July 20, 2010

The Mountain Press ■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 201 ■ July 20, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 50 Cents

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National park sees June boon

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Attendance jumps 15% from last year Staff Report

5Houser signs with King Lefty will join 5 former Bears with Tornado

NATIONAL PARK — Visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in June jumped 15 percent over the same period last year, park spokesman Bob Miller said Monday, but there is something skewed about the numbers.

Sports, Page A8

Year-to-date entries are now up by 3.3 percent through June.

“The large increase was driven primarily by a 46.6 percent jump in June entries at the 13 outlying entrances,” Miller said.

Gatlinburg was up 4.9 percent and Townsend 4.5 percent, but Cherokee was down by 3.6 percent.

So where did people enter the park in big numbers? Try Cherokee Orchard Road outside Gatlinburg. At least if you can believe the numbers, and

on that count Miller isn’t so sure. According to Miller, the jump in park visitation at the 13 entrances was driven by a 1,100 percent increase at the Cherokee Orchard Road counter just outside of Gatlinburg. He questions that figure.

“That road and the connecting Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail were under construction, and I suspect the counter may have been damaged and that big influx may be an error — or it may be working and it could be

just a lot of loads of asphalt and building materials that added up,” he said. “Either way the 15 percent jump does not indicate that we saw a double-digit jump in the actual park recreational visitor count.”

Even so, Miller does feel there were more visitors to the park in June than there were a year ago.

Since two of the three main entrances saw a positive trend upward, he said, “we certainly had some growth, albeit only 3-4 percent,” he said.

Lumberjack Feud hopes to chop PF niche Owner hopes to open by June 1 5Celebrities in the news

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer

Screen legend Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes hip replacement surgery Page A6

Weather Today Isolated Storms High: 92°

Tonight Isolated Storms Low: 71° Courtesy Lumberjack Sports International

DETAILS, Page A6

Obituaries Wayne Ragan, 67 Jim Leonard, 62 Albert Blalock, 78 English McCarter, 86 Howard Davis, 67 Jim Atchley, 65

DETAILS, Page A4

Index Local & State . . . . . A1-6 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . A2 Money . . . . . . . . . . . . A5 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . A8-9 Classifieds . . . . . . . A9-12 Advice . . . . . . . . . . . A13 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 Nation . . . . . . . . . . . A14 World . . . . . . . . . . . . A14

Clarification Saturday’s story about two men charged with attempted felony theft contained an error. Sheriff Ron Seals did not say Korey and Keith Brandenburg were charged with breaking into rental cabins. He said their indictments stemmed from an ongoing investigation into the burglary of rental cabins and the thefts of flat screen televisions. The Mountain Press is glad to set the record straight.

Lumberjack Sports International CEO Rob Scheer, pictured, plans to build an attraction in Pigeon Forge called Great Smoky Mountain Lumberjack Feud.

Friendly ‘food fight’ develops on Saturdays at Sevier Farmers Co-op

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer SEVIERVILLE — The suggestion that the folks behind the loaded tables are “getting fresh” with their customers is a high compliment when it comes to the little market that springs up on Saturday mornings throughout the summer at the Sevier Farmers Co-op.

The gathering draws a small crowd of growers, proudly offering the products of months of labor at pennies a pound, and a steady stream of people, both locals and travelers, looking for some of the freshest produce available anywhere.

“This stuff was just on the vine yesterday,” Donna Williams said as she pointed to a basket full of tomatoes, the famous type of Grainger County lineage. “I’ve lived in Grainger County all my live. My whole family has grown these tomatoes and now my husband does it. There’s just something about them that makes them different. There’s something special about the taste.”

With the same seeds, water and weather as

a farmer could find in any other part of East Tennessee, Williams isn’t sure what makes the difference. She just knows it’s there.

Across the parking lot populated by temporary canopies, it would be charitable to say Candace DeLozier sees nothing so remarkable about the ruby fruits of Grainger. She’ll take the Sevier County variety grown in her own fiveacre garden, thank you very much.

“We’ve had a good year with them,” she said as she waved her hand over her own baskets of maters, which she grows in cherry, roma and several other varieties. “Everything’s coming in really good.

I’ve been doing the garden since I was little. I love doing it. It’s a great job. I like it because I can make my own schedule, I get a tan and look good, and I’m active.”

Of course, raising your own produce isn’t always a peachy — yep, those are available at the market, too — proposition.

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s hard work,” DeLozier said as she wiped away sweat on a See co-op, Page A4

PIGEON FORGE — Break out your red and black plaid flannels and your suspenders: The newest attraction coming to Pigeon Forge is touted to give a “full immersion” in the logging culture that once dominated the Smoky Mountains.

The developers hope to open the multimillion dollar Great Smoky Mountain Lumberjack Feud by June 1 on a parcel that stretches from the Parkway to the Little Pigeon River and say they have plans to film competitions.

What Rob Scheer, who is leading the development, is proposing is something of a cross between a stage show, a hands-on activity center and a cultural exhibit focusing on those somewhat legendary creatures, lumberjacks. He’s already built one such attraction in Ketchikan, Alaska, into the second most-visited site in the state and one that has been recommended by the Travel Channel as a “must see.”

That success is likely attributable to the fact Scheer has the type of specialized experience and connections that it would take to run such a unique attraction. He won the title of world champion speed climber, an event that sends participants up See lumberjack, Page A4

Dollywood group releases eaglet

Michael Brooks Henderson/American Eagle Foundation

The American Eagle Foundation at Dollywood recently released a rehabilitated immature bald eaglet on South Holston Lake. Michael Brooks Henderson/American Eagle Foundation. Above, TWRA officer Bryan Kegley, foundation president Al Cecere, eagle rescuer Joe Slagle and TWRA officer David Carpenter at the release of the eaglet into the wild. Below, Cecere releases the rehabilitated bald eaglet into the wild. See story on Page A3.

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district 8, seat A

community calendar Editor’s Note: The community calendar is printed as space permits. Items must be submitted at least five days in advance. Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered.

To place an item phone 428-0748, ext. 214, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress.com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.

District 8, Seat A candidate responds to MP questions

Adoptable pets

Candidates on the ballot Aug. 5 in the race for Sevier County Commission District 8, Seat A, are Republican Primary winner and incumbent Gene Byrd and Democratic Primary winner Gerald Harrell. The same set of questions was mailed to each.

Harrell did not respond or return his questionnaire.

District 8 includes the north Sevier County/Kodak area.

tuesday, july 20 Republicans

Sevier County Republican Party meets at 6 p.m. at courthouse. Sen. Doug Overbey and Rep. Richard Montgomery to speak. 4533882 or 368-3833.

Optimist Club

Optimist Club will meet at 7 p.m. at Optimist Building, Speaker: Virginia Borrelli of Sevier County Public Library.

Farm Bureau

Annual membership meeting of Sevier County Farm Bureau 6:30 p.m. at Sevierville office.

Entertainment by Old Harp singers; refreshments served. 453-9046.

Northview Cougars

Northview Cougar football sign-ups 6 to 8 p.m. at Northview Middle field house. Registration fee $45. 388-1618.

Wedding Association

Smoky Mountain Wedding Assn. will meet from 5:307:30 p.m. at Immanuel’s Farm in Wears Valley. $10 for members, $12 others.

Amanda Marr of Sevierville Chamber to speak. E-mail to smweddingasso@gmail. com or call 800-627-5813

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Scrapbook Club

Scrapbook Club meets 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 5:30-10 p.m., Whispering Winds Scrapbook retreat off Snapp Road. 429-3721.

Women’s Bible Study

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

Summer Reading

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Tarrah is a year-old terrier mix. Shelly is a 3-month-old dilute calico. Adoption fee for cats or dogs is $100 and covers the first set of vaccinations, spay/neuter and microchip.

The Gnatty Branch Animal Shelter is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

Hot Meals

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

TOPS

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

friday, july 23 Collision Avoidance

Summer reading program final session 1 p.m., Pigeon Forge Public Library. Matt Fore performing. 429-7490.

Police-sponsored Collision Avoidance Training for Teen Drivers 4:45-9 p.m., Sevierville Police Department.

Crewettes

Rummage Sale

Sevier County Crewettes meet at 7 p.m. at Rescue Squad, Sevierville. 4533861 or 453-8572.

Old Harp Singing

Old Harp Shape Note Singing 7 p.m. Middle Creek United Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge. 4280874.

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 4292508. n 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

wednesday, july 21 Women’s Bible Study

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

Farmers Market

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

thursday, july 22 Veterans meeting

Military veterans from Sevier, Jefferson and Cocke counties will meet at 6 p.m. on third floor of Sevier County Courthouse to discuss proposed VA outpatient clinic in former Sevierville hospital.

Carry Permit Class

Carry permit class 4 p.m. at Sevier Indoor Range.

774-6111 to register.

Rummage Sale

Smoky Mountain Christian Church rummage sale 9-3 today and Friday, 9-1 Saturday, 125 South Blvd., Sevierville.

Smoky Mountain Christian Church rummage sale 9-3 today, 9-1 Saturday, 125 South Blvd., Sevierville.

Relay Cookout

Wal-Mart Heroes Relay For Life team joining Team Dress Barn for burger/hot dog cookout starting at 10 a.m., Wal-Mart. Nachos and other baked goods for sale. E-mail to earl1969@ charter.net.

St. Paul Lutheran

Women’s Bible study 10 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1610 Pullen Road, Sevierville. 429-6063.

JOY Club

Just Older Youth Club meets for bingo 10:30 a.m., lunch 11:30 a.m., Pigeon Forge Community Center. Bring covered dish.

429-7373.

saturday, july 24 Farmers Markets

n 8-11:30 a.m., Sevier Farmers Co-Op, 321 W. Main, Sevierville. 453-7101. n First Baptist Church on Chapman Highway, 7-11 a.m. 579-5433. n Gatlinburg Farmers Market, 8:30-11 a.m., parking lot of Alamo Restaurant, Highway 321. 659-0690.

Angel Food

Angel Food pick-up: n 8-11 a.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church. 429-2508. n 8-10 a.m. First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.

Relay Cookout

Wal-Mart Heroes Relay For Life team joining Team Dress Barn for burger/hot dog cookout starting at 10 a.m., Wal-Mart. Nachos and other baked goods for sale.

E-mail to earl1969@charter. net.

Rummage Sale

Smoky Mountain Christian Church rummage sale 9-1 today, 125 South Blvd., Sevierville.

Pancake Breakfast

Pigeon Forge Tiger Little League Football Booster Club pancake breakfast 7:30-10 a.m. at Applebee’s in Governor’s Crossing. $5 at the door. Proceeds go to new cheerleading uniforms and football equipment.

Lutheran Bible Study

Men’s Bible study meets 9 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1610 Pullen Road in Sevierville. 429-6063.

sunday, july 25 Manis Reunion

Manis, Mannis, Manes family reunion 11 a.m.-4 p.m., American Legion, 403 W. Main, Sevierville. Bring covered dish. 654-8680.

Relay Cookout

Wal-Mart Heroes Relay For Life team joining Team Dress Barn for burger/hot dog cookout starting at 10 a.m., Wal-Mart. Nachos and other baked goods for sale. E-mail to earl1969@ charter.net.

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8th District, Seat A 1. What do you think the biggest issues facing the county will be in the next four years?

GENE BYRD: Purchasing property and building a new high school for Northview/ Kodak. Recruiting more industry for better paying jobs for the county while keeping the property taxes low as possible. To work with our Road Superintendent & Sheriff’s Dept. to keep our roads and Community as safe as possible.

GERALD HARRELL: No response.

Gene Byrd Address: 185 Byrd Drive, Kodak 65 n Occupation: Retired building contractor n Family: Wife Kay (France Moore) Byrd; two daughters; one stepson; four grandchildren n Education: Attended Underwood, Kodak Byrd and Sevier County High School (graduated) n Community/civic involvement: Attend Holston Memorial Baptist Church; charter member of Northview/ Kodak Volunteer Fire Department, serving on Board of Directors and chairman and helping oversee building of Station No. 3; charter member of Northview Optimist Club, two-time past president, several years as treasurer, served on several committees and oversaw and built Optimist building; member French Broad Masonic Lodge No. 588, past Master, served on several committees; member of Sevier County Ruritan Club, serving on Board of Directors; charter member of Eagle 1 Motorcycle Club. n

n Age:

cial situation is very stable because even in the slow economy our County Commissioners & County departments Are working together to keep their budgets as low as possible.

