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Coffee Break
When Ann Pierce was a child, hanging around the Bearden Antique Mall wasn’t her favorite thing to do. Her mother, Sada, opened the Homberg Place store in 1976, and Ann spent many after-school and Saturday hours there. Now, when her life feels chaotic, she finds peace there. “It’s like a second home,” she says.
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Miracle Maker The graduation rate has improved significantly at Gibbs High School. Principal Lynn Hill, former principal at Bearden High, shares the 11step plan the school staff used to make it happen.
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Stories that heal Wendy Smith says some experts believe that world peace could begin with “Once upon a time…” Rosalind Hackett of UT’s Department of Religious Studies believes it. “The importance of telling stories has really been brought home to me,” she says.
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Oh what might have been … During winter workouts, spring practice, summer exercises, all of August and earlier in the season, when it still mattered, Kentucky at Tennessee had all the earmarks of a great grudge game. Oh what joy that would have been, leftover turkey and smoked Wildcats. Score 50 or 75 and get even for the mess made last November in Lexington. Start a new streak. Cuff ’em around. Leave no doubt who is boss in this little border rivalry. Ouch. It hurts to consider what transpired.
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November 19, 2012
Bearden students get ready for By Wendy Smith Evan White bought a brand new SUV and a large home, but when he added up the cost of life’s other necessities, like insurance and groceries, he switched to a used car and a more modest home. After getting his budget under control, he went to lunch. White is one of a few hundred Bearden High School business and marketing students who got a taste for real-world finances by participating in “On My Own,” a program developed by UT Extension and presented by Kristina Howard, a marketing specialist with Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union. The day before the program, each student was assigned a job and a salary based on personality typing, and some were given families. During the program, students visited multiple stations where they paid for living expenses – like house and car payments, utilities and entertainment – with-
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financial responsibility that comes with children. For the exercise, no more than two children could share a bedroom, and day care was a necessity for two working parents. Giving assigned children up for adoption or selling them on the black market was not an option, she said. She also advised students not to spend more than one third of their salaries on rent or mortgage, and reminded them that expenses like internet and cellphones must be included in a monthly budget. Community volunteers assisted at each station, and explained options. Laura Ash and Bearden alumnus Carrie Hill of State Farm Carrie Hill of State Farm explains insurance options to Kristin Dehkordi, Veronica Allen, Claire helped students understand Napier, Tommy Lane and Elijah Helton. The Bearden High School business and marketing that the choices they made students learned about personal finance during “On My Own,” a program presented by the about cars and homes afKnoxville TVA Employees Credit Union. Photo by Wendy Smith fected insurance rates. Several expressed an interest in out spending more than their assigned dry forever. A handful of boys raised their life insurance, which was a salaries. hands. nice surprise, said Ash. Before they visited the stations, Howard “It’s always the boys who want to stay at asked the students how many would like home,” she said. to live at home and let mom do their launShe helped students think through the To page A-3
Cedar Bluff gets Medal of Honor flag By Theresa Edwards Cedar Bluff Middle School honored guest Colonel Bruce P. Crandall in a special ceremony, with the school bands playing patriotic music and the choir singing. Mayor Tim Burchett and Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre praised Crandall for his courage as a rescue helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. Then Crandall honored the school for its commitment to the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development program which teaches the values of good citizenship, courage and patriotism, integrated with their studies. He presented principal Christine Oehler with the first Congressional Medal of Honor flag in the nation. “It’s a wonderful privilege for me to be here to present this first flag to your school,” Crandall said. “I’m representing 80 of the living Medal of Honor recipients today. … We’re very interested in this character de-
The first Congressional Medal of Honor Society flag waves with the U.S. flag at Cedar Bluff Middle School. flag under the school’s U.S. flag. “Cedar Bluff Middle School is so honored to have the opportuVolunteer State Veterans Honor Guard Col. Grover Wilson and Staff Sgt. Brad nity to meet with Colonel Crandall. We are so honored to be the Heun present the Medal of Honor flag. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com recipients of the first Congressional Medal of Honor flag and velopment program because it is our zen of our country.” legacy. We can leave nothing better Oehler brought the flag out- we appreciate all the opportuwith you young folks than the idea side where the Volunteer State nities it represents for our stuof sacrifice, courage and service that Veterans Honor Guard ceremo- dents and our community,” said make up the good character in a citi- niously presented and raised the Oehler.
‘Caring Hands’ quilters memorialize co-worker By Carolyn Andrews The “Anita Quilt,” a silent auction item in an East Tennessee company’s 2012 United Way campaign, is much more than a beautiful bedspread. Made and donated by “Caring Hands,” a group of six quilters who work at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, its story runs deep and wide. It could be considered a patchwork of acts of kindness – some giving back, some paying forward and some simply random. A common thread in the story is former B&W Y-12 human resources employee Anita Stensaker, who died in December 2010
at age 74 following a massive stroke. Those who worked with her knew her as one of those folks who would “give you the shirt off her back.” Anita loved to shop and found it difficult to pass up a bargain, especially on things she thought were pretty. Shelves and nooks and crannies in her home were filled with items she had purchased not for anyone or any occasion in particular. She enjoyed being able to provide on short Six B&W Y-12 workers, who call themselves “Caring Hands,” and Allison Arnotice something for whatever nold (center), a local professional quilter, stand behind one strip of the “Anita need arose. Quilt.” Arnold helped find the pattern and select fabrics and then provided the group quilting guidance in regular gatherings in her home. Each member sewed one strip of the quilt. Pictured are Melissa North, Becky Bolling, To page A-7 Ann Glenn, Arnold, Karen Langley, Dottie Kelly and Karen Ryan. Photo submitted
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