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VOL. 7 NO. 51

December 22,, 2012

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Merry Christmas!

The Union County Courthouse will be closed Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24-25, for Christmas. The ShopperNews offices will be closed on these days as well.

Moulton passes away Robert E. “Plumb-Bob” Moulton, 75, passed away Dec. 19, at Tennova Hospice in Halls. He was a member of Antioch Baptist Church.

Preceded in death by his children Joseph David and Robin Ellen Moulton. Survived by his wife, Pearl E. Moulton; sons and daughters-in-law Eddie and Becky Moulton of Knoxville, Charles J. and Zoe Moulton of Green Bay, Wisc.; several grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and two greatgreat-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, send donations to the Antioch Baptist Church Building Fund or Tennova Hospice in Halls. Services will be held Saturday, Dec. 22, at Antioch Baptist Church.

Do you believe?

Check out pages 6 and 7 to see who the believers are

Sharps Chapel baby born 12/12/12 Sandra Alaina Carver of Sharps Chapel was born at 12:12 a.m., Dec. 12, 2012, at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, weighing 6 pounds 9 ounces. Family members say they have been told by a mathematician that the chances of Sandra being born at that exact moment were one in 52,560,000.

Sandra’s parents are Sabrina and Cody Carver of Sharps Chapel. She has a big brother, Jared, who is in the 1st grade at Sharps Chapel Elementary School. Grandparents are Gary and Martha Hill, Doris and Lane Carver, all of Sharps Chapel.

IN THIS ISSUE

Distributing love

By Cindy Taylor

Rosezala Peterson and Chantay Collins Photo by Cindy Taylor

Each year the Union County Children’s Charities/Toys for Tots receives numerous requests for help during Christmas.

Distribution day this year was Dec. 15 at the high school. The line of parents picking up items for their children started forming around 8:30 a.m. and extended out the door by 9.

Those who give to this charity do so from their heart with generosity and prayers that their gifts will be a blessing. Donors rarely know how or whom their donations help. This year, a

young woman on the receiving end was willing to share her story about what this charity means for her daughters.

Rosezala Peterson moved from Florida to Union County with the hope of raising her family in a small town that was affordable for a single mom. She has no family in Tennessee and the family she left in Florida is not a part of her or her daughter’s lives.

“I chose to bring my kids here rather than raise them in the enTo page A-3

Printing money

Sandra Clark speculates on the great gifts of government if only we could print money.

“We could have roads without potholes and Christmas stockings without lumps of coal.”

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School nurse crisis patched

By Sandra Clark Three school nurses whose jobs were terminated Dec. 14 have agreed to work until the next school board meeting under an arrangement negotiated by Director of Schools Wayne Goforth.

“They will work at the rate we pay substitute teachers,” Goforth said after meeting with the women on Tuesday. “I’ll bring a proposal to the school board at its next meeting (to continue their employment).”

The agreement followed an emotional school board meeting Dec. 13 at which Laura Riggs, whose daughter attends Luttrell Elementary School, pleaded with board members to retain school nurses.

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The school district employs two nurses who travel among schools.

The district had outsourced staffing at three other schools to a private contractor who decided to end the contract on Dec. 14. That action was set to put Tracie Hawkins, Nicole Lockhart and Amanda Kitts, all licensed practical nurses, out of work.

Riggs said that is not acceptable.

“We need a nurse (full-time at Luttrell Elementary). When there are needs, the district must meet them. … I don’t want my daughter to wait 15 to 20 minutes for a nurse (to drive from another location).”

Brad Griffey, at left, advocates for school nurses. Also pictured are board chair David Coppock, Director of Schools D. Wayne Goforth and Dr. Ronnie Mincey.

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Coffee Break with

Samantha Sharp

Samantha Sharp says if someone wants a boring job, hers is not the one.

