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The Mountain Press ■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 171 ■ June 20, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ $1.25

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Once friends, families divided

INSIDE

2009 accident left 1 teen dead, 1 disabled; led to criminal charges, lawsuit

By STAN VOIT and JEFF FARRELL Staff Writers

5All in the Johnson family Father’s advice leads children to family law practice MOUNTAIN LIFE, Page B1

5Splish-splash, Bearacudas win The Smoky Mountain Bearacudas swim team wins season opener sports, Page A11

Local

Sevierville woman killed Molly Howard dies from apparent gun shot in Cosby Thursday. Page A2

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They were once close friends, teenagers who often hung out together. Best friends, in some cases. That all changed a year ago, when a tragic accident left one dead, one severely injured and spawned criminal charges and a lawsuit. On one side of this story are Zayne McPeek, whose son, Matthew Gentry, died in the May 2, 2009 accident on Allensville

Matthew Gentry died in the accident on Allensville Road

Road; and Corey Tibbs, who suffered permanent injuries. On the other side are Corey Robinson, the driver of that vehicle; and Josh Lethco, who was in the backseat and sustained relatively minor

against Robinson, Lethco and their parents, claiming the wreck was Driver Corey caused by actions taken that night Robinson faces by the defendants. multiple charges It’s been more than a year in the aftermath since the wreck, and McPeek and Chrissty Tibbs are frustrated that little has been done in juvenile court to get the matter heard. injuries. Robinson, now 18, has The trial was on the docket for been charged in juvenile court with June 18, but was postponed until reckless homicide and two counts September. of reckless endangerment. McPeek “I know this was an accident,” has joined Chrissty Tibbs, mother See ACCIDENT, Page A5 of Corey Tibbs, in a civil lawsuit

Reaching out

S. O. S.

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Oakie Sharp, 93, reaches out to hug S.O.S. volunteers Barbara Jones, center and Martha Gilchrist. During their visit the volunteers chatted with Sharp and helped her find a free online poker game.

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DETAILS, Page A6

Obituaries Joseph Eatman, 41 Molly Howard, 33 James Turner William McCarter, 64 Earl Hurst, 79 DETAILS, Page A4

Index Local & State . . . . . A1-6 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . A8-A11 Nation . . . . . . . . . . . A12 World . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . B5 Classifieds . . . . . B10,B11

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Volunteer program touches lives of Sevier seniors By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor

S.O.S. Information

You’ll know who they are by their uniform: a white, buttondown shirt with the Senior Outreach Sevier logo and their name, black or khaki pants and an official badge showing their affiliation with S.O.S. Many times they will be in car bearing S.O.S. insignia. For more than five years, the program has operated in Sevier County, touching the lives of countless senior citizens who

The Sevier County Office on Aging will host two informational meetings about S.O.S. for potential volunteers n Meeting 1: 1:30 a.m. June 25 n Meeting 2: 10 a.m. July 1 n Where: Fort Sanders Sevier Senior Center, 1220 West Main St., Sevierville. n Phone: 453-8080 ext. 104.

are permanently or temporarily home-bound due to health or economics. S.O.S. volunteer coordinator

Michelle Dresch said the program, an outreach of the Sevier County Office On Aging, began after director Lisa Yarber par-

ticipated in a similar program in Knoxville called SCAN, Senior Citizens Awareness Network. Yarber then approached Sevierville Police Department Officer Rebecca Cowan and asked how they could establish a similar program in Sevier County. From that, S.O.S. was born. Classes were held in 2005 to begin training volunteers, with the first class graduating in 2006. See S.O.S., Page A4

Martha’s not settling for ‘normal’ retirement By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor Most people who anxiously await their retirement dream of lazy days where their most important choice is deciding what to eat for breakfast — if they plan to get up that early, that is — lunch or dinner. Where they can while away their time playing golf, taking trips and playing card games. Bridge is Martha Gilchrist’s card game of choice. She plays three days a week at the Fort Sanders Sevier Senior Center and that time, she said, is sacrosanct. But she makes time for volunteering about once a week with the Senior Outreach Sevier (S.O.S.), a program she learned about while playing bridge at the center.

Local business owner Bill Thompson takes a few hours off work to volunteer for the Senior Outreach Sevier program. Page A2

“They were advertising that they were going to have a class for new volunteers, so I signed up,” Gilchrist said. “I’m retired, and for so many years I worked very, very long hours and was unable to do any volunteer work.” She knew volunteering was something she wanted to do once she retired from working with the Army. (She was working in the Pentagon on 9/11.) Working with S.O.S., she said, appealed to her. “I just sort of have a

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Martha Gilchrist, left, and S.O.S. volunteer coordinator Michelle Dresch discuss the day’s planned visits. special place in my heart they were taught how to marvelous resource direcfor the elderly and espelook for different forms of tory,” she said. “I refer cially those that are not elder abuse, to determine to that not only for my as fortunate as others,” if the client is getting S.O.S. job, but for friends Gilchrist said. enough food or dealing who might have problems Gilchrist enrolled in with any other issues that come up.” the classes that would could affect their physical The beauty of the help prepare her for her and mental well-being. See MARTHA, Page A4 volunteer work. She said “They put together a

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The Mountain Press ◆ Sunday, June 20, 2010

Sevierville woman dies of gunshot wound in Cosby Unconfirmed reports indicate Molly Howard may have known killer

Molly Amanda Greene Howard, 33, suffered the fatal injury at a home at 330 South Highway 32 in Cosby. Cocke County Sheriff’s Department Chief Detective Robert Caldwell By DEREK HODGES told The Newport Plain Talk the Staff Writer incident happened at 2:15 a.m. Thursday. A Sevierville woman was killed Not much is known about the late last week, the apparent vic- incident at this time, with few tim of a gunshot wound inflicted details released to the Newport early Thursday morning. paper and a message seeking

information left with the Cocke County Sheriff’s Department Saturday evening going unreturned. Reports have indicated Howard knew the shooter and that there may have been an arrest made in the incident, though that could not be confirmed. Howard was a graduate of Sevier County High School, and attended both Walters State Community College and

Carson-Newman College. She leaves behind two children, son Oakley Bo Howard and daughter Remy Leigh Howard, both of Sevierville. According to the obituary provided by McCarty Funeral Directors and Cremation Services, a memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Trinity Episcopal Church in Gatlinburg. Howard’s family has suggested donations in her honor be made

to the Sevier County Humane Society. Caldwell said the Cocke County Sheriff’s Department, Cocke County district attorney general’s office and the Tennesse Bureau of Investigation are looking into the incident. An autopsy was expected to be performed on Saturday at the University of Tennessee. n dhodges@themountainpress.com

Helping seniors brings businessman satisfaction By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor Two times each month, local business owner Bill Thompson takes a few hours off work to volunteer for the Senior Outreach Sevier (S.O.S.) program. He owns William Thompson and Associates, a business that consults clients in the health care field on cost containment. Like fellow volunteer Martha Gilchrist, Thompson found out about the program by participating in other events at the Fort Sanders Sevier Senior Center with his wife Ann. “My wife started going there to play bridge and we found out about an exercise class and we started going to that,” Thompson said. “Once we got involved in exercise and bridge activities, we found out about the S.O.S. program.” Thompson said he decided to volunteer with S.O.S. because, “there’s a real need,” he said. “Sevier County has got a lot of people who are shut in because they don’t have transportation or can’t utilize it effectively because of physical impairments.”

Overweight man claims diet led to rape confession MEMPHIS (AP) — An overweight man who pleaded guilty in three sexual assaults in West Tennessee says he was coerced into confessing by authorities who had him on a lettuce-only diet. The Commercial Appeal reports Bruce Tuck, who weighs 275 pounds, said in a petition challenging his pleas and his 60-year sentence that a detective in Martin offered him chips and a cold drink in exchange for him to talk about the crimes. Tuck pleaded guilty in December to 19 counts, including six counts of aggravated rape. He still faces charges in Shelby County for a string of assaults in 2009. His petition also makes other claims including questioning his own mental competency to enter guilty pleas.

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“You always get that feeling when you’re helping the community. You try to help where ever you can help. When you can do that, it’s a good feeling.” — Bill Thompson, businessman and S.O.S. volunteer

Some people, he said, are reluctant to call on others for help because they don’t want to be a bother. But spending a few hours a week visiting with people is no trouble at all. “It’s important letting them know someone thinks about them,” Thompson said. On a recent day of volunteering Thompson was paired up with fellow volunteer Robert Greenawalt, who has been volunteering for about eight months. Thompson played the straight man to Greenawalt’s joking and flirting as they made their rounds around the county. Their first stop was a bust, as the woman they were sent to see wasn’t home. Having visited her before, Greenawalt suspects she was with family who live nearby. The next stop was

more productive, with a short visit with Sarah Hurst in Pigeon Forge. Hurst’s daughter, Kathy McGill (one of seven natural and adopted children) said her mother signed up for S.O.S. volunteer visits several years ago. Now bedridden after a long career in housekeeping, 84-year-old Hurst said she enjoys talking with the volunteers. Greenawalt kept her in smiles and laughter while Thompson looked around the immaculately kept home to see if anything needed to be done. That’s how most of the visits go, Thompson said, with the volunteers asking how they are doing, if there is anything they need and how their grandkids are. “All those things they like to talk about,” Thompson said. “The more they get involved

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Photographed through a mirror inscribed with well wishes from family, Sarah Hurst greets S.O.S. volunteer Bill Thompson, right and Robert Greenawalt. you can see their face brightening up a bit. That’s the pay off.” Greenawalt agrees. Walking from the Hurst home after the visit where they talked about how she was feeling; her children, grandchildren and grandchildren; and how she used to garden — “Everybody said I had the prettiest tomatoes,” she told them — said that was the whole point of the visit. “She smiled and smiled

and smiled,” he said. “She got to have a minute for herself and forget (her situation) for a period of time.” Thompson said there is a lot of self-satisfaction in volunteering for S.O.S. “You always get that feeling when you’re helping the community,” he said. “You try to help where ever you can help. When you can do that, it’s a good feeling.” n gcrutchfield@themountainpress.com

She smiled and smiled and smiled, She got to have a minute for herself and forget (her situation) for a period of time.”

— S.O.S. volunteer Robert Greenawalt

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Sunday, June 20, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press

’Burg commission to consider ‘Walk thru the Parkway’ stop-gap measure for budget Action necessary to keep city running until new plan OK’d By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer GATLINBURG — When they meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall, members of the City Commission will consider an emergency stop-gap resolution to keep the city functioning until a full budget can be approved, something that won’t happen before the June 30 deadline this year. Facing some tough issues with potential shortfalls in revenue collections, staffers have had to extend their usual work to prepare the financial documents. That has meant delaying the actual approval of a budget, something state law requires happen by June 30 unless something is done to ensure the city has money to continue daily operations until a plan can be drafted in the near future. That’s why the commissioners are set to consider Emergency Ordinance Number 2423. The appropriations bill would pull money out of the city’s reserves to keep all offices operating into July while a budget is finalized. Because it is an emergency action, it will require only one vote. The move is a rarity among local municipalities and shows how difficult balancing expenses and revenue have gotten for many government leaders as the recession has dragged on. However, county leaders have made a habit of extending their budget work into July, annually passing a stop-gap measure that allows them to continue operating as they shore up their considerable financial plan. Also on the agenda for Tuesday’s session: n Amending the Zoning Ordinance by

repealing Section 405 in its entirety and replacing it with a new Section 405, as well as adding 706.10, and amending Sections 708 and 710 to regulate temporary uses and farmers markets (public hearing and second reading) n A grant agreement with the Tennessee Department of Transportation for Phase VI of the effort to underground utilities and complete streetscape work on the Parkway n An audit proposal for fiscal years 2010, 2011 and 2010 from Pugh and Company and authorizing the execution of an agreement for the fiscal year 2010 audit n An amendment to the concessionaire agreement between the city and Charles Richard Resources for food service operations at the Gatlinburg Golf Course n Closure of a portion of River Road for the Gatlinburg Fine Arts Festival May 14-15, 2011 n Usage of the aquarium parking garage for the Anna Porter Public Library Luau Sept. 16 n Purchase of radio equipment for the Police Department through a Sevier County Sheriff’s Department bid from Land-Air Communications n A lease agreement with Land-Air Total Communications related to the radio cell tower site on Ski View Road n A lease agreement with Sevier County related to the radio cell tower site on Ski View Road n Granting a construction easement for a bridge project over LeConte Creek at Asbury Lane to the Tennessee Department of Transportation n Making Appointments to the Recreation and Tourism Advisory boards. n dhodges@themountainpress.com

Dolly offers meal, stay in annual ‘Evening of Elegance’ fundraiser Submitted Report On the heels of last year’s $75,000 winning bid for her “Backwoods Barbie-Q,” Dolly Parton is offering a “Backwoods Barbie-Q II” for the Dr. Robert F. Thomas Foundation’s annual Evening of Elegance fundraiser on Aug. 14. “I never in my wildest dreams imagined anybody paying $75,000 to eat supper with me,” Parton said. “Due to the generosity of some real fine folks, we raised a lot of money for the Dr. Robert F. Thomas Foundation, which is very near and dear to my heart. So I’m offering up my Backwoods Barbie-Q II this year with hopes that we can raise a lot more money to help improve healthcare in Sevier County.” The winning bidder and a guest will arrive at 5 p.m. at Parton’s Sevier County mountain home. That evening, the winner can invite an additional 10 guests for a

private tour of Parton’s residence followed by a barbecue with bluegrass entertainment, all hosted by Parton. The winner and a guest will spend the night in Parton’s guest cottage. At 9 a.m. the following day, Parton will prepare and serve breakfast to the winner and a guest. It is only the second time in history that Parton has offered such access to her private residence. “Dolly absolutely wowed last year’s winning bidders with a truly once-ina-lifetime experience at her Tennessee Mountain Home,” said Deborah Dowling, executive director of The Dr. Robert F. Thomas Foundation. TEvening of Elegance takes place at Mills Auditorium in Gatlinburg. Parton, one of the many babies delivered by Dr. Thomas, is the foundation’s honorary chairwoman. Established in 1983, the not-for-profit foundation

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continues the legacy of the man who came to Sevier County in 1926 to serve in the dual role of minister and family physician. The foundation’s mission is to help expand the range and quality of health care services, including a $10 million capital campaign to raise funds for the new LeConte Medical Center which opened in February. Tickets for the Evening of Elegance event are $200 per person and may be purchased by contacting Amy Kingery at 446-9628.

