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The Mountain Press■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 244 ■ September 1, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 75 Cents
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Weather
TodayMostlySunny
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TonightMostlyClear
Low: 59°
DeTaILS, Page a6
5Teams tee off in tournamentLocal athletes compete for prep golf crown
SPorTS, Page a8
Ruth Klein, 72Ella IveyNancy Russell, 69Thomas Perry, 86Ruby Rainwater, 97Earl Todd, 82Arthur Myers Jr., 75William Broyhill, 65
Obituaries
DeTaILS, Page a4
5Fear felt by celebs after theftSecret testimony reveals stars’ loss in “Bling Ring”
enTerTaInmenT, Page a9
By JeFF FarreLLStaff Writer
SEVIERVILLE — A man who said he’s a local businessman is behind a petition to place a referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot that would allow package stores in Sevierville sell-ing liquor.
Tony Duckworth said he’s been working on the idea for several months and collecting signatures for several weeks. He said he is a local businessman, but didn’t want to identify his business interests in the city.
The city approved the sale of liquor by the drink in 2008, Duckworth said, and allowing the sale of wine and alcohol in stores for off-prem-ise consumption would allow people to buy them without a long drive.
“Right now, it’s legal to go out at your restau-rants and you can get a mixed drink, or two, or three, or whatever. If it’s
By JeFF FarreLLStaff writer
SEVIERVILLE — Appeals court judges have upheld a ruling by Circuit Judge Rex Henry Ogle dismissing the manufacturers of “The Hawk” ride from a complaint filed by family members of a woman who fell to her death while riding on it at a Pigeon Forge amusement park.
June Alexander died March 14, 2004, while her son and another relative watched in horror. The safety restraints on the ride fell while their seats were upside down dozens of feet above the pavement of the Rockin’ Raceway park.
After the incident, inspectors found that safety measures on the ride had been disabled — specifically, that someone used jump-
Businessmanstarts petitionfor packagestores in city
‘Hawk’rulingupheld
Curt Habraken/The Mountain Press
Above, Good Samaritans help emergency person-nel get the second toddler up the embankment after an accident on Pittman Center Road Tuesday afternoon. The female driver lost control of the mini-van she was driving and left the road down an embank-ment. The mother had minor injuries and two toddlers appeared unhurt but scared. At right, a large tree stopped the van, which would likely have rolled and ended upside down in the river.
TBI launches probe of office
By DereK HoDgeSStaff Writer
SEVIERVILLE — Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed Tuesday they have launched a “theft and embezzlement investigation” into the Sevier County clerk’s office.
Spokeswoman Kristin Helm said the probe is still in its early stages and may take a few days, though hav-ing a completed audit will help things along.
“We received a request for an investigation on the 26th of August from the district attorney general’s office,” Helm said.
TBI was informed by the local prosecutor there was money found to be miss-ing during an audit of the clerk’s office, Helm said. That audit led to Monday’s resignation by County Clerk Joe Keener II. That TBI was called in suggests there may have been suspected crimi-nal violations of the law.
Blake Fontenay, the spokesman for the state comptroller’s office that includes the Division of County Audit, said the investigation into the clerk’s office books continues. At this point no report has been released to the public or to local officials, Fontenay said.
On Monday, District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn said he did not know of any criminal investigation being done by TBI. Dunn did not return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
Auditors doing the reg-ular annual check of the county’s books found some-thing that raised questions in the clerk’s office. That led to four additional investiga-tors being called in to deter-mine how much cash was missing and how long.
Curt Habraken/The Mountain Press
A line that snakes down the hallway waits for service after the clerks office opened back up Tuesday afternoon.
‘Embezzlementinvestigation’is confirmed
By DereK HoDgeSStaff Writer
SEVIERVILLE — Local officials who worked with Joe Keener II through his 18 years as county clerk spoke of a good man who made a bad mistake and, while they fully expect him to be punished if it’s found his actions were criminal, they hope for redemption.
Since last week, as news spread that Keener may have gotten himself into trouble due to money missing from his office, many at the courthouse have found themselves mourning for a man they say was jovial and a hard worker for local citizens.
The language they use is what most people reserve for describing someone who has died, catching themselves sometimes using words like “was” to describe him. Indeed, several have said it feels like someone has died at the courthouse, with the somber mood in there lately.
“I couldn’t believe it when I first heard,” County Trustee Jettie Clabo says. “I kept thinking, ‘This just can’t be happening.’ It just kind of breaks
your heart. I feel for Joe and especially his family. They all need our love and support now.”
Clabo says she called Keener last week to offer her support and prayers, but he didn’t answer the phone and hasn’t returned the message she left. While she would like the opportunity to talk to a man she considers a friend, Clabo’s not really sure what she would say other than what she already said in that voicemail.
“It’s just hard to think of what
words you would use,” she says. “I’ve known Joe for a long time and he’s a good guy, but I guess good guys make mistakes. Joe’s made a big one and we don’t know why he did it. I can’t imagine what kind of situation he must have been in to decide to do something like that.”
Clabo is far from excusing Keener’s behavior; she’s just having trouble reconciling the man and public ser-
Keener’s friends sad, disappointed“He’s made a terrible mistake. He can’t blame anyone but himself. He’s got to
pull himself up, and he’s got to rely on his friends and family to help him get through this. He may come out of this a better man.
We’ll just have to see.”— County Commissioner Jimmie Temple
See iNVeSTigATioN, Page A4See keeNer, Page A4
See PeTiTioN, Page A5
Good Samaritans to the rescue
See ruliNg, Page A5
The Mountain Press ◆ Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Submitted Report
SEVIERVILLE — In one night, local busi-nesses can make a dif-ference in the lives of struggling Sevier County families.
“One Night Of Mercy” on Saturday is a way local lodging busi-nesses can help Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries. SMARM pro-vides rental assistance, emergency shelter, util-ity bills, counseling, clothing, emergency food and more to the less fortunate of Sevier
County. SMARM is asking each
business to donate $1 for each room rental on Saturday. This donation will assist in keeping a
family from homelessness. For more information,
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The Sevier County High Class of 1960 held its 50th reunion recently at the River Plantation Convention Center. A total of 132 guests were present, including 75 class members. The only surviving sponsor/teacher, Kate Latham, was in attendance. “I loved all my students and I have a special place in my heart for the class of 1960,” she said. There was a discussion among the class that the reunions should be more frequent, possibly every two years.
Class of 1960 reunion
By DEREK HODGESStaff Writer
SEVIERVILLE — Those who were elected or re-elected to county office during the Aug. 5 balloting will take their oaths tomor-row at the courthouse in a ceremony set to start at 10 a.m.
Those who won posts including mayor, sheriff and court clerk, among others, will be installed during the formalities that will be held in the third floor multi-purpose room. Additionally, the County Commission is set to get an overhaul as four new members are given their seats and the entire group reorganizes.
While the board annu-ally makes some minor shifts in things like com-mittee memberships, every four years it is required to do a bit more following the results of elections for its seats. It will take that step
during a special session at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the same space.
On the agenda for the meeting are a number of procedural moves that have to be considered, including:
n A resolution to adopt the Rules of Procedure of the Sevier County Commission Legislative Body and Commission Committees
n Election of a chair-man for the Sevier County Commission Legislative Body for the year
n Election of a chairman pro temp for the Sevier County Commission
Legislative Body for the year
n A resolution on a recommendation for the Sevier County Commission Steering Committee
n Approval of statutory bonds for public officials.
That resolution from the Steering Committee will include recommen-dations on who should sit on each commission com-mittee with the exception of the Steering Committee itself. Membership for that group — that sets meeting times, rules and committees for the full body — is suggested
by the chairman of the board.
That post has been filled for more than three decades now by County Mayor Larry Waters, who is also set to be sworn in tomorrow. He has only once in recent memory faced a challenge for the seat.
Likewise, long-time Commissioner Jimmie Temple has held the chairman pro temp job for as long as many people on the board can remember, with no one ever challenging the ven-erable leader for it.
While the commission itself will be largely com-posed of returning faces, there will be four new folks taking seats there. Tommy Watts, Randy Williams, Tim Hurst and Marty Loveday will offi-cially assume their posts after the swearing-in.
New county elected officialsto take oath of office today
Oath of office/commission meetingn What: County elected officials to be sworn in for new termsn When: 10 a.m. todayn Where: Third floor of courtroomn What else: Special meeting of the Sevier C0unty Commission to approve some procedures and elect a chairman
Submitted Report
SEVIERVILLE — The Sevierville Department of Parks and Recreation will observe the reopening of the Blalock Natatorium at 5 p.m. Sept. 7 with a rib-bon-cutting ceremony.
The natatorium will reopen for public use at 6 a.m. Sept. 8 and will remain open seven days per week.
The Blalock Natatorium has been closed for several months for improvements. No major improvements had been made since it was opened in 1982. The city set aside $350,000 this year to do the work.
The improvements include a new zero-wake guttering system that will improve lap swimming and competitive meets; competitive diving blocks and backstroke flags; a colored concrete deck; pool furniture; and major upgrades and improve-ments to the system that regulates the air and water temperatures.
Other improvements include an improved out-door deck area that will be fenced and landscaped. In addition, the new deck will allow for better venues for pool parties and social functions. Additional stor-age has been added.
The city has also pur-chased a handicap pool lift and new steps for those swimmers that are physi-cally challenged.
Barber McMurry Architects of Knoxville designed the improve-ments, and D&S Contractors of Sevierville served as general contrac-tor. Staff from both the Facility Maintenance and Parks and Recreation departments assisted.
As part of the ribbon cutting ceremony, the city will introduce the new Safe Access for Everyone (SAFE) program. In order to improve safety in the Community Center; the city will require member-ship to certain parts of the building, including the Natatorium, by Oct. 1.
Blalock Natatoriumto reopen next week
Night of Mercy fundraiserfor SMARM to be Saturday
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press Local ◆ A3
Editor’s Note: The com-munity 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 [email protected]. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.
WedneSdAy, SePT. 1
Medic Blood DriveMedic blood drive
noon-6 p.m., Walgreens Sevierville.
Farmers MarketFarmers market 8-11:30
a.m., Sevier Farmers Co-Op, 321 W. Main, Sevierville. 453-7101.
Church Block PartyCommunity block party
at Parkway Church of God, by Belk, 6 p.m. Free food, face painting, police fin-gerprinting for children. 654-7878.
Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-
en’s Bible study:n 10 a.m. Sugar Tree
Road, Wears Valley. 428-4932,
n 9 a.m. Wellington Place. 429-5131
ThurSdAy, SePT. 2
Democratic PartySevier County Democratic
Party meets 7 p.m. at courthouse.
American LegionAmerican Legion Post 104
dinner meeting, 6 p.m. 908-4310 or www.aml-gnp104tn.org.
Kindness CountsKindness Counts, formerly
Feral Cat Friends, meets 7 p.m.. 654-2684.
Scrapbook ClubScrapbook Club meets 10
a.m.-4 p.m. and 5:30-10 p.m., Whispering Winds on Snapp Road. 429-3721.
Dishdodgers BowlingDishdodgers bowling
league start-up meeting 6 p.m., Sevierville Bowling Center. 453-6724 or 908-9622.
Blood DriveMedic blood drive 11
a.m.-7 p.m., Smoky Mountain Knife Works.
Gatlinburg Garden Club Gatlinburg Garden
Club meets 1 p.m. at Community Center. Refreshments served.
Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-
en’s Bible study:n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon
Forge
n 2 p.m. Blue Mountain Mist B&B, Pullen Road
n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, Conference Room
Hot Meals Smoky Mountain Area
Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:30-6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Sevierville and Kodak United Methodist. 933-5996.
TOPSTOPS weight loss chap-
ter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville. 755-9517 or 429-3150.
Mothers Day OutMothers Day Out, First
Baptist Church, Gatlinburg, fall classes, Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the school year for ages 1-4. 436-4685.
Free Library MovieAnna Porter Public Library’s
free showing of “Nine” at 6:30 p.m. 436-5588.
Yard Sale BenefitBenefit yard sale, 8
a.m., 418 McMahan Ave., Sevierville, today-Saturday. Benefits Andy Green’s med-ical expenses. To donate items call 286-5542.
fridAy, SePT. 3
MOPSMothers Of Preschoolers
and expecting, 9:30-noon, first and third Friday. Childcare provided. Evergreen Church, PCA. 428-3001.
JOY ClubJust Older Youth Club
meets at Pigeon Forge Community Center. Bingo 10:30 a.m., covered dish lunch 11:30. 429-7373.
Sunny View ChurchSinging 7 p.m., Sunny
View Church.
SATurdAy, SePT. 4
Ogles ChapelOgles Chapel Community
Church on Jayell, 5 p.m., bean supper and singing featuring the Parton Boys. 453-0763
Farmers Marketsn 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.
Yard Sale BenefitBenefit yard sale, 8
a.m. 418 McMahan Ave., Sevierville. to help with Andy Green medical expenses. Information/donations, 286-5542.
SundAy, SePT. 5
Walnut Grove BaptistWalnut Grove Baptist
Church singing 7 p.m., featuring Zambian Vocal Group from Africa. 617-5380.
Old Harp SingingWears Valley United
Methodist Church Old Harp singing 2 p.m. 428-2239.
Price ReunionDescendants and relatives
of John and Miranda Price reunion at Price Family Cemetery in Emerts Cove off Highway 321, Pittman Center. Covered dish lunch served at noon.
Flea Market FellowshipFellowship 8-9 a.m.
inside Great Smokies Flea Market. Speaker, Judge Dwight Stokes.
MondAy, SePT. 6
Gold Wing RidersGold Wing Road Riders
Assn. meets 6:30 p.m. I-HOP Sevierville. 660-4400.
Hot Meals Hot Meals For Hungry
Hearts 5:30-6:30 p.m., Henderson Chapel Baptist Church, 407 Henderson Road, Pigeon Forge. Sponsored by SMARM.
