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VOL. 51 NO. 43

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October 22, 2012

Emory Road project ahead of schedule

Calling all Knox County principals, teachers, students, supervisors and superintendents: Do you have a miracle maker at your school? Know somebody in the system whose good work deserves to be highlighted? Nominate them as a candidate for our ongoing Miracle Maker series by sending an email to news@ ShopperNewsNow.com.

IN THIS ISSUE

Coffee Break

Jean Richardson served 60 years as a pastor, 18 of which were spent at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Powell. Jean was also the second president of the Powell B&P. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in divinity. Get to know Jean over a Coffee Break.

See page A-2

The real deal Mayor Tim Burchett got it right when he called Josephine Butler and the Therapeutic Riding Academy of Knoxville “the real deal.” Burchett spoke at the group’s Fall Festival at Doc’s – the farm home of Josephine and the late Dr. Bill Butler in Karns.

See Sandra Clark’s story on page A-3

TDOT Commissioner John Schroer and state Rep. Harry Brooks view the construction of the new Emory Road through Powell last week. Photo by Jake Mabe

By Jake Mabe The new Emory Road project is running “10 percent ahead of schedule,” says Tennessee Department of Transportation regional director Steve Borden. TDOT Commissioner John Schroer toured parts of Knox and Union counties last week as part of his TDOT Projects bus tour, in which he, along with elected and transporta-

tion officials, viewed current TDOT projects as well as those listed in TDOT’s Three Year Program. During a stop in Powell, Borden said the Powell project is “doing very well. “Right now, they are doing utility work, grading work and drainage work,” Borden said. “Everything is progressing smoothly. We drove it about four weeks ago and saw

a lot of project. The contractor has gotten a great start.” The project is slated for completion Oct. 31, 2013. It will create a new four-lane Emory Road that will bypass the Powell business district and the three Powell schools. That portion of Emory Road will become a local road or a “business” stretch of Emory Road.

Cas II honors old coonhunter Big Jim sings duet By Betty Bean

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Storytime at Powell Library Children ages 4 to 7 are welcome to dress up in costume and to bring a favorite toy or stuffed animal for the Powell Branch Library’s storytime 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at the library. The storytime theme is Autumn. Apple juice and animal crackers will be served. The library is located at 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

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Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour veterans David West and Russ Jeffers were swapping stories before the East Tennessee Historical Association’s BBQ, Blue Jeans and Cas II dinner. West told about the time Cas loaded him, Red Rector, Fred Smith and a dobro player in the Opel station wagon he used to haul his hunting dogs and drove them up to Kentucky. The musicians had a gig. Cas was going to see a man about a dog. On the way, he explained why he loved his hounds so much – they’d saved him from freezing to death one cold night in the woods by piling up and letting him burrow down into them. Then he told everybody to get out of the car and he’d be back later. “He dumped me and Fred and Red and the dobro player off on a corner in the dark to wait for him. After awhile, Fred said to me, ‘David, if it gets too cold, we can just throw another dog on the pile.’ ” Jeffers, who did the show in the mid-60s, shortly after Dolly Parton departed for Nashville, thinks that giving Dolly her start and recognizing her potential might be the most important thing Cas Walker ever did. “I missed more school buses

Con Hunley and David Earle West get ready to go on stage. Photo by Betty Bean because I wouldn’t leave the house until Dolly Parton finished singing,” he said. “There was something about this little voice that was so different … and it was Dolly who went on and broke the good ol’ boy network in Nashville. “She told old Porter (Wagoner) ‘I’ve gone as far as I can with you and I’ve got to move on with my life.’ Dolly was smart and tough when she had to be and she showed that women could do a lot more than sign a contract and sing

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backup. If I have a hero, it’s Dolly Parton. The biggest thing about her is her heart.” West, a master banjo player whose Clinton Highway music store and dance hall Ciderville have become the unofficial Cas Walker museum, wasn’t a bit surprised at the big crowd gathered for the Blue Jeans and Cas II dinner. He says interest in the old coonhunter has never waned in the 14 years since his death. “We sell Cas Walker merchan-

dise every day – six or eight different T-shirts, fly swats, caps, Superderm Salve, all his books. We keep it going.” Right after West excused himself to do a sound check with featured entertainer Con Hunley, Jim Haslam came over to chat. When he heard Jeffers was a Farm and Home Hour alum he threw his arm around him and started singing: “Pick up the morning paper when it hits the street…” They finished up the duet, and Haslam, who probably was “fer” most everything Cas was “agin,” politically speaking (the City-County Building, the World’s Fair, any talk of a convention center) reminisced about his old nemesis: “Cas was OK,” Haslam said. “He’s part of Knoxville’s heritage with his radio and television shows … But we were on different sides, let’s put it that way. Cas didn’t like change, so we were on opposite sides most of the time.” West started the show by pointing out some Cas Walker memorabilia – the coonhunter backdrop from the TV show, the life-sized cutout of Dolly next to a dummy decked out in one of Walker’s suits sitting in Cas’s favorite chair with a stuffed raccoon between them. Con Hunley then sang three songs and owned the room. To page A-3

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