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Happy Holidays From Corner Nest Antique Mall in Elizabethton
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Corner Nest Antique Mall Elizabethton, TN — There is no more exciting time of the year than the holiday season at Corner Nest Antique Mall. The 90+ vendors in this massive two story mall near downtown Elizabethton have the place looking like a Winter Wonderland! Friends Joy and Sheila Eldreth share a large booth space at Corner Nest with Joy offering a wide assortment of soy candles and home-made soaps while Shelia concentrates on interior design including painting furniture in an effort to refurbish for sale. “We also both do floral design,” Shelia said matter-offactly. “For example, Joy did the snowman and trees in our booth.” Where do the two friends find their items? “People give us ‘stuff’ all the time,” she says. “We love to take those items and recycle them. And, of course, we go to sales and find other opportunities to identify like antique pieces at estate sales. It’s a passion with us and we’ve been doing this type of thing for 20+ years. . .really all of our adult lives.” Shelia says she, “Loves the Corner Nest Antique Mall.” “We are so excited to be here,” she said. “We really try to offer unique, quality items in our booth at reasonable prices.” Tina Morris started out at Corner Nest as the restaurant manager for Apples & Oranges Café. “I did that for about two-and-a-half years and along the way Robin [Blackwell, the owner] taught me how to buy, sale and trade. I’ve always
been interested in this business and now I have three booths here.” Tina’s Christmas booth on the first floor is in a must see room. “It’s a collection of Christmas Trees I’ve collected over the years and other things that I’ve ordered. There is a pretty, dark wood, child’s closest that I refurbished. And, I pick up stuff through the year and bring it out at Christmastime.” Tina has another Christmas booth and one that features both antique and new furniture. “I have a bedroom, dresser rocking chair in that one now. Then in about two months I’ll change it out to keep the booth fresh with new items.” Tina points out that the vendors at Corner Nest Antique Mall are like family. “We all have so much different items and we help each other. We want everyone to be successful.
Robin is like a sister to me. But I’m the younger one,” she said with a laugh. Another booth that caught our eye was the one Mike and Bendy Sholders have. The center piece is a beautiful Christmas wreath decorated in a holiday motif. When you visit Corner Nest Antique Mall you’ll want to take your time because there is so much to see and many bargains to be had!
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‘Gearing’up for the holidays BY SUZY CLOYD
Don’t let the hustle and bustle of the holiday season fool you into thinking you need all new gear and equipment for your workout. Over the years I have come to rely on the tried and true to get me through. Running is imminently measurable. You work with the objective standards of distance and time to truly be the best you can be. It only makes sense you want to look and feel your best while working out and looking your best doesn’t mean it should cost a fortune. Running is so personal; it can easily be tailored for you as an individual. And just like your routine can be unique, so can your clothes, shoes, technology and gadgets. Stick with what works for you and what is affordable for your budget. I run in a Saucony classic – Shadow 6000 and have run in the same style shoe for 30 years. I am well aware of the new styles and fashion, but I’ve never had a reason to switch brands or styles. They are affordable and I can put about 500-700 miles on a pair. As far as clothes go, I have my favorite shorts, pants, and sweats that fit me like a glove. When I transform
from Suzy to runner and get into my running clothes I become a different person because I am comfortable in my “stuff”. T-shirts and sweatshirts from past races keep me warm. Inexpensive, yet warm and cozy. Grab a nice fleece headband and some cotton gloves and you have all you need to get you through the winter running season. Don’t make the mistake of using Christmas as a reason to buy expensive running gear, only to have to return it because it wasn’t right for you or you didn’t feel comfortable while working out. Workout clothes and gear are expensive, so be sure and do the research on what you are buying and make sure if you purchase through the mail, the vendor has a hassle-free return policy. Proper running attire and equipment are important, but it doesn’t have to cost a fortune to be fit. More importantly, you should be comfortable and enjoy your workout, staying safe and avoiding injury during the winter months. So gear up for the holidays, but do it in a sensible, fashionable way that works best for you.