Prayer in ActionConcerned Women of
America Prayer in Action, 6-7 p.m. Pigeon Forge UMC. 436-0313.
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GATLINBURG — The Gatlinburg Recreation Department announces Red Cross first aid and CPR classes to be held at the Community Center.
Classes will be held Wednesdays according to the following schedule:
n Sept. 15: Adult CPR n Sept. 29: First aid n Oct. 13: Child & Infant
CPR n Oct. 27: Adult CPR n Nov. 10: First aid n Dec. 1: Child & Infant
CPR
The classes begin at 5:30 p.m. and last approximate-ly three and one-half hours. A $10 registration fee must be paid at the Community Center by Tuesday before each class. The balance of $12.50 for CPR class must be paid on the day of the class.
The same book and sup-plies will be used in the first aid class, if taken by the same person.
For more information, contact Sherry Jochen at 436-4990.
First aid, CPR classes offered
a r r e s t sEditor’s Note: The follow-
ing information was taken from the intake reports at the Sevier County Jail. All people listed within this report are presumed inno-cent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
◆ Vincent Joseph Bastanzi, 22, of 2859 Luther Catlett Circle in Sevierville, was charged Aug. 30 with vandal-ism: $500 to $1,000. He was being held in lieu of $1,500 bond.
◆ Collin McCrae Bollinger, 31, of 310 Huskey Road Lot 19 in Seymour, was charged Aug. 30 with a misdemeanor warrant from general ses-sions court. He was being held.
◆ Fabian Colon, 40, of Prairieville, La., was charged Aug. 30 with pub-lic intoxication. He was released on $500 bond.
◆ Kenneth Grahm Doolittle, 43, of 330 Mount Drive in Sevierville, was charged Aug. 31 with aggravated domestic assault and violation of an order of protection. He was being held.
◆ Rachel Olivia Fox, 23, of 1084 Berry Trail Drive in Sevierville, was charged Aug. 30 with contributing to the delin-quency of a minor. She was released.
◆ Joshua Lynn Gibson, 27, of 1437 Sugar Loaf Mountain Road in Sevierville, was charged
Aug. 30 with a two counts of violation of probation. He was released on $3,500 bond.
◆ Herschel Ronald Givens, 36, of 390 E. Parkway in Gatlinburg, was charged Aug. 31 with domestic violence assault. He was being held in lieu of $10,000 bond.
◆ David Lee Mills, 44, of4025 Parkway Room #259 in Pigeon Forge, was charged Aug. 31 with violation of probation. He was being held.
◆ Jacob Anthony Moak, 32, of 4929 Mathis Branch Road in Cosby, was charged Aug. 30 with driv-ing while revoked. He was released on $1,500 bond.
◆ Jigar Dhansukhla Patel, 27, of 3180 Hickory Drive #426 in Pigeon forge, was charged Aug. 30 with DUI. He was being held.
◆ Pattie Anne Roe, 48, of 339 Stephens Road in Gatlinburg, was charged Aug. 31 with domestic violence assault. She was being held in lieu of $2,500 bond.
◆ Cesar Vindel Rojas, 30, of 520 Reagan Drive in Gatlinburg, was charged Aug. 30 with public intoxi-cation. He was released on $500 bond.
◆ Sherry Renee Sinclair, 45, of 459 Asbury Drive in Pigeon Forge, was charged Aug. 30 with misdemeanor warrant from general ses-sions court, criminal tres-pass and theft of property. She was being held.
c o m m u n i t y c a l e n d a r
Submitted
Sally is a year-old terrier mix. Tiger is a year-old orange and white domestic short hair mix. The adoption fee for cats and dogs is $100 and covers their first set of vaccinations, spay/neu-ter and microchip. The Gnatty Branch Animal Shelter is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For a complete list of avail-able pets go to www.sevierhumane.org and click on adopt.
Adoptable pets
The Mountain Press ◆ Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Graveside service only will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday Sept. 1 at Smoky Mountain Memory Garden in Pigeon Forge.
Arrangements handled by McCarty Funeral Directors.
McCarty Funeral Directors and Cremation Services, Sevierville, 774-2950.
Ella Mae Garner Ivey Ella Mae Garner Ivey, of
Newport, born July 12, 1933, died Monday Aug. 30, 2010, at her daughter ’s home in Carson Springs.
She was retired from Edgemont School.
Survivors: daughter and son-in-law Andrew and Sheila Proctor and their son Logan; son and daughter-in-law Larry and Jocelyn Ivey and their daughter Elizabeth; son and daughter-in-law Carmell and Joyce Ivey; brother Richard Garner; sisters-and brothers in-law, Thomas and Molly Ottinger, Gene and Helen Ottinger, Bobby and Wanda Northern; sisters Virgie Ottinger and Wilma Owenby; many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held 8 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 1 in Manes Funeral Home Chapel with burial 10 a.m. Thursday Sept, 2 in Union Cemetery. Family will receive friends
from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday prior to the services at Manes Funeral Home. Family and friends may sign on-line at www.manes fuen ra lhome.com.
Manes Funeral Home is in charge.
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o b i t u a r i e s In Memoriam
William “Robert” Broyhill
William “Robert” Broyhill, age 65 of Sevierville, passed away Monday, August 30, 2010.
Mr. Broyhill was of the Baptist faith and was preceded in death by his mother Della Hurst and aunt Elizabeth Breeden.
Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Justin and Jessica Broyhill; daughters and son-in-law, Dena and Adam Sutton, Tina Broyhill; grandchildren, Elizabeth, Jasmine, Keith, Brittany, Angel, and C.J.; brothers, Jim Broyhill, Edward Hurst, Harold Hurst and wife Jennifer; special friends, Laura and Mike Walters.
The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at Atchley Funeral Home. Graveside service and interment 10 a.m. Thursday in Caton’s Chapel Cemetery with Pastor Ronnie Messer offi-ciating and military honors provided by American Legion Post 104. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.
n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com
Arthur Clifford Myers Jr.
Arthur Clifford (A.C.) Myers, Jr., 75 of Sevierville, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010.
He was a member of Richardson’s Cove Baptist Church, and a musician. He was retired from Cherokee Textile Mills with the mill’s longest tenure of 51years.
Survivors: wife Pauline Myers; daughter and son-in-law Cathy and Roger Ogle; son and daughter-in-law David and Jewel Myers; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one expect-ed great-grandson; brother Jack Myers and wife Lissie; sisters, Eva Rhodes and Juanita Bishop.
Family and friends will meet 10 a.m. Wednesday at Evans Chapel Cemetery for graveside service and interment with Dr. David Ayers officiating. The fam-ily received friends 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.
n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com
Earl R. ToddEarl R. Todd, 82 of Sevierville,
died Monday morning, Aug. 30, 2010 at the family home.
He was preceded in death by one day, by his wife of 62 years Barbara Todd.
Survivors: daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Jim Brown of Sevierville; daughter, Cindy Mason of Demorest, Ga; son and daughter-in-law, Rick and Kim Todd of Branson, Mo.; six grand-children and nine great-grand-children. In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made in his honor to the American Cancer Society. Cremation services provided by McCarty Funeral Directors and Cremation Services, 607 Wall Street, Sevierville, TN 37862, 774-2950.
Thomas F. PerryThomas F. Perry, 86 of
Sevierville, formerly of Rumford, Me., died Sunday, Aug. 29. 2010.
A veteran of the U.S. Air Force and a member of the air offen-sive in Europe, Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland until June of 1945. He flew 65 missions during that time period. He was a member of the Masons, Scottish Rite, Shriners, American Legion, Elks and a lifetime member in Veterans of Foreign War.
Survivors: wife Lee Rowley Perry; sister-in-law and husband, Jackelyn and Tom Schafer; sev-eral nieces and nephews of Rumford, including Michael Bean and wife Heidi Bean.
A private memorial service will be held. Cremation arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home.
n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com
Nancy Stinnett RussellNancy Stinnett Russell, 69
of Kodak, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 at Jefferson County Nursing Home. She was a member of Martha Davis Baptist Church.
Survivors: sons and daughters-in-law, David Russell and fiance Renee Mayerchak Bryan Russell, Paul and Darlene Russell; special son, Stephen Perry; three grand-children; sisters, Patsy Moore, Joy Foley.
Funeral service 7 p.m. Wednesday in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Rev. Nathaniel Wilson officiating. Interment 10 a.m. Thursday in Beech Springs Cemetery with the Rev. Charlie Harkleroad officiat-ing. The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.
n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com
Ruth (Noland) KleinRuth (Noland) Klein, 72 of
Sevierville, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.
Survivors: daughter, Kim Klein Cusick and husband Al; son, Scott Klein and wife Lisa; grandchildren, Aaron Klein, Megan Klein, and Alysyn Cusick Williams and husband Randy; great-grandchildren, Taten McGill and Kendall Williams.
Ruth was a prayer warrior, studied God’s word faithfully, a talented seamstress and a master quilter. In lieu of flowers the fam-ily requests donations be made to Sevier County Food Ministry.
In Memoriam
Ruby Seaton Rainwater
Ruby Seaton Rainwater, age 97, Knoxville, TN, born Aug. 24, 1913, in Sevier County, entered eter-nal life Aug. 29, 2010.
A resident at Heritage Assisted Living and Shannondale Health Care Center. She was a gradu-ate of Murphy Collegiate Institute, Sevierville, TN, and upon marriage became a lifelong resident of Knoxville, being a volunteer in many organiza-tions in support of her sons and family. A member of Macedonia United Methodist Church she was preceded in death by husband of 73 years Clyde B. Rainwater, Knoxville; parents, George Washington and Daisy Ogle Seaton, Sevier County, TN; grand-sons, Todd Howard Rainwater, Longwood, FL, and James Wiley Rainwater, Knoxville; brothers, Clyde, Buford and Roy Seaton, and sister, Trula S. Sutton, all of Sevierville; and nephews, David and Ronnie Seaton, Sevierville; and survived by sons, Earl (Virginia) and Burl [Ilene], of Knoxville, and Carl [Ruth Ann] of Longwood, FL; grandchildren, Sheri R. [Derwin] Hagood, Knoxville, Sissie R. [Glenn] Hargreaves, Franklin, TN, and Douglas B. Rainwater, New York, NY; and seven great grandchildren, Haley E., Taylor G.., Hannah E. and Holly E. Hagood, Knoxville, TN, Megan L. and Matthew G. Hargreaves, Franklin, TN, and Kaley R. Rainwater, Winter Springs, FL; nieces, Charlene S. Leatherwood, Sevierville, TN, and Glenda E. Arnold, Marietta, GA, and nephews, Charles C. and George R. Seaton, and Rex and Max Sutton, Sevierville, TN.
The family has appreciated the caregiving ser-vices of Beulah Morgan and Melba Cummings and her daughter, Christy. Family and friends will meet at the Middle Creek United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevierville, TN, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4th, 2010, for a graveside memo-rial service and interment with Rev. Bobby Ely officiating. In lieu of flowers, gifts and memori-als may be made to Macedonia United Methodist Church, 4630 Holston Dr., Knoxville, TN 37914, or Middle Creek United Methodist Church, P. O. Box 4163, Sevierville, TN 37864. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, at Rose Mortuary Broadway, Knoxville, TN.
Online condolences may be made at www.rosemortuary.com
vant she knows with what it appears he’s done.
“Joe is always so happy and nice,” Clabo says. “He was probably as good a pub-lic servant as any official in this courthouse before this happened. He went beyond his means to help you.”
County Commissioner Jimmie Temple agrees Keener went above and beyond to serve people in the office the voters elected him to five times, including on Aug. 5.
“He’s been a good office-holder,” says Temple, quickly adding, “but things happen. When he came into office, he was young and energetic. He began to do a lot of things in his office to streamline.”
Temple points out Keener extended the department’s hours, modernized the systems for marriage and notary licenses, and started
offering drive-up service for things like tag renewals.
Still, Temple knows Keener must be held accountable if he did something wrong.
“He’s made a terrible mistake,” Temple said. “He can’t blame anyone but him-self. He’s got to pull him-self up, and he’s got to rely on his friends and family to help him get through this. He may come out of this a better man. We’ll just have to see.”
They’re tough words from a man who says he’s known Keener since the former clerk was just a boy.
“I knew his daddy and granddaddy, and I watched him grow up,” Temple says. “I was a close friend to Joe Keener. At least, I consid-ered myself a close friend. I just haven’t been able to get this off my mind. I just keep thinking about Joe and his family. We’re all hurt and saddened by this.”
Those feelings seem pretty common among those who worked closely with Keener. County Mayor Larry Waters’
office is just across the hall.While the mayor and the
clerk had some spats over the years, including a very public battle over space for Keener’s office a couple years ago, Waters says nei-ther man let any negative feelings fester.
“In this business you have disagreements with different folks, but you know that’s just part of the job, and Joe always saw it that way, too,” Waters explains. “Joe did his best to modernize his office and to institute addi-tional services for the people he served. He certainly pro-vided assistance to a lot of people in Sevier County.”
When Waters heard the man he describes as “very friendly and easygoing” may have mishandled money in his office, he says he was shocked. Disappointment came soon after, followed by another powerful emotion.
“There is an extreme amount of sadness,” Waters says. “I just hate this hap-pened.”
Keener handed in a res-ignation letter Monday addressed to County Mayor Larry Waters, who took the document in his role as chairman of the County Commission. In the letter, Keener cited the financial problems in the office and said he has worked to rec-tify them. Reports indicate Keener has made repay-ment of money that was missing.
That repayment would not excuse him from crimi-nal prosecution if the TBI determines that step is war-ranted, though it may help lessen Keener’s punishment.
With Keener’s departure, Chief Deputy Clerk Karen Cotter has taken over, a move dictated by state law. Keener’s county-issued car has been sitting in its des-ignated parking spot for the last few days.
