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The Mountain Press ■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 141 ■ May 21, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 50 Cents

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May 21 - 27, 2010

On Smoky Mountain Entertainment

Honeymooner indicted for murder Grand Jury reviews about 200 cases

On the tube

Matthew Fox stars in “Lost,” which ends its six-season run Sunday on ABC.

5On the tube this Sunday ABC’s “Lost” closing shop after six seasons inside

By JEFF FARRELL Staff Writer SEVIERVILLE — The Sevier County Grand Jury returned met this week and reviewed about 200 cases, including a murder charge against a man who allegedly killed his newlywed wife at a Pigeon Forge hotel on their honeymoon.

The grand jury returned an indictment for first-degree murder against Brian L. Umphrey, of Athens, Tenn.

Umphrey was staying at the Days Inn at 2760 Parkway in Pigeon Forge in February with his new wife, Cassandra Maya Petry, of Rockwood, when police say he killed her.

Police found Petry dead of multiple stab rooms in their hotel room after her sister contacted them, concerned that she hadn’t heard from Petry. Umphrey was not at

the room, and authorities started a massive manhunt that ended with his arrest near Riceville.

The grand jury is a panel of 12 randomly selected county residents who meet in private to review criminal allegations to determine whether there is enough evidence to justify proceeding with a trial. They do not determine guilt or innocence.

A new grand jury is selected every two months and meets at that time to review allegations.

If a grand jury determines there is not enough evidence to merit a trial,

it can return a finding on “no true bill.” If they find there is enough evidence to proceed, they can return an indictment or a presentment.

Indictments are returned in cases where the charges against the accused party have already been announced in general sessions court, and a judge has sent the matter to the grand jury. Presentments are returned when the grand jury issues charges that had not been announced previously. Sealed presentments are kept secret until the See grand jury, Page A2

3rd Miller killing suspect arrested Had just been added to Most Wanted

By STAN VOIT Editor

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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation added the third suspect allegedly responsible for the slaying of an elderly woman in Sevier County to its list of Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives on Thursday — and promptly arrested him hours later.

Shannon Rodney Baltimore, 32, of Knoxville was wanted by the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office for the May 7 first-degree murder of 76-year-old Mary Jo Miller at her home on Day Drive in northern Sevier County. Two other suspects are already jailed on mur-

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Sports

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Big Orange Caravan pulls into town

Park euthanizes man-biting bear

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Obituaries

Photos by Curt Habraken/The Mountain Press

Above, water is the main component during the kindergarten field day at Sevierville Primary School on Thursday as students compete in the sponge relay. At left, girl power rules supreme during the tug-of-war.

Phyllis Gill, 75 Marie McKay, 82

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The bear that bit a visitor to Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been put to death, despite a major effort to save it and amid sharp criticism of the park for its plan to destroy the animal.

The park announced Thursday afternoon that the bear was euthanized on Wednesday “in accordance with widely accepted wildlife and visitor use management policies and practices.”

The 60-pound female bear, which was underweight but described as being older than the age of 2, bit a park visitor May 12 on the Laurel Falls Trail.

Despite a massive effort by people to save the bear and have it transferred to another facility or game preserve, the park says it couldn’t do that.

“Contrary to what continues to be stated

“Contrary to what continues to be stated on Web sites and blogs, transferring an animal that has attacked and injured a person, to another location, is simply not an option.”

— Park spokeswoman Nancy Gray

on Web sites and blogs, transferring an animal that has attacked and injured a person, to another location, is simply not an option,” park spokeswoman Nancy Gray said.

The bear was put to death following American Veterinarian Medical Association guidelines on euthanasia, she said. The bear will be examined for research analysis.

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Louise Mandrell to appear at Relay For Life live auction

By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor

Corrections The Mountain Press is committed to accuracy.

Please report factual errors by calling 428-0748 Ext. 214.

cer, so Relay For Life is a very important part of my life,” Weiss said.

“We were talking, and she’s always willing to (offer) support,” Weiss Country music artist and forsaid. “I said we’ve got this beautiful mer Sevier County resident Louise Mandrell will be on hand tonight dur- penthouse, it’s 1,500 square feet. She said let’s do a dinner.” ing Relay For Life of Sevier County’s Weiss said she called Dave Colburn live auction, where she and Music Road Hotel is offering a special pack- of Chef Dave’s Catering and he age to the highest bidder in an effort agreed to cater the meal.

“Then the people who purchase to help the American Cancer Society the auction can stay for a couple of fundraiser.

On the auction block is a two night nights and enjoy the penthouse and the area,” Weiss said. stay at the penthouse of Music Road Mandrell said she is “thrilled to Hotel with a catered dinner for two come” back to Pigeon Forge to help with Mandrell. The date of the even will be determined upon availability. with Relay For Life.

“I don’t know anyone that’s not Sandy Weiss, general manager of touched by that horrible disease,” she Music Road Hotel and Music road said in a telephone interview with Inn, said she was the general manThe Mountain Press. “I have three ager of the Louise Mandress Theater and remains friends with Mandrell.

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Wayne Knight, left, and clients of Douglas Cooperative set out the Torches of Hope along the walkway at Pigeon Forge as they prepare for today’s start of Relay For Life of Sevier County.

Relay For Life kicks off at 2 p.m. today and ends at 2 p.m. Saturday.

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defendants are arrested.

The clerk’s office announced the following decisions by the grand jury (Names that are listed more than once represent people who faced multiple indictments):

INDICTMENTS

Toby Jean Barber — introduction of contraband into a penal institution David Harold Barrett — driving on a revoked license Jack Dudley Bean — DUI Neil R. Berrier — two counts of aggravated assault Joseph B. Blowers — four counts of aggravated assault, one count of aggravated domestic assault Burkey C. Burkhart — domestic assault Christopher Burleigh — aggravated domestic assault Dwight Eugene Chandler — driving on a suspended license Dwight Eugene Chandler — driving on a suspended license, financial responsibility Dwight Eugene Chandler — driving on a suspended license Kevin Dome Jr. — theft under $500, possession of burglary tools, possession of drug paraphernalia Zachery A. Dunfee — public intoxication Zachery A. Dunfee — domestic assault Janel L. Embry — possession of burglary tools, possession of drug paraphernalia Peter Edward Fagan — domestic assault Stephen L. Gaines — possession of cocaine, possession of schedule VI substance, possession of drug paraphernalia Ralph Edward Gibson — theft under $500 Justin Troyce Golden — simple possession of marijuana Floyd Hammond Jr. — possession of a schedule II substance, possession of a schedule III substance and possession of a schedule IV substance Randy Lee Howard — introduction of contraband into a penal facility Jared A. Jackson — two counts of theft over $500 Jared A. Jackson — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Ashley M. Johnson — DUI Kelly A. Jones — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Nathaniel Bart King — theft under $500 Jonathan Love — domestic assault Clyde L. Martin Jr. — reckless endangerment, evading arrest Fouzi Hassan al Meraiana — use of counterfeit mark or logo Megan Mize — possession of a schedule II substance with intent to sell or deliver Andrew James Morrow — evading arrest Robert McCarter — violation of habitual motor vehicle offender John Edward Nolan — domestic assault Michael Wayne Orton — violation of sex offender registry Misty Danelle Lawson Pippin — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Kenil B. Patel — DUI, implied consent, failure to give immediate notice of an accident Kimberly Reagan — theft under $500 Fred Rowland — livestock running at large Kenneth M. Seaton — sexual battery Kenneth M. Seaton — sexual battery Kenneth M. Seaton — sexual battery Kenneth M. Seaton — sexual

The Mountain Press ◆ Friday, May 21, 2010 battery Kenneth M. Seaton — sexual battery Brittney L. Shipley — burglary - auto, theft over $1,000 Lindsey L. Slothower — driving on suspended license, theft under $500 Timothy Scott Stewart — burglary - auto, theft over $1,000 Seth Joe Summerall — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Shawn Tyler Tyminski — two counts of forgery less than $500 Kayla Whaley — simple possession Kristy Williams — possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of burglary tools and theft under $500 John Weslee Acee — aggravated assault John Weslee Acee — domestic assault Christopher Andrews — statutory rape Claudette Ruth Baker — assault Toby Jean Barber — assault Colin Bartlett — false reports, criminal impersonation Austen D. Bradshaw — DUI, possession of drug paraphernalia David P. Chandler — rape Dwight Eugene Chandler — driving on a suspended license William R. Collins — bad check law Vena Katherine Cunningham — theft under $500 Catherine Curry — robbery Rebecca F. Ecihenberger — DUI, implied consent Audra Faye Taylor Futch — driving on a revoked license, financial responsibility law, registration expired Aurdra T. Futch — theft under $500 Rick Gable — dogs not allowed at large Terry Jason Gentry —theft over $10,000 Walter Lavon Geter — DUI, implied consent violation John B. Haley — DUI, implied consent Christopher Henry — DUI, implied consent, violation of financial responsibility law Sally Lucinda Henry — theft under $500 April Hill — assault, vandalism under $500 Dean Lee House — reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon involved William A. Hughes — financial responsibility law Anthony W. Hutchison Jr. — assault David A. Julian — public intoxication Katherine Kemp — theft under $500 Wayne Knight — assault Derek F. Markley — theft under $500 Derek F. Markley — public intoxication Derek F. Markley — assault Elizabeth N. Martin — fraudulent use of debit card less than $500 Fritz Chandler Martin — theft over $1,000 Teresa G. Melas — fourth count of DUI, reckless driving Fouzie Hassan al Meriani — assault Andrew James Morrow — burglary, theft under $500 Mark Anthony Moss — sexual battery, theft under $500 Nathan L. McCollum — sexual battery, theft under $1,000 Angela Denise McMahan — theft Geoffrey Edward McGarr —

assault Marin Negrea — DUI, implied consent, speeding Thao Martin Nichols — theft under $500 Thao Martin Nichols — robbery Francisco Martin Estrada Partida — DUI Tiffany Parton — worthless check less than $500 Adlie Fred Penman — false reports Larry R. Perryman — violation of habitual motor vehicle offender, driving on a suspended license, financial responsibility law Christopher A. Phillips — domestic assault Franke Joe Phillips — public indecency Patrick L. Phillips Jr. — sale of cocaine .5 grams or more, deliver of cocaine .5 grams or more Billy Jean Pinson — theft over $1,000 Jack Lamar Pinson — theft over $1,000 Robert Steven Potter — possession of a schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, disregarding a traffic signal, driving on a suspended license Hobart W. Reagan — 15th count of DUI, driving on a revoked license, violation of habitual motor vehicle offender Sally L. Reed — theft under $500 Sally L. Reed — theft under $500 Justin Owen Roe — driving on a suspended license, underage consumption, failure to appear Justin Owen Roe — false reports, theft over $500 Justin Owen Roe — possession of a schedule VI substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving on a suspended license, light law David Clark Semon — aggravated assault Lawrence Smith — theft over $1,000 Lorraine Winter Smith — theft under $500 Jacob R. Stanton — domestic assault Christopher A. Stephens — theft over $500 Seth Joe Summerall — theft under $500 Shawn Tyler Tyminski — theft under $500 Justin Campbell Wallis — fourth count of DUI, implied consent Billy T. Wardlow — vandalism over $10,000 Holly White — theft under $500 Timothy Dee Wilson — habitual motor vehicle offender, driving on a suspended license, violation of safety belt law Edmond Walter Yazel Jr. — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Ronald D. Zalaya — possession of cocaine with intent to sell

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James G. Miller — failure to appear Ronnie Chris Stansbury — three counts of reckless endangerment Mike Farmer — aggravated assault Marin Negreda — possession of a prohibited weapon

PRESENTMENTS

first-degree murder, attempted especially aggravated robbery, three counts of aggravated assault April Renea Arwood — attempted first-degree murder, attempted especially aggravated robbery, three counts of aggravated assault Christopher Lee Asher — aggravated assault - bodily injury, leaving scene of an accident involving injury Toby Gene Barber — possession of a schedule II substance, possession of a schedule IV substance, possession of a schedule VI substance and criminal impersonation Karissa Rose Beaty — facilitation to aggravated robbery, accessory after the fact to aggravated robbery Kristie Lynn Bray — DUI John M. Brennan — theft over $500, aggravated burglary James J. Carr — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Charity N. Hayes — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Howard Erwin Helton — aggravated burglary, theft under $500 Byron Jack Inman — vehicular homicide with intoxication, reckless vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, reckless aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, DUI Katherine Kemp — aggravated burglary, theft under $500 Nathaniel Bart King — attempted aggravated burglary Justin Isaiah Lawson — theft over $500, aggravated burglary Barry Gene Litts — fourth count of DUI Wesley Harvey Lonas Jr. — aggravated rape, two counts of rape, aggravated statutory rape Gladys Mantooth — two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of theft over $1,000 Ronnie Mason — aggravated burglary, theft over $500 Ronnie Mason — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Donnie Travis Matthews — two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of theft over $1,000, three counts of vandalism, three counts of attempted theft under $500, burglary of a motor vehicle, two counts of theft under $500 Russell Merwin II — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Lee Franklin Morton — attempted first-degree murder, attempted especially aggravated robbery, three counts of aggravated assault Shawn L. Mullinax — aggravated burglary, theft of property over $60,000 Charlotte McCarter — sale of a schedule II substance, deliver of a schedule II substance Dennis McCarter — violation of habitual motor vehicle offender, DUI, implied consent, possession of drug paraphernalia Robert Lynn McCarter — burglary, theft over $500 Justin Nielsen — three counts of burglary of a motor vehicle, two counts of theft under $500, two counts of fraudulent use of a credit card John E. Nolan — second count of DUI Chad J. Parker — aggravated

burglary, theft over $1,000 Jennifer Ann Pratt — reckless endangerment, evading arrest, possession of weapon with intent to go armed, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest Tony Rice — aggravated rape, two counts of rape, aggravated statutory rape Samuel Travis Rynes — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Jamey L. Scott — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000 Michael W. Scott — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000, possession of schedule II, possession of a schedule IV substance Brittney L. Shipley — burglary of motor vehicle, theft over $1,000 Stephen Jermiah Shrader — DUI, possession of Xanax, speeding Bobby Ray Spiva — burglary, theft over $1,000 Zachary A. Stinnnett — attempted first-degree murder, especially aggravated robbery, especially aggravated burglary, three counts of aggravated assault Danyelle Sutton — three counts of burglary of a motor vehicle, two counts of theft under $500, two counts of fraudulent use of a credit card Jolene M. Swiatek — attempted first-degree murder, especially aggravated burglary, especially aggravated robbery and three counts of aggravated assault Bradley Edward Taylor — attempted aggravated robbery Kayla Whaley — DUI, vehicular assault, reckless aggravated assault with a deadly weapon John Wesley Acee — two counts of aggravated domestic assault Seth K. Ballew — DUI Barry G. Beiter Jr.— 20 counts of burglary, 18 counts of theft under $500, five counts of vandalism more than $500, two counts of vandalism more than $1,000, two counts of theft less than $500, two counts of vandalism less than $500, fraudulent use of credit card, vandalism $1,000 to $10,000 Matthew Daniel Bilek — two counts of aggravated robbery Brandon Pierre Jose Bovin — DUI Noel A. Castro — DUI, speeding Jamison R. Catlett — theft over $1,000 Lashundra Yvette Chesney — theft over $1,000, possession of shoplifting tools Larry Thomas Cochran — attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault Gregory Kyle Cole Jr. — DUI Rachel Naomi Diallo — possession of a schedule IV substance, theft under $500 Donald Wayne Greer — sale of schedule II substance, deliver of a schedule II substance Joseph R. Hancock — aggravated burglary, two counts of theft under $500 Jason Hatcher — two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of theft over $1,000 David Allen Julian — third count of DUI, violation of implied consent, violation of

habitual motor vehicle offender Kevin Eugene King — aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, reckless driving, evading arrest, DUI, driving on a suspended license, speeding, open container law Elmer Christopher Lane Jr. — DUI, speeding, financial responsibility Timothy Scott Letourneau — fourth count of DUI, violation of implied consent law, driving on a revoked license Jeffery T. Lowe — theft under $500 Gladys Manthooth — 20 counts of burglary of a motor vehicle, 18 counts of theft under $500, five counts of vandalism over $500, two counts of vandalism over $1,000, two counts of theft over $1,000, two counts of vandalism less than $500 Donna Kay Maples — two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of theft over $1,000, three counts of vandalism less than $500, four counts of theft less than $500, burglary of a motor vehicle, theft under $500 Roger Steven Montoya — domestic assault Curtls L. Ogle — two counts of possession of a schedule II substance for resale, three counts of theft over $1,000, 11 counts of theft over $500, possession of altered serial number, possession with intent to sell schedule IV substance Tiffany Parton — sale and delivery of a schedule II substance, possession of drug paraphernalia William Scott Parton — aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated burglary, aggravated assault Rodney E. Powell — aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest Ernest H. Pyle — two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, resisting arrest Shameka K. Rogers — theft over $1,000, possession of shoplifting tools David Clark Sermon — aggravated assault, criminal impersonation, evading arrest, driving on suspended license, reckless endangerment, theft of property worth $10,000 to $60,000, vandalism over $1,000 Annie Grace Smith — three counts of theft under $500 Seth Summerall — criminal trespass, theft under $500 Danyelle Sutton — aggravated burglary, theft over $500, fraudulent use of credit card Danyelle Sutton — burglary of motor vehicle, theft under $500 Kimberly Leann Walling — four counts of theft under $500 Daniel Watson — burglary, theft under $500 Robert Lee Whittaker — four counts of theft under $500 Sondra Leigh Williams — aggravated burglary, theft over $500, fraudulent use of credit card Jesse Dean Wolf — identity theft, theft over $1,000 Edmond Walter Yazel Jr. — possession of drug paraphernalia, public intoxication Edmond Walter Yazel Jr. — aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000

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Sevierville’s Chelsea Tarwater earns Girl Scout Gold Award Submitted Report

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Gatlinburg Chamber staff Jim Matuszak and Richard Buggeln grade Green checklists.

