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December 10, 2014

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Maynardville lights up the season

The Union County Lions Club is conducting its annual pecan sale. Pecans are available at the Union County Trustee’s Office in the Courthouse, Commercial Bank (Maynardville Branch), First Century Bank, First State Bank and the Union County Board of Education.

One pound packages of pecan halves and pieces or 12 ounce packages of dark chocolate covered pecans are available for $10 per package.

All funds raised from this sale go toward providing eye care services for Union County Citizens.

Abby Lascola puts the finishing touches on her gingerbread masterpiece at the annual Downtown Maynardville Christmas tree lighting.

Union County Little League The Union Country Little League board will hold an open meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the Union County courthouse. New board members for the 2015 season will be elected. Anyone interested in serving on the board, being a coach or assisting the league in any way should attend. Info: Union County Little League on Facebook.

Gabe DeCarlo sports a reindeer face in front of the antique Christmas tree inside the old Dr. Carr office.

A festive time was had by all who came out to see the lighting of the Christmas tree in downtown Maynardville. Here Mayor Mike Williams, Santa and Bull share a smile in front of the huge Christmas tree at the courthouse. Sierra Walton tries out the “Frozen”More pictures on page 7 Laisa Photos by Libby Morgan themed cutout board.

Clock tower

Photos with Santa at Willow Ridge Santa will visit Willow Ridge, 215 Richardson Way, 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11.

Everyone is invited to bring the kids to have a picture taken with Santa and enjoy some hot chocolate and cookies.

Head Start Douglas Cherokee Head Start Union County is participating in the 2014-2015 School Bucks Program at Food City and asks anyone who would like to help the program to link their ValueCard with bar code #41215.

IN THIS ISSUE

Butch may exaggerate Any day now Butch Jones will deliver his best bowl pep talk, how almost all of America is focused on the surging Volunteers and maybe millions will be lining up to secure tickets for 50-yard-line seats.

The coach has great enthusiasm for this bowl game. It is the fulfillment of a year-long goal.

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planned for downtown

By Libby Morgan The Downtown Revitalization group has approved an initial design and voted to proceed with raising funds to install a clock tower at the corner of Main and Monroe streets by the courthouse.

The structure supporting the four-face clock will have a stone base and an openwork metal frame, and will sit on a pad of brick or cobblestone.

Donors will have the opportunity Patsy MacKenzie points out the clock tower on the downtown Maynardville to have their names engraved in the plans.

base and brick as thanks for sponsoring the project, but sponsorship details are not yet determined.

The group heard from Trudy Hughes of the East Tennessee Foundation, representing the Union County Community Foundation. The clock tower committee hopes to receive funding in part from UCCF. Other projects discussed are the new bridge on Monroe Street and a planning grant from TDOT for the city of Maynardville.

Ag students (and teacher) are 2014 Persons of the Year

By Betty Bean Picking out poinsettias offered by the Future Farmers of America at the North Knox CTE Center (they can’t call it a sale) is a tradition for residents of Halls and Fountain City, but six months ago, many feared the poinsettias had gone the way of Christmas past.

Knox County Schools was Scrooge.

The role of Bob Cratchit was admirably filled by longtime agriculture teacher/FFA sponsor Mike Blankenship, who had been informed that his program was being disbanded because it wasn’t attracting enough students. It was a grim time for the Ag kids and for Blankenship, who found himself facing the possibility of an abrupt end to his award-winning, 37-year career with KCS. But his students, led by rising seniors Ryan Cox and James Dunn, decided to fight for their teacher, their club and their future.

Cox, who will attend UT next year (and is waiting to hear about scholarship money), started bombarding administrators with emails. Here’s an excerpt from one

Ryan Cox, James Dunn, Mike Blankenship, Jessica Costner and Jonah McMahan File photo by Betty Bean

he sent to Superintendent James McIntyre and Halls High School principal Mark Duff: “I feel that the Knox County School District should review its policy on teacher cuts. Positions should not only be qualified to be

cut based on student enrollment, but by the quality and importance of the education received in the course. For instance, a class offered at Halls High consists merely of watching movies, and writing reviews on them. I challenge the

fact that this class has a higher educational value than an Agriculture class.”