In the case of such a change in who’s running the office, the comptrol-ler’s office requires that the
department remain closed for a time to allow its audi-tors to check the cash on hand. Essentially that’s an effort to record exactly how much money is there at the time of the turnover, a move that is meant to give the new officeholder a fresh start.
The closure, which last-ed from Tuesday morning through early afternoon, was announced only by some paper signs taped on the windows of the dark-ened clerk’s office that read, “Office closed until further notice.” Apparently no effort was made to let folks like Donna Kirby know they wouldn’t be able to get ser-vices like vehicle registration renewals.
“I’ve been here since 10:30,” Kirby said as she stood in a line of folks Tuesday afternoon waiting for the office to open — a line that snaked back for quite a distance through the courthouse halls. “I was told earlier they were going to open at 12, then we were told it would be later than that. I have to wait because I have to get this renewed. It’s
the last day of the month. I never wait until the end of the month to do this, but this time I did. I guess it just serves me right that they’re closed.”
While Kirby was trying to keep her sense of humor, Debby Abbott, who stood just behind Kirby in line, was a bit more frustrated. She said sheriff’s deputies trying to keep the crowd orderly offered some assurances that turned out not to be exactly accurate.
“They keep saying it’ll just be a few more minutes. They’ve been saying that for a while now,” Abbott said. “I’ve been without a vehicle for two years and this is the day I decided to buy one. I had to lose time from work to be here and I can’t even get it done.” Both women said they hadn’t heard anything about the tur-moil in the clerk’s office until the word started spreading among those waiting.
“I guess this was a surprise for most people,” Abbott said.
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DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
Marcial Anguiano, 47, of Duncanville, was taken from the Dallas County courthouse on a stretcher with his neck covered in bandag-es, state District Judge Larry Mitchell said.
Anguiano, who was talking as he was carried out, was hospitalized in stable condi-tion, Dallas County sheriff’s spokeswoman
Kim Leach said. The blade cut into muscle but did not strike an artery.
Anguiano took the stand Tuesday and said he hoped to be sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife. But the judge, influenced by the defen-dant’s five previous prison stints, instead sentenced him to 40 years.
“He looked up at me kind of quizzically and said, ’40 years?”’ Mitchell told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “And I said, ’Yes, 40 years.”’
Texas man slits throat in court after sentencing
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bought at a package store, at least it’s consumed at home,” he said.
People who want to buy bottled spirits cur-rently have to drive to Gatlinburg or out of Sevier County, he said. Even though they’re con-suming the alcohol in Sevierville, they’re buy-ing it somewhere else and the revenues aren’t staying here.
He’s been seeking petition signers in a variety of ways, includ-ing mailing out copies with a return envelope addressed to “vote” and using a Sevierville post office box.
The deadline for put-ting those signatures in the mail is today.
Duckworth said he understands the deadline for submitting the peti-
tion to the Sevier County Election Commission is Friday; Administrator of Elections Ronee Flynn said Tuesday she wasn’t sure if that was the cor-rect deadline in this case because there is no municipal election.
Duckworth was opti-mistic that he would have enough signatures to get the referendum on the ballot.
“I think we’re going to get more than enough,” he said.
There hasn’t been any negative feedback so far,
he added, although he anticipates there will be some.
Local business people have supported the idea, he said.
“I talked to a lot of business owners before I even started checking into it,” Duckworth said.
Mayor Bryan Atchley said he isn’t taking a position on the matter; he took the same view in 2008 when petitions surfaced to allow the sale of liquor by the drink in the city.
“If it passes, just like
liquor by the drink did, we’ve got it,” he said. PeTiTion
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er cables to bypass an electronic system that would have disabled the ride unless all the restraints were secured. Judge Ogle found that Zamperla Inc., the Italian manufacturer of “the Hawk,” did not share in liability for the incident because a working safety system had been bypassed.
The appellate court issued a ruling affirming Ogle’s judgment, say-ing, “We agree defen-dants had no apparent reason to believe the manager of an amuse-ment park, especially this manager, would criminally bypass the ride’s safety system and place the park’s guests in peril.”
A Sevier County jury eventually found that the park manager, Charles Stan Martin, was responsible for maintenance of the ride and was the only person working at the park with the techni-cal expertise to disable the safety measure. Martin’s background included working on electronic systems on missiles for the Air Force and on nucle-ar reactors for TVA, as well as training by Zamperla.
The district attor-ney general’s office charged Martin with second-degree murder,
but the jury convicted him of the lesser count of reckless homicide. Ogle gave Martin an eight-year, suspended sentence, noting that while the conviction was serious it was the only criminal offense on Martin’s record.
Alexander’s fam-ily sued Martin, the owners of the Rockin’ Raceway and Zamperla. They eventually set-tled with Martin and the park owners, but the compliant against Zamperla continued until Ogle issued a summary judgement in favor of the com-pany. Ogle found that Zamperla could not have predicted Martin’s actions, and that Martin significantly altered the safety systems.
Appellate judge John McClarty noted the plaintiffs were unable to find a single other inci-dent where tampering with a ride by its owner or manager resulted in the death of a rider.
“Under these circum-stances, we must dis-agree wit the plaintiff’s portrayal of the park manager’s intentional conduct as reasonably foreseeable or present-ing a trialbe issue of fact.”
The ride’s safety sys-tem were complicated enough that it took “highly specialized technical expertise” to complete the altera-tions, the court found.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe much of the East Coast just ahead of Labor Day, wor-rying countless vacation-ers who planned to spend the traditional last week of summer at the beach.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned people along the Eastern Seaboard to pre-pare for possible evacua-tions and islanders in the Turks and Caicos hun-kered down in their homes Tuesday as the Category 4 hurricane steamed across the Caribbean with winds of 135 mph.
Earl was expected to remain over the open ocean before turning north and running parallel to the East Coast, bringing high winds and heavy rain to North Carolina’s Outer Banks by late Thursday or early Friday. From there, forecasters said, it could curve away from the coast somewhat as it makes it way north, perhaps hitting Massachusetts’ Cape Cod and the Maine shoreline on Friday night and Saturday.
“My guests are calling and they don’t know what to do and I don’t know what to tell them,” said Dave Dawson, owner of the oceanfront Cape Hatteras Motel in Buxton, N.C.
Forecasters cautioned that it was still too early to tell how close Earl might come to land. But not since Hurricane Bob in 1991 has such a powerful storm had such a large swath of the East Coast in its sights, said Dennis Feltgen, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center.
Earl could force U.S.evacuations
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CHICAGO (AP) — Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new research suggests.
The study is the largest to date to find advantages for preventive surgery for women who carry BRCA gene mutations. Women with the faulty genes have a dra-matically higher cancer risk than other women — five times greater for breast cancer and at least 10 times greater for ovarian cancer.
The study, appearing in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association, found benefits for women with two dif-ferent BRCA gene variants whether they had previously had breast cancer or not.
The results offer more tailored evidence for women considering ovary removal, a surgery that ends fertility, fast-forwards them into early menopause and may con-
tribute to osteoporosis or heart problems later in life.
“It’s really critical to have the best information when making such a pro-found decision,” said senior author Timothy Rebbeck of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
The researchers followed nearly 2,500 women with BRCA mutations in Austria, England, the Netherlands and the United States. All the women were cancer-free at the start. They were watched for an average of four years. Most of the women were younger than 50 at the start of the study.
They got counseling to help them choose between surgery or increased screening to watch for cancers early.
Ten percent of the women chose mas-tectomy and 40 percent chose to have their ovaries removed; some had both. More than half the women had neither surgery.
Ovary removal benefits seen for high-risk women
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■ CmA AwardsNASHVILLE (AP) —
Miranda Lambert leads the first round of CMA Awards nominations with five, followed closely by Lady Ante-b e l l u m with four and Zac B r o w n with three.
B l a k e S h e l t o n and Trace A d k i n s as well as newcomer Easton Corbin have two each.
Lambert is competing against herself twice. “The House That Built Me” and “White Liar” are both up for single of the year and music video of the year. She’s also nominated for writing song of the year contender “White Liar.”
Other song of the year nominees include “The House That Built Me”; “Need You Now, co-writ-ten by Lady Antebellum; “Toes” co-written by Zac Brown; and Corbin’s “A Little More Country Than That.”
“ ...The main message I have to you is congrat-ulations on a job well done. The country appre-ciates you. I appreciate you. And the most pride I take in my job is being your Commander-in-
Chief. ...”— President barack obama in remarks to soldiers at Fort bliss, marking the official end to combat activities in iraq
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United Way tokick off drive
The Sevier County United Way will hold its kickoff for the 2010 campaign at 1 p.m. Thursday at The Inn at Christmas Place.
For more information call 430-5727 or e-mail to [email protected].
Desserts will be served.
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Heritage Dayset Sept. 18
Pittman Center’s annual Heritage Day will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 18 at Town Hall.
There will be some 70 arts and crafts vendors as well as demonstrations. At 1 p.m. there will be an auction to raise money for playground equipment and the scholarship fund.
For more information call 436-5499.
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Shark race ticketsavailable for $10
United Way of Sevier County is gearing up for its seventh annual Great Gatlinburg Shark Race, set for 3 p.m. Sept. 25 at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies.
The $10 tickets are avail-able at Ripley’s Aquarium, Food City, Gatlinburg Welcome centers and other participating area busi-nesses.
Each ticket purchased will be represented by a rubber shark racing down the river — with the win-ner awarded $10,000 in cash.
Tickets can also be ordered online at www.uwosc.org. For more infor-mation, call 430-5727.
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Night of Mercyhelps SMARM
In one night, local businesses can make a difference in the lives of struggling Sevier County families.
“One Night Of Mercy” on Saturday is a way local lodging businesses can help Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries. SMARM is asking each business to donate $1 for each room rental on Saturday. This donation will assist in keeping a family from homeless-ness.
For more information, call SMARM Director Dick Wellons at 908-3153 or visit www.smarm.org.
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School praised forMonday reaction
A Northeast Tennessee education official says a school resource officer, staff members and students reacted “phenomenally well” to a gun-wielding man before he was fatally shot at Sullivan Central High School.
Deputies fatally shot 62-year-old Thomas Richard Cowan when he refused to drop a loaded pistol at the school Monday. No one else was hurt.
Sullivan County schools director Jubal Yennie said resource officer Carolyn Gudger and principal Melanie Riden confronted Cowan and kept him away from students until the arriv-al of deputies who shot Cowan.
Investigators have not said why Cowan went to the school where his brother is a janitor.
Gudger was on admin-istrative leave Tuesday along with other deputies present at the shooting.
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2010. There are 121 days left in the year.
■ Locally a year ago:It took about 40 min-
utes for attorney Bruce Bailey to read the required legal information for the foreclosure sale of Belle Island Village, and then about a minute to real-ize none of the dozens of onlookers were going to offer a bid.
■ today’s highlight:On Sept. 1, 1939,
World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
■ on this date:In 1807, former Vice
President Aaron Burr was found not guilty of treason. (Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.)
■ ten years ago: Saying he wasn’t con-
vinced the technology was at hand to build an effec-tive anti-missile shield, President Bill Clinton said he would leave it to his successor to decide when, or if, to deploy a national missile defense prohibited by a 1972 arms control treaty.
■ Five years ago: New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin issued a “des-perate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.
■ thought for today: “If you want to get
across an idea, wrap it up in person.” — Ralph J. Bunche, American diplo-mat (1904-1971).
NASHVILLE (AP) — A Nashville server has filed a complaint with the state claiming that a new law allowing guns in bars creates an unsafe workplace.
The state Legislature passed the law this year after an earlier law that tried to limit guns to establishments that primarily sold food was
struck down as uncon-stitutionally vague.
The Tennessean reports the complaint was filed by an anony-mous server at Jackson’s Bar and Bistro.
The complaint alleges the law violates Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration regula-tions.
According to the com-plaint, the server has seen handguns carried into the restaurant and
patrons forcefully eject-ed from the property.
Nashville attorney David Randolph Smith represents the server. He was also behind the successful lawsuit that struck down the ear-lier law. Smith said his client would consider a federal lawsuit if the complaint is unsuccess-ful.
“The general duty clause of TOSHA says that an employer has a duty to protect and
safeguard employees against recognized haz-ards to human health, safety and life,” said Smith. “The only ques-tion is, ’Are armed gun-men a hazard in a bar?’ “
A spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Labor and Work force Development confirmed the complaint had been received and said an inspection would take place in the coming weeks.
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Let’s be blunt: John McCain’s win-ning campaign over former GOP Rep. J.D. Hayworth in the recent Arizona Republican Senate primary was nei-ther edifying nor inspiring.
In the language of sports, McCain “won ugly” in that home-state primary dominated by conservative voters who distrusted him for his original opposi-tion to George W. Bush’s tax cuts, his lead-ership on cam-paign finance reform and his collaboration with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy on an immigration bill that would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented immi-grants already working in the U.S.
OK, so in the summer of 2010 John McCain failed to write a new chapter in “Profiles in Courage.” But, as one who has disagreed with him on many issues, I want to say a few words in behalf of John McCain and why he deserves to be cut a little slack.
First, McCain is today one of only seven living Americans — the oth-ers being George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and John Kerry — who knows firsthand how painfully public and publicly painful it is to become the presidential nominee of his party and to fail to win the White House. What it means for starters is that the first line of your obituary, “(fill in the blank), defeated presidential nominee, died yesterday at the age of,” has already been written.
Having seen up-close that awful sense of loss and disappointment, I offer this story about this tiny broth-erhood of misery. In 1988, four years after he had lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide, Walter “Fritz” Mondale bumped into George McGovern, who in 1972 had lost in another landslide to Richard Nixon. Mondale report-edly asked McGovern, “Please tell me, George, when does it stop hurting?” McGovern’s revealing response, some 16 years after his own defeat: “I’ll let you know, Fritz, I’ll let you know.”
