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THE BUZZ Burchett sets November meetings County Mayor Tim Burchett will hold one-on-one constituent meetings during November including 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, Crown College main building, 2307 W. Beaver Creek Drive; and 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road.
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Civic Ballet to present ‘The Nutcracker’ The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet will present the Nutcracker at the Oak Ridge High School auditorium Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 19-20. There will be two shows on Saturday, featuring an encore performance at 11 a.m. and the full performance at 7:30 p.m. The encore performance is a one-act version of the full show and is perfect for small children and groups. Tickets for the encore performance are $7 each. The evening performance will feature professional dancers Stephanie Bussell and Noel Dupuis and music by the UT Chamber Orchestra. The final performance will be Sunday, Nov. 20, and cost for the full performances are adults $20, seniors $15 and students $10.
Hallsdale Powell Utility District has set a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the district office, 3745 Cunningham Road, to discuss a $4.8 million loan to finance upgrades to the Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and expand the Raccoon Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant. Info: Darren Cardwell at 922-7547.
Dancing in the Oak Ridge Civic Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker” are Powell residents: (front) Laney Haskell; (back) Olivia King, Sarah Jett (Sugar Plum fairy) and Kylee Haskell (Clara Staublaum).
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Early voting expands to Halls Early voting locations will be expanded today (Monday, Oct. 31) to include the Halls Community Park, 6933 Recreation Lane (off Crippen Road), through Thursday, Nov. 3. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to the city elections, a special election is being held to fill the state Senate District 6 seat. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8.
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Crye wants openness, transparency at HPUD By Greg Householder On a rainy Friday morning last week, Robert G. “Bob” Crye of Halls raised his right hand and was sworn in as a new Hallsdale Powell Utility District board member by County Mayor Tim Burchett. Crye replaces Sandra Liford, who resigned in September, and joins board chair Jim Hill and board member Kevin Julian. “I hope a little common sense,” Crye said when asked what he would bring to the board. “I’m a ratepayer and I would like to see our rates come down and that there is openness and transparency in everything we do. I hope we spend the money wisely.” Crye lives in Halls with his wife, Janis. He has two daughters, Kristen Stevenson of Knoxville and Laura Cloud of Murfreesboro. Crye began his working career in 1965 with TVA after receiving his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UT. He worked
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at TVA until 1981 when he became self-employed for about a year. In 1983 he became vice president, secretary and chief operating officer for Hillman Construction Corporation. In 1984 he began a three-year stint with Rentenbach Engineering Company where he served as marketing representative in the construction division and head engineer and deputy manager in the design division. In 1987 Crye returned to TVA and in 1990 he went to work for Alstom Power Inc. as a warranty and contracts manager and commercial specialist. He has been a licensed general contractor since 1989 and has constructed at-risk speculative and custom homes and developed two residential subdivisions. Crye currently is secretary and board member of Jesus Centered Ministries, board member of the Halls Business and Professional Association, and is a trustee and
Lewis Cosby joins PBA cerned citizen to the county’s premier political watchdog. As Cosby concluded his presentation to County Commission about the problems with the mayor’s accounting practices that afternoon, Ragsdale – sotto voce – muttered “showboat.” It was Knox County’s version of the shot heard ’round the world. And while those of us sitting on press row were among the few to actually Years from now, thousands hear the mayor and witness of local politicos will claim Cosby’s justifiably indignant “they were there” in August reaction, Ragsdale’s mouth2007 when an ill-advised re- ing of the word was replayed mark by former Knox County (in slow motion, no less) to Mayor Mike Ragsdale trans- thousands on the local news formed a retired CPA and later that evening. Ragsdale gave Cosby business owner from con-
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County Commission has confirmed Mayor Tim Burchett’s appointment of Lewis Cosby to the Public Building Authority’s board of directors. Burchett could not have made a better choice.
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County Mayor Tim Burchett administers the oath of office to new Hallsdale Powell Utility District board member Bob Crye last Friday in the mayor’s office. Photo by Greg Householder
chair of building and grounds and Crye’s first meeting as a board an adult Sunday School teacher at member of HPUD is 1:30 p.m. MonBeaver Dam Baptist Church. day, Nov. 14.
ers. Cosby’s tireless probing alerted the public to such questionable practices as the mayor’s “hospitality fund” and pricey outings on the taxpayers’ dime. But no one should mistake Cosby’s expertise as an independent investigator as a sign that he lacks the skills and the spirit to cooperate with others. His service on the county’s Ethics Committee demonstrated clearly enough that he is a team player, a trait that he’ll bring to the Lewis Cosby PBA’s board. He also unselfishly shared his time and his knowledge with this reporter fame which he had neither and other media representasought nor coveted, and in tives as we struggled to unthe process created a relent- tangle the skeins of the forless critic of the adminis- mer administration’s books. tration. But what was bad “Lewis brings a wealth for the mayor was a boon of experience to the table, for Knox County taxpay- including an extensive pri-
vate-sector business background that will inform his actions on the PBA board. Without a doubt, he was the right choice for this most recent appointment,” Burchett said. “In recent years, he has shown his willingness to hold government accountable, and I am confident that he will continue to do just that.” Cosby is the right man at the right moment. The PBA has grown exponentially since its establishment, and inevitably questions about its role and its reach have multiplied. As a member of the board, Cosby’s expertise will prove invaluable in answering those questions and helping to guide the organization in a direction that provides the greatest benefit to Knox County taxpayers.
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Lillian Story is a big fan of snowmen and the teacher who created her pumpkin likeness created a decoration perfect for her.
