June 21, 2010

The Mountain Press ■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 172 ■ June 21, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 50 Cents

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Improving 66 taking shape

INSIDE

As 1st anniversary nears, portion of 1st phase close to completion

By JEFF FARRELL Staff Writer

5First-half champions Smokies going to Southern League playoffs for the second straight year SPORTS, Page A8

SEVIERVILLE — As the Improving 66 project nears its first anniversary, people could soon get a glimpse of what the finished project will look like.

The project to widen the main route through Sevier County to the

Great Smoky Mountains National Park started last July. As it nears the one-year mark, officials say contractors with Blalock & Sons should soon be finished with a portion of the first phase in front of Sevierville Commons.

That should come as a relief to tenants in the shopping center, who have complained that their busi-

ness has been diminished because motorists don’t want to get caught in traffic jams and are put off by the sight of heavy construction equipment in front of the mall. The project will add lanes of travel in both directions along Highway 66, along with sidewalks.

“We’re five percent ahead of schedule on the overall project

fight now, in spite of the weather,” said Yvette Martinez, spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

The weather has been a major headache for contractors. In previous interviews, Doug Blalock, of Blalock & Sons, has noted the See TAKING SHAPE, Page A4

Optimists, grocery turn up the heat on child safety

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer

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The Children’s Safety Awareness Day put on by Food City of Kodak and the Northview Optimists Club gave brothers, from left, Aidan, 4, Lucius, 6, and Marcus Johnson, 9, a chance to check out the robot local law enforcement officers use to check out items they suspect might be dangerous.

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Obituaries Janine Lulich, 49 Molly Howard, 33 Joseph Eatman, 41 DETAILS, Page A4

Index Local & State A1-A5,A10 Calendar . . . . . . . . . A13 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . A8 Business . . . . . . . . . . . A2 Advice . . . . . . . . . . . A17 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 Classifieds . . . . . A13-A16 Nation . . . . . . A5,A9,A10 World . . . . . . . . . . . . A10

KODAK — Marcus, Lucius and Aidan Johnson, like many children who loaded up for a trip to Food City in Kodak on Saturday, likely just thought they were going on a family grocery run. Imagine their surprise when they pulled into the parking lot to find a bounce house, dunk tank and a “cool” police bomb robot.

Manager Tony Buckner worked with the Northview Optimist Club, of which he is a member, to be part of the event at the new store. That meant a collaboration between fun and protection for the children and parents who came out to Children’s Safety Awareness Day. The Optimists have been holding the educational program for three years, though the previous events have come in the spring. The main lesson learned from those, though, is that spring can be cold in Sevier County.

Though Saturday brought heat that made several of the adults at the event consider volunteering for a stint in the dunk tank, organizer Jane Taylor said she’s glad for the warmth over the chill.

“We are very pleased with how it’s going,” Taylor said. “We’ve got a lot of children and parents coming through. The whole point of today is to be able to teach both those groups about as many aspects of child safety as possible.”

To do that, in addition to the games meant to bring the children over, the Optimists invited a host of local organizations to set up booths and pass out informaSee CHILD SAFETY, Page A4

Aficionados show their rev-erence for classic cars

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer SEYMOUR — Lions and Mustangs and street rats, oh my!

Antique car owners and enthusiasts from across the area braved the heat to come out in force Saturday for the Tri-County Lions Club’s first car show, an event that drew cars from throughout the 20th century to Seymour First United Methodist Church.

“We just came up with this because we always need money for our charitable operations,” club President Paul Boyer said. “This is about advancing the good work Lions International does. Plus, it’s kind of a service for the community because it gives these folks See REV-ERENCE, Page A4

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Mario Florenda, left, admires a 1964 and a half Ford Mustang showed at the Tri-County Lions Club event Saturday by owner Stephen Chen.

MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR

Renee Stoffle right on target at Olive Garden

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Renee Stoffle has had much to smile about since being named general manager at the Olive Garden in April.

SEVIERVILLE — Renee Stoffle is the kind of person who always seems to have an eye on a target — whether it’s in her professional life as general manager of the Olive Garden, or in her personal life going to shooting ranges with her husband.

A 41-year-old native of Sandersville, Miss. (it’s between Laurel and Meridian), Stoffle came to Sevier County 18 years ago and owned three convenience stores for several years. After taking a short break, she decided she wanted to “get back into the public,” saw a helped wanted sign while driving past Olive Garden and stopped to fill out an application.

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at Mark Trentham’s Hardware & Home Center located at 526 East Parkway in Gatlinburg. From left are Jesse McCarter, employee; Terry Thomas, employee; Vicki Simms, Chamber of Commerce executive director; Paula King; Logan Coykendall, Chamber president; owner Mark Trentham; Gus Floodquist; Chad Reagan, Chamber presidentelect; Perrin Andrew; Andrea McCarter, store employee; and Anna Gonzalez, store employee.

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Submitted Report SEVIERVILLE — Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers may begin nominating eligible candidates to serve on local Farm Service Agency county committees.

“County committees play a vital role in the administration of federal farm programs and the positive effect they have on rural communities,” said James Giffin of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency.

Committees make decisions on commodity price support loans, conservation programs, disaster programs, employing county executive directors and other agricultural issues.

To hold office, a person must participate or cooperate in a program administered

by FSA, be eligible to vote in a county committee election and reside in the local administrative area in which the person is a candidate.

A complete list of eligibility requirements is posted at www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/ FSA_File/ccoeligib_10.pdf.

Individuals may nominate themselves or others as candidates. Additionally, organizations representing minorities and women may nominate candidates.

All nominees must sign nomination form FSA-669A, which includes a statement that the nominee agrees to serve if elected. Form FSA669A is available at USDA Service Centers and online at www.fsa.usda.gov/elections. All nomination forms for the 2010 election must be postmarked or received in the local USDA Service Center by close of business on Aug. 2.

The county committee nomination period began June 15. Voting takes place in the fall.

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SEVIERVILLE — Lori Branam, branch manager of ORNL Federal Credit Union, earned the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Friendship Award at the recent Coffee Talk.

“The networking has really paid off and helped with business,” Branam says. “I always have a great time at Coffee Talks and Business After Hours, because it’s such a great way to get out in the community, and everyone is so friendly. I just can’t believe how much these activities have grown.”

Branam received $100 cash and a plaque.

Sevierville Chamber of Commerce membership coordinator Jim McGill said, “Lori has been active with the Chamber since 2007 and has put in valuable time and effort networking to build community relationships.”

Awards are based on points accumulated monthly from attending Chamber functions and volunteering as well as bringing people to Chamber events. Monthly points will go toward determining the Friend of the Year Award recipient.

The next award will be presented during Coffee Talk July 20, hosted by Johnson Pest Control. Coffee Talk begins at 8 a.m. at the Civic Center. Guests are welcome. For more information, call McGill at 453-6411.

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Forge holds trash fee hike to $2

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer PIGEON FORGE — Facing a potential shortfall of several million dollars, Pigeon Forge officials have cut the budget without an increase in taxes and with only a $2 hike in the trash collection fees.

One commissioner still has concerns.

The city started collecting fees for hauling off refuse in 2007, charging $4 per cart per month for houses and a graduated rate from $4 to $150 for each business container.

City officials finally agreed late last month to hike the trash rates.

For residents, the increase will mean $24 a year. Still, Commissioner Randal Robinson said business owners he’s talked to are worried abut the fee hike.

“It sounds trivial, but I’ve been talking to the owners and they’re worried about this,” Robinson said.

“I can’t see where it’s a difference between raising their garbage fees and raising their taxes.”

Several other commissioners agreed the decision to raise the fee was a painful one and they acknowledged the toll it might have on some businesses. Still, they agree it’s better than putting the burden on every property owner in the form of a tax hike that might be more than $24 a year for some.

Additionally, they say the city will continue to operate trash collections at a loss.

“We’re still going to be losing money on it,” City Recorder Dennis Clabo told Robinson. “We operate that at a cost of $2 million and we’re only bringing in a little more than $900,000. We’ll be collecting, say, $12 per Dumpster when we collect

“It sounds trivial, but I’ve been talking to the owners and they’re worried about this. I can’t see where it’s a difference between raising their garbage fees and raising their taxes.”

— PF Commissioner Randal Robinson

the trash, but it’s still costing us $18 to actually do that.”

Robinson said he wasn’t aware the city was losing more than a million dollars a year on trash collections, a figure that’s covered with other revenues. Mayor Keith Whaley pointed out many residents still don’t understand why the fee doesn’t fully cover the trash service.

“They think we’re bringing in so much money and we can pay for it with their property taxes, when that’s obviously not the case,” Whaley said. “They’re forgetting things like the police department, fire protection, street lights and all the other things we have to pay for out of their property taxes.”

Robinson maintained the city should look again at the proposed increase. He dropped that, though, after he was told by Assistant City Manager Eric Brackins that the budget would require cuts in tough places if the fee weren’t imposed and the city didn’t dip into its reserves.

“Your next cuts are going to be in employee benefits and positions,” Brackins said.

“I’m not doing that,” Robinson said.

Still, Robinson continued to question whether the budget documents the group approved on first reading Monday — with Robinson’s the only vote against — weren’t a bit rose-

colored.

“It seems to me we’re being optimistic with this thing,” Robinson said. “Can we be optimistic? If optimism didn’t work last year and it didn’t work the year before, why would we think it will work this year?”

Robinson was referencing a 2 percent increase projected in revenue.

City officials defended that.

“That is a very conservative projection that we put in there,” City Manager Earlene Teaster insisted.

“We got that number directly from the state’s projection, which is an estimate for the entire state. That means some areas will do worse than that and some areas will do better. We generally are 5 to 7 percent better than the state’s projection, so we think we’ve been far from optimistic about that projection.”

Raising estimated revenues covered a large part of a $2.7 million budget deficit.

Robinson’s frequent questions about seeking bids on contracts seemed to have pushed other officials into considering that.

The state allows municipalities to award contracts for certain work deemed “professional services” without seeking competitive bids. Pigeon Forge has used that in awarding contracts for a number of things, including tourism marketing.

Robinson thinks the city may be able to save money through competitive bidding.

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PF planners zone in on auto parts store Meeting set for Tuesday, 3 p.m.

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer PIGEON FORGE — It looks like a stalled effort to put a new Auto Zone on Wears Valley Road may get new life if plans for the store are approved by the Pigeon Forge Planning Commission when it meets at 3 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall.

Set to come before the group is a proposal from Zack Hicks to put the car parts shop at 330 Wears Valley Road. Passage could mean jump-starting the project, which left an empty and partially completed building on a plot just below the city’s recognizable hilltop cross.

Also on the agenda for the fairly light meeting are proposed amendments to the city’s zoning texts for planned unit developments.

Chief Planner David Taylor will present that item, which calls for changes to Section 407.3.1.

It’s not clear yet what all the changes might entail, though planned unit developments (PUD), another name for the subdivisions that have sprung up throughout the county, have given officials in Pigeon Forge and other areas troubles in recent

years as their numbers have multiplied exponentially.