Cox wore out Duff, McIntyre and school board members. He contacted the media. He started To page 2

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Southern Class opens

Union County businesses offering special deals through Dec. 23 are: ■ A-Line Boutique and Salon

■ Li’l Jo’s Bar-B-Que

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■ Okie’s Pharmacy

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Mother and daughter Teresa Masingo and Telisa Blankenship just opened Southern Class Boutique in Maynardville at 2945 Maynardville Hwy. In stock are women’s clothing, boots, accessories and jewelry. Holiday hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. Info: 865-745-2195.

■ Maynardville Subway ■ Teresa’s Bakery

■ Dukes Jewelry ■ East Tennessee Computer Repair ■ El Mariachi Mexican Restaurant

■ Union County Animal Hospital ■ Union County Arts ■ Union County Chiropractic ■ Willow Ridge

■ Flowers by Bob

■ Woods Music

■ Food City Maynardville ■ The Kitchen Design Center

■ 33 Diner ■ 33 Hardware

Woods Music Woods Music offers a free lesson with each lesson package as part of the Shop Local campaign. Here Phil Davis teaches guitar to Powell High student Abby Armentrout. Owner Jim Woods offers new and used stringed instruments and music supplies.

2014 Persons of the Year an online petition. He and Dunn, a Gibbs High School senior and FFA president, went to the June school board meeting and spoke at the public forum. Dunn recited a partial list of the honors the club has won under Blankenship’s guidance.

“We will no longer be able to compete in career development events,” he said.

“We as a class and a chapter are very disappointed. This closure will take away many opportunities.”

What he didn’t say that night is that one of the lost opportunities could be his chance to go to college through an FFA scholarship.

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Before long, Blankenship was offered a job at the new Career Magnet Academy on Strawberry Plains Pike, which should have surprised nobody, given his long list of professional and community accolades, not to mention the fact that CTE supervisor Don Lawson had been one of his first students, back at the old Doyle High School.

Moved by what he’d heard from Cox and Dunn at the school board meeting, Lawson started working on a plan.

Would Blankenship be interested in teaching one class a day on the Halls campus so these seniors could finish out the credits they needed?

Blankenship agreed, and the

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Mary’s Home Furnishings II

Luealma Kitts at Okie’s Pharmacy in Maynardville stands beside a big display of Christmas gifts. Offering candles, books, mugs, handmade dishcloths, nuts, nightlights and much more, Okie’s is participating in the Shop Local campaign with a $2 discount on merchandise with a prescription transfer.

Little Adie checks out the tree decorations at Mary’s Home Furnishings II, where the Christmas season is front and center.

During the Shop Local campaign, Mary’s is paying the sales tax on any purchase. Photos by Libby Morgan

Ag class was restored.

The FFA crew is having a good year, winning awards and raising nearly $2,000 for homecoming candidate Casey Jo Mitchell. It hasn’t been easy; Blankenship commutes from Halls to Strawberry Plains every day at a time when his family has suffered terrible losses.

His son, Mark, developed a brain tumor and died, and his father is under home hospice care, but he stays on the road and keeps on teaching. His students appreciate it and say their fight was worthwhile.

“I’m not really positive that Mr. Blankenship will be back at North Knox next year, but they’ve got a biology teacher who went on

the field trip with us who took the test to get Ag certified. She’s hoping to teach biology, Ag and a computer class, and continue FFA. Meanwhile, she’s got the best instructor in Tennessee to learn from,” Cox said.

Dunn concurs.

“He’s the same old Mr. Blankenship. He’s a good one,” said Dunn, who has applied for a Tennessee Promise scholarship and hopes to attend Pellissippi State. “Everything was worth it. Everybody learned a little something from it, and I think it showed some people that we’re more than just farmers with pitchforks.”

Note: Each year reporter Betty Bean selects her favorite story/people and names them her POY.

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Mills to serve on state board The Tennessee Health Care Association (THCA) has named Rebecca Mills, administrator at Genesis Healthcare’s Willow Ridge Center in Maynardville, to its board of directors for 2015.

Mills joins the other board members in directing the organization as it prepares long-term care providers for the challenges of the health care industry through education, advocacy and support.

“Rebecca is a leader in the longterm care profession,” THCA executive director Jesse Samples said. “I am looking forward to working with her this year as she shares her knowledge, expertise and energy to help us serve our members.”

