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Life on ‘The Hill’ Glimpse a day in the life of local elected officials in Washington, D.C.

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Editor’s note: Mountain Press reporter Derek Hodges recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to spend some time with the two senators and one of the representatives who represent Sevier County in Congress. Today’s package is a combination of profiles and glimpses into the daily lives of these three men.

‘Elder statesman’ focusing on future By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer

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The Capitol building provides a backdrop for scenic photographs in the nation’s capital city, just one of the reasons The Mountain Press’ Derek Hodges thinks Washington, D.C., is his pick for the greatest cities in the world. Find out his other reasons on Page A5.

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Obituaries Doris Trentham, 88 Jerry Hayes, 75 Jack Sarten, 79 Kim Jenkins, 41 Mary Forrester, 77 Erik Ely, 37 Hazel Arwood, 69 DETAILS, Page A4

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Working at fast pace, Corker wants to make a difference By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — It’s early on a Monday evening and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker is racing down three flights of concrete stairs with three female staffers chasing after as he ticks off items that need to be added to his schedule. “We need to schedule that meeting with (Sen.) Chris Dodd first thing in the morning. We’ve got to get on this thing,” Corker decrees. “I’m also going to need some time to look at the president’s health care proposal.” Reaching the lowest basement level of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, of which Corker and his staff fill one hall, he navigates a labyrinthian tunnel system on his See corker, Page A3

of Sen. Howard Baker Jr. Ironically, it was a meeting with Baker’s father, Rep. Howard Baker Sr., WASHINGTON — Sen. that started Alexander on a Lamar Alexander brushes political trajectory. off the title of Tennessee’s “My dad took me down elder statesman, believing it belongs instead to folks like to the courthouse to meet former Sen. Howard Baker. Howard Baker Sr. and I thought he was the most “You kind of caught me off guard because I’ve never impressive man I’d ever thought about it,” Alexander meet, except for my dad and says. “I just get up every day the preacher,” Alexander and try to do the best I can. says, sharing that Baker passed him a piece of I feel very privileged to be change that he treasured for here.” Still, Alexander has, quite some time. “I was raised to possibly, the most extensive respect public service and public servants.” record of public service Alexander revered among anyone currently Baker for years, particuserving the state in office. larly his work to bring the His record as a citizen servant starts in 1967 when See Alexander, Page A2 he took a job in the office

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Sen. Bob Corker gesticulates in his Washington office during a phone conversation recently with a reporter from the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

WASHINGTON — They call what Rep. Phil Roe has been operating on for the last year and two months “Washington time.” It’s a clock that demands those who fall under its purview rush to and from everywhere they go, but still somehow manages to catch even the most punctual at least a few minutes off on a daily basis. “I usually eat at my desk while I’m doing a hundred other things, then it’s on to the next meeting,” Roe says. “I haven’t been anywhere; I haven’t seen any of the sights in Washington. I haven’t seen any of the monuments. I didn’t even

know there was a House Members’ Dining Room until a few weeks ago. I just don’t have time for all those things.” Roe, R-Tenn. 1, has something of the aspect of the Jimmy Stewart character in the classic movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Amid all the hustle and bustle, he has still made the decision to add more to his schedule than many lawmakers are willing to take on, seeking to be part of debates that matter to him. Though a freshman, he’s come to the front of the class on the healtchare reform debate, drawing on his own experience as a doctor in Johnson City to inform the Republican Party’s See Roe, Page A2

Judge dismisses lawsuit Share your memories of Dollywood filed by former inmate for upcoming special section By JEFF FARRELL Staff Writer KNOXVILLE — A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit filed by a former inmate at the Sevier County Jail. James Erick Emmerick was one of a number of inmates who filed complaints about overcrowding in the jail; his complaint also centered around treatment of his medical conditions, which he said included liver failure. Emmerick filed the complaint himself, without legal representation. Judge Leon Jordan granted a motion for summary judgement in the case. “Plaintiff does not claim the alleged violation of his constitutional rights was the result of any custom or policy on the part of Sevier County,” he wrote. “According, Sevier County, Tennessee, is entitled to judgment as a matter of law and its motion for summary judgment will be granted.” He noted Emmerick’s own exhibits showed he had received medical treatment, although Emmerick didn’t See lawsuit, Page A3

Dollywood is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and we want to know your favorite memories and experiences at the park. As part of a special section we are doing later this month, we will include our readers’ stories as they remember the good times they have had at Tennessee’s No. 1 tourist attraction. We also will welcome your photos as well. The fun of a summer day, the first ride on the roller coaster, a family reunion, the Christmas lights, being part of a

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mail to P.O. Box 4810, Sevierville 37864 Keep your submissions to around 250 words if you can. Make sure we know who’s in your photos. And include an address and phone number for verification. Also, if you have been an employee for all 25 years, been a season ticket holder that long, or have ridden all the rides, we want to talk to you too. Thanks. Call us at 4280746, ext. 217, with questions.

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rebuttal argument against the Democratic proposals. Additionally, while some of his colleagues only peruse the information theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re given or have staff members hit the high points, Roe insists on actually reading the things put before him, going over packets of documents the night before committee hearings and maintaining heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s read every important bill heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voted on, including all the more than 2,000 pages of the House healthcare reform bill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I spend a lot of time reading and studying. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand these folks who come into these meetings unprepared,â&#x20AC;? Roe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being part of the national debate has excited my experience here and I want to be sure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got all the information I need.â&#x20AC;? When he first took office at the beginning of 2009, Roe wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d even be allowed to be part of the national debate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I came in I was afraid I was going to be pushed to the back,â&#x20AC;? Roe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been my experience. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to work hard, you can really accomplish something. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Still, Roe is in something of a strange position in terms of seniority. Of the three men who represent Sevier County in Washington â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Roe and Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Roe is the most junior, starting his term after he defeated incumbent Rep. David Davis, R-Tenn. 1. Additionally, Roe came in as his party experienced some crushing defeats in both chambers of Congress, with Democrats riding a wave of voter discontent to nab considerable majorities in the two houses. Even so, Corker, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s junior senator, will still be in his freshman term for two more years, while Roe will age out of the Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rookie class at the beginning of next year, provided he survives the upcoming elections. And, Roe is entirely convinced the GOP will make some big inroads in this fallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national votes, even believing he will find himself in the majority come next January. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the voters are fed up,â&#x20AC;? Roe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a nanny state telling them what to do.â&#x20AC;? Polls consistently show the American people are fed up, mostly with the bipartisan bickering in Washington. Roe insists heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sticking with his campaign slogan of â&#x20AC;&#x153;People, not politicsâ&#x20AC;? in his dealings in Congress, though his philosophy sometimes seems to stray from the mantra. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m probably the leastpartisan guy theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever sent up here,â&#x20AC;? Roe says before launching into an explanation blaming the Democrats for

Republican Party to prominence in the state after years of dominance by Nashville Democrats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Memphis and East Tennessee were just ignored before that,â&#x20AC;? Alexander says. When Bakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son was elected to serve in the Senate, Alexander followed him to Washington, serving as a legislative assistant for several years, rooming for a time with future Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott. He moved over to the White House five years later, serving as an assistant to President Richard Nixonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Assistant Bryce Harlow. Coincidentally, Alexander says Harlow is one of the most interesting people heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever met in his years of public service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For most of (the most interesting) I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go far because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from Tennessee,â&#x20AC;? Alexander says, citing people like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rootsâ&#x20AC;? author Alex Haley and Museum of Appalachia founder John Rice Irwin. Alexanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure with Harlow was brief and he returned to Tennessee about a year later to run the successful gubernatorial campaign of Winfield Dunn. He parlayed that win and his staffing association with Dunn into his own, nabbing the Republican nomination for the governorship in 1974, though he ultimately lost that bid to Democrat Ray Blanton. Alexander did claim the seat in 1978, though, after Blanton opted not to see a second term. He served in the role for two terms, the first person to ever do so, gaining a national name for himself as he walked more than 1,000 miles across the state in a plaid shirt that became his trademark. Though he has since built considerably on his record of public service, including his two terms in the Senate and a stint as the U.S. Secretary of Education, Alexander says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that he did right after leaving the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion that helped him in what he calls his proudest accomplishment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We moved to Australia and I took six months off. My little 6-year-old said she

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Rep. Phil Roe stands at the door of his Congressional workspace in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington. Roe recently announced his intention to seek a second term in the seat. shooting down bipartisanship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You still have to have a core set of beliefs and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to stand up for that. I kind of like gridlock because it keeps the country from going off the cliff.â&#x20AC;? Roeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core beliefs seem to line up well with those of a majority in East Tennessee, who put him into office by an overwhelming majority over a Democratic challenger. He says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dedicated to fiscal conservatism and has backed a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also been part of the Republican opposition to movements to bail out and take over failing companies, something poll numbers say not just folks around here but people across the country agree with. Roe has also committed himself to serving no more than 10 years to ensure he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get too far removed from those he serves, though he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go so far as to renew that commitment when he talked to The Mountain Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a term limit guy. I think 12 years should be the most for someone to serve in the House, as well as the Senate, and eight years for the presidency,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have too many people who get in there and they stay for three, four decades or more. We need more citizen servants.â&#x20AC;? At the same time, though, not all of Roeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positions would necessarily play well in Sevier County. In the interest of funding needed maintenance projects in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he suggests officials

put up toll booths at the entrances. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have never complained at paying a user fee to go into our parks,â&#x20AC;? Roe says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind it. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a pothole in the road, we need to be able to pay to fix it.â&#x20AC;? Local folks have risen up in the past to battle suggestions that an admission fee be charged for access to the Smokies, arguing the officials in Tennessee, North Carolina and Washington who helped establish the park did so with the stipulation that such a fee would never be implemented. While some people around here might take issue with the suggestion, it seems unlikely itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll mean Roe doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spend at least another two years in Washington. So far, no one has registered to compete with him in the party primary and it seems unlikely a Democrat will claim the seat, given itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been held by Republicans for more than a century. That could be very good news for Roe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as losing an election is concerned, the worst thing that could happen to me is I get sent home to a place I love to play golf badly,â&#x20AC;? Roe jokes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a privilege to be here, though. This is the greatest nation that has ever been on the face of this earth and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honor to be part of the national debate.â&#x20AC;? n dhodges@themountainpress.com

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Sen. Lamar Alexander, center, laughs with attendees of a recent Tennessee Tuesday, a gathering the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two senators hold weekly in the Hart Senate Office Building for Tennesseans visiting the capital. didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it was fair because Honey (his wife) took care of the house and (the children) had to go to school and I just laid around all day,â&#x20AC;? Alexander jokes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It made a huge difference for our family and helped us stay together. I guess that my familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still intact through all this is my proudest accomplishment.â&#x20AC;? In elected office, though, Alexander says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most proud of his fights to protect American jobs and the environment. He has put his name on several bills to clean up the air and was part of an effort to get the federal utility Tennessee Valley Authority to put scrubbers on the smokestacks at its coal power plants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished working on that yet,â&#x20AC;? Alexander says of his efforts to protect the environmental resources that he recognizes are important to folks in East Tennessee. Indeed, just last year he introduced a bill that would seek to eliminate the harmful effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, also called surface mining, a practice that involves blasting the entire top of a mountain off to get at coal veins and dumping the excess material into surrounding valleys. Alexander came under fire from coal mining groups and companies, including calls to boycott Tennessee tourist destinations like Sevier County, in several states â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there are no surface mining operations currently in Tennessee â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after he introduced the legislation, but has stood his ground. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts of that nature that Alexander says makes his service in Washington now

worth it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I find myself drawn to the issues that make a difference,â&#x20AC;? he says. Apparently that includes those that call for him to reach across the political aisle. Though polls show a vast majority of Americans are frustrated with what they view as a lack of cooperation and action in Washington, Alexander, a student of such past notables as President James K. Polk, has a slightly more optimistic view of the struggles in the halls of power. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The issues today arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any more difficult than they were then,â&#x20AC;? Alexander says of Polkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time in office just before the Civil War. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The difference is today itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on television 24 hours a day. In the last few years, the big issues have gotten more partisan. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to know is a lot goes on thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bipartisan.â&#x20AC;? Alexander points out he regularly cooperates with Democrats in everything from committee hearings to regular bipartisan breakfast meetings he and a few other senators organized as an effort to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get to know each other better.â&#x20AC;? Though he now wears the tag of elder statesman, whether he claims it or not, Alexander says he is optimistic the title given to him in 1974 by Time magazine of being one of the 200 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faces of the Futureâ&#x20AC;? will fit him for at least a few more years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was very flattering and I hope it still fits,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think about the future every day.â&#x20AC;? n dhodges@themountainpress.com

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believe the treatment was sufficient. Emmerick’s suit was among the last left aimed at the jail over medical care or overcrowding issues. The county has since opened the minimum security facility on Old Knoxville Highway, which increased the capacity for the jail. The county is still facing complaints about a case in which a woman being held at the jail was sexually assaulted by other female inmates who said they were trying to find drugs they thought she’d hidden on her body, and concerning a former kitchen supervisor who allegedly used his position to get a male inmate to have sex with him.

