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VOL. 6 NO. 41
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October 8, 2012
Karns kids break reading record
Home Edition Special Section Find tips for home protection, home decoration, home repair and more in “My Place.”
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Coffee Break Thomas Coke is an Oakland Raiders fan, an entrepreneur and a family man. He is president of the Smoky Mountain Raiders Booster Club and has brought his custom airbrushed Raider Avalanche to several games, including two Super Bowls. Meet Thomas over a Coffee Break.
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Fair comes to Pellissippi State Pellissippi State Community College held a “midday pella” in the Goins Student Life Center and the outside courtyard. Musicians took center stage outside, entertaining students. Theresa Edwards was there.
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Cheap trip to Starkville Based on the assumption that many Shopper-News readers have never been to Mississippi State for a late-night football game, and may not go, here is a virtual trip without charges for travel, food, lodging or tickets. Sit back and let Marvin West be your tour guide.
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Kindergartners Yuleesa Kennedy, Noah Welsh, Ivan Ortiz and Gage McGhee finish singing a round of “It’s my book (Where I go, it goes …).”
By Betty Bean More than 1,200 Karns Elementary School students clad in special “I Broke a World Record” T-shirts piled into the gym first thing Tuesday morning for the world’s largest Read-In. Special guest Crissy Haslam, wife of Gov. Bill Haslam, was on the scene and encouraged the students to spend at least 20 minutes a day reading. Haslam has taken on early literacy as a personal cause and travels the state promoting her Read20 Family Book Club, which encourages families to read together. She told the children about the October Book of the Month, “Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact” by A.J. Hartley, and last month’s featured book, “Flat Stanley,” by Jeff Brown. She was introduced by WATETV anchor Lori Tucker, who urged the Karns kids to read. “I wouldn’t have my job as a TV newsperson if I hadn’t loved to read,” Tucker said. WATE meteorologist Matt
Hinkin read “Take Care, Good Knight” to the students and teachers Laura Lee Thompson and Renee Graham led the students in the school’s “Oh-oh, Go Karns” cheer. Assistant principal Christine Boring supervised the proceedings in the absence of principal Dar-
lene Miller, who was out with strep throat. She said the Karns faculty and staff have been working on the Read-In project since January. East Tennessee Public Broadcasting, the Children’s Reading Second grader Alexandra Arnold Foundation and WATE co-spon- models her “I Broke a World Record” T-shirt. sored the Read-In.
County road projects back on track By Betty Bean After months of postponements, County Commission is finally set to consider a resolution approving right-of-way acquisitions for traffic roundabouts at two accident-plagued West Knox intersections. Jim Snowden, deputy director of Engineering and Public Works, calls the Bob Gray/Bob Kirby Road and Bob Gray/Mabry Hood/Hickey Road intersections “high Jim Snowden crash locations” that generate 13 serious accidents per year. “The majority of those are injury acci-
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East Tennessee Public Broadcasting president Vickie Lawson, Crissy Haslam and school superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre celebrate the record-breaking reading event.
dents,” Snowden said. “More times than not, somebody’s getting hurt.” He concedes that vocal neighborhood critics have successfully stalled the roundabouts. “There have been some folks who don’t think roundabouts are the best solution and they gave us various options – flashing lights, rumble strips, traffic lights. “We are now in the process of going through those suggestions and making 100 percent sure that the roundabouts are what we want to do.” He said the administration will be meeting with the neighbors prior to the commission vote.
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“We’re going to go through it with them step by step,” he said. A project to add a third lane to East Westland Drive at the approach to Ebenezer Road has also been slowed by tangential problems, but has not drawn as much controversy as the two Bob Gray Road projects. “We had hoped to get it started in March or April, but there were some right-of-way issues with the new Weigel’s, and we had to wait to sort them out,” Snowden said, “so we pushed it back a month. “One way or another, it will be completed by the end of next year.” The state will pay for this project, which is projected to cost $300,000 to $400,000.
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