Sharp is director of the Office on Aging. She has been working out of the Union County Senior Center for more than a year now and loves her job. Sharp holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Lincoln Memorial University and has a year’s worth of credits toward a master’s degree in criminal justice with an emphasis in corrections.

“At one time my goal was to be the warden at a federal prison,” she said.

Sharp was born and raised in Sharps Chapel, where she currently resides. Her favorite ways to pass the time fit right in with her job.

“I love to read, write, do arts and crafts, play cards and board games, go shopping, go to the movies (especially horror!), listen to music and just be around my loved ones,” she said.

Those who know her well know she can pull just about anything you might need right out of her purse.

Sit and have a coffee break as you get to know Samantha Sharp.

What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?

There’s no way I could pick just one!

“It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.” –Albus Dumbledore, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” “Heeeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!” –Jack Torrance, “The Shining”

What are you guilty of?

Sometimes I don’t know when to quit. That can be good and bad. I’ll think, “OK, I’m going to play this level of Angry Birds just one more time and then I’m going to do some laundry.” Two hours later, it’s bedtime, and the laundry is still sitting in the hamper. Other times, I just keep going and going and before I know it it’s 2 a.m. and I’ve been up since 6:30 a.m. the morning before.

What is your favorite material possession?

Probably my scrapbooks and my journals. I can get a new phone, a new computer and a new Kindle if something happens to the one I have. I can’t go out and buy a new lifetime of memories.

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What are you reading currently?

I still can’t quite get the hang of …

I’m reading a book called “Wanted” by Shelley Shepard Gray. It’s the second book in a Christian fiction series called Sisters of the Heart about the Amish.

Basic math is my downfall. I can add and multiply, but I think division and subtraction should count as foreign language credits.

Thank goodness for calculators!

What was your most embarrassing moment?

What is the best present you ever received in a box?

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?

What are the top three things on your bucket list?

I would love to travel around the world. That’s so cliché, but I do. God made such a beautiful world for us to live in and enjoy, and I want to see as much of it as I can. I’d love to write a book and have it published, and I want to live to be a grandmother and maybe even a great-grandmother.

It’s not so much her advice, it’s what she does. It is so easy to make her laugh, and when she does, she laughs long. She never covers her mouth or holds it back. I think that’s the key to life: finding humor in anything, because laughter really is the best medicine.

What is your social media of choice?

What is one word others often use to describe you and why?

I have both Facebook and Twitter accounts, but I use Facebook more often.

I’ve been called hilarious more than anything else.

It warms my heart to make people smile and laugh at something I’ve said or done.

What is the worst job you have ever had?

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?

Hmm, I’d probably change my eye color. I’d rather have green or blue eyes instead.

I worked for a life insurance company in Knoxville for 10 months and it was terrible. And terrible is putting it mildly.

I loved “Garfield” and “Scooby-Doo.” I still watch “Scooby-Doo” on Boomerang every now and then.

What irritates you?

What is your passion?

I love to make things. My motto is “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” I love getting things from yard sales, Goodwill, etc. and turning them into something else. If I break something I think, “OK, now what can I do with this?” instead of throwing it away right then.

With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?

I’d love to have lunch with either Betty White or Carol Burnett or both! I loved Carol on “The Carol Burnett Show” and on “Mama’s Family,” and, of course, I can’t forget Betty as the infamous Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls.” I can watch those episodes over and over again and they’re still hilarious!

Other than your parents, who has had the biggest influence on your life and why?

Definitely my grandmother. She’s done more for me than I can ever repay, and I’ve never known anyone who has come through so much and still has the faith and optimism that she has.

I can’t stand it when someone is late or just flakes out on plans or an obligation and doesn’t bother to tell anyone. It also bothers me for someone else to “volunteer” me to do something. I can speak for myself, thank you.

What’s one place in Union County everyone should visit?

The Senior Citizens Center/Office on Aging, of course! Seriously, I think the most interesting places are cemeteries, as morbid as that may sound. I love to walk through them and imagine what the people under those tombstones must have been like.

