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VOL. 7 NO. 4
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January 28, 2013
Romancing the moon
Stories about active seniors.
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The undead
The target was a big one, but ohso far away on Jan. 18 as children, parents and members of the Knoxville Observers astronomy club pointed telescopes, highpowered binoculars and their eyes toward the moon. The moon-gazing party at Smart Toys and Books was blessed with a clear – if cold – night that attracted a crowd, including Andrew Medlyn, who looks at the moon through a pair of 25x100 astronomy binoculars.
Travel agencies and newspapers have something in common: the Internet was supposed to kill us both. Sherri Gardner Howell finds life at The Travel Authority, located in Village Green Shopping Center near Fresh Market. The bustling office has no resemblance to a mausoleum.
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Catching Vandy
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So it’s come to this. Vanderbilt football, which has never won an SEC championship, not in eight decades, is leading the Vols in football recruiting. Marvin West ponders this and other “borderline inconceivables.”
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Frost finds a home as council’s counsel Rob Frost served two terms on Knoxville City Council and then was hired to represent the group as its attorney. Betty Bean talked with Frost about the differences in his old job and new.
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Square Room Kenny Woodhull of New City Resources is now in charge of programming at the Square Room at 4 Market Square, and its 2013 calendar is filling up. Wendy Smith tracked down the details.
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
West Hills homeowners talk with Tennova How do property owners in the neighborhood of the 100+ acres on Middlebrook Pike where Tennova has optioned land for a new hospital feel about the potential development? And how do neighbors of the former St. Mary’s Hospital feel about its possible closure? Wendy Smith talks with West Hills folks, while Betty Bean talks with her neighbors in the Old North Knox and Oakwood Lincoln Park areas. Both stories are on Page 4.
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Full speed ahead Surging Admirals unconcerned with low ranking By Stefan Cooper They held Powell to 14 points. For the game. Losses, to Fulton over Christmas and rival Bearden two weeks ago, were by two points. Farragut’s girls’ basketball team, a year removed from falling a game short of the state tournament, is on course for a season to remember. Four starters return from last season’s sectional finalist, including Belmont University signee Madison Blevins. First-year coach Jason Mayfield set a goal for the season of limiting opponents to 35 points per game or less. The team is right there
defensively, the mark at 35.1 points allowed per game at press time last week. After a 57-42 win at William Blount last Tuesday, Farragut sat at 20-2 overall, 9-1 atop District 4AAA with two weeks remaining until postseason. “They’ve been taught really well over the past few years on the importance of playing good defense,” Mayfield said. “We definitely want to create a sense of tempo because we can push the ball and get some easy baskets.” None of that seems to be making much of an impression on state pollsters. The Associated Press ranked Farragut eighth in last week’s Class AAA poll, with Bearden just back at ninth. Unbeaten Riverdale (20-0) holds the top spot, with Science Hill (19-2),
Mr. McClardy goes to Washington By Wendy Smith UT sophomore Derek McClardy rode a bus to Washington, D.C., to see President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. He had quality time with his family and rubbed shoulders with a few celebrities, but he was most impacted by the speeches. The discussion of issues made him realize that he has a role to play in the political process. “It affects me now,” he says. The trip came about because Derek’s mother, Arvetta McClardy, wanted her family to experience the inauguration. She requested tickets from Tennessee’s U.S. Rep. Diane Black, and booked the family on a chartered bus trip. Arvetta and Mike McClardy, who live in Murfreesboro, boarded in Nashville. The bus picked up Derek and his brother Shawn, also a UT student, in Knoxville at 1:30 a.m. on the Saturday before the inauguration. They arrived in D.C. that evening. On Monday, the family arose at 3 a.m. to travel from their Maryland hotel to D.C. They stood in line from 5-7 a.m. to get into the inauguration
Blackman (18-1), Bradley Central (18-2) and Oakland (16-2) rounding out the top five. Team members don’t feel slighted by the poll, senior Whitney Smith said. They pay it as little mind as possible. It’s a uniquely balanced and unselfish team with its sights focused on the district tournament at Heritage High School in Blount County next month. Versatile guard/forward Katie Overton is the only player averaging doublefigure scoring at 10 points per outing, adding nine rebounds per game. Just back is junior forward Becca Jameson (nine points, eight rebounds per game), Madison Maples (seven points), Whitney Smith (seven points, four assists) and Blevins, who this season due to injury, missed the first nine games averaging seven points.
Belmont signee Madison Blevins looks for the entry pass in her team’s win over William Blount last week. With two weeks until postseason, Farragut is on course for a great season. Photos by Jolanda Jansma / http:// dutchmadephotography.zenfolio.com
Each, Mayfield said, is capable of a big night. William Blount put more than a scare in the Farragut squad, battling to within a 21-19 deficit at the half. “We definitely weren’t playing our game,” Blevins said. “In the second half, we said we weren’t going to get in a hurry, and we let the game come to us.” About that ranking, though? “It doesn’t matter,” Smith said. “It only matters in March,” Overton said. Still, 14 points. For the game?
12th-row seats in the red section, which was behind elected officials and ticketed guests. Ticketed guests, many of whom were celebrities, passed through the red section on their way to their seats. John Mayer, Katie Perry and Cicely Tyson were among them. Derek’s closest encounter with a star came when he allowed Paula Abdul to sit in his seat during the benediction and temporarily shielded her from picture-snapping fans. He was immediately engaged by Obama’s address. The president comforted the souls of all in attendance, Derek says. “In that moment, I felt like everything was going to be okay.” He was particularly touched by Obama’s remarks about equality. The president said the country’s journey won’t be complete until all children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, know they are cared for, which made an impression on Derek, since his parents grew up on the streets of Detroit. He says that he’s in the process of developArvetta McClardy and her son, UT student Derek ing his own political ideas. Before the trip, he McClardy, pose in front of the U.S. Capitol. The considered himself a Republican, but now he’s McClardy family travelled to Washington, D.C., in favor of certain Democratic views, he says. He returned to Knoxville Tuesday morning – for President Obama’s second inauguration. Photo submitted an hour and a half before his first class. He doesn’t regret the lost sleep. “I’ll be able to treasure this forever and tell my area, and spent most of the next hour passing through security. The family was rewarded with kids about it.”
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