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One of the things that irritates me greatly is when someone uses something’s popularity as evidence of its artistic merit. As a matter of fact, in modern entertainment culture, popularity is often inversely proportional to actual artistic validity. Take Justin Beiber for example – he might sell millions upon millions of downloads, but does anyone actually believe that whatever song he had that hit number one two months ago will still be getting airplay 10 years from now? Most definitely not, because there’s not really any legitimate artistry that goes into his music. It’s all about one track selling like mad on iTunes for a couple of weeks until they can crank out the next one. The same holds true for television. Many of the shows that get the highest ratings, aren’t actually very good. They’re basically dumbed down and homogenous enough that the best thing you can say about them is that they’re comfortable. Predictable situations, slow-pitchdown-the-middle jokes, overused laugh tracks that drone on and on, laughable cliffhanger endings at season’s end…it bores me just thinking about them. So here are a few shows for those adventurous souls who might like to branch out and deviate a little bit from their standard viewing appointments. If you like Criminal Minds/CSI/NCIS, you’ll love Luther and/or Hannibal. While CBS has successfully reinvented their network to be the one stop shop for police procedurals, the formula that they employ is getting
a little long in the tooth. Maybe viewers like the ‘if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all’ quality that they give off? If you like the investigation/procedural genre, but have grown tired of the exceedingly familiar CBS formula, you might want to try BBC’s Luther or NBC’s Hannibal. Luther, which airs in the states on BBC America (or you can catch the first two seasons on Netflix), stars the incomparable Idris Elba as Detective John Luther, a man whose desire for justice outweighs his respect for the letter of the law. Elba, who already played The Wire’s Stringer Bell, one of the most compelling television characters of all time, plays Luther with a world-weary intelligence and under the surface rage. Its seasons (or series, as seasons are referred to in England) usually only feature four to six episodes, which always succeeds in leaving you wanting more as opposed to limping to the finish line like comparable American shows that have to crank out 24 episodes per season. If you don’t have access to cable or Netflix, look no further than Hannibal on NBC. On paper, it sounds like a terrible idea – a series long prequel of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter novels, but in execution, it’s a fantastically dark masterpiece that pushes the boundaries of what we normally see on network television (both in its content and its intelligence). Hugh Dancy plays Will Graham, a brilliant criminal profiler who has an easier time relating to serial killers than his peers. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (known to most as the bad guy in Casino Royal) plays Lecter with much more restraint and underlying menace than Anthony Hopkins did. He doesn’t so much chew scenery as weave within it. It’s a fascinating take on familiar material from a great television mind (Bryan Fuller, who created two other brilliant-but-ratings-challenged shows Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.) Props to NBC for allowing the creative
Luther team the latitude to put together a show that not everyone will appreciate. If you like Modern Family, you’ll love Parenthood. This isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison since Modern Family is a 30 minute sitcom and Parenthood is an hour long “dramedy”. What they both have in common, however, is an innate ability to get to the heart of situations that everyone has experienced in their own families. Modern Family does it with goofy (albeit very funny) characters and situations, while Parenthood does it with a level of realism that is both unflinchingly intimate and down home charming at the same time. In Parenthood, which is very loosely based on the 1989 film of the same name, Craig T. Nelson plays the patriarch of a Northern California family that, along the way, has its struggles and successes. It’s funny, it’s heartbreaking (last season’s cancer story arc was phenomenal) and it’s sincere without being overly sincere, which is a very hard line to walk. If you’ve missed it, you can catch up on Netflix.
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One of a kind Cigar Box Guitars can now be purchased locally For the past fourteen months, Old Farm Reclaimed Lumber, LLP has been using local reclaimed lumber to build, one of a kind, Cigar Box Guitars (CBG). The types of wood being used are Red Oak, Walnut, Maple and Cherry. They make a three string and a four string with either a short neck or a long neck. And due to the volume of orders they are not taking any custom orders at this time, only standard builds. Cigar Box Guitars are
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Have you ever thought about a Garden Memorial Service? Jeff Gasperson, representative of Tri-Cities Funeral Homes in both the Tri-Cities and Church Hill, has a different mission statement from most people in his business. “Each of us has a responsibility to help the ones we love move forward. Have you ever thought how relaxing it would be to do a Memorial Service in a backyard setting?” Gasperson said. “To me, a Memorial Service should
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Impromptu Holidays same time that flames shot up For a lot of families, there from the stove. My dad quickly is an annual ritual by which grabbed the piping hot, twelve they celebrate each holiday, pound bird out of the flames but for others, every twelve with his bare hands, while months a new surprise comes my mom squealed, “Save the along. My family has develturkey!” Of course the small oped a few traditions of our Carrie grease fire we had started in own, like drawing names for secret Santa on Thanks- Williams my sister’s apartment caused smoke alarms and sprinklers giving day and choosing one gift to open on Christmas Eve to activate, and in no time, an entire night. But we also manage to make building full of residents was in evacueach and every year memorable in ation mode. By this time the fire was a different way, the same way that already contained, and while avoideach Olympic Games celebration is ing the sharp gazes of the angry apartunique. I like to think of us as gyp- ment dwellers, we hurried back to the sies, because some of the best holiday third floor to finish the Thanksgiving celebrations we’ve ever had weren’t we had started, my dad with burned even in our home. My personal favor- hands and singed facial hair. I was ite Thanksgiving was the one spent probably nine years old at the time, in my sister Amanda’s apartment in and to this day I will not forget the Savannah, Georgia. She had been Thanksgiving fiasco. Our most memorable Christmas studying at Savannah College of Art and Design and didn’t want to spend was also spent in Savannah. Into that Thanksgiving by herself, nor would same one bedroom, one bathroom she get off work in time to make the apartment, we managed to cram my six hour drive the night before. So mom and dad and three of us kids. It our family brought Thanksgiving to was sort of an impromptu Christmas, her. Of course if you know anything so that Christmas Eve, we went out to about our family, you know that we Walmart to pick up groceries, a three do nothing small. When our mini- foot tree, and a futon for my sister. van, packed full of “holiday good- My parents figured it could be her ies,” hit the curb outside Amanda’s Christmas present, and that way the apartment building, I had no idea it three girls would have somewhere to was the beginning of what would be- sleep. That night it snowed in Savancome the most memorable Thanks- nah for the first time in years, and my sister Rachael and I decorated giving I had ever experienced. The evening seemed pretty normal the tree and the rest of the apartment -- up until the point when my dad set with colored paper and string, and down my great-grandmother’s hand somehow we managed to avoid any painted platter, topped with a twelve fires. The next morning we awoke to pound turkey, to retrieve a casserole find that Santa had made his rounds, from the oven before it could burn. leaving a bicycle for me, which my This seemed benign, but what he parents then had to figure out how to didn’t know was that my mom had fit into the car. I guess Santa hadn’t just taken a pot of gravy off the stove thought of that one. But that Christand consequently, the range was still mas was definitely my favorite. As about 500 degrees. As you might have someone who “flies by the seat of her guessed, dad had set the turkey right pants” most of the time, I appreciate on the stove, and in probably 20 sec- spontaneous, impromptu holiday onds, the sound of broken ceramic celebrations, and it isn’t a holiday if rang through the apartment, at the nothing catches on fire!
