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ISSUE 33 VOLUME 33 FARRAGUT, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 • 1A
Town goes bridalwith 100s at Fair■ TAMMY CHEEK
Hundreds of Farragut and area residents — from couples planning their upcoming nuptials to their family members — at-tended Shop Farragut/Farragut Business Alliance’s inaugural Farragut Bridal Fair in Farragut Community Center Sunday, April 18.
“We had approximately 270 patrons, with 32 vendor booths fea-turing vendors and their guests adding up to 82, plus another dozen models for the beautiful wedding gowns showcased by Lace & Glam Bridal Shoppe,” said Steve Krempasky, executive director of Shop Farragut/FBA.
Vendors and attendees alike expressed their pleasure at being at the Fair, the Town’s first in-person event since the pandemic was first recognized in the United States in March 2020.
“We got a lot of questions from the brides about what kind of packages we offer,” said Paola Nielsen-Lensgraf, owner of Medi Spa at Choto.
“Our vendors thanked me profusely and are ready to do it all over again,” Krempasky said. “They were pleased with the crowd that we attracted.”
■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD [email protected]
At least two reports on so-cial medial have been shared concerning negative encoun-ters with young men on bicy-cles in Farragut.
One incident allegedly hap-pened at Anchor Park Satur-day night, April 10, and was reported by Town Parks & Recreation officials on both Nextdoor and Facebook.
“Recently we’ve had sev-eral citizens approach our de-partment about teens scaring greenway users,” the April 12 post stated. “This Saturday (April 10) we had an incident around 8:30 p.m. at Anchor Park involving teens on bikes harassing a female park staff member with threats and vul-garities as she was cleaning the restrooms.
“This behavior has gone beyond ‘kids being kids’ and
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FHS Grand Reunion isback May 1
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The alumni of the origi-nal campus of Farragut HighSchool at Kingston Pike and Concord Road (1906–1976) areinvited to the Grand AnnualAlumni Reunion.
After a year’s absence due to the pandemic, this reunionis scheduled from 8 to 11:30a.m., Saturday, May 1, in Vir-tue Cumberland PresbyterianChurch Fellowship Hall, 725 Virtue Road in Concord.
“Come join us for coffee anddoughnuts and a visit withyour friends and classmates,”a reunion committee press re-lease stated.
“... If you attended FHS butdid not graduate and want tosee your friends, you are mostwelcome.”
Registration fee is $5 at the door. Wearing of masks is op-tional.
Reunion committee is com-prised of the Hall brothers —Charlie, Ken, Earl, Jerry andRalph — plus Ginger BensonFox and Mona Isbell Smith.
Farragut evangelist Aaron Neal (above) and another Christian who declined to share his name, held up signs Friday, April 16, in Mayor Ralph McGill Plaza proclaiming “Christ Wins.” Neal, who has been featured previously in farragutpress for his street preaching, said it was his second time at that intersection of Campbell Station Road and Kingston Pike, holding signs and playing Christian music to follow the Bible’s teaching “about go-ing to the gates” to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Traffic studya must: Horneplans delayed
■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD [email protected]
Developer Doug Horne suffered a setback last week whenFarragut Municipal Planning Commission denied approvalof both of his zoning amendment requests – one of which is required to meet his goal of building a second Town center — citing incomplete applications.
Horne, owner of Republic Newspapers Inc.. (parent company of farragutpress), had two applications before the FMPC. The first requested rezoning of 20 acres north of the old Ingles building from R-1, Rural Sin-gle-Family residential, to R-6, multi family residential, where Horne is seeking to build senior multi-family housing.
The second rezoning actually was several requests pertaining to the 68.31-acre tract, which is owned byformer Town Mayor Eddy Ford along Kingston Pike less than a mile west of the Pike’s intersection with Campbell Station Road. Primary among them was a request to rezone Ford’s property, where Horne is planning his AGORA Town Centerdevelopment complete with commercial, retail, multi-family
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Michelle Hollenhead
Plaza preacher
Tammy Cheek
Lace and Glam Bridal model Morgan White, a University of Ten-nesssee senior, shows a gown featuring a purple-gray hue at
Shop Farragut/Farragut Business Alliance’s inaugural Farragut Bridal Fair, which took place in Farragut Community Center
Sunday, April 18.
See BIKE TROUBLE on Page 4A
See FARRAGUT BRIDAL on Page 4A
See FMPC REJECTS on Page 5A
FMPC denies requested rezonings; developer cites possible misunderstanding, vows to submit study
“In response to the whole COVID pandemic, we had a big push of people starting to order online. We needed to have a place to fulfill those orders, so we opened this facility here,”- Jim Simpson, co-owner of business with a new begin-ning on the retail side. (Read story starting on page 3A)
“We can only add to our knowledge. ... or come up with new ways to solve different problems. While this aspect of math and science may often seem to constrain people, I find it a lot more appealing,”- Blake Cragen, a student who has earned a special place among his classmates. (Read story starting on page 3B)
“They had chances, we had chances. But our kids kept fighting. This was an effort for 80 minutes. ... We would get out of position at times, but would recover, which shows the team maturing together,”- Bradley Culbreth, coach of team winning a close game against a tough rival last week. (Read story on page 1B)
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KCSOreports
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correctionThe name of Hardin Valley
Academy baseball player Aus-tin Bolding was mis-identified in a photo in our April 15 issue on page 1B in Sports.
Bolding is shown after he joyfully crossed the plate to score the game-winning run against rival Farragut.
We regret the error.
Town Sampler March championcelebrates at Farragut Pharmacy
Photos courtesy of Stephen Krempasky/Shop Farragut/FBA
March Town Sampler winner is Lenoir City resident Sharon Wolber, holding the Shop Farragut bag. She recently joined Farragut Pharmacy’s Betsy Segraves, second from left, and her employees, Allie Schneider, second from right, and Jenny Moore to celebrate Wolber’s winnings. Featuring gift certificates from various Town businesses, March Town Sampler added up to a $250 value (all prizes are transferable): a $50 gift card from West Bikes and $25 gift cards from Farragut Pharma-cy, Admirals Dough-Joe, Juice Bar-Turkey Creek, Euphoric Cheese Shop, Fruition Café. Kat’s Lash Lounge & Wax Studio, The Adorable Child and The Farragut Table. The April contest continues. Enter at https://wfiv.com/contests/7/shop-farragut-april-2021
There were no Knox County Sheriff’s Office reports submit-ted to farragutpress, though our request was acknowledged byKCSO, by deadline Tuesday morning, April 20. We hope to re-ceive these reports before deadline for our April 29 issue, and pass them along to our readers.
• Though fathers and daughters didn’t get to dance among the shamrocks this year, they can enjoy a spring picnic at Mayor Ralph McGill Plaza, 11409 Kingston Pike, at the his-toric Campbell Station Inn at the corner of North Campbell Sta-tion Road and Kingston Pike. May Day Picnic, a father-daughter event, is from 6 to 8 p.m., Saturday, May 1. The rest of the family is welcome to join the party.
