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Halls B&P to hold meeting, banquet Knox County Criminal Court judge Steve Sword will speak to the Halls Business and Professional Association at noon Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Beaver Brook Country Club. Lunch is $10. Halls native and TVA executive vice president Kimberly Greene is the keynote speaker for the B&P’s annual Christmas banquet, which is 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at Beaver Brook Country Club. A silent auction will be held and the Halls Man and Woman of the Year will be named. Info/tickets: Sue Walker, 925-9200.
By Shannon Carey
Halls Toy Drive underway Collection boxes have been placed at Halls Commercial Bank and at the Halls Senior Center for the annual Halls Welfare Ministries Toy Drive. Toys may also be dropped off at Cross Roads Presbyterian Church (in front of Halls Middle School) from 8:30 to noon Tuesday through Friday. Applications to receive toys are also available at the church on the wall by the steps. Applicants are asked to fill out the application and slip it under the doors at the end of the overhang. No applications will be accepted after Dec. 1. Children can also be sponsored this year. Info: Jeanie Sager, 922-3137.
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November 19, 2012
Halls celebrates success
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
In a photograph that ran in last week’s edition, the woman pictured above with Copper Ridge Elementary School student Cassie Norris, the top system-wide and elementary school-aged seller of the Original Knox County Schools Coupon Book, was incorrectly identified. She is Jennifer Gibson, the mother of the late Abby Gibson. The top coupon book seller award is named in Abby’s memory. Cassie sold 330 books in the annual fundraiser. We are quite proud of her and regret this error.
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“A study of excellence.” That’s what Halls High School principal Mark Duff called Halls faculty and staff Nov. 15 when he announced that the school is one of three in Knox County to receive the prestigious APEX School Excellence Award for 2011-2012. The award recognizes student success and excellence in instruction and carries a cash award to be used for school improvements or professional development. Halls received a
Halls High School faculty and staff, including principal Mark Duff and assistant principals Mike Wise and Dana Hall (center), celebrate receiving the APEX School Excellence Award. The award recognizes student success and excellence in instruction and carries a $5,000 grant. Other recipients this year are Carter and Farragut high schools. Photo by S. Carey
$5,000 grant with the award. Duff then read a letter from the Tennessee Board of Education, informing the staff that Halls was on the cusp of being named a Reward School for the 2011-2012 school year. The letter said Halls was “within the threshold” of becoming a Reward School but was excluded because of achievement gaps, or differences in academic achievement between student demographics.
“We wanted to let you know how close you are,” Duff read. “Those achievement gaps bit us in the hind end,” Duff continued in his own words. “Let’s close them. We will fight, folks. We will continue to put our best foot forward. This is one fine high school.”
HPUD petition clears 3,000 Residents pack board meeting By Shannon Carey A petition of Hallsdale Powell Utility District ratepayers last week cleared the 3,000 signatures necessary to trigger a rate review pending certification of the signatures as primary HPUD account holders. As of this writing, the online petition at change. org had 2,797 signatures. According to petition organizer Russ Rymer of Halls,
the pen-and-paper petition has 425. Signatures of at least 10 percent of HPUD’s 29,077 customers are needed to request a rate review from the state’s Utility Management Review Board. “I personally plan to gather well over the 3,000 goal to ensure we can make a point to elected officials that it just isn’t 10 percent that’s unhappy with HPUD,” Rymer wrote in an email late last week. That unhappiness was felt during HPUD’s Board of Commissioners meeting
Newly-appointed Hallsdale Powell Utility District commissioner Todd Cook (standing) addresses a standing-room-only crowd during the HPUD board’s Nov. 12 meeting. With him are board chair Kevin Julian (left) and commissioner Bob Crye. Photo by S. Carey Nov. 19. In a trial by fire for newly-appointed commissioner Todd Cook, ratepayers packed the board room to speak their minds about rising rates. Keith Cannady, who
moved his family to Halls to be close to his widowed mother, said, “Why is water and sewer in West Knoxville $55 and double that in Halls? Had I known, I wouldn’t have stayed in
Halls, and I love Halls, but it’s not worth it.” In response to Rymer’s request that the board move change its meeting To page A-3
‘Caring Hands’ quilters memorialize co-worker By Carolyn Andrews The “Anita Quilt,” a silent auction item for the 2012 United Way campaign, is much more than a beautiful bedspread. Made and donated by “Caring Hands,” a group of six quilters who work at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, its story runs deep and wide. A common thread is former B&W Y-12 human resources employee Anita Stensaker, who died in December 2010 at age 74. Anita loved to shop and found it difficult to pass up a bargain, especially on things she thought were pretty. Shelves and nooks and crannies in her home were filled with items she had purchased not for anyone or any occasion in particular. She enjoyed being able to provide on short notice something for whatever need arose.
In 2009 she was shopping at the company’s annual United Way silent auction and admired a quilt made and donated by the Y-12 “Caring Hands” quilters. Member Dottie Kelly said, “Anita called me to offer her fabric stash to our group. I asked her why she would want to get rid of fabric she might want to use after she retired. Anita laughed and said she had no plans to do anything with it.” Anita’s close friend and coworker Vicki Wilson recalls that Anita also had no plans to retire. “She was tireless, an Energizer bunny. She ran circles around all of us in human resources. She went dancing the weekend she died. There’ll never be another one like her.” The woman who went beyond the extra mile for the employees
Six B&W Y-12 workers, who call themselves “Caring Hands,” and Allison Arnold (center), a local professional quilter, stand behind one strip of the “Anita Quilt.” Pictured are Melissa North, Becky Bolling, Ann Glenn, Arnold, Karen Langley, Dottie Kelly and Karen Ryan. Photo submitted gave showers for engaged couples Kelly reflected, “Anita left us and expectant moms. When she that fabric for a reason, and we knew of a need, she responded with had to do something special with a gift. News of her death shocked it. We decided that the best tribute and saddened many, including the To page A-3 members of “Caring Hands.”
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