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VOL. 7 NO. 29

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IN THIS ISSUE Rysewyk gets new job with schools A young man has a new job with Knox County Schools. Dr. Jon Rysewyk will work on innovation and school improvement. Indya Kincannon calls him “smart and patient enough to build and sustain true grassroots reform.”

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Remembering Jenkins & Jenkins For them, the demise of the Jenkins & Jenkins name is one more marker of the end of an era. The firm that was founded in 1933 by the unrelated Ray H. Jenkins and Erby Jenkins (Erby’s brother Aubrey didn’t join up until 10 years later), has become Quist, Cone & Fisher.

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High on Charlie “Until further notice,” Marvin West writes, “Charlie High is my favorite Tennessee football walk-on. “Nobody can match his quarterback statistics – 74.4 completion rate, 10,978 yards, 131 passing touchdowns against 22 interceptions, astounding success.”

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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Roy Firestone plans Knox visit Reach Them to Teach Them founder Amy Crawford has announced television sports personality Roy Firestone as this year’s speaker for the nonprofit’s Roy Firestone annual event in November. Any educator can attend free of charge thanks to donations from the community. “I want people to leave profoundly impacted,” said Crawford. Radio personality Hallerin Hilton Hill will also speak, and a complimentary dinner will be served. Info: www. reachthem2teachthem.org.

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Dinwiddie retires as Gators’ swim coach to get back into the water

By Betsy Pickle Anita Dinwiddie is getting out of the coaching game, but she’s not getting out of the water. Coach for the Village Green Gators Swim Team since 1990, Dinwiddie is retiring at the end of the month, when the season ends – and after the Greater Knoxville Area Interclub Swimming Association’s city meet this Friday through Sunday. She made her bow as swimming and diving head coach for Knoxville Catholic High School earlier in the year. “I want to swim more myself and be more involved in master swimming,” Dinwiddie says of her retirement plans. The mother of two felt that this was a good time to wrap up her coaching career, which has included numerous victories for the Village Green team and her own induction into the inaugural GKAISA Hall of Fame in 2010. “My youngest just graduated from high school, so this is her last summer (with the Gators), so I always thought it would be an appropriate time to stop,” says Dinwiddie. “Her last summer would be my last summer.” Dinwiddie’s first season at Village Green came about informally. “I was teaching swim lessons at Fort Sanders,” she recalls, “and one of the other girls who was also teaching … knew I had swimmingteam experience. She said, ‘Hey, we’re going to manage the team in Farragut called

Anita Dinwiddie walks the sidelines at a practice at Village Green pool. At right, she talks to the team. The coach of the Gators Swim Team is retiring at the end of July after 23 years as swim coach. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell.

Village Green. Do you want to help?’ I said, ‘Yeah, sure, that sounds like fun.’ “That’s how we started it. She was really the head coach, and I was just her helper. The team was really small; we had about 35, 40 kids. They all lived in Village Green. I lived in West Hills. I drove to Farragut every day, and then I just stuck around.” In the beginning, Village Green had “more little kids than big kids,” says Dinwiddie. “I had very few of the older age group. We couldn’t

always have a relay in some age groups. We didn’t do that great our first year. I think we won two (meets), and we lost three. Then we started getting better; then we started getting bigger.” The team now boasts around 220 members. Dinwiddie became head coach in 1991, but she says the team didn’t click until Robin Wells, whose own children were on the team, came on

board as her assistant. “Robin started with us in 1994 as just the 8-and-under coach,” To page A-3

Work progresses on Harrell Road Park By Jake Mabe Work is progressing on Harrell Road Park, according to Knox County watershed coordinator Roy Arthur. The land was graded to specifications on Dec. 15 and since then Arthur says workers have had about 10 days to proceed with the project due to the unusually heavy amount of rain. “As things have been drying out, we have begun putting amenities on the ground,” Arthur says. The site will be a stormwater best management practices demonstration park. Two wetland ponds have been created and 700 feet of piping has been installed that in a one-inch rain will collect 355,000 gallons of runoff from nearby Painter Farms

subdivision, which will be filtered of pollutants and slowly returned to Beaver Creek. Barring further rain delays, Knox County Parks and Recreation will install 4,000 feet of Roy Arthur compressed-gravel trails, and a pervious parking lot will be installed by the Beaver Creek Task Force in August and September. Arthur said a rain garden will be installed this fall, which will capture excess runoff from the parking lot. Signage will also be installed to explain the stormwater best management practices. Trees will be planted beginning this winter.

The final phase – putting down compost and manufactured topsoil, which will include native seeds (wildflowers, shrubs, grasses, etc.) – will be completed next spring. The park is scheduled to open this fall and be completed by next May. The park will comprise 10 of the site’s 19 acres. The project’s total cost is $500,000, 90 percent of which will be funded through grants, Arthur says. The park will become a part of the Knox County Parks and Recreation system and will be the upstream launch for the new blueway. The project began in 2007, when developer Scott Davis donated 19 acres of land to Legacy Parks Foundation. The Foundation’s Land Conservation Committee, of which Arthur is

Tax talk takes two tracks By Anne Hart Tennessee’s state sales tax is a hot topic for everyone from school students and their parents to politicians and business owners. The conversations focus on two separate aspects of the tax. The one that brings excitement and anticipation is the annual “Sales Tax Holiday,” which starts this year at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 2, and runs until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4.

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a member, decided to build a park. A grant was secured for $5,000, which allowed the Foundation to hire the East Tennessee Design Center to create a concept plan. Cannon and Cannon, CRJA and Water Resources LLC created engineering and landscape designs and implemented the first phase of the park – contouring the land – which was completed Dec. 15. Arthur says the park has been a cooperative among those firms, Legacy Parks Foundation, the Beaver Creek Task Force, the Knox County Highway Department, Knox County Stormwater, the Tennessee Water Resources Research Center and others. The Foundation has just received a $95,000 grant from the Tennessee Health Watershed Initiative to continue work on the park.

is not permitted. And while the holiday is intended to help parents save money on clothing and other items their children need for school, purchases aren’t limited to school-related items and shoppers don’t have to have school children to save money. If an item is exempt, anyone can buy it. As an example, any shopper can purchase a desktop, laptop or tablet computer at up to $1,500 in price without paying sales tax, as long as the

item is not for use in a trade or business. Personal digital assistants (PDAs) and electronic readers, such as the Kindle and Nook, aren’t eligible for the tax break, and neither are keyboards, software and other items that do not come pre-packaged with the computer. Computer printers and printer supplies, such as paper and ink, aren’t eligible. Any article of clothing and anything that is considered school supplies To page A-3


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