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Lewis It is hard to believe that 2013 is almost over. It will soon be time to Associates, P.C. settle up with the IRS. Many TaxCertified Public Accountants payers are going to get a surprise Kenneth L. Lewis, C.P.A., President John F. Hunter, CPA when they file their income tax T. Craig Ratliff, CPA Wayne Turbyfield, CPA returns this year. Many of the New Jeff Jennings, CPA Jennifer C. Penix, CPA Tax increases are in effect for 2013. Princeton Professional Building •136 Princeton Road • Johnson City, TN 37601 Johnson City: 423.926.6475 • Kingsport: 423.246.1356 • Erwin: 423.743.8692 One of the significant increases • Elizabethton: 423.547.3795 is the New Medicare Surcharge Tax Toll Free: 1.877.CPA.4241 • Fax: 423-926-3949 or 423.282.3191 • www.LewisCPAs.com on Net Investment Income. The Members: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Rate is 3.8% on net investment • Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants income. Net Investment Income • Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants has a new and distinct definition for this purpose. The IRS is still Lewis writing regulations to determine how to calculate this new Tax. The Associates, P.C. tax only applies to Taxpayers that Certified Public Accountants have a Modified AGI of more than Kenneth L. Lewis, C.P.A. $250,000 (for married filing jointCertified Public Accountant/President ly). This tax applies to Trust Returns (form 1041) and to individu- 423-926-5138 CPA TM Princeton Road • Johnson City, TN 37601 als (form 1040). This is an area that 136 America Counts on CPAs Toll Free: 1-877-CPA-4241 • Fax: 423-926-3949 KenL@LewisCPAs.com • www.LewisCPAs.com could provide some valuable plan- Email: Members of American Institute Tennessee Society and Virginia Society of Certified ning. If the income from a Trust Public Accountants can be distributed in a timely manner and the beneficiaries of the Trust Modified AGI is is to pay their property taxes after the first of the under the threshold, the tax can possibly be avoided. year in one year and then pay them early in the At the time of writing this article, this is the current subsequent year. By doing this an individual will interpretation of the Statute. This may change when have two payments in the same tax year. This will more regulations are issued. At this time the IRS has sometimes allow a Taxpayer to itemize every other refused to exempt this tax from the Estimated Tax year, and then claim the standard deduction every requirements. Most of the time the Taxpayer will not other year. This is applicable to a Taxpayer that know how to estimate their income from certain in- normally “almost” has enough to itemize. Now is the time to start organizing your tax vestments. Often times the amount will be unknown until the end of the year. This is especially true for records for the upcoming filing season. In a few income from Flow –through investments. weeks you will start to receive documents from About this time every year many commentators Third Party record keepers. Be sure and keep these talk about what to do for year -end tax planning. forms. The IRS is very good at matching these They talk about advancing deductions and defer- documents to your tax returns. We recommend you ring income. For most Taxpayers this is difficult get a shoe box or large envelope and mark it for and impossible in some situations. For Taxpayers your accountant. When the documents arrive in the that receive a W-2 form it is not possible to defer mail place them in the envelope or box. This way income until the next year. It is still possible to you will not be likely to lose them. It will also save advance a few itemized deductions. Itemized de- time when you get ready to visit your Tax Preparer. ductions are still available for 2013, they are very Be sure and consult your personal Tax Advisor limited for Taxpayers with Modified AGI over the before attempting any recommendations in this $250,000 (for married filing jointly) threshold. As article. It is always important to consult with someMAGI increases itemized deductions are reduced. one that is personally knowledgeable with your perThe maximum reduction is 80%. sonal tax situation. It is still permissible to pay your charitable conEveryone at Lewis & Associates PC CPA wish evtributions and property taxes early in order to get eryone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New the deduction in 2013. A technique that some use, Year.