Requests for such construction usually fill the agendas for the planners’ meetings, though they’ve slowed as the economy has struggled. However, that doesn’t mean city officials have forgotten about what they see as the need for more specific regulation on those developments.

Planning Commission member Bill Howell last year listed several priorities he has for the group in the near future, with taking a hard look at the regulations governing PUD construction near the top.

Additionally, many of the rule changes being considered by the city’s hillside development group are related to PUDs.

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OBITUARIES

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In Memoriam

Janine K. Lulich

Janine K. Lulich, age 49 of Sevierville passed away Saturday, June 19, 2010 at the family home.

She was a beloved song writer, Master Gardener, loving wife and devoted mother who stood for God until the end.

Survivors: Husband of 18 years, John, Daughter, Christina and Sons, Jonathan and Trevor (T.J.); Mother, Hazel Pepin; Twin Brothers, Garry and Larry Pepin; Sister, Joellie Irwin.

Cremation Services by McCarty Funeral Directors and Cremation Services, 607 Wall Street, Sevierville, 774-2950.

Molly Greene Howard Molly Greene Howard, age 33, of Sevierville died Thursday, June 17, 2010 in Cosby, TN. She was a graduate of Sevier County High School, attended Walter State Community College, and Carson-Newman College.

Preceded in death by Grandparents, John Mason and Orville and Bobbie Greene.

Survivors: Son, Oakley Bo Howard and Daughter, Remy Leigh Howard both of Sevierville. Parents, Mother, Janice Greene of Bridgefield, PA, and Father, Richard Greene of Sevierville; Brothers, Dickie Greene of Myrtle Beach and Mark Greene of Sevierville, Grandmother, Helen Mason of Murphy, NC. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, June 25, 2010 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Gatlinburg.

Donations in her honor may be made to the Sevier County Humane Society.

Cremation arrangements by McCarty Funeral Directors and Cremation Services, 607 Wall Street, Sevierville, 774-2950.

Joseph E. Eatman Joseph E. Eatman, age 41 of Gatlinburg, died Friday, June 18, 2010.

He was a United States Air Force veteran.

Survivors include his: Wife: Lucinda “Cindi� Eatman; Daughter: Meghan Eatman; Son: Tommy Lee Eatman, Parents: Wayne and Ann Gibbons; Sister: Diane Michelle Eatman; Brother: Robert Eatman; Four Nieces; Four Nephews; Father-inlaw and mother-in-law: Lawrence and Victoria Moses; Brothers-in-law: Brian Coleman, John Moses, Wesley Moses; Sisters-in-law: Chrysti Coleman, Melissa Moses; Close extended family: John and Gail Wilmoth, Pastor Jane Taylor, Gatlinburg First United Methodist Church Family, Dave and Kelley Czachowski and son Dylan, Sue Ellen Riddle, Janice Moore, and the Gatlinburg First Baptist Church Family Memorial donations may be made to benefit the family, c/o Atchley Funeral Home, 118 East Main Street, Sevierville, TN 37862.

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tion at the event. Members of the local 4-H passed out brochures about how to safely store hazardous chemicals, while the Sevier County Rescue Squad and Northview Fire Department showed off their trucks. Members of the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department worked with the Sevierville Police Department to provide information on everything from Internet safety to stranger danger.

The law enforcement officers also offered child identification kits that provide a place for fingerprints, dental records and even a piece of hair to serve as a DNA sample if a child should go missing or be abducted.

who own the old cars another opportunity to show them off and the people who want to see them another chance to do that.�

The festivities drew local vendors who offered their wares, displays from the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department and a parking lot’s worth of show cars, both old and new. They ranged from cherry-condition sports cars from the last decade to an early-1900s pickup truck that looked like it had seen much better days. That latter vehicle, which sat in its rusted glory next to a trophy it claimed at another show, falls into the category of a “street rat,� Boyer explained.

Just a few spots over but a world away was Seymour resident Boyce Roberts’ 1965 Ford Mustang convertible, an orange beauty that looked like it just rolled off the assembly line. Roberts said the car’s stunning condition is credit to his dedication to the hobby of antique car collecting and to the preservation of a memory.

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“I bought this about six years ago from a fellow who lives here in Seymour,�

Roberts explained. “It can be an expensive thing to own, but to me it’s worth it. My brother and I went together and bought one of the first 2,000 Mustangs they made in 1964. “He went to the World’s Fair up in New York and they had one of the concept cars on one of the rope lines the visitors go through. He came back and he told me, ‘I have to have one of those.’ So he ended up ordering one.�

Unfortunately, that old auto didn’t stay in the family and Roberts has no idea where it is now. He’s been working to recapture some of the glory with the slightly younger 1965 model.

Roberts has made the rounds of local car shows with his classic car, claiming numerous trophies along the way. He said he was confident of claiming a prize Saturday, though that’s not really what brings Roberts to the events. “You get to meet a lot of different people and see some really nice cars,�

Roberts said.

Roberts’ bravado didn’t mean much to Stephen

Chen, who parked his bright red Mustang convertible next to Roberts’ orange one. The two cars might have looked pretty similar, but Chen wa quick to correct anyone who assumes they are. “Mine’s actually a 1964 and a half,� he clarified. “These were some of the first Mustangs that came out. There are actually a lot of differences between this one and his.

The Mustang was really refined by 1965.�

Chen, who drove to the event from West Knoxville after hearing about it from members of a car club he’s in, points to various areas on the cars’ grills where there are slight variations. Beyond that, his Mustang has a 260 V8 engine rather than the 289 V8 that became the standard for the model by the time Roberts’ car left Detroit. Chen also points out the 1964 and a half was assembled largely out of parts from other Ford models, a move Chen believes Ford made in its rush to get the model out in time for it to serve as pace car at the Indianapolis 500.

Unlike Roberts, Chen didn’t have a Mustang when he was young. In

fact, he was just a few years old when the car he showed was manufactured. Rather, he stumbled into the car after his mom bought it in the mid-1980s. It bounced around the family for a while and even sat in a brother’s garage gathering dust and age for about five years before Chen took ownership. “It’s taken a lot of work after it sat like that,� Chen said. “As far as cars go, this is one of the cheaper ones, though. Parts are pretty easy to find. I love working on it. There is something very simple about these old cars. It’s a lot of fun.�

Boyer said he is pleased to have Chen, Roberts and the dozens of other car owners who entered the event do so. He knows they passed on several other shows being held over the weekend to be there and hopes those obstacles can be avoided in future planning. “We didn’t have our sights set real high for this first event, but I’m still pleased,� he said. “We are hoping to do this again and we’ll be able to learn from the lessons of this year.�

when asked where she wants to be in the Olive Garden chain in 10 years, or even five years. After all, she is married to a Sevier County Sheriff’s deputy, has an adult daughter here, and her parents moved up after Hurricane Katrina a few years ago — so moving away would be a major disruption. “What I have in mind as general manager is to give team members the opportunity to grow and progress in the company the same as I did,� said Stoffle, who admits she had never been in an Olive Garden before going to work there. “I want to coach and develop and

give them those kind of opportunities. I also want to give our guests a very positive dining experience. “At the moment, I am satisfied with the position I am in.�

Away from work, her passion is target shooting. She and her husband, Sgt. Richard Stoffle, enjoy going to the Sportsman’s Club in Gatlinburg or to the indoor range whenever they get the chance.

A self-described outdoors person, Stoffle said she was an all-state softball player in high school, playing shortstop, first base and pitcher, and she also played basketball and ran track. She always loved sports and competi-

tion, but didn’t get into shooting until taking a self-defense course after going through a divorce several years ago. “I was a single mother living by myself and I took the (gun) carry class,�

Stoffle said. “When I got done, ‘I said, ‘This is really fun.’ ... “It’s the adrenaline rush and knowing it’s something I can handle. A lot of people think a woman can’t handle a gun, but I can pretty much handle anything that comes my way.�

And that’s a trait that carries over into her professional life as well.

That was five years ago this month. She started out as a server, but had her sights set on bigger things. She graduated to bartender after three months and later had stints as service manager and culinary manager before being promoted to GM in April. “I’m not one to ‘maintain,’� she said. “There are some people who are satisfied to stay where they are. That’s not me. I “That’s valuable infor- set high goals for myself. I mation,� Sheriff’s Deputy can envision where I want to be in the future.�

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In the meantime, it appears there will be at least a slight kids safe around firedelay in issuing bids for the next phase. That had been schedarms. “We’re really thankful uled for June, but officials said it has been delayed and could for all the groups that be rescheduled for August. have come out to be part of this,� Taylor said. n jfarrell@themountainpress.com “We think there’s going to be a lot of important information shared here today.�

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White House: Troop pullout still set for July of next year

‘There she is ... Miss Tennessee’

By ANNE GEARAN Associated Press Writer

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Miss Lexington Nicole Jordan is named the 2010 Miss Tennessee at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson on Saturday night.

Free clinic draws hundreds of eastern Kentucky patients PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Lacking medical insurance, Garth E. Robinson endured the pain of broken and decayed teeth for a decade until he showed up at a free clinic in eastern Kentucky that drew hundreds of patients.

Robinson had all his upper teeth pulled Saturday at the clinic offered by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, a nonprofit group based in Knoxville, Tenn. He was among about 750 medical, dental and vision patients to be seen Saturday morning at the weekend clinic, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Robinson, of Prestonsburg, works as a night watchman at a coal mine, and his wife works for an attorney. They have two children. “It takes all we can do just to get by,� wrote Robinson, who could only nod and write out answers to questions.

Since Pike County’s first Remote Area Medical clinic was held in 2008, the size of the endeavor has more than doubled. That’s partly due to an economic downturn that reached a low point in the past two years, said Dr. Bill Collins, a Pikeville dentist and Kentucky’s RAM chapter leader.

Even medical professionals didn’t realize the need until they saw hundreds of people camped out for a dental checkup or new eyeglasses, he said. “Everyone perceived this as taking money out of their pockets, and I hate to say it that way,� Collins said. “But once they became involved in it, and they saw that the people we were treating were not the patients that came into your office.�

The patients have the free clinic or nothing, he said.

Collins said his private dental business is off about 18 percent for the year, partly because of unemployment and coal mine layoffs that started last fall.

Dr. Andy Elliott, a dentist in Floyd County, said he thought the clinic had always had willing volunteers — never fewer than 60 work in the dental clinic.

But as word got out, more volunteers have showed up.

The clinic has added EKG and echocardiograms, dermatology, podiatry and even autism screening information for children.

Alison Sizemore drove from her home in Hazard to Pikeville on Friday night and camped out to wait for the clinic to open. She and her 3-year-old son camped in a tent, and her husband slept in the truck, so they could be ready for dental checkups.

Sizemore said her hus-

band was laid off from his job at Walmart in January, so they lost his health care coverage, and she lost her job when a sandwich shop closed. She said she has been a full-time student at Hazard Community and Technical College and will start a nursing program in the fall.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration reaffirmed Sunday that it will begin pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan next summer, despite reservations among top generals that absolute deadlines are a mistake.

President Barack Obama’s chief of staff said an announced plan to begin bringing forces home in July 2011 still holds. “That’s not changing.

