The Mountain Press ■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 42 ■ February 11, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 50 Cents
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Bolze victims rip payback move
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Bankruptcy trustee now asking those who lost everything to give more By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer
5Educators shot in Knox Principal, assistant expected to survive; co-worker in custody Page A5
KNOXVILLE — The bankruptcy trustee in the Dennis Bolze case is now demanding the Ponzi schemer’s victims — some who lost everything — send back any dividends they got from him or they’ll be sued. It’s a move he says is just “part of the process,” but which one of the victims says amounts to their being “robbed
a second time” — except this one’s legal. G. Wayne Walls was appointed to oversee the recovery of Bolze’s funds after the Gatlinburg man Bolze was declared involuntarily bankrupt about this time last year. As part of that effort, he says his office has sent
e-mails to Bolze’s victims informing them they must repay money Bolze sent them, threatening to sue for the amount plus interest if they don’t cough it up within a month. “Under the Bankruptcy Code, any payments that were received from money that was part of the fraud, we have the right to go back and recover those so the losses are shared by everyone and not just the few who were not
lucky enough to get those dividend checks,” Walls says. While the move may seem justified to Walls, for the victims — some of whom are now being asked to repay the little they got from Bolze — it’s nothing short of outrageous. For some, it’s even taking away their last shreds of hope for the future. “Please fight the cause of the See BOLZE, Page A4
Family OK after fire hits house
Just another day on the snowy job
By JEFF FARRELL Staff Writer
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was scheduled to meet with the board in the afternoon to review its projects, including operation of the Events Center and expansion of Eagle’s Landing Golf Course. Hendrix said that would be reset for a workshop before the board’s next regular meeting March 1. The regular meeting for Feb. 15 has been canceled due to the Presidents Day holiday.
PITTMAN CENTER — A local family is recovering after losing its home to a fire. Cathy Daily and her children escaped safely after she awoke to discover their house on Price Cove Road was burning Saturday night. “I’d gone to bed and the chimney caught on fire,” she said. She noticed a strange smell when she woke up in the middle of the night, and eventually found that the fire had started in ducts that carried heat through the house from their woodburning heater, she said. By the time she returned to her room on the second story, flames were coming from the floor. She got out of the home with her 11-year-old son, Andy, and 14-year-old daughter, Ellie. They lost most of their belongings, but have been getting help from Red Cross and local churches, she said. The home was insured. The family is staying with her oldest daughter, Cammy Brown. The 100-year-old farmhouse was heavily damaged by the fire. “It was a kind of a landmark house because it was there at the covered bridge,” Daily said.
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Snow continues to pile up in record amounts in Northeast Nation, Page A11
Sports
Bears host Highlanders Regular-season finales for both schools’ boys and girls teams Page A8
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Weather Today
Blalock’s backhoe operator Brent Bass and Jose Francisco Sanchez uncover lines as they try to ignore the cold and blowing snow and continue working along the Highway 66 project on Wednesday.
Snow calls halt to BOMA retreat
Partly cloudy High: 37°
Tonight Partly cloudy Low: 21° DETAILS, Page A6
Obituaries Charles Hale, 85 Hunter Evick, infant Carol Jesmer, 63 Lynda Trotter, 64 DETAILS, Page A4
Index Local & State . . . . A1-A6 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . A3 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . A8-A10 Money . . . . . . . . . . . . A5 Advice . . . . . . . . . . . A15 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . A15 Classifieds . . . . . A11-A14 Nation . . . . . . . . . . . A11 World . . . . . . . . . . . . A11
Deadline Because of an early deadline for today’s edition, some late-breaking stories may be omitted.
By JEFF FARRELL Staff Writer SEVIERVILLE — The Board of Mayor and Aldermen met for a little more than an hour Wednesday before calling an early end to its annual retreat due to the weather. The board was in the third day of the retreat, which is meant to give department heads a chance to review progress and brief the board on issues the city is facing.
They had already gone through most items on the morning agenda by 10 o’clock, when Mayor Bryan Atchley announced the decision to end the retreat because of the snow. The board had not yet discussed employee raises, which were included on the morning agenda, but City Administrator Steve Hendrix said that matter could be addressed at a regular meeting or workshop. The Public Building Authority
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Clinic hopes vision care to be added By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer SEVIERVILLE — As they work to meet the full health needs of the county’s low-income residents, Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic officials are setting up everything they need to add one more option to the list of services: vision care. Executive Director Mary Vance explains the idea to start the vision program grew out of the nationwide battle with diabetes. “We follow the trend of the nation in having a high number of diabetic patients in our county,” Vance says. “One of the parts of their plan for care is vision care. Unfortunately, for many of our patients that is not a priority when they’re worrying about just putting food on the table or
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take some time. Clinic officials will have to work with local doctors to determine what services need to be offered, who will receive them, how the sliding payment scale should be structured. “We will have to line up our volunteers,” Miller says. Once all the work is done and the program is
KODAK — Only weeks after they started the second meal in their Hot Meals for Hungry Hearts program, supporters of Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries are celebrating the addition of yet another church and another night to the lineup. Organization Executive Director Dick Wellons announced this week the group has partnered with Kodak United Methodist Church (KUMC) to offer the third of its weekly meals from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting today. “Some of their people have been involved with our other meals and they have a heart to reach out to that community up there,” Wellons says. “We’re look-
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Elaine Miller shows off the equipment in the new vision center room. keeping a roof over their heads.” That can be a real problem because, left unchecked, diabetes can lead to vision loss. That’s why Vance started pushing for the clinic to add the service about a year ago. Since then, great strides have been made in securing the equipment. One room in the Mountain Hope facility
at 312 Prince St. has been filled with those tools, which were all donated by local eye doctors. “Getting the equipment was the biggest hurdle,” Development Director Elaine Miller says. “The next step is to meet with the different private providers we work with to work out the logistics.” That means working out the specifics, something that could
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Forge leaders discuss pros, cons of Web booking engine By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer
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Cub Scouts from Pack 110 in Sevierville collect a donation from a Food City shopper Saturday during their Scouting for Food effort last weekend.
Pack 110 braves elements to help local food ministry By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer SEVIERVILLE — Some local Cub Scouts learned what sacrificing for others is all about last weekend as they braved freezing temperatures and blowing snow to collect food for local residents in need. As part of the annual Scouting for Food initiative, boys from Pack 110 stood outside the doors of the Food City on Dolly Parton Parkway throughout the day Saturday collecting donations of both food and money that will be used to help Sevier County Food Ministries provide its services to those in need. Nationwide, most scouting groups do Scouting for Food as a door-to-door effort, leaving plastic bags on door knobs in hopes the residents will fill them with nonperishable items and leave them outside the following week. However, Pack 110 leaders said they’ve had better luck with stationing scouts at local grocery stores to seek the contributions. “We get a bigger response out of this. People like to see the scouts doing the work and it’s more personal than just dropping up a bag,� Assistant Cubmaster Wendell Loveday explained. “We’ve done better today than I expected we would with the economy and the weather.� By mid-morning Loveday estimated
the scouts had already collected more than $400 in contributions of varying amounts. “We’ve had donations from $20 to a penny,� Loveday said. “The money will enable Sevier County Food Ministries to buy more food from Second Harvest Food Bank than regular customers could just going into the store. We still appreciate the food donations, though.� Each den, the name assigned to the divisions of boys in Cub Scouting, worked an hour at the effort, from the youngest first-graders to the oldest, who are nearing the transition to middle school. “I think the boys have done a pretty good job,� Loveday said. “They’re usually willing to do anything to help out.� For the boys, such as Webelo I Nathaniel Carver who is in the fourth grade at Sevierville Intermediate, service to others is what it’s all about. “We’re collecting money or food for the Sevier County Food Ministries,� Carver said. “At the food ministry, people can go in and get help if they don’t have food. They have to have enough food for all the hungry people and they’ve kind of run out now because there are so many hungry people. We’re trying to help them.� n dhodges@themountainpress.com
Canterbury, Bray are added to Sevier Republican Party staff Submitted report
The Sevier County Republican Party has filled two staff positions. Ashley Johnson, a Sevierville attorney and chairman of the Republican Party in Sevier County, announced that Mel Canterbury was named program director and Allen Bray was appointed the director of public relations and communications. Canterbury is a businessman who serves the irrigation and water industry around the world. He has been chairman of the Irrigation Association Education Foundation for four years and director for three more. He also served as director of the Irrigation Association, president and other offices of the Y’s Men’s Club, and is a former member of the New Port Richey, Fla., Republican Club. His focus has been on rebuilding businesses or starting them from scratch. He and his wife, Anne, live in Seymour. Bray and his wife, Nyla, reside near Gatlinburg. He is a 30-year veteran broadcast and print communications special-
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als,� Johnson said. “We believe they will make significant contributions to the revitalization of the Republican Party in Sevier County at a time when we need to present a coherent and competent image to enhance the majority of Republicans in the Tennessee State Legislature.�
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Further complaints came from a man who owns a wedding chapel in Pigeon Forge, who griped the city doesn’t do enough to promote the local nuptials business. Overall the concerns seemed to mainly be about how the system would work, be that if the city would make a commission off each reservation or if preference would be given to certain hotels in the listings. Additionally, WonderWorks representative Rich Benjamin wondered how the move might affect the combination deals some hotels offer in conjunction with local attractions. Still, Benjamin and others said they could support the idea, provided it’s implemented in the right way. “Overall the concept is a great idea,� Benjamin said. “I think it has to be done with caution because you might be starting down a slippery slope there with the city handling the business. I do think it’s something, if our consumers want it, that we have to offer so that we can get them locked down to staying at a hotel here over somewhere else, then we sell them tickets to WonderWorks or wherever.� Downey conceded there are still plenty of details to be worked out before the city’s Tourism Advisory Board and his department make final decisions on moving forward on the idea. “This is not something that is a done deal and it’s not something that’s going to be decided quickly,� Downey said. “We are going to have to take our time and work through these issues. We are going to be bringing this before our Tourism Advisory Board, the businesses, the citizens and the commissioners again in the future before any final decisions are made.� Downey explained the move would require the city contracting with an outside firm that oper-
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Editor’s Note: The community calendar is printed as space permits. Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered. They are listed by date. To place an item phone 4280748, ext. 214, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress. com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.
Thursday, Feb. 11 Women’s Bible Study
Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon Forge n 2 p.m. Blue Mountain Mist B&B, Pullen Road n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, Conference Room
New Center Football
Board of directors of New Center Football Little League will elect officers at 6:30 p.m. meeting at The Mountain Press. 6405344.
Hot Meals
Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:30-6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church in Sevierville and Kodak United Methodist Church in Kodak.
TOPS
TOPS weight loss chapter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville. 755-9517 or 429-3150.
Angel Food
Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. 429-2508. n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.
Friday, Feb. 12 Library Mystery/Dinner Sixth annual Anna Porter Public Library Murder Mystery Dinner, “The Last Dance of Dr. Disco,� 6 p.m. today and Saturday at Mills Auditorium. $40, on sale at library. 4365588.
Kodak Story Time
Kodak Library preschool story time 11 a.m. 9330078.
Angel Food
Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. 429-2508. n 3 to 6:30 p.m. River of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796. n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.
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Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. 429-2508. n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. River of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796. n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.
Blood Drive
Medic blood drive 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Walters State Community College, Maples-Marshall Hall.
Seymour Story Time
Preschool story time 11 a.m., Seymour Library. 573-0728.