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Concert Schedule Freedom Hall in Johnson City: Dec 7 Tracy Lawrence Niswonger Performing Arts Center in Greeneville, TN: Dec. 7 Reo Speedwagon Dec. 14 Debby Boone Jan. 11 Aaron Tippin Jan. 25 Little River Band Thompson Boling Arena in Knoxville: Jan. 31 Keith Urban Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville: Dec. 6 Memphis Dec. 11 Martina McGBride Dec. 31 The Dirty Guv’nahs Jan. 7 & 8 Shen Yun Feb. 4 Jonny Lang Bijou Theatre in Knoxville: Dec. 6 Delbert McClinton Dec. 12 & 13 Carolina Chocolate Drops Jan. 9 Steep Canyon Rangers Jan. 24 Robert Earl Keen Knoxville Civic Coliseum: Dec. 8 Tracy Lawrence Jan. 11 Jeff Dunham Bridgestone Arena in Nashville: Dec. 4 John Mayer Dec. 8 Trans-Siberian Orchestra Dec. 10 Donnie & Marie Dec. 31 Bassnectar Jan. 8 Jeff Dunham Mar. 21 George Strait Mar. 29 Demi Lovato
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Tuesday, December 3 7:00pm ETSU Bluegrass night
Friday, December 13 8:00pm Scott Miller
Wednesday, December 4 7:00pm ETSU Bluegrass night
Saturday, December 14 8:00pm Scott Miller
Friday, December 6 8:00pm Della Mae
Saturday, December 21 8:00am Annual Christmas Show
Saturday, December 7 8:00pm The Barefoot Movement
Friday, December 27 8:00pm This Mountain
Thursday, December 12 8:00pm Scott Miller
Tuesday, December 31 9:00pm Jill Andrews
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Hands On! October Calendar of Events Art Studio Schedule: • The Mitten: Read the book The Mitten by Jan Brett, based on a folk tale from the Ukraine. Then create your own cozy mitten filled with characters from the story! • Let it Snow!: Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley wanted to show the world the beauty of snowflakes. Examine his photography and learn different techniques and designs as you create your own unique snowflakes out of cut paper! Special Events: All Month Long - Rainforest Adventure! Explore rainforests from around the world in this exciting new traveling exhibit featuring over 40 interactive components: explore a gorilla nest, climb a 9’ kapok tree, weave on a loom, and climb through a tree log to discover animals that make their home there. Tuesday, December 3rd - Sunday, December 15th - Curious Coal Celebrate Coal Miner’s Day and learn how coal is formed. Check out coal specimens and some coal miner’s gear. Then “dig for coal” with a cookie excavation. Don’t forget to take a trip down the slide through our Katie Ellen Coal Mine when you’re through.
The Eastman Discovery Lab will be open by announcement periodically throughout the day. Visit the front desk for more details. (***Allergy Warning: Please note that this program may contain wheat, milk, chocolate, soy, and nut based products.) Friday, December 6th, 6:00-8:00 pm - First Friday Stay tuned for new First Friday events for grown-ups! Tuesday, December 17th - Sunday, December 29th - Wonderful and Wacky
Weather Calling all future meteorologists! Discover a variety of weather patterns, try out our tornado tube, and create your very own instant snow. The Eastman Discovery Lab will be open by announcement periodically throughout each day. Tuesday, December 17th - 9:30 am 12:00 pm - Jr. Ecologist Workshop Adventure awaits you in this workshop designed around our feature exhibit, Rainforest Adventure. Create your own rainforest in a jar, craft a recycled art rain stick, unlock the mysteries of climate change with a CO2 sandwich, and discover the negative forces of pollution and clear cutting with our giant 3-D EnviroScape, and more! A healthy snack will be included. Ages 5-12. Cost $12 for members, $15 for non-members. Payment is required with registration by Wednesday, December 4th. To register, please call (423) 434-HAND (4263) ext. 100. Tuesday & Wednesday, December 24th & 25th - Hands On! will be CLOSED for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Best wishes from our family to yours for a safe and happy holiday season!