Sevier County Right To Life recently organized a “Walk thru the Parkway” that started at the Pigeon Forge Library, went north to the Red Roof Mall, and back to the Library. The participants displayed signs such as “I Believe in Life,” “God Is Pro-Life” and “Abortion Is NOT Health Care.” Right To LIfe meetings are the first Thursday of every month at 5:30 p.m. at the Pigeon Forge Library. For more information call President Ursula Beckman at 908-2689. For Tickets

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during its regular meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. Monday. To make sure they have enough time to review all the remaining items, the workshop will start at 3 p.m. Monday. Both meetings will be held in the Civic Center. Other items on the agenda include: n Second reading of an ordinance amending regulations for the Historic

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average of 110 people each month through either phone 3From Page A1 calls or home visits. About half of those are home visits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we had more volunteers The volunteers can choose the days and times when they we could do more,â&#x20AC;? Dresch can work for S.O.S., as well as said. The classes held for trainthe extent to what they will ing S.O.S. volunteers educate do, from simply calling on persons to check on them by them on a number of subjects they need to know about phone to sending cards. and how to look for potential â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one lady who does cards on her computer,â&#x20AC;? problems in the homes they visit. Those subjects range Dresch said. from protecting confidentialThe complete program ity of those they are serving, offerings of S.O.S. include: to how to identify instances crime prevention informaof abuse and neglect. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tion, vacation property checks, welfare checks, refer- educated on local resources ral to needed resources, pub- so that information can be shared with those they visit lic relations, food ministry and food deliver, medication and even on issues regarding Social Security. pick up and library material Yarber said the training deliver. Yarber said volunteers can classes are developed around donate as little as one hour a the volunteers. If they want a two-day crash course or the month to the program, notspread it out over six weeks, ing that each minute given theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll work with the volunis greatly appreciated. There teerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedule. are no requirements for the For those they visit, the number of hours worked each week or even how many volunteers are a God-send. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All I can say is everything times a year. good about them,â&#x20AC;? said â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have people who are Amelia Miller, who is visited retired but want something by an S.O.S volunteer once to do,â&#x20AC;? Yarber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tell a month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me they are them do the training and go out and visit and if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guardian angels.â&#x20AC;? Miller moved to the area as like it you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do it she was escaping Hurricane again.â&#x20AC;? Katrina. Those same people, she â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came here because said, now put the program Hurricane Katrina took first because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made a difeverything I had,â&#x20AC;? she said. ference in their life. Since then, her daughter â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a win/win situation,â&#x20AC;? passed away unexpectfor both the volunteers and edly and her granddaughter those they visit. moved back to Louisiana. Dresch said right now the Though her remaining famprogram checks in with an

ily, a cousin in Louisiana, encourages her to move back, Miller wants to stay here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a lot of friends and I really like it here,â&#x20AC;? she said. Some of those friends are the S.O.S. volunteers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have been right there for me,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there for everybody. When you need them, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there.â&#x20AC;? Miller said they will do almost anything you need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michelle came by one time and I was out of groceries and had no way to get to the grocery store,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Give me a list and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go get it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So she went to get it for me. That was a big help.â&#x20AC;? She said she looks forward to seeing the volunteers and talking to them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because after my daughter passed away, I really needed somebody to talk to,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can talk to them and they listen. That made me feel better.â&#x20AC;? One of those volunteers has stepped up to provide a little extra assistance. Bill Thompson, Miller said, takes her to her doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By accident I met him,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He brought a basket of food. I never saw so much food in my life. It was my Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dinner.â&#x20AC;? At the time, Miller said she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feeling well. It was so bad, she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get herself to the doctor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so sic, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get up to the bus,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess he saw that I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

feeling good. I told him I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any transportation, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get up in the bus right now.â&#x20AC;? At that point she hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been to the doctor in seven months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Is that all you need?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He took out a card and gave it to me. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been taking me to the doctor ever since. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a jewel and he has so much patience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to go to a counselor in Knoxville last week,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spent the whole day out there. I was just furious because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to keep him. I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry it took so long.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK, I wrote a book.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Anyone interested in being an S.O.S. volunteer can attend informational meetings planned at 11:30 a.m. June 25 at 10 a.m. July 1 at Fort Sanders Sevier Senior Center, 1220 West Main St., Sevierville. You man also call Dresch at 453-8080 ext. 104. Yarber said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to have more volunteers for S.O.S. or the other outreach programs offered by the Council on Aging, but encourages people to volunteer where they want. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pick somewhere in your community and make a difference,â&#x20AC;? Yarber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will make a difference and what you do and makes your community a better place to live. Pick an area youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re passionate about and choose some place to volunteer.â&#x20AC;?

longer than the other place.â&#x20AC;? 3From Page A1 The situations, she said, can range from pleasant S.O.S. program, Gilchrist to sad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The really pleasant said, is that she gets to ones are those who maybe pick which days sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll they have nearby and volunteer. She tries to volunteer at least once a you just know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well cared for and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re week. cheerful and in good spirâ&#x20AC;&#x153;It just depends on its. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just delightful if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having house to talk to and they very n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com guests or we weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going much appreciate you takout of town,â&#x20AC;? she said. ing the time,â&#x20AC;? Gilchrist â&#x20AC;&#x153;I strive for one day a Earl Hurst said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the other end of Earl Hurst, 79 of Sevierville, week. Sometimes I make the spectrum itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very sad. it, some days I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m died Thursday, June 17, 2010. They may have family but He was a tobacco farmer and also on the board of the donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear from them, or an avid fisherman. Humane Society and I you visit those who have Survivors: sons Don Hurst and play bridge three times a no one, absolutely no one. wife Rachel, Gary Hurst and week. That time is sacroThose are the ones who wife Martha, Marvin Hurst, Ray sanct.â&#x20AC;? absolutely appreciate it.â&#x20AC;? Hurst; daughters Wanda Parrott The time she spends and husband Johnny, Linda volunteering varies, she Providing some time for Leonard and husband Tim, conversation and compansaid, as do the situations Sherry Hurst; â&#x20AC;&#x153;specialâ&#x20AC;? daughionship is just part of the ter and caregiver Debbie Hurst; she and her fellow volunS.O.S. volunteerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. several grandchildren and great- teers encounter. They will run errands, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes we go in grandchildren; brother James Hurst; sister Daisy Romines. and there are family mem- pick up groceries or prescriptions or even bring in The family will receive friends bers and it appears to be books from the library. noon-1 p.m. Monday with a happy place,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one fellow funeral service to follow at 1 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really no need to who is an avid reader and p.m. Monday in the Chapel of outwear your welcome. Atchley Funeral Home. Interment On the other hand you confined to his home,â&#x20AC;? will follow in Bethel Cemetery. go where there is a lonely Gilchrist said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go Arrangements by Atchley Funeral to the library and pick up person. You might stay

books for him. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not particular and we know his interest, so we know to pick up history books. She said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ask if there is anything they can do to help them while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One lady needed a new belt put on her vacuum cleaner,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One lady said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh honey, if you can take out the trash.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That was easy for me, but not for her.â&#x20AC;?

Gilchrist said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s convinced at least one other person to volunteer for the program and wishes more would. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would tell them that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absolutely worth the time,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because, you know, well I hope that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making a different in someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. They may you feel that your making a difference.â&#x20AC;?

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Molly Greene Howard, age 33, of Sevierville passed away 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.

In Memoriam

Joseph E. Eatman

Joseph E. Eatman, age 41 of Gatlinburg, passed away Friday, June 18, 2010. He was a United States Air Force veteran. He was a very godly man who never met a stranger and could turn your bad day into a glorious one. Survivors include his: Wife: Lucinda â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cindiâ&#x20AC;? 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-in-law 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. Cremation arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville, TN. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

James Vincent Turner, born Aug. 31, 1913, died Thursday, June 17, 2010. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Sevierville where he taught Sunday School for more than 70 years and where he was a lifetime deacon. He taught the International Sunday School Lesson on WESV/WDLY for 40 years. He was a fixture on Court Avenue at Wadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department Store and the Corner Store for more than 56 years. Survivors: daughters and sons-in-law Barbara and Jerry Scott, Mary Frances (Fran) and Marvin Harmon of Sevierville; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one soonto-arrive great-grandchild; sisters Jean White and Martha Guy of Sevierville; nieces and nephews. Contributions may be made to the Trula Lawson Early Childhood Center, 550 Eastgate Road, Sevierville, TN 37862 or to the Library Fund of the First Baptist Church, 317 Parkway, Sevierville, TN 37862. The family received friends Saturday followed by the funeral service at First Baptist Church, Sevierville with the Rev. Jerry Hyder officiating. Interment followed in Shiloh Cemetery. Pallbearers were Mr. Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandsons and nephews. Honorary pallbearers were members of the CAB Sunday School class and the Deacons of First Baptist Church. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

William â&#x20AC;&#x153;Speedyâ&#x20AC;? Rex McCarter William â&#x20AC;&#x153;Speedyâ&#x20AC;? Rex McCarter, 64 of Sevierville, died Thursday, June 17, 2010 at his home. He was a member of Maples Branch Baptist Church. Survivors: son and daughterin-law, Mr. and Mrs. Barry Ball McCarter; two grandchildren; brothers and sisters-in-law, Carl and Lorene McCarter, Xan and Shirley McCarter; sisters-inlaw, Blanche McCarter, Geneva McCarter, and Louise McCarter; aunts, Ruth Newcomb, Cecil

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assistant DA earlier in the week. Dunn says members of his staff have met with the families regularly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as McPeek said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I feel my many or more times as they son died for no reason.â&#x20AC;? have with victims in any Chrissty Tibbs says her â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zayne McPeek, father of other case, he says. Because family has incurred more Matthew Gentry the assistants are often in than $600,000 in medical court, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet with bills because of injuries her families as often as the famson sustained â&#x20AC;&#x201D; injuries ilies might like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but they try she says will require lifetime curve where the accident happened which he feels to respond quickly to any care. Corey Tibbs has the contributed to the wreck. questions and keep families mind of a fifth-grader, she What is not in dispute of victims updated.â&#x20AC;? says, because of his head Poole, the lawyer for injuries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was in a coma is why the boys were on Allensville Road. They were Robinson, says one reason for two months. He also headed to a party at a spot there have been delays in had massive face and teeth around the edge of Douglas the trial is because troopdamage and heart probers were not responding to lems. The familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insurance Lake that is at the eastern his requests for data and coverage has been exceeded, end of Allensville Road. It also seems clear that after crime scene materials. The they have a mound of so-called discovery phase of unpaid household bills and they left the Lethco house they stopped at the BP stathe case created the delay, they may lose their home, tion at the intersection of he says. Poole says he finally she said. Highway 66 and Allensville had to threaten to file a She says her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor contempt of court request judgment that night was â&#x20AC;&#x153;to Road. According to McPeek and before finally getting what be Corey Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend Tibbs, Robinson got some he had been asking for from and trust his judgment.â&#x20AC;? older girls to buy beer for the highway patrol. He filed Sevierville attorney them at the store. Corey a motion June 14 asking for Charles Poole represents Tibbs says admission to the a continuance so his hired Robinson in the criminal party on the lake required experts can consider the case. A Knoxville law firm bringing beer. materials they finally got. represents the Robinsons Corey Tibbs says he and Poole also said that and Lethcos in the civil Robinson went to parties trooper Howard Greenlee lawsuit. has changed the arrest citaIn that lawsuit, the plain- together â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the time.â&#x20AC;? He tion several times, but did tiffs say Paul Lethco, Joshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s says neither he nor Gentry wanted to go to this one, but not serve Robinson with father, allowed the teenagthe charges until January ers to be at his home drink- Robinson â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whom Corey â&#x20AC;&#x201D; eight months after the ing and illegally consuming Tibbs says dropped by the prescription drugs the night Lethco house after the other accident. At first Greenlee three were already there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; filed charges against Corey of the accident, and that Robinson that included Paul Lethco was â&#x20AC;&#x153;known for insisted they all go to the vehicular homicide, reckallowing underage drinking party. Tibbs and McPeek less endangerment and to take place at (his) house.â&#x20AC;? possession of alcohol by a The defendants have denied remain frustrated over the that and almost every other time it has taken to hold the minor, but that citation was criminal trial, especially the never issued to Robinson. allegation in the lawsuit. recent delay. In July 2009 Greenlee filed The lawsuit seeks at District Attorney Jimmy a second set of charges least $1 million in damDunn understands the frus- that Poole says were ages for Corey Tibbs and tration, but says some of the never served on Robinson Zayne McPeek and at least troopers who were to testify either. Finally, in January, $250,000 for the other went on scheduled vacaGreenlee filed reduced plaintiffs. charges against Robinson A few days after the 2009 tions. Some law enforcement officers are required of reckless (not vehicular) accident, McPeek told to be in court frequently, homicide and two counts of The Mountain Press he and the courts try to work reckless endangerment. had reached out to Corey with the officersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; schedules. Robinson was served, Robinson and assured him Dunn says he realizes the spent time in the detention the family did not bear a legal system can be discour- center and was released on grudge. He also said at the his own recognizance. time he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want charges aging, especially for people One of the biggest comto be filed against the driver. involved in a case as emotional as this one. plaints against Robinson What changed? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably made by McPeek and Tibbs McPeek said he learned frustrated with the system,â&#x20AC;? is that he has shown no more about the accident Dunn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can underremorse and never apoloand concluded Corey stand their frustration. I gized to the families. Robinson had snorted the share in that frustration at â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has not accepted prescription drug hydroresponsibility,â&#x20AC;? McPeek codone at the Lethco house, times, too.â&#x20AC;? McPeek and Tibbs also said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cannot get the and drank at least two beers say the DAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has not truth out of him. He lied before the wreck. McPeek communicated well with to me from day one. If I do feels Robinson has lied them. They say calls are something there are conseabout his behavior that not returned, and they say quences. We are suffering. I night. Hydrocodone is a the only way they knew lost my best friend and my narcotic pain reliever. the June 18 trial had been son.â&#x20AC;? Poole says state toxicoldelayed was that they manTibbs says she wants ogy reports show neither aged to talk briefly to an Robinson â&#x20AC;&#x153;to pay for what Robinson nor Lethco had used illegal drugs or consumed any alcohol that night. The district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office and the defense have entered an order stipulating to that report, Poole said. McPeek and Chrissty Tibbs say Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vehicle was traveling at least 90 mph, probably faster, down Allensville Road before crashing into a tree around 11:30 p.m. Poole says the car was exceeding the speed limit, but state trooper reports indicate the speed was closer to 50 mph, maybe a little faster. 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â&#x20AC;&#x153;He lost his best friend. He blames himself for the loss of his best friend. He suffers every day.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sevierville attorney Charles Poole represents Corey Robinson in the criminal case.