Women’s Bible Study
Handgun Permit
Handgun carry permit class 8:30 a.m., Dandridge Police Department. (865) 397-8862, ext. 26, or 3567423.
Angel Food
Angel Food Orders: n Noon to 1 p.m., River of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796.
Tuesday, Feb. 16 Hot Meals
Hot Meals for Hungry Hearts served from 5:306:30 p,m. Second Baptist Church, Pigeon Street just off Chapman Highway.
Gatlinburg FUMC
Gatlinburg First United Methodist Church offers fellowship of contemporary music, worship, followed by a hot meal, 6 p.m. 436-4691.
Crewettes
Sevier County Crewettes meets at 7 p.m. at Rescue Squad. 453-3861 or 4538572.
Italian Lunch
Italian lunch 12:30-2 p.m., Community First Church of God, Chapman Highway, Seymour. $5 per person, $20 per family. Fundraiser for youth group. 774-5983.
Republicans
Conner Heights Revival
Revival at Conner Heights Baptist Church in Pigeon Forge begins 6 p.m. today, 7 p.m. weekdays. Evanglist Joe Bryant. 453-3403.
Covemont Baptist Revival
Covemont Baptist Church, Wears Valley, revival begins, 7 p.m. with Logan Parton, Danny Henry and Michael Teaster preaching. Singing nightly.
Monday, Feb. 15 Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric Surgery Support Group will meet again at 7 p.m. March 15 at Echota Resort Clubhouse on Highway 66. 453-6841 or 712-3287. Angel Food orders: n 2-5 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. 429-2508. n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. River of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796. n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road.
Sevier County Republican Party meets at 6 p.m. at courthouse. Guest speaker, alternative medicine specialist and political advocate Greg Samples. 453-3882 or 368-3833.
Old Harp Singing
Old Harp shape note singing 7 p.m., Middle Creek United Methodist Church. 428-0874. Tunebooks provided.
Al-Anon Family
Al-Anon Family Group meets at 11 a.m., First United Methodist, Pigeon Forge. 428-7617 or 6806724.
Angel Food
Angel Food orders: n 1-4 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, Pigeon Forge. 429-2508. n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.
Blood Drive
Medic blood drive 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Food City, Seymour.
Optimist Club
Northview Kodak Optimist Club meets 7 p.m. at the Optimist Building. Speaker Carolyn Davis, guidance counselor at Northview Middle.
Blood Drive
Medic blood drive 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center, 709 Middle Creek Road.
Saturday, Feb. 13 Library Mystery/Dinner Sixth annual Anna Porter Public Library Murder Mystery Dinner Theater, “The Last Dance of Dr. Disco,� 6 p.m. at Mills Auditorium. $40, on sale at library. 436-5588.
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From Submitted Reports SEYMOUR — There will be a special Ash Wednesday service at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at St. Paul Episcopal Church, with imposition of ashes followed by the Holy Communion to mark the beginning of the penitential season of Lent. The Rev. A. Henry Swann, Episcopal priest, will celebrate. For those who desire it, church officials place ashes on the foreheads of visitors: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.� Ash Wednesday
Gatekeepers
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Republicans to meet Tuesday From Submitted Reports SEVIERVILLE — The Sevier County Republican Party will hold its regularly monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Sevier County Courthouse. In addition to regular party business and committee reports, the scheduled guest speaker will be Greg Samples, alternative medicine specialist and political advocate. A Knoxville native, Samples holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee. In 1988 he began work as an alternative health counselor. He is the author of the “Health Freedom Manual,� first published in 1998.
Samples first entered politics in 1994, running as an independent candidate for Congress. That first campaign focused on tax reform and the potential of a looming health care crisis. He represented the Libertarian Party in the Tennessee U.S. Senate race in 1996 and the District 2 congressional election in 1998. Samples was an alternate delegate representing Tennessee at Continental Congress 2009 in St. Charles, Ill. There, he contributed to the creation of the major publication of that body; the Articles of Freedom. The meeting will be held in the County Commission chambers on the third floor of the courthouse.
ARREST REPORT Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from the intake reports at the Sevier County Jail. All people listed within this report are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. u Bobby Joe Allen, 32, of 260 Low Gap in Gatlinburg, was charged Feb. 9 with driving on a suspended license. He was released on $1,000 bond. u Melvin James Branham, 22, of 2705 Four Point Way Lot 19 in Sevierville, was charged Feb. 9 with aggravated domestic assault. He was being held in lieu of $2,500 bond. u Dwight Eugene Chandler, 22, of 121 Norton Lane in Sevierville, was charged Feb. 10 with driv-
ing while revoked. He was released on $500 bond. u Rick Gable, 49, of 510 B Chilhowee School Road in Seymour, was charged Feb. 9 with allowing dogs to roam at large. He was released. u Jason Franklin Gravely, 29, of 3021 Tom’s Way in Kodak, was charged Feb. 9 with being a fugitive from justice. He was being held. u Penny Lane Greene, 37, of Crossville, was charge Feb. 9 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court She was released. u Tyler Michael Higginbottham, 18, of 2259 Roberts Road in Kodak, was charged Feb. 9 with theft of property and simple possession. He was being held in lieu of $1,000 bond.
u Eric Vega Hortado, 19, of Morristown, was charged Feb. 9 with theft of property and simple possession. He was being held in lieu of $1,500 bond. u Robert Alexander Mason IV, 30, of 522 Ownby Drive in Gatlinburg, was charged Feb. 9 with a circuit court warrant. He was released on $3,000 bond. u Daniel Burke Pinkard, 31, of 2662 King Hollow Road in Sevierville, was charged Feb. 10 with public intoxication and leaving the scene of an accident. He was being ehld. u Tiffany Danielle Shultz, 21, of Talbott, Tenn., was charged Feb. 9 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court. She was being held.
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OBITUARIES
In Memoriam
Charles David Hale
Charles David Hale, age 85, of Sevierville, TN, went home to be with the Lord February 9, 2010, at Life Care of Morristown. Charles had been a member of Bells Chapel Baptist Church since 1958. Charles was a veteran of World War ll. He was preceded in death by his wife, Pearl Louise Hale; parents, Columbus and Rachael Reagan Hale; three children; brothers and sisterin-law, Marion and Geraldine Hale; Robert “Bob” Hale and Hubert Hale. Survivors include his brothers and sisters-in-law, James and Belle Hale; Ed and Ollie Hale; sisters and brothers-in-law, Velma and Rev. Oliver Ray Williams; sister-in-law, Wilma Hale; several nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 11, 2010, at Rawlings Funeral Home with Rev. Oliver Ray Williams officiating. Interment will be 11 a.m. Friday morning, February 12, 2010, at Henderson Chapel Cemetery in Pigeon Forge. Military rites will be presented by local American Legion Post 104. The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Thursday prior to the service. You may share your thoughts and memories with the family on our website. n www.rawlingsfuneralhome.com
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Hunter Tyson David Evick
Hunter Tyson David Evick, infant son of Haley and Cory Evick, passed away Tuesday, February 9, 2010. He was preceded in death by his grandparents David Byrd, Jack Copp, Someral and Ruth Denison, Robert Bales Sr., and Wayne Ogle; great-grandparents Simon and Mayme Byrd, Lum and Gertie Dixon and Fred Evick; aunt Annarose Byrd and cousin Shaun Reagan. In addition to his parents, Hunter is survived by grandparents Vicki and Charlie Copp and Michelle and Bob Evick; great-grandparents Faye Bales, Carolyn and Marion Green, Janice Bailey, Evan and Martin J. Miller and Eva Evick of FL; aunts Vesa Bales, Candace Byrd, Cori Owenby, Denise Clarke of PA; great-aunts Verna (Tweety) Laws and Suzy Copp; uncles Jesse Owenby, Tommy Copp, Mark Byrd, Jamey Evick, Freddie Evick of FL, Jason Clarke of PA; special uncle Ricky Laws; cousins Cameron Owenby, Elijah and Bayley Byrd, Jack Copp, Malachi Blaise, Tierce Diumano, Sam and Eddie Reagan, Donna and Ed Snyder, Ashley and Shelby Clarke of PA, Kimmie and Wendy Snyder of PA . Contributions may be made to benefit the family. Funeral service 2 p.m. Saturday at English Mountain Baptist Church with Pastor Terry Williams and Pastor Jimmy Williams officiating. Interment will follow in English Mountain Cemetery.
Carol Ann Jesmer Carol Ann Jesmer, 63, of Sevierville, died Feb. 8, 2010. Survivors: daughters Kelli Ownby and husband Randy, Jennifer Johnson and husband Tony; friend and former husband Howard Jesmer; five grandchildren; stepbrother John Speaker Jr. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org. Inurnment services will take place at a later date. Highland South Memorial Park, Funerals and Cremations is providing arrangements.
Lynda Ann Trotter Lynda Ann Trotter, 64, of Sevierville, formerly of Rome, Ga., died Feb. 7, 2010. She was born in Rome on May 27, 1945. She graduated from Armuchee High School in 1963. She retired as an operator with BellSouth after 22 years service. She was a member of First Baptist Church Pigeon Forge. Survivors: husband, Nolan Eugene (Gene) Trotter; daughter, Jennifer Lynn (Jeff) Dyer, Sevierville; son, Gregory Keith (Rhonda) Trotter, Rome; five grandchildren; brothers, Sonny Morrow,
Douglasville and Billy Morrow, Rome; sister, Beverly Jane (Perry) Maxey, Dacula, Ga. Funeral services will be held Thursday, Feb. 11, at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Parnick Jennings Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home, Rome, with the Rev. Alan Holbrook and Parnick Jennings Sr. officiating. Interment will be in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens, Rome. The family received friends at Good Shepherd Wednesday and will be at the home of Rita Powell, 2 Pine River Road, Rome, (706) 234-7024. Pallbearers: David Morrow, Shawn Morrow, Mark Gilbreath, Wesley Maxey, Darin Maxey, Mike Garrett, Randy Garrett, Jeff Garrett and Eric Powell. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 1701 Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA 22311. Visit www.goodshepherdfh. net to sign the guest book, post tributes and view a DVD of the life of Lynda. Parnick Jennings,Sr.’s Good Shepherd Funeral Home, 2750 Shorter Ave., Rome, GA 30165, dial (706) 234-9622, has charge of the arrangements.
Rep. who inspired movie dies at 76 DALLAS (AP) — Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan’s resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie and book “Charlie Wilson’s War,” died Wednesday. He was 76. Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town
where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, she said. Wilson represented the 2nd District in east Texas in the U.S. House from 1973 to 1996 and was known in Washington as “Good Time Charlie” for his reputation as a harddrinking womanizer. He once called former con-
gresswoman Pat Schroeder “Babycakes,” and tried to take a beauty queen with him on a government trip to Afghanistan. Actor Tom Hanks portrayed Wilson in the 2007 movie about Wilson’s efforts to arm Afghan mujahedeen during Afghanistan’s war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Wilson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, helped secure money for weapons, plung-
ing the U.S. into a risky venture against the world’s other superpower. In an interview with The Associated Press after the book was published in 2003, he said he wasn’t worried about details of his wild side being portrayed. “I would remind you that I was not married at the time. I’m in a different place than I was in at the time and I don’t apologize about that,” Wilson said.