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Thankful for Warm Socks and a Generous Community! It’s a bitter cold night and my not do that here in our town? I interfeet are propped up by the fire as I viewed Johnson City schools’ homewrite this. A snowstorm is heading less coordinator and found out that our way. I’ve often heard it’s the we have over 700 homeless students little things that count in life and in our school system. Our team set a tonight I won’t take my socks for goal to “raise” 500 brand new pairs of granted. Let me share why. socks by Thanksgiving. We jokingly While many of us may have a Mary Ellen Miller called it “Toe-vember.” Then we stereotype of a homeless person as asked friends and clients to help us. an unshaven man on a park bench, every A huge thanks to Spine & Sports Chiro, preconceived idea I had was shattered when Appearances Hair Salon and Summit LeadI heard a woman and her young daughter ership Foundation, which served as drop off speak at our United Way report. She had lost sites for the new socks. Thanks to our friends her job, fallen on hard times and, together in the media: Steve Hawkins at WFHG, Amy with her young daughter, was the benefi- Lynn at DayTime Tri-Cities, Ron Scalf here ciary of a United Way agency that serves at Out ‘N About magazine and Sue Guinn at the homeless. Suddenly I was looking at the The Johnson City Press who let us share our face of homelessness: a working mom, not story through the media. We took to social that unlike me. Tears welled in my eyes as media channels too, tweeting, Facebooking I knew what our team along with several and instagramming our donated socks. The friends and clients was doing: seeking 500 Tri-Cities Women’s Council of Realtors and brand new pairs of socks to give to United the ETSU Public Relations Student Society Way to distribute to their agencies that serve all pitched in socks as did friends from my church group and some of my other clients. the homeless. About a month ago I saw nine-year-old On Monday, November 25, just three days YouTube sensation Kid President making an before Thanksgiving, we gave United Way’s impassioned plea for local communities to executive director Lester Lattany more than gather up new socks for the homeless in his 500 pairs of new socks. Thanks to our community’s generosity #Socktober campaign. I was inspired. Why
Lester Lattany (United Way), Tim and Cindy Dunne (Spine & Sports Chiro), Sarah Kinsler, Mary Ellen Miller, Emma Brock (all with MarketingMel), Jan Jacobson (Summit Leadership Foundation) and Carlee Bradshaw (Appearances Hair Salon) with new socks for the homeless. over 500 homeless people will now have warm feet. At a time when we count our blessings, I am grateful for wonderful, generous friends (readers like you) with big, giving hearts; and of course, for socks!
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MSHA garners statewide, international honors for marketing, PR Johnson City, TN. – The Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) Communications and Marketing Department recently received both international and statewide recognition for its work during the last year. MSHA was awarded 2013 MarCom Awards for 10 projects – five of them earning Platinum honors and five receiving Gold awards. The MarCom Awards are an international competition for marketing and communication materials and programs. MSHA earned 16 awards in the Tennessee Society for Healthcare Marketing and Public Relations’ annual Prism awards competition – 11 Prism Awards and five Citations of Excellence. “Not only is it exciting to be ranked among some of the top organizations internationally, but it’s also gratifying to get this recognition for our work in several areas – design, writing and video,” said Shane O’Hare, MSHA’s corporate director for Marketing and Communications. “Mountain States offers great services to the community and we’re always striving to get our message out in an effective manner.” Here are MSHA’s international MarCom winners:
MarCom Platinum Awards • HEAL Appalachia – HEAL Appalachia Community Resource Guide – Brochure/Nonprofit • HEAL Appalachia – 5-2-1-0 – Television/PSA • JCMC Clean Hands Save Lives – Ads/Mall/Airport Station • MSHA Community Benefit Report – Annual Report/Corporate Social Responsibility • Mountain Star Internal e-Newsletter – E-Communication/E-Newsletter MarCom Gold Awards • The Wellness Center 3 on 3 Basketball Poster – Ads/Poster • JCMC Clean Hands Billboard – Ads/Billboard • Niswonger Children’s Hospital Annual Report – Design (Print)/Annual Report • FWCH’s Choose Campaign – Marketing/Promo Campaign/Integrated Marketing • JMH’s Getting You Back to What You Love Campaign – Marketing/Promo Campaign/Self Promotion Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and free-
lancers. MarCom winners were selected from over 200 categories. About 19 percent of the entries won the Platinum Award, the organization’s top honor. Gold and Platinum winners came from as far away as Australia and the Far East. Regionally, Appalachian State, UT-Battelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the United Way of Asheville/ Buncombe County were also MarCom recipients. For more information about the MarCom Awards, visit www.MarComAwards.com. On a statewide basis, MSHA received 11 Prism awards and five Citation of Excellence awards, more than any
other health care system in the state. MSHA’s awards were: • Marketing Program – HealthPlus Awareness Campaign • Internal Public Relations Program – Hand Washing Window Murals • External Public Relations Program – BlueCross BlueShield Ad Campaign • Direct Mail – Mammography Direct Mail • Annual Report – Cardio Annual Report • Brochure – HEAL Appalachia Booklet • One-Time Publication – Fire & Ice Spirit Gala Invitation • Audiovisuals – 5-2-1-0 Public Ser-
vice Announcement • Design/Graphics – OWL Logo • Potpourri – Niswonger Children’s Hospital/Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Digital Ads O’Hare also received the President’s Award for his support of the Prism Awards. Mountain States received Citations of Excellence for five more projects: Ortho Direct Mail, ER Direct Mail, Dragon Boat Creating a Team Brochure, HealthPlus website, and the Be Yourself Poster. Hospitals and health care systems across Tennessee entered this year’s competition, which recognizes outstanding achievements in health care marketing and public relations throughout the state. The Tennessee Society for Healthcare Marketing and Public Relations is the largest organization of health care communicators in the state. Its mission is to enhance the value of healthcare marketing and communications and serve its members through education, skills development and information sharing. For more information, visit www. tshmpr.com.