What is your greatest fear?

I’m scared of quite a few things, but my biggest fear is uncertainty, and life is fraught with it.

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?

Well now, if I told you, it wouldn’t be impulsive, would it?

But I’d love to just take off to an Amish town and try to live in their ways. And then I’d write a book about my experiences.

– Cindy Taylor It can be your neighbor, club leader, bridge partner, boss, father, teacher – anyone you think would be interesting to Union County Shopper-News readers. Email suggestions to Cindy Taylor, brentcindyt@gmail.com. Include contact info if you can.

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Lots of updates done. Approx 1016 SF featuring 2BR/1BA, beautiful wood flooring, tile counter tops, new oak cabinets, S/S fridge, smooth-top range, W&D to remain. 1-car carport, central H&A, out building for extra storage. Priced to sell at only $54,900.

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104 OAKWOOD DRIVE, CLINTON – Very nice brick bsmnt rancher. 3BR/2B, all BRs have hdwd flooring. Kit w/cherry cabs, tile backsplash, breakfast bar. All appl stay. Nice, brick, wood-burning FP w/marble hearth. Very nice screened-in porch off FR. Office w/builtin bookcases, hdwd flooring. 2-car gar w/wheelchair ramp. Must see. Call Justin today!

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UNION COUNTY SHOPPER-NEWS • DECEMBER 22, 2012 • 3

Singing for the Lions The Union County High School chorus performed at the December Lions Club meeting at Hardee’s.

Director Hannah Haynes led the group in traditional Christmas carols.

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President Ronnie Mincey talked about this year’s pecan sales. Only a few bags of white chocolate pecans are available. Other selections have sold out.

Mincey also provided paperwork for members wishing to attend the annual conference to be held in Knoxville in 2013.

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Lenny Holt from Union County Schools spoke about requirements for visual- and hearing-impaired students.

“The school system is charged with providing services to impaired students beginning at age 3,” said Holt. “We provide students with low- and high-tech items to make accessing the curriculum easier for them.”

The Lions welcomed new members Donnie Millsaps, Eugene Brantley and Bill Sexton, who were inducted into the club by Jim McFarland.

Union County High School chorus members performing at the Lions Club December meeting are (front) Alanna Phillips, Bethany Carter, Deneen Matheson, Alyssa Dykes, Haley Justice; (back) Tylor Woods, Isaac Arthur and director Hannah Haynes

Amedisys Home Health gets award

Amedisys Home Health has been ranked among the top U.S. home health providers. The staff at the Maynardville location is among those honored in the 2012 HomeCare Elite.

“We are now ranked among the top 25 percent in the country for home health,” said Maynardville Amedisys director Debbie Hammontree. “This is based on performance outcomes and patient improvement.”

The 2012 HomeCare Elite winners must demonstrate a commitment to

Union County Lions Club inducted new members Donnie Millsaps, Eugene Brantley and Bill Sexton. providing patient-centered care and serve as leaders in the home health community. To make the list, Amedisys was ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, process measure implementation,

patient experience, quality improvement and financial performance.

Amedisys Home Health provides treatment for an illness or injury and assists patients who are returning home after a hospital stay, managing a serious or chronic disease, or dealing with multiple diagnoses.

“I have such a great staff,” said Hammontree. “Our staff members look after the patients as if they are their own family.”

Rocky Loy gets author Jennifer Ensley to autograph her first book. Photos by C. Taylor

bought a blank journal a few years ago, and when I sat down with it, this story just started playing out in my head and I started writing it down.”

■ Book signing Ensley works for the in Luttrell Union County school sysLocal author Jennifer tem but says writing is her Ensley held a book signing release.

“This is what I do to unDec. 15 at the Luttrell Library to introduce her book “Cursed by Diamonds,” the Amedisys staff members are: (front) Ryan Cline, OT; Pamela Cox, business office manager; Kathie first of five in her A Dance Dobbs, RN; Ashley Stone, PT; Heather Surber, LPN; (back) Melissa Wilburn, PTA; Matt Fritts, PTA; with Destiny series.