HARRELL: No response

5. The county has a no nepotism policy or a policy that limits county employees from holding office.

Should there be a policy that addresses this issue?

BYRD: Nepotism and 2. Do you support limitation of county purchasing more industrial property, employees from holdeven in a slow econ- ing office policies are needed to limit the peromy?

BYRD: Yes. The County ception for conflict of interests. has been in search of HARRELL: No industrial property for several years. I think by response. having good industrial 6. The county may land you will bring in better paying jobs for be sued and have year round employment to spend thousands for our County & comof dollars to defend munity. the use of the Lord’s HARRELL: No Prayer at meetings. response.

Is there a way to avoid spending this 3. What do you money through comthink Sevier County promise or change? should do to give BYRD: We have opened itself a more yearwith The Lords Prayer round economy? for many years and GENE BYRD: I think now a group from New the County should York is threatening to develop the industry sue us over The Lord’s parks they already have Prayer & Our Ten to make them more Commandments plaque appealing to industries hanging on the wall. I’m looking to bring jobs not for letting someone to our County. If these from another state tell are developed we won’t us in Sevier County need to change residen- what to do. I feel this tial areas into industrial is taking my rights as causing spot zoning like a Christian from me. the County has done to get Lisega into the County.

HARRELL: No response.

4. Some counties in the state are facing financial challenges that may lead to cuts. What is your assessment of Sevier County’s financial situation?

BYRD: Our finan-

I’m willing to look at all options of fighting this law suite I feel we need God in all our decision making for the good of Sevier County.

A separate group has offered to pay the attorney fees to take the litigation as far as it needs to go.

HARRELL: No response.

7. New rules on hillside development are about to come before the County Commission? What is your take on those rules, and should the county do more or less land-use regulation?

BYRD: I have yet to review these rules. We have a member from Northview on that committee; I’m sure she has worked hard to establish those rules as a committee. I will look hard at how the rules affect my constituent’s rights. I’m for preserving the Beauty of our County & Community but not from taking an owner’s rights away HARRELL: No response.

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Foundation releases rehabilitated eaglet Submitted Report BRISTOL — The American Eagle Foundation at Dollywood recently released a rehabilitated immature bald eaglet on South Holston Lake near Bristol.

The eaglet had been found by 17-year-old Joe Slagle near the South Holston dam tangled in fishing line and with a hook in its wing. It had first been transported by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officer Jeff Brater to the University of Tennessee Veterinary College in Knoxville and then later transferred to the American Eagle Foundation at Dollywood for further care and rehabilitation, where it had been in a flight enclosure for several months.

The fishing line had caused lacerations and folicle damage in the area of the bird’s primary (wing tip) feathers Slagle, whose parents own Lake View Dock near Laurel Marina in Bristol, had spotted the eaglet tangled in a limb line used for catching catfish. He reported that the bird had a dead bluegill in its talons that was hooked to the fishing line, and also that the young bird was pretty hungry and fairly motionless when he found it.

After the young man had caught the eaglet up, he placed it in a Rubbermaid container and immediately called TWRA. Foundation founder and president Al Cecere released the eaglet back to the wild close to where it had been found.

Slagle, TWRA officers Bryan Kegley and David Carpenter, and foundation staff members Kellie Morrison and Tanya Rentz were present to witness the birds’ flight to freedom.

Submitted

Martin Mallette of Sevier County with some of the children he serves in Romania as part of a Christian mission effort.

Local man takes Gospel to Romania Editor’s note: Martin Mallette of Sevier County has been in Romania for 19 years as a Christian missionary. He sent along this report, which has been shortened for length: I was blessed when The Lord called me to Romania on Jan. 18, 1991, to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and plant New Testament Bible churches there. Just like the first Bible church I planted was in Sighisoara — Dracula’s place.

Every time we go into an area and evangelize it, everything changes in the whole community. I can take you to different Gypsy towns and villages where The Word of God is preached, then people get saved. After a church is borne, the mayors tell me the same thing: “Mr. Martin, that Evangelical Bible church has cleaned the whole town up. Drunk men, criminals, that used to steal, kill, rob, beat their wives. But now they have completely changed, like new people.� That is the Power of the Gospel.

Why don’t we here in the U.S. do this on the borders of Mexico. We don’t need thousands of new police. We need the Gospel. People that get born again stop using and selling drugs, and they stop killing too.

I read in The Mountain Press about Ron Herrod, who has been elected to a key Southern Baptist leadership position. One time, Dr. Herrod stayed with me in Bucuresti, Romania. He came in the middle of winter, and that is a no no. Dr. Herrod told me that Bucuresti was the coldest place on Earth.

My wife Daniela, son Elijah and I now live in Bucharest, the capital, where the population is about 3 million people. I

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have just started a Bible school to teach and train the workers and Bible students there. Most of these are from the churches that I work with all over the country.

Romanian Orthodox is the state religion there, and they are much like the Roman Catholics in many ways.

I think that there is to much Gospel around the Great Smoky Mountains, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg for Dracula to feel comfortable here, but there are many tourists and Sevier County residents that need to be born again. Will you win them to the Lord?

This part of the U.S. has some of the most beautiful attractions in the world, but its real beauty resides in its hometown people, especially God’s people. They are the ones that have kept this Sevier County blessed. I also come back to the Smokies once a year. I don’t consider myself a “turron� (a name given) to all the tourists that cause all the traffic jams on the streets.

My family roots start here: Martin and Philip Shultz, doctors that settled here many years ago from Germany. I can trace my immediate family back to Elkmont. Back in the 1900s there were little groups of people in those mountains, with names like Whaley, Brackins, Ogle, Maples, Shultz. You will even find the name Parton, and Parton’s Store in Elkmont.

On May the 2, 1950, Alice (Ogle) Shultz walk

across the mountain to the cabin of Daniel and Rebecca Ogle in Sugarland. Their cabin home was located right across the street from the Sugarlands Welcome Center. My grandmother, Alice Ogle, married James Shultz at Roaring Fork Baptist Church in Gatlinburg in the 1930s.

My first-cousin Eddie Shultz works at the Galtinburg Community Center.

I want to thank the wonderful people of Sevier County for making my trip so good.

First I want to thank Brenda Karr, the branch manager at SunTrust in Pigeon Forge, and Robin Patrick for their kindness and service, and for making it possible for me to draw money out at the ATM machine in Bucharest on my debit card.

My heart is so grateful to Volunteer Chevrolet and Frank Bohanon and Gary Helton, for your gift of the loaner car.

Thank you, Pastor Kim McCroskey and your congregation at Roaring Fork, for your love gift and for letting me sing, preach and share the Romania mission with you.

Thank you, Pastor Mitch Ayers and Carter Town Baptist Church in Gatlinburg, for your visit to Romania with some from your church mission team.

God bless you, Pastor Ronnie Reagan and Gum Stand Baptist Church in Pigeon Forge. I think your dear wife Sandy.

Thank you, Brother Tom

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McCarter and you son Lonnie, and all the good people at Hurst Chapel for the love, prayers and support to me. This is where my grandmother, mama and all my kinfolks from over on Caney Creek went to church years ago.

I am so thankful to Lord for Brother Bill Delozier, his dear wife Fran, and sons Alex and Daniel at Three Bears Gift Shop, .

Thank you, Brother Kermit McPeek and the The Crossing Church in Kodak, for having me at your church.

And for Brother Dennis Maples, Sister Wendy and children Jeremiah and Rachel for sharing brother Dennis’ time with me.

I invite you to please pray for us. You can send your tax-deductible gifts to this non-Profit organization. Send to Martin Mallette or Romania Mission, P.O. Box 952, Pigeon Forge TN. 39868.

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released on $250 bond. u Jose Francisco Luna, 21, of 1265 Smithwood Drive in Sevierville, was charged July 17 with driving without a license, traffic violations and financial responsibility law. He was released on $2,500 bond. u Cory Nicole Maul, 31, of Red Carpet Inn in Pigeon Forge, was charged July 17 with theft of property worth $500 to $1,000. She was released on $1,000 bond. u Tralina Marie Noriega, 26, of 320 Harden Lane in Sevierville, was charged July 17 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court and a circuit court warrant.

She was being held in lieu of $75,000 bond. u Raul Dario Reyes, 30, of 428 Keegan Drive in Pigeon Forge, was charged July 19 with public intoxication. He was being held in lieu of $250 bond. u Joseph John Saltonstall, 43, of 794 Sharp Road in Sevierville, was charged July 18 with public intoxication. He was released on $1,000 bond. u John Lee Siglar, 32, of 1404 Wears Valley Road in Pigeon Forge, was charged July 18 with public intoxication. He was released on $250 bond.

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Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from the intake reports at the Sevier County Jail. All people listed within this report are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. u Dalton Joseph Bonin IV, 37, of 800 Eastgate Road #1236 in Sevierville, was charged July 18 with child abuse: neglect. He was released on $2,500 bond. u Christopher Elijah Chivers, 24, of 1110 Eight Point Lane in Sevierville, was charged July 19 with public intoxication. He was being held in lieu of $250 bond. u Tommy Allen Franklin, 20, of 1025 Franklin Lane in Sevierville, was charged July 18 with theft of property. He was released on $2,500 bond. u Regina Belle Johnson, 36, of Paris, Ky., was charged July 18 with domestic violence assault and public intoxication.

She was released on $2,500 bond. u Kim Lee Kabel, 38, of 117 Crescent Drive in Sevierville, was charged July 18 with disorderly conduct. She was being held in lieu of $250 bond. u Mark Anthony King, 47, of Paris, Ky., was charged July 18 with public intoxication. He was

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steamy summer morning. “But it gives our local people a chance to have some fresh produce and I enjoy it. I really like selling at this market, too. It’s close and it’s local. They’re very fair here and they handle everything wisely.�

Across the way, the Graingerians say they like the weekly sale, too. “It’s a drive, but we like to come to this one,�

Williams said. “If it’s a choice between going to another one or this one, we’re going to come here. We love it.�

The couple — it’s Donna and husband Tim, who is the farmer in the family and grows dairy cows along with the produce — bring their own offerings and the fruits of the field from a fellow resident of Grainger. Both Tim and the other fellow, whose name is Harvey LaFollette, shop at the Co-op regularly, and were recruited by the store’s management to

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Smokies until tragedy strikes and a wedge is driven between them.

The climax of the show will be a contest between the two sides to determine who gets to stay on in the mountains and who must leave.

Contacted Monday, Scheer said the attraction won’t be unlike the popular Dixie Stampede in that it will feature families driven apart by tragedy and a liveaction competition that will likely have different results each day. The show in Ketchikan regularly sells out months in advance, he said.

With the help of Knoxville-based Realtor Keith Widmer, Scheer recently purchased a total of 4.3 acres for $2.5 million, with about a half acre of frontage on the Parkway between Citizens National Bank and the Michaels souvenir and clothing shop. The rest of the land runs from Smoky Drive to the Little Pigeon River, with the yet-unfinished Belle Island Village in the water directly across from there. “We’re hopeful Belle Island will get started back up,� Widmer said Monday. “We think that

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Albert A. Blalock

Albert A. Blalock, age 78 of Sevierville, passed away Sunday, July 18, 2010.

He was a member of Red Bank Baptist Church. Mr. Blalock was a Navy veteran and served in the Korean Conflict. He was preceded in death by his parents Daniel and Ruth Blalock; sisters Faye Graham, Ora Blalock, Ila Leatherwood and Glenda Blalock.

Survivors include his wife Aileen Blalock; sons Albert Blalock, Jr. and girlfriend Sandi, Daniel Clark Blalock and wife Sherry, Timothy Mark Blalock; grandchildren Rodney Neil Blalock and Amy Blalock; great-grandchildren Jacquelyn, Hanna, Ali and Lydia; sisters Nancy Butera and Anna Blalock; brother Dan Blalock; sister-in-law Betty Blevins of Tampa, FL; brother-in-law Ernest Maples.

The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m.

Tuesday at Atchley Funeral Home. Family and friends will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Red Bank Cemetery for graveside service and interment, Rev. Danny Sutton and Rev. Jim Maples officiating. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.

