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has confi rmed Mayor Tim Burchett’s appointment of Lewis Cosby to the Public Building Authority’s board of directors. Burchett could not have made a better choice.

Lewis Cosby

Lewis Cosby joins PBA

Analysis

Years from now, thousands of local politicos will claim “they were there” in August 2007 when an ill-advised re-mark by former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale trans-formed a retired CPA and business owner from con-

cerned citizen to the county’s premier political watchdog. As Cosby concluded his pre-sentation to County Commis-sion about the problems with the mayor’s accounting prac-tices that afternoon, Rags-dale – sotto voce – muttered “showboat.”

It was Knox County’s ver-sion of the shot heard ’round the world. And while those of us sitting on press row were among the few to actually hear the mayor and witness Cosby’s justifi ably indignant reaction, Ragsdale’s mouth-ing of the word was replayed (in slow motion, no less) to thousands on the local news later that evening.

Ragsdale gave Cosby

fame which he had neither sought nor coveted, and in the process created a relent-less critic of the adminis-tration. But what was bad for the mayor was a boon for Knox County taxpay-

ers. Cosby’s tireless prob-ing alerted the public to such questionable practices as the mayor’s “hospitality fund” and pricey outings on the taxpayers’ dime.

But no one should mistake Cosby’s expertise as an inde-pendent investigator as a sign that he lacks the skills and the spirit to cooperate with others. His service on the county’s Ethics Committee demonstrated clearly enough that he is a team player, a trait that he’ll bring to the PBA’s board. He also unself-ishly shared his time and his knowledge with this reporter and other media representa-tives as we struggled to un-tangle the skeins of the for-mer administration’s books.

“Lewis brings a wealth of experience to the table, including an extensive pri-

vate-sector business back-ground that will inform his actions on the PBA board. Without a doubt, he was the right choice for this most recent appointment,” Bur-chett said. “In recent years, he has shown his willing-ness to hold government accountable, and I am confi -dent that he will continue to do just that.”

Cosby is the right man at the right moment. The PBA has grown exponentially since its establishment, and inevitably questions about its role and its reach have multiplied. As a member of the board, Cosby’s exper-tise will prove invaluable in answering those questions and helping to guide the or-ganization in a direction that provides the greatest benefi t to Knox County taxpayers.

By Greg HouseholderOn a rainy Friday morning last

week, Robert G. “Bob” Crye of Halls raised his right hand and was sworn in as a new Hallsdale Powell Utility District board member by County Mayor Tim Burchett.

Crye replaces Sandra Liford, who resigned in September, and joins board chair Jim Hill and board member Kevin Julian.

“I hope a little common sense,” Crye said when asked what he would bring to the board. “I’m a ratepayer and I would like to see our rates come down and that there is openness and transparency in ev-erything we do. I hope we spend the money wisely.”

Crye lives in Halls with his wife, Janis. He has two daughters, Kris-ten Stevenson of Knoxville and Laura Cloud of Murfreesboro.

Crye began his working career in 1965 with TVA after receiving his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UT. He worked

at TVA until 1981 when he became self-employed for about a year. In 1983 he became vice president, secretary and chief operating offi -cer for Hillman Construction Cor-poration.

In 1984 he began a three-year stint with Rentenbach Engineer-ing Company where he served as marketing representative in the construction division and head en-gineer and deputy manager in the design division.

In 1987 Crye returned to TVA and in 1990 he went to work for Al-stom Power Inc. as a warranty and contracts manager and commercial specialist. He has been a licensed general contractor since 1989 and has constructed at-risk speculative and custom homes and developed two residential subdivisions.

Crye currently is secretary and board member of Jesus Centered Ministries, board member of the Halls Business and Professional Association, and is a trustee and

County Mayor Tim Burchett administers the oath of offi ce to new Hallsdale

Powell Utility District board member Bob Crye last Friday in the mayor’s offi ce. Photo by Greg Householder

Crye wants openness, transparency at HPUD

chair of building and grounds and an adult Sunday School teacher at Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

Crye’s fi rst meeting as a board member of HPUD is 1:30 p.m. Mon-day, Nov. 14.

