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Final pitch for KCS budget
The best case Dr. Jim McIntyre made for the Knox County school board’s $35 million budget increase proposal came last Friday morning, in his office, when he spoke as a daddy. “I’m the dad of two Knox County Schools students. I have a very personal stake in this.” Jake Mabe spoke to the superintendent on the eve of the big vote. Sandra Clark also has an editorial about the school budget vote and info on its aftermath.
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Is the sky falling? Oh my, Marvin West writes, the sky is falling. Again. UT football has extended scholarship offers to 207 prospects and received only seven commitments...
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By Sandra Clark “The Savage Dilemma” is about money. It’s about friendship. It’s about evil. But most of all it’s a rollicking good time. And it’s coming to the Powell Playhouse this week. Don’t miss it. The Powell Playhouse will present the play Thursday through Sunday at the Jubilee Banquet Facility off Callahan Road. Admission is $10 and tickets can be purchased at the door. Molly Durr reprises her role as Ethel Savage from “The Curious Savage,” the inaugural presentation of the Powell Playhouse. A Halls resident, Durr was excited to act under the direction of Nita Buell Black, her drama teacher at Powell High School in the mid-1970s. Durr said one does not need to have seen the first play to enjoy the sequel. “The dialogue catches you up.” Durr quickly summarized the initial play: Eth-
el’s husband dies, leaving her $10 million. She wants to spend the money for good works, but three evil stepchildren intervene and have her committed to a sanitarium, the Cloisters. “In the end, I got the money,” said Durr. So much for ‘Curious.’ Ethel meets a cast of characters at The Cloisters including Mrs. Paddy (Carolyn Wells), the woman whose husband told her to “shut up” 20 years ago and she hasn’t spoken since. Ethel was happy to get out, but as the sequel opens she has decided to return. “I come back to The Cloisters to rest,” said Durr. “I love these people and come back after traveling. Imagine my surprise when they don’t remember me!” The Cloisters has fallen on hard times as well. With dwindling revenue, the sanitarium may be forced to close. Enter two stupid hippies. They break in to steal from a place that has
little. But Ethel Savage hatches a plan. “The court has put me on an allowance,” said Durr. “I suggest the hippies kidnap me for ransom. Then the money will be split and part used to save The Cloisters.” You can see the trouble coming. Durr calls it a “sweet, family play” that’s OK for kids. “I would let my 8-year-old neighbor see it,” she says. She graduated from Powell High in 1974, married and stayed home to raise her daughter, Marie Loren, now a student at UTChattanooga. Although she was in drama in high school and performed briefly with Theatre Knoxville, she had not acted in 28 years when Buell Black picked her for the role of Ethel Savage. Durr was stage manager for “The Night of my Enemy” at the Powell Playhouse where she serves on the advisory board. “It was just wonderful to meet new people and see old friends,”
Mabe to write history of Halls Shopper-News columnist/ features editor Jake Mabe has signed a contract with the Halls Crossroads Women’s League to write a narrative history of the founding, settling and evolution of the Halls community. If you have any photos or info that might help Jake, call 922-4136 or email JakeMabe1@aol.com.
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Help’s a’comin Sadie (found tied to the door at Shopper-News as a pup) is a true newshound. Thwarted in her efforts to take a dip at Tommy Schumpert Park, Sadie investigated and learned that Knox County has closed the water hole section of the dog park for erosion control work and the addition of a pump. According to Doug “Arf” Bataille, the project includes draining the pond, digging out the bottom that was about a foot of silt, and then rebuilding the sides. The pond does double duty – it is for the dogs – but it is also used to irrigate the football fields. The pump is needed for the irrigation in addition to controlling the level of the pond for the dogs. Sadie knows one summer is like 7 in dog years. Arf said it will be done “soon,” but no one quite knows how long that is in parks & rec years. Photo by S. Clark
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she said. Currently, the performers and volunteers are planning a cast party for the one-year anniversary. She served on the board of Foothills Craft Guild for nine years. She is an artist who specializes in framed and matted pressed botanicals (leaves, flowers and ferns).
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Not many coaches have coached on teams in different sports that went to the state championships. David McGill has. And after a teaching career of more than 35 years, McGill is retiring. McGill began teaching in Maynardville at Union County High School in 1975 and coached baseball, football and basketball. As head baseball coach he won two district championships. In 1986, McGill came to Knox County as a math teacher at Powell High School and later moved to the Driver’s Education department. He always tried to model himself after his high school baseball coach Elden Nicely and gym teacher Dwaine Ritter because they were “good Christian men.” “David has been a fixture at Powell High for many years,” said Powell High principal Ken Dunlap. “It will take numerous people to fill the jobs he filled for us.” It was at Powell that McGill’s two most memorable championships occurred. In 1991 McGill was an assistant coach for the Powell Panthers football team. Powell went to the state championship and played Brentwood Academy at Vanderbilt. “We got beat. But we were there,” said McGill. Another treasured memory was in 1997 when the Powell softball team made it to the TSSAA state tournament with seven freshman starters, one sophomore and just one senior.
David McGill rides his motorcycle in the Rockies. McGill became the head softball coach in 1994 but took the years 2000-2006 off to watch and help his son and daughter with their athletic careers. McGill has compiled an impressive 329-132 record as Powell’s softball coach. He also won District Coach of the Year three times and won Tennessee Athletics Coaches Association Softball Coach of the Year in 2000. “I enjoy sharing the love of the game and teaching them the same,” said McGill of what he calls his “16 daughters” on the softball team. The time McGill spent with his own kids was influential, too. His daughter is an assistant basketball coach at Grainger County High School. She played basketball and softball at Gibbs and went on to play at King College and in a women’s professional league in the Dominican-Republic. His son played baseball
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and football at Gibbs High before playing baseball at Virginia. Today, he coaches football and baseball at Trinidad High School in Trinidad, Colo. McGill enjoyed coaching both kids when they were young. In retirement, McGill plans to ride HarleyDavidson motorcycles as a hobby, play golf and fish. He also looks forward to having more time to visit his children and watch them coach. For McGill, the students have been the most motivating thing over the years. “Always keep trying and don’t give up,” he said. “An education is important. “I will miss all of the great kids and excellent teachers and principals,” said McGill. “Powell High School is a great school. I am really glad that I had the opportunity to be a part of it for all these years.”
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