Jim Leonard, age 62, of Sevierville, passed away Sunday, July 18, 2010.

Jim was of the Baptist faith. He worked at Blalock’s for 15 years as a welder. Jim loved NASCAR and was an avid Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan.

He was preceded in death by his loving son, Merle Thomas, grandparents, John William and Ida May Sims, Henry James and Sarah Ethel Sims.

Survivors: loving wife of 19 years, Sharon Kay Leonard; sons and daughter-in-law, Scotty and Sandy Thomas, Bill Thomas; daughters, Debbie Leonard of Sevier County, Christy Sams of Newport, and Jessica Leonard; special grandson, Paw Pa Jim’s “Little man� Colby Thomas; grandchildren, Brittany Rader, Tessa Thomas; four other grandchildren and one great-grandson; parents, Laroda and Jessie Macias, Alton James and Judy Leonard; brothers and sisters-in-law: Fannie Grubbs of Knoxville, Katie Hundley and Benny Ownby of Knoxville; sisters and brothers-in-law, Brenda Gail and husband Robert Blansett of Oklahoma, Rita Lynn and husband Wayne Shinn of Quillan, Texas, Jimmy and Joyce Grubbs of Louisville, Kentucky; special nieces, Polly Owens, Tina Hammons of Nashville; special friends, Kenneth Quindry, Rod Lewelling, Donna and Bobby Maner family, JoAnn Gibson; caregivers, Sandy and Scotty Thomas, Jerry Evans, Lisa Davis, Patty Hurst, Sara Quindry.

The family would like to thank St. Mary’s Hospice; Esteele Taylor, Social Worker; Denise Bisch.

Funeral service 7 p.m. Wednesday in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Danis, Mike Sebers and Charles Belcher officiating.

Interment 11 a.m. Thursday in Eledge Cemetery at Bethany Baptist Church. Pall bearers will be Jeff Bosworth, Charles Belcher, Josh Cogar, Tom Seymour, Eddie Herron and Mike West. Honorary pallbearers will be Kenneth Quindry, Don Evans, Rod Lewelling and Cortney Johnson. The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

English McCarter English McCarter, 86, of Pigeon Forge died Saturday, July 17, 2010.

He was a member of Pigeon Forge First Baptist Church and a World War II veteran. He was the Assistant Fire Chief and the Police Chief of Pigeon Forge before it was incorporated.

Mr. McCarter was a Pigeon Forge City Commissioner for 36 years. He was an electrician and owned McCarter Electric Company.

Survivors: wife, Evelyn Jean Myers McCarter; daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia M. and Steve Fugate, Nancy M. and Dennis Murray; sons and daughters-in-law, Joseph M. and Lisa H. McCarter, James E. and Devone McCarter; grandchildren, Stephanie F. and Kirby Teague, Mark H. and Lauren Fugate, Caroline M. and Randy French, Brooke M. and Nathan Dunn, Bryan and Anna McCarter, Jason and Allison McCarter, Ashley McCarter; five great-grandchildren; brother, Pershing McCarter; sister, Mary McCarter; brother-in-law, Pete Myers.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, P.O. Box 15010, Knoxville, TN 37901.

Funeral service will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Atchley Funeral Home with Steve Fugate and Larry Ogle officiating. Graveside service and interment 10 a.m. Wednesday in Shiloh Cemetery with the Rev. W.W. Cope officiating.

The family will receive friends

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area will be a really exciting, new epicenter for the city of Pigeon Forge.�

Scheer paid previous owner Kenneth Seaton $2.5 million for the lots, on which he plans to build a 30,000-squarefoot attraction. That will include a 25,000-squarefoot arena for the show, and an additional 5,000 feet for offices, ticket sales, a lobby and possibly the lumberjack hall of fame, something Scheer says he’s in talk to develop. He also hopes to construct an outdoor pool where visitors can try their hand at log rolling, a competition in which two people stand on a floating piece of wood and roll it until one falls off, against professionals and children will have the opportunity to go to camps to learn the skill.

The construction as a whole will likely run up a tab of about $4 million or $5 million, Scheer said.

He plans to open an office at the site to oversee the project in the next couple months. “We’re very happy with our site and we’re looking forward to breaking ground very soon,� he said. “This is a perfect location for us because

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we have space on the Parkway and we’re also on the river, which is good because rivers played a very important role in the logging industry.�

Scheer said he started looking at buying into the area more than two decades ago, with discussions on a site then falling through. Though he since developed the two other attractions up north, he said he never gave up on building in Pigeon Forge, believing the area’s high tourist volume and history with logging will help make his venture successful. “We’re really looking forward to being there,� he said. “We’ve had plans to be in that area for so long that it’s almost hard to believe it’s actually happening now.�

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Howard Lee Davis Howard Lee Davis, 67, of Seymour died Saturday, July 17, 2010.

He was retired from Saw Core, Inc. and following retirement worked at Sevier Pawn and Loan. He was a member of Knob Creek Baptist Church in Seymour where he served as a trustee. He was a member of Sevier Masonic Lodge 334.

Survivors: wife, Barbara Graves Davis; son and daughter-in-law, Andrew and Lori Davis; mother, Della Davis, one granddaughter; sister and brother-in-law, Janice and Conley Wardell; motherin-law, Juanita B. Graves; several nieces, cousins and uncles.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Gideons International, P.O. Box 429, Seymour, TN 37865 The family received friends Monday. Service followed at Atchley’s Seymour Chapel with the Revs. W.A. Galyon and Terry Parton officiating.

Family and friends meet 11 a.m. Tuesday in Knob Creek Cemetery for graveside service and interment. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

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tree trunks using special spiked shoes, three times and was the first honored as Ironjack World Champion. He now oversees Ironjack, an international contest that pits competitors against each other to see who is the best at tasks lumberjacks would traditionally have to complete, like sawing logs.

Scheer now has control of the Ironjack competition and already has three years’ worth of television rights sold for various contests in the lumberjack arts. He hopes to film some of those at the Pigeon Forge location, with plans to sell tickets at “reasonable prices� so that locals can attend the events, which will likely occur in the mornings.

Later in the day, the location is set to host performances of Great Smoky Mountain Lumberjack Feud, a theater-style performance that will star athletes in the lumberjack field. It will follow the fictional story of two families that worked together in felling the trees of the

bring their wares to the market.

At their stand, shoppers were looking for things like corn, beans, okra and of course those Grainger County tomatoes. Meanwhile, DeLozier offered bargains on things like yellow and white squash, and eggplant. “The people who have become my regular customers know I’ll give them a good deal,� she said, tossing an extra squash in a woman’s bag on a two for a dollar sale. “You’ve got to look interested and I’ll give you a deal.�

Sevierville resident and produce shopper Reba McFalls seemed very interested as she perused the offerings at another booth. “I’m just looking for a few specialties to make for dinner,� she said. “I usually come down here four Saturdays a month or so. I like fresh vegetables. I’d rather buy it locally grown.

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A shopper makes her purchases from the produce offerings at Tim and Donna Williams’ booth at the Sevier Farmers Co-op Farmers Market on Saturday morning.

Jesse “Wayne� Ragan, age 67 of Sevierville, passed away Sunday, July 18, 2010.

Mr. Ragan was a medic and conducted medical research while serving in the United States Air Force. After leaving the military he served as an EMT. Wayne was a local artisan focusing on woodcarving with his work being sold both locally and nationally. He was preceded in death by his father Howard Ragan.

He is survived by his wife Darlene Ragan; daughter Lisa Greenwood and husband Allen; sister Wynelle Clark; brother Joe Ragan and wife Kay; mother Rosa Nelle Ragan; and several aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be sent to the American Cancer Society (for lung cancer research), c/o Teri Newman, 3629 Parkway, Pigeon Forge, TN, 37863.

A memorial service will be held at a later date in Wayne’s hometown in Georgia.

Cremation arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.

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Bill Clinton, Gates: Fight AIDS more efficiently

By VERONIKA OLEKSYN Associated Press Writer VIENNA — Two heavyhitters on the world health stage — Bill Clinton and Bill Gates — called Monday for a more efficient fight worldwide against the AIDS virus.

In separate speeches at an international AIDS conference in the Austrian capital, the former American president railed against spending too much money on reports that just sit on shelves and urged that funds directly target AIDS sufferers. Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corp., said health groups must adopt better business practices that deliver more bang for the buck.

Clinton said many countries are misspending foreign aid. He said funding should go directly to local organizations, because developing countries can deliver health services at a lower cost and less overhead than established organizations. “In too many countries too much money goes to pay for too many people to go to too many meetings, get on too many airplanes,� Clinton said. “Keep in mind that every dollar we waste today puts a life at risk.�

The number of people taking crucial AIDS drugs climbed by a record 1.2 million last year to 5.2 million overall, the World Health Organization said Monday. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of patients receiving lifesaving antiretroviral treatment increased twelve-fold, according to the Genevabased body. “We are very encouraged by this increase. It is

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Bill Gates speaks during a session at the International AIDS Conference Austria, on Monday. indeed the biggest increase that we have seen in any single year,� said Gottfried Hirnschall, director of the WHO’s HIV/AIDS department.

Clinton also called on aid groups to remember that the world was “awash in trouble� due to the impact of the financial crisis. “It is easy to rail at a government and say why doesn’t the government give us more money if they’re giving somebody else money,� he said. “But the government gets its money ... from taxpayers who have lower incomes today than they did two years ago.�

Gates said although finding new funding was critical, more could be done with the resources that were

Study: Poverty, more than race, link to HIV ATLANTA (AP) — Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind.

The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods.

And, more significantly, poor heterosexuals in those neighborhoods were twice as likely to be infected as heterosexuals who lived in the same community but had more money.

Federal scientists found that race was not a factor — there were no significant differences between blacks, whites or Hispanics.

Health officials have long believed poverty drives HIV epidemics, but there have been few studies to back that up. Some research actually contradicts that belief: Studies in Tanzania, Kenya and some other African countries actually found that wealthy people were more likely to be infected than the poor. “In the United States, we haven’t have a history of looking in depth at the association between poverty and HIV,� said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of HIV/AIDS Prevention for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mermin oversees the CDC team that did the new study.

More often, studies have focused on the race of HIV patients, their sexual orientation, or whether or not they use intravenous drugs.

The CDC report was released at the international AIDS conference in Vienna.

The study involved a survey in 2006 and 2007 of 9,000 heterosexual adults, ages 18 to 50.

They answered questions on a computer about their income, condom use and other details and were given HIV tests.

The research was done

in high-poverty neighborhoods in 23 U.S. cities. It focused on heterosexuals who don’t use intravenous drugs; that group accounts for about 28 percent of Americans living with HIV. It did not involve gay or bisexual men, who have the highest rates of HIV in the United States.

The results: HIV was detected in 2.4 percent of the people who were living below the federal poverty line, which in 2007 was an annual income of roughly $10,000 or less for an individual. The 2.4 percent translates to roughly 1 in 42 people.

In contrast, infections were found in 1.2 percent of people in the same neighborhoods who made more money than the federal poverty guideline. That’s 1 in 83 people.

Both rates were higher than the national average, which is 0.45 percent, or 1 in 222 people.

The results suggest that people in low-income neighborhoods are more likely to be infected because they live among more people who are infected. Perhaps more people in such neighborhoods have used illegal drugs or had other experiences that put them at higher risk, Mermin

said. “It’s epidemiological bad luck,� he said.

He described the situation: “I’m in a community where when I meet a new (sexual) partner, the chance that they would have HIV is much higher than if I were wealthy and living in another geographical area.�

Officials need to start looking at the AIDS epidemic in a different light, said Dr. Carlos del Rio, who chairs global health studies at Emory University’s school of public health. “You talk about ’Can we decrease the HIV burden in the United States?’ I would say, ’What can we do to decrease poverty in the United States?�’ del Rio said.

He noted there are diseases that are more prevalent in certain racial groups, for genetic reasons. Sickle cell disease, which is most prevalent in blacks, is one example.

But there’s no clear biological reason why the infection rate is eight times higher in blacks than whites, and three times higher in Hispanics than whites. But understanding that blacks are disproportionately poor probably does explain why the rates are higher,

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He was an author of a smaller, recent study that found that 60 percent of Atlanta’s HIV cases were located in a downtown area of the city with high proportions of blacks, IV drug users and people living in poverty.