Brickey-McCloud gym teacher Larry Israel was portrayed in pumpkin form with very short hair and a whistle … a very accurate likeness.
Members of the Airplane Filling Station Preservation Association leave last Monday’s meeting. Members are: Tom Hungerford, Tom Milligan, Lee Robins, Brian Christian and Carol Johnson (going out the door). Note the interior framing and new interior doors. Photo by Greg Householder
The great pumpkin guessing game Teachers across Knox County have been busy with evaluations, continuing education and teaching the classroom. After many weeks of hard work, Brickey-McCloud principal Robbie Norman knew that her staff needed a diversion. Norman asked each staff member to draw the name of a co-worker and each was required to create a pumpkin to resemble their selection. Teachers got creative by decorating pumpkins to resemble others and their likes, and everyone enjoyed guessing which pumpkin belonged to which staff members. Students joined in the fun of the great pumpkin guessing game.
Airplane update Leesa Daugherty shows off the pumpkin that resembles her at Brickey-McCloud. The give-away was the softball carried by her pumpkin. Photos by Ruth White
Powell students take first place in art show “The Scream,” at left, produced by the 3-D class at Powell High, taught by Lee Ann Jenkins-Freels, took first place in the youth category at New Harvest Park. The scarecrows will be up through Tuesday, Nov. 1. Youth category second place went to Young Adventurers Home School Group, also from Powell. The adult category first place went to “Gunther” by Victor Zanoni. He has won first place all three years of the compeition. Adult second place was the “TN Loch Mess Monster” by Knox County Stormwater/CAC AmeriCorps Water Quality Team. The $100 first prize money was contributed by Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union and presented by Boone Ausmus.
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New grant work starts this month, group seeks stories Work is progressing on the old airplane filling station on Clinton Highway. For the past several weeks Airplane Filling Station Preservation Association member Brian Christian and his crew have been working on the interior and outside tin skin. Gone is the old rotting bead board on the inside and new interior framing is in place along with a door to the where the new restroom will be and a door through the framing that divides the main part of the plane into two rooms. Some of the tin skin has been replaced. Brian said while working on the airplane, folks would stop by and tell him stories about their experiences with the iconic building. One gentleman related that he worked at the filling station and was standing on the front steps when he heard
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of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, over the radio. He also told of how he used to climb the ridge on the other side of Clinton Highway to cool off during hot summer days since the building did not have air conditioning. Brian told of the person who stopped by and talked of the airplane’s days as a “head shop” in the ’70s. AFSPA member Carol Johnson wants to collect those stories and get them written down as part of the history of the old building. If you have a story about the old airplane filling station, shoot Carol an email at ynn@bellsouth.net or give her call at 688-0447. On Dec. 9, WNML will be doing a remote of SportsTalk from the airplane 3-7 p.m. with John Wilkerson and Jimmy Hyams. On Dec.
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Ray Johnson (PHS Class of 1980 and inaugural PHS Hall of Fame inductee) has been busy. He is organizing a community holiday party at Beaver Brook Country Club to benefit both the Powell High School Dreams Foundation and the Powell Playhouse. A scholarship will be presented to a PHS senior who is pursuing studies in the arts in honor of Nita Buell Black. Tickets for the shindig are $40. Ray is setting this thing up through Facebook so you will need to get on there and make friends with Ray. Tickets are going fast. ■
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NOTES ■ Scott’s Free Community Recycling Center at 6529 Clinton Highway will recycle computers, TVs, electronics, cardboard, metal, paper and clothes for free. Info: 307-0659. ■ Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Thursday at 7142 Old Clinton Pike.
COMMUNITY CLUBS ■ Swap 2 Save Coupon Club meets 5:30 to 8 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Wallace Memorial Baptist Church. Coupons for everything from baby items to groceries, restaurants to retail shops are exchanged. Wallace Memorial is located at 701 Merchant Drive. Info: Email Lisa at taylor7123@ bellsouth.net.
The Baker-Peters house in West Knoxville is remarkable for its colorful history and its rumored haunting by the ghost of Civil War soldier Abner Baker. Photos by Wendy Smith
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Confederate soldier Abner Baker came home from the war looking for trouble, and he found it. According to those who frequent his former home, the BakerPeters house at the corner of Peters Road and Kingston Pike, Abner continues to make mischief today. Abner Baker was the son of Dr. Harvey Baker, who built the antebellum home on a large farm in 1840. Dr. Baker was murdered by Union troops in 1863, and the most reliable account of his death appeared in the Knoxville Daily Register. The story reports that Dr. Baker, who was rumored to be sympathetic to the Confederate cause, was confronted in his yard by a Union soldier, who threatened him with a gun. Baker went into the house and locked the doors, but it was soon surrounded by troops who demanded that the men of the house surrender.