“I didn’t start out writAmy Reno, business office specialist; Deanna Bates, clinical manager/RN; Stephanie Schroeder, ing a book,” said Ensley. “I RN; and Debbie Hammontree, director/RN.

wind. Every character is a piece of the author. My goal is to release the second in this series on Valentine’s Day next year.”

The book can be purchased online at Amazon and soon at Barnes and Noble.

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Distributing love vironment they would be in with family in Florida,” said Peterson. “This is home in a small town without the personal drama.”

She works part time and is able to draw a small amount from the state.

The reality for Peterson and many like her is that without charities such as this one, there would be no Christmas for her two girls, ages 3 and 4.

“There are many different reasons why families need help at Christmas,” said Peterson.

Peterson says her aid is limited because she works.

She qualifies for food stamps, but that only supplies enough groceries for about half of the month.

She is solely responsible for feeding her girls the rest of the month as well as for rent, utilities, living costs and any unforeseeable expenses that might

From page A-1 pop up. She does not receive child support and does not subscribe to cable or other things many of us take for granted. To afford Christmas for her daughters, she would have to consider which bill she wouldn’t pay.

Peterson will lay out the clothes and toys donated for her daughters on Christmas morning.

They will think Santa came and are too young to understand the love that was sent their way by the caring businesses and people in Union County.

But their mom knows.

“I am so, so grateful for Toys for Tots. There is no present in our house that is from me. There would be none at all without the people who cared enough to give from their hearts.

“I work hard and try to do everything I can for my kids. I know that one day

things will be better.”

Peterson hopes sharing her story will help others realize that there are people who are really struggling and appreciate what is being done for them.

“This is a help up,” said Toys for Tots volunteer Chantay Collins. “Not a handout. We are so appreciate of all the volunteers, businesses and individuals who helped with donations of time and resources.”

This year’s Union County Toys for Tots provided Christmas to more than 500 children.

Horace Maynard FFA and First Baptist Church of Maynardville gave out coats Dec. 15 at the same location.

The FFA will distribute coats again from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 29.

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Ultrasound, for instance, is one of the other techniques they employ. Ultrasound uses warming high-frequency sound waves to treat soft-tissue injury. They may use electrical stimulation, which uses electrical current for the same purpose. A typical chiropractic adjustment will take from 10 to 30 minutes.

An initial exam, however, will take longer because the chiropractor, like any medical professional, is going to want to gather information about your medical history and give you a thorough exam. That exam will most likely include a measuring of your legs. A difference in leg length is not uncommon and can cause back problems. A little soreness after chiropractic treatment is not unusual, just as it would not be after a good workout. Make an appointment with a chiropractor and ask whatever questions you might have.

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government Printing money Ahh, if only local government could operate like Washington.

If we could print money, then we could have all the school nurses we need. We could have all the behavior specialists we need to, hopefully, prevent school shootings like the one in Newtown, Conn.

We could have roads without potholes and Christmas stockings without lumps of coal.

But state and local governments can’t print money, and therein lies the rub.

Some think local politics is about power, or it’s about getting a cushy job for your spouse or third cousin. Not so. Local politics is about setting spending priorities.

Follow the money.

On Dec. 13, Director of Schools Wayne Goforth told the school board he will “move on” when his contract ends June 30, 2013. That cleared the way to start a search for his replacement, although the school board should not look far. Dr. Jimmy Carter did a commendable job as Goforth’s temporary replacement and has earned a chance at the job in his own right.

Meanwhile, Goforth is back at the helm. He’s not shy about stepping on toes to solve problems. That’s why he worked out a deal to keep nurses in three schools by paying them from the budget line designated for substitute teachers.

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And that’s why board chair (and former director) David Coppock said, “You cannot end the year in the red.”

