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BY ROBERT NORRIS

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To make this really ironic, well gon the bar and sign this thing. Itll be

ne for the Lord, boys.With those words, auctioneer Mikealker walked through the door of

he former Swanks Jazz Restaurantnd Bar to fill out the contract thatould turn the building over to Graceommunity Church.The former bar is located at theorner of Court Street and Harpervenue, right across the intersection

rom the church.Pastor Chris Riser said the church haseen interested in the old building forwhile. Weve been thinking about it,ondering if it would ever come open.The church is growing and couldse the extra space. Sunday morning

ttendance averages about 230.Right now, we run two services andhe services are maybe two-thirds full

so we have some room there. Butts mostly our Sunday school spacehats maxed out. We have someoom in the sanctuary, but everythinground it is packed.Plus, the church has only a warm-

ng kitchen. A restaurant kitchen

with professional appliances wouldbe a big step up.

But minutes earlier when the auc-tion started at 11:03 a.m. Thursday,nothing was assured. In fact, it lookeddoubtful the church would end upwith the building.

Walker, of Lebanon-based UnitedCountry Walker Realty & AuctionCo., started the bidding by asking for$200,000. The seller was BB&T Bankof Winston-Salem, N.C.

BY BILL POOVEY

The Associated Press

CHATTANOOGA The TennesseeValley Authority over the next five yearswill shutter operations that account for

about 16 percent if its coal-fired capacityto settle lawsuits from several states overair quality, its board said Thursday.

TVA chief executive Tom Kilgore saidthe nations largest public utility will alsopay a $10 million civil penalty under theagreement with the states, the Environ-mental Protection Agency and environ-mental groups. Kilgore said the agreementannounced at a board meeting resultedfrom long-running private negotiations.

The shutdowns starting in 2012 includeall 10 units at Johnsonville Fossil Plantand two units at John Sevier Fossil Plantin Tennessee, along with six units at Wid-ows Creek Fossil Plant in Alabama. Kilg-ore said the moves will phase out 2,700megawatts of TVAs 17,000 megawatts of

coal-fired capacity by 2017.The shutdowns also will mean a loss

of 300 to 400 jobs. TVA executives saidefforts will be made to provide other jobs.Kilgore said TVA cannot guarantee thatevery displaced employee will be offereda job at the same location.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,expressed support for the agreement. Ihope this decisions negative effect on TVAfamilies will be as small as possible, hesaid in a statement Thursday. The positiveeffect will be cleaner and healthier air forTennesseans. This will create new jobs bymaking Tennessee more attractive to newbusinesses and millions of tourists.

Environmental activists were also com-

mending TVA for initiating the privatetalks that settled court fights between thenations largest public utility and Tennessee,Kentucky, Alabama and North Carolina.

This is the largest coal retirement agree-ment the nation has ever seen, said BruceNiles, the Sierra Clubs deputy conser-vation director. We have been battling

BY JOAN LOWY

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Publicly fuming,the FAA chief collected Thursday theresignation of the head of the U.S. airtraffic system, doubled controller staff-ing at more than two dozen airports andordered a sweeping review of the entiresystem that ensures planes fly safely, asthe government sought to reassure thepublic that air travel is safe despite atleast four instances of controllers sleep-ing on the job.

But present and former controllers toldhe Associated Press that grueling work

schedules and the design of the job itself sitting in a dark room at night wait-ing for pilots to call have made takingnaps on the job necessary, even if unau-thorized by the FAA. One whistle-blowercomplained to the Transportation Depart-ment that cots can be found in one radarcenter, most often with controllers asleepin them.

The National Transportation Safetyoard warned FAA after a deadly 2006 air

crash that controllers schedules were cre-ating unsafe situations in which they weregoing into work after only a few hours ofsleep. But little had changed until this weekwhen Federal Aviation Administrator RandyBabbitt said he was immediately adding asecond controller on overnight shifts at 26

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Authorities made two drug-relatedarrests Wednesday night after execut-ing search warrants on two Seymourapartments, the Blount County Sher-iffs Office reported.

Officers took Elvis Olin Webb Jr., 37,Seymour, into custody after investiga-tors allegedly found oxycodone pillsinside the apartment, according tothe sheriff s office. He is charged withpossession of a Schedule II controlledsubstance with intent to sell.

Webb was being held in the BlountCounty Jail in lieu of $20,000 bondpending a 9 a.m. April 20 hearing inBlount County General Sessions Court.Robert Mikel Gibson, 24, Knoxville,was taken into custody on outstand-ing warrants from Knox County forviolation of probation and failure toappear, the report said.

Members of the 5th Judicial Drug TaskForce and the Blount County SheriffsOffice SWAT Team led the raid.

According to authorities, the SevierCounty Sheriffs Office cited JarredRoss Schoondermark, 24, Seymour,with simple possession of a Schedule IIcontrolled substance (crack cocaine),and took Schoondermark into custodyon an outstanding warrant for viola-tion of probation.

The report also said David Alex-ander Carter Jr., Seymour, was cit-ed with simple possession of mari-juana and Beverly Lynn Miller, 34,Seymour, with possession of drugparaphernalia.

Authorities reported a stolen motor-cycle was recovered from one of theresidences after investigators executedthe warrant.

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Webb was charged with possessingoxycodone pills with intent to sellthem. He is being held in the BlountCounty Jail in lieu of $20,000 bond.

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TVA to cut

coal units

to settlelawsuits

Church buys downtown Swanks bar at auction

ree arrested, two citedat Seymour apartments

AA res air tra c o cial, doubles

sta ng at over two dozen airports

THE DETAILS

Mcghee Tyson Airport FAA Tower: Employs 30 air traffic controllers and four

supervisors Handled 254,000 operations in 2010 Tower operators handled 110,000 takeoffs

and landings TRACON (radar) operations totaled

144,000 Airspace handled by the facility is a

45-mile radius around the airport up to10,000 feet

Tower is staffed 24/7 by at least two con-trollers

Source: Federal Aviation Administration

BY THE GRACE OF GOD

FRANK BUZZ TREXLER | THE DAILY TIMES

RACE COMMUNITY CHURCH BOUGHT at auction Thursday the former Swanks Jazz Restaurant and Bar in downtown Maryville.

GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH PASTORChris Riser (left) watches as auctioneer Mike Walker fills outpaperwork on the bar.