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The day the King came to town

Forty years ago, on April 8, 1972, a king named Elvis Pre-sley came to Stokely Athletic Center as the headliner for that year’s Dogwood Arts Festival.

Dave Macon, who was the treasurer for the Festival that year, said organizers wanted ’72 to be a big year for the still-new event. Who bigger, then, than The King of Rock and Roll?

➤ See page A-6

Rain forest rain barrel

For the third year, Powell Middle School art students

have pitched in to help the Water Quality Forum raise money by painting a rain barrel to be sold on eBay.

Teacher Debra Durnin

coordinated the project,

based on a free-hand sketch by seventh grade student Liam Deason.

➤ See page A-3

Car wash/bake saleProject Graduation at Powell

High School is sponsoring a yard sale to benefi t the Class of 2012 on Saturday, April 14, at PHS in the front parking lot. Set up will begin at 7 a.m. with sales from 8 to 1 p.m. Contact Joy Anderson at 687-4894 to reserve space.

This weekend, Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Project Graduation events will include a car wash and bake sale at the Powell Walmart on Clinton Highway.

Project Graduation is a drug- and alcohol-free gradua-tion celebration for seniors.

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VOL. 51 NO. 14 A great community newspaper April 2, 2012

Sandra Clark 2Community 3Government/Politics 4Marvin West 5Jake Mabe 6Faith 7Schools 9Business 10

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Four friends catch up on their lives since elementary school: Geraldine West, Kat Childress,

Mary Sue Bartlett Chapman and Ruth Elliott.

Nancy Savage and Vernon Melton share memories at the

Heiskell Elementary School reunion. The school closed in

1979, but about 200 people of all ages gathered March

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Community Center. Photos by T. Edwards of TEphotos.com

By Sandra ClarkBroadacres is a great

neighborhood and a great place to live, said Andrew Sharits. “And we’ll do ev-erything we can to keep it that way.”

Sharits ended the Broadacres Homeowners Association’s annual meet-ing on a happy note, but there are problems in Pow-ell’s biggest subdivision.

The chief problem is ap-athy. With dues of just $50, fewer than 100 of the 850 or so eligible homeowners have bothered to join the association. That means the work falls on the shoul-ders of the offi cers, pri-marily president Ed Smith and his wife, Vicki.

Ed and Vicki mow the entrances and this spring they spread new mulch. Ed cut a deal to get the mulch at cost in exchange for displaying a sign for Four Seasons at the entrance. Estimates for maintaining the landscaping of Broad-

acres’ entrances are about $8,000, Smith said. That’s a budget-buster.

The association pays about $700 per year for lighting at the entrances. Last year the depleted treasury almost led to the lights being turned off, but longtime resident Roder-ick Creigh stepped up and paid the bill. “Mr. Creigh has kept this thing alive,” said Smith.

Patsy and Charlie Daniel arrived late, drawing good-natured kidding. They thought the meeting start-ed at 8 p.m. and arrived at 8:05. Problem was, it started at 7 and was wrap-ping up when they showed up. Charlie is the News Sentinel’s cartoonist and probably the best-known resident of Broadacres.

Another well-known resident is retired princi-pal Bill Crosland. Possibly because he reads books, Bill was asked to draft a mission statement for the

Leaders of the Broadacres Homeowners Association share a laugh following the group’s

annual meeting at Powell Presbyterian Church. Roderick Creigh is honorary board chair, An-

drew Sharits is vice president and Ed Smith is president. Photo by S. Clark

Challenges for Broadacres

organization. Sharits, an agent with

Realty Executives, said home prices are fl at in Broadacres as in other parts of the county. In 2011, 17 homes sold through the

Multiple Listing Service while 14 were listed but not sold. The average price was $164,000 and the average size was 2,300 square feet.

Sharits said a couple of “odd sales” drove down the

average. One was a “shortsale” to avoid foreclosureand the other an estatesale. Both properties soldbelow market.

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Under the heading of stuff you probably don’t know about Broadacres, we learned:

The Homeowners Association does not have enforce-ment powers because the bylaws were allowed to lapse. Ed Smith estimates it would cost $75,000 to have the bylaws restored because of legal requirements of notifi cation, etc.

Two swimming pools in Broadacres are privately owned and operated. Each is limited to 100 members per year, and members do not have to live in Broadacres.

Crime is low in the neighborhood. Sharits reported one car break-in, but it had been left overnight in the driveway unlocked. “Don’t be an easy target,” he warned.

Dues of $50 can be mailed to P.O. Box 1101, Powell, TN 37849.

Andrew may be president of the group someday, if he sharpens his mowing and mulching skills. But Ed Smith says he won’t leave until the organization is in better shape. Could be Ed will be president of the Broadacres Homeown-ers Association for life.

Our friends at the Nowe-ta Garden Club have lined up a special speaker for the Tuesday, April 3, meeting. It gets underway at 10 a.m. at Beaver Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Old Clinton Pike.

Noweta to study aquatic ecosystems

Jeff Dudych, grounds-keeper at Gettysvue Coun-try Club, will present a program entitled, “Land-scaping and Aquatic Eco-systems.”

President Marjorie Gard-ner has a packed agenda in-cluding projects for spring. I’ve been invited and plan to attend, so you’ll get a report here next week. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, remem-ber this wise saying: “Do unto those who live down-

stream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”

■ Lunch with ClarkSo this Tuesday, April 3,

I’m back to Aubrey’s at the interstate. Stop by and chat. I will have a guest, pr guru Cynthia Moxley, but you’re welcome too. Otherwise, I might just butt in and try to snap your picture with your mouth full!

■ Kindergarten round-up April 3Kindergarten round-up

for Knox County Schools will be held Tuesday, April 3, at:

Brickey-McCloud: 3:30 to 6 p.m. Info: 689-1499.

Copper Ridge: 8-10 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Info: 938-7002.

Powell Elementary: 4-6 p.m. Registration packets will be available for pick up March 19 in the student af-fairs offi ce. Info: 938-2048.

Parents need to bring proof of residence for zoned school (utility bill

or deed/lease), child’s shot record, birth certificate and Social Security card. Children entering kinder-garten must be 5 years old before Sept. 30.

■ Powell alumni Powell High Alumni As-

sociation annual dinner is set for Saturday, April 7, at Jubilee Banquet Facility with registration and fel-lowship from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. and dinner at 6. The business meeting will start at 7 p.m. Dinner is $20, annual dues are $7 and do-nations to the scholarship fund are welcomed. Reser-vations are due March 30.