he did. He should have to face his victims â&#x20AC;Ś and be forced to tell the truth and pay for what he did.â&#x20AC;? She says Robinson should have to serve time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My son was his best friend,â&#x20AC;? Tibbs said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no remorse from this kid.â&#x20AC;? Poole says Robinson has shown remorse, and the Robinson family did â&#x20AC;&#x153;extend their sympathiesâ&#x20AC;? to the families of the victims. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He lost his best friend,â&#x20AC;? Poole said, referring to Matthew Gentry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He blames himself for the loss of his best friend. He suffers every day.â&#x20AC;? Poole said the Robinsons have offered to conduct fundraisers for the other families. So what really happened that night? Besides a horrible life-changing accident, Poole says it was four teenagers in a car that exceeded the speed limit on a rainy night, with the then 17-year-old driver having little experience behind the wheel. There were no drugs or alcohol affecting the outcome, Poole says. McPeek and Tibbs say it was mostly Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault, because, they allege, he snorted hydrocodone at the Lethco house, drank beer while behind the wheel and caused the crash by going way over the speed limit. Robinson is charged as a juvenile, meaning his case remains sealed and his trial will not be public. Because he and the other teenagers involved in the accident have been identified in the civil lawsuit, The Mountain Press chose to identify all of them in this story.

BP chief goes yachting, leaving Gulf infuriated By HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press Writer

EMPIRE, La. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; BP chief executive Tony Hayward took a day off Saturday to see his 52-foot yacht â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobâ&#x20AC;? compete in a glitzy race off Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shore, a leisure trip that further infuriated residents of the oil-stained Gulf Coast. While Haywardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pricey ship whipped around the Isle of Wight on a good day for sailing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; breezy and about 68 degrees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; anger simmered on the steamy Gulf Coast, where crude has been washing in from the still-gushing spill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man, that ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right. None of us can even go out fishing, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the yacht races,â&#x20AC;? said Bobby Pitre, 33, who runs a tattoo shop in the crossroads town of Larose, La. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish we could get a day off from the oil, too.â&#x20AC;? BP spokespeople rushed to defend Hayward, who has drawn withering criticism as the public face of BP PLCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halting efforts to stop the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Company spokesman Robert Wine said the break is the first for Hayward since the Deepwater Horizon rig BP was leasing exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the undersea gusher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spending a few hours with his family at a weekend. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure that everyone would understand that,â&#x20AC;? Wine said. He noted Hayward is a well known as a fan of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest, which attracts more than 1,700 boats and 16,000 sailors as famous yachtsmen compete with wealthy amateurs in a 50-nautical mile course around the island at Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southern tip. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobâ&#x20AC;? finished fourth in its group. It was not clear whether Hayward actually took part in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race or attended as a spectator. The boat, made 10 years ago by the Annapolis, Md.-based boatbuilder Farr Yacht Design, lists for nearly $700,000. Hayward had already angered many in the U.S. when he was quoted in the Times of London as suggesting that Americans were particularly likely to file bogus claims for compensation from the spill. He later shocked Louisiana residents by telling them that no one wanted to resolve the crisis as badly as he did because â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like my life back.â&#x20AC;? Ronnie Kennier, a 49-year-old oysterman from Empire, La., said Haywardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day among the sailboats showed once again just how out of touch BP executives are with the financial and emotional suffering along the Gulf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wanted to get his life back,â&#x20AC;? Kennier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess he got it.â&#x20AC;? In Washington, President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel made the same observation Saturday on ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Week.â&#x20AC;? Obama and Vice President Joe Biden enjoyed a round of golf Saturday near Washington, something theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done on other weekends since the spill and a fact that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost on users of social networking sites. Twitter feeds compared Obama and Bidenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golfing to Haywardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yachting, lumping them together as diversions of privileged people who should be paying more attention to the oil gushing into the Gulf.

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Election panel plans meeting

The Sevier County Election Commission will meet at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Voting Machine Warehouse, 1145 Dolly Parton Parkway. The group will review voter registration forms, lock and seal absentee ballot boxes and address any other issues. n

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‘Eclipse’ themed party set for teens

The Kodak Library will host a series of teen summer reading programs for grades 7-12. The first program, “Make Waves with ‘Eclipse,’ the Movie Release Party,” will be at 4 p.m. Thursday. There will be a “Twilight”-themed trivia game, food and more in preparation of the release of the new “Twilight” movie on June 30. The Stephanie Meyer book, “Eclipse,” is available at the library. For more information about the party, call Kelly Hamilton at 9330078. n

The Mountain Press is seeking recipes for the third edition of “Reader Recipes.” A maximum of five recipes per person is allowed in the contest where first-, secondand third-place honors will be awarded. The three finalists in each category will be asked to bring their prepared dish to a judging and photography session to determine the winners. The deadline for entries is July 2. Recipes can by sent by mail to P.O. Box 4810, Sevierville, TN 37864, or by e-mail to recipes@themountainpress. com. For more information, call 428-0748, ext. 215. KODAK

Jumpstart Camp planned at church

The Sevier County Civitan Club has set this year’s Jumpstart Camp for special needs children for July 26-29 at Kodak United Methodist Church. The camp is operated by Civitans and Super Friends, which is a special-needs ministry at the church. Jumpstart Camp is available for any child with a developmental disability from preschool age through those who have completed fourth grade. To learn more about how to enroll or get involved, contact camp coordinator Lisa Roberts at 4298400. n

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Elder abuse case could set precedent NASHVILLE (AP) — A Nashville judge is studying how to proceed with a case that could set a precedent by helping prosecutors pursue claims of elder abuse. Davidson County General Sessions Judge Gloria Dumas is reviewing whether prosecutors can present testimony from hospital workers who treated Dina Roberts, a 90-yearold woman who said her daughter abused her for three years. Roberts died in December, months after her daughter, Helen Ragan,

was charged with assault. Ragan’s attorney says she never abused her mother, and the workers’ testimony amounts to hearsay that violates Ragan’s Sixth Amendment right to confront her accuser. According to The Tennessean, prosecutors say they need it to make a case. Dumas has said she will rule July 6. The case highlights several aspects of a problem that social workers, prosecutors and demographers say probably will grow as baby boomers become

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senior citizens over the next decade. Court records show that hospital workers told police that Roberts had fresh and healing bruises, a swollen lip and a broken finger when her daughter brought her to Nashville’s Saint Thomas Hospital in September 2009. Ragan told hospital staff and adult protective services workers that her mother had dementia, drank and then often got angry at her. Roberts’ swollen lip had been caused by a fall.

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Celestin, Smith to give concert

John Celestin on clarinet and Peggy Smith on piano will give a concert at 7 p.m. Friday at Gatlinburg First United Methodist Church. The first half of the concert will consist of classical music by various composers; the second half will feature traditional jazz. There will be no admission charge, but an offering will be taken to benefit the Vacation Bible School at the church. For more information about the concert, call 2777086 or 654-4256.

The incident is just one of 9,464 reported in Tennessee involving disabled and mostly elderly adults in 2009. “In these cases, there’s a whole lot of fear,” said Vickie Lawson, director of the state’s Adult Protective Services Division. “There’s fear that keeps people from reporting the abuse. And, there is also that whole fear around what kind of evidence you can have or what kind of witnesses these victims can be if they live until trial.”

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world quote roundup “Clearly it is incredibly insulting for him to be sailing in the Isle of Wight.” — Charlie Kronick of Greenpeace, as Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, the company responsible for the Gulf oil spill, was spotted at a glitzy yacht race around England’s Isle of Wight

“I’m sure that this will be seen as yet another public relations disaster.” — Hugh Walding of Friends of the Earth

“I’m glad President Obama is finally putting this catastrophe at the top of his agenda, but his response has been too slow.” — Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi

“The damage that we’ve seen to people’s homes and the effect that the flooding has had on their lives is unimaginable.” — Country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, who will do a concert Tuesday night to benefit Nashville flood victims

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On June 20, 1893, a jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. n

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Over 150 re-enactors have set up camp and will re-enact the Battle of Burg Hill today at Mills Park in Gatlinburg. Living history programs begin in the morning with the battle in the afternoon representing The Confederate 12th NC Co. A, Catawba Rifles.

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Amanda Bynes

NEW YORK — Amanda Bynes announced Saturday she’ll retire from acting. “I don’t love acting anymore so I’ve stopped doing it,” she wrote on Twitter. A quick volley of tweets included further explanation: Bynes “Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem” and “I’ve never written the movies & TV shows I’ve been a part of, I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play.”

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commentary

Anonymous postings are a bad thing Having lived through the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, gas rationing, 21 percent interest rates, several presidential improprieties, the attacks of 9/11 and now a Gulf oil spill, you’d think I’d be used to just about anything. Surely nothing could surprise or shock me. Not so. Several times a day I look at the comments posted to our Web site stories. I read them all to see if they are acceptable by our unwritten standards of civility and decorum. By the end of the day I feel an overwhelming urge to shower again. To be fair, some are quite reasoned and thought out. People who dislike our stories or editorial positions or disagree with government action sound off regularly. Visitors to our site enjoy reading those comments, and it drives visitors to our Web site. Interestingly, we insist people who send us letters to the editor sign their names and include their phone numbers and addresses, so we can verify them. We do not print unsigned letters. Yet on many Web sites people can say whatever they want to without identifying themselves. Almost every newspaper offers this service, including papers that started but discontinued a popular 1980s trend of publishing sound-off columns in which people could call in their comments and have them published, with no names attached. Like so many technological advances, such as television and cellular phones, the Internet comes with a price. We have given all manner of people a license to say what they want and have their sometimes warped, vicious and mean-spirited attacks go out to the world with no names attached. When our reporters write stories, their names are at the top. When I write a column, my name is attached. The only things we produce here that are unsigned are editorials, and only because they are not the views of one person. When part of your job is to review posted Web comments, it doesn’t take long to reach some unfortunate conclusions: There is a relatively small number who do most of the posting. Instead of commenting on stories, posters tend to comment on each other’s postings, so it becomes at times a dialogue rather than a variety of viewpoints on a central topic. There is a meanness to some posters, who get a perverse delight in ripping other people without having to be identified doing it. Anonymity does wonders for one’s willingness to be vile and nasty. On our site you don’t have to register to post, which gives added incentive to those who want to use this privilege — it is a privilege to post on our site, not a right — to be as mean as possible. I see dozens and dozens of posts attached to some stories on the News Sentinel Web site, but when you read through them you see it’s a handful of people doing most of the commenting. And they start attacking each other’s comments instead of sounding off on the story. This is true on other papers’ Web sites. Rem Rieder, the editor of the American Journalism Review, a trade magazine, thinks it’s time for publications to stop allowing anonymous posting. “Continuing to allow anonymous sniping hardly seems to be in the self-interest of news outlets,” he writes in the current issue. There appears to be a growing number of lawsuits filed over comments that could be perceived as defamatory. I often see people post comments on our site accusing someone of illegal activity or criminal behavior. I take them down as soon as I see them. Offended people are going to start going after anonymous posters, Rieder thinks. When you see the tone of ugliness in some of the comments left on other sites, that’s no surprise. I don’t set our policy on posting comments, but I am the “arbiter of good taste” when it comes to deciding which postings get to stay and which ones go away. My threshold of indignation has gotten lower. Some of these things are way beyond the bounds of civil behavior, written and posted by people emboldened by getting to stay secret. This is not what freedom of speech was meant to be. — Stan Voit is editor of The Mountain Press. His column appears each Sunday. He can be reached at 428-0748, ext. 217, or e-mail to svoit@themountainpress.com.

Editorial

Nothing to celebrate City right to pursue collecting debt from Celebrate Santa event You better watch out: Santa Claus is coming to town. Who knew that beloved Christmas song might turn out to be true? The city of Gatlinburg is on the hook for $69,000 in unpaid bills related to two Celebrate Santa festivals held in the city. In 2009 the event got a lot of attention for its uniqueness and the parade down the Parkway, But the backers of the festival, including event spokesman Joe Moore of Seymour, didn’t pay their bills for using the Convention Center and auditorium. Flash forward to 2010 and the Celebrate Santa people were welcomed back to Gatlinburg despite the unpaid debt and were allowed to use those same city facilities. They left without paying their bills yet again. Because so many people had booked

rooms and planned to spend money on their own when they got to town, the city allowed the event to go forward despite the debt from the year before. Now the Celebrate Santa people owe the city a lot of money over a two-year period. Moore signed a promissory note agreeing to pay everything in full by June 15. That day came and went and the city didn’t even get a check’sin-the-mail phone call. So what now? For starters, the city has got to be more careful when allowing use of its facilities — which are, indeed, the taxpayers’ facilities. To get burned on occasion is nothing new to private business or government. However, to get burned a second time by the same people — well, that’s the city’s fault. There appears to have been plenty of time for Celebrate Santa

people to have settled their 2009 debts before the city would and should have pulled the plug on the 2010 festival. Moore blames the city for not getting paid, saying the bad publicity and critical comments from city officials on a Santa blog hurt his ability to find sponsors and raise money to pay off the debt. That’s outrageous. Blaming the people you owe for your own acknowledged debts is like blaming the makers of traffic signals because you got a ticket for running a red light. The city of Gatlinburg owes it to the taxpayers to pursue collection of this debt, and City Manager Cindy Ogle says they will. Yes, it’s embarrassing. Yes, it’s unfortunate. However, the city must actively pursue the money through the proper channels. That’s why a promissory note was signed, right?