Goforth will operate until June 30 on a budget crafted

by Jimmy Carter. Sure, it’s the school board’s budget, also owned by the county commission after they adopted it. But Jimmy Carter drew this budget to reflect his priorities.

Goforth can tinker with it, hopefully securing school board and commission approval, but Union County can’t afford the embarrassment of ending the year without money to pay its bus contractors.

We don’t need another story in the adjoining county’s daily paper about how hard up we are. Let’s move slowly to amend Carter’s budget. For like a kid’s teeter totter, it’s balanced precariously. We cannot spend $50,000 or $100,000 for nurses without whacking it from someplace else.

Perhaps Goforth can find another contractor who will staff three school clinics at no cost to the county. But maybe he can’t. What then?

Red Cross responds to home fire A volunteer from the American Red Cross responded Dec. 15 to a home fire at 262 Black Fox Hollow Road in Washburn in Union County where one adult lived. No injuries were reported. The Red Cross provided food, clothing and emergency needs.

Anyone interested in becoming a Red Cross disaster service volunteer should call 584-2999.

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Help wanted A great wit (yes, me) devised two fake want ads following Wayne Goforth’s announcement that he will “move on” when his contract ends June 30.

The first: “Wanted – job for not-quite-overthe-hill educator; aggressive, visionary, able to feed a multitude with loaves and fishes.”

The second: “Help wanted – director of schools for rural county, not noted for local tax support. The successful candidate should be aggressive (but not step on toes), visionary (but not offensive to traditionalists) and able to feed a multitude with loaves and fishes (but not by juggling funds).”

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School nurse crisis patched

School nurses whose jobs were terminated Dec. 14 address the school board: Tracie Hawkins, of Luttrell Elementary; Nicole Lockhart, of Horace Maynard Middle School; and Amanda Kitts, of Maynardville Elementary. At right is parent Laura Riggs, who wants a nurse at each school. Photos by S. Clark “I don’t care about the budget. I’m here for my daughter.”

Brad Griffey, a board member elected this year from the Luttrell district, agreed.

“We’ve been kicking it around like a soccer ball.

That’s not acceptable. …

I’d like to make a motion to keep our nurses.”

Griffey’s motion was not considered because the school board was in a workshop. Goforth quickly summarized: The school district pays two nurses, Sonya George and Connie Harrell.

Hawkins, Lockhart and Kitts work for UCPC, a private contractor.

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Board member Brian Oaks asked Goforth to bring back a budget amendment to fund the three nurses through the school year, and Goforth agreed.

“You cannot end the year in the red,” cautioned board chair David Coppock.

Kicking Eddie Graham Eddie Graham didn’t deserve the abuse he endured at the Dec. 13 school board workshop. Ironically, Graham and Wayne Goforth designed the deal that brought LPN-staffed clinics to three schools. Now these clinics are going away and folks are mad.

Parents from Luttrell rallied around Laura Riggs, who asked why Graham’s salary and that of his assistant were not used to fund the nurses about to be canEddie Graham celed. Both are paid by a federal grant, he explained, and the state-designed grant parameters require both positions.

Graham is the coordinator of school health. His assistant, a registered nurse, took a huge pay cut to leave a hospital setting and join his office, he said.

Seeing a registered nurse in an office while her school’s LPN was canned was almost more than Riggs could bear.

“We’ve got two nurses for seven schools,” said Graham.

“That’s the hand I’ve been dealt. … I would like to have a nurse at every school. We’re one of the most medically Artist Marlene Wertze with her “Geneva Lake,” 2011 Best of under-served counties (in the state). But I want the right Show colored pencil piece. Photo by Cindy Taylor group in there – one that will stay.”

– S. Clark

Cough, cough Carolyn Murr, representing the Union County Education Association, thanked the school board for closing school for three days to allow recovery from sickness. Then she paused to cough. Apparently, the bug had just caught Murr.