Entertainment will be by Judy Morris of the Pow-ell Playhouse (PHS Class of ’78). Golden Grads from the Class of ’62 will be recog-nized, along with the oldest graduate in attendance and the one who has traveled the farthest.

Info: Mary Hodge-Cun-ningham, 938-9428, Vivian Jett McFalls, 607-8775 or

lbrown8042@aol.com/.

■ This week at the Powell LibraryWednesday, April 4,

10:30 a.m., Baby Book-worms, for infants to age 2 (must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

The library system will be closed on Friday for the Easter holiday.

■ Powell NotesToni McSorley will

conduct a self-defense class at the Heiskell Community Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 28. Cost is $25.

Powell Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each third Thursday at Shoney’s on Emory. Open to all Re-publicans.

Free aerobics led by Jane Holland each Thurs-day at 6 p.m. at the Youth Worship Center of First Baptist Powell. For men, women and teens.Contact Sandra Clark at 922-4136 (leave

message) or sclark426@aol.com/.

NOTES ■ K-Town Sound Show Chorus, an a cappella show chorus af-

fi liated with Sweet Adelines International, is welcoming new

members. Rehearsals are 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. every Monday night at

Fountain City Presbyterian Church, 500 Hotel Ave. Info: Jo Ann,

483-8790, 742-4437 or http://www.ktownsound.org.

■ Powell Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst and third Thursday at

7142 Old Clinton Pike.

COMMUNITY CLUBS ■ The Knoxville Civil War Roundtable will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday,

April 10, at Bearden Banquet Hall. Professor and author Thomas

Flagel will discuss “Messengers of Death: How the Press Reported

the Civil War.” Everyone is invited. Admission to the discussion is

$5. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. for $15 ($17 nonmembers). RSVP

by 11 a.m. Monday, April 9, by calling 671-9001.

■ The Knoxville Writers’ Guild will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5,

at the Laurel Theater at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street.

A $2 donation will be requested at the door. Nationally recognized

poets Linda Parsons Marion, Edward Francisco and Blas Falconer

will share some of their work. Also coming up, Marilyn Kallet, cre-

ative writing program director for the University of Tennessee, will

lead a poetry writing workshop 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 14,

at Church of the Savior, 934 N. Weisgarber Road. Cost is $25 for KWG

members, $30 nonmembers. Info: www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.

■ Note-Torious, Knoxville’s youth male chorus will hold open audi-

tions for new singers ages 13-25 through Saturday, April 14. Info:

Ken Hansen, 470-8622.

Foothills Craft Guild adds membersThe Foothills Craft Guild has accepted these new fi ne craft

artisans: Sandra O’Rear (natural materials, pictured above)

Becky Ramsey, John Fancher, Edie Greer and Esther Harmon

in mixed media; Sandra McEntire in clay; Denae Oglesby and

Brenda Richter in jewelry. Chartered in 1968, the Foothills

Craft Guild is the oldest artisan’s guild in Tennessee and is

dedicated to promoting and preserving the fi nest hand-

made crafts in the state. Info: www.foothillscraftguild.org/. Photo submitted

K9 center’s annual egg huntThe Appalachian K9 Training Center, 8324 Old May-

nardville Pike, will host its second annual Easter egg hunt noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7. All children are invited to participate. Bring a basket to put your eggs in. No pets are allowed in the egg hunt area. Info: 922-7929.

Beaver Brook 9-Hole Women’s Golf Group kicks off yearThe Beaver Brook Women’s Golf Group met for its

spring kickoff meeting with lunch and social play. New offi cers are: chair, Beverly Dunbar; vice chair,

Connie Sharpe; secretary, Sally Crisler; treasurer, Joan Funkhouser; handicap, Nina Dolin; social, Karen Brown and Shirley Spignardo; phone, Carol Henley; publicity, Carol McGhee.

All women members of Beaver Brook Country Club are invited to join. See Beverly Dunbar, Carol Henley or the Beaver Brook Pro Shop.

EASTER EGG HUNTSCity View Baptist Church, 2311 Fine Ave., will hold its annual Children’s Easter Party from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 7. Registration begins

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Middle School art students have pitched in to help the Water Quality Forum raise money by painting a rain barrel to be sold on eBay.

Teacher Debra Durnin coordinated the project, based on a free-hand sketch by seventh grade student Liam Deason.

“It taught us how to paint realistically,” said eighth grader Kassidy Stroom, who plans to continue studying art in high school. “It’s harder to paint on a round surface.”

Students used acrylic paint to create a visual rain forest on their barrel. Pierce Anderson drew trees and a gecko (that he insists on calling a lizard) after Durnin suggested “it was kind of empty back there.”

Parci Gibson, who works in the county’s stormwater offi ce, came by to collect the rain barrel. She said the av-erage painted barrel brings $150 on eBay. All funds raised go toward buying more barrels, and since its inception the Water Qual-ity Forum has placed some 3,000 barrels under gutter downspouts in Knox County.

Each barrel holds 55 gal-lons of water and will fi ll up every time it rains, Gibson said. Six hundred gallons of water will run off a 1,000 square foot roof during a normal rain.

“It’s free water and actu-ally better for your plants,” she said.

Parci Gibson, who works with

Knox County stormwater,

came to pick up the rain barrel.

It’s a rain forest rain barrel

Next, the painted barrels will be taken to Joe Neubert Collision Center where they are primed and a clear coat of sealant is applied. Gibson called Joe Neubert “a major partner” who has been do-ing this for fi ve years. “It’s the same clear coat they put on a car – designed to last.”

The barrels are then equipped with a spigot to release water and a fl exible hose to connect to the gut-ter. Don’t let the installation put you off. “Another part-ner, the Fort Loudoun Lake

Eighth graders who helped with the Powell Middle School rain barrel project: Lavan Jaff , Ashlee

Mountcastle, Avery Welsh, Eduardo Munoz, Makenzie Zimmerman, Kassidy Stroom, Olivia Kel-

ley, Pierce Anderson and Chelsea Fortner. This view shows the front of the barrel. Photos by S. Clark

Sixth and seventh graders look at the back side of the rain barrel. Note the green gecko camou-

fl aged on the leaf under the fl ower. On left are sixth graders Caroline Whitehead, Grace Steely,

Bailey Reagan and Haley Schubert; along with seventh graders Jeorga Bishop, Madison Sellers,

Zoe Sharp, Brooke-Lynn Taylor, Sharry Carney, Dasia Jones, Rachel Houston and Madi Washington.

