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BUZZ School board The Union County Board of Education will meet in regular session Thursday, March 26, in the Union County High School auditorium. The workshop will begin 6 p.m. with the meeting immediately following.
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GIS team takes third in state By Libby Morgan
Pine seedlings Union County Soil Conservation District is giving away white pine seedlings, 10 per person, on a first come, first served basis. Contact Sandy Greene at the UCSCD office at 3741 Maynardville Highway, Maynardville, or call her at 865-9928031.
Drive 4UR School postponed Union County High School HOSA department’s planned April fundraiser through Ford, Drive 4UR School, which is an opportunity to raise $6,000 in one day, has been postponed until the fall.
IN THIS ISSUE Learning biology Ms. Cosby was without doubt one of the sweetestnatured teachers who ever taught in Union County. She taught us well and worked us hard, but she was not nearly as demanding as I had her figured. Like most good teachers, she worked harder than any of her students.
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Making soap I well remember soap-making at home every spring, but my mother never wrote down her recipe. She didn’t need to and I never bothered to ask her for it. This is what I remember … The iron kettle was cleaned and about two gallons of water poured in. When the fire was hot enough to boil the water, she poured in a lye liquid gleaned over the winter from green hickory ashes.
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Nathanael Kadron, Dakota Sherritze, Martin Dickey, Joshua Sherrite and Jeremiah Kadron, who comprise the Union County GIS team, creators of a map for motorcycle rides in Union County Photo by L. Morgan
Mayor Mike Williams, an avid motorcyclist, charged a group of teens to create a map of good rides in the county. He picked the right group of teens, as they were statewide winners in last year’s mapmaking contest, put on by a globally known data company, ESRI. They are all members of the Smoky Mountain 4-H Club and won last year’s competition with a trails map of Big Ridge State Park. The Union County team fell a little short of first place this time, taking third for an unfinished map. “We still have some additions to make to our motorcycle rides map,” says Dakota Sherritze, one of the team members. “But we had to go ahead and submit our entry by the deadline on February 20.” ESRI provides data and mapping for a myriad of uses by government, military, scientific and commercial enterprises, and they sponsor a 4-H competition every year, sending state winners to their annual symposium in San Diego.
State Farm gets new office “We got in here while our sidewalk was an ice skating rink,” says David McCollough, State Farm agent for over 25 years in Maynardville. Son Jake, also a State Farm agent, says, “I beat on the ice, and all I could do was rough up the surface.” The planned move was a short one – just around the corner – so they were ready, and they persevered and got their computers, phones and furniture in place and working despite the slick roads and sidewalk. Their new office was formerly Dyer’s Flooring, which moved one door north.
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Spring practice Once upon a time, spring practice was thought to be the birthplace of college football teams. That thought has evolved. Winter workouts are now very important, more for individual improvement than team functionality. Summer togetherness is critical for bonding, all for one, one for all.
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March 18, 2015
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David and Jake McCollough in front of their new office on Maynardville Highway. Photo by Libby Morgan
Byron Bryant, pioneering lawyer, passes He volunteered his time as the Plainview By Sandra Clark city judge and enjoyed every The city of Plainview lost its judge and hunaspect of farm life in Union dreds of North Knox and Union countians County. He once said he was lost a friend when Byron Douglas Bryant, 66, “running a retirement home passed away suddenly on March 8. Byron and for old horses.” wife Christa lived on a farm in Plainview in a Weekends were spent in house which Byron proudly claimed to have Civil War re-enactments with built himself. Burroughs Battery 1st TenHis dad, Harry J. Bryant, was a solo practinessee Light Artillery. Byron tioner of law, and Byron followed in his foothad uniforms for both sides steps albeit on the other end of Knox County. Byron Bryant and cheerfully fi lled the role Byron served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and returned home to attend law most needed. He and Christa were married 45 years and school at UT. He practiced law in Halls for 33 produced three daughters: Dr. Erin Bryant of years.
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