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laws make it possible for victims to be raped again of their money and dignity in the name of justice.” Wendy Lawrence, another Bolze victim, echoes Suiter’s concern that much of the money recovered in this latest effort won’t end up in the hands of those who need it most. “Any money recovered in this way will only go to pay lawyers’ fees and banks, so in essence the victims are to be robbed a second (time), only this time with the apparent blessing of the American legal system,” Lawrence wrote in her own e-mail to The Press. “As far as I understand, this ‘clawback’ is up to the discretion of the bankruptcy trustee. Surely someone should challenge this. Sadly, the victims cannot afford laywers to do so.” Lawrence points out many of the victims have been seeking to get the same kind of free legal representation the man who took their money now enjoys after claiming he is penniless. They find that ironic, given that he took millions of dollars from them but is now getting a free attorney, while they can’t find one to help. Walls concedes the seizure of the assets is just “one option” available to him, but thinks it’s only fair that the losses be shared equally among Bolze’s debtors. “We’re looking at everything. We’re going to try to recover everything we can,” Walls says. That may even include going after building contractors who were hired by Bolze in some of his numerous construction projects, or others who received major payouts from his fraudulentlyacquired money, Walls explains. One of the keys in determining who gets the payback demand will be Walls’ ability to find documentation of where Bolze’s money was spent. While that may seem reasonable to Walls, for those
receiving the e-mails from Walls’ assistant, Teresa Wheeler, demanding the money back, it’s downright ridiculous. Adding to their frustration, the letter threatens a lawsuit if the money isn’t returned. “(Wheeler) requests the return of money received from CAM or ATS over the past six years within 30 days or the victim will be sued for the amount plus interest,” Lawrence wrote. “It has taken them 13 months to get this far and they want payment in 30 days.” Walls says there can be some leniency in that demand, though not much. He points out he’s under a two-year time limit. “If people respond to us, we are going to listen to them and try to give them some time to get this money together,” Walls says. “Everybody has known we would be coming back for this, though.” Investors like Rupert Mitchell say they had no idea Walls would be demanding the money, and certainly didn’t expect they would lose twice when they entrusted their funds with Bolze. Mitchell, like the other victims who wrote to The Mountain Press this week, believes those who lost money should unite and fight the effort. However, they’ve lost all their savings and can’t afford the legal fees.
“I am unable to see any difference in our cases to those of the Madoff and Stanford victims,” Mitchell wrote, referencing two of the more infamous Ponzi schemers to come out in this recession. “The high court upheld the ruling that clawbacks must not be allowed in those cases and we should try to seek the same justice by making a counterclaim ourselves.” Mitchell says he understands the intent of the effort, but points out everyone who was a victim of Bolze’s scheme was a “net loser,” whether they received regular dividend checks or no repayment at all for their investments. “I am a U.K. citizen now 75 years of age with no hope of ever recovering the proceeds of my lifelong hard work and no longer have I the joy of being able to provide, one day, for my eventual beneficiaries,” he wrote. “Nevertheless, I have no wish to inflict on those equally unfortunate as myself by making claims whatever. I do, however, ask those U.S.A. and overseas victims to do their very best to find some way of fighting this impossible demand by the trustee and his lawyers who, along with the banks, are the only likely beneficiaries of any unlikely returns.”
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(Bolze) victims,” investor Sarah Edwards implored The Mountain Press in an e-mail Wednesday. “I am recently widowed and this makes me feel suicidal.” Edwards, a resident of the United Kingdom, says she lost her life’s savings with Bolze and can’t understand why Walls is now demanding investors turn over even more. To her plea she pasted a copy of an e-mail Dawn Suiter sent to Bolze’s investors. Suiter ran the Web sites for Bolze’s Centurion Asset Management (CAM) and Advanced Trading Services (ATS), a pair of Las Vegasbased front companies under which Bolze now admits he stole more than $60 million from 100 or so investors in a Ponzi scheme. “It is unclear to the victims of the Ponzi scam, many of whom are now devastated financially, how they could be forced to further put money into this scam regardless of how many codes and laws seem to support this absurdity,” Suiter wrote. “Clearly this latest move on the part of Trustee Wayne Walls and his attorneys shows no interest in helping to recover money for the benefit of the victims, but only to recover money with no regard for the damage that might ensue.” Walls insists the recover effort is in the best interests of everyone who was victimized. “They will get some of this money back eventually on a pro rata basis, based on how much they lost,” Walls says. “That’s the point of bankruptcy — to share the loss among all the victims. We’re not trying to double-victimize anyone here.” Those who lost money in the scheme say that’s exactly what is happening. “If the only way to repay investors money that they lost is to force them to pay in more money to be redistributed to those seeking claims — including banks, corporations and victims — then it is clear the scam or Ponzi scheme is not yet over,” Suiter wrote. “U.S.
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Mark Stephen Foster, a suspect in a double school shooting is taken into custody by Knoxville olice Department Officer Edmond Randolph on Wednesday in Knoxville.
Co-worker shoots Knox educators Principal, assistant expected to survive By BETH RUCKER Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE — An elementary school principal and an assistant principal were shot and wounded by a co-worker at school Wednesday about an hour after children were dismissed for a snow day. Principal Elisa Luna and Assistant Principal Amy Brace were alert and conscious before they were taken to University of Tennessee Medical Center, police spokesman Darrell Debusk said. Forty-eight-year-old
Mark Stephen Foster is charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Police say Foster was a co-worker, but wouldn’t say what his job was. The school’s Web site identifies Foster as a fourthgrade teacher. University of Tennessee Medical Center officials said Principal Elisa Luna was in critical condition and Assistant Principal Amy Brace was in stable condition. A school spokeswoman says classes are canceled for the rest of the week. Foster was arrested shortly after the 1 p.m. shooting when his car was slowed down by a construction roadblock near-
by. Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said the man surrendered to police without incident and police recovered a revolver. His name wasn’t released because he hasn’t been charged. “We’re confident he was the only one involved,” Owen said. A motive has not been determined. Police would not say what the suspect’s job was, but Debusk said he would have known the principals. Several employees were still in the building when the shooting happened, and they were being interviewed by police. Luna has been principal at the school since 2004 and was named East
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Tennessee principal of the year in 2008, according to the school’s Web site. “These are two outstanding educators,” said James McIntyre Jr., Knox County Schools superintendent. McIntyre said he and other school officials would be talking to counselors about whether to open school on Thursday and what actions to take for the students. “We’re very saddened by this tragedy,” he said. “Thankfully, there were no students involved.” The Inskip community is a working-class neighborhood dotted with one-story ranch homes in northern Knoxville.
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care to patients who were cut from the TennCare 3From Page A1 rolls, Miller explains. Officials have proposed cutting those grants either running, Miller, like in part or as a whole. Vance, believes it will be Ironically, the salvation a boon for the community for that fund may come and the patients. “Unfortunately, even at in the form of more folks being cut from TennCare the discounted rates our and sent to clinics like patients can get, many of Mountain Hope. them still have to ignore “Gov. (Phil) Bredesen this part of their plan of care,” Miller says. “This is has expressed some intergoing to fill in a huge gap est in making some cuts to TennCare to save some for those folks.” money,” Miller says. “If Still, even as they plan that happens, it looks like new services, officials at Mountain Hope are keep- they may leave that safety ing an eye pointed toward net money alone.” If the cuts should come, Nashville, where budget the move could throw cuts may come. In state officials’ efforts Mountain Hope into a crisis at a time when more to slash expenses, with a $1 billion budget shortfall, people are using their serthe Department of Public vices than ever before. “If we lose those grants, Health has suggested cuts that’s going to be a sigin the safety net grants nificant chunk to make that last year provided up in an economy that $149,000 to Mountain isn’t supportive to fundHope — a massive chunk of the nonprofit’s budget. raising right now,” Miller That safety net fund was says. “That could be a real set up to provide money to struggle for us.” medical facilities that offer n dhodges@themountainpress.com
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with the economy like it is. A lot of churches are seeing that need that is out there and they feel like this is a place they can plug in and help people.” At Second Baptist, things started off slow but have continued to grow, with more than 60 meals served each week. “It’s going very well,” Wellons says. “It’s continuing to grow, so we’re blessed by that.” Wellons expects to see similar growth with the Kodak meal as the word gets out. Wellons says he’s overwhelmed with
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling “the weaker link” in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming. The flaws — and the erosion they’ve caused in public confidence — have some scientists calling for drastic changes in how future United Nations climate reports are done. A push for reform being published in Thursday’s issue of a prestigious scientific journal comes on top of a growing clamor for the resignation of the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The work of the climate change panel, or IPCC, is often portrayed as one massive tome. But it really is four separate reports on different aspects of global warming, written months apart by distinct groups of scientists. No errors have surfaced in the first and most well-known of the reports, which said the physics of a warming atmosphere and rising seas is man-made and incontrovertible. So far, four mistakes have been discovered in the second report, which attempts to translate what global warming might mean to daily lives around the world. “A lot of stuff in there was just not very good,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a lead author of the first report. “A chronic problem is that on the whole area of impacts, getting into the realm of social science, it is a softer science. The facts are not as good.”
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Library has exhibit of photos, images
Photographs and digital images taken by members of the LeConte Photographic Society are on exhibit in the Sue Bock Cafe at Anna Porter Public Library. The society is a camera club that meets monthly. The club offers outings with skilled photographers and programs by local professionals. Meetings are on the first Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Sevierville.
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SafeSpace’s annual dinner and silent auction is set for Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church. This year’s entertainment will be provided by comedienne Leanne Morgan. Master of Ceremonies will be Phil Williams of WNOX radio. The Peddler/Park Grill restaurants of Gatlinburg will again be donating and preparing a meal featuring moonshine chicken. Tickets are $50 each; tables of six or eight may be purchased. To purchase tickets, call 453-9254.
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Metro Nashville Police say a drug bust produced the largest marijuana confiscation ever in the city. A news release from the department said city, state and federal agents watched Monday evening as a truck was unloaded at a house, then moved in and arrested nine people and seized two tons of marijuana. The “stash house” is within a mile of a high school in the southern part of the city. Police said they found 401 bundles of marijuana which weighed about 10 pounds each. The marijuana is believed to have come from Mexico.
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A seven-year-old boy who was at a Cub Scout meeting in Hartsville has been hit and killed by a car that did not stop. Tennessee Department of Safety spokesman Mike Browning identified the victim on Wednesday as Nathan Allen Denham of Hartsville. The boy was struck about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday outside a Methodist Church where the scout meeting was held.
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Soldier gets son, truck ‘delivery’ KNOXVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee National Guardsman who returned home from Iraq on leave to see his son being born got an unexpected delivery of another kind at his house in Knox County. Sgt. Doug Edmisten was in a hospital delivery room on Monday with his wife, Megan, when an out-of-control construction truck rolled down a hill and into the couple’s home in Powell. “It’s been a wild ride,”
he said. “And I’ve just been home 10 days.” Edmisten is a crew chief with the 230th Air Cavalry Squadron and left last June for Iraq. He came home Jan. 29 in time to see the birth of his first child. The truck that weighed about a ton also hit a gas meter, causing police to evacuate half a dozen homes, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. “I kept getting phone calls in the delivery room,” Edmisten said.
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Tennessee lawmakers are mourning the death of former Rep. Joe Kent. Legislators who were close to the Republican said he died early Wednesday after a battle with lung disease. He was 72. Kent, who served 24 years as a Memphis police officer, represented parts of East Memphis and Germantown from 1978 through 2004.
