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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

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By Jake Mabe Rob Followell says his

philosophy, whether in rais-ing his kids or serving as a hospital administrator, is to be fair, fi rm and consistent.

Followell told the Halls Business and Professional Association at its meeting at Beaver Brook Country Club last Tuesday that tak-ing care of patients will be the top priority at Tenno-vas North Knoxville Medi-cal Center (formerly Mercy North) on Emory Road, where he is chief executive officer.

And to do that, your fi rst focus is taking care of your employees. If you have happy employees, then you have happy physicians and if you have that, taking care of patients is going to be a piece of cake.

Followell says the focus on the spiritual care of a patient established at St.

Marys/Mercy will continue at Tennova.

That part of the healing will always be there.

Responding to a ques-tion, he says that the nuns whom patients were used to seeing at Mercy hospitals are still with us. We have Mass on Fridays and they will continue to be a part of us.

He said the only differ-ence between a nonprofi t and for-profi t hospital is going to be (that well be) paying taxes. Prices will be driven by competition and those who cant pay for health care will not be taken advantage of.

Followell says one change will be that Ten-nova will have access to capital, being part of a larger system (Health Man-agement Associates). He says the facility will have $10 million to spend right

Rob Followell, chief executive offi cer of Tennovas North Knox-ville Medical Center (formerly Mercy North), speaks to the Halls B&P at Beaver Brook last Tuesday. Photo by Jake Mabe

off the bat, the specifi cs of which will be released in the next few weeks, but will be deploy(ed) to provide ser-vices we havent been able to offer.

Originally from Pad-

ucah, Ky., Followell moved here from West Virginia. He said at the meeting hes been on the job for five weeks and is in the process of helping develop a stra-tegic plan based on input

CEO: Patient care top priority at Tennova North from the facilitys adminis-trative staff, hospital staff, physicians and from what I hear from the public. The strategic plan is scheduled to be released by the end of the year.

He said early plans for North Knoxville Medical Center will be to upgrade equipment, boost orthope-dics and to continue to re-cruit excellent physicians.

And the No. 1 (goal) is patient care at the bedside, as well as offering support for families.

I really believe that this (north) campus will be the high growth campus in the future.

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By Theresa EdwardsTradition says you eat

turkey on Thanksgiving. But 99 out of 100 turkeys we surveyed disagree and (no surprise) so do vegetarians.

Vegetarians can still cel-ebrate Thanksgiving, of course. And if youre not into tofu turkey, theres a variety of tasty vegetarian dishes that can stand in for the gobbler.

Many Knoxville res-taurants offer vegetarian foods. The eggplant parme-san served up at Bravo! in the Bearden Hill area and at Johnny Carinos on Lovell Road is a delicious entre and a favorite of the meat-less crowd.

Touch of Love Catering offers custom menus and catering for vegans, vegetar-ians and those on gluten-free diets. Owner Rachel Raegen says, My favorite Thanks-giving entre is stuffed acorn squash with cranberry glaze. She prepares vegan desserts and can cater holi-day meals from traditional to the unexpected.

If you want to cook your own vegetarian meal, the tur-keys and cows recommend vegetarian lasagna. Prepare it as you would traditional la-sagna, substituting a couple of diced zucchinis and 8-10 ounces of sliced mushrooms for meat. You could also con-sider using DeBoles organic

Jerusalem artichoke fl our la-sagna noodles.

Still, most of us will gath-er with family and friends this Thanksgiving for more than ample helpings of tur-key, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie followed by a little football on TV. And when Uncle Al falls asleep in the easy chair and snores through the fi rst half, dont give him a hard time. After all, thats a tra-dition, too.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Education is key

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Central High School graduates Dr. Ralph Norman (Class of 51), the Rev. Billy Wallace (Class of 41), Charlotte Davis (Class of 51) and Eddie Mannis (Class of 77) were inducted into the CHS Wall of Fame at a breakfast cer-emony on Nov. 12. Photo by Jake Mabe

Billy Wallace said it best at the Central High School Wall of Fame induction ceremony Nov. 12 during his invocation.

Were thankful for this school, which was such a big part of our formative years.

This years inductees all said dur-ing the fantastic interviews fi lmed with them by retired Gresham Middle teacher David Dixon that the education they received at Cen-tral High inspired them throughout their careers.

Tucker attackFormer Fountain City resident Julia Tucker is still playing politics.

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Blowin smokeJake Mabe checks on crematoria in other towns following last weeks Town Hall.

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By Betty BeanProsecuting civil rights

violations is one of the Federal Bureau of Inves-tigations most important historical missions, includ-ing color of law probes of police offi cers suspected of using excessive force.

Thats why the FBI got in-volved in the case of the fi ve Knox County Sheriffs Offi ce deputies who were demoted for their handling of a recent traffi c offense.

Any time an offi cer goes to the trunk of his vehicle and pulls out a baseball bat (after detaining a citizen), it raises questions, said Rich-ard Lambert, Special Agent In Charge of the Knoxville offi ce of the FBI for the past fi ve years. Lambert was the guest speaker at the Novem-ber meeting of the Knoxville chapter of the National Ac-tive and Retired Federal Employees.

The FBI closed the case when it was determined that the offi cers forced the driver to run around the bat until he was dizzy rather than using it to infl ict physical harm, Lambert said.

Thats not to say there isnt other civil liability, however.

The Knoxville FBI offi ce is located in a new building at Dowell Springs on Mid-dlebrook Pike that houses 61 agents, 10 supervisors, 12 intelligence analysts and support staff. The regional offi ces carry out the bu-reaus mission of counter-intelligence work, guarding against cyber attacks and other high tech crimes and rooting out public corrup-tion at all levels of govern-ment, Lambert said, illus-trating his point with a slide

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Wallace (Class of 41) is an ordained minister who pas-tored several churches before being hired as the assistant director of the Department of Correspondence Studies at UT in 1968. It became the Continuing Education De-partment and Wallace soon began visiting every high school in the state. He retired from UT in 1987.

Its hard to think about Central without saying Miss Gresham, Wallace said, referring to former princi-pal Hassie K. Gresham. She always said, Do something. And be somebody.

I dont belong here. I al-ways enjoyed what I did and did what I enjoyed. If you can do that and help people along the way, thats what God put you here for.

Dr. Ralph Norman (Class of 51) holds a divinity degree, two masters degrees and a doctorate in philosophical theology. He was recruited in 1966 to start the Department of Religious Studies at UT.

Norman said that teach-ers such as Nannie Lee Hicks and Pace Moore Johnston infl uenced him during high school, but that the very best

thing Central did for me was introduce me to my (late) wife (Connie).

