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VOL. 8 NO. 45
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High school to honor veterans Union County High students are readying for a Veterans Day program to be held at the school auditorium at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, with a meet and greet preceding. “We’ve had some really nice programs the past few years,” says program coordinator Barbara Williams, circuit court clerk. “The students have always been very well-behaved and respectful.” Guest speaker will be former Army Staff Sergeant William Satterfield, a graduate of the school. Letters inviting area veterans have been sent out by students, and photos of veterans related to the students have been collected. Julie Sharp’s multi-media class will provide a slide show of videos and still shots to be shown while poems are recited. HOSA club members will speak. The chorus, the band, the FFA, the floriculture class, and the Beta Club will also participate in thanking our veterans. Everyone is welcome to attend and a written invitation is not necessary. Following the program, the J.C. Baker Masonic Lodge No. 720 will sponsor a luncheon for all veterans and their spouses at the lodge, adjacent to Rocky Top Shell station. Info: Barbara Williams at 992-5493.
November 9, 2013
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Turner, Boone are Man, Woman of the Year By Sandra Clark Great food, great fun, great fellowship. What more could one ask from an evening of entertainment at the Business and Professional Association’s annual banquet. President Brad Davis and board chair Marilyn Toppins even got us out at halftime of the UT-Missouri game. Oh well, no evening can be 100 percent. Randy Turner and Susan Boone were honored as Man and Woman of the Year. The club raised more than $1,400 for scholarships as everybody’s favorite guy, Ronnie Irick, sold off gift baskets. And Keith Nease and his crew from Pete’s Place served up the most exquisite pork chops and chicken breasts and baked potatoes on the planet. The chocolate cake was to kill for. In fact, someone named it killer cake. Randy Turner has worked for 21 years in the Property Assessor’s Office and is an example of a true “public servant,” said Brad Davis, last year’s honoree.
Turner is a deacon and Sunday School teacher at First Baptist Church and he heads the kitchen team during Vacation Bible School, feeding 160 to 200 each night. He has served on community committees including Parks and Recreation, ChildHelp, Senior Citizen Advisory Council and Keep Union County Beautiful. He volunteers with the Heritage Festival, the annual Crusade for Christ, the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, Toys for Tots and he aided a Girl Scout troop with their project to clean up the veterans memorial site at Maynardville Elementary School. At last year’s Toys for Tots distribution, he gave out 100 coats to both children and adults. “Randy never tires in his goal to help as many around him as he possibly can,” said Davis. Susan Boone founded the Arts Cooperative in Maynardville. A native of Goodlettsville, she moved to the area 30 years ago. She worked in her father’s flower
Randy Turner and Susan Boone are the 2013 Man and Woman of the Year for Union County. They were honored Saturday at UCBPA’s annual banquet. Photo by Katey Boone
shop and took over management when he passed away. Later she sold the business and worked at an art and framing shop. When that store closed, she opened her own business. Along the way, she authored a book on barns. “The Union County Arts Cooperative is one of the county’s little treasures,” said Brandi Davis, last year’s recipient of the award. Boone said, “A couple of years ago I needed something to jump
into. My daughter, Katey, help me clean up and organize the Arts Cooperative. We have 30 artists out there now, and lots of good merchandise.” Officers installed by Mayor Mike Williams are: Brad Davis, president; Shannon Perrin, vice president; Brandi Davis, secretary; Jennifer Shipley, treasurer; and directors Gina Buckner, Darrell Johnson, Marilyn Toppins, Kathy Chesney, Chantay Collins, Melanie Dykes and Pearl Coffey.
Extension agent Shannon Perrin with Union County 4-H Technology Team Joshua Sherritze, Jeremiah Kadron, Dakota Sherritze, Martin Dickey and Nathanael Kadron, working on the Big Ridge State Park maps. Photo by Libby Morgan
Book fair at UCHS The UCHS Library will have its annual book fair this week, Nov. 11-15. This year’s theme is Reading Oasis. In addition to purchasing books, students and teachers will participate in Egyptianthemed games and activities throughout the week. The book fair will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Family members are also welcome to come by and shop for books. The library will benefit from the fair by being able to purchase books based on the total sales.
IN THIS ISSUE The end of war At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in the year 1918, World War I – the “war to end all wars” – officially ended. It was only two years ago that the last U. S. veteran of that war died: Frank Buckles, of West Virginia. Twenty-nine years after the “war to end all wars,” World War II began.
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Success! 4-H group maps Big Ridge trails By Libby Morgan Perseverance pays. After a false start this summer, a group of 4-H-ers has hiked all 11 miles of trails at Big Ridge State Park while successfully downloading GPS coordinates with software by a company called Esri, for Environmental Systems Research Institute. The kids are creating an accurate map of the park trails for printed maps, online info and eventually a mobile app. A “blueway” around the lakeshore of the park will also be shown as a trail, according to project leader Martin Dickey.
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Mapping done by the group will be enhanced with information provided by O’Neill Bergeron, who walked the park this summer to find flora, fauna and points of interest. Bergeron, a Union County resident, is an ecology student at Princeton. A grant written by Julie Graham through the Union County Chamber of Commerce enabled the funding for the software. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to the files, cleaning up the images and smoothing the lines we traveled, and a lot of decisions to make on how to present the information,” says Dickey. “We’re work-
ing to develop maps for Big Ridge visitors and another version for an Esri contest.” Dickey attended the Esri international conference earlier this year, where he represented the National 4-H Council and accepted an award for Special Achievement in GIS for the council. “I learned a lot there. I was there among 14,000 professionals using Esri’s software. We listened to the CEO’s dreams about what can be done with GIS software, how 911 operators use it to track ambulances and lots more uses. He talked for hours,” Dickey says. The group plans to raise funds
so the three older project participants, Dickey, Nathanael Kadron and Dakota Sherritze, can attend the Esri conference in San Diego in July. ■
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During downtown Maynardville’s Christmas Tree Lighting and Cruise-In on Nov. 30 from 3-6 p.m., the 4-H-ers will have a Christmas portrait backdrop set up on the art center’s “Back Porch” stage. A small fee will be charged to use the backdrop for self-made photos, and the team will be on hand to take photos with a 4- by 6-inch print for $5 and a disk of photos for $15. For $25, the team will do a precise calculation of parcels for farmers so that their fertilizer, seed and pesticide applications will be accurate. More photos on page 3
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