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“He’s doing very well. We’ve been giving him intravenous fluids and he’s tolerating them well. We also gave him a Hershey bar. He was pretty happy about that.” — Dr. David Chong, who was treating a 28-year-old rice vendor who reportedly survived under rubble for 27 days after the Haitian earthquake.
“The only way I’m not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box, and the only way that I will be leaving the office before is in a box.” — New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term.
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know yet how much it will cost to repair the home, but he expects their insurance will cover the losses. “I don’t expect my wife to take care of all that by herself, not with Micah here,” he said. The family is looking on the bright side for now. “And when Micah gets a little older, we’ll have a great story,” said Megan Edmisten. “We can say, ’You won’t believe what happened the day you were born.’ “
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commentary
Road to Serfdom damaging
Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn’t just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from independent, self-responsible people into a submissive flock. The welfare state kills the creative spirit. F.A. Hayek, an Austrian economist living in Britain, wrote “The Road to Serfdom” in 1944 as a warning that central economic planning would extinguish freedom (http://tinyurl. com/y9aelrn). The book was a hit. Reader’s Digest produced a condensed version that sold 5 million copies. Hayek meant that governments can’t plan economies without planning people’s lives. After all, an economy is just individuals engaging in exchanges. The scientific-sounding language of President Obama’s economic planning hides the fact that people must shelve their own plans in favor of government’s single plan. At the beginning of “The Road to Serfdom,” Hayek acknowledges that mere material wealth is not all that’s at stake when the government controls our lives: “The most important change ... is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people.” This shouldn’t be controversial. If government relieves us of the responsibility of living by bailing us out, character will atrophy. The welfare state, however good its intentions of creating material equality, can’t help but make us dependent. That changes the psychology of society. According to the Tax Foundation, 60 percent of the population now gets more in government benefits than it pays in taxes. What does it say about a society in which more than half the people live at the expense of the rest? Worse, the dependent class is growing. The 60 percent will soon be 70 percent (http://tinyurl.com/ y95umnf). Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin seems to understand the threat: He’s worries that “more people have a stake in the welfare state than in free enterprise. This is a road that Hayek perfectly described as ‘the road to serfdom.’” (Tomorrow I will ask Ryan why, if he understands this, he voted for TARP and the auto bailouts.) Kurt Vonnegut understood the threat of government-imposed equality. His short story “Harrison Bergeron” (http://tinyurl. com/23com9) portrays a future in which no one is permitted to have any physical or intellectual advantage over anyone else. A government Handicapper General weighs down the strong and agile, masks the faces of the beautiful and distracts the smart. So far, the Handicapper General is just fantasy. But Vice President Joe Biden did shout at the Democratic National Convention: “Everyone is your equal, and everyone is equal to you.” If he meant that we’re all equal in rights and before the law, fine. If he meant government shouldn’t put barriers in the way of opportunity, great. But statists like Biden usually have more in mind: They want government to make results more equal. Two actual examples of the lunacy: When colleges innovated by having students use Kindle e-book readers instead of expensive textbooks, the Justice Department sued them, complaining that the Kindle discriminates against blind students. The department also is suing the Massachusetts prison system because it makes prospective prison guards take a physical test. Since women don’t do as well as men on that test, Justice claims the test discriminates against women. Arthur Brooks, who heads the American Enterprise Institute, says statism is becoming the “central organizing power in our economy,” and that the battle between free enterprise and statism will shape our futures. He remains optimistic because a recent poll (http://tinyurl.com/ycvsfjv) showed that 70 percent of Americans want free enterprise. I’m less sanguine. In that same poll, 54 percent of Americans said government should exert more control over the economy. Brooks discounts that, claiming people forget their “core values” during crises. But he asks the right question: Do we want a culture of takers or makers? Ryan and Brooks say most people want “the American idea”: freedom and self-responsibility. I fear they want a Mommy State to take care of them. What do you think? If we continue down the Road to Serfdom, our destination will be a poorer society, high unemployment, stagnation and complacency. — John Stossel hosts a show on the Fox Business Channel and is the author of “Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel — Why Everything You Know is Wrong.” (C)2009 JFS Productions Inc.
Editorial
A banner year Sevierville should find way to allow for occasional banners to promote events Dolly Parton has never made it a secret that she was born and raised in Sevierville. When she had her weekly TV show she even did a mock reunion of her classmates at Sevier County High. But when she lent her name to Dollywood 25 years ago, her direct connection to Sevierville became more of a connection to Sevier County. That’s about to change. Dolly Parton has agreed to star in a series of promotion ads for the city of Sevierville in which she tells visitors about her hometown. Officials of the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce have been working on the ad campaign for two years. In the ads, Parton, speaking from in front of her statue at the courthouse, touts her town and urges visitors to come here. Maybe if they do, they’ll also swing over to Pigeon Forge to see Dollywood, the state’s most visited attraction. All of this may be unsettling to those in Pigeon Forge who have claimed
Dolly as their own, thanks to her theme park and Parton’s refusal to single out Sevierville all these years. It would be easy to read things into her agreement to star in the ad campaign, but maybe she’s just a nice woman who wants to help and, when asked to do it, said yes. If you don’t ask, you often don’t receive. Maybe Dolly just never was approached before to help Sevierville get some of those drive-through tourists to stop and see what her hometown has to offer. Of course, appreciation only goes so far. A day after the Board of Mayor and Aldermen saw the Parton ads previewed, they learned city ordinances would not allow Dollywood to hang banners along the Parkway pushing the park’s 25th anniversary. Since most people who visit Sevier County get to destinations in Pigeon Forge and beyond by driving through Sevierville, the banners celebrating Dollywood made
sense. But when that request clashed with the rules, the rules won out. Nothing prevents BOMA from amending the existing ordinances to allow for special one-time promotion of events. Dollywood is a tide that lifts all boats — or cities in this case. Finding a way to help Parton — who’s helping Sevierville — to get attention on the Dollywood anniversary ought to be a goal of Sevierville officials. Cities all across this country hang banners to tell visitors about special events going on. They don’t have to be tacky or obtrusive, and they don’t have to create a conflict with the rules if the rules are adjusted to allow for a special occasion. Cities are dealing with signage issues all the time these days, as businesses look for every edge to generate business. Some requests are indeed over the top, but many, like the one from Dollywood, are reasonable. Sometimes you need to find ways to say yes instead of reasons to say no.
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Public forum Tea Party convention provides reminder of what’s wrong in U.S.
Editor: For all that is good, decent, compassionate, hopeful and inspiring in this nation, from time to time we are reminded of that which is wrong. This includes divisiveness, hypocrisy, bigotry and a very casual relationship with truth and responsibility. To those organizers of the Tea Party convention in Nashville this past weekend and its “merry” band of speakers,
They are in business to make money, but Bill Dayton at the wages paid to many in Sevier County, Sevierville I wonder what they were thinking. I’m sure that Ellen Wilhoit thinks that Sevier County is just a living paradise for all who dwell here, Working people may not be bur she probably needs to take a closer look. Perhaps the King family could have financed able to afford new hospital the hospital and everyone could been treated Editor: The leaders of our county and Covenant based on their earnings. The CEO of Covenant says choosing this Health opened the new hospital this week. hospital will help the new hospital grow. With With the residents’ health care reform in doubts of passing, I wonder if working people a name like Tony Spezia, it sounds like we’re can afford treatment in Covenant’s new $115 getting a deal we can’t refuse. Allen Adams million facility. Sevierville thanks for the reminder.
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PREP HOOPS
G-P, SCHS meet tonight for rematch showdown Smoky Bears coming off OT win at M-West By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer
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G-P junior Morrease “Mo” Barber (1) goes high and snags a rebound in a recent District 3-AA clash against Austin-East.
Highlanders coming off district win at Gibbs By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer GATLINBURG — The GatlinburgPittman Highlanders boys’ basketball team accomplished everything they wanted to this regular season with a 69-59 win at Gibbs Eagles on Tuesday. “Now we’ve accomplished all three of our regular-season goals,” said G-P coach Raul Placeres. “We wanted to win our own Christmas tournament, which we did. We wanted to win 20 games, which we have. “And we wanted to get a first-round bye in the district tournament, which we’ve now done.” State-ranked No.6 G-P (21-4, 8-4 in District 3-AA) would have earned the second-place regular-season finish in District 3-AA even if they lost at Gibbs on Tuesday. Austin-East (10-12, 6-6 in 3-AA)
needed a win at Union (14-13, 4-8 in 3-AA) on Tuesday combined with a Highlander loss at Gibbs (9-13, 2-8 in 3-AA) in order to have a tiebreaker’s chance to steal the second-seed, a district tournament bye and an automatic berth into the region tournament from the Blue and Gold. A-E fell to Union 69-65 on Tuesday, however. So the Highlanders would have locked up the No.2 seed behind No.1 Fulton Falcons (21-2, 12-0 in 3-AA) regardless. “To get a bye in our district is an accomplishment in itself,” said Placeres. “In essence, we accomplished the same things Fulton did.” And although the Highlanders have many talented juniors on their roster, G-P couldn’t have accomplished what it has so far this year without its senior See G-P, Page A9
SEVIERVILLE — The Sevier County High School Smoky Bears boys’ basketball team has been good all year, but Tuesday night against District 2-AAA rival Morristown West the Purple and White had to overcome their own coach for a double-overtime 57-54 win, the Bears’ 22nd victory of the season. “The kids really bailed out the coaching staff (Tuesday) night,” said SCHS coach Ken Wright. “The kids won in spite of us, because I did a poor job (Tuesday) night.” Tied at 43s in the closing seconds, the Bears (22-5, 12-2 in District 2-AAA) held for the final shot in regulation against West (6-19, 2-12 in District 2-AAA). “But I did a poor job getting us in a good set to get a good look,” said Wright. So on to overtime it went. SCHS’s Zac Carlson hit a pair of charity shots with 10 seconds in overtime to give the Bears a one-point lead, 47-46. The Bears committed a foul on the ensuing possession, however, and West took the lead back 48-47 with just 4 seconds on the clock. The Bears’ Josh Johnson drew a foul on a runout, however, to give Sevier County a shot at the win at the end of the first OT. He hit one-oftwo, however, to send it into OT No.2 knotted at 48s. Johnson again came up big in the second OT with a trey to give the Bears a five-point edge late, allowing Sevier County to hold on for the threepoint win. Sevier County’s Austin
PREP HOOPS
Bears still have a shot for a regular-season district championship tie with Jefferson County (15-8, 12-1 in District 2-AAA), who hosts Cocke County See SCHS, Page A9
Another Daytona wreck collects champ Johnson
By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer
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Nave led the Bears with 23 points, Johnson had 17 and Carlson had 12. Jordan Henrickson also had seven blocks in the contest. With Tuesday’s win, the
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Tigers declawed 47-46 on Cosby’s last-second shot PIGEON FORGE — The Pigeon Forge Tigers boys’ basketball team was snake bitten by a flock of Cosby Eagles for the second time this season. Tuesday, the Class AA Tigers (8-15) — who have lost four games on buzzer-beating shots this season — hosted the Class A Eagles (17-3) from neighboring Cocke County for senior night. The Tigers hoped to repay the 69-68 loss that came on a buzzer-beating trey by the Blue-andWhite’s Robert Herzog on Jan. 25 in Cosby. But instead, the Eagles duplicated the results in Pigeon Forge, this time on a buzzer beater by Jake Green to end it in a 47-46 Orange-and-Black loss. Pigeon Forge senior Justin Carter hit a late runner in the lane to put the Tigers up 46-45, but the Orange and Black left too much time, 10.1 seconds, for Cosby to respond ... which the Eagles did. The Pigeon Forge defense nearly forced a turnover with a pass deflection, but the loose ball found its way to Green’s hands, and he fired up a 15-foot answered prayer without even a chance to look at the rim as the horn sounded in another gutwrenching Pigeon Forge defeat.