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they would never end.

Norman thanked the Cen-tral High Foundation and Alumni Association for es-tablishing the Wall of Fame.

It reminds us all of what a public school can be.

Charlotte Davis (Class of 51) grew up in Smithwood and became a staff nurse at the old St. Marys Hos-pital and later head nurse on the pediatrics ward. She taught nursing students at St. Marys, both the textbook and the compassionate hu-man side, as Courtney Shea said during the ceremony.

Davis says she enjoyed her English classes at Central, but that taking two years of Latin and one year of chemis-try proved to be providential

and good preparation for the career I ultimately chose.

Eddie Mannis (Class of 77) turned a purchase of 30-year-old dry cleaning equipment into the successful Prestige Cleaners, which now has 11 stores, a 15,000-square-foot processing facility and a divi-sion in Nashville. Since 2007, he has also served as founder and chair of HonorAir Knox-ville, which fl ies World War II and Korean War veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the war memorials. He is the president of the Dogwood Arts Festival and was named last week as chief operating offi cer for Mayor-elect Mad-eline Rogero.

Mannis admitted he wasnt a great student while at Central, but says he was inspired by a business math class and by his participa-tion in DECA, which pre-pares high school (and col-lege) students earmarked as emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, fi nance, hos-pitality and management.

Being modest, Mannis said that as he heard the other in-ductees accomplishments, he said to himself, Youre much younger than they are. Youd better get to work!

Develop a passion for learning, Anthony J. DAngelo once said. If you do, youll never cease to grow.

Just ask any of the four in-ductees to this years Central Wall of Fame.

of Hamilton County Sheriff Billy Long, who was sen-tenced to a long prison term after being convicted of tak-ing bribes from drug dealers and money laundering. But not every allegation leads to prosecution, Lambert said.

First, we need a credible allegation of corrupt activ-ity on part of an elected of-fi cial, he said. Then, since the most common defense is entrapment, we have to show that the individual was predisposed to engage in that illegal activity.

Perhaps the highest-profi le criminal case the Knoxville offi ce has brought during Lamberts tenure was that of David Kernell, the University of Tennessee student charged with gain-ing access to Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palins Yahoo email account during the 2008 presidential race. The sub-sequent trial brought an avalanche of publicity when

Palin and her daughter Bris-tol came to town and a one-year sentence for Kernell.

Did Kernells crime merit the government response?

Yes, Lambert said.Initially he said the rea-

son he had done this was to affect the outcome of the election, and we take that very seriously.

Lambert doesnt think much of J. Edgar the movie, not the founding director of the Federal Bu-reau of Investigation and wasnt impressed with di-rector Clint Eastwoods in-terpretation.

I didnt like J. Edgar, he said. Eastwood took a lot of editorial license with J. Edgar Hoovers private life, particularly his relationship with Clyde Tolson.

He was quick to acknowl-edge that Hoover wire-tapped Martin Luther King Jr. but said that happened because the FBI boss was worried about Kings as-sociation with the head of the American Communist Party.

Hate crimes, racketeer-ing and pirating copyright-ed material for profi t can also get the feds involved, Lambert said.

And what about those dire warnings against pirat-ing on rented DVDs?

Lambert grinned broad-ly. The only thing were go-ing to investigate is people doing it for profi t, on a large scale. Making it for home use, for friends and rela-tives, no.

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Fountain City where Gentry-Griffey Chapel plans to open Knox Countys only cremato-ry. Residents at Town Halls meeting last week raised concerns about mercury emissions, odor and effects on property values.

Eric Botts, managing partner, said Gentry-Griffey complied with all state and local requirements and he expects to open in Decem-ber. The crematory was ap-proved as an ancillary use to the funeral chapel and did not require rezoning.

Several Town Hall mem-bers expressed regret that Botts did not discuss the crematory with the commu-nity until after its approval. One resident, Dan Kelly, said he is looking forward to having the crematory in Fountain City.

After the meeting, I got to wondering how this issue has played out in other com-munities.

Spring Hill, Tenn.: According to an Oct. 17 sto-ry from Nashvilles WKRN-TV, this towns governing body has delayed a vote on a 3,600-square-foot cremato-ry, pending a $9,000 town-funded health study.

Reporters talked to resi-dents who live near an ex-isting crematory in nearby

Columbia to get a sense of their experience.

Weve lived here since 2005 and weve never had any problems with the fu-neral home, Donna Dugger said. Frank McBride said foul odors have never been an issue. Its not detrimen-tal, cant smell it, but theres bound to be a lot going out into the air.

Meredith, N.H.: Caro-lyn Pillsbury complained about a crematory built 120 feet from her home, accord-ing to The Citizen of Laco-nia. It was approved as an ancillary use to an existing business and did not require rezoning. The funeral home offered Pillsbury a tour, but she declined. Town Manager Phil Warren visited the site.

Warren said Pillsbury complained about odors be-fore the unit had even been test fi red. He also visited the crematory during operation and said he could detect no odor. Town offi cials said Pillsburys was the only complaint.

Larimer County, Colo.: Funeral home owner Rick Allnut reached a stalemate with health offi cials over plans to move his crematory next to a cemetery, according to a story that ran in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 26, 2007. The area is zoned ag-ricultural but is located near

HALLS NOTESHalls Christmas Toy Drive is underway. If you need assistance with toys this Christmas, go to Cross Roads Presbyterian Church, 4329 E. Emory Road. Applications are in a red box at the top of the stairs. Fill one out and slide it under the door at the end of the overhang. To sponsor a child, call Jeanie at 922-3137. Toy collection boxes are at Halls Commercial Bank and Halls Senior Center.

Halls Republican Club meets at 7 p.m. each third Monday at Q.Q. Pizza in Halls Center. The Nov. 21 speakers will be Property Assessor Phil Ballard and former assessor John Whitehead, challenging for the Repub-lican nomination. Info: Ted Hatfield, 925-9606.

The Slocum House Studio Gallery, 6722 Long Shadow Way, will host an art show and sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3-4. Wood furniture and utensils, cornshuck creations, clay sculpture and more will be for sale. Admis-sion is free.

Halls Womens League will hold a Christmas home tour of seven homes in the Halls area 2-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. The tour starts at the Halls Senior Center. Tickets are $10. Info: Brenda Gaylor, 922-1817 or 679-0184.

Halls Business & Profes- sional Association meets at noon each third Tuesday at Beaver Brook Country Club. Lunch is $10. Info: Shannon Carey, 922-4136 or Shannon@ShopperNewsNow.com/.