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items that Clemens will purchase from you include: watches, rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, broaches, pins, and he is also a coin dealer. “I guess we all have some old jewelry and coins lying around that we don’t wear anymore and really don’t have any use for. Why not turn those items into instant cash?” Clemens said. Gold Rush is open Monday through Saturday and they even have a drive through window for your convenience. Clemens will also help coordinate your gold party and pay you for hosting it in the privacy of your home or office. “You can call and make an appointment and I will come to your house or office and evaluate your gold, silver or platinum,” Clemens explained. “And we also buy and deal in coins and coin collections.” Clemens and his family have over 34 years of experience in the business. Other
family members own the Ideal Cards & Coins Company, in Ohio. “I’m a local businessman that you can deal with face-toface instead of mailing your gold or jewelry off to people you don’t know and may not be getting the best deal for what you are selling,” he said matter-of-factly. Clemens and his family live in Washington County and he is an active coach of the Junior Topper football team and he also coaches baseball, T-Ball, and soccer. “You might recognize me on the field,” he said with a laugh. “I enjoy coaching yearround and it gives me time to spend with my kids.” Jeremy is married to Melissa and they have three children: Maddie, 8; Josh, 12;
Jeremy Clemens and Joey 5. They attend St. Mary’s Church in Johnson City. “I really enjoy working with the public every day and giving people the best deal possible when they are selling their gold, silver, platinum or coins,” he added. “I invite the readers of Out ‘N About Magazine to come by and get the best deal possible on their gold, silver, platinum or coins. And, if you’d like to make an appointment away from the store, just give me a call. We are all about customer service.”
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Fiddlin Carson Peters to Tape Song of the Mountains Marion, VA - Nine year old Carson Peters recently appeared on the Jay Leno Show. This young man from Piney Flats, Tennessee amazes audiences wherever he performs including Leno and the national television audience a few weeks ago. In 2008, Carson and his parents began attending Old-time and Bluegrass festivals where Carson could hear and jam with some very talented musicians as well as compete in youth fiddle competitions. His most noteworthy contest wins have taken place at the Bluegrass and Old-time Fiddlers’ Convention in Mt. Airy, NC where he has received first place in the Youth Old-time Fiddle, Bluegrass Fiddle and Youth Folk Song categories. He has also received the most
promising young talent award at this festival in multiple years. Carson was also named Tennessee State Peewee Fiddle Champion for 2010 in Clarksville, Tennessee and has also won first place in the Youth Old-Time and the Youth Bluegrass Fiddle category at the famous Old Fiddlers’ Convention in Galax, Virginia. Carson says winning trophies and getting your name in the newspaper is “really cool” but that is not the main reason he works so hard at his music. “It’s all about using the talent GOD gave me to make people smile,” he says. Carson truly loves to entertain people! At nine years old, Carson is a seasoned performer playing numerous venues
throughout the region; Bristol Rhythm and Roots, Dollywood’s Bluegrass and BBQ, Asheville’s Bluegrass First Class, and a live broadcast on WDVX in Knoxville to list a few. Steve and Ruth Smith, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, return for their second appearance on Song of the Mountains. Steve and Ruth’s music is a unique blend of Appalachian heritage music with Celtic roots, featuring hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, guitar, and banjo. Ohio Magazine says Steve and Ruth’s music has “the soul of mountain music and the gentle grace of mountain air.” Their music combines the richness of centuries old Appalachian and Celtic
musical traditions along with their original music about mountain life and rural Appalachian values. Additional bluegrass music on Song of the Mountains will be provided by the Gentlemen of Bluegrass with their traditional music including familiar standards as well as original tunes. Dennis Cash will also perform many Carter Family style tunes on Song of the Mountains on December 14th. Dennis recently released his new CD “Sing Me a Carter Family Song”. This Song of the Mountains concert on Saturday, December 14th begins at 7:00 pm. Tickets and information is available at www.songofthemountains.org or by calling 276-783-6093.