Gatlinburg Goes Green getting greener by the year Submitted Report GATLINBURG — The Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Gatlinburg Goes Green Program have come a very long way in two years.

In 2009, the goal of having 75 percent of the members enrolled in GGG was met. The 2010 goal is having at least 10 percent of GGG participants at Bronze Level status or above.

Richard Buggeln of the University of Tennessee Materials Exchange and Dottie Pickett, owner of Gabriel’s Horn in the Arts and Crafts Community, have been key players in that effort.

Buggeln edits and improves paperwork and also evaluates the checklists.

Pickett has visited more than a dozen local businesses over the past months to help managers and owners to fill out their checklists. “The Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to have such dedicated volunteers and we are committed to continuing the education of our membership in environmentally and economically sound practices within businesses in order to continue the preservation of the special jewel we have in our back yard, Great Smoky Mountains National Park,� said Executive Director Vicki Simms.

Already in 2010, the number of businesses participating at higher levels has jumped.

Bronze level: Bubba Gump Shrimp Factory, Cabins For You, Clarion Inn and Suites, Fairfield Inn & Suites- North Gatlinburg, Food City, Four Seasons Motor Lodge, Foxhill Gallery, Foxtrot Bed and Breakfast, Gabriel’s Horn, Gatlinburg Falls Resort, Hard Rock CafÊ, Highland Condominiums, Jim Gray Gallery, Laurel Springs Lodge B&B, Mountain Rentals of Gatlinburg, Ober Gatlinburg Amusement Park, Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort, Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, Sheer Envy

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Chelsea Tarwater, 18, of the Boyds Creek community in Sevierville has received the Girl Scout Gold Award.

This is the highest award available through the Girl Scouts. Nationwide, only 3,500 scouts earned the Gold Award this year.

The ceremony was held at the Knoxville Convention Center.

Congressman Jimmy Duncan, along with the adult leadership of the Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachia, presented the Gold Award. Duncan also presented an American flag that once flew over the U.S. Capitol to each recipient.

Tarwater’s project addressed the lack of usable space in Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church.

She took t h r e e rooms that had previously only been used for storage and, Tarwater through renovation and planning, turned them into a new children’s Sunday School room, a crib nursery and a pastor’s office.

Tarwater put in 126 hours into the project, with 154 hours from all volunteers.

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ating senior at Sevier County High School.

She is a member of the National Honor Society, Senior Beta Club, a Governor’s School attendee, and a member of the Scholars Bowl team. In the fall, she will be attending Maryville College as a Presidential Scholar.

Throughout her years in Girl Scouts, she has also earned the Bronze Award and Silver Award.

She is the daughter of Michael and Pamela Tarwater, the sister of Jordan Tarwater, and the granddaughter of Benton and Margaret Trundle of Sevierville, and Jerry and Delores Tarwater of Parrottsville.

Pigeon Forge’s Linda Ogle named Walters State CC Foundation secretary Submitted Report

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Gabriel’s Horn owner Dottie Pickett receives applause at the 2010 Earth Day Festival in Mynatt Park.

Hair and Nails, Smoky Mountain Babies and Trotter and Associates Architects.

Silver Level: A. Jann Peitso Art!, All Sauced Up, BlueGreen Mountain Loft Resort, Citizens National Bank, Cliff Dwellers Gallery, Covered Bridge in the Glades, Ely’s Mill Crafts and Antiques and Sevier County Bank.

Gold Level: Blalock Ready Mix, NOC’s Great Outpost, Rothe Green Architecture and Planning and SmartBank.

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is a voluntary program that recognizes member businesses that have made a commitment to improve their operations in order to reduce their environmental impact.

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There are four levels of the Gatlinburg Goes Green program: Entry, Bronze, Silver and Gold.

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Linda Ogle of Pigeon Forge has been elected secretary of the Walters State Community College Foundation.

Awards were presented and officers elected at the annual meeting of the organization’s trustees.

Eleanor Yoakum, chairwoman of the board at First Century Bank in Tazewell, replaces Sam Miller, president of Consumer Credit Union in Greeneville, as president of the foundation board.

Michael Fishman, publisher and general manager of the Citizen Tribune newspaper in Morristown, was elected vice president.

Henry Drinnon, vice president for college advancement at Walters State, was named treasurer.

The Laughlin Memorial Hospital Board of Directors was presented with the Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Philanthropy.

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It was reported during the meeting that the Walters State foundation has a current fund balance of $12.3 million.

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obituaries In Memoriam

Phyllis Deane Gill Phyllis Deane Gill age 75 of Sevierville, passed away Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at Sevier County Health Care Center.

Survivors include her sons, Lance Yarber and wife Lisa, Lenoir (Stan) Yarber and wife Judy; grandchildren, Vanessa Foshie, Sara Roach, Jonathan Yarber, and Christian Yarber; great-grandchildren, Levi Foshie, Jayla Foshie, Kaylee Roach, and Kaden Roach. The family would like to extend a special thanks to her extended family and the entire staff of Sevier County Health Care Center, especially Travis and Ruth.

No services are planned. Cremation arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

Savor garden all year by canning Many people are deciding to grow vegetables for a variety of reasons. Perhaps it is enjoyment, family tradition, saving grocery money, health benefits, or just “bragging rights� at the county fair.

Many people are now enjoying gardens as a hobby. Others are concerned about recent issues and want to be sure their produce is safe to handle and consume. And the real truth, is that nothing tastes as good as fresh, homegrown vegetables.

Remember you can savor the bounty of your garden all year by freezing or canning fruits/vegetables.

a home canning class to demonstrate these methods on June 10 at the Extension Office. The same class will be held twice that day. The first class will be from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; second class from 5:30-9 p.m.

Participants will receive an updated research based People have been doing this UT Extension Freezing/ for years. However, due to Canning Book. food safety research, the Cost is $25 due by June methods have changed.

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Marie G. McKay Marie G. McKay, 82 of Sevierville, passed away Thursday May 20, 2010. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Atchley Funeral Home.

Obama party-crashers arrested few blocks from White House WASHINGTON (AP) — They just couldn’t stay away.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the party crashers from the Obama administration’s first state dinner, managed to get themselves a cameo on the fringes of the second.

The publicity-hungry couple were in a limousine that was stopped by a Secret Service officer just blocks from the White House on Wednesday night as the Obamas’ second state dinner was under way inside. Their driver was ticketed at about 8 p.m. after running a red light and signaling an intent to turn into a restricted area near the Ellipse behind the White House, according to Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan.

The incident didn’t seem to put a damper on the Salahi’s spirits.

The northern Virginia couple and a group of friends next popped up at a restaurant a few blocks from the White House — with photographers and cameras in tow. “They had a great time with their friends,� said Athina Balda, marketing manager for Kellari Taverna. “There were a lot of cameras and photographers.�

Balda said the group of 10-12 people was there from about 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., and that there was a lot of filming going on.

The Salahis reportedly have landed a part on Bravo’s upcoming reality TV show “The Real Housewives of DC,� but the network is keeping up the tease about whether the couple made the cut. Cameron Blanchard, a spokeswoman for the network, said the cameras filming the Salahis on Wednesday weren’t working for the network or its production company.

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nel monitored the Laurel Falls Trail since the incident occurred. “They did not identify another bear with the type of behavior that was exhibited by the bear involved in the incident,�

Gray said. “Comparison of the bear with the photographs, taken by a visitor on the day in question, confirmed we were dealing with the same animal.�

Because the bear had become used to eating food from humans — there were reports visitors had been feeding this bear around Laurel Falls Trail for at least two weeks before it bit somebody — it couldn’t be put back into the wild. Appalachian

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friends dying of cancer, one that knows she probably has longer than the other two, but it doesn’t matter if you know you have five years or five months, every day is precious.�

Mandrell’s own father was a cancer survivor and she lost an uncle to the disease. “My Uncle Al, who helped raise me,� she said. “I just want to encourage anyone who has lost someone to cancer or knows someone with cancer to come (to Relay For Life),� Mandrell added. “It helps the grieving process

Bear Rescue in Townsend wasn’t an option because it usually is given younger bears that have been orphaned or injured, not bears that have had this kind of contact with humans and can’t be returned to the wild.

Gray said park officials hope the incident and the attention it got will make people learn policies and procedures that keep animals from being in peril when they come into contact with humans. “We sincerely hope that the intense focus directed at this particular animal will now be directed at gaining the public’s cooperation in adhering to the rules and regulations designed to protect both wildlife and visitors while visiting not only the Great Smoky Mountains, but all public lands,� she said.

because you’re doing something about it. What a wonderful way to honor a loved one you’ve lost to cancer, to get out and make a difference to someone in the future.� n gcrutchfield@themountainpress.com

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botulism. UT Extension is sponsoring a Check Your Pressure Canner Day on June 16 from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Extension Office.

This only pertains to dial gauges. Weighted gauges do not need to be checked for accuracy.

There is no cost for this service.

Know the correct methods and enjoying canning those home grown vegetables this summer. — Linda Hyder is a Sevier County agricultural extension service agent who works with family and consumer sciences programs. Call her at 453-3695 or e-mail to lhyder@ utk.edu.

arrests Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from the intake reports at the Sevier County Jail. All people listed within this report are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

u Dennis Carl Bailey, 53, of 613 Asheville Highway Lot 8 in Kodak, was charged May 19 with violation of implied consent law, driving while revoked and a fourth count of DUI. He was being held in lieu of $25,000 bond. u Anthony Eugene Barnes, 41, of Newport, was charged May 18 with forgery. He was released on $6,000 bond. u Travis Bohanan Jr., 27, of 253 Ironwood Drive in Kodak, was charged May 18 with theft of property and a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court. He was being held.

u Trenton Daniel Brooks, 27, of 3824 N. Bryan Way in Kodak, was charged May 18 with driving on a suspended license nand DUI. He was being held in lieu of $3,500 bond. u Kurt Louis Churchill, 31, of 1585 Jasmine Trail in Sevierville, was charged May 19 with disorderly conduct. He was being held in lieu of $1,500 bond. u Jeremy Mitchell Crews, 31, of 234 Rayfield Lane in Sevierville, was charged May 18 with being a fugitive from justice. He was being held. u Paul Douglas Gabrylczyk, 29, of 1107 Pine Hollow Way in Seymour, was charged May 19 with driving while revoked. He was released on $1,500 bond. u John Walter Gunter, 45, of Newport, was charged May 19 with a

second count of violation of probation. He was being held. u Bobby Ray Huskey, 44, of 260 Ingel Hollow Road in Sevierville, was charged May 18 with domestic violence assault. He was released on $2,500 bond. u Misty Dawn Maggard, 30, of 2803 Candy Dump Road in Sevierville, was charged May 18 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court. She was being held. u Stacy Wayne Myers, 42, of Townsend, was charged May 18 with violation of a valid court order.

He was being held. u Grady Wayne Ogle, 39, of 426 Ski Mountain Apt. 129 in Gatlinburg, was charged May 18 with child abuse: neglect and assault. He was being held in lieu of $10,000 bond. u Guillermo Dimas Rodriguez, 26, of 833

Golden Circle in Pigeon Forge, was charged May 18 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court. He was being held. u Flavio Sacayon, 20, of 727 Hatcher Circle in Pigeon Forge, was charged May 18 with DUI, driving on a suspended license and speeding. He was released on $2,500 bond. u John Richard Sprouse, 33, of 2707 Grassy Branch Loop in Gatlinburg, was charged May 19 with violation of probation. He was being held. u Elmer Kenneth Taulbee, 56, of 451 Mill Creek Road #4 in Pigeon Forge, was charged May 19 with domestic violence assault. He was released on $1,000 bond. u Jessica Elaine Thomas, 20, of Knoxville, was charged May 19 with driving on a suspended license. She was released.

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der charges.

Baltimore and two other men allegedly entered the victim’s home, robbed her and shot her to death.

Baltimore was arrested at 5:32 p.m. in Knoxville near the intersection of Broadway and Magnolia Avenue according to Knoxville Police Department Sgt. Bradley Anders.

Baltimore is described as a 6-foot-2 white male weighing approximately 205 pounds.

He has brown hair, brown eyes and numerous tattoos on his chest, back, neck, shoulders and arms. He is considered armed and dangerous and should be approached with extreme caution.

TBI says Baltimore has a criminal history that dates to 1997 and includes arrests for evading arrest, drug charges, robbery, aggravated assault and burglary. He is a convicted felon and has spent time in prison.

Steven Weaver, 56, was captured May 11 in Knoxville along with 52-year-old Theodore Ratliff. Both already have been charged with first-degree murder.

Weaver was also wanted for a parole violation from Davidson County.

There were no signs of forced entry at the Miller

These pictures of murder suspect Shannon Rodney Butler were released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on Thursday. home, Sheriff’s Detective Jeff McCarter said at the time her body was found, leading investigators to believe Miller knew at least one of the people who entered her home. Neighbors said they believed Weaver knew Miller through her daughter, Terri Cooper, who recently died.

He had acted as a handyman for the woman, helping in her garden and around her home, the neighbors said.

According to the complaints filed against Ratliff and Weaver, a witness saw them enter Miller’s home on Day Drive on May 7, along with another person now believed to have been Baltimore.

The witness said the group was in Miller’s house for about 15 minutes, and during that time the witness heard a “pop� from Miller’s

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Deputies said it appeared a dresser in Miller’s home had been ransacked.

The complaint also notes Miller was found dead in her living room floor with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head and injuries to her neck.