Mrs. Baker told the soldiers repeatedly that her husband was the only man in the house, and he would surrender if they stopped firing. But the soldiers continued to shoot through windows, and eventually broke into the house and made their way up the stairs. Baker was shot and killed when he opened the door to confront his assailants. But that wasn’t the end of the bloodshed. Steve Cotham, historian and manager of the McClung Historical Collection, confirms the story that Abner Baker returned to town in 1864, possibly seeking revenge for his father’s death. He killed a Union officer, thought to be a man named William Hall, near the Knox County courthouse. Later that day, he was forcibly removed from the jail and hanged by a mob. The Baker-Peters house is now owned by Larry Tragresser, who runs a dental practice out of the first
floor. A door in his office with two holes is supposedly the same door Union troops shot through when they confronted Dr. Baker. Some of the customers at Baker Peters restaurant, which occupies the second floor, think that Abner’s unsettled spirit has never left the old house. Events Coordinator David Poe says most employees, as well as a number of customers, have had strange experiences in the restaurant. Eric and Johnna Dangle recall a time when they were sitting at the bar in the early evening with two other customers when Eric happened to look up at the exact moment two wineglasses shot off a rack above the bar and smashed into the wall. No one, including the bartender, was near the glasses, he says. There are several pendant light fi xtures in the restaurant, and occasionally, one will swing. Some attribute the movement to nearby air vents. But all of
First Presbyterian Church member Pat Armstrong stands beside Abner Baker’s grave marker in the church’s graveyard. the fi xtures are near vents, and only one moves. Strange events are common enough that restaurant regulars no longer try to explain them. “Everybody just looks at each other and says, ‘Abner,’ ” Eric Dangle says. Robert Smith says similar phenomena occurred when the building was home to Hawkeye’s II in the 1980s. He recalls hearing loud, unexplained sounds coming from the attic. Customers also reported getting locked in a bathroom that, at the time, had no lock on the door. “Do things happen every night? No. But I’ve seen things I cannot explain. It doesn’t really scare me – it
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Things that go ‘Huh?’ in the night Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Mr. Answer Man’s answers to the questions that keep you up at night. Young children and people with heart conditions should avoid today’s session. Q: Mr. Answer Man, I hear the school system is spending $750,000 to supply students with something called “isotonic water.” What is that? Could this be a Marxist plot to corrupt our children’s precious bodily fluids? Sign me, “Scared.” A: Dear Scared: You have every right to be frightened. Fittingly, “isotonic” is an English transliteration of Egyptian hieroglyphics discovered on the tomb of King Tut: iso, “costs a lot;” and tonic, “water with stuff added to it.” It’s fitting because water was a scarce commodity in the Egyptian desert, and isotonic water was reserved for the Pharoahs. Commissioner Tony Norman, who pursues Egyptology as a sideline, noted last week that, “Kids want a whole lot of things.” Norman added: “Just because they demand it doesn’t mean we have to supply it.” School officials countered that they want to provide “attractive items students are interested in.” Besides, the markup is 250 percent, better than double the profit realized by Egyptian traders during Tut’s reign. But what will students “demand” next? Free bus rides? No school on Christmas Day? Who knows where this will end. Q: Mr. Answer Man, maybe it’s just because Halloween is approaching, but I’m having a recurring nightmare about the county going back into business with a vendor some say owes taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Am I losing my mind? A: You seem perfectly normal to me – it’s the county’s sanity that’s in question. Recently, Commissioner “Our” Larry Smith summed up his fears about the county’s contract with Nature’s Best Organics LLC, also known as “the same guys who operated Natural Resources Recovery and got sued by Brad Mayes.” Smith said, “Guys, if we vote for this we have our heads in the sand. They screwed us once (and) they’ll try to do it again.” With a nod to the supernatural, Norman described the situation as “a lawyer’s heaven (but) … our purgatory,” and said there was no recourse other than letting the courts sort it out. “They’re tainted, and we shouldn’t be doing business with them,” Norman added, before voting for the contract. Mr. Answer Man’s assessment: “The horror … the horror.” (Thank you, Marlon Brando.) Q: Last week Commissioner Sam McKenzie said he had a hard time justifying a 1.5 percent pay increase over a period of four years for county employees. What’s your take? A: Mr. Answer Man’s sources tell us that County Mayor Tim Burchett and his staff, ever mindful of the Halloween season, arrived at the percentage by bobbing for apples. Chief of staff Dean Rice grabbed 1 1/2 Granny Smiths, and the rest is history. There is no truth to the scurrilous rumor that Commissioner Amy Broyles tried to slip a poisoned apple into the tub, which, by the way, was fi lled with isotonic water. Anyway, if McKenzie worked for a print newspaper he wouldn’t have made such a silly observation. Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.
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City election generates yawn A week from tomorrow night and it is over, this mayoral contest which started last summer (2010, not 2011) when Marilyn Roddy hosted fundraisers only to switch races once Jamie Woodson resigned as state senator. Last week I was asked during a talk at the Farragut Rotary Club if Roddy had stayed in the race would it be a different set of candidates in the current run off. This is a “what if” question to which the answer is only a speculation. However, I think it is certainly possible that would have been the case. There is no doubt Madeline Rogero was going to have a spot in the runoff or win it outright (only 16 votes short as it was). She has always been the person to beat and still is. Mark Padgett was only a few votes ahead of Ivan Harmon. Roddy would have taken some Republican votes from Harmon and perhaps gotten some Padgett votes as well. Padgett and Harmon were neck and neck. Certain-
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ly it is plausible that Roddy could have been in the same close mix. She had ample funding which she returned once she switched races. She had been running for more than a year. Padgett and Harmon got 23 percent each so all Roddy had to do was win 24 percent and she would have been in the runoff. Now whether she would have defeated Rogero is another matter and my guess is not. However, I think that runoff would have been less negative than the current contest. The more interesting question is what would have happened had interim Mayor Daniel Brown decided to run for mayor. I am convinced he would have won a place in the runoff and probably faced
Rogero although his candidacy would have taken votes off Rogero in the African-American community. It also would have taken votes all across the city from people who have been impressed with the calm and deliberate manner in which he has led the city. A runoff between Rogero and Brown could have been close. If early voting averages 700 to 800 voters a day, about 9,000 people will vote early, which means the total city vote may reach 18,000, a few thousand more than the Sept. 27 primary. This is half the 33,000 who voted in 1987 when Randy Tyree and I faced off in a similar runoff. It is a shame so few people are voting and it argues strongly for changing the city elections to coincide with the state elections where turnout is much higher. This election is generating a yawn from 80 percent of the registered voters. ■ The nasty, unsigned letter attacking Rogero may
backfire. People do not appreciate such tactics and are more informed than the author of the mailer may think. It certainly will fire up the Rogero base. ■ Mayor Brown has indicated he will make office space available to the mayorelect to run his/her transition office between Nov. 8 and Dec. 17 when the new mayor takes office. The winner will be invited to a seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 for newly elected mayors of cities over 90,000. It is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the JFK Institute of Politics and is a valuable source of information. ■ Vice Mayor Joe Bailey and his family have moved recently from his home on Hillvale Turn West (previously occupied by former County Commissioner Bee DeSelm) two blocks away to the corner of Kingston Pike and Oakhurst. His term on City Council ends Dec. 17.