Everybody agreed on that date,� Rahm Emanuel said, adding by name the top three officials overseeing the policy girding the war: Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen.

Petraeus, the war’s top military boss, said last week that he would recommend delaying the pullout if conditions in Afghanistan warranted it. Days after the date was announced in December, Gates pointedly said it was not a deadline.

Emanuel’s remarks reflect the White House view that Obama must offer a war-weary American public and Congress a promise that the nearly nine-year war is not open-ended.

The problem, congressional Republicans and some military leaders say, is that a fixed date encourages the Taliban-led insurgency and undermines U.S. leverage with Afghan leaders.

Gates pledged Sunday that some troops would begin to leave in 13 months, but he was more cautious. “We clearly understand that in July of 2011, we begin to draw down our

forces,� Gates said. “The pace with which we draw down and how many we draw down is going to be conditions-based.�

Uniformed and civilian defense leaders accepted the announcement of a date to begin leaving as a condition of Obama’s major expansion of the war. Obama ordered an additional 30,000 troops, the last of whom are arriving now, with a mission to squeeze the Taliban on its home ground, build up Afghan security forces and improve chances that local people would swing behind the U.S.-backed central government.

With little progress apparent in the critical Taliban heartland of southern Afghanistan, the split between politics and tactics is again on display. As Gates acknowledged Sunday, it is taking longer than he hoped to gain an enduring edge over the Taliban in Helmand and Kandahar provinces.

Gates asked for time and patience to demonstrate that the new strategy is working. He lamented that Americans are too quick to write off the war when Obama’s revamped strategy has only just begun to take hold. “It is a tough pull,� Gates

said. “We are suffering significant casualties. We expected that; we warned everybody that would be the case last winter.�

At least 34 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan this month, making June among the deadliest months of the war.

Casualties are expected to rise through the summer and fall as fighting expands in Helmand and Kandahar.

Earlier this month, Gates said the United States and its partners must demonstrate progress this year or risk the collapse of already dwindling public support for the war.

Petraeus told Congress last week that he would recommend postponing the start of the withdrawal if security conditions and the capability of the Afghan government could not support it.

That does not mean Petraeus is opposed to bringing some troops home, and he said repeatedly that he supports Obama’s strategy. His caution, however, is rooted in the fact that the uniformed military — and counterinsurgency specialists in particular — have always been uncomfortable with fixed parameters for an inexact process of persuasion.

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GATLINBURG

School board to meet today

The Gatlinburg Board of Education will meet at 4 p.m. today at City Hall.

The board will discuss financial matters as well as budget requests from Pi Beta Phi Elementary and Gatlinburg-Pittman High School.

The school board’s role is to distribute revenues from alcohol sales in the city. n

SEVIER COUNTY

Libraries to observe holiday

The Sevier County Public Library System, which includes the King Family Library, the Seymour branch and the Kodak branch, will be closed for the Independence Day holiday on July 5.

All locations will open for regular hours on July 6. For more information, call 365-1666. n

GATLINBURG

Fireman’s Ball to be Saturday

The Gatlinburg Firefighters Association will hold the Fireman’s Ball from 6-11 p.m.

Saturday at Mills Auditorium. The hospitality room opens at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7.

There will be dining, dancing and a live band.

Tickets are $50; a table of eight can be reserved.

Dress is formal attire for guests, although firefighters, law enforcement and EMS personnel are encouraged to wear dress uniforms.

For tickets, call the Gatlinburg Fire Department at 436-5112. n

NATIONAL PARK

Clingsmans Dome Road due to open

Great Smoky Mountains National Park managers did not reopen Clingmans Dome Road on Saturday.

Due to continued wet weather, the project was a few days behind schedule. The road now is expected to open at noon today. n

GATLINBURG

Library mural to be dedicated

Donors and friends of Anna Porter Public Library are invited to gather at the new facility at 5 p.m. Thursday to celebrate the work of local artist Bill May. The dedication of a window mural designed and installed by May will be held.

For more information, call 436-5588.

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Boy dies after alone in vehicle

A 3-year-old boy has died after being found alone in a vehicle in Tennessee.

Sheriff David Woolfork told The Jackson Sun that deputies in Madison County found the child unresponsive in the vehicle Saturday afternoon.

The boy was later pronounced dead at JacksonMadison County General Hospital. Woolfork says the boy’s body has been taken to the forensic center in Nashville to determine the cause of death.

The child’s name has been withheld until all next-of-kin have been notified.

Woolfork says the Department of Children’s Services is assisting with the investigation.

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Recidivism down in state prisons NASHVILLE (AP) — Felons released from Tennessee prisons are now less likely to return to custody, a recent study showed.

In its latest study on recidivism, the Tennessee Department of Correction reports that the return rate for ex-felons dropped 3 percentage points. For 2005, the recidivism rate stood at 39 percent for offenders who had been out of prison for three years.

While there is no recognized national aver-

age for recidivism, TDOC officials say return rates range as high as 65 percent for individual states.

The study also showed the state is maintaining extremely low return rates for felons convicted of violent crimes such as murder, rape and assault.

“While any return of such serious offenders is undesirable, the consistent ability of the TDOC to achieve these low return rates is noteworthy,” said Correction

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Commissioner Gayle Ray. TDOC spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said a systemwide comparison of felon return rates on the basis of race revealed black return rates to be lower than those of whites. The average return rate for blacks three years after release is 19.5 percent, while the average for whites is 20.6 percent.

“The lower recidivism rates show that rehabilitation efforts which include evidence-based

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A report released last year by the Pew Center on the States shows that one in 31 adults in America is imprisoned or jailed, or on probation or parole.

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The report suggested states make a greater effort to prevent those on probation or parole from returning to prison and to strengthen their “community corrections systems.”

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“My son is sick in his head. ... But if he killed Stephany, he’ll have to pay the price. I won’t visit him in his cell, I cannot embrace him.”

— Anita van der Sloot, the mother Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the killing of a young woman in Peru last month and in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway

“Do you think that BP is the aggrieved party here? Do you think that Wall Street should be left alone and not have any reforms? Elections are about choices. Those are what is fundamental. There is a difference in our philosophies.”

— White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, on the Republican Party’s criticism of the Obama Administration punishing BP for the Gulf oil spill

“There has been decades of steady progress in conservation. All of that is threatened with reversal by a politically expedient proposal that some governments are trying to rush through.”

— Patrick Ramage of the International Fund for Animal Welfare as the International Whaling Commission begins a five-day meeting Monday to discuss the 25-year ban on whale hunting

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This day in history Today is Monday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2010. There are 193 days left in the year.

Summer arrives at 7:28 a.m. Eastern time. n

Locally a year ago:

A group of 11-14-yearolds are loving every minute of Sevierville Police Department’s Police Camp for Kids.

The 24 girls’ and boys’ activities include fingerprinting, defense tactics, physical training in an obstacle course, interrogation and traffic stops. n

Today’s highlight:

On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

On this date:

In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI. In 1982, a jury in Washington D.C. found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

Ten years ago:

Some 55 years after World War II ended, 22 Asian-American veterans received the Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield during a White House ceremony. n

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Five years ago:

Forty-one years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-yearold former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter.

(Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison.) n

Thought for today:

“It is only on paper that one moralizes — just where one shouldn’t.” — Richard Le Gallienne,

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“Toy Story 3”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movie fans have not outgrown the “Toy Story 3” gang. The animated sequel leaped to the No. 1 spot with a $109 million opening weekend.

“Toy Story 3” became the third animated film to top $100 million in the first weekend, joining “Shrek the Third” at $121.6 million and “Shrek 2” at $108 million. It was by far the best debut for a film from Disney’s Pixar Animation, topping “The Incredibles” at $70.5 million.

“Toy Story 3” took over the No. 1 spot from Sony’s “The Karate Kid,” which pulled in $29 million to raise its 10-day total to $106.3 million.

The weekend’s other new wide release, the Warner Bros. action tale “Jonah Hex,” bombed with just $5.1 million.

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commentary

Blue Ridge Parkway in 75th year Last year I did a feature on the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This year is the 75th of the Blue Ridge Parkway, another beautiful national treasure in our backyard.

June 30 will mark the 75th year since the Blue Ridge Parkway was completed — 1935-2010. I remember my first time near the parkway, back in 1974, when I went to the Shenandoah National Park and was close to it at Waynesboro, Va. I never actually went onto it.

That had to wait another 32 years before I got another opportunity.

I’ve since done it several times and still hit parts of it all year long. It’s 469 miles long so it takes some planning to figure out where you want to go on it and for how long. It runs from from northern Virginia down to Cherokee, N.C. I routinely go from Cherokee up to either Asheville or Waynesville on day drives, and maybe an overnight to the Pisgah Inn at milepost 408.6. It sits at 5,000 feet.

In the early days of building the parkway, the Civilian Conservation Corps played a big part in constructing the roads and bridges and connecting the northern end to the southern. Actually, if it hadn’t been for them, there wouldn’t be a Blue Ridge Parkway. They played a bigger part there than they did in the Smokies.

There is an excellant CD that tells the story of the Blue Ridge that you can order from wvpt4learning.org, for about $20. It will give you loads of information on the parkway.

Although the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited of national parks, with about 10 million visitors a year, the Blue Ridge Parkway is the most visited in the entire system with about 20 million visitors a year. We get this many people to our area because of the proximity to the largest part of the population.

Fortunately, the parkway is so long and spread out that you don’t get all the people bunched up like you do here in the Smokies.

While covering 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, the parkway contributes around $2 billion a year to these two state economies. When traveling, you will need to stay at an inn or hotel, and in most cases will have to exit the parkway to enter a town nearby. There are inns on the parkway, but they are few and far between.

I remember back in September 2006, I drove to Shenandoah up I-81 and spent two nights in their lodges overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. What a sight at night.

After this side trip I drove all the way back on the Blue Ridge Parkway, deciding where to sleep at the last minute and where to exit.

To me, this is the best way to see and enjoy the parkway.

On the parkway, you ride the crest or spine of the mountains. You’ll see sites that you didn’t know existed in this part of the country. The vistas will take your breath away as you look farther than you’ve ever seen in this part of the world.

I was most impressed with the views from the Craggy Mountain Scenic Area above Asheville, where Mount Mitchell is located as a state park. It’s the highest point not only in Carolina, but in the eastern U.S. as well.

Also in 2006, I remember coming off the parkway for the night and an evening meal. I don’t remember the town or even state, but I had a great meal that I thoroughly enjoyed. I usually don’t stuff myself like that, but the food was so good, I couldn’t help myself.

It reminded me of what someone had said to me that same year: “If you lived with me, you’d eat me out of house and home.” It was said in jest — at least I think it was. I don’t think I eat that much.

If you make it up to the Virginia part of the Blue Ridge Parkway, visit “The Meadows of Dan” at milepost 178. I bought a T-shirt there thinking that they knew I was coming and were honoring me.

It wasn’t to be, though. It seems there is a stream there called the Dan River.

Go check it out.

— Dan M. Smith is a Cincinnati native and Gatlinburg resident. He is the author of the forthcoming book “So Far from Forfar.”

His son is serving in the Air Force. E-mail to dan0729@yahoo.com.