Political view

OT H ER VIEW S : t h e d a i ly n e w s j o u r n a l , m u r f r e e s b o r o

Higher education needs a new philosophy Tennessee’s General Assembly talks a good game about backing higher education, but it is pricing some potential students out of the college market. A Board of Regents committee voted recently to raise tuition next school year between 5 percent and 11.5 percent, and full-time tuition would no longer be capped at 12 hours. Students taking 15 to 18 hours would have to pay for each additional class. This comes on top of funding cuts to University of Tennessee and Board of Regents students almost every year over the last decade that have forced universities and community colleges to raise their fees, tuition and other costs to offset the disappearance of money. Programs such as the Hope Scholarship offer help, but many students who can’t afford

to take on debt or don’t qualify for scholarships will be turned away. We understand that with sales tax revenues barely trickling in amid a tight economy, the Legislature can hardly afford to act like a favorite uncle and toss presents to all of his nieces and nephews. But if the Legislature spent more time focusing on finding alternatives for funding higher education and less time dealing with emotional issues such as the right to carry handguns into bars it might be able to make a monumental impact on the future of higher education in Tennessee. ... In order to survive and flourish in this atmosphere, higher education will have to adopt a new philosophy. Teachers may have to take on a heavier course load, and admin-

istrators may have to do the same work that two people used to do. But it will reach the point that there will be nowhere else to cut, and the General Assembly will have to renew emphasis on providing the funds necessary to give more students an opportunity to earn a diploma. The state can ill afford to continue giving higher education short shrift in a world in which a bachelor’s degree is almost a prerequisite for getting a decent job. America’s economy is no longer based on labor, and people can’t depend on getting a job at the local plant anymore. Higher education, technology, research and green jobs are our future, and in order to reach its potential, Tennessee must start taking that future seriously.

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Sports

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■ The Mountain Press ■ A8 ■ Sunday, June 20, 2010

PREP HARDBALL

State champions reunited on the All-County Team By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer Seven players from The Mountain Press’ first-ever All-County Baseball Team announced last Sunday were also members of the 10U Sevier Storm traveling baseball team that won the state championship eight years ago in 2002. Gatlinburg-Pittman’s Drew Barton and Daniel Roberts, Pigeon Forge’s Hayden Whaley, along with Sevier County’s Michael Farragut, Charlie Fields, Zach Flynn and Brandon Houser were all members of that special championship Storm team and continued their excellence in the sport throughout their high school careers. “To be honest, I figured by the time they got to high school, there would be a fewer number of the players still playing,” said former Sevier Storm coach Rick Cate, who coached the Storm for nine years. “I’m proud of them for sticking with it. “It’s awesome to see that

many go on and play high school ball. “And too see that many of them make it on the All-County Team was awesome.” Cate said the seven players were always winners in the game of baseball, but it was their attitudes that made them special. “They were a good bunch of kids who always worked hard,” said Cate. “They started playing travel ball when they were seven years old, and when we first started, we took some good beatings. “But we had a good group of parents. The parents stuck with it, and the kids stuck with it, we all knew that’s what it would take to get better and it all paid off in the long run.” Assisting Cate during the championship season of ‘02 were Mike Farragut and John Barton. Cate retired from coaching after leading the Sevierville Middle School baseball team for one season a year ago. chitchcock@themountainpress.com

Drew Barton

Zach Flynn

Charlie Fields

Brandon Houser

Daniel Roberts

Hayden Whaley

Michael Farragut

“To be honest, I figured by the time they got to high school, there would be a fewer number of the players still playing. I’m proud of them for sticking with it. It’s awesome to see that many go on and play high school ball. And too see that many of them make it on the All-County Team was awesome.” — Rick Cate, coach of the 2002 state champion 10U Sevier Storm team

NASCAR NATIONWIDE

LOCAL RUGBY

Sevier rugby league forming

Edwards wins Nationwide race at Road America By CHRIS JENKINS AP Sports Writer ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Carl Edwards swooped past Jacques Villeneuve on a restart with nine laps to go, then ran away from the field to win the NASCAR Nationwide series race at Road America on Saturday. Villeneuve made a wild charge to the lead with 12 laps to go. But another caution bunched up the field, allowing Edwards to make his decisive move. Ron Fellows finished second in a Chevrolet, 4.302 seconds behind Edwards’ Ford. Brendan Gaughan finished third in a Toyota. Villeneuve had mechanical problems in the closing laps, costing him a potential second-place finish. Edwards, Paul Menard and Brad Keselowski will fly back to California to run the Sprint Cup race at Sonoma on Sunday. And for the third year in a row, Edwards made the most of his cross-country commute. It was Edwards’ third straight win in the series’ annual trip to Wisconsin — but this time at a new venue, as the scenic fourmile road course replaced the financially troubled Milwaukee Mile on the schedule this season. For a while, it looked like Villeneuve, the 1997 Formula One champion and 1995 Indianapolis 500 winner, might steal the show. After taking a restart with 12 laps to go, Villeneuve charged from eighth to first in half a lap, with Edwards right behind him. Villeneuve’s tire was smoking significantly, as it appeared to be rubbing

Jeffrey Phelps/AP

Carl Edwards flips out of his car after winning the Bucyrus 200 NASCAR Nationwide series race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wi., Saturday. against damaged bodywork on the front end of his car. Yet another crash brought out another caution, and Villeneuve took a restart with nine laps remaining not knowing if his tire would hold up for the remainder of the race. Edwards then roared past Villeneuve and into the lead in Turn 1, and Villeneuve — his tire still smoking — tried to chase him down. Another wreck set up a restart with three to go, allowing Fellows, a veteran roadracing ace, to pass Gaughan for third. Villeneuve was in second with two laps to go, but began to slip back in the pack with mechanical issues and finished 25th. Keselowski, who came into Saturday’s race leading the series points standings, finished fourth. The race was filled with several long delays to clean up accidents, including a red flag period lasting more than half an hour after a nine-car pileup just past the race’s halfway point. It was a rough race for

Justin Allgaier, who came into Saturday third in the Nationwide series points standings. Allgaier ran off the track on the second lap of the race, coming to a stop on the hill between Turns 5 and 6. He couldn’t get the car moving again and had to be towed back to the garage. Allgaier eventually re-entered the race and finished 35th. In all, it was a mixed debut for the Nationwide series at the picturesque, fast and technically challenging 14-turn road course that winds through the tree-lined hills of central Wisconsin. As expected, the on-track action was entertaining. But on a four-mile track, any fullcourse caution period made for an extended break in the action. That included a big wreck on lap 30, when a nine-car pileup in Turn 6 brought the race to a halt under a red flag — a Talladega-style “big one” on a road course. Racing resumed after a delay of 31 minutes, 31 seconds under the red flag.

If you happened to be flipping through TV channels late in the afternoon on the weekend of June 5 and 6, you may have come across an interesting sport on NBC: Rugby. It was the Collegiate Rugby 7s National Championships, in which the University of Tennessee made it through to the quarterfinals. The Vols were stopped by powerhouse Cal, which lost in the title game to the University of Arizona. “If you happened to catch any of the action, you saw a fast-paced game with seven players on a team,” said former Knoxville Rugby Club player Pat Dorwin. “Typically, it is played throughout the summer here in the Southeast, as a bridge between the 15-players on a team played in the fall and spring.” Times are changing though, Dorwin said, with the surprise inclusion of rugby 7s in the 2016 Olympic Games in Barcelona. “I understand colleges will now play 7s in the fall to help raise interest in the shortened version of rugby and try to identify potential national team players for the upcoming Olympics,” he said. Dorwin played 15 years with Knoxville and said summer was his favorite season. “In 7s, it’s all about speed, so I didn’t have to go against as many larger players as in 15s,” he said. “Rugby 7s is more a game of fitness, because even though halves are just seven minutes long, you may play four or five games a day in a tournament.” Dorwin is looking to start a local league in Sevier County. He plans to hold practices from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 6 to Wednesday, July 8 at the Love Addition Park’s football field. “Anybody with insurance and over age 18 is welcome to show up when they can those three days,” Dorwin said. “Men and women interested in playing should wear shorts and a white or gray T-shirt and cleats. I suggest wearing a mouthpiece as well as we’ll have contact drills the second two days and play some live games as well.” He said a draft will then be held to make even-strength teams and league play will begin Tuesday, July 6 with 10- or 12-player rosters. “Ideally, we’ll get 80 to 100 men to come out so we can have at least eight teams and 40 or so women will come out so we can have four teams,” Dorwin said. Games would be played one or two nights a week, Tuesdays for sure and also Thursdays if there is enough interest. “That really depends on how many teams we have,” Dorwin said. “We can play three games an hour.” Kicking won’t be as big a part of 7s as it normally is, he said, because there is only one goal post at the Love Addition field. “We won’t be kicking conversions after a five-point try is scored (when the ball is touched down in the end zone),” Dorwin said. “But kickoffs will be drop-kicks and players still have the option of using grub kicks (along the ground) or chip kicks (short kicks in the air the kicking player tries to field). Because 7s is sort of a tackle version of ‘keep-away,’ you don’t really want to kick too much possession away.” Other than not kicking conversions, he said most of the official 7s rules will be the same, although tie games will have a three-minute overtime with ties standing. The league may use some sort of twopoint system to make up for the lack of drop-kicking to convert tries. “It’s going to be hot, you will get tired and there will be plenty of contact,” Dorwin said. “But if you’re any kind of athlete, 7s is a challenge you should want to take head-on. To me, rugby is the greatest sport in the world, and 7s is its most exciting way to play.” For more information, see www.rugbysevier.blogspot.com or use the patrugb@att.net e-mail address. “Those interested can show up for any of the three practices, but ideally players will atend all three sessions,” Dorwin said. “If we get enough interest, we can play some exhibition matches at the Tennessee 7s tournament July 10 in Strawberry Plains near Carter High School.”

Sports â&#x2014;&#x2020; A9

Sunday, June 20, 2010 â&#x2014;&#x2020; The Mountain Press NASCAR SPRINT CUP

Rough road: Johnson hopes his luck turns in Sonoma By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer SONOMA, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jimmie Johnson hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been to Victory Lane in 10 races, his longest drought in two years. NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four-time defending champion has finished outside the top10 in five of the last seven races and dropped to seventh in the Sprint Cup Series standings. And now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at Infineon Raceway, one of just five tracks where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never won a Cup race. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that being in wine country poses a problem. Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not that good at road course racing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody knows how much I have focused on it and how badly I want to win on a road course, especially here,â&#x20AC;? said Johnson, a Californian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time.â&#x20AC;? Johnson has progressively gotten better at Infineon, where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cracked the top-five just twice and has averaged a 17th place finish in eight career starts. He was a career-best fourth last year, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t carry that improvement into Watkins Glen, the only other road course in the series, where

Ben Margot/AP

NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson runs to his race car in preparation for practice laps for the Toyota/Save Mart 350 auto race on Saturday at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. he finished 12th last August. But after qualifying second for Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he briefly held the pole until he was bumped by defending winner Kasey Kahne â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Johnson believes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a chance at winning on a

road course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel really good about it,â&#x20AC;? said Johnson, who has run two Grand-Am events this year for more practice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been testing and doing everything I can to be a better road course driver and to get our cars

better. So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see what happens.â&#x20AC;? His lack of success in Sonoma became a topic of conversation this weekend, even as Johnson keeps ducking the assertion heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in some sort of slump. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scoffed at that notion for weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though he had three finishes of 31st or worse last month. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly aware of the perception. He joked that â&#x20AC;&#x153;everybody keeps saying Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in a slumpâ&#x20AC;? when presented with his trophy for being the first quarter winner in Driver Of The Year voting. Johnson was honored for winning three of the first five races this season, a span dating to Bristol in March. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get accused of being a little intense at times, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to make sure to laugh a little bit,â&#x20AC;? he said, referring to his slump reference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no doubt that the month of May was tough on us. I made mistakes. We had some unfortunate luck. We just had some bad races and it made for a long month. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a slump. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not where we want to be, but I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call it a slump.â&#x20AC;? Johnson could go a long

way to silencing the slump talk with a win on the twisting 11-turn, 1.99-mile course through picturesque Sonoma, a track that requires a far different skill set from the usual all-leftturn racing on NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ovals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is fair to say that when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve won on a road course, people look at you differently,â&#x20AC;? Jeff Burton says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anytime a driver can accomplish goals and put himself in the realm of conversation about who has a chance to win at any kind of racetrack, that is what he wants to do.â&#x20AC;? The series boasts several drivers who have mastered the technique, and the annual stops at Infineon and Watkins Glen offer an unusual opportunity. One possibility is Marcos Ambrose, who qualified sixth and is among the favorites. The Australian was third in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race and second at Watkins Glen, where he dazzled Jeff Gordon this month during a Goodyear tire test to the point that Gordon asked to turn some laps in Ambroseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car. Juan Pablo Montoya, a celebrated former Formula

One racer, is always considered a favorite and his 2007 victory at Sonoma remains his only win since moving to NASCAR. Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gordon and Tony Stewart, who for a long stretch were just about the only two drivers who could win on a road course. The two former series champions have a combined 16 victories at NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two road courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a place I feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the potential to win, even before we make a single lap,â&#x20AC;? said Stewart, a twotime Sonoma winner. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a position Johnson would love to be, but he understands that confidence comes with an improved comfort level. His plan of attack Sunday is to remain patient and stay calm, no easy feat considering all the blocking that goes on from the drop of the green flag. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know I can do this,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get in other road course cars, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m plenty fast and competitive. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve run good at times in the Cup car on road courses, so I know I have it in me. I just need to figure out how to do it over the course of 90 laps.â&#x20AC;?