Other towns face crematory concerns

homes and schools.At issue are amalgam den-

tal fi llings, reporter DeeDee Correll wrote. Amalgam an alloy of mercury with another metal such as silver, copper or tin is commonly used to fi ll cavities. When a body is burned, mercury from such fi llings vaporizes.

Offi cials wanted Allnut to either install a fi lter sys-tem, which he said was too expensive, or to remove fi llings prior to cremation, which he called ghoulish.

Environmental Protec-tion Agency spokesperson Margot Perez-Sullivan is quoted as saying the EPA does not regulate emissions from crematories.

Coal-fi red power plants

are the biggest source of mercury emissions, releas-ing an estimated 134,000 pounds per year, according to the EPA, which estimates less than 1 percent (600 pounds) comes from crema-tories.

Cartersville, Ga.: A resident contacted the Georgia Division of Public Health (GDPH) with con-cerns about emissions from a crematory near her home.

A June 19, 2006, report from the Chemical Hazards Program of the departments Environmental Health Branch said GDPH could not make a defi nitive health call based on available informa-tion, but does not expect adverse health effects from exposure to chemicals from crematory emissions.

The report continued: As a gas, elemental mer-cury can travel long dis-tances in outdoor air and eventually fall to the ground with precipitation. In stud-ies conducted in the 1990s, the EPA determined that on average, the amount of mer-cury released from crema-tion is similar to the amount of mercury released from sewage sludge combustion, whereas mercury released from medical incineration is 14 times higher.

In general, chemicals released into the air pose

the highest risk in confi ned spaces, such as in the home or workplace. Chemicals re-leased into outdoor air are diluted and dispersed by the wind, which dilutes them further, and then (are) bro-ken down in the atmosphere.

Health effects related to emissions from incinera-tion facilities and cremato-ries are primarily respira-tory problems, the report says. Respiratory problems can be largely attributed to particulate matter. In some states in the U.S., crematory regulations include a range of standard setbacks for cre-matories to reduce exposure to particulate matter and odors, which can vary from 500 feet or more.

Botts said the machines Gentry-Griffey will use are clean and effi cient and emit heat, not smoke. He said everything, including temperatures and opacity emissions, is recorded.

William Schaad with the Knox Countys air quality management department said the required review included estimations of emissions.

Not zero emissions from the stack, but not a lot, either. We did not see anything to not issue the permit.

He said crematories are evaluated yearly and can be requested to be inspected while in use.

Fountain City Business and Professional As- sociation meets at noon each second Wednes-day at Central Baptist Church of Fountain City. Lunch is $10. Info: Beth Wade, 971-1971, ext. 372, or bwade@utfcu.org/.

Fountain City Art Center has three new exhibits on display. Fountain City Art Guild will show work through Jan. 7; a memorial display of long-time guild member Lib Nicely will

be on display courtesy of her daughters, Kay Nicely Bateman and Jane Nicely; and a student exhibit of work from Fulton High, Vine Magnet, Whittle Springs Middle and more will be on display. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second and third Saturdays of each month. Info: Visit www.fountaincityartctr.org or call 357-2787.

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News that the state will close Lakeshore Mental Health Institute is not a surprise although it marks the end of a chapter for this West Knoxville property which goes back to 1886. This land has been owned by Tennessee taxpayers for 125 years.

When the current city park at Lakeshore was es-tablished in 1990, I was mayor and consider its cre-ation one of the major ac-complishments of my ad-ministration. We worked closely with then Gov. Ned McWherter who made cer-tain of full state backing. Lee Thomas, superinten-dent then and now, was most helpful. Knoxville attorneys Thomas McAdams and Cae-sar Stair III were strong ad-vocates, along with Jimmy Haslam.

At that time Lakeshore was downsizing but not closing. Several buildings had been vacated and the state was considering what to do with the land. It might have been sold to the high-est bidder to generate the cash. Fortunately, common sense prevailed and it has remained public with rec-reation as the primary use. Now the Lakeshore walking

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trail is the most used city greenway and the ball fi elds are popular. Mental health and recreation side-by-side became good neighbors and a good fi t.

As this latest transi-tion occurs, park advocates should not forget the needs of those patients served cur-rently at Lakeshore. It is vital that the state not abandon the most seriously ill patients who may not be adequately served by private health care providers. The state has an obligation to offer adequate funding for local in-patient treatment within commut-ing distance.

The development of Lake-shore Park came primarily from individual and corpo-rate donations. It will require substantial funding from private and public sources for the park as it expands to reach its full potential.

Mayor-elect Rogero has an incredible opportunity to take the park to its next lev-

el and to translate her cam-paign promise of a green city into reality almost im-mediately. Rogero will have a willing partner in Gov. Bill Haslam, whose home is within one mile of the park, to make a great park become greater as it serves citizens all over the city, county and even the larger East Tennes-see community.

Many of the existing buildings will need to be removed with the exception of the historic 1886 admin-istration building and the chapel.

The park today is man-aged by a nonprofi t corpora-tion called Lakeshore Park pursuant to a management agreement with the city. The city has similar agreements for management of the Zoo and Ijams Nature Center. This park board helped se-cure new land for the Veter-ans Cemetery which added 25 acres to the park and re-location of the UT golf prac-tice area which added 15 acres. Members include the city mayor, Haslam, Stair, McAdams, state Rep. Joe Armstrong, Charles Ander-son and Margaret Ritchie.

There is much to do and much to be positive about as long as the needs of the

mentally ill are safeguarded. This decision can be good for all if handled properly.

Deborah Poplin , city law director, has been ap-pointed federal court clerk to replace Pat McNutt who has retired effective Jan. 1, 2012. Poplin was the fi rst woman to be law director and her departure gives Mayor-elect Rogero the opportunity to choose her own lawyer. Prior city law directors include U.S. District Court Judge Tom Varlan, Michael Kel-ley, Morris Kizer, George W. Morton Jr., Jon Roach and former mayors Robert Crossley and John Duncan.

Bud Gilbert , city pension board attorney and former state senator, is back on the job as his law license was reinstated Nov. 17 af-ter being suspended a few weeks ago for not complet-ing mandatory Continuing Legal Education require-ments. Gilbert had to take the necessary CLE courses to meet requirements which he has done. Gilbert, who has a reputation as a metic-ulous attorney, tells me he accepts full responsibility and says he was very embar-rassed. Knowing Gilbert as I do, I suspect it will never happen again.