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way to the subway system that carries senators from the office complex to the Capitol. Corker’s in the rush because he’s running behind for a procedural vote on a jobs bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate chamber in the Capitol’s north wing. The series of small lights in clocks in senators’ offices that illuminate when only seven and a half minutes remain for voting flashed on several minutes ago. At the time, Corker was busy in his first gathering with key staffers after a nearly two-week long recess, the product of a blizzard that crippled the capital and the regularly-scheduled week’s recess for Presidents Day. Corker needing to make the sprint is nothing unusual — his lone setting since coming to Washington has been mad dash, having secured a place on several key committees which often meet at the same time, forcing him to send staffers to each to let him know when he has to fly out of one to make it to another. “It’s like this all the time,” Communications Director Laura Herzog says as she trails Corker. “It’s crazy the schedule he keeps.” Things are even more hectic on this particular evening, as Corker pulls a unique dodge. Members of the press and news media hold a spot near a bank of elevators just down the hall from the Senate chamber, waiting to catch lawmakers as they arrive for votes. Today, Corker has taken the stairs. He’s just returned from a trip to Central America with, among others, Dodd, where the contingent of members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met with past, current and likely future leaders of several countries in the region. As it happens, Corker, a Republican, and Dodd, a Democrat, announced just before the trip they would be cooperating on drafting a new banking reform and

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Jim Norwood, community development director for Harmony Adoptions of Maryville, explains his organization’s work at a meeting of the Seymour Breakfast Rotary Club. Harmony Adoptions has placed over 500 children with families since 1996, and offers counseling services for birth parents and adoptive families. He promoted “The Adoption Tour,” a Knoxville-to-Memphis bicycle ride which raises awareness and funds for adoption services. Norwood is a lifelong resident of Seymour.

consumer protection bill, something Corker says is one of the most important things he’s worked on in Washington. Though the trip was scheduled long before the partnership between the two senators was formed, speculation has already begun to fly in this rumordriven city that the pair went on the venture to hammer out the details of the banking bill. Corker is insistent they didn’t, but still doesn’t want to take questions on the matter tonight. To avoid the questions, he dashes up a back stairway reserved for senators and into the chamber, narrowly dodging both the press and the voting deadline. Like Herzog, everyone in Corker’s office, including the senator himself, acknowledges things have been a bit frenetic since he took office three years ago. “He starts about 5 a.m. with a workout, then he reads three or four papers each morning before he even comes into the office,” Chief of Staff Todd Womack says. “He has caucus lunches, committee meetings, floor votes and on any given day he’s meeting with tons of constituents. Usually we’re here until 9:30 or 10 each night.” Corker also admits the pace seems to be in overdrive, joking that he recently spent his first weekend in Washington — he usually returns to Chattanooga late Friday — thanks to a debate on the healthcare overhaul proposals. “My life here is really work and then I go home on the weekends,” Corker says. “I haven’t been to a single museum yet except for events and things in the lobby.” Though he’s only a little over halfway through his first term, Corker has done much to raise his stock in political circles, even earning praise from Tennessee’s senior Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. “He votes the way you would if you woke up one morning in the U.S. Senate,” Alexander said of Corker during a recent

public event. “He has the good fortune of having his feet firmly planted outside of Washington.” In a city full of people looking to polish their profiles, Corker’s had a somewhat meteoric rise through the Senate ranks, landing on several key committees, including Foreign Relations, Banking and Energy. He’s also become the ranking Republican on the Aging Committee, which looks after issues that affect senior citizens. Corker has gone on trips to meet with key leaders in places like Afghanistan, and became a hero of sorts when he hammered officials from the banking and automobile industries on their requests for government bailouts. His positioning at the center of so many big issues has led some to speculate he may be posturing for a future run for president, with one man who grew up with Corker registering the Web site www.corkerforpresident.com and one of Corker’s in-state staffers acknowledging off the record 2016 might be a good year for a presidential run. Though a casual Internet search of the term “Corker for president” brings up results that suggest the senator might well find support from across the country and even a number of media outlets, the man himself insists the White House isn’t on his radar right now. “People say in the U.S. Senate there are 100 people who wake up and look in the mirror every morning and think they’re looking at the next president,” Corker jokes. “I don’t do that. Those folks who think about running for president, they lose that edge for taking on those tough issues. I feel like I’m making a difference here in the Senate.” Making a difference in the Senate can be a somewhat hefty order these days, with procedure and partisan bickering throwing up road blocks all over the place. Still, Corker has managed, to the surprise of no one who worked with him in the small businesses he started or dur-

KNOXVILLE — To open new exhibition, “Vanishing Appalachia,” at the Museum of East Tennessee History, photographer Don Dudenbostel and field recordist Tom Jester will give a brown-bag lecture at noon Wednesday. Dudenbostel and Jester will tell stories they encountered along the way while working on the project. The lecture is free and open to the public. Vanishing Appalachia, an exhibition through June 21, provides visitors with a glimpse into fading aspects of Appalachian culture, among them some that that came to be associated with the region.

ing his time as mayor of Chattanooga, to find middle ground to forge ahead on. His effort with Dodd is evidence of that, as is the list of about 50 bills he has sponsored in his three years in Washington. In the meantime, Corker has been to every county in the state — all 95 of them — at least two times since taking office. It’s an effort, he says, to stay in touch with those who gave him the job. “I continue to wake up everyday thankful that you let me represent you,” Corker told a recent gathering of state residents during Tennessee Tuesday, a breakfast gathering both he and Alexander hold weekly with their constituents in Washington. “I came up here to make a difference and you’ve given me a six-year lease to do that.” n dhodges@themountainpress.com

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Photographer Dudenbostelandfieldrecordist Jester documented places, practices, and personalities, such as churches where they “take up the serpent,” moonshining, Mennonite communities where life is lived much as in the mid-1800s, religious symbols, and cockfighting and KKK meetings. Also included are roadway scenes.

The exhibit also examines the concept and stereotypes people often have of Appalachia by placing the featured subjects within the larger historical context. Among the several items featured are a game cock transport box, male and female serpent-handling dolls and folk-art by the Rev. Jimmy Morrow, the hat of moonshiner Popcorn Sutton and a half-gallon jar of moonshine autographed by him, wood-carved crafts, a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe, a tent revival sign and more. The museum is located in the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. For more information call 2158824 or visit www.easttnhistory.org.

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In Memoriam

James Perl (Jack) Sarten

Doris Blackwell Trentham

James Perl (Jack) Sarten, age 79, passed away Saturday, March 6, 2010, at his home in Sevier County surrounded by his family after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He now resides in Heavenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green fields, rejoicing in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence and love. James was born June 16, 1930 in the Parrotts Chapel community of Jefferson County, TN. He moved to Sevier County with his parents after the construction of Douglas Dam forced their relocation in 1942. He graduated from Sevier County High School and became a lifelong farmer residing in the Mt. Zion Community of Sevier County. He was a member of Middle Creek United Methodist Church, where he had served as Sunday School Superintendant, Council Chairperson, Trustee, and served on other various committees. He also was a member and served as a director of the Farm Bureau and Sevier Farmers Co-Op, a member of the Sevier County Livestock Association, and served on the Farm Service Agency as an elected committee member to oversee FSA operations and services in the Sevier County area. He loved his wife, his family, his church, and he loved to farm, garden and use farm machinery. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ode R. and Della Finchum Sarten; son, Philip J. Sarten; sisters, Mary Osaline Sarten, Edith Lafollette and husband Earl; sister-in-law, Kate Jackson. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Geneva Cardwell Sarten; his sons and daughters-in-law, David J. Sarten and wife Susan, Eric D. Sarten and wife Candice, Joe R. Sarten and wife Tammie; and grandson, Jairus C. Sarten; brothers-in-law and wives, Jim and Belva Cardwell, Rex and Anna Lee Cardwell, Jack and Connie Cardwell, Bill and Nancy Cardwell, and Ernest Jackson; sisters-inlaw and husbands, Wanda and LeRoy Rogers, Mary Lou and Wayne Blalock; and many nieces and nephews. The family would like to say special thanks to U.T. Hospice nurses Carolyn, Mertie, and Angela. Services will be Sunday March 7, 2010, at 7 p.m. at Rawlings Funeral Home with Rev. Jerry Page and Rev. Steve Pross officiating. The family will receive friends 4-7 p.m. Sunday prior to the service Burial will be at Middle Creek Cemetery Monday March 8, 2010 at 11 a.m., followed by a time for celebration of his life at Middle Creek United Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge, TN. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Middle Creek United Methodist Church building repair fund, C/O Tom Ricker, 439 Ledo Dr., Sevierville, TN 37862. Rawlings Funeral Home of Sevierville is in charge of arrangements. Pall bearers are David Newman, Jairus Sarten, Billy Ray Finchum, Larry Smelcer, Delmar Thomas, Leroy Helton, Terry Chaney and Larry Cole. He will be sorely missed by his family and many, many friends. You may share your thoughts and memories with the family on our website.

Doris Blackwell Trentham, age 88 of Sevier County went home to be with her heavenly father Friday March 5, 2010. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Sevierville. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce M. Trentham, Sr.; parents, David and Belle Blackwell; step-mother, Hester Blackwell; infant sister, Margaret Blackwell; infant brother Eugene Blackwell; sisters, Pauline Barnes, Nina Gordon; brothers, Jack, Cecil and Dale Blackwell. Survivors: daughter, Carolyn Fine and husband Darius; son, Bruce M. Trentham, Jr., and wife Nancy; beloved grandchildren, Lisa Scott and husband Tim, Sabra Owens and husband Terry, Denise Meister and husband Paul, Dara Cagle and husband Jay, Bruce Overholt and wife Paula, Jamie Gibson; great grandchildren, Tyler and Trenton Meister, Garrett Owens, Macy Scott, Jaydis Cagle, Ethan Overholt; step-grandchildren, Trina Chastain and husband Doug, Sabrina Goodson and husband Shane, Kevin Cefali; step-great grandchildren, Danny and Brianne Chastain, Sierra Cefali, Jayson and Aidan Cefali; brothers, David Blackwell and wife Betty, Ron Blackwell and wife Ruth; sister, Aileen Ogle; many nieces and nephews; her beloved dog, Lucy. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, Sevierville TV Ministry, 317 Parkway, Sevierville, TN 37862. The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. Sunday at Atchley Funeral Home. Family and friends will leave Atchley Funeral Home at 2 p.m. in procession to Shiloh Cemetery for graveside service and interment with Rev. Randy Davis officiating. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

In Memoriam

Jerry L. Hayes Jerry L. Hayes, age 75, of Sevierville, passed away Friday, March 5, 2010. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served his country during the Korean War. He was preceded in death by his wife, Rebecca Virginia Hayes, and his parents, Ed and Georgia Hayes. Survived by, sons & daughters-inlaw, Jerry L. & Melissa Hayes, Jr., and Jeffrey L. & Mary Hayes; daughter & son-in-law, Joyce & Doug Hughes; grandchildren, Jennifer & Brittany Hayes, and Jesse Hughes; brothers, Bill, Tom, Richard and Charlie Hayes. Funeral service 7 p.m. Monday in The Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Rev. Curtis Wells officiating. Interment 1 p.m. Tuesday in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens, Dandridge. The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Monday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.

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u John Wesley Acee, 51, of 1614 Riceland Dr., Sevierville, was charged March 6 with aggravated domestic assault and violation of pre-trial bond release conditions. He was being held. u Jacob Lee Ball, 29, of 1720 Dinkins Rd., Seymour, was charged March 5 with public intoxication. He was released on $250 bond.

Kimberly Lane Brooks, 35, of 1403 Tyrolea Ct., Gatlinburg, was charged March 5 with domestic violence assault. She was released on $2,000 bond. u Brandon Staffor Brooks, 33, of 3709 North Bryan Way, Kodak, was charged March 6 with driving on suspended license. He was being held on $1,500 bond. u Caroline Conner, 18, of 153 Proffitt Rd., Gatlinburg, was charged March 5 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court. She was being held. u Billie Sue Flynn, 35, of New Market, was charged March 5 with theft of prop-

erty between $500 and $1,000. She was released on $1,000 bond. u Patricia Ann Heacox, 65, of 600 Cedar Hill Dr. Lot #1, Sevierville, was charged March 5 with DUI. She was released on $1,500 bond. u Roy Ray Herron, 23, of 1027 Cee Cee Way, Sevierville, was charged March 5 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court. He was being held. u Patrick Lee Howell, 23, of 1208 Green Court, Seymour, was charged March 5 with violation of valid court order. He was being held.

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arrests Timothy Jacob Lang, 28, of 1726 Walnut Vista Way, Apt. 25, Sevierville, was charged March 5 with second offense DUI, violation of implied consent law and driving while revoked. He was released. u Rocky Shawn Line, 34, of 1903 McCleary Rd., Sevierville, was charged March 5 with a warrant from juvenile court. He was released on $7,500 bond. u

In Memoriam

Kimberly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kimâ&#x20AC;? Holbrook Jenkins

Kimberly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kimâ&#x20AC;? Holbrook Jenkins, age 41 of Scottsville, Kentucky, formerly of Sevier County, Tennessee, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at Vanderbilt Hospital. She was preceded in death by her father Bruce Holbrook and infant niece, Krysten Denae Knight. Survivors: husband, Dennis Jenkins; daughters and sons-in-law, Aaron Nakole and husband Joey Scott; Felicia Marie Fine and boyfriend, Zach Higdon; son, Jacob Edgar Fine; grandchildren, Payton Leigh Scott and two on the way; mother, Deana Holbrook Fleming; sisters and brothers-inlaw, Kelly Ogle and husband Bruce; Krystal Knight and husband, Steve; nieces, Hannah and Savannah Ogle, Bethany Sutton; nephews, Jobe and Justin Knight, John Ogle; a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins; three special friends, Pamela, Angie, and best friend, Charlotte. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to benefit the family. Funeral service 2 p.m. Sunday in the Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Pastor Billy Gower and Rev. Danny Sizemore officiating. Interment to follow in Green cemetery. The family received friends 7-9 p.m. Saturday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

In Memoriam

Mary Jo Forrester Mary Jo Forrester, age 77, of Seymour, died Friday, March 5, 2010 at the family home after a long illness. Mary took pride in her grandkids and loved cooking, planting & gardening, and even fishing. She was a member of First Apostolic Church of Maryville. She was preceded in death by her daughters, Joanne and Phyllis Hannah; brothers, John and Lawrence Sing; sisters, Ethel Collier and Anna Stinnett. Survivors include her husband, Alse Forrester; daughter, Brenda Queen; daughters and sons-inlaw, Marci and Jim Goodman, Juanita and Phil Webb, Cissy and Mark Garner; daughter, Patty King; son, David Hannah; sons and daughters-inlaw, Gary and Marilou Hannah, Bobby and Diane Forrester, Billy and Sandra Forrester, Terry and Angie Bledsoe; 28 grandchildren, many great-great grandchildren, cousins, Joe and Fred Spurling; 1 niece, 4 nephews, and a host of family and friends. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Sunday, March 7, 2010 at First Apostolic Church, 1723 William Blount Drive, Maryville, with the Rev. Kenneth Carpenter officiating. Interment will be 10 a.m. Monday, March 8, 2010 at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Sevierville. The family will receive friends from 1 until 2 p.m. Sunday at the church. Arrangements by Dotson Funeral Home, Maryville/Seymour.

Erik B. Ely Erik B. Ely, 37, of Seymour died March 3, 2010. Survivors include his father, Leo Ely, Jr. and wife, Shellie; mother, Sona Bortnick and husband, George; son, Dylan Ely, daughter, Sidney Ely; sister, Heather Ely. No services are planned.

