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VOL. 51 NO. 14
April 2, 2012
IN THIS ISSUE
Rain forest rain barrel
Lottie, Virginia and James Smith all attended Heiskell School. There were eight children in the family and their mom died when Trula, also now deceased, was a baby. Virginia, being the oldest, stayed home until Trula was school age to help care for her younger brothers and sisters. She returned to school when Trula started school. Their father worked for Southern Railway.
For the third year, Powell Middle School art students have pitched in to help the Water Quality Forum raise money by painting a rain barrel to be sold on eBay. Teacher Debra Durnin coordinated the project, based on a freehand sketch by seventh grade student Liam Deason.
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The day the King came to town Forty years ago, on April 8, 1972, a king named Elvis Presley came to Stokely Athletic Center as the headliner for that year’s Dogwood Arts Festival. Dave Macon, who was the treasurer for the Festival that year, said organizers wanted ’72 to be a big year for the still-new event. Who bigger, then, than The King of Rock and Roll?
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Heiskell School Reunion
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Car wash/bake sale Project Graduation at Powell High School is sponsoring a yard sale to benefit the Class of 2012 on Saturday, April 14, at PHS in the front parking lot. Set up will begin at 7 a.m. with sales from 8 to 1 p.m. Contact Joy Anderson at 687-4894 to reserve space. This weekend, Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Project Graduation events will include a car wash and bake sale at the Powell Walmart on Clinton Highway. Project Graduation is a drug- and alcohol-free graduation celebration for seniors.
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Four friends catch up on their lives since elementary school: Geraldine West, Kat Childress, Mary Sue Bartlett Chapman and Ruth Elliott.
Challenges for Broadacres By Sandra Clark Broadacres is a great neighborhood and a great place to live, said Andrew Sharits. “And we’ll do everything we can to keep it that way.” Sharits ended the Broadacres Homeowners Association’s annual meeting on a happy note, but there are problems in Powell’s biggest subdivision. The chief problem is apathy. With dues of just $50, fewer than 100 of the 850 or so eligible homeowners have bothered to join the association. That means the work falls on the shoulders of the officers, primarily president Ed Smith and his wife, Vicki. Ed and Vicki mow the entrances and this spring they spread new mulch. Ed cut a deal to get the mulch at cost in exchange for displaying a sign for Four Seasons at the entrance. Estimates for maintaining the landscaping of Broad-
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Nancy Savage and Vernon Melton share memories at the Heiskell Elementary School reunion. The school closed in 1979, but about 200 people of all ages gathered March 24 for the third annual reunion, organized by the Heiskell Community Center. Photos by T. Edwards of TEphotos.com
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acres’ entrances are about $8,000, Smith said. That’s a budget-buster. The association pays about $700 per year for lighting at the entrances. Last year the depleted treasury almost led to the lights being turned off, but longtime resident Roderick Creigh stepped up and paid the bill. “Mr. Creigh has kept this thing alive,” said Smith. Patsy and Charlie Daniel arrived late, drawing goodnatured kidding. They thought the meeting started at 8 p.m. and arrived at 8:05. Problem was, it Leaders of the Broadacres Homeowners Association share a laugh following the group’s started at 7 and was wrap- annual meeting at Powell Presbyterian Church. Roderick Creigh is honorary board chair, Anping up when they showed drew Sharits is vice president and Ed Smith is president. Photo by S. Clark up. Charlie is the News Sentinel’s cartoonist and probably the best-known organization. Multiple Listing Service average. One was a “short resident of Broadacres. Sharits, an agent with while 14 were listed but not sale” to avoid foreclosure Another well-known Realty Executives, said sold. The average price was and the other an estate resident is retired princihome prices are flat in $164,000 and the average sale. Both properties sold pal Bill Crosland. Possibly Broadacres as in other size was 2,300 square feet. below market. because he reads books, parts of the county. In 2011, Sharits said a couple of Bill was asked to draft a 17 homes sold through the “odd sales” drove down the To page A-2 mission statement for the
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