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Dec. (Various dates and times) - “1940s Radio Christmas Carol” Jonesborough Repetory Theatre. $15 general admission; $13 students; $9 groups of 15 or more. 423-753-1010. Dec.5th – 8th - “It’s a Wonderful Life” Johnson County Community Theatre. Heritage Hall, Mt. City. Adults $10 in advance $12 at door; Youth $5. 423-727-7444. Dec. 6th- 7th Carter Mansion Christmas, in Elizabethton. 6-8 p.m. www.sycamoreshoalstn.org Dec. 6 - 8th - “The Nutcracker” by the Kingsport Ballet. Northeast State Community College, Blountville. Tickets $10-$20. 423-378-3967. Dec. 6, 7, 13, & 14th - Rocky Mount History Museum. “Candlelight Christmas.” $10 adults; $7 children. 423-538-7396. Dec. 6th - 8th, 10th - 15th, 17th - 21st - LampLight Theatre, downtown Kingsport. “The Indescribable Gift” 7 p.m. + Matinees on Sundays. Donation of $10 adults $5 students. 423-343-1766. Dec. 7th - Symphony of the Mountains presents Holiday concert with Carl Tanner, Voices of the Mountains, the Mountain Empire Children’s Choral Academy and Mountain Mission School Choir. $35. 3 p.m. at the Reid Employee Center, Kingsport. 423-392-8423. Dec. 8th - Newsong’s Very Merry Christmas Tour, Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City. Various artists. 6 p.m. $15 or donation. 423-461-4855. Dec. 12th - Annual Christmas Tree Lighting, 6 p.m. Downtown Blountville. Dec. 14th - Visions of Christmas, 1862, Tipton Haynes Historic Site, Johnson City. $5 adults; $2.50 children. 423-926-3631. Johnson City Symphony Orchestra, Seeger Chapel, Milligan College. “Winter Wonderland.” 423-926-8742. Dec.19th – 22nd - “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” at the Kingsport Renaissance Center. 423-638-1679. Dec. 25th - Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night!
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Who says you can’t go home? Elizabethton native, Jerry Pierce is coming home. Pierce and his band will be at the Elizabethton Elks Lodge #1847 this New Year’s Eve. When Jerry left Elizabethton about 42 years ago he was traveling, playing music and singing in several cities in the northern states. Pierce would pass back through Tennessee to play a few southern cities before heading north to repeat the venues. Pierce says those were formative years for his music career. While on the road as a member of other bands he had the opportunity to learn what worked well – and what didn’t. Armed with this experience he returned to East Tennessee and in 1981 he formed Jerry Pierce & The Nightlife Band. Today, Pierce is the only original member of that group but vocalist and keyboard player Libby Hatcher joined in 1982. Jim Black came on as their drummer in 2005 and their newest member is bass player Tom Dickens who replaced original member Ronnie McKee in 2011. Jerry Pierce & The Nightlife Band plays a variety of music and that is one of the reasons Pierce was eager to form his own group. He wanted to play different genres of music to appeal to a wider audience. “I wanted to have something for almost everyone and I think we do a good job of that with the variety that we offer,” said Pierce. They’ve been doing just that throughout East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, parts of Kentucky, and most recently in the Washington DC area where they played at a local VFW after touring various memorials with some of our local veterans. Pierce and his band made the trip with the Northeast Tennessee Honor Flight group. A highlight for Pierce was playing Taps at the memorial. “It was an honor and a joy to be able to give a little
something back to some of the veterans who gave so much for us. It was a true honor to have been selected to go on that trip.” You can see Jerry Pierce on New Year’s Eve at the Elizabethton Elks Lodge; call 865-543-2341 for tickets and information.
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Jerry Pierce
I went as far as I could, I tried to find a new face There isn’t one of these lines that I would erase I lived a million miles of memories on that road With every step I take I know that I’m not alone You take the home from the boy, but not the boy from his home These are my streets, the only life I’ve ever known, who says you can’t go home — Bon Jovi
Crissy and I hope you enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday and had the chance to recharge and spend time with your family and friends. At the state level, our budget hearings had us looking ahead to the next fiscal year, but the holidays allow us to look back at what we’re thankful for. It’s at this point in time every year that I’m thankful for the Tennessee tradition of fiscal responsibility and a balanced budget. I believe this year will perhaps be our most difficult budget of the administration to date. Revenues are down, leaving most discretionary dollars taken up by funding the formula increases of the BEP and TennCare (and that’s without an expansion of Medicaid services). Finance and Administration Commissioner Larry Martin asked the commissioners to go through the exercise of identifying what 5 percent reductions in their departments would look like. We ask departments to do this not because we’ll take an across-the-board reduction, but because, like we have done every year, we’ll take a thoughtful and comprehensive approach to budgeting and managing our state conservatively. One of the reasons being efficient and effective
with your tax dollars is so critical is that saving in one area allows us to maintain important services in another. One example is our desire to build on our momentum in education. Teachers are the single most important factor in student achievement, and higher accountability for teachers and proven results should be met with better rewards. Taking another step toward making Tennessee the fastest improving state for teachers’ salaries will be a budget priority this year. Our budget hearings are archived here for ondemand playback, and watching them is a great way to learn more about your state government. Crissy and I also want to encourage you to visit the Tennessee Residence for the “Home for the Holidays” open house event. We firmly believe that this house we’re so honored to live in is not our house but yours. We invite you to register for a free tour here and come see the house decorated for the holidays. In the last two years, nearly 10,000 visitors have participated, and this year’s theme, “Tennessee Legends,” highlights influential people, places and events throughout our state’s history to help tell the story of our rich heritage. — Bill Haslam
Are you losing your health insurance because of Obamacare?