Seventh graders pose with a side view of the rain barrel: Paige Maples, Mariah Bowers, Macy

Fisher, Donna Raby, Haley McConnell, Brittney Franse, Francesca Rayho, Alexis Raby, Kayla Mon-

tsinger and Liam Deason.

Association, will help you install your barrel.”

Barrels will be exhibited around town May 7-24 with the fi nale at 6 p.m. Friday, May 25, at Ijams Nature Center. Three winning art-ists will be announced and awarded prizes. Auction win-ners will be revealed and can take home their prize.

The Water Quality Fo-rum will host a rain barrel workshop at Ijams Nature Center from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 28.

Participants will see a demonstration on installing a rain barrel, learn about their benefi ts and can leave with a fully assembled bar-rel to take home and install.

Registration is required and the cost is $35 per bar-rel. Register at 523-3800 or info@fl lake.org/.

This is the fi nal year for painted barrels, Gibson said, but the group will con-tinue to sell plain barrels.

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Women who servedCounty Commissioner Amy Broyles

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Legislators should get to work

Todd Shelton and Rick Roach are volunteers with the Tennessee Healthcare Campaign, a non-partisan statewide consumer health-care advocacy group that takes no government funds. Both Shelton and Roach, guest speakers at the March meeting of the 4th District Democrats on a day when the fate of the Affordable Healthcare Act was being debated before the U.S. Su-preme Court, said they got involved because of family experiences.

Shelton’s sister left her job as a respiratory thera-pist to return to Middle Tennessee and take care of their mother in her final illness. She lost her own health insurance in the process. After their mother died, the sister, who went back to work, found herself in need of two hip replace-ments, and despite getting help from her community, she is now $100,000 in debt for the surgeries.

“It’s ridiculous that a country like our own isn’t f lexible enough to take care of people when they need it,” Shelton said.

Roach had a similar story – his mother died in 2004 after a long, prob-lematic hospitalization.

“Quality of care was an issue. There was waste of resources and lots of non-personal decision-making,” he said. Not long after his mother’s death, his 21-year-old niece was kicked off TennCare and died eight months later.

“She had been turned into an ‘emergency room rabbit,’ because she was forced to resort to emer-gency room visits for basic medical care,” Roach said. “I am a single-payer propo-nent. Bottom line is people have access to healthcare.”

If allowed to stand, the new law goes into effect in 2014, and regardless of what the high court does,

Todd Shelton and Rick Roach talk to Democrats about health-

care reform. Photo by Betty Bean

Healthcare exchange

Roach and Shelton urged the group to lobby their state legislators to get to work on setting up a state healthcare exchange as re-quired by federal law.

They were echoing what Gov. Bill Haslam said late last year when Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said he wanted the General Assembly to wait until December 2012 to start the process, thereby missing the deadline for federal grants.

Shelton likened the ex-change to “an insurance mega-mall” and said that not moving forward on creating the exchange will deny Tennessee the oppor-tunity to take advantage of $89 million in federal funding meant to build the exchange and provide in-centives for physicians and other medical personnel to become involved in pri-mary care.

He said that the clock is ticking, but “there’s still money available right now.”

Roach said that THC volunteers have been talk-ing to legislators, with mixed results.

“I have talked to Steve Hall and Stacey Campfield. They say, ‘We don’t really know that much about it…’ But they understand the time frames. The most important date is January 21, 2014. The second-most important date is October 2013. That’s the beginning of the enrollment period for the exchange.”

Shelton and Roach said it is critical for citizens to speak out.

“This message has to be delivered to the popula-tion. This is a huge job that there’s no funding for. This is a huge stimulus to every-body’s economy.”

Mayor Madeline Rogero has secured a stay of ex-ecution for the trees near Sum-mit Medi-cal just off Wellington Drive in West Hills. She acted

decisively in calling TVA CEO Tom Kilgore to ask for delay.

What is next? Will TVA come to its senses and halt this needless destruction of trees in its headquarters city? Will compromise be a word TVA embraces or rejects?

KUB is kind and gentle in its tree cutting policies com-pared to TVA. KUB at least notifi es you and talks with you and makes exceptions in some cases. On occasion, KUB even replaces trees with shorter ones.

TVA’s current manage-ment sends third or fourth level people to meet with County Commission and city offi cials on this issue – peo-ple you have never heard of and will not see again. TVA’s contempt for private proper-ty rights defi es explanation. Cynthia Moxley has been

Rogero gains cease fi re in tree war

Let’s talk about the news-paper business. How to com-pete in a world where folks expect instant information for free?

Someone smarter than I am will fi gure this out.

Meanwhile, at Shopper-News we are cutting back ed-itorial staff while competing for scoops with a daily paper, three TV stations, radio, web-sites, Twitter and blogs.

And our papers are print-ed on Friday evening for Monday delivery.

Last week Betty Bean wrote a hard-hitting story called “TVA wages war on trees.” On Sunday, a day be-fore our papers hit the homes, the News Sentinel published a similar story with the same sources and even the same picture. By Monday, it seemed we had copied their story. Not so.

Of trees and things

This past week, Shannon Carey noticed a handmade sign at a shuttered head shop on Broadway. The shop, along with three others, had been closed following a raid by the Knoxville Police De-partment. The sign indicated the same owners would be back with a name change.

Betty Bean jumped in, calling KPD, the attorney general’s offi ce, the lawyer for the business and the lawyer for the landlord. She wrote a great story. But on Friday, the sign disappeared. And our story evaporated.

Bean emailed: “All I could

think of when I got that call from (attorney Matthew) Grossman was ‘Damn. Lost a story.’ ...

“Then it occurred to me that this is really a big win for the S-N and for Shannon, particularly. They were going to open right back up and we ran them out of there by put-ting pressure on the landlord.

“I read what Chip Counts said to Grossman yesterday afternoon, and it caused him to call his client and read them the riot act.

“Otherwise, that store would be right back in busi-ness, just like they bragged to Sandra that they would.”

The store in question is within blocks of Central High School and less than a mile away from Halls High. It may pop up like a dandelion in another part of town, but this community newspaper helped run it off of Broadway.It’s what we do.

And Bean made two new friends. She added: “Eric ‘Chip’ Counts is a very im-

pressive young prosecutor. Smart and straight shooting, has a sense of humor and re-turns his phone calls. Gross-man’s not bad, either – he’s in Arthur Seymour’s fi rm and is easy to get hold of. Both are attractive guys. Chip is Afri-can-American. Matt has gor-geous hair. Turns out he and Counts went to law school together.

“Nice to see some bright new faces in Knoxville’s legal community.”

So there’s a peek behind the scenes at Shopper-News.