Frequently over the years, I have been criticized -- usually by liberals, but also by conservatives — for going “soft” on John McCain. I plead guilty. I have been impressed by McCain’s lonely Senate crusades — working with Democrats — to successfully rid national campaigns of unrestricted seven-figure “soft money” donations from corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals. I knew it was not easy for him to be just one of two GOP senators willing to oppose President George W. Bush’s $1.35 trillion in tax cuts in 2001 or to be one of three to oppose Bush’s second round of tax cuts in 2003.
Yes, he later switched his position. But John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign reminded those of us who cover politics and those who care about the country and how we choose our leaders just what politics at its best can be. In the eight months before the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, McCain — overwhelmingly outspent and outgunned by George W. Bush’s establishment-fueled machine — held 114 town meetings where he stood and answered, with candor and humor, voters’ questions.
He listened respectfully to the vot-ers, and they listened to his answers. The more voters saw of him, the more they liked him. He won an 18 per-cent upset victory over Bush. He also gave reporters covering his campaign unmatched access. He was unscripted with the press, almost all of whom respected his frankness in 2000 by resisting the competitive urge to embarrass the candidate by printing some out-of-context gaffe. Did that make us complicit? I think instead it contributed to better coverage of the campaign and the candidates.
I do know that John McCain’s 2000 campaign in New Hampshire taught all of us how politics at its best can serve the nation. And for this alone, I give him the benefit of the doubt.
— Mark Shields is a veteran political campaign manager and frequent televi-sion talk show commentator. Column dis-tributed by Creators Syndicate. (C)2009 Mark Shields.
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Editorial cartoon in papermakes inappropriate statementEditor:
I take some exception to the editorial car-toon you printed Aug. 30 on Page A7. The cartoon depicts two characters sitting on a bench. One says to the other, “Putting a mosque at Ground Zero would be like putting a McDonald’s in Mecca.” The other character responds, “Actually Mecca has four McDonald’s.”
This is apples and oranges. A McDonald’s has no relationship to a mosque.
A more appropriate statement would have been, “Putting a mosque at Ground Zero would be like putting a Baptist church in Mecca.” Saudi Arabia, the country in which Mecca is located, allows no churches in the
entire country, not only in Mecca. In fact, non-Muslims may not even enter the city of Mecca.
When one looks at the question in this con-text, one wonders why the idea of tolerance is a one-way street.
Carolyn H. Genc Pigeon Forge
Nobody ever offered a thank youwhen donating books to libraryEditor:
I read a recent letter regarding book dona-tions to our new library. I agree with the writer in part. We should all donate books that we do not need any more to the library. They can certainly use them, and perhaps other people will benefit from them.
The part of the letter that I did not find true, at least in my case, was the part about being thanked by the staff. My wife and I have donated several hundred books in recent months, from novels to cookbooks, and have never been thanked even once.
When I donated books, I told a lady inside that I had books and she sent someone to open the back door. I backed my car up to the back door and someone unlocked the door from the inside, wheeled a cart out for me to put the books on and disappeared back into the building. Once I finished loading my books on the cart, I wheeled it inside, walked out, closed the door behind me, and drove off. Never a word from any staff member.
Ronald PickellSevierville
By all accounts Joe Keener was a nice guy, liked by everyone he worked with in his role as county clerk. Since his appointment in 1992 to fill an unexpired term, he had breezed through five re-election contests, including this year unopposed.
In the end, it really doesn’t matter how many people liked Joe Keener and respected his work as clerk. The pub-lic trust is sacred. Violate it, and you either get caught and disgraced, or you try to live with the shame of the mis-deed. Joe Keener got caught, and today he is out of office, an embarrassment to many, and facing the possibility of criminal charges.
He apparently mishandled a report-ed $100,000 in public money. Auditors discovered it, called in more auditors, and in the midst of an audit investiga-tion into the financial operations of the office, Keener took a leave, then on
Monday resigned. In his letter of resignation he indi-
cated any missing money had been repaid, which surely will work in his favor should criminal charges be brought. And even if he did repay the money, a criminal investigation simply has to be done. The public is owed not just repayment of missing funds. It must be assured that the justice system will not forgive or ignore wrongdoing simply because missing funds were paid back.
For now, it’s mostly speculation and rumor. The audit results have not been released. Many of those who seem to know what’s going on don’t want to be quoted or to speak on the record. If Keener took money that wasn’t his, we don’t know why. It’s been a story difficult to get one’s hands around, but there is enough there to know something wrong hap-
pened, and a man lost his elected job because of it.
It’s a shame. A tragedy. No one can or should be happy about any of this. People in the courthouse are saddened. A good man is out of office. Yes, a good man. Joe Keener made a mistake, it appears, and there have to be conse-quences. But not everyone who violates the public trust is evil or nefarious.
People get caught up in things, they make bad judgments, they screw up, they get in the middle of impossible and difficult situations and then do the wrong thing to try to get out of them. That doesn’t make them bad people. Just flawed, like all of us.
The Joe Keener story isn’t over. We don’t know how it will play out. We only know he has left the office he loved, his fate in the hands of oth-ers. He really needs family and friends now.
McCain winnot reallytoo inspiring
The sacred public trustViolate it, as Joe Keener apparently did, and there have to be consequences
The Mountain Press ◆ Wednesday, September 1, 2010A8 ◆ State/Nation
NASHVILLE (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is coming to Tennessee to campaign for Democratic guber-natorial candidate Mike McWherter.
The McWherter cam-paign confirmed that Clinton is scheduled to be in Nashville on Sept. 9. Spokesman Shelby White said Monday that detailed plans for the visit were still being worked out.
McWherter, the son of former Gov. Ned
McWherter, faces Republican Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam in this fall’s election.
Clinton’s friendship with Ned McWherter dates back to when he was governor of neighboring Arkansas.
Clinton was the key-
note speaker for a state Democratic Party fundrais-er last year, and also came
to Nashville and Memphis to support Harold Ford Jr.’s Senate bid in 2006.
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WASHINGTON — Americans with the strongest opinions about the country’s most divisive issues are largely unhappy with how President Barack Obama is handling them, an ominous sign for Democrats hoping to retain control of Congress in the fall elections.
In nine of 15 issues examined in an Associated Press-GfK Poll this month, more Americans who expressed intense interest in a problem voiced strong opposition to Obama’s work on it, includ-ing the economy, unemployment, federal deficits and terrorism. They were about evenly split over the president’s efforts on five issues and strongly approved of his direction on just one: U.S. relation-ships with other countries.
In another danger sign for Democrats, most Americans extremely concerned about 10 of the issues say they will vote for the Republican candi-date in their local House race. Only those highly interested in the environment lean toward the Democrats.
The findings are troubling for Democrats strug-gling to protect their House and Senate majorities on Election Day. They suggest that many of the most involved voters — those with the deepest feel-ings about issues high on the nation’s agenda — are furious with the party in power and will take out their wrath at the polls.
“I’m going to vote Republican, and hope there’s some kind of message sent to the administration that the public is unhappy with what’s happened the first two years of the Obama administration,” said Mark Milanese, 49, a building remodeler from Coatesville, Pa., who expressed strong disapproval for the president’s approach to many major issues.
Congressional races often turn on local concerns and the candidates’ character, factors that may yet sway many races this year. But many analysts think the public’s widely sour mood — just 35 percent in the AP-GfK poll said the country is headed in the right direction — means this year’s campaigns could be widely influenced by national issues, especially the economy.
“The economy is poor, we’re muddling through in Afghanistan, we’re not making much progress in the war on terror,” said Paul Goren, a University of Minnesota political scientist who studies voting behavior. “Every once in a while national issues can intrude. It looks like there’s a good chance this will be one of those elections.”
To find people with the most intense views, the AP examined poll respondents who called an issue extremely important and compared those who strongly approved of Obama’s handling of that mat-ter with those who strongly disapproved.
By a 3-to-1 margin, more of these highly opin-ionated people strongly disapproved of the president’s effort on the economy than strongly approved. More strongly disapproved of Obama’s actions by a 2-to-1 ratio on unemployment, 2-1 on health care, 6-1 on the deficit and 2-1 on ter-rorism. His performance on Afghanistan, taxes, immigration and gas prices also drew strong disapproval.
AP Poll: Mostattuned voters tilt toward GOP
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A sign discouraging marijuana growing sits on property next to what was once a egg farm near Longmont, Colo., on Monday.
By IVAN MORENOAssociated Press Writer
LONGMONT, Colo. — The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry.
But Scott Mullner, a city council-man from Laramie, Wyo., infuriated his Colorado neighbors with his plan to place a marijuana farm in the midst of their idyllic Northern Colorado countryside.
They say the project will damage property values and attract more unwanted attention than the previous business at the location — an organic egg farm.
“Nobody is going to come out and steal a chicken,” said Lance Messinger, 56, who lives less than a mile from the proposed marijuana site. “So it was pretty benign to the neighborhood, is what I’m saying.”
Despite a flurry of e-mails and calls from residents opposed to the idea, Boulder County commissioners decid-ed against holding a public hearing on the issue on Tuesday, allowing Mullner’s application to proceed.
The county banned medical mari-juana growing operations in agricul-tural areas in June but Mullner was able to get his application in before that. Commissioners said they had to abide by the rules at the time.
Mullner still must proceed through the rest of the regulatory process and opponents say they’ll continue the fight.
“We’re going to keep working on it, we’re going to make it difficult for them and we’re going to grow our numbers. It’s unconscionable, I can-not believe that they did that,” said resident Nancy Peters, 62, one of 40 opponents who attended the meeting.
In addition to upsetting the locals, Mullner’s plan is raising questions about the future of growing medical pot in Colorado, one of 14 states where it is legal.
One question is whether out-of-state investors can profit from the state-regulated industry. Under state law, Mullner can’t grow the marijuana because he’s not a Colorado resident. But if his request is approved, he could make a profit by selling or leasing the land to someone who is eligible, or he could move to Colorado, wait two years to become eligible, then grow it himself.
New state rules that went into effect this year state that a grower can sup-ply only one dispensary. But, if the farm is divided into subplots, each serving a different dispensary busi-ness, it could theoretically serve many, said Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, a medical mari-juana patients’ group.
Dispensaries have a Wednesday deadline to meet a state requirement that they’re growing 70 percent of the marijuana they sell, and industry watchers see a potential for subdi-vided farms supplying pot shops.
“I think this is the beginning of marijuana being treated more like a legitimate agriculture product,” said Vicente.
The proposed pot farm would be unprecedented in terms of its size and wide-open nature, even by national standards.
In New Mexico and Washington state, for example, growing oper-ations are secretly located. In California, the locales of growing operations are not publicly dis-closed. The exception is the city of Oakland, which has approved a plan to authorize large-scale pot cultiva-tion beginning in January, but the operations would be in industrial not residential areas.
While Colorado has hundreds of medical marijuana plots, most of them are indoors in warehouses or in the grower’s basement, said Jeff Gard, a medical marijuana attorney in Boulder.
“This will be the first one that will be out in the open for everyone to see,” Gard said.
That doesn’t set well with the peo-ple who built their dream houses in the countryside about 40 miles north of Denver, Messinger said. The area offers small lakes and homes and land surrounded by white wooden fences. Residents grow alfalfa and sunflowers and advertise the sale of hay.
Those who have written or called county officials are concerned that a marijuana farm will disrupt their tranquility and make them vulner-able to crime. One resident worried about the aroma the farm might pro-duced. “My grandkids play outside here every day. I do not want them inhaling that. Please reconsider!!!”
Rocky Mountain high?Proposed pot farm in Colorado angers residents
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press Entertainment ◆ A9
By ANTHONY McCARTNEYAP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES — Roughly two weeks before a judge would sentence her to jail, Lindsay Lohan sat in a downtown court-room and recounted to a grand jury how a burglar’s black fingerprints on her wall left her so unnerved that she had to move.
Moments later, Orlando Bloom told the same panel how a break-in at his home had left him dis-trustful of those around him, especially after he realized his carefully hid-den collection of watches had been plundered.
The appearance of Lohan, Bloom and four other celebrities in late June before a Los Angeles County grand jury went unnoticed. Yet their tes-timony helped indict five young people who author-ities claim desperately craved what the stars had and were willing to cut through fences and climb through a doggie door to get.
The stars’ reactions revealed in recently unsealed testimony obtained by The Associated Press offers the most detailed account so far of the personal toll that resulted from the rash of celebrity break-ins by the so-called “Bling Ring” between October 2008 and August 2009. One ring member pleaded out and served time; the five others face trial later this year.
Lohan’s testimony typified the fear felt by the celebrities whose homes had been targeted: “That night I went back to the house, I just felt, to be honest, so violated and uncomfortable that I liter-ally packed as much stuff as I could,” Lohan told the jurors, “because it wasn’t about the things that were taken, it was just the fact that someone came into the only private space that I have in my life at this point.”
One-by-one, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge and Paris Hilton also recounted for grand jurors how they walked into their supposedly secure Hollywood Hills homes to find them ransacked and looted.
Brian Austin Green told the jury how the burglary of his home — the last one targeted — was so stealthy that he thought his miss-ing items were simply misplaced. It wasn’t until a detective called and told him his stolen Sig Sauer handgun had been recov-ered that he realized he’d been robbed.
Some of the items stolen were eventu-ally returned. But still outstanding are several irreplaceable personal items, including Bilson’s mother’s engagement
ring that she gave to “The O.C.” star.
For a while, the actors told jurors, their belong-ings had been replaced with a sense of vulnerabil-ity and dread.
“It took me a while to feel comfortable staying there,” Bilson said of her home. “I wouldn’t sleep in my bedroom for about a month.
“And I was convinced that I needed to sell my house and get out of there, because I was very scared,” she told jurors. “But I’m still there.”
Deputy District Attorney Sarika Kim, who is handling the prosecu-tion, urged jurors to over-look the stars’ wealth and celebrity.