The Oak Ridge Civic Ballet will present the Nutcracker at the Oak Ridge High School audito-rium Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 19-20.

There will be two shows on Saturday, featur-ing an encore performance at 11 a.m. and the full performance at 7:30 p.m. The encore perfor-mance is a one-act version of the full show and is perfect for small children and groups. Tickets for the encore performance are $7 each. The evening performance will feature professional dancers Stephanie Bussell and Noel Dupuis and music by the UT Chamber Orchestra. The fi nal performance will be Sunday, Nov. 20, and cost for the full performances are adults $20, seniors $15 and students $10.

Kick off the holidays Civic Ballet to present

‘The Nutcracker’

Dancing in the Oak Ridge Civic Ballet’s production

of “The Nutcracker” are Powell residents: (front)

Laney Haskell; (back) Olivia King, Sarah Jett (Sugar

Plum fairy) and Kylee Haskell (Clara Staublaum). Photo submitted

Burchett sets November meetings

County Mayor Tim Burchett will hold one-on-one constitu-ent meetings during November including 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, Crown College main building, 2307 W. Bea-ver Creek Drive; and 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road.

HPUD sets hearing on loan

Hallsdale Powell Utility District has set a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the district offi ce, 3745 Cunningham Road, to discuss a $4.8 million loan to fi nance upgrades to the Beaver Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant and expand the Raccoon Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Info: Darren Cardwell at 922-7547.

MPC north sector report delayed

The Metropolitan Planning Commis-sion’s draft of a revised North County Sec-tor Plan, expected this month, has been delayed and probably will be presented in January, according to lead planner Mike Reynolds.

Early voting expands to Halls

Early voting loca-tions will be expanded today (Monday, Oct. 31) to include the Halls Community Park, 6933 Recreation Lane (off Crippen Road), through Thursday, Nov. 3.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to the city elections, a special election is be-ing held to fi ll the state Senate District 6 seat.

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Work is progressing on the old airplane fi lling sta-tion on Clinton Highway. For the past several weeks Airplane Filling Station Preservation Association member Brian Christian and his crew have been working on the interior and outside tin skin.

Gone is the old rotting bead board on the inside and new interior framing is in place along with a door to the where the new restroom will be and a door through the framing that divides the main part of the plane into two rooms.

Some of the tin skin has been replaced.

Brian said while working on the airplane, folks would stop by and tell him stories about their experiences with the iconic building. One gentleman related that he worked at the fi lling sta-tion and was standing on the front steps when he heard

Members of the Airplane Filling Station Preservation Association leave last Monday’s meeting.

Members are: Tom Hungerford, Tom Milligan, Lee Robins, Brian Christian and Carol Johnson

(going out the door). Note the interior framing and new interior doors. Photo by Greg Householder

Airplane updateNew grant work

starts this month,

group seeks

stories

of the attack on Pearl Har-bor on Dec. 7, 1941, over the radio. He also told of how he used to climb the ridge on the other side of Clinton Highway to cool off during hot summer days since the building did not have air conditioning.

Brian told of the person who stopped by and talked of the airplane’s days as a “head shop” in the ’70s.

AFSPA member Carol Johnson wants to collect those stories and get them written down as part of the history of the old building. If you have a story about the old airplane fi lling sta-tion, shoot Carol an email at ynn@bellsouth.net or give her call at 688-0447.

On Dec. 9, WNML will be doing a remote of Sport-sTalk from the airplane 3-7 p.m. with John Wilkerson and Jimmy Hyams. On Dec.

10, the airplane group will be holding a Christmas sale of memorabilia.

Holiday party ■

Ray Johnson (PHS Class of 1980 and inaugural PHS Hall of Fame inductee) has been busy. He is organizing a community holiday party at Beaver Brook Country Club to benefi t both the Powell High School Dreams Foundation and the Pow-ell Playhouse. A scholar-ship will be presented to a PHS senior who is pursuing studies in the arts in honor of Nita Buell Black.