Editorial

Senior moments

S.O.S. a critical program, but can use more volunteers You’ve seen the cars. You’ve seen the volunteers. Now you know the story behind Senior Outreach Sevier, a most worthy and needed program in this community.

As Community Editor Gail Crutchfield’s Sunday package of stories showed, this is a program that affects the lives of our senior citizens in positive and caring ways. We have many elderly residents who are permanently or temporarily home-bound. For too long they were neglected, often going days without contact from other people.

Senior Center director Lisa Yarber participated in a program in Knoxville called Senior Citizens Awareness

Network. She then approached Sevierville police officer Rebecca Cowan about establishing a similar program in Sevier County.

Classes were held in 2005 to begin training volunteers. The first class graduated in 2006. The volunteers decide when they can work and for how long. They can do anything from calling seniors to check on them to sending cards or visiting their homes.

It’s free to the seniors and a joy to the volunteers, who feel called and led to this service. The volunteers can assist the participating seniors with such tasks as crime prevention information, looking into issues over welfare checks, referrals to needed

resources, food delivery, medication pick-up and library material delivery.

There are more than 100 elderly citizens in the program now. There could be more if there were more volunteers.

This would be a great way for people to pay some civic rent, to serve their community, to help others who need some help.

Anyone interested in being an S.O.S. volunteer can attend informational meetings planned at 11:30 a.m. Friday and 10 a.m. July 1 at Fort Sanders Sevier Senior Center, 1220 West Main St., Sevierville. You man also call 4538080, ext. 104.

Make a difference in someone’s life.

Consider this an S.O.S. for you.

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MO U NTAIN M U S IN G S

Lots going on at Dollywood, Splash Country The Mountain Press every other Monday offers an eclectic mix of newsy tidbits, anecdotes and oneliners: Dollywood’s ever-popular KidsFest continues through Aug. 1 with the Penguin Players, Journey to the Center of the Earth 4D™ Experience, character breakfasts and more. More information is available at Dollywood.com or by calling 1-800-DOLLYWOOD. ...

Speaking of Dollywood, the sister water park Splash Country is offering season passholders the chance to enter the attraction an hour early on Saturdays to stake out their favorite seats or take a turn on one ride running in advance of the regular opening time. Visit the Web site above for more information. ...

Are you among The Mountain Press’ hundreds of Facebook fans? Those who are can get regular updates on breaking news and stories of interest. Find us at www.facebook.com by searching for “The Mountain Press” ...

While you’re on the interwebs, check out reporter Derek Hodges’ Twitter page.

Hodges is offering somewhat irregular but getting better tweets on everything from the Dennis Bolze hearings to traffic alerts before they’re available anywhere else. Check it out at http://twitter.com/dhodgespress. ...

Interesting things you find out when you read over someone’s biographical material. Did you know Randy Davis, the departing pastor of First Baptist Church Sevierville, calls himself “a connoisseur of fine banana pudding”? Hey, who doesn’t love that stuff? ...

Beginning July 1, WPFT, 106.3 “The Zone” will have a local sports talk show hosted by Paul Maxwell. The FM station is now an ESPN affiliate, but also carries Atlanta Braves broadcasts. ...

Look for a new barbecue restaurant, Happy Jack’s, to open soon on the Parkway in Sevierville across from Blockbuster. It’s a small building that housed a barbecue joint not too long ago. ...

The vision clinic at Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic is expected to open before much longer. ...

A gardening tip: For natural insecticide, add onions and garlic to a jar of water and let it stand for a week before spraying plants.

If you haven’t already, be sure to visit the new King Family Library — Sevier County is blessed to have such a wonderful place!

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Smokies clinch 2nd straight SL playoff berth Wrap up first-half Northern Division title Staff Reports It’s not even July, but the Tennessee Smokies already know they’ll be playing baseball in September after the Southern League regular season comes to a close.

Although they lost on the road to the Mobile Bay Bears 4-3 on Saturday night, the Smokies clinched the firsthalf Northern Division championship and second straight trip to the playoffs when West Tennessee was blanked 5-0 by Chattanooga earlier in the day.

“About the third inning we found out and it didn’t change our plans,” first-year manager Bill Dancy said. “We went out and played hard.”

With the win, Sunday night’s game against the Bay Bears was rendered meaningless. Tennessee will play either Montgomery or Jacksonville, who entered the day tied for first atop the Southern

Division. Last season, Tennessee, which earned its playoff spot by winning the Northern Division’s second half, advanced to the championship series before losing three games to one.

After taking today off, the Smokies return to Sevierville on Tuesday to start the second half of the season with a sixgame homestand, all against Carolina.

Dancy, who played six seasons as an infielder in the Philadelphia Phillies system, has won more than 1,500 games as a minor league manager, guided the Smokies to the best record in all of base-

ball by winning 13 of their first 15 before inevitably cooling off.

During that early stretch, Tennessee was led by shortstop Starlon Castro (.376 batting average) and right-handed pitcher Andrew Cashner (3-1, 2.75 earned run average), who have both since been promoted to the parent-club Chicago Cubs.

The Smokies, who took a 41-27 record into Sunday night, went 16-6 in April but slumped in May, going 13-15. Dancy, a 58-year-old Florida native who replaced Hall-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg at the Smokies helm, said his team never got down on itself.

“We started off as hot as we were, we knew we weren’t going to stay that hot,” he said. “We never dropped our heads, we played one game at a time. I said to the coaching staff tonight, we’ve stayed in first place since Day 1.

“It’s a tribute to all the kids in that room. We’ve gone through some good times and bad times, but they have never dropped their heads.”

Although Castro and Cashner are gone, there have been plenty of play-

ers who have more than carried their weight.

Outfielder Ty Wright has a team-leading 10 home runs and 50 RBI while batting .301. Outfielder Tony Campana is batting .329 with 21 stolen bases, and catchers Robinson Chirinos and Steve Clevinger are hitting .325 and .310 respectively.

Seven position players entered Sunday night’s game batting .270 or better.

Christopher Carpenter, last week’s Southern League Pitcher of the Week, is 5-2 with a 3.26 ERA in 12 games, HungWen Chen 7-5 with a 2.43 ERA in 13 games, Austin Bibbens-Dirkx with a 3.76 ERA in 13 games and closer David Cales has a 4-1 record with seven saves and a 2.36 ERA. “I think you have to look at Ty Wright,” Dancy said. “He’s had a solid first half, he’s one of the guys you want at the plate in an RBI situation. You look at the whole lineup and everyone is contributing. I think Robinson Chirinos has done an outstanding job behind the plate with the pitchers and has thrown a lot of basestealers out.”

Ambrose mistake gives JJ victory

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Atlanta second baseman Martin Prado fields a single struck by Kansas City Royals’ Chris Getz during the eighth inning of the Braves’ 8-5 victory Sunday in Atlanta.

Hinskie, Chipper leads Braves to 5th straight ATLANTA (AP) — Billy Wagner knows the Atlanta Braves can’t take their slim division lead for granted. The 38-year-old closer likes how his team is playing, but the season isn’t even halfway complete.

“You can’t put enough ground between yourself and the other teams,” Wagner said. “We’ve got to continue to battle and get the lead as far as we can get it because there’s going to be a time where we hit a tough spell and there’s going to be a time when they’re hot.”

Eric Hinske’s two-run double broke an eighth-inning tie and Chipper Jones had three RBIs to help the Braves win their fifth straight game, 8-5 over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

Melky Cabrera added an RBI single in the eighth off Blake Wood (0-1) for the Braves, who improved to 24-7 at home. Atlanta moved 2 1/2 games ahead of the second-place New York Mets in

the NL East. Two-time defending NL champion Philadelphia is in third place, 5 1/2 games back.

Craig Kimbrel (2-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless eighth, but it wasn’t easy. The right-hander loaded the bases on two walks and his own fielding error before striking out two and escaping the jam on Billy Butler’s popup.

“I kind of put myself in a tough situation there,” Kimbrel said, “but we got back in there and were able to get three outs.”

Wagner struck out two in a scoreless ninth for his 14th save in 16 chances. After earning his 399th career save, he pulled aside Kimbrel to give the rookie some advice.

“I’m trying to tell him you cannot create your own save, especially in a tie game,” Wagner said with a laugh. “But he just ain’t getting it yet. As long as you get out of that, the kid’s on the right track. The kid’s head and shoul-

ders above where I was at that age.”

Jones’ RBI double off Kyle Farnsworth in the sixth scored Jason Heyward from second to tie it at 5. Atlanta took a 4-0 lead in the first on two-run doubles by Jones and Omar Infante.

The Royals rallied for a 5-4 lead with RBI singles in the second by Brayan Pena and Chris Getz, and with a three-run third that included Jose Guillen’s RBI single, Mitch Maier’s run-scoring infield single and Getz’s RBI double.

Failing to score in the eighth, though, soon left Kansas City with a third straight loss.

“We had the bases loaded and nobody out in the eighth, but we couldn’t get anything out of it,” Butler said. “We just didn’t come through today. Obviously, they are playing really well.”

Kenshin Kawakami, the first starting pitcher in Braves history to begin a season by losing nine

straight decisions, was chased by Guillen’s hit in the third, the last of three consecutive singles to begin the inning.

Kawakami allowed six hits and five runs — four earned — with no walks and one strikeout. It was the shortest of his 39 starts in the major leagues. He also has committed three errors in his last two games.

Asked if he thinks a move to the bullpen would help him work through some of his trouble with mechanics, Kawakami wasn’t sure.

“I haven’t really thought about it much,” he said through a translator. “But being a starter, I’m not really doing my job right now. I’m ready for whatever might be coming to me.”

Cristhian Martinez, who allowed two inherited runners to score in the third, pitched the next three innings. Eric O’Flaherty worked the sixth and Peter Moylan the seventh for Atlanta.

U.S. goalie impressed by furor over non-goal IRENE, South Africa (AP) — Tim Howard thinks outrage in the United States over a disallowed goal that cost the Americans a World Cup win over Slovenia is a sign how far soccer has come in the nation.

Word of how upset U.S. fans are is getting back to the team at Irene Country Lodge.

“Those types of things are starting to leak into our training camp.

People are up in arms; they can’t believe the call. And that’s pretty cool,” the goalkeeper said.

“That’s special because most people who are soccer fans, that’s kind of like a small detail of that game. It was so up and down and obviously it ended up being a deciding factor, but at the end of the day it was just a referee’s call.

And for people, particularly our

World Cup notebook American fans back home, to be so up in arms about it does show that: No. 1, they care, and No. 2, they are getting hip to the game and starting to understand how it all works.”

——— BROTHERLY LOVE FOR PALACIOS: After joining two of his brothers on the Honduras team, Jerry Palacios says he’s playing the World Cup for the brother they lost.

Edwin Palacios, the youngest of Honduras’ soccer-playing brothers, was kidnapped and murdered three years ago.

“He is an angel,” Jerry Palacios

said Sunday ahead of Honduras’ Group H clash with Spain. “He always gives us strength. When we’re down we feel that he’s with us. And that’s additional motivation for the family.”