Blowback: Republicans for Rogero Tennessee Conservative Union chair Lloyd Daugherty lives in Karns and doesn’t usually mess in city politics, but the anonymous letter trashing mayoral candidate Madeline Rogero and several prominent Republican supporters sucked him
Betty Bean into the maelstrom when he reported that eight of 15 TCU members who received the letter have decided to vote for Rogero. When TV reporters called, he said that he disagrees with Rogero on many philosophical issues, but has always liked her personally. That pulled him even deeper into the battle between Rogero and Mark Padgett, who, like Rogero, is a Democrat, but who enjoys the support of several well-known Republicans, most notably losing mayoral candidate Ivan Harmon and Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones. Later, Daugherty was in the doctor’s office and was approached by one of the nurses. “She said ‘Because you’ve endorsed Madeline, my friend and I have decided to vote for her. …’ I told her that I hadn’t really endorsed anybody, but I said Madeline’s honest and she’s smart and that’s who I’d be for if I were in the city. The lady said, ‘That’s good
enough for me.’ ” Daughterty said his friends are furious over the attack on Rogero supporter Eddie Mannis, who is responsible for the HonorAir flights that take World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the monument to their service. “That went over like a tofu turkey at a Baptist homecoming. One fellow told me that Mr. Mannis helped his older brother go to Washington before he died. He said that letter made him sick. So if you talk to Madeline, tell her she didn’t know it and I didn’t know it but I’ve endorsed her.” County Mayor Tim Burchett says he doesn’t get involved in city politics when asked if he has a favorite in the Rogero-Padgett race. “But I’ll say this: We disagree about a lot of things, but she’s never lied to me. That’s more than I can say about a lot of people I know. And that letter? It’s just the death rattle of the old courthouse crowd.” Republican Executive Committee member Lynn Redmon is an unapologetic Rogero supporter: “I care about neighborhoods. That’s why I’m for Rogero.” Attorney Richard Beeler, who served as county law director when Rogero was a county commissioner, has GOP credentials that go back to Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign in the New Hampshire primary.
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“This is a nonpartisan race, and I am a conservative Republican who thinks Madeline is the only candidate who is actually prepared to be a really great mayor. “I’ve actually worked with her, and the first thing I look for in a candidate is
a mind. She’s brilliant, and she’s solid on policy discussions. She’s prepared.” He said that the letter made him so mad he did something he rarely does in a city race: “I wrote her one of the biggest checks I’ve ever written a political candidate.”
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Discerning the Arab Spring
Pay to play, says Pension Board Board wants $13K from Lobetti By Betty Bean County pension board member Ed Shouse was taken by surprisewhen politico Robert M. “Mose” Lobetti showed Lobetti up on the board’s September agenda to talk about his status under the Uniformed Officers Pension Plan. Lobetti has been asked to repay some $13,000 that was distributed to him before he switched from the county’s Asset Accumulation Plan to the UOPP in 2007. The UOPP is a defined benefits plan that was passed by referendum in 2007 and was sold to the public as a way to provide a decent retirement for law enforcement officers who risk their lives to ensure public safety. Lobetti, 82, is best known for his high profile involvement in local political campaigns – most recently that of mayoral candidate Mark Padgett – and his connections to the family of John J. Duncan Sr., Jr. and III. “When item No. 6 concerning Mose Lobetti came up, I said that I had known Mose for a long time and realized that he had been employed at the courthouse for many years, but I had always thought that he worked for the attorney general in the grand jury area and therefore was actually employed by the state. I then asked how could he be a participant of the UOPP. The response was that he was a ‘Court Officer’ and was on the payroll of the sheriff.
I asked if this was similar to a bailiff’s position and the answer was yes. As you know, bailiffs qualify for the UOPP,” Shouse said. Lobetti’s attorney, Steve Sharp, did not return a telephone call when contacted for comment on this story, but pension board minutes for the September meeting reflect that Sharp asked for a postponement and requested that the board provide Lobetti with calculations “based on where he would stand if he had not transferred to the Uniformed Officers’ Pension Plan.” Pension Board executive director Kim Bennett told the board that Lobetti received payments (due to his age) from the Asset Accumulation Plan in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 in the amount of $11,171.81. She said that Lobetti should have been given the option of repaying that money with interest or taking a reduced benefit at that time. Instead, she said, “He fell through the cracks.” “Either he needs to pay it back or his benefit will be reduced,” Bennett said. She explained that anyone receiving the UOPP must have 25 years service and be at least 50 years old to draw the pension. Pension board attorney Richard Beeler confirmed Bennett’s take on the Lobetti matter: “If he buys back that lost time, he will receive an increased benefit when he officially retires under the UOPP.” The matter was postponed again in October and has been rescheduled for the November meeting.
