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BUZZ UCHS Blood Drive A blood drive will be held in the Health and Science Room in Union County High from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 17.

Donors will receive a free T-shirt and a coupon for a free Texas Roadhouse appetizer.

Brushes up!

Keep Union County Beautiful will hold a community work day to paint the interior of the historic Oak Grove Schoolhouse in Sharps Chapel this Saturday, April 18, beginning at 8:30 a.m.

More helpers (and food to keep them going) are needed.

Painting tools will be supplied.

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UCHS Jacob Cooke and Jessica Bravo ham it up for the crowd with a classic dip at Union County High’s Prom Fashion Show. Tuxedos and dresses were modeled onstage by about 20 students. Savvi Formalwear provided the fashions for the show, held in preparation for the school’s May 8 prom at The Foundry in Knoxville.

Photo by L. Morgan

Enjoy the fun and beautiful weather at Big Ridge State Park, the gem of Union County, at the Ridgerunner 5K. The 3.1 mile trails race is for serious runners, and the one-mile fun walk is, well, for fun.

Sign up by 8 a.m. Organizers can always use volunteers.

BOE to meet Union County Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 16, at Union County High School auditorium for a workshop to be followed by a voting meeting.

An agenda item is approval for new math textbooks.

Helping farmers accept EBT cards The Knox County Health Department and Nourish Knoxville are partnering to help farmers and farmers market managers accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards (commonly referred to as food stamps).

A free sign-up will be 9 a.m. until noon Monday, April 20, in the KCHD auditorium, 140 Dameron Ave. Info: Katheryne.nix@ knoxcounty.org or 865-2155170.

IN THIS ISSUE Late bloomers Ronnie Mincey says his crepe myrtles take so long to bloom that “I contemplate cutting them down every spring.

“I myself am a late bloomer.

My mother told me I didn’t learn to walk until I was 17 months old.

Pictures of me as a child lead my wife to believe I had rickets.

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New coach played with Jimbo Fisher

By Libby Morgan Thomas Rewis came out on top of “an abundance of applicants” for the job left open when Union County High’s head football coach Ethan Edmiston was terminated for allowing Thomas Rewis a student to play without a medical release following an injury.

Rewis comes to the Patriots most recently from Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Ky., where he was an assistant coach. He has a long history as head coach at several high schools

since playing backfield with Jimbo Fisher on the Samford football team.

While Rewis and Fisher played in college, their team set an NCAA-record 52 average points per game.

“Coming here to Union County is a dream come true,” says Rewis.

“My heart’s always been in East Tennessee and I’m so glad to be back. And it’s good to be a head football coach again.

“As far as rebuilding a team, I’ve ‘been there, done that,’ so I know it’s not an overnight thing.

We’ll all work together, starting this afternoon in the weight room,” he says on his first official day at UCHS.

Some of Rewis’ stats: ■ At Hickman County, the team’s previous year win-loss record of 2-8 became 21-15 in the three years he coached there.

■ At Heritage High, teams under his leadership set every passing record in the school’s history.

■ At Fairview High, he took over a program that had won only four games in the previous four years and turned it into three straight playoff appearances, including regional runner-up.

■ He has been named Georgia Region 3-AAA Coach of the Year and Williamson County (Tenn.)

Coach of the Year.

UCHS athletic director Shane Brown says, “Rewis not only im-

pressed us with his coaching stats, he has an impressive teaching history, too. He has taught AP classes and is certified in history, psychology and phys ed.

“He is a program builder.”

Rewis begins teaching business classes right away, and he’ll be working with the players after school in strength training and running.

MEET THE COACH 6 p.m. Thursday, April 16, Union County High School

Lowe fallout ripples Energy upgrades ahead, county to borrow $3.5 million across state

By Sandra Clark Former Knox County Trustee Mike Lowe was scheduled to enter the Knox County Detention Center April 11 to begin a oneyear term he plea-bargained for stealing at least $200,000 while in office.

Now auditors are tightening up on personnel practices statewide in the wake of Lowe’s plea and a jury-conviction of his employee Delbert Morgan, who was paid for time not worked.

This case has dramatized the random personnel practices of elected officials across the state.

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Bean was subsequently defeated by Cathy Quist Shanks.