Tickets for the shindig are $40. Ray is setting this thing up through Facebook so you will need to get on there and make friends with Ray. Tickets are going fast.

Girls basketball ■

plan benefi tSpeaking of shindigs, the

Powell High School girls basketball boosters will be presenting the The Senior’s Express Band headed by singer-songwriter John Kinsey in the gym 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. Admission is $5.

Teachers across Knox County have been busy with eval-uations, continuing education and teaching the classroom. After many weeks of hard work, Brickey-McCloud principal Robbie Norman knew that her staff needed a diversion.

Norman asked each staff member to draw the name of a co-worker and each was required to create a pumpkin to re-semble their selection. Teachers got creative by decorating pumpkins to resemble others and their likes, and everyone enjoyed guessing which pumpkin belonged to which staff members. Students joined in the fun of the great pumpkin guessing game.

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Powell students take fi rst place in art show“The Scream,” at left, produced by the 3-D class at Powell High,

taught by Lee Ann Jenkins-Freels, took fi rst place in the youth cate-gory at New Harvest Park. The scarecrows will be up through Tues-day, Nov. 1. Youth category second place went to Young Adventurers Home School Group, also from Powell.

The adult category fi rst place went to “Gunther” by Victor Zano-ni. He has won fi rst place all three years of the compeition. Adult second place was the “TN Loch Mess Monster” by Knox County Stormwater/CAC AmeriCorps Water Quality Team.

The $100 fi rst prize money was contributed by Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union and presented by Boone Ausmus.

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By Wendy SmithConfederate soldier Ab-

ner Baker came home from the war looking for trouble, and he found it. According to those who frequent his former home, the Baker-Peters house at the corner of Peters Road and Kings-ton Pike, Abner continues to make mischief today.

Abner Baker was the son of Dr. Harvey Baker, who built the antebellum home on a large farm in 1840. Dr. Baker was murdered by Union troops in 1863, and the most reliable account of his death appeared in the Knoxville Daily Regis-ter.

The story reports that Dr. Baker, who was ru-mored to be sympathetic to the Confederate cause, was confronted in his yard by a Union soldier, who threatened him with a gun. Baker went into the house and locked the doors, but it was soon surrounded by troops who demanded that the men of the house sur-render.

Mrs. Baker told the sol-diers repeatedly that her husband was the only man in the house, and he would surrender if they stopped firing. But the soldiers continued to shoot through windows, and eventually broke into the house and made their way up the stairs. Baker was shot and killed when he opened the door to confront his assail-ants.

But that wasn’t the end of the bloodshed. Steve Cotham, historian and manager of the McClung Historical Collection, con-firms the story that Abner Baker returned to town in 1864, possibly seeking re-venge for his father’s death. He killed a Union officer, thought to be a man named William Hall, near the Knox County courthouse. Later that day, he was forc-ibly removed from the jail and hanged by a mob.

The Baker-Peters house is now owned by Larry Tra-gresser, who runs a dental practice out of the first

f loor. A door in his office with two holes is suppos-edly the same door Union troops shot through when they confronted Dr. Baker.

Some of the customers at Baker Peters restaurant, which occupies the second fl oor, think that Abner’s unsettled spirit has never left the old house. Events Coordinator David Poe says most employees, as well as a number of customers, have had strange experiences in the restaurant.

Eric and Johnna Dangle recall a time when they were sitting at the bar in the early evening with two other customers when Eric happened to look up at the exact moment two wine-glasses shot off a rack above the bar and smashed into the wall. No one, including the bartender, was near the glasses, he says.

There are several pen-dant light fi xtures in the restaurant, and occasion-ally, one will swing. Some attribute the movement to nearby air vents. But all of

The ghost upstairsat the Baker-Peters house

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the fi xtures are near vents, and only one moves. Strange events are common enough that restaurant regulars no longer try to explain them.