She had been battling cancer, and neighbors speculated her killers might have been looking for medication she took. n svoit@themountainpress.com

NASHVILLE (AP) — Legislation that requires proof of citizenship before registering to vote would violate a federal law meant to get more people to vote but is not unconstitutional, Tennessee’s attorney general opined.

The opinion released

by Attorney General Bob Cooper says the proposal would go against the so-called Motor Voter Act, a 17-year-old law that requires states to let people register to vote at state agencies and by mail, The Tennessean reported.

But Cooper said the bill does not necessarily violate the U.S. Constitution or the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the federal law aimed at eliminating discrimination at the polls.

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Pigeon Forge trims $2 million from budget

By STAN VOIT Editor PIGEON FORGE — City officials have managed to trim more than $2 million from a projected deficit, mainly by eliminating some matching grants and refiguring revenue estimates.

City commissioners were told about the budget changes during a work session this week.

The city also plans to pursue selling its tourism offices on the Parkway and moving those workers to renovated quarters in the City Hall annex.

The city had projected a $2.7 million budget deficit a few weeks ago, and was looking at dipping into reserves to make up the difference for the next fiscal year. But City Manager Earlene Teaster, Assistant City Manager Eric Brackins and finance director Dennis Clabo did the numbers again.

They cut $813,000 from expenses, chiefly by eliminating matching grants for the fire station, City Park renovations and phase 3 of the Greenway project. Then, using state revenue forecasts, they projected income to go up by $1.3 million.

All of the new math still would leave Pigeon Forge about $584,000 in the hole entering a new fiscal year in July.

That means the city likely will need to dip into its roughly $30 million reserve fund to make up the difference, officials said during the work session. “We need to get the budget balanced,� Brackins said.

Losing the matching grants will affect some projects. For example the $225,000 to match a grant for phase 2 of City Park renovations probably will mean loss of the grant. But the fire station money may not be lost since the grant is good through 2012. Same with the

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grant for taking the Greenway project from Patriot Park to Jehu Street.

The extra $1.3 million in revenue came after the state revised its numbers because of an improving economy, and the revenue from the past couple of months in Pigeon Forge showed some life. The city also has the Titanic attraction as well as a new restaurant and a new hotel. City officials added a 2 percent growth in revenue to the 2010-2011 budget, including $695,000 in new business revenue and $440,000 in increased tax revenue. “This is definitely better than negative numbers,�

Commissioner Kevin McClure said of the revised budget.

Revenues had been down around 8 percent for the year until a turnaround in April.

City officials had long been thinking about selling the tourism offices on the Parkway

across from Bullfish restaurant, and now that idea has new life because of budget woes.

Brackins said the city can renovate three meeting rooms in the City Hall annex for around $340,000 to make room for the tourism offices.

The current offices are on what may be valuable property.

The city probably will take proposals for the land if and when it decides to sell it; that way officials can ask for the intended use of the land, thus ensuring it is used for something that generates revenue.

The proposed budget has no cost-of-living raises for employees, in order to trim expenses.

Clabo said each 1 percent in employee raises costs around $115,000. Step raises, also not in the budget, would cost around $40,000.

Also not in the budget is money to buy land for a new wastewater treatment plant,

something the city has discussed. Teaster said engineering for the project is being done, but a new plant cannot be built without government financial help in the form of grants or low-interest loans. Mayor Keith Whaley said it’s still possible the city will expand the current plant rather than build one somewhere else.

Commissioner Randal Robinson wanted to go through the proposed budget page by page, but Whaley discouraged that, saying “we’d be here forever� if that approach were taken. Robinson did ask several questions about budget items during the hour-long work session, and Teaster encouraged him to come by her office for more explanation.

The budget will be on the City Commission agenda for first reading next month. n svoit@themountainpress.com

Kagan: Open, assertive at Harvard

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON — Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, gets high marks as a peacemaker for the fractious faculty of Harvard Law School while she was dean. But even her supporters here say she also has a temper.

Professor Charles Fried, while calling Kagan “masterful� for her ability to work well with the diverse faculty at Harvard, recalled how she once blew up at him after some students said there were pages missing from a constitutional law exam.

Fried said he sent an e-mail to students explaining a resolution he

thought had been approved. But, in fact, Kagan had worked out a different resolution. “She came steaming into my office and said, ’Why have you done that?

It’s a confusing situation and you’ve made it worse.’ She screamed and shouted at me and slammed the door and stormed out,� Fried said. “Two minutes later, she came back and said, ’I’m sorry I shouted.’ I said, ’Elena, don’t apologize, you were right.� “She was dynamic, aggressive, sometimes abrasive,� said Detlev Vagts, a professor who clashed with Kagan over the appointment of Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the Bush administra-

tion. “There was quite a turnover of her top management group when she was named dean,� he said.

Critics initially balked at Goldsmith’s appointment, questioning whether he had helped write memos authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. In a book published in 2007, Goldsmith said he had rescinded two memos — written by attorneys who previously ran the Office of Legal Counsel — that gave the military and the CIA broad latitude in interrogating prisoners.

Kagan was able to win strong support for Goldsmith and the faculty easily approved his appointment.

2 cops killed during I-40 traffic stop WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Two Arkansas police officers were fatally shot Thursday during a traffic stop, and a short time later, two suspects were killed in a separate shootout in a crowded Wal-Mart parking lot, authorities said.

A local sheriff and chief deputy were wounded in the parking lot shootout and were taken to a hospital, authorities said.

The West Memphis police officers were killed after pulling over a white van with Ohio license plates on Interstate 40 Thursday afternoon, authorities said. One of the slain officers is the son the of the city’s police department.

The suspects fled the scene in the van, and were later surrounded by authorities, some carrying assault rifles, who swarmed the parking lot that was packed with other cars. The suspects were killed in the shootout, and the Crittenden County sheriff and his deputy were wounded, authorities said.

One witness described the scene on Interstate 40 as “chaos.� Stacy

Gilchrist said she saw a police officer lying in the road when she pulled up. “It was a disaster, cars were just going everywhere,� Gilchrist told Memphis television station WMC. It was not immediately clear why the police officers pulled over the van and details about the suspects were not immediately known.

Sheriff Richard Busby, who was shot in the arm, and Deputy W.A. Wren, who was shot in the abdomen, were taken to a local hospital, said

Larry Godwin, the safety director in Memphis, Tenn. Busby’s condition was not immediately known while Wren was in critical condition, a spokesman at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis said.

The two West Memphis police officers killed were Brandon Paudert and Bill Evans. Paudert is the son of West Memphis police chief Bob Paudert and was assigned to the police department’s drug unit, Bob Paudert said.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said the killings

were a reminder of the risks that police face. “I have reached out to express my condolences to the entire West Memphis Police Department, including Sergeant Paudert’s father, Chief Bob Paudert,� Beebe said in a statement. “This is a loss shared by all Arkansans.�

Outside the West Memphis Police Department station on Thursday, officers went in and out, some hugging each other as they passed.

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Sevierville police detectives are investigating a suspicious death at 1630 Turtle Dove Trail, officials said Thursday. Officers went to that residence just after 10 a.m. Monday after a concerned relative had been unable to contact the resident.

Officer Paul Lamon observed what appeared to be an unconscious man inside. He entered the home and discovered 62-year-old Carlos W. Reeves Jr. Reeves was later pronounced dead at LeConte Medical Center.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Kevin Bush at453-5506. n

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Local man faces solicitation charge

A 46-year-old Sevierville man has been charged with solicitation of a minor following an on-line undercover operation by the Blount County Sheriff’s Office.

Jerry J. Maltempi, 46, is being held in the Blount County Detention Facility on a $25,000 bond pending a hearing in General Sessions Court at 9 a.m. May 28.

Since February, officers have been conducting an online investigation on Maltempi, officials said. The investigation ended when the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office picked up Maltempi at his Sevierville residence on the Blount County warrant. Blount deputies later took Maltempi into custody. n

The U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America’s Hot Brass will be in concert at 6 p.m. Monday at the Civic Center.

The band performs a variety of music, including rock, funk, jazz, blues, soul, swing and country, as well as the latest pop hits.

The concert is free, but tickets must be reserved by calling 868-1893 starting Monday (limit of four per person).

Tickets can be picked up 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the Civic Center.

Doors will open for seating at 5:30.

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Gym equipment, books solicited

Sevier County High School is collecting books and sports equipment to send to Catlettsburg Elementary School.

All books will be accepted (books not ageappropriate will be taken to McKay’s Used Books and CDs and traded for children’s books).

Any extra sports equipment (new or used) is welcome.

For information contact Nichole Indelicato at 805-5401 or e-mail to nichole-marie@comcast. net. n

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UT officials brace to lose $112M KNOXVILLE (AP) — A member of the University of Tennessee board says he foresees the day when only a fraction of the university’s funding will come from government.

The prediction by board Vice Chairman Jim Murphy comes as UT prepares for a reduction of $112 million in state support by fiscal year 2012 from four years earlier.

“We’ve got some major capital needs that are going to have to be addressed, and they’re going to have to be addressed in all likelihood through con-

tributions by donors and tuition — they’re not going to get addressed by state money,” Murphy said.

“We’re heading toward a situation where the bulk of our funding is going to be private and tuition, and a very small percentage is going to be state appropriations.”

Murphy spoke Wednesday, during a meeting on the Knoxville campus of the trustees’ Committee on Effectiveness and Efficiency for the Future — a panel looking for ways the UT campuses can

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University Interim President Jan Simek said of the looming government funding cuts, “I think it’s disturbing to all of us.”

State appropriations to UT have been shrinking over the past decade and account for 43 percent of the university’s revenues.

Forty-two percent comes from tuition and fees, 10 percent from grants and contracts, and 5 percent from private donations.

Referring to the state funding reduction coming

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a year from now, Murphy said, “This is going to have a major impact on what we do. There’s not a way to just absorb these levels of cuts by being a little more efficient.”

He said classes will be larger and the course offerings will be more limited in the future.

The committee also heard a report on how the Complete College Tennessee Act will affect UT. The statute, signed into law in January, allocates state money based in part on degree completion rates at state universities.

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Nineteen people were killed when a charter plane crashed in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.

Death claimed actor Sir John Gielgud at age 96. n

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Afleet Alex regained his footing and his drive after being cut off by Scrappy T in a frightening collision and breezed home to win the Preakness Stakes. n

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“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” — Carl Schurz, American politician (1829-1906).

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NEW YORK — Three years after officially divorcing rock icon Eddie Van Halen, actress Valerie Bertinelli is preparing to give marriage another try. In an interview with AARP Magazine, Bertinelli t h e 50-yearold star opened up about her engagement to longtime boyfriend Tom Vitale, who proposed after a romantic night out in Florence.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

—United States Constitution, Amendment One

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commentary

Pentagon still trying to hide key materials Henry Fairlie, the British-American contrarian who wrote for The New Republic and The Washington Post, among many others, derided the publication of the Pentagon Papers as nothing more than a summary of what Americans already knew about the war in Vietnam.

To prove his point in those pre-Google days, Fairlie spent hour after hour plowing through newspaper, magazine and government archives, finding stories and public documents revealing the same information the Defense Department was classifying during the 1960s.

Is the same thing happening now in regard to Afghanistan? It sure looks that way to me.

Take this last week as an example of what Fairlie wrote about almost 50 years ago.

The Pentagon has released a 150-page “Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan,” one of a series of unclassified evaluations required to be filed every six months by congressional mandate.

The Pentagon report, in the executive summary, says: “Operationally, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), in coordination with the Afghan Government, has commenced conduct of clear, hold, build, sustain, and transition operations throughout Afghanistan as part of an 18-month civilmilitary campaign plan. ... Combined ISAF, ANSF (Afghan security forces), and Afghan and international civilians continue to make progress in Marjah. Consolidating gains and continuing to deny the Taliban the ability to re-establish a foothold will be the focus for continued operations. These events collectively demonstrate the increasing proficiency of the ANSF and increased engagement by the Afghan Government.”

So far, so good, but one of the first reporters to read the whole thing, Fred Kaplan of Slate.com, wrote: “A few disheartening lines from its executive summary were duly recited by the media. But the full report is a hair-raiser.

The news is almost all bad; and the few bits of good news turn out, on close inspection, to be extremely misleading. ... Things in that unhappy country are going badly — much worse, of course, than Team Obama had to pretend this week, but quite a bit worse than even a sensible skeptic might think.”

The reason the Obama administration had to “pretend” was that our sometimes pretend ally, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, was in Washington to talk about progress, some of it pretend progress — just as it was in Vietnam.

The biggest progress talked about by the Pentagon (in that summary) had to do with clearing and holding territory in the Marja region, where NATO troops, mostly Americans, had launched a major military -clear and hold -- operation in February.

Then Monday, Carlotta Gall of The New York Times reported, on page one, that indeed Marja had been cleared, but was not being held. The headline read: Farmers Flee Area Taken by U.S., Saying Taliban Still Hold Sway The copy, based on dozens of interviews with farmers running for their lives, was both frustrating and heart-breaking.

Frustrating for Americans; life-breaking for local Afghans: “Over 150 families have fled Marja in the last two weeks, according to the Afghan Red Crescent Society in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. “Marja residents arriving here last week, many looking bleak and shell-shocked, said civilians had been trapped by the fighting, running a gantlet of mines laid by insurgents and firefights around government and coalition positions. The pervasive Taliban presence forbids them from having any contact with or taking assistance from the government or coalition forces. “’People are leaving; you see 10 to 20 families each day on the road who are leaving Marja due to insecurity,’ said a farmer, Abdul Rahman, 52, who was traveling on his own. ‘It is now hard to live there in this situation.’”

Another farmer, Mir Hamza, added: “I am sure if I stay in Marja I will be killed one day either by Taliban or the Americans.”

I take his word. Hamza knows better what is happening than the Pentagon does. I assume most of us do, and we will admit that in “Pentagon Papers” released or leaked in 20 years or so.

— Richard Reeves, a presidential scholar and expert on six presidents, is the author of several books, including profiles of Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Column distributed by Universal Syndicate.

Editorial

Celebrating 25

This weekend’s Relay For Life benefits cause that affects everybody Today and Saturday, the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life celebrates the 25th anniversary of the national fundraising event. The dual themes, appropriately, are “celebrating more birthdays” and “25 years of Hope.”

Hundreds will gather today and for a good part of Saturday at Patriot Park in Pigeon Forge. Many will stay through the night for the event.

As Relay celebrates its 25th birthday, local officials hope more than 150 local cancer survivors will turn out.

Some are survivors of a few months, some for decades. Regardless, more than 11 million people in America are living with cancer.

Dozens of teams have been work-

ing tirelessly for months to ensure that Relay will again be a success.

Hundreds of volunteers are participating.

Although there will be poignant moments — the Survivors Lap, Luminaria ceremony and Fight Back Ceremony — there will be definitely be much to make Relay into a celebration of life. There will be themed laps: poker, pajama party laps, walk backward laps, walk with a buddy laps and more.

Among the things away from the track are children’s games, line dancing, bingo, a noodle fight, charades, a rooster crowing contest, volleyball, a cheese puff toss and a frozen T-shirt contest.

In the quarter of a century ACS had held Relay For Life, $3.5 billion has been raised nationally. More than $2 million of that has been contributed by the local events. ACS designed its signature fundraiser to last through the night “because cancer never sleeps.”

Cancer affects everybody. It doesn’t discriminate. It can attack any person of any age. It knows no socio-economic boundaries. Country star Louise Mandrell, who once owned a theater in Pigeon Forge, will be on hand — she recently lost her father to cancer.

Someone you know and love has had cancer. Support Relay For Life with by attending or with a donation. For them and for yourself.

Political view

Public forum Park urged not to euthanize the bear that bit the visitor

Editor: Now, I think I’ve heard just about everything. On my way to Sevierville I heard a radio newscast, in which it was explained that a man had a run-in with a 60-pound bear.

He was bitten with no life-threatening injury.