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SCHS’s Austin Nave takes an inside jump shot against county rival Seymour Eagles in this file photo from Feb. 2009. Nave led the Bears to a double-OT win against Morristown West with 23 points in the 57-54 final.
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Pigeon Forge senior Justin Carter, right, drives to the basket against visiting Cosby Eagles on Tuesday night. Cosby won on a last-second shot, 47-46.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson’s quest for a fifth straight NASCAR championship will begin in a backup car. Johnson was involved in the latest wreck at Daytona International Speedway on Wednesday, doing enough damage that crew chief Chad Knaus decided to scrap the primary car for Sunday’s season-opening race. “I was just riding along and thought everything was fine, and the next thing you know, I was in the middle of it,” Johnson said. Joey Logano and Kyle Busch also got caught up in the accident during the second practice at Daytona International Speedway. Mike Bliss triggered it when he lost control of his car coming out of a turn. Bliss turned sideways, seemingly got tapped by Derrick Cope, then shot across the track and rammed into Logano. Logano also was forced into a backup car. Busch’s car sustained minor damage, and he was back on the track a few minutes later. The two practice sessions had several other harrowing moments. Clint Bowyer started a three-car accident in the first session when he cut a tire, hit the wall and collected David Reutimann and 1990 Daytona 500 champion Derrick Cope. Bowyer and Reutimann went to backup cars. Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip and fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr. narrowly avoided wrecks in the second session. Waltrip spun and drove through the infield grass, but managed to not hit anything. Earnhardt got a little sideways after getting bumped from behind by Denny Hamlin, but Junior got the car straightened out at 190 mph. Earnhardt said over his radio that Hamlin “doesn’t know how to bump draft.” “I think he made an aggressive move with (Martin Truex Jr.) and I followed him,” Hamlin said. “I think I was pushing him and he was steering all over the racetrack and it just may have lifted his car up at that point. But a relatively good save.”
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Thursday, February 11, 2010 â&#x2014;&#x2020; The Mountain Press RACING WITH RICH
NASCAR points swapping causes confusion There will be fortythree cars to take the green flag for Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daytona 500. To a newcomer to this sport it would seem logical to assume that the fastest forty-three cars in qualifying would be the ones to take that green flag. However, that is not how it works. First of all, the Daytona 500 has a qualifying system unlike any other race. Instead of simply lining the cars up and having them make individual runs around the track, drivers are supposed race their way into this event. Two 150mile qualifying races are run on Thursday before the big race with the intention of setting the field, but not really.
next season. Since the Daytona 500 is the first race of the year, there are 35 teams who know they will compete in that race no matter how they do in qualifying. In other words, there are only eight spots truly â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the biggest race of the The two qualifying year. races do determine As confusing as all of where each driver aside that may sound, recent from the fastest two years have seen an addiqualifiers will start, but there are some who know tional twist brought into the equation. The trend they will be in the main of late, and especially event before the qualithis year, has been for fiers are ever even conteams to buyout or merge tested. with other teams which NASCAR offers the top-35 teams in the own- then sets off a flurry of points swapping, or rearersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; point standings a guarantee of starting the ranging. Just before crews next race. The top-35 from the previous season left for Florida it was announced that Yates are assured of making the first five races of the Racing owner, Doug
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leaders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; McKinley Maples, Drew Barton, Jake Jackson and Marquise Wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look how far weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come,â&#x20AC;? said Placeres. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went from 13 to 16 to 18 to 21-wins-and-counting now the past few years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still in the top-10 in the state, and we were as high as No.2 a week ago. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tribute to how hard these seniors have worked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All four of these kids will play sports in college. Drew will play baseball, Jake will play golf, and McKinley and Marquise â&#x20AC;&#x201D; God willing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will play basketball.â&#x20AC;? Placeres also said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proud of his entire basketball team for the work theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing off the court as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team GPA is 3.4,â&#x20AC;? said Placeres. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to handle not only the rigors of practices and games, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also taking care of business off the floor and in the classroom. As a coach, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all you can ask for.â&#x20AC;? Before the District 3-AA Tournament at Pigeon Forge High School begins, the Highlanders have one big game remaining on the
regular-season schedule ... tonight at county rival Sevier County High School Smoky Bears (22-5). Despite the inclement weather and the fact that the Bears play in District 2-AAA, tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game should still pack the house at SCHS, as it did in Gatlinburg for the Blue and Goldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dramatic 39-37 defensive thriller win over Sevier County on Jan. 25. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a community thing, and both teams are having very good seasons,â&#x20AC;? said Placeres. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a treat for the community that the schools get to go at it one more time in the season finale. The first game was very exciting and went down to the wire, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to another challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A game like this is only going to help us get ready for our district tournament, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to work for it if we want to win.â&#x20AC;? Tuesday night at Gibbs, the Highlanders actually found themselves in a 32-28 hole at the half. Not knowing if A-E would win or lose at Union, G-P started to feel the heat and the possibility of a threegame district losing streak heading into the district tournament, potentially without a first-round bye. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always hard to play on the road, regardless of who youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re play-
Yates, had been made a minority partner in a team called Front Row Motorsports which will field three cars in the Daytona 500. Two of those three cars did not finish in the top-35 of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standings and were thus not guaranteed a starting spot for the first five races. Bringing Yates in as a minority partner allows Front Row to use the points earned by two of his cars from last year. Yatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cars do not need their points from last year because his cars are using the points earned by the teams of Richard Petty Motorsports after his company merged with that organization. Thoroughly confused yet? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another
ing,â&#x20AC;? said Placeres. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew the longer the underdog has the lead, the more pressure thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on us.â&#x20AC;? The Blue and Gold responded with a big third quarter to gain a 48-45 edge heading into the fourth, even after the Roadrunners hit a trey for a six-point lead right out of the halftime locker rooms. Jackson sniped two treys in the third that got G-P off to a good offensive start, however. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jake gave us some momentum with those shots,â&#x20AC;? said Placeres. G-P junior Jon McCroskey drained a three-pointer at the midway point of the third to give the Highlanders the lead they never surrendered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Jose (Agosto) and McKinley were huge for us in the second half,â&#x20AC;? said Placeres, who saw his players sink a perfect 6-of-6 from the charity stripe in the closing moments of Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win. Maples and Agosto finished with 19 points apiece. Agosto also had 13 boards, and Maples had five assists. McCroskey and Wall both finished with eight points, Jackson had six, Garrett Buckner five, Morrease Barber four and Barton a deuce in the win. Barber also had 16 boards and six assists. chitchcock@themountainpress.com
twist. A new team called Latitude 43 Motorsports was formed over winter. That team entered into an agreement with Roush Fenway Racing that will allow its car 26 to use the points earned by RFRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car of the same number last year. RFR was forced by NASCAR to reduce its team count from five to four after 2009 so the new team was able to swoop in and assure itself a starting spot in the sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest event without having even existed last year. Richard Childress Racing and Furniture Row Racing entered into a similar deal as those mentioned previously which will allow Furniture Row to use points earned by an RCR
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(17-7, 8-5 in District 2-AAA) tonight. If the Roosters from Newport pull out the road win, Sevier County gets a piece of the regular-season title. Regardless of a top-two regular season finish, the Bears will get no first-round district tournament bye nor any automatic berths into the region tournament. In District 2-AAA, the No.1 seed plays No.8, and the No.2 seed plays No.7 in the first round of the district tournament. If Sevier County finishes second, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely play Morristown West again in a season-elimination contest in the first round of the district tournament. West hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won many games this year, but the Trojans have given the Bears all kinds of fits this year. Sevier County won both games by a combined four points against West. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How in the world West ends up a No.7 seed in our district is beyond me,â&#x20AC;? said Wright. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are a talented basketball game, and they played us down the wire
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in two games this year.â&#x20AC;? The Bears could also play county rival Seymour Eagles (6-19, 2-11 in District 2-AAA) in the first round of the district tournament. SCHS defeated the Eagles by a combined 40 points in two ball games this year. But before the postseason comes a big non-district regular-season finale against the visiting Gatlinburg-Pittman Highlanders. The Bears lost 39-37 in a defensive gem at G-P on Jan. 25, in front of a packed house. Wright said he can only hope for the same kind of turnout at Sevier County tonight, even with the snowy weather. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rivalry game, and you just never know with a rivalry game,â&#x20AC;? said Wright. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do know that both teams will give their all and do their best to come away with a win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to see a standing-room only crowd. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping everybody turns out, and the kids from both teams deserve a big crowd. Both teams have had a great season, and that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen too often in the same county.â&#x20AC;? chitchcock@themountainpress.com
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Vonn says shin could limit training
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lindsey Vonn says she bruised her right shin last week and could skip some training runs at the Olympics but says it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep her from competing. The U.S. skiing star has been staying out of her ski boots since injuring herself during a slalom training run in Austria. Vonn told NBC in an interview that aired Wednesday: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I for sure will be racing. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to push through it.â&#x20AC;? The two-time overall World Cup champion is considered a multiple-medal threat at the Vancouver Olympics, which open Friday. The first womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alpine race is the supercombined on Sunday. The first official practice session for women is Thursday. In an e-mail, U.S. Ski Team spokesman Tom Kelly said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully this will not be a problem for her.â&#x20AC;?
Texans extend Kubiakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract
HOUSTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Houston Texans have signed coach Gary Kubiak to a contract extension that runs through the 2012 season. The Texans went 9-7 in 2009, the franchiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first winning record. Houston is 31-33 in Kubiakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four seasons, though the team is still seeking its first playoff berth. The 48-year-old Kubiak took over the Texans in January 2006 after the team finished 2-14. His original contract was due to expire after the 2010 season. Owner Bob McNair says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointed that the team missed the playoffs again last year. But he says the team showed â&#x20AC;&#x153;a lot of progressâ&#x20AC;? and he wanted to maintain continuity by keeping Kubiak in charge.
James leads Cavs to 12th straight win
CLEVELAND (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers keep rolling along. James scored 32 points to lead the Cavaliers to their 12th straight win Tuesday night, a 104-97 victory over the New Jersey Nets. The win gives Cleveland the longest winning streak in the NBA this season. The Cavaliers (42-11) also have the best record in the league. James, who was named the Eastern Conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s player of the week for the fifth time this season Monday, was 13-of-21 from the field with 11 assists and three rebounds.