An estimated 1 in 272 Americans is infected with HIV, according to 2006 estimates. In other terms, more than 1.1 million Americans are living with the AIDS virus.

The number has grown since 2006, CDC officials believe.

Officials believe the annual number of new HIV infections has been hovering around 55,000 a year since the late 1990s.

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The Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, one of the biggest funders of AIDS programs, has in the past found evidence of fraud in countries’ health programs — like Uganda and Zambia — and suspended their programs or tried to get the money back. “Even if we advocate for more funding, we can do more to get the most benefit from each dollar,� Gates told delegates. “If we push for a new focus on efficiency in both treatment and prevention and we continue ... to create new tools, we can drive down the number of infections dramatically and start writing the story of the end of AIDS.�

Some countries — such as Russia — are not using data to make funding decisions that target the right populations because those groups make politicians uncomfortable, Gates added. “If you’re afraid to match your prevention efforts to the right populations, then you’re wasting money and that costs lives,� he said.

Clinton said in order to have the “moral standing� to ask for more funding, organizations should prove to governments that “we’re doing our job faster, better and cheaper.� He also defended President Barack Obama’s efforts on AIDS. “You can demonstrate and call the president names or we can go get some more votes in Congress to get some more money,� Clinton said. “My experience is that the second choice is the better one.�

On Sunday, the head of the conference said world leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and AIDS gets treatment.

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Community Center closing scheduled The Gatlinburg Community Center will be closed Aug 9-15 for annual maintenance.

The center will repen at 6 a.m. Aug. 16. For more information call 436-4990.

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Republicans to hear legislators

Two of Sevier County’s state legislators, Sen. Doug Overbey and Rep. Richard Montgomery, will speak to the Sevier County Republican Party at its general membership meeting.

The meeting will be at 6 p.m. today on the third floor of the courthouse.

Both are expected to brief the party on activities within the General Assembly and answer questions from the floor.

For more information contact Allen Bray by e-mail to seviercountygop@gmail.com or call 748-6202.

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Luau party to end program

A luau party at King Family, Seymour & Kodak libraries will be held July 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event is by invitation only for those children who return their final reading log up to July 23. Children and parents can wear Hawaiian attire for games, food, activities and more to end a summer of reading.

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Knoxville murderer gets execution date

The state Supreme Court has set a Dec. 7 execution date for Billy Ray Irick.

Irick was convicted of raping and killing a 7-year-old Knoxville girl he had been baby-sitting in 1985.

The court rejected an appeal from Irick’s attorneys to issue a certificate of commutation. They had argued he was insane at the time of the crime.

In support, they introduced affidavits from the victim’s stepfamily recounting Irick’s bizarre behavior in the days before the slaying. That includes Irick chasing a girl he did not know down the street with a machete because he “didn’t like her looks” and telling people he was “taking instructions from the devil.”

While setting an execution date, the court also ordered a hearing in the Knox County Criminal Court to determine whether Irick is competent to be executed. Those proceedings must conclude within 55 days. n

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Police kill man wielding knife

Oak Ridge Police say a man who officers fatally shot as he wielded a knife at them had earlier driven into a lake, but was rescued.

The Oak Ridger identified the man as 48-year-old Rodney Eugene Harris of Oak Ridge.

Police Chief David H. Beams said officers were investigating a man walking in a road, waving his arms Sunday afternoon when the man pulled a knife from a scarf around his leg and came at officers after stabbing a police dog. Beams said a Taser didn’t stop the man and officers shot him.

The newspaper reported Harris drove his truck into Melton Hill Lake in January, but was rescued by bystanders.

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Monroe official found dead in burning car

By BILL POOVEY Associated Press Writer MADISONVILLE — Friends of the Monroe County election official whose body was discovered in the trunk of a burning car described him as a generous man loved by everyone who knew him.

County Election Administrator James R. Brown said the body of Jim Miller was discovered by firefighters after they extinguished a burning car Saturday night.

Sheriff’s officials in Madisonville declined to

offer details on the investigation. They are awaiting preliminary autopsy results. An incident report from the sheriff’s office said an officer on patrol spotted the burning car on a rural road just after 8:00 p.m. and called firefighters.

Karen Thomas, a school teacher who was at a Republican Party tent across the street from an early voting precinct in Madisonville, said Miller liked helping kids.

“Every year at Christmas he would always check to see if any child needed anything. He had a special

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place in his heart for kids,” she said.

Betty Latham, chairwoman of the Monroe County Republican Party, was also at the early voting tent.

“He was a friend to everybody in this county,” she said. “He was like the father of the county.”

Next door neighbor Leslie Johnson said he would pay bills for local residents struggling.

“It’s just senseless,” she said of his death.

Miller, a Republican, became chairman of the local election commission in April 2009.

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“It is hers, and it’s a family wedding. The people coming are her friends and people that have been meaningful in her life, as it should be.”

— Secretary of State and former first lady Hillary Clinton on daughter Chelsea’s impending marriage to Mark Mezvinsky on July 31

“In too many countries too much money goes to pay for too many people to go to too many meetings, get on too many airplanes. Keep in mind that every dollar we waste today puts a life at risk.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, who says there is too much misspending going on in the worldwide fight against AIDS/HIV

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—United States Constitution, Amendment One

■ The Mountain Press ■ Page A7 ■ Tuesday, July 20, 2010

commentary

New voices in defense of marriage

President Obama’s Justice Department colluded with gay marriage advocates to make sure the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was overturned by the courts.

That’s not just my view — it’s pretty close to the searing conclusion drawn by professor Richard Epstein in a piece for Forbes: “This controversial case might well go up on appeal. But if so, it looks almost like collusive litigation, unless some true defender of DOMA is allowed, as an intervener, to defend the statute on the merits.”

Epstein is referring to recent twin rulings by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro that strike down key portions of DOMA. “As a supporter of gay marriage, I still think that the DOJ’s faint-hearted advocacy is no way to run a legal system,” Epstein continures.” Nor is it wise for courts to use the equal protection clause as a club against conventional morality, deeply felt.”

Richard Epstein, a brilliant libertarian constitutional law scholar, opposes DOMA as policy, not only because it prevents the federal recognition of gay marriages but because it excludes polygamous marriages, as well.

But he is nonetheless standing up for core principles. Just because you favor gay marriage doesn’t make it a constitutional right.

Take that, Ted Olsen!

Jonathan Rauch, who makes the best conservative case for gay marriage possible, is a gay man, the author of “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights and Good for America,” and another man of great principle. In The New York Times he called on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and the other Supreme Court justices to uphold Proposition 8. “The argument for upholding California’s gay marriage ban has merit — not because the policy is fair or wise (it isn’t), but because it represents a reasonable judgment that the people of California are entitled to make.”

He goes on to say: “Whatever the activists on both sides say, nothing in the Constitution requires the Supreme Court to short-circuit the country’s search for a new consensus, either by imposing gay marriage nationwide or by slamming the door on it with an aggressively dismissive ruling. Sometimes the right answer for the courts is to step aside and let politics do its job.”

Slowly new voices are emerging in defense of our constitutional system of government.

In the Daily Caller, my colleague Brian Brown (president of the National Organization for Marriage) points to the same underhanded collusion to which Richard Epstein alludes.

“But if there is any excuse for Judge Tauro’s ruling, it lies in this fact: No one in that courtroom in front of him tried to defend the law.

President Obama’s Justice Department (with Elena Kagan’s participation as solicitor general) pretended to defend DOMA, while actually sabotaging the law and ensuring its overthrow by the courts.”

How did President Obama’s Justice Department, with Elena Kagan as solicitor general, sabotage DOMA? As Brian Brown says, “Let me count the ways.”

First there is the strange hole in Judge Tauro’s opinion. In the 19th century, the federal government intervened repeatedly to ban polygamy, and the Supreme Court upheld the federal government’s right to do so. The reason Judge Tauro doesn’t deal with these precedents is that President Obama’s brief never mentions them.

But, as Brian Brown points out, “It gets worse than that.”

Congress, when it passed DOMA, laid out in very clear terms that “responsible procreation” is a key reason for DOMA’s existence. As Judge Tauro’s ruling notes: “The House Report identifies four interests which Congress sought to advance through the enactment of DOMA: (1) encouraging responsible procreation and childbearing, (2) defending and nurturing the institution of traditional heterosexual marriage, (3) defending traditional notions of morality, and (4) preserving scarce resources.”

But in its briefs, allegedly defending DOMA, Obama’s Justice Department explicitly repudiated “responsible procreation” as a reason for DOMA. “How can Justice’s lawyers strip a law of its clearly stated purpose?” Brown asks. “Well, the DOJ brief claims ‘expert consensus’ now exists that children don’t need moms and dads.”

There you have it. As Brown writes, “Rule by out-of-touch, anonymous experts, backed by activist judges. Brought to you by President Obama.”

Politics makes strange bedfellows. But principle, done right, can make even stranger ones.

— Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, is known for her conservative social policy analysis of social trends and conditions. (C)2009 Maggie Gallagher. Distributed

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Editorial

English speaking Pigeon Forge community giant English McCarter will be missed Behind every great and popular American city are people who were there in the early days, whose foresight and ideas were so instrumental in seeing progress made. They were there when key decisions — not always popular — had to be made.

They invested time, money and research to make the right decisions.

They neither sought nor received a lot of credit for what they did, at least not at the time.

English McCarter was one of the pioneers in bringing Pigeon Forge from a sleepy mountain community to one of the most visited destinations in all of the country. When he and others were in positions to influence decisions and invest in the future, they did it not knowing for sure the outcome. Their ideas and ingenuity were untested, and the results of their actions would not

be known for some time.

English McCarter, who died Saturday at 86, returned from World War II a young man with vision and a desire to stay in the community where he was raised. He served as police chief and volunteer fire department chief before being elected to the City Commission in 1969 — just eight years after he and others successfully supported incorporation of Pigeon Forge.

He served with distinction and honor on the City Commission for the next 36 years, paving the way for the city to become a leading tourist destination, filled with theaters, attractions and roads that carry people from one destination to another.

Along the way McCarter counseled others, including a younger generation he knew and understood would lead the city long after he departed

from the scene. He supported needed infrastructure improvements and road projects when they had to be built. And he did it with a dedication for and to the future, knowing that unless Pigeon Forge kept current and changed with the times, it would be left to breathe in the dust of other tourist destinations soliciting the same people.

When McCarter decided not to seek re-election in 2005, ending his long career in public service, he was in his 80s, but saw the need to step aside and let others take the baton and run with it. When he died last Saturday, it marked the loss of a community giant and an important link to the city’s less hectic past.

He’ll be missed, but when you drive through the city and experience its pace and focus on tourism, he should be among those thanked for it.

Political view

Public forum United States can survive only if we stay one nation under God

Editor: When I watch the news I can see why so many people are depressed and on stress medication — it seems like the country is splitting down the middle (not unlike the Civil War, only in this case the Republicans against the Democrats or visa versa depending on what side you’re on.

We sure don’t need enemies when we are our own worst ones. If only we could see what we are doing when we indulge in all this infighting. When we start suing one of our own states for any reason, is that not like

shooting our self in the foot?

With so many people in our country, it would be impossible to make everyone happy all the time, but surely there must be some form of middle ground that the majority of us can agree on. Our country is fast becoming a house divided against itself, and the enemy knows that to win any battles with us they must first divide and then conquer. I’m not sure who is behind it all, but our real enemy is the one out there trying to steal our souls.

Believe me when I say this, he is able to work through anyone not of the Spirit.

His tools are hatred, fear, selfishness, envy, anger, greed, false pride (that’s only my list; I’m sure you all could come up with

your own additions). Of course we — being so sophisticated with our college knowledge and our vast understanding of the universe — are way too intelligent to believe there could be anything beyond our knowing. Like lambs to the slaughter, we will march behind the one who speaks to our selfish wants or twisted versions of morality and we’ll use our freedom of speech to undo the freedoms that our country has bled and died for over the centuries.

America, we are better than this, but only if we humble down and stay one nation under God. Sandra Burch Sevierville

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PREP FOOTBALL

Tigers’ QBs developing timing in 7-on-7 leagues

By COBEY HITCHCOCK Sports Writer MARYVILLE — With the start of the 7-on-7 passing league season, the Pigeon Forge Tigers gridiron gang is using the opportunity to develop timing and hold open starting-spot competitions.