PROFESSIONAL TENNIS

SOUTHERN LEAGUE HARDBALL

Roddick returns to Wimbledon

Balks lead to 3-2 Smokies win

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rodd-ick! Rodd-ick! Rodd-ick!â&#x20AC;? Surprising as it may have been to hear full-throated chants echo through the often-staid Centre Court stands â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 15,000 or so voices rising as one in the moments after last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wimbledon final concluded with a 16-14 fifth set â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what was most remarkable was the name the spectators chose to yell. They did not salute the champion, Roger Federer, who claimed his sixth title at Wimbledon and recordbreaking 15th Grand Slam title overall. Instead, they hailed the runner-up, Andy Roddick, who dropped to 1-4 in major finals, including 0-3 at the All England Club â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each loss against Federer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rodd-ick! Rodd-ick! Rodd-ick!â&#x20AC;? When Wimbledon begins Monday, Roddick will resume his quest for a championship that would mean quite a lot to him, one that barely eluded him in 2009. Roddick served almost impeccably and was broken only once, in the 77th and last game of Federerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14 victory â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the longest match and longest fifth set, in terms of games, in Grand Slam final history. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget this: Roddick injured his hip when he tumbled to

Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP file

In this 2009 file photo, Roger Federer, left, of Switzerland, holds his trophy and Andy Roddick holds the runners-up plate, after Federer defeated Roddick to win the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s singles championship on Centre Court at Wimbledon. Roddick senses that peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perceptions of him changed thanks to his 16-14 fifth-set loss to Roger Federer in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wimbledon final, which the American calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;probably the best match that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a part of.â&#x20AC;? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed one bit: Roddickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burning desire to win a title at the All England Club. the court in the fourth set. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always anxious going into Wimbledon. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to change,â&#x20AC;? said the 27-year-old Roddick, who lives in Austin, Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I

donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go in with any sense of entitlement or any sense of anything like that. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited to get onto a surface See WIMBLEDON, Page A10

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MOBILE, Ala. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; One game is the magic number. Costly balks by Mobile BayBears reliever Daniel Stange allowed Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tony Campana to score the winning run for the Smokies in a tight contest on Friday night at Mobileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hank Aaron Stadium. With Campana at third base and two outs, Stange balked for the second time in the inning to score Campana, and reliever David Cales earned his seventh save in 2010 by blanking the BayBears in the bottom of the ninth to get Tennessee a win away from the postseason. With the victory, the Smokies are a win or a West Tenn loss from clinching the first half North Division championship. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;magic numberâ&#x20AC;? is now set at one. The win also ensures that the Smokies will at least force a one-game playoff against West Tenn if the two teams end up tied at the end of the half. The start of the game was delayed by hour and twenty-seven minutes after rain showers passed through Mobile. The BayBears took a quick lead in the bottom of the first on a Collin Cowgill RBI double to go ahead 1-0. The Smokies first run came in the top of the fifth as Ty Wright singled in Tennessee pitcher Craig Muschko to tie the game at

one. Tennessee took their first lead of the night in the top of the sixth, thanks to an RBI single by Tony Thomas as the Smokies went ahead 2-1. The BayBears answered in the bottom of the frame, as a Taylor Harbin RBI single tied the game back at two runs apiece. Muschko lasted 5-1/3 innings on the mound, where he gave up two runs on six hits with five strikeouts as he took a no decision. Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bullpen helped the Smokies hang onto the 2-2 tie. In the bottom of the eighth, the bases were loaded for Mobile with Luke Sommer on the mound for Tennessee. For the eighth straight Smokies appearance, Sommer didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow a run as he forced Jacob Elmore to fly out to center field to keep the game knotted at two. After Campana scored the go-ahead run to give Tennessee a 3-2 lead in the top of the ninth, Stange was ejected from the ballgame. Mobile reliever Josh Ellis took over on the mound, and he nearly gave up another Tennessee run on Russ Canzlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s double, but Wright was tagged out at home plate to end the frame. Sommer earned the win in the contest, with Cales collecting his seventh save in the past four series.

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Barton: Big 12 saga could doom BCS By DOUG TUCKER AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the most powerful advocates of a college football playoff system believes the Big 12’s brush with death might help doom the BCS. It’s not going to happen right away, said Texas Rep. Joe Barton. But the promise of renewed television riches that persuaded the Big 12’s major football members to reject overtures from the Pac-10 has shone the spotlight on the huge financial jackpot awaiting a playoff. “The reason the Big 12 stayed together is the commissioner was able to put together a deal that enabled Texas and Texas A&M to go from about $8 million-$12 million a year to around $20 million a year” apiece, the Republican said. “I don’t really have a dog in the hunt as to how the conferences ought to be aligned. But I do think this moves us toward a playoff because we now know where the money is.” After Colorado announced it was going to the Pac-10 and Nebraska agreed to become the Big Ten’s 12th member, the Pac-10 made a bid for all Big 12 South schools except Baylor. As Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott flew from campus to campus in Texas and Oklahoma making his pitch, the Big 12 teetered. Momentum seemed to be building toward a handful of 16-team mega-conferences. As drama unfolded over

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get onto a surface that I actually feel that I can impose my game on a little bit more.” Or as Roddick’s coach, Larry Stefanki, put it: “Grass is what you’d call his bread-and-butter.” Roddick’s fastest-on-tour serve only gets speedier and tougher for opponents to handle on the slick surface used at Wimbledon. It’s a formula similar to one Venus and Serena Williams employ to dominate opponents at this Grand Slam tournament, divvying up eight of the past 10 Wimbledon championships. Roddick did win the 2003 U.S. Open, but he is still waiting for No. 1 at Wimbledon, and his oh-so-close calls only have increased his intention to do well at the All England Club. Stefanki cautioned, though, that Roddick needs to focus on the here-and-now at the start of the tournament. “The fire, the drive, the internal flame is going to be there until he climbs the peak. But you’ve got to find a balance,” Stefanki said. “That’s the last thing you want to think about — winning a major when you’ve got seven rounds to win. Until you get to that seventh match, you’d better put that on the back burner. I mean, way on the back

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ferences.” That number could change in two years. The Mountain West, especially after adding two-time Fiesta Bowl winner Boise State, could gain an automatic BCS entry when the current four-year evaluation period ends after the 2011 regular season, though it lost Utah, which has won two BCS games. “The official data won’t be compiled until after the four years, but intuitively looking at what they’ve done the last two years, we know the Mountain West is off to a good start,” Hancock said. Another sign of the longrange health of the BCS is its new four-year, $495 million contract with ESPN. But Barton isn’t buying it. “All those contracts have a kickout clause. They could go to a playoff and modify the contract,” he said. Awaiting action by the House Energy and Commerce Committee is a bill that Barton introduced that would make it illegal to market something as a national football championship unless every eligible team was given a fair opportunity to win it. “If we’ve learned anything through the basketball and baseball playoffs, it’s this: When you have a true playoff, the underdogs do stand up and bite every now and then,” Barton said. “It would be more fun and exciting and now we know for sure that it would also generate a lot more money.”

burner.” There are plenty of players who could block the No. 5-seeded Roddick’s path, including the top-seeded Federer, who has reached a record seven consecutive Wimbledon finals. The only loss in those seven? That came in 2008 against Federer’s nemesis, Rafael Nadal. Other men to watch include No. 4 Andy Murray, Britain’s best hope to end a Grand Slam title drought that extends to the 1930s; No. 6 Robin Soderling, who ended Nadal’s record 31-match French Open winning streak last year and ended Federer’s record streak of 23 consecutive Grand Slam semifinals at the French Open this month; and No. 18 Sam Querrey of Santa Monica, Calif., who won a tuneup title on grass last weekend. Nadal did not defend his Wimbledon championship last year, withdrawing a few days before the tournament began because of painful tendinitis in both knees. “One year ago I was injured, and now I am not injured,” said Nadal, fresh off his fifth French Open championship. “That’s the big difference.”

Nadal’s is but one of several significant returns anticipated at the All England Club in 2010: —Justine Henin, who owns seven Grand Slam titles but none from Wimbledon, will be back for the first time since 2007, having rejoined the tour this season after a 20-month hiatus; —Kim Clijsters, a two-time U.S. Open champion and twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon, hasn’t played at the grass-court major tournament since 2006, owing to a 2 1/2-year semi-retirement, during which she got married and became a mother; —Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova are planning to play in the legends’ doubles event; Hingis retired for the second time in 2007, when she was given a two-year suspension for failing a drug test at Wimbledon, while Kournikova last played singles at the All England Club in 2002; —Those waits are all rather quaint compared to that of Queen Elizabeth II, who is expected to attend Wimbledon next Thursday, her first visit to the tournament since 1977. That was the last time a British woman (Virginia Wade)

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won Wimbledon, and the year Bjorn Borg won the second of his five consecutive championships. Roddick, of course, would love to have one. “He doesn’t feel like, ’Oh, it was a lost opportunity last year.’ At all,” Stefanki said. “No, he thinks: ’This one here is another opportunity, coming ahead on the horizon.’ Which is beautiful. That’s the attitude you have to have.” Has Roddick made time to

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——— Friday’s Games L.A. Angels 7, Cubs 6 Detroit 7, Arizona 5 Chicago White Sox 2, Washington 1, 11 innings Cleveland 4, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 5 N.Y. Mets 4, N.Y. Yankees 0 Toronto 3, San Francisco 2 Boston 10, L.A. Dodgers 6 Florida 7, Tampa Bay 4 Atlanta 6, Kansas City 4 Texas 9, Houston 3 St. Louis 6, Oakland 4 Colorado 2, Milwaukee 0 San Diego 3, Baltimore 2 Seattle 1, Cincinnati 0 Saturday’s Games L.A. Angels 12, Cubs 0 N.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 3

check out last year’s stirring final on DVD? “I’m sure if it was on TV somewhere, and it was a rerun, I’d probably watch it — you know, if I didn’t have a round of golf or something,” Roddick said. “I don’t think I’m going to live the rest of my existence without watching probably the best match that I’ve been a part of. I don’t know if I’m going to go watch it tomorrow, but, yeah, I probably will at some point.” In the time that’s passed

Toronto 3, San Francisco 0 White Sox 1, Washington 0 Boston 5, L.A. Dodgers 4 Minnesota at Philly, 4:10 p.m. Arizona at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Texas at Houston, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:10 p.m. Oakland at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. Milwaukee at Colorado, 8:10 p.m. Baltimore at San Diego, 8:35 p.m. Cincinnati at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games Arizona (I.Kennedy 3-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 3-6), 1:05 p.m. Mets (J.Santana 5-3) at Yankees (Sabathia 7-3), 1:05 p.m. San Fran (J.Sanchez 5-5) at Toronto (Marcum 6-3), 1:07 p.m. Tampa (Price 10-2) at Florida (Jo.Johnson 7-2), 1:10 p.m. White Sox (F.Garcia 7-3) at Washington (Lannan 2-4), 1:35 p.m. Cleveland (Masterson 2-6) at Pitt (B.Lincoln 0-1), 1:35 p.m. KC (Davies 4-5) at Atlanta (Kawakami 0-9), 1:35 p.m. Minnesota (Pavano 7-6) at Philly (Halladay 8-5), 1:35 p.m. Texas (C.Wilson 5-3) at Houston (F.Paulino 1-8), 2:05 p.m. Oakland (Cahill 6-2) at St. Louis (Suppan 0-2), 2:15 p.m. Angels (J.Saunders 5-7) at Cubs (Zambrano 2-5), 2:20 p.m. Milwaukee (Wolf 5-6) at Colorado (Cook 2-4), 3:10 p.m. Baltimore (Arrieta 2-0) at San Diego (Garland 6-5), 4:05 p.m. Cinci (Harang 5-6) at Seattle (Rowland-Smith 0-6), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 6-4) at Boston (Buchholz 9-4), 8:05 p.m. American League East Division

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since that day, people all over the world have mentioned the match to Roddick, and he senses that he earned a lot of new fans despite losing. Indeed, he hopes this year’s Wimbledon will draw to a close as the Centre Court crowd once again sings his name — this time celebrating the champion, rather than consoling the runner-up. ——— Freelance reporter Barry Wood in London contributed to this report.

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Smoky Mountain Bearacuda Gracie Byxbe splashes backward into the water for the start of a backstroke event in the home-opening meet held Thursday at the Pigeon Forge City Park outdoor pool. LOCAL SWIMMING

Bearacudas win home opener PIGEON FORGE — The Smoky Mountain Bearacudas, a local swim team formed between the Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg recreation departments, defeated the visiting Clinton Sharks 215-128 Thursday evening at the Pigeon Forge City Park outdoor pool. The highlights for the home team: n Individual Medley winners were Kelsie and Lindsey Myers, Cierra Northcote, Grant Soehn and Robbie Land. n Freestyle winners were Clair Jenkins, Joshua Belisle, Jolie-Blue Smith, Eli Baker, Kayla Byxbe, Cierra