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Union County Commission was asked to vote Monday, April 13, for $3.5 million to fund energy upgrades for every school in the county. The vote was expected to pass after it passed unanimously in the Budget and Finance Commission last week.

Joe Bond spoke for Johnson Controls, the vendor selected by the Board of Education to implement the project.

Director of Schools Dr. Jimmy Carter said he was “happy with the amount of mechanical we were able to get. … Johnson Controls listened to our needs and worked within our budget.”

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Joe Ayres, president of Knoxvillebased CumberJoe Ayres land Securities, said bonds would be sold at public, competitive rates. He anticipated “less than 2.5 percent interest” fi xed for 15 years with payment “in the $275,000 to $280,000 annual range.”

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Chamber offers Lunch and Learn workshop The Union County Chamber of Commerce and the Ser v ice Corps of Retired Executives (SCOR E) will host a Lunch and Learn workshop Tuesday, May 5, Pat Hurley at Hickory Star from noon to 2 p.m.

The topic will be How to Delight Your Customers, focusing on face-to-face customer service and how to identify a business’ unique selling proposition. “We hope to continue these Lunch and Learn workshops with more topics for all types of businesses and professionals,� says Pat Hurley, chamber president.

Attendees will be eligible for Continuing Education Credits.

The event is free for Chamber members and $35 for non-members. Reservations are required. Info: 865-992-2811. â–

Brady Nease (center) signs a basketball scholarship with Roane State. With him are (front) his grandmother Mary Merritt, mother Joy Nease and dad Kelvin Nease; and (back) his sister, UCHS cheerleader Brooke Nease, Roane State head coach Randy Nesbit and Brady’s brother, HMMS basketball standout Barron Nease. Photo by L. Morgan

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Little Valley open house Saturday

Allen Beeler, owner of Little Valley Nursery in Maynardville, will host an open house and plant sale Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hot dogs and cold drinks will be served, and each guest will receive a free plant.

Garden vegetable plants and hanging baskets are ready at the greenhouses at 1701 Little Valley Road.

By Libby Morgan “We’re always thrilled to get a great shooter, and Brady Nease has proven he’s just that,� says Roane State head basketball coach Randy Nesbit.

Nesbit is referring to Nease’s outstanding performance on the Patriots basketball team all four of

Pruitt, Daniels honored Wilson Pruitt and Eric Daniels of Maynardville are among 11 Walters State Community College students selected for membership in Kappa Beta Delta, an honor fraternity for business majors.

Pictured are Dr. Amy Ross, dean of business; Pruitt; Daniels; and Tommy Love, associate professor of accounting and advisor to the Kappa Beta Delta chapter. Photo submitted.

Rabies vaccination clinics Saturday The Union County Health Department is partnering with Thunder Road Veterinary Services to offer low-cost rabies vaccinations for dogs and cats Saturday, April 18, in the following locations:

â– Sharps Chapel Elementary, 9-10 a.m.

3:15 p.m. â– Paulette Elementary, 4-5 p.m.

â– Luttrell Elementary, 10:4511:45 a.m.

The price is $10 for a oneyear rabies vaccination for qualifying dogs and cats.

Clinics will be held rain or shine. Info: 992-3867.

â– Union County Health Department, 12:30-1:30 p.m. â– Big Ridge Elementary, 2:15-

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and “little� brother Barron, who’ll be a freshman next year, looks poised to fill Brady’s shoes. Except they may be a little tight, an indicator Barron could soon be the taller brother.

Brady has maintained a GPA of 3.7 at UCHS.

now must provide IRS form 1094-C, a transmittal of an employer-provided health insurance offer.

Williams said he understands why elected officials might not want to come under a county personnel policy, and they are not required to. “But if they want their own (policy), it must be in writing and consistent.�

Solid Waste: For instance, the convenience center employees are parttime, working 28 hours per week. They have no benefits and no vacation days, yet some have taken paid vacation and sick time. Officials say that’s in consideration of them working 50 Saturdays each year.

Becky Munsey, an employee of Waste Management who oversees the convenience centers, and Lyndsey Rankin, an accountant who works as a contractor for the Solid Waste Authority, met with members of the county’s Finance Committee last week. “This is not a budget issue; it’s a personnel policy issue,� said Ann Dyer, the

From page 1 county’s finance director. Commissioner Wayne Roach added, “We don’t want to take anything away from anyone, but we need to be consistent.�

Several commissioners agreed to attend this week’s meeting of the Solid Waste Authority, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the courthouse.

