination of chemicals in skunk spray makes an immediate and lasting impression on most would-be attackers, usually breaks off any current en-counter and generally pre-vents any future thoughts of a second attempt by the same would-be predator.

Coyotes, wolves, even mountain lions are known to avoid skunks. Only cer-tain goofy, clueless breeds of dogs (we’ll not mention names – you know who they are) will not only attack a skunk, they’ll sometimes even come back again for another try.

So, what to do when old Shep indiscreetly gets a full dose of skunk spray? A soaking in tomato juice is the remedy you hear of the most.\

It’s a big, smelly job that uses a lot of juice, and be-sides that, it doesn’t work. Science to the rescue – a chemist in Illinois named Paul Krebaum has come up with a science-based, effec-tive and inexpensive way to salvage Poochie from being banned to the far back yard forever.

It seems that Mr. Kre-

baum developed, in the course of his work, an odor-ous product that his fellow workers found greatly an-noying. He set about devel-oping an effective antidote for said product, and since the product had chemicals in it similar to those in skunk spray, he fi gured out that his antidote would im-mediately neutralize skunk odor as well.

The recipe is free to the public, and described on any number of websites, along with detailed instruc-tions and some precautions. You should check one out before using the recipe. It may be one of your most im-portant holiday season reci-pes. Briefl y, here it is:

1 Qt. fresh 3% hydrogen peroxide

¼ cup baking soda 2 teaspoons liquid soap Soak dog thoroughly for

5 minutes, then bathe dog as usual. Smell should be gone.

With all of that defense, is there nothing that will help us with the abundant skunk population other than nighttime automobile traffi c? As a matter of f act, there is, and it comes from an unexpected direction – the sky. One of the profes-sors at the UT Vet School, in charge of looking after big injured birds of prey, told us at Bird Club that any time someone brings him an injured bird in a big box, and it smells like skunk, he knows what’s in there – a great horned owl.

Great horned owls appar-ently have a poor sense of smell, or a seriously big ap-petite, as they are known to regularly take skunks. This would be a natural and very handy meal for them, since

FAITH NOTES

■ Hansard Chapel Methodist Church, Hwy. 33 across from

Tolliver’s Market, hosts a food

pantry 6-7 p.m. each third Sat-

urday. Gently used clothing

available. Info: the Rev. Jay

Richardson, 776-2668.

■ Living Waters Missionary Baptist Church will hold

a benefi t 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7, at Union

County High School to raise

money for funeral expenses

for the Munsey family’s son.

Featuring: food, games, silent

auction, raffl es, corn hole

tournament and more.

■ Mountain View Church of God in Luttrell: 8 a.m. Satur-

day, Nov. 14, breakfast of bis-

cuit/gravy, ham and sausage

for a small price followed by

an old fashioned cake walk

and bake sale; noon-4 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 21 – free

community dinner of turkey,

dressing and trimmings, pick-

up at the drive-thru.

■ Nave Hill Baptist Church,

1805 Walker Ford Road, will

hold revival 6 p.m. Sunday,

Nov. 8. Services continue 7

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By Shannon CareyUnion County Mayor

Mike Williams has been sporting some fabulous neckwear lately. His bright pink cravats aren’t just a fashion choice, though. As a Komen Knoxville Pink Tie Guy, he’s helping raise breast cancer awareness.

Williams said he’s been involved with Komen Knox-ville since the early 1990s. With 75 percent of their money going to research or women who need screen-ings or treatment, Williams said, “They’re using the money the right way.”

According to statistics,

Union County is second in East Tennessee for late-stage breast cancer diag-nosis, meaning that the cancer hasn’t been caught soon enough. But Williams thinks that recent aware-ness efforts have encour-aged women to get screened and follow up when they no-tice something is wrong.

When the mobile mam-mography bus rolled into town, it used to sit empty for most of the day, he said.

“Since we’ve been doing what we’re doing, the bus was scheduled for the entire day,” Williams said. “Aware-ness is getting much better.”