Hazel Lee (Ward) Arwood Hazel Lee (Ward) Arwood, 69 of Sevierville, died March 4, 2010. Hazel worked at Sevier County Court House for 35 years. Survivors: husband, Charles Arwood, of Sevierville; sons and daughters-in-law, Earl and Judy Ward of Kodak, Wayne and Denise Romines of Kodak; daughters and sons-in-law, Kay and Doug Smith of Kodak, Darlene

Shellhouse of Kodak, Karen and Jim Oakley of Sevierville; stepson, Bo Arwood and wife, Annette; stepdaughters, Robbie Henry, Katherine Arwood and Jama Rayfield; 12 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; 11 stepgrandchildren; six step-greatgrandchildren; sister, Billie Lanear of Knoxville; brother, J. L. Thomas of Knoxville. Services will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, March 7, 2010, at Rawlings Funeral Home with the Rev. Dan King officiating. Interment will follow the service in Beech Springs Cemetery. The family received friendsd Saturday, March 6, at Rawlings Funeral Home. Share thoughts and memories with the family on Rawlingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Web site. n www.rawlingsfuneralhome.com

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Sunday, March 7, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press

Nation’s capital a thrill for a political junky By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer

number of powerful people there. Unfortunately, there are 435 people in the House and I don’t know them all, WASHINGTON — Our so for all I know one of nation’s capital city is a them might have served me great place. I know the rallying cry since late 2001 has my bean soup. The waiter knew Roe, though, thanks been that New York is the to what’s called a “floor greatest city in the world, pin,” a lapel adornment but I’m ready to confess to that denotes the wearer is you now that I’ve always a member of the respective thought the title belonged body represented on it. more to Washington. The soup, by the way, was In what other city can you see the grandest monu- good — white beans in a tomato base. ments to democracy ever Roe was gracious with built? The Capitol, the White House, even the myr- his time, picking through his salad as he patiently iad federal office buildings answered questions before still strike awe in me every we walked back to his office time I see them. Where else can you watch to take a few pictures. I roamed the halls of the 535 people regularly make House office buildings for a decisions that change the world and see what may be while, seeking out the officthe greatest museum collec- es of folks like Rep. Heath Shuler, the former UT tion in the world — all for football player and current free? In how many towns Democratic representative can you see giant pandas, the most supreme of courts for Western North Carolina, and Rep. David Price, in action, the only publicly open national leader’s home another North Carolina legislator who happens to and hundreds of folks in starched pinstripe suits who be the only graduate of my get treated like rock stars by alma mater — Mars Hill College — currently serving the press? Only one; only in Congress. Washington. With some time remainAs I mentioned in my ing before I met Sen. Bob column in Sunday’s paper, Corker, I decided to tool my friend from childhood around the Senate office Ryan Bailey and I talked buildings for a while, about a trip to Washington again scoping out the for years. When his job required him to travel there spaces reserved for both and mine offered the oppor- Tennessee’s and North Carolina’s lawmakers. As I tunity to get some firstwalked the halls, I noticed hand experience with our nearly every office has a lawmakers for the benefit television in the reception of our readers, we took the area and they serve as one hint that it was time. While we toured the typi- of the clearest barometers of cal tourist sites for a couple the particular officeholder’s politics. Democrats like Sen. days, the real thrill for me John Kerry almost univerwas getting a little glimpse inside the halls of power as I sally had CNN on, while walked and talked with our Republicans like Sens. John McCain and Corker tuned senators and representain to Fox News. The exceptive. I realize to those not tion was Roe’s office, where interested in politics the Olympic curling was on. experience might not seem Since I was early to so exciting, but to me it was an opportunity to see people Corker’s office, his Deputy Press Secretary Chuck I revere doing the work of America, and it was impres- Harper took me on a little tour of the Capitol’s Senate sive. wing. I was fascinated to I met first at lunch on Monday with Rep. Phil Roe, learn there is a subway system connecting both the whose Communications Director Amanda Little put Senate and House office buildings to the Capitol, out a list of restaurant sugsaving our representatives gestions before the representative settled the matter. the lengthy and sometimes uncomfortable walk. “Let’s go to the Capitol We zipped through the Hill Club,” Roe said as he tunnels to the Capitol, takemerged from a meeting ing an elevator up to the with another staffer. press area, where we walked Though I didn’t realize it when he first made the sug- through banks of cubicles filled with furiously typing gestion, that was my first taste — literally and figura- reporters. Not unlike The Mountain Press’ newsroom. tively — of the Washington We rode back to few visitors ever see. The the Dirksen Senate Capitol Hill Club, it turns out, is another name for the Office Building, where Communications Director National Republican Club, Laura Herzog — who a gathering place for the recently married a young GOP just a block from the man she once tried to Capitol. blackball from being hired Given its position right in another senator’s office, next to the House office facilities, there likely were a though that’s a story for

her to tell — took over chaperoning me. We waited just outside Corker’s office as he met with his staff for the first time in a little over a week after having just returned from a visit home and to Central America. As we did, a series of buzzers rang and lights flashed on the clock over the door, alerting everyone Corker only had seven and a half minutes left in a procedural vote on a jobs bill. Though he wanted to voice his opposition to the legislation, it would still be several minutes before Corker would emerge from his office as he rushed to the floor. I was in tow as he did, sprinting down the stairs to the subway again, grabbing a car with Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi. As he rushed to the Senate chamber with three staffers and myself following like ducklings, Corker stopped to point out the ornately-decorated entrance to the Foreign Relations Committee room. As Corker went to the floor for the vote, Laura showed me around the Senate reception area just outside the vice president’s office on Capitol Hill and pointed out a bank of elevators where members of the press wait to interview senators. As we cooled our heels waiting for Corker to reemerge, we watched Sens. Olympia Snow, Arlen Specter and Evan Bayh, who only days before had become immensely popular with reporters thanks to his announcement he won’t be seeking re-election, being interviewed. They seemed to have the auras of movie stars as they fielded questions, though that comes from a political junky. The next morning was my first time with Sen. Lamar Alexander at Tennessee Tuesday, a weekly gathering the state’s two senators hold with Tennesseans visiting the Capitol. We weren’t able to secure a time to sit down with Alexander in Washington but did get a phone interview with him last week. Thanks to a letter from Corker, I was able to cap off my adventure with lunch in the Senate Dining Room, a restaurant in the Capitol dedicated to serving, as the name implies, senators. I had the famous bean soup — it was delicious and much

better than the Capitol Hill Club — which they serve every day in both the House and Senate dining rooms thanks to legislative order. Who says Congress doesn’t take up the important stuff? I’d show you pictures of the place, but I wasn’t allowed to take them because there were too many senators in the room, including Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who was sitting close enough that I overheard him talking about trade relations with China. And that’s what I did on my winter break. n dhodges@themountainpress.com

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Rep. Phil Roe meets with The Mountain Press writer Derek Hodges during the reporter’s recent trip to Washington, D.C.

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TODAY’S Briefing Local n PIGEON FORGE

Children invited to hoops challenge

Children ages 9 to 14 can participate in the free iHoops Skills Challenge, a time-based, half-court obstacle course, at 1:30 p.m. today at Pigeon Forge Community Center. Participants may register the day of the event and bring a copy of their birth certificate and complete a registration/waiver form. A copy of the registration/ waiver form is available online at www.iHoops. com/skillschallenge. First-place winners from this local competition can advance to one of 29 regional competitions occurring in NBA team markets across the country. n PIGEON FORGE

Quiltfest set for this week

A Mountain Quiltfest will be held March 10-14, with a show and more than 70 classes and seminars. A Mountain Quiltfest features vendor malls and shows, located at Smoky Mountain and Music Road convention centers. Quilting experts will instruct organized classes at Smoky Mountain Convention Center. Detailed information is available at www.mountainquiltfest.com. For more information call 800-2519100 or visit www.mypigeonforge.com.

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CLARKSVILLE

Teens suspected of counterfeit bills

CLARKSVILLE (AP) — Four Clarksville high school students suspected of passing counterfeit money at school are facing a federal investigation. Clarksville-Montgomery County School System spokeswoman Elise Shelton told The Leaf-Chronicle she could not discuss details of the case because of privacy laws and because the investigation is ongoing. She did confirm that counterfeit bills had been passed and said discipline had been recommended for four students at West Creek High School. n

ELIZABETHTON

Memorial service for police dog

ELIZABETHTON (AP) — An Elizabethton police dog that had to be euthanized after being wounded during an encounter with a group of teens has been remembered in a memorial service. The animal — K9 Sgt. Yoris — was badly wounded when a youth who said he and his friends were being bitten by Yoris stabbed him. “Yoris had an impact on all our lives, that is why we are here,” his handler, Patrolman Shane Darling, said during his address to the audience, reported the Johnson City Press. n

EAST RIDGE

Stun device injures student

EAST RIDGE (AP) — A school security officer who used a stun device to break up a fight between female students at a high school near Chattanooga accidentally injured another female student who was trying to protect a teacher. Police said in a statement that the 17-year-old student was injured Friday afternoon at East Ridge High School. The resource officer called to the gymnasium area found a teacher who was trying to break up the fight being assaulted. Police said that just as the officer used a stun device, another female student stepped in trying to protect the teacher and was accidentally stunned.

top state news

Tenn. hospitality industry CEO offends with e-mail NASHVILLE (AP) — The CEO of the state’s hospitality industry sent a joke e-mail to a group of public figures that compares first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. The Tennessean reports Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker’s e-mail compares the first lady to Tarzan sidekick Cheeta. At the

bottom of the e-mail is a photo of Michelle Obama, caught in an awkward moment with her lips pursed, and one of a chimpanzee wearing a similar expression. The e-mail opens with the words, “I don’t care who you are, this is funny.” But not everyone who received the message on

Thursday found it humorous. News of the e-mail soon began to circulate and by Friday, Metro Nashville Councilman-atlarge Jerry Maynard was calling on the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau to suspend its contract with Baker’s public relations firm, Mercatus Communications. The

Convention and Visitors Bureau is mostly funded by Metro. Maynard said he was “sorely disappointed” that a person who is supposed to provide leadership for the hospitality industry, which is trying to promote Nashville as a welcoming city, would send out an e-mail that many consider to be racist.

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Wilderness at the Smokies is set to open another 132 rooms at its new River Lodge condo hotel. Officials there say they are attracting new customers to Sevier County. “Probably 30 percent of our customers say they’ve never been to Sevierville or Pigeon Forge and they need directions. We’re bringing new people into the market,” said Wilderness at the Smokies assistant general manager Chris Brown.

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National quote roundup “If this stunning reversal comes to pass, President Obama will deal a death blow to his own Justice Department, not to mention American values.” — Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of recommendation to hold military trials for Sept. 11 suspects

“It’s muddled things up for the military. They really haven’t started grappling with it yet, and I don’t think they know how to respond.” — Rep. Vic Snyder, an Arkansas Democrat who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, over ruling regarding gays in the military

“We’ve had partisanship ever since we’ve had federal government. Bipartisanship is really the exception to the rule.” — Senate historian Donald Ritchie

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Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore were the big winners in Super Tuesday primaries. The Nasdaq composite crossed the 5,000 mark for the first time before retreating. Country singer Frank “Pee Wee” King died in Louisville, Ky. at age 86. n

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Karolinska institute says it will give an honorary degree of m e d i cine to CanadianAmerican a c t o r Michael J. Fox for his work to raise funds and Fox awareness for Parkinson’s disease. The institute, which awards the annual Nobel Prize in medicine, says the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has since 2000 given more than $175 million to research aimed at developing drugs against the disease.

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Understanding, acceptance are missing As a baby boomer born raised in the Deep South, I understand the role religion plays in southern society, and how it affected progress on civil rights. In the 1950s and 1960s in pulpits across Dixie, pastors preached against racial integration, using biblical passages to justify their positions. It would have taken courage in that era to do otherwise, but courage is what it took to move the South forward toward racial harmony. Most of the pastors who preached in favor of keeping the races separate have died or admitted they were wrong. The Bible passages that gave them justification to support segregation, they say now, were misinterpreted or taken out of context. Scripture can give us a reason to espouse almost anything, if you are determined to look for it. Sevier County was hit with three stories last week, all having to do with faith and religion. If Social Security is the third rail of politics — touch it and you die, officials like to say — then surely discussion of religion is close to it. But here I go anyway. For some reason that defies logic, somebody complained to Americans United for Separation of Church and State about the County Commission opening its meetings with the Lord’s Prayer, in a room in which the Ten Commandments hang. Stop the prayers and take down the Commandments, the group urged the county. No way, County Mayor Larry Waters responded. Some people who have attended “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” the new musical at The Miracle Theater, say it makes a mockery of the Old Testament story of Joseph and urged that it be stopped. The owners of the theater say around 15,000 people have seen the new show and few have complained. Members of Conner Heights Baptist Church have been distributing a pamphlet called “Death Cookie,” which is produced by a national publisher. A Pigeon Forge High School student handed it to another student who attends Holy Cross Catholic Church. She showed it to Father Jay Flaherty, who labeled it anti-Catholic and called it a hate crime that ought to be investigated by the FBI. The bishop of the Knoxville Diocese weighed in, saying the pamphlet was reprehensible. Jonathan Hatcher, Conner Heights’ pastor, said it’s not anti-Catholic and defended its distribution. Everyone involved in these three stories looks to the Bible for guidance on all things religious. It’s the same book presidents take their oath of office on, that leads addicts and drunks from the depths of human existence, that gives believers and nonbelievers a set of standards by which to live, and is used sometimes to create cults that are nefarious and dangerous. In the yellow pages of our phone book are listings for more than 200 churches, representing almost every mainstream Christian religion. All preach from the Bible, but each interprets the text a little differently from the others. The members of those churches think they have found the path to salvation and eternal life, as well as the best way to live life on Earth. We as a society seem to have become far less tolerant of those who don’t think as we do. Democrats and Republicans can’t just disagree on issues, they have to demonize the other side. Fans fight each other in the stands and in bars as they watch their favorite teams play. If some see a stage production they don’t like and are offended by it, they want the whole thing shut down so nobody can see it and judge for themselves. If one person in more than 30 years doesn’t like the Lord Prayer’s being said at government meetings, that person can’t just not recite the prayer — he wants it banned so nobody else can say it either. We don’t know for sure what happens to us when we die. All we have to go on is faith — the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, as it says in Hebrews. All of these people squabbling over religion issues read the same Bible, believe in the same God and want to end up in heaven. Their means to that end may differ. Democracy is not easy. We love freedom, but it comes at a price, sometimes in conflict with our own beliefs and desires. It means tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance of others. We don’t build a better America by tearing down others. We do it through understanding and acceptance. — Stan Voit is editor of The Mountain Press. His column appears each Sunday. He can be reached at 428-0748, ext. 217, or e-mail to svoit@themountainpress.com.