With three emerging quarterbacks — Cory Fox, Shane Sharp and Caleb Black — on their roster, fourth-year Tigers coach Lee Hammonds feels there’s some reason for optimism.

“Right now, Cory is our No.1 quarterback, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that come (the start of the season) he’s going to be,” said Hammonds, in between 7-on-7 contests late last week at Heritage High School. “We’re try-

ing to open up competition every single day in practice and see who is going to emerge as our starter.

“Right now, Cory is a little ahead, but Shane is getting better too. And we’ve got Caleb, who started nine games for us last year, we can put back there too.

That’s why I think we’re a little better at the quarterback position than we have been, because we’ve got some experience back there at least.

“Our quarterback situation right now, we’ve got two or three guys, so we feel like we might be a little ahead of where we ever have been at the quarterback position since I’ve been here.”

Pigeon Forge isn’t exactly known as a pass-first type of offensive team, so the Tigers don’t try to get

too fancy with things in 7-on-7 passing league contests.

“With the type of offense we run on Friday nights, we try to focus on our same routes we run on Fridays,” said Hammonds. “We’re just trying to get some timing down with our quarterbacks and receivers, and we’re fortunate enough to have a lot of those guys back from last year.

“A lot of those guys have worked together for at least a year now, so we’re enjoying this, this is good for us.”

Black, last year’s Orangeand-Black starter, got a lot of work at slot receiver and running back on Thursday, along with a little time under center.

“We’re trying to let Caleb See TIGERS, Page A9

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Pigeon Forge’s Brandon Jusino competes in the tire flipping relay during offensive linemen competition as Austin-East players cheer him on in a good show of sportsmanship.

PREP SOFTBALL

PREP BASEBALL

Lady Tigers’ Oliver is All-State

Tigers duo make TSWA All-State

By JASON DAVIS Sports Editor

By JASON DAVIS Sports Editor PIGEON FORGE — On the softball field, Makenzie Oliver does a little bit of everything for the Pigeon Forge Lady Tigers.

As one of the team’s top two pitchers she routinely takes the mound in big games, and her control and veloc- Makenzie Oliver ity often help lead her team to victory. When she’s not on the mound, Oliver’s stellar play at shortstop also helps the team.

Add to that Oliver’s .440 batting average, and it’s easy to see why she made the Tennessee Sports Writers Association’s AA All-State team.

“Makenzie has that fire about her,” Pigeon Forge coach Jessica Sterling said.

“She’s one of the most completive girls we’ve got, and she fires everybody else up with her competitiveness.”

Oliver said she was “extremely surprised” at being selected for the All-State team.

“I’m really looking for our team to make it to substate, if not state, next year,” Oliver added.

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Sevier County ace Brandon Houser delivers a fastball during a game earlier this year.

PREP BASEBALL

Sevier County lefty Houser inks pact with King College baseball

By JASON DAVIS Sports Editor SEVIERVILLE — With school starting in about a month, former Sevier County High School pitching ace Brandon Houser has signed to continue his career playing baseball for King College.

The lefty emerged as a staple of the Bears pitching staff his junior season with some big-game victories. A year later he was the staff’s ace and helped pitch the Bears to their first district championship in recent memory.

“Brandon Houser has been the rock that we built the rotation around the last couple of years,” SCHS coach Lance Traywick said.

“You can sum him up in one word — competitor.”

“He competes like nobody’s business,” Traywick continued. “If he’s got his best stuff or if he doesn’t have his best stuff, for better or worse, he’s giving effort. If we gave him the ball, we knew he was keeping us in the ball game and giving us his best effort. He’ll be sorely missed by the Smoky Bears.”

Looking back at his Bears’ career,

Houser said he’s made some great memories.

“Freshman year I came in and I was the smallest kid and the slowest, but that didn’t get me down,” Houser said. “I pitched my first (varsity) game against Farragut (as a freshman) and that was the scariest game of my life. I went and threw it where they couldn’t hit it and went three up and three down for three innings.”

That helped the then-scrawny little lefty and his confidence, and See HOUSER, Page A9

PIGEON FORGE — And the hits just keep on coming.

After an offseason full of accolades for Justin Carter and Wil Crowe, the pair added another to their growing list of recognition late last week Justin Carter as the pair was named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association AA All-State team.

Crowe, who was named to the coach’s second team all-state list Wil Crowe earlier this month, made quite a name for himself as a freshman at PF. The rising sophomore led the team in hitting at a .476 clip and smashed five homers while driving in 49 runs. As the team’s third starter on the mound went 7-1 with a 1.15 ERA. Not too shabby.

Carter, who’s been one of the Tigers top pitchers since he was a sophomore, was 9-1 on the mound with a 1.43 ERA for the Tigers , while serving as their offensive sparkplug at the top of the lineup.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE BASEBALL

Ninth-inning rally falls short in Smokies’ 7-6 loss to Biscuits SEVIERVILLE — Another back-and-forth contest with the Montgomery Biscuits Sunday evening went against the Tennessee Smokies in a 7-6 loss.

A last-minute rally fell just short for the Smokies, moving Tennessee (12-12) back to .500 for the season’s second half, 54-39 overall.

The Smokies jumped on the Biscuits in the first inning for a 4-0 lead.

Singles by Tony Campana and Josh Vitters put runners on first and third for Robinson Chirinos,

who belted a two-out homer to center. Brandon Guyer then made it a four-run game with an RBI double later in the same inning, scoring Russ Canzler on the play.

Although Smokies starter Jeremy Papelbon gave up a solo home run to Cody Cipriano in the top of the second, he kept the Biscuits in check through the first four innings, retiring the side in the first, third and fourth innings.

The Biscuits eventually got to Papelbon, however, and the pitcher left the game after surrendering

a two-run homer to Montgomery’s John Matulia in the top of the fifth, cutting the Smokies edge to 4-3 at the time.

Tennessee reliever Oswaldo Martinez (1-1) was tagged for a run in the sixth and two more in the seventh, allowing the Biscuits to take a 6-4 lead.

Smokies reliever Marco Carrillo allowed another Montgomery run that put Tennessee in a three-run hole heading into the bottom of the ninth.

The Smokies never surrendered,

however, and the home team made a furious comeback attempt that fell just short.

After Brandon Guyer reached base on a leadoff bunt, Tony Thomas tripled down the leftfield line to score Guyer and cut Montgomery’s lead to 7-5.

Thomas later scored on a Nate Samson ground out to bring the Smokies to within a run with just one out.

After Montgomery reliever Ryan Reid (S, 1) struck out Campana for the second out, Brett Jackson

kept Tennessee’s hopes alive with a single to right.

But Reid got Vitters to ground out on a high chopper to second to pick up his first save of the year and end the Smokies’ comeback bid.

Reid’s save gave the win to Biscuits starter Alex Torres (9-3), who struck out seven in 7-2/3 innings.

Papelbon took a no decision, allowing three runs in five inning of work, walking one and striking out two.

Sports ◆ A9

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press

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CYCLING 6:30 a.m.

VERSUS — Tour de France, stage 16, Bagneres-de-Luchon to Pau, France MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 10 p.m.

WGN — Chicago White Sox at Seattle WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m.

ESPN2 — New York at Connecticut

l o cal g o lf Local Golfer hits Hole-in-1: John Lowman of Sevierville hit a hole-in-one at Laurel Valley Golf Course in Townsend on Saturday. The shot was on Hole 15 from 138 yards out, using a No.4 hybrid. William Haugh witnessed the shot.

p r o ha r dball National League East Division

Atlanta New York Philadelphia Florida Washington

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St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee Houston Pittsburgh

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Central Division

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W L Pct GB San Diego 54 37 .593 — Colorado 50 41 .549 4 San Francisco 50 42 .543 4 1/2 Los Angeles 49 43 .533 5 1/2 Arizona 34 58 .370 20 1/2

——— Sunday’s Games Colorado 1, Cincinnati 0 Florida 1, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 9, Houston 0 Atlanta 11, Milwaukee 6 St. Louis 5, L.A. Dodgers 4 San Diego 6, Arizona 4 N.Y. Mets 4, San Francisco 3, 10 innings Chicago Cubs 11, Philadelphia 6 Monday’s Games Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

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Colorado at Florida, 7:10 p.m.

Washington at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Houston at Chicago Cubs,

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N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

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Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee (Bush 4-7) at Pittsburgh (B.Lincoln 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Francis 2-3) at Florida (N.Robertson 6-7), 7:10 p.m.

San Diego (LeBlanc 4-7) at Atlanta (Jurrjens 2-3), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Atilano 6-6) at Cincinnati (Leake 6-1), 7:10 p.m.

Houston (W.Wright 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 8-7), 8:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Moyer 9-9) at St. Louis (Carpenter 10-3), 8:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Dickey 6-3) at Arizona (Enright 1-2), 9:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 10-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-5), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Houston at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

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Washington at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

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N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

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American League East Division

New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 58 55 52 47 29

L 33 36 40 45 62

Pct GB .637 — .604 3 .565 6 1/2 .511 11 1/2 .319 29

Chicago Detroit Minnesota Kansas City Cleveland

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L 41 42 43 52 54

Pct GB .549 — .533 1 1/2 .533 1 1/2 .429 11 .413 12 1/2

Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

W 53 50 46 36

L 39 45 46 56

Pct .576 .526 .500 .391

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West Division

——— Sunday’s Games Cleveland 7, Detroit 2 N.Y. Yankees 9, Tampa Bay 5 Texas 4, Boston 2 Toronto 10, Baltimore 1 Minnesota 7, Chicago White Sox 6 Oakland 9, Kansas City 6 Seattle 2, L.A. Angels 1, 10 innings Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Baltimore,

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starting role.

“We think Shane is a good, sharp kid,” said Hammonds. “Nothing has been decided yet.”

——— TIGER’S NOTEBOOK: n The high school football team was supposed to start practice this Thursday, but plans have changed slightly and the team will get together for the first official practice 6 p.m. Friday.

All rising ninth- through 12th-graders interested in playing must report on Friday, but come before 6 p.m. to sign in. Physical forms are available at the high school office or the field house from now until Friday.

The first practice will be in shorts, helmets and cleats. Helmets will be assigned on Friday. n The Tigers will travel to Heritage High School 5 p.m. tonight and Thursday night to compete in more 7-on-7 passing contests, which is the reason why the first practice was moved to Friday. chitchcock@themountainpress.com

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Hotel/Motel

Hotel/Motel

Mountain Melodies Inn now hiring Front Desk Clerks. Apply in person 1949 Parkway, Pigeon Forge.

Music Road Hotel & Inn now hiring Front Desk personnel with experience. Please apply in person 303 Henderson Chapel Rd. NOW HIRING for Experience Front Desk Clerk. Apply in person at Red Roof Inn, Pigeon Forge.

Days Inn - Apple Valley in Sevierville hiring for experienced front desk clerk. Apply in person at 1841 Parkway.

Now Hiring dependable drug free reservationist for busy cabin company. 2-10 pm shift.

Call 436-3475 for interview.

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excited.

“I’m pumped,” Houser said. “I knew I’d fit in over at King.”

He’ll join several other Bears’ teammates as a Tornado.

Next season the King College roster will carry five former Bears in Houser, Brandon Palmer, Josh Wear, Michael Farragut and Charlie Fields.

At King, Houser will major in forensic science.

He is the son of Debbie and Danny Beck of Kodak.

At King, Houser will major in forensic science.

He is the son of Debbie and Danny Beck of Kodak.

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get the ball in his hands in some space this year with his athletic ability,” said Hammonds. “So we’re moving him around a little bit right now.”

Fox, the current No.1 QB, has been working hard this offseason to try to hold onto the spot this fall.

“Cory does a good job,” said Hammonds. “He started the last game of the year last year for us, and he’s spent a ton of time on his own, staying after school and throwing.

“He’s spent a ton of hours just trying to get better. He’s still learning the decision-making process, and that’s what we’re trying to work with him on now... polishing up his form. He’s getting better, and he throws a good, catchable ball. He’s still got some work to do, there’s no doubt, but he’s getting better.”