The bite was so slight that it didn’t need medical attention.

The bear was caught and, according to the newscast, the national park is going to kill her if they find that it was the one.

This poor bear was, first of all, in its own habitat, probably minding its own business, and a tourist needing more than the sheer pleasure of just viewing the bear, needed to take its picture. Well, duh, did this man think it was just going to stand there and pose for the picture? This is wildlife, man, it’s going to do something. Bears are curious.

Something is wrong with this picture. I can just see this man showing off the photo.

“Here’s a picture of a little bear that I personally caused the death of. It no longer lives on this earth, no longer walks and plays with its mother, because I needed to capture this here photo to show you all.”

I urge the park not to put this bear down because of the carelessness of an uneducated tourist. The man is guilty of getting too close to the bear. What kind of summer are we

going to have if we start killing off the wildlife for just being in their own habitat and being curious when someone gets too close to them?

These little guys have been trained to protect themselves and stay away from strangers, just as you would your own young. At least this bear just gave the man a nip.

Don’t do it, please.

Doris J. Kruk Gatlinburg

lies pushing babies in strollers, little kids laughing and running. If this bear was to grow up, what would she teach her cubs?

People are a food source; approach them and if they don’t give you any food, eat them.

I also saw a timber rattlesnake not 10 feet from the trail. It was just a few yards above where I photographed the bear, but no one wanted to stop and take a photo. Why? It rattled and said, I am deadly.

I saw tourists run from there because they knew was deadly and that it could kill them.

Photographer says don’t blame I wishittourists had rattles so the bears could victim; blame those who fed bear know they could kill them.

Mark Shelton Editor: Sevierville I am the photographer who took the pictures of the bear that appeared in The Mountain Press.

Wisdom from Indian chief I do not blame the guy who was taking pictures of the bear when he was bitten, for the applies to bear situation death of this bear. I blame the people who fed Editor: the bear before he ever got there. They senAn Indian chief once said, “If you talk to tenced her to death when they fed her from the animals they will talk to you, and you will their picnic. know each other, If you do not talk to them, What part of “Don’t feed the animals” don’t you will not know them, and what you do you understand? This is not a Disney film not know you will fear, What one fears, one where you can walk up to cute furry animals destroys.” and have a photo op with your new best I’m not sure that bobbing your heads up friend. This is their home and we are just visi- and down like drones and repeating “we have tors; we must always remember we are just a policy, we have a policy, we have a policy” visitors. qualifies as talking.

What scares me the most? Yeah, a guy Alisa Murphy got bit on the foot. I saw dozens of famiGatlinburg

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BIG ORANGE CARAVAN

Dooley: ‘Lot of inexperience’ for Vols New football coach addresses Sevier County alumni at Big Orange Caravan

By JASON DAVIS Sports Editor SEVIERVILLE — Speaking to a packed house of Sevier County alumni of the University of Tennessee Thursday, coach Derek Dooley made it clear that Tennessee fans will need patience as the new coach builds a program from the devastation wreaked by three head coaches in three seasons.

“I don’t think there’s been an SEC program out there in its history that’s going into the season with five new offensive linemen, a new quarterback and a new runner,” Dooley told the crowd at the Big Orange Caravan at River Plantation RV Park in Sevierville. “But we’re in great shape beyond that.”

After a brief nervous laugh from the audience, Dooley detailed things the program needs to happen to move back the Vols’ rightful position competing for the top of the SEC. First among those was building upon the programs’ numbers, which Dooley said have been depleted thanks to the instability of the past two years.

“There’s some inevitable truths,” Dooley said. “As excited as we are and as excited as our team is ... whenever you have three head coaches in three years there’s going to naturally be some attrition with the team. (And) you don’t maybe have the recruiting classes that you would have with stability and winning.

And so that leaves us going into next season with a lot of inexperience and a lot of concerns with our depth.”

Jason Davis/The Mountain Press

Coach Derek Dooley (above) gets a laugh from voice of the Vols Bob Kesling as he tells a story about his difficulty finding the location of Thursday’s Big Orange Caravan in Sevierville. At right, coach Bruce Pearl talks to Sevierville businessman Jim Ogle before the start of the presentation at the Big Orange Caravan.

But Dooley said he’s confident the players that have remained and the new players coming in will be of the right mentality to get the turnaround started.

“It’s opportunity, and that’s what this profession is about, that’s what athletics is about — opportunity. I think there’s two things that go with that. Number one is the few returning players who were productive last year,

it’s very important that continue to play well and they continue to grow, and then we’re going to have to get (the newcomers) in there and grown up soon.

“We have some really talented young players that I’m excited about, that I think are going to really forge a great foundation for the future, and we’ve just got to get them to grow up fast,” Dooley said.

“Will it be challenging?

Of course it will. But we’re

got to do a good job as coaches of bringing them along, not giving them too much. We want them to be able to play fast, play to their capacity, the challenge is you’ve got to do enough to where you’re competitive ... but you don’t want to put too much on them where they don’t play well.”

Dooley also spoke of changing the culture of the program.

“Given what happened,

and where our program’s been the last two years, it was very important that we all sat down, and I sat down with every player individually,” the coach said. “I sat down with the seniors and talked about our culture andß our brand and what we represent out there. Because the fact of the matter is the perception of our program is not what I know every fan wants it to be. This is the question I gave them

— when our fans leave Neyland Stadium ... what do you want them to say about you? What do you want them to say about our football program, what do you want them to say about our team?

“You’d be amazed at the responses,” Dooley continued. “Coach, we want them to think that we’re a disciplined football team, we want them to think that we play with great effort and toughness. We want them to think that we play together as a team.

“They said all the right things, and I believe that’s what they want deep down.

So then we began the process of redefining our culture so that we can better serve the state, we can better serve this institution, and I can tell you in time it’s going to be something you can be real proud of.

And at the end of the day, we’re really not doing anything new, we’re just re-establishing what Tennessee was for so long.”

Dooley also addressed several other issues at the forefront of most Volunteer fans’ minds.

• Who’ll hold down the quarterback position for the Vols this fall?

“I don’t think any coach, no matter how talented the quarterbacks may be, feels good when they’re going into a season with inexperience at that position,” Dooley said. “We have two young men who had a great spring. Matt Simms came out the starter, he’s a little more experienced, a little more mature. He’s older and he does some nice things with his feet, he’s got a good strong arm.

Tyler Bray really should be going to his prom here in the next couple of weeks, but he enrolled mid-year.

He’s a true freshman, (and) he’s got a very good arm.

It’ll be fun to watch their progress. At the end of the day they’ve been on campus four months. They’re See DOOLEY, Page A9

PREP HARDBALL

Tigers hardballers drop region championship at Gibbs, 9-4

By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer KNOXVILLE — The Gibbs Eagles have been the nemesis of the season for the Pigeon Forge Tigers hardball team, dealing the Orange-and-Black squad half of their losses this season.

In a game reminiscent of the District 3-AA Tournament Championship at Pigeon Forge, the homestanding Gibbs Eagles rode a fourth inning full of Pigeon Forge miscues to a 9-4 region championship win Wednesday night at Steve Hunley Field.

Although the loss to Gibbs (25-11) was the Tigers (30-6) third disappointment against the Eagles this year, the Pigeon Forge season remains alive.

The Tigers, who finished third at the state tournament last year, will travel to Unicoi County on Friday to take on the Blue Devils for a sectional contest in which the winner will punch a ticket to Murfreesboro next week as one of the final eight AA programs with their seasons still alive.

“We’ve got to put this behind us and get ready for Friday at Unicoi County, and we’ll get back to work

Cobey Hitchcock/The Mountain Press

Pigeon Forge coach Mike Guinn, right, argues a call at first base during Wednesday night’s region championship contest at Gibbs Eagles. Gibbs dealt the Tigers a 9-4 loss. and we’ll be ready to play,” said Pigeon Forge coach Mike Guinn, following the loss. “Basically, we’ve got to come out (Friday) a little more focused.

“We’ve got a big ball game Friday, but we’re going to try to not make it too big. We’re just going to come out to play.”

Wednesday night, the Eagles blew a close 1-0 game wide open in the bottom of the fourth inning.

After Gibbs loaded the

bases with no outs, a fielding error on short stop Bret Gallihugh, a throwing error on starting pitcher Wil Crowe on a pick-off attempt at first base, and a past ball on catcher Josh Miller led to four quick Eagles runs and a 5-0 Gibbs edge. The Eagles added another run later in the inning to make it 6-0 after four.

“Uncharacteristically, we played poor defense,” said Guinn. “We didn’t handle

the small ball very well, we didn’t handle the ground balls very well, and we just had a very poor inning in the infield and Gibbs made us pay for it.”

Pigeon Forge fought back, however, with a fourrun two-out rally in the top of the fifth, cutting the Gibbs lead to 6-4.

Gallihugh cracked the Pigeon Forge goose egg with a two-out RBI single to left, scoring senior Trevor Matthews from sec-

ond base and cutting the Gibbs edge to 6-1.

After Crowe jammed the bags with a walk, senior Hayden Whaley drew an RBI walk to cut it to 6-2.

Tigers freshman Drake Byrd stepped to the plate, and a wild pitch

by Gibbs’ Brenton Bates allowed Gallihugh to score from third and the other Orange-and-Black runners to advance to second and third.

Byrd walked to load the bases again, and this time it was the Eagles’ turn to boot a ball, which is what happened when freshman Colt Buchanan hit a grounder to Gibbs second baseman Andy Hibbett.

Crowe scored on the play to cut it to 6-4 heading into the bottom of the fifth.

“We got back in the game, and I liked that,” said Guinn. “We showed some resiliency to get back in it.”

But that’s as good as it would get for the Orange and Black the rest of the night.

The Eagles answered right back with two more runs in the bottom of the fifth to make it 8-4 before adding another tick in the bottom of the sixth to make it the eventual final.

“Gibbs hit the ball very well, and they earned (the

victory),” said Guinn.

Crowe took the loss for the Tigers, pitching five innings and allowing 11 hits with three Ks and two walks.

Matthews pitched the final two frames, allowing one hit and a walk.

Senior Justin Carter led the Tigers with two of the team’s six total hits, including a single and a double.

Last year, the District 2-AA Tigers defeated the District 3-AA Eagles — before TSSAA realignments — at the sectional tournament, ending Gibbs’ 2009 season by a 5-4 final.

This season, Gibbs has won 3-of-4 against Pigeon Forge, including the District 3-AA Tournament title and Wednesday night’s region championship. The Tigers won at Gibbs in the regular-season finale to claim the District 3-AA regular season title after Gibbs dealt Pigeon Forge a 4-0 loss back in March.

Greeneville, who lost to Unicoi County on Wednesday night, will travel to Gibbs on Friday for a sectional contest with a shot at the state tournament on the line. chitchcock@themountainpress.com

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Friday, May 21, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press PREP BASKETBALL

SPORTS BRIEFS

Stallings will be new coach at SHS

Eagle Pride basketball camp

The Seymour High School basketball head coach Brian Jessie and staff will be hosting two separate player development camps at the high school. The first will be June 21-24 for rising 2nd through 5th grade boys and girls. The second will be July 19-22 for rising 6th through 9th grade boys. The cost is $65 per player or $100 for two campers in the same family. For more information, call Jessie at 577-7040 or email brianjessie@sevier.org.

8th Annual Sports Medicine Cup

The 8th Annual Sports Medicine Cup Benefit Golf Tournament is scheduled for Sunday, June 6, at Eagle’s Landing Golf Club. With a 2 p.m. shotgun start, proceeds for the tournament benefit the Sevier County Board of Education’s Sports Medicine Program. Players will enjoy a tee-off banquet starting at 12:30 p.m. with lunch provided by Damon’s and Five Oaks Development Group, L.P. Registration is $75 a player, or sponsorship opportunities are available that include team registration fees. Tournament brochure is available for download at www.lecontemedicalcenter.org/sportsmed. For more information call Scott Byrd at 865.429.6538 or e-mail sbyrd@ covhlth.com.

Pancake breakfast for little league

There will be an All-You-Can-Eat pancake breakfast Saturday, May 22, from 8-10 a.m. at the Applebees at Govenors Crossing in Sevierville (across from Walmart).

All proceeds will go to the Sevierville Bear Little League football program. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from your favorite Little League football player.

Tourists are welcomed.

Sevierville Soccer Club tryouts

The Sevierville Soccer Club will hold tryouts for girls and boys ages 7 to 12 on Thursday May 20th and Tuesday, May 25, from 5p.m. till 6:30p.m. at the Smoky Childrens Home in Sevierville. Please enter the facility from the Parkway. Anyone interested in competitive soccer should come and tryout for a team.

Sevierville Red Sox tryouts

Tryouts for the Sevierville Red Sox summer baseball team will be Saturday, May 22, at Sevier County High School at 10 a.m. The team is open for upcoming 9th through 12th graders. For more information call Lance Traywick 368-7648.

Smoky Bears 5K scheduled

The Smoky Bear 5K run will be Saturday, May 22, at Sevier County High School. The event will begin at 8 a.m. All proceeds will benefit the SCHS girls volleyball and softball teams. For more information, visit www. smokybear5k.com.

New Center boys’ basketball camp

There will be a boys’ basketball camp for all thirdthrough eighth-grade boys on June 1, 2, 3, and 4 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. daily. The cost is $50, and concessions will be available during the camp. For more information, call Brad Loveday at New Center School at 453-2123.

Pigeon Forge High hoops camp

Join coach Jonathan Shultz and several PFHS Varsity Players for basketball camp this summer June 2-4, from 8:30 a.m.-noon at Pigeon Forge High School. All campers will receive a t-shirt and the camp will conclude with a devotional time followed by an awards ceremony. The cost of the camp is $50. Call Shultz at 789-2431 to register or for more information.

Lady Cubs basketball camp

The 2010 Lady Cubs Basketball Camp will be held June 3 through 5, from 9 a.m. to noon daily for rising 4th through 8th graders. For more information, contact Steve Branton at 919-2628, or email stevebranton@ sevier.org.

Smoky Bears baseball camps slated The 2010 Smoky Bears baseball camps will be June 7-9, 14-16 and 21-23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily at the SCHS baseball field. Ages 6-13. For more information call 368-7648.

Former Central assistant, AAU coach and 4-year UAB letter winner will take over Lady Eagles reigns

By JASON DAVIS Sports Editor SEYMOUR — Just over a month after the resignation of former coach Andy Rines, the Seymour Lady Eagles basketball team has a new coach.

In a press release issued an hour after Thursday’s final school bell, Eagles Athletic Director Gary Householder announced the school had hired Brandi Stallings to lead the Lady

Eagles.

“We look forward to Brandi continuing our strong girls basketball tradition at Seymour High,” Householder said in the release.

Prior to her taking the job at Seymour, Stallings was the assistant coach at Knoxville Central for four seasons. She’s also had stints as an assistant at two other Sevier County schools — Gatlinburg-Pittman and Sevier County High.

Stallings will be able to bring with her an impeccable pre-coaching resume, including four years as a player for the Division I University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers. In high school Stallings starred at Jefferson County, where she averaged 16.1 points and 7.5 rebounds a game for the Lady Patriots in her senior year, as she earned an honorable mention to the All-State team.

Stallings is also well known in local coaching ranks for her AAU work, where she and brother,

Brent Stallings, formed the Tennessee Flight Select, an AAU organization that is comprised of 10 teams of various ages.

One of those teams, the Flight Select 10U, is coached by another Sevier County coach, Katie Parton, who helped coach the G-P boys last season and was the head coach of G-P’s softball team.

Efforts to reach contact Stallings prior to deadline were unsuccessful, but more details will follow in a future issue of The Mountain Press.

PREP TRACK AND FIELD

Thrower Lenhart to represent PF at state

By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer PIGEON FORGE — Pigeon Forge junior track and field star Katherine Lenhart will be making the trip to Murfreesboro next week for a shot at a state championship in the girls’ discus event.