Around 9 p.m. on Nov. 8, a forest green Mer-cedes with bumper stick-ers marked Burchett and Madeline slid to an abrupt halt in the parking lot out-side Madeline Rogeros elec-tion night headquarters at the Foundry. Out jumped Julia Tucker. She had a mes-sage to deliver:

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We beat Mose 2-to-1 in Holston Hills!

Mose, of course, would be Mose Lobetti, a not-so-friendly Holston Hills neighbor of Tuckers for many years. Historically, the two have generally been on opposite sides of the po-litical fence and this years mayoral race was no ex-ception, with Lobetti sup-porting Mark Padgett and Tucker supporting Madeline Rogero.

Lobetti, whose major

Julia Tucker Photo by Betty Bean

claim to prominence is his connection to the family of the late John J. Duncan Sr., mostly works behind the scenes. This year he laid claim to being a cog in Padgetts formidable fund-raising machine.

Tucker, who was the only woman ever to be elected to chair the old city school board, has also been po-litically active for decades, most recently as a supporter of Tim Burchett, the son of her late political ally Char-lie Burchett, with whom she served on the school board. This was one of the few times when she and Lobetti supported the same candi-date.

Lobetti, 82, is an en-trenched political insider whose granddaughter was on Padgetts campaign staff. Tucker, 80, is a fi erce, quirky outsider who was initially supported and later opposed by Cas Walker, who called her Little Julie Wright and had known her since she was a kid growing up in Happy Holler. She says,

however, that she learned most of what she knows about politics from for-mer County Commissioner Wanda Moody and former City Council member Ber-nice OConnor. She has long been active in neighborhood issues and has given large sums of money to causes she supports, like AIDS care and education.

Tucker and her family are strong Rogero support-ers who worked the polls at Ward 31, Chilhowee El-ementary School. Tuckers grandson, law student Ty-ler Roy, was a Rogero vol-unteer, as was his mother, Tuckers daughter Dr. Judy Roy. They also put in a good

word where they could for Democratic state Senate candidate Gloria Johnson, who was taking on the pro-hibitive favorite, Republican Becky Duncan Massey for the 6th District seat vacated by Jamie Woodson (Massey supporters say that Lobetti didnt get active in her race because he was so preoc-cupied with getting Padgett elected. They dont seem particularly distraught.)

Tucker was right on the money with her assessment of the election day num-bers in the mayoral race at Chilhowee: Rogero 415, Padgett 205, which means that Rogero won 66.94 per-cent to 33.06 percent.

Contrary to her elec-tion night bravado, Tucker doesnt really try to claim credit for the Rogero win at Chilhowee, which she chalks up to Rogeros good reputa-tion and smart campaign-ing. And one more thing:

People are tired of dirty politics. You cant hide it anymore. You leave tracks, like mouse droppings.

Few things are more frustrating than being embar-rassed by ones allies. Last weeks County Commission work session illustrated the importance of vetting your spokespersons.

The Hillside and Ridge Top Protection Plan served as the backdrop for some curious constitutional cogitating. Plan opponents have previously cited the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment which prohibits the government taking private property for public use without just compensation.

That argument may yet see its day in court, but it was the invoking of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution by Commissioner Jeff Ownby that pushed the issue to the brink of lunacy.

But were getting ahead of ourselves. Sally Absher, who serves on the state GOP Executive Committee for Sen-ate District 6, took to the podium to urge that the plan be considered advisory only. Absher co-chaired the 2009 Knoxville Tax Day Tea Party.

According to her profi le on the Knox Tea Party website, a few years ago she started reading conservative books, websites, and watching Fox News. And now, she adds, talk radio is all I listen to. Absher is not an unbi-ased witness on the subject of government regulation.

Abshers remarks at least possessed the virtue of brev-ity; the same could not be said for Ownbys presentation. He began by saying, Its not the governments job to tell someone what they can or cannot do with their land.

Is it necessary to point out thats precisely what zoning regulations do?

But the commissioner was only warming up.If we pass this (plan), that will be the start and the end

of the Constitution, Ownby said.If you can parse that cryptic sentence youre a better

semanticist than I am. While youre working on it, lets move to the punch line.

Ownby said real estate and construction folks had expressed (to him) their great concerns about the plan. He was personally concerned about the attack on our Constitution, specifi cally the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Seriously?Section 1 of the 15th Amendment reads: The right of

citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2 says Congress can pass laws to protect that right.

Like the 13th and 14th Amendments, the 15th is one of the Reconstruction Amendments passed following the Civil War. Its relevance to the slope protection plan is a mystery to me.

Although Ownby didnt state as much, citing the 14th Amendment apparently refers to its due process clause, which reads nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. But Ownby shot himself in the foot by citing a 1972 Supreme Court deci-sion, Board of Regents v. Roth, which not only ran counter to his own argument, but could be cited by those who say the plan does not violate the due process clause.

Emotions run high on both sides of this issue, but here weve crossed the boundary between reality and Wonderland.Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

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Benefi t for Bennie MorrisonA benefi t show will be held for Bennie Morrison at 7:30

p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, at Holsten Middle School. Mor-rison recently lost a kidney. He works for the Knox County Sheriffs Offi ce, and the K-Town Daddy Terry Landell, Sheriff Jimmy J.J. Jones and more are scheduled to make an appearance. Info: 973-8092. WhiteheadBallard

Property Assessor Phil Ballard and for-mer Assessor John Whitehead will tee off in Halls tonight, both invited speakers to the Halls Republican Club. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at Q.Q. Pizza in Halls Center. Ev-eryone is invited.

This race for the Republican nomina-

tion is fi erce. When Whitehead was the sole speaker at the Karns Republican Club, Ballard, his wife, his chief deputy and a few more staff members attended.

Whitehead lives in Fountain City; Bal-lard is a former commissioner from the Carter community.

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What if there were no Christmas presents for your kids under the tree on Christmas morning?The downturn in the economy, has brought anxiety to a lot of us. But its made life even more

challenging in the rural Appalachian communities of which we serve. Many of the areas we go tohave lost factories and businesses; and have no promise that those job opportunities will return.But we believe that there is always Hope and thats why we are trying to take Christmas, to almost

17,000 children and their families this year.

So, when did we begin starting sentences with so?

By Sandra ClarkRichard Biggs has ap-

plied the inquisit ive mind and r e s e a r c h skills of an e n g i n e e r who worked on the space program to the story of the found-

ing of the Mission of Hope. The more he learned, the deeper he delved into the life and motives of founder Julie Holland.

Her walk with God is beautiful and heart-rend-ing, he wrote in asking for a book review. There Is No Hope Here is sched-uled for release this week. An excerpt is available at richardbiggsliterary.com.