“Everybody just looks at each other and says, ‘Ab-ner,’ ” Eric Dangle says.

Robert Smith says similar phenomena oc-curred when the building was home to Hawkeye’s II in the 1980s. He recalls hearing loud, unexplained sounds coming from the attic. Customers also re-ported getting locked in a bathroom that, at the time, had no lock on the door.

“Do things happen ev-ery night? No. But I’ve seen things I cannot explain. It doesn’t really scare me – it

intrigues me.”Smith plans to be in

attendance at a séance that will be held in the restaurant at midnight on Oct. 31. Medium Steve Bishop will con-duct the event. Poe says anyone can attend, but Bishop reserves the right to exclude anyone he deems disrespectful.

While he appreciates the publicity the restau-rant receives from hav-ing a resident ghost, Poe says it’s a double-edged sword.

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Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Mr. Answer Man’s answers to the questions that keep you up at night. Young children and people with heart conditions should avoid today’s session.

Q: Mr. Answer Man, I hear the school system is spending $750,000 to supply students with something called “isotonic water.” What is that? Could this be a Marxist plot to corrupt our chil-dren’s precious bodily fl uids? Sign me, “Scared.”

A: Dear Scared: You have every right to be frightened. Fittingly, “isotonic” is an English transliteration of Egyp-tian hieroglyphics discovered on the tomb of King Tut: iso, “costs a lot;” and tonic, “water with stuff added to it.” It’s fi tting because water was a scarce commodity in the Egyptian desert, and isotonic water was reserved for the Pharoahs.

Commissioner Tony Norman, who pursues Egyptology as a sideline, noted last week that, “Kids want a whole lot of things.” Norman added: “Just because they demand it doesn’t mean we have to supply it.”

School offi cials countered that they want to provide “attractive items students are interested in.” Besides, the markup is 250 percent, better than double the profi t realized by Egyptian traders during Tut’s reign.

But what will students “demand” next? Free bus rides? No school on Christmas Day? Who knows where this will end.

Q: Mr. Answer Man, maybe it’s just because Halloween is approaching, but I’m having a recurring nightmare about the county going back into business with a vendor some say owes taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Am I losing my mind?

A: You seem perfectly normal to me – it’s the county’s sanity that’s in question. Recently, Commissioner “Our” Larry Smith summed up his fears about the county’s contract with Nature’s Best Organics LLC, also known as “the same guys who operated Natural Resources Re-covery and got sued by Brad Mayes.” Smith said, “Guys, if we vote for this we have our heads in the sand. They screwed us once (and) they’ll try to do it again.”

With a nod to the supernatural, Norman described the situation as “a lawyer’s heaven (but) … our purgatory,” and said there was no recourse other than letting the courts sort it out.

“They’re tainted, and we shouldn’t be doing busi-ness with them,” Norman added, before voting for the contract.

Mr. Answer Man’s assessment: “The horror … the hor-ror.” (Thank you, Marlon Brando.)

Q: Last week Commissioner Sam McKenzie said he had a hard time justifying a 1.5 percent pay increase over a period of four years for county employees. What’s your take?

A: Mr. Answer Man’s sources tell us that County Mayor Tim Burchett and his staff, ever mindful of the Halloween season, arrived at the percentage by bobbing for apples. Chief of staff Dean Rice grabbed 1 1/2 Granny Smiths, and the rest is history. There is no truth to the scurrilous rumor that Commissioner Amy Broyles tried to slip a poisoned apple into the tub, which, by the way, was fi lled with isotonic water.

Anyway, if McKenzie worked for a print newspaper he wouldn’t have made such a silly observation.Contact Larry Van Guilder at lvgknox@mindspring.com.

Things that go ‘Huh?’

in the night

A week from tomorrow night and it is over, this may-oral contest which started last summer (2010, not 2011) when Marilyn Roddy hosted fundraisers only to switch races once Jamie Woodson resigned as state senator.