Lenhart won the discus throw at both the region and sectional meet with tosses

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learning a new offense, they’re learning 10 new players around them, so neither of them have really performed to their capacity. They need to have a good summer, a good training camp, and then we’ll see how it all shakes out.”

• How is the recruiting process going?

“We’ve had a tremendous response out there from the high school programs and the high school players,” Dooley said. “I think that the more that they come on campus and learn about what we’re doing, where we’re headed and where the program’s headed, I think we’re going to have some phenomenal recruiting classes ahead of us.

“The thing about recruiting is it takes time,” the coach continued. “The reception has been phenomenal. The key for us in recruiting is getting players on campus, because once we get them here and show them what we’re doing, what we’re building and the people, we’re getting a phenomenal reception. At the end of the day, there’s nothing more important

of 104 feet and 107-feet-8inches respectively.

Based on throws at sectional meets from across the state, Lenhart leads the field by 2.5 inches heading into Murfreesboro next week, earning the Orange-andBlack trackster honors with the final throwing slot in the A-AA competition at state.

According to Pigeon Forge track coach Jimi Rowland, Lenhart’s best throws are

still in front of her.

“She’s not thrown her best throws at the meets yet,” said Rowland. “She’s thrown better at practice, but she keeps on adding a few feet at meets through the season.”

Lenhart’s best toss this season was 110 feet, but Rowland said she has the ability to hit 115 feet at state with the perfect throw.

A mark of 115 feet would most likely guarantee a state

championship for Lenhart, but it would also top the Pigeon Forge school record set by 2007 state champion Lawna Meade, who won the title with the record-setting throw of 114-feet-10-inches.

The A-AA discus event is scheduled for 10:15 a.m.

Thursday at the Middle Tennessee State University track complex.

than the people. And I tell every recruit when they come on campus, you’re going to see the nicest stuff in America, you’re going to have the greatest gameday experience in America, but all I hope is that when you leave this place that you say, ‘they got all this great stuff, but their best asset is their people.’ I think if our people are our best asset and we bring all this to the table, too, we’ll be able to get whoever we want.”

state line that somebody drew a long time ago, I would be home.

“I know what Tennessee football looks like, I grew up watching it. Had so many players that I enjoyed watching, the coaches I enjoyed watching. I got my tail whipped

by Tennessee as a player (for Virginia), that wasn’t a lot of fun, I got my tail whipped by Tennessee as a coach at Georgia and at LSU, so it was nice to walk in Neyland Stadium the first time and feel like you have a chance.

“I’ve always admired the fans at Tennessee, the way they traveled, the way they supported their teams.

(But) you really find out ... about them when things

get tough. When I got this job, we were going through a very difficult time in our history in the football program and basketball. We had a rough event at that time that hurt the basketball team, (but) my first basketball team that I walked to to see 22,000 Tennessee fans wearing orange supporting this team — it speaks volumes.

That’s why this is the best fanbase in the country and it validated everything that I believed growing up. I’m so grateful for the reception that we got, and the fans proved their mettle, and I know they’re going to continue to do so.”

• How he’s adjusting to life in Knoxville “It feels like home, it really does,” Dooley said.

“We spent a lot of times up in the mountains in the same mountain range, so if it wasn’t for some arbitrary

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The Mountain Press â—† Friday, May 21, 2010

PROFESSIONAL CYCLING

Armstrong denies new doping accusations

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer Disgraced U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis revealed new cheating allegations in a series of messages to sponsors and officials, alleging that former teammate Lance Armstrong not only joined him in doping but taught others how to beat the system and paid an official to keep a failed test quiet.

With international cycling season in full swing, Landis admitted for the first time what had long been suspected — that he was guilty of doping for several years before being stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title.

His fresh accusations, contained in e-mails sent last month,promptedArmstrong to hold an impromptu press conference Thursday at the Tour of California. “If you said, ’Give me one word to sum this all up,’ credibility,� the seven-time Tour de France winner said. “Floyd lost his credibility a long time ago.� “We have nothing to hide. We have nothing to run from,� said Armstrong, who later quit the race to go to a hospital for X-rays after crashing just outside of Visalia, Calif. Team spokesman Philippe Maertens told The Associated Press that Armstrong got stitches in the left elbow and under the

Miguel Riopa/AP pool, file

This 2004 file photo shows Lance Armstrong, left, and Floyd Landis, riding side-by-side during the Tour of the Algarve cycling race in Algarve, southern Portugal. left eye.

Though Landis lost his title, he denied cheating until now, and his recent e-mails detail his blood doping. “I want to clear my conscience,� Landis told ESPN. com. “I don’t want to be part of the problem any more.�

He claims that Armstrong and longtime coach Johan Bruyneel paid an International Cycling Union official to cover-up a test in 2002 after Armstrong purportedly tested positive for the blood-boosting drug EPO. The UCI, however, denied changing or concealing a positive test result.

In an e-mail Landis sent to USA Cycling chief Steve Johnson, he said Armstrong’s positive EPO test was in 2002, around the

time he won the Tour de Suisse. Armstrong won the Tour de Suisse in 2001 and did not compete in 2002. “We’re a little confused, maybe just as confused as you guys,� Armstrong said, with Bruyneel by his side. “The timeline is off, year by year.�

The Wall Street Journal first reported the details of the e-mails.

Landis also implicated other cyclists, including longtime Armstrong confidant George Hincapie and Olympic medalist Levi Leipheimer, and acknowledged using human growth hormone starting in 2003.

The Wall Street Journal reported another e-mail from Landis also linked another top American racer,

Dave Zabriskie, to doping. “Look forward to much more detail as soon as you can demonstrate that you can be trusted to do the right thing,� Landis wrote in the e-mail to Johnson.

Landis said he was asked at one point to stay in an apartment where Armstrong was living and check the temperature in a refrigerator where blood was being stored for future transfusions. “Mr. Armstrong was planning on being gone for a few weeks to train he asked me to stay in his place and make sure the electricity didn’t turn off or something go wrong with the refrigerator,� Landis wrote.

Hincapie said he was “really disappointed� by the allegations. Jim Ochowicz, a former top USA Cycling official — who was also implicated by Landis — defended himself and Hincapie. “These allegations are not true, absolutely unfounded and unproven,� said Ochowicz, now the president of BMC Racing, Hincapie’s current team. “This is disappointing to anyone who works in the sport or is a fan of the sport.�

Johnson said USA Cycling would not comment about Landis’ series of e-mails, citing its policy on not discussing “doping allegations, investigations or any aspect of an adjudication process.�

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency also declined comment for similar reasons, and Landis did not respond to messages left by The AP. More accusations from Landis could be coming, however. In his e-mail to Johnson, Landis indicated he has several diaries detailing other experiences. “I’ve always known Floyd as an angry person ... somebody who’s basically angry with the world,� Bruyneel said. “To me it sounds like he just wants to drag down people who are still there and enjoying this.�

Until about 2005, Armstrong worked extensively with Michele Ferrari, an Italian doctor who was linked to numerous doping issues, but was cleared by an appeals court in 2006.

Landis claimed Ferrari extracted “half a liter of blood� from him in 2002, so he could have it transfused during the Tour de France. “Mr. Armstrong was not witness to the extraction but he and I had lengthy discussions about it on our training rides during which time he also explained to me the evolution of EPO testing and how transfusions were now necessary due to the inconvenience of the new test,�

Landis wrote.

Andy Rihs, the owner of the Phonak team for which Landis rode when he won

2. (6) Ryan Briscoe, 224.083.

3. (10) Dario Franchitti, 224.010.

ROW 2 4. (02) Graham Rahal, 223.954.

5. (9) Scott Dixon, 223.867.

6. (11) Tony Kanaan, 223.612.

ROW 3 7. (5) Mario Moraes, 223.331.

8. (26) Marco Andretti, 223.114.

9. (12) Will Power, 223.028.

ROW 4 10. (7) Danica Patrick, 222.882.

11. (99) Alex Lloyd, 222.622.

12. (2) r-Raphael Matos, 223.429.

ROW 5 13. (15) Paul Tracy, 223.111.

14. (14) Vitor Meira, 223.054.

15. (18) Justin Wilson, 222.903.

ROW 6 16. (27) Hideki Mutoh, 222.805.

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18. (4) Dan Wheldon, 222.777.

ROW 7 19. (41) A.J. Foyt IV, 222.586.

20. (16) Scott Sharp, 222.162.

21. (67) Sarah Fisher, 222.082.

ROW 8 22. (44) Davey Hamilton, 221.956.

23. (06) r-Robert Doornbos, 221.692.

24. (8) Townsend Bell, 221.195.

ROW 9 25. (17) Oriol Servia, 220.984.

26. (19) Tomas Scheckter, 221.496.

27. (24) r-Mike Conway, 221.417.

ROW 10 28. (43) John Andretti, 221.316.

29. (13) E.J. Viso, 221.164.

30. (23) Milka Duno, 221.106.

ROW 11 31. (00) r-Nelson Philippe, 220.754.

32. (21) Ryan HunterReay, 220.597.

33. (36) r-Alex Tagliani, 221.115.

Indy 500 at a gl ance Indy 500 Practice Results 22. (19) Alex Lloyd, 40.2153 (223.795).

Wednesday 23. (24) Mike Conway, At Indianapolis Motor 40.2290 (223.719).

Speedway 24. (78) Simona de Indianapolis Silvestro, 40.2401 Lap length: 2.5 miles (223.657).

All cars Dallara chassis, 25. (36) Bertrand Baguette, Honda engine 40.2494 (223.606).

(Car number in paren26. (23) Tomas Scheckter, theses) 1. (9) Scott Dixon, 39.6526 40.2805 (223.433).

27. (29) Sebastian seconds (226.971 mph).

2. (6) Ryan Briscoe, Saavedra, 40.2824 39.7118 (226.633).

(223.423).

3. (77) Alex Tagliani, 28. (37) Ryan Hunter39.8226 (226.002).

Reay, 40.2996 (223.327).

4. (06) Hideki Mutoh, 29. (66) Jay Howard, 39.8361 (225.926).

40.3045 (223.300).

5. (10) Dario Franchitti, 30. (34) Mario Romancini, 39.8494 (225.850).

40.3912 (222.821).

6. (12) Will Power, 31. (4) Dan Wheldon, 39.8754 (225.703).

40.3967 (222.790).

7. (11) Tony Kanaan, 32. (41) AJ Foyt IV, 39.8830 (225.660).

40.5352 (222.029).

8. (3) Helio Castroneves, 33. (67) Sarah Fisher, 39.9002 (225.563).

40.5635 (221.874).

9. (99) Townsend Bell, 34. (15) Paul Tracy, 40.0458 (224.743).

40.6287 (221.518).

10. (32) Mario Moraes, 35. (18) Milka Duno, 40.0462 (224.740).

40.8074 (220.548).

11. (30) Graham Rahal, 40.0623 (224.650).

IRL-Indianapolis 500 12. (26) Marco Andretti, Lineup 40.0686 (224.615).

Sunday 13. (20) Ed Carpenter, At Indianapolis Motor 40.0825 (224.537).

Speedway 14. (21) Davey Hamilton, Indianapolis 40.0962 (224.460).

Lap length: 2.5 miles 15. (14) Vitor Meira, (Car numbers in paren40.0988 (224.446). theses; all cars Dallara16. (22) Justin Wilson, Honda; r-rookie) 40.1245 (224.302).

ROW 1 17. (25) Ana Beatriz, 1. (3) Helio Castroneves, 40.1315 (224.263).

224.864.

18. (5) Takuma Sato, 40.1329 (224.255).

19. (2) Raphael Matos, 40.1708 (224.043).

Five Oaks Tire & Service 20. (43) John Andretti, 1425 Parkway (865) 453-3469 Located Across From Walmart 40.1841 (223.969).

Hours of Operation 21. (7) Danica Patrick, Mon-Fri 7:00am - 5:00pm, Sat 7:00am - noon 40.1869 (223.954).

the Tour, issued a statement saying Landis’ claims were “lies� and a “last, tragic attempt� to get publicity. In the April 30 e-mail, Landis alleges that Rihs was aware of his doping and helped fund it.

Like Armstrong, UCI president Pat McQuaid questioned Landis’ credibility. “He already made those accusations in the past,�

McQuaid said. “Armstrong has been accused many times in the past but nothing has been proved against him. And in this case, I have to question the guy’s credibility. There is no proof of what he says. We are speaking about a guy who has been condemned for doping before a court.�

Armstrong said Landis started threatening him and other top riders such as Leipheimer and Zabriskie to make allegations like these long ago. “I’d remind everybody that this is a man that’s been under oath several times and had a very different version,�

Armstrong said. “This is a man that wrote a book for profit that had a completely different version. This is somebody that took, some would say, close to $1 million from innocent people for his defense under a different premise. Now when it’s all run out the story changes.�

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San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Atlanta (T.Hudson 4-1) at Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

Baltimore (D.Hernandez 0-5) at Washington (Olsen 2-1), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Lackey 4-2) at Philadelphia (Hamels 4-2), 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Arroyo 3-2) at Cleveland (Westbrook 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Vazquez 2-4) at N.Y. Mets (Takahashi 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lilly 1-3) at Texas (C.Lewis 3-2), 8:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Garza 5-1) at Houston (Myers 2-3), 8:05 p.m.

Colorado (Hammel 1-2) at Kansas City (Bannister 2-3), 8:10 p.m.

Florida (Nolasco 4-2) at Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 2-5), 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Bush 1-4) at Minnesota (Blackburn 4-1), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Pineiro 3-4) at St. Louis (Penny 3-4), 8:15 p.m.

Toronto (Morrow 3-3) at Arizona (Haren 4-3), 9:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Zito 6-1) at Oakland (Cahill 1-2), 10:05 p.m.

Detroit (Willis 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 4-2), 10:10 p.m.

San Diego (LeBlanc 2-1) at Seattle (Cl.Lee 1-2), 10:10 p.m.

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games L.A. Angels at St. Louis, 1:10 p.m.

Florida at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Colorado at Kansas City, 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Texas, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Texas, 2:05 p.m.

Florida at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 8:05 p.m.

American League East Division

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W L 29 11 25 15 25 17 21 20 13 28

Pct GB .725 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; .625 4 .595 5 .512 8 1/2 .317 16 1/2

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Cleveland Kansas City

W L 24 16 23 17 16 23 15 23 16 25

Pct GB .600 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; .575 1 .410 7 1/2 .395 8 .390 8 1/2

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle

W L 23 18 20 21 19 23 14 26

Pct GB .561 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; .488 3 .452 4 1/2 .350 8 1/2

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Kansas City 8, Cleveland 4 Tampa Bay 10, N.Y. Yankees 6 Boston 3, Minnesota 2 Texas 4, Baltimore 3 L.A. Angels 3, White Sox 2 Detroit 5, Oakland 1 Toronto 3, Seattle 2 Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games K.C. at Cleveland, 12:05 p.m.

Detroit at Oakland, 3:35 p.m.

Toronto at Seattle, 3:40 p.m.

Tampa at N.Y. Yanks, 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Boston, 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

L.A.Angels at White Sox,8:10p.m.

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Baltimore (D.Hernandez 0-5) at Washington (Olsen 2-1), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Lackey 4-2) at Philly (Hamels 4-2), 7:05 p.m.

Cinci (Arroyo 3-2) at Cleveland (Westbrook 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Vazquez 2-4) at Mets (Takahashi 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Cubs (Lilly 1-3) at Texas (C.Lewis 3-2), 8:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Garza 5-1) at Houston (Myers 2-3), 8:05 p.m.

Colorado (Hammel 1-2) at K.C. (Bannister 2-3), 8:10 p.m.

