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Meet Al Colombo
Al Colombo majored in music in college while in New York. Now he plays bridge at the Halls Senior Center. He travels with musician and friend Mike Beckley entertaining people all over the South. Their most recent travels took them to Asheville on New Year’s where they played with Scottish musicians.
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The Halls Red Devil boys basketball team warmed up the court with a big win over Anderson County. At left, senior Peyton Booker makes a layup to increase the Halls score. See more basketball photos and the team schedule for January on page A-9.
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Larger class sizes ahead for state? Every Tennessee governor in living memory has wanted to be remembered as the Education Governor. Bill Haslam is no exception. He staked his claim to the title by ending 2013 with a victory lap around the state celebrating the National Assessment of Education ranking Tennessee the fastest-improving state in academic growth in 4th grade math and reading scores over the past two years.
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Careful now, what happens next is critical. The main event in Tennessee’s level of football is the remainder of the recruiting race that peaks in early February. Recruiting is a high-tech combination of science and art. Evaluation is step one. If it is erroneous, nothing else matters. Read Marvin West on A-5
Having fun A new column of outtakes and general shop talk has launched in Section B. Shopper publisher Sandra Clark talks this week, but you’ll hear from others as the year wears on.
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Warm thought on a winter day It’s 7 degrees outside and the ground is crusted in a white mantle. Brrr! Perhaps that’s what turns this silvered-haired noggin to daydreams about turning over the spring soil and watching the garden blossom into summer’s green bounty ... tomatoes, squash, peppers, string beans, spinach, fragrant herbs ... basil, don’t you just love its bright, complex aroma? Ahh!
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Photo by Ruth White
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Complex recruiting
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Catholic Mission buys land in Union County By Sandra Clark Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Mission has purchased 24.96 acres across from Union County High School in Maynardville to construct a new church. The $261,000 sale closed Dec. 30 with property owners Von Richardson and Glenn Cooke. “The property will serve as the permanent location for the Catholic community here in Union County,” said Father Steve Pawelk. He expects to convene a meeting within two weeks to launch fundraising for a church building. But for now, he’s celebrating the land purchase. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Mission opened in November 2011 and currently has 95 registered families with services on Sundays at 9 a.m. in English and 11 a.m. in Spanish. The congregation meets in a mini-warehouse near Maynardville’s Food City, and Pawelk said the congregation has adapted six units for church use.
Following the closing of the sale of land in Maynardville are Glenn Cooke, Von Richardson and Father Steve Pawelk. Photo submitted
Bishop Richard F. Stika said, “The Diocese of Knoxville is looking forward to establishing a permanent presence in Union County with a new church in Maynardville. We have been working toward this since 2011, when Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Mission began. “Through the Holy Spirit’s divine guidance, many prayers and the hard work of Father Steve
Pawelk and the Union County Catholic faithful, we are ready to take another important step in the growth of the Catholic church in East Tennessee. “The diocese and this new church look forward to being an active part of the community.” The Maynardville land is one of three parcels purchased over the past 18 months through the Catholic Foundation.
The Foundation, with 150 members, provides funds for land acquisition and educating seminarians. Other land purchases were for St. Michael the Archangel in Erwin and Blessed John Paul II in Rutledge. In just 25 years, the Diocese of Knoxville has more than doubled its size from more than 30,000 Catholics at its 1988 founding to now nearly 65,000 Catholics in East Tennessee. During that time, the diocese has opened nine parishes and four missions, in addition to building Knox Catholic High School off Cedar Bluff. Since its inception, Catholic Foundation members have contributed $2.25 million toward the purchase of 12 properties on which these new churches have been built. Pawelk is with Glenmary Home Missioners, a Catholic society of priests and brothers who are dedicated to establishing a Catholic presence in rural areas and small towns.
Knox students’ criticism of Common Core … has national impact
scored fives on AP calculus and AP statistics exams and see American schools em- who plans to take CalcuBy Betty Bean Another Farragut High ulating the high-stress, da- lus 3 at a local college next School senior is becoming ta-driven Chinese school semester, I can honestly systems where desper- tell you that I am unable to an Internet sensation. In December, Kenneth ate students have hooked answer or justify your first Ye, who has a 4.696 GPA, themselves up to IV amino grade Pearson math questold members of the Knox acid drips while studying tion, ‘What is a related subCounty Board of Education for the notorious gaokao traction sentence?’” Ye’s speech has been that excessive reliance on the college entrance exams. Ye also criticized the viewed some 30,000 times Common Core State Standards’ high stakes testing is role that for-profit busi- on YouTube, has been renesses like publisher Pear- posted on websites like the taking a toll on students. Ye has spent summers son PLC have been allowed Huffington Post and the attending school in his to play in formulating Daily Caller and is drawing responses like, “Holy parents’ native country, Common Core standards. “As a student who has Crap. Does this kid have a China, and is alarmed to
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