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So, I drifted by the Democratic Club that meets on Bearden Hill last week to hear retired UT professor Bob Cunningham talk about the Arab Spring. You know the Arab Spring. We just finished it, although one could argue it’s the Arab Era and we’re not done yet. Cunningham discussed the populist uprisings in the Middle East in terms of the economy and what he called “old men and their families.” Every country was impacted by the bad economy, even the oil producers, he said. Production was cut and workers were laid off. Even college educated young people could not find work. “There is a feeling that the system doesn’t work and an enthusiasm, especially by young people, to change it,” he said. Cunningham traced family or military control back to the 1960s for most Middle Eastern countries and back to the 1920s for Jordan. There is pentup pressure for regime change. “Religious and ethnic minorities often do better with authoritarian rule. They get by because they are no threat.” Cunningham, who lived and taught in Syria for three years, said minorities
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have reason for concern as dictators are overthrown, especially those minorities such as the Sunnis in Iraq that have ruled over the majority Shiites. Then he asked: Is Islam a threat to the United States’ way of life? He called Turkey a “real hero in the Middle East” as an example of a secular Islamic country.
That’s the key it seems. Don’t mix government and religion. Good advice for us all. The Q-and-A was all over the map, reflecting both the audience’s engagement in the topic and the individuals’ need to have Cunningham hear their point of view. “Technology is an irresistible force,” said one. With computers and cellphones, dissidents can organize. What happens in Iraq when we leave? “They can’t blame the Americans any more,” said Cunningham. “The younger generation wants to participate, and that leads to optimism. … The military wants stability and often will trade growth for stability. “It’s all mixed up with pieces that don’t fit. It’s impossible to predict (the outcome).”
Timeline Since January, revolutions have occurred in Tunisia and Egypt; a civil war in Libya; civil uprisings in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen; major protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco and Oman; and minor protests in Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Western Sahara. Three heads of state were overthrown: Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak resigned on Feb. 11, ending his 30year presidency. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown on Aug. 23, killed on Oct. 20 and buried in a “secret location.” – Wikipedia
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Norman to be inducted to Central High Wall of Fame Educator founded UT’s religious studies department By Courtney Shea Ralph V. Norman Jr., Ph.D., a Central High School graduate of the Class of 1951, is being inducted into the school’s Wall of Fame at the annual breakfast ceremony 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the school. Dr. Norman is being recognized for his career of scholarly accomplishments, especially as the founding head of the Department of Religious Studies at UT. As an educator and scholar, his activities and writings brought together themes and ideas from diverse disciplines. Ralph V. Norman Jr. was 9 when his family moved to Fountain City. In 1942, Ralph V. Norman Sr., a sales manager for the tobacco firm of Brown and Williamson, received a promotion and moved his family – wife Anna Lee, daughter Sara Jane and son Ralph Jr. – from Johnson City to Fulton Road. Ralph liked the area, remembering Fountain City as somewhat different from the rest of the community. It was a harder for his sister, six years older, to make the transition from Johnson City at a time when many of the young men of her age were leaving school for the military. Ralph recalls Fountain City as an interesting crossroads, having a diverse professional class with new families brought in by Oak Ridge and TVA as well as international visitors observing the results of the TVA social experiment. He attended first Fountain City Elementary then traveled one block over to Central High. Ralph enjoyed both academics and activities at Central. He played in the band and was an enthusiastic member of the debate club. His junior year, the debate team reached the state finals, placing second.
devoted to interdisciDuring his junior plinary writings in the year he also met and humanities. Dr. Norbegan dating a freshman advocated for UT man student, Corneto become the publishlia “Connie” Shirley, er and he served as ediwhom he later married. tor from 1985 through His senior year, he and 2000. fellow debaters Ruth Bradfelt and Tom Un“Seek Simplicity and derwood were asked Distrust It,” a quotato debate the welfare tion from philosopher state. Rather than Alfred North Whiteadopting the commonhead, became the purly accepted position pose statement for the of opposing “creeping journal. Peruse a few of Dr. Norman’s introsocialism,” the team ductory essays in this was challenged by an journal and hold your older acquaintance to hat for a rollercoaster practice arguing an of writing, threading unfamiliar viewpoint together ideas and inin favor of socialism terlacing themes in and communism. Their subjects as diverse as debate coach, Alberta Satchel Paige and OrAilor, invoking the aupheus. His editing disthority of the principal, plays a willingness to firmly informed them that a debate team Dr. Ralph Norman, founding head of UT’s Department of take on profound quesrepresenting Central Religious Studies, will be inducted into the Central High tions, with the room to consider contradictory would not be advocat- Wall of Fame on Saturday, Nov. 12. Photo submitted answers. His writings ing communism in the He then studied at Yale where include “Community in America” 1951 competition. The somewhat dispirited team Connie became director of the with Charles Reynolds. In 1971, Dr. Norman became did not fare well in competition Yale University Divinity Nursery that year, but Tom Underwood School. In 1961, having obtained the associate dean of the College and Ralph would both become his divinity degree and a second of Liberal Arts then moved into teachers who encouraged stu- master’s, Ralph completed his the university administration as dents to think and analyze for doctorate in philosophical the- Associate Vice Chancellor then themselves. History teacher Nan- ology. Five degrees in 10 years Vice-Provost. He oversaw the denie Lee Hicks gave him a solid reflect the profound love of aca- velopment of a faculty exchange grounding in the U.S. Constitu- demia and scholarship which