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HPUD sets evening meeting Hallsdale Powell Utility District commissioners will discuss the annual budget at 6 p.m. Monday, March 18, at the headquarters on Cunningham Road. Commissioners Kevin Julian, Bob Crye and Todd Cook will hear from customers. This is the first of quarterly evening meetings established by the board.
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VOL. 52 NO. 11 NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
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March 18, 2013
Museum open house draws crowd It was “old home day” at the Roy Acuff Museum in Maynardville when staff and volunteers invited the public to come in, enjoy the museum, and look up their ancestors at the Museum’s open house. Here are some snapshots that include local folks Martha Carter and Judson Palmer.
B&P to meet The Halls B&P will meet at noon Tuesday, March 19, at Beaver Brook Country Club. Bob Wilson of Moxley Carmichael will speak about social media for businesses. Lunch is $10. The B&P will hold its annual prayer breakfast 7:30 a.m. Good Friday (March 29). Knox County Clerk Foster Arnett will speak. Tickets are $10 and are available at the Shopper-News office (922-4136) or at The UPS Store in Halls (922-3946).
Ft. Sumter Cemetery Association to meet The Fort Sumter Community Cemetery Board of Directors annual meeting is 7 p.m. Friday, March 22, at the cemetery office. The public is invited.
Volunteer Wanda Cox Byerley, far right, didn’t need computers to fill in ancestry information about some of the visitors. She could even tell first-person anecdotes about families and characters they were related to. But Judson Palmer, operating the computer, carried on despite Wanda’s kibitzing. At left, Kathy Hammer Stooksbury and her mother, Una V. Hammer, visited and were able to look up many local ancestors in the Hammer and Stooksbury families. Photos by Libby Morgan
Nominations sought for HHS Hall of Fame Nominations are being sought for the Halls High Alumni Hall of Fame. Nominees must be Halls High alumni who have distinguished themselves through outstanding achievements, leadership and/or contributions in the following areas: the arts, business, public service and athletics at the local, state, national or international level. Nominees must have been out of school for 30 years. A maximum of three candidates will be inducted annually; applications are kept on file and do not need to be resubmitted for five years. Winners will be recognized at the annual Halls Alumni Banquet on Saturday, April 27, at Halls High, and will have their names engraved onto the Hall of Fame monument at the entrance to the school. Applications are available at www. ShopperNewsNow.com . Info: David Wayland, 922-7615.
Businesses boost Fountain City Egg Hunt
The Fountain City Business and Professional Association’s signature event, the annual Easter Egg Hunt in Fountain City Park, is set for Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m. until noon. Businesses are invited to set up a booth ($30) and may register online at www.fountaincity-
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“I am very pleased with the turnout we’ve had,” said museum president Martha Atkins Carter. She is shown here with the museum’s Chet Atkins display. Chet’s grandfather was her great-grandfather.
During the 2012 national elections, there was talk about a Republican War on Women. In 2013, Tennessee’s 108th General Assembly widened the battle into a multi-front conflagration, hitting hot-button themes that used to work so well as wedge issues when the GOP was in the minority. Now that they are a supermajority, the only significant obstacle in their way is Gov. Bill Haslam, a cautious man not inclined to extremes. Showdown No. 1: Medicaid expansion. These lines were drawn when the United States Supreme Court left Medicaid expansion up
to the states. Some Republican governors (Rick Scott of Florida, Jan Brewer of Arizona) have opted in; others (Rick Perry of Texas, Scott Walker of Wisconsin) have opted out. Haslam is being heavily lobbied by the state’s major hospitals, who want to offset looming Medicaid cuts with billions of federal dollars available under the new law. Showdown No. 2: It may not rise to the level of war, but few school boards or PTAs support diverting public money to private schools via vouchers. Haslam supports vouchers, but his bill is limited to 5,000 needy students in failing school districts during the first year, and gradually increases thereafter. Cultural conservatives favor a competing bill to make vouchers available in all districts immediately. Showdown No. 3: Some call
business.org/. Major sponsors are Angela Floyd Schools and Virginia College. The Egg Hunt is free to kids and fun for all. And don’t forget the traditional visit by the Easter Bunny (aka Mark Enix), pictured in the file photo at the far left. Regina Reed is event chair.
Haslam’s workers’ compensation reform initiative a War on Workers. Others call it a War on Lawyers. Whatever it’s called, there isn’t much daylight between Haslam and the most conservative elements of his party, who share a common distaste for organized labor and trial lawyers. This one will create a state agency run by a Haslam-appointed administrator to hear workers’ compensation cases, replacing courts and lawyers. It will negatively impact collections from fee offices as a revenue source for county governments. Showdown No. 4: Clerks hate this Stacey Campfield-sponsored bill because it will force them to shoulder half of the burden of notifying creditors when garnished debtors change jobs. Senate Bill 243 will make work for clerks, but will be far worse for debtors, who will be subject to contempt of court if their creditors aren’t notified – re-establishing debtors’ prisons in Tennessee.
Egg hunt for ages 4-7 starts at 9:30 a.m.; for ages 1-3 starts at 10:15 a.m.; and for ages 8-12 starts at 11 a.m. Prizes will include stuffed animals, games, Easter baskets, toys and bikes. Everyone should bring an Easter basket.
Showdown No. 5: The War on Vanderbilt, Part 2, is too good to skip. Last year, Haslam vetoed a bill outlawing Vanderbilt University’s “All Comers” rule, which requires student groups to allow any interested student to join. Social conservatives complain that this rule violates the rights of religious organizations to keep undesirables out, but Haslam came down on the side of keeping the state out of the business of private institutions. The issue is back this year, in the form of Sen. Mae Beavers’ bill requiring the state to de-certify the police forces of private institutions that violate the civil rights of religious organizations. Haslam’s 2012 veto stood because he waited until the General Assembly concluded its two-year session, too late for legislators to override it. The 108th session won’t end until 2014. 2704 Mineral Springs Ave. Knoxville, TN 37917 Ph. (865) 687-4537
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