Florida (Nolasco 4-2) at White Sox (Buehrle 2-5), 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Bush 1-4) at Minnesota (Blackburn 4-1), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Pineiro 3-4) at St. Louis (Penny 3-4), 8:15 p.m.

Toronto (Morrow 3-3) at Arizona (Haren 4-3), 9:40 p.m.

San Fran (Zito 6-1) at Oakland (Cahill 1-2), 10:05 p.m.

Detroit (Willis 1-1) at Dodgers (Billingsley 4-2), 10:10 p.m.

San Diego (LeBlanc 2-1) at Seattle (Cl.Lee 1-2), 10:10 p.m.

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Angels at St. Louis, 1:10 p.m.

Florida at White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

San Fran at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Colorado at K.C., 4:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 4:10 p.m.

Cinci at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa at Houston, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 7:10 p.m.

Cubs at Texas, 7:10 p.m.

Detroit at Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 1:35 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Texas, 2:05

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Florida at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 8:05 p.m.

Southern League North Division

W L Tennessee (Cubs) 24 16 West Tenn (Mariners) 21 18 Huntsville (Brewers) 20 20 Carolina (Reds) 18 22 Chattanooga (Dodgers) 17 23

Pct. GB .600 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; .538 2 1/2 .500 4 .450 6 .425 7

W L Jacksonville (Marlins) 26 13 Montgomery (Rays) 21 18 Mississippi (Braves) 20 20 Mobile (D-backs) 20 20 Birmingham (W. Sox) 11 28

Pct. GB .667 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; .538 5 .500 6 1/2 .500 6 1/2 .282 15

South Division

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Montgomery 9, Birmingham 4 Huntsville 11, Tennessee 3 Mobile 4, Chattanooga 2, 1st game Mississippi 6, West Tenn 5 Jacksonville 4, Carolina 3 Mobile 6, Chattanooga 0, 2nd game Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Huntsville at Mississippi, 8:05 p.m.

Mobile at Birmingham, 8:05 p.m.

Montgomery at West Tenn, 8:05 p.m.

Carolina at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 7:15 p.m.

Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Mobile at Birmingham, 6 p.m., 1st game Montgomery at West Tenn, 6:05 p.m., 1st game Huntsville at Mississippi, 8:05 p.m.

Carolina at Chattanooga, 7:15 p.m.

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Mobile at Birmingham, 8:30 p.m., 2nd game Montgomery at West Tenn, 8:35 p.m., 2nd game

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N. Korea denies sinking warship

Living cell powered by manmade DNA link to artificial life

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea, accused of waging the deadliest attack on the South Korean military since the Korean War, flatly denied sinking a warship Thursday and warned that retaliation would mean “all-out war.”

Evidence presented Thursday to prove North Korea fired a torpedo that sank a South Korean ship was fabricated by Seoul, North Korean naval spokesman Col. Pak In Ho told broadcaster APTN in an exclusive interview in Pyongyang.

He warned that any move to sanction or strike North Korea would be met with force.

“If (South Korea) tries to deal any retaliation or punishment, or if they try sanctions or a strike on us .... we will answer to this with allout war,” he told APTN. An international team of civilian and military investigators declared earlier in Seoul that a North Korean submarine fired a homing torpedo at the Cheonan on March 26, ripping the 1,200-ton ship in two.

Fifty-eight sailors were rescued, but 46 died — South Korea’s worst military disaster since a truce ended the three-year Korean War in 1953.

President Lee Myungbak vowed to take “resolute countermeasures” and called an emergency security meeting for Friday.

The White House called the sinking an unacceptable “act of aggression” that violated international law and the 1953 truce.

Associated Press

The Q4000 platform, which is lowering the containment device to the sea floor, is seen shortly after the containment device made contact with the sea floor at the site of the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.

Oil hits Louisiana shore, edges into key current

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS — BP conceded Thursday that more oil than it estimated is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as heavy crude washed into Louisiana’s wetlands for the first time, feeding worries and uncertainty about the massive monthlong spill.

Mark Proegler, a spokesman for oil giant BP PLC, told The Associated Press that a mile-long tube inserted into a leaking pipe over the weekend is capturing 210,000 gallons a day — the total amount the company and the Coast Guard have estimated is gushing into the sea — but some is still escaping. He would not say how much.

Several professors who have watched video of the leak have said they believe the amount spewing out is much higher than official estimates.

Proegler said the 210,000 gallons — 5,000 barrels — has always been just an estimate because there is no way to measure how much is spilling from the seafloor.

“I would encourage people to take a look at the changing amount of oil coming from the ocean floor,” said Steve Rinehart, another BP spokesman. “It’s pretty clear that now that we’re taking 5,000 barrels of oil a day, there’s a significant change in the flow reaching the sea.”

A live video feed of the leak posted online Thursday at the insistence of U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., shows what appears to be a large plume of oil and gas still spewing next to the tube that’s carrying some of it to the surface.

“What you see are real-time images of a real-world disaster unfolding 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf,” Markey said. “These videos stand as a scalding, blistering indictment of BP’s inattention to the scope and size of the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of the United States.”

The well blew out after an explosion a month ago on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 people.

At least 6 million gallons have spilled so far, making it the worst U.S. environmental disaster in decades. The Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 11 million gallons in Alaska in 1989.

Small amounts of light oil have washed up in delicate coastal areas of Louisiana over the past several weeks, but nothing like the brown ooze from the spill that started coating marsh grasses and hanging in the shallow water of a wetland Wednesday.

“This is the heavy oil that everyone’s been fearing that is here now,” Gov. Bobby Jindal said during a boat tour Wednesday in southeastern Louisiana. The wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi River are home to rare birds, mammals and a wide variety of marine life.

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WASHINGTON — Scientists announced a bold step Friday in the enduring quest to create artificial life.

They’ve produced a living cell powered by manmade DNA. While such work can invoke images of Frankensteinlike scientific tinkering, it also is exciting hopes that it could eventually lead to new fuels, better ways to clean polluted water, faster vaccine production and more.

Is it really an artificial life form?

The inventors call it the world’s first synthetic cell, although this initial step is more a re-creation of existing life — changing one simple type of bacterium into another — than a built-from-scratch kind.

Maryland genome-mapping pioneer J. Craig Venter said his team’s project paves the way for the ultimate, much harder goal: designing organisms that work differently from the way nature intended for a wide range of uses. Already he’s working with ExxonMobil in hopes of turning algae into fuel.

And the report, being published Friday in the journal Science, is triggering excitement in this growing field of synthetic biology.

“It’s been a long time coming, and it was worth the wait,” said Dr. George Church, a Harvard Medical School genetics professor. “It’s a milestone that has potential practical applications.”

The project has overcome some hurdles in engineering larger genomes that will help push forward the field, said biological engineer Dr. Ron Weiss, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology leader in synthetic biology.

“It’s an important step,” said Weiss. Even though the manmade DNA needed an already living cell to start working, eventually it reproduced and “all elements in the cells after some amount of time can be traced to this initial artificial DNA. That’s a great accomplishment.”

Scientists for years have moved single genes and even large chunks of DNA from one species to another. Venter aimed to go further. A few years ago, his team transplanted an entire natural genome, all of an organism’s genes, one bacterium into another and watched it take over — turning a goat germ into a cattle germ.

Mountain Life ■ The Mountain Press ■ B Section ■ Friday, May 21, 2010

A rt s & E n tertai n m e n t Editor’s Note: The Arts/Entertainment calendar is printed as space permits. Events within a two-hour drive will be considered.

To place an item phone (865) 428-0748, ext.

215, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress. com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913. n

Local Entertainment

Hot Brass

6 p.m. Monday at Sevierville Civic Center, U.S. Air Force Band of MidAmerica Ensemble; tickets free (limit 4), 568-1893

Glenn Miller Orchestra

8 p.m. May 28 at Country Tonite; tickets $30, 453-2003, www.firstclassconcerts.com

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Regional Entertainment

Bill Maher

8 p.m. Saturday at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $58, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre.com

Al Green

7:30 p.m. Sunday at Tennessee Theatre, with comedian Henry Cho; tickets $65-$252, (865) 656-4444, www. tennesseetheatre.com

Tennessee Shines

7 p.m. Wednesday at Bijou Theatre, featuring Cherryholmes, Darrell Scott, Jim Lauderdale Band and The Bowmans; tickets $20 advance, $25 door, (865) 684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com

Neil Young

8 p.m. Thursday at Knoxville Civic Auditorium with Bert Jansch; tickets $75-$225, (865) 656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Diana Ross

8 p.m. June 2 at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $81, $109.50, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre.com

Barenaked Ladies

8 p.m. June 3 at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $44.50, (865) 656-4444, www. tennesseetheatre.com

Blues Traveler

6 p.m. June 3 with The Dirty Guv’nahs at Sundown in the City on Market Square in downtown Knoxville; free admission, www.SundownintheCity.com

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Local Festivals/Events

Relay For Life

2 p.m. today to 2 p.m. Saturday at Patriot Park in Pigeon Forge; 908-5789, www.relayforlife.org/seviertn

AdventureCon

May 28-30 at Grand Resort Hotel Convention Center

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Regional Festivals/Events

Critter Fest

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Pearson Springs Park, benefitting the Blount County Humane Society No Kill Animal Shelter Effort; 607-5116, www.blountcountyhumanesociety.org

Smoky Mountain Pottery Festival

Noon to 5 p.m. June 4, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 5 at Townsend Visitors Center, with featured artist Cynthia Bringle; free admission, (800) 525-6384, www.smokymountains.org

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Local Arts/Exhibits

Wildflower Artist

The work of Wildflower Artist of the Year Bob George, at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts through Saturday; free and open to the public; 436-5860, www. arrowmont.org, 774-4333.

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2010 Members Show

Through May 28 at Emporium Center, downtown Knoxville;, (865) 523-7543, www.knoxalliance.com

Art Market Gallery

Through May 29 at Art Market Gallery of Knoxville, featuring work of Zophia Kneiss and Marily Avery Turner; (865) 525-5265, www.artmarketgallery

Smoky Mountain Pottery Festival

12-5 p.m. June 4, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 5 at Townsend Visitors Center, (800) 525-6834, www.smokymountains. org

Submitted

Bert Kreischer tries to win Dolly Parton a guitar at one of the games of skill at Dollywood during a taping of his new show on the Travel Channel, “Bert the Conqueror.”

Bert conquers Dollywood

Travel Channel show puts host in hot seat

By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor

said the ride was an alternative to situps. Riding with his hands up in the air gave him a great core workout.

The zipline, Kreischer said, was more intense than expected.

“I have what I call a healthy fear of heights,” Kreischer said.

But that height also provided a panoramic view of the park and the surrounding landscape.

“It’s the most beautiful way to see the park,” he said.

“They gave such a nod to the architectural landscape by nestling it inside the Smoky Mountains,” Kreischer added of Dollywood in general. “It’s not obstructive, not an eyesore. It’s literally park terrain and it’s exciting as well at 40 mph.”

His most exciting adventure, however, may have been getting to meet Dolly Parton and attempting to win the star a prize.

Living in Hollywood, Kreischer said he sees celebrities on a fairly common basis and doesn’t usually get too worked up when he does. It was a little different when he met Parton.

“The most I knew of Dolly Parton was that my wife, she’s a lunatic fan of hers,” he said.

Kreischer did not expect to meet the

star.

“I freaked out,” he said. “She’s literally a living legend. There’s something about her that just takes the wind out of the room. I don’t know how tall she is, but she stand like 6-foot-4. She really is such a huge presence in the room.”

What he found most appealing about her, however, is how down-to-earth she is.

“You really don’t expect celebrities to be who they are from when you see them on TV,” he said. “Who she is on stage is who she is when she shakes your hand.”

She’s also generous. When Kreischer lost the game where he was trying to win Parton a guitar, she instead gave him one and signed it for his wife. She also gave him two books for his daughter.

“I would never want to call out a celebrity that you would find to be disingenuous and fake. I have run into that, but not her,” Kreischer said.

“Bert the Conqueror” will premiere at 10 p.m. June 16 on the Travel Channel, but the air date for the Dollywood episode has not yet been set.

Dollywood will be featured on another cable network series when the Travel Channel shows how “Bert the Conqueror” tackled a couple of the rides and an attempt to win the park’s namesake, Dolly Parton, a prize.

This will be at least the third time a cable network series will feature the park this year. DIY Network’s “King of Dirt” filmed an episode earlier this year. Hallmark is shooting a special for the park’s 25th anniversary, and the Travel Channel’s “Bert the Conqueror” spent some time at the park during the homecoming weekend.

The show’s host, Bert Kreischer, tested his mettle on the Thunderhead roller coaster and the zipline adventure, and performed under pressure n gcrutchfield@themountainpress.com trying to win Parton a prize at one of the games.

“Basically, I go around the country and I kind of experience things that are local to the area, things that go on specifically in that area,” Kreischer said of the premise of his show.

His experiences at Dollywood included riding Thunderhead almost a dozen times over a two-day span and flying across the park on the ziplines.

The Thunderhead was Kreischer’s first experience with a wooden roller coaster.

“I was getting big spoonfuls for my first time,” he said of his first taste of riding such a coaster. “It’s everything I love in a roller coaster.”

Not much of a fan of spinning rides, he said he appreciates more the feeling of losing his stomach and “catching negative Gs.” He also appreciates the variety of experiences Thunderhead offered, saying where you chose to sit on the coaster guarantees a Submitted different ride than the Bert Kreischer, aka “Bert the Conqueror,” gets ready to take off on the zipline at one before.

Dollywood. The Travel Channel show premieres June 16. No air date has yet been set On a side note, he for the episode featuring Dollywood.

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The Mountain Press â&#x2014;&#x2020; Friday, May 21, 2010

Et Cetera Showing at Reel Theatresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Movies on the Parkway in Sevierville. For show times, call 453-9055. *Shrek Forever After (2D) (PG) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stars the voice talents of Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz.

A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted and he and Fiona have never met â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.

Robin Hood (PG-13) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stars Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. The story of an archer in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion who fights against Norman invaders and becomes the legendary hero known as Robin Hood.

Letters to Juliet (PG) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stars Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. A young American travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame and joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love.

Iron Man 2 (PG-13) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stars Robert Downey Jr., and Mickey Rourke. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony Stark is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (R) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stars Jackie Earle Haley and Kyle Gallner. A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they all are being stalked by a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another, but when they sleep, there is no escape. *Indicates new releases this week

Spotlight Calendar

To add or update items to the weekly entertainment calendar, call 428-0748, ext. 205, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress.com.

LOCAL THEATERS

n Black Bear Jamboree: 908-7469 n Blackwoods Breakfast Show: 908-7469 n Comedy Barn: 428-5222 n Country Tonite Theatre: 453-2003 n Dixie Stampede: 4534400 n Elvis Museum TCB Theater, featuring Matt Cordell: 428-2001 n Grand Majestic Theater: 774-7777 n Great Smoky Mountain Murder Mystery Dinner Theater: 908-1050 n Magic Beyond Belief: 428-5600 n Memories Theater: 4287852 n Miracle Theater: 4287469 n Smith Family Theater: 429-8100 n Smoky Mountain Theater: 774-5400 n Smoky Mountain Palace Theatre: 429-1601 n Sweet Fanny Adams

Theater: 436-4039 n Tennessee Shindig (formerly Fiddlersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Feast): 9083327 n WonderWorks â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hoot Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hollerâ&#x20AC;? Show: 868-1800

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Junction

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Junction, 10237 Chapman Highway, Seymour: Country Tradition, 7-10 p.m. Friday; live music, 7-10 p.m. Saturday

Appalachian Music

Jerry and Joan Paul perform Appalachian music most afternoons in Gatlinburg at Alewine Pottery in Glades. 774-6999

Blue Moose Burgers and Wings Located on the Parkway behind Bullfish Grill and Johnny Carinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: Live music, 7-10 p.m. Fridays.