The events that led Ju-lie to hear Gods whispers are an example of how God nudges us in the direction He had planned from the beginning, Biggs writes. And when she stepped out on faith to minister to (the poor of Appalachia), what she saw was so shocking she wondered if anything could be done. But she continued walking in faith and was soon joined by others. And what they began is now the Mission of Hope, one of the most respected Christian charitable organizations in the Southeast.

The big blue barrels are out across Knox County. Churches are sending vol-unteers to the warehouse. Executive Director Em-mette Thompson is as om-nipresent as Santa.

Nakia Towns talks to teachers at the recent town hall.

Jim McIntyre started each answer with so at last weeks teacher town hall, and his assistant Nakia Towns did too.

So, next day I noticed both the NPR interviewer and her guest did it too. Wow.

So, who is Nakia Towns, I asked. Shes one of our Broad Fellows, said Me-lissa Copelan. We have two others, Ginnae Harley (director of Title I, federal programs) and Krista Tibbs (deputy accountability offi -cer). Towns title is director of human capital strategy. Honest.

So, research on the trusty Internet turned up the Broad Center where Knox County (Boston, Houston and a few other urban sys-tems) have turned for in-novative leadership. The Broad Fellows serve two years in a managerial role, reporting to the superin-tendent.

So, how about the meet-ing? The fi rst big observa-tion was the absence of teachers. Is everyone happy with the new evaluations or have teachers just given up? Hard to know, but if 1,000 teachers had packed the auditorium at Bearden High School their simple presence would have re-sounded. Likewise, so did the whisper of the 25 who made it.

McIntyre showed a video

Evaluations no big deal

in which one teacher said the new evaluations are no big deal. Another said, You see the (evaluators) as a resource or mentor. They are not the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain.

Insisting the evaluations are not a forced bell curve, McIntyre showed a graphic that formed an almost per-fect bell curve with about 40 percent of teachers mak-ing a 3 or performing at expectations, a bit over 20 percent making a 4 or a 2, and the remaining 15 per-cent spread between 1 or 5.

I feel very, very sad to be graded on a bell curve, said one teacher. Were not the general population. Most of us have masters degrees and many have a doctorate.

So, I would agree with you, said McIntyre, if it were a forced bell curve. Were not talking about how an individual does against the group, but how one does against a standard. Any number of teachers can meet this standard and I believe over time more teachers will reach a 4 or 5.

A couple of teachers expressed feigned sorrow

over the amount of admin-istrative time required for the multiple evaluations. McIntyre said the prin-cipals and assistants will take less time over time. And besides, its about the most important things our administrators do, making sure that great instruction happens in their school.

The state already has reduced the number of re-quired evaluations from as high as six to as few as two.

Why stress to be a 4 or 5 if being a 3 is acceptable? asked Sherry Morgan, pres-ident of the Knox County Education Association. This is the money question. Teachers performing at ex-pectations wont be fi red in our brave new world of education reform, but they probably wont get the rais-es or promotions either.

Stress levels (among teachers) are increasing, said another teacher, and Im not sure your feedback is true.

So, I am getting candid feedback, said McIntyre, gesturing around the room where he had been grilled for the better part of two hours.

NOTES:The school boards mid-month workshop is at 5 p.m. today (Nov. 21) in the board room of the Andrew Johnson Building. The board will ap-point the management team for collaborative conferencing (brave new world term for negotiations).

Deadline to qualify to run for school board is noon Thursday, Dec. 8. Qualifying petitions are available now at the Election Commission. Seats up are now occupied by Cindy Buttry, Indya Kincan-non, Karen Carson and Mike McMillan.

No hope hereThe founding of

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Richard Biggs

Donations of new, un-wrapped items will be gathered until Dec. 5 at participating Food City, Chick-fi l-A, Kmart, Home Federal, Sears, Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union or CVS locations. This is the 16th year for the Christmas campaign.

In 1996, The Mission of Hope provided for 150 chil-dren. Last year more than 17,000 children and their families were assisted with food, new clothing, hygiene items, new toys and more.

Shopper-News was there at the beginning, with a Nov. 18, 1996, story inspired by two Halls women, Marla Coffman and Marsha Hel-ton, owners of M&M Clean-ing. When we saw those clothes (in Julie Hollands basement) and heard her describe the kids, we just had to help, said Marla.

On their fi rst trip to Kentucky, the women were almost turned away by the teachers at Beech Fork School, but we told them it was for Bill Williams and they said OK, said Marsha.

They feel like they know Bill Williams and they trust him.

Julie Holland was in-spired to help by her stepfa-ther, John Boggs, and by a story Bill Williams aired on WBIR-TV. You are struck by what you dont see in the childrens eyes, Williams had said. You dont see hope.

Richard Biggs dug, dug, dug into the story of the founding of this amazing charity. I started wonder-ing why anyone would do that. I met Julie and walked away thinking, This is a much bigger story.

I talked to many people, trying to capture (John Boggs) personality. I thought, Moses has noth-ing on you!

His was an epic walk with God. And Julie was set apart by God before she was born.

Biggs writes about Julies struggle with lupus and her relationship with Boggs. He tells of the old-fashioned prayer meeting that led to her mothers cure from cancer. He tells of her vis-its with moonshiners and snake-handlers in the hills of Kentucky

And he relates how Julie met Emmette Thompson who literally fell into the job with Mission of Hope.

Biggs, a Maryville na-tive, now lives in the North-shore area near Pellissippi Parkway. He attends Cen-tral Baptist Bearden, where Julie and Doug Holland at-tended and which provided initial volunteers for the Mission of Hope.

If you buy only one book this Christmas, make it this one. Richard Biggs, man of science and man of faith, has one more skill. He spins a great tale.

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A generation after the Civil War ended in 1865, reconcil-iation had become possible and a reunion of the Blue and the Gray was proposed for Knoxville.

In March 1890, Capt. A.J. Albers was chosen as chair of the Com-mittee on Committees (Executive Committee) for what would prove to be the largest reunion of Civil War veterans ever held in the South. His 20 committees were responsible for the advertising, railroad trans-portation, invitations, fi nance, site, meeting space, entertainment and housing that would be required for the 15,000 to 20,000 veterans that were expected. The citys 1890 es-timated population was 22,000, so its size would almost double during the event.

When the fi nance committee received pledges for $9,600, the housing committee was authorized to purchase a tent that would ac-commodate the indoor reunion activities. They found one in Mil-waukee, originally made for the Barnum Circus. It measured 212 feet by 262 feet, weighed 8 tons, re-quired two railroad cars to trans-port and would provide seating for 15,000. It was erected on the site of Fort Sanders where many of the Union and Confederate veterans had fought on Nov. 29, 1863.

