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VOL. 50, NO. 39
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
GOVERNMENT/POLITICS A4 | FEATURES A6 | YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS A9 | BUSINESS A10
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HPUD celebrates 5 years violation-freeKnox County Mayor Tim Burchett asks a question of plant
manager Nick Jackson during his tour of the Hallsdalle Powell
Utility District’s Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
County commissioners Ed Shouse and R. Larry Smith also
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the Beaver Creek plant. Photo by Greg Householder
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By Betty Bean
“What’s going on with the de-velopment on Childress Road?”
County Commissioner Tony Norman wanted to know about the June 28 detention pond collapse at a development atop Copper Ridge that sent a wall of contaminated water rolling down onto the prop-erty below. It destroyed the home of Gary and Marsha Carter, dam-aged Patty and David Dowling’s house and eroded their front yard, drowned wildlife and contami-nated a pristine lake on Chuck and Mandy Parrott’s property at the foot of the ridge.
Norman wanted to know why it happened and how such catas-trophes can be prevented in the future, so he asked Public Works and Engineering chief Dwight Van de Vate for answers at last week’s commission workshop. Van de Vate absolved the county of re-sponsibility for the past and of-
Dawson Hollow disaster victims ‘just hanging on’fered limited reassurance about the future.
“We will always do our best to ensure that all applicable grad-ing, construction and stormwater management regulatory policies are strictly observed,” Van de Vate said.
He added that while new pol-lutant discharge elimination stan-dards will reduce the likelihood of pond failures, there is “no plausi-ble way” for the county to guaran-tee failures won’t occur.
Norman didn’t disguise his dis-satisfaction with Van de Vate’s re-sponse, even after Commissioner R. Larry Smith announced that developer Rufus Smith Properties has agreed to build the Carters a new home.
Gary Carter, who has been liv-ing in a motel room with his wife for three months, says that Smith’s announcement is news to him, and he agrees with Norman that the
Larry Smith when he showed up out here one day. Since that I haven’t heard anything about it,” he said. “This has been about the most mis-erable time of my life. Having to come home twice a day to take care of my animals and then leave it be-hind and go to the motel and spend the night – it’s just destroyed the way I think, the way I do and the way I act,” he said.
Carter also takes issue with Van de Vate’s contention that drainage problems at the Rufus Smith site are under control.
“It rained on Labor Day, and I was out on the back porch, read-ing. Water started coming down and I had to get off the porch or my feet were going to get wet. By noon, I couldn’t walk on the porch without walking in running water. … We’ve been dealing with this since June and we’ve got no future in sight.”
Gary Carter. Photo by Ruth White
By Larry Van Guilder
Construction could start next summer on the long-awaited widening and rerouting of Emory Road in Powell.
State Rep. Bill Dunn calls the current road “five lanes leading into a cow path.” BRINK (Better Roads in North Knox) president Clark Hamilton prefers “an old wagon trail.” By any name you choose, improvements to this final segment of Emory Road are due.
Dunn and Hamilton were among a group of citizens and East Tennessee lawmakers who met with Tennessee Department of Transpor-tation Commissioner John Schroer in Nashville last week. Both came away highly pleased.
“It was a very positive meeting,” Hamilton said. “We’re very encouraged.”
He added that the meeting brought “good news” for Powell, Halls and Union County. In addition to the Emory Road project, work on state route 33 (Maynardville Pike) from Temple Acres Drive to the Union County line should begin by summer.
Dunn expects contracts to be let on the Em-ory Road work as early as February or March. Although the project is entirely funded by the state, uncertainty about Tennessee’s share of federal funds factored into the timing of the project.
The design calls for construction of a five-lane road on the south side of Beaver Creek, joining Clinton Highway beside the new Wal-greens. The new road will bridge the railroad tracks and eliminate the low spot that fre-
Emory Road ‘cow path’ completion scheduled
Meet John SchroerTDOT Commissioner John Schroer was appoint-
ed by Gov. Bill Haslam. An Indiana native, Schroer
received a bachelor’s degree in
business from Indiana University.
After graduation he moved to
Tennessee and subsequently re-
ceived an MBA from UT. He spent
10 years in the commercial real
estate fi nancing business before
beginning a real estate develop-
ment business. He was elected
mayor of Franklin in 2007.
Schroer will be in Knox County
this Thursday, Sept. 29, on one leg of a bus ride
styled TDOT Project Tour 2011. Scheduled stops are
12:15 p.m. at Litton’s in Fountain City; 1:45 at CVS
pharmacy on Emory Road near I-75; and SpringHill
Suites at Turkey Creek in Farragut at 4:30. The day
concludes with an open house hosted by Schroer
at the Farragut Town Hall from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
John Schroer
By Sandra Clark
Come on, people. Let’s outnumber the plan-ners at today’s (Sept. 26) meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Powell Library on Emory Road.
That wasn’t the case last week when MPC offi -cials including the executive director, Mark Don-aldson, came to Halls to discuss the North Coun-ty Sector Plan. Fewer than fi ve non-government folks were present.
Sector plans set land use boundaries for 15 years. Property owners should care whether the land next door or down the street is developed for commercial or apartments. The days when developers just waved a rezoning past a favorable County Commission are no more. State law has put teeth into sector planning, and it’s harder to obtain changes.
Planner Mike Reynolds is heading the north sector study, which includes Powell and Halls. The area has grown from 32,391 residents in 1990 to 42,557 in 2000 and is expected to top 52,261 by 2009. MPC is taking comments and will come with a concept plan, Reynolds said.
If you can’t attend tonight’s meeting, contact Reynolds at 215-2500 or [email protected]/.
Linda “Snuff y” Smith, Commissioner R. Larry
Smith (no relation) and MPC planner Mike
Reynolds discuss land use maps at the North
County Sector Plan forum at Halls Senior Cen-
ter. Photo by S. Clark
North Sector Plan matters
quently f loods. The existing road will serve local traffic to downtown Powell businesses, residential areas, and the high and middle schools.
Hamilton praised Dunn, state Sen. Randy McNally and state Rep. Steve Hall for their ef-forts, and he sees more improvements coming to the area soon. He noted, for example, that traffic routinely backs up for more than a mile at Emory Road and Callahan exits from I-75.
“The commissioner agreed that’s not ac-ceptable,” Hamilton said.
county should do more to protect homeowners.
“Ma’am, I have not heard that statement from anybody except R. To page A-2
End is near for Emory Road ‘cow path’ in Powell Haslam Administration
sets funding for 5-lane to
Clinton Highway
See Larry Van Guilder’s story on page A-3
Arrested in the pulpitWendy Smith writes
on the colorful past
of Knoxville’s First
Presbyterian Church
See story on page A-6
Catchingupwith the Powell Panther receivers
See Greg Householder’s story on page A-9
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Powell High Homecoming
is FridayOne of the tricky things
about writing something on Thursday that will not be read until the following Monday is that I run the very real risk of jinxing a team, individual or whatever.
It’s Panther Walk time!
Dancers participate in the Twist contest at the Heiskell Sock Hop on Sept. 17. Photos by Greg House-holder
Thomas Hill of the Knox North Lions Club chats with Tamara
Longworth of the Friends of the 278th at the Lions meeting
last Wednesday.
For example – while in my heart of hearts (and through fi rst-hand observation of the team this year) I have little doubt that the Powell High School football Pan-thers came out of last Fri-day’s game victorious over the Karns Beavers. Powell is loaded with talent and has been putting up big numbers and well, Karns is still Karns and while the Beavers have notched the team’s best start in a number of years, they really have not beaten any quality opponents like the Panthers have.