Union County gets a good deal on solid waste, according to Munsey and Rankin.

Services worth $1 million a year are provided by Waste Management in exchange for the county not operating its landfill.

That lack of competition is valuable since Waste Management operates the Chestnut Ridge landfill in Anderson County, visible from I-75.

The Solid Waste Authority operates as an “enterprise fund� under the 1991 Solid Waste Act of Tennessee, said Munsey. “Our waste is sorted and hauled to Chestnut Ridge free of charge to Union County,� said Munsey.

Waste Management pays her salary to operate the county’s main convenience center. The company pro-

vides equipment for the other centers, with the county paying for the equipment insurance and convenience center workers’ salaries at the branch locations.

Everyone agrees the convenience center workers are county employees, but they report to Munsey, not a county official such as the mayor.

Williams didn’t seem eager to take 6 a.m. calls from workers reporting in sick or whatever, and he doesn’t have a staff to delegate the task to.

Another interesting wrinkle is that seven of the nine-member Solid Waste Authority board of directors are county commissioners.

So when Rankin suggested “getting our board together with your board,� Dyer responded with, “Our board is your board.�

All this should make for an interesting meeting Thursday.

And this is just a sliver of the personnel issues from across the governmental landscape ‌ where one guy’s comp day is another’s phantom employee.

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Cheyenne Gordon, Evan Coley and Dylan Blanken come from Copper Ridge, Pineville, Ky., and Forge Ridge (Harrogate) with their families for the big event.

Sarah Nicley successfully avoids the stampede as the 8- to 10-year-olds’ egg hunt begins.

David Hopkins, Scout leader Linda Myers (holding Bugsy) and Antonio Grasty pause for a photo op at the Big Ridge Egg Hunt. The boys are students at Luttrell Elementary.

Big Ridge egg hunt is huge event “We cannot express enough gratitude for all of our sponsors and our bunny team that make our egg hunt better and better each year,” says Big Ridge State Park interim manager Sarah Nicley. “Their generosity and spirit make it possible.”

The event, in its 17th year, had more than 3,400 visitors and 12,000 Easter eggs for four age groups.

Hundreds of prizes were awarded including bicycles, tricycles and rocking horses.

“I have to give credit for all the work to Wanda Hutchison and Jayne Falkenberry in our front office, who do this every year,” adds Nicley. Generous sponsors for 2015: Big Ridge sends thanks to:

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Art on Main update

The Union County Arts Council is wrapping up plans for the June 6 Art on Main festival.

The downtown Maynardville event location will shift to be more concentric to Union County Arts at the corner ofThunder Road (aka Main Street) and Mulberry.

Local musicians on the Back Porch stage will include Earl Bull, legendary voice and strings for the Clinch Valley Boys; The Miscellaneous Musicians, made up of members of the Smoky Mountain 4-H Club; The Valley Boys, three Union County high school guys with voices like butter; mother/daughter duo The Atkins, the Paulette VFD Jammers, the Monday night bunch; Jim Woods and The Union County Dirt Band and others.

Music jams will go on in several places, and in the evening, Slick’s Deli plans to host an outdoor gathering of musical performances.

In the kids’ area, children can create arts and crafts for free, hop on the Art on Main Train, play and dance.

There will be a student art competition with awards and prizes. Sixth- through 12th-grade students of Union county are eligible.

Paintings and drawing submissions must be no more than 16 inches by 20 inches; 3-D pieces will also be accepted. Entries must be de-

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Ten-year-old Timothy Spencer, a student at Claxton Elementary, says he’s really glad he came to the egg hunt because he won this great bike. Photos by L. Morgan

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Dean will be accepting pre-orders for her history/ travelogue about Richard III’s life and the places he visited and lived in England.

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The fall of the old mill

Bloomers: late and otherwise Spring seems, at least today, to have arrived for good in Union County.

I find it interesting that some flowers bloom so early that, as Dickinson wrote, “The frost beheads [them] at [their] play, In accidental power.”

Others, like the crepe myrtle, take so long to bloom that I contemplate cutting them down every spring.

I myself am a late bloomer. My mother told me I didn’t learn to walk until I was 17 months old.

Pictures of me as a child lead my wife to believe I had rickets.