Editorial

The influence gap County’s pull weakened by the way political district lines are drawn Joe McCord’s decision not to seek re-election to the Tennessee House creates an opening in the General Assembly that should attract a number of Republican candidates, and maybe even some Democrats. In deciding not to run, McCord cited a need to pay more attention to family and business. McCord’s district includes the Gatlinburg area, but most of the district is in Blount County. His departure highlights one of the most troubling aspects of state and national politics when it comes to Sevier County: our weakness in terms of influence in the Legislature and in Congress. This county of some 80,000 people, which generates among the highest amount of tax revenue of any of Tennessee’s counties, is represented in the Legislature by one senator and two House members. Because of the way district lines are formed now, it’s unlikely the county can have more than one resident legislator. McCord’s District 8 includes a little

piece of Gatlinburg and most of Blount County. Doug Overbey serves Sevier and Blount counties in Senate District 8. Blount has around 121,000 people, compared to Sevier’s 80,000, so it would be a real challenge for a Sevier County resident to win. Only Richard Montgomery’s House District 12 ensures a local resident will represent us. District 12 includes nearly all of Sevier County and no other county. Our clout in Congress is weakened by having the county divided into two congressional districts. Phil Roe, to his credit, has served Sevier County well as District 1 representative in the U.S. House, but he has 13 counties to serve. John Duncan represents the Seymour area in House District 2, so he spends most of his time working Knox County, where most of his constituents live. McCord was accessible and served Sevier County well, so this is no criticism of him. But with his replacement likely coming from Blount County, we’ll continue to be in a weakened

position when it comes to influence in the Tennessee General Assembly. The solution, of course, lies in reapportionment, something state officials are about to do. Each time a new Census is done, states have to redraw their district lines to reflect changes in population. That’s the only chance Sevier County has to regain some strength in the state and national governing bodies. It’s going to be difficult. Lawmakers won’t easily give up their bases of support, and we can’t expect Overbey and McCord’s replacement to be sympathetic to our plight when their own political futures lie with keeping things pretty much as they are. But it’s worth a try. Montgomery, who plans to serve one more term and then retire, is staying on largely to help influence reapportionment. Let’s hope he can play a major role in getting Sevier County the influence in Nashville and Washington that it deserves.

Public forum Waters urged to ‘hang tough’ against Lord’s Prayer request

Editor: I applaud County Mayor Larry Waters’ stand to continue opening County Commission meetings with the Lord’s Prayer. We as a community must stand united against threats to our heritage and our community morals. Anyone can threaten and have lawyers write letters based on nothing but their desire to force their own opinions and disbeliefs on others. Not only do I support Mr. Waters, but so does the Supreme Court of the United States. The court stated in Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983), “In light of the history, there can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society. To invoke divine guidance on a public body entrusted with making the laws is not, in these circumstances, a violation of the Establishment Clause; it is simply a tolerable acknowledgment of beliefs widely held among the people of this country.” Hang tough, Larry, and God bless you. Ken Trammell Sevierville

with young people in them, go see this show. It tells the story in an exciting and very entertaining way. If you want the true Bible version of the story, go home and read the Bible story. If you want to learn and enjoy it, see the show. Joann Prettyman Brenda Larimore Sevierville

Foes of prayer fighting for freedom from religion

Editor: In polite conversation one should avoid the topics of faith and politics. If this is your policy, you probably have very dull conversations. I would also challenge you to find any topic that does not directly or indirectly touch on one of these two topics. You cannot even talk about the weather without someone like me connecting it to creation or some Chicken Little telling you we are on the verge of baking to death because we drive cars. All of that aside, the March 2 front page of The Mountain Press illustrates this point with the article titled “Lord’s Prayer Challenged.” Our County Mayor, Larry Waters, seeking to exercise his free speech and religion, opens our county meetings with a prayer common and familiar to most of those who live in Telling Bible story in fun, this community. This is in keeping with the entertaining way a good thing First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, Editor: or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or We are writing in reference to the letter abridging the freedom of speech.” To stop written about the new show at the Miracle Mayor Waters would violate this amendTheater. We don’t need to quote Scripture ment. to see that today’s society (especially young Those who argue, as does Americans United people) need new and exciting ways to be For Separation of Church and State ,for a told the stories of the Bible. wall of separation between church and state Our society is morally bankrupt, and if offer no constitutional support for their positelling a Bible story in a fun and entertaining way is what helps to get the message out tion. They cite quotes out of context from our founding fathers and erroneous legal there, why not? If you do not like it then decisions like 1947’s “Everson v. Board of “change the channel.” Education.” Stopping the transportation of We often have to work on Sunday and school children to private schools — their don’t get to church every week. Like many others in today’s world, we choose food and parents pay taxes too — but transportation is electric over church. So any bit of God’s word now only available to schools in which secular humanism is the guiding principle. This same is appreciated to us and our family. We took a 10-year-old son and 17-year-old argument abridged the right to free speech and freedom of religion when prayer was profamily member, as well as parents, grandhibited in our schools in 1962. parents and a friend. We all enjoyed the Suffice it to say that I am proud of my message. The grandparents maybe didn’t mayor and stand by him and pray that his enjoy some of the music, but the message free speech and free practice of religion are remained. protected. I also pray that those who would In church nowadays, the music they play attack his rights would realize when we take on their elaborate sound system is mostly away the rights of others, we also take them today’s contemporary Christian music. We believe, as in everything, times change. Our away from ourselves. They say they fight for the freedom of relichurches recognize that while the music and gion, but they actually are fighting for freeeven the sermon may have to be presented dom from religion. A public square that proin a different way, the message remains the hibits prayer is not a free public square. They same. do not realize that rationalism, scientism, So we say to all, especially those families

humanism, agnosticism and atheism are currently in vogue. But if they fall out of favor, the protections that they take away from Christians today will not be there to protect them if their faith falls out of favor. I am not offended when a Buddhist or Jew or Muslim practices his faith, and if they lead a prayer publicly I will quietly not participate. If you must use the U.S. legal system to attack the free practice and public display of Christian faith and prayer, your problem is not with others practicing their faith it is with the weakness and doubt you hold with regard to your own beliefs. As an American citizen, I respect your right to believe whatever you wish, while at the same time as a Christian I will pray that the scales fall from you eyes. Pastor Robert Portier Saint Paul Lutheran Church Sevierville

World would be better if we all follow Ten Commandments

Editor: This is my opinion on the story about challenging the Lord’s Prayer. I commend Larry Waters and am very grateful to him. We need to stand up for our rights. If everybody would practice the Ten Commandments, what a beautiful world it would be. We need to realize that they are not the Ten Suggestions. The Lord wants us to follow them the best we can. We Christians need to stand up for our rights. That is the trouble with today’s world. We need to get together and pray for the world. The article said the complaint came from a citizen. What about the believers? They have rights, too. We need to put prayer back in school. Bob Stolz Sevierville

Devout Catholic remembers Bible to not be offended

Editor: Being a devout Catholic, I was tempted to be offended by what I read in “Battle over religion,” in the March 3, 2010, edition of The Mountain Press. Then I remembered the words of Jesus: “Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.” (Matthew 5:11-12) And so, instead of being offended, I say thanks be to God and to Chick Publications, and the pastor and members of Conner Heights Baptist Church, for granting me and other Catholics such a wonderful blessing. Pat Stapleton Sevierville

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All-Sevier County Basketball 2010

Girls Player of the Year

Boys Player of the Year

Casie Cowan guard Seymour

Austin Nave forward SCHS

Girls Coach of the Year Paul Reagan Pigeon Forge

Boys Coach of the Year Ken Wright SCHS

Jaisa Moritz, SCHS

Danielle Rauhuff, PFHS

Jordan Henrickson, SCHS

Garrett Hillard, SHS

Kelsey Brooks, PFHS

Carly Pippin, SCHS

Leah Bryan, GPHS

Austin Nave, SCHS

Ben Cave, PFHS

Josh Johnson, SCHS

Casie Cowan, SHS

Ashlynn Trotter, PFHS

Shaelyn Brown, SHS

McKinley Maples, GPHS

Jose Agosto, GPHS

Morrease Barber, GPHS

Honorable mention

Joslin Connatser, SCHS Madison Pickel, SCHS Jordan Ballard, SHS Karsen Sims, GPHS Lacee Tinker, GPHS Cassidy Martin, PFHS

Zac Carlson, SCHS Zac Gonzalez, SCHS Tyler Tilson, SHS Alex Lambert, GPHS Jon McCroskey, GPHS Marquise Wall, GPHS Morgan Dodgen, GPHS

Emily Hurst, PFHS

Justin Carter, PFHS

Skylar Brown, SHS

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Smokyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friends Kids Club promotes purple school spirit Gives kids free admission to games, T-shirt By JASON DAVIS Sports Editor SEVIERVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; With their students coming from several different middle and elementary schools, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often hard for large high schools to foster a good sense of team spirit. Having grown up supporting or playing for one color or team, the move to a big consolidated high school can leave a student with a lessened sense of school pride. The Smokyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friends Kids Club is the answer for Sevier County children that will be attending Sevier County High, according to Nancy Hewitt, Executive Director of the Sevier County High School Foundation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kids Club will let kids from Sevier County know how cool Sevier County High School is and what it has to offer. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know about all the different sports, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to meet the players and coaches, and it will help instill school spirit before they ever reach the high school.â&#x20AC;? The club is open to all Sevier County students Kindergarten through 8th grade. As a member students

will receive an official Smoky Kids Club t-shirt, a Kids Club membership card, special rates for sports camps and free admission to SCHS sports like football, basketball, baseball, girls soccer, softball, track, volleyball and wrestling when wearing their t-shirt. Membership dues are $20 for the first family member and $15 per additional family member. Funds generated by the club will help support Sevier County High School Foundation, which provides scholarships to graduating seniors and juniors and seniors that are dualenrollment students at Walters State Community College. For more information contact Hewitt at 607-0032. Forms are available at New Center School, Sevierville Primary Intermediate and Middle Schools, Catlettsburg School and Northview School.

SCHS Sports Camps Club members will recieve $5 off per camp â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bear Strenghâ&#x20AC;? Strength, Agility and Speed Camp May 25-28, 5th-9th grade Smoky Bear Football Camp July 12-15, 1st-8th grade Team Elite Smoky Bear Basketball Camp April 16-17, K-2nd grade April 23-24, 3rd-6th grade Bearettes Basketball Camp April 5-8, 3rd-8th grade Smoky Bear Track Camp June 7-11, K-8th grade Smoky Bear Baseball Camp June 7-9, K-6th grade June 14-16, K-6th grade June 21-23, K-6th grade Softball Camp July 5-9, 6th-12th grade Soccer (girls) Camp June 7-10, 3rd-8th grade June 14-17, 3rd-8th grade June 21-24, 3rd-8th grade SCHS Cheerleading Clinic March 13, 3rd-12th grade

AP Source: Pennington agrees to deal with Miami Dolphins MIAMI (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chad Pennington will remain with the Miami Dolphins in 2010, this time as a backup. Pennington has agreed to terms on a one-year contract, and the deal is expected to be signed by Monday, a person familiar with the discussions said Saturday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Dolphins hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t announced an agreement. The Dolphins did announce the signing of linebacker Karlos Dansby, who agreed to a $43 million, five-year contract Friday, the first day of free agency. The team did not host any visits by free agents Saturday. Pennington is recovering from the third operation of his career on his throwing shoulder. Twice he has returned from injuries to win NFL Comeback Player of the Year, most recently in 2008, when he led the Dolphins to their first playoff berth in seven years. After Pennington was

sidelined last year, secondyear pro Chad Henne staked a solid claim to the No. 1 job. Pennington will return as a backup to Henne, and the Dolphins also have Tyler Thigpen and Pat White at quarterback. Pennington dislocated his shoulder in the third game last season at San Diego and required seasonending surgery. There was no muscle damage, and the

repair wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as extensive as with his other operations. Pennington was around the team late in the season, helped with game plans and has served as a mentor to Henne. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a loyal guy and I believe in this organization, and I enjoy this organization and this area,â&#x20AC;? Pennington said late last season.

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Tennessee guard J.P. Prince (30) attempts to shoot a first-half basket over Mississippi State forward Jarvis Varnado (32) in their NCAA college basketball game in Starkville, Miss., on Saturday. SEC TOURNAMENT BASKETBALL

Tennessee squad takes down Bulldogs in Starkville By CHRIS TALBOTT Associated Press Writer STARKVILLE, Miss. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; J.P. Prince had 16 points, Scotty Hopson added 14 and No. 16 Tennessee held Mississippi State scoreless for the first 6:10 and never looked back, finishing the regular season with a 75-59 win Saturday night. The Volunteers (23-7, 11-5 Southeastern Conference) scored the first 17 points of the game and earned their third straight victory, giving seniors Wayne Chism and Quinn Cannington a school-record 99 wins. Chism, however, had to be restrained by an assistant coach after the game following a verbal confrontation with Mississippi

State players. The loss forced the Bulldogs (21-10, 9-7) to share the SEC West title with rival Mississippi, a team they beat twice this season. Mississippi State will open the SEC tournament as the Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 seed, while Tennessee is No. 3 in the East. Tennessee blitzed the Bulldogs from the start, building a quick 17-0 lead by hitting eight of its first 11 shots, including five layups and a dunk. Kodi Augustus led Mississippi State with 15 points. Chism appeared to get into a verbal spat shortly after the game with Mississippi State freshman Renardo Sidney, who

hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played this season due to an NCAA investigation but sits on the bench at home. The game was emotional and occasionally chippy, though it was not clear what led to the jawing afterward. It was an embarrassing loss for the Bulldogs, who opened 0 of 5 from the field and 1 of 6 from the free throw line, and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make their first basket until Phil Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s layup. It was a curious start for Mississippi State, which was celebrating senior night and two of its most accomplished players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jarvis Varnado and Barry Stewart. The Bulldogs were also on the hunt for a quality win in their pursuit of an NCAA tournament bid.

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New case: Steelers QB investigated for Ga. assault By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press Writer

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Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angie Bjorklund passes the ball from the floor Saturday. SEC WOMENS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Lady Vols overwhelm Vandy, move on in SEC tournament By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer

DULUTH, Ga. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The rest of the Southeastern Conference has only one more chance to disprove a conclusion stated by Tennessee coach Pat Summitt after her teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 13th straight win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we have the best team,â&#x20AC;? Summitt said following No. 4 Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 68-49 victory over Vanderbilt in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SEC tournament semifinal. Added Summitt: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have know that when the year started.â&#x20AC;? Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s argument for SEC supremacy is looking as strong in the postseason as in the regular season. The Lady Vols (29-2) moved within one victory of a sweep of the SEC regular-season and tournament championships, something theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve accomplished six times. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play Kentucky or Mississippi State for the title on Sunday night. Tennessee won 15 of 16 conference games in the regular season before opening the tournament with a 76-51 rout of Mississippi. The Lady Volsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; third win of the season over Vanderbilt (22-10) was just as lopsided. Summitt said her players are motivated by sweeping the regular-season and tournament championships for the first time in 10 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our team is very motivated,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The regular season, I think, gave them a lot of confidence and also inspired them. I think they want more. They want to win

here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their idea and it works a whole lot better when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their idea.â&#x20AC;? Vanderbilt trailed 45-36 following a 3-pointer by Marsh with 9:17 remaining, but Tennessee pulled away with 11 straight points. Angie Bjorklund finished with 12 points for Tennessee, while Hannah Tuomi had 12 points before fouling out and Merideth Marsh added 11 for Vanderbilt. The challenge facing the smaller Vanderbilt team was obvious from the minute starting lineups were announced. Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shortest starter, 6-foot Bjorklund, was as tall as Vanderbiltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tallest starters, Tuomi and Tiffany Clarke. Vanderbiltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top scoring threat, the 5-foot-6 Marsh, was guarded by 6-foot-2 Shekinna Stricklen and

6-foot-1 Alicia Manning. Tuomi was looking up at 6-6 Kelley Cain and 6-3 Alyssia Brewer. Vanderbilt, playing its third game in three days, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overcome the mismatches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough because we know each other so well, and they played like Tennessee and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take their strengths away,â&#x20AC;? said Vanderbilt coach Melanie Balcomb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They did a better job taking our strengths away.â&#x20AC;? Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superior size showed in the first half when its 12 offensive rebounds equaled Vanderbiltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total rebounds. The Lady Vols claimed a 9-0 advantage in second-chance points in the opening 20 minutes, providing the cushion for a 31-22 halftime lead. Tennessee finished with a 42-27 advantage in rebounds.