So in the hopes that I haven’t put the evil jinx on Powell – how about them Panthers?
Friday is homecoming and Hardin Valley Academy comes to town and for the fi rst time this year the team will do the Panther Walk. For those with short mem-ories or who don’t follow football, the Panther Walker will begin at Laura Bailey’s Knoxville Realty Offi ce and follow the orange paw prints to the school.
Fans who want to cheer the Panthers on at the Pan-ther Walk should line Emo-ry Road at 5 p.m.
Heiskell Sock Hop ■
Not only was Sept. 16 the date of the UT-Florida game with a 3:30 p.m. kickoff, it was also the date of the Heiskell Sock Hop sched-uled during the meat of the game from 5-8 p.m.
While the Florida game kept the crowd low this year, those that turned out had a great time.
Knox North Lions ■
and the Friends of the 278thThe Knox North Lions
heard from a little-known group that is working hard to get the word out about what it does.
Tamara Longworth, president and founder of the Friends of the 278th, was the guest speaker. The group supports the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Tennessee National Guard.
Though offi cially orga-nized as a 501(c)3 non-profi t in 2010 the group actually got its start during the regi-ments fi rst deployment to Iraq in 2004-05. And it all started with buses.
After the regiment de-ployed to and completed its initial training at Camp Shelby, Miss., and before it went overseas, the soldiers were granted a leave to visit with families before leav-ing for Iraq. Unfortunately, the Army does not provide transportation to and from leave and many of the 278th soldiers found that they could not afford to make the trip from Mississippi to Tennessee.
Up stepped Tamara. She was able to raise money with the help of Grace Baptist Church in Karns and negoti-ated a discounted rate from a bus company and was able to send enough chartered buses to Mississippi to bring the soldiers home.
Thus began the Friends of the 278th. After the regiment deployed to Iraq, Tamara found her living room packed with com-fort items donated for the troops. She continued to solicit funds and found that there were lots of op-portunities to help soldiers and their families.
The fi rst deployment was a rough one for the regi-ment and it lost soldiers. The Friends of the 278th later provided a memorial at Camp Shelby in honor of the fallen heroes.
To help out, mail tax deductible donations to: Friends of the 278th, P.O. Box 30804, Knoxville, TN 37930 or visit the group’s website at www.friendsoft-he278th.org.
Powell Lions gear ■
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gearing up for what has be-come a Powell Christmas tradition – the community craft fair in the morning and the Christmas parade in the evening.
The craft fair will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the fi rst Saturday in December (Dec. 3). Interested vendors may purchase booth space for $20 for a 6X10 booth.
The parade steps off from the Powell Place Shopping Center (Food City at Emory and Clinton Highway) at 5 p.m.
Anyone interested in either the craft fair or the parade should email pow-ell l [email protected] call Diane Wilkerson at 640-1053.
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Patty Dowling, whose husband, David, built a deten-tion pond in hopes of protecting their home from the Smith Properties runoff, says her family is still dealing with runoff every time it rains. Her husband and some friends dug a drainage ditch through the yard to keep the water away from the house and they have decon-taminated the bedroom where their daughters, one of whom is disabled, sleep, but there is mold in other rooms of their living space and the bank behind the house is breaking down.
“We haven’t suffered nearly as bad as the Carters, but our problem has been going on for a year. As that pond fi lled up, more water came over and it got worse and worse. We just can’t keep waiting and waiting and waiting and letting it get worse and us living in it.”
Dawson Hollow victimsFrom page A-1
HEALTH NOTESAlzheimer’s caregiver support group ■ meets 6-7 p.m. each third
Thursday at Elmcroft Assisted Living and Memory Care in Halls.
Light refreshments. RSVP appreciated. Info: 925-2668.
Alzheimer’s support group ■ meets 6:30 p.m. each fi rst Thursday
at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 7225 Old Clin-
ton Pike. Info: 938-7245.
Cancer survivor support groups ■ , Monday evenings and Tuesday
mornings and Tuesday evenings, at the Wellness Community,
2230 Sutherland Ave. Support groups for cancer caregivers,
Monday evenings. Cancer family bereavement group is Thurs-
day evenings. Info: 546-4661.
Chronic Pain and Depression support group ■ meets at noon
to 1:30 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at Faith Promise
Church off Pellissippi Parkway. Info: Paula, 945-3810, or 748-1407.
Free prostate screening ■ will be held by The University of Tennessee
Medical Center’s Cancer Institute throughout September at diff erent
locations across East Tennessee. Appointments are required. Info: 605-
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Grief support groups ■ at Fort Sanders Sevier Hospital 6 p.m.
the fi rst Thursday of each month; 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. the third
Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Home Care Knoxville
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month at the Covenant Home Care Oak Ridge offi ce. Registration
is required. Info or to register: 541-4500.
Lung cancer support group ■ meets 6 p.m. the third Monday every
month at Baptist West Cancer Center, 10820 Parkside Drive. No
charge, light refreshments served. Info: Trish or Amanda, 218-7081.
October screening mammogram specials ■ will be held Tuesday,
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gifts and more. To schedule, call 545-7771.
Stop Smoking: 215-QUIT (7848) ■ is a program of the Knox
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4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
UT Hospice ■ conducts ongoing orientation sessions for adults (18
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Emory Road DAR commemorates 9/11Local company
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removal eff ortsBy Greg Householder
Sept. 11, 2001, is one of those seminal days that anyone of age at the time remembers what they were doing.
That was the day that our world as we knew it changed forever as Islamic terrorists
fl ew airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and were defeated by brave Americans in a fi eld near Shanksville, Pa.
On Sept. 17, the Emory Road Chapter of the Daugh-ters of the American Revolu-tion commemorated the 10th anniversary of that dark day with a presentation by folks from Phillips and Jordan, a Powell-based general and specialty contractor which oversaw the recovery of de-bris, personal effects and hu-man remains from the World Trade Center crime scene.
Kelly Baker, Max Morton and Steve Thompson of P&J shared the Phillips and Jor-dan story.
At the time of the attacks, P&J had an Advanced Con-tracting Initiative deal in place with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Di-
saster Debris Management. These ACIs were essentially “contracts in a can” ready to execute when needed.
On Sept. 14, 2001, the fi rst P&J personnel visited ground zero. The plan was to begin removing debris from the WTC site and transport it to a landfi ll on Staten Is-land. Just prior to the at-tacks, then New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani had closed the Fresh Kills Land-fi ll and the site was a perfect location for the debris sort-ing operation.
Phillips and Jordan put it all together. They developed the process to fi lter through the debris looking for crimi-nal evidence, personal ef-fects that were eventually returned to the families and human remains.
The numbers are stag-gering – the last debris was
processed on July 26, 2002 (day 321 of the project) and 1,462,000 tons of debris had been received and pro-cessed; 35,000 tons of steel had been removed (165,000 tons had been removed at ground zero); 806,000 tons of debris had been screened, an average of 75 tons per hour; more than 1.7 mil-lion man hours had been worked; more than 55,000 discrete pieces of evidence had been recovered; 4,257 body parts had been recov-ered and 209 victims had been positively identifi ed.
In other business, the DAR elected Laura Kay Pope as chaplain. The group also voted in the following new members: Shelby Mor-ris; Laura Edwards; Lisa Metcalf; Heather Cannon; Kelly Chipps and Rebecca Laroque.