Snacks will be provided as well as to-go goodies and crafts, aphoto area, music and dancing. Guests should bring chairs and/or picnic blankets, along with a picnic dinner. Parking is offeredat the Farragut Community Center (239 Jamestowne Blvd.); noon-site parking is available. Tickets are $20 per couple and $30 per family and must be purchased in advance. Buy tickets online at townoffarragut.org/register, in person at the community cen-ter or by phone at 865-218-3376 by noon Thursday, April 29. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 865-218-3376. May Day Picnic is weather-dependent,so visit Farragut Parks & Recreation on social media (Facebook,Twitter and Instagram) for updates.
• The gym in Farragut Community Center has re-opened with a brand-new floor, and the public is once again invited to use the gym for various activities on a reservation basis. In-dividuals or groups can reserve either the entire gym or a half-court for basketball, pickleball, kickball, dodgeball or lap walk-ing. Available times are Mondays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays; from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesdays; from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednes-days and Fridays, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursdays. Cost is $2 per person for a half court. There can be no more than six people per half court in each family or associated group.
Gym users must call 865-218-3376 at least one hour before ar-rival to reserve a spot. Users can pay over the phone or at thefront desk when they arrive. If they are not able to attend the
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businessbriefs• Richard Rackley, Missy
Hall and Kip Kirby of Weich-ert, Realtors - Advantage Plus in Knoxville have been named the top agents in the office for March.
Rackley earned the overall Top Agent Award for the second c o n s e c u -tive month while Hall and Kirby were named the Top Selling and Top Listing agents, re-spectively.
“ R i c h -ard, Missy and Kip each had a very productive month,” said Jeff Grebe, the broker/owner of Weichert, Realtors - Advantage Plus. “They all went above and beyond to fulfill their clients’ needs and it paid off big time.”
• After a decade, TV show host Hallerin Hill is moving his award-winning TV show “Anything is Possible” to WVLT and sister stations WBXX and MyVLT, The program will move to the 8:30 a.m. Sunday time slot beginning Saturday, May 9, just
before “CBS SundayMorning” on WVLT; at 9:30 a.m. on MyV-LT, and at 11 a.m. on WBXX. It also will be available on Yo u T u b e , FaceBook, Twitter, Ins-tagram and via podcast. Hill also will contin-ue to host his morning talk show on WOKI NewsTalk 98.7.
• Blue Ridge Yoga, 623 N. Campbell Station Road, took its yoga classes on the road with an event Saturday, April 17, benefiting Shangri-La Thera-peutic Riding Academy, 11800 U.S. Highway 11 East, Lenoir City.
The event, which also featured miniature horses and vendors’ booths, raised nearly $3,000 for STAR, a therapeutic riding pro-gram for persons with disabili-ties and other special challenges through the use of horses.
STAR is accredited by the Pro-fessional Association of Thera-peutic Horsemanship Interna-tional.
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Martial Arts, Summer Camp to combine as P3 SportsPlex
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Scott Bailey, owner of P3 Martial Arts and P3 After School/Sum-mer Camp is combining the two programs under one roof, as P3 SportsPlex. The official opening is set for Monday, May 3.
Admiral Dental office opens in Farragut■ FROM STAFF REPORTS
Admiral Dental Care will open in Farragut Friday, May 7, at its new home, 11807 Kings-ton Pike in front of the remod-eled “old” Kroger building.
Admiral Dental Care is a “full-service, state-of-the-art family dental practice. (It) will be fully equipped with the lat-est products and equipment
available in the dental indus-try,” a press release stated.
Led by Dr. Jay Kuderewski, DMD, who serves as the office’s primary dentist, the new facili-ty offers he and his dental team “the opportunity to provide the most up-to-date procedures and services to their patients,” the release also stated.
“From routine cleanings and simple fillings to more in-depth restorative and cosmetic ser-
vices, patients can expect in-dividualized care to help them keep their teeth for a lifetime.”
“We are excited to be joining the Farragut community to of-fer high-quality dental servic-es to families and individuals of all ages,” Kuderewski stated in the press release.
“Our mission is to provide ex-ceptional experiences to each patient who walks through our doors,” he added.
As for his background, Ku-derewski earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his Doctorate of Dental Medicine degree from Temple Univer-sity’s Maurice H. Komberg School of Dentistry in Phila-delphia, Pennsylvania.
He is a member of Academy of General Dentistry, Ameri-can Dental Association and Tennessee Dental Association.
“Dental health is vital tooverall health, so we want to help our patients make the best decisions for their care,”Kuderewski stated in the pressrelease.
Admiral Dental Care cur-rently is accepting new pa-tients.
Appointments can be madeby calling 865-672-6281 or visit-ing http://AdmiralDentalCare.com/.
■ TAMMY CHEEK [email protected]
Scott Bailey, owner of P3 Martial Arts and P3 After School/Summer Camp, is combining the two programs and moving them from Vil-lage Green shopping center to Ingles’ newly renovated space along Kingston Pike in Far-ragut under a new name, P3 SportsPlex.
He anticipates a Monday May 3, opening of his new lo-cation. Bailey is looking at a April 30-to-May 1 soft opening, with May 3 the official launch.
Saturday, May 15, he will have a summer camp orienta-tion day. The studio will pro-vide after-school programs af-ter June 1.
“It may be August by time we get around to (a grand open-ing), Bailey said.
“I’m excited,” he added about the move. “It gives us a ton of room to grow.”
It also provides him with a “blank shell, where we can de-sign it exactly the way we want it,” Bailey said.
“The new facility will have an air bag, also known as a stunt bag, so when people jump into it, it kind of inflates,” he add-ed, also noting the bag would be used to practice tumbling techniques.
The new studio also will have a trampoline, a traversing (or rock) wall and mat space.
Bailey opened the martial arts business in July 2015 in Village Green and the after school/summer camp in 2017 in the same shopping center.
“It’s been a ride,” he said about the past six years.
To make his dream of own-ing his own martial arts busi-
ness come true, he worked twojobs and invested every dollarhe made into its start-up.
“Now, we have over 300 mar-tial arts students and almost100 after-schoolers and sum-mer campers,” Bailey said.“Pretty awesome.”
To accommodate these stu-dents, along with the 22 staff members added through theyears, he has been leasing two spaces — one was 3,200 squarefeet and the other 1,700 square feet — but his business still outgrew the spaces.
“We were ready to get a big-ger space,” Bailey said.
Along with being close to Village Green, the location be-side Ingles Market offers 10,000square feet, “tripling what we have now,” he said.
“This facility gives us the
Tammy Cheek
Simpson’s Meats co-owners Jason Patterson, left, and Jim Simp-son opened the company’s first retail butcher shop two monthsago at 10830 Murdock Drive, off Lovell Road, to provide a place customers can purchase their beef, pork and chicken.
Simpson’s Meats goes retail■ TAMMY CHEEK
Simpson’s Meats, with a meat processing plant in Mid-dle Tennessee, has taken the company retail with its first store at 10830 Murdock Drive, off Lovell Road, near Farra-gut.
The shop also serves as a wholesale distribution facil-ity. Co-owners Jason Parker-son and Jim Simpson opened the store in February, but “we really started fulfilling e-com-merce orders in November 2020,” Simpson said.
