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VOL. 51 NO. 44
October 29, 2012
A dose of ‘A rsenic and Old Lace’ Nominate a Miracle Maker 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.
By Ruth White The Powell Playhouse presented “Arsenic and Old Lace,” directed by playhouse founder Nita Buell Black. The cast features Barbara Robertson and Bonny Pendleton as Martha and Abby Brewster, who have a habit of killing off gentlemen guests with a cup of elderberry wine mixed with arsenic, cyanide and strychnine. Add to the cast brothers Jonathan and Mortimer Brewster (Alan Robertson and Adam Hill), an evil doctor (Steven Miller) and a crew
IN THIS ISSUE
Coffee Break
Janice White pops up everywhere in Powell. She retired after owning and operating Creative Design, a wholesale floral business, for more than 25 years. And now she’s the consummate volunteer. She works for Powell Florist at holidays to keep up with trends, and says it’s fun to spend somebody else’s money at the market! Janice got involved with the Heiskell Community Center shortly after retiring in 2007. Get to know Janice over this week’s Coffee Break.
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Basketball time! Cuonzo Martin and Marvin West and several players and possibly you anticipate solid improvement in Tennessee basketball this winter. Those who do national polls and predictions are not convinced.
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See Marvin’s story on page A-6
Haunted house? Lori Tucker led the way into the employee break rooms on the third floor of Greystone, which houses WATE-TV. It was designed and built in 1885 by Civil War veteran Major Eldad Cicero Camp, who for a time used the upper floor as Camp’s Home for Friendless Women. “This is where most of us who work at night don’t come,” Tucker said. “It gives us the heebie-jeebies.”
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Jonathan Brewster (Alan Robertson) and Dr. Einstein (Steven Miller) make plans to dispose of a body in “Arsenic and Old Lace.” of bumbling police officers (Brian Murphy, Scott Smith, Chuck Denney and Dave Arter), and the plot Abby Brewster (played by Bonny Pendleton) is questioned about the contents thickens quickly. No production can run smoothof the window seat by her nephew Mortimer (played by Adam Hill) in the Powly without a great crew, including ell Playhouse’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace.” Photos by Ruth White
Hutchison tops HPUD list By Shannon Carey The Hallsdale Powell Utility District Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to submit Tim Hutchison, Todd Cook and Joe McDonald to Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett as candidates to replace board chair Jim Hill. In September, Burchett rejected a list which included Hill, the first time in HPUD history that a mayor had rejected the board’s slate of candidates. The nominating committee included board member Kevin Julian, HPUD president Darren Cardwell and HPUD employee Sandy Liford. The committee interviewed 16
HPUD nominees Tim Hutchison Todd Cook Joe McDonald
KUB engineering aide. He was a registered land surveyor from 1970 to 1990 and is a US Marine Corps veteran. When presenting the committee’s selections, Julian said that the decision Hallsdale Powell Utility District commissioners Kevin Julian, Jim Hill and Bob Crye discuss a was made with no political new slate of board candidates. Photo by S. Carey agenda. He said that although law requires that applicants. most recent Republican Knox County Mayor’s of- the candidates be ranked Hutchison is a former mayoral primary. fice under former mayor in order of preference, the Knox County Sheriff and Cook is employed by Mike Ragsdale as director committee decided to leave a homebuilder. He ran the Knox County Sheriff’s of court administration. against Burchett in the office. He worked in the McDonald is a retired To page A-3
Surgery boss Minefield makes OR hum
See Betty Bean’s story on page A-5
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stage manager Lynette Brown; prop managers Rebecca Broom and Carly Johnson; set designers Randy Cross and Jeff Huffaker and sound/light crew members Billy Staggs and Steve Horner.
Sitting down for a midday chat with Charlene Minefield is tricky. Her cellphone rings incessantly and the incoming calls trigger brief, rapid-fire outgoing messages alerting her staff that Dr. X is going to be 30 minutes late or that patient Y needs to be brought down to be prepped. Then she picks up her face-toface conversation exactly where she left off. Charlene Minefield (pronounced Minny-field) is a model
of efficiency. By noon, she’s been on the job nearly seven hours. “On a typical day, I get here about 5:15 or 5:20. That’s my quiet time, when I read my emails. Around 6, I’ll go to the front desk, look at my add-ons and start calling my doctors, telling them what time I expect them to be here. The staff starts rolling through around 6:30. “These guys will allow me to look at their cases and I arrange them – we try to do the more complex cases early,” Minefield said. “Usually when doctors first come here, they say ‘Don’t mess with my schedule.’ Then, when
Charlene Minefield and “Uncle” Richard Briggs Photo by Betty Bean they see how smoothly it goes, if I give you a 7:30 start, I expect they say ‘Let her do it.’ I just have you go be here, ready to go.” to make a believer of them. And To page A-3
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