By the way, Victor Ashe wrote last week that Lori Go-erlich was in line to become Knoxville’s parks and gre-enways coordinator. On Fri-day, Mayor Madeline Rogero made it offi cial. That’s a small scoop, but it counts.

And on Thursday, Rogero announced that the trees we all wrote about a weekend ago will be replaced. Victor says plenty about those trees and TVA in general in this week’s paper. Enjoy the read.

Larry Silverstein

shrewd in her advice to KUB. Will Janet Brewer, the new $235,000 a year TVA com-munications chief, be equally shrewd?

What is stunning and puts TVA’s claims to challenge is that tree cutting has never been an issue for TVA within Knoxville for 30 years. Now TVA tells us that these trees on Wellington Drive are an immediate threat and must be cut within days or the Val-ley might face power outages.

TVA has no plan to meet with neighborhood people, no public outreach, no re-placement trees and the top folks like Tom Kilgore are AWOL on this issue.

In fact, TVA did not tell the city of its plans to cut trees. They learned of it through the yeoman efforts of long-time West Hills resident and attorney Larry Silverstein who has made preservation of trees a personal cause.

Kensington subdivision is next, and it lies outside the city but in Knox County. Mayor Burchett can help here. Council member Fin-barr Saunders is sponsoring a resolution similar to what County Commission adopted by a lopsided margin last week asking TVA to cease and desist. Commissioners were openly hostile to TVA representatives.

TVA should delay the ex-ecution of the Wellington Drive trees pending consul-tation and review. That can only occur if Tom Kilgore and the TVA Board become more sensitive to local concerns. Valley relations have never been more strained with TVA than they are today.

During this reprieve, local offi cials and residents need to contact Rep. Jimmy Dun-can as well as Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker. TVA actually listens to fed-eral lawmakers on occasion. It is a milestone that Kilgore honored Mayor Rogero’s re-quest.

Mayor Rogero earns our thanks for speaking up for trees and showing she means it when it comes to a green city. How far she will go in changing policy? TVA’s plans harm our city. Kilgore needs to sharply question his own staff. Rogero can be a key in-strument of change here.

■ Randy Vineyard, former 17-year Knoxville fi -nance director, is at work as

fi nance director for Blount County. He was confi rmed by the Blount County Com-mission on March 22 and will report to Blount Mayor Ed Mitchell. His pay will be $82,798 which is consider-ably less than he made as city fi nance director when he worked for me.

Vineyard has worked for the Knoxville Chamber the past eight years. Blount County is fortunate to have a person of his integrity, ability and dedication. He is a straight shooter and can walk them through diffi cult situations.

■ Politics can makestrange alliances. Seems former mayoral candidate Mark Padgett, a commit-ted Democrat, is arranging meetings in the Knoxville area for Weston Wamp, son of former Rep. Zach Wamp, who is opposing current Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in the August Republican pri-mary. House Majority lead-er Eric Cantor will star at a fundraiser for Fleischmann later in April.

■ County Commis-sion chair Mike Hammond is interested in becoming the next head of Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corpo-ration without the excessive salary Gloria Ray received. If he gets the job will he continue on Commission or resign? If he resigns, who would Commission choose as its next chair?

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Now that Bruce Pearl has expressed apprecia-tion for the job Cuonzo Martin did and the worst cuts have scabbed over, may I have a couple of minutes for positives?

Jeronne Maymon is a gladiator. Jarnell Stokes has awesome potential. Trae Golden can shoot free throws.

A longtime fan who fol-lows Tennessee basket-ball from afar was trying to guess how many times he heard Bob Kesling say “Trae Golden to the foul line.”

Trae attempted 157 free throws this season.

The fan smiled when he recalled Bert Bertelkamp

‘Trae Golden to the foul line’

often adding “Money,” his colorful code word for count it, clutch points vi-tal to the cause.

The sophomore guard hit 130.

The old fan said Gold-en’s marksmanship, near 83 percent, was almost enough to dust off memo-ries of Jimmy England,

Bill Justus, Danny Schul-tz, Michael Brooks, even Carl Widseth. He remem-bers that they could hit free throws.

So could Allan Hous-ton and Chris Lofton and Tony White and Ernie Grunfeld.

It seems to me that Trae approaches the foul line without fear of failure. His confidence comes from roots. He learned to shoot in the driveway with his father as tutor and moti-vator.

“All you have to do is make 10 in a row, Trae, and we can go to dinner.”

Robert Golden, school principal, natural leader, spent several years in

that Powder Springs, Ga., driveway. The son devel-oped the touch, the skill, the artistry. Tennessee is the beneficiary.

He was so steady, he made news when he missed, as in three of five against UConn. Team-mates just shook their heads.

“When Trae Golden is missing free throws, it’s just that kind of day,” said Maymon.

Most everybody was speechless when he missed four of 10 in the not-so-grand finale against Mid-dle Tennessee State.

In the thriller against Vanderbilt, Trae was eight for eight, f lawless in the closing seconds when the deal was sealed. He was nine for nine in the over-time win at LSU. He hit six

in the closing 20 seconds.We know free throws

are often critical but sim-ple stats can be mislead-ing. There is no reference in the record book to de-gree of difficulty – condi-tions, score, level of com-petition, home or away, pressure, exhaustion, pain, final seconds with the game on the line.

Clutch is the key word and that is what we re-member about Jimmy England. In his three-year Volunteer career, 1968-71, he hit 88.1 percent, a school record, with the weight of the basketball world on his shoulders.

Justus could do it when it mattered and he con-verted 84.9 percent for his three seasons. Brooks had the identical percent-age. He could have gone

to dinner at the Golden house. He once made 39 free throws in a row.

Thirty-nine straight? Schultz did it. He led the SEC in 1964 with 89.4 percent.

Lofton and Houston had streaks of 38.

I remember Lofton marching to the foul line, six seconds to go, and put-ting in a pair to polish off second-ranked Florida. That was expected. Not so likely were the four in a row by JP Prince to up-set Kentucky or the six straight by Wayne Chism for an overtime victory over Ole Miss.

As we said earlier, all free throws are not equal – but most of Golden’s are good. Marvin West invites reader reaction.

His address is westwest6@netzero.

com.

By Sandra ClarkThe auditorium at Ful-

ton High School got quiet when Knox County Com-mission chair Mike Ham-mond rose to speak. “I’m a bottom line kind of guy and here’s how it is,” he said.

Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre had made his case for a $35 million boost to the KCS budget, over the usual cost-of-living increase. He cited needs for instructional technology such as iPads and facility improve-ments, along with support for performance-based compensation.