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ncaa h o o p s Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Top 25 Fared Tuesday 1. Kansas (23-1) did not play. Next: vs. Iowa State, Saturday. 2. Syracuse (23-1) did not play. Next: vs. Connecticut, Wednesday. 3. Kentucky (23-1) beat Alabama 66-55. Next: vs. No. 12 Tennessee, Saturday. 4. Villanova (21-2) did not play. Next: vs. Providence, Saturday. 5. West Virginia (19-4) did not play. Next: at No. 25 Pittsburgh, Friday. 6. Purdue (20-3) beat No. 10 Michigan State 76-64. Next: vs. Iowa, Saturday. 7. Georgetown (18-5) beat Providence 79-70. Next: at Rutgers, Sunday. 8. Duke (19-4) did not play. Next: at North Carolina, Wednesday. 9. Kansas State (19-4) did not play. Next: vs. Colorado, Saturday. 10. Michigan State (19-6) lost to No. 6 Purdue 76-64. Next: at Penn State, Saturday. 11. Wisconsin (18-6) lost to Illinois 63-56. Next: vs. Indiana, Saturday. 12. Tennessee (18-5) lost to No. 22 Vanderbilt 90-71. Next: at No. 3 Kentucky, Saturday. 13. Ohio State (18-6) did not play. Next: at Indiana, Wednesday. 14. Texas (19-5) did not play.
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By NAFEESA SYEED Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A blizzard howled up the East Coast on Wednesday, making roads from Baltimore to New York City so treacherous that even plow drivers pulled over and bringing more misery to a Mid-Atlantic region poised to have its snowiest winter on record. In Pennsylvania, the governor closed large stretches of major highways because the second major storm in less than a week was making travel too risky. In Washington, snow fell so hard that people on the National Mall could not see the Capitol. Many in the region were still without power from the historic storm over the weekend, and even more were expected to lose it during this one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The snow has just been relentless,â&#x20AC;? said Washington Fire Chief Dennis L. Rubin, a D.C. native who said the back-to-back storms are like nothing he has ever experienced. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting much of a break.â&#x20AC;? Up to 16 inches fell in parts of western Maryland and Reagan National Airport in Washington had nearly 9
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A rice vendor who doctors say may have survived 27 days under the rubble after Haitiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating earthquake was in stable condition and eating Wednesday. Doctors were skeptical at first about the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story â&#x20AC;&#x201D; people can survive as long as nine weeks without food, but die quickly without water. The last confirmed survivor was a 16-year-old girl removed from rubble 15 days after the Jan. 12 quake. They turned into believers, however, after he became lucid enough to tell his tale. He told health care workers that he was selling rice in a flea market when the quake destroyed the building, trapping him under the debris â&#x20AC;&#x201D; apparently along with water or food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing very well,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. David Chong, who was treating the man at a University of Miami Medishare field hospital in Haitiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been giving him intravenous fluids and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tolerating them well. We also gave him a Hershey bar. He was pretty happy about that.â&#x20AC;? The man â&#x20AC;&#x201D; identified as 28-year-old Evans Monsigrace â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had bad scrapes on his feet after being pulled from the rubble. He told doctors he lay on his side for much of the time, trapped in a small void in the remains of the market.
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Visitors to New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Central Park take pictures of the Bethesda fountain during a snow storm Wednesday. inches by midday, just short of the amount needed to make it the snowiest winter on record in D.C. That was on top of totals up to 3 feet in some places from the weekend storm. And it was still snowing. The streets of downtown Philadelphia, also hard hit by the last storm, were nearly vacant as people heeded the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advice to stay home. In Arlington, Va., streets that had been packed with people playing in the snow over the weekend were also empty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen enough,â&#x20AC;? said Bill Daly, 57, as gusts of wind and snow lashed his face. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scary and beautiful at
the same time. I wanted to shovel but thought if I had a heart attack it could be a while before anybody found me in this kind of weather.â&#x20AC;? In Washington, the federal government was closed for a third straight day. The longest weather-related government shutdown ever was in 1996, when employees did not have to go to work for a full week. In northwest Washington, a Caribou Coffee was standing room only. Most people pecked away at laptop computers as snow fell steadily outside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to the office but the work still needs to
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LEGALS NOTICE OF BID Sevier County is soliciting sealed bids on audio and video equipment for the conference room, located on the third floor of the Sevier County courthouse. Bids will be received at the Sevier County Mayors Office, 125 Court Ave., Suite 102E, Sevierville, TN, 37862 until 9 a.m., Feb. 23, 2010, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud. Specifications and questions may be obtained from Perrin Anderson, 125 Court Ave., Suite 102E, Sevierville, TN, 37862, Telephone number (865) 774-3643 or panderson@seviercountytn.org. The Bidderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, address, bid opening time and the quotation "Conference Room Audio/Video Bid" must be printed on the sealed, opaque envelope containing the bid. Sevier County reserves the right to accept or reject any/or all bids and to accept the bid deemed most favorable to the interest of Sevier County. 02-10-10, 02-11-10 02-12-10
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NOTICE OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE WHEREAS, on the 31st day of January, 2003, Mark A. Meade and wife, Delilah R. Meade conveyed to Edward H. Hamilton, Trustee, the property herein described by Deed of Trust recorded in the RegisterĂs Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, in Book 1615, page 242 and Conditional Assignment of Leases, Rents and Profits in Book 1615, page 247 and First Modification Agreement in Book 2288, page 737 and Modification Agreement in Book 2390, page 119 and Modification Agreement in Book 2956, page 150 for the purposes set forth in said Deed of Trust; and WHEREAS, J. Michael Garner has been appointed Successor Trustee by Appointment of record as Book 3486, page 718 in the RegisterĂs Office for Sevier County, Tennessee; and WHEREAS, Citizens Bank of Blount County, the true and lawful owner and holder of the Note secured by said instrument, has advised me, as Successor Trustee, of default in the terms of said Note and Deed of Trust; NOW, THEREFORE: BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER vested in me as Successor Trustee, under the terms of said Deed of Trust hereinabove referred to, I will on the 4th day ofMarch, 2010, at 10:00 oĂclock A.M. at the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee, proceed to sell the property hereinafter described at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, free from homestead and dower and other exemptions and in bar of all rights including the equity of redemption and statutory right of redemption, the following described real estate: SITUATE in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being Lot 25R, Unit 1 of Ski Mountain Plaza, as the same appears on a plat of record in Map Book 33, page 132 at the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. THIS CONVEYANCE IS MADE SUBJECT to restrictions, reservations and easements of record in Book 1445, page 601, Book 1611, page 410, Map Book 30, page 390 and Map Book 33, page 132 at the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY conveyed to Mark A. Meade and wife, Delilah R. Meade from CJJS, Inc., by deed dated January 31, 2003 and of record in Book 1615, page 240 at the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. THIS CONVEYANCE is made subject to any unpaid property taxes. THE RIGHT is reserved to adjourn the sale to another date without further publication, upon announcement at the time set forth above. THIS the 8th day of February, 2010. MICHAEL GARNER Successor Trustee February 11, 18 and 25, 2010
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TENNESSEE, SEVIER COUNTY DEFAULT having been made in the terms, conditions and payments provided in certain Deed of Trust executed by Natica S. Drexler and Robert L. Drexler, Jr. to Arnold M. Weiss, Trustee dated August 18, 2003 in the amount of $96,000.00, and recorded in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee in Deed Book 1775, Page 581, (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deed of Trustâ&#x20AC;?); and, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust having been last transferred to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association fka The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. as Trustee by assignment; and, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association fka The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. as Trustee, as the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Owner and Holderâ&#x20AC;?), has appointed as Substitute Trustee the undersigned, , any of whom may act, by instrument filed for record in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; therefore, NOTICE is hereby given that the entire amount of said indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, or a duly appointed attorney or agents by virtue of the power and authority vested by the Appointment of Substitute Trustee, will on Thursday, February 25, 2010 commencing at 12:00 PM at the front steps of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee; sell to the highest bidder for cash, immediately at the close of sale, the following property to-wit: SITUATE, LYING AND BEING in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being all of Unit 509 of Condo Villas of Gatlinburg, Phase I, as shown on a plat of record in Map Book 24, Page 266, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. SUBJECT to all applicable restrictions, easements, setback lines and other notes of record in Misc. Book 8, Page 562; Misc. Book 103, Page 599l Misc. Book 103, Page 229; Misc. Book 106, Page 717; Misc. Book 110, Page 59, Misc. Book 112, Page 135; Misc. Boo k112, Page 637; Misc. Book 115, Page 624; Misc. Book 117, Page 230; Misc. Book 108, Page 690; ROW Book 7, Page 494; ROW Book 7, Page 525; Map Book 24, Page 266; Map Book 9, Page 57, and Map Book 7, Page 42; and as any of the foregoing may be amended or corrected, all in said Registers Office. SUBJECT to the rights of the public in and over the private drives and public drives lending to the Condo Villas as shown in Map Book 24, Page 266, in said Registers Office. See also ROW Book 7, page 494, ROW Book 7, Page 525, and ROW Book 7, Page 518, all in said Registers Office. ALSO SUBJECT to any and all applicable restrictions, easements and building setback lines as are shown in the records of the said Registers Office. BEING all of the same property conveyed to Robert L. Drexler Jr., and wife, Natica S. Drexler, from Sandra Bowne-Culberson, unmarried by Warranty Deed dated July 16, 2001, of record in Book 1266, Page 202, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Map & Parcel No.: 117-052.00 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1023 Villa Lane, Unit 509 Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738 CURRENT OWNER(S): Robert L. Drexler, Jr. and Natica S. Drexler SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: Condo Villas of Gatlinburg Association Inc., Foothills Water Properties Inc. OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, however, the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The sale will be held subject to any unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-ofway, easements, protective covenants or restrictions, liens, and other superior matters of record which may affect said property; as well as any prior liens or encumbrances as well as priority created by a fixture filing; and/or any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities` right to redeem the property, as required by 26 U.S.C Ă&#x; 7425 and T.C.A. Ă&#x; 671-1433. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Deed of Trust. Substitute Trustee reserves the right to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. MCC TN, LCC 250 East Ponce De Leon Avenue Suite 600 McCurdy & Candler, L.L.C. (404) 373-1612 File No. 07-18894 /CONV February 4, 11 and 18, 2010
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Notice is hereby given that by authority of a Deed of Trust executed by Jack W. Maples and wife, Mary Maples, to Dwight B. Grizzell, Trustee, dated June 23, 2006, and recorded in Book 2560, Page 225 in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to secure the indebtedness due from Jack W. Maples to Mountain National Bank, which has become due and payable by virtue of default in the Deed of Trust on the property hereinafter described; and Mountain National Bank, the true and lawful owner and holder of said indebtedness, having exercised its option to declare the indebtedness due and payable and having made demand for foreclosure pursuant to the Deed of Trust; I, the undersigned, acting under the authority of the Deed of Trust, by virtue of appointment as substitute trustee, in Book 3480, Page 155 in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, will be at the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse, 125 Court Avenue, Sevierville, Tennessee on the 18th day of February, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. to sell to the highest bidder for cash in bar of all rights waived by said Deed of Trust, the following described property to-wit (which is believed to have a
TENNESSEE, SEVIER COUNTY DEFAULT having been made in the terms, conditions and payments provided in certain Deed of Trust executed by Kathryn A. Sias and Kenneth J. Sias to Wesley D. Turner, Trustee dated June 28, 2007 in the amount of $390,200.00, and recorded in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee in Instrument No. 07042116, Deed Book 2864, Page 707, (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deed of Trustâ&#x20AC;?); and, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust having been last transferred to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association by assignment; and, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Owner and Holderâ&#x20AC;?), has appointed as Substitute Trustee the undersigned, , any of whom may act, by instrument filed for record in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; therefore, NOTICE is hereby given that the entire amount of said indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, or a duly appointed attorney or agents by virtue of the power and authority vested by the Appointment of Substitute Trustee, will on Thursday, February 18, 2010 commencing at 12:00 PM at the front steps of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee; sell to the highest bidder for cash, immediately at the close of sale, the following property to-wit: Situated in the Eight (8th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being all of Lot 27, of Hilltop Estates Subdivision, as shown on map of record in Map Book 25, Page 53 in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Being the same property conveyed to Kathryn A. Sias and husband, Kenneth J. Sias by Warranty Deed dated 06/09/05 and filed for record 06/ 21/05 in Book 2273, Page 131, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. This conveyance is subject to Plat Book 25, Page 53, and restrictive covenants of record in Registers Book 122, Page 299, and all restrictions, easements, setback lines, conditions, plat of record, and encumbrances of record in the registers Office for the aforesaid County. Map & Parcel No.: 13J A 27
Street address of 209 Little Pigeon Drive Sevierville, TN 3786 SITUATE in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being L ot 39 of Little Pigeon Estates Subdivision, as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 9, Page 26 in the RegisterĂs Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, said lot fronting 100 feet on the SW side of Little Pigeon Drive, and being more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pin the SW line of Little Pigeon Drive, distant in a southeasterly direction 115 feet from the point of intersection of Little Pigeon Drive with River View Circle, and marking common corner of Lot Nos. 38 & 39; thence with Little Pigeon Drive, South 75 deg. East 100 feet to an iron pin, common corner of Lot Nos. 39 & 40; thence South 15 deg. West, with the dividing line between Lot Nos. 39 & 40, 150 feet to an iron pin; thence North 75 deg. West 100 feet to an iron pin, common corner of Lot Nos. 38 & 39; thence North 15 deg. 00 min. East with the dividing line between Lot Nos. 38 & 39, 150 feet to the point of BEGINNING. SUBJECT to restrictions, reservations and easements as set forth in Misc. Book 11, Page 419, and Map Book 9, page 26 in the said RegisterĂs Office. ALSO SUBJECT to any and all applicable restrictions, easements and building setback lines as are shown in the records of the said RegisterĂs Office. BEING the same property conveyed to Jack W. Maples and wife, Mary Maples by Warranty Deed of William D. Ellis and wife, Marjorie Ellis dated June 23, 2006 of record in Book 2560, Page 223 in the said RegisterĂs Office. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of such adjournment on the day and at the time and place of sale as set forth above. Frank E. Lowe, BankEast and American General Financial Services may assert an interest in the above-described property by virtue of recorded judgment liens and said entities have been notified of this sale. The above-described property will be sold subject to unpaid taxes, prior deeds of trust, all easements and restrictions, the rights of tenants in possession of said premises, if any, prior claims, or matters of record. The proceeds of the sale will be applied first to discharge the costs and charges of executing this trust, including attorney s fees; next, to all indebtedness remaining unpaid and secured thereby, including all indebtedness owing to Mountain National Bank, by the grantors; and next, the balance, if any, shall be paid to those legally entitled thereto. This 26th day of January, 2010.