When Jerry joined the squad at the last moment to replace injured midfielder Julio Cesar de Leon, Honduras made World Cup history by becoming the first team to have three siblings appear in the tournament.

Already on the team were 25-year-old midfielder Wilson Palacios, who plays for Tottenham, and Johnny Palacios, a 23-yearold defender from Olimpia Tegucigalpa.

Edwin played briefly for Honduras’ under-23 team and the under-17s. He was 16 when he was abducted in 2007 from

his family home in La Ceiba, Honduras. The kidnappers killed him even though his family paid the demanded $500,000 ransom.

“He is always in our thoughts.

Everything we do is dedicated to him,” Jerry Palacios said.

“Hopefully, where he is, he’s proud of what we’re doing.”

The love for the sport runs deep in the family. The oldest brother, Milton, also plays soccer, but didn’t make the national team.

Their father, Eulogio Palacios, was also a soccer player.

“Here in South Africa I’m the oldest,” said Jerry Palacios, 28.

“But in Honduras we have Milton who also plays professionally.

He’s not here in the squad right now. So here in South Africa I’m in charge.”

SONOMA, Calif. — A NASCAR ruling cost Marcos Ambrose his first career Sprint Cup Series victory Sunday when he stalled his car under a late caution at Infineon Raceway and was forced to forfeit his lead to Jimmie Johnson.

Johnson went on to win his first career Cup race on a road course and ended a 10-week victory drought for the fourtime defending series champion.

Ambrose, who led 35 laps, had to settle for sixth after coughing up yet another chance at a victory.

“My bad,” the Australian said. “Just feel really disappointed. Might not like the call, but it is what it is. I know the rule. It’s a judgment call.”

Ambrose, a road racing ace, was cruising to a longawaited victory when caution for a Brad Keselowski spin threw a roadblock in his path.

Instructed by his crew chief to conserve fuel, Ambrose flipped his engine on and off as he circled the winding 1.99mile course.

But his Toyota apparently stalled, and six cars weaved around his unmoving Toyota.

Although Ambrose got his car restarted and moved back to the front of the field, NASCAR ordered him back to seventh for “failing to maintain reasonable speed” right before the restart.

That gave Johnson the lead and he sailed away for his fourth win of the season, but first since Bristol in March.

Ambrose crew chief Frank Kerr visited NASCAR officials after the race, and said he understood the ruling. But asked if he was “content” with the ruling, he said only “no comment.”

Kerr also asked Sprint Cup Series director John Darby about the 2007 race at Kansas, where winner Greg Biffle appeared to run out of gas under caution on the final lap and was passed by Johnson and Clint Bowyer before the finish line.

“I asked John about that, and that’s OK. And then I asked if it’s OK to get pushed around, so I’m not really sure what the difference is,” Kerr said. “Depends on who you are, I guess.”

Darby said the Biffle situation was different because Biffle’s car continued moving and the two cars behind him sped up to make the pass.

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Judge asked to determine if cheerleading is a sport

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge is being asked to decide whether cheerleading can be counted as a sport by schools looking for ways to meet gender-equity requirements.

The issue is part of a lawsuit filed by five members of the volleyball team at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University and coach Robin Sparks last year after the school decided in a budgetary move to eliminate women’s volleyball in favor of a competitive cheer squad.

Judge Stefan Underhill also will be asked to decide whether Quinnipiac improperly manipulates the size of the rosters of its other teams to get around complying with Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in athletics.

Underhill recently agreed to make the lawsuit a class action for all current and future female athletes at Quinnipiac.

The case goes to trial in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, beginning Monday.

Linda Carpenter, a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and co-author of the book “Title IX,� said the women’s sports community is watching the case closely. “These are significant issues and a significant case,� Carpenter said. “It provides a case, whichever way it goes, that can work its way up the judicial food chain, and ultimately provide a precedent.�

Underhill issued a temporary injunction last year that prevented the school from disbanding the volleyball team after finding the school was over-reporting the participation opportunities for its female athletes and under-reporting the opportunities for men.

Evidence showed the men’s baseball and lacrosse teams, for example, would drop players before reporting data to the Department of Education and reinstate them after the reports were submitted.

Conversely, the women’s softball team would add players before the reporting date, knowing the additional players would not be on the team in the spring.

Quinnipiac officials and their lawyers declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said in a short statement that the school “believes that it has complied with all

“These are significant issues and a significant case. It provides a case, whichever way it goes, that can work its way up the judicial food chain, and ultimately provide a precedent.� — Linda Carpenter, a professor emerita at Brooklyn College and co-author of the book “Title IX.�

aspects of Title IX legislation and will continue to do so.�

Members of both the cheer squad and the volleyball team either would not comment or did not return calls seeking comment. Erin Trotman, a junior on the cheer squad, said they have been told they are not allowed to discuss the case while it is pending.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs said the lawsuit is apparently a first. “What makes this case significant is that, as far as I know, this will be the first time any court has been asked to rule whether competitive cheer is a sport for Title IX purposes,� said attorney Jon Orleans, who represents the volleyball players.

An activity can be considered a sport under Title IX if it meets specific criteria.

It must have coaches, practices, competitions during a defined season, and a governing organization. The activity also must have competition as its primary goal — not merely the support of other athletic teams.

During last year’s hearing, school cheer coach Mary Ann Powers defended competitive cheer as a legitimate sport, saying her team is made of athletes, most of them elite gymnasts.

School officials testified that the benefit of a competitive cheer team is more athletic opportunities for women at lower cost. Quinnipiac’s cheer team cost the school about $1,250 per roster spot, the school testified last year. The team currently has 30 members. The volleyball team cost more than $6,300 per team member with 11 players in 2008-09 and a budget of more than $70,000, according to the testimony.

Archaeologists use radar to reveal extent of buried ancient Egypt city CAIRO (AP) — An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt’s foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday.

Egypt was ruled for a century from 1664-1569 B.C. by the Hyksos, a warrior people from Asia, possibly Semitic in origin, whose summer capital was in the northern Delta area.

Irene Mueller, the head of the Austrian team, said the main purpose of the project is to determine how far the underground city extends.

The radar imaging showed the outlines of streets, houses and temples underneath the green farm fields and modern town of Tel al-Dabaa.

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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 4280748, ext. 214, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress. com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.

Seymour UMC

Bible-based seven-week study for women of “When Wallflowers Dance,” Seymour United Methodist.

573-9711.

tuesday, june 22 Library Movie

“Finding Nemo” at 10 a.m. at Anna Porter Public Library, Gatlinburg. Free.

Women’s Bible Study

monday, june 21

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

Hot Meals

Hot Meals For Hungry Hearts 5:306:30 p.m., Henderson Chapel Baptist Church.

Sponsored by Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries.

Golf Tournament

Women’s Bible Study

The Lord’s Child third annual golf tournament, Eagle’s Landing, hosted by former coach Phillip Fulmer. Begins at noon.

456-7929.

Garlands of Grace Women’s Bible study 1 p.m. Gatlinburg Inn. 4360313.

Summer Reading

Bariatric Surgery

Summer Reading Program 1 p.m. Pigeon Forge Public Library. Puppeteer Hobey Ford will perform. 4297490.

Bariatric Surgery Support Group meets 7 p.m., Echota Resort Clubhouse, Highway 66. 453-6841 or 712-3287.

Blood Drive

Weight Loss Support

Medic blood drive 11 a.m.-7 p.m., NASCAR SpeedPark.

Smoky Mountain obesity and weight loss support group meets 6:30 p.m. in classrooms at LeConte Medical Center. E-mail to Nsg4Him@aol.com or call 250-9354.

wednesday, june 23 Middle Creek UMC

Cancer Program

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

“Look Good...Feel Better” Cancer Society program for women undergoing treatment, 10 a.m., hospital Women’s Service building. Register by calling 446-8775.

Farmers Market

Farmers market 8-11:30 a.m., Sevier Farmers Co-Op, 321 W. Main, Sevierville. 453-7101.

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

Hot Meals

Celebrate Recovery 6:30 p.m.; meal 5-6, Kodak United Methodist Church.

Child care provided.

friday, june 25 American Legion Post 104 spaghetti dinner and auction. 428-0704.

Scuba Class

Scuba class orientation 6 p.m., Gatlinburg Community Center. $100, includes equipment. 6545373.

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Annual Old Harp singing and covered dish dinner, noon, Beech Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Caney Creek Road. 6543557.

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon Forge n 2 p.m. Blue Mountain Mist B&B, Pullen Road n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, Conference Room

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace Women’s Bible study 1 p.m. Gatlinburg Inn. 4360313.

Hot Meals

tuesday, june 29 Printing Workshop

Children’s free printing workshop, 10 a.m.-noon., Anna Porter Public Library, for ages 6-11. 436-5588.

Women’s Bible Study

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

Summer Reading Program 1 p.m., Pigeon Forge Public Library with storyteller Alan Wolf. 429-7490.

wednesday, june 30

Boyds Creek Baptist

Boyds Creek Baptist Church monthly service in song 7 p.m. with Foothills Quartet.

First Baptist VBS

Pigeon Forge First Baptist Church vacation Bible school 6:30-9 p.m. through

Middle Creek UMC

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

Farmers Market

a.m., Sever Farmers Co-Op, 321 W. Main, Sevierville. 453-7101.

thursday, july 1

Hot Meals For Hungry Hearts 5:30-6:30 p.m., Henderson Chapel Baptist Church. Sponsored by Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries.

Tuesday, June 29 Summer Reading

Old Harp Singing

Dinner/Auction

Farmers market 8-11:30

Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:306:30 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.

Library Movies

“The Last Station,” 6 p.m., Anna Porter Library, Gatlinburg.

Bring popcorn and soft drinks. 436-5588.

Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery 6:30 p.m.; meal 5-6, Kodak United Methodist Church. Child care provided.

Democratic Party

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

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Wellington Place ice cream social 2-4 p.m. 7742221.

MIdway Family, Community and Education Club meets 1 p.m. at Mountain National Bank, Kodak.

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Ice Cream Social

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Women’s Bible Study

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Cancer Support Group holding cook-Out 4-8 p.m., River Plantation, 1004 Parkway, Sevierville. Burger and hot dog plates $5. Live entertainment and Relay video. 654-9280 or 6031223.

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Hot Meals

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TOPS weight loss chapter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville. 755-9517 or 429-3150.

Unitarian-Universalist Unitarian-Universalist Medic blood drive 10 church fellowship 7 p.m., a.m.-6 p.m. Kmart.

1440 Upper Middle Creek, Pigeon Forge (Timber Top Vacation Bible School n Jones Chapel VBS, 6:15- Lodge). 428-7061.

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monday, june 28

Farmers market 8-11:30 a.m., Sever Farmers Co-Op, 321 W. Main, Sevierville. 453-7101.

Sevier County Emergency Radio Service field day 2 p.m. today to 4 p.m. Sunday, community park, 319 Dumplin Valley Road, Kodak.

314-0899 or e-mail to scers2008@gmail.com.

TOPS

Blood Drive

8:45 p.m. n Hills Creek Baptist Church 6-8 p.m. through June 25. 436-5945.

