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AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD Rotary Club of Knoxville to hold Fat Tuesday Party Rotary Club of Knoxville will hold its second annual Fat Tuesday Party and $10,000 Reverse Raffle fundraiser 6:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at the Foundry. The fundraiser benefits local and international programs. Tickets are $100 for a chance to win $10,000. Every 25th name drawn will receive $100 back. You do not have to be present to win. Info: Elaine McCullough, 523-8252 or visit www.rotaryclubofknoxville.com.
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Fort Sumter Cemetery seeks bids Fort Sumter Community Cemetery will be taking bids for mowing and landscaping services for the remainder of 2011. A pre-bid meeting will be held 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, at the cemetery. If unable to attend, call 660-6949 to make arrangements to pick up a bid package. Bids must be returned by March 29.
In search of Civil War memorabilia Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tennessee State Museum will be at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay St., 2-6 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 10, to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents. Anyone with Civil War memorabilia is encouraged to have it recorded. The archivists will not actually take possession of the items from their owners. To schedule an appointment with the archivists, call 615253-3470 or e-mail civilwar. tsla@tn.gov. Info: http://tn.gov/ tsla/cwtn/events.htm. Visitors at the Coupon Fair at Faith UMC reach for free coupons.
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aith United Methodist Church has developed a unique ministry to help residents save money in tough times. Gabrielle Blake said “Couponing in Critical Times” was not designed to make money but to help fulfill the church’s mission. Blake “This is a way to meet human need.” Church members staffed free child care and provided refreshments to some 600 visitors at this year’s Coupon Fair. Vendors set up booths to talk to those who attended. The Fair is annual, but Blake hosts a blog year-round at Couponing incriticaltimes.blogspot.com/. On the blog, she offers moneysaving ideas. Let’s share: ■ Buy the Sunday paper for coupons. ■ Read magazines for coupons. ■ Sign up online for e-newsletters. If you like a particular product, go to the company’s website to see if they have printable coupons. ■ Become a Facebook fan for any business or product you regularly buy. ■ If you cannot find a coupon for a product you like, call or e-mail the company to request one. If they don’t do coupons they might send you samples. ■ Ask your friends, family and neighbor for coupons they might not need or want. ■ Download coupons at www. cellfire.com or www.shortcuts.com or www.kroger.com. ■ Sign up for store cards. Food City sends coupons to members of their Kids Club. ■ Read Blake’s blog daily for links to coupons. Blake’s work is based on her philosophy: “I know it sounds strange, but I have found in my life that the more you give the more you receive. If you find that you have an extra coupon, pass it on. If you hear about a great deal, spread the word. Volunteer when you can. Get to know your neighbors. “When we focus on what we do not have, we feel desperate. When we focus on what we can do, we feel empowered.”
A wild ride through the justice system Farragut residents felt victimized by thieves and officials By Larry Van Guilder Like most of us, Kim Cook and her husband, Darryl Smith, had little experience with the criminal justice system and were glad of it. That changed around 5 a.m. on Jan. 4 when Cook’s car was stolen from the garage of their Farragut residence. Her subsequent experience with law enforcement officials and Knox County prosecutors left her and her husband outraged and bewildered. To the extent that any crime victim’s story can have a happy ending, this one does, but getting there was a wild ride. Cook told her story in a Feb. 18 letter addressed to General Sessions Judge Chuck Cerney and copied to dozens of local and state officials:
“On January 4, 2011, at 5:09 a.m., my car was stolen from my garage at my home. The Knox County Sheriff’s (Office) was called at approximately 7:30 a.m., upon the discovery of my missing car … and we were told they were busy and would take our name and number and call us back. After a while and no return call my husband called back and a report was taken over the phone.” Cook wrote that the sheriff’s office showed “no interest” in coming to her home to check for evidence the thief or thieves may have left. Asked if they had insurance, they were told to call their insurance company and were “dismissed.” Fearing that the thieves would discover a letter in the car from her bank notifying her of a check for a large sum to be released to her the following day, Cook said she told Detective Jim Pritchard that she was “terrified” that the
thieves would return to her home. “Detective Pritchard felt my fears were unfounded and again dismissed me,” she wrote. Cook’s husband, Smith, is head of engineering for the town of Farragut and has access to the town’s traffic enforcement camera videos. The morning of the theft he watched a video showing his wife’s car pulling out of their subdivision and heading east on Kingston Pike before turning north on Campbell Station Road. Cook wondered why her husband was doing the investigation. “Isn’t this the job of the sheriff’s department?” she wrote. On Jan. 7, the KCSO called to tell Cook her car had been located. It had been wrecked following a high speed chase on I-75 in Loudon County. Had Cook known more about the driver at the time her vehicle was stolen, her fear would have magnified.
Afton Broderick, a 21-year-old former student at Karns High School, was wanted for questioning in the attempted murder of two other upstanding citizens (who would decline to testify) on Dec. 27. She also faced charges for other thefts. Cook discovered that Broderick had a Facebook page where she had posted statements that might have come from the defendants in the Christian-Newsom murders: Jan. 2, 2011: “I told yall weak ass nigga to stay out of my face, get it now?” (Although she uses language familiar to listeners of “gangster rap,” Broderick is white.) Dec. 14, 2010: “no apologies, nah suckers I’m not sorry. You can all sue me, y’all could be the cause of me no remorse for me, like there’s no recourse for me no apologies not even acknowledging you at all … till I get a call that
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gods coming no apologies, … its all funny I can spit in ya face while your standin across from me, no apologies.” The KCSO told Cook that Broderick’s alleged accomplice, Steven Thodos, could not be charged with car theft because he was not seen driving the car. So when Cook secured video footage from a Walmart showing Thodos entering the store wearing her sunglasses and the car later leaving the parking lot, she charged him with stealing the sunglasses. On Feb. 17, Cook was in court to hear the charges against Tho-
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