McIntyre wants full-day kindergarten (now classes dismiss at 1 p.m.

while regular elementary school lets out at 2:45 p.m.) and to lengthen the school year by “at least five days” with a bal-anced calendar at Aus-tin-East and Fulton. The new funding also would go toward intervention for kids falling behind and enrichment for those pulling ahead. He wants professional development funds for teachers and “consistently excellent magnet programs.”

You may agree or dis-agree with McIntyre’s pro-posals, but you cannot say he’s not been totally clear about how he would spend the extra money. Details are on the KCS website at knoxschools.org/.

Does the community have the will to fund the $35 million? The where-withal is there. Property taxes have not been raised since the mid-1990s, and Jim McIntyre has not re-ceived more than a con-tinuation budget since he’s been here.

The full $35 million in-crease would equal a 35-cent property tax hike, or $131.25 per year on a $150,000 home.

So let’s talk politics. County Mayor Tim Bur-

chett has said he won’t recommend a property tax increase.

Commissioner Amy Broyles, at last week’s meeting, said beware the red herrings used by those

It’s time for leadership on schools funding

who won’t support more taxes. Knox County leg-islators alone cannot fix the BEP funding formula, and the ½ cent sales tax option would require co-operation by the city of Knoxville and the town of Farragut.

“Either objection keeps politicians from having to take a stand,” Broyles said.

“It will take six com-missioners to fund this,” Hammond added.

The school board will vote on McIntyre’s budget this week. It’s expected to pass, but its viability will be seen in whether it passes unanimously or wobbles through on a 6-3 or even 5-4 vote.

Burchett will recom-mend something, a story for another day.

But then, as Hammond said, “Once the mayor presents his budget it be-comes our budget.” Coun-ty Commission has the final say.

Hammond is key to whether six votes can be mustered. With his strong leadership, it is possible. Hammond, along with Sam McKenzie and Amy Broyles, need only three more votes for a major-ity. If you assume no help from Commissioners Brad Anders, Tony Norman and Jeff Ownby, that leaves five votes from which to draw three: Ed Shouse, Richard Briggs, R. Larry Smith, Mike Brown and Dave Wright.

Board member Indya Kincannon said, “Mike Hammond is a leader for

schools who has taken time to visit schools. The single biggest factor when we say ‘taxes,’ is trust.” She urged principals and teachers to talk with in-dividual commissioners about their needs.

Hammond predicted a May vote by Commission, following budget hear-ings. That vote is a refer-endum on Jim McIntyre’s performance, and it’s hard to see how he stays here if his ideas are rejected.

So it’s time to pick a side. It’s time for leaders to lead and chickens to hide.

Commission chair

Mike Hammond at

Thursday’s educa-

tion forum at Fulton

High School. Photo by S. Clark

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My all-time favorite story from Elvis’s first appearance in Knoxville is about a man who couldn’t keep his seat.

Driving his wife, mother-in-law and sister-in-law to Stokely Athletic Center to see the show, he kept saying, “Now, we can go over here and have a good time, but I want you girls not to get too carried away.”

And the minute the band and orchestra went into the opening strains of “Also Sprach Zara-thustra,” also used as the bom-bastic theme to the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the man was standing up in his chair, waving his hands and screaming like a little girl.

Forty years ago, on April 8, 1972, the King came to Knox-ville.

Elvis was the headliner of that year’s Dogwood Arts Fes-tival. Dave Macon, who was the treasurer for the Festival that year, said organizers wanted ’72 to be a big year for the still-new event. Who bigger, then, than The King of Rock and Roll?

Macon says somebody on the board knew Elvis’s agent. The King would come for $50,000.

“It sold out so quickly we de-cided to see if he’d do a matinee for us.”

The King would, for another $50,000.

“When he got here, I had a check for him for $100,000.” (Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than $500,000 in 2010 dollars. Not bad for two hours’ work.)

Macon showed up at the Sher-aton Campus Inn to give Elvis

his check. He says it was heav-ily guarded (security was said to be tighter than when Richard Nixon had attended the Billy Graham Crusade at Neyland Stadium two years before) and he was told he couldn’t go back to see EP.

“I said, ‘If I don’t go in, he doesn’t get his money. It’s as simple as that.’ ”

Macon showed security the check. He got to see Elvis.

“I went in and we shook hands. He was extremely nice. There wasn’t any ‘I’m better than you’ or any of that.”

Macon said the Dogwood Arts Festival also brought Arnold Palmer to town to play a round of golf. Arnie got $10,000.

A bootleg audience record-ing of Elvis’s 2:30 p.m. mati-nee show at Stokely has finally surfaced. It made its broadcast debut on WDVX’s “The Vinyl Frontier” last August.

And I’ll be honest: When I heard the opening strains of “2001” and the screams of the crowd, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. No wonder that guy couldn’t keep his seat.

The excitement was palpable. While singing the Three Dog Night hit “Never Been to Spain,” Elvis changed the lyrics at one point to say, “So I headed for Las Vegas, but only made it out to Knoxville.” The roar was louder than the one “Rocky Top” usu-ally gets at a UT game.

There were a few flubs. At one point, somebody in the orches-tra started playing an out-of-place solo during “You Gave Me a Mountain.” And, during much

of the show, the feedback was atrocious.

Former News Sentinel writer Lois Thomas, in her amusing review of the concert, said Elvis wasn’t too fond of the feedback.

“The matinee performance was delayed for about 30 min-utes because of the continuing difficulties experienced with the sound system at Stokely.

“Those attending the matinee probably missed the full im-pact of the show because of the sound problems. The difficulty with the sound caused a large portion of the performance to appear sloppy because Elvis, his singers and the band members missed or couldn’t hear cues.

“Elvis apologized for the sound problems several times. He opened the show by quip-ping, ‘Sorry I’m late, but I was building a sound system.’ ”

But 1972 was Presley in his prime. Despite the sloppy sound, you can still hear the power of that voice as he belts out the ballads and rocks through the oldies.

Merrill Ammons attended Elvis’s evening performance. (A recording is rumored to exist, but I’ve yet to find it.)

Remembers Merrill: “On that evening, my friend

Pat Egerton and I drove my par-ents to Stokely for the concert (they had parked a car for after the concert). Well, of course we decided to try to see Elvis. So we parked near the back door where the King would arrive.

“M.L. (Davis, who worked at Cherokee Country Club for de-cades) was the driver that night

PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe

Elvis Presley arrives at McGhee-

Tyson Airport for his April 8,

1972, appearance at Stokely

Athletic Center. Behind him is

his father, Vernon Presley.