Farmers Market

Radio Field Day

Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:30-6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Sevierville and Kodak United Methodist. 9335996.

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Sale at public auction will be on July 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM local time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Donald Bruce Blalock aka Donald Blalock, Single (Retaining a Life Estate for Wilma Joyce Blalock), to Kevin A. OConnor, Trustee, on January 24, 2008 at Book 3011, Page 600 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Owner of Debt: Household Financial Center, Inc. The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the Thirteenth (13th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, on the waters of the Little East Fork of the Pigeon River, more particularly described as follows: Beginning on a rock and walnut at the public road, a corner to W. W Blalock and Malissie Hurst; thence running South up the hill to a hickory; thence Southwest with the top of the ridge to a stake at a cross fence; thence with the cross fence Northwest to the public road to a pine at the rock quarry; thence with the public road East to the beginning corner.

When you’re looking for a new place to call “HOME”, pick up a Press for the latest listing in Sevier County! OR Call today and place your ad to rent/sell your place!!

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Street Address: 4024 Richardson Cove Road Sevierville, TN 37876

email to: class@themountainpress.com

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Current Owner(s) of Property: Donald Bruce Blalock Other interested parties: Citibank South Dakota, N.A. c/o John M. Richardson, Jr., P.C. The street address of the above described property is believed to be 4024 Richardson Cove Road, Sevierville, TN 37876, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.

This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890 File No. 09-022659 June 21, 28 & July 5, 2010

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The Mountain Press Monday, June 21, 2010 LEGALS

Where is your career headed?

INVITATION TO BIDDERS The Sevier County Sheriff’s Department is soliciting sealed bids for perishable and nonperishable food items to be used by the Sevier County Jails Food Service Department.

The road to a better job begins with the “Employment” section of the classifieds. Browse hundreds of new listings every week. Find jobs in your own area of expertise or set out on a new career path.

Bids must be received at Sevier County Mayors Office, 125 Court Avenue, Suite 102E, Sevierville, TN, 37862 until 10 a.m., July 1, 2010 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud.

So don’t delay; turn to the classifieds and get started today!

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Bid packages, which include food classifications and bid procedures, may be obtained from June Parrott at the Sherriff’s Office, 106 W. Bruce Street, Sevierville, TN

428-0748 LEGALS

LEGALS

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

Sale at public auction will be on J uly 14, 2010 at 10:00AM local time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by B. Keith Allen and Buffy H. Allen, to Charlie R. Johnson, Trustee, on January 8, 1999 at Book T784, Page 726conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Owner of Debt: Diamond Resorts Corporation (f/k/a Sunterra Corporation), a Maryland Corporation The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the City of Pittman Center, in the Seventeenth (17th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Time Share Week 37, in Time Share Unit 11203AB, in the Bent Creek Golf Village Horizontal Property Regime established by a Master Deed of record in Deed Book 612, Page 1, et seq., in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, and any amendments thereto, in said Register’s Office, and as the same may be further amended from time to time, together with the interest in Common Elements provided in said Master Deed with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto appertaining, to have and to hold the said premises to Grantee, and Grantee s successors and assigns, forever.

Sale at public auction will be on J uly 14, 2010 at 10:00AM local time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Rhonda R. Jeffords and Mac Jeffords, to Charlie R. Johnson, Trustee, on August 13, 1999 at Book 1044, Page 736conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Owner of Debt: Diamond Resorts Corporation (f/k/a Sunterra Corporation), a Maryland Corporation The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the City of Pittman Center, in the Seventeenth (17th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:Being an undivided one-half interest in Time Share Unit 2103A, in Time Share Week 36-E, in the Bent Creek Golf Village Horizontal Property Regime established by a Master Deed of record in Deed Book 612, Page 1, et seq., in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, and any amendments thereto, in said Register’s Office, and as the same may be further amended from time to time, together with the interest in Common Elements provided in said Master Deed, with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto appertaining, to have and to hold the said premises to Grantee, and Grantee s successors and assigns, forever, for use and occupancy during EVEN numbered years only, beginning in 2000, there being no right of partition with the other tenant(s) in common.

Street Address: 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11203AB, Week 37, Annually Gatlinburg, TN 37738 Current Owner(s) of Property: B. Keith Allen and Buffy H. Allen The street address of the above described property is believed to be 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11203AB, Week 37, Annually, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.

This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890

Street Address: 3919 East Parkway, Unit 2103A, Week 36, Even Years Gatlinburg, TN 37738 Current Owner(s) of Property: Rhonda R. Jeffords and Mac Jeffords, tenants by the entirety The street address of the above described property is believed to be 3919 East Parkway, Unit 2103A, Week 36, Even Years, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.

This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890

LEGALS

37862, 865.453.4668 or Wayne Huskey at the Sevier County Jail, 137 Commerce Street, Sevierville, TN 37862, 865.453.4668.

The Bidder’s name, address, bid opening time and the quotation "Sevier County Jail Food Bid" must be printed on the sealed opaque envelope containing the bid.

Sevier County and Sevier County Sheriff’s

Office reserves the right to accept or reject any/or all bids and to accept the bid deemed most favorable to the interest of Sevier County.

06/19, 06/20, 06/21

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Sale at public auction will be on J uly 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM local time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Melonie M. Jones, to Charlie R. Johnson, Trustee, on January 12, 1999 at Book T782, Page 786 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Owner of Debt: Diamond Resorts Corporation (f/k/a Sunterra Corporation), a Maryland Corporation The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the City of Pittman Center, in the Seventeenth (17th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Time Share Week 39, in Time Share Unit 11203AB, in the Bent Creek Golf Village established by a Master Deed of record in Deed Book 612, Page 1, et seq., in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, as the same may be amended from time to time, together with the interest in Common Elements provided in said Master Deed, hereinafter together called the “Premises,” hereby releasing all claims to homestead and dower therein, to have and to hold the Premises to Trustee, and Trustee s successors, heirs and assigns forever, in trust for the purposes hereinafter set forth.

Street Address: 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11203AB, Week 39, Annually Gatlinburg, TN 37738 Current Owner(s) of Property: Melonie M. Jones The street address of the above described property is believed to be 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11203AB, Week 39, Annually, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.

This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890 File No. 10-005355 June 14, 21 & 28, 2010

File No. 10-005351 File No. 10-004239 June 14, 21 & 28, 2010 June 14, 21 & 28, 2010

NOTICE OF CONDOMINIUM TIMESHARE ASSESSMENTS FORECLOSURE SALES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

Sale at public auction will be on J uly 14, 2010 at 10:00AM local time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Joseph W. Wallace and Laura Michelle Wallace, to Charlie R. Johnson, Trustee, on March 26, 2001 at Book 1243, Page 331conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Owner of Debt: Diamond Resorts Corporation (f/k/a Sunterra Corporation), a Maryland Corporation The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the City of Pittman Center, in the Seventeenth (17th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:Being an undivided one-half interest in Time Share Unit 11132AB, in Time Share Week 7-O, in the Bent Creek Golf Village Horizontal Property Regime established by a Master Deed of record in Deed Book 612, Page 1, et seq., in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, and any amendments thereto, in said Register’s Office, and as the same may be further amended from time to time, together with the interest in Common Elements provided in said Master Deed with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto appertaining, to have and to hold the said premises to Grantee, and Grantee s Successors and assigns, forever, for use and occupancy during ODD numbered years only, beginning in 2001, there being no right of partition with the other tenant(s) in common.

Sale at public auction will be on J uly 14, 2010 at 10:00AM local time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Danny L. Adams and Rhonda F. Adams, to Charlie R. Johnson, Trustee, on December 28, 1999 at Book 1029, Page 7conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Owner of Debt: Diamond Resorts Corporation (f/k/a Sunterra Corporation), a Maryland Corporation The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the City of Pittman Center, in the Seventeenth (17th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:Being an undivided one-half interest in Time Share Unit 11103AB, in Time Share Week 1-E, in the Bent Creek Golf Village Horizontal Property Regime established by a Master Deed of record in Deed Book 612, Page 1, et seq., in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, and any amendments thereto, in said Register’s Office, and as the same may be further amended from time to time, together with the interest in Common Elements provided in said Master Deed, with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto appertaining, to have and to hold the said premises to Grantee, and Grantee s successors and assigns, forever, for use and occupancy during EVEN numbered years only, beginning in 2000, there being no right of partition with the other tenant(s) in common.

Street Address: 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11132AB, Week 7, Odd Years Gatlinburg, TN 37738

Street Address: 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11103AB, Week 1, Even Years Gatlinburg, TN 37738

Current Owner(s) of Property: Joseph W. Wallace and Laura Michelle Wallace, husband and wife, tenants by the entirety The street address of the above described property is believed to be 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11132AB, Week 7, Odd Years, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.

This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Current Owner(s) of Property: Danny L. Adams and Rhonda F. Adams, tenants by the entirety The street address of the above described property is believed to be 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11103AB, Week 1, Even Years, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.

This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890

File No. 10-004242

File No. 10-005357

June 14, 21 & 28, 2010

June 14, 21 & 28, 2010

Default having been made in the payment of assessments, dues, interest, debts and obligations owing The Bent Creek Golf Village Condominium Association, Inc., sales at public auction will be on J uly 7, 2010, beginning at 10:00 AM and continuing until all have been called, at the front door, Court Avenue Side, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, pursuant to various Notice of Homeowner Association Liens. The foreclosure sales will be conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP, Appointed Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

The street addresses of the timeshares are believed to be as described in each exhibit in Sevierville, Tennessee, but such addresses are not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Liens, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sale and convey only as Appointed Trustee.

The right is reserved to adjourn day of sale(s) to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sales set forth above.

If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.

These properties are being sold with the express reservation that the sales are subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. The sale(s) may be rescinded at any time.

SALES ARE SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Each of the following real estate timeshares located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: S&K#09-014341 Sharon R. Luttenberger and Heirs of Roy D. Luttenberger HOA Lien recorded at Book 3363, Page 207, corrected at Book 3511, Page 479, and at Book 3550, Page 124, Sevier County, Tennessee, Register’s Office Present Owner(s):

Described property located in the City of Pittman Center, Seventeenth (17th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Time Share Week 9 in Time Share Unit 11102AB in the Bent Creek Golf Village Horizontal Property Regime established by a Master Deed of record in Deed Book 612, Page 1, et. seq., in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sevier County, Tennessee, and any amendments thereto, in said Register’s Office, and as the same may be further amended from time to time, together with the interest in Common Elements provided in said Master Deed with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto appertaining, to have and to hold the said premises to Grantee, and Grantee s successors and assigns forever.

Designated Season: White Street Address: 3919 East Parkway, Unit 11102AB, Week 9, Annually Gatlinburg, TN 37738 Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP, Appointed Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410 Memphis, TN 38119 Phone 901-767-5566 Fax 901-767-8890 June 14, 21 & 28, 2010

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Volunteer Chevrolet Body Shop has opening for Auto Body Technician.

No phone calls please!

See Tammy Newman in person at Volunteer Chevrolet Body Shop, 400 WinďŹ eld Dunn Parkway, Sevierville, TN.

American Patriot Getaways hiring part time laundry staff.