I loved my tricycle, and I rode it until I was so tall my knees knocked against the handlebars and prevented me from pedaling.

I never learned to ride a bicycle; I need at least three wheels under me at all times to maintain balance.

I was afraid of pencil sharpeners when I was in the lower grades. When my pencil needed sharpening, I would gnaw the wood until I exposed enough lead to write.

Amazingly, I have not yet succumbed to lead poisoning.

I didn’t learn to tie my shoes until I was nine years old. My mother tied them for me before I left for school. If they came untied during the day I stuffed the strings inside my shoes and shuffled my feet.

Several people tried to teach me this most useful skill to no avail.

It was my brother J. C. who came to my rescue.

A brilliant man, he realized that the reason I had never learned was that I was left-handed. When people would kneel before me to show me how to tie shoes, they were backwards.

J. C. knelt behind me, reached around my

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foot, and in less than five minutes my shuffling days ended.

Perhaps this shuffling caused another discomfort. There was a raised threshold between the kitchen and living room in the house in which I was raised.

For quite a few years, it seemed I never walked into either room – I tripped over the threshold and fell into and out of these rooms! I had sore knees and elbows for quite a while.

My teaching colleague Deanie Carver’s husband, Randy, used J.C.’s same wisdom to show me how to tie a necktie when I was 30, the year I became principal of Sharps Chapel Elementary.

Randy and I stood side by side at a mirror in their home, and with a most entertaining choice of words he guided me successfully, in less than an hour, through the art of finer dressing.

Despite these many evidences of my delayed development, I seemed to turn out all right. When my crepe myrtle bushes finally bloom, they are lovely and worth the wait. I hope those who know me best feel I also have been worth the wait.

If you think of yourself as a late bloomer, take cheer. Spring’s not over until the crepe myrtle blooms.

Next week I’ll share another milestone of maturation and the one who made it happen.

This is a poem by Martin Rice about the Lost Creek Mill. The poem is from pages 84-87 of “Rural Rhymes and Olden Times,” published in the late 1800s. Mr. Rice, a cousin of John Rice Irwin who founded the Museum of Appalachia, never forgot his Union County heritage and wrote poem after poem about his reminisces of the Lost Creek area. This is the mill where the Helve Hammer lay until it was secured by the Smithsonian Institution.

This mill on Lost Creek in Union was built and operated by the Rice family for 137 years. The mill was built in 1788 by James Rice and passed from father to son until1935 when all movable parts were removed and reconstructed on Clear Creek about a half-mile below Norris Dam. The last owner was James Rufus Rice “Uncle Rufe.” The mill operated continuously except for repair and remodeling.

It ground and bolted wheat for flour during part of that period. All wheels and gears and the big wheel were handmade on site. The iron bands and bolts were forged on site from bars forged at furnaces or bloomeries (smelters) within a six-mile radius. (Marshall Wilson, 1935) And has it fallen–that old mill– Upon the Lost Creek shore” That mossy wheel, is it now still, And will it turn no more” The history of that fallen mill, Its history who will write” Its early deeds, perhaps they will Be someday brought to light; Its incidents, what e’er they were, Few of the living know.

They say my grandsire built it there In years long, long ago, When Tennessee was first a State, Within its wooded wild, In seventeen hundred ninety-eight, My father then a child.

The builder then was in his youth– He long has passed away, And, his grandson now forsooth Am old, and worn, and gray.

The Indian war-whoop scarce had died Upon the hills around.

When settlers came from far and wide And had their hoe-cakes ground.

Those ancient settlers, where are they?

I cannot tell you where.

Long time ago they went away, And left the old mill there.

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Children were born, grew old, and died In sight of that old mill; Their bones are lying side by side Above it on the hill.

And yet through all those changing years, In every changing scene, In peace and war, and blood and tears– And many such have been– The old mill wheel went round and round, The stone went faster still; And still the staff of life was ground By that old water mill.

The last old pioneer had gone, For either woe or weal; The never-failing stream flowed on, That turned that old mill-wheel.

The sons and daughters of the one Who built it were dead, Save only one surviving son, Far in the West,’twas said.

Some children’s children still were there; Some few, but ah! still more Reposing in the grave-yard where The sire had gone before; And many, many more beside In distant lands away Are scattered far and severed wide, And have been many a day In life’s cold winter chill, And from life’s far-off setting sun Look back to that old mill.