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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For the second time in a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is being accused of sexual misconduct, with a police investigating him Saturday for an alleged assault at a nightclub in a Georgia college town. Police in Milledgeville were examining the claim of a 20-year-old student, who told an officer that Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her early Friday. The police department had no plans to comment until at least Monday. The case comes as Roethlisberger faces a lawsuit filed in July by a woman who says he raped her in 2008 at a Lake Tahoe hotel and casino, an allegation he strongly denies. Roethlisberger, who was not in custody, has not been criminally charged in either case and has claimed counter-damages in the lawsuit. Still, to hear it on the airwaves in Pittsburgh, this latest situation seems to have shaken fans of the star quarterback, a man who has never hidden the fact he enjoys the nightlife. He has been spotted gambling in Las Vegas and is sometimes seen in public with small groups of friends and bodyguards. The latest accusa-

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SCOREBOARD Transactions Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Transactions FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Signed CB Dunta Robinson to a six-year contract. GREEN BAY PACKERSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Re-signed OT Chad Clifton. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Signed WR Kassim Osgood to a three-year contract. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Agreed to terms with DL Vince Wilfork. NEW ORLEANS SAINTSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Agreed to terms with OL Nick Leckey and S Pierson Prioleau on one-year contracts. NEW YORK GIANTSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Signed S Antrel Rolle. Released S Aaron Rouse and DB Londen Fryar. ST. LOUIS RAMSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Signed QB A.J. Feeley. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHLâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Suspended Minnesota F Derek Boogaard for two games as a result of a kneeing incident against F Ryan Jones during a March 5 game against Edmonton. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Activated RW Adam Burish off injured reserve. NASHVILLE PREDATORSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Recalled D Cody Franson from Milwaukee (AHL). OTTAWA SENATORSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recalled F Zack Smith from Binghamton (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recalled C Paul Szczechura from Norfolk (AHL). ECHL ELMIRA JACKALSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Announced G Andy Chiodo has been reassigned to the team from Binghamton (AHL). SOCCER Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Professional Soccer SKY BLUE FCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Signed D Brittany Taylor to a three-year contract. COLLEGE IDAHOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Suspended senior G Kashif Watson indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basletball program. VIRGINIAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Suspended soph-

omore basketball G Sylven Landesberg for the remainder of the season for failing to meet his academic obligations.

T V S P ORT S TV SportsWatch (All times Eastern) Live, same-day, and delayed national TV sports coverage for week of Sunday, March 7 through Sunday, March 14. Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. Sunday, March 7 AUTO RACING Noon FOX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Kobalt Tools 500, at Hampton, Ga. BOWLING 12:30 p.m. ESPN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; PBA, Don Johnson Eliminator, at Columbus, Ohio CYCLING 5 p.m. VERSUS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Paris-Nice, stage 1, Montfort to lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amaury, France (same-day tape) GOLF 9:30 a.m. TGC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; European PGA Tour, Malaysian Open, final round, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (same-day tape) 3 p.m. NBC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; PGA Tour, The Honda Classic, final round, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. 7 p.m. TGC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Champions Tour, Toshiba Classic, final round, at Newport Beach, Calif. (same-day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 3 p.m. WGN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Preseason, Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox, at Glendale, Ariz. MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Noon CBS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; National coverage, Florida at Kentucky 2 p.m. CBS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; National coverage, Missouri Valley Conference, championship game, Northern Iowa vs. Wichita State, at St. Louis ESPN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wisconsin at Illinois

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1 p.m. FSN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Atlantic Coast Conference, championship game, Duke vs. N.C. State, at Greensboro, N.C. 3:30 p.m. FSN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Texas at Baylor 4:30 p.m. ESPN2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Big Ten Conference, championship game, Iowa vs. Ohio State-Wisconsin winner, at Indianapolis 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Southeastern Conference, championship game, Tennessee vs. Kentucky-Mississippi State winner, at Duluth, Ga.

U T H OO P S No. 16 TENNESSEE 75, MISSISSIPPI ST. 59 TENNESSEE (23-7) Chism 0-4 1-2 1, Williams 5-7 0-0 10, Maze 3-7 4-4 10, Prince 6-10 3-4 16, Hopson 6-14 0-0 14, Woolridge 1-1 0-0 2, Hall 3-4 0-0 6, Goins 1-5 2-4 4, Pearl 1-1 0-0 2, Tatum 4-7 2-2 10. Totals

30-60 12-16 75. MISSISSIPPI ST. (21-10) Augustus 4-10 4-4 15, Varnado 4-7 3-8 11, Johnson 2-11 0-0 5, Bost 4-11 1-1 11, Stewart 2-11 1-2 6, Osby 1-2 0-0 2, Benock 0-1 1-2 1, Luczak 0-0 0-0 0, Turner 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 20-59 10-17 59. Halftimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tennessee 38-21. 3-Point Goalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tennessee 3-16 (Hopson 2-5, Prince 1-3, Goins 0-1, Chism 0-1, Tatum 0-3, Maze 0-3), Mississippi St. 9-32 (Augustus 3-5, Turner 2-5, Bost 2-8, Johnson 1-5, Stewart 1-8, Benock 0-1). Fouled Outâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;None. Reboundsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tennessee 46 (Williams 13), Mississippi St. 30 (Johnson, Varnado 6). Assistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tennessee 12 (Maze, Prince 3), Mississippi St. 13 (Bost 6). Total Foulsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tennessee 19, Mississippi St. 14. Aâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;10,021. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;10,021. No. 4 TENNESSEE 68, VANDERBILT 49 VANDERBILT (22-10)Â Tuomi 6-11 0-0 12, Clarke 2-4 1-2 5, Rhoads 4-13 0-0 8, Marsh 4-15 0-0 11, Smith

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The Mountain Press â&#x2014;&#x2020; Sunday, March 7, 2010

Pigeon Forge parking lot to be put to use By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer PIGEON FORGE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Though city officials have taken some heat for constructing the new parking lot on Teaster Lane because it so far has been little used, the patch of asphalt will get a bit of a workout in the coming months as it hosts everything from hot rods to a motorcoach obstacle course. The Planning Commission has already approved the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use for hosting a pair of car shows new to the city, while the City Commission has on the agenda for its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday in

City Hall consideration of another pair of activities on the blacktop. One of those follows the model of the ones that have already gotten the OK, with organizers of the spring and fall Grand Rod Runs requesting that the lot be used for overflow, overnight parking during the two events. The gatherings draw a great deal of traffic to the area annually and businesses along the Parkway have complained for years about the antique autos taking up their parking spaces. The move may help alleviate that. The second event,

though, is somewhat unique. The Tennessee Motorcoach Association has asked that they be allowed to host a driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skill competition in August, with the exact date to be determined. It seems the group wants to set up an obstacle course on the pavement to test coach driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability to navigate the challenges. Also on the agenda for the session is: n Ordinance 906 to amend the Zoning Map by rezoning property between Pine Mountain and McMahan Hollow roads owned by Fairtenn LLC from R-1 (low-density residential) to C-4 (planned

unit commercial) for a mixed use development including retail shops and residences n A bid to purchase concession stand supplies for the parks and Recreation Department n A bid to purchase street light maintenance materials for the Public Works Department n Abandoning an old sewer line easement between the city and James and Mary Lou LaFollette n Consideration of an agreement with Vision Engineering for the design of the relocation of a 16-inch waterline at the new fire station site on Veterans Boulevard

n Consideration of an agreement with Wilbur Smith Associates for emergency traffic signal preemption design at the new fire station site n Consideration of an agreement between Fairtenn LLC and the city for rezoning and sewer service n Approval and accep-

tance of an easement from Dollywood for the construction of the new fire station n Reappointment of J.T. Arnold to the GatlinburgPigeon Forge Airport Authority representing the Sevier County Industrial Board for a five-year term. n dhodges@themountainpress.com

community calendar Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

sunday, march 7 Gatlinburg FUMC

Gatlinburg First United Methodist Church offers fellowship of contemporary music, worship, followed by a hot meal, 6 p.m. 4364691.

Seymour UMC

Youth of Seymour UMC meet for discipleship training 4:30 p.m.; snack supper 5:30; activities 6; youth/parents Bible study 6:15. 573-9711 or wwwseymourumc.org.

Hoops Challenge

First iHoops Challenge, basketball skills competition, 1:30 p.m., Pigeon Forge Community Center, for ages 9-14. Register day of the event or at www. iHoops.com/skillschallenge. 789-6848 or 6214511.

monday, march 8 Cancer Support

Smoky Mountain Cancer Support Group meets at 6 p.m. at new Thompson Cancer Center. Ann Henderlite, VP and chief nursing officer, to give tour. Bring food. 428-5834 or 654-9280.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible study: n Noon, Seymour Heights Christian Church, Chapman and Boyds Creek Highway n 1 p.m. Gatlinburg Inn

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 2-5 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 429-2508. n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper

Middle Creek Road. 9081245. n 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Kodak UMC, 2923 Bryan Road. 933-5996. Credit card and EBT orders may be submitted online at www.angelfoodministires.com.

study: n 6:30 p.m., 1328 Old Newport Highway, Sevierville. 908-0591. n 6:30 p.m., 2445 Scenic Mt. Drive, Sevierville. (865) 3107831.

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Blood Drive

Medic blood drive 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Kroger in Sevierville.

Garden Club

Daughters of American Revolution, Spencer Clack chapter, meets at 7 p.m., Sevier County Library. Program by Judy Morgan, Sonya Nave and Tammy Sturdivant.

Seymour Story Time

Preschool story time, 11 a.m., Seymour Library, with the Puppet Lady. 573-0728.

tuesday, march 9 S.I.T.

Seniors In Touch (S.I.T.) meets 5-6 p.m. at MountainBrook Village, 700 Markhill Drive, Sevierville. 428-2445.

Hot Meals

Hot Meals for Hungry Hearts served from 5:306:30 p,m. Second Baptist Church, Pigeon Street off Chapman Highway.

Al-Anon Family

Al-Anon Family Group meets 11 a.m. First United Methodist Church, Pigeon Forge. 428-7617 or 6806724.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible study: n 1 p.m. Foxtrot Bed and Breakfast, Garrett, Gatlnburg n 6:30 p.m. Pigeon Forge UMC

Gatekeepers

Gatekeepers menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 429-2508. n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245. n 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Kodak UMC, 2923 Bryan Road. 933-5996. Credit card and EBT orders may be submitted online at www.angelfoodministires.com.

Celebrate Recovery

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Celebrate Recovery step study 5:30 p.m., Seymour UMC. 5739711 or www.semourumc. org.

Little League Boosters

Pigeon Forge Little League Booster Club meets 6 p.m., Pigeon Forge High School Cafeteria.

wednesday, march 10 First Presbyterian

Traditional Lent Services 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays through March 24, First Presbyterian Church Sevierville, featuring music. prayer and message. Offering collected will go to help Haiti. 4532971.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Care Center 20-year anniversary banquet 6 p.m. March 18 at Wood Grill Buffet, Pigeon Forge. $25. Mail payment or call by today to 4284673. Sevierville Garden Club meets at noon, Sevierville Senior Center. Speaker: Alan Bruhin of Extension on pruning trees and shrubs. Officers to be installed. Board meets at 11.

Sevierville Story Time

Preschool story time 10:30 a.m.. Sevier County Main Library, with The Puppet Lady. 453-3532.

Middle Creek UMC

Worship services at 6:30 p.m., Middle Creek United Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge. 216-2066.

Seymour Lent Services Holy Communion celebrated 6:15 p.m. and on Thursdays at 7 a.m. and noon at Seymour UMC.

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Getting ready for the Oscars While football fanatics have the Superbowl, movie buffs like me have the Oscars. I love everything about Hollywood’s big night, from the glamorous stars and their elaborate gowns to the extravagant musical productions and goofy hosts. I’ve watched the awards show every year for as long as I can remember, and I am just as fascinated with all the glitz today as I was when I was a little girl. The only difference now is that I’ve given up my dream of accepting the award for Best Actress (just as well since all I can remember from my rehearsed speech is “I’d like to thank the Academy...”). I usually see most of the films nominated, and you can bet I have an opinion on which one should win. Of the 10 films up for Best Picture this year, I’ve seen five: “Avatar,” “The Blind Side,” “Up,” “Up in the Air” and “Inglourious Basterds.” They’re all so different, and even after years of watching this show, I have no idea how the big winner is selected. There have been plenty of times when I agreed (“Titanic,” “Chicago” and “Crash”) and others when I’ve been totally perplexed (“Million Dollar Baby,” “No Country For Old Men” and “Slumdog Millionaire”). This year, I’m torn between “The Blind Side,” “Up” and “Up in the Air.” How do you expect me to choose from a heartwarming Sandra Bullock film, a charming and poignant Disney flick and an entertaining movie with George Clooney? There’s something else I’ve always wondered: Shouldn’t there be a limit to how many times movie stars can win Best Actress or Best Actor? I mean, you can only win “Miss America” once, and there’s even a term limit for the president of the United States. I love Meryl Streep, who’s nominated for Best Actress this year in “Julie and Julia.” She’s definitely one of my favorite actresses, no doubt one of the best of all time. But how fair is it to the other gals who are nominated to go up against her? She has been nominated for an Academy Award 16 times, and she’s won two. We get it — the woman can act circles around everyone else. I’m excited about this year’s hosts, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. I believe there is truly no funnier person on the planet than Martin (except for my husband, or maybe Ellen DeGeneres). He’s great in everything he’s ever been in — especially “The Jerk,” one of my all-time favorites — and the man is also a talented musician and writer. Baldwin is pretty funny, too, and they should make an entertaining pair. We can also look forward to what the stars will be wearing. I have bets on the typical gazillion dollar Valentino, Armani and Dior. Who knows what else? We may even see a few bizarre getups, like that swan that singer Bjork wore around her neck at the 2001 Oscars. She may have not been the most beautiful belle of the ball, but she was definitely the most talked-about. It’s all about creativity and shock value for some of these artists. Just like there are required snacks for the Superbowl, you must have certain grub on hand for the Oscars. Popcorn, candy and Cokes are appropriate goodies, as well as nachos and mini pizzas. If you’re feeling adventurous, you should also check out recipes for Rachel Ray’s golden lemon orange bars and starlet cocktails. The celebrities can have their couture for the big night — I’ll be comfy in my Snuggie and slippers, watching all three hours of the festivities on my couch. By my side, watching with me because he’s a good sport, will be my husband. Eat your heart out, George Clooney. — Ellen Brown is a staff reporter for The Mountain Press. Call 4280746, ext. 205, or e-mail to ebrown@ themountainpress.com.