She said, “If the state wants everybody online for 2014 testing, then the state should send the money to pay for it.”

She got a hearty “amen” from school districts across the state – at least the one that heard her.

David Coppock made a rare joke during Murr’s presentation. After she asked for retroactive mileage reimbursement for teachers of home bound students, who did not get it last year, she reminded the board this is the year for new reading books and next year it’s time for new social studies books. Hopefully, we’ll get around to science, she said.

“It’s been 14 years since we got new science books and it’s getting harder to explain why Pluto is no longer a planet when it clearly says it in the textbook.”

“Tell them we grandfathered him in,” said Coppock.

– S. Clark

Artist explores new medium

By Cindy Taylor

Marlene Wertze has studied art for more than 50 years and is the featured artist for December at the Union County Arts Co-op.

At 78, she has become an expert at watercolor, paper marbling and nature crafts.

She has studied ebru marEbru marbling is an exbling and did studio work at the Marbling Resource Center tensive, sometimes mixed in Illinois under the tutelage medium, requiring talent of Milena Hughes, a well- and time.

Marblers will use powknown artist of this medium. dered carrageenan extracted from various seaweeds along with other, often homemade, products.

Wertze has set aside ebru but plans to return to it soon.

“I want to do more marbling eventually because I want to incorporate that into my colored pencil work,” said Wertze. “It is very abstract, but it can be manipulated.”

Wertze is a member and past secretary of the Illinois Watercolor Society, where she retained a signature membership for many years before moving to Wisconsin.

While in Wisconsin she was a member of the Geneva Lake Art Association where her paintings are held in private collections.

After attending workshops in colored pencil and by trial and error on Phone: her own, she developed a special interest in this medium.

Wertze recently moved to Union County where her colored pencil work has continued to evolve. Her current focus is studying and drawing local wildflowers.

“Drawing nature can be difficult,” she said.

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Influence: Derek and Daniel A preacher, struggling to reach older boys and young men, said a football coach has more influence.

The minister was right. By the time athletic males are sophomores in high school, coaches probably have more influence than preachers or parents. Peers may be runners-up. That is scary.

I choose this thought as my Christmas reflection on Derek Dooley. There were no signature football victories, unless you inflate the value of Cincinnati and North Carolina State. But there were signature influences. I hope his Vol for Life program proves genuine. I hope his support of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes was enough to keep

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it alive and well.

I do know that Derek Dooley did some remarkable things with individual Volunteers. Here is one example: Daniel Hood is a resident expert on sin and redemption, on heartbreak and hope, on lows and highs that hit dead ends.

He was part of a crime that merited prison but his age, 13, spared him. He repented and overcame enough

of the stigma to become an outstanding studentathlete at Catholic High – terrific grades, model citizen, Mr. Football on a state championship team.

Twenty-seven colleges were interested in his future until they caught up with his past. One by one, they quit recruiting him.

Tennessee was among the dropouts.

Along came Lane Kiffin to take a chance and the heat. Lane was all about winning any way he could.

The controversial scholarship was to help him and the team, not Hood.

I thought athletic director Mike Hamilton’s evaluation was sincere: Hood

Slaughter of the innocents When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.”

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ing after the attacks of 9/11, and I have not yet allowed myself to cry over these precious children, over their A stunned nation grieves I will confess I have ac- devastated parents, over the with the people of New- tively tried not to envision loss of innocence and trust town, Conn., whose chil- the carnage. I remember which must be rampant when I could not stop cry- among the survivors. dren “are no more.”

shouldn’t have to keep paying for a “terrible mistake” made as a kid.

“Catholic High gave him a second chance, and he lived up to expectations.

We feel like he has earned the chance to continue that,” said Hamilton.

Hood became a Vol and part of the revolving door that was/is Big Orange football. Dooley replaced Kiffin. Position coaches came and went. Hood switched from offense to defense.

He was an imposing man.