Hours vary, must be flexible. Apply at 181 East Wears Valley Rd. Ste. 25.

865-774-5545.

Housekeeping team needed for 30 cabins. Must have Workers Comp, liability & business license. Aunt Bug’s 908-4948

Looking for an experienced Excavator operator with references. Call 865774-4607.

Need yard man with own Weed Wacker to cut grass.

Please call 9082727.

Now Hiring Mellow Mushroom Pizza All positions available. Apply in person at 2485 Parkway between 2&4pm. MondayFriday.

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238 HOTEL/MOTEL

Help Wanted: Trail Guides & Office Help. Horse Experience necessary Apply at Smoky Mtn Stables, located on Hwy 321 in Gatlinburg. 4365634

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FRONT DESK AGENT /Customer Service Oriented, Marketing Exp. a plus, Benefits, Full time.

Excellent work environment, ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR/ Customer Service Oriented, Fun Work Environment, Craft Exp. a plus, Apply in person at Holiday Inn Club, 404 Historic Nature Trail, Gatlinburg

Looking for dependable, detailed and customer service oriented personnel.

Now accepting applications for the following full time positions:

QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTORS Leading Gatlinburg overnight rental company is now accepting applications for a Full Time Inspection Team Member.

Competitive pay and benefits (insurance, bonuses, paid vacation & a retirement plan)!

Required Skills: Organization. Attention to Detail. Identification of mechanical problems.

Good communication skills. Physical work required.

Clean driving record and reliable vehicle required (mileage paid weekly). A positive attitude is a must.

Schedules vary, includes some weekends.

Background investigation and driving record verification will apply.

Now accepting applications and scheduling interviews.

Please call 865436-8876 ext. 237 or fax 865-4368885 or write: 1662 East Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738.

INTERVIEWS WILL BE SCHEDULED BY APPOINTMENT ONLY EOE

106 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

236 GENERAL

Room Attendants Accepting applications 1100 Parkway Gatlinburg, TN. M-F

Riverstone Resort & Spa is now hiring for Front Desk Clerks, Relief Night Auditor & Housekeeping positions.

Apply in person at 212 Dollywood Ln., Pigeon Forge, left at traffic light # 8.

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured to be paid by that certain Deed of Trust executed on December 2, 2005, by Jeffery Whaley & Stephanie Whaley to Larry A. Weissman, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Book No. 2410, Page 3, (“Deed of Trust�); and WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc; and WHEREAS, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder�), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Thursday, July 1, 2010 (having been postponed from the previous sale date of March 18, 2010), commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the Main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Situate in the Fourth (4th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being Lot 17, of Windswept Subdivision, as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 28, Page 298 in the Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Subject to restrictions, reservations and easements as set forth in Misc. Book 258, Page 476, and Map Book 28, Page 298 in said Register’s Office. Also Subject to any and all restrictions, easements and building setback lines as are shown in the records of the said Register’s Office. Being the same property conveyed to Jeffrey Whaley and wife, Stephanie Whaley by Warranty Deed of Warren Bradley Kirkland and wife, Mika Elizabeth Kirkland dated November 23, 2005 of record in Book 2410, Page 1 in the said Register’s Office.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 508 Asa Street Sevierville, TN 37876 CURRENT OWNER(S): Jeffery Whaley & Stephanie Whaley The sale of the above-described property shall be subject to all matters shown on any recorded plan; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that may be applicable; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose. This sale is also subject to the right of redemption by the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE U.S. TREASURY, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 7425(d)(1) by reason of the following tax lien(s) of record in: Book 3482, Page 406. Notice of the sale has been given to the Internal Revenue Service in accordance with 26 U.S.C. 7425(b).

SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: SunTrust Mortgage Inc.; SunTrust Bank; Blalock Lumber Company, LP dba Blalock Ready Mix; 2 Judgments in favor of 84 Lumber Company; Commerce & Industry Insurance Company OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee c/o IMR Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc. 1587 Northeast Expressway Atlanta, GA 30329 (770) 234-9181 File No.: 221.0816864TN June 7, 14 & 21, 2010

115 ROOFING SERVICES

117 ELECTRICAL

Excavating

5 Star Skylight Specialist

428-0746

Does dirt work, Clearing, Driveways, Home Site, etc.

Russell 865-654-3573

Professional Painter for hire

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118 EXCAVATING

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238 HOTEL/MOTEL

236 GENERAL 1 Individual needed.

FT/PT Chalet cleaning. Experience necessary $12 hr. 436-2512 Call for interview

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New Installs, Replacements, Sun Tunnels Lic. Bonded & Insured

865-438-9030

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Over 25 yrs. exp.

Phone Sam 865-453-6811

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Sutton’s Excavating 30 years experience House seats, Septic tanks, Footers, Roads 654-5708 or 654-7111

16 ‹ Classifieds 238 HOTEL/MOTEL Four Seasons Motor Lodge in Gatlinburg hiring Experienced Mature Dayshift Clerk and Housekeepers Please apply between 7am-3pm.

Front Desk Clerk Looking for friendly person with excellent people skills and some computer experience.

Year round position with benefits.

Tree Tops Resort of Gatlinburg 865-436-6559 Clarion Inn Willow River, 1990 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Hwy. 66) Sevierville now hiring housekeeping and 4-12 shift front desk clerks. No experience necessary. Computer and customer service skills a plus. Apply in person.

Music Road Hotel & Inn now hiring Maintenance, laundry, housekeeping & Front Desk.

Please Apply in person 303 Henderson Chapel Rd. Now Hiring for Experienced Front Desk Clerk.

Apply in person at Red Roof Inn, PF. Now hiring Housekeepers & Desk Clerks. No phone calls please. Apply in person 9a.m.5p.m. Motel 6, PF, 336 Henderson Chapel Rd. Now hiring: Front Desk Clerks & Housekeepers. Apply in person, Park Tower Inn, 201 Sharon Dr., P.F. 242 RESTAURANT Bojangles Pigeon Forge Now Hiring!

Accepting Applications Online at apply.bojangles.com EOE/ Drug Free Workplace Now Hiring All Positions and All Shifts Blaine's Grill and Bar Background Check Required.

Apply in person.

Stoplight #8 Gatlinburg

NOW HIRING P.M. Cooks & P.M. Servers.

Apply Daily 3-6 PM: Mel’s Diner. 119 Wears Valley Rd. Pigeon Forge.

Now hiring servers, cashiers & retail.

Year round employment. Apply in person at Cracker Barrel in Kodak at exit 407.

247 MAINTENANCE Help Wanted – Assistant to Maintenance Manager in hospitality field.

Computer skills, inventory control monitoring, payroll, tracking job costs.

Ability to deal effectively with vendors and maintenance staff. Organized, dependable person looking for long-term position.

Excellent pay and benefits. Verifiable references. Contact 865-436-1008.

249 RESERVATIONIST FT/PT reservationist for cabin rental company in Gatlinburg. Apply in person at Amazing Views of the Smokies, 1455 E. Parkway, Gatlinburg or email resume to emily@amazingviewsofthesmokies.com.

No phone calls please.

The Mountain Press ‹ Monday, June 21, 2010

500 MERCHANDISE

693 ROOMS FOR RENT ROOMS FOR RENT

Low Weekly Rates 436-5179

557 MISC. SALES

696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT

2 Burial Lots at Smoky Mountain Memory Garden Pigeon Forge 1200.00 each OBO

$575 Move in Today.

Ideal, quiet location. 2BR/1.5BA. Living room, kitchen. W/D included.

No pets. 850-6123.

Call David 865-382-1844 589 FURNITURE

1BR $395 2BR $495 Mtn, view from patio, 908-2062

590 APPLIANCES

Mountain View Townhome apartment for rent 2BR 1.5BA. Newly remodeled with hardwood flooring & new carpet. Located in Gatlinburg. $650 mth 1st mth rent & security deposit required. For more information call 865-868-0449 Mon-Fri 8:30am5:30pm or 865356-3015 after hours & weekends

1 & 2 BR avail.

Some Pets OK. $400 UP WATER INCLUDED Murrell Meadows 1/8 mile from Walters State College Allensville Road Walk to lake Reasonable Rates

654-7033

BOB RENTS

453-0727

3300 or 6600 sq.ft. retail/ showroom space for rent in busy complex, with large delivery door. $2200mth for 3300 sq. ft. or $4000mth for 6600 sq.ft. Call 865-388-5455 for more info.

Affordable Office Space for rent in busy complex.

800sq.ft. with nice layout. Semi furnished. Three office’s & conference room. Also, break room w/frige. $550mth. Call 865388-5455 for more info.

GATLINBURG Deal!

APT./SHOP - office space. water incl. 621-3015.

Office building for rent.

119 South Blvd, just off pkwy. $475 mth. 933-6544

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Seymour. $695/mo No pets. 865-7657929.

1 BR / 1 BA IN SEVIERVILLE $380.00 + DEPOSIT NO PETS 865-712-5238

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865-932-2613 Gatlinburg area: No pets. Credit check, Sec. Dep Required.

$600/mth

430-4222

Walk to Walmart Large 2 Bedroom 1 Bath Furnished and Washer & Dryer Small pets Call 865-789-1427

Townhouse Newly updated 2BR/1.5BA Covered Parking W/D Conn $ 625 mth Call 865-384-4054

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2BR/2BA w/carport, w/d & water furn. Approx. 1400 SF, non-smoking environment. No pets please. $695 month. Year lease.

Call 865-453-5396.

Apartments for rent. $525-$675/mo. 2 BDRM, w/d hookup. Locations in Sevierville & Pigeon Forge.

CROSSCREEK 2BR/1.5 BA to 2BR/2BA garden apts. $545 to $580 Trolly access 865-429-2962 FOR RENT Sevierville Fully Furnished Large basement apartment.

Private entrance, 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, Kitchen, Large Living room. $675 per month $100 damage deposit, utilities furnished. No pets. Shared Laundry. Credit Check & References.

Great for singles or couples. Call 4293813

Cute 2BR/1BA walking distance to school. $800/mo. – $800/dep.

405-2116

Builder Blow Out New Town Home 2BR/ 2BA Awesome views! Lg. Master BR, Stainless Appl. $93,900 Call Alicia.

3 BD / 2 BA 1 Car Garage

$745/mo.

(865) 908-6789

OWNER FINANCING 2 - 2BR CABINS NEXT TO DOLLYWOOD on rental program. $15,000 DOWN $255,000.

Call Renee’.

**NICE, CLEAN**

3 BR / 2 BA WITH GARAGE IN KODAK AREA $950.00/MO. + DEP. NO PETS. 865-712-5238

Comm./Res. 210’ Road Frontage on 1 Ac. $120,000.

Call Renee’.

2BR/2BA, $675 + $550 dep. In Allensville.

850-1110 or 6543177.

3BR/2BA House, centrally located off Veterans Blvd. $750/mo., Dep. required, credit ck.

Avail. immediately.

Call 865-323-3457.

Beautiful log home on Golf Course + pool. 2BR 2BA plus loft, Fully furnished. Only $795 mth + dep. Call Diane654-7861 Owner 706-809-0704 BELLE MEADOWS Available in July 4BR/2BA, 2 car garage. Approx.