The day the King came to Knoxville

(he always drove celebrities in the ’70s). He got us right beside the car to see Elvis and then got us in the concert. It was an amazing evening!”

Attendance for both shows was 24,288, the most of any of Elvis’s concerts on that spring tour.

A couple of moments made it into the 1972 MGM documen-tary “Elvis on Tour,” which was being filmed that spring. The filmmakers shot Elvis arriving at Stokely (a girl takes a Pola-roid photo and screams when she sees the shot) and one brief scene from inside (of the au-dience clapping for comedian Jackie Kahane) made it into the final film. Also, the scenes of El-vis’s band arriving at the airport were shot at McGhee-Tyson.

Who can explain Elvis Pre-sley? Who can explain why the man in the audience that night, concerned about how the wom-en were going to act, stood up on his seat at Stokely and started screaming? Who can explain why a guy born just after Elvis’ death can hear the King’s re-corded voice 40 years later and get goose pimples?

Dave Macon has the answer. “In my opinion, Elvis Pres-

ley probably had the best sing-ing voice of any male I’ve ever heard.”

Long live The King. If you have any photos, mem-

ories or recordings of any of El-vis’s three appearances in Knox-ville to share, call Jake Mabe at 922-4136 or email JakeMabe1@aol.com. Thankyaverymuch.

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Trey Wesley James Mills was born Feb. 8, weighing 5 pounds 5 ounces and measur-ing 18.5 inches long. Parents are

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CROSS CURRENTS

The older I get, the more my forgetfulness worries me. I tell myself that it is because I am too busy, torn in too many directions, too many things on my mind. My guess is that some of you can iden-tify with the situation.

Comedian Bill Cosby (who is somewhat older than I am) used to say that he was con-vinced that human memory circuits were located in one’s sitting apparatus. He would get up from his chair to get something, forget what he was after, and only when he sat down again could he re-member. He deduced the ob-vious: one’s memory is in the derriere and is activated by pressure.

Of course, one can always make lists, but then, one has to remember where the list is. You see the problem.

On the other hand, I am grateful, beyond all measure, that God is forgetful, too. God promises to “remember their sin no more.”

I fi rst learned that snippet of scripture where I learned so much of my theology: in the hymnal. It was the third verse of Fanny Crosby’s old hymn “Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet”: “He’ll forgive your transgressions/and re-member them no more.”

But it was Scott Peck (Christian psychiatrist and author of “The Road Less Traveled” and “People of the Lie”) who explained it best with this story:

A young girl in the Philip-

…this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

(Jeremiah 31: 33-34 NRSV)

pines claimed to have visions of Jesus. She told her mother that Jesus came to her at night and talked to her. The girl’s mother was concerned and confused, so she took the girl to the village priest. He talked to the daughter, trying to get to the bottom of this mystery: was the girl experiencing dreams, night-mares, a vivid imagination or was she an outright liar? The girl was steadfast: Jesus talked to her.

Easter Services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753

Oak Ridge Highway, will have

Maundy Thursday 7 p.m. Thurs-

day, April 5. Good Friday service

will be held at noon on Friday,

April 6, and sunrise service will

be held at 7 a.m. Sunday, April

8, followed by regular service

at 9 and 11. Info: 690-0160 or

www.beaverridgeumc.com.

■ Christ UMC, 7535 Maynardville

Highway, will have Good Friday

Service 3 p.m. April 6, with a

prayer vigil starting at 3:30 p.m.

The annual Easter egg hunt

and carnival will be 10 a.m. to

noon Saturday, April 7. Sunrise

service will be held 7 a.m.

Sunday, April 8, followed by

gospel at 8:45, contemporary

at 9:45 and traditional at 11.

Info: 922-1412.

■ Clear Springs Baptist Church

will hold “Born to Die,” an

Easter drive-thru play, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 7, at the new

church property across from

Midway IGA in Gibbs. Rain date

is April 21. Info: 688-7674.

■ Faith UMC, 1120 Dry Gap Pike,

will have an Easter egg hunt at

1 p.m. Saturday, April 7. Easter

sunrise service will be held at

7 a.m. Sunday, April 8, with

regular service at 11 featuring

an Easter Cantata. Everyone is

invited. Info: 688-1000 or www.

faithseekers.org.

■ Fellowship Christian Church

on Tazewell Pike in Luttrell will

hold a special sunrise service 7

a.m. Sunday, April 8.

■ Free Spirit Missionary Baptist

Church, 716 Ailor Gap Road

in Maynardville, is holding a

special Good Friday service 7

p.m. April 6. Guest pastor is the

Rev. Wayne Roach.

■ Little Flat Creek Baptist

Church, 9132 E. Emory Road,

will have its Easter sunrise ser-

vice in the log church 6:30 a.m.

Sunday, April 8, with storytellers

Kith and Kin and musical guest

Keli Dahl. Everyone is invited.

Info: 688-7950 or 332-0473.

■ Mountain View Baptist

Church, 2974 Cecil Ave.,

will hold the children’s play/

program “He’s Alive!” 11 a.m.

to noon Sunday, April 8. Info:

525-4192.

The priest took the girl to the bishop, and she told him the same story. The bishop interviewed her then spoke briefl y to the priest. The bish-op said that the archbishop was planning a visit to the island and that they would take the girl to him and let him deal with this situation.

Arrangements were made and the day of the archbish-op’s visit came. The young girl was ushered into the archbishop’s presence. He questioned her about her vi-sions: “Do you see Jesus? Do you talk to him? Does he talk to you?”

All these questions she answered in the affi rmative. The archbishop said to her, “I want you to go home, and the next time Jesus appears to you, ask him a question for me. Ask Jesus, ‘What did the archbishop confess the last time he went to Confes-sion?’ Do you understand?” The girl nodded.

A month later, the girl was brought back before the arch-bishop. “Well, child,” he said kindly, “did you ask Jesus what I told you to ask him?” Again, she nodded.

“And what did he tell you? What sin did I confess?”

The girl answered, “He forgot.”

■ Powell Presbyterian

Church, 2910 W. Emory Road,

will have Passover meal 6

p.m. Maundy Thursday, April

5. Breakfast will be served

Easter Sunday, April 8, at

10:30 a.m., followed by 11

a.m. worship service and an

egg hunt at noon. Children

need to bring baskets to

carry their eggs in. Info:

www.powellpcusa.org.