Over the past four years, we have talked a great deal about what I thought the problems with ObamaCare would be. Because of our state’s experience with TennCare, I anticipated that insurance would become increasingly unaffordable and that many Americans would lose access to their existing policies. Despite warnings from myself and others, the president pushed ahead and promised that Americans who liked the health insurance they had could keep their plan. Unfortunately, my worst fears have become a reality for too many Americans. Take the example of Joann, who lives in Limestone, Tennessee. She works hard to make ends meet and on November 30 her current health insurance plan, which she purchases through her employer, will end. Joann’s premiums will rise from $95 to $200 a month because her current pol-
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icy doesn’t meet the minimum could be even higher. benefit standards that ObamWhen President aCare established. With her Obama reassured people salary, it is difficult for Joann repeatedly that if they to afford more expensive insurliked their current health ance, but now she’s required care plan they could keep to under the law’s individual it, he was ignoring clear mandate. Ironically, the very warnings that this promise law that requires Joann to purcouldn’t be kept. A June Congressman chase insurance is the very law 2010 report in the Federal Phil Roe that’s causing her original, afRegister predicted that 93 fordable plan to cease to exist. million Americans would Joann’s story is one being lived by mil- not be able to keep their existing health inlions of Americans across the country. Ac- surance plans because they would not meet cording to recent news estimates, at least ObamaCare’s minimum coverage guide3.5 million individuals have lost their in- lines. So not only was President Obama surance coverage because of ObamaCare. wrong, he spent the last four years repeating These same reports also note that because this false promise. data in more than half the states is unavailLast month, the House passed H.R. able, the exact number of plans cancelled 3550, the Keep Your Health Plan Act. This
simple, bipartisan bill would allow all plans available today to be offered next year. This means that millions of Americans losing their health insurance because of ObamaCare could be permitted to keep their current insurance and not face a penalty. Despite this policy clearly being in line with the president’s own promises, the administration refuses to consider any Republican idea that minimizes the law’s negative impact. Since its October 1 launch, healthcare. gov is still not ready to help people purchase insurance. The website was intended to allow people to compare health insurance plans and make selections based on their needs, but the only people who have been able to sign up have had to spend hours on the website – time that most Americans just don’t have. Last month, the White House
confirmed that only 106,185 people have enrolled in Obamacare – a far cry from the Administration’s initial estimate of 500,000 enrollments by this time. Despite numerous attempts, I myself have not been able to log in to browse plans. It’s yet another indication that Obamacare was not ready for primetime. I remain committed to finding ways to protect Americans from this deeply flawed law and I want to hear from you. How is this law impacting you and your family? Please continue to call, email and write my office to share your thoughts. We’re in this together and I want to help you and your family navigate this as best we can. Feel free to contact my office if we can be of assistance to you or your family. Our contact information can be found on our website, www.roe.house.gov.
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Barter Theatre Presents
"A Christmas Story"” (Abingdon, Va.) A trip to Barter Theatre in historic Abingdon, Virginia has long been a holiday tradition for families, friends and colleagues.
This Christmas is especially exciting because it features one of Barter’s most popular shows ever. When “A Christmas Story” finished its sold-out run at Barter Theatre last December, patrons continued to call, asking if Barter would bring the show back. Due to the amount of interest, Barter is proud to bring back the story of Ralphie and his plot to get the perfect Christmas present. Families everywhere enjoy the iconic movie every Christmas, and now Barter will bring all the comic mishaps to life. Come and experience the adventure of the leg lamp, the bunny suit and the tongue on the frozen flagpole in person.
The stage version includes a few differences from the movie, for example, in the movie, we never see adult Ralph. In the stage
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play, he is ever-present as the narrator of the story. He brings us back with him to that special memory of what it felt like to be a kid and want that extra special gift: “an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right on the stock.”
Barter is also excited to announce that Justin Tyler Lewis will reprise his role of Young Ralphie, and Nicholas Piper will return as Adult Ralphie. Other cast members are Mary Lucy Bivins, Sean Campos, Parris Cromer, Abbey C. Elliot, Zacchaeus Kimbrell, Nick Koesters, Tricia Matthews, Wendy Piper and Holly Williams.
Also playing this holiday season at Barter Theatre is the musical, “Another Night Before Christmas” at Barter Stage II and the children’s show “’Twas the Night Before Christmas at Barter’s main stage. Discount ticket packages are available and include everything from lodging and dining to dessert and coffee. For reservations and more information call 276.628.3991 or visit BarterTheatre. com. For additional activities to enjoy this holiday season go to visitabingdonvirginia.com. For tickets and more information call 276.628.3991 or visit www.BarterTheatre.com
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