Last week I was asked dur-ing a talk at the Farragut Ro-tary Club if Roddy had stayed in the race would it be a dif-ferent set of candidates in the current run off. This is a “what if” question to which the an-swer is only a speculation.

However, I think it is cer-tainly possible that would have been the case. There is no doubt Madeline Rogero was going to have a spot in the runoff or win it outright (only 16 votes short as it was). She has always been the per-son to beat and still is.

Mark Padgett was only a few votes ahead of Ivan Harmon. Roddy would have taken some Republican votes from Harmon and perhaps gotten some Padgett votes as well. Padgett and Harmon were neck and neck. Certain-

Tennessee Conservative Union chair Lloyd Daugh-erty lives in Karns and doesn’t usually mess in city politics, but the anonymous letter trashing mayoral can-didate Madeline Rogero and several prominent Republi-can supporters sucked him

City election generates yawn

ly it is plausible that Roddy could have been in the same close mix. She had ample funding which she returned once she switched races. She had been running for more than a year.

Padgett and Harmon got 23 percent each so all Roddy had to do was win 24 percent and she would have been in the runoff. Now whether she would have defeated Rog-ero is another matter and my guess is not. However, I think that runoff would have been less negative than the current contest.

The more interesting ques-tion is what would have hap-pened had interim Mayor Daniel Brown decided to run for mayor. I am convinced he would have won a place in the runoff and probably faced

Rogero although his candida-cy would have taken votes off Rogero in the African-Ameri-can community. It also would have taken votes all across the city from people who have been impressed with the calm and deliberate manner in which he has led the city.

A runoff between Rogero and Brown could have been close.

If early voting averages 700 to 800 voters a day, about 9,000 people will vote early, which means the total city vote may reach 18,000, a few thousand more than the Sept. 27 primary. This is half the 33,000 who voted in 1987 when Randy Tyree and I faced off in a similar runoff. It is a shame so few people are voting and it argues strongly for changing the city elections to coincide with the state elections where turnout is much higher.

This election is generating a yawn from 80 percent of the registered voters.

The nasty, unsigned ■

letter attacking Rogero may

backfi re. People do not ap-preciate such tactics and are more informed than the au-thor of the mailer may think. It certainly will fi re up the Rogero base.

Mayor Brown has in-■

dicated he will make offi ce space available to the mayor-elect to run his/her transition offi ce between Nov. 8 and Dec. 17 when the new mayor takes offi ce. The winner will be invited to a seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard to be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 for newly elected mayors of cities over 90,000. It is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the JFK Institute of Politics and is a valuable source of information.

Vice Mayor Joe Bailey ■

and his family have moved recently from his home on Hillvale Turn West (previ-ously occupied by former County Commissioner Bee DeSelm) two blocks away to the corner of Kingston Pike and Oakhurst. His term on City Council ends Dec. 17.

Blowback:Republicans for Rogero

Madeline Rogero and Tim Burchett at Hollerpalooza Photo by

Betty Bean

enough for me.’ ”Daughterty said his

friends are furious over the attack on Rogero supporter Eddie Mannis, who is re-sponsible for the HonorAir fl ights that take World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the monument to their service.

“That went over like a tofu turkey at a Baptist home-coming. One fellow told me that Mr. Mannis helped his older brother go to Wash-ington before he died. He said that letter made him sick. So if you talk to Made-line, tell her she didn’t know it and I didn’t know it but I’ve endorsed her.”

County Mayor Tim Bur-chett says he doesn’t get in-volved in city politics when asked if he has a favorite in the Rogero-Padgett race.

“But I’ll say this: We dis-agree about a lot of things, but she’s never lied to me. That’s more than I can say about a lot of people I know. And that letter? It’s just the death rattle of the old court-house crowd.”

Republican Executive Committee member Lynn Redmon is an unapologetic Rogero supporter:

“I care about neighbor-hoods. That’s why I’m for Rogero.”

Attorney Richard Beeler, who served as county law director when Rogero was a county commissioner, has GOP credentials that go back to Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign in the New Hampshire primary.