ETTAC webinar rescheduled
Initially scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15, the East Tennessee Technology Access Center has moved its nation-wide webinar about online employment applications and website accessibility to Tues-day, Sept. 27. It will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in ET-TAC’s offi ce at 116 Childress St. The webinar will teach participants how to make their online applications fully accessible to people with dis-abilities. The program is free but registration is required. Info: 219-0130.
Veterans open house upcoming
All veterans are in-vited to an open house sponsored by Ameri-can Legion Post 212, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Tri-County Veterans Honor Guard and the American Le-gion Auxiliary 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at 140 Veteran Street, May-nardville. Entertain-ment and refreshments will be provided. This is an opportunity for veterans and family to meet each other or join these organizations. No alcohol allowed on the premises.
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Powell Lions Club ■ meets 7 p.m. each fi rst and third Thurs-
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Preparations and rehearsals continue for the Powell Play-house’s next production. The group will present Fred Carmi-chael’s mystery “The Night is My Enemy” Nov. 3-6 at the Jubilee Banquet Facility.
Primary cast members for the production are: Elizabeth Eaker as Roane; Christy Rutherford as Tessie; Jean Weeden as Mar-garet; Hunter Long as Tommy; Pepper Boone as Hester; Judy Morris as Augusta; Devin Har-vey as Gerald; Jeff Carter as Ora; Roy Weeden as Hubert and Chuck Denney as Rodney.
On Nov. 13, the Powell Play-house will present Bill Landry who will do a Heartland Christ-mas storytelling session and book signing.
On Dec. 9, the Powell Play-house will present an evening of gospel music. On Feb. 14-16, 2012 the Playhouse will pres-ent the play “Steel Magnolias.” Next April it will present a com-edy night and on June 7-10 will present the sequel to the group’s fi rst play “The Curious Savage” by performing “The Savage Di-lemma” to celebrate the fi rst anniversary of its inaugural pro-duction.
“Roane” (Elizabeth Eaker) is helped by “Gerald” (Devin
Harvey) after she takes a tumble during rehearsals last
week by the Powell Playhouse. The group is preparing for
its production of Fred Carmichael’s “The Night is My En-
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Powell Playhouse schedules Bill Landry
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Do East Tennessee Re-publicans love Jimmy Duncan? Let me count the ways!
Duncan was in Halls last week, speaking to the Re-publican Club at the new Q.Q. Pizza, and the room could not hold the crowd. Duncan jumped right into the national debate over government spending, taxes and debt reduction.
“The biggest lie in Ameri-can politics is that the Re-publicans are the party of the rich. If that were true, we would never win an elec-tion,” he said. “In fact, the Republicans get very few votes from the top fi ve per-cent (of the wealthy) and al-most none from the bottom
Betty Bean
Sandra Clark
“I think the light’s at the end of the tunnel on the Carter project,” Mayor Tim Burchett said at last week’s County Commission work session. Today’s commission vote will reveal whether that light is a rising sun or an oncoming train.
In the words of Commissioner Tony Norman, the process for building a new school “got so convoluted and curious” that predicting commission’s decision has become a slippery business.
Questions about the Devon Group’s abrupt withdrawal linger, and parents with children in other decaying schools are beginning to ask how Carter jumped to the head of the line.
If the project stalls, it’s better for Burchett if commis-sion gives the thumbs down. A school board rejection could cast the mayor and the school board as adversar-ies for the next three years, an outcome that benefi ts neither.
Alternatively, if the commission signs off and the school board says no, Burchett remains a hero in East Knox County. However, his pledge to use the money raised to reduce debt if the Carter project fails could cost him support from parents in other parts of the county.
But fi rst things fi rst: how will the commission vote?1st District: Sam McKenzie’s skepticism is well-■
documented. McKenzie is solidly for renovation and against building a new school. He votes no.
2nd District: Some blamed Amy Broyles for ■ Devon’s pullout. That’s farfetched, but Broyles is an emphatic no.
3rd District: At the work session, Norman said, ■ “It was always so curious why (Partners Development) wasn’t selected to begin with,” given their experience with school construction. Norman wants to consider the proposal objectively, but is leaning toward no.
4th District: Jeff Ownby supported a new school ■ for Carter while campaigning for his seat. He hasn’t explained why residents of his district should care, but he’ll vote yes.
5th District: At a recent commission meeting, ■ Richard Briggs opined that building a new school was not a good use of tax dollars. He probably votes no, but Briggs has been known to backtrack.
6th District: There’s little reason for him to support ■ the project, but Brad Anders has signaled he’ll vote yes.
7th District: Conditions at Shannondale and ■ Adrian Burnett should give R. Larry Smith something to think about, but he leans yes.
8th District: Dave Wright votes yes.■
9th District: Mike Brown votes no unless a deal ■ emerges for New Hopewell, which appears unlikely.
At-large Seat 10: Mike Hammond goes with the ■ mayor and votes yes.
At-large Seat 11: Ed Shouse is leaning yes, but ■ against his better judgment.
The results:Solid yes: Ownby, Anders, Wright and Hammond■
Solid no: McKenzie, Broyles and Brown■
Leaning yes: Smith and Shouse■
Leaning no: Norman and Briggs■
The mayor needs to keep Smith and Shouse on the reservation. The loyal opposition needs to hold on to Briggs and Norman and pick off either Smith or Shouse. The former is much easier, making the most likely vote 6-5 or 7-4 in the mayor’s favor.Contact Larry Van Guilder at [email protected].
Mayor ‘sees the light’ on
The outcome of a mayoral election boasting more can-didate forums than voters is tough to predict, but that’s what we do here at the Shop-per-News, so here goes:
Madeline Rogero is going to take this thing in the primary.
D e s p i t e having four opponent s and be-ing dubbed “ T h a t Woman” by Republican
men who professed to be scared to death of her, she will get the necessary 50 percent of the vote and then some, sparing us the agony of another two months of endless appeals to the lesser angels of our natures over things like red light cam-eras and homeless shelters (if Ivan Harmon had made the runoff) or commercials about running government like a bidness delivered by
Rogero
Winning: Madeline Rogero
the slickest talker this side of Ron Popiel (if Mark Padgett had made the runoff).
Joe Hultquist and Bo Bennett won’t be factors, although Bennett’s pleasant manner and perseverance have probably won him a lot of new friends. Hultquist, not so much. By the end of cam-paign season the gimmicky pseudo issues he was throw-ing against the wall (disman-tling KUB, building a cam-pus for the homeless) were not only not sticking, but were largely being ignored. Not a single news outlet of which I am aware covered his appearance at a recent school board meeting when he promised to increase the city’s already substantial voluntary contribution to the county schools.
Harmon and Padgett are locked in a close contest for second. Harmon ran some early feel-good TV spots casting himself as a help-ful neighbor who fi xes old ladies’ mailboxes, but he petered out in the home stretch, probably because he has had diffi culties rais-ing money.
Harmon is clearly hop-ing to cash in on the nation-wide Republican surge with endorsements from county GOP fi gures like Sheriff J.J. Jones, party chair Ray Hal Jenkins and County Commissioner Jeff Ownby, whose recent robocall to likely voters was paid for by the Committee to Elect Ivan Harmon, but which took an odd, nasty swipe at City Council candidate and for-mer County Commissioner Finbarr Saunders, whom Ownby defeated last year.
It remains to be seen whether an overt pitch to fel-low Republicans will over-come Democrat Padgett’s
phenomenal fundraising ability. Padgett has gained ground, but the runner-up slot is too close to call and doesn’t much matter.