■ Ridgedale Baptist Church,

5632 Nickle Road, will hold a

Children’s Easter Experience

6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April

4, for all children from infancy

to the 5th grade. There will be

an egg hunt in the worship

center with tons of Easter grass

mixed with balloons piled

several feet high; there will

also be tractor rides, chalk art,

bubbles, bounce houses and

much more. Free refreshments

will be served. Everyone is

invited. Info: 588-6855 or www.

ridgedale.org.

■ Shepherd of the Hills Baptist

Church, 400 East Beaver Creek

Drive, will host “The World’s

Greatest Easter Egg Hunt” at

1 p.m. Saturday, April 7. Lunch

will be served, and there will

be door prizes. All children and

their families are invited.

■ Stevens Mortuary, 1304

Oglewood Ave., will hold its

33rd annual Easter Sunrise

Service, conducted by the Rev.

Ron Mouser, 6:30 a.m. Sunday,

April 8. Service will be held

outside if weather permits.

Info: 524-0331.

Community Services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian

hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry

food pantry 6-8 p.m. each

second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m.

each fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God will

distribute food boxes 9-11

a.m. Saturday, April 14, while

supplies last. You must be

present to receive one box per

household. Info: 689-4829.

■ New Hope Baptist Church

distributes food from its food

pantry to local families in need

6-8 p.m. every third Thursday.

Info: 688-5330.

Rec programs ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

In an effort to help our teenagers understand the critical importance of safe driving, the Powell Busi-ness and Professional Association is coordinating activities including giving away $1000’s of scholarship money to students that com-mit to drive safely.

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It’s April and the Powell Panther sports are heating up.

The baseball team has been cruising, beating Clinton and Karns twice, and defeating Oak Ridge. As of press time the team was 7-0 in district play, putting the Panthers in a fi rst-place tie with Halls in the district standings.

Pitching has had a lot to do with the success, ac-cording to assistant coach Jay Scarbro and senior out-fi elder Riley Duckett.

“Pitching’s defi nitely been one of our strong suits,” said Duckett.

“Our district pitchers have thrown really well,” said Scarbro. Senior Drake Owenby is 3-0 in the dis-trict, along with sophomore Hagen Owenby. Sopho-more Dean Kidd is 1-0.

“They’ve thrown it really well for us so far. They’ve pitched great,” said Scarbro.

Despite a slow start on the offensive side of the ball, Scarbro believes hit-ting will pick up as the sea-son progresses.

“We really have not hit it very well … not to our

Powell sports in full swing

capabilities. But it seems like we’re starting to come around,” said Scarbro. “I’m optimistic that the offen-sive side of what we do will continue to improve.”

Senior Riley Duckett thinks his team’s future is bright.

“We’ve lost two games, but besides that we’ve been playing really well. The rest of the season should be pretty good,” said Duckett.

This week Powell plays Central, hosting the Bob-cats today (April 2) at 5 p.m.

The PHS soccer team has been playing hard and working to improve.

At press time, the team’s record stood at 1-1, with a 4-0 win over Gibbs and a 4-2 loss to Hardin Valley Academy.

Senior Ellias Palcu said the Hardin Valley loss could be attributed to a slow start

back from spring break.“We were a little bit out

of shape,” said Palcu. “We didn’t play the game we wanted to … they were more prepared than we were.”

The Hawks put heavy pressure on the Panthers for the majority of the game, creating what Palcu called “an off-game” for his team.

Powell was down 3-0 in the fi rst half before rallying to bring it to 3-2 at half-time. But the Hawks came into the second half with a goal and Powell just never could get back in it.

Palcu wants his team to take the loss as a learning experience.

“We saw what they did against us. So if we play in the district tournament, we’ll be ready,” said Palcu.

The Panthers played a home match against Heri-tage on March 29 before heading to Karns to take on the Beavers today (April 2).

“We’re gonna have a hard season ahead of us, but we just need to have our heads in the game and get back to how we were before spring break,” said Palcu.

The 11th annual East Tennessee History Day District Competition was held recently at UT Knoxville University Center, hosted by the East Tennes-see Historical Society and UTK History Department. It featured 238 middle and high school students repre-senting schools in seven East Tennessee public school sys-tems (Cumberland, Knox,

Lenoir City, Loudon, Morgan, Union and Se-vier) as well as a number of home schools and private schools in the region.

Nine students from First Baptist Acad-emy in Powell placed in the competition. The seven fi rst- and second-place winners in this group will advance to the Tennessee History Day competition, sponsored by the Tennessee Historical Society, in Nashville on April 21 for the opportunity to compete in the national fi -nals in College Park, Md., in mid-June.

The 2012 National History Day theme is Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History and students are asked to examine how social, cultural or political movements have been a force for change. The students showcased their historical research, knowledge, and cre-ativity through history-themed projects in a variety of formats, including museum-style exhibits, papers, web sites, documentaries and live performances.

Junior Division (grades 6-8) winners from First Baptist Academy were Allyson Neal and Tyler Beichler. Lydia Barbour placed second in her Individual Performance, Martin Lu-ther and His Wife.

Senior Division (grades 9 -12) winners from First Baptist Academy were Ashleanne Zachary, who won fi rst place for her Individ-ual Performance entitled Heart of An Appa-

Nine FBA students place in history contest

lachian Woman, and Josh Barbour, who took fourth place for his Individual Paper on the The Revolution, Reaction and Reform of the Movable Type Printing Press on History.

All are students of Darrell Vandergriff, teacher and administrator of FBA, which is affi liated with Powell First Baptist Church.

Logan Elizabeth Craig placed second for her Individual Paper entitled Got Gold? American’s Reaction to the Reform of the Gold Standard. She is a homeschooled stu-dent taught by Karen Craig and affi liated with FBA.

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The best blooming art show in East Tennessee draws

young artistsBy Pam Fansler

With basketball season behind us and football season still months away, Knox-ville is displaying its other favorite colors: pink, white and green. The Dogwood Arts Fes-tival is in full bloom throughout the month of April. The festival kicks off with Dogwood After Dark, the success-

ful arts-themed fundraiser, now in its fourth year. After that come the open-ing of the trails and art in public places, bus tours, the Market Square Art Fair, Rhythm and Blooms, the Dogwood Pa-rade, the Dogwood Diva Luncheon and much more, including the Dogwood Arts Festival Student Art Show.

The First Tennessee Foundation is a proud sponsor of the Student Art Show, which showcases the area’s best from students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade. Jim Dodson, chair for the event and an art teacher at Jef-ferson Middle School in Oak Ridge for 25 years, touts the age range as one of the unique aspects of the show.