Gloria Johnson stands with supporter Harvey Boles. John-

son, the Democratic Party nominee for the 6th District

Tennessee state Senate seat and a teacher with Knox

County Schools, was endorsed by the Tennessee Educa-

tion Association and the Knox County Education Associa-

tion last week. Photo by Betty Bean

KCEA and TEA endorse Johnson

into the maelstrom when he reported that eight of 15 TCU members who received the letter have decided to vote for Rogero.

When TV reporters called, he said that he dis-agrees with Rogero on many philosophical issues, but has always liked her personally.

That pulled him even deeper into the battle be-tween Rogero and Mark Padgett, who, like Rogero, is a Democrat, but who en-joys the support of several well-known Republicans, most notably losing mayoral candidate Ivan Harmon and Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones.

Later, Daugherty was in the doctor’s offi ce and was approached by one of the nurses.

“She said ‘Because you’ve endorsed Madeline, my friend and I have decided to vote for her. …’ I told her that I hadn’t really en-dorsed anybody, but I said Madeline’s honest and she’s smart and that’s who I’d be for if I were in the city. The lady said, ‘That’s good

“This is a nonpartisan race, and I am a conserva-tive Republican who thinks Madeline is the only can-didate who is actually pre-pared to be a really great mayor.

“I’ve actually worked with her, and the fi rst thing I look for in a candidate is

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He said that the letter made him so mad he did something he rarely does in a city race:

“I wrote her one of the big-gest checks I’ve ever written a political candidate.”

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Dr. Bob Cunningham

Discerning the Arab Spring

So, I drifted by the Dem-ocratic Club that meets on Bearden Hill last week to hear retired UT professor Bob Cunningham talk about the Arab Spring.

You know the Arab Spring. We just fi nished it, although one could argue it’s the Arab Era and we’re not done yet.

Cunningham discussed the populist uprisings in the Middle East in terms of the economy and what he called “old men and their fami-lies.”

Every country was im-pacted by the bad economy, even the oil producers, he said. Production was cut and workers were laid off. Even college educated young people could not fi nd work.

“There is a feeling that the system doesn’t work and an enthusiasm, especially by young people, to change it,” he said.

Cunningham traced family or military control back to the 1960s for most Middle Eastern countries and back to the 1920s for Jordan. There is pent-up pressure for regime change.

“Religious and ethnic mi-norities often do better with authoritarian rule. They get by because they are no threat.”

Cunningham, who lived and taught in Syria for three years, said minorities

have reason for concern as dictators are overthrown, especially those minorities such as the Sunnis in Iraq that have ruled over the majority Shiites.

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By Betty BeanCounty pension board

m e m b e r Ed Shouse was taken by sur-prise when p o l i t i c o Robert M. “ M o s e ” L o b e t t i s h o w e d up on the

board’s September agenda to talk about his status un-der the Uniformed Offi cers Pension Plan. Lobetti has been asked to repay some $13,000 that was dis-tributed to him before he switched from the county’s Asset Accumulation Plan to the UOPP in 2007.

The UOPP is a defi ned benefi ts plan that was passed by referendum in 2007 and was sold to the public as a way to provide a decent retirement for law enforcement offi cers who risk their lives to ensure public safety. Lobetti, 82, is best known for his high profi le involvement in local political campaigns – most recently that of mayoral candidate Mark Padgett – and his connections to the family of John J. Duncan Sr., Jr. and III.

“When item No. 6 con-cerning Mose Lobetti came up, I said that I had known Mose for a long time and realized that he had been employed at the courthouse for many years, but I had always thought that he worked for the attorney general in the grand jury area and there-fore was actually employed by the state. I then asked how could he be a partici-pant of the UOPP. The re-sponse was that he was a ‘Court Offi cer’ and was on the payroll of the sheriff.

I asked if this was similar to a bailiff’s position and the answer was yes. As you know, bailiffs qualify for the UOPP,” Shouse said.