At 6-4 and 300 with shoulder-length hair and scraggly beard, Hood became the image of the mythical Thor, god of lightning and thunder. I suppose he does resemble Chris Hemsworth, the actor who was Thor in the movie.

Interesting sidelight: Hood got the Thor feeling.

The Vols were doing a project for Habitat for Humanity. Players picked up hammers and went to work.

Hood hooked a sledgehammer on his belt. He looked bigger than life. That was not the Dooley look. Daniel trimmed enough to meet specifications. It helped that he could play.

There has never been an easy street for Daniel Hood. Shoulder repairs knocked him out of spring practice, a crucial setback with another new coaching staff.

In mid-June, Hood found his mother and her boyfriend dead in her apartment. He said that was the darkest day of his life.

Teammates rushed to the rescue. Dooley spent hours

with his grieving player.

Hood and teammates found one small smile.

They speculated that the coach’s car was the best ever in the neighborhood, not the nicest in South Knoxville. They guessed how it must have been when Derek went door to door saying “I’m Coach Dooley, y’all know where Dan Hood lives?”

In the months that followed, Hood could not distinguish between the coach and the man who put an arm on his shoulder and helped him through really rough times.

Hood said Derek Dooley is one of the best people he has ever been around, perhaps the second most important in his life.

Here we are in the midst of a season of hope and peace and joy and love (as the Advent candles remind us), and yet, there is an overwhelming sense of desolation and fear and horror and – if we are honest – anger.

I mean, really! Can you imagine pointing a gun at a kindergartner and pulling the trigger, multiple times?

Gunning down unarmed women trying to protect terrified children? Can you fathom a little girl who was canny enough to play dead and survive?

The infanticide decreed

by Herod in Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus

was another instance of a paranoid madman killing babies, only Herod’s motive was to protect his throne.

And he sent soldiers to do his murdering.

I have a lot of questions about this dark episode in the Christmas story. They are the same questions a lot of people are asking in Newtown.

Why? Why does a merciful God allow such horror?

Where was God? Asleep?

Where were the miracles that needed to happen in those awful moments?

And like the mothers and fathers in Newtown whose children survived, did Mary and Joseph feel survivor’s

guilt? As they slipped out of Bethlehem and across the Judean desert, did they hear the dreadful cries of the babies as they were dying? Could they hear the horrified screams of the mothers?

How long did it take for those cries to stop echoing in their ears?

How long will it take for us?

As we celebrate this Christmas, let us spare a thought, say a prayer, light a candle, sing a song for the children, all the children, the world over.

In the name of the Child.

Amen.

Marvin West invites reader reaction.

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Employees at Willow Ridge prepare donations from the community to be given to residents Dec. 18 at their Christmas party. Each year the center places an angel tree in the lobby with wish lists of residents. The residents and staff are grateful to the community for all their thoughtful donations and gifts. Pictured is activity director Kelly Holt, social services director Ashley Miracle, director Rebecca Mills and assistant activity director Glenda Mills. Photos by Cindy Taylor

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Middle School students practice for play Fifth-period chorus members at Horace Maynard Middle School practice for the Christmas program. Pictured are (front) Jayden Munsey, Cassie Yadon, Leah Carroll, Sarah Sahs, Lexi Fuson, Carmin Ellison, Miranda Parsons, Lucy Hembree; (back) director Hannah Haynes, Tyler Armstrong, Gibson Calfee, Draven Weeks, Gabriel Waller, Lucas Mills, Destini Thomas and Jasmine Nicley. Photo by C. Taylor

By Cindy Taylor Paulette Elementary School held its first Winter Wonderland Dec. 14 to benefit students in need. Admission was free with a toy donation.

“We have about 20 students we are trying to help,” said PTO member and parent Teresa Williams. “All of the donated toys will be wrapped and given out to the children the week before Christmas break.”

A hall of lights directed kids to Santa, while concessions and crafts kept parents fed and entertained. Pawl the Panther roamed the halls making new friends.

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