“Our (beef processing) com-pany was formed in 2012,” he added. “This retail location and the wholesale portion is an expansion to our beef and pork processing plant that we have in Middle Tennessee.
“In response to the whole COVID pandemic, we had a big push of people starting to order online. We needed to have a place to fulfill those or-ders, so we opened this facility here.”
At the West Knox facility, Simpson said they bring meat
from their Middle Tennes-see plant and further process them into steaks and roasts and other cuts.
“All of our products are local Tennessee products,” he said. “Jason and I are both cattle farmers. We’re both born and raised in East Tennessee.”
Patterson, a Farragut High School Class of 1985 graduate, started cattle farming 20 years ago in Loudon while Simpson,
a Knoxville resident, oper-ates a multi-generation Anguscattle farm, founded in 1888, in Athens (McMinn County).
Simpson said they also use other cattle farms with thesame high standards: no anti-biotics, no hormones, no feed additives, and “we are alsolooking for people who arevery aware that we need good
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we are asking parents to talk to your kids about appropri-ate behavior in the parks,” the statement continued.
“We love that parents feel safe sending their teens to our parks unsupervised. We just want to make sure our parks are a safe space for everyone.”
Earlier this year, a Farragut resident posted about an un-
pleasant encounter she andher husband also had with“boys on bikes” during which they were verbally harassed.
Capt. Brad Hall of the KnoxCounty Sheriff’s Office WestPrecinct said no official re-ports have been filed about these or similar incidents, buthe encourages anyone encoun-tering such harassment to con-tact the KCSO dispatch center at 865-215-2444.
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Bike troubleFrom page 1A
While some vendors offered food and others supplied ad-vice, Lace and Glam Bridal in Farragut presented a fashion show in which its models dis-played bridal gowns, from the simple to the elaborate.
Brides-to-be also learned about options in wedding rings, honeymoons, possible gifts such as cookware, special occasion rentals and planning — and even financial planning after the wedding.
“The setup was really great,” said Jeaneen Cox, a Knoxville resident who plans to marry in November. “All the vendors
were nice and very helpful.”Krempasky said the ven-
dors’ booths overflowed out-side of the center. He noted while obtaining vendors was a struggle at first, many signed up at once. “We actually had to turn down 21,” he added.
“It’s wonderful,” said Deanne Benorden, who’s daughter Ashley is planning to marry. “I think it’s great to get access to all of these businesses show-ing their talents.”
Vendors included everyone from restaurants and cater-ers to a bridal shop and men’s tuxedo shops, financial institu-tions and insurance agencies.
“This is great,” bride-to-be Jennifer Louie said. “I like all
of the giveaways, and the set up is really nice. There’s lots of great information.”
“It’s nice it was on a Sunday so we could come,” said Alex-andra Boutilier, who plans to marry on Nov. 7.
Many said they simply were glad the event provided a chance to get out and about again — even with masks.
“I believe the hard work of our small organizing com-mittee, the generous support of our sponsors, the Town of Farragut and the vendors paid off,” Krempasky said. “Plus, the good Lord gave us a beautiful day, so our outdoor trade-show added even more excitement.”
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• I was very disappointed to see the clear-cutting of some wonderful trees, including redbuds and dogwoods, along a stretch of Admiral Road and Kingston Pike. What a guess, it’s for another strip shopping center, right? That’s all we need in Far-ragut are more strip shopping centers that will sit half empty. Isn’t it about time we had a moratorium on any more of thesestrip shopping centers — until at least the existing ones get ahigher occupancy rate?
• The fact that our (Knox County) School Board represen-tative (chair Susan Horn, 5th District) chooses not to weara mask during school board meetings is (inaudible) poor leader-ship. Every teacher, student and staff member attending Knox County Schools must wear a face covering while in the schoolbuilding. Plus, they wear these masks eight or more hours a day. I realize there are more chairs (inaudible). I’m sure many of the teachers, students and staff are also against the policy, but followthe rules set by the Board. It is a shame that our representativefeels as if she is above the rules that her Board sets for our stu-dents.
• What are Farragut’s regulations for trash dump servic-es? A household on Banbury Road puts their dumpster in the road every Sunday afternoon for Monday’s trash pick-up. Sincethis is also on a busy corner, it is distracting. Please advise, we have asked them not to do this before — and they just keep put-ting it in the road.
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session, they should cancel at least 15 minutes before the session starts. After two no-shows, users will no longer be able to reserve the gym. Everyone must sign up for a free membership the first time they use the community center; this is a simple process that requires just a few minutes.
For more information about activities in the Farragut Community Center: visitfarragut-parksandrec.org/programsandevents.
• Farragut Parks & Recreation Depart-ment is providing safe classes for the com-munity. Here are upcoming offerings:
-Family Yoga from 5 to 5:30 p.m., Mondays, in the Community Center. Cost is free. Registra-tion deadline is 5 p.m. on the Friday before the session. Instructor is Jenny Trussell. This class will introduce basic yoga poses, breathwork and stretches, along with stress-reduction tech-niques. Adults and older children will enjoy the gentle fitness routine, while younger children often watch and/or mimic the moves, learning through play and imagery. Bring a mat for each participant. Register all participants of this class individually.
-Total Fitness classes are from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Commu-nity Center. Cost is $4 per session. Pre-registra-tion required, spaces are limited. Instructor is Rachel Piotrowski. A variety of body-weight and hand-weight exercises will be utilized to build upper and lower body strength, improve balance and strengthen the core. Low-impact aerobic conditioning and stretching are incor-porated. Bring hand weights or other weighted objects. If you do not have any, just bring your-self. Don’t forget water and a mat.
-Arts and Crafts for Littles are from 11 to 11:45 a.m., Wednesdays, in the Community Center large classroom. Cost is $7 per child/guardian pair. Instructors are Natalie Gwin and son, Wilder Gwin. Geared for children ages 3-5, each class will feature a spring-themed craft fo-cusing on numbers, letters, shapes and colors.
-TWRA Boating Safety Education Satur-days is from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., April 24 and May 22, in the Assembly Hall. Pre-regis-tration required at tn.gov/twra. Each session limited to 24 people. Due to social distancing, no walk-ins, so pre-registration required. Any Tennessee resident born after Jan. 1, 1989, must show the TWRA-issued wallet Boating Safety
Education Certificate as proof of successful completion of the TWRA Boating Safety exam. No other certificate will be accepted as meet-ing the requirements of the law. Bring Type 600 boating safety exam permit, a writing utensil and something to write on to class. The permit is available from any business (license agent) that sells hunting and fishing licenses. For more information, visit tn.gov/twra.
-Making Medicare Easier is from 6 to 7 p.m., Monday, May 10, in the Community Center Assembly Hall. Registration deadline is Friday, May 7. Cost is free. Instructor is Bruce Landis. Learn about enrollment periods, over-view of parts A, B, C and D and supplements.
-Essential Oils: Balancing Difficulties and Emotions is from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, in the Community Center large class-room. Cost is free. Instructor is Kristi Hulsey. Come learn new and natural ways to help with difficulties and emotions.