But Sharp, a transfer student from Alabama, is right on Fox’ heels for the

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he’s been a bulldog ever since.

“No matter who it was, he wanted the baseball,” Traywick said. “If we brought the 1927 Yankees in here, he’d think that he was supposed to get them out.

He’s just a hard worker and a competitor.”

“King is going to get an excellent lefty,” the coach continued. “The best is still ahead of Houser. He’s just starting to put on some weight and get stronger.”

When he found out about the opportunity to go to King, Houser said he was

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Unfurnished Apartments

Zaxby's Sevierville now hiring cooks & cashiers. Apply in person, no phone calls please.

698 Windfield Dunn Pkwy.

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Business Opportunity

FOR RENT

GRILL & STORE 2500+SQ.FT. HIGH TRAFFIC AREA GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

865-712-6727

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3BR 2BA in Red Bud area.

Appliances included.

Available now. $775 + dep.

865-428-5212

RIVERWALK-Sevierville

Come See Why We Have Been Voted Best In Sevier County Year After Year.

1 BR/1 BA – 784 Sq. Ft. 2 BR/2 BA – 1114 Sq. Ft.

3BD/3BA near hospital, garage, no pets, non-smoking, $1025/mo. 504-782-2557

$545 to $735

Gatlinburg, 3BD/2BA, large storage building. 1 yr lease, $875/mo, first & last + $500 damage dep. 865-603-0857

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New Homes for Rent 3BR/2BA starting at $700 - $850 & $1000 per month.

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429-4470 www.seviervilleapartments.com

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Dresser, mirror, 4 Drawer chest, headboard. $399 Cagles Furniture and Appliances

453-0727

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For Sale

A-1 pre-owned dryers, washers, ranges & refrigerators.

All with warranty.

Cagles Furniture and Appliances

Furnished Apartments

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PF, 3209 Gold Dust 3BR/3BA ch&a. NO PETS. $900 month, 1st, last. 368-5002

Homes for Rent

Freezer $100, Hot Tub $400, Trampoline $75, Wooden Swing Set $100, Piano $500, Washer/Dryer $200, Wicker Set $150, Metal Carport $200. Call 654-7907.

2250 sq. ft. 3BR/2BA, large rec room, 2 gas fp, Central Heat & Air, country setting, near Sevierville. No pets, no smoking, $995/mo, $995 dep.

1 year lease. 865-453-5524

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Flat Creek area. 3BR 2BA Level yard $1100 per mth. $500 dam dep. 865-573-6859 or 865-389-5229

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Kodak, brick, 3BR/1.5 BA, carport, no pets, $700/mo + $700 dep. 680-8313

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House for rent off Douglas Dam Rd. Close to new Sev convention center and Dumplin Creek Dev. 2BR/1BA, no pets inside or out, landlord provides lawn maint. & monthly pest control. $695/mo, first mo + $400 damage dep. References needed, call 865-428-4752 M-F 7-4.

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2 BR / 2 BA Apts. for Rent in Wears Valley From $650/mo.

12 Mo. Lease Pets Allowed (865) 329-7807

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Condominiums for Rent Want to Live in Luxury?...

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3BR/3BA Executive Condos in Sevierville, 3100 sq. ft. swimming pool, pets welcome, loaded with all amenities.

Call 865-428-5161

PIGEON F O R G E : Nice 2BR/2BA Condo, w/d hookup, walk to trolley, $650/mo. + dep. 937-308-1143.

2 Bedroom Apt. in Sev. All appl., w/d hookup. $575/mo. + $300 dep. 865-453-6823.

Near Hospital 2BR/1.5 BA All Appliances Houses 2/3 BR

$650 & up Some Pets

453-1748 - Day 428-3381 - Evening 2BR/1BA, 4x8 storage room, ground level, in Sev. $500/mo + dep. Short or longterm lease avail. Balance of July-Free Rent. Call 423-619-1925.

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

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Hardwood floors, plus many extras, 1 year lease, no pets.

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2BR/1BA, stove, ref., D/W disposal/micro., W/D hook-up, club house/pool/picnic area 24hr. maint. Year lease, behind S.C.H.S. Great spacious place to live. Dogs ok with deposit.

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Duplexes for Rent

Duplex 2BR Gatlinburg, 527 Foothill. No pets. Credit check. $575 + dep. 865-690-2766

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Includes: Phone, Color TV, Wkly Housekeeping Micr./ Frig. Available

Low Weekly Rates $120.00

436-5179

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Greystone Rentals Red Carpet Inn

Family Inns West

349 East Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN

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Business Places/ Offices

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

3300 or 6600 sq ft retail/showroom space for rent in busy complex, with large delivery door. $2200 mth for 3300 sq ft or $4000 mth for 6600 sq ft.

Call 865-388-5455 for more info.

Gatlinburg/Dudley Creek

OFFICE SPACE

near trolley stop

Includes All Utilities.

405-2116

Rent by the week, month, or year. Furnished, plus elec., cable & w/ sewer included.

Call for appt.

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$650 month 5000 sf Warehouse $1500 month

865-850-3874

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WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured to be paid by that certain Deed of Trust executed on September 21, 2005, by Vita A. Stamba and Joseph A. Stamba Sr. to Larry A. Weissman, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Book No. 2360, Page 551, (“Deed of Trust�); and WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee, Successor-in-interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A. as Trustee of BAFC SALT 2005-1F; and WHEREAS, U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee, Successor-in-interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A. as Trustee of BAFC SALT 2005-1F, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder�), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by ins trument filed for record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; and NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Thursday, August 12, 2010, commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the Main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Situate in the Fourth (4th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being all of Lot 56, of Hidden Springs Resort, Phase 2, as shown on map of same of record in Large Map Book 4, Page 4 , (Large Map Book 3, Page 111), of record in the Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description. In the Event of Uncertainty as to the precise location of Unit 56, Hidden Springs Resort, Phase 2, the Southwestern corner of said Unit is located 308.21 feet from the intersection of Bears Den Way and Pinewood Way, according to the survey by Timothy J. Wallace, Surveyor, Wallace Surveying Company, Tennessee RLS No. 1758, whose address in P.O. Box 5278, Sevierville, Tennessee 37864, dated April 13, 2004, bearing Drawing No. 24011OF. Subject to easements, rights-of-way, setback lines, reservations, notations and all other matters shown on plats of record in Large Map Book 3, Page 111, and Large Map Book 4, Page 4, in the Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. To the extent applicable subject to Right-of-way Agreement of record in Right-of-way Book 9, Page 59, in said Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. To the extent applicable subject to Right-of-way deed with restrictions of record in Right-of-Way Book 14, Page 20, in said Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. To the extent applicable subject to Easement of record in Right -of-Way Book 12, Page 187 in said Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Subject to Declaration of Covenants, conditions, restrictions, and Easements for Hidden Springs Resort, Phase II, a Horizontal Property Regime of record in Volume Book 1238, Page 454, Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.

These Restrictions were revised by the Amendment to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Hidden Springs Resort, Phase II, A Horizontal Property Regime of record in Volume Book 1326, Page 589, in said Register of Deeds Office, Sevier County, Tennessee. These Restrictions were again revised by Amendment to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, and Easement for Hidden Springs Resort, Phase II, a Horizontal Property Regime of record in Volume Book 1356, Page 727. These Restrictions were revised yet again by Amendment to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, and Easements for Hidden Springs Resort, Phase II, a Horizontal PropertyRegime of record in Volume Book 1370, Page 585, in said Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. To the extent applicable subject to Restrictive covenants for Hidden Springs Resort, of record in Miscellaneous Book 327, Pag e 389, Amendment #1 to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Hidden Springs Resort, of record in Miscellaneous Book 350, Page 394, and Addendum to Protective and Restrictive Covenants of Hidden Springs Resort, of record in Volume Book 1004, Page 497 in said Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Being the same property conveyed to Hidden Springs Rentals, LLC., by Quit Claim Deed dated July 31, 2002, of record in Book 1495, Page 773, in the Register of deeds office for Sevier County, Tennessee. For further reference see Deed of record in Book 1065, Page 148, in the Register of Deeds office for Sevier County, Tennessee.This conveyance is made subject to all applicable restrictions, building set back lines, all existing easements and all other conditions as shown od record in†Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Being the same property conveyed to Vita A. Stamba, Married, by Warranty Deed September dated September 21, 2005, of record in Book 2360, Page 548, in the Register of Deeds Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.

The sale of the above-described property shall be subject to all matters shown on any recorded plan; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that may be applicable; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.

SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: SunTrust Mortgage Inc. OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

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INVITATION TO BID SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE

Separate sealed bids for purchase, delivery and unloading of (2) MID-DUTY VEHICLES will be receive by the Eagle’s Landing Golf Club UNTIL 1:30 P.M. (EST) AND PUBLICLY OPENED @ 2 P.M. (EST) TUESDAY, AUGUST 03, 2010.

Bid opening will be conducted at the Eagle’s Landing Golf Club, 1556 Old Knoxville Hwy, Sevierville, Tennessee, 37876. Bids received after the specified time, postmarks notwithstanding, shall be rejected.

Bids shall be submitted on forms furnished by the Public Building Authority. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at Sevierville City Hall, 120 Gary Wade Boulevard, Sevierville, Tn 37862 or on website at www.seviervilletn.org. Envelopes shall be labeled: “BID ENCLOSED: MID-DUTY UTILITY VEHICLES� and mailed to the following address: Jenny Britt Physical Address: City of Sevierville Public Building Authority of The City of Sevierville 120 Gary Wade Blvd.

P.O. Box 5500 Sevierville, TN 37862 Sevierville, TN 37864-5500 The City of Sevierville and the Public Building Authority of the City of Sevierville does not discriminate based on race, color, or nation origin in federal or state sponsored, pursant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C.2000d)

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428-5227

2 bedroom 1.5 bath townhomes

Gatlinburg Beautiful 2BR 2BA Furnished Condo with fireplace, overlooks stocked trout stream, and has heated pool.

Walk to downtown Gatlinburg, includes water, cable, flat screen TV, granite countertops. Immediate occupancy.

Minimum 1 yr lease. $975 mth.

865-771-9600.

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Kodak

2BR 2BA, 1 level No pets. 1 yr lease. $600 mth/$550 dep.

865-932-2613

Large 1BR. Water & appliances furnished. No pets. Ref. $450 + dep. 680-3078

Nice 1 & 2BR Apts.

10 miles east of Gat.

865-430-9671 or 423-276-5678

INVITATION TO BID SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE Separate sealed bids for the 36 month operating lease, delivery and unloading of (2) GAS GREEN ROLLERS will be received by the Eagle’s Landing Golf Club UNTIL 1:30 P.M. EST. AND PUBLICLY OPEN @ 2 P.M. EST., TUESDAY AUGUST 3, 2010. Bid opening will be conducted at the Eagle’s Landing Golf Club, 1556 Old Knoxville Hwy, Sevierville, Tennessee, 37876. Bids received after the specified time, postmarks notwithstanding, shall be rejected.

Bids shall be submitted on forms furnished by the Public Building Authority. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at Sevierville City Hall, 120 Gary Wade Boulevard, Sevierville, TN 37862 or on website at www.seviervilletn.org. Envelopes shall be labeled: “BID ENCLOSED: GAS GREEN ROLLERS� and mailed to the following address: Jenny Britt Physical address: City Of Sevierville Public Building Authority of 120 Gary Wade Blvd..

City of Sevierville Sevierville, TN 37876 P.O. Box 5500 Sevierville, TN 37864-5500 he City of Sevierville and the Public Building Authority of the City of Sevierville does not discriminate based on race, color or national origin in federal or state sponsored, pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d)

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Business Places/ Offices

Office 119 South Blvd Way. 600 sq ft. $475 mth.

865-933-6544 Shop for rent. Located in downtown Traders Mall 805 Parkway, gatlinburg. No food & No t-shirts. 436-5691

NICE OFFICE WITH WAREHOUSE BAY SEVIERVILLE REASONABLE RENT

453-6289 or 548-6838 0675

Mobile Homes for Rent

Kodak 2+2 $450, 2+1 $425 + dep. Very nice. Absolutely no pets. 933-6544.

2 & 3BR mobile homes for rent Must have refs.

No Pets. Call for info

428-3096

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NEW DOUBLEWIDES EASY TO QUALIFY PAYMENT RANGE $ 500-$550 MO.