The reunion date was set for Oct. 7-9, 1890. Gen. Robert E. Lees Old War Horse, Gen. James Longstreet (1821-1904), was cho-sen to represent the Confederate veterans. Gen. William H. Gibson (1822-1894) was chosen to repre-sent the Union veterans.

Longstreet had fought in most of the signifi cant battles in Vir-ginia, beginning at First Bull Run in July 1861. Sent to the Western Theater in 1863 to reinforce Gen. Braxton Bragg around Chattanoo-ga, he was dispatched to Knoxville

in November 1863, where he failed in his attempt to seize the city from Gen. Ambrose Burnsides occupy-ing Union troops in the Battle of Fort Sanders.

After he returned to the Virginia campaign, Longstreet was aligning his troops on the second day of the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-7, 1864) when he was fi red on by his own men as he rode through the dense undergrowth. A minie ball struck him in the throat, exited from his right shoulder and sev-ered several nerves in his arm. He never fully recovered and an aide, E.A. Angier, would read his pre-pared remarks at the reunion.

Gen. William Harvey Gibson was commander of the 49th Ohio Infan-try Regiment, which fought in 42 battles from Shiloh in April 1862 to Franklin and Nashville in December 1864. He was known for his propen-sity to personally command in battle and for his inspiring speeches. He had three horses shot from under him at Shiloh and was wounded in the battle. After the war, the Ohio attorney was elected state treasurer and his gift of oratory made him one of the most sought-after speakers for hundreds of Grand Army of the Re-public campfi res.

There were 32 members of the 79th New York Highlanders pres-ent at the reunion. They were in Fort Sanders at the time of the Con-federate attack on Nov. 29, 1863. They joined other regiments at a reception at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall on Gay Street over Brandau, Kennedy and McTeers store. Following several speeches lauding the signifi cant role of the 79th in the battle, Col. J.C. Reding-ton sang The Blue and the Gray and the color guard presented three battle fl ags all tattered and torn. The sight brought tears to the eyes of the old veterans as they remem-

HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin

Seen on the far left is The Big Tent on the revered site of the Battle of Fort Sanders, which took place on Nov.29, 1863. Those attending the 1890 reunion gathered here for the patriotic speeches of Gen. James Longstreet and Gen. William H. Gibson. Photo courtesy of C.M. McClung Historical Collection

Reunion of the Blue and Gray

bered their comrades who died in the war.

The reunion of the Fred Ault Bivouac of Confederate Soldiers occurred at Staubs Theater with the 79th New York Highlanders as guests of honor. The poignant ceremony began with Crouchs or-chestra in the pit. Their buglers call hushed the vast audience and a plaintive air was played as the curtain rose. An old soldier stood at attention beside a large portrait of Pvt. Fred Ault, a member of Co. D of the 63rd Tennessee Infantry Regi-ment, who had died at Petersburg. Post commander William Hender-son eulogized the heroic soldier and a quartette sang Tenting To-night. There was hardly a dry eye among the Confederate veterans or their Union guests.

On the fi nal day, the Grand Parade began at 11 a.m. proceeding from the staging area at the junction of Broad and Fifth to Depot, up Depot to Gay, down Gay to Main, down Main to

Walnut, up Walnut to Clinch and down Clinch to Fort Sanders. The Gay Street merchants had displayed fl ags and bunting on most buildings and hundreds occupied the balco-nies and the windows on second and third fl oors to view the thousands of participants in the parade.

Grand marshal W.L. Ledgerwood and Police Chief J.J. Atkins stepped out followed by nine divisions of participants. Both the Knoxville Military Band and Crouchs Band marched with the veterans, units of the police and fi re departments, and several fraternal organizations. As the various units passed, they were greeted with cheer after cheer by the estimated 30,000 spectators who lined the sidewalks.

When the marchers reached the battle site, they gathered under the Big Tent for the keynote speeches. Longstreets words summed up the purpose of the event:

Strangers may not and cannot perhaps know how it is that surviv-

ing veterans of the Blue and the Gray who once contended here in deadly array should meet in common as we do today; but, with us, the war is over and settled upon the basis of mutual esteem and self-respect.

Thinking of this gathering and looking out on this scene, a man must be proud to feel that he is an American, and proud to feel that America will move on and on until the government of Washington, Lin-coln, Lee and Grant shall enlighten every nation and every people.

On the fi nal day, the climax was a huge fi reworks display, The Finest Ever Seen in the South. The news-papers estimated that it was viewed by 35,000 spectators.

The letter that Edward Albers, Capt. A.J. Albers 8-year-old son, wrote his grandmother summed up the evening:

You ought of been here dur-ing the Reunion day if you had you would of seen something pretty. The fi reworks were beautiful.

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I am an East Tennessean to my marrow. I like my land-scapes green. But I have been to the desert, both literally and metaphorically.

I have been to the des-ert: Phoenix in May, hostile heat that assaults you like an Enemy. The Badlands of South Dakota, inhabited by ghosts and coyotes. Craters of the Moon in Idaho, where the lava beds will slice your feet like knives. The Mount of Temptation, utter desola-tion: physical, emotional and spiritual desolation.

I have been to the desert of the spirit as well, times

Desert placesThen Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilder-

ness to be tempted by the devil. (Matthew 4: 1 NRSV)

And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. (Mark 1: 12 NRSV)

They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.

(Desert Places, Robert Frost)

me? (It seldom occurs to us that maybe we have done it to ourselves!)

One thing I know: Satan is there, waiting for us, just as he was for Jesus.

Jesus went to the desert, either driven or led (depend-ing on whose Gospel you are reading), not to be punished. He was being prepared, ex-panded, refi ned. But Scrip-ture hints that Jesus had a hard time in the desert, too.

Matthew says the minis-tering angels came only at the end of the Temptation. Mark says they were there all along.

The truth is that our desert places teach us; they grow us up. Israel spent 40 years in the desert learning how to be a covenant people. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert learning how to be a Mes-siah.

Maybe your time in the desert depends on how fast you learn. Bear in mind that the word disciple means someone who is learning. It comes from the same root as

discipline, a fact which im-plies that this is not an easy course!

One of the hard things we learn in the desert is that our God is not a domesticated, lap-dog God. Our God is the Holy One of Israel, the Lion of Judah, the great I AM.

Hear C.S. Lewiss account of just such an encounter in The Silver Chair, one of the Chronicles of Narnia:

Are you not thirsty? said the Lion

Im dying of thirst, said Jill.