How often in my dreams I’ve seen– Since wandering from there– That mill, the cedar grove so green, And fields as once there were; And oftentimes will memory tell The story o’er and o’er, Of what a wayward boy befell Upon that rocky shore Though memory now is feeble grown And recollections fail, They bring me back the years long flown And tell the oft-told tale; They point me out the narrow track Across the vale and hill, O’er which, upon Old Sorrel’s back, I rode to that old mill.

My cousins and my playmates gone They often bring to view; As when we sailed upon the pond In the old dug-out canoe.

But I had wandered far away, And they in death asleep; While other boys, as wild as we, Sailed on the mill-pond deep.

Years passed; the waters in the race Flowed on, and onward still, While others came to take the place Of those who ran the mill.

For eighty years – how long a time Since first its work began!

The generations came and went, and still the old mill ran; That never-failing stream supplied The needed motive power That through those many years supplied The land with meal and flour.

But was that mill the same, you ask, Through all those changing years– Was it the same in every part– It’s stones and running-gears?

Ah, no! It underwent repairs, As everything must do; And soon or late its every part Gave place to something new.

You’ve heard, perhaps, of that old knife, In use for five decades, Which half a dozen handles had And twice as many blades; And yet it was the same old knife, The man contended strong The same old knife his father had And he had used so long.

And so it was with that old mill, Though oftentimes repaired; Though millers came and millers went, The old mill still was spared.

For eighteen years or more it ground The bread I lived upon, And then I left my native place, And forth years were gone; And when those forty years were passed, Returned to that old mill; It looked, it seemed almost the same, And it was grinding still.

I asked: “Is this the same old mill

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You say you are the self-same youth Of eighteen years of age Who left his stream so long ago, Life’s battle-storm to wage; What part of that then youthful frame, Where Life’s machinery ran – What part have you brought back with you, You old, gray-headed man?

Your ancient comrades know you not; They cannot recognize The boy of forty years ago In that old time-worn guise.”

I was convinced; I felt the truth; I could not answer nay; I was, and yet was not, the same Bright boy that went away.

Like that old mill, my every part Had undergone a change; And though I thought myself the same, To others I was strange.

They tell us – men of science say That every seven years The tissues of the body change, And a new man appears; And yet it is the same old man, As everybody knows.

The oftener that the frame’s renewed,

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UNION COUNTY Shopper news • APRIL 15, 2015 • 5 helping hand that makes the DeBord arrangement logical. DeBord determines quarterback philosophy and $369,750 raise plus camp strategy. Sheridan implesupplement and bonus pro- ments details. What Sherivisions. Sheridan, 26, son dan contributes creates of an NFL coach, once a time and space for DeBord walk-on quarterback with to roam the practice field the Wolverines, is obscurity and coordinate the offense. personified, a graduate asAmazing what goes on sistant at Tennessee after a behind the screen. I and othbrief rocket ride flamed out. ers who wondered what in Nick was the official the world Jones was thinkquarterback coach at West- ing didn’t attach proper sigern Kentucky and South nificance to Sheridan. He is Florida ahead of his time, a/the quarterback coach. It relatively soon after he was so happens he and DeBord old enough to vote. speak the same language.

OK, so he got fired. That Nick was a reserve QB Willie Taggart’s team went at Michigan when DeBord 2-10 certainly wasn’t Nick’s was a coordinator there. fault. Taggart, the head DeBord and Bill Sheridan, coach, called plays.

Nick’s dad, were together on UT connections (Mike the staff at Ann Arbor. They Vollmer was a former ad- have known each other at ministrator at Michigan, least forever, maybe longer.

Zach Azzanni was offenButch Jones, being from sive coordinator at Western Michigan, knew all about all Kentucky when Sheridan those connections. He knew got his first best job) redi- the association would funcrected Nick to Knoxville last tion smoothly before the year. He performed well. rest of us (I in particular) He wasn’t able to save Jusfigured it out. tin Worley’s season but he Alas, now we all know helped Dobbs do what he why Butch gets paid more. did.

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DeBord now de ’man I have sort of switched sides. I was once a doubter, never a certified critic, but I am now a Mike DeBord advocate.

In the beginning, I was surprised that Butch Jones would try to pass off his old friend, a line coach, as a quarterback guru. Solicitation of supporting quotes from famous names was phony as a $20 Rolex.