program in American Studies with Bonn University, as well as tion. Ralph took Latin all four have marked his career. In 1961, Ralph and his fam- participation Bonn’s Transatlanyears at Central and his teacher, Pace Moore Johnston, helped ig- ily left Yale for a position at Mi- tic Summer Academy on Europenite a strong interest in languages ami University in Oxford, Ohio, an Integration. In 1991 and 1996, and ancient cultures, introducing as an assistant then associate he served as a guest professor in professor in the departments Bonn’s North American Studies him to writers such Virgil. Ralph received a Bachelor of of philosophy and religion. In Program. His office oversaw the Arts from UT in 1954 with ma- 1966, UT recruited him to begin development of UT’s Normandy jors in philosophy and English, a Department of Religious Stud- Scholars Program, allowing sethen a master’s in philosophy ies. He accepted the challenge lect students from UT to explore in 1956. In 1955-56, he was ac- which provided the opportunity different aspects of the 1944 alcepted as a Fulbright Scholar to to cross-fertilize between differ- lied invasion of Normandy. Tubingen University in Baden- ent disciplines and departments. Ralph developed lighter interWurttemberg, Germany. He also Another opportunity to en- ests as well, including an interest had the opportunity to attend in- courage interdisciplinary schol- in croquet, the formal game in formal English-language semi- arship arose when Vanderbilt which participants are expected nars conducted by famed Swiss University decided to cease spon- to wear white. Despite his potheologian Karl Barth in Basel. sorship of Soundings, a journal sitions of influence within the
university, he was unable to persuade former athletic director Doug Dickey to include croquet as a university sport. Among his honors are the Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Service to the University (2003) and the University Studies Award for Distinguished Service (2002). Dr. Norman’s interests in humanities and the arts extend beyond academics. He chaired the Tennessee Committee for the Humanities and served on the board of the Knoxville Opera Guild. He has combined his love of croquet with community service through croquet tournaments benefitting the Opera Guild and the High Country Women’s Fund in Avery County, N.C. He has been involved in arts councils for the city of Knoxville and the state of Tennessee. Connie and Ralph raised two children, son Stephen and daughter Emily. Knoxville is home to Emily and her husband, David Cox, and children, Jonathan and Caroline. Son Stephen passed away in 2000. Connie passed away in 2007. Now retired, Ralph Norman divides his time between Knoxville, Blowing Rock, N.C., and Key Largo, Fla. He met his new wife, Linda, in Blowing Rock and has enjoyed introducing her to competition croquet. A native of Albany, N.Y., Linda Lillo Norman has also enjoyed being introduced to Knoxville’s version of Southern culture.
Breakfast is Nov. 12 The 10th annual Central High School Wall of Fame breakfast is 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Central High commons. Other inductees include Charlotte Davis, Eddie Mannis and the Rev. Billy Wallace. Tickets are available at the school office or by calling 922-5433.
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POWELL SHOPPER-NEWS • OCTOBER 31, 2011 • A-7 leaf, and the leaves themselves a riot of color, my heart sings, and I know it is true. I am a child of October. Years later, when I was a student at UT, my sophoFor before the harvest, when the blossom is over more English professor was and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut of English descent. I think off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading of him every year at this branches he will hew away. (Isaiah 18: 5 NRSV) time, not because of all the Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are wonderful things he taught they? me, nor his dry British humor, or the twinkle in his Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. ‌ eyes, but because he spoke (“Ode to Autumn,â€? stanza 3, John Keats, 1819) of Keats’ “Ode to Autumnâ€? with such reverence. I was meant to be an Every October I take out October baby, a fact no one my textbook, “World Maspointed out to me while I Cross terpieces,â€? and reread not Currents lay curled up, warm and only Keats’ poem, but also cozy and protected in my Lynn the notes I wrote in the marmother’s tummy. For three Hutton gins of the page. I can still weeks past her due date, I hear Dr. Sanders saying, lazed around, getting fat, “This is the perfect poem. quite unconcerned with calThis poem doesn’t say someendars. Then, on Halloween thing; it is what it says.â€? night, I decided it was time rity of the womb, I procrasHe went through the to make my debut, and Dad- tinated further and did not poem word by word, helpdy drove Mother to the hos- draw my first breath in this ing us appreciate the imagpital. (I have never until this world until late afternoon, ery, the sensuous sound and moment thought to wonder the next day. So I missed Ocpace of the words, the arif my brother got to go trick- tober altogether that year. rangement of the letters. He or-treating that night!) But nowadays when I see pointed out the perfection of Even at the hospital, still the blue October skies, the the brief moment captured reluctant to leave the secu- air so clear I can see every in the poem, a moment that
My (annual) ode to autumn
Qualls to speak at KFL C.H. Qualls will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov.1. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.
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WORSHIP NOTES Community services â– Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry from 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and from 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday. â– Knoxville Free Food Market, 4625 Mill Branch Lane (across from Tractor Supply in Halls), distributes free food 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of the month. Info: 566-1265. â– New Hope Baptist Church distributes food from its food pantry to local families in need 6-8 p.m. every third Thursday. Info: 688-5330. â– Temple Baptist Academy is collecting nonperishable food items through Friday, Nov. 18, for its Thanksgiving Food Drive. Food will be accepted at the school office or at academy home ball games. â– Dante Church of God, 325
Dante Drive, will be distributing Boxes of Blessings (food) on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 9 a.m. to noon or until the boxes are gone. Anyone who would like to receive a box of blessings is invited. You must be present to receive a box of food and there is a limit of one box per household. Info: 689-4829.