-Make & Take: Wall-Hanging Basket class is from 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, May 18, in the Community Center large classroom. Regis-tration deadline is Friday, May 14. Cost is $50. Instructor is Sheri Burns. This class features a wall-hanging basket with a row of hooks on the bottom to hang keys or other objects with multiple embellishment and color options. This class is appropriate for all skill levels. All tools and supplies provided by the instructor.
-Pilates/Yoga Fusion is a six-week ses-sion from 6 to 7 p.m., Tuesdays from May 18 through June 22, in the Community Center. Registration deadline is Friday, May 14. Cost is $60. Teacher is Simon Bradbury. This class combines yoga poses with Pilates mat exercises that build core strength, enhance flexibility and balance in a low-impact approach to mind-body fitness. Bring your own mat and water.
-Making Social Security Easier is from 6 to 7 p.m., Monday, May 24, in the Community Center Assembly Hall. Registration deadline is Friday, May 21. Cost is free. Instructor is Gar-rett Crawford. Confused about your Social Se-curity filing options? Attend this class and learn how spousal benefits work, how Social Security is taxed and the implications of working while receiving Social Security.
See the full list of scheduled classes at far-ragutparksandrec.org/programsandevents. Sign up at townoffarragut.org/register. For more information, contact Special Event and Program coordinator Brittany Spencer at [email protected].
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Vice Mayor Louise Povlin, who also sits as an FMPC com-missioner, made the motion to deny both requests, which were separate agenda items, after noting both applications lacked pre-requisite traffic studies.
“The rezoning request is not complete because he has not filed a traffic impact study,” she said of the first request. “We need a complete applica-tion before the Planning Com-mission can fully discuss this application. This is a require-ment.”
Povlin cited Section 22-147 (a)(1) of the Driveways and Other Accessways ordinance as found in Chapter 22 Article 5 of Farragut Municipal Code.
“If we start debating and move up to the Board of May-or and Aldermen an incom-plete application, or zoning request, we are setting a very dangerous precedent,” she said. “Traffic impact studies can be expensive, but they are a necessary part of what the Planning Commission needs to make a recommendation.”
“We will agree to do the traf-fic study, we can make this a subject-to — we did one in the past, without access to Boring Road, but we will do one with access to Boring Road,” Horne said during discussion of the first request.
“We’ll take it off the agenda and do the traffic study. We’ll put it back on after we do the study,” he added.
However, Town Community Development director Mark Shipley recommended the FMPC proceed on the agenda item.
“My recommendation is that
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you take action on it,” Shipley said. “We have talked about it, had two workshop sessions and we have talked about the traffic impact study.”
The FMPC twice voted 9-0 against approving the re-quests.
“I’m shocked and bewil-dered at the tactic the Plan-ning Commission is using,” Horne said during discussion on the second request for the Ford property. “I’m surprised, the way we were treated on both proposals.”
“You have not submitted all the information required,” FMPC chair Rita Holladay said.
“You should have said we had to submit the traffic study,” Horne said.
“What we are doing is what we would do to any applicant with an incomplete submit-tal,” Vice Chair Ed St. Clair added.
“We talked about the traffic impact study, and it was in the Planning Commission report sent out to everyone, including the applicant, that the traffic impact study was required,” Shipley said.
“I’d like to make sure we treating Mr. Horne and his applications the same, and as fairly, as we did Budd Cullom and his application,” Commis-sioner Noah Myers said.
“We are, and in fact (Cullom) provided a traffic impact study and we had a third party eval-uate it,” Shipley replied. “We
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This 68.31-acre tract along Kingston Pike, less than a mile west of the Pike’s intersection with North Campbell Station Road and owned by former Farragut Mayor Eddy Ford (inset), is where de-veloper Doug Horne is planning his AGORA Town Center. The plans feature commercial and retail businesses along with multi-family housing and townhomes. Horne sought zoning changes fromFarragut Municipal Planning Commission necessary to proceed with the center. That request was one of two denied by FMPC during its Thursday, April 15, meeting — both presented by Horne — due to a lack of a traffic study.
are being consistent.“We talked about this traffic
impact study for months, on both these projects — we need the information, the Planning Commission does, to have all the guidance they need make an informed recommendation to the Board of Mayor and Al-dermen,” he added.
“What you should have said, in my opinion is, ‘Do the traf-fic study.’” Horne said. “Our guy, John Wright, thought we had to do it before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen vote. We may have misunderstood that.
“That’s why I say we are shocked and bewildered,” the developer added. “If you check with your Town counsel, and we will check with ours, we will do the study and resubmit. “We don’t want to wait a year or six months, that’s not fair.”
Shipley said he would be speaking to Town attorney Tom Hale about the matter.
During a follow-up inter-view, Horne said, “We believe the Farragut Planning Com-mission should ask the prop-erty owner to submit any item that is needed before the vote
on the development project, and not vote until the missingitems are in.
“There are private propertyrights to consider, and some-times millions of dollars of equity and investment to be considered and the PlanningCommission and the Board ofMayor and Alderman shouldbe more property owner- and investment-friendly if theywant the Town to grow andreally prosper financially,” headded. “If not, the residential property owners will be faced with a property tax soon.”
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Farragut’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a variance request from proposed Meadows on McFee designer Russ Rackley Thursday, April 8, clearing the pending preliminary plat’s final hurdle for the planned 67-lot subdivision development.
It was the one business item before BOMA on the April 8 agenda.
Farragut’s Municipal Planning Commission condi-tionally approved the preliminary plat for the 32-acre subdivision, being built along McFee Road on a por-tion of the Velma Seal property and the former Gib-son farm, during its Thursday, March 18, meeting.
It also approved a variance to permit an internal design roadway speed of 30 mph, rather than 35 mph, on two specific roads within the development.
However, a second variance requiring driveways to be at least 400 feet apart along an arterial street also needed approval from BOMA to proceed, as it
is part of the Towns’ Driveways and Other Access Ways ordinance, Community Development director Mark Shipley said. FMPC recom-mended approval at its March 18 meeting.
“McFee Road is classified on the Major Road Plan as a minor arterial street and the proposed Meadows on McFee subdivision includes two access points onto McFee Road,” Shipley stated in a BOMA report. “As measured from centerline to centerline, these access points are 504 feet apart.
“Due to the presence of existing accesses along each side of McFee Road, neither access proposed for the Meadows on McFee will meet the 400-foot separa-tion requirement,” the report further stated.
“In the case of the northern access for the Mead-ows on McFee, the closest existing access is 76 feet to
the north on the east side of McFee Road. This accessserves two single family dwelling units. In the case of the southern access for the Meadows on McFee,the closest existing access is 135 feet to the north onthe east side of McFee Road. This access would serve three single-family dwelling units.
“As discussed with the Planning Commission, hav-ing more than one way into and out of a developmentis consistent with the connectivity goals encouragedin the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, and with twoaccess points there is no arrangement that the ap-plicant could provide that would avoid the need for avariance,” the report further stated.