There’s an old school say-ing among campaign opera-tives: Money fi nds the win-ner. Rogero, whose great strength is her strong, city-wide base, has consistently lagged behind Padgett in fundraising – until now.
In the Sept. 20 fi nancial disclosure, Padgett raised $135,215. Rogero took in $139,054, besting him by $4,000.
On Tuesday, Madeline Rogero will be poised to make history. She will be-come not only Knoxville’s fi rst woman mayor, but the fi rst Tennessee woman to become mayor of a city of this size. The spectacle of this lifelong Democrat pre-vailing in one of the most re-liably Republican regions of the country will fi nally give Tennessee Democrats a little something to cheer about.
Duncan stirs national debate
ing control of the House. He got two standing ovations.
Club president Duane Gregg announced the 11th Honor Air Flight, taking veterans of World War II and Korea, to Washington, will be Wednesday, Oct. 5, and a Fountain City GOP fundraiser is set for Thurs-day, Oct. 6, at Kitts Café. Tickets are $5.
Upcoming: Law Direc-tor Joe Jarret and challeng-er Bud Armstrong, 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17; Property Assessor Phil Ballard and challenger John Whitehead, 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21; and area Christmas party Mon-day, Dec. 12.
Tim Burchett
Carter Elementary School
GOSSIP AND LIES
U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr.
Had time ■ to review those fi nancial disclosures?
Marilyn Roddy ■ spent more than $70K in printing with an out-of-state fi rm. So much for bringing jobs to Knoxville!
Lamar Alexander ■ is taking a break from Re-publican Party leadership (he holds the No. 3 spot in the Senate) to concentrate on issues of importance to Tennessee.
Lamar has looked in-creasingly uncomfortable touting the hard as concrete right wing talking points. Good move, Lamar!
Becky Massey ■ put out the best piece of comparison campaign literature that I’ve seen. For instance, she says four words: “Opposes red light cameras.” Then she cites a Jan. 29, 2009, News Sentinel article reporting that Marilyn Roddy voted for red light cameras as a member of City Council.
Massey ■ goes on with taxes, homeless housing and GOP support.
Best of all ■ , her fl yer was printed and mailed in Knoxville.
Four council seats ■
are up; all will go to the November general elec-tion. Here’s our best guess for the top two vote getters from each district in order of fi nish:
District 5: Mark Campen, ■
unopposed
Seat A: George Wallace, Paul ■
Berney
Seat B: Marshall Stair, Bill ■
Owen
Seat C: Finbarr Saunders, Ron ■
Peabody.
– S. Clark
Country living on Mullins MountainOne of the funniest books
to come along in awhile was written by local Realtor and raconteur Sonny Mullins.
Sonny memorialized the book to his big brother, Jim, who was murdered Sept. 22, 2009, at his store on Rut-ledge Pike. And while this tragedy touched Sonny to his core, he worked through the pain by recounting tales of life on Mullins Mountain, where every man and boy
called the others “bubba.”Sonny writes of his one-
armed daddy and his moth-er, Gracie Lee. He writes of his wife, Patsy, a long-time teacher at Central High School, and his “one or two hundred cousins.”
He writes of the fi rst time an airplane fl ew over Mul-lins Mountain. The Rev. Mullins declared the end of time had come and gathered all his kids and neighbors
together to pray. The plane circled a couple of times and fl ew away. Life went on.
Sonny went off to fi ght in Vietnam and came home to sell some real estate .
Now he’s peddling his book, “Growing Up Coun-try.”
If you want a book or just want to swap tales, contact Sonny at [email protected] or 661-2274.
– S. Clark
20 percent. We get our votes from the 60 percent in the middle.
“(The debate) has noth-ing to do with millionaires and billionaires. They can take care of themselves in any system.”
Duncan said a rich up-per class thrived even under the Communist system in Russia. “Republicans stand for free enterprise, private property and freedom. Our strength is to keep the federal government small and support a large middle class.”
He said many of the prob-lems in Washington can be solved with one good elec-tion. But he refused to be drawn into the Republican presidential primary, saying simply, “Everyone wants a perfect candidate, but there is no such thing.”
Obviously, Duncan hopes the Republican Party cap-tures both the Senate and the Presidency while hold-
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Madeline Rogero may soon make local history as the fi rst woman mayor of the city of Knoxville. If elected, Rogero will follow a path blazed by Susanna Madora Salter in 1887 when the 27-year-old Kansan was elected mayor of Argonia, a small town near the south central border of the state.
Argonia, a Quaker village of less than 500, became na-tionally and internationally known when Salter became the fi rst woman elected mayor in the U.S. Ironically, women did not win the right to vote in national elections until the 19th Amendment was ratifi ed in 1920, three decades after Salter made history.
Writing in the Kansas Historical Quarterly in 1954, historian Monroe Billington recounted how “a certain group of men in Argonia” resented women intruding in political affairs and determined to humili-ate them. They had ballots printed with Salter’s name
on them without her knowl-edge or consent.
When the local chair of the Republican party saw the ballots, he asked Salter if she would run if elected. She agreed, and with the help of votes from members of the Woman’s Christian Temper-ance Union was elected.
Mayor Salter had the last laugh in more ways than one. She lived to the age of 101, dying in 1961. (Living long is sometimes the best revenge.)
Closer to home, May Ross McDowell became the fi rst woman mayor of John-son City, Tenn., in 1961. A graduate of what was then East Tennessee State Col-lege, now ETSU, and the East Tennessee Law School,
By Larry Van Guilder
“Anyone in construction will sooner or later receive a notice of violation (NOV),” says Chris Granju, who heads Knox Coun-ty’s Stormwater Management department.
The department’s records back that up. From 2008 to the present, NOVs were issued to companies at 35 different busi-ness addresses for EPSC (Ero-sion Prevention and Sediment Control) violations. The number of NOVs per address ranged from five to 25, and 15 were assessed civil penalties of more than $1,000.
Not all the penalties were col-lected. Penalties of $31,750 were levied on the Westland Manor
and Towering Oaks develop-ments for 19 EPSC violations, but the developer went under after paying only $3,000. The county collected an additional $20,000 when the company forfeited its performance bond.
Issuing the NOV does not guarantee swift compliance, as Gary and Marsha Carter found out on June 24 when a detention pond collapsed sending a torrent of muddy water into their home on Dawson Hollow Road.
As reported in the Shopper-News in August, a stormwater inspector issued an NOV to Southland Excavation on June 6 for defects in the detention pond and gave the company 15 days to fix the problem. On
June 22 Southland asked for more time. On June 24 the pond collapsed.
Stormwater records show 21 NOVs issued to the Southland Group and Smithbilt LLC be-tween 2009 and 2011 for nine de-velopments. There is no record of civil penalties assessed.
Dwight Van de Vate, director of Public Works and Engineering, says the department’s goal is to put itself “out of business” where violations and civil penalties are concerned. Granju echoes that philosophy, saying the goal is to educate, not punish, the devel-oper.
“The last resort is to have Knox County go after the money,”
Granju says.Clearly some builders and devel-
opers need education. Van de Vate recalls one who poured fi ve gal-lons of oil in a creek and incurred a $5,000 penalty.
“Autozone will take it for free,” Van de Vate says.
“Today’s NOV is 1995’s, ‘Hey, can you put up that silt fence’?” Granju says. And despite horror stories like the Dawson Hollow Road disaster, Van de Vate says “enforcement is better now than it’s ever been.”