Fundraisers and sales â– Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host a Fall Craft Fair 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, in the Family Life Center Gym. Local crafters are welcome to sell handmade gifts and creations. Info: Julie at jbmintn@gmail.com, or call 690-1060 and leave a message for Julie Moorefield. â– Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, will hold the annual fall bazaar and rummage sale 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5. Info: 688-1000 or www.faithseekers.org. â– Fountain City UMC will have its Fall Bazaar from 9 a.m. to
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is balanced in perfect maturity: ripeness, suspended between growth and decay. He waxed eloquent also about the perfection of the arrangement of words: the three stanzas (three being a perfect number: beginning, middle, end), and the fact that all the senses get drawn into play. The first stanza, he noted, is all about taste, touch and smell. The second deals with sight, and the third is devoted to sounds. Rereading that poem reminds me to taste and touch and smell autumn in all its glory, as well as to see it. Keats nudges me: turns my face to look, to savor, to listen, to breathe. I am so grateful to live here, in this place, with four distinct seasons, with the turning of the year painted in gold and amber and scarlet, with the quiet brook lying at the back of my meadow, and the sky so blue it hurts my heart. I am so blessed to have eyes to see, ears to hear, a mind to wonder, and a soul to give thanks. Happy autumn! Barbara Louise Griffin James M. Lowery
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2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the church. Crafts, antiques, eclectic items, holiday designs, bakery, sweets, recycled toys, books, CDs and more. All money goes to missions. Lunch of soups, sandwiches, salads, chips, desserts and drink will be served in Wesley Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ■Rutherford Memorial UMC, 7815 Corryton Road, will host a benefit BBQ and auction Saturday, Nov. 12. Uncle Butch’s BBQ will be served 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and the auction will begin at 6:15 p.m. Proceeds to benefit Seth Cate, who was recently diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. ■New Beverly Baptist Church’s Holiday Bazaar is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. Multiple vendors. ■Shepherd of the Hills Baptist
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Revivals â– Clear Springs Baptist Church, 8518 Thompson School Road, will host revival 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. Special music. Info: www. clearspringsbaptist.net or 688-7674. â– Mt. Harmony Baptist Church, 819 E. Raccoon Val-
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Youth programs â– New Hope Baptist Church, 7602 Bud Hawkins Road in Corryton, hosts Celebrate Recovery adult and youth classes 7 p.m. Tuesdays and 12-step class 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Info: 688-5330.
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A special senior class Veterans cap successful career at PHS By Greg Householder
The Powell High School Concert Choir under the direction of Jim Kennedy opens things up at the fall concert last Thursday with “Festival Sanctus.” Photo by Greg Householder
Singers shine at choral fall concert By Greg Householder Last Thursday at Powell High School, musical talent was in abundance. The PHS choral department presented its fall concert. Under the direction of Jim Kennedy and with accompanist and guest conductor Will Brimer, the Concert Choir opened the show with “Festival Sanctus,” “O, America” with Tori Palmer as soloist, “Allellia” and “Hiney Mah Tov.” The quartet Adelphi, consisting of Katherine Cobb, Tori Lentz, Hannah Strozyk and Ashton Wade, performed “Candle on the Water.”
The Boys Ensemble, made up of Curtis Allred, Brandon Barnes, Brandon Evans, Luke Nightwine, Tye Sharp and Matthew Underwood, performed “Zumanguaza,” “Bwana Awabariki” with Allred as soloist, “Kum-ba-ya” with Sharp as solist, “Wimoweh” with Michael Hurst as soloist and “Siyahamba.” The quartet Four and No More – Ashley Spangler, Erin Parks, Samantha Major and Tori Palmer – sang “Rock Around the Clock.” The male quartet Three and a Half Men, Caleb Brewer, Harrison Cooke, Noah Muncy and Kyler Roberts, performed “Coney Is-
land Baby.” The foursome called The Ringers, made up of Katlyn Householder, Emily Morrow, Whitney Pittman and Kelsie Shipley, sang “Sh-Boom” and “Mr. Sandman.” The Girls Chorus took the stage accompanied by Spencer Devine and performed “We are Blessed,” “Walking in the Air” with Haley Harbin as soloist, “Adiemus” with Tori Lentz as soloist and “Cross the Wide Missouri.” The Adelphi quartet returned to perform “Lean on Me.” The PHS Singers closed out the show with “Doluri” and “Baba Yetu” with Kyler Roberts as soloist, Corbyn Skeen
as ASL interpreter and Harrison Cooke on percussion. The Singers also performed “Alluluia,” “Somewhere over the Rainbow” with Noah Muncey and Katlyn Householder as soloists and Caleb Brewer on the ukulele, and “La Cucaracha.” Soloist Alex Strozyk performed “I Can Go the Distance” and soloists Allie Patton and Justin Wood sang “When You Believe.” The show closed with “I Can See Clearly Now” and “The Lord Bless You and Keep You.” Wesley Kirkland was chief executive audio manager and Brandon Hall was the lighting boss.
As this is written, one thing is for certain: the 23 seniors on the Powell High School football team have not played their last game on Hayworth Field at Scarbro Stadium. The Panthers are definitely in the playoffs and as a top seed will host the first round and perhaps beyond. The only question as of press time is who they will play. On Oct. 21, the 2011 Powell seniors and their teammates completed their second undefeated regular season campaign in as many years with a 34-0 win over Central. This crop of seniors has made the playoffs all four years of their career and many of them have been three- and even four-year starters. Their presence will be missed next year. “They are arguably one of the best if not the best classes to come through here either ever or in a long, long time,” says head coach Matt Lowe.