Rebecca Mills Mills lives in Knoxville with her husband, Todd, and their two children, Lily and Madelyn. She has been a member of THCA for 10 years.

THCA is a nonprofit organization whose members include long-term care facilities located throughout the state. Info: 615-834-6520 or www.thca.org.

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Split rail graces museum grounds Boy Scout Troop 401 is getting good at making split rail fences.

Libby Morgan

Their interest began when Orrin Warwick chose as his Eagle project to enhance Big Ridge State Park with lengths of the traditional fence design.

Adults and other Scouts in the troop helped the project along, and word got out that this group knows how to build a beautiful fence.

Mayor Mike Williams noticed their work at Big Ridge and happened to have a problem the Scouts could solve.

The problem was that some drivers picking up their kids at the elementary school were using the Union County Museum grounds as a pass-through: up the dirt hill, through the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front yard, across the sidewalk and out to the highway.

The solution was to some-

how block the way through and still have the museum grounds look good.

Museum director Martha Carter, Tommy Warwick (father of Orrin and Tyler Warwick, both Eagle Scouts), Mayor Mike and the scouts worked out a plan amenable to all.

Warwick then called the state forestry service and was approved for a logging permit to cut some cedar trees from Chuck Swan Wildlife Management Area.

The foresters marked the trees, and the group cut 58 logs and hauled them to the museum in two loads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every one of the Scouts in Troop 401 had a hand in the project, either a little or a lot,â&#x20AC;? says Warwick.

On Thanksgiving weekend, a dozen or so boys took up splitting wedges, mauls and hammers and knocked out about half of the fence.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll return for at least one more work day to finish.

Perfectly suited to surround the two old log Tyler Warwick, Cody Faulkner, Jerry Myers and Jordan Simpson split cedar rails for the new fence around the Union County Mustructures beside the museum grounds. Photo by Libby Morgan seum, the new fence with its exposed bright orange surfaces will age to a muted silver.

Fantasy of Trees celebrates 30 years

Christmas means helping others

By Ruth White Halls Crossroads Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s League presented toys and a $1,500 check to the Halls Welfare Ministry last week at Cross Roads Presbyterian Church.

Shelba Murphy, league president, noted that Christmas reminds us that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we are on this earth to help one another and to be here for someone besides ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

The leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 92 members work together on many projects for the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are thankful to receive

Fantasy of Trees is an annual holiday event featuring beautifully decorated trees, mantels and wreaths that are donated to benefit East Tennessee Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital.

The event is held Thanksgiving weekend and gets bigger each year. In addition to beautiful holiday decorations, Fantasy of Trees features live entertainment, a carousel, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities and a visit from Santa Claus.

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this gift,â&#x20AC;? said Wilma Wilson, director of Halls Welfare Ministry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We in the Halls community care about our neighbors, and the partnership with the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s league will make it possible to serve more children and adults during this Christmas season.â&#x20AC;?

Marvin Powers, vice president, said the money will be used for Christmas baskets.

Other league members present were Sandra Smyth, Janie Branam, Susan Smyth, Gail Cox, Mary Carroll and Brenda Gratz.

Come to the water and immigrate to Egypt, had to grow and mature. He was dependent on his mother for food and comfort. His foster Imagine not being limited father Joseph provided protection and knowledge. He negotiby time or ated adolescence without sin. space and He resisted the temptations of then giving power, fame and fortune. He that all up for someone prayed, taught, forgave, healed who does not and loved. In doing this he challenged both the religious Fr. Steve Pawelk really care. authorities and political auCould you do it? God did!! thorities calling them to repent That is the power of Jesus and believe the Good News.

Christ, God incarnate, the Word He was sentenced to death by becoming ďŹ&#x201A;esh. God wanted a method comparable to lethal his children to be happy and be injection or the electric chair of faithful. Yet, they kept messing today. Yet, he rose on the third up and misusing their freewill day and sent the Holy Spirit to for selďŹ sh and harmful pursuits. dwell among us.

They started in Eden and got This is what we are celebrating kicked out and death came to at Christmas. God loves us so be. Then He sent messengers, much that he did everything judges, prophets and kings. possible, so we can know Him. They still refused to underHe even accepted the limits of stand His love and accept His ways. But the Creator loved his mortal life so every aspect of our lives could be redeemed. children.