865-566-1733 WOW!!!

New Homes READY! Boyds Creek Sevierville Exit 417-Jefferson County SAVE Thousands EASY BY PHONE 865-453-0086

Own 2 mobile home lots & mobile homes adjoining. $14,000 ea or offer. Rent $350/mo, $800 move in, 2BR/2BA, remodeled on English Mtn. 286-9717

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Year round camper lots. Also 40 footer w/room built on for rent.

865-654-8702

Mobile Homes for Sale

Cars for Sale

Need Subaru parts? 1986 Subaru GL 155,000 mile engine, great tires. $300 OBO. Takes entire car.

865-436-8814 Turn your junk cars into cash.

865-908-6207

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Invitation to Bidders The Sevier County Emergency Communications District is accepting bids on production of Grid Map Booklets. Complete specifications may be obtained at the Sevier County Emergency Communications District at 245 Bruce Street, Sevierville, TN. Bids will be received until 3:00 p.m. on August 2, 2010, at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

Please indicate on your submitted bid "Bid Grid Map Booklets." No bidder will be permitted to withdraw their bid for a period of thirty (30) days following the date of the bid opening. The Sevier County Emergency Communications District reserves the right to waive any informality in or to reject any or all bids and to accept the bid deemed favorable to the interest of the Sevier County Emergency Communications District.

7/20, 7/23, 7/27 THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE JUDICIAL BRANCH Derry Family Division 10 Courthouse Lane Derry, NH 03038 603-421-0077 CITATION FOR PUBLICATION Case Name: In the Matter of Dean Page and Anita Swiger Case Number: Legals 622-2010-DM-00231

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On April 29, 2010, Dean J. Page of Sandown, NH filed in this Court WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations securedatoPetition be paid byfor thatDivorce concerncertain Deed of Trust executed on April 24, 2006, by Robert A. Sosa and Tina M. with Sosa requests to Gregg Murphy, ing: Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Instructions No. 2520, Page 604, (“Deed of Trust�); and The original pleading availWHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to HSBCisBank able for Trust, inspection the office USA, National Association, as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-B Securities Mortgage Loan Series at 2006-AB3 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates; and of the Clerk at the above FamWHEREAS, HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Deutscheily Alt-B Securities Mortgage Loan Division location.

Trust, Series 2006-AB3 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder�), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., asORDER SubstituteOF UNTIL FURTHER Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, withEACH all the rights, THE COURT, PARTY powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; andIS RESTRAINED FROM NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable SELLING, TRANSFERRING, as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee ENCUMBERING, HYPOTHEServices, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and CATING, CONCEALING authority vested in him, will on Thursday, August 12, 2010, commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the MainOR INtoANY WHATSOentrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed sell atMANNER public outcry to the OF ANY highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated EVER in SevierDISPOSING County, Tennessee, to REAL PERwit: Situated in Fourth (4th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and PROPERTY, being all of Lot 4 of theOR Boardly SONAL, BELONGING TO EIHills II, as shown by a map of record in Map Book 27, Page 398, in the Register’s Office for Sevier County, THER ORtoBOTH PARTIES Tennessee, to which plat reference is here made for a more particular description.

Subject the restrictions of record in Misc. Book 223, Page 116, in the Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.

Subject to the EXCEPT (1) BY WRITTEN reservations, restrictions, easements, right of way, building set-back lines, notes and other matters as shown AGREEMENT OF BOTH PARon the map of record in Map Book 27, Page 398 in the Register’s Office for Sevier Being TIES,County, OR (2)Tennessee.

FOR REASONthe same property conveyed to Robert A. Sosa and wife, Tina M. Sosa by Quit Claim Deed from Tina Sosa, ABLE AND NECESSARY LIVdated March 3, 2004, and of record in Book 1921, Page 639 in Register’s for Sevier County, ING Office EXPENSES OR (3) IN Tennessee.

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The Court has entered the following Order(s): Anita Page Swiger shall file a written Appearance Form with the Clerk the Family DiviThe sale of the above-described property shall be subject to all matters shown on anyof recorded plan; any at the above location unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that maysion be applicable; any prior liens oron or that before July 23, 2010of or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and any matter an accurate survey thebe found in DEFAULT. premises might disclose. SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.Anita as SwigerServices shall also file by sole nominee for American Home Mortgage and AmSouth Bank/FirstPage Investment OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, and dower to July 23, homestead, 2010 a Response are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, the undersigned the but Petition and by will Julysell23, and convey only as Substitute Trustee. The right is reserved to adjourn the2010 day ofdeliver the sale another day, a to copy to the Petime, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at thetitioner's time and Attorney place for the or sale the set Petiforth above. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED tioner, if unrepresented. FailFOR THAT PURPOSE. ure to do so will result in issuance of Orders in this matter, which may affect you without your input.

Case Number: 622-2010-DM-00231 On April 29, 2010, Dean J. Page of Sandown, NH filed in this Court a Petition for Divorce with requests concerning: The original pleading is available for inspection at the office of the Clerk at the above Family Division location.

UNTIL FURTHER ORDER OF THE COURT, EACH PARTY IS RESTRAINED FROM SELLING, TRANSFERRING, ENCUMBERING, HYPOTHECATING, CONCEALING OR IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER DISPOSING OF ANY PROPERTY, REAL OR PERSONAL, BELONGING TO EITHER OR BOTH PARTIES EXCEPT (1) BY WRITTEN AGREEMENT OF BOTH PARTIES, OR (2) FOR REASONABLE AND NECESSARY LIVING EXPENSES OR (3) IN THE ORDINARY AND USUAL CAUSE OF BUSINESS.

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The Court has entered the following Order(s): Anita Page Swiger shall file a written Appearance Form with the Clerk of the Family Division at the above location on or before July 23, 2010 or be found in DEFAULT. Anita Page Swiger shall also file by July 23, 2010 a Response to the Petition and by July 23, 2010 deliver a copy to the Petitioner's Attorney or the Petitioner, if unrepresented. Failure to do so will result in issuance of Orders in this matter, which may affect you without your input.

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Anita Page Swiger shall file a written Appearance Form with the Clerk of the Family Division at the above location on or before July 23, 2010 or be found in DEFAULT. Anita Page Swiger shall also file by July 23, 2010 a Response to the Petition and by July 23, 2010 deliver a copy to the Petitioner's Attorney or the Petitioner, if unrepresented. Failure to do so will result in issuance of Orders in this matter, which may affect you without your input.

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If you have a problem with the delivery of your morning The Mountain Press, please call the Circulation Department at 428-0748, ext. 230 & 231 Monday - Friday and your paper will be delivered to you on the same day. Newspapers from calls after 10:00 a.m. will be delivered with the next day’s paper.

On Saturday, Sunday and holidays you may dial 428-0748 extensions 230 &has 231.

If complaints are received between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m., The Court entered the folBY ORDER OF THE COURT lowing Order(s): Robin E. Pinelle, Clerk of papers will be delivered the same day. Newspapers from calls received Court Anita Page Swiger shall file a after 10:00 a.m. will be delivered with the next day’s paper. written Appearance Form with 7/17, 7/20, 7/25 theThis Clerkapplies of the Family Divito in-county home delivery only.

sion at the above location on or before July 23, 2010 or be found in DEFAULT. Anita Page Swiger shall also file by July 23, 2010 a Response to the Petition and by July 23, 2010 deliver a copy to the Pe0955 Attorney or the Petititioner's tioner, if unrepresented. Failure to do so will result in issuance of Orders in this matter, which may affect you without your input.

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Sale at public auction will be on at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Chad Carter and wife, Dawn

BY ORDER OF THE COURT Carter, to Wesley D. Turner, Trustee, on November 17, 2000 at Book 1144, Page 71conducted by Shapiro & Robin Clerk all of of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

Kirsch, E. LLP Pinelle, Substitute Trustee, Court Owner of Debt: U.S. Bank, N.A., successor trustee to Wachovia Bank, N.A. (formerly known as First Union

National Bank),as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2000-1 7/17, 7/20, 7/25 located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to The following real estate all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the First (1st) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being Tract 3A Billy Goat Hollow Section of the Walter Williams Tract, more particularly described as follows:Beginning on an iron pin in the end of a 30 foot right of way, a point between Tracts 2 and 3; thence with the line between Tracts 2 and 3, North 43 degrees 22 minutes 28 seconds East 228.01 feet to an iron pin in the easterly line of the Billy Goat Hollow Section; thence with the Easterly line of said section, South 26 degrees 58 minutes 28 s econds East 522.84 feet to an iron pin, a corner to Tract 3A and 3B; thence with a new division line between Tracts 3A and 3B, North 62 degree 38 minutes 29 seconds West 580.49 feet to an iron pin in the Southerly margin of a 30 foot right of way; thence continuing North 62 degrees 38 minutes 29 seconds West 49.43 feet to the center of said right of way; thence with the center of said 30 foot right of way, North 86 degrees 17 minutes 40 seconds East 166.07 feet to the point of Beginning.THERE MAY BE A MANUFACTURED HOME LOCATED UPON THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROPERTY WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO SAID PROPERTY.IN THE EVENT IT IS DETERMINED THAT THE MANUFACTURED HOME IS NOT PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO THE PROPERTY, IT SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PURCHASER TO UNDERTAKE ANY AND ALL LEGAL STEPS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN TITLE TO SAID MANUFACTURED HOME.

Other interested parties: Ford Motor Credit Company The street address of the above described property is believed to be 5008 Bogard Road, Cosby, TN 37722, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

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

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

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

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

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

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ADELINE C. PAIGE Late of Sevier County, Tennessee Notice is Hereby Given that on the 13 day of JULY 2010, Letters Testamentary, of Administration, in respect to the Estate of ADELINE C. PAIGE, deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County,Tennessee.

All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against her Estate are required to file the same in triplicate with the Clerk of the above named Court within four months from the date of the first publication (or of the posting, as the case may be) of this notice, otherwise their claim will be forever barred.

All persons indebted to the above Estate must come forward and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.This 13 day of July, 2010.

(Signed) Nancy Michalak Executrix Estate of ADELINE C. PAIGE By: none Attorney By: Joe T. Keener County Clerk 07-20-10 07-27-10 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HELEN IRENE LOVELL Late of Sevier County, Tennessee Notice is Hereby Given that on the 15 day of JULY 2010, Letters Testamentary, of Administration, in respect to the Estate of HELEN IRENE LOVELL, deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County,Tennessee.

All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against her Estate are required to file the same in triplicate with the Clerk of the above named Court within four months from the date of the first publication (or of the posting, as the case may be) of this notice, otherwise their claim will be forever barred.

All persons indebted to the above Estate must come forward and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.This 15 day of July, 2010.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of WILLIAM REX MCCARTER Late of Sevier County, Tennessee

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Notice is Hereby Given that on the 15 day of JULY 2010, Letters Testamentary, of Administration, in respect to the Estate of WILLIAM REX MCCARTER, deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County,Tennessee.

All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against her Estate are required to file the same in triplicate with the Clerk of the above named Court within four months from the date of the first publication (or of the posting, as the case may be) of this notice, otherwise their claim will be forever barred.

All persons indebted to the above Estate must come forward and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.This 15 day of July, 2010.

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(Signed) JoAnn Gibson Bohanan Executor Estate of WILLIAM REX MCCARTER By: Jerry H. McCarter Attorney By: Joe T. Keener County Clerk 07-20-10 07-27-10

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

To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777, The Toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

(Signed) John G. Lovell, Sr. Executor Estate of HELEN IRENE LOVELL By:Carla Lovell Attorney By: Joe T. Keener County Clerk 07-20-10 07-27-10 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of WILLIAM HOWARD MOORE Late of Sevier County, Tennessee Notice is Hereby Given that on the 13 day of JULY 2010, Letters Testamentary, of Administration, in respect to the Estate of WILLIAM HOWARD MOORE, deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County,Tennessee.

All persons, resident and non-resident, having claims, matured or unmatured, against her Estate are required to file the same in triplicate with the Clerk of the above named Court within four months from the date of the first publication (or of the posting, as the case may be) of this notice, otherwise their claim will be forever barred.

All persons indebted to the above Estate must come forward and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.This 13 day of July, 2010.