A good number of the players have been together a long time – like a decade in some cases, playing up through the Powell youth football system. “This class is one of the biggest that has stuck together since they were 7 or 8 years old,” says Lowe. “And they were successful back then, too.” The 2011 seniors are, in roster order: Dyshawn Mobley, Justin Wood, Andrew Irby, Dustin McPhetridge, Brady Williams, Landon Wright, Jonathan Staggs, Darian Logan, Nick Hammond, Colby Skeen, Drake Owenby, Alan-Michael Agee, Cade Smith, Gray Bunch, Chris Easterday, Koby Crisp, Cory Headrick, Zach York, Wesley Sparks, Xavier Walker, Tony Foster, Darrian Farmer and Sinjin Meyers. Many a familiar name on that list, no doubt. Congratulations to the seniors and the rest of the Panthers for another perfect regular season. Kickoff Friday for round one is at 7 p.m., 30 minutes earlier than the usual starting time.
Love and care at the teddy bear clinic By Ruth White Second grade students at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School last week visited the Teddy Bear Emergency Room and receive quality care for beloved stuffed pets. The clinic was set up to build on classroom instruction in science (germs and preventing illness), health and safety (hospitals are safe places to go for help) and social studies (community workers that provide help). Students learned that hospitals are places where people are there to help them feel better. Each student wrote out what had happened to their pet and clinic staff members helped make each stuffed pet feel better. Students were required to give their pets love and care and read three books to it to help with healing.
Brickey-McCloud Elementary student Emma Wade receives “medical attention” from Patty Long for her stuffed pet at the Teddy Bear Emergency Room. Long prescribed love six times a day for Cookie, and Wade was asked to read three books to her pet.Photos by Ruth White
Julie Poteet shows Kellen Magnus an “X-ray” of his stuffed pet while Tamara Marchantel discusses treatment options with him.
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Goodwill opens Powell store Even in Friday’s rain, Goodwill Industries drew a huge turnout for the grand opening of its 26th retail store, located at 7623 Clinton Highway. The line was so long that officials opened the store early. Cutting the ribbon are: Elaine Clark with Waste Connections; Lori Reid, Goodwill Powell store manager; Dr. Robert G. Rosenbaum, Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc. president and CEO; Liz Nother, Goodwill Industries-Knoxville executive vice president; Russ Jensen, representing Mayor Dan Brown for the city of Knoxville; and April Tomlin, representing Mayor Tim Burchett for Knox County. Photo submitted
Time to focus on bowl eligibility Optimism is linked to good health. Encouragement is wherever you find it. Fortunes are rooted in the power of positive thinking. Sometime soon those still wearing orange sunglasses will stop looking back at the wreckage of what might have been and switch their focus to bowl eligibility. Six victories open the door to one of the many minor bowls. Go Vols! Give us six! Nipping Middle Tennessee State will be a giant step forward. After that comes an inconvenient trip to Arkansas and then the old faithfuls, Vandy and Kentucky. Push hard, men. End this season with a bang! Ah yes, Johnny Majors had it right, people remember what you do in November. And December. Last year, Tennessee and the officials found a way for North Carolina to prevail in the lovely Music City Bowl. OK, so it required overtime. And Tyler Bray didn’t notice the Tar Heel linebacker. If going to Nashville leaves something to be desired, there are several other potential destinations with exciting settings. Boise. Mobile. Albuquerque. Shreveport. Any
William Mayes, Hudson Bryant and Benjamin Suggs get some play time in at the Little Lambs Even minor bowls are Learning Center. Photo by Greg Householder important. They are status symbols. Well, sort of. They are rewards for not losing seven or more games. They supposedly create good The center can take kids sion of our pastor (the Rev. feelings about the future. ages 2-and-a-half up to kin- Clarence Sexton) to reach We will definitely get ’em dergarten aged. The pre- all ages,” says Swope. next year. school is open to anyone in The preschool uses a curYoung players who are the community, and students riculum that prepares chilnow just watching get exor their parents do not have dren for kindergarten. They tra practice opportunito members of Temple Bap- learn about colors, shapes ties. No doubt you noticed tist Church or future students and other pre-kindergarten widespread improvement of Temple Baptist Academy. subjects. generated by the additional The academy formerly By Greg Householder The center provides two workouts of last December. On Aug. 17, the Little had a “K4” program for 4- prepackaged snacks each Bowl bids are recruiting Lambs Learning Center and 5-year-olds who missed day. Children are required tools. If prospects feed on opened for business on the the birth date cutoff for kin- to bring their own lunches. history lessons, we can ofcampus of Temple Baptist dergarten, but it stopped Tuition is $125 per week fer a thick book. Tennessee that program when Little for the first child; $115 for Church in Powell. has been bowling 49 times. Dr. Joyce Swope, a busi- Lambs opened this year. a second child and $100 In the official 2011 broness professor at the Crown The Little Lambs Learning per child for three or more chure, it says the VolunCollege, leads the center as Center, while a ministry of children. There is a $50 anteers traditionally provide administrator. She is joined the church, is totally sepa- nual enrollment fee and $30 an exciting bowl spectacle by director Mary Rogers rate from the academy. annual art fee. For parents with high-powered offense The preschool falls under and staff members Melissa who enroll their children in and grudging defense. How White, Jessica Newman, the regulation of the state November, the $50 enrollabout that! Alaina Parson and Sara Department of Human Ser- ment fee will be waived. It is a splendid idea for Breese. vices and is a 501(c)(3) orgaFor information regardTennessee fans to look nization. The preschool already ing enrollment, contact ahead boldly to bowl elihas an enrollment of eight “The reason Little Lambs Mary Rogers at 704-881gibility. Soon and very is here is because of the vi- 4438. soon, let us cheer that ac- kids – mostly 4-year-olds.
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