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Karen Arwine talks about the addictive hobby of quilting in the room her husband Jim added on to their home specifically for that purpose. She won two ribbons during last year’s A Mountain Quiltfest.

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Quilting proves addictive to Sevierville woman By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor Karen Arwine suffers from an addiction. She freely admits it. They say that’s the first step to recovery, but she has no interest in being cured. She needs only her next fix of fabrics, thread and pins as she works on one of the many quilts she has in progress at one time. Arwine will be among hundreds of others suffering the same addiction to, and appreciation of, the art of quilting this week when she takes part in the 16th annual A Mountain Quiltfest March 10-14 in Pigeon Forge. She appreciates the fact that the Quiltfest brings in some of the best quilters in the nation to teach classes, allowing her to take part without incurring the expense of traveling elsewhere. “We’re so lucky because being here we get all the national teachers that come to us,” she said. “We don’t have to pack up and pay for transportation and motels to go to these quilt shows.” Arwine began quilting about 16 to 17 years ago after she and her husband Jim purchased a king-sized bed while living in Florida. “I decided I wanted to make a quilt for my bed and that’s when I first started,” she said. “I just always knew I wanted to do it and thought, well, when I retire I’m gonna quilt. And then I decided, well golly, I’m not going to wait until I retire because I might be too old to do it then.” She didn’t learn to quilt when she was

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younger. Her mother sewed their own clothes. Her grandmother did quilt, but she lived 100 miles away from where Arwine grew up in Battle Creek, Mich. “She had 13 kids, so she quilted because she needed blankets, something to keep the kids warm,” Arwine said. While her grandmother quilted for practical reasons, Arwine likes the creativity of the craft. “Quilting somehow clicked for me,” she said. “Practical sewing doesn’t. Now (my mother) made drapes and curtains and all that. Man, I wouldn’t be about to do that. I want to do this.”

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Piles of scrap pieces of fabric in shades of blue wait to be pieced together into a quilt by Karen Arwine. Before making that first quilt, Arwine took an adulteducation class where she was taught how to create the log cabin patterned bed covering. Before that, she said she was an avid crosssticher. “But once I started quilting, that was the end of it,” she said. “No more anything. Just quilting.” That first quilt led to about 10 more in the same pattern before she branched out to other patterns. “It turned out good and I just kept going,” she said. Her favorite part of the process is choosing the fabrics she’ll use, planning and piecing the blocks together. “I truthfully don’t like

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Karen Arwine talks about a quilt she made by closely following the pattern she bought — a rare occasion for her, she said.

to quilt,” she said. “I like to buy fabric. I like to plan my quilt. I like to make my top, and then I only quilt it because I have to quilt it.” Her favorite technique? “I really like applique and I like to incorporate applique when I can in quilts. I do really good applique. I don’t mean to brag, but I really do.” For the most part, when she sees a sample quilt she doesn’t try to reproduce the pattern exactly, instead putting her own spin on it with fabric choice, colors and so on. Her fabric choice will often be determined by her current mood toward color and style, which currently is Civil War reproduction fabrics. “Some people, they’ll see a sample and want to make that quilt, and that’s normally not me,” she said. “I like my own color palette. I think my fabrics are better than what they’ve picked.” An entire wall of her sewing room, which her husband Jim added to the home, is shelving filled with fabrics. Many of the shelves are taken up by her supply of Civil War reproduction fabrics. Other piles are sorted by style or color, with batiks on one shelf, and others separated by colors. A pile of fabrics in varying shades of blue waits on one of her tables for an upcoming project to use that last of that color. Arwine feeds her addiction daily. “I quilt every day,” she said. “Some days not as much as others, but I quilt every single day.”

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Essay writers who participated in seventh grade from Catons Chapel were Deven Dykes, Jacob Juvinall, Rebecca Land, Bryce Lonas, Alexis McCarter, Amelia McCarter, Andrew Noland, Alex Pinyon, Austin Rojas, David Rolen, Sarah Rolen, Autumn Simonds, Bethany Sutton and Chelse Vega.

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Essay writers who participated in fifth grade from Boyds Creek were Gage Chapman, Lauren Kay Mann, Jessie Kate Morgan and Joshua Powell.

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Eighth-grade winner Bethanie Trees of Catons Chapel Elementary School.

Essay writers who participated in eighth grade from Catons Chapel were Tucker Adams, Billy Cantrell, Carmen Castillo, Faith French, Candance Hurst, Sean Lawson, Courtney Lewis, Shannon Lewis, Heather Lowe, Christian Maloney, Steffan Schroeder, Jacob Sports, Luke Stone, Bethanie Trees. Daniel Watson and Ezekiel Williams.

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Seventh-grade winner Andrew Noland of Catons Chapel Elementary School.

DAR essay contest winners announced Submitted Report Describe how you felt on May 10, 1869, when the golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Pretend you are a settler planning to use the train to travel to your new home in the west, an Irish or Chinese worker who helped build the line, or a Native American whose way of life was greatly affected by the railroad. The Spencer Clack chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, held a history essay contest for school children on that topic. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s topic let the students put their own spin on a historic event. The winning essay for each grade: fifth, Lauren Kay Mann of Boyds Creek Elementary; seventh grade, Andrew Noland of Catons Chapel Elementary; eighth, Bethanie Trees of Catons Chapel Elementary. Students who participated: n Fifth grade: Boyds Creek, Gage Chapman, Lauren Kay Mann, Jessie Kate Morgan, Joshua Chapter 7 ,

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Fifth-grade winner Lauren Kay Mann of Boyds Creek Elementary School.

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Durham/Manning Mr. and Mrs. Gary Drayton Durham of Pendleton, S.C., announce the engagement of their daughter, Kendal McKay Durham, to Justin Brian Manning. The groom-elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Darrell Manning of Dandridge, Tenn. The couple are planning a May wedding to be held in Sevierville, Tenn. Submitted

Kendal McKay Durham and Justin Brian Manning are engaged to wed.

Great Smokies DAR to meet on March 18 Submitted Report SEVIERVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Great Smokies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will meet at the Pigeon Forge Library at 10:30 a.m. March 18. The group will discuss plans for DAR participation in the Dolly Parade that will be held May 7. This will be the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second year to have a float in this event. For more information phone Chapter Regent Sarah Ownby, 774-2236.

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Breakfast: Choice of juice/fruit, cereal (hot/cold), toast/muffin, chicken biscuit; milk. Lunch: Choice of hot dog, chili, corn dog, salad bar or bowl; chili with beans, onion, slaw, crinkle cut fries, broccoli with cheese, fruit or managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice; baked fruit dessert; milk.

Tuesday

Breakfast: Choice of juice/fruit, cereal (hot/cold), pancakes/waffles, toast, sausage biscuit; milk. Lunch: Choice of pork roast, salad bar or bowl; mashed potatoes, carrot/celery stick, sweet potatoes, green beans, cooked apples or managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice; Homemade rolls biscuits; cookie; milk.

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Breakfast: Choice of juice/fruit, cereal (hot/cold), sausage/biscuit, toast, eggs; milk Lunch: Choice of baked potato bar, chili, cheese, chopped ham, salad bar or bowl; combination salad, broccoli fruit cup or managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice; garlic cheddar biscuit; fruit; milk.

Thursday

Breakfast: Choice of juice/fruit, cereal (hot/cold), sausage biscuits, toast, Danish/sweet roll; milk. Lunch: Choice of baked chicken, barbecue chicken, salad bar or bowl; pleas/green beans, crispy green salad, mashed potatoes, fresh fruit or managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice; homemade rolls; peach halves; milk.

Friday

Breakfast: Choice of juice/fruit, cereal (hot/cold), sausage biscuit, toast, gravy; milk. Lunch: Choice of pizza, cheese bread sticks, salad bar or bowl; tossed salad, corn nuggets/corn, California vegetables, orange slices, marinara sauce or managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice; cake with fruit topping; milk.

wedding policy The Mountain Press publishes wedding, engagement and anniversary announcements and photos free of charge to subscribers of the newspaper. There is a $25 charge, payable in advance, for others wishing to publish announcements. Deluxe (enlarged) photos for anniversaries and engagements are available for an additional

$15 charge, payable in advance. â&#x2013; Wedding, engagement and anniversary announcement forms are available. Announcements must be on appropriate forms. â&#x2013; Responses should be typed or neatly printed in blue or black ink and must include a contact phone number. The phone number is not for publication.

Caution: Mother Nature ahead Well, this past week I was looking down into the holler toward Webbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creek thinking about random acts of dumbness (RADs). Sure, I have co-written a bunch of hiking books and have led hikes in the Rockies, Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountains, but that stuff doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eliminate RADs from happening while hiking. I will share some of my wilderness wackiness so you can learn from my mistakes. Forget the Alamo and remember this instead: When it comes to man vs. wild, nature never ever loses. I wisely begin my confessions by telling a confidental story about two other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RADs. Please keep this story quiet. My wife, Kat, and our good friend, Macaroni (aka Marsha Clark of Gatlinburg), recently rang the bell on the RAD meter. Just a few weeks ago about an hour before dark on a 20-degree day with a stiff breeze I received this crackling cell phone call: â&#x20AC;&#x153;John, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk long. Macaroni and I are lost in the woods. I just wanted you to know we started out on Juney Whank Trail and saw a trail sign a while ago with an Indian name. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go now. We are running out of daylight.â&#x20AC;? I immediately pulled off U.S. 81 to ponder her shortest phone call in history. Usually she calls to ask that I pick up some Chinese food on the way home. This was a whole different category. I frantically tried

to call her back, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get through. Semis whizzed by as I recalled how a person feels warm as they freeze to death. I called Macaroniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband and we were both at a loss. I was an hour from Gatlinburg and Newfound Gap Road was probably about to be closed anyway. We were helpless and a freezing cold night was closing in fast. With nowhere to turn and no other ideas I called 911. The responder said something like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, my gosh!â&#x20AC;? and her shared anxiety didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reduce my stress one bit. She patched me through to Morristown 911, then on to Sevier County, then the Gatlinburg Police Department, and finally to the national park dispatcher. He gave me the number for a park ranger station in Bryson City near Deep Creek and Juney Whank Trail. The ranger in Deep Creek knew the Indian named trail Kat mentioned and had a guess about their general location. He calmly said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go get them.â&#x20AC;? I felt better and pulled back onto the highway. For the next hour I was an emotional mess and appreciated Kat so much more than before her phone call. When your wife is lost in the mountains you forget

about her little quirks like she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put lids back on things and parks too close to other cars. At some point the ranger had managed to briefly reach the duo on their cell phone as the frozen night set in. He had asked our wives three important questions: Do you have water? Do you have a map? Do you have a flashlight? No, no, and no. (Three RADs in a row.) He asked if they had seen a landmark and Macaroni described a sycamore tree about a mile or more back that she said looked like a two-horned sea serpent coming out of the water. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not kidding, and here is where you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write a TV script any better. The ranger actually knew that very sycamore tree and directed them to hike in a certain direction where he would meet them near an old road intersection. He phoned me and said he had an idea of where they were and he was driving in to get them. What seemed like forever ended when he called and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have them in the vehicle.â&#x20AC;? My first words were, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please tell them they are

both grounded for two weeks,â&#x20AC;? and the ranger responded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is that all?â&#x20AC;? Unfortunately, there is no space left for my own hiking RADs (random acts of dumbness), like the time I got lost while alone in the Blue Ridge Mountains â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and pulled out a map for the Rockies, etc. The Smokiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most famous hiker, Wiley Oakley, pictured above, said he never got lost, but one time it took him a few extra days to get out. Always carry extra water, a flashlight, map, matches, hi-tech blanket, first aid kit, whistle, 50 feet of rope, saw, poncho and common sense. There is a reason â&#x20AC;&#x153;wildernessâ&#x20AC;? has the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;wildâ&#x20AC;? built into it. I hope you learn from Kat and Macaroniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RADs, but please keep this story very confidential. That is just how it looks from my log cabin. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; John LaFevre is a local speaker and coauthor of the interactive national park hiking book series, Scavenger Hike Adventures, Falcon Guides, Globe Pequot Press. E-mail to scavengerhike@aol.com. G. Webb of Pittman Center does the artwork for the column. Visit Gwebbgallery.com.

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The Mountain Press ◆ Sunday, March 7, 2010

Public pulpit

No matter the preacher, we need to raise voices in song By ALTA RAPER I awoke this morning with the words of a song permeating my thoughts and dancing through my mind: “I feel the touch of hands soft and tender, They’re leading me in the paths that I must go, I have no fear for Jesus walks beside me, And I’m sheltered in the arms of God.” Wow, that sends cold chills up my spine, just pondering on being sheltered in the arms of God. “He walks with me and naught of earth can harm me …” How can we not be glad for this beautiful day before us? The awesomeness of God’s great goodness is never more present than on Sundays. It’s the day we take some time out from the drudgery of work and everyday worries and cares to spend time in God’s house; basking in the peace of His presence, learning from His word, and singing those great hymns of the church. Can you even imagine a worship service without singing? I don’t care how good

your preacher is, we still need to lift our voices in song to receive the full blessing. We began a new service at Burnett Memorial UMC a couple of months ago called “Praise and Song.” We meet every third Sunday at 5:30 p.m. You lift your praise to God and then call out your favorite hymn and we all sing it together. This has quickly caught on, and the joy that flows in these services is something to behold. Testimonies are given and praises lifted from folks that may have never spoken aloud in a church service before. We usually end up singing much longer than we had planned, as no one wants to leave. The blessings flow as we all share and sing together. Everyone leaves with a smile on their face and a powerful sense of having been in the very presence of God. We leave anticipating the next time we will come together as brothers and sisters in Christ lifting praises and voices to

the Lord our God. To me, there is nothing like the sound of a good old southern gospel allmale quartet. Remember The Statesmen, The Blackwood Brothers, JD Sumner and The Stamps, The Rebels and The Prophets? What about the Kingsmen, and The Cathedrals? Now that was singing at its best. My favorite quartet was, and is, the original Oak Ridge Quartet when Willie Wynn was the tenor. Wow, what a fantastic voice. He could knock the top off those high notes. I can hear him now. Guess I better stop pondering on things of the past, step into the present, and my Sunday-goto-meetin’ clothes. Yep, it’s going to be another great da. I can feel it in my bones. — Alta Raper is pastor of Pittman Center Circuit of the United Methodist Church: Burnett Memorial UMC in Pittman Center, Webb’s Creek UMC just off 321 in Gatlinburg, and Shults Grove UMC in Cosby.

re l i g i o n c a l e n d ar 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.