1870 sq. ft. $1,200 865-429-2962 Kodak subd. Nice all brick 2700 SF, 3BR/2BA, 3 car garage, ofc., huge closets, lg. yard.

Conven. to Knox., Sevier & Jefferson City. $1400/mo. + dep. May apply 50% off rent to purchase option at $237,500.

Call 865-748-2951.

Leave message.

Level 1+ Acre Lot w/views $19,000.

Call Renee’.

Renee’ Weiss 865-680-5564.

Alicia Roy 865-809-3420

Sevierville 3BR/2BA w/central heat/air, 2 car garage on 1 acre. $950mth w/no yard maint.

Lease & security No pets. 405-4130 or 335-1418.

699 HOME RENTALS

NEW D WIDES SETUP PRIVATE LAND WOW BOYDS CREEK IN SEVIERVILLE AND EXIT 417 EZY EZY HOTLINE # 865-453-2931 710 HOMES FOR SALE

837 CAMPER SALES

Custom Homes, Additions, Garages, & Remodel Coplen Construction, 865654-6691.

Great Location/ FSBO. Convenient to Dollywood, Hospital, Shopping. Views, 865-414-0117.

711 CONDOS FOR SALE FSBO: Golf Course Condo, end unit, swimming pool, 2BR/2BA, FP, covered private porch, awesome view of the National Park & Golf Course, laundry room, low maintenance fees, security and lots of storage. $138,500.

865-654-6468.

720 LAKE & RESORT PROPERTY

Waterfront, Douglas Lake, 11 ac. Make offer. Must sell.

Near Dollywood.

Bob 865-908-8888.

721 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

1/2 Acre Commercial Zoned Lots, Kodak exit 407, $89,000.

865-654-6691.

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

2005 Lance Truck Camper, 2001 Ford 1Ton Truck, 865-429-5961 $24,995.00

829 MANUFACTURED HOME SALES

NEW SINGLE WIDES & DOUBLE WIDES EZY PURCHASE HOTLINE WE LOVE TRADES HAVE LAND

865-453-7523

941 SUV SALES

2005 Mercury Mariner, V6, 4x4, automatic, sunroof, Michelin, perfect condition, 95k miles, $9,500 Call 865-603-2877.

943 AUTOMOBILE SALES

1966 Ford Galaxy.

289 Auto. $2700.

Call Benny 865607-6542.

2002 JAGUAR X-type, 3.0, gray w/black interior. Nice car. $4000 OBO. Call 865-607-6542.

949 AUTOS & TRUCKS WANTED

Turn your junk cars & trucks into cash.

908-6207 950 MOTORCYCLE SALES

2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 1600 Classic.

16,504 mi., silver.

Lots of additional accessories. $5,000. No trades.

865-603-0813. In Gatlinburg.

2007 Suzuki Blvd.

C50CK7, 805 cc.

3200 miles. Orig. owner. Windshield engine guards, saddlebags, rear backrest. Excellent. cond. $4500.

865-696-9434 cell or 865-436-3365.

Harley Davidson 1200 Sportster, 1600 miles, low rider, brand new cond. $8200 obo. 231838-4531.

POPPY NICHOLS HOME PLACE BEAUTIFUL 26.4 ACRE FARM WITH HOME & 3 BARNS 3306 BLUE SPRINGS RD., STRAWBERRY PLAINS, TN ANTIQUES, HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS, TRACTOR, EQUIPMENT, TOOLS FARM DIVIDED INTO 3 NICE TRACTS 2 OVER 12 ACRES EACH

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LEADERS IN REAL ESTATE AUCTIONS SINCE 1953

3140 Newport Hwy. Sevierville, TN 37876

Toll Free: 1-877-282-8467 Auc. Lic. #335 Real Est. Lic. #214075

AUCTIONEERS: Edd McCarter Chuck McCarter, Auctioneers Keith McGregor, Apprentice Auctioneer

WE SELL THE EARTH

(865) 453-1600 Scott E. McCarter, CAI

Keith Shults Brent Shults Lisa M. Carroll Megan McCarter Cates Amanda M. Williams

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SELLING 271 + ACRES IN 6 LOCATIONS SMOKY MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS, COCKE COUNTY, NEAR NEWPORT, TN

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Large 1BR Water, app furnished. No pets.

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$100 per week 865-621-2941

New Homes Under Construction: Sevierville: Call Renee'/Alicia Approx. 1620 SF 3/2 Gar. $170,000.

Approx. 1540 SF 3/2 Gar/Basement $154,900.

Approx. 1462 SF 3/2 Gar. $159,900.

Approx 1444 SF 3/2 Gar. $159,900.

Kodak: Approx. 1400 SF 3/2 Gar. $149,900.

DOWNTOWN SEVIERVILLE

3BR Apartment for rent in Kodak. $700/mo + deposit. Call Barbara 865-368-5338

Furnished All Utilities, Cable and Tax included

829 MANUFACTURED HOME SALES

ABSOLUTE FARM

Gatlinburg Rooms for Rent

Seymour Area 2BR/2BA water & sewer furnished. $525/mth, $300 dam. dep. No Pets.

654-2519.

699 HOME RENTALS REALTY PLUS 428-8155

Kodak: Spacious 2BR/2BA 2 car garage No pets. 1 yr lease. $800 mth/$550 dep.

behind GP High School near trolley stop

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Comics ◆ A17

Monday, June 21, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press Family Circus

Close to Home

Advice

Man stuck in loveless marriage should give wife ultimatum, follow through

Zits

Blondie

Baby Blues

Beetle Bailey

Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married 35 years. Before you applaud, let me explain that it has not been a good marriage.

I was crazy about my wife. She was smoking hot and even today, in her 50s, is still quite attractive. But she was raised to believe that sex was dirty and sinful. We were intimate about once a year. After she became pregnant, we didn’t touch each other until she wanted to get pregnant again, three years later.

I tried everything to get her interested, but was rejected over and over.

The last time we had physical contact was 21 years ago.

Someone suggested she was never in love with me, and now I realize it is true. I stayed in the marriage for our kids and because I already felt like such a failure. I continued to be the best husband and father I could.

Now I find myself in my mid-50s and more alone than ever.

I make a healthy sixfigure income, but am miserable. I have had many opportunities to get something on the side, and I don’t want to be that guy. But, Annie, I want someone in my life who can be a friend, a lover and a companion. Filing for a standard divorce will drag on forever, making only the attorneys rich, and we will become even more embittered. I promised my wife she could have everything and, with her agreement, filed for our state’s no-fault divorce.

The problem? My wife has had the paperwork for three years and refuses to sign it. I am so depressed, it’s hard to go on. There is a woman for

whom I have developed feelings, although we have not been intimate.

I fear I may have already lost her. How can I get my wife to divorce me? -Lonely and Spiritually Dead Dear Lonely: Your marriage sounds sad.

Your wife is hanging on to the papers because she is frightened to be on her own after so many years.

If she is willing, counseling could help her. In the meantime, it may be necessary to “make the lawyers rich” in order to get out. Tell your wife you believe she has the strength to move on without you, but if she won’t sign the papers within the month, you will file for a standard divorce and the money she might have gotten through a settlement will now pay for the attorney’s fees.

Then follow through.

Dear Annie: My boyfriend has two rather large sisters who apparently have difficulty cleaning themselves, as they have terrible odors about them. When we invite them to our home, they leave their stench everywhere they sit. We then have to clean the chairs and sofa to rid these areas of the smell, and we can’t use the furniture for hours because it has to dry.

Is there any way to tell them of our dilemma or protect our furniture? -Washington Dear Washington: For some overweight people, excessive sweat-

t o d ay ’ s p u z z l e

Garfield

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

For Better Or Worse

Tina’s Groove

ing causes an odor problem. It’s also possible those sisters have an underlying medical condition that is a contributing factor. It would be a kindness if your boyfriend could work up the courage to tell his sisters about their body odor so they could do something about it. If he won’t, however, the best you can do is cover your furniture with fabric or plastic, and give them a fancy bath kit as a gift and hope they get the hint.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Just Curious in the Midwest,” who received a mass text message as a thank-you note.

Here is how I make sure to send personalized thank-you notes. I do not allow myself to deposit checks, spend cash or use any gift until I have handwritten and mailed a thank-you note.

My husband and I did this for our wedding, and when we have children, they will write thank-you notes before they are allowed to play with their gifts. It will give them an incentive to do the right thing. -- C. 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. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Announcing our

newest arrivals at

LeConte Medical Center Tegan Elizabeth 5/8

Bentley Fisher 5/10

Benjamin Noah 5/10

Cristan and Paul, Sevierville

Amanda and Reggie, Sevierville

Jennifer and James, Sevierville

Colton Jayse 5/11

Noah Andrew 5/11

Olivia Lynn 5/11

Sophia Karen Marie 5/10 Sarah, Sevierville

Latashia and Brandon, Sevierville

Cash Ryder 5/12

Bently Jackson 5/12

Vincent David 5/14

Christal and Jesse, Sevierville

Sabrina and Andrew, Cosby

Amanda and Larry, Sevierville

Jill and Jack, Sevierville

Nadia Grace 5/12

Cecil Edward III 5/13

Rajin Rain 5/14

Tryslen Joshua 5/14

Ashley, Sevierville

Gabriel James 5/15

Landyn Malaki 5/11

Jessica and Cecil, Jefferson

Stephanie and Christopher, Sevierville

Nikki and Joshua, Pigeon Forge

Aubrey James 5/15

Elijah Cash 5/17

Dylan Giovanni 5/18

Abigail, Sevierville

Samantha, Sevierville

Leland Matthew 5/18

Chelsey and James, Sevierville

Sara and James, Sevierville

Tasha and David, Knoxville

Monica and Sergio, Knoxville

April and Thomas, Sevierville

Aiden Kole 5/20

Alandra Joelle 5/20

Kyleigh Reese 5/27

Alayna Storm 5/27

Emaline Jade 5/27

Samantha and Benjamin, Sevierville

Christine and Alan, Dandridge

Leah and Seth, Sevierville

Hannah and Johnathan, Sevierville

Vanessa, Sevierville

Anna Grace 5/27

Ashlyn Nicole 5/28

Legend Elias 5/28

Max Casey 5/28

Michael Aaron 5/29

Keesha and Barry, Kodak

Kayla and Samuel, Sevierville

Katina and Greg, Sevierville

Christina and Casey, Sevierville

Colin Joseph 5/31

Kaylee Faye 6/1

Layla Anne 6/2

Malakia Blair 6/2 Rebecca, Sevierville

Michelle and Aaron, Seymour

Lindsey Danielle 6/4

Noah Payton 6/4

Amy and Joseph, Gatlinburg

Angie and Jordan, Talbott

Jamie and Allen, Sevierville

Raymond Lewis III 6/3

Hannah Kaylie 6/3

Anna Marie 6/3

Keely and Raymond, Sevierville

Jennifer and Jody, Sevierville

Amy and Clint, Sevierville,

Heather and John, Sevierville

Angela and Thomas, Sevierville

Holly Mae 6/3

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