THOMAS H. DICKENSON Substitute Trustee Hodges, Doughty & Carson P. O. Box 869 Knoxville, Tennessee 37901 (865) 292-2307
January 28, February 4 and 11, 2010
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 980 Hilltop Lane Kodak, Tennessee 37764 CURRENT OWNER(S): Kathryn A. Sias and Kenneth J. Sias SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: N/A OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, however, the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The sale will be held subject to any unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-ofway, easements, protective covenants or restrictions, liens, and other superior matters of record which may affect said property; as well as any prior liens or encumbrances as well as priority created by a fixture filing; and/or any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities` right to redeem the property, as required by 26 U.S.C Ă&#x; 7425 and T.C.A. Ă&#x; 671-1433. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Deed of Trust. Substitute Trustee reserves the right to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. MCC TN, LCC 250 East Ponce De Leon Avenue Suite 600 McCurdy & Candler, L.L.C. (404) 373-1612 File No. 10-00985 /CONV January 28, February 4 and 11, 2010
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Sale at public auction will be on March 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Robert LeBreton and Laura LeBreton, Husband and Wife to Emmett James House or Bill R. McLaughlin, Trustee, on December 27, 2006 at Book Volume 2699, Page 644 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register s Office. Owner of Debt: Regions Bank d/b/a Regions Mortgage The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the Sixteenth (16th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Lot 18 of Bluff Mountain Acres Addition to Section Two, as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 28, Page 375 in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, to which plat reference is here made for a more particular description. Street Address: 2109 Quail Run Way, Pigeon Forge, TN 37876 Current Owner(s) of Property: Robert LeBreton and wife, Laura LeBreton Other interested parties: AmSouth Bank and AmSouth Bank The street address of the above described property is believed to be 2109 Quail Run Way, Pigeon Forge, TN 37876, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control. SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder. This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time. This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890 File No. 10-000447
Sale at public auction will be on M arch 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Bernard Polzin and wife, Rita Polzin to Jerry D. Kerley, Trustee, on December 29, 2003 at Book Volume 1868, Page Page 367 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register s Office Owner of Debt: CitiMortgage, Inc The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the Sixteenth (16th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Lot 74 of Black Bear Ridge as the same appears on a plat of record in Large Map Book 4, Page 152 in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee to which reference is here made for a more particular description. Street Address: 1507 Firefly Trail Way Sevierville, TN 37862 Current Owner(s) of Property: Bernard Polzin and wife, Rita Polzin The street address of the above described property is believed to be 1507 Firefly Trail Way, Sevierville, TN 37862, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any IS discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control. S ALE SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder. This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time. This office isa debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890 File No. 09-023612
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE Sale at public auction will be on March 9, 2010 at 2:00PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Robert W. Blackwood and wife Donna D. Blackwood to Title Enterprise, Trustee, on May 25, 2006 at Book Volume 2542, Page 517conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register s Office. Owner of Debt: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, under Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of November 1, 2006 Securitized Asset-Backed Receivables LLC Trust 2006-FR4 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FR4 The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee to wit: Lot Number 5 of Henderson Springs Estates Subdivision, as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 26, Page 143 in Sevier County, Register s Office, Sevierville, Tennessee to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said property.
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Street Address: 2218 Battle Ground Drive Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 Current Owner(s) of Property: Robert W. Blackwood and wife, Donna D. Blackwood Other interested parties: Fremont Investment & Loan, Fremont Investment & Loan, Capital One Bank, (USA) N.A. c/o Buffaloe & Associates and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. The street address of the above described property is believed to be 2218 Battle Ground Drive, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control. SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder. This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time. This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890 File No. 10-000583
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Sevier County Tax Records show the above described property to be located at 511 Parkway, #201 Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738 but said address is not part of the legal description of the property to be sold hereunder. Sevier County Tax Map 126L Group A Parcel 012.00. (Information only) Said sale will be free from the statutory right and equity of redemption, homestead, dower and all other exemptions; the same having been waived in said Deed of Trust. Said property will be sold subject to all tenant rights, if any, unpaid real estate taxes, and any and all other prior liens including owners assessments, encumbrances, rights of way, easements, restrictions, mortgages and other matters of record having priority over the Deed of Trust, if any, and conveyed by the Trustee by standard Special Warranty Deed. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of sale to another day and time 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 is an attempt to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Interested Parties: Blount Memorial Hospital Rita Horne & Jeffrey Horne This Notice shall be published in THE MOUNTAIN PRESS on the 4th day of February, 2010, the 11th day of February, 2010; and, the 18th day of February, 2010. This _1___ day of February, 2010. Douglas S. Yates, Trustee Douglas S. Yates 117 Joy St. Sevierville, TN 37862 (865) 453-1201 February 4, 11 and 18, 2010
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WHEREAS, on the 25th day of May, 2006, by Deed of Trust recorded in Vol. 2537, at Page 767, in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, Rita Horne and Husband, Jeffrey Horne, did convey in trust to the undersigned Trustee, the hereinafter described real estate to secure the payment of a Note in the principal sum of SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000.00), and other obligations; said debts and obligations being more particularly described in said Note and Trust Deed; and WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of said indebtedness; the same being now past due and the entire amount thereof having been declared due and payable in full by the holder in accordance with the terms of said note and Deed of Trust. NOW, THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of the authority vested in me and having been requested to do so by the holder and owner of the indebtedness, I will on February 25, 2010, at Eleven o clock (11:00 a.m.), offer for sale, and sell at the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse, to the last, highest and best bidder for cash in hand, the following described real estate, to-wit: SITUATED in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and within the City of Gatlinburg, Tennessee and being all of Unit 201 of River Bend Mall, a horizontal property regime, dated the 4th day of September, 1987, of record in Deed Book 385, Page 700, in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, and as shown on plat and plan of River Bend Mall of record in Map Book 25, Page 135, in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which specific map reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Subject to easements, restrictions, rights of ways, assessments and other matters of record at the Sevier County Register of Deed s Office. Being the same property conveyed to Rita Horne by Deed of record in Book 2537, Page 764, in the Register s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.