Granju notes that a developer not in a position to complete the work is probably not in a posi-tion to pay a fine. The faltering economy has placed a number of local developers and builders in
Inspecting the inspectorsConstruction violations trend with economy
LarryVan
Guilder
Susanna Madora Salter, 1887 and 1954 Courtesy Kansas State Histori-cal Society
Women mayors have a long history
ties including a parade on Heritage Day, Saturday, Oct. 8.
According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers Univer-sity, as of July 2011, of 1,167 U.S. cities with populations over 30,000, 203, about 17 percent, had women may-ors. In Tennessee, the list includes Kim McMillan,
Clarksville; Sharon Golds-worthy, Germantown; and Jane M. Myron, Johnson City.
Clarksville, popula-tion 103,000, is currently the largest Tennessee city with a woman mayor at the helm. That may change as early as tomorrow, the last day to vote in Knoxville’s primary election.
Political items collectors show is Saturday
The East Tennessee Po-litical Item Collectors Fall Show will be held 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Magnuson Hotel (across from West Town Mall). Open and free to the public. Varied collections and vendors will display for show and sale.
‘Bus Stop’ from Foothills Community Players
Foothills Community Players will present “Bus Stop” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, through Sun-day, Oct. 2, at the Capitol Theater in Maryville. There will be an additional mati-nee showing 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $17 ($15 for students and seniors). Info: 712-6428.
that position.“The economy has buried the
marginal developer,” Van de Vate says, and the number of foreclo-sures is “more than we’ve ever had.”
Stormwater inspectors per-formed 623 site inspections dur-ing the first quarter of 2011, even as the worst new building mar-ket in decades persists. Granju says a consultant study in 2005 concluded that the department needed 17 inspectors “per that paradigm.”
But the rules and the “para-digm” change frequently. Phase II of the EPA’s National Pollution Discharge Elimination System for stormwater management makes that certain.
“Five years from now, the needs will be different,” Van de Vate says.
Granju agrees. No developer is asking for more regulation and stricter enforcement, but no one wants another Dawson Hollow.
McDowell enjoyed a distin-guished career before her death in 1988 at the age of 90.
Among her many honors, she became only the second woman to receive the U.S. Department of Labor’s high-est award, the Certifi cate of Meritorious Service, in 1964. In 1965 she was named the fi rst “Distinguished Woman in Residence” at the Univer-sity of Colorado.
Last January, the third oldest city in Tennessee, Parrotsville, swore in its fi rst female mayor. Mary Keller, 68, is retired, but her part-time service as mayor keeps her occupied.
“Sometimes when you go to bed at night you won-der, ‘What was I thinking?’” Keller says. “But we’ve been real busy trying to put Par-rotsville back on the map.”
Keller says the town of less than 300 is in the pro-cess of renovating the local baseball fi eld as well tennis and basketball courts. She’s also preparing for festivi-
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First Presbyterian Church on State Street is Knox-
ville’s oldest church, and a few episodes in its long his-tory were highlighted dur-ing the recent East Tennes-see History Fair.
Samuel Carrick is be-lieved to have founded First Presbyterian in 1792. He would later found Blount College, which eventually be-came UT. Knoxville founder James White donated a par-cel of land that was once a turnip patch for the church’s fi rst permanent home, which was completed in 1816.
The church’s current pastor, William Pender, portrayed former Civil War-era pastor William Andrew Harrison during a reenactment of a dramatic moment in the church’s history. Harrison, who was pro-Confederate, let it be known from the pulpit that he didn’t think Unionists could be Christians. Union
DOWNTOWN … | Wendy Smith
First Presbyterian celebrates colorful history
Ken Creswell and First
Presbyterian Pastor William
Pender portray an incident
famous in the church’s his-
tory when Civil War-era pas-
tor William Andrew Harrison
was arrested for anti-Union
sentiments.
First Presbyterian Church
member Pat Armstrong
stands beside Abner
Baker’s obelisk in the
church’s graveyard.Photos by Wendy Smith
Louis Comfort Tiff any is credited with creating the stained
glass windows that adorn either side of the church’s State
Street entrance.
parlor earlier this month in honor of Rosa Scott, who led a popular Bible study for many years.
Pat Armstrong conducted a tour of First Presbyterian’s graveyard. Ten percent of the graves belong to Knox-villians who succumbed to an 1838 plague, Armstrong said.
Church founder Carrick is buried in the corner closest to the intersection of State Street and Clinch Avenue, supposedly to be close to the fi rst home of Blount College, which stood in the Tennessee Theater’s present location.
James White is also bur-
ied there, along with three members of U.S. Congress – William Blount, John Wil-liams, and Hugh Lawson White, son of James. But the most colorful charac-ter in the cemetery may be Confederate soldier Abner Baker. Baker’s father, Dr. Harvey Baker, was shot by Union sympathizers in his home, the historic Baker Pe-ters House located at Kings-ton Pike and South Peters Road. After the war, Abner returned to Knoxville and hunted down his father’s murderer. But his revenge was short-lived, for he was later hung by Unionists.
General Ambrose Burn-side heard of Harrison’s re-marks, and the pastor was arrested in the midst of a sermon in 1864.
First Presbyterian mem-ber Kelly Norrell shared the history of church’s stained glass windows. Four of the oldest windows, which date back to the early 1900s, are thought to be the work of Flora and Ruby MacDonald of MacDonald Glassworks of Boston. They are made of opaque glass, which was considered less distracting to worshippers than trans-lucent glass. The MacDon-alds were paid $10,000 for the commission – an enor-mous sum at the time.
Two other windows are attributed to Louis Comfort Tiffany. One is a large win-dow that was later divided, and the halves are now on either side of the church’s State Street entrance. The other is in the sanctuary.
Tiffany was com-missioned to cre-ate a third window, but its location is unknown. One win-dow was covered up when the balcony was built in the 1925, and Norrell wonders if it could be the missing Tif-fany work.
The windows are all memorials to First Presbyterian members. The new-est window was in-stalled in a church
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In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the wilderness was a fi ne fl aky sub-stance, as fi ne as frost on the ground. When the Israel-ites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.”
(Exodus 16: 13-15 NRSV)
When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” Jesus said to them, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They replied, “We have noth-ing here but fi ve loaves and two fi sh.” And he said, “Bring them here to me.” (Matthew 14: 15-18 NRSV)
Hungry masses, desert-ed place: the settings for two stories.
You know these two sto-ries. You probably have heard them linked together in more than one sermon.
You also may have heard them explained away, ratio-nalized into nothingness. You may have heard them questioned. You may have heard them scoffed at.
It was a conversation with a colleague, whose mind I enjoy, that set me thinking about these two accounts of miraculous feeding. We had fi nished the business at hand, and because we both work with populations who do not always have what they need, let alone what they want, the conversation turned to the economies in which we live. Not, please note, The Economy, that fearsome beast that is on everyone’s lips these days.
We were talking about the economies of scarcity and plenty, and the ways in which each person’s percep-tion of those extremes is set in place by our own experi-ences and our own expecta-tions. We pondered those extremes and agreed that in the center was the ideal, the concept of Enough.
And then the question arose, “Is the story of man-na true? Or is it a parable? A fairy tale? Was the manna real?”
There are all sorts of an-swers to those questions. Scholars point out that there is a secretion from certain plants in the Sinai Peninsula that dries to an edible form they call St. John’s Bread. As for me, I am pretty sure it as not a fairy tale. You can’t live on fairy tales.