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Gatlinburg FUMC

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Seymour UMC

Youth of Seymour UMC meet for discipleship training 4:30 p.m.; snack supper 5:30; activities 6; youth/parents Bible study 6:15. 573-9711 or wwwseymourumc.org.

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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

A REASON FOR OUR HOPE In 1 Peter 3:15, we find Peter giving the following command: “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear…” Here we learn that we are to always be ready to explain the basis of our hope. On the surface this seems like an overwhelming responsibility. There are so many things that are intregral to our faith that we wonder if we all have to have theology degrees and perfect mental recall in order to fulfill this command. But let me suggest to you that we remember the instruction is to give “a” reason – not “all” of them. Keep it simple and utilize the opportunity to open doors of future discussions. In this article, I wish to share with you “a” reason for MY hope - this is where I begin when I am called upon to give a reason for my hope. There are some facts that cannot be denied. One of those facts is that Jesus lived. Only the most ignorant or prejudiced skeptic would question the historicity of Jesus. Beside the Gospel accounts, there is plenty of evidence from unbiased sources: Roman historians attest to this fact; Jewish sources, while denying His deity, attest to His historicity; there’s even a Samaritan historian who tried to explain away the darkness at the crucifixion, thereby affirming it actually happened! So overwhelming is the evidence, even atheistic historians admit Jesus lived. Another fact that cannot be denied is the evidence for the New Testament as a historical document. Its authors claim to write as historians or even eyewitnesses to real events. It was written soon after the events it records. It is noted for its historical accuracy in areas that can be tested such as archaeological discovery. The manuscript attestation is for the New Testament unsurpassed in the number of copies for the purpose of comparison. There are over 4,000 complete Greek manuscripts and over 13,000 copies of portions of the New Testament. Contrast that with other historical documents (Caesar’s “Gallic Wars”, only 10 Greek manuscripts exist; “Annals” of Tacitus, 2; Livy, 20; Plato, 7). Also there is striking evidence in the time between the originals and earliest copies. Fragments of the New Testament exist that are within 50-100 years; complete copies that are within 300-400 years after the originals were written. Compare this with manuscripts of other classical histories: “Histories of Thucydides” - earliest copy is 1,300 years removed from the original; “Histories of Herodotus” - earliest copy is 1,350 years removed from the original; Caesar’s “Gallic War” - 950 years; Roman History of Livy - 350 years; “Histories” of Tacitus - 750 years. Such evidence for the New Testament has led to the following sad but true statement: “The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be as beyond all doubt.” - F. F. Bruce At this point I believe I can fairly state that no one can deny these two facts: Jesus lived & the evidence for The New Testament as a historical document is overwhelming. Given that these facts are undeniable, then consider with me the implications of these facts. We are forced to make a decision concerning Jesus. We can’t deny that He lived, therefore we must decide who He is. Is He what His followers claimed, the Son of God? Or is the New Testament’s representation of Him false? Concerning the evidence of the New Testament as a historical document, we can’t deny the overwhelming evidence, therefore we must decide concerning its historical reliability. Will we accept it on the same basis we accept other historical documents? Concerning whether the New Testament is true, we cannot say that it was simply a sincere but mistaken effort to explain who Jesus was. Therefore we must decide whether it is true, or a carefully contrived lie! -- It is this last issue upon which all else truly depends! If we decide that the New Testament is a carefully contrived lie then we must concede that a book with the world’s highest standard of morality was composed by a group of liars, frauds, and deceivers! What book contains a higher standard of love and morality than the New Testament? For examples, consider Jesus’ “Sermon On The Mount” (Matthew 5-7), and Paul’s “Discourse On Love” (1 Corinthians 13). But, if we decide that the New Testament is true we have a reason for our hope concerning salvation! The New Testament tells us of the life and death of Jesus Christ and how we can receive remission of sins through His blood! We also have a reason for our hope concerning this life! It tells us of the teachings and promises of Jesus Christ and how we can have the peace and joy only He can provide. We also have a reason for our hope concerning the future! It tells us of His resurrection, ascension, and coming again, and how we have the hope of our own resurrection along with eternal life. One reason for my hope is therefore based upon two facts which can’t be denied... #1) Jesus lived #2) Evidence for the New Testament as a historical document is overwhelming I have spent over thirty years studying the New Testament diligently. To conclude that it is a carefully contrived lie makes no logical sense to me. Instead, I am persuaded that it contains a sincere, truthful account of who Jesus is and what He did.The testimony of the New Testament, then, is a strong reason for the hope that I have in Jesus Christ. May it be a reason for your hope as well!

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Sevier County Electric System

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 2-5 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 429-2508. n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245. n 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Kodak UMC, 2923 Bryan Road. 933-5996. Credit card and EBT orders may be submitted online at www.angelfoodministires.com.

Web Sight: www.Electric.SeviervilleTn.org Sevierville, Tenn.

453-2887 Maryville: (865) 982-0768 Sevierville: (865) 428-3168

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Tuesday, march 9 Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 1 p.m. Foxtrot Bed and Breakfast, Garrett, Gatlnburg n 6:30 p.m. Pigeon Forge UMC

Gatekeepers

Gatekeepers men’s Bible study: n 6:30 p.m., 1328 Old Newport Highway, Sevierville. 908-0591. n 6:30 p.m., 2445 Scenic Mt. Drive, Sevierville. (865) 310-7831.

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 429-2508. n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper

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County preschool services applications being sought Submitted Report As part of the voluntary pre-K state initiative, the Sevier County School System will continue preschool services if funds are made available from the State Department of Education for the 20102011 school year. The purpose of these programs is to provide a pre-kindergarten experience for Sevier Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-year-olds, with the first priority being those 4-year-olds who are at risk. To be eligible, a child must be 4 on or before Sept. 30, 2010, and be a resident of Sevier County. Preliminary registration will be held at each of the current pre-kindergarten sites. Parents need to call one of the schools listed below by April 2 to schedule an appointment. No bus transportation will be provided to the programs.

Preliminary registrations will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for each of the school sites on the designated dates and locations. Persons should not register at multiple sites. n Pigeon Forge Primary, 428-3016, May 10 n Sevierville Primary, registration at Trula Lawson Center, 428-5793, May 11 n Catons Chapel Elementary, 453-2132, and May 13 n Pittman Center Elementary, 4364515, May 17 n Jones Cove Elementary, 453-9325, May 17 At the registrations, each parent will receive a packet. There will only be 20 placements at each site. Students will be selected using state-approved criteria. Parents/guardians of students who meet the criteria will be called to confirm placement.

Sparkle Days to begin in Gatlinburg Submitted Report GATLINBURG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; City residents and business owners will again have a chance to clean up their acts ahead of the tourist season. Sparkle Days, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual spring event, is scheduled for March 15-26. The format for the 31-year-old program remains essentially unchanged from recent years. During Sparkle Days, the Sanitation Department will pick up, free of charge, items not normally included in garbage collection.

Scrap metal, old appliances, brush and junked vehicles will be accepted for disposal, and should be placed next to a city street, according to Public Services Manager Larry Henderson. However, there are some restrictions, Henderson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will not pick up debris from remodeling or demolition projects, tires or old paint. This type of debris must be disposed of by other means,â&#x20AC;? Henderson said. As usual, the first week of Sparkle Days, March 15-19, is set aside for col-

lection of commercial debris. Residential collection takes place March 22-26. Anyone interested in scheduling a pick-up time should call 436-5959. Also, the Gatlinburg Recreation Department is encouraging neighborhood residents to join together to form large litter pick-up groups. Interested parties can obtain a supply of large garbage bags through the department, whose staff will retrieve them from city roadsides. For more information on participating in a litter pickup group, call 436-4990.

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Swim lessons set to begin Submitted Report The Sevierville Department of Parks and Recreation will be offering swim lessons beginning March 22. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. March 15 and is limited. No registration will be accepted prior to March 15, and no telephone registrations will be accepted. The fee of $17.50 for five group lessons must be paid at registration. For more information call 453-5441. Note: There will be no classes on April 5 due to the school systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring break.

Stained Glass Class Begins: Thursday, March 18 at 6:00 PM or Saturday, March 20 at 10:30 AM

Class lasts for six weeks - 2 hours per week All supplies included! Cost $75.00 Limit 4 per class. Call NOW to register!

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238 HOTEL/MOTEL Best Western Zoderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inn, 402 Parkway, Gatlinburg. Desk Clerk Position. 3 p.m.-11 p.m. shift. Part time 3 to 5 days per week. Excellent starting pay. Apply in person. No phone calls please.

Activities Assistant Large resort looking for person who is active, friendly, and enjoys working with people to help with Activities program. Must be able to work flexible hours and weekends. Tree Tops Resort of Gatlinburg 865-436-6559 Assistant Manager needed. Drop off resume to Global Liquidation located at The Shops of Pigeon Forge East Wears Valley Rd Book Publishing Co. needs someone proficient in Microsoft Office 2000 to format, design and layout books. Salary based on ability. Smoke free office. Health insurance. Monday-Friday 8-5. Fax resume to 865-4290252. Employment Begin a lucrative career in outdoor advertising sales as a Sales Executive of one of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most successful billboard companies. We offer a great a commission compensation plan plus bonus incentives as well as a vehicle allowance and flexible hours. If you have strong closing and communication skills, an excellent work ethic, strong prospecting and networking skills, and you are highly energetic, we want to meet you. A valid driver license and a good driving record required. Please email your resume and references to TennesseeBusiness@gm ail.com Grand Crowne Resorts is celebrating their 25th anniversary by opening a new resort in Pigeon Forge. We are hiring Sales Reps. Average pay 50k to 75k per year Paid training. Full benefit package No experience required. Limited number of positions available. Call 865-804-5672 865-851-5105 or Evening 865-4289055 ext. 225. JOHNSON PEST CONTROL is hiring! Do you have a pleasant phone voice/outgoing personality, love oldfashioned customer service, thrive in settings that keep you busy? Are you strong in Excel, Word & Outlook? Are you ready for F/T duties filing, data entry, scheduling of technicians & providing "WOW" service to customers? Office staff receive hrly wage + benefits. We do skills/personality assessments. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR SALES INSPECTORS. Sales staff receive draw + commission + company car + benefits. Send resume to: hrmanager@johnsonpestcontrol.co m. Check us out @ www.johnsonpestcontrol.com <http://www.johnsonpestcontrol.co m> .

Local resort now hiring Part-time Housekeepers. Must be able to work weekends and have dependable transportation. Experience preferred. Applications are available at 746 Ski Mountain Road, Gatlinburg or resumes can be faxed to 865/436-4657. Looking for experienced Reservationist for fast paced rental office. Aunt Bugâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cabin Rentals 908-4948. Mechanic & Helper w/tools for busy shop, 6 day work week. 908-7814. Now hiring full time and part time HOUSEKEEPERS. Tree Tops Resort of Gatlinburg. 865436-6559. Probabtion Officer position available. Supervising misdemeanor defendants, 4 yr. degree required in Criminal Justice, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology. Send resume to: 233 Parkway, Sevierville, TN 37862. Quality Control Earn up to $100 per day. Evaluate retail stores. Training provided. No experience required. 1-877-696-8561. Security Officers needed. Must have state license. Call 531-8317 or 9249636. Supervisor needed with strong people, customer relations and leadership skills in a fast paced rental company Benefits/full time. Fax resume to 774-1713. We are seeking friendly, honest and dedicated Associates. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hiring full & part time Associates. We offer a fun & respectful work environment and an excellent compensation plan including: Great starting hourly wages; Flexible scheduling; 401K, Health insurance and Direct deposit plans available; Generous Christmas bonus; Advancement opportunities; Ongoing training; Free family admission to all company attractions. Please apply in person at The Big Castle, Monday-Friday 10am6pm. MagiQuest, 2491 Parkway, Pigeon Forge. Must be 16 to apply. EOE Zipline Guides/Photographers needed Must live in Gatlinburg. 430-9475 237 HEALTHCARE LPN To work in Medical Office. Good benefits, hours and salary. Bilingual in Spanish helpful but not required. Call 865-509-0055 after 9 a.m. M-F EOE. 238 HOTEL/MOTEL Best Western Zoderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inn, 402 Parkway, Gatlinburg hiring Housekeepers. Drug Free Work Place. Excellent Starting Pay. Apply in person. No phone calls please.

Four Seasons Motor Lodge in Gatlinburg hiring 2nd Shift Desk Clerk. Apply in person.

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248 CABIN CLEANING Cabin Cleaners needed. Transportation & weekends a must. Call 8034576. 250 BARBER/BEAUTY

Experienced Nail Techs & Hair Stylists needed for brand new salon opening in Pigeon Forge

Call 850-5492

Admin. Assistant Security Officer Marketing Rep (OPC) Kitchen Mgr./Chef Restaurant Servers Restaurant Cooks Housekeepers General Maintenance Front Desk Agents Electrician Shuttle Driver Night Auditor Guest Relations Mgr. Guest Relations Agt. Host/Hostess

2 new recliners $398 Cagles Furniture & Appliances 2364B Pittman Center Rd.

453-0727

For Sale A-1 pre-owned dryers, washers, ranges & refrigerators All with warranty. Cagles Furniture and Appliances

307 CHILDCARE I will be keeping 4 children in my home. Ages 1-4. For more information call Cindy 865654-8895. Will keep children in my home. Marlene Grey 453-3325.

SALES Now Hiring Top Sales People & Quality Retail Sales Associates for Lilyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s As Seen on TV Store. Full-Time. Outstanding Customer Service Skills and Professional Sales ability needed. Flexibility & Dependability including Evenings & Weekends. Growth Opportunity. Vacation Pay. Employee Discount. Apply in person at 1985 Winfield Dunn Pkwy., Sevierville. 245 SALES

Seeking Wedding Sales/Coordinator with excellent customer service, computer and telemarketing skills. Call 430-8877 to schedule application appointment.

247 MAINTENANCE Skilled full time maintenance person. Fast paced environment, evening & weekends, satellite TV experience. Drug testing required. 865-4285551.

Weekly Rentals Includes Phone, Color TV, Wkly Housekeeping Micr./Frig. Available $169.77+

429-2962

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Rooms for rent, weekly rates, furn., cable TV.

436-4471 or 621-2941 601 TOWNHOUSES FOR RENT Near I-40, like new, 3BR/2BA Townhouse. $750/mo. Call Terri Williams o/a 865-556-4111.