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Lewis reunion planned in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Burg Submitted report

Mill in Pigeon Forge now stands.

Mordecai brought with him the GATLINBURG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Descendants of 1727 Welsh family Bible which was John and Margaret Lewis of Wales handed down through generations (who emigrated to America in 1731 and traveled about the United States for nearly 200 years before and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia) will gather at the its donation to the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville.

Deer Ridge Resort in Gatlinburg.

Participants in this family Five of Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons migrated reunion will visit the Pine Chapel to east Tennessee after the Cemetery, the East Tennessee Revolutionary War and settled in what are now Jefferson and Sevier Historical Society, Marble Springs Historic Site, and Boyds Creek counties. Amos and George Lewis where Levi Lewis, son of Mordecai, were leaders of the French Broad Settlement Methodist Society arriv- is interred. They will also visit The Old Mill in Pigeon Forge and Cades ing around 1786 at Pine Chapel Cove. near Dandridge.

Interested parties should conMordecai Lewis, who served tact the Rev. John Lewis at (615) in the Revolutionary War in 366-9001 or -mail to jomar20@ the Dunmore County Militia bellsouth.net. of Virginia, was the first coroThe Old Mill was built on part of ner and justice of the peace of the original Tennessee Land Grant Sevier County. He was awarded a No. 905 which consisted of 151 Tennessee land grant which conacres awarded to Mordecai Lewis sisted of 151 acres where The Old on May 12, 1810. He had served

Michael Hicks sings and plays piano, 6-10 p.m. every Friday in Gatlinburg

Ripleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aquarium

Bluegrass group Smoky Mountain Travelers 10-4 p.m. Saturday in front of Aquarium in Gatlinburg

The Ship Pub

The Ship Pub on Glades Road in Gatlinburg, pool tournaments at 8 p.m. every Friday, New Rain performs 7 to 11 p.m. every Saturday, 430-4441

Shamrock

Shamrock on Reagan Dr., in Gatlinburg; acoustic duo New Rain performs 8 p.m. to midnight every Friday.

Skiddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place

Skiddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place on Birds Creek Road in Gatlinburg; Karaoke, Tuesday and Thursday nights; Locals Night, 4-7 p.m. on Wednesdays; various performers on weekends. 4364192

Smoky Mountain Brewery

In Gatlinburg, 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.: karaoke/ DJ, Monday-Tuesday; live music, Wednesday-Sunday.

In Pigeon Forge, 9 p.m. to midnight: karaoke/DJ, Sunday-Monday; live music, Tuesday-Saturday

Smokyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Pub & Grub

1151 Parkway (Light #10) Gatlinburg: Weekly live entertainment and karaoke.

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in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. Jacob Hollemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Company of the Virginia Dunmore County Militia. He was later made captain on May 31, 1782.

He moved to Tennessee in the early 1790s and when Sevier County was formed.

When Mordecai died in August 1817, he left his land to his eight children, but only one had the capital to buy the others out. Mary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pollyâ&#x20AC;? Lewis had married Isaac Love, who was the postmaster of Sevierville and who also developed an iron forge along the Little Pigeon River.

The mill was built by Isaac Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eldest son, William King Love, and has been in continuous daily operation since its completion in 1830. During the Civil War, looms were set up on the second floor to make woven articles for soldiers.

Re g i o n a l C a l e n d a r Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Note: The regional events calendar is printed as space permits.

Notices are reserved for events happening within a three-hour drive of Sevier County. Events may appear only once. Phone 428-0748, ext. 214, or send the notice via e-mail to editor@themountainpress. com.

June 5 Lee Greenwood

8 p.m. at Knoxville Coliseum with The Van Lears, benefiting the Knoxville Fire Fighters Association; tickets $25, (865) 546-9628, www. knoxvillecoliseum.com

Dark Hollow Band

8 p.m. at Bijou Theatre; tickets $12, (865) 6564444, www.knoxbijou. com

June 10 Cirque Dreams Illumination

8 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $47-$67, (865) 656-4444, www.

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June 15-16 Avenue Q

7:30 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $31-$77, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre.com

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June 17 Drive-by Truckers

6 p.m. with Eli â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paperboyâ&#x20AC;? Reed & The True Loves at Sundown in the City on Market Square in downtown Knoxville; free admission, www.

SundownintheCity.com

June 18

Coliseum with Toby Mac; tickets $27.50, $32.50, (865) 215-8999, www. knoxvillecoliseum.com

Weird Al Yankovic

8 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $39.50, $49.50, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre. com

July 9

Mason Jennings

8 p.m. at Bijou Theatre; 1964 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Tributeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

tickets $19.50, (865) 6564444, www.knoxbijou. com

June 26

8 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $27, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre.com

July 21

Emmylou Harris

Mary Chapin Carpenter

8 p.m. Jubilee! fundraiser at Bijou Theatre; tickets $58.50, $251.50 VIP ticket packages, (865) 656-4444, www.knoxbijou.com

8 p.m. at Bijou Theatre; tickets $41.50, (865) 6564444, www.knoxbijou. com

July 6

July 23

Adam Lambert

8 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $39.50, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre.com

July 8 Chris Tomlin

7 p.m. at Knoxville

X Fest 2010 Carnival of Madness

5 p.m. at Knoxville Civic Coliseum, featuring Shinedown, Chevelle and Puddle of Mudd with Sevendust and 10 Years; tickets $39.50, (865) 6564444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Aug. 31 Natalie Merchant

8 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $47, (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre.com

Sept. 8 Garrison Keillerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Prairie Home Companion

8 p.m. at Knoxville Civic Auditorium, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summer Loveâ&#x20AC;? tour; tickets $46-$71, (865) 656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Sept. 12 Tortoise

8 p.m. at Bijou Theatre; tickets $17.50, (865) 6564444, www.knoxbijou. com

Sept. 20 Crosby, Stills and Nash

8 p.m. at Tennessee Theatre; tickets $80, $100; (865) 656-4444, www.tennesseetheatre. com

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Community comes together for Cyklon

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Several local residents and business people recently worked together to raise funds to buy a K-9 safety vest for Cyklon, a K-9 with the Sevier County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. From left are Cyklon; his handler Mark Fellin; and contributors Bernie Elliott of Seymour, Kim Rogers of Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pet Salon, and Ron and Nancy Klynstra of Paws Etc. The fundraising effort was organized by Critter Cottage in Sevierville. Blaine Lewis of Riverside Kennels helped in measuring Cyklon for the vest and ordering it.

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Thunder Ride set for May 30 Submitted Report SEVIERVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On May 30, downtown Sevierville will thunder with the sound of hundreds of motorcycles gathered to pay tribute to fallen military from all wars and conflicts.

The 10th anniversary of Smoky Mountain Thunder Memorial Ride will be held.

The opening ceremony will start at 10 a.m. in front of the courthouse. There will be patriotic music, Taps, a special appearance by the American Eagle Foundation and more.

Once the wreath is placed, the ride will leave at 11 a.m. on a 60-mile trip to Grainger Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veterans overlook for the closing ceremony. United Veterans Honor Guard will be on hand to post the flags.

Another wreath will be placed at the overlook followed by a 21-gun salute and Taps.

The Department of Health is responsible for regulation of food service establishments in Tennessee The law requires that restaurants have an unannounced inspection at least once every six months to determine if they are in compliance with applicable rules and regulations at the time of inspection. In addition to routine inspections, unannounced inspections are conducted in response to individual complaints.

Tennessee uses a 44-item inspection sheet with a maximum of 100 points.

Thirteen of the items are considered critical. Critical items, found out of compliance, must be corrected within 10 days. Inspections since May 12:

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that time of the year when high school, college and university graduates are receiving a lot of advice from people of many different backgrounds and occupations. Several speakers have already told graduates such things as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no idea what the commencement speaker said when I graduated, nor do I even remember who the speaker was.â&#x20AC;?

The same probably holds true this year. Twenty or twenty-five years from now, some graduates will remember details â&#x20AC;&#x201D; most wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

But I ran across some â&#x20AC;&#x153;worth rememberingâ&#x20AC;? advice from Maurice Gibbons, a specialist in innovative approaches to instruction. After receiving his BA degree from the University of British Columbia, his MA from the University of Washington and his doctorate from Harvard (where he was on the editorial board of the Harvard Educational Review), he led a research team to help discover what traits are found in successful people, even when they have little or no formal education.

Dr. Gibbons and his research team studied more than 450 successful people. The group included Harry Truman, Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Bernard Shaw, Will Rogers, Pablo Picasso and Henry Ford, none of whom were formally educated beyond high school. The study presented 40 character traits. The top ten, in order of importance, included: In-depth experience.

The people usually worked their way from the bottom up. They

immersed themselves in the specific endeavors in which they were involved. Through this experience, they became highly proficient.

Industriousness.

Simply put, they worked hard. Not only did they carry their weight but they often stepped in and worked overtime for those who did not carry their own load. They were not lazy.

Perseverance. They experienced failure, rejection, disappointment and discouragement. They learned from their failure and refused to listen to others who dissuaded them. They kept on keeping on when most people would quit.

Self-disciplined study.

They learned as much as they could about the work they were doing.

They kept on the cutting edge of what was happening in their areas of interest and often sharpened the cutting edge.

Curiosity. They constantly questioned why something would or would not work. They experimented with various ideas and methods.

They built on the questions they asked themselves and others.

Single-minded pursuit. Rather than try-

ing to do several things pretty well, they concentrated on doing one thing great. They did not spread thin their time, talents and focus.

Creativity. They focused on taking what they had, where they were, and getting the most from it. They were the embodiment of â&#x20AC;&#x153;doing a common thing uncommonly well.â&#x20AC;?

Ingenuity. They developed a skill in devising the most efficient and effective way in which to make something happen. They were clever and resourceful in inventing, constructing and organizing methods to make their ideas work.

Self-confidence. They believed in what they were doing and in their capability to do it. This confidence is what kept them going when failures and rejections plagued them and people discouraged them.

Natural ability. They became aware of their strengths and built on them. Their interests and pursuits meshed well with who they were.

They may not have been the most talented in their fields, but their other traits magnified their basic abilities. Š 2010 by Carl Mays, speaker and author whose mentoring site, www.

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The Spencer Clack Chapter of DAR recently elected officers. From left are Gwen Cody, registrar; Donna Allen, historian/librarian; Viola Riordan, regent; Betty Wilson, vice regent; Sarah Ussery, recording secretary; and Sandra Campbell, corresponding secretary. Not picture are Theresa Williams, chaplain; and Brooke Blair, treasurer.

Local DAR officers installed Submitted report The Spencer Clack chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution recently installed its 2010-2012 officers at a banquet at The Bistro in Sevierville.

Appalachian District secretary Ollie Ellison from

Bonnie Kate Chapter in Knoxville installed the new officers. Along with chapter members, also present for the evening was State Regent-elect Linda Jones of Sevierville.

The DAR focus is on God, home and country. Its continuing efforts in the community are to promote American history, patriotism and education.

Swim lessons offered day and night in Gatlinburg

The Gatlinburg Recreation Department summer swim lesson schedule includes both morning and evening sessions.

The schedule: Morning Level 1 and 2 classes ages 6-plus n Monday through Thursday: 9-9:30 a.m., $10 for four classes n Sessions: June 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10, June 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17, June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;24, June 28â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 1, July 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8, July 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15, July 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22, July 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;29.

Pre-K classes Level 1, 2 and 3, ages 4 and 5 n Monday through Thursday: 9:30-10 a.m. $10

for four classes n Sessions: June 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10, June 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17, June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;24, June 28â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 1, July 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8, July 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15, July 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22, July 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;29.

Parent/child class, ages 6 months to 3 years n Monday through Thursday: 10-10:30 a.m., $10 for four classes n Sessions: June 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10, June 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17, July 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8, July 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15.

Level 3 classes, ages 6-plus n Monday through Thursday: 9:30-10 a.m., $10 for four classes n Sessions: June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;24, June 28â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 1, July 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22, July 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;29.

Evening Level 3 classes, ages 6-plus n June 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30, Monday and Wednesday, 5:30-6 p.m., $20, eight lessons n July 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 29, Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30-6 p.m., $17.50 for seven lessons; no class July 13 and 20 Level 1 and 2, ages 6 years plus n June 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30, Monday and Wednesday, 6-6:30 p.m., $20 for eight lessons n July 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;29, Tuesday and Thursday, 6-6:30 p.m., $17.50 for seven lessons, no class July 13 and 20 To register, pay the class fee at the Community Center information office.

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The free screenings, which include total cholesterol levels, blood pressure, bone density, glucose levels, waist circumference and body mass index â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are valued at $140.

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There is a limit of six children per class, with the exception of parent/child which can take 10 pairs.

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per person through today at which time the registration fee will increase PIGEON FORGE to $15 per person at the â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The fourth annual door. T-shirts will also Smoky Mountain Bench be given to all registered Press contest, hosted contestants, as supplies by the Pigeon Forge last.

Community Center, will This event is open to be held Saturday, with the public with an admisall proceeds benefiting the United Way of Sevier sion fee of $1. There will be bleacher seating for County. spectators.

The contest will begin For more information with registration and on this event contact the weigh-in at 10 a.m. for Community Center at all participants. The event will begin at 10:30. 429-7373. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event is a healthy Participants will be way to promote indiplaced by division and vidual well-being, but by weight class within at the same time it is a each division. Divisions great way to be involved include high school, open, masters (40+), and in your community and help a great cause all at womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. the same time,â&#x20AC;? Bradbury Simon Bradbury, Pigeon Forge Community said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very excited Center manager, said, about the return of this â&#x20AC;&#x153;We saw the need for event. Those individuals something in the area to give those individuals and schools who participated last year really working out motivaenjoyed the competition tion to work hard in the weight room and to push and we look forward to themselves. The spring is growing the event and building on the excitea great time of the year ment that surrounds the to hold the event and contest. I know weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re with several high school all very anxious to see sports in the trainwho will be named the ing season weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really strongest people in encouraging our youth Sevier County and who to take advantage of will take home the title the high school division where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll recognize the of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Strongest School in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Strongest High School in Sevier County,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Elaina DeLozier, United Sevier County.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

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Community Calendar Editor’s Note: The community calendar is printed as space permits. Items must be submitted at least five days in advance. Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered. To place an item phone 428-0748, ext. 214, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress. com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.

Friday, May 21

Church Supper/Auction

will be available throughout the day to collect donations.

Maples Branch Baptist

Maples Branch Baptist Church singing 6:30 p.m. with guest singers Mitch and Rita Fine.

en’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

TOPS

TOPS weight loss chapter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville.

755-9517 or 429-3150.

Caton’s Chapel Cemetery

Caton’s Chapel Cemetery Homecoming and Decoration. Donations for cemetery upkeep greatly appreciated.

FCE

Midway Family, Community and Education meet 1 p.m., Kodak Branch of Mountain National Bank. Bring baby shower gifts for the Women’s Center.

St. Joseph The Carpenter Episcopal Church, Hardin Lane, spaghetti dinner and live auction 5-7 p.m. Adults $7, under 10 $4. 453-0943.

Old Red Bank Decoration

Boyds Creek Cemetery

Decoration today through May 23, Boyds Creek Cemetery.

Pilgrim Covenant Church worship service 2 p.m.

American Legion Building Sevierville.

Great Smokies Chapter of DAR meets 10:30 a.m., Pigeon Forge Library, for election of officers. 7742236.

Waldens Creek Baptist

Homecoming/Decoration

Blood Drive

Singing 7 p.m. at Waldens Creek Baptist Church.

Saturday, May 22 Roaring Fork Baptist

Women’s Bible study 11 a.m., Roaring Fork Baptist Church, Gatlinburg. 5221573.