Mayor Mike Williams is a Komen Knoxville Pink Tie Guy. Photo by S. Carey

Who’s the guy in the pink tie?

He shoots,he scores!

Big Ridge Elementary

School 5th grader Levi

Bailey celebrates after

shooting a basket in the

Big Ridge versus Sharps

Chapel basketball game.

Levi, an avid basketball

fan, took the court with

his friends on the Big

Ridge team. Photo submitted

Paulette is top fundraiserHeart survivor and Paulette Elementary School student Milah

Shoff ner sits with Jenny Lawson, American Heart Association

Youth Market Director for East Tennessee. In October, the

school received an award for being the top fundraiser in the

district with $4,363 raised in February with the Jump/Shoot for

Hearts program. Photo submitted

The Tennessee Treasury Department has offi cially launched ABLEtn.gov spot-lighting a new law sponsored by state Sen. Becky Massey to help individuals with dis-abilities. This new site will keep Tennesse-ans informed about the implementation of Tennessee’s Achieving a Better Life Experi-ence Program , ABLE TN.

“The purpose of this new law is to en-courage and assist individuals and families to save private funds to support individuals with disabilities,” said Massey. “The private funds saved through the ABLE program supplements benefi ts provided by private insurance and medical benefi ts, supple-mental social security income, the accounts benefi ciary income as well as other sources to help these citizens with essential needs of life. This will help these individuals to have the fl exibility and independence they need to achieve a better life.”

The website will be a source for the latest ABLE TN news and provide visitors with an opportunity to register to receive updates regarding the development of the program. It also contains FAQs about the program.

Massey said the ABLE program pro-vides eligible individuals with disabilities

the same types of fl exible savings tools that all other Americans have through college

savings accounts, health savings accounts and indi-vidual retirement accounts, consistent with the federal legislation passed last De-cember. It allows individu-als with disabilities to pay for expenses including but not limited to education, housing, transportation, employment, employment

training and support, assisted technology, personal support services, and funeral and burial expenses.

The state treasurer is responsible for the implementation and operation of the program.

“I am very pleased with the work done by Treasurer David Lillard and his staff in their work to implement the ABLE program in Tennessee and to help citizens take ad-vantage of it through this website,” added Massey. “It provides incredible assistance in explaining how the program works and how it can help those who are eligible for this program.”

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Maynardville and Big Ridge elementary schools showed school pride last week with Spirit Week celebrations. Stu-dents and staff alike wore wacky and whimsical costumesfor themed days. Shopper-News visited Maynardville El-ementary for Disney Character Day and Big Ridge Elemen-tary for Wacky Wednesday. More Photos on next page.

Misti Summers and Kim Martin are regular Mouseketeers on

Disney Character Day at Maynardville.

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It’s good, of course, to keep all your muscles strong and limber. But the strength of the body’s core—the muscles in your belly and mid- and lower back, is one of the keys to longterm health and stability as you grow older. Among the core muscles are those with names like multifi dus, interspinalis and intertransversi. Th ey are part of a network of tendons, ligaments and muscles that weave from the thighs to the chest and support the spine.

In addition to controlling all full-body motion, the core muscles also have a ma-jor impact on posture. Th ey help keep the spine, ribs and pelvic region in alignment. And if you have any athletic interest, core muscles are especially important.

Th ere are a number of simple exercises you can do to strengthen your core. Probably the simplest is the

crunch. Th e traditional situp has fallen out of favor with experts; many feel it can be more harmful than benefi -cial because of the way it can compress the lower spine.

Roll up a small towel and place it under the small of the back so as to maintain the natural curve of the spine. With your arms folded across your chest, a proper crunch uses abdomi-nal muscles to raise the head and trunk just slightly off the fl oor.

Increasing strength is not the only goal of this and other core-related exer-cises. Flexible hips are also important to keep the back from overworking. Yoga and pilates are excellent ways to keep hips fl exible. Ask your chiropractor for more ways to care for your core.