Then drink, said the Lion.

Will you promise not to do anything to me, if I do come? said Jill.

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said Jill.Then you will die of

thirst, said the Lion.Oh dear! I suppose I

must go and look for another stream then.

There is no other stream, said the Lion.

where life was gritty, and dusty, and scratchy. If God was there, God was deathly quiet. If abandoned by God, then what?

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Christmas events and services

Northside Christian Church , 4008 Tazewell Pike, will hold the lighting of the nativity scene at the 5 p.m. service Sunday, Nov. 27, followed by a potluck dinner.

Knoxville Nativity Pageant Choir will rehearse 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29 and Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Central Baptist Church of Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Registration is 6-7 p.m. prior to each rehearsal. Info: Janelle Witt at janellewitt@comcast.net or www.knoxvillenativity.com.

Community services

Cross Roads Presbyterian hosts the Halls Welfare Minis-

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Scott Haluska will be the guest speaker for the Knoxville Fel-lowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov. 22. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.

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Nativity Pageant The Rev. Eugene Hattaway, director of the choir and orchestra for the Knoxville Nativity Pageant, directs the choirs fi rst rehearsal last week at Central Baptist of Bearden. The pageant, now in its 43rd year, has sched-uled performances for 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, and 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 12-13, at the Civic Coliseum. Admission is free. Hattaway is minister of music for the First Baptist Church of Tellico Village. Photo by S. Clark

try food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

Graveston Baptist Church , 8328 Clapps Chapel Road, will host a free walk-in medical clinic 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, in the student center. Medical doctors and registered nurses will off er general medi-cal care and limited prescribed medications (no narcotics on site or prescribed) for all ages. A free food pantry and a clothes closet with adult and childrens clothing are also available. Info: 686-0186.

Knoxville Free Food Market , 4625 Mill Branch Lane (across from Tractor Supply in Halls), distributes free food 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of the month. Info: 566-1265.

New Hope Baptist Church distributes food from its food pantry to local families in need 6-8 p.m. every third

Thursday. Info: 688-5330.

Thanksgiving Beaver Ridge UMC , 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, will host a free Thanksgiving dinner 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 24. No reservations are required and everyone is invited. Info: www.beaverridgeumc.com or 690-1060.

Glenwood Baptist Church , 7212 Central Ave. Pike, will host a community Thanksgiv-ing service 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. Everyone is invited.

New Liberty Baptist Church , 5901 Roberts Road, Corryton, will host an old fashioned turkey dinner with all the trim-mings 3-5 p.m. Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, Nov. 24) for anyone who would be alone during the holidays. No charge but reservations are required by calling Charmin Foth at 368-0806 or email charminfoth@

yahoo.com. To donate, contact Andrew Foth, 335-6680 or Charmin Foth, 368-0806.

RevivalsGraveston Baptist Church , 8319 Clapps Chapel Road, will have Marvelous Mondays the whole month of November. Starting at 7 p.m. each Monday there will be a special evange-list and singing. Info: 686-0186 orwww.graveston.org.

Warwick Chapel Baptist Church, Warwick Chapel Road in Luttrell, will begin revival Monday, Nov. 21, at 7 each night. Evangelists will be the Revs. Shane Pierce, Stewart Skeen, Joe Padgett and Ray Headrick, pastor. Everyone is invited. Info: 992-8888.

Womens programs

New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Ave. Pike, will host a Knoxville Day Womens Aglow Lighthouse outreach meeting 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6. Pat Greenlee will speak. Bring a covered dish and items for the Lost Sheep Ministry. Info: Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

United Methodist Women Christmas Brunch will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at Trinity UMC, 5613 Western Ave. Tickets are $15. Price includes the meal, door prizes and entertainment. RSVP by Tuesday, Nov. 29. Info: 588-5763.

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Bobcat seniors are pre-collegiate scholarsBy Betty Bean

While most of their friends were taking the summer be-tween their junior and senior year off, Katlyn Watkin and Ronak Patel were working 12-15 hours a week in labo-ratories at the University of Tennessee. They both say that participating in the Pre-Collegiate Scholars Research Program was a fi ne way to spend the summer.

Katlyn worked for Dr. Paul Dalheimer, a professor of chemical and biomolecu-lar engineering, on a project that is developing new ma-terials to deliver drugs to cancer cells.

Ronak was assigned to Dr. Michael Best, a profes-sor of organic chemistry who is directing research on herbicides that will kill weeds without harming cul-tivated plants.

Both are excited about where this opportunity could lead them.

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Katlyn Watkin and Ronak Patel Photo by Betty Bean

chemistry and calculus.The science department

got together and chose the students they thought would be good for the program, said Katlyn, who is partial to biology.

They say that these proj-ects are directly related to the fi elds they plan to enter in college and that their parents were mightily pleased.

They thought it was re-ally cool, said Katlyn, who

is the daughter of Todd and Michelle Watkin.

At Central, she has been active in DECA and has writ-ten for the school newspaper, The Scratching Post.

She plans to enter college as a pre-med student, which will give her several career avenues to explore.

Ive kind of been bounc-ing back and forth between pre-med and occupational therapy, so either way Im

kind of going to be involved in the medical fi eld, she said. Im going in as pre-med, and Ill fi nd whatever is right for me.

Katlyn has applied to a bunch of in-state colleges, but my No. 1 is probably UTK, she said. She is working through a list of scholarships and is working on a leader-ship award to be nominated by principal Danny Trent.

Ronak, whose parents are Ashok and Jayshree Pa-tel, also plans to enter a pre-med program in college and become either a pharmacist or a neurologist. He is a fi -nalist for a Rhodes scholar-ship and is considering Co-lumbia and Vanderbilt.

He has been active in Cen-tral High Schools National Honor Society and fi nished in the top 50 in a national mathematics competition.

They both admit to being anxious to fi nish high school I got senioritis a long time ago, Ronak said.

Im ready to get started on my college career, said Katlyn.

Halls Middle softball wins championship

The Halls Middle School softball team defeated Grace Christian and South-Doyle teams to advance to the win-ners bracket of the middle school softball tournament. Halls faced Seymour for the championship game and a 5-0 win forced Game Two in the bracket. In the sec-ond game, Halls defeated Seymour 5-4 to bring home the championship trophy. Team members are: (front) Emma Webb, Harper Cherry, Keleigh Galloway, Haley Kingsbury, Paige Calloway, Leah Sohm; (back) Caroline Cavin, McKinley Snider, winning pitcher Lauren White, coach Elisha Humphrey, Malory Gardner, Alison Sailor and Kayla Milen. Photo submitted

Whittle Springs holds Mystery Reading Night

Whittle Springs Mid-dle School held its Title I Family Engagement Mys-tery Reading Night re-cently and students and their families were able to practice logic skills at seven mystery stations. Participants were able to collect clues and solve the mystery of the missing e-reader and the e-Book Bandit.