“Most exhibitions are for grades 6-12. We are one of the few that allows K-12. It’s a good opportunity for the el-ementary school art teachers.”

Local art teachers, each allowed to submit two works of art, submitted 98

entries this year. From these, the ju-rors have selected 77. Two stone carv-ers are the show’s judges: Lisa Wolff and Kathy Slocum, who is a former Dogwood Arts Festival board member.

Because every work entered is framed by Fast Frame – another touch that makes this show unique – every student takes home a framed piece of art. Prizes, made possible through First Tennessee’s sponsorship, are awarded to the winners. The “Best of Show” is awarded $250 with that stu-dent’s teacher being awarded $100. The winner in each grade claims a $50 prize. There are also scholarship op-portunities for 11-12th graders.

The students’ works will be on ex-hibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 6-27 with no admission charge in the Denso Gallery at Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. According to Dodson, “the exhibit has been housed in differ-ent venues – all in Knoxville – over the years. The festival would like to make this more of a regional event.” The ex-hibit will open and the winners will be announced at a reception in the Denso Gallery 5-9 p.m. Friday, April 6. Kathy Hart Reilly’s group Hart Strings will perform as Dodson combines the vi-sual arts and the performing arts.

For a real treat, make time to visit the gallery and support these talented students. If you’ve not seen the show before, you will be amazed at the qual-ity of the pieces. It never ceases to in-spire me.Pam Fansler is president of First Tennessee Bank’s East

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Lions serve pancakesLions Jan Waldrop and Kathy

Burrow work the coff ee

station at the Lions Club

fundraiser. Proceeds will

support vision assistance

including screening for pre-

schoolers, held primarily at

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Lions partnered with the Farragut Lions Club for a pancake breakfast fundraiser at Applebee’s. Photos by T. Edwards of TEphotos.com

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

By Shannon Morris

The warm temperatures this winter have proven to be quite a blessing for Grace Christian Academy’s new track and field team. Being able to condition and practice outside let the athletes pre-pare for a busy season.

Grace’s administration is pleased to announce that Al Rodd will head up this new en-deavor. Rodd holds a long list of accomplishments in coach-ing track and fi eld, including starting a brand new program at Anderson County High School in 1992, and coaching numerous team and individ-ual champions over the years.

Even at this early stage in the program’s development, the track and fi eld athletes

from Grace are succeeding. In the two meets before spring break, several athletes had im-pressive performances.

At the Hardin Valley Acad-emy meet, Jarrett Galloway won first place in shot put and second in discus, Mi-chael Johnson came in third in the high jump and fifth in the 400, and D’Anna Johnson came in sixth in the 400. At the Gibbs High School meet, Jarrett Galloway came in third in discus, Michael John-son came in second in the 400, D’Anna Johnson came in second in the high jump, and Tinsley Knight came in sec-ond in the 400.

Grace faculty and staff con-gratulate Coach Rodd and all the track and field athletes.

Right on ‘track’

Katie Borden runs a relay for

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Grace athlete Michael Johnson goes over the top in the high jump.

By Shannon Morris

Known as the bloodi-est confl ict in Ameri-

can history, the Civil War took the lives of nearly 700,000 soldiers, a stag-gering number of lives lost for the tumultuous fi ve-year war. Confl ict between the northern and southern states over slavery could not be resolved peacefully. The issue of taxation of cotton exports was also a matter of contention.

Although President Abraham Lincoln tried to end the disagreement between the states, both sides rejected the peace treaty. Division had al-ready taken place, and neither side was backing down. It was at this time that the South became known as the Confed-eracy and the North was known as the Union.

Although many have read and studied this timeline of events in his-tory class, few get the op-portunity to go back in time to witness what life was like for a soldier in the Civil War right on their own school campus.

It is hard to believe that young boys were leaving the comforts of home to fi ght in the war in the 1860’s. Two hun-dred thousand soldiers were no older than 16, and 300 of them were

13 years or younger. One would think the life of a 13-year-old should consist of reading, writ-ing and arithmetic and the possibility of some chores around the house. Those teenagers who chose the life of a young soldier, however, would experience long days of marching in rough conditions, sleep depri-vation and exhaustion from carrying heavy ar-tillery and supplies.

It was on an unusually warm winter day the last week of February, that 12- and 13-year-old students from Grace Christian Academy were able to see what life as a soldier might have looked like during the Civil War.

Civil War demonstra-tions were set up on the practice fi eld beside the school, letting the 6th and 8th grade classes experi-ence the living conditions, artillery and artifacts from the Civil War in a close and personal way. Demonstrations were conducted by members of the 29th Tennessee In-fantry, CSA; McClung’s Battery with Confeder-ate Mountain Rifl e; and Longstreet-Zollicof fer Camp #87 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

In small groups, the students moved from sta-tion to station learning

Living history at Grace

Students Diego Carrasco, Charleston Dockery and Noah Smith stand with a Civil War re-enactor. Photos by Gina Prieto

Civil War re-enactors fi re a cannon during a

demonstration at Grace Christian Academy.

about life as a soldier. At one station, they discov-ered the soldiers’ living conditions. They saw what supplies a soldier would have had with him on the

battlefi eld and back at base camp. The students moved to another station where a fl ag display was set up showing the loyalty of each state. Students

also heard an audio pre-sentation of “The Rebel Yell Lives.”

Moving on to the next station, the students were in for a special treat as Bob Enik of the 29th Tennes-see Infantry explained the different items in the relic display, referencing the importance of each item.

Despite all of the fas-cinating new discover-ies, however, the students were most enthralled with the demonstration of artillery. The fi rst sur-prise came from the small Woodruff cannon that was used in battle. Every stu-dent jumped when Enik fi red the Woodruff can-non. The students were also amazed at the infan-try presentation with a fi r-ing demonstration of the 58-caliber Enfi eld rifl ed musket by John Holland and Jim Price.

However, the last sta-tion was an impressive demonstration that be-

came a quick favorite among the students, as a large cannon called the Confederate Mountain Rifl e was shot. The re-en-actors worked together to demonstrate the impres-sive power of this Civil War cannon.

Obviously, it would be impossible today to enjoy a fi rst-hand experience such as a Civil War battlefi eld or soldier’s living quarters. However, the students got as close as one possibly can to seeing exactly what life would have been like for their counterparts dur-ing the Civil War. Not only did they gain a new ap-preciation for history, but they saw the reality of life on the front lines in a real and personal way. Many lessons can be learned from one of America’s darkest periods, and these students had an unforget-table classroom this day.

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• Vaccinations – Flu, Tetanusand Shingles

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