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Beyond Walker’s Ford

Let’s pitch in to help families It’s impossible to know the emptiness felt by three Knox County families at Christmas.

Sandra Clark

Two children and an adult were killed and several others injured Dec. 2 when two school buses collided on Asheville Highway.

When the news came, my thoughts went first to the kids at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy where some of us volunteer each Wednesday to launch a newspaper club.

News trickled out slowly.

Can you imagine the anxiety of those parents and

grandparents who gathered at the old Food Lion store to await information about their child.

Finally, the names were released. Dead were Zykia Burns, 6; Seraya Glasper, 7; and teacher’s aide Kimberly Riddle, 46, who left a husband and two young children.

Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre said, “Our families and community suffered an unspeakable tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers are with all of the families and staff members at Chilhowee Intermediate School and Sunnyview Primary School.”

Both schools were closed on Wednesday, and Church Street United Methodist Church held a candlelight vigil.

TVA Employees Credit Union opened funds to receive donations to help the

This is a continuation of Brigadier General O. B. Willcox’s account of the skirmishes around Walker’s Ford, excerpts from his diZykia Burns Seraya Glasper ary contained in War of the Rebellion, Official Records families of Seraya Glasper of the Union and Confederand Zykia Burns. Simply ate Armies, Series I, Volume call or visit any branch loca- 31, Part I: tion and refer to your contribution as “For the benefit of Seraya Glasper” or “For the benefit of Zykia Burns.”

Bonnie Those making contribuPeters tions will receive a receipt for their donation.

For questions or more information, call 544Tazewell, Dec. 9, 1863, 5400 or email justask@ 6:40 p.m. tvacreditunion.com.

General: General LongA d d i t i o n a l l y , contributions to the family street and staff passed of Zykia Burns can be made Bean’s Station yesterday at www.gofundme.com/ morning about 10 o’clock.

Some of his infantry is with ukenniaarinze.

There is also a gofundme the teams on the Morrisaccount for the family Kim- town and Greeneville road, but most of the infantry berly Riddle family.

Others able to help can passed on the Bean’s Stacontact Stephanie Jeffreys tion and Rogersville road.

They say they are going to with KCS at 594-1621.

Money can’t replace their make a stand at Bristol. The loss, but it’s a tangible way cavalry brigade retired from to show the families our Clinch Mountain late last evening and this morning, sympathy and support. leaving two pieces of artillery and one regiment of cavalry; pickets of the enemy

TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE

WHEREAS, on the 15th day of April, 2014, by deed of trust recorded in Trust Deed Book 209, page 51, in the Register’s Office for Union County, Tennessee, to which deed of trust specific reference is hereby made, DONNIE NORRIS and wife, BRITTNEY NORRIS, conveyed to K. David Myers, Trustee, the hereinafter described real property to secure the payment of the obligation and indebtedness owing by Donnie Norris and wife, Brittney Norris, to the beneficiaries therein named, Alvin G. Brock and wife, Pauline Brock; and WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of said obligations and indebtedness, now past due, the entire balance of which has been declared due and payable in accordance with the terms of said deed of trust and the obligations and indebtedness therein secured, and the owner and holder of said obligation and indebtedness has directed me, the undersigned Trustee, to foreclose said deed of trust in accordance with the terms thereof and to sell the real property and its improvements all as therein described.

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said deed of trust , I will on the 19th day of December, 2014, offer for sale and sell the following described property, at the front door of the Union County Courthouse, 901 Main Street, Maynardville, Tennessee, at the hour of 11:30 A.M., prevailing time, at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash and in bar of and free of all equities of redemption, statutory right of redemption, homestead, elective share and all other rights and exemption of every kind expressly waived in the aforesaid deed of trust and to which specific reference is hereby made, the following described real property: SITUATED in the Third (3d) Civil District of Union County, Tennessee: BEGINNING at and on an iron pin in the southeast line of Walker Ford Road, said iron pin being a new established common corner in the southeast line of said road, the remaining property of Brock, and the property herein described; thence with a new established dividing line between the remaining property of Brock and the property herein described three calls and distances as follows: in a southeastern direction 250 feet to an iron pin, the southeast corner of the property herein described; in a southwestern direction 150 feet to an iron pin, the southwest corner of the property herein described; and in a northwest direction 250 feet to an iron pin in the southeast line of Walkers Ford Road and being the northwest corner of the property herein described; thence with the southeast line of Walkers Ford Road in a northeastern direction 150 feet to an iron pin in the southeast line of said roadway and the point of BEGINNING, according to a drawing provided by the parties hereto to the draftsman of this instrument. The above description is the same as the previous deed of record, no boundary survey having been made at the time of this conveyance. The above described property is conveyed by the boundary in gross and not by the acre. Said property is improved by a dwelling having an address of 1628 Walker Ford Road, Maynardville, Tennessee 37807.