But after the conversa-
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tion was over, I kept refl ect-ing on the question, and I arrived again at my version of God’s Rules of Manna:
1. There will be enough.2. There won’t be any ex-
tra.3. It may not be exactly
what you would choose.4. It won’t come until you
absolutely have to have it.5. When in doubt, see
Rule No. 1.God’s rules are predi-
cated on our being willing to give up control (tough as-signment, that one!), to trust God, and obey the rules: the Israelites had to share, and they couldn’t be greedy. None of which removes our responsibility to do some-thing to help ourselves: the manna did not fall directly onto the Israelites’ dinner plates; they had to gather it.
But the hardest assign-ment is learning that Enoughis a state of equilibrium – a place of peace, of grace.
Hutton tospeak at KFLShopper-News
columnist Lynn Hutton will be the guest speak-er for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Sept. 27. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.
faith
By Natalie Lester
University of Tennes-see seniors Wes Stokes and Margeaux Hill agree the an-nual Passion Conference for college students in Atlanta changed their lives.
“It made me stronger, because it brought different topics to light that I would have never thought about,” Stokes said. “It opened my eyes that life is more about God than it is about me.”
“It has made me ques-tion myself,” Hill said. “I’ve learned to look at the real condition of my faith versus what it looks like to outsid-ers.”
In anticipation of the conference in Atlanta Jan. 2-5, 2012, Stokes, Hill and other university students at-tended the Passion Univer-sity Tour stop at Fellowship Evangelical Free Church on Middlebrook Pike.
The tour is making its way to 12 university cam-puses nationwide in prepa-ration for the conference. It seeks to attract students who are part of the Passion movement, which exists to see a generation stake their lives on what the organiza-tion’s founders believe mat-ters most.
Stokes and Hill said the conference was unlike any religious event they had at-tended.
“It is just a unique experi-ence to see so many college students love and worship Christ,” Hill said.
UT seniors Wes Stokes and Margeaux Hill look forward to the
next Passion Conference in Atlanta. Both attended the confer-
ence tour stop at the Fellowship Evangelical Free Church on
Middlebrook Pike last week. Photo by N. Lester
Passion Conference is church on steroids
“It is comforting to know there are so many college-age kids who are passion-ate about their faith like you are, because you don’t al-ways see that played out in your daily life,” Stokes add-ed. “It is just so much bigger than anything I have ever been a part of. It is church on steroids.”
The Passion Conference began in 1997 with a desire to see spiritual awakening come to college campuses. The movement is headquar-tered in Alpharetta, Ga. The Passion Team is led by Lou-ie Giglio and operates under the direction of a board that is committed to spreading faith to the more than 20 million college students in America. Usually more than 35,000 students attend the conference at the Georgia Dome each year.
CONDOLENCES
CommunityKnoxville Free Food Market, ■
4625 Mill Branch Lane (across
from Tractor Supply in Halls),
distributes free food 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. each third Saturday.
Info: 566-1265.
New Hope Baptist Church will ■
distribute food from its pan-
try to local families in need
6-8 p.m. each third Thursday.
Info: 688-5330.
Fall festivalsBookwalter UMC, 4218 ■
Central Avenue Pike, will have
a fall festival 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 1. There will be
children’s activities, Petros
and hot apple pies for lunch
and vendors selling aprons,
baked goods, candles and
more. Info: 773-3380.
Nave Hill Baptist Church, will ■
have Old Timers Day 10:45
a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2. Everyone
is invited.
Ridgedale Baptist Church, ■
5632 Nickle Rd., will host its
annual Trunk-or-Treat 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.
26, with crafts, games, food
and more. Info: visit www.
ridgedale.org or 588-6855.
FundraisersBookwalter UMC will host a ■
communitywide yard sale
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 22. For free setup, call
773-3380.
Dante Baptist Church, 314 ■
Brown Road, needs vendors
for a craft fair Sat., Oct. 8.
Table rental is $20. Info: Vivian
Baker, 938-1378.
Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, ■
will host “Laugh All Night: An
Evening of Comedy to Benefi t
Agape Outreach Homes”
7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 29. Comedians will
include Marty Simpson,
Jonnie W. and Renard Hirsch.
Tickets are $10 or $35 for
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org/
Fairview Freewill Baptist ■
Church in Heiskell will have a
rummage sale 8 a.m. to noon
and a fall festival 5-9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 15. During the
festival, there will be a marsh-
mallow roast, puppet show,
dinner, auction and more.
Sponsored by the Women
Active for Christ Auxiliary. All
proceeds will help pay for
church activities throughout
the year. Info: 705-9751.
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By Greg Householder
As the 2011 high school football campaign grinds through the last half of the regular season the Pow-ell Panther receiving corps might be considering apply-ing for unemployment in-surance based on how much work they have gotten so far.
Through the demolition of Anderson County (53-16) and avenging of last year’s second round playoff loss in Maverick land on Sept. 16, the explosive Powell offense had scored 26 touchdowns and rushed for 1,689 yards. Through the air, the Pan-thers accounted for two of those touchdowns and have thrown for a mere 358 yards through fi ve games.
But who is complaining?
Coming out of the Anderson County game Powell was ranked No. 2 in the state AP poll and boasted a 5-0 re-cord (3-0 in District 3-3A). The Panthers hosted Karns last Friday.
Leading in catches for Powell is Darian Logan with nine receptions for 176 yards. Landon Wright and Hagen Owenby have caught four passes each for 93 and 57 yards respec-tively through the Anderson County game.
Also making catches are Justin Wood, Christian Kidd, Drake Owenby and Gray Bunch. Owenby has caught a touchdown pass and a two-point conversion and his younger brother Hagen has caught a two-point conver-sion. Bunch accounted for the other receiving touchdown. Jonathan Strocyk is expected to see more action on the of-
fensive side of the ball in the last half of the season.
Powell will entertain Hardin Valley Academy on Friday, Sept. 30, for home-coming. The Hawks hosted a struggling Central last Friday. Results of Friday’s game were unavailable at press time.
Hardin Valley has beaten Bearden (32-0), Clinton (27-0) and Campbell Coun-ty (26-20). The Hawks lost to Heritage (38-24).
As the regular season rolls into the homestretch, Powell is emerging as the class of a relatively down District 3-3A. Going into last Friday’s games six of the nine district teams sported losing or just break-even overall records: Halls 1-4 (1-2 in district play), Central 0-5 (0-3), Oak Ridge 2-2 (2-1), Anderson County 2-3 (2-1), Campbell County 1-3 (0-
The Powell Panther receiving corps: (front) Jonathan Strozyk, Tanner Hughes, Darian Logan, Alan-Michael Agee; (back) Justin
Wood, Landon Wright, Hagen Owenby, Andrew Irby and Klay Leeper. Photos by Greg Householder
Hagen Owenby lines up
against Oak Ridge.
Panthers keep iton the ground
3) and Clinton 0-5 (0-3).Besides Powell, only
Karns and Hardin Valley Academy have winning re-cords. The Panthers have yet to play Hardin Valley, Clinton, Campbell County and Central.
Kickoff Friday is 7:30 p.m.
Worship notesFrom page A-7
Faithway Baptist Church ■ is
seeking craft vendors for a fall
show to be held Oct. 1. Info:
Robin, 254-4605.
Loveland Baptist Church ■ will
have a huge sale 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. Thursday and Friday, Sept.
29-30, and Saturday, Oct. 1.
Mount Harmony Baptist ■
Church at 819 Raccoon Valley
Rd. in Heiskell will have a rum-
mage sale with concessions
beginning at 8 a.m. Friday
and Saturday, Oct. 7-8. All
proceeds benefi t the church.