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Teachers Carrie Cox and Sara

Longmire are dressed to im-

press with Big Ridge principal

Kim Turner.

Maynardville 1st grader Navada Tipton is

Elsa from “Frozen” on Disney Character

Day.

Zachary Sum-

mers sports

mouse ears

with his Jedi

robes for Disney

Character Day.

Principal Kim Turner (center) visits the Pre-K class at Big Ridge

Elementary School on Wacky Wednesday. With her are Mad-

diee Reno and Matlyn Graves.

Big Ridge

teacher Renee

Bills (center)

gets wacky

with students

Harper Bales,

Olivia Nicely,

Jackson Holt

and Walker

Graves.

Teacher Lori Rose is

Mike Wazowski and

student Savannah

Hamilton is Boo

from “Monsters Inc.”

Addalynn Wood and Zoey Mitchell are full of whimsy for Dis-

ney Character Day.Big Ridge 5th graders Kendra Cooke, Isaiah Scates, Amelia Bills and Evan Hanson went

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CALL FOR VENDORSChrist UMC is seeking vendors for its fall arts and

crafts festival, to be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Info/application: [email protected] or Sherry, 776-1100.

THURSDAY, NOV. 5AAA Driver Improvement course, 5:30-

9:30 p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Four-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $30 members/$35 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

Bee Friends bee keeping group meeting, 6:30 p.m., Walter State University Tazewell campus auditorium. Program: free honey tasting. Info: 617-9013.

Big Ridge 4th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Big Ridge Elementary School library. Info: 992-5212.

FRIDAY, NOV. 6Free movie night featuring “St. John in Exile,” 7

p.m., Beaver Dam Baptist Church education building, third fl oor, 4328 E. Emory Road. Free popcorn and drinks.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 6-7Fall festival, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Fairmont Presbyterian

Church, 2537 Fairmont Blvd. Includes rummage sale, bake sale and Santa’s Christmas Shop.

Rummage sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Info: 228-4910.

Rummage sale, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Beulah Baptist Church, 1138 Raccoon Valley Road off Loyston Road. Featuring: $3 per bag, furniture, and odds and ends. Info: 992-5833.

“Tinsel & Treasure” presented by the Junior League of Knoxville (JLK), 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, 10

a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Jacob Building at Chilhowee Park. The Girls’ Night Out Preview Party is 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5. Tickets: Advance, $5; at the door, $8; preview party, $30. Info/tickets: jlknoxville.org or 584-4124.

SATURDAY, NOV. 7AAA Driver Improvement course, 8 a.m.-4:30

p.m., AAA offi ce, 100 W. Fifth Ave. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for traffi c offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

Chili cook-off hosted by Boy Scout Troop #13, 5-8 p.m., Lions Club Building, 5345 N. Broadway. Cost: $5.

Happy Travelers trip to Cumberland County Playhouse: “In-laws, Outlaws, and Other People (That Should Be Shot)” departs 12:45 p.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Cost: $35; includes ticket and transportation only. Deadline to register: Oct. 23. Info/registration: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

Holiday Market and Craft Fair, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 6900 Kingston Pike. Featuring: guest artisans, local crafters, baked goods, a silent auction and Fair Trade items. Info: 300-7490.

Public Speaking and the Alexander Technique, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $80. Preregistration with confi rmation required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

Spaghetti supper, 5-7 p.m., Alder Springs Baptist Church, 556 Hickory Star Road, Maynardville. Includes: spaghetti, salad, garlic toast, dessert and drink. Donations go to WMU projects.

SATURDAYS, NOV. 7, 14, 21“Beginning Drawing,” 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.,

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Norris. Instructor: John Allen. Registration deadline: Oct. 31. . Info/registration: 494-9854; appalachianarts.net.

SUNDAY, NOV. 8Free drop-in art activities for families, 1-4

p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Docent Tours in English, 2 p.m., and in Spanish, 3 p.m. Info: knoxart.org.