At each mystery sta-tion, students interacted

with teachers and admin-istrators to review such logic and critical think-ing skills as making infer-ences, making predictions, analyzing fact and opin-ion, and analyzing cause and effect. Students each received a mystery novel as they entered the event and one student won the grand prize drawing for an e-reader at the end of the night to encourage read-ing after school hours.

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Contest season a success for Halls band

By Jake Mabe The Halls High School

band completed a successful contest season at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., on Nov. 5 by fi nishing second overall at Band Beat.

Band director Eric Baum-gardner said that 20 bands participated in preliminaries and that Halls High was the only Tennessee band at the competition.

He said the band had its highest score of the day dur-ing prelims, taking fi rst in music, visual and percussion. During fi nals, the band took fi rst in music, second in gen-eral effect, second in visual, third in guard and fi rst in percussion. Their score was only 0.4 percent behind the fi rst-place band.

It was a really good day, Baumgardner said. The kids felt like it was one of if not the best run they had all year.

The bands show was titled Dusk till Dawn.

At the Karns contest on Sept. 24, Baumgardner said the band took fi rst in per-cussion, fi rst in music, fi rst in guard, fi rst in general

effect, fi rst in visual, and our drum major did pretty well. Twenty bands partic-ipated in preliminaries.

At the Volunteer Classic, held at Heritage High School on Oct. 8, the band won everything, Baumgardner said, out of 26 bands, to earn superior ratings for every single caption, taking home a 93.4 (out of 100) aver-age and winning the Grand Champion Sweepstakes in the A-B Class.

At the Contest of Champi-ons, held at Middle Tennes-see State University on Oct. 22, the band fi nished fi fth overall, which is its highest fi nish ever at this event.

Your goal is to be among the top eight bands. Its a high level of judging.

The band also received a National Band Association citation for Marching Excel-lence for its 83.25 average.

It was really, really close. Since my fi rst year in 2004 when I was an assistant, weve gone to this contest six times and made the fi -nals fi ve times. It was a good day. There was a lot of good recognition and the kids

Showing the awards the Halls High band has won during contest season are: (sitting) Aaron Jones (equipment), Melissa Gheen (bass drum section leader), Stephanie Hill (head majorette), Jes-sica Fekete (alto sax section leader), Erica Massengill (head drum major), Caroline Gowin (bass clarinet section leader), Andrea Co-lyer (music librarian), Elizabeth Moore (clarinet section leader); (standing) Chasity Hobby (color guard captain), Michelle Van-Guilder (baritone section leader), Morgan Gililland (music librar-ian), Sarah Beck (fl ute section leader), Andy Cummings (band

captain), Daniel Splane (tenor captain), Alan Sharpe (woodwind captain), Phillip Durham (tuba section leader), Joshua Farmer (mellophone section leader), Brad Hill (tenor sax section leader), Justin Splane (brass captain), Clay Leach (drum major), Westyn Sharp (equipment and music librarian), Cody Caprio (low brass section leader), Daniel Del Moro (drum captain), Joshua Ander-son (music librarian), Elijah Little (front ensemble section leader), Helen Wilds (clarinet section leader) and Taylor Carr (color guard captain). Photo by Jake Mabe

and the parents were super ecstatic. Most of the other bands had had practice time in the (MTSU) stadium. The fi rst time we did it was in preliminaries.

Baumgardner said the band met its goal of show-ing improvement with each passing week.

The guard got better as the season went on and had some nice recognition. The third place fi nish at Band

Beat was quite a bit higher than their fi nish last year. The percussion lost a lot of seniors last year, but we felt like that particular caption improved. This year is the fi rst time weve won percus-sion at Band Beat and they won with a 30-point mar-gin during prelims and a 20-point margin at fi nals.

The band got a lot of great comments from oth-er directors.

Baumgardner says his assistant director, Ashley Waller, is indispensible, adding, what I dont do well, she does better and she does a lot of things better. And the band par-ents do such a great job. We have a grill we use in the concession stand (dur-ing football games) that they took to the last two contests and the parents grilled out. They do a great

job organizing and manag-ing things to allow us to fo-cus on teaching music and marching.

It really was a group ef-fort.

The band will march in the Halls Christmas Pa-rade on Dec. 3 and will hold the annual Holidaypalooza with drama, choral and art students at 7 p.m. Thurs-day, Dec. 8, at the Halls Middle School auditorium.

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Central HighPTSO fundraiser hosted by Salsaritas in Foun- tain City will be 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Nov. 25-27. Mention CHS when you pay and the PTSO will receive 15 percent of the

total purchase. The Bobcat Company and Select Choraliers will join Dr. Bill Snyder at the historic Tennessee Theatre for Mighty Musical Monday at noon and 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5.

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Gibbs students showcase talentBy Ruth White

Gibbs High School has had several students Kenny Chesney and Den-ver T. Stevens to name two go on after high school and begin record-ing careers. Ten students competed for the title of Gibbs Idol and an oppor-tunity to hopefully one day live their dreams of becoming a star.

Gibbs hosted the sec-ond Gibbs Goes Idol event to showcase the talent of students and select a winner to represent the school at a countywide competition later this year in Market Square.

The students performed in front of a packed house and showed off their singing and musical tal-ents in hopes of being named Gibbs Idol. Each performer chose a song

Kelsey Northern was named winner of the Gibbs Goes Idol tal-ent competition. Northern is pictured with runner-up Amanda Buschermohle. Photos by Ruth White

Senior Kaitlyn Townsend entertained the crowd with her song Giddy on Up.

Jacob Dalton has been playing the guitar for fi ve years and sang an original piece during Gibbs Goes Idol.

to ref lect their personal singing style and several played their own accom-paniment. One student showed her vocal talent by singing a cappella.

As the judges tallied the scores, Stevens, a 1999 Gibbs High grad, entertained the crowd with several songs he has recorded that have been played on a local country station.

This years winner was Kelsey Northern who sang Young and Beautiful by Carrie Underwood. First runner-up was Amanda Buschermohle who played the piano and sang You and I by Lady Gaga. Sec-ond runner-up was Lau-ren Hudson, a self-taught guitarist who sang Bryan Adams song, Dont Let Go.

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