Remarks were obviously scripted.

That magical transformation still generates skepticism but it no longer matters. DeBord is going to be a better offensive coordinator than was the previous good guy, Mike Bajakian. I don’t know why Mike II wasn’t here earlier. He was available.

DeBord can help Don Mahoney identify and instruct offensive tackles – which improves the chances of gaining a yard when a yard is critical.

DeBord can assist Robert Gillespie as needed with running backs – which im-

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proves the odds on gaining tough yards.

DeBord can help all concerned, starting with Jones, remember and embrace the proven concept of getting the football to playmakers.

DeBord can help win games.

After all that is said and some of it becomes reality, Nick Sheridan can help DeBord in the refinement and polishing of Joshua Dobbs and basic instruction of young quarterbacks.

Presto, all will soon be right in Tennessee’s football world. The Vols may not lose another game. It is just a matter of two more Michigan men working closely together.

DeBord, 60, got the billboard treatment and the

Energy upgrades boilers were pushing out 90-degree temperatures,” he said, and there’s no way to regulate them. So when school is in session, teachers either must open a window or use a window air conditioner to keep the classroom at 74 degrees.

Luttrell Elementary has already abandoned its steam boiler. Under this plan, all other schools will do the same. The scope of work includes interior lighting upgrades and motion sensors/occupancy controls at all schools; web-based automation to enable temperatures to be adjusted remotely at each school, plus: Maynardville Elementary – plumbing upgrades; three rooftop unit replacements; 19 classrooms will convert to a VRF system that allows each teacher to regulate the classroom temperature.

Carter said other classrooms have been updated already.

Big Ridge Elementary – plumbing upgrades; 10 classrooms get VRF; three rooftop unit replacements.

Sharps Chapel Elementary – plumbing upgrades, 16 classrooms get VRF. Luttrell Elementary – plumbing upgrades. The steam boiler has already been abandoned and classrooms updated.

Paulette Elementary, the system’s newest school – no major upgrades. Mike Sexton asked if exterior lighting could be dimmed.

Bond said outside lights are powered by photo-cells.

From page 1 Horace Maynard Middle – 13 classrooms get VRF; 2 rooftop unit replacements; auditorium HVAC installation (duct to be above ceiling tile). Carter said there is no heating or cooling in the auditorium now and “we were excited to bring this into the project.” This project does not save energy, however, and requires the school system to pay $30,000 per year for five years. Only one payment remains on the $30,000 annual payment the system is making for roof repairs, Carter said, so this won’t require additional funding.

Union County High – plumbing upgrades, upgrades to gym heating/ cooling system adding exhaust fans and ensuring air handlers are working correctly. Carter said the BOE installed eight compressors last year at the high school.

Bond said the project can launch in May once financing is in place. He anticipates 9 to 12 months until completion.

In other action last week: Library: Director Chantay Collins got part-time pay through June approved through budget line transfers to keep Sandra Clapp, an assistant previously funded by a federal grant.

Collins said Clapp is an essential employee and she will be requesting to add her to the budget for the next fiscal year.

Purchase cards: Finance Director Ann Dyer obtained committee approval for three cards from

Commercial Bank for use by the county government, school system and highway department. The cards will remain in her office and purchases reconciled back to purchase orders, she said.

Roads: Union County has obtained a $300,000 grant for road improvements. The work will be done by the state with the county promising to maintain the work. “These roads were deemed high risk, rural roads,” Dyer said, reporting for David Cox. Roads in the program are: Sharps Chapel, Walker Ford, Hickory Valley, Satterfield, Big Valley/Russell, and Tater Valley.

Budget hearings: Budget and Finance Committee will conduct hearings at the courthouse at 7 p.m. every other Tuesday starting April 21 and ending June 2.

Old mill

From page 4

The older still it grows; Until at last, like that old mill, Repairs are at an end – It fails, it sinks, and with the dust Its every part will blend.

And yet ‘twill live! That old mill lives Within many memory yet; And He who gave our bodies lives – No part will He forget.

He’ll raise them up more glorious Than e’er they were before; And they no more repairs will need Upon that other shore.

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One in a million

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your father. So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.