Silent Meditation Gathering, 11 a.m.-noon, Narrow Ridge’s Mac Smith Resource Center, 1936 Liberty Hill Road, Washburn. Inclusive of people of all faiths as well as those who do not align themselves with a particular religious denomination. Info: Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener, 497-3603 or community@

narrowridge.org. Sing Out Knoxville, 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley

Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Open to everyone. Info: [email protected] or 546-5643.

Step Out: Walk To Stop Diabetes, 1-4 p.m., UT Gardens. One-day fundraising walk benefi ting the American Diabetes Association.

MONDAY, NOV. 9The Alexander Technique, an Introduction,

1:30-3:45 p.m., 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Cost: $35. Preregistration with confi rmation required. Info/registration: Lilly Sutton, 387-7600, or AlexanderTechniqueKnoxville.com.

TUESDAY, NOV. 10Benefi ts to Work training, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.,

East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St. Two counselors available to answer questions and discuss how working will affect Medicare and Medicaid health benefi ts. Free; reservations required. Info/reservation: Steven Glowicki, 423-433-7616 or 1-888-839-5333.

Cocktails and Conversation, 5:30-7 p.m., 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Cash bar and snacks. Stephen Wicks, Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator, Knoxville Museum of Art, will present: “Facets: Musing on the Future of Glass at the KMA.” Free and open to the public. Info: knoxart.org.

Knoxville Civil War Roundtable meeting, 8 p.m., Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Speaker: Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service and Special Assistant for Military Sites. Topic: “The Impact of Native Americans in the Civil War.” Cost: lecture only $5, students free; dinner (7 p.m.) and lecture, $17. RSVP by noon Monday, Nov. 9. Info/RSVP: 671-9001.

Paulette 6th District Neighborhood Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Paulette Elementary School cafeteria. Info: 992-5212.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11Happy Travelers trip to Biblical Times Dinner

Theater/Pigeon Forge: “The Days of Elijah” departs 10:30 a.m., North Acres Baptist Church, 5803 Millertown Pike. Cost: $50 all inclusive. Deadline to register: Oct. 28. Info/registration: Derrell Frye, 938-8884.

International Folk Dance Class, 7:30-10 p.m., Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, Clinton. Info: Paul Taylor, 898-5724; oakridgefolkdancers.org; on Facebook.

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HEISKELL – Private 17.50 wooded acres. Less than 5 miles to I-75. Convenient to Clinton & Powell Utilities (water, telephone, cable, & water) are available at road. $156,000 (928303)

MOUNTAIN VIEWS FROM THIS 6+ ACRES. Water has been run to property & ready to build your dream home. Creek at back of property. Convenient to Norris Lake & Big Ridge State Park. No Mobile Homes. $49,900 (932705)

GIBBS AREA this 6+/- acres is level with creek access. This is part of a larger tract of land also available. Call for details. $85,000 (927701)

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POWELL – Approx 4 acre tracts. Pri-vate setting, great location. Start-ing at $44,900 (908693 & 908694)

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NORRIS LAKE FRONT – Water-front access w/2BR home. Home

needs work but in great loca-tion close to Stardust Marina

& Anderson Co Park. $110,000 (935790)

146.16 ACRES PRIME TENNESSEE FARM LAND – Ideal for a camp/retreat property, golf course, equestrian facility, development or a multi-million dollar home place. Great for entertaining, this 5BR/5BA, 8,266 SF home w/in-ground pool has a view that will take your breath away. Fenced/cross fenced w/2 ponds, horse training facility, 7 barns & KW60 whole house diesel generator. Additional 725 acres available. $2,900,000 (924475)

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POWELL – Private wooded setting on almost an acre. This well-kept 3BR/2BA home features: Lg eat-in kit, fam rm w/FP, living/formal din-ing, split BR fl oor plan, mstr suite w/tub & shower. 10x12 wkshp/stg out back w/electric. $99,900 (927260)