“As conveyed to staff, the applicant has proposedtheir access points based on topography, existing util-ity pole locations, the number of lots that are servedby existing accesses and potential development oflarger nearby tracts.”
FMPC approved the preliminary concept plan inNovember 2020.
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lyn Kramer in 200 individual medley. Third-place showings came from Cade Austin in the 200 free, George Hu in the 200 IM, Alex King in the 100 breaststroke and Allison Pye in the 200 IM.
Top Farragut relay finishers were second-place efforts in the 200 medley relay from Iris Chen, Grace LaCharite, Pye,
and Sarah-Morgan Godbold, and second in the 400 free relay (Kramer, Sophie Thompson, Chen and LaCharite).
Finishing third was the 200 free foursome of Austin, Saw-yer Beckman, Alex King and Gerchar), and the 400 free four-some of Troy Gleckler, Austin, Hu and Gerchar)
“We had outstanding per-
formances from our more ex-perienced swimmers, such as Cade Austin, who qualified for the state meet in two events,” Hondorf said. “But I was also impressed with the perfor-mances of many of our newer swimmers.
“For example, Kennedy By-ars dropped significant time in both of her individual events
today,” she added. “In addi-tion, I am thankful for the con-tribution of many of our swim-mers who train with local USAswimming clubs.”
The coach also said “divers across the state competed to-day at Ensworth High School(Nashville). We’re proud of
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Timi Omitaomu celebrates his header goal in the 74th minute, the eventual FHS game-winning goal at HVA Friday, April 16.
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KINGSPORT — Among a 26-team East Tennessee field, it was a strong second-place showing for the Farragut High School swim team, racking up 523 points to finish 224 points ahead of third-place Oak Ridge during the 2021 Knox-area Interscholastic Swim League “City Meet” Championship in Kingsport Aquatic Center Sat-urday, April 17.
“I am so proud of our ath-letes at the city championship meet today,” FHS head coach Betsy Hondorf said. “It was an exceptional meet in a year that has been very unusual and of-ten challenging.”
In overcoming obstacles brought about by the pandem-ic, “Due to COVID restrictions many (swimmers) have not been able to participate with our team in over a year,” she added. “However, today they walked in and were fully inte-grated into the team.”
The Aqua Admirals’ top finishers were second-place efforts from Camden Gerchar in 200-yard freestyle and Kate-
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On quite a pace with the long ball by week’s end, junior Lau-ren Brakovec was one of three Farragut players with two hits asNick Green’s Lady Admirals continued to roll along.
“Brakovec had a good game, she went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a home run, which was her third for the week,” Green said about his first baseman in a 5-1 victory against Anderson County at FHS’s Bellamy Field Saturday evening, April 17.
Improving to 18-1 overall entering this week, the Lady Admi-rals stayed on top, and perfect, in District 4-AAA at 9-0. ACHSfell to 23-10.
Meanwhile, head coach Allen Russell and his Lady Maver-icks had to deal with FHS starting pitcher Avery Mattina andher complete-game victory. “She did an outstanding job on the mound for us,” Green said of the sophomore, who allowed one earned run, six hits and just one walk with one strikeout in sev-en innings.
“I would be happy if we did that every game,” he added about Mattina’s Saturday performance.
Farragut scored three times in the bottom of the second in-ning. Junior Autumn Caywood’s RBI single to right field scoredBrakovec, who singled. Two sophomores produced the secondrun. Ava Guzowski, who singled to right, scored on Ameilia Retterer’s groundout. Junior Sarah Livingston, who was hit-by-pitch, scored on an error.
Following Brakovec’s home run in the third, Livingston begana two-out rally by reaching on an infield single. Caywood singled before Retterer’s single to center field scored Livingston.
Avery Strickland, junior center fielder, added two hits for theLady Ads, while teammate Cameron Young, senior third base-man, connected for one hit while making a nice defensive play atthird base. Farragut was errorless defensively.
Anderson County used a pair of third-inning singles to score its run. Individually, McKinna Miller produced half of the LadyMavs’ offense with three hits.
Power surge helpsFarragut go 18-1
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Aqua Ads 2nd by a mile in ‘City Meet’
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Many kind words came from the opposing coach about how “magic” decided the outcome of a big rivalry game.
Head coach Jessie Stephens’ biggest rival, Farragut, came to Hardin Valley Academy and squeaked by her Hawks 1-0 on a goal in the 74th minute Fri-day night, April 16.
As for FHS senior standout forwards Timi Omitaomu, the goal scorer, and Jake Lowe, who assisted, “There’s just not a better duo,” she said. “They’re very dangerous.”
Lowe’s diagonal pass of roughly 30 yards found an open Omitaomu, who headed in the eventual game-winner from 10 yards out with 6:30 left.
“Jake and Timi can create magic together,” Ads head coach Bradley Culbreth said.
While Farragut entered the week with a 7-1-2 record, the Hawks’ record stood at 6-2-1.
On the other end of the pitch drawing Stephens’ praise, “Max (Kaplan) their goalkeep-
Bearden battles hard, but Diamond Admirals rally, win 4-1
‘Magic’for FHSat HVA
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Bryce Burkey delivered in the clutch when his team need-ed him most.
Burkey, Farragut High School’s senior right fielder, came up with a pair of late sin-gles that drove in three runs to help the Admirals overcome an early deficit and capture a 4-1 victory over rival Bearden
Monday night, April 19, in a District 4-AAA showdown at John Heatherly Field/The Ballpark at Farragut.
“He’s just having a great year,” FHS head coach Matt Buckner said of Burkey.
“They played well, and both pitchers really threw well, but we had some senior leaders step up for us late in the game. We had Burkey, Parker Evans (RBI single) and Tanner Kim
step up for us,” he added. Brennon Seigler added a tri-
ple for the Ads, 23-2 overall and 9-1 in 4-AAA after the win.
The Bulldogs (13-9, 3-7) scored first when freshman catcher and University of Ten-nessee commitment Brooks Wright clubbed a solo homer.
Farragut junior starting pitcher Jaxson Pease then set-tled down to retire 17 of the last 19 Bearden hitters he faced.
Pease, who gave up just four hits, one run and one walk in a complete game effort, finished with nine strikeouts. He sat down 13 consecutive batters before Will Nelms picked up a single with one out in the top of the sixth. “My fastball was working for me and my curve-ball was working well for me late,” Pease said.
For the Bulldogs, “Both of our pitchers were the stories of
the day,” BHS head coach John Rice said, as Bearden starterDrew Sliwinski went 5.2 in-nings, surrendering four runs,five hits and five walks. But only one FHS run was earned.
“I appreciated our kids fortheir effort. We’re just a work-man-like team and this was a good game,” the coach added, as both Admirals scoring in-nings (fifth and sixth) “startedoff with an error.”
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er, we knew coming in he’s a stud — you can’t get stuff past him,” she said.
To score on goal on the se-nior keeper, “You’ve got to be very disciplined,” the Hawks coach added. “But he stood his ground well tonight. We made him work a few times.”
It was the “tight game we ex-pected,” Culbreth said. “They had chances, we had chances.
“But our kids kept fight-ing,” he added. “This was an effort for 80 minutes — it was for them, too. The effort was there.”