Northcote, Grant Soehn and Danielle Lowrie. n Backstroke winners were Claire Jenkins, Joshua Belisle, Eli Baker, and Grant Soehn. n Breaststroke winners were Claire Jenkins, Kurt Cantrell, Kelsie Myers, Lindsey Myers, Cierra Northcote and Robbie Land. n Butterfly winners were Kelsie Myers, Eli Baker, Lindsey Myers, Cierra Northcote, Grant Soehn, and Robbie Land. n Medley Relay winners were Kelsey Myers, JolieBlue Smith, Maiya Hilsinger and Kayla Byxbe in the 9-10

girls, and Eli Baker, Jackson Davis, Chase Pearson and Will Trout in the 9-10 boys. n Freestyle Relay winners were Claire Jenkins, Gracie Byxbe, Madeleine Trout and Faith Harvey in the 8U girls, Lilly Simms, Kayla Byxbe, Kelsie Myers and Jolie-Blue Smith in the 9-10 girls, Eli Baker, Chase Pearson, Jackson Davis and Will Trout in the 9-10 boys, and Avery Galiano, Rachel Jenkins, Liberty Wood, and Lindsey Myers in 11-12 girls. Next for the Bearacudas will be a home meet at the Gatlinburg Community Center 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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There’s a song that’s been on the radio for a while now that has truly touched my heart. It starts out like this: “I know they say you can’t go home again. I just had to come back one last time. Ma’am, I know you don’t know me from Adam, But these handprints on the front steps are mine.” The song is “The House That Built Me” by a young country singer named Miranda Lambert. She goes on to sing about how the little back bedroom is where she did her homework and learned to play the guitar. She also tells the current homeowner how her parents carried out their plans for the house, how “nail by nail and board by board/ Daddy gave life to Mama’s dream.” The young woman is going through some sort of rough patch in her life, and she explains that she thought visiting her old homeplace could give her some comfort. I lived in the same house from when I was a toddler to when I was 18 and left for a college. My parents still live there, and I’ve returned countless times for weekend visits, holidays — and for several months at one point in my 20s, when I was trying to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. No one else has lived in the house but our family. We were one of the first houses in the neighborhood in a growing area right down the road from Athens, Ga., where both of my parents had attended the University of Georgia. It was just us three for a while, until my sister Jennifer was born in 1981. There are so many memories in that beloved house. The den has held everyone from family members during ordinary days to teenage girls for sleepovers to new friends — and nervous dates — on their first visit. There’s a treadmill behind the couch now, but in its spot used to be a small balance beam for my sister, the talented gymnast. The foyer holds a beautiful mirror on the wall, and there’s also a lovely chest of drawers with a picture of me in my wedding dress displayed on top. If you had visited us more than 20 years ago, though, you would have remembered the old piano in that space. I would often hear my mother playing, and it would almost encourage me to practice more. But piano lessons only lasted a few years, and the instrument ended up going back to my grandparents’ basement. My childhood bedroom is still spongepainted in pink and white with pouffy blue and white valances on the windows. Long gone, however, is the headboard I created in crayon on the wall above my bed. This was discovered when my mother became suspicious of how quiet her little girl was being one day. When she spotted my masterpiece on the once clean white walls, she cried. My father got a good laugh out of my creativity, though. My husband has the same kind of sentiments about the house we live in now. It is the house he has lived in since he was nine months old. When his parents told him they were buying another house, he couldn’t bear the thought of losing it — so he bought it himself. It’s a warm and cozy split-level house with lots of space for just two people, with a large front and back yard, filled with lots of trees. When I moved in almost three years ago, he was a good sport about letting me add my personal touches. And as a devoted newlywed, I also compromised and let him keep certain things (although the orange couch is now in the weight room instead of the upstair’s office). With an older house, there are many “projects” that we would both like to do. But we both love its character and the fact that everyone who visits can tell it’s our home. And hopefully, we can help create the kind of memories in it for our children that our parents created for us — the kind that will always bring comfort to them and remind them of the love they’ll always have. — Ellen Brown is a staff reporter for The Mountain Press. Call 428-0746, ext. 205, or e-mail to ebrown@themountainpress.com.

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Charlie Johnson is surrounded by his children at the family’s law office, Johnson, Murrell & Associates. Standing from left are, in order of age, Stefanie, Ashley and Alex.

All in the family Father’s advice leads children to family law practice By GAIL CRUTCHFIELD Community Editor Today, Charlie Johnson won’t have to pay for his dinner, or those of his three children. Today the kids footing the bill or, better yet, he’ll have a home-cooked meal made by his oldest child and only daughter, Stefanie. Normally, when the four gather for a meal together it’s Charlie who pays. “I buy,” Charlie said with a laugh when he talked about the Friday meals the family occasionally has as a way to catch up and enjoy time together. Not that they don’t get a lot of time to see each other throughout the week since they all work together at the family’s law firm: Johnson, Murrell and Associates in Sevierville. Charlie started the practice and the children eventually joined after earning their law degrees. When he and his late wife, Glenda McCarter Johnson, began building their family, Charlie said he never thought they’d all be working together one day. “I always told them a law degree is the best degree you can get for doing almost anything you want to do,” he said. “But I said I wouldn’t practice law if I were you.” The stress, he said, was the main reason he urged them away from practicing law. “Turns out all three went to law school,” Charlie said. Stefanie runs the business end of the firm and is an adjunct professor at Walters State Community College, teaching political science and American government. She is also the administrator of a program for American students at Oxford University in England. Ashley, the middle child, takes care of the firm’s titles, mortgage and loans business, as well as their rental properties. Alex, the youngest, is practicing attorney for the firm. “I’ve kind of backed off courtroom activities,” Charlie said. Stefanie followed her fathers’s advice. “My father told me when I was very young to go to law school and not practice law,” she said. “He felt that law offered a really wonderful analytical education and gave you skills that could transcend any career. It did influence all of us, I think.” Ashley said the appeal of a law degree is one of the reasons he chose law school. “And we planned on being back

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The Johnson family enjoys a vacation in St. Petersburg, Russia. The family often travels together, mostly to historic locations. From left are Charlie, Stefanie, Alex, Glenda and Ashley. Glenda died about two years ago from cancer. “They really balanced one another in a lot of ways,” Stefanie said of her father and mother. in Sevierville, so it was really more of a matter of what we can do in Sevierville,” he said. “I was kind of interested in political science and campaigns,” Alex said, “but that required me to move to D.C. or Nashville.” He was happier staying close to home. “It was just I’d rather by here with my family than there,” he said.

Plus, practicing law was a lot easier than digging ditches. “When I started looking (for work), dad put me in a ditch a couple of summers, working in a ditch putting together utility lines for my uncles,” Alex said. “I wasn’t really excited about doing anything in that field.” Whatever career path they would See family, Page B5

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Unveiling of library statue brings out a crowd

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Stephen Little, left, Sarah Ussery and Barton Conchin, all descendents of John Sevier, admired the new bust of the former governor and the county’s namesake.

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Margit Worsham and Geoff Wolpert came over from Gatlinburg to see the new King Family Library and see the new statue.

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Don Williams, left, Jeannie Tredup, Carolyn Henderson and Eugene Henderson attended the event.

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King Family Library visitors ready to see the new statue were, from left, Chuck Atchley, Lyle Overbay, Austin Stubblefield and Ann Stubblefield.

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Sculptor Zenos Frudakis with Sarah Ussery Bill Carroll and Sevierville Mayor Bryan Atchley of Sevierville, a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of John Sevier. were among the guests at the statue unveiling. Stan Voit/The Mountain Press

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Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market has long been a favorite eat spot for locals By Carroll McMahan Long before Dolly Parton proclaimed in the June 2010 edition of Southern Living Magazine that Frank Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a true Sevier County experience and her favorite menu item is the slaw dog, Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market at 1415 Parkway in Sevierville was a legendary local haunt. Frank Allen and his wife at the time, Ernestine, opened for business Jan. 15, 1953 on what locals then called the Gatlinburg Highway. In 57 years, the Allen family has served, in some cases, four generations of the same families. Sevier County natives residing in various parts of the country often drop in for a burger when they return home to visit relatives and friends. Initially, the market was a grocery store complete with delivery service. Frank recalls delivering groceries to the Sevier County Jail during Sheriff Ray Nolandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure. In 1961 they opened the grill and began serving the renowned burgers that made them famous. At the age of 13, Frank Allen began working for Joe and Mamie Hill at Sevierville Grocery Company on Park Road in downtown Sevierville. He made deliveries to customers on a bicycle and was paid $1 per day. Around 1946 his father, Hobart Allen, opened W.H. Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grocery Store on Henderson Avenue. Frank, along with his mother and sisters, worked in the family business. When he

turned 16, Frank traded the bicycle for a car to deliver groceries. For a few years he even operated a rolling store, sometimes accepting barter from customers short on cash. After Hobart Allen closed the Henderson Avenue store due to declining health, Frank operated a little market on Paine Street for a couple of years before relocating on the busier parkway. In 1967, widening the Parkway to four lanes took much of the frontage and Allen again relocated, this time only a short distance south to the current location. Frank retired Dec. 31, 1997 and his daughter and son-in-law, Kay and Jim Tallman, obtained ownership. Kay grew up in the store, playing in a playpen as an infant and riding her tricycle down the aisles when she was

a little older. Later, her brother Steve and sister Katina followed. She always hated the assignment of filling up the drink box and straightening Coke bottles. Kay arrived at the market with her parents early each morning and never knew if she would end up riding to school in a milk delivery truck, a bread truck or a customerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car. In 1977, she graduated from East Tennessee State University and began working full-time again in the market in September. Jim and Kayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s older daughter, Courtney, played in a playpen like her mother had done and rode her pony â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buckyâ&#x20AC;? down the aisles. At some time all of Frank Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children and grandchildren have worked there. Deliveries eventually ceased for lack of demand and in 1989 the

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Sevier County. They take pride in the fact that nothing but ground chuck or ground round has been used since the first burger was served 49 years ago. In a few days the iconic establishment will relocate to a new building less than one mile north of the place they have occupied for the past 43 years, and the proprietors plan to maintain the same menu and customer service that the public has relied on since 1953. Who knows when one might be dinning next to an incognito Dolly Parton checking out the new digs? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This is the first â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Uplands Chroniclesâ&#x20AC;? weekly article, a column designed to maintain interest in our local heritage. Anyone with a recommendation or an article of their own may e-mail it to Carroll McMahan at cmcmahan@scoc.org McMahan is the special projects facilitator for the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce.

GATLINBURG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thaddeus â&#x20AC;&#x153;T.J.â&#x20AC;? Erdahl has joined the staff of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as program manager. In this newly created position, Erdahl will oversee the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studios as well as the management of workshops. A ceramic artist, Erdahl recently completed Arrowmontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11-month Artist-in-Residency program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;T.J.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familiarity with Arrowmont, along with his outstanding credentials, made him the ideal candidate for the position,â&#x20AC;? said Executive Director David Willard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are thrilled to welcome him as a permanent member of the staff.â&#x20AC;? A native of La Porte City, Iowa, Erdahl received a master of fine arts in ceramics from the University of Florida in 2009 and holds both a bachelor in fine arts in ceramics and a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in art education from the University of Northern Iowa. Upon graduating summa cum laude from Northern Iowa, he served as a ceramics instructor and interim education coordinator at The Hearst Center for Arts in Cedar Falls. During his three years of graduate study, he was a University of Florida Alumni Fellowship recipient. In 2008, he attended Think Tank III, a national arts in higher education symposium, as a graduate fellowship recipient. While completing his graduate thesis project, he was selected as Arrowmontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2009-2010 resident in ceramic sculpture.

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Finding joy in living one of great accomplishments By ALTA RAPER Have you ever met someone you liked instantly, with whom you felt a rapport, that you just knew in your heart was going to be a good friend? Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love is like an aura all around them and you feel good being in their presence. One of the greatest accomplishments known to man is being able to find joy in living. The way to be strong is to rejoice. And, the most important factor in finding joy is to know you are living a life that is pleasing before God. When you are past feeling the need to prove yourself, when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to put on airs, when you no longer feel the need to build yourself up by putting others down; then, you can find real peace and abundant joy. Two of the sweetest old-time Baptist preachers are here in Sevier County, and to me they embody all of the attributes of living joyously. The first time I met each of them (donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a woman preacher) they showed no surprise, animosity or even questioning. I met Rev. Andy Ball many years ago at the funeral of an older mem-

ber of my Shults Grove UMC, Paul McAlister. When I was introduced to Brother Andy at the funeral home, he took me aside and asked me to be part of the funeral service. He declared it was only right that I sit with him and take part, and I gladly read the obituary and gave the opening prayer for the funeral service. It takes a real man to do that, especially if your faith doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in women preachers. I had been in Pittman Center less than a year and was still â&#x20AC;&#x153;wet behind the ears.â&#x20AC;? Rev. Andy Ballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gesture of friendship and acceptance was a precious gift I shall never forget. Another dear preacher that I took a liking to the first time we met is Rev. Melvin Carr; such a gentle man in every sense of the word; soft-spoken, kind and always smiling. He accepts me as he would any other preacher who loves the Lord and His people. Many are the times Melvin has come knocking on my door with gifts from his garden or delicious apples from his orchard. He always called to check on Clyde when he was sick and they enjoyed long talks together.

Just last week my phone rang and it was Melvin all excited about a theology book he was reading. He said just as soon as he finished it, he was going to bring it to me to read as well. Now thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wonderful friend as well as colleague. Both Preacher Andy and Preacher Melvin have the gift of joy in their lives because they know Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grace is extended to all, even women. Zenith Whaley (now deceased) was another old-time Baptist preacher-man I called friend; and our mayor and his wife, Glenn and Faye Cardwell, are devout Baptists and dear friends I cherish daily. Knowing God intimately allows them to see Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grace in others. He is the Father of us all. Denomination is not relevant, being a Christian is. I am blessed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.â&#x20AC;? (Habakkuk 3:18) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alta Raper is pastor of Pittman Center Circuit of the United Methodist Church: Burnett Memorial UMC in Pittman Center, Webbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creek UMC just off 321 in Gatlinburg, and Shults Grove UMC in Cosby.

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Dear Jim, With Memorial Day just passing I am wondering what happens when a person dies? There are so many books written about it. There are movies made. There are people that have been in accidents or had heart attacks and they claim they had an after death experience. Some of these people say they saw a light. Some knew nothing. Then there are psychics that claim they can get in touch with the dead. I have talked to a few people and their opinions range from thinking this life is all there is to everyone going into some instant bliss. It seems to me that, if a person does not want to think about it, they simply say they do not believe. In the years that I have gone to church I have not heard anyone, even preachers, give a comprehensive answer to my question. Then other questions come up. What is the determining factor for a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state after death? Also, what happens when a baby dies? Do they go to heaven and eventually grow up into a heavenly adult? I believe in Jesus Christ as my Savior, but I would like to know what to expect. - Curious

Dear Curious, We honor those that died for our country. They, like all of us, went to the afterlife as the next step of consciousness. Some people will be in a joyful state. Some people will be in a state of utter pain and regret. Whatever happens is the result of decisions made while alive. Jesus spoke multiple times about your question. His crucifixion was directly submitted for this issue. He died and experienced what we will not. He took upon Himself pending judgment that would condemn a person to an eternity of separation from God. Jesus made it clear that salvation is not because we live a good life. It is that we accept His death as the intercession and substitution for judgment due us in a corrupted spiritual nature. Our behavior is the result of that nature and we say, then, that we sin. Babies have no awareness of sin and have no ability to accept Christ. Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mercy takes them into heaven. Regardless of our age at death our heavenly bodies will not need to mature because it will be like the one that Jesus has. Before the time of Jesus on earth people are said in the Bible to have gone down to be with their ancestors. This is why Peter declared that Jesus went down to those that died at the time of Noah. In parabolic form Jesus explained that there was a place of Paradise separated from a place of torment. Both were under the earth. When Jesus rose, the Bible says He took those in Paradise with Him to heaven. Thereafter, when a believer dies, he goes up to heaven. Paul said to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Now the only place under the earth is Hell. The Bible does not discuss any type of a light after death. It does, however, say that angels minister to and escort believers to heaven. Hell was originally made for Satan and his demons. Satan is not in charge of hell and his demons do not capture a wondering lost soul. By rejecting Christ a person chooses to go to hell. Just as heaven is a place of joy with God, hell is a place of utter unhappiness without Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence. Fire in hell may be literal or figurative, but there are many ways for a person to suffer greatly, such as experiencing extremes of thirst, hunger, sickness, darkness, and abandonment. An after death experience is unlikely what will happen when death really occurs. Only Lazarus and Jesus know what happens and they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talking.