For reference see Deed Book “P”, Series -8-, page 404, in the Register’s Office for Union County, Tennessee.

Property to be conveyed SUBJECT TO all applicable easements, restrictions, reservations, and set-back lines.

are still in the gap. I have no doubt this information is substantially correct. Very respectfully, O. B. Willcox, Brigadier-General.

Tazewell, Dec. 11, 1863.

Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, Commanding Department of the Ohio: Your dispatch of the 8th (8 p.m.) received yesterday. I have telegraphed to all commanding officers, quartermasters, and commissaries, from here to Camp Nelson, to hurry forward provisions, shoes, and stockings.

I have just received a dispatch from Major Conover, Mulberry Gap, who reports 300 rebels near the Black Water salt-works, and he also learns by scouts sent beyond Sneedville and by deserters who came in the morning that there is a large force at Flat Gap, 10 miles from Sneedville. This, of course, has prevented his scouting force as I advised you in my last dispatch. The force at that gap is variously estimated from 1,000 to 10,000 men. I suppose it is a brigade guarding Longstreet’s flank from an attack in this quarter, but possibly they may have in view a raid across our line of communication.

Tazewell, Dec. 14, 1863.

General: Nothing further from the enemy on my left, except that yesterday a force of about 400 cavalry were this side Clinch River, on the Sneedville road committing depredations: probably scouting and foraging.

Nothing from them today.

I sent your order to Captain Gross, who is coming on. I have sent to Barboursville for wire; also sent to Cumberland Gap for axes and they will leave there for Knoxville tomorrow. No cross-cut saws and have telegraphed Hall for 100.

The Sixth Indiana Cavalry are used up, and there is not sufficient cavalry force to scout the Sneedville road.

Very respectfully, O.B. Willcox, Brigadier-General.

Major-General Foster, Tazewell, Dec. 20,1863.

General: A citizen came into Evans’ Ford this morning and reported to the officer in command there that a brigade of rebel cavalry were crossing the Clinch, 8 miles above Evans’ Ford, and were moving in this direction. I have halted the regiments that were starting from here until the truth can be ascertained. O.B. Willcox, Brigadier-General.

More than math, lessons for life Sometimes, classes at Horace Maynard High School in the late 1970s and early 1980s provided students with more than was dictated by the prescribed course.

Ronnie Mincey TEACHER TIME That is not to say that the standard curriculum wasn’t taught. Mr. James K. Palazzola (affectionately called “PZ” by many of his students) taught very well the major rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers in eighth-grade math.

However, I also remember Mr. Palazzola teaching sexual abstinence in a round-about way by describing the pain associated with childbirth. I am not quite brave enough to put what was said into writing, but I’ll be happy to share privately with any reader who might want to know this bit of lore (don’t worry – nothing dirty there, just a memorable impression).

Mr. Palazzola was generally rather relaxed. I don’t recall ever seeing him upset. He kept our attention (necessary during the long third period which enveloped lunch) with a long stick which he would hit against his desk when someone answered a question incorrectly. This was not done in any threatening way; the intent was to humorously keep our attention, though his poor battered desk would probably have told a different story.

Life lessons were also learned in Mr. James G. Shumate’s freshman Algebra I class the following year, where a “0” was always a goose egg.

Shumate taught survival skills for the short term.

“When you go to the fair (TVA&I, that is) don’t eat on the midway toward the end of the week. They don’t change the grease they cook in from the beginning to the end of the fair, and you’ll be one sick kiddie.”

In one memorable class, Mr. Shumate taught career awareness. “Now, kiddies, when you get out of school, you need to get you a nice, dad-blamed government job.” Later in the same class, some more advice: “You’ve

got to watch Uncle Sam, he’ll cheat you!”