“It doesn’t matter,” Kim told the grand jury in closing remarks. “The fact that you are able to replace property doesn’t matter. And in fact, we heard evidence in this case some of the folks weren’t able to replace any of the property. Some folks lost items of senti-mental value.”
“And I think the one thing that was abundantly clear from listening to the testimony of all of the victims was what they lost most importantly was a sense of security,” Kim said.
None of the stars have testified in open court. Bloom likely would have been the first, but Alexis Neiers, who was charged with his break-in, took a plea deal before trial. An aspiring model and real-ity television star, Neiers served 30 days in jail.
But the celebrities could still take the stand if any of the members of
the Bling Ring go to trial. The five remaining defen-dants had been previously charged and the actors’ grand jury testimony eliminated the need for a preliminary hearing.
The testimony led to indictments for felony res-idential burglary against Nicholas Frank Prugo, Rachel Lee, Roy Lopez Jr., Courtney Leigh Ames and Diana Tamayo. All five pleaded not guilty on July 2 and are due back in court on Sept. 20 for a pretrial conference.
Many of the details of the actual break-ins given to the grand jury have been revealed in search warrants and other court filings, but most of the stars have refrained from talking publicly about their losses.
Lohan’s testimony came during a turbulent streak in her life. Her appear-ance on June 18 occurred about two weeks before a judge handling her crimi-nal case sentenced the “Mean Girls” star to jail for a probation violation.
For 40 minutes, Lohan described coming home with her sister early last August to find her rented house in complete disar-ray.
“My front door wasn’t locked, and it usually always was,” Lohan said. “My alarm didn’t sound, and I usually had to turn it off. And everything that I had was kind of thrown, and everything was pretty much disheveled.”
A fur coat, two paint-ings and other high-end jewelry and clothing were missing. When Lohan stepped into her closet, she told jurors, she saw her safe had been moved
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Clockwise from top left, Rachel Bilson, Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton were among the celebrities who testified before a Los Angeles grand jury in June about burglaries to their homes.
and black fingerprints were on her white walls.
She said that after she packed up what she had left, she never returned to that house. “I don’t ever plan on going back to that house,” she said. “It was like, such an invasion of privacy, and it’s just eerie.”
Bloom, who estimated his losses at half a million dollars or more, said he immediately suspected he’d been robbed by a close friend or someone who worked for him.
“It’s just awful because you are suddenly second-guessing everything,”
Bloom told the jury. “You are like, ’Who has been in my house?’ You know, the value of things kind of fades away. It’s really about who is it, who am I starting to question?”
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star said only some of his items — mostly clothes and one of his prized watches — was ever returned. He testified that clothing of his then-girlfriend, model Miranda Kerr, was also stolen. Bloom and Kerr have since married.
His house, which one detective likened to the “Bat Cave” because it
couldn’t be seen from the street or the air, was tar-geted in July 2009.
Authorities estimate that there is at least $2 million of the stars’ property that has not been recovered. They suspect that Lee, one of the group’s alleged masterminds, may have hidden the goods before her arrest at her father’s home in Las Vegas.
Lee allegedly offered to return some of the stolen property to detec-tives in exchange for leniency, according to transcripts and other court filings.
Secret testimony reveals stars’ loss in ‘Bling Ring’
“We have always sort of lived a very, I guess, trusting life-
style and we just didn’t set the alarm. I now do, every time I
leave the house. Even if it’s for 20 minutes.”
— Rachel Bilson
The Mountain Press ◆ Wednesday, September 1, 2010A10 ◆ Comics
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Dear Annie: I am a divorced male in my mid-50s. I cannot seem to find anyone to connect with. I am a fit, intel-ligent, successful busi-nessman. I can prepare a gourmet meal, clean a bathroom and change the head gasket on a 1986 Pontiac.
Most of the women my age tend to be rather fuddy-duddy. They are only interested in their grandchildren, quilting or gardening. Younger women seem to be look-ing for a mate to start a family. I have no interest in that.
I keep myself active in social, theatrical and church activities. I live in a conservative com-munity, and relocating is not an option. It would be easy to lower my standards, but after two divorces, I would like to find a life partner. -- Alone in Casper, Wy.
Dear Casper: Seriously? Women in their 50s are only inter-ested in quilting and grandchildren? Did you travel back in time to find them? Such stereotyp-ing will not endear you to any female. Women of all ages are interested in many things, includ-ing social, theatrical and church activities, just like you. They are sharp, smart, funny and com-passionate. If you cannot locate any of them, you are looking in the wrong places.
Casper is a decent-sized city, and you may need to cast your net a little wider than your local community. Since you have already been
divorced twice, you might want to contemplate why you cannot seem to attract a compatible, appropriate partner. You sound like a nice catch.
Dear Annie: I’ve been friends with “Charlotte” for years. We used to be “phone friends” but have recently started doing things together (walk-ing, shopping, eating out, etc.). However, every time I ask whether she’s available, she always says, “I’ll have to let you know.” She never says “yes.” Most of the time she is unable to meet me, although she does eventually let me know. It makes me feel like she’ll spend time with me if nothing better comes along.
Charlotte is retired but has a family that takes a lot of her time. I work two jobs, so my time is limited. Two weeks ago, I asked her to come to a lecture with me. I gave her plenty of notice, say-ing if she was unable to attend, I would do something with my sister instead. Charlotte said she would be out of town that morning and wasn’t sure when she’d return. Later, she left a message saying she was hoping to make it, but wasn’t certain.
When I came home from work, I still hadn’t heard from Charlotte, so when
my sister asked whether I was available, I went. I left Charlotte a message, say-ing I wouldn’t be back in time to go to the lecture. I haven’t heard from her since. I called once, but she didn’t have time to talk. Was I wrong to do some-thing with my sister before Charlotte gave me a defi-nite answer? -- Ohio
Dear Ohio: Yes. Granted, Charlotte seems a little reluctant to make social commitments, but that doesn’t mean you should behave the same way. Call her and apologize for running out on her. Then the next time she gives you a wishy-washy response, say, “I’ll take that as a ‘no’ unless you get back to me.” Or stop arranging to meet up with her altogether and you’ll be less frustrated.
Dear Annie: I hope you have room for one more story about stolen food. In high school, my mother had a problem with someone taking lunches from her locker. One day, she packed a lard sand-wich. Her lunch was never stolen again. -- South Williamsport, Pa.
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Rattlesnake escapes Atlanta zooATLANTA (AP) — Georgia wildlife officials will
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Zoo staff noticed the female tiger rattlesnake was missing during a routine check late Friday. The snake was found dead Monday after a nearby property owner killed it.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokes-woman Lauren Curry said Tuesday that an inspection team will be sent to Zoo Atlanta to investigate. Zoo offi-cials have said a staff member did not properly secure a cage door.
Mexico captures ‘the Barbie’MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Texas-born fugitive known
as “the Barbie” grinned Tuesday as police paraded him in handcuffs and described his alleged life of luxury and savagery — cut short when he became the third suspect-ed drug lord to fall in Mexico in the past 10 months in a coup for President Felipe Calderon’s war on cartels.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal, is a former Texas high school football player who allegedly jumped into the world of Mexican drug cartels and gradually rose through the ranks.
He who got his improbable nickname for his green eyes and fair complexion, is wanted in the U.S. for alleg-edly smuggling tons of cocaine. In Mexico, he is blamed for a brutal turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges, decapitations and shootouts as he and a rival fought for control of the divided Beltran Leyva cartel.
Golfer’s swing sparks fireIRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Forget “Fore!” “Fire!” was
the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California.
The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday.
On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.
Fire officials say the fire burned through the rough, into vegetation next to the course and over two dry, brushy hillsides. No charges were filed against the golf-er, whose name was withheld.
Rowling gives $15.M to MSLONDON (AP) — Author J.K. Rowling has given
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The creator of boy wizard Harry Potter said Tuesday that the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, named after her mother, will be based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. It will also study other degenerative neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Rowling said she hopes the clinic will become “a world center for excellence in the field of regenera-tive neurology.” The university said Rowling’s gift is the largest single donation it has received.
Violence mars peace talksJERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened
fire Tuesday on an Israeli vehicle in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic mili-tant Hamas praised the shooting and claimed respon-sibility.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But in the past, militant groups have staged attacks in an effort to sabotage peace efforts.
A spokesman said the gunman opened fire at a vehicle traveling near Hebron — a volatile city that has been a flash point of violence in the past. Some 500 ultranationalist Jewish settlers live in heavily fortified enclaves in the city amid more than 100,000 Palestinians.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five more American troops were killed in action in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending the month with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in only four days.
The U.S. death toll for August stood at 55 — three-quarters of them in the second half of the month as the Taliban fight back against U.S. pressure in south-ern and eastern strongholds. American losses accounted for more than 70 percent of the 76 fatalities suffered by the entire NATO-led force.
NATO said four of the Americans were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, while a fifth died in a gunfight with insurgents in the country’s south. No other details were released.
Until the late month spike, it appeared that the death toll for August would be well below the
back-to-back monthly records of 66 in July and 60 in June.
By the middle of August only 13 Americans had been killed — in part because of greater use of heavily armored vehicles and other defenses against roadside bombs, the Taliban weapon of choice.
The reason behind the sud-den spike in deaths was unclear because few details about the casualties are released for secu-rity reasons.
Most of the U.S. deaths occurred in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, longtime Taliban strongholds that are the focus of the American-led opera-tion against the insurgents.
As the U.S. formally ends its combat role in the Iraq war, NATO and Afghan forces are ramping up operations in Afghanistan, espe-cially in the area around Kandahar City, the Taliban birthplace and
their former headquarters until they were ousted from power in the U.S.-led invasion of 2001.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Copenhagen, Denmark, that higher casualties were inevitable because more troops have arrived in Afghanistan in recent weeks, bringing the overall alliance force to more than 140,000 — including 100,000 Americans. The U.S. fig-ure is more than triple the num-ber of American service members in Afghanistan at the beginning of last year.
“Right now we see more fight-ing and unfortunately also more casualties,” Fogh Rasmussen said. “But that is the inevitable result of sending more troops ... On top of that, we now attack the Taliban strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar. That of course means more fighting and unfortunately also more casualties.”
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Hours before address-ing the nation, President Barack Obama told U.S. troops just back from Iraq that his speech outlining the withdrawal of combat forces “is not going to be a victory lap” nor a cause for celebration.
“There’s still a lot of work that we’ve got to do to make sure that Iraq is an effective partner with us,” Obama said on Tuesday of his decision to end the nation’s com-bat mission in a war he once strongly opposed.
“The main message I have tonight, and the main message I have to you, is congratulations on a job well done,” Obama said.
He also noted that there remained “a tough fight ahead in Afghanistan ... A tough slog.”
Before his visit, Obama telephoned for-mer President George W. Bush, who ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein in March 2003. Aides described the phone call from Air Force One as brief and declined to reveal what was said.
“He did think it was important to reach out to President Bush, as he has done on occasion,” Denis McDonough, chief of staff for Obama’s National Security Council, told The Associated Press.
Ending the combat mission fulfills Obama’s campaign promise to bring the war to a close. However a force of roughly 50,000 U.S. troops remains in a train-ing and backup role. All forces are scheduled to be withdrawn by the end of 2011.
Also, Iraq is still torn with violence, and rival political factions have yet to form a government more than six months
after national elections.Obama spoke at a din-
ing hall on this Army base in El Paso, Texas, which has been central to the war effort. The soldiers were among troops who recently returned from Iraq. “Welcome home,” Obama said to shouts of “hooh-uh.”
He thanked them for their sacrifice.
Noting that the long and unpopular war was a source of “political dis-agreements” at home, Obama said “the one thing that we don’t argue about is the fact that we have the finest fighting force in the world.”
“The fact of the mat-ter is that because of the extraordinary service that all of you have done and so many people here at Fort Bliss have done, Iraq has an opportunity to create better future for itself and America is more secure,” Obama said.
“The country appreci-ates you,” he said.
Of his 8 p.m. EDT speech, Obama said, “It’s not going to be a victory
lap. It’s not going to be self-congratulatory.”
It was part of a calcu-lated White House effort not to encourage paral-lels to Bush’s premature “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard an air-craft carrier in 2003, just three months after the war began.
“A million men and women in uniform have now served in Iraq,” Obama noted.
After speaking, the president shook hands with each of the soldiers and family members gathered in the base din-ing hall, asking where they or their loved ones had served. He also met separately with families of deceased troops.
As he left the room, Obama said, “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share this time with you and see all of you face to face. Just know that we’re all thinking about you and all praying for your fami-lies.”
To those who will face future missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama
said, “We will be relent-less in making sure you have what you need to come home safely.”
Fort Bliss has seen repeated troop deploy-ments to Iraq. Some of its servicemen and women are among the troops who remain in Iraq.
The administration has called the change of mis-sion in Iraq an impor-tant milestone, but not a cause for celebration. “We are in transition,” Obama observed.
Obama’s comments were echoed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who told an American Legion audience in Milwaukee, “This is not a time for prema-ture victory parades or self-congratulation, even as we reflect with pride on what our troops and their Iraqi partners have accomplished.”
“I am not saying all is, or necessarily will be, well in Iraq,” he continued, noting the continued violence and lack of a new government.
The combat mission in Iraq has left more than 4,400 U.S. troops dead and thou-sands more wounded.
Obama was an early critic of the war, speaking out against it during the U.S. invasion and prom-ising during his presiden-tial campaign to bring the conflict to an end. The White House sees Tuesday’s benchmark as a promise kept and has gone to great lengths to pro-mote it as such, dispatch-ing Vice President Joe Biden to Iraq to preside over a formal change-of-command ceremony and raising Tuesday night’s remarks to the level of an Oval Office address, something Obama has only done once before.
Appearing on nation-ally broadcast interviews Tuesday morning, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs repeatedly brushed aside questions about whether Obama would credit Bush’s troop surge with helping to
pave the way for the with-drawal.
