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Back-to-school Check out the Shopper’s annual back-to-school feature with ads from area merchants and a complete school calendar for 2013-14.
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Beaver Creek
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‘Educator at sea’ Noelle Turner says she “lucked into” teaching marine ecology at Bearden High School. And she “lucked into” two summer stints working on the E/V Nautilus, a ship of exploration that took her to the Mediterranean Sea in 2012 and the Gulf of Mexico in 2013. But at some point, luck had to be superseded by Turner’s personal qualities – her passion for educating and her drive to learn. And her students are the lucky beneficiaries of her adventures.
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See Betsy Pickle’s story on A-9 Beaver Creek at sunset looks like a scene from a travel journal. This is the creek most of us do not see because we lack access.
One of one Sitting in Jim Gombos’ garage is a true treasure, rare as they come, the only one in the world. It’s a restored 1932 Ford Boat Tail Speedster, designed and built specifically for Edsel Ford (Henry Ford’s son) by Edsel and E.T. “Bob” Gregorie. How the car finally got here is a terrific tale.
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“I live in Halls on Emory Road and we kayak up and down Beaver Creek all the time. We live just down from the locally famous Blue Hole. We have been downstream from Carolyn Felhoelter con- our home to almost I-75, tacted us to say she’s really an approximate distance of excited about the possibil- 3-4 miles. “We have only been upity of Beaver Creek becomstream about a mile. There ing a blueway.
By Sandra Clark
Beaver Creek: muddy ditch or pastoral getaway?
Analysis
are several places where we must get out and carry the boats around log/trash jams. “We have said for years how great it would be if others could enjoy the scenic and recreational value of this beautiful creek that covers so much distance in Knox County. “We see many species of
Beaver Creek at Hwy. 33 looks small and muddy. This is the creek we see from the highway. Photo by Ruth White
fish and other aquatic life become involved.” As Powell’s Rick Ross in this area. We also see muskrats, beavers, turtles, told Mayor Tim Burchett, “Making Beaver Creek a ducks, geese and deer. “I will be looking for future updates and ways to To page A-3
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Bulb sale this week Knoxville Green’s Holland bulb and bare-root fruit plant sale and giveaway will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4, at Windsor Square, Suite 290, at Kingston Pike and N. Seven Oaks Drive, west of Cedar Bluff Road and adjacent to Bailey’s Sports Grille. Each person, including children, will be given free bulbs. Varieties of bulbs and fruit plants such as raspberry will be available for purchase. Proceeds will be used to plant additional daffodils along Pellissippi Parkway and for beautification projects of Knoxville Green, founded by the late Maria Compere. Compere oversaw the planting of two million daffodils on the Pellissippi Parkway, including 60,000 planted in 2012 near the Dutchtown Road and Northshore Drive exits.
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Fine levied on Creekside Tavern By Sandra Clark The Knox County Commission, sitting as the Beer Board, has levied a $500 fine on JB’s Creekside Tavern, 7428 Clinton Highway, after a routine sting to detect beer sales to minors turned up a couple of jugs of moonshine in a cooler. While there was no evidence
permit for the new store at 7350 Clinton Highway, now under construction. Commissioner R. Larry Smith said, “Thank you for everything you’ve done since becoming manager of the Powell store. We appreciate your community involvement.” Catarina Mateo Pedro, seeking
an off-premises permit for Tienda Latino, 1738 Emory Road, was asked to return next month with an interpreter. She had difficulty communicating in English. And for the second time in three months, the entire Beer Board agenda involved businesses from Smith’s 7th District.
Singing in the neighborhood By Betty Bean Gospel music fans will want to draw a big red circle around Saturday, Aug. 10, because Powell Playhouse director Nita Buell Black has put together two solid hours of music and verse. The evening of Christian song and poetry will begin at 7 p.m. at the Jubilee Banquet Hall on Callahan Drive. Coffee and cobbler will be served and admission is $10 at the door. Performers will include some familiar faces – so-
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of owner Jeffrey Baerns selling or serving the moonshine, just having untaxed alcohol on premises was enough to bring down the law on Baerns. He also was cited to court. Terri Gilbert, manager of Food City in Powell, requested and obtained an off-premises beer
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loists Jamie Wells, Bryan Yow, Gerald Satterfield and Ben Burnette – who will be joined by The Inmans, a bluegrass gospel group from Jellico, and the New Heights Gospel Quartet. Soloist Rebecca Armstrong will also be on the playbill that night, making her Powell Playhouse debut. She’s excited about it and says she’s having a hard time deciding what she’s going to sing. “I’ve got so many songs voice gives her a many opin my head,” she said. Her versatile contralto tions. She likes to belt out
songs a la Whitney Houston and Tina Turner, but says there’s much more to her repertoire. “I’m low and I’m high. I’m all over the place, but what I love is gospel, because to me, that’s the only thing that has meaning.” Armstrong, whose mother was a choir director and raised all of her seven children to sing, is herself a mother of three and grandmother to two. She is also a preschool teacher in a Head Start program and does a lot of singing
on the job. “I sing to the kids at school. That’s what we do in the afternoon. We just sing and dance.” Frank Denkins will also be making his first Powell Playhouse appearance. He specializes in the spoken word, and says he has been drawn to poetry all his life. “I didn’t realize it when I was a kid, but since I moved to Knoxville, I moved into it and just followed the Lord. That’s my ministry.”
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