Even in defeat, “I really can’t
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our diver, Cam Croy, who fin-ished in fourth place.”
Overall, “We had a great day, not just in terms of our perfor-mance in the pool, but also in terms of sportsmanship and
teamwork,” Hondorf said. Farragut assistant coach is
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Other local resultsWhile Maryville won the
KISL crown with 794 points, Knoxville Catholic finished
fourth (274), followed by Webb School of Knoxville (273) fifth.
Hardin Valley Academy took seventh place (261), followed locally by Lenoir City in eighth (210), Bearden ninth (192.50), Concord Christian School 13th (158.50) and Christian Acad-emy of Knoxville 14th (97).
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HARDIN VALLEY — Combine Academy of Lin-colnton, North Carolina, ended up imposing its will on some area teams during the 5SP-Scott Dean Me-morial Baseball Classic last weekend.
But as it turned out, Hardin Valley Academy im-posed its will on Combine, beating the Tar Heel State visitors 9-3 at HVA Friday night, April. 16.
“That’s a statement win in my opinion,” Hawks head coach Tyler Roach said, as Hardin Valley stood at 19-2 overall after the win and 9-1 in District 4-AAA.
Winning pitcher Connor O’Donnell went the dis-tance, allowing two earned runs, six hits and five walks while striking out seven.
“Player of the game,” Roach said. “His fastball ve-locity was way up there. He was throwing a slider for a strike. ... And those are really good hitters, where you can throw a 2-0 slider and keep them off-balance.”
“Our defense is good all around. I was just trying to get balls in the strike zone and let my defense work,” O’Donnell said. “Tonight my fastball was on, I was painting the corners, and with my slider I was hitting spots on pitches I needed to.”
Hardin Valley padded a slim 3-2 lead by scoring six
runs in the fifth inning — all after two outs.A Logan Ozias double was followed by a Jaylen
Jones single. Archer Wong-Shasteen’s RBI flyoutcame before three walks, the last drawn by Ty Den-ton, to force in another run.
Ethan Davidson-Browder, connected for a two-RBIdouble to center field making it 8-2. Brycen Denton’sbloop double down the left field line, his second dou-ble of the game, scored the final two Hawks runs.
Davidson-Browder’s first inning RBI single scored Micah Hoffmeister. Three walks and a passed ballprovided the second HVA run before Micah Hoffmeis-ter’s bunt single and RBI made it 3-0.
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On top of having a talented freshman class, Farragut head coach Matt Bucker’s young players seem to be learning fast about the challenges of high school varsity baseball.
While regularly starting freshmen at second base, third base and center field, “We’ve thrown six freshmen the last two days. They’ve done a great job.” Buckner said after a 6-3 win versus Cleveland in the Scott Dean-5SP Memo-rial Baseball Classic Saturday, April 17, which included vic-tories against Walker Valley (7-6) and White County (10-0) Friday, April 16.
Starter and winning pitcher Ben Johnson, a lefty, allowed no earned runs (two un-earned), six hits and no walks with three strikeouts in five innings vs. CHS. Freshman re-liever Braylon Hall worked the last two innings: one earned run, two hits, no walks.
The state top-ranked team, 4-1 in all Scott Dean games, en-tered the week 22-2 overall.
Freshman third baseman Landis Davila led off the fifth inning with a single and scored on Bryce Burkey’s second hit of the game, a single break-ing a 2-2 tie. Tanner Kim then smacked a two-run homer.
Garrett Brewer, junior catcher, ripped his first career home run in the third inning, deep to left field, while collect-ing two hits. “He has been play-ing a good bit more and doing a good job,” Buckner said.
Kim walked and scored on Hunter Merrick’s RBI single in the fourth, making it 2-1 Ad-mirals. Hudson Seigler added two singles while Lukas Buck-ner, freshman second base-man, also singled.
Against Walker Valley, three freshmen pitchers stood tall. Winning pitcher Eli Evans went two innings: one earned run, one hit and three strike-outs. Michael Delph worked two innings: one earned run, two hits and no walks with two strikeouts. Stratton Scott’s save was one inning of no hits, no walks and two strikeouts.
Parker Evans’ two hits and two RBI led the Ads’ offense.
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Late last week, Webb School of Knoxville softball accom-plished what is thought to be a program “first.”
Beating perennial power The King’s Academy 7-6 in game one of a doubleheader Thursday, April 15, “It is the first time in school history, as best I can remember, beating
King’s,” Susie Skinner, Lady Spartans assistant coach, said.
Pitcher Jamie Sharp got the win and reliever Madelyn Ladd picked up the save. A seven-run third inning gave Webb a 7-2 lead it never relinquished.
Gracie Lague started the seven-run third with a lead-off double. Jeneva Mitchell had two hits in the inning while Kylie Bridwell, Hannah Bruce, Bryn Lawson, Mason Dunlap
and Jamie Sharp all connected for hits in the third. Megan Gilbert also scored a run.
Despite Webb’s 19-16 loss in game two, Ladd and Lawson had three hits each. Ladd and Bridwell hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning. Ma-son Dunlap and Kylie Bridwell had three RBI apiece.
Entering the week, the Lady Spartans’ record stood at 5-9 overall, 3-6 in the district.
This Farragut girls swim team foursome, from left, are Bailey Jeffrey, Kennedy Byars, Kayti Gleckler and Mekenzie Herring.
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Farragut boys 400-yard free relay finished third. From left are Troy Gleckler, Camden Gerchar and George Hu. Not pictured is Cade Austin.
This FHS 200-yard free relay team took third at “City Meet.” From left are Alex King, Cade Aus-tin, Camden Gerchar and Sawyer Beckman.
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With identical 6-3 victories against William Blount Thurs-day, April 15, that an Farragut tennis program press release labeled as “huge district wins,” both the girls and boys teams remained perfect on the
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KNOXVILLE — Headinginto its District 4-AAA game with rival Bearden late last week, Hardin Valley Academywas struggling offensively.
But the Lady Hawks snapped their brief slump, routing the Lady Bulldogs 15-5 Thursday,April 15, at BHS’s Kim Hazel-wood Field. “We hit the ballwell today. We had been strug-gling with that a little bit late-ly,” HVA head coach WhitneyHickam-Cruze said.
Hardin Valley improved to 18-7 overall, 7-2 in the district starting the week after beating the Lady Bulldogs (7-8, 4-6).
The Lady Hawks engineereda 10-run third inning to opena 12-2 lead. Denver Hogrefe, who went 2-for-3 and drove in four runs, clubbed a three-run homer. Savanna Beard, whoalso tripled, joined Bella Letoand Olivia Neely with RBI singles in the inning. Brooke Taylor, who went 3-of-4 at theplate, added an RBI double.
Though Bearden reliever Rylee Sieber stuck out the sidein the top of the fourth, HVA scored three in the fifth with atwo-run double by Gracie Gray and a RBI double by Beard.
Hogrefe pitched five innings, giving up five runs (only oneearned), five hits and onewalk while striking out seven. “She’s been a leader for us allseason,” Hickam-Cruze said.