Lest McCarthyism and the “Red Scare” be forgotten, Mr. Shumate taught us to always be watchful of the dangers of Communism and what we should do if the Russians came. This was, of course, in the time before President Reagan persuaded Mr. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”

My favorite academic lesson taught by Mr. Shumate was the quadratic equation.

I can recite it to you even today, and when I was a high school freshman I could successfully solve quadratic equations using any of three methods.

Times have changed, and now there is seemingly not enough time for many of these life lessons to fit into the Common Core standards currently taught in Union County’s public schools. I learned enough of the standard prescribed curriculum of my youth to survive in the adult world, but so often those life lessons were so much more memorable than was the rote curriculum.

Next I turn from development of the mind to endeavors to strengthen the body that led to one of my more embarrassing experiences.

CURRENT OWNERS: Donnie Norris and Brittney Norris Said property will be sold by the boundary in gross and not by the acre and subject to any and all applicable easements, restrictions, reservations, and setback lines; and subject to any and all unpaid taxes, and any prior encumbrances and tax liens appearing of record; and subject to any matters which may be disclosed by an accurate survey. The title to be conveyed will be only such title which the Trustee may convey pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust or at law or in equity with no further representations or warranties or any nature whatsoever. Further, in the event all unpaid indebtedness and expenses evidenced by the note are paid in full prior to the date of sale the Trustee shall have no obligation to proceed with the sale of the above described real property.

In the event high bidder at the foreclosure should fail to comply with the submitted bid, the Trustee shall have the option of accepting the next highest bid in which the bidder is able to comply or re-advertise and sell at a second sale.

Spring classes begin January 20.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of sale to another day certain without further publication and in accordance with the law upon announcement of such adjournment on the day and at the time and place of sale set forth above. This notice shall be published in the Shopper Union County News, a newspaper published in Union County, Tennessee.

This sale is being made upon request of Alvin G. Brock and wife, Pauline Brock, the owners and holders of the obligations and indebtedness secured by said deed of trust, due to the failure of the maker to comply with all provisions of the said deed of trust. The proceeds of the sale will be applied in accordance with the terms and provisions of the deed of trust.

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UNION COUNTY Shopper news • DECEMBER 10, 2014 • 5 are unflinching guardians of the truth.

A PunditFact survey of 83 Fox statements found only 15 to contain some of the truth, and only eight were deemed “completely true.” CNN was truthful 60 The Gospel of John tells percent of the time, and MSus Jesus was brought beNBC was 31 percent honest. fore Pontius Pilate, the RoThe hillbilly wisdom of Larry Jed Clampett echoes down man prefect of Judaea, who Van signed off on his crucifi xion. the years: “Pitiful.”

Guilder After Jesus told Pilate his Television and the Web mission was to bear witness shape more opinions today to the truth, Pilate asked, than every teacher, preach“What is truth?” er and newspaper columnist I’m not cadging material combined. from Lynn Pitts’ column. becomes true, especially In “Idiot America,” Pilate’s words, cynical as when embedded in a 24- Charles P. Pierce writes of a they were, are more relevant hour media blitz. panel discussion about the Fox News understands “science” of creationism that than ever in the modern this principle better than its aired on “Larry King Live.” world.

The big lie, spoken loudly competitors, but none of the King asked: “All right, enough and often enough, major cable news networks hold on, Dr. Forrest, your

The truth hurts (your ratings)

concept of how you can out-and-out turn down creationism, since if evolution is true, why are there still monkeys?”

And, as Pierce noted, “Why, dear Lord, do so many of them host television programs?”

Fueled by lies from Fox, the Tea Party and assorted Obama-haters, congressional Republicans did everything but foam at the mouth over Benghazi, the scandal that never was.

In dozens of prime-time segments, Fox commentators claimed Obama gave an order to special forces soldiers at the American embassy in Tripoli to “stand down.”

It never happened.

Two Fox News contribu-

tors claimed Hillary Clinton faked a concussion to weasel out of testifying about Benghazi.

False and despicable.

Why repeat the lie after it’s been thoroughly debunked? The lie sells quickly, and the truth is rarely easy to tease out.

Viewers and browsers have little patience for nuance. Unless it happens on PBS, no broadcast medium is going to carefully dissect a White House position paper.