Lobetti’s attorney, Steve Sharp, did not return a telephone call when con-tacted for comment on this story, but pension board minutes for the September meeting refl ect that Sharp asked for a postpone-ment and requested that the board provide Lobetti with calculations “based on where he would stand if he had not transferred to the Uniformed Offi cers’ Pension Plan.”

Pension Board execu-tive director Kim Bennett told the board that Lobetti received payments (due to his age) from the Asset Ac-cumulation Plan in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 in the amount of $11,171.81. She said that Lobetti should have been given the option of repaying that money with interest or taking a reduced benefi t at that time. Instead, she said, “He fell through the cracks.”

“Either he needs to pay it back or his benefi t will be reduced,” Bennett said.

She explained that any-one receiving the UOPP must have 25 years service and be at least 50 years old to draw the pension.

Pension board attorney Richard Beeler confi rmed Bennett’s take on the Lo-betti matter:

“If he buys back that lost time, he will receive an increased benefi t when he offi cially retires under the UOPP.”

The matter was post-poned again in October and has been rescheduled for the November meeting.

Lobetti

Pay to play, says Pension BoardBoard wants $13K from Lobetti That’s the key it seems.

Don’t mix government and religion. Good advice for us all.

The Q-and-A was all over the map, reflecting both the audience’s en-gagement in the topic and the individuals’ need to have Cunningham hear their point of view.

“Technology is an ir-resistible force,” said one. With computers and cell-phones, dissidents can or-ganize.

What happens in Iraq when we leave?

“They can’t blame the Americans any more,” said Cunningham.

“The younger generation wants to participate, and that leads to optimism. … The military wants stability and often will trade growth for stability.

“It’s all mixed up with pieces that don’t fi t. It’s im-possible to predict (the out-come).”

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Ralph V. Norman Jr., Ph.D., a Central High School graduate of the Class of 1951, is being induct-ed into the school’s Wall of Fame at the annual breakfast ceremony 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the school. Dr. Norman is being rec-ognized for his career of scholarly accomplishments, especially as the founding head of the Depart-ment of Religious Studies at UT. As an educator and scholar, his activities and writings brought together themes and ideas from diverse disciplines.

Ralph V. Norman Jr. was 9 when his family moved to Foun-tain City. In 1942, Ralph V. Nor-man Sr., a sales manager for the tobacco firm of Brown and Wil-liamson, received a promotion and moved his family – wife Anna Lee, daughter Sara Jane and son Ralph Jr. – from John-son City to Fulton Road. Ralph liked the area, remembering Fountain City as somewhat dif-ferent from the rest of the com-munity. It was a harder for his sister, six years older, to make the transition from Johnson City at a time when many of the young men of her age were leav-ing school for the military. Ralph recalls Fountain City as an inter-esting crossroads, having a di-verse professional class with new families brought in by Oak Ridge and TVA as well as international visitors observing the results of the TVA social experiment. He attended first Fountain City Ele-mentary then traveled one block over to Central High.

Ralph enjoyed both academ-ics and activities at Central. He played in the band and was an enthusiastic member of the de-bate club. His junior year, the debate team reached the state finals, placing second.

During his junior year he also met and began dating a fresh-man student, Corne-lia “Connie” Shirley, whom he later married. His senior year, he and fellow debaters Ruth Bradfelt and Tom Un-derwood were asked to debate the welfare state. Rather than adopting the common-ly accepted position of opposing “creeping socialism,” the team was challenged by an older acquaintance to practice arguing an unfamiliar viewpoint in favor of socialism and communism. Their debate coach, Alberta Ailor, invoking the au-thority of the principal, firmly informed them that a debate team representing Central would not be advocat-ing communism in the 1951 competition.

The somewhat dispirited team did not fare well in competition that year, but Tom Underwood and Ralph would both become teachers who encouraged stu-dents to think and analyze for themselves. History teacher Nan-nie Lee Hicks gave him a solid grounding in the U.S. Constitu-tion. Ralph took Latin