The Lady Dawgs got a two-run double from Nicole Cou-vetiere, who also had a sac fly, in the fifth. Bradynn Belcherhad an early RBI single.
“We did some good things, but we just couldn’t string them together,” BHS head coach Angelica McClerkin said.
2021 season at 8-0.A couple of days before, both
Farragut teams blanked Karns 9-0, which included “junior varsity (players) getting in on some varsity reps as well.”
Both FHS teams were scheduled to play district foe Maryville Tuesday, April 20 (after press deadline).
FHS Lady Ads competing at the KISL champion-ships, from left, were Emma LaCharite, Reagan Horn, Taylor Webster and Raina Desai.
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Farragut Intermediate School students went “Footloose” in-class for a good cause Thursday, April 1, participating in a dance-a-thon that raised more than $31,000. “Typically, FIS does a Fun Run in the fall to raise money for the school, where students get pledges to run 30 laps. But this year with limits on volunteers, COVID protocols, virtual/in-person students and other limitations, we came up with an alternative we felt we would be better able to pull off,” FIS Par-ent Teacher Organization president Elizabeth Munk said. “We set our goal at $10,000, but our community was so generous, we raised over $31,000. Instead of using laps, we did minutes danced, and everyone was able to participate from their classroom or from their home — all at the same time. We hired a deejay, and Knox Dance Worx provided us with a dance instructor, Lillie Martin. They broadcast from the studio inside FIS to the kids at home and in school, and Lillie taught the kids a “footloose” dance with the help of fourth-grader Lauren Neal (Martin and Lauren pictured above right). Our top in-person fundraisers as of March 31 got to show their dance moves from the studio, too.” To add to the fun, Munk said each class was encouraged to choose a theme, such as Western, 80s, Neon and Glow Sticks. “We are so thankful for the support of our community, and the feedback we’ve received suggests the kids really enjoyed it too,” Munk added. (Above) Bobbi King’s class went Western. (Right) Kennedy Prosan, left, and Anna Langlois dressed in their ’80s best for the dance-a-thon.
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Farragut High School Class of 2021’s valedic-torian and salutatorian are Blake Cragen and Magdalena Ohstrom, respectively.
Cragen has a 4.78 weighted grade-point aver-age and an unweighted GPA of 4.0.
He also was named to the Dean’s List last sum-mer at Pellissippi State Community College, where he has been enrolled since early 2020.
At FHS, Cragen was named a National Merit Finalist and, along with two friends, won a NASA Student Space-flight Experiments Program competition.
Letters of recommendation shared by Katie King, FHS college and career counselor, noted “Blake has been partic-ipating in math and science competitions since Algebra 1 in eighth grade, and enjoys math and science because of their application to the real world and how they explain most things about the world around us.
“What also draws me towards science is that it is not man-made,” Cragen said. “No human decided that gravity was a certain downward acceleration; it is an element of nature that hu-mans decided to quantify.
“We cannot simply change how math works or how science works,” he added. “We can only add to our knowledge of the world around us or come up with new ways to solve different prob-lems. While this aspect of math and science may often seem to constrain people, I find it a lot more appealing.”
Cragen said he started taking classes at Pel-lissippi last spring “to see what dual enrollment
was going to be like. It was after our school hadgotten out for COVID. and it was quite literallybecause I had nothing better to do and wantedto keep up academically. I also like government,so I decided to take that class.
“During the summer, I took five classes at Pel-lissippi and two classes at ETSU for governor’s school,” he added.
Additionally, “I had taken the highest math classes Farragut had, and the only way to gohigher was to go through a local college,” Crag-en said. “So in the fall, I took three math classes through Pellissippi on top of four Farragut classes,” doing it “mostly because I just really like math.”
He also received awards thorough Mu Alpha Theta (MAO) state and has been heavily involved in MAO at FHS, where this year he served as club secretary.
Cragen also is a member of Health Occupational Students of America,Science Club/Bowl and has been a three-year member of the Student Government Associa-tion.
“Being valedictorian was something that Ididn’t necessarily aspire for,” he said. “It’s anice title and a big accomplishment of course, but all the work that was required to get the title was not worth the title alone.
“When our administration pulled the top 10 aside and told us that we had gotten top 10, theyalso told us that having the titles didn’t mean nearly as much as what we got out of getting tothat point,” Cragen added.
“As for what it means to me, I would say that
Knoxville Catholic High School’s upcoming production of “42nd Street” will feature, from top downward, Madison Mounts, Emma Kollie, Teresa Cao and Molly Brinkmann among a cast of more than two dozen students who will perform Friday, April 30, through Sunday, May 2, in Knoxville Convention Center audito-rium. “We’ve been rehearsing the show since January, and pretty much everyone has learned how to tap for the production,” said Jessica Magers-Rankin, KCHS theater teacher and show director who described the show as “a beautiful love letter to Broadway and musical theater.” Tickets are available in advance at knoxvil-lecatholic.com/theatre/ for showtimes, which begin at 7 p.m., April 30, and May 1, and at 2 p.m., May 1 and May 2.
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New life for Payne post-Avenir■ MICHELLE HOLLENHEAD
Mary Lynne Payne, Ave-nir Memory Care Knoxville’s long-time marketing director, started a new life chapter ear-lier this month, stepping into a new role with Alzheimer’s Tennessee, Inc., as its Busi-ness Development and Public Relations specialist following nearly nine years with the memory care assisted living community.
“Nobody loves Avenir like I do, and it was difficult deci-sion to make the change,” she said, noting she has been with the memory care assisted liv-ing facility since it opened as Clarity Pointe Knoxville in May 2013.
“But I am very excited to be working with an amazing organization like Alzheimer’s Tennessee, which is already near and dear to my heart,” she added.
It was a natural segue for Payne, who already had been collaborating with the orga-nization for years in various capacities. “I began working with Alzheimer’s Tennessee as the marketing director of Clar-ity Pointe when we met to dis-cuss a corporate sponsorship.
“Alzheimer’s Tennessee’s director of programs, Linda Johnson, and I connected from the very beginning, and my relationships with other mem-bers of the Alzheimer’s Ten-nessee team blossomed over the years with each passing an-nual WALK,” she said, listing several Clarity Pointe/Avenir fundraisers for Alzheimer’s Tennessee over the years un-der Payne’s direction, such as “An Affair to Remember” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
In 2020, the CEO/presi-dent of Alzheimer’s Tennes-see, Janice Wade Whitehead, asked Payne to co-chair the WALK to Make Alzheimer’s a Memory.
She unknowingly stepped into “quite a challenge” with the ensuing COVID-19 pan-demic, but with her leader-ship, energy and creativity for fundraising, she helped turn a difficult situation into a “vir-tual” WALK success.
As the marketing director of a dedicated memory care facil-ity, Payne worked closely with families navigating the diffi-cult process of placing a loved
(Above) Mary Lynne Payne, left, is pictured with guests during a 2019 “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Avenir fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation — an organization where she recently began working. (Right) Payne’s be-loved Turkish Angora, Lulu Pearl, which recently passed away, was selected as the group’s WALK to Make Alze-heimer’s a Memory 2021 Pet Mascot.