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and Wal-Mart. The top three prize winners in each age group: n 6 and under: first place, Riley Owens; second place, Tyter Shepherd; third place, Will Clabo n 7-9: first place, Ridge Trentham; second place, Liam Brackins; third place, Alexis Valenting n 10-12: first place, River Trentham; second

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On hand for the Keep Sevier Beautiful awards presentations were, from left, Tom Leonard, chairman, Keep Sevier Beautiful; Mike Teske of Dollywood; Elizabeth Reed, executive director of KSB; and Merwyn Boarders.

Keep Sevier Beautiful award winners announced Submitted report Keep Sevier Beautiful has announced its Trillium Award winners for 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The awards are a way to say thank you and spotlight the best of our volunteers and partners in environmental stewardship,â&#x20AC;? said executive director Elizabeth Reed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are so blessed to have so many outstanding volunteers and partners that the choice is always a tough one, but this year it was easy to spot our winners.â&#x20AC;? Individual volunteer award winner was Merwyn Boarders. He has been a volunteer for Keep Sevier Beautiful for several years, hosting the Seymour location for Roads & Rivers Day at his church twice a

year,Â and also ensures that church members will fill in when he cannot be present.Â In addition, he has organized other youth stewardship projects in partnership with Keep Sevier Beautiful.Â HeÂ is a volunteer member of the Keep Sevier Beautiful Community Action Committee, as well as a longterm volunteerÂ with Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Corporate Award winners were Mike Teske and Dollywood. Teske serves on the Board of Keep Sevier Beautiful and is employed by Dollywood.Â He and the park have been supportive of the initiatives of KSB.Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is very resourceful, has many great ideas, and

has engaged Dollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help in various projects such as preparing signing for annual Roads & Rivers Days; enabling distribution ofÂ Keep Sevier Beautiful trash bags at Dollywood; assisting enlistment ofÂ Dolly Parton for Keep Sevier Beautiful radio spots; and involving Dollywood in recycling programs,â&#x20AC;? Reed said.Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mike and Dollywood haveÂ greatlyÂ contributed toÂ Keep Sevier Beautiful goals forÂ the community and our visiting public.â&#x20AC;? Keep Sevier Beautiful is a nonprofit affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. Established in 2002, its focus is on education. For more information call Reed at 774-6677 or e-mail to KSB6677@yahoo.com.

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KNOXVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A linguist at the University of Tennessee will convene a gathering of Native American sign language users this summer. Jeffrey Davis, an associate professor in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, is identifying Plains Indian sign talkers who use the elaborate language so that it can be documented and revitalized in native communities. The conference will be held Aug. 12-15 on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in southeastern Montana. It is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Documenting Endangered Languages program. Sign language provided a means of communication for members of Native American nations who spoke at least 40 different languages. It also was used within native communities as an alternative to their spoken languages and as a primary language for deaf people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Based on fieldwork the NSF funded in 2009, we have identified more than two dozen Plains Indian signers, including women and deaf tribal members from among the Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfoot and Assiniboine,â&#x20AC;? Davis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We anticipate that more sign talkers will be identified as a result of this historic conference.â&#x20AC;? Davis said the gathering will be the first since 1930, when retired U.S. Army general Hugh Scott called together chiefs and elders from a number of Plains Indian tribes in an effort to capture the disappearing language, which was used for communication

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between tribes. Using the latest in 1930s technology, Scott filmed the signers, but he died soon after, and the motion pictures were forgotten in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution. The films came to light when Davis was stranded in a snowstorm at the National Archives in Washington D.C. with documentary filmmaker Ken Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; crew. They pointed out the collection to him and â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with support from the NSF, the National Endowment for the Humanities and UT Knoxville â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he rescued the films and had them digitized. The collection is now displayed and interpreted on a Web site that Davis maintains. Davis is working with Melanie McKay-Cody, a sign language teacher at William Woods University in Missouri, who is both deaf and Chickamauga Cherokee/

Choctaw. They expect fluent signers and students from tribal groups and colleges to attend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the first time, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bring together sign language linguists and deaf and American Indian individuals,â&#x20AC;? Davis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope that further collaboration with the tribes could lead to a hand talk dictionary and grammar that could be shared widely across many cultures.â&#x20AC;? Davis is training UT students and native signers in linguistics, field methods and the use of new technologies for language documentation. The documentary materials collected will be made available to tribal schools and colleges and made accessible online to educate larger audiences and broaden awareness about the language and legacy of Native American cultures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to use these for education and to raise awareness about this language,â&#x20AC;? Davis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my goal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to educate others.â&#x20AC;? Montana State University, the Little Bighorn National Monument, Chief Dull Knife College and the Northern Cheyenne nation are collaborating in the project. For more details in the conference, visit sunsite. utk.edu/pisl/. For more UT news, visit www.utk. edu/tntoday/

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SCHS Foundation awards $43,000 in scholarships Submitted Report The Sevier County High School Foundation announces that $43,000 in college scholarships was awarded this year to graduating seniors. Six new scholarships were established. Julia Householder started the Julia Householder Education scholarship and it was awarded to Samuel Forman and Mary Trentham. These students will be majoring in education at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Chattanooga. Tammie Leo wanted to begin a scholarship to remember a former cheerleader at SCHS. The Leah Avril Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Kelsey Bailey. Jim and Karen Koerten wanted to honor their four children, all of whom were valedictorians and athletes. They created the Koerten Family Valedictorian Scholarship; Austin Solomon, who will attend Maryville College, was the first recipient. Judy Pat and Lyle Overbay have been advisors for the Sevierville Teen Board since 1969. They began the Sevierville Teen Board Scholarship. The recipients were Andrea DeLozier and Rebecca Ratcliff. Margit and Earl Worsham have hosted the major foundation fundraiser held each fall. The Worsham began two scholarships. Margit Worsham is a board member of Leadership Sevier, and high school students are now involved in Smoky Mountain Youth Leadership. Danielle Gibson received the SMYL scholarship. The Worshams use Walter State Culinary Arts students to help cater events held at their home. They began a culinary scholarship, and it was given to Ashley Davis. Bruce and Pam Brannon established the Brannon Family Scholarship. Bruce and his oldest son, Nick, were college baseball players and Nick is a pitching coach at Elon University. Their scholarship was awarded to Zach Flynn, who will be attending Tennessee Technological University. Alex McCandless and Erin McMullen were the first recipients of the Sarah Edwards Heisman Scholarship. They were state winners for the Wendyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heisman Scholarship, and Alex was one of six national finalists.

Other scholarship recipients: n Amber Trenholm, Barnes Family Scholarship n Chucky McDaniel, Kel McCarter, Thomas Gareau, Jacob Allen and Michael Ratliff, Blalock Family Scholarships n Sarah Nowack and Mamie Duckworth, Brabson Scholarship n Brittany Reagan, Cheri Atchley Scholarship n Sarah Winters, Austin Nave, Sam Collett, Sarah McFalls and Isaac McMahan, Cliff Davis Scholarship n Kelsey Blankenship, the Eledge & Underwood Scholarship n Chelsea Tarwater, Hugh and Dixie Chaney scholarship n Alyssa French, Collier Family Scholarship n Anthony Zamora, Erle and Ruth Longmire Shanton n Kayla Robbins, Sevierian n Jordan Henrickson, Mack French Scholarship n Jamie Maples and Beau Miller, Preacher Walker Scholarship n Jordan Whaley, Lance Pate Scholarship n Bryson Maples, Zacc Pate Scholarship n Ashlyn Morton, Wayne Blazer Memorial Scholarship n Dylan Sims, Dwight and Kate Wade Scholarship n Olivia Breeden, Paine Scholarship n Alison Galyon, MMI Trutec Scholarship n Devanie Spears, Jessica Black and Jared Jones, Dr. Russell Ramsay scholarships n Rebecca Haffner and Terra Slone, Frost Foundation Scholarship n Whitney Phillips, Gary Roach Scholarship n Michael Farragut, Jack Ogle scholarship n Tiffany Hodge, Jim Yett scholarship n Ashton Brandenburg, Sammy Garner Scholarship n Chasity Williams, Arlie and Aileen Rudd Ogle Scholarship n Sean Leydig, Louise Mandrell scholarship n Mikey Hutton, Dolly Parton Scholarship For more information call Nancy Hewitt at 607-0032 or e-mail to hewittn75@yahoo.com.

lo c a l t h r i f t s t o r e s Nonprofit thrift stores in Sevier County: n Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center Thrift Shop, 441 Parkway adjacent to Goodwill, Sevierville n Goodwill, 441 Parkway, Sevierville, 453-0007 n Harvest Thrift Store, 332 Parkway, Gatlinburg, 323-3203 n New Hope Thrift Store, 420 E. Parkway, Gatlinburg, 436-0110; and Highway 66 (Winfield Dunn Parkway), Sevierville n SafeSpace Thrift Store, 2839 Veterans Boulevard, Pigeon Forge, 453-7550 n Salvation Army, Bruce Street, downtown Sevierville, 428-6723 n Sevier County Food Ministries thrift store, 890 Old Knoxville Highway, 428-5180

n Treasures From The Heart Thrift Store: 230 Court Ave, Sevierville, 908-8441; and 10237

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All-Elvis production comes to Pigeon Forge Submitted report

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museum founder Mike L. Moon; and 15-year-old vocalist Kelsey Wypych of Sevierville, former TCB Talent Showcase winner. The Elvis Museum Complex is located at 2638 Parkway. For information or tickets call 4282001.

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From left: Georgia Nell Runyan, Elaine McIntosh, Julia Householder, Brooke Blair and Julianna Gregory. They represented Gamma Nu chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International at the recent convention of women educators, held in Sewanee.

Delta Kappa Gamma members attend anniversary convention Submitted Report Georgia Nell Runyan, Elaine Mclntosh, Julia Householder, Brooke Blair, and Julianna Gregory, representing Gamma Nu chapter of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, attended the 75th anniversary Tennessee

convention in Sewanee. In addition to the business sessions, participants attended development workshops as well as motivational sessions. Runyan, the recipient of the Order of the Rose Award, was honored. The keynote speaker was Delta Kappa Gamma

International President, Carolyn Rants. At the awards luncheon, there was a special focus on scholarship and grant recipients as well as chapter accomplishments. Gamma Nu earned the silver award. Special guests included past international president Evelyn Barren

and Mississippi president Cynthia Colburn. Delta Kappa Gamma is a professional honorary organization for female educators. Membership is by invitation and based upon success in the field of education, leadership potential, professionalism and community service.

UT department, Y-12 form partnership Submitted Report KNOXVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A unique partnership between the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee and B&W Y-12 promises to attract exceptional students to UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full-time MBA program and enhance business development efforts at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Career Advantage Program is the first time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve partnered with an organization to help identify top potential candidates for our program,â&#x20AC;? said Amy Cathey, executive director of UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full-time MBA program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope it serves as a model for future business partnerships.â&#x20AC;? Through the Career Advantage Program, Y-12 is offering full-time

employment to up to five prospective students before they enroll in the full-time MBA program. Previously, Y-12 offered part-time internships to several students after they enrolled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this new collaboration, identified students simultaneously interview with us for acceptance into the program while they interview with Y-12 for employment,â&#x20AC;? Cathey said.

Southeast Tennessee Tourism Association continues to position itself for the 150th commemoration of the Civil War beginning in 2011 with the reprinting of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Civil War Trails, Fighting for the Railsâ&#x20AC;? brochure, which gained national attention in 2008. Working in conjunction with Middle Tennessee State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Historic Preservation and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, SETTA created the brochure to provide a designated path for southeast Tennessee travelers to follow as they explore sites associated with the American Civil War in Tennessee. The brochure lists 47 sites, covers 10 counties, and now includes 16 Civil War Trail markers that dot the landscape, providing visitors with an even greater experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tennessee has a rich Civil War history, and has the second most Civil War sites in America, just after Virginia,â&#x20AC;? said Cindy Milligan, tourism director for SETTA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want visitors to explore this whole region to truly discover our heritage.â&#x20AC;? Visitors can drive and learn about the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history throughout Chattanooga and the Great Valley region of Bradley, Rhea and Meigs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; through the Overhill region of McMinn and Polk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and up to the Cumberland Plateau region of Sequatchie, Marion, Bledsoe and Grundy. All sites date between 1861 and 1865. The SETTA guides are currently being distributed across the state of Tennessee at Welcome Centers and locally at area hotels, retail shops and other tourism outlets. SETTA will also use this guide to promote a larger regional three-state Civil War Heritage promotion for the 150th year commemorative events. For more information visit www.civilwar150th.org.

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INVITATION TO BIDDERS

The Sevier County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department is soliciting sealed bids for perishable and nonperishable food items to be used by the Sevier County Jails Food Service Department.

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.

Bid packages, which include food classifications and bid procedures, may be obtained from June Parrott at the Sherriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, 106 W. Bruce Street, Sevierville, TN 37862, 865.453.4668 or Wayne Huskey at the Sevier County Jail, 137 Commerce Street, Sevierville, TN 37862, 865.453.4668.

The Bidderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

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237 HEALTHCARE CAREGIVER Del Rio, Newport and Sevierville Home Instead Senior Care is seeking a compassionate, reliable and experienced person to provide non-medical home care services in Del Rio. Must have flexible schedule and be available to work weekends. We offer competitive pay and a bonus program. Health insurance and retirement plans available. To learn more about how you can make a difference, please call our employment line tollfree at 1-877-5815800 or visit us online at www.homeinstead.com/428 United Medical, leading regional respiratory company seeks Healthcare Specialist. Responsibilities: Disease management programs, clinical evaluations, equipment set up and education. Be the Dr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes in the home setting. RN, LPN, RRT, CRT licensed as applicable. Great personalities with strong work ethic needed. Competitive salary, benefits and career paths. Drug-Free Workplace. Please fax resume to 865573-9823. 238 HOTEL/MOTEL CLARION INN & SUITES Looking for dependable, detailed and customer service oriented personnel. Now accepting applications for the following full time positions: Room Attendants Accepting applications 1100 Parkway Gatlinburg, TN. M-F Days Inn Apple Valley in Sevierville hiring for Experienced Front Desk Clerk and all other positions. Apply in person 1841 Parkway Four Seasons Motor Lodge in Gatlinburg hiring Experienced Mature Dayshift Clerk and Housekeepers Please apply between 7am-3pm. 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 Holiday Inn Pigeon Forge accepting applications for: â&#x20AC;˘Cooks â&#x20AC;˘Dishwasher â&#x20AC;˘Servers We offer health benefits, paid holidays and vacations and 401K. Please apply in person to HR Monday-Friday -9:00-4:00 Near traffic light #6 EOE 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. MasterCorp Inc., is hiring Housekeepers, Housemen and Supervisors. We offer excellent wages, training, and weekly pay. Must be able to work weekends. Please apply in office at 275 Rainbow Rd. Sevierville, TN.

MasterCorp Inc., is hiring Housekeepers. We offer excellent wages, training, and weekly pay. Must be able to work weekends. Call 865-436-1026. Leave message if no answer. 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.

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.

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Apply in person â&#x20AC;&#x201C; HR Dept 705 Airport Road (light #8) - Gatlinburg or www.davidsonhotels.com EOE/AA Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort 915 Westgate Resorts Road Gatlinburg, TN 37738

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693 ROOMS FOR RENT

696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT

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Room for rent on Zion Hill Rd. $250/mo. Kitchen/bath priviledges. 573-5673.

1BR Apt. near Gat. W/D, DW, $500 mth + dep. 865556-1929.

696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT

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Conveniently located, water/sewer included. Call 388-0263 or 850-2231 for more info. 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 officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 610 DUPLEX FOR RENT

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Gatlinburg: 527 Foothill Dr. 2BR, water furn. No pets! Credit check. $575 + dep. 690-2766. 693 ROOMS FOR RENT

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Weekly Rentals Includes Phone, Color TV, Wkly Housekeeping Micr./Frig. Available 555 GARAGE & YARD SALES New Flea Mkt space available in Wears Valley July 2, 3 & 4. Limited space. 10x10 $50 for 3 days. Great high traffic area. 865274-0347

$169.77+ Family Inns West

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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: Melâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Call David 865-382-1844

581 PETS 2 Chihuahua puppies Females. 8 weeks old. $100 each. 428-7155 or 865382-0579

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

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

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

865-932-2613 Gatlinburg area:

Affordable Housing in Gatlinburg Rooms for rent, weekly rates, furn., cable TV.

436-4471 or 621-2941

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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Low Weekly Rates 436-5179 Greystone Rentals Red Carpet Inn 349 East Parkway Gatlinburg, TN

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

A Great Location. 2 blocks off Parkway near Walmart. 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

Furnished All Utilities, Cable and Tax included

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

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

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247 MAINTENANCE Help Wanted â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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.

453-2959

430-4222

589 FURNITURE

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

865-774-5919

$600/mth

572 ANTIQUES Authentic 1930s Icebox. $725. 50s silver/table cloth hutch $200. Call Bill 678-617-7179

Apartments, mobile homes and trailer lots for rent

EfďŹ ciency Apt. 1BR/1BA P.F.

No pets. Credit check, Sec. Dep Required.

557 MISC. SALES

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

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House Sev. 3BR/2BA Great!

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Wears Valley Antiques and Collectables in Wears Valley has booth space available. Hurry and get set up before the July 1st Grand Opening. Staring at $95 and up. 865-274-0347

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will soon be upgrading to a new Ad Manager system. Due to this process, ClassiďŹ ed Line Ads will be deadlining early for : 605 BUSINESS RENTALS

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The Mountain Press Â&#x2039; Sunday, June 20, 2010 696 APARTMENTS FOR RENT

698 MOBILE HOME RENTALS

Now Leasing, New Apartments in Gatlinburg

2BR/2BA, CH/A, secluded, between exit 407 & 412 off I-40. $475/mo. + deposit. 382-7781 or 933-5894.

behind GP High School near trolley stop 2 BR / 1 BA $585/mo. Call (865) 436-3565

3BR/2BA rent to own. Seymour. $695/mo No pets. 865-7657929. In

GATLINBURG, 2BR unfurn. water incl. No Pets. dep req. 865-621-3015. Large 1BR Water, app furnished. No pets. Ref. $450 + dep. 680-3078. 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 RIVERWALK 1BR/1BA TO 2BR/2BA $545.00 to $695.00 865-429-2962

SEVIERVILLE Free credit check, 7 days free rent, salt water pool, 2BR, 2BA, 1,114 sq. ft. $675.00 & up. 865429-4470.

Seymour Area 2BR/2BA water & sewer furnished. $525/mth, $300 dam. dep. No Pets. 654-2519.

Large 1BR, $350/mo., $200 dep. Douglas Dam area, quiet area. 865-6040444 or 429-5332. Nice, clean 2BR 2BA Kodak area. $475 mth $250 dep. No pets. 865-8502047. 699 HOME RENTALS

NICE, CLEAN IN KODAK

4 BD / 2 BA + GARAGE 4 MILES FROM EXIT 407 $950/MONTH + DEPOSIT. NO PETS. 865-712-5238 DOWNTOWN SEVIERVILLE Cute 2BR/1BA walking distance to school. $800/mo. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $800/dep.

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405-2116

3 BD / 2 BA 1 Car Garage

$745/mo. (865) 908-6789

New Furn 2BR/2BA, on Pkwy, pool, elec, water, cable, wifi, $1100 mth. 423-838-3303. 698 MOBILE HOME RENTALS

2 & 3BR mobile homes for rent Must have refs. No Pets. Call for info 428-3096 2BR 2BA W/D, DW No Pets, No smoking Refs Req. $500 mth $500 dam. dep. Kodak area

216-2939

2BR/2BA $495

Living areas, 3BR/2BA, 2 kitchens, Decks, between Gat. & P.F. Private. $1100/mo. 865-654-8542.

2 Story House, 3BR/ 2BA house near Dollywood. Carport, deck, 1 acre lot, $895/mo. 865654-9150.

2BR 2BA Private. Mtn view. Furn, nice, PF. $850mth. 865453-6547

2BR/1BA, carport, deck, w/d, quiet, pvt nbhd, $700mo. 1st mo dep. 1yr lease. No Pets. 865-654-4514.

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2BR/2BA, $675 + $550 dep. In Allensville. 850-1110 or 6543177.

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.

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

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. Seymour Country Setting 1BR w/loft. No Pets $550 mo 4284073

Gatlinburg off Glades Rd 3BR 2BA No pets. No smoking. Newly remodeled. Stainless appl, wood burning fp. $1100 mth. 8094214 GRANDVIEW 4BR 3BA 2 fp, views. $1000 mth. No Pets! ***Call: 428-4073*** Nice 1728 sq. ft. 3BR/2BA Home . On 1 acre w/decks & carport. Boyds Creek $1000mth. 1yr lease. Call 865-748-5342. REALTY PLUS 428-8155 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. Builder Blow Out New Town Home 2BR/ 2BA Awesome views! Lg. Master BR, Stainless Appl. $93,900 Call Alicia. OWNER FINANCING 2 - 2BR CABINS NEXT TO DOLLYWOOD on rental program. $15,000 DOWN $255,000. Call Reneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Comm./Res. 210â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Road Frontage on 1 Ac. $120,000. Call Reneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Level 1+ Acre Lot w/views $19,000. Call Reneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Reneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Weiss 865-680-5564. Alicia Roy 865-809-3420

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711 CONDOS FOR SALE

CREEKSIDE PLANTATION!! Drastically reduced!!!Golf course villa...end unit.over 3100 S F . . M / L Living...4BR/3.5BT H..incredible views..owner will consider financing for a qualified Buye r. . $ 3 7 9 , 9 0 0 K Please call for details and appt. Landmark Properties/Nancy Sica, Broker 865-6022200

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.

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

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

Failing health/motivated seller says bring offer!!Dream 3 level log home on 2+ acres/spectacular mtn view.PRIVATE.ST O C K E D POND.DOCK.GAT ED. Reduced to $330K....Nancy Sica, Broker, Landmark Properties 865-602-2200

Get away from it all in this furnished 1 br log cabin w/many features. Only $69,900. Possible owner financing. Bruce Webb, 865/922-5500. Webb Properties.

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3BR 2BA Rancher 1480 sq ft. Garage. Lake Access Flat Creek area. $800 mth 1st last & damage, 1 yr lease. Will consider lease option. 865-474-0038

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Boyds Creek/Cool Springs Sub. Lot 64, $49,900. 865654-6155. Riverdale Subdivision 3 lots. 865-6546155 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. New 5000ft warehouse/ exit 407 Sale or lease $2650.mth. 865654-6691 723 TIMESHARE SALES

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PIGEON FORGE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Furnished 2 story cabin with deck, ďŹ replace & more. Only $104,900. Special ďŹ nancing available with as little as 3% down. Nancy Webb. GATED COMMUNITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Specious 3 br, 3.5 ba, 2350 sq ft, 4 yr old, 2 story resort cabin with many features & nice view. Good deal at $189,900! ($34,000 below tax appraisal!) Special ďŹ nancing available with as little as 3% down. Bruce Webb. Webb Properties, LLC (865) 922-5500 Please call for our weekly list of foreclosures.

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711 CONDOS FOR SALE 2BR/2.5BA, 1,058 SF, 1 car garage, all appliances, W/D, gas log FP, Sev. $125,000 unfurn., $128,000 furnished., 865-286-5019, or 601-507-0471.

1966 Ford Galaxy. 289 Auto. $2700. Call Benny 865607-6542.

Photo Port Attendants Successful candidate must be able to work ďŹ&#x201A;exible hours, weekends and holidays. Stable work history and sales experience required.

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

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

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

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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.

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526 Belle Ave. Sevierville, TN 865-428-5700 2 & 3 BR Homes

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950 MOTORCYCLE SALES

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Energy assistance available Submitted Report

Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority neighborhood service centers announce Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program guidelines. The state has mandated some changes to the program for the new fiscal year. The service centers will have four enrollment periods: July 1-31, Oct. 1-31, Jan. 1-31 and April 1-30. The applications will be processed at the end of each quarter based on a point system and will pay the neediest households first. Every household member must turn in a social security number and documentation to support the number. Documentation includes a copy of the card, a letter from the Social Security office, IRS statement, tax returns, or a printout from the Department of Human Services. Those who think they may be eligible can bring all household income proof, social security number documentation, and bills for each source of energy and apply in person during the months of July, October, January or April at the service center located at the Sevier County Fairgrounds 750 Old Knoxville Highway. Call 453-7131 to get an application mailed. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program is funded by the Department of Human Services.

The Mountain Press â&#x2014;&#x2020; Sunday, June 20, 2010

Census workers may still visit houses Submitted Report

of schedule and certainly under budget,â&#x20AC;? Groves said. Since May 1, about 550,000 census employees have been going door-to-door nationwide to obtain completed census questionnaires from more than 47 million households that failed to return a form by April 16. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some parts of Tennessee, the workload was completed weeks ahead of the July 10 deadline for the Nonresponse Followup phase,â&#x20AC;?

The current door-to-door phase of the 2010 Census is about 94 percent complete, but there are several reasons why a census worker may visit your home in coming weeks. Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, said about 44 million census forms had been completed and checked in, leaving about three million forms to be collected and processed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are somewhat ahead

said William W. Hatcher, Charlotte regional director for the Census Bureau. Nevertheless, he added, over the next several weeks census workers will continue to contact some households in Tennessee as part of one of several quality-control operations. Some households that mailed in a form have received a visit from a census worker. Reasons include incomplete or conflicting answers

or forms received after deadline. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you are one of the small percent of Tennessee homes that are visited, please take a few minutes to speak with the census taker,â&#x20AC;? Hatcher said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our mission is to count everyone, once and in the right place. We check and double check to make sure we get it right.â&#x20AC;? Nationwide, 72 percent of U.S. households mailed back the form on time. The mail participation rate for Tennessee was 74 percent.

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Submitted Report In a renewed effort to ensure that comprehensive transportation rules are being followed, as well as remaining vigilant to keep children safe, child care providers across Tennessee who transport children will face increased inspections again this summer. DHS licensing staff is cracking down with extra monitoring visits to providers who transport children. Those caught breaking the rules face a range of penalties, from being put on notice, probation or suspension of their operation. Last summer more than 475 visits were conducted and 70 agencies were put on notice for violations that ranged from failure to conduct a walk-through to not reconciling the transportation logs. While violations have become less severe in the years since the transportation crackdowns began in 2003, DHS is not letting up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though most child care agencies follow the rules and are doing a wonderful job keeping children safe, these visits have uncovered problems, some serious,â&#x20AC;? said DHS Commissioner Gina Lodge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While our providers are trained on transportation rules every six months, we will aggressively push increased inspections to make sure those rules are being followed.â&#x20AC;? Four children died in hot child care vans in Memphis between 1997 and 2003. The tragedies prompted substantial changes in Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s child care licensing laws and transportation rules. DHS licenses 3,200 child care agencies across the state, and more than 600 offer transportation. It is a high risk part of a child care operation, and DHS monitors will be watching this summer with surprise visits at field trips and even surveillance. After only a few moments left unattended inside a closed vehicle, children can suffer severe effects. Temperatures inside a closed vehicle climb quickly, even on moderately hot days.

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