New Hope Baptist Church ■
will hold a fundraiser festival
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
29, and is seeking various
vendors. Crafters, rummage
sellers, games and more are
needed. Proceeds will go to
off set medical bills for injuries
Chris Mitchell sustained in
a motorcycle accident. Info:
Tammy, 604-7634.
Northside Christian ■
Church, 4008 Tazewell Pike,
will host a fall bazaar 2-8 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 7 and 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. Lunch
will be served from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. and dinner will be
served from 5-8 p.m. Ven-
dors, crafts, baked goods and
more will be available. Meal
will include chili, hot tamales
and dessert.
HomecomingsBells Campground United ■
Methodist Church, 7915
Bells Campground Road,
Powell, will hold homecoming
Sunday, Oct. 16. Service starts
at 10:30 a.m. with covered
dish dinner to follow. Bring a
favorite dish to share. Special
music provided by The Chords
Quartet. Info: 686-1516.
Broadway Baptist Church, ■
815 N. Broadway, will hold
homecoming Sunday, Oct. 9.
Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m.
and the worship service begins
at 11. A covered dish lunch will
follow. Info: 524-2575.
Home Faith Baptist Church, ■
5139 Rouse Lane, will hold
homecoming Sunday, Oct.
2. Sunday school is at 10
a.m., morning service at 11.,
Sunday evening service at
6. The Principles will be the
guest singers. Info/directions:
323-4541 or 686-4796.
Rec programsNew Covenant Fellowship ■
Church, 6828 Central Avenue
Pike, will hold Pilates class
5:45 p.m. each Monday for
$5. Info: 689-7001.
RevivalsFaithway Baptist Church ■
in Halls will host a fall revival
through 7 p.m. each night
through Wednesday, Sept. 28.
The Berry Family will be singing
and evangelist Randy Bane will
be preaching. Info: 755-7318.
Oaks Chapel American ■
Christian Church will have
revival starting at 7 p.m. Sun-
day, Oct. 9, with the Rev. Boyd
Myers preaching. Pastor is the
Rev. Roger Short.
Special servicesThe Shepherd of the Hills ■
Baptist Church now off ers an
Internet prayer line. Anytime
you have a prayer or concern,
call the line and leave a mes-
sage. Someone will be pray-
ing about the request with
you within 24 hours. Prayer
line: 484-4066.
Women’s eventsKnoxville Day Women’s ■
Aglow Lighthouse will hold
an outreach meeting 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.
4, at New Covenant Fellow-
ship Church, 6828 Central
Ave. Pike. Stacey Stockdale,
vice president of ministry
development at the Harriman,
Tenn. Aglow, will speak. Info:
Diane Shelby, 687-3687.
Workshopsand classes
Fairview Baptist Church, ■
7424 Fairview Road off East
Emory Road, hosts a Cel-
ebrate Recovery program 7-9
p.m. Thursdays.
Youth programsBeaver Ridge UMC, ■ 7753
Oak Ridge Highway, youth
program has several activities
planned for the month.
Everyone is invited to
participate. Info: Jay Liff ord,
690-1060 ext. 108, or email
Fountain City UMC ■ will
host “Becoming a Love and
Logic Parent” 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. each Sunday from Oct.
2 through Oct. 23. Certifi ed
love and logic independent
facilitator Elizabeth Kose will
lead the discussion. Cost is
$50 per couple or $35 per
person. Reservations are sug-
gested. All parents, teachers,
grandparents and guardians
are invited. Info: 809-9075 or
email elizabethkose@yahoo.
com.
REUNIONSUSS Albany Association ■ will
hold its 22nd annual reunion
Sunday through Friday, Oct.
9-14, at the Glenstone Lodge
in Gatlinburg. The association
is currently looking for ship-
mates who served on one of
the USS Albany ships (CA123,
CG10, SSN753). Info: Dick
Desrochers, 603-594-9798, or
www.ussalbany.org.
The McCloud family ■ will
hold their reunion at a new
location this year. Family
members will gather at the
Fountain City Lions Club
building (adjacent to the
park) noon to 3 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 2. Everyone is asked to
bring one covered dish (with
serving utensil). Info: Sandy
Bardill, 947-2442.
COMMUNITY CLUBS
Fort Loudoun Lake Asso- ■
ciation will host a rain barrel
workshop 6-8 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 4, in the large conference
room at Ijam’s Visitor Center.
Cost is $45 per barrel. Space
is limited. Deadline to register
is Tuesday, Sept. 27. Info: 523-
3800 or email info@fl lake.org.
The Barbershop Harmony ■
Society will sponsor a com-
munity-wide men’s Christmas
chorus, meeting 7:30 p.m.
each Tuesday night beginning
Oct. 4 in the basement fellow-
ship hall of Emerald Avenue
United Methodist Church,
1620 N. Central.
The Knoxville Writers’ Guild ■
will launch its eighth literary
anthology “A Tapestry of
Voices: The 2011 Anthology of
the Knoxville Writers’ Guild”
during the group’s meeting 7
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at the
Laurel Theater. A $2 donation
will be requested. Everyone
is invited.
The Patriots of East Tennes- ■
see will meet 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 13, at Cedar
Springs Christian Bookstore
on North Peters Road. Guest
speaker Glenn “Cain” Jacobs
will discuss “Freedom and
Liberty of Mankind.” Info:
414-6060.
The Poetry Quintessence ■
Society meets 6:30 p.m. the
last Monday of each month at
Café 4’s library, third fl oor. Ev-
eryone 16 and older is invited.
Info: Tonya, 357-6134.
Dr. Rutherford calls the project “very exciting,” and says of her students, “It’s amazing how creative they are.”
Erin says it has been so much fun and such a great challenge that she may change her career path from women’s wear buyer in a de-partment store or a boutique to product development.
She says she and her fel-low team members – Lee Smith, Taylor McCorkle, Jaime Bridgman and Nikita Johnson – with only two
weeks to develop a product and one week to get it pro-duced, immediately decided to do a T-shirt or sweatshirt, designing several different logos before choosing just one – a checkerboard de-sign. “We designed it with three-quarter length sleeves so it can be worn through the football, basketball and baseball seasons.”
As part of the project, each team visited the store where its product would be sold to develop information about the demographics of
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Behold Buffalo on the football horizon. Fortunate-ly, basketball is near enough to be a substitute subject.
To quote a past presi-dent, “Let me make one thing perfectly clear …”
Cuonzo Martin is not Bruce Pearl. Never was. Won’t be. He is not a natu-ral promoter, of himself or others. He is not a market-ing major. He is spirited and determined but some-thing less than fl amboyant. ESPN will have to get along without much of his help. You are not likely to see him in orange body paint.
You are not likely to see his team in the sec-ond round of the NCAA tournament. If it answers the opening bell, Martin should be coach of the year. His Vols have been picked as low as last in the South-eastern Conference.
As with most new coach-es, he has this job because there were problems. Cuon-zo faces a diffi cult task, which is one reason the dearly departed Mike Ham-ilton more than quadrupled
in nine losses in 10 games. Give that some thought.
Here’s what I know for certain about basketball: There is a critical link be-tween recruiting and re-cords. Great players make coaches seem much smart-er. Going all the way back to Emmett Lowery, before Ray Mears, the best Tennessee teams had the best players.
It is almost impossible to win on the road when rivals get top talent and you get good kids with heart and hustle. Much better story if it happened the other way but no go.
Martin says his team will play hard. That won’t be enough. In fact, any-thing less would be an em-barrassment. The upcom-ing Volunteers need to play smart and somebody must rebound now and then and somebody must stick a few balls into the basket. To be blunt, I don’t know who that might be. There are no returning all-stars.
