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July 1, 2015
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Gibbs service Clear Springs Baptist Church will host a patriotic service Wednesday, July 1, on the site of the future church (corner of Emory Road and Tazewell Pike at Harbison’s) The Rev. Jerry Vittatoe said Buddy’s will cater dinner from 5:15-6:15 p.m. After a brief worship service, bluegrass and gospel music will begin at 6:30. All are invited.
Noweta to meet Noweta Garden Club will meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 7, at Morning Pointe, 7700 Dannaher Lane. Members will bring horticulture in vases to be shared with residents. Dr. Lynn Carlson, Master Gardener, will present “Lessons from the Land.” The meeting will be hosted by JoAnne Hoffmeister.
Paving continues at Clayton Park on Norris Freeway where Knox County is paying $206,000 for asphalt. Photo by Ruth White
Red Gate Rodeo The annual Red Gate Festival and Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, at Red Gate Farm in Maynardville. Carnival starts at 5 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Rodeo starts at 8 p.m. each day. Admission is $15 for adults, $8 for kids 4-10 years old, and free for kids age 3 and under. Info: www.redgaterodeo. com or 992-3303.
Jury Fest ahead for craft guild The Foothills Craft Guild is accepting new member applications from fine craft artisans for its second Jury Fest to be held Wednesday, Aug. 12, with take-in days Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 10-11. Info/application: Bob Klassen, bobklassen@charter.net, or www.foothillscraftguild. org under the “How to Join” section.
Unhappy week Betty Bean says Dr. Jim McIntyre had a most unhappy week, and she lists the reasons why in a column titled, “McIntyre’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.” And this week could be even worse.
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Helping others Shopper-News interns visited KARM and served lunches through Mobile Meals last week. Their reports are inside.
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Beaver Creek Watershed Association winds down and Knox County. And you pitched in as well By Bob Collier – individuals, homeowners associations, gar“A watershed is all the land through den clubs, classroom teachers, Eagle which water drains into a comScout projects and more. mon stream, river or lake.” We printed colorful, factWatershed 101, lesson 1. filled brochures telling what It was the first thing we all we were about and how learned as the officers you could help. We put and board members out quarterly newsletorganized our new, ters full of watershed grassroots Beaver news and informaCreek Watershed Astion, local history, and sociation. happenings. And we It has been a met monthly in Gibbs, dozen years since a Halls, Powell and handful of us came Karns, with interesting together and formed guest speakers. We had the BCWA, which beprograms on creek came a full-fledged restoration and rain 501(c)(3) non-profit barrels, greenways organization in 2004, Black-eyed Susans in bloom at Harrell and gardening, parks and it had a good life, Road Nature Park in Karns. Photo by Roy Arthur and outdoor classwith a lot of time and rooms. effort spent, and a lot Activities? of good things accomplished. We had Kids in the Creek with TVA bioloInitially, support came from a lot of places. We received generous amounts of financial gists, and removed invasive plants and built and technical support from TVA, UT, HPUD birdhouses with AmeriCorps members. We
A heritage worth remembering: By Betty Bean One Saturday evening in 1958, I settled down in front of the TV at my grandparents’ house to watch “The Gray Ghost,” which celebrated Col. John Mosby, a dashing Confederate whose raiders rode rings around dimwitted Yankees to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” I loved that show. But Mosby didn’t have time to draw his sword when my granddad came barreling out of the kitchen and told me to find some-
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thing else to watch. “Why?” I asked. “Because it’s treason,” he said. “And I despise it.” I didn’t know what treason was, but I’ve remembered this small incident for more than 50 years, although it took decades for me to understand what it was really about: It was the voice of my greatgrandfather, challenging me to come find him. He stayed in my ear no matter how many times I
William Rule, Union Army veteran, newspaper reporter and Parson Brownlow protégé who later founded the Knoxville Journal, wrote the most succinct account of what it was like to make the long walk to Cumberland Gap and described it in great detail here: ht t p:// babel.hat h it r u st.org/cg i/pt?id=loc.a rk:/139 60/ t5r78r69k;view=1up;seq=21 Information about the Sixth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, including rosters, is here: tngenweb.org/civilwar/usainf/usa6inf.html
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saw “Gone With the Wind.” Here’s what I knew: John Alexander Bean was a Union Army veteran, but he was no Yankee. He was a straight-line descendant of the long hunters who’d migrated down from Virginia and settled near Jonesborough. Russell Bean was the first white child born in Tennessee. Russell’s father, Captain Billy Bean, and at least one of his uncles rode 150 miles with John Sevier to whip the British at King’s Mountain and later moved on down the valley to Bean Station and Knox County. A rowdy, restless bunch, some of the Beans continued westward (Judge Roy Bean was a distant relation), but others, like John A’s grandfather (also named John and a veteran of the War of 1812) stayed put. That distant John Bean’s grave is in the Living Waters Baptist Church graveyard. I’d heard that John A had declined an invitation to join the
John Alexander Bean, Private, Sixth Tennessee Infantry, USA Confederate Army and walked all the way to Cumberland Gap to join the Union Army and that he’d been taken prisoner, escaped and gotten so hungry that he’d boiled an old boot in hopes of getting it tender enough for dinner, and that when his children expressed dis-
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did a watershed-wide winter bird survey, and manned a watershed booth at numerous public events. With thanks to countless members and guests and the countless, selfless hours given by our faithful members of the board of directors, I feel that we are leaving the watershed better than we found it 12 years ago. And the future of the watershed looks good. The Beaver Creek Task Force through the Water Quality Forum lives on. We have a busy and dedicated Knox County watershed coordinator. Funds have been found that allow for projects that include stream-bank stabilization, creek cleanout, greenways and parks. Watersheds and their step-children, our many Knox County impaired streams, and specifically Beaver Creek, are improving in water quality due to many new rules, better enforcement, and increasing interest and awareness by more and more informed citizens. Dreams of a Gibbs-to-Karns greenway with small parks located at intervals along it continue to trudge slowly along toward reality.
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