Reading engages the intellect like television will never do, but reading by adults has been in freefall for decades. Last January the Pew Research Center released a report showing 23 percent of Americans had not read a

book in the past year.

That number was 8 percent in a 1978 Gallup poll.

Is it any wonder newspapers are struggling?

No political party or philosophy holds a monopoly on expedient lies. Vietnam was the most tragic lie foisted upon 20th century America, and the deepening and continuation of that war was the work of both Democrats and Republicans.

Communism was a monolithic entity, we were told, and North Vietnam a puppet for the ambitions of Red China and the Soviet Union. That lie ground up 58,000 American lives.

The truth is always out there. Turn off the talking heads and take a look for yourself.

Butch sometimes exaggerates Any day now Butch Jones will deliver his best bowl pep talk, how almost all of America is focused on the surging Volunteers and maybe millions will be lining up to secure tickets for 50-yard-line seats.

The coach has great enthusiasm for this bowl game. It is the fulfillment of a year-long goal. He gets a nifty bonus – $100,000. Assistants get 8.75 percent of their salary. Young players get additional developmental time. Everybody gets a free ride for a holiday outing and gifts galore.

There is a chance for a winning season.

The coach talks a lot because he has so much to say, new culture, brick by brick, program growth, academic progress, the end of losing.

Some see Butch as a spin doctor, capable of sticking a smiley face on a red-zone fumble. I and others who really enjoy the rhetoric see him as an exciting orator, a colorful storyteller with an

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interesting background, an extensive vocabulary and fantastic lung capacity. He seldom pauses for air.

Sometimes he exaggerates just a little. On rare occasions he soars over the top.

The other day he got off on the subject of national perception of Tennessee football.

“It is at an all-time high right now. The energy, the excitement, we see it every day because of recruiting and talking to high school coaches, not just in this great state, but across the country.

“We have players coming in from all over. We are going to have another great,

great recruiting class, individuals that fit our profile.

It is a matter of time. People know that. They see the energy, they see the vision.”

Jones has recruited well.

Only four SEC schools did better last year. By Tennessee’s recent standards, the 6-6 record is modest progress. Kentucky and Vandy were worse.

Peak of perception? Alltime high? Maybe not.

Even in the context of a sales pitch, suggesting the national view of Tennessee football is atop the mountain is a stretch, considering everything that happened in those so-so years from 1989 to 2004. Sorry the national championship run wasn’t more exciting.

Jones speaks of Volunteer history with great reverence. He gets it “each and every” day. I don’t think he was deliberately stepping on the last third of the John Majors era or the best years of Phillip Fulmer or the pageantry of the Peyton Man-

2002: 8-5, 5-3, lost to in Cotton; AP 13.

Maryland in Peach Bowl; Ah yes, those were the 2003: 10-3, 6-2, AP 15, lost days and the numbers, with ning show. to Clemson in Peach; 2004: little or no exaggeration.

Butch was just talking.

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6 • DECEMBER 10, 2014 • UNION COUNTY Shopper news

Nativity Pageant is a local tradition Ernie Roberts knows the Knoxville Nativity Pageant well, having been its assistant director for the last four years.

Now he’s in the director’s chair.

It’s a big job, overseeing the cast and crew of this enormous annual production. There are large sets, many costumes – both humble and opulent – hundreds of cast members and singers, an orchestra and quite a few animals.

“I get the best view of all from the ‘crow’s nest’ at the top of the coliseum where I

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can see the entire floor and choir,” Roberts says. “I can see how beautiful the interaction is among our cast members. Every villager, shepherd, wise man, soldier and angel has the specifics of each role in mind and develops the character, telling his or her story as the events

leading up to the birth of Jesus unfold.

“I am in awe,” says Roberts,” of the ownership that each individual puts into this production.”

During his time with the pageant, Roberts says, “I have gotten to know the cast, musicians, technical folks and board of directors, which allows me to trust in them as each does a phenomenal job. This is definitely a wonderful team production.”

One part of that team is the orchestra, led by Mark Hill. Mary Ann Fennell, who is in charge of contacting and securing the talented musicians each year, remembers going to the very first Nativity Pageant, originally held in the courtyard of the Civic Coliseum. “The animals were outside and it was cold and muddy – probably just like the real thing would have

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“We will get Mary to her destination,” he confirms with a grin, “but each year with each performance, the trip is never a dull moment!”