However, McDonough, the Obama national secu-rity adviser, told the AP Obama will “recognize the surge as one among many issues that contributed to our ability to protect our interests” in Iraq.
Top Republicans were dubious. “Some leaders who opposed, criticized, and fought tooth-and-nail to stop the surge strat-egy now proudly claim credit for the results,” House GOP leader John Boehner said, in excerpts of a speech he was to give to the American Legion convention in Milwaukee. “Today we mark not the defeat those voices antic-ipated — but progress.”
Since the start of the war, 200,000 person-nel from Fort Bliss have deployed to Iraq, serv-ing in every major phase of the war. Fifty-one sol-diers from the base died there and many more were wounded.
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“I’d like to be 2-0 right now and to tell you the truth we aren’t too far from being 2-0”
That was Seymour Eagles head Coach Jim Moore’s assessment of his team’s per-formance following a 35-19 loss to the CAK Warriors, an assessment that might seem overly optimistic until you look a little more closely.
Seymour lost to both Daniel Boone and CAK last year, but the Eagles arguably played better this year, scoring more against both teams.
That’s no accident.“I’m proud of the way the
offense improved,” said Moore. “We worked hard on that all week and I think they did a very good job.”
While the offense showed signs of good things to come, on defense consistency was a problem.
Coach Moore made it clear that the problem wasn’t a lack of talent, but a function of inexperience.
“D.J. [Griffin] had a couple of good pass plays, and then, you know, he made some mis-takes. And Hayden [Brooks] was on the other side and made a couple of good plays, and then mistakes… all three are sophomores … we’ve got a lot of young kids and that’s what we told people from the start.”
Friday the Eagles head out to Newport to face conference rival Cocke County, a team coming off a 30-7 loss at the hands of South Greene.
First year coach Greg Hacker will be looking for his first con-ference win while Moore and the Eagles are preparing for their first conference contest.
As Moore said last Friday night, “We’ve improved tre-mendously since last week and we’ll improve even more before next week’s game … It’s a whole new season.”
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By BRIAN MAHONEYAP Basketball Writer
ISTANBUL — The last U.S. basketball team was so stacked that Dwyane Wade was the sixth man. Chris Paul and Chris Bosh were also part of that second unit, one good enough to beat any starting five in the world.
When Mike Krzyzewski looked down at the bench he has now Monday, it sure didn’t seem he liked what he saw.
After the reserves faltered, the U.S. coach stuck with the starters for nearly the entire second half to pull out a 70-68 victory over Brazil that kept the Americans unbeaten in the world champi-onship.
Krzyzewski and his players said they learned something from their first test in this tour-nament. But was one of those lessons this: All these youngsters on the U.S. roster can’t be trust-ed when times get tough.
“I don’t know if they tensed up, but they honestly didn’t play as much tonight as they did in the last few games,” veteran guard Chauncey Billups said.
“But they’ll have more opportu-nities and they’ll do a better job next time.”
After Group B’s off day
Tuesday, the reserves should get plenty of time in the Americans’ final two group games. They face the bottom two teams in the pool,
starting with Iran on Wednesday before closing against winless Tunisia.
Things should become more difficult with the arrival of the knockout round, which means the starters are going to need some help. Krzyzewski believes all his players now see what it takes to provide it.
“We’ve only been together for a few weeks. I don’t know until you’re in these situations if we’re going to have the character to win when you can’t hit a shot, when someone is playing such good defense,” he said after the game. “Tonight I found that and that’s a good thing. That’s a real-ly good thing to find out about our team.”
Krzyzewski made his normal early substitutions in the first half, but the subs struggled to defend Brazil’s pick-and-rolls. Realizing the game was going to be won with defense, he had starters Billups, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Lamar Odom and Andre Iguodala on the floor for at least 15 minutes apiece after
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram will miss No. 1 Alabama’s season opener against San Jose State after injuring his left knee during practice.
He was hurt Monday and coach Nick Saban said in a statement the star tailback had an arthroscopic procedure Tuesday. The coach says Ingram should make a full recovery in a “relatively short time.”
“Mark will definitely be out for this week’s game against San Jose State and we will manage this on a week to week basis beyond this week,” Saban said.
San Jose State went 2-10 last sea-son, but the Crimson Tide face a much stiffer test in the second week of the season. No. 19 Penn State visits Tuscaloosa on Sept. 11.
Alabama does have a talented back-up in sophomore Trent Richardson, who ran for 751 yards and scored eight touchdowns last season, includ-ing 109 yards and a 49-yard touch-
down against Texas in the national title game.
He and Ingram were picked as the preseason first-team all-Southeastern Conference tailbacks.
Ingram became Alabama’s first Heisman winner as a sophomore after rushing for a school-record 1,658 yards and catching 32 passes. He’s the first running back since Pittsburgh’s Tony Dorsett in 1976 to win both a Heisman and a national title in the same season.
He was the third consecutive sopho-more to win the Heisman Trophy and missing games would be a setback toward becoming the second player to win two Heismans. Archie Griffin of Ohio State is the only player to win the Heisman twice.
There’s not much experience behind Richardson while Ingram is out. Redshirt freshman Eddie Lacy is listed as the third-teamer.
“Eddie’s a little bit taller than all the other running backs,” Ingram said Monday.
“He’s a physical runner. He can make you miss. He can catch good out of the backfield. He’s another great back. He’ll be real special here as well.”
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In this Oct. 17, 2009, file photo, Bama’s Mark Ingram (22) runs away from South Carolina defenders at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa.
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USA’s Kevin Durant, left, congratulates Derrick Rose after scoring during the preliminary round of the World Basketball Championship, Monday, Aug. 30, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Pigeon Forge’s Sunni McAllister, who is the McNelly-Whaley Sevier County Prep Golf Championship individu-al leader on the girls’ side after Tuesday’s Round 1 at Eagle’s Landing Golf Club, chips onto the green at Hole 8.
By COBEY HITCHCOCKSports Writer
SEVIERVILLE — The Seymour Eagles boys’ golf team holds a narrow one-shot edge over Pigeon Forge, and the Lady Tigers hold a commanding 15-stroke lead over the Lady Eagles after Tuesday afternoon’s open-ing round of the McNelly-Whaley Sevier County Prep Golf Championship at Eagle’s Landing Golf Club in Sevierville.
In boys’ action, Seymour posted a 175 on the backs of Parker Rudder and Michael Bennett, who both turned in a 41 on the day. Justice Murphy and Andrew Boling added a 45 and 48 respectively.
Pigeon Forge trails by just one stoke with a team score of 176. Chase McCown led all golfers with a 39, while Tyler Watts, Cody Vaught and Jordan Thomas shot a 43, 46 and 48 respectively.
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Sun. Closedhalftime to win a thriller.“Wow what a game USA
vs Brazil. Way to find a way to get that W y’all. Keep it going,” LeBron James, a starter on the Olympic team, wrote on his Twitter page.
To do so, the guys who were on the floor realize they’ll need the ones on the bench. After all, depth is supposed to be one of this team’s strengths.
“We just have to take the last two games again one at a time try to get some-thing done,” Iguodala said. “Give everybody some key minutes in the next two games and everybody get their confidence where it needs to be going into the elimination round.”
The Americans are inex-perienced internationally beyond Billups, Odom and Tyson Chandler. They’re still adjusting to the nuanc-es of the game, such as the traveling violations they’ve repeatedly committed.
The entire Olympic team had competed previously and was well-versed in FIBA play. The current group lags far behind a team such as Brazil, which played together last sum-mer while winning the regional qualifier for the world championship.
“It is a different team.
It is a lot of young play-ers, I think the first time that they come to the world championships,” said Brazil guard Leandro Barbosa, citing everything from the ball to the calls as differences from the NBA game.
“I think that causes a little problem for them, being different games. So in that situation, we’ve got a little advantage, so it’s good for us.”
Neither of the remain-ing pool opponents has the talent to exploit that. The main interest in the Iran game comes from local journalists trying to hype it because of the politi-cal tensions between the countries, but Krzyzewski downplayed that.
“This is a sporting event,”
he said. “We have respect for Iran. I actually played in Iran in the 1970s when I was on the U.S. Armed Forces team. I have great feelings for their country. They’re sportsmen and so are we. We’ll have a great game.”
It shouldn’t be close, but another might be later in the tournament. The Olympic team never had that concern, but these Americans say they don’t mind.
“We can’t worry about how much we win by, win-ning the same fashion as other USA teams. All of that’s out the window,” Billups said. “All we need to do is get wins. Win every game we can and we’ll worry about every-thing else later.”
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Bears freshman, JV roll vs. Halls
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Sevier County freshman QB Luke Manning runs one of his three rush-ing TDs in the SCHS/Halls freshman game. He also scored a touchdown on an interception return, and then intercepted yet another pass in the junior-varsity game.
FRESHMAN AND JV FOOTBALL
SEVIERVILLE — he Sevier County High School freshman football team destroyed Halls’ ninth graders Monday night, out-scoing the Red Devils 41-6.
Quarterback Luke Manning had a monster game for the Bears, scor-ing four tourdowns — three rushing and one on an interception return on defense.
That INT return came early on in the first quar-ter, as Manning went 35 yards to paydirt. A Dustin Sutton point-after kick put the score at 7-0.
Before the end of the quarter Manning was at it again. This time the big freshman was running 55 yards to score his second TD of the night. Again the Sutton PAT was true, and SCHS led 14-0.
The second quarter fea-tured yet another Manning
score, this time on a 37-yard run. After the PAT, the Bears were up 21-0.
Another Bears’ player added a highlight before halftime, as Austin Sides picked off a pass to cut another Red Devils’ posses-sion short.
After halftime Manning put the Bears up by four scores with a seven-yard jaunt into the endzone. Another Sutton PAT made it 28-0.
After a Jacob Whaley interception, Peyton Otis scored another TD for the Bears, rushing in from 25 yards out. This time the PAT was no good, but Sevier County still led 34-0.
Whaley capped off the SCHS scoring in the fourth with a 65-yard punt return TD, which was followed by a Sutton kick.
The Red Devils did add a late touchdown, but not
before Sutton grabbed the Bears’ fourth interception of the game.
In JV action the Bears won 12-7.
Casey Carr got the momentum headed the right way for SCHS, pick-ing off a pass to keep Halls ahead by just one TD early.
Defensive back Jeffrey Henry also intercepted a pass, taking the second quarter turnover 90 yards for a TD. The Bears’ two-point attempt failed, how-ever, leaving Halls up 7-6.
After Tyler Hansen recovered a fumble, Luke Trentham rushed in from 24 yards out to give the Bears the lead for good.
Brayden Culp and Luke Manning would seal the SCHS win with a two big fourth quarter, drive killing interceptions.
From submitted reports
Cobey Hitchcock/The Mountain Press
Seymour’s Parker Rudder, who is tied for second in the McNelly-Whaley Sevier County Prep Golf Championship with a 41 after Round 1 at Eagle’s Landing Golf Club on Tuesday, admires his drive at Hole 9.
Cobey Hitchcock/The Mountain Press
Sevier County’s Grace Huskey, left, and Seymour’s Kreistyn Baldridge share a laugh moments before teeing off Hole 6 at Eagle’s Landing Golf Club for Tuesday’s opening round of the McNelly-Whaley Sevier County Prep Golf Championship
Sevier County is in third with a 182, led by J.P. Caylor’s 41. The King’s Academy is in fourth with a 196, led by Bobby Ivens’ 42. And Gatlinburg-Pittman is in fifth with a 225, led by
Garrett Barnett and Shade Treadway, who both turned in 42s.
In girls’ action, Pigeon Forge is running away with it with a 91. All three Lady Tigers golfers are in the top five for the day, including Sunni McAllister’s low round of 41, Hali Combs’ 50 and Mikayla Trombley’s 59.
Seymour is a distant sec-ond with a 106, led by Megan Gamble’s 49. SCHS is in third with a 126, led by Grace Huskey’s 61. And G-P is in fourth, led by Chelsey James’ 61.
Round 2 of the three-day tour-ney is noon today at Creekside Plantation in Seymour.