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“I already understood the great part they played in serv-ing Tennesseans facing Al-zheimer’s disease, providing services such as education, caregiver support groups and championing global research efforts,” Payne said. “Every-thing about my role at Avenir has helped me prepare for my position, knowing I had to keep helping individuals living with Alzheimer’s and doing what God means for me to do.
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our principals and counselors summed it up very well in say-ing the journey towards the title meant a lot more than the title itself. It also is a reminder of what I have done in high school and the work that has been put in to get me where I am today.”
Cragen plans to attend Geor-gia Tech beginning this sum-mer after graduation, where he will major in biomedical engineering.
“As of right now I would like to go on to medical school and specialize in neurosur-gery, but that may be subject to change,” he said.
Cragen is the son of Michael Bobo and Allison Cragen, both of whom encouraged his achievements. “My family def-initely pushed me to do well in school — my mom especially,” he said. “... But with that said, how much she pushes me and the amount of time she puts into helping me just shows her love as a parent.”
Cragan said Bobo “also helped tremendously. He is a lot like me and shares a lot of my interests. ...”
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students, teachers and staff at FHS who have helped me along the way,” she added.
Ohstrom also played violin the past four years with the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra, and was a volun-teer teacher at Centro Hispano de East Tennessee.
Additionally, she served as president of the National Spanish Honor Society for two years.
“As the two-year president of the National Spanish Hon-or Society, Magdalena is in her element,” one of her letters of recommendation stated. “She uses her position to amplify its impact on our community and abroad by finding volun-teer events like HOLA Festival and Angel Tree, and help out other students with weekly tutoring. “Last year she devel-oped a fundraising event for the Pulsera Project, (which) worked to employ artisans in Guatemala and Nicaragua by selling handmade bracelets. All the money was returned to those who made them and benefited their communities.”
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I. Roll CallII. Approval of AgendaIII. Approval of MinutesA. April 8, 2021IV. Mayor’s ReportV. Business ItemsA. Approval of Change Orders 6 & 7 for Contract 2020-12, McFee Park Phase 3
B. Approval of Supplement to Ross-Fowler for As-Built Survey Services, McFeePark Phase 3C. Approval of Contract 2021-05, Street ResurfacingVI. Town Administrator’s ReportVII. Town Attorney’s ReportVIII. Citizens Forum
It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VI of the civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 93-112 and 101-336 in its hiring, employment practices and programs. To request accommodations due
to disabilities, please contact the ADA Coordinator ar [email protected] or 865-966-7057 in advance of the meeting.
This meeting can be viewed live on the Farragut YouTube Channel, www.townoffarragut.org/livestream, Charter channel 193 and TDS channel 3. The meeting will be held virtually, authorized by Governor Lee’s executive orders regarding the
COVID-19 pandemic. Meeting comments, including your name and address, may be emailed to [email protected] and must be received by 12:00pm on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 to be included in the record of the meeting.
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FARRAGUT BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN AGENDAApril 22, 2021 • BUDGET WORKSHOP 5:00 PM • BMA MEETING 7:00 PM
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1. Approval of minutes for the March 23, 2021 meeting.2. Review of a ground sign (monument type) for Daddy Mac’s, located at 11335 Campbell Lakes Drive.3. Review of an Interstate/Interchange Pole Sign (refacing) for Daddy Mac’s, located at 11335 Campbell Lakes Drive.4. Review of a ground sign (monument
type) for Sir Goony’s, located at 10925 Kingston Pike.5. Review of a permanent ground mounted subdivision (entrance) sign for Old Stage Farms subdivision, located off Old Stage Road.6. Review of a landscape plan for the Villages of Farragut (Phase II), located at 230 Village Commons Boulevard.
It is the policy of the Town of Farragut not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, or disability pursuant to Title VIof the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law 93-112 and 101-336 in its hiring, employment practices and programs. To request accommodations
due to disabilities, please call 865-966-7057 in advance of the meeting.
This meeting can be viewed live on Charter channel 193 and TDS channel 3. Town meetings continue to be held virtually to adhere with the Knox County Health Department’s recommendations regarding crowd size and social distancing, and as
permitted under Governor Lee’s Covid-19 pandemic related orders. A recording of the meeting can also be viewed onYouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/TownofFarragutTenn.
Meeting comments may be emailed to [email protected] and must be received by 12:00 pm on Monday April 26th to be included in the record of the meeting. For questions please e-mail Bart Hose at [email protected] ,
Holley Marlowe at [email protected] or Mark Shipley at [email protected].
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6B • FARRAGUTPRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021
Mary Ruth Gray Williams, age 96, of Farragut
went peacefully to be with our Lord on Thursday afternoon, April 15, 2021, at her home in Lenoir City.
Mary Ruth was a member of Creighton Memorial Baptist Church, a charter member of First Baptist Church Concord and served many positions with her church family. Mary Ruth Gray married Dick on Feb. 20, 1944. She was an Administrative assistant at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for many years and later was secretary to the Music Ministry at Concord Baptist. Mary Ruth found her greatest joy loving her family, but her first love was her Lord Jesus Christ. She was an expert knitter, loved to crochet and en-joyed traveling with family.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 71
years, Dick (Emmett Wesley) Williams; son, David Wesley Williams; parents, Clarence Gray and Ethel Amos Gray; brother, Bill Gray; and sister, Margaret Gray Black-burn.
Mary Ruth is survived by her daughter, Linda Williams Loy; granddaughter, Kerry Loy Win-ter and her husband, David; and great-grandson, Jackson; grand-children, Lori (Denton) Williams Lesslie, Kip Williams and their mother, Cheryl; great-grandchil-dren, Will and Hollie Lesslie; nieces, Beverly Williams Stypula and Lisa (Jeff) Blackburn Ogle; and nephews, Michael (Rachel) Gray, Ron (Barbara) Gray, Steve (Patsy) Williams
and Ronnie Williams.The family will receive friends from 12 to 1 p.m.,
Saturday, April 24, at First Baptist Concord Chapel, with a Celebration of Life Service to follow at 1 p.m., with Chaplain Herb Hinsch and Fulton Hartzog officiating. Interment will follow at Pleasant Forest Cemetery with Steve Williams, Michael Gray, Jeff Ogle and Fulton Hartzog serving as pall bearers.
The Williams family would like to thank the won-derful team at Covenant Hospice for their loving careof Mary Ruth. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mission of Hope, missionofhope.org or to First Baptist Church Concord Prayer Ministry, 11704 Kingston Pike, Farragut, TN 37934. Click Funeral Home Farragut Chapel, 11915 Kingston Pike, serves the Williams family.
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From the glamour of gowns, tuxedos and rings to samplings from caterers and advice from financial and insurance companies, Shop Farragut/Farragut BusinessAlliance’s inaugural Farragut Bridal Fair drew 32 vendors booths, with vendors and their guests welcoming 270 patrons to Farragut Community Center Sunday, April18.
Attendees said they were pleased with the variety of selections and set-up of the event, while merchants told SF/FBA executive director Steve Krempasky they“were ready to do it all over again.”
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