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VOL. 50, NO. 16
APRIL 18, 2011
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Fountain City Road closure
A few weeks ago at the Powell High School Alumni Banquet Bill Irwin came up to me as we were leaving and asked if I could help him. Bill said he had a photo of the 1930 Powell High School football team and wondered if I could perhaps publish it to see if someone might have the names of the players and what looks to be a student manager. Bill said that he could personally identify the coach as A.G. Haworth. I told Bill to send it to me and gave him one of my cards. Last week I received the photo in the mail. If you can identify the players and others in the picture, shoot me an email at ShopperGreg@aol.com, and I’ll be glad to get word to Bill.
Beginning today, Fountain City Road will be closed from Dry Gap Pike to Flatwood Lane for about four weeks. All local access will still be permitted. The closure is necessary to facilitate the new alignment of Fountain City Road. A four-way signalized intersection will be created with Dry Gap Pike and Dante Road. During the closure, a detour of 1.5 miles will be provided via Rifle Range Road. The 1930 Powell High football team.
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Merkel wins waterline contract By Sandra Clark
That’s absurd! David Hunter on the origins of pink flamingos and other oddities in new book
Merkel Brothers Construction Inc. was low bidder by $7,000 to win a contract from Hallsdale Powell Utility District to install a 20inch waterline from Union County to Halls. Merkel’s bid of $3,825,075 was accepted by the utility’s commissioners last week. The Greeneville-based company is expected to start work in May and be finished within a year. Robert G. Campbell, design engineer, said the work will be on one
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HPUD has completed 58 months without a violation at the wastewater plant – a remarkable achievement considering the heavy rainfall this spring. In March, the district set 19 water meters and inspected 18 sewer hookups. CEO Darren Cardwell said he’s talking with Big Ridge State Park about tying onto the HPUD water system. The district’s next meeting is at 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 9.
in this newspaper and showed up out of curiosity more than anything else. Black assigned him to a group and handed him a script.
Powell Playhouse sets inaugural production
Veterans travel to D.C. See Joe’s story on page A-5
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HPUD financial officer James Smith said $769,000 of the cost will be funded by federal stimulus money and an estimated $1 million will be reimbursed by the state. Once the project is finished, HPUD can pull water from either Melton Hill or Norris lakes to serve its entire system. District officials were in Nashville over the weekend to accept an award for their wastewater treatment plant on Beaver Creek Drive. It was one of nine state awards, one in each of the state’s development districts.
Lights … action! ‘Drama’ comes to Powell
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side of Highway 33 with several cross-overs. “This project connects the water plant on Norris Lake to the system. It is the spine of your system,” he told commissioners. The 20-inch line will replace a hodgepodge of 8-, 10- and 12-inch lines. Campbell said the project was necessitated by the widening of Maynardville Highway, for which TDOT has acquired right-of-way. “We’ll get our work done and be out of their way,” he said.
The talent level of those auditioning was impressive for the first production of a newly organized community theater group. Lines were delivered with authority after only a few minutes of study, and many punctuated their delivery with gestures. One could see the acting bug in each struggling to be contained.
By Greg Householder Nita Buell Black sure knows how to run an audition. The former Powell High School drama teacher knows that acting is not simply a matter of memorizing lines and portraying a role. No, there are a million things that can go wrong – but the show must go on. Good actors must think on their feet. You may forget your lines. Or perhaps another actor may forget his lines, the very lines that cue you to action. The list of “things to go wrong” on stage are endless. So Black is not merely interested in how well one can read lines from a script. As she told those who turned out last week to try out for parts in the Powell Playhouse’s first production, “The Curious Savage,” scheduled to be presented June 3-4, “I’m going to throw you some curveballs, and you should pretend that I can’t hear very well.” And that she did. The first group was told just before they began their reading to deliver their lines as if they were angry. The second group was told
Black is tentatively planning two evening performances for “The Curious Savage,” 7:30 p.m. on the first Friday and Saturday in June. The performances will be held in the gymnasium part of the Jubilee Banquet Facility off Callahan Road. Black plans to construct a portable stage and perhaps use Those auditioning for parts in the Powell Playhouse’s inaugural production,“The Curious Savage,” go through their paces at the auditions held at the Powell Li- risers for the audience. The Home brary. Those vying for parts are: Hoyt Lansdell, Kevin Sparks, Terri Pendergrass- Depot in Powell on Schaad Road has already pledged to help with Watson and Helen Seymour. Photo by Greg Householder building materials. to pretend they were intoxicated. A third group was told to act snobbishly. All three groups were later given an opportunity to deliver the lines as they were intended. Many of those in attendance at the auditions held last Monday and Tuesday at the Powell Library were former students of Black. The
Powell Playhouse has been “under construction” for some time, spearheaded by Black with the assistance of many of her former students. But not everyone was a former student of Black’s. Kevin Sparks is a Karns High School alumnus who now lives in Powell. Sparks saw the story of the Powell Playhouse
Black is not only looking for actors. She needs set builders, lighting people and understudies, essentially everyone needed to put on a play. If you would like to help in any way with this community production, contact Black at 947-7427. And circle your calendar for June 3 and 4.
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