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FEE INTEREST PROPERTY OWNER: Norton Creek, LLC OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: (i) Vencourt, Limited, (ii) PJV USA, Inc., (iii) Norton Creek Park, LLC; and (iv) Estates at Norton Creek Homeowners Association, Inc. The sale will be made for cash to the highest bidder. The Lender reserves the right to bid and to become the purchaser at the sale. The Successor Trustee will execute a conveyance to the purchaser conveying such title as the Successor Trustee has under a TrusteeĂs Deed. The Successor Trustee reserves the right to appoint an agent or auctioneer to make the sale hereunder. A deposit in cash or by cashier s check or certified funds acceptable to the Lender in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the purchase price may, in the Substitute TrusteeĂs sole discretion, be required from the successful bidder on the day of sale. Closing will be held and the balance of the purchase price will be payable not more than ten (10) calendar days after the sale, said closing date to be set by Successor Trustee. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of the bid at the public sale, then the Successor Trustee shall have the option of accepting the second highest bid, or the next highest bid with which the bidder is able to comply. Dated: January 26, 2010 JENNIFER L. MILLIGAN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE 1111 NOrthshore Drive N.W. Suite S-700 Knoxville TN 37919 (865)584-4040 January 28, Frbruary 4 and 11, 2010
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE TENNESSEE, SEVIER COUNTY DEFAULT having been made in the terms, conditions and payments provided in certain Deed of Trust executed by Todd Wilkinson and Melinda Wilkinson to Phillip Nemeth, Trustee dated October 21, 2005 in the amount of $100,000.00, and recorded in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee in Deed Book 2373, Page 702, (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deed of Trustâ&#x20AC;?); and, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust having been last transferred to Bank of America, National Association as trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-1 Trust by assignment; and, Bank of America, National Association as trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates WMALT Series 2006-1 Trust, as the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust (the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Owner and Holderâ&#x20AC;?), has appointed as Substitute Trustee the undersigned, , any of whom may act, by instrument filed for record in the Register s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; therefore, NOTICE is hereby given that the entire amount of said indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, or a duly appointed attorney or agents by virtue of the power and authority vested by the Appointment of Substitute Trustee, will on Thursday, February 18, 2010 commencing at 12:00 PM at the front steps of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee; sell to the highest bidder for cash, immediately at the close of sale, the following property to-wit: Situated in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and in the City of Gatlinburg, being a 0.36 acre tract off of Oglewood Lane, and being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point in the Westerly right-of-way line of Oglewood Lane in the line of Brett Ogle (WDB 675, Page 271), said point being located approximately 50 ft. from the intersection of the Westerly right-ofway line of Oglewood Lane and the Southerly right-of-way line of Pinnacle Cottage Way; thence leaving the Westerly right-of-way line of Oglewood Lane and running with the Easterly line of a 20 ft. right-of-way, S 40 degrees 21 minutes 00 seconds W, 37.67 feet to a point; thence S 08 degrees 34 minutes 21 seconds W, 32.50 feet to a point, thence S 02 degrees 35 minutes 57 seconds E, 38.40 feet to a point, thence S 00 degrees 35 minutes 29 seconds E, 85.29 feet to a point, thence S 09 degrees 28 minutes 37 seconds W, 70.65 feet to a point; thence S 24 degrees 49 minutes 25 seconds W, 78.36 feet to an iron pin at a 14 inch white oak, the point of beginning of the herein described 0.36 acre tract, thence with the Northerly boundary line of said 0.36 acre tract, a common boundary with Brett Ogle (WDB 675, Page 271), N 82 degrees 12 minutes 15 seconds E, 18.70 feet to an existing iron pin at a 12 inch white oak; thence S 13 degrees 24 minutes 00 seconds E, 46.30 feet to an existing iron pin; thence S 06 degrees 54 minutes 02 seconds W., 26.92 feet to an existing iron pin at a 25 inch black oak; thence S 64 degrees 24 minutes 00 seconds W, 16.60 feet to an existing iron pin; thence N 86 degrees 57 minutes 49 seconds W, 60.41 feet to an existing iron pin, a corner to Dale McKinney (WDB 1063, Page 737); thence with McKinneys line N 78 degrees 33 minutes 42 seconds W, 51.80 feet to an existing iron pin at a 20 inch marked hickory; thence N 78 degrees 33 minutes 42 seconds W, 46.40 feet to an existing iron pin in the line of Estel Ogle Heirs (WDB 98, Page 153); thence with said line of Estel Ogle Heirs N 06 degrees 24 minutes 00 seconds E, 38.30 feet to an existing iron pin; thence N 22 degrees 06 minutes 00 seconds W, 63.00 feet to an existing iron pin, corner to other property of Troy King (WDB 368, Page 47); thence with said other property of Troy King, N 66 degrees 36 minutes E, 27.60 feet to an existing iron pin at a marked hickory; thence S 65 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds E, 102.32 feet to an existing iron pin at a 20 inch pine, thence S 76 degrees 25 minutes 26 seconds E, 27.46 feet to a point in the Westerly line of a 20 ft. right-of-way to Oglewood Lane; thence S 76 degrees 25 minutes 26 seconds E, 20.39 feet to an existing iron pin at a 14 inch white oak, the point of beginning, containing 0.36 acres, more or less, according to survey by David W. Baker, RLS No. 1777, 446 E. Parkway, Suite 10, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, dated October 10, 2005, bearing Drawing No. 05-115ROW. Together with a 20 foot access easement for ingress and egress to and from Oglewood Lane of record in Book 2373, Page 697, Registers Office, Sevier County, Tennessee. Being the same property conveyed to Todd Wilkinson and wife, Melinda Wilkinson by deed from Troy King and wife, Gina King, dated October 21, 2005, recorded in Book 2373, Page 700, in said Registers Office. Map & Parcel No.: 127HA21 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 238 Oglewood Lane Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738 CURRENT OWNER(S): Todd Wilkerson and Melinda Wilkerson SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: CitiMortgage, Inc. OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, however, the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The sale will be held subject to any unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-ofway, easements, protective covenants or restrictions, liens, and other superior matters of record which may affect said property; as well as any prior liens or encumbrances as well as priority created by a fixture filing; and/or any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities` right to redeem the property, as required by 26 U.S.C Ă&#x; 7425 and T.C.A. Ă&#x; 671-1433. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Deed of Trust. Substitute Trustee reserves the right to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. MCC TN, LCC 250 East Ponce De Leon Avenue Suite 600 McCurdy & Candler, L.L.C. (404) 373-1612 File No. 10-01037 /CONV
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WHEREAS, SILLY CREEK INVESTMENTS, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company (sometimes referred to herein as Lender), is the true and lawful owner and holder of a certain Amended and Restated Promissory Note dated February 8, 2008 (as amended, the Note), made, executed and issued by NORTON CREEK, LLC (the ĂŹDebtorĂŽ) payable to MOUNTAIN COMMERCE BANK or holder thereof, in the face principal amount of Five Million Three Hundred Eight One Thousand Dollars ($5,381,000), Lender having acquired the Note from Mountain Commerce Bank on January 25, 2010, the payment of which is secured by that Amended and Restated Construction Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing (as amended, the ĂŹDeed of TrustĂŽ), dated February 8, 2008, encumbering certain real estate, improvements and certain personal property described therein (the ĂŹTrust EstateĂŽ), of record at Book 3015, Page 82, as modified by Assignment of Promissory Note and Deed of Trust dated January 25, 2010, between MOUNTAIN COMMERCE BANK, as assignor, and SILLY CREEK INVESTMENTS, LLC, as assignee, of record at Book 3483, Page 272, both in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which Deed of Trust specific reference is hereby made for incorporation herein; and WHEREAS, Lender, as beneficiary under the aforesaid Deed of Trust has appointed Jennifer L. Milligan, as Successor Trustee, said appointment being of record at Book 3483, Page 277, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, with full powers as therein set out, and has made a demand upon the Successor Trustee to foreclose the Deed of Trust as a result of the DebtorĂs default in payment of the Note and as a result of a monetary defaults by Debtor under documents executed by Debtor in connection with the Note, including the Deed of Trust (collectively the Loan Documents). NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness and obligations evidenced by the Note and Loan Documents and secured by the Deed of Trust have been declared due and payable, and the undersigned, in the capacity of Successor Trustee under the Deed of Trust, will offer for sale the Trust Estate at public auction for cash, and in bar of both statutory and equity rights of redemption, and all other redemptions, the same having been fully surrendered and waived, to the highest and last bidder for cash in hand, said public auction to be conducted promptly at 1 0:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2010, at the main entrance to the Sevier County Court House, 125 Court Avenue, Sevierville, Tennessee 37862. Lender shall have the right to bid for the purchase of the Trust Estate at the sale. The sale and conveyance of the Trust Estate will be AS IS, WHERE IS, and made subject to all prior deeds of trust, the rights of tenants in possession, other encumbrances, easements and restrictions of record including, but not limited to, that certain Amended and Restated Master Deed and Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions for the Estates at Norton Creek, recorded December 22, 2005, in Book 2425, Page 141, as amended by First Declaration of Annexation for Norton Creek of record in Book 2889, Page 654, and amended further amended by Amended to Master Deed and Declaration of record in Book 3177, Page 720, and further amended by Amendment to Master Deed and Declaration for the Estates at Norton Creek Planned Unit Development, recorded December 14, 2009, in Book 3464, Page 543, and all other amendments thereto (collectively, the ĂŹMaster DeedĂŽ), and property taxes due local governmental authorities. The sale proceeds shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust. The sale may be adjourned after commencement thereof by the Successor Trustee and reconvened at another time, there announced, without the necessity of re_advertising. The Trust Estate is described as follows: Phase 2A SITUATED in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin set in the Southwest corner of Phase I Norton Creek LLC said iron pin being located South 35 deg. 51 min. 41 sec. West 6336 feet from the centerline of Washington Road extended Thence 2221.20 feet South 79 Degrees 53 Minutes 00 Seconds West to an Iron Pin; Thence 627.22 feet North 73 Degrees 05 Minutes 00 Seconds West to an Iron Pin; Thence 2819.12 feet North 02 Degrees 10 Minutes 22 Seconds East to an Iron Pin; Thence 369.99 feet South 89 Degrees 43 Minutes 55 Seconds East to an Iron Pin; Thence 581.94 feet South 16 Degrees 50 Minutes 25 Seconds East to an Iron Pin; Thence 744.25 feet South 49 Degrees 47 Minutes 11 Seconds East to an Iron Pin; Thence 2222.55 feet South 45 Degrees 03 Minutes 00 Seconds East to an Iron Pin Being the point of beginning, according to the survey of Dennis N. Gore, Tennessee RLS No. 1500, dated August 31, 2006 bearing job no. 051054. As by a survey dated 08-31-06 by Southern Design Group/ Dennis N. Gore Tennessee Registered Land Surveyor NO. 1500. Boundary description converted from map by Rothe Architecture and Planning. TOGETHER WITH a non-exclusive right of ingress and egress to and from the above described property and the county road over and across the 50 foot right of way known as Norton Creek Road beginning at the ĂŹgate postĂŽ which is located .40 miles from the intersection of Washington Road to Southern corner of the 200 acre tract conveyed to the Grantee by the Grantor by deed dated May 16, 2005, of record in Book 2244, page 629 in the Sevier County Register of Deeds Office; provided, however, either party may relocate at such partiesĂ expense the location of said right of way between such ĂŹgate postĂŽ and the first point where Norton Creek crosses the right of way. LESS AND EXCEPT the following lot lying in Phase 2A of Norton Creek: Lot H1 as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 37, Page 335 in the Sevier County Register of Deeds. BEING a portion of the property conveyed to Norton Creek, LLC, a Florida limited liability company by Warranty Deed dated March 12, 2007 of record in Book 2768, page 420 in the Sevier County Register of Deeds Office. Being designated for property tax purposes as Part of CLT No. 125010.00
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Comics ◆ A15
Thursday, February 11, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press Family Circus
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Advice
Husband’s interaction with women through online gaming upsets wife
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Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
For Better Or Worse
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Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 29 years to a man I adore. We have had our ups and downs, but have weathered the storms because we both believe we are meant to be together. But we have a problem I don’t know how to solve. “Joe” plays an online role-playing game that I have never been comfortable with. And he always gets involved with someone online, and it is always a woman. They can’t advance in their game unless they work together. Several years ago, Joe became emotionally attached to another woman and left me for a while. When he came back, I thought those things were behind us, but I keep discovering lies. I know he meets up with this woman online every day while I am at work. My kids can hear the sound of her voice. My son was so upset, he wanted to move out of the house. This torments me so much that I can barely function at work. I love my job, but I cry in the bathroom, and people are starting to ask questions. I have finally realized that Joe is going to do this type of thing forever, and it breaks my heart. Joe treats me beautifully when we are together, but I don’t want to share him with other women. I have asked his family for help, but they say Joe has a right to his relaxation and it shouldn’t bother me. I am planning to start counseling before I have a nervous breakdown. I
don’t want to lose this man, but I have to save myself. Don’t you think these women should consider the time they are spending online with someone who is married? Is there any hope for me? -- Crying Every Day Dear Crying: Don’t blame “these women” for Joe’s behavior. The world of online gaming has plenty of men he could team up with, but he obviously makes the effort to find females. Joe’s history indicates he becomes attached to his online friends, which is unhealthy for your marriage. If he cannot see (or doesn’t care about) the damage he is causing, things don’t look good. We are glad you will be getting counseling. It will help. Dear Annie: My husband and I have five children together, and he has an older child from a previous relationship. My question is about the firstborn of our five children. Our son passed away at the age of 9 months, but we still consider him part of our lives in so many ways. When asked how many children we have, what is the proper response? We don’t want to leave out our firstborn, but we also don’t want to give the wrong impression. -Elkhart, Ind. Dear Elkhart: The answer is up to you and
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