I am not yet convinced newcomers can handle Vanderbilt, much less Ken-tucky. No doubt Coach has
Marvin West
Buff alo or basketball
his Missouri State pay and presented a fi ve-year con-tract. Ah yes, I remember it well …
“Cuonzo is among the most promising young coaches in the game, and we are excited about the coach-ing ability, toughness and energy that he brings to our program,” said Hamilton.
In more ways than one, the former athletic direc-tor and the former coach contributed to the overall diffi culty. The schedule is daunting. There is good and bad. Tennessee gets to play in Hawaii. Tennessee has to play Duke.
The only interruption in the SEC schedule is de-fending national champion UConn at Thompson-Bol-ing on Jan. 21, just past the middle of a dangerous segment that could result
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Central High graduate and UT senior Erin Norton had her feet fi rmly planted on what she thought was the perfect career path for her, but after participating in a UT class partnership with Walgreens, she’s consider-ing a detour.
Anne Hart
Walgreens ‘Volprentice’ challenge
Erin Norton and Jaime Bridgman model T-shirts they helped
design for a UT class project sponsored by Walgreens. Photo submitted
On the second day of school this fall, Dr. Nancy Rutherford’s retail class (in UT’s Department of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management) heard from a Walgreens executive with a challenge: divide the class into fi ve teams, each team develop a different UT-re-lated product, Walgreens will sell each team’s prod-uct in a different one of fi ve stores in the Knoxville mar-ket and the team that makes the greatest profi t will be named the “2011 Walgreens Volprentice.”
All jokes about Donald Trump and his “Apprentice” TV program aside, the stu-dents have taken this project seriously, and have learned a lot about doing real busi-ness in the real world.
shoppers at that specifi c lo-cation. “We are in the Wal-greens on Middlebrook Pike at Cedar Bluff Road,” Erin says. “We were told by the store manager that the typi-cal shopper there is a mid-dle aged woman buying for her husband and kids, so we had that in mind when we did our design.”
After completion of the design, Knoxville’s Bacon & Co. produced the T-shirts. Last week Erin and her fellow team members were at the store setting up the display.
Rutherford says the stu-dents won’t just sit back and wait for shoppers to stroll into the store. They’re now hard at work on various marketing strategies – so-cial media included.
The contest ends on Oct. 18, and here’s how you can participate: visit Erin’s team’s store on Middlebrook Pike or the other Walgreens participating in the project on Chapman Highway, Clin-ton Highway at Merchants Road, Northshore Drive near Kingston Pike or Pe-ters Road at Kingston Pike. UT will receive a portion of the proceeds to fund in-structional programs.
If you do your holiday shop-ping early, you can choose the next “Volprentice.”[email protected]
Rural/Metro and our fellow public safety agencies have extensive response plans and resources in place to respond to major disasters, but it still may take time to reach everyone during such an emergency. It is important for individuals to be prepared.
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month, which encour-ages Americans to work together to take concrete actions toward emergency preparedness. One such step is to create a 72-hour emergency supply kit.
Recent storms and disasters across the world
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given that some thought. If this season is a downer,
please do not blame Cuonzo Martin. You know who did it. And that explanation will work for a little while. Soon thereafter comes a new clock, tick, tick, tick.
Tennessee has a lot to show and tell and sell prep prospects – fantastic facili-ties, fi red-up fans, fl ags tied to the rafters, signifi cant accomplishments in the re-cent past.
The solution seems simple. Recruit a few top players. Top players be-get dramatic victories. For more information on this thought process, dig up the details of Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King in down-town Lexington. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected].
Political items collectors show is Saturday
The East Tennessee Po-litical Item Collectors Fall Show will be held 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Magnuson Hotel (across from West Town Mall). Open and free to the public. Varied collections and vendors will display for show and sale.
POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 • A-11
Being there iswhy I’m here.
Sage Kohler, Agent ChFC CLU CASL865-938-2800
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We’re anything but ordinary!Come try our newest classes!
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Mercy Health and Fitness Center is not your ordinary gym, and we will prove it to
you at the Fall Open House on Mon-day, Oct. 3, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
On that day only, there will be a special enrollment fee, free gifts for those who join and a series of 30-minute “mini” group exercise classes so visitors and new clients can try out the most popular classes in the fi tness industry for themselves. There will also be gifts for those who try a class.
Wouldn’t you like to exercise comfortably, with other people just like you, who are simply trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle? Maybe you’re a fi rst time exerciser, or want to get back into shape, or maybe you are a serious exerciser and need to cross train or simply add variety. Any exer-cise is a way of reducing risk factors for conditions such as hypertension, heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis and diabetes.
At Mercy Health and Fitness Center we have everything you need to
achieve your goal and to make your workout fun for you! All of our group exercise classes are FREE with your membership. Group classes are a simple, fun and effective way to exercise. Go to www.Mercy.com to view and print a copy of our class schedules to try a class of your choice for FREE!
Mercy Health and Fitness Center is a state-of-the-art facility with 65,000 square feet of space for all your exercise needs. We have two indoor pools for lap swim-ming, water walking or jogging, and water classes such as aerobics, arthritis and Aqua Yoga. We have a cushioned indoor walking track, as well as all the latest cardiovascular equipment.
Members have access to an Olympic free weight room, a hammer strength studio, a dedicated cycle room, a full-size basketball court and spacious locker rooms with showers, steam rooms, saunas and whirlpools.
We offer FREE childcare with your membership, so while the kids
are in our Kids Klub or at school, why don’t you come to a class of your own? Memberships are offered on a monthly or yearly basis, so there are no long-term contracts.
The fi tness center also has services such as personal training, swim lessons, spa services and skin care treatments. Although these are available for both members and non-members, our members benefi t from a special rate.
We open our facility to events such as birthday parties, lock-ins, project graduations or any event for which you may need a rented space.
To learn more, give us a call at 859- 7900 or stop by the fi tness center! We are located on the campus of Mercy North off Emory Road. You will see that Mercy Health and Fitness Center is not your ordinary gym.
Join today and our expert fi tness staff will provide you with a person-alized health assessment and all the information and encouragement you need to reach your fi tness goals.
FALL OPEN HOUSE!
Monday, October 38 a.m. to 9 p.m.
SPECIAL ENROLLMENT
THIS DAY ONLY! FREE gifts to
those who join!PLUS special gifts for those who try a class!
9 a.m. – Group Ride10 a.m. – Group Power
11 a.m. – Zumba Noon – Group Power5:30 p.m. – Zumba
6:30 p.m. – Group Ride7:30 p.m. – Group Power
859-7900• www.Mercy.com7540 Dannaher Drive, Powell
(Located on the campus of Mercy North off Emory Road)
An Hour Of Power!A 60-minute barbell class that strengthens all your major muscle
groups in an inspiring and motivating group environment with simple movements like lunges, squats, presses and curls.
This class is for all ages and fi tness levels!
Everyone Finishes First In Group Ride!Pedal in groups, roll over hills, chase the pack, climb mountains,
and spin your way to burning calories and strengthening your lower body. This 60-minute cycling program is geared for
anyone who can ride a bike!
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A-12 • SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 • POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS
SALE DATESSun., Sept. 25 -Sat., Oct. 1, 2011
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to dealers or competitors. Quantity rightsreserved. 2011 K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc.
Food City is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• KNOXVILLE, TN - N. BROADWAY, MAYNARDVILLE HWY.,HARDIN VALLEY RD., MIDDLEBROOK PIKE, KINGSTON PIKE,
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