(Matthew 10: 29-31 NRSV) We are one in a million – that phrase that annihilates or transcends, depending. (“The Postmistress” by Sarah Blake) Annihilation or transcendence?

Startling choices.

I bought Blake’s paperback for some light reading. Ri-i-ight! Turns out it was the story of a small New England seaside village during World War II. It is told from the viewpoint of a radio news reporter (no TV in those days, remember) who was eventually sent to Germany to send eyewitness reports back home.

One in a million. Of course, the figure seared into our world-wide consciousness is six million: the number of Jews who were annihilated by Nazis simply because they were Jewish.

To think of the systematic murder of six million people boggles the mind.

To imagine that normal, walking-around folks could be ordered to obey such a mandate – and do so! – is beyond comprehension.

Yet it happened, and every one of those who

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died were one in a million. A unique individual who had been created by God. I am not saying that they were perfect; I am sure there were heroes and rascals alike included in that number. The point is that they were human and their only crime was being part of a population that Hitler hated. (In addition to Jews, there were other populations who were targeted: homosexuals, persons with diseases, the elderly, the weak.)

There were sturdy souls who cared, who helped, who fought to end the horror. One in a million.

Never again, please God, will they be needed to right such a wrong.

FAITH NOTES ■ Hansard Chapel UMC, 328 Maynardville Highway in Maynardville, will host a Supernatural Conference 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, and 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18. The food pantry will be open 6-7 p.m. Saturday.

■ Oaks Chapel American Christian Church, 934 Raccoon Valley Road, will start a revival 6 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Weeknight services will be at 7. The Rev. Doug Atkins and the Rev. Travis Proffit will speak.

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News from Luttrell ■

Luttrell names teacher, staff of year

Megan Hickle, in her second year of teaching, has been named Teacher of the Year at Luttrell Elementary.

She has lived in Union County since her parents landed here when she was in the sixth grade. She graduated from ETSU with honors.

“I love my job. This is what God told me to do – and what I needed to do.

This is home and I don’t need to be anywhere else,” says Hickle.

She and her husband, Lance Hickle, recently built a home near the school for themselves and their threeyear-old.

Principal Sonja Saylor says, “Megan is so energetic. She just has that special spark.”

Staff of the Year at LES is

new interventionist Loretta Staley.

Saylor says, “Loretta has been here many years, as a custodian and in the cafeteria, and now she’s in the classroom with the kids.

She’s where her heart has always been. She loves the kids.”

Staley earned her high school diploma after working 30 years for the school system, and passed the Praxis test to become an interventionist, where she monitors the students’ computer use and helps them with lessons tailored to their needs.

Her daughter, Laura Griffey, works in the school office, and her grandchildren, Weston and Kailin Griffey, attend Union Coun- Loretta Staley discusses a computer lesson with Tessa Braden. Toni Pollard listens as her teacher Megan Hickle helps her with the “or” sound.

Photos by L. Morgan ty schools.

Luttrell second-graders Janson Shupperd, Travyn Farmer and Natali Perez measure string found inside Easter eggs. The teachers say this is a great activity to get students excited about math and to increase physical activity. Photos submitted

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Which equation represents the associative prop a. 5 + (7 + 6) = (5 x 7) x 6

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Luttrell Elementary School held a book fair, celebrated by teacher Sarah Roach (center), Kailei Beeler (top left) and Bailey Griffith (right), dressed up as their favorite book characters.

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b. 5 x (7 x 6) = (5 x 7) + 6 c. 5 + (7 + 6) = (5 + 7) + 6

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Chiropractic treatment may be best known in relation to back problems.

But the nerves that travel through the back, from the brain through the spinal column, control the functions of every part of the body, including the bladder. The lower five vertebrae of the spine, known as the lumbar spine, is the area from which emanate the nerves that control the bladder and the muscles around it.

The bladder has two functions: storing urine and voiding it. Nerve issues can affect both those functions. The sphincter

muscle, for instance, comes into play when you are trying to hold urine until a bathroom is available. And a misalignment of the vertebrae through which those nerves pass can cause the problem.

Nerves obstructed by a misalignment, also called a subluxation, can cause incontinence – the involuntary voiding of urine – and retention, a failure of the signals that it is time to urinate. This, too, can result in an embarrassing accident when the bladder releases its overflow.

Chiropractors have found that patients who

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Patriots of the Week

Junior Sierra Womble and senior Eric Collins are the Union C o u n t y High Patriots Athletes of the Week.