ROOMS FOR RENT Weekly Low Rates $110.00 + tax 436-5179 Greystone Rentals Red Carpet Inn 349 East Parkway Gatlinburg, TN

605 BUSINESS RENTALS

500 MERCHANDISE

1500 SF office space/ 1500 sf warehouse space. $1500/mo 2 miles from pkwy. 865-573-6859.

DOWNTOWN SEVIERVILLE 428 Park Rd.

near trolley stop

Includes All Utilities. Free Wi-Fi, Cable, Laundry, Kitchens, Clean Rooms, NO PETS.

555 GARAGE & YARD SALES Foreclosure Sale. All appliances, furniture, antiques must be sold. 1208 East Parkway behind Gatlinburg Post Office. Fri-Wed 11am-7pm.

OfďŹ ce & Storage Space for Lease Different sizes for lease (WY s %AST 'ATLINBURG

850-2487

565 TICKET SALES

244 RETAIL

$400/mth + 1/2 util. Nice house, neighborhood. Refs. 865-774-9118.

Affordable Housing in Gatlinburg

Convenient Location! 411 South, left on Robert Henderson Rd., 1/4 mil on right at Riverwalk Apts.

242 RESTAURANT

Papa Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Gat. now hiring team members. Exp. a plus. Apply in person, no phone calls please.

1BR Apt. near Gat. W/D, DW, $495 mth or $150 week + dep. 556-1929.

Wanted: Someone to trade picture puzzles. 436-5738

10X10 or 10X20 SELF STORAGE

239 OFFICE/CLERICAL

OPEN HOUSE: Now hiring. On the spot interviews Mon.Thurs. 2-4; All positions. Good references req. Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., 900 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN.

$350 mo. + 1/2 util Nice house, female w/ same. Sev, near Seymour. 865-365-1089.

592 WANTED TO BUY

356 STORAGE BUILDINGS

2 Bristol tickets for March 20 & 21. Aisle seats. $385 601-209-1554 NASCAR TICKETS for sale. March Bristol Races. 2 tickets for each race in the Earnhardt section. Molded seats w/armrests. Face value 850-9987 Evening 581 PETS 5 wk. old Huskey Puppies. $200 females, blue eyes & brown. Call 865742-5700. Beautiful Lab Pups, Champion Petigree AKC black & chocolate. Males $450; Females $550. 865-388-6153.

Free Kittens to good home.Also 1 Siamese $55. 436-3868 731-453-5233.

FREE KITTENS. Already fixed & vaccinated. Call Sonya 617-2380. 582 LIVESTOCK All Cattle Producers Young Livestock Buying Station Established 1956 Open Monday & Wednesday 8AM to 3 PM Top prices paid. No selling charges. Cattle weighed. Paid immediately. All feeder cattle and weigh cows. 5621 Straw Plains Pk, Knoxville 865/546-7532 865/567-1855 Thanks for your business & friendship

Businesses for lease: Restaurant 80+ seating + some outside seating. Turnkey ready to open. $1500/mo. Country Store for lease. Turnkey ready to open. $1500/mo. 2BR/2BA Upstairs Apartment for lease. $900/mo. 631 Ski Mtn. Rd. Gatlinburg. Lots of parking. Call 305992-0814. Info at mojitosinthemountains.com Office 1 block off Parkway. $475 mo. S. Boulevard Way. 933-6544 Office space, retail showroom & warehouse. 1200-6400 SF, Sev. area. Call 865-388-5455. Professional office space for rent or lease. 1400 sq ft. For more information call Joanna 865-774-8885 or 1800-586-1494. EOE M/F/H Shop & Booth space for rent/sale on the Pkwy. in downtown Gatlinburg. 865607-1623 Shop for rent, Hemlock Village, Arts & Crafts Trail, Gat. 865-436-6777. 610 DUPLEX FOR RENT

New 1BR 1BA w/ carport. All appliances included. Off Hwy 416. 1 year lease. No pets.

680-4290 or 428-1297

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696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT

Sofa, 2 chairs, 2 ottomans $350; 2 end tables $30; 2 lg. dog houses $30 ea., dog kennel $50; day bed $30; full bed w/rails $25; 428-3382.

693 ROOMS FOR RENT

Pigeon Forge 865-453-4905

EOE

Now Hiring: All positions. Apply in person at: Blaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grill & Bar light #8 Gatlinburg, No Way Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Light #5, Gatlinburg, No Way Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Pigeon Forge Waldens Landing Mon-Fri 11:30am3pm

NEW YEARS SPECIAL

Sleeper sofa, executive office chair, white wicker coffee table. 908-4190.

Drug & Smoke Free Workplace

Bilingual Patient Service Representative position available for secretary/receptionist to work in medical office. Must be bilingual (Spanish/English) (865)509-0055 MF after 9 a.m. E.O.E. Good benefits, hours & salary.

589 FURNITURE

Family Inns West

Now hiring Housekeeping. Apply in person Park Tower Inn, 201 Sharon Dr, Pigeon Forge.

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453-0727

Microtel now hiring front desk. Gatlinburg traffic light #8 436-0107

Westgate Resorts 915 Westgate Resorts Rd., Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Tel: 865-430-4788. (Across from the Gatlinburg Welcome Center on the Spur. Turn into Little Smoky Road).

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Driver - CDL/A OTR BECOME A PART OF OUR FAMILY Start at 30-34 cents/mi Great Miles & Benefits TEAMS WELCOME Assigned Fleet Mgrs. & Trucks 1 yr. CDL/A exp. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d TOTAL TRANSPORTATION 800-942-2104 EXT. 243 or 238 www.totalms.com Local cabin company taking applications for Reservationist, Assistant Manager, and Cleaners. Apply in person at: 333 Ski Mtn. Rd. Gatlinburg.

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696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT Light 6, P/Forge Duplex, 2 Br / 1 Ba, All Appls, W/D, Lg. Family Room, Wood Floors

$550 mo. 1st/last/Dep/No Pets

865-898-7925

Some pets ok. Call for pet policy. 865-908-6789

CONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN SEVIERVILLE 2 bedroom 1.5 bath townhomes Call 428-5161

Sevier Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best for 13 years

$495 mth. Water/Sewer incl. Great mtn views from patio. 908-2062.

2 BR Apt

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Spacious & Quiet! 2 BR / 2 BA Apts. for Rent in Wears Valley From $650/mo. 12 Mo. Lease Pets Allowed (865) 329-7807

2 Rm Eff. near Old Mill in PF. $140 weekly. Dam. req. Util incl. 250-7740

2BR 2BA triplex PF. 2BR apt Sev. No pets. Clean & convenient. 453-5079.

2BR Apartments for Rent $475, $500 & $550 a month. 908-7805 or 3681327

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Money Load & Deliver the New AT&T Real Yellow Pages Sevier County Area *Must be 18 or older, have a driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and insured vehicle

Beautiful room for female in residence. W/D, TV. Boyds Creek. $110 wk., incl. util. 661-7770. Weekly rooms. Mountain View Inn $150 + tax 865-4535531

(800) 241-4558 Call Wednesday, March 10th between 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM *** Mention Sevier County Help***

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The Mountain Press Â&#x2039; Sunday, March 7, 2010 696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT

697 CONDO RENTALS

2BR/1BA Apt. for rent. $600/mo. $550 deposit. Pet friendly, Boyds Creek area. 865-712-5823.

Gatlinburg: 2BR/2BA, Furn. W/D; $875/ mo. Inc. water/cable & HBO, Pool; F/P; NO pets. 865323-0181.

699 HOME RENTALS 1500 SF, 2BR w/baths, lg. living room/dining, full deck, furnished $950/mo. or unfurn. $850/mo. In Wears Valley. 423-902-6350.

699 HOME RENTALS

Sevierville 3BR/2BA Garage/basement Swimming Pool

699 HOME RENTALS Home In Kodak 3BR/2BA with 2 car garage. Stove, fridge DW & W/D conn New carpet Approx 1250 sq ft $895.00 865-429-4470

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Call 428-5161 Apartments for rent. 2 BDRM, $425-$675. Locations in Sevierville & Pigeon Forge. House for rent. 3BDRM/2BA, $1000/month. 4293201.

698 MOBILE HOME RENTALS

New Homes for Rent. 3BR/2BA starting at $700 - $850 & $1000 per month. No pets. 865-850-3874

APT FOR RENT IN KODAK: Deposit Call Barbara 865368-5338

2-3 BR Homes

Peaceful Settings

CROSSCREEK 2BR/1.5BA $545 2BR/2BA Large Garden apartment $570.00 to $580.00 865-429-4470 GATLINBURG Trolley rt. 2BR, furn. or unfurn. No pets. 865-621-3015. Nice res. area off Hwy 66 2BR 2BA Furn/unfurn. with utilities & laundry. Pets welcome. 1 yr lease $875. 865774-3553 RIVERWALK 1BR/1BA TO 2BR/2BA $545.00 to $695.00 865-429-2962 Sevierville, off Chapman Hwy, 1BR, water & W/D inlcuded. Pets welcome $450 mth, 1st & last. 865774-3553 697 CONDO RENTALS 1BR 1BA condo downtown PF. Furnished, fp, pool, ground level. $775 mth includes utilities. Deposit $400. For rent or option to buy $75,000 865-908-0170

1BR log cabin for rent. $500 mth. 865599-6681

NICE, CLEAN IN KODAK

4 BD / 2 BA + GARAGE 4 MILES FROM EXIT 407 $950/MONTH + DEPOSIT. NO PETS. 865-712-5238

Mountain View

865-933-0504 2

Bedroom mobile home. $450.00 month. $500.00 deposit. References required. Call 428-4242

3BR 2BA Overlooking PF. Fully furn. Jac, Fp, very clean, new Carpet, 2 car gar. 1st, last dam. 865-755-5325 o/a

2BR/2BA Private Lot. Conv. to 407. $685 electric/water incl. 933-8955 or 3231007.

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1,800 sq. ft. Nicely Furnished 2 Baths, PF/Gat

Nice 2BR mobile home 10 miles East of Gat. No pets! 865430-9671 or 865228-7533

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2BD / 1BA House Sevierville Area on Parkway for lease with Side Storage Building

699 HOME RENTALS

$550 to $950+. Wanda Galli Realty Exec. 680-5119 or 7744307.

850-2487 2/2 Townhome

1100 Sq. Ft. House. 1BR + loft. Beautiful view near Pigeon Forge. $825/mo., $500 deposit. 865-6966900.

Sevierville Area $

645/mo.

Some pets ok. Call for pet policy. 865-908-6789

luxury condo 2BR/2BA all extras

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BANK OWNED â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beautiful 1 yr old 2 br, 2 ba doublewide in exclusive Keenland farms. Rare opportunity for only $89,900! Bruce Webb, 9225500. Webb Properties.

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BANK OWNED â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SEVIERVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8 yr old, 3 br, 2 ba home on 2/3 acre. Needs TLC, but only $87,000. Special financing available. Brittany LeTourneau, 9225500. Webb Properties. 711 CONDOS FOR SALE 1BR 1BA condo, remodeled. Secluded mountain. Furnished. Rent with option to buy or trade for land. $59,900. 865-908-0170.

2BR/2.5BA, 1,058 SF, 1 car garage, all appliances, W/D, gas log FP, Sev. $125,000 unfurn., $128,000 furnished., 865-286-5019, or 601-507-0471. 2BR/2BA 2 car garage Condo recently remodeled. Near hospital, schools & shopping $139,900 429-2880 or 6032881.

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Duplex Large 2+2 Like new. Has it all. Yard kept. No pets. 205 Hicks Dr by BankEast. $700 mth 453-4537 c 406-1456

BANK OWNED â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Huge, detached garage w/ this 3 yr old, 3 br, 2 ba home on 2.5 acres. Need some space? This is it! Special financing a v a i l a b l e . $144,900. Bruce Webb, 922-5500. Webb Properties.

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BANK OWNED â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 br, 2 ba cottage on wooded lot. Special financing available. $95,000. Bruce Webb, 9225500. Webb Properties.

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Wears Valley

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Brand new 4BR/2.5BA home for lease. Lakeside Estates. Call for more information & pictures. $1200/mo. 865250-0212.

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3BR/2BA w/FP, very near Sev. city limits, $750/mo., $750 dep. Credit check. 865-254-0678. 4BR 3BA $1000 mth 2610 Surftide Dr in Dandridge off Exit 407. Near Dam, lake view. 865405-1478.

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3BR/2BA Boyds Creek area. $850 month. 865-368-1659 or 865-209-2201.

HUD PUBLISHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTICE All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, family status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination. State laws forbid discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-6699777, The Toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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3BR, 2BA house in Shaconage Sub. $1250/mo. + dep. Call Todd 865-7053017.

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3BR 1BA House $850, 2BR 2BA $725 in Sevierville 865256-4809 or 865654-6042

NEW 2BR 2BA house. $550 mth. 865654-0221

FULLY FURNISHED 1440sf HOUSE 4 min from Walden's Landing off Wears Valley Rd convenient to all the back roads. Cedar cottage, picturesque views from covered deck with hot tub. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, vaulted ceilings, open floor plan. Fully furnished with cabin decor. Huge master suite with corner Jacuzzi, queen bed, and fireplace. Knotty pine walls and hardwood floors in main area. (Propane heat, central air, Comcast broadband available. Maid service available.) Sorry, no smokers, cats, or large dogs. $900 and worth it. 865-862-8769. Pics at cabin.hotslap.com

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328 Ownby St, Gatlinburg: 3 bed 2 bath home, furnished with appliances inc w/d. $700 per month with $700 deposit. Cable included. 423-3071552

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Hwy 321 Pittman Center area. 1&2 BR cabin on creek. Fully furnished. Utilities included. $225 & $250 wk. 850-2487

2BR 2BA, hot tub, fully furnished cabin. across from Black Bear Jamboree. Community swimming pool. 1st, last, security. $900 mth. 865-428-2878

Large 3 level 3BR, 2.5 Bath near PF/Gat. $1050/mo. 865804-0590.

CITY OF PIGEON FORGE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION Position: Summer Camp Counselor QualiďŹ cations: Applicant must be at least 18 years old, high school diploma or equivalent and possess a valid Tennessee Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License. Must be able to obtain First Aid, CPR and Lifeguard certiďŹ cation, training provided if necessary. Duties: Supervise and lead campers in daily activities, administer ďŹ rst aid and CPR, and perform other duties as assigned. Seasonal employment: May - August, Monday - Friday and hours will vary. Applications may be picked up at the: Pigeon Forge Community Center 170 Community Center Drive Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863 Mail application to:

City of Pigeon Forge Human Resource Department PO Box 1350 Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37868-1350

The deadline to submit an application is March 26, 2010 No phone calls please. The City of Pigeon Forge is an EOE and complies with the ADA and Title VI. Applicants will be subject to a background check, driving history check, and drug test in accordance with city policy.

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The Mountain Press ◆ Sunday, March 7, 2010

THE NEW LECONTE MEDICAL CENTER IS NOW OPEN

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