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DRIVERS EARN UP TO39¢/mi Home Weekends 1 yrOTR Flatbed exp. Call:1-800-572-5489 Pam ext: 238,Susan ext: 227 Sunbelt Trans-port, LLC (TnScan)
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DRIVERS- FLATBED CDL/A$2,000 Sign On bonus. Homemost weekends! New TrucksArriving! 6 months ExperienceRequired. No felonies. LeasePurchase Available. HornadyTransportation 800-441-4271 xTN-100 (TnScan)
DRIVERS- FOOD TANKERDRIVERS Needed OTR posi-tions available Now! CDL-A w/Tanker Req'd. Outstandingpay & Benefits! Call a recruiterT o d a y ! 8 7 7 - 4 8 4 - 3 0 6 8www.oakleytransport.com(TnScan)
CDL-A DRIVERS: YOU DE-SERVE The Best! High Miles,Great Pay, 2011 FreightlinerCascadias! New PerformanceBonus Program. $500 Sign-onfor Flatbed Drivers. CDL-A, 6mo. OTR. Western Express.888-801-5295 (TnScan)
DRIVERS- NEW TRUCKS!!!REGIONAL and OTR FreightIncrease, Immediate OpeningsGreat Pay and Benefits! ClassA CDL and 1 year experiencerequ i red 800-677-5627www.westsidetransport.com(TnScan)
DRIVERS- HIRING RE-GIONAL VAN Drivers. 37 cpmwith 2 years experience. GreatBenefits. Home Every Week. 1year tractor-trailer experiencerequired. Call 888-967-5487,or apply online at www.averitt-careers.com. Equal Opportu-nity Employer. (TnScan)
DRIVERS- HIRING RE-GIONAL FLATBED Drivers. 37cpm with 2 years experience.Great Benefits. Home EveryWeek. 1 year flatbed or trac-tor-trailer experience required.Call 888-967-5487, or applyo n l i n e a twww.averittcareers.com.Equal Opportunity Employer.(TnScan)
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Real Estate Wanted
WANTED MOUNTAIN ANDWATERFRONT Subdivisions.We purchase/ market/ liqui-date completed and partiallycompleted subdivisions in theSoutheast designed for recrea-t ional/ ret i rement. Cal l704 -896 -5880 , x1034 .(TnScan)
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YOUR LOW COST ADVER-TISING Solution! One call &your 25 word ad will appear in91 Tennessee newspapers for$265 or 31 East TN newspa-pers for $115. Call this news-paper's classified advertisingdept. or go to www.tnadvertis-ing.biz. (TnScan)
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Career TrainingAIRLINES ARE HIRING -Train for high paying AviationCareer. FAA approved pro-gram. Financial aid if qualified- Job placement assistance.Call Aviation Institute of Main-tenance 877-266-0040(TnScan)
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FinancialCASH NOW! GET CASH foryour structured settlement orannuity payments. High pay-outs. Call J.G. Wentworth.1-866-SETTLEMENT(1-866-738-8536). Rated A+by the Better Business Bu-reau. (TnScan)
For SaleSAVE 50-70% OFF StorePrices. Children's Clothing:Gap - Oshkosh - Polo -Tommy Hilfiger - Adidas -G u e s s . S h o w r o o mFactory-Sealed Condition. SeeWebsite:www.magickidsusa.com UseDiscount Code: MK31134.(TnScan)
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NOW HIRING: COMPANIESDESPERATELY need employ-ees to assemble products athome. No selling, any hours.$500 weekly potential. Fee re-quired. Info. 1-985-646-1700Dept. TN-1196 (TnScan)
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Rick Rogers is racing for his father’s legacyRACING WITH RICH
Rick Rogers has won scores of races at tracks all over the Tennessee Valley.
But there is one event that would mean more to him than any other. The Knoxville driver would love nothing better than to win the race named in honor of his late father, Ralph ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Sr.
“It would be huge to win the race named after my dad,” Rogers said. “To get to put my name in the win col-umn would probably make me cry. I wouldn’t care if it paid $2 to win.”
In fact, the Buddy Rogers Memorial 44 will pay $3,000 to win the National All Stars Racing Association event.
This will be the third annual race bearing the name of Rogers, who died in 2008 after a bout with cancer.
Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Georgia won in 2008 when the event hosted by The Mountain Raceway in Maryville.
Billy Ogle, Jr. of Knoxville took the checkered flag last year in Tazewell.
This year’s version of the race will again be held at the Tazewell Speedway on Sunday, Sept. 5.
The 2009 event in particu-
lar is one Rick Rogers will not soon forget.
“We had the fastest car last year and a pill draw killed me,” he declared.
“We set fast time and won our heat race but got pushed into the wall trying to race through traffic and had to drop out of the race.”
Aside from providing race fans with thrilling competi-tion on the steeply banked 1/3 mile dirt oval, this race raises money for the American Cancer Society in honor of Buddy Rogers.
“Last year the money raised was phenomenal,” Rogers said. The amount raised was in excess of $2,000.
Jimmy ‘Pup’ Thomas of Hoosier Tire South is spear-heading the drive to raise money for the fight against the debilitating disease.
“Fans and businesses can sponsor laps for $44 each,” he explained. “That money will go to the American Cancer Society in honor of Buddy Rogers.”
Information on how to reach Thomas can be found at the Tazewell Speedway’s website (tazewellspeedway.net).
Also, lap sponsorships can be purchased at the track on race day.
Because of his relationship with his father, there was never much doubt that Rick Rogers would drive race cars.
Even though he was a highly regarded baseball player at Knoxville’s Halls High School, he put racing above all else.
“I was going to races when I was in diapers,” he said. “Even though I was a pretty good ballplayer in school I chose not to go to a banquet once to go to a race.”
Rogers admits that he feels the pressure to win this event. Because of that he is taking a different approach in his preparation for the race. “I’m taking this week-end off to get ready,” he explained.
“We’ve been hit and miss this year and have not found that happy medium like we’re used to. We want to have our best shot at run-ning well.”
But win or lose, Rogers will always hold his father in high regard. “There’s no way
I could live up to his creden-tials,” the son insisted. “He was a good, loyal man. I just
looked up to him for any-thing and everything.
“He made me proud.”
“It would be huge to win the race named after my dad,” Rogers
said. “To get to put my name in the win column would probably make me cry. I wouldn’t care if it
paid $2 to win.”
Rick Rogers
The hood of Rick Rogers’ car salutes his father.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The fire alarm was squealing at Great American Ball Park when left-hander Aroldis Chapman walked through the dugout and stepped onto a major league field for the first time.
No, he hadn’t thrown one of those triple-digit fastballs yet. Just a false alarm.
This time.The Cuban defector joined
the Cincinnati Reds before their game Tuesday night against Milwaukee, with everybody eager to see how his urban-legend fastball — the one clocked at up to 105 mph in the minors — fares in the majors. Will it still
sizzle?Those who have seen it
firsthand have no doubt.“There’s not a whole lot
of guys like him, if any,” said pitcher Sam LeCure, who was his teammate at Triple-A Louisville.
After a moment’s pause, LeCure said, “There’s none.”
How’s that for an advance billing?
The 22-year-old pitcher who defected from Cuba only 13 months ago arrived in the middle of a pennant race on Tuesday. The Reds had won 12 of their last 16 games, pulling away to a six-game lead over St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Central.
Reds LH Chapman arrives with 100 mph fastball
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ESTATE AUCTIONSALE #1 SAT. 10:30 AM
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LEADERS IN REAL ESTATE AUCTIONS SINCE 1953
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Land has been in same family over 60 yearsA very rare opportunity to buy
Land sells in 1 tract to highest bidder
DIRECTIONS: On East side of Hwy. 66, Winfield Dunn Parkway, between Downtown Sevierville and Exit 407 of I-40 across from Clarion Inn.TERMS: REAL ESTATE: 10% Deposit day of sale, balance due at closing within 30 days. All successful bid-ders will be required to sign a note for the deposit amount with the contract, in addition to deposit paid day of sale. Note shall become null and void when buyer shall complete all requirements for closing as set out in their contract. PERSONAL PROPERTY: Cash or good check day of sale.
10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO EACH SUCCESSFUL BID
SATURDAY, JULY 10th, 2010, 10:30 A.M.
OWNER TERMS NO QUALIFYING
3140 Newport Hwy.Sevierville, TN 37876
AUCTIONEERS:Edd McCarter
Chuck McCarter,Auctioneers
Keith McGregor,Apprentice Auctioneer
Toll Free:1-877-282-8467
Auc. Lic. #335Real Est. Lic. #214075
Keith ShultsBrent Shults
Lisa M. CarrollMegan McCarter Cates
Amanda M. Williams
WE SELL THE EARTH
(865) 453-1600Scott E. McCarter, CAI
LEADERS IN REAL ESTATE AUCTIONS SINCE 1953
SEVIERVILLE, TNPREMIER COMMERCIAL13.63 ACRE TRACT FRONTS HIGHWAY 66#1 ROUTE TO THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
Land has been in same family over 60 yearsA very rare opportunity to buy
Land sells in 1 tract to highest bidder
DIRECTIONS: On East side of Hwy. 66, Winfield Dunn Parkway, between Downtown Sevierville and Exit 407 of I-40 across from Clarion Inn.TERMS: REAL ESTATE: 10% Deposit day of sale, balance due at closing within 30 days. All successful bid-ders will be required to sign a note for the deposit amount with the contract, in addition to deposit paid day of sale. Note shall become null and void when buyer shall complete all requirements for closing as set out in their contract. PERSONAL PROPERTY: Cash or good check day of sale.
10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO EACH SUCCESSFUL BID
SATURDAY, JULY 10th, 2010, 10:30 A.M.
OWNER TERMS NO QUALIFYING
10% BUYERS PREMIUM WILL BE ADDED TO EACH SUCCESSFUL BID
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ABSOLUTE AUCTION45 Acre Farm (Divided in 6 tracts) + 1008 SF Home
Saturday, September 4, 10:30 a.m.Estate of Herman & Margaret Smith., Late
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Garage/Estate Sales
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People Seeking Employment
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Farm Market0410
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Household Goods
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Furniture0533
New 4pc.Bedroom Group
Dresser, mirror, 4 Drawer chest, headboard. $399
Cagles Furniture and Appliances
453-0727Misc. Items for
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For SaleA-1 pre-owned dryers, washers,
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Cagles Furniture and Appliances
453-0727
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0610
Quiet country setting
2BR/1BA, stove, ref., D/W disposal/micro.,W/D hook-up, club
house/pool/picnic area24hr. maint. Year lease,
behind S.C.H.S.Great spacious place to live. Dogs ok with
deposit.428-5227
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN SEVIERVILLE
2 bedroom 1.5 bath townhomes
Call 428-5161
Nice, River-front Apartment 2 BDR/2 BA, W/D hook-up,
1 year lease, No Pets $550 Month, $550 Deposit
932-2613
FINCHUM PROPERTIESLeasing 1 & 2 BR apts.
Hardwood floors, plus many extras,1 year lease, no pets.TVA energy efficient
865-453-8947 • 865-740-3514finchumproperties.com
Beautiful, newly redecorated2BR/1BA. $550 mo & $400d e p . S e v i e r v i l l e .865-712-0254.
Gateway Village ApartmentsAffordable family housing 1, 2,3 BR aparts. Appliances,on-site laundry, convenient tocity park. 120 West Paine St.Sevierville 865-453-1729. In-come limits apply. Section 8,elderly, mobility impaired en-c o u r a g e d t o a p p l y .EHO/Handicap Accessible.
1/8 mile from Walters State College Allensville Road • Walk to lake Reasonable Rates • 654-7033
1 & 2 BR avail. Some Pets OK.
$400 UP • WATER INCLUDED
Murrell Meadows
Newly remodeled - 2BR/1BAApartments. Near Dollywood.865-712-4545.
Unfurnished Apartments
0610
RIVERWALK - SeviervilleAFFORDABLE LUXURY APARTMENTS
TVA Energy Efficient for Low Cost Electric1 BR/1 BA - 784 Sq. Ft.2 BR/2 BA - 1114 Sq. Ft.
$545 to $735Screened Porches
Professional Decor & Colors Washer/Dryer Connections or
Use our on-site laundrySkylights & Vaulted Ceilings
Some Pets WelcomeFurnished Corporate Suites Available Visit us at 240 Riverwalk Dr.
429-4470www.seviervilleapartments.com
BOB RENTS
865-774-5919
2 BR & 2 1/2 BAHOUSE NICE/CLEAN
SEVIERVILLE
APARTMENT2 BR & 1 BA
PIGEON FORGE
APARTMENT2 BR & 1 1/2 BA
SEVIERVILLE
HOUSE3 BR & 2 BA
Convenient LocationSEVIERVILLE
Furnished Apartments/Houses
0615
1BR Furnished Apt. Utilities in-cluded, 1 person, non smoker,No pets, proof of employment.Very nice. Refs. required.$150 wk + $400 dam. dep.Call: 428-2190Walk to Walmart, Large 1 or 2Bedroom/1 Bath, Furn or Un-furn, Washer & Dryer, Only$200 Dep. Call 865-789-1427
Homes for Rent0620
4 Bedroom, 3 Car Garage,Luxury Home, Sevier. $1600(865) 654-4696
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Homes for Rent0620
2 Homes For Rent:Each one 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath.One is near Five Oaks Malland the other is near the OldMill. No pets, 1 year lease,$800/mo. Call Mark between7:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.865-453-5500.2-Story 3BD/3.5BA xtra lrg 2car garage. Close to Sev &PF. No pets, $1100mo.865-654-88943 BD/2BA House for rent inKodak, like new, two car ga-rage, $800 MO. $800 Dep.(865) 323-3457Belle Meadows3BR 2BA w/ 2 car garageApprox. 1800 Sq ft.$1200 865-429-2962
3BR, 2BA, near Boyd’s Creek Elem.
Garage, deck, fenced+ other extras.
$925 + deposit865-428-5212
Field Crest Subdivision3BR/2BA w/2 car garageLarge lot, approx. 1500 sq ft.$1,095 mo. 865-429-4470Home on hill with a view, bywoods, 4BDR/3 BA, 3 car gar.2 decks, Screen Porch, $1,595Month, No Pets 865-805-6598New 1 BDR unfurnishedhome, creek, pond, WearsValley, custom cabinets, greatroom, $725 mo. 228-8414
$650-$1,000Monthly
NEW HOMESFOR RENT
865-850-3874On the river: 2BD/1BA, clean,No Pets, $625 Mo. + Dep.(865) 680-9443
Condominiums for Rent
0625
Want to Live in Luxury?...Call Today!
3BR/3BA Executive Condos in Sevierville, 3100 sq. ft. swimming pool, pets
welcome, loaded with all amenities.
Call 865-428-5161
Condominiums for Rent
0625
RESORT CONDO FORRENT. 1 BR and 2 BR fur-nished and unfurnished. In-cludes W/D, water, cable,WIFI, local phone, indoor/out-door pool. From $550/month +deposit. 865-908-1342
Duplexes for Rent
0630
Duplex 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath(each side) in Gatlinburg citylimits, no pets, one side is$600/MO, one side is$500/Mo. (865) 428-7575
Like New Duplex 2 BDR/ 1Bath, All Appliances, W/D in-clude Between P.F. & Sev. offVeteran's Blvd. $625 Mo. $500Damage Deposit. 654-6505
Rooms for Rent0635
For RentBeautiful Creekside Rooms
in Gatlinburg •PrivateBalcony •Jacuzzi,VeryQuiet •NoPets,NoDep. •$150/week •Wifi&allutl.included
865-621-2941
Gatlinburg/DudleyCreek
Rent by the week, month, or year. Furnished, plus elec., cable & w/ sewer included.