W o m ble is on the tennis team, where she recently Womble won 8-0 in singles competition and 8-1 in doubles against Harriman, and 8-0 in singles against Gibbs.

She played volleyball for the Patriots last fall and is a member of FCA. Her GPA is

■ HMMS softball team (front) Makenna Roark, Callie Jo Russell, Taylor Weaver, Kallie Gayhart; (middle) Sarah Daniels, Brianna Odom, Kailyn Griffey, Carolyne Rutherford, Nikki Johnson; (back) coach Mike Johnson, Deana Biggs, Kirsten Muncey, MaKayla Weaver, Jacklynn Wright, Kayla Patterson and Caitlyn Mays. Photo by ProPhoto

HMMS softball players learn winning ways

By Libby Morgan Union county schools maintenance manager Mike Johnson and his family, cosmetology teacher Crystal Johnson and their daughter Emma, have been growing softball players at Horace

Maynard Middle School.

The team now has 10 eighth-graders, four seventh-graders and one sixthgrader.

“All the girls are exceptional students,” says Mike.

The team changed to

non-sanctioned this year to give more girls the opportunity to play, and they’ve been winning.

Recently they have won against Jefferson County (51), Cocke County (7-6), and Rutledge (9-1).

“Our team goals are to represent HMMS in a positive way, learn how to win, play as a team, be great teammates, and have fun,” says Johnson.

SCHOOL NOTES ■ Douglas Cherokee Head Start in Union County is now taking applications for the 2015-2016 school year.

Children must be three or four years old by Aug. 15.

Info: 992-4155 or 992-8146.

The school is participating in the 2014-2015 School Bucks Program at Food City. Anyone wanting to help the Head Start program should link their Food City Value Card to

Healthy Kids Day is May 30

Union County UT Extension will hold Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, May 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Union County Senior Center.

Extension agent Rebecca Hughes says, “The event is shaping up to be wonderful, the best one yet. We have 37 contributors so far, and we hope to see lots of kids for lots of fun family activities.”

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3.85. Her parents are Madeleine and Jeff Womble.

Collins, with a 3.87 GPA, is beginning the season with the soccer team.

He has been a four-year starter on Collins the varsity football team. He plans to attend Pellissippi State to major in history.

His parents are UCHS librarian Sherrie Collins and UCHS history teacher Joel Collins.

Partners for the event are Maynardville Public Library, Okie’s Pharmacy, Union County Health Department, The Muse Knoxville, Subway, YMCA, Pediatric Consultants of Maynardville, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Tennessee Health, Let’s Move, Food City and others.

4-H Camp signup deadlines nearing

The Union County UT Extension office is signing up 4-H members for summer camps. Junior and Junior High 4-H, Electric, Target Smart and Quilt Camps will be held in vari-

ous places.

Scholarships are available, and adult leaders are needed for Junior Camp in Greeneville June 15-19.

Info: 865-992-8038 or Ashley.Mike@utk.edu.

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and includes pizza, drink, dessert, popcorn and “The Lego Movie.” Paulette students are asked to RSVP with number of people attending to their classroom teacher.

■ Paulette Elementary School PTA will host its inaugural Mother-Son Dinner and Movie event 6-9 p.m. Friday, May 1, at the school. The event is open to any boy elementary age or younger to bring his mother, stepmother, grandmother, aunt, older sister, etc. The event is not limited to Paulette students. Cost is $10, $5 each additional child,

■ Union County High School will host a “Mock Car Crash” beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, April 24, for all juniors and seniors. Actors and participants will re-enact an actual crash with injuries and fatalities

and involving a drunk driver.

Other participating organizations include ICARe Union County, Union County EMS, Union County Rescue Squad, Maynardville Volunteer Fire Dept., Union County Sheriff ’s Department, Maynardville Police Department, Life Star, Susan Cook with East Tenn.

Children’s Hospital, and Union County High’s HOSA class.

■ Halls High Alumni Banquet will be held Saturday, April 25, in the Halls High School cafeteria. The Class of 1965 will be recognized. The banquet is a “covered dish” format, so main dishes, side dishes, drinks and desserts are requested. Food set-up and social time will be 6-6:30 p.m., food will be served at 6:30 with music provided by the Halls High Jazz and the

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