(Signed) David Moore Administrator Estate of WILLIAM HOWARD MOORE By: none Attorney By: Joe T. Keener County Clerk 07-20-10 07-27-10

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Sale at public auction will be on at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Raymond Wilson, A Married Person, to US Title Corp., Trustee, on February 24, 2006 at Book Volume 2480, Page 117 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.

The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Described property located in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and within the corporate limits of the City of Sevierville, Tennessee, to wit: Lot 2 of Hideaway Ridge, as the same appears on a plat of record in the Sevier County, Tennessee Register’s Office, in large Map Book 2, at Page 44, to which reference is here made for exact legal description.

The street address of the above described property is believed to be 414 Hideaway Ridge Circle, Sevierville, TN 37862, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.

All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in sa id Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.

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

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

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

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

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WHEREAS, on the 15th day of September, 2005, by Deed of Trust recorded in Book 2344, Page 161 in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, Claude Thomas and Annie Jimenez, did convey in trust the hereinafter described real estate to secure payment of a note and other obligations, said debts and obligations being more particularly described in said Trust Deed; and WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of same indebtedness, the same being now past due and the entire amount thereof having been declared due and payable in accordance with the terms of said Note and Deed of Trust.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that default having been made in the payment of that certain indebtedness secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust, that I, Jerry D. Kerley, Trustee, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Deed of Trust will, having been requested to do so by the owner and holder of the indebtedness, sell at the front door of the courthouse facing Court Avenue, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee, for cash to the highest and best bidder in bar of all rights and equity of redemption at 11:00 A.M. on the 4th day of August, 2010, the following premises, being property located at:

and more particularly described as follows: SITUATE in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being Lot 538, Section H, Ski View Community, Tract 4, of Sky Harbor Subdivision, as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 14, Page 62 in the Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

SUBJECT to restrictions, reservations and easements as set forth in Misc. Book 33, Page 100, Misc. Book 34, Pages 175 and 274, Misc. Book 332, Page 578 and Map Book 14, Page 27, Map Book 14, Page 62 in the said Register’s Office.

ALSO SUBJECT TO any and all restrictions, easements and building setback lines as are shown in the records of the said Register’s Office.

BEING the same property conveyed to Claude Thomas and Annie Jimenez by Warranty Deed of Ronald W. Hale and wife, Toby Hale, and James R. Hale and wife, Camellia R. Hale dated September 15, 2005 of record in Deed Book 2344, Page 159 in the said Register’s Office.

Said sale will be made in bar of all rights to homestead and dower in said property, which are hereby waived and surrendered in said Deed of Trust, but subject to all unpaid real estate taxes against the said property and all prior Deeds of Trust, if any.

The proceeds derived from the sale of said property will be applied to the full amount due of the debt and Note secured in said Deed of Trust together with all costs and expenses incident to the sale and foreclosure.

The balance, if any, will be paid to the parties legally entitled thereto.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of sale to another day certain without further publication upon the announcement at the time set above and to sell to the second highest bidder if the highest bidder does not comply with the terms set forth herein.

ADDITIONAL LIEN HOLDER: N/A ADDITIONAL INTERESTED PARTY: N/A This notice shall be published in the Mountain Press on July 13, 2010, July 20, 2010, and July 27, 2010.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press Family Circus

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Dear Annie: My wife and I enjoy a great marriage, but from time to time, her sister invites us over for parties. Her house is filthy and absolutely disgusting.

We don’t know how to handle the situation.

I have an 8-year-old son and don’t really want him spending time in that nauseating house.

My wife can put up with it in order to be with her sister, but I don’t want to go there. Should we be honest about why, or do we continue to make excuses for my absence?

-- Indiana Dad Dear Indiana: We’re surprised the other party guests continue to show up if the house is such a pigsty. Are we talking dirty dishes in the sink (minor) or rotting food in the living room and rats scurrying about (call the health department)?

If their home is a health hazard to small children who live there, your wife should speak to her sister and explain the need to be more conscientious. Otherwise, this falls under the MYOB category. If you can’t tolerate the mess, don’t go.

But let your wife be your guide when it comes to how best to handle her sister.

Dear Annie: I have been married to “Sam” for two years. Before we were together, Sam was in a relationship with “Sara,” who became pregnant. She claimed the baby was his, and he believed her. He took care of this child and loved him. But Sara started seeing her exboyfriend when he was released from prison.

That made Sam question whether the child was his.

After we married, Sam

demanded a paternity test. Sara said she needed to ask her boyfriend because he was raising this child. The boyfriend refused. Sara waffled back and forth, saying both men were the father of her baby.

Recently, the child was removed from her home because of abuse accusations. Even though this boy now looks a great deal like Sam, the authorities will not turn him over to us because Sara claims her boyfriend is the father.

If this child is Sam’s, he wants to take responsibility. He asked again for a paternity test, and Sara refused. Now she claims the child is not his and the only reason she originally said so was for support money.

But, Annie, the time frame doesn’t match up.

As far as we can determine, her boyfriend was in prison when she became pregnant.

I think she refuses a paternity test because she doesn’t want Sam to get custody. Is there anything else my husband can do other than getting a court-ordered paternity test? -- Baby Mama Drama Dear Drama: Does Sam want custody of this child? If so, he needs to pursue it before the child’s attachments become stronger. That means a court-ordered paternity test, because obviously, Sara is never going to acquiesce on her own. It will also clear up the question

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of whose child it is and settle the matter once and for all.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Not Over the Hill,” whose grandson’s teenage friends run around naked all day. Her husband thinks it’s fine and says it was common when he was a boy.

Granddad and I are from the same era.

When we were kids, group nudity wasn’t unusual -- but only when there was a reason for it. However, today most teenage boys are more modest and quick to accuse others of being gay. They also read a sexual context into any nudity that involves more than one person.

Grandpa should try a nonjudgmental approach and ask his grandson why the boys do this. It would be a good opportunity to open some dialogue and offer support if there are any issues. I do not suspect anything objectionable is happening, but there may be a hidden element that more conservative parents would find not to their liking. -- Member of IECA Pittsburgh Dear Pittsburgh: You’ve made a good point, and we hope Granddad will follow your suggestion.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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The Mountain Press ◆ Tuesday, July 20, 2010

nation/world briefs Trucker charged with dumping body

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio trucker has been charged with dumping a Tennessee woman’s body at a closed rest stop along a U.S. highway. Police arrested the 33-year-old Derenberger, of Bucyrus, on Saturday. He’s charged with abusing a corpse and was ordered held on $250,000 bond Monday in Circleville Municipal Court.

Police say the driver, Trenton Derenberger, said he was giving 36-year-old Kim Vaughn of Memphis a ride in Knoxville when she died in the truck’s cab.

The Pickaway County Sheriff says Derenberger drove 16 hours to Ohio and dumped the body along U.S. route 23 on July 8. The partially clothed body was found the next morning by state transportation workers.

An autopsy didn’t determine Vaughn’s cause of death. Police say a toxicology report is pending.

W. Kentucky cockfighting ring raided BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — State police say 63 people were arrested or cited from six states when authorities raided a cockfighting ring in western Kentucky.

The Daily News of Bowling Green reported state police executed a search warrant Saturday in Brownsville. Police say they found weapons, $35,000 in cash, a marijuana growing operation and a caged arena.

Police say those arrested or cited were from Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio.

Blago brother: Fundraising offer ‘joke’ CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich’s brother says a businessman claimed he could raise millions in campaign funds if Jesse Jackson Jr. were named to the Senate — but that he and the Illinois governor considered it “a joke.”

Robert Blagojevich testified Monday at the ousted governor’s corruption trial. He said businessman Raghuveer Nayak told him that he could raise $1 million if the congressman was appointed to the seat Barack Obama was leaving to move to the White House.

Robert Blagojevich said Nayak said he could raise another $5 million eventually. But Robert Blagojevich said neither he nor his brother took the offer seriously.

He said he told Nayak that Jackson was not going to be appointed.

Both Blagojevich brothers have pleaded not guilty to taking part in a scheme to sell the Senate seat.

Texas teen raises $1M for hospital

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A teenager has reached his goal of raising $1 million for the free Dallas children’s hospital that treated him as a child.

Ben Sater had vowed to raise the money for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children before he went to college. The 18-year-old soon-to-be Austin College freshman has done so, with nearly $19,000 to spare.

Organizers announced Monday that they’ve raised $1,018,842 for the hospital that treats children free of charge. They did it through golf tournaments for children ages 7 to 18 over the last eight years. Sater was treated at Texas Scottish Rite for a condition called trigger finger, in which fingers lock or catch in a bent position. He had his first operation at age 3.

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Oil cleanup workers skim for oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala.

Cap kept shut despite leaks, seepage NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government Monday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day despite news the well is leaking at the top and something is seeping from the sea floor nearby.

The Obama administration’s point man for the spill, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said early Monday that the company promised to watch closely for signs of new leaks around the mile-deep well, which has stopped gushing oil into the water since the experimental cap was closed Thursday.

Late Sunday, Allen said something was detected seeping near the broken oil well and demanded in a sharply worded letter that BP step up monitoring of the ocean floor.

Allen didn’t say what was seeping. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday afternoon the seepage was about two miles from the well head.

He also said the well head is leaking.

The concern all along — since pressure readings on the cap weren’t as high as expected — was a leak elsewhere in the well bore, meaning the cap may have to be reopened to prevent

1,000 plastic ducks float to freedom

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A child advocacy agency is hoping to get all its ducks in a row after more than 1,000 plastic entrants in a charity duck race floated to freedom in northeast Indiana.

Stop Child Abuse & Neglect says 17,000 plastic ducks were dropped into the St. Joseph River in Fort Wayne during the June 19 fundraiser but that only 15,000 were retrieved that day.

Spokeswoman Jennifer Boen says about 1,000 of the rogue ducks have since been recovered, and that some of the others have been spotted as far away as Ohio.

The group says it is working with the Fort Wayne Water Department to catch the remaining ducks and that it wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize the beauty of the river.

monitor for any signs that this test could worsen the overall situation.

Browner said Allen’s extension went until Monday afternoon.

“Clearly we want this to end. But we don’t want to enter into a situation where we have uncontrolled leaks all over the Gulf floor,” Browner said Monday ABC’s “Good Morning America” BP PLC said Monday that the cost of dealing with the oil spill has now reached nearly $4 billion.

The company said it has made payments totaling $207 million to settle individual claims for damages from the spill along the southern coast of the United States. Almost 116,000 claims have been submitted and more than 67,500 payments have been made, totaling $207

million.

With the newly installed cap keeping oil from BP’s fractured well out of the Gulf during a trial run, this weekend offered a chance for the oil company and government to gloat over their shared success — the first real victory in fighting the spill. Instead, the two sides have spent the past two days disagreeing over what to with the undersea machinery holding back the gusher.

The apparent disagreement began to sprout Saturday when Allen said the cap would eventually be hooked up to a milelong pipe to pump the crude to ships on the surface. But early the next day, BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the cap should stay clamped shut to keep in the oil until a permanent fix.

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61 people killed in India train wreck

SAINTHIA, India (AP) — A powerful crash between two express trains at a station in eastern India early Monday morning killed 61 people and injured scores more. The force of the crash was so intense the roof of one car was thrust onto an overpass above the tracks.

It was the second major train crash in West Bengal state in two months. On May 28, a passenger train derailed and was hit by an cargo train, killing 145 people. Authorities blamed sabotage by Maoist rebels for that crash.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to the site of Monday’s crash and raised the possibility it was another case of sabotage. But there no immediate indication that rebels were to blame, and railway officials said the cause of the crash was unclear.

the environmental disaster from becoming even worse and harder to fix.

An underground leak could let oil and gas escape uncontrolled through bedrock and mud.

“When seeps are detected, you are directed to marshal resources, quickly investigate, and report findings to the government in no more than four hours. I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed,” Allen said in a letter to BP Managing Director Bob Dudley.

When asked about the seepage and the monitoring, BP spokesman Mark Salt would only say that “we continue to work very closely with all government scientists on this.”

Shares of BP PLC were down slightly Monday as investors worried about the seepage and an apparent rift between the oil giant and the U.S. officials in charge of the spill.

Allen said BP could continue testing the cap, meaning keeping it shut, only if the company continues to meet their obligations to rigorously

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