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“Witches” Mattison Hancock, Alyssa Davis, Aalyia Savage, Amber Walker, Brooke Adams and Jessica Birchfiel plot to rid England of all smelly, rotten children. Photo by Libby Morgan

Patriots host Union Discount Pharmacy Tourney, win 2-1

By Libby Morgan Both boys’ and girls’ Union County High basketball teams have matching win-loss records after their performance at the Union Discount Pharmacy Tournament, hosted by the school during Thanksgiving week.

The boys beat Cocke County and Morristown West and lost to Farragut, while the girls had wins over Gibbs and Karns and fell to Morristown West, bringing season records for

‘Witches’ visit Luttrell Elementary Cheryl Bowman’s fourth grade class at Luttrell Elementary brought Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” story to the big stage at the UCHS auditorium, with lights, scenery

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Bowman says the live play is a first for the school, and came about because her students were so taken with the story they asked to perform it. “They’ve had a lot of fun with it,” she says.

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Chris Gabler, Wayne Cox and Amanda and Gail Atkins perform Christmas tunes inside Union County Arts.

Jeff and Phyllis Chesney of Slick’s Deli share candy and tours of the not-yet-open restaurant on Main Street. Helping them are Laisa and Celissa Bull.

both teams to six wins and one loss.

Players named All-Tournament were Austin York, Brady Nease, Briley Buckner and Madison Brantley.

Nease, who broke a 50year scoring record with 51 points in a recent game, continued to excel at the tournament with more than 30 points in two of the games.

The Patriots will be on the road until Dec. 16 when Cumberland Gap comes to Union County.

Union County High School Athlete of the Week Austin York is named Patriot of the Week for his performance on the basketball court. A junior, he looks forward to one more year to perfect his skills as a high school team player.

He plans to attend college in pursuit of a pharmacological degree.

He is the grandson of Jane Russell.

Patriot of the Week Briley Buckner loves playing basketball, and, as a sophomore, says, “Next year we should be even better. We’ve only got one senior, so we will have a lot of experience with the same players returning.”

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She hopes to receive a basketball scholarship for college and plans to become a pharmacist.

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The Living Christmas Tree, 3 and 6 p.m., Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Merchant Drive. For free tickets: WMBC.net; from Wallace church members; and at the church during office hours.

Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.

Burlington Lego Club, 6 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Grades 1-5. Info: 525-5431.

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Christmas in Old Appalachia at the Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway.

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Candlelight Tour of Historic Ramsey House, 6-8 p.m., Ramsey House Plantation, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike.

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Union County Christmas parade, 2 p.m., starting at Union County High School and proceeding north on Highway 33.

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KSO Musical Storytimes for Kids, 10:30 a.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. For preschool aged children and their caregivers. Free and open to the public. Info: 922-2552.

Luttrell Seniors luncheon, 10:30 a.m., Luttrell Community Center. Soup by Ted Greene, bring finger foods. Bingo and $5 gift exchange. Thank you to Midway IGA for our monthly birthday cakes this whole year.

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VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

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“Christmas in the Cave,” 5:30-9 p.m., Historic Cherokee Caverns, 8524 Oak Ridge Highway. Public tours, photos with Santa ($10), music, vendors, kids’ activities. Admission: $8, ages 5 and up. Info: www. cherokeecaverns.com.

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Holiday Wreath-Making workshop, 1 p.m., Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorn Grove Pike. Cost: $35. All materials provided. Info/reservations: 5460745.

Corryton Christmas Parade, 2 p.m. Stepping off from Corryton ball field. Lineup at 1 p.m. Info: Joyce Harrell, 705-7684, or Joe Longmire, 898-9097.

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“Christmas in the Cave,” 5:30-9 p.m., Historic Cherokee Caverns, 8524 Oak Ridge Highway. Public tours, photos with Santa ($10), music, vendors, kids’ activities. Admission: $8, ages 5 and up. Info: www. cherokeecaverns.com.

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Handbuilding with Clay class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Janet McCracken.

Registration deadline: Monday, Jan. 5. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

Honor Guard meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans invited. Info: 256-5415.

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MONDAYS, MAY 11, 18, 25 Handbuilding with Clay class, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Janet McCracken.

Registration deadline: Monday, May 4. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.

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