Call for appt.
865-429-2962
Rooms for Rent0635
Private Motel RoomGreat for 1 person!1 bed, full size frig.
microwave, cable TV$120 weekly$50 deposit
436-7745 • Gatlinburg
DOWNTOWN SEVIERVILLE428 Park Rd.
near trolley stopIncludes All Utilities.Free Wi-Fi, Cable, Laundry,
Kitchens, Clean Rooms, NO PETS.405-2116
Room for Rent, weekly$140-$165. 1 to 2 person. Forinfo call 865-436-4561
Gatlinburg Rooms for Rent
FurnishedAll Utilities, Cable and
Tax included
$100 per week865-621-2941
Business Places/Offices
0670
Nice Office with WarehouseBay. Sevierville ReasonableRent 453-6289 or 548-6838
Mobile Homes for Rent
0675
2BD/1BA mobile home, Sey-mour $400dep/$485mo withwater incl. No pets. 388-3119.
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2BD/2BA partly furn, no pets,$550 mo + $300 dam dep.865-428-17243BR on Upper Middle Creek.$500 mth $300 security dep.No pets. 453-264840 footer with room built on.Also year round camper lots.Call 865-654-8702Clean & Quiet, 2BR 2 BA,large master, W/In Closet,sep.laundry rm, Stove, fridge,D/W. Mowing included. Nopets. Close to Sev. $575 mo.First, last & deposit. Call Re-becca 865-621-6615
Kodak 3/1 mobile home, yardmaintenance, city water,$595mo. Darin 770-335-7008.
2 & 3BR mobilehomes for rentMust have refs.
No Pets. Call for info 428-3096
3BR/2BA$500-$700/mth
Boyds Creek AreaNo pets.
908-8629
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Homes for Sale0710
2BR/2BA jacq tub, FP, stove,refrig, microwv, dshwshr nearschools & hospital. $98,900.865-984-0141 or 919-4023.
Furnished cabin on 2.5 Acreswith detached 2 car garage,workshop & hook up for motorhome. Just $120,000 CallElaine at Homes R Us865-453-6923
Grandview Estates, 3 Bed-room, 2 Bath, Brick Ranch, 2car garage plus detached2 car garage/workshop$225,000. for more informa-tion call 865-755-1708
Owner/AgentMoving Sale. Must Sell. 2800SF Home in Pigeon Forgegreat subdivision. City water,paved road, 3 miles from Park-way, more information call Joe8 6 5 - 4 2 8 - 6 1 1 5 o r305-776-6206.
Developer close out: Beauti-ful home site. Utilities, pavedroad. 2 miles Chapman Hwy.1.41 ac. $36,000.00. Call Joe:8 6 5 - 4 2 8 - 6 1 1 5 o r305-776-6206.
Condominiums for Sale
0715
2 New condos for sale. OwnerFinancing Available. $189,000,1,700sf Living, 2 car gar, Ja-cuzzi, Fpl, Hardwood, AllAppl. 865-654-3667 or865-429-5065
Duplex/Apts0720
Apartment For Rent1 BR/1BA $450
includes water/sewer 865-908-6789
Lots & Acreage0734
3/4 Acre for only $18,000!$2,000 below appraisalvalue! Robert 361-386-0454
Income Property0773
WANTED: Investor for in-come producing real estate.Short term, great return.Contact Jeri 863-381-7370.
TRANSPORTATION
Motorcycles0832
2006 Honda BTX 1300 forsale. 3800mi like new. $1500worth of extras. $6500. Call865-365-7878 after 5pm.
Sport Utility Vehicles
0856
2003 GMC Yukon V8 SLT4WD. Rear ent ctr. 107000mi,$13,000. 865-621-2578
Cars for Sale0868
2002 NISSAN SENTRA, 4cyl., AT, AC, 4 Dr., blackw/gray interior. 110,000miles. $3600. Call Benny865-607-6542.2009 CONVERTIBLE VWBEETLE. Loaded. Excellentcondition. Beige with tantop. 24K. $18,500. 654-4544.
LEGALS
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PUBLIC NOTICE
The Pigeon Forge Police De-partment is requesting bidsfrom qualified vendors forPolice Officer uniforms. Bidspecifications may be obtainedat the Pigeon Forge PoliceDepartment Monday throughFriday between the hours of8:00 a.m. tp 4:30 p.m. or online at the following webaddress:www.cityofpigeonforge.com.
The City of Pigeon Forge re-serves the right to reject any orall bids or to accept the biddeemed most favorable to theCity. We also reserve the rightto accept any portion or all of abid.
Bids will be received by theCity until 2:10 p.m., September17, 2010, at which time theywill be opened and read aloud.
All bids must be dated, signedand the words "UNIFORMBID" shall be prominentlydisplayed on the outside of theenvelope.
Address all bids to:
Pigeon Forge PoliceDepartmentAttn: Sgt. Shane RectorP.O. Box 1350Pigeon Forge, TN 37868-1350
This the 1st Day ofSeptember, 2010
Legals0955
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Pigeon Forge Police De-partment is requesting bidsfrom qualified vendors forPolice Officer uniforms. Bidspecifications may be obtainedat the Pigeon Forge PoliceDepartment Monday throughFriday between the hours of8:00 a.m. tp 4:30 p.m. or online at the following webaddress:www.cityofpigeonforge.com.
The City of Pigeon Forge re-serves the right to reject any orall bids or to accept the biddeemed most favorable to theCity. We also reserve the rightto accept any portion or all of abid.
Bids will be received by theCity until 2:10 p.m., September17, 2010, at which time theywill be opened and read aloud.
All bids must be dated, signedand the words "UNIFORMBID" shall be prominentlydisplayed on the outside of theenvelope.
Address all bids to:
Pigeon Forge PoliceDepartmentAttn: Sgt. Shane RectorP.O. Box 1350Pigeon Forge, TN 37868-1350
This the 1st Day ofSeptember, 2010
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Bobbie Lei Ring, as a single woman, to NLC, Inc., Trustee, on December 23, 2003 at Book Volume 1870, Page 613conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’s Office.Owner of Debt: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the registered holders of GSAMP Trust 2004-HE1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE1The 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, to wit:Lot 2 of the Blalock, Townsend and Sarten Addition, as shown on plat of record in Map Book 2, Page 82, in the Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, and being more particularly described as follows:BEGINNING on a stake on Nichols Street at the northwest corner of Lot 1; thence west with Nichols Street 64 feet to a stake, said street at the northeast corner of Lot 3; thence South 6 degrees West 235 feet to stake on the East Pigeon River and at the southeast corner of Lot 3; thence South 78 degrees East with said river a distance of 89 feet to a stake on said river at the southwest corner of Lot 1; thence North 1 degree East 249 feet to a stake on Nichols Street, the point of beginning.
The street address of the above described property is believed to be 203 Nichols Street, 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 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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WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured by that certain Real Estate Deed of Trust for Tennessee executed on March 22, 1999, by Kelvin Hopewell and wife Sonya Hopewell to David Seivers, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee in Book T761, Page 515-521, recorded March 23, 1999 (ÅgDeed of TrustÅh); and
WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed(s) of Trust is the United States of America, acting by and through the United States Department of Agriculture (ÅgUSDAÅh); and
WHEREAS, USDA, the current owner and holder of said Deed(s) of Trust appointed Jerry Amonett as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the RegisterÅfs Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed(s) of Trust; and
NOW THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payableas provided in said Deed(s) of Trust by USDA, and Jerry Amonett as Substitute Trustee, or duly appointed agent, pursuant to the power, duty, and authorization in and conferred by said Deed(s) of Trust, will on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 commencing at 10:00 A.M. at the north door at the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest bidder either for cash or 10 percent of the high bid price as a non-refundable deposit with balance due within ten (10) days of sale, (and if such balance goes unpaid, USDA will retain the deposit and re-foreclose) the following described property lying and being in the 5th Civil District in Sevier County, Tennessee to wit:
BEGINNING at an iron rod at a power pole on the Northern right-of-way line of Edgar Drive, a common cornerto property of Lyle Overbay; said beginning point being located 1,300 feet more or less from the intersectionof Edgar Drive and Love Road; THENCE FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING and with the line of Overbay, North 20 deg. 58 min. 36 sec. East 76.89 feet to an iron rod, corner to property of Walter Styles; thence with the line of Styles, North 24 deg. 49 min. 38 sec. East 78.33 feet to an iron rod, corner to property of Dale Proffitt; thence with the line of Proffitt, South 61 deg. 23 min. 40 sec. East 153.68 feet to an iron rod; thence South 28 deg. 40 min. 3 sec. West 93.35 feet to an iron rod; thence leaving Proffitt North 85 deg. 12 min. 57 sec. West 151.08 feet to the point of BEGINNING.
Being the same property conveyed to Kelvin Hopewell and wife, Sonya Hopewell by deed of record in DeedBook 652, Page 264-265 in the said RegisterÅfs Office.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 125 Cedar Hills Road Sevierville TN 37862
CURRENT OWNERS: Kelvin Hopewell and Sonya A. Hopewell
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 setback 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.
All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed(s) 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.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate ofCLUSTER WOODROW ALL-
REDLate of Sevier County,
Tennessee
Notice is Hereby Given that onthe 20 day of Aug 2010, Let-ters Testamentary, of Admin-istration, in respect to the Es-tate of CLUSTER WOODROWALLRED , deceased, were is-sued to the undersigned bythe County Court Clerk ofSevier County,Tennessee.All persons, resident andnon-resident, having claims,matured or unmatured,against her Estate are requiredto file the same in triplicatewith the Clerk of the abovenamed Court within six monthsfrom the date of the first pub-lication (or of the posting, asthe case may be) of this no-tice, otherwise their claim willbe forever barred.All persons indebted to theabove Estate must come for-ward and make proper settle-ment with the undersigned atonce.This 20 day of August, 2010.
(Signed)James M. MillerExecutor
Estate ofCLUSTER WOODROW ALL-RED
By: NoneAttorney
By: Joe T. KeenerCounty Clerk
8-25-109-1-10
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate ofCLUSTER WOODROW ALL-
REDLate of Sevier County,
Tennessee
Notice is Hereby Given that onthe 20 day of Aug 2010, Let-ters Testamentary, of Admin-istration, in respect to the Es-tate of CLUSTER WOODROWALLRED , deceased, were is-sued to the undersigned bythe County Court Clerk ofSevier County,Tennessee.All persons, resident andnon-resident, having claims,matured or unmatured,against her Estate are requiredto file the same in triplicatewith the Clerk of the abovenamed Court within six monthsfrom the date of the first pub-lication (or of the posting, asthe case may be) of this no-tice, otherwise their claim willbe forever barred.All persons indebted to theabove Estate must come for-ward and make proper settle-ment with the undersigned atonce.This 20 day of August, 2010.
(Signed)James M. MillerExecutor
Estate ofCLUSTER WOODROW ALL-RED
By: NoneAttorney
By: Joe T. KeenerCounty Clerk
8-25-109-1-10
NOTICECAUSE NO. 2010-099
IN THE CHANCERY COURTFOR BLOUNT COUNTY,
TENNESSEE
Adoption of Finley Elle Gallo-way, DOB: January 5, 2008
(Birth Mother: RebeccaLeigh Galloway)
By: Jeffrey Earl ConradAnd Amy Alicia Conrad,
Petitioners
Vs.
Unknown Birth Father(Possibly known as "Curley"
"Kerley" or "Curlee" FirstName May be Justin,)
Respondent.
In this cause, it appearing fromthe Order of Publication, thatthe Respondent, UnknownBirth Father's, identity andresidence is unknown andcannot be ascertained upondiligent inquiry, it is orderedthat publication be made forfour successive weeks, in TheMountain Press, Sevierville,Tennessee, notifying Respon-dent, Unknown Birth Father, tofile an answer with this courtand sending a copy to Petition-ers' attorney, Dawn Coppock,whose address is P.O. Box388, Strawberry Plains, TN37871, within 30 days from thelast date of publication, exclu-sive of the last date of publica-tion, or a judgment by defaultmay be entered and the causeset for hearing on November17, 2010 at 9:00 a.m., ex parteas to said Respondent. Failureto appear may result in the ter-mination of Respondent's pa-rental rights.
This 27 day of July 2010.
Stephen S. OgleClerk and Master
8/18, 8/25, 9/1, 9/8
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NOTICECAUSE NO. 2010-099
IN THE CHANCERY COURTFOR BLOUNT COUNTY,
TENNESSEE
Adoption of Finley Elle Gallo-way, DOB: January 5, 2008
(Birth Mother: RebeccaLeigh Galloway)
By: Jeffrey Earl ConradAnd Amy Alicia Conrad,
Petitioners
Vs.
Unknown Birth Father(Possibly known as "Curley"
"Kerley" or "Curlee" FirstName May be Justin,)
Respondent.
In this cause, it appearing fromthe Order of Publication, thatthe Respondent, UnknownBirth Father's, identity andresidence is unknown andcannot be ascertained upondiligent inquiry, it is orderedthat publication be made forfour successive weeks, in TheMountain Press, Sevierville,Tennessee, notifying Respon-dent, Unknown Birth Father, tofile an answer with this courtand sending a copy to Petition-ers' attorney, Dawn Coppock,whose address is P.O. Box388, Strawberry Plains, TN37871, within 30 days from thelast date of publication, exclu-sive of the last date of publica-tion, or a judgment by defaultmay be entered and the causeset for hearing on November17, 2010 at 9:00 a.m., ex parteas to said Respondent. Failureto appear may result in the ter-mination of Respondent's pa-rental rights.
This 27 day of July 2010.
Stephen S. OgleClerk and Master
8/18, 8/25, 9/1, 9/8
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HUD PUBLISHER’S NOTICEAll 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.
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