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Dine Out for Education Knox County Schools’ 10th annual “Dine Out for Education” will be held Tuesday, April 16, at nearly 40 restaurants with 80 locations throughout Knox County. Participants who eat at the selected restaurants will automatically have 10 percent of their pre-tax total donated to the Knox County Schools Partners in Education program, which helps fund programs including the Career Fair for 8th graders and high school students, the Teacher Supply Depot and the Barney Thompson Scholarship. Nearly $20,000 was raised during last year’s event Participating restaurants can be found at www.knoxschools.org.
Halls B&P to meet Tuesday The Halls Business and Professional Association will meet at noon Tuesday, April 16, at Beaver Brook Country Club. Gabrielle Cantor and Chelsea Peters with the Knox County Adopt-A-Stream program will speak about water quality in Knox County and how citizens can get involved. Lunch is $10. Info: Shannon Carey, 922-4136.
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Wow! It’s amazing what a small group of dedicated volunteers can accomplish. The Knox County school board paused to honor the Halls Crossroads Women’s League last week. President Mariblair Smith and members Janis Crye and Bonnie Gombos represented the group. Scott Bacon is supervisor of Partners in Education, which coordinates donations to local schools. He said since 2005, the Halls Crossroads Women’s League “has been an active participant with schools in the Halls community,” including:
Halls High Providing $27,000 in scholarships. From 2005-09, the group awarded one $3,000 scholarship to a graduating senior. From 2010 to present, they have awarded two $2,000 scholarships annually. When the outdoor classroom was developed, the Women’s League donated $2,000 toward start-up costs and has contributed as needed since then. Contributed to Project Graduation in 2009. Halls softball received a $5,500 grant in 2010 to construct a backstop and fencing at its home field.
Rummage sale The Halls Crossroads Women’s League will hold a rummage sale 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Halls Senior Center. Donated items can be brought between 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, or 8-9 a.m. Saturday, April 20. No clothes, please. Furniture, household items, toys, books, tools, etc., will be accepted. Info: Peggy Beeler, 922-0874.
Outdoor Classroom party The annual Halls Outdoor Classroom celebration is 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at the classroom, located behind the Halls softball field. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held indoors.
Honor FC Day Honor Fountain City Day will be held in Fountain City Park 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Memorial Day (Monday, May 27). The theme is Support Our Community Businesses. Fountain City Town Hall is seeking nominations for community recognition awards in: Commercial Restoration, Residential Restoration, Residential Landscaping and Fountain City Man and Woman of the Year. Submit nominations and supporting reasons to Fountain City Town Hall, P.O. Box 18001, Knoxville, TN 37928 or email bsanderbeck@gmail.com.
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support of an additional chaperone to Washington, D.C. Contributed $1,000 toward the Brickey-McCloud Elementary: fund to purchase new curtains for $1,400 for 20 document scanners. the auditorium. Copper Ridge Elementary: Annual sponsorship of the art $1,800 for an outdoor slide. contest during the Dogwood Arts Halls Elementary: $1,600 for Festival four iPad 2s. In 2012, the League made these Halls Middle: $2,000 toward investments in six Halls area refinishing the gymnasium floor. schools: Halls High: $3,000 to expand Adrian Burnett Elementary: $1,700 for walkie talkies and for the ACT Prep Tutorial Program.
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Three selected for Halls Hall of Fame By Jake Mabe Halls historian and former Halls Alumni Association president Hubert LaRue, retired college professor Jim Marine and retired Home Federal Bank president and chief executive officer David Sharp have been selected as the 2013 inductees into the Halls High School Alumni Hall of Fame. Each will be recognized at the Halls Alumni Association’s annual banquet 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Halls High School. Nominees must be Halls High School alumni who have excelled through recognized contributions and/or achievement at the local, state, national or international level and have been out of high school for at least 30 years. They are selected by a committee independent of the Alumni Association’s officers and
tion during its informal years, served as president for several years beginning at a young age, oversaw the continuation of the annual banquet and served on the association’s inaugural board of directors after it became a 501(c)3 Hubert LaRue Jim Marine David Sharp organization. board of directors. Marine, a 1952 Halls High gradLaRue, a 1958 Halls High gradu- uate, served as assistant dean of ate, has spent a lifetime preserving students at New York University the history of Halls without pay or and at Miami-Dade Community an official title. He has collected College before spending 26 years documents, annuals, film and other at Ball State University in Munhistorical bric-a-brac, as well as cie, Ind., retiring in 1990 as asinterviewing longtime Halls resi- sistant dean for student programs dents, creating a historical record and professor of higher education for the community that would not emeritus. Two awards, including otherwise exist. He also became in- a scholarship, are named in his volved in the Halls Alumni Associa- honor. He was named Sagamore
Representatives of the Halls Crossroads Women’s League were recognized by the Knox County Board of Education. Pictured are League members Bonnie Gombos, Janis Crye, president Mariblair Smith, with school board member Kim Sepsi and superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre. Photo by S.Clark
of the Wabash by the governor of Indiana for outstanding service to the state. He has been a Meals on Wheels volunteer for 37 years and is a human rights and peace activist in Florida and Maine. Sharp, a 1956 Halls High graduate, was hired at Home Federal Bank in 1962, named vice president in 1969, president in 1977 (at age 38), was instrumental in opening branches in North Knox County, board chair in 1983 and chief executive officer in 1992. He retired in 2004 and served as a consultant from 2005-07. He still serves on the bank’s board of directors and loan committee. He is a former Halls Man of the Year, has donated many hours of community service in Halls and has been a member of or served on the board of directors of many countywide clubs and organizations. Their names will be engraved onto the Hall of Fame monument near the entrance to Halls High School.
Community school coordinators reflect on first year By Wendy Smith There are still kinks to work out at Knox County’s three new community schools. But site resource coordinators at Green Magnet, Lonsdale and Norwood elementary schools see favorable results from afterschool programs that benefit students and their families. All are optimistic that the programs will be even better next year.
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The coordinators have been surprised and pleased by the organizations that have offered afterschool programming to students. Liz Thacker coordinates the program at Norwood, which serves approximately 100 students five days a week.
For example, Thacker contacted the Northwest Middle School step team to see if they would be willing to perform for her students. The coach asked if, instead, the middle school students could put on Liz Thacker a mini-camp. The camp, held last week, was fun for all. Adam Fritts, coordinator of Lonsdale’s community school, is amazed by how the need for programming often dovetails perfectly with an organization’s need to provide it. The Joy of Music School receives grants that require it to provide education, and the 90 kids who participate in Lonsdale’s Monday through Thursday com-
munity school program are a perfect match. Erika Long coordinates programming for the 60 students who attend Green Magnet community school five days a week. She’s enthusiastic about a garden club that’s being offered with the help of UT’s Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Department and Agricultural Extension Service. Volunteers have cleaned out an old greenhouse at the school to be used during the school day as well as by community school participants. Each community school also has needs. Thacker would like to see more community buy-in. She hopes to have the opportunity to reach out to service clubs and neighborhood associations, but says there aren’t enough hours in the day. “You’re sort of a jack-of-all-
trades in this job, especially during the pilot year,” she says. “Nobody knows what you’re doing.” Fritts would like to have more volunteers at Lonsdale who can develop relationships with students and families. “My job is to put people in the same room. Our biggest successes are correlated with that happening,” he says. The school’s involvement with Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee is one example. Green Magnet’s biggest challenge came from starting the community school at the end of October after kids were already involved in other programs, Long says. While the school has offered workshops on truancy and testtaking, it hasn’t yet been able to
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