Gatlinburg Farm Market

Gatlinburg Farmer’s Market grand opening 8-11:30 a.m., Alamo Steak House, Highway 321. Music, vendors, concessions and donated prizes.

659-0690.

Flag Football

Sevier County Right To Life youth flag football tournament 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pigeon Forge High football field. Picnic lunch available.

654-7685 or 654-7681.

Rummage Sale

Wears Valley UMC rummage sale 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

429-4412.

Handgun Permit

Handgun carry permit class 8:30 a.m., Dandridge Police Department. (865) 3978862, ext. 26, or 356-7423.

Dupont Cemetery

Decoration for Dupont cemetery, funded by donations. Call 363-4718.

Pool Party

Free pool party with food at Bearacudas swim team sign-ups for ages 18 and under, 5-7 p.m., Gatlinburg Community Center. Fee $40 for summer. 414-6527 or 436-4990.

Circuit-Yard Sale

Luretta, Murphy Chapel and Roberts United Methodist churches yard sale, 7:30 a.m. at Creswell Market building on Dolly Parton Parkway. 453-2292.

Rummage Sale

Rummage sale at the old hospital building, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. First come, first serve to “take a little piece of Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center home with you!” Items for sale include chairs, tables, lamps, artwork, garbage cans. Cash only. Enter through the old main entrance, 709 Middle Creek Road.

Little League Yard Sale Sevierville Little League Football Assn. yard sale starts 9 a.m. at Little League Football Field, Railroad Street. 257-8908.

Pancake Breakfast

Sevierville Little League Football Assn. pancake breakfast 8-10 a.m., Applebee’s on Collier. $5 at the door. 257-8908.

Sunday, May 23 Methodist Revival

Waldens Creek United Methodist Church revival 11 a.m. with Rev. Ralph Alley of Virginia. 654-2535.

Sunday Night Alive

Gatlinburg First UMC, 6 p.m., fellowship of contemporary music and worship followed by a hot meal.

436-4691.

Mattox Cemetery

Decoration at Mattox Cemetery in Wears Valley.

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Pilgrim Covenant Church

Homecoming/decoration, Waldens Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Service, 9:30 a.m., lunch at noon.

Cemetery upkeep donations appreciated. 453-5805.

Monday, May 24 Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace Women’s Bible study 1 p.m.

Gatlinburg Inn. 436-0313.

Hot Meals

Hot Meals For Hungry Hearts 5:30-6:30 p.m., Henderson Chapel Baptist Church, 407 Henderson Road, Pigeon Forge.

Sponsored by SMARM.

County Committee

Sevier County Intergovernmental Committee meets at noon at Damon’s.

Seymour UMC

Seymour UMC Youth Program meets 4:30 p.m. for Discipleship Training; 5:30 p.m. snack supper; 6 p.m. activities; 6:15 p.m.

Youth Parents Bible Study.

573-9711.

U.S. Air Force Band

Hot Brass, the U.S. Air Force Band of MidAmerica Ensemble, 6 p.m., Sevierville Civic Center.

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Medic blood drive 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Smoky Mountain Knife Works. Bloodmobile.

Pigeon Forge Story Time

The Dollywood Imagination Players present “Llama, Llama, Red Pajama” 11 a.m., Pigeon Forge Public Library storytime. 429-7490.

Friday, May 28 Blood Drive

Medic blood drive 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Grand Resort Hotel, Pigeon Forge. Inside.

Saturday, May 29 UMC Rummage Sale

Seymour UMC youth rummage sale. Donations may be brought to the church.

573-9711 or www.seymourumc.org for details.

Blood Drive

Medic blood drive 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Grand Resort Hotel, 23320 Winfield Dunn Parkway, Sevierville.

Bloodmobile.

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

Spaghetti dinner 6 p.m, at Sevier County Rescue Squad.

All proceeds to benefit Carol Deleeuw for medicine and doctor bills. Adults $7, children $4, for children under 12.

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.

Wednesday, May 26 Middle Creek UMC

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

Medic blood drive 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Grand Resort Hotel, Pigeon Forge.

Boyds Creek Baptist

Boyds Creek Baptist Church monthly service in song 7 p.m., with Faith Trio.

Gatlinburg First UMC, 6 p.m., fellowship of contemporary music and worship followed by a hot meal.

436-4691.

Thunder Memorial Ride

Smoky Mountain Thunder Memorial Ride opening ceremony 10 a.m. Leave at 11 a.m. on a 60-mile ride to Grainger County’s Veteran’s Overlook for the closing ceremony. United

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Burchfield Yard Sale

Burchfield Memorial Church yard sale 8 a.m., Hillbilly Landscaping, Highway 411.

Tuesday, June 1 Alzheimer’s Support

Alzheimer’s support group meets 6 p.m. at MountainBrook Village, 4282445 Ext. 107.

Kindness Counts

Kindness Counts meets 7 p.m. Pigeon Forge Community Park, pavilion 1.

654-2684.

Scrapbook Club

Scrapbook Club meets 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 5:3010 p.m. Whispering Winds Scrapbook retreat off Snapp Road. 429-3721.

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 1 p.m. Foxtrot Bed and Breakfast, Garrett, Gatlinburg 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.

Wednesday, June 2 Middle Creek UMC

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

Thursday, June 3 APPL Movies

Recently released movie, “Invictus” 6 p.m., Anna Porter Library, Gatlinburg.

Free; bring popcorn and soft drinks. 436-5588.

Right To Life

Sevier County Right to Life meets at 5:30 p.m. in Pigeon Forge Library. Karen Black Mercer, who counsels women considering abortions, will speak. 908-2689.

Mist B&B, Pullen Road n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, Conference Room

Hot Meals

Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:15-6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Sevierville and Kodak United Methodist. 933-5996.

TOPS

TOPS weight loss chapter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville.

755-9517 or 429-3150.

Friday, June 4 Supper/Auction

Wearwood Elementary School spaghetti supper 5-6:30 p.m., auction 7 p.m.

Proceeds benefit Rodger and Penny Brackins for medical bills. Adult $10; 10 and under, $5.

Sunday, June66 Friday, June American Legion 104

American Legion Post 104 at Smokies Park. First pitch 5 p.m.. Admission free to veterans, members of Guard, Reserve and active duty.

Sunday Night Alive

Gatlinburg First UMC, 6 p.m., fellowship of contemporary music and worship followed by a hot meal.

436-4691.

Monday, June 7 Hot Meals

Hot Meals For Hungry Hearts 5:30-6:30 p.m., Henderson Chapel Baptist Church.

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace Women’s Bible study 1 p.m.

Gatlinburg Inn. 436-0313.

Ruritan Club

Sevier County Ruritan Club meets 7 p.m. at Sevier County Garage.

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Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 1 p.m. Foxtrot Bed and Breakfast, Garrett, Gatlinburg 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.

Wednesday, June 9 Middle Creek UMC

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

Thursday, June 10 Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 4292508.

Women’s Bible Study

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Angel Food orders: n 2-5 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 429-2508.

Boyds Creek Church of God revival with Bishop G. R. Hill of Cleveland, Tenn. 7:30 p.m. nightly through June 11. 680-4848.

Democratic Party

Sevier County Democratic Party meets 7 p.m. at the courthouse.

Angel Food

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Submitted Report American Legion Post 202 in Gatlinburg is hosting its annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poppy Days.â&#x20AC;?

Auxiliary and Legion members will be accepting donations at various locations in the community May 28 and May 29 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. both days, at The Village, the post office and Food City, all in Gatlinburg; and Food City in Pigeon Forge.

The Poppy program is the oldest and most widely recognized Legion auxiliary program. Each year

volunteers distribute millions of bright red crepe paper poppies in exchange for contributions to assist disabled and hospitalized veterans.

The program provides benefits to the veterans and to the community.

The hospitalized veterans who make the flowers are able to earn a small wage, which helps to supplement their incomes. Donations are used to assist and support veterans and their families.

The poppy also reminds the community of the past sacrifices and continuing needs of veterans. The poppy has become a symbol of sacrifice and is worn and used by auxiliary and Legion members to honor the men and women who served and died for their country in all wars.

Veazeys to speak at Bethel Baptist Submitted Report

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They will speak at the 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. services that day.

Since 1970, Terry Veazey has traveled more than three million miles in 60 nations on five continents. He has ministered in hundreds of churches and has spoken to more than a million students in schools worldwide.

The son of a career Army officer, Veazey was raised at military installations throughout the

U.S. and Europe. He has said his upbringing provided him with an appreciation for other cultures, and prepared him for a life of international evangelism.

Veazey has released more than 10 recordings of his solo singing, and has ministered numerous times on radio and television.

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Anthony and Susan Czeszynski to Melissa Cobern and Scott Becker for $176,000 for lot 22, Horsepen Hollow Leo and Mary Wieland to Richard and Brenda Mundwiler for $20,000 for 3.52 acres, Chavis Road

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District 3 Tennessee State Bank to Pam and Wayne Anglin for $125,000 for lot 1A, David L. Ogle property GMAC Mortgage LLC to Milton and Betty Adams for $270,000 for lot 4, Phase I, Burning Oaks Mountain Memories Inc. to Clayton and Cristy Paulsen for $142,000 for lot 30, Gregory Property Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association, Wilson and Associates PLLC to Kevin and Stephanie Fender for $104,000 for lot 17, Phase 1, Burning Oaks Catherine Wolfe and Paul J. Worth, Jennie L. Worth Trust and Zachary Wolfe to Roger and Pamela Riedel for $15,000 for 0.48 acres, Worth Property

District 5 Phillip and Patti Kirby to Trustees Promised and Baptist Church, for $13,108 for lot 24F, Buena Vista Estates Cecilia Cole Estate, Jim Cole, Mary Lou Lafollette, Betty Reagan, Patricia Reed and Nancy Clabo to Nancy Pickelsimer Lifetime Trust for $250,000 for lot 10, Little Pigeon Estates W. Morris Kizer and Smithco Construction LLC to Branch Banking and Trust Company for $162,000 for lot 5, T&G Cabins Lars Schuller, Mountain Meadow Partnership, Water Resort at Pigeon Forge Partners, Rampac Consulting Company and Mike Dionas to Nexity Bank for $10,170,650 for lots 10, 11, 12 Thurman Heights Estates and lots 13R, 14R and 18R, Pine Grove Plaza Mounir and Ghada Banoub to Aimee and David Talbot for $255,000 for lot 18, Phase 2, Alpine Mountain Village Ana and Benjamin Darnell Jr. to Soggy Bottom Boys Partnership for $1,800,000 for 23.47 acres, Lonesome Valley John Waters Jr., Mary Louise Hailey, John B. Waters Sr. to Teague Family Partners for $80,000 for 0.46 acres, Eastgate Road Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association, Wilson and Associates PLLC to James Davenport for $199,900 for lot 69, Phase 4, Alpine Mountain Village

District 6 Spear-it-Investments of North Florida and Jeffrey Moore to Kimberly Johnson for $301,100 for lot 12R, Burchfiel Heights Terry and Lisa Beamer to Lanny and Jane Crawley for $235,000 for lot 27, Sugar Tree Valley Estates

Joyce and Leonard Repass Jr. to Rex and Heather Lilly for $24,000 for lot 1-A-1 B. H. Douglas et ux property Roger and LeWayne Price to David Rankin for $158,100 for lot 23, Grandview Estates Leonard and Joyce Repass to James and Connie Lilly for $69,000 for lot 1-A-1, B. H. Douglas et ux property William and Mary Beavers to Steven Romine for $228,900 for lot 34, Phase I, Southview

District 9 Nationwide Trustee Services Inc., Mary Lee Cadden and Rodney Jr., to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company for $107,250 for units 160, 161, 162 and 163, Seymour Heights Harold Dockins to Charles Walker Jr. for $150,000 for lot 17, Van Haven View Joseph Coker and Chris French to Capital Matrix USA LLC for $140,000 for lot 444, Hillside Estates Tina Meza to Mandy Goeppner for $226,950 for lot 21, Meadowlake Estates

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Alexander and Gail Hanna to SunTrust Bank for $161,415 for lot 108, Phase IV, Smoky Cove Naterra Land of Tennessee LLC and Four Seasons Properties of

Tennessee to James and Sherry Smith for $125,000 for lot 61W, Phase 3, Homestead West Carolyn Whaley to J. Wayne and Patricia Cox for $15000 for lot 11, Nichols

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The Mountain Press ◆ Friday, May 21, 2010

Golf course hosts Chamber Foundation fundraiser

Arrowmont hosts Business After Hours

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The major sponsors included Americomm/ GATLINBURG — The Deltacom, Ripley’s Gatlinburg and Food Gatlinburg Chamber of City. Other contribuCommerce Foundation tors were Citizens hosted its 11th annual golf tournament recently National Bank, Sevier County Bank, McNellyat Gatlinburg Golf Whaley Ford, the Course.

More than 125 players Thomas Group, Eagle Distributing, BDS/ on teams participated.

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The Mountain Press ◆ Friday, May 21, 2010 Close to Home

Advice

Woman wants stepdaughter to stop smoking around children

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Baby Blues

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Dear Annie: My stepdaughter, “Pam,” is 24 and is the mother of two children, one 7 months and the other a toddler.

Her children are often ill with bronchitis and other maladies, and the oldest has behavioral issues.

The baby rattles when he breathes.

Pam smoked during pregnancy, much to our chagrin, and she recently admitted that she smokes in the car with her children in the backseat. This both appalls and infuriates me, and I believe it is neglectful and abusive. My husband says I shouldn’t badger her about it because it will only make things worse.

Pam does have some learning disabilities, but she is intelligent enough to understand that smoking is extremely harmful, not only to herself, but to her children.

Do you think I should shut up about her abusive behavior and allow her children to suffer the ill effects? A friend of mine suggested that I call the authorities and let them deal with the situation. — Disgusted in Pennsylvania Dear Disgusted: Smoking in front of your children is not generally considered child abuse.

Smoking is highly addictive, and even if your stepdaughter wanted to quit, it would be difficult for her. Is the children’s father in the picture? If so, he would be the best one to approach Pam about the effects of secondhand smoke on the children’s health and to work with her on ways to minimize the damage.

You also can recommend she consult her pediatrician for additional advice.

Dear Annie: Please

settle an argument. A couple of weeks ago, new neighbors moved in two houses down from us. I want to bake cookies or brownies, give them to our new neighbors and introduce ourselves. After a brief hello and an offer of “if you need a cup of sugar,” we will let them get back to whatever they were doing.

My husband thinks it’s too soon to ring their bell. He says it would look like we’re just being nosy. When is the correct time to introduce yourself to new neighbors? — Samantha Dear Samantha: As long as you don’t expect the newcomers to invite you in for coffee, the correct time is when the moving van is gone. A couple of weeks is plenty.

Bring your cookies or brownies and introduce yourselves already. Most newcomers appreciate being welcomed by their neighbors and having the opportunity to form new friendships.

Dear Annie: You recently printed a letter from “Crushed,” whose husband thought he was dying and confessed to being unfaithful many years ago. You said such deathbed confessions leave an emotional burden on the listener. But that husband was still alive and feelings could be reconciled.

In my case, it was a true deathbed confes-

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sion, not of physical unfaithfulness, but of emotional unfaithfulness.

At one point during our marriage, my job took me away from home. My husband thought I no longer loved him, and in response, he turned to another woman for emotional support. I was so shocked by what he told me that I didn’t ask for any details, thinking we would have time to talk about it. As it turned out, he died that night.

Do you have advice for a widow who had no opportunity to bring about any kind of reconciliation and is now carrying a heavy emotional burden? This situation invades my mind and keeps me from getting proper rest at night. — Also Crushed Dear Also: How sad that you didn’t have the time to resolve this. We are certain your husband did not intend to leave you with such damaging unfinished business.

Please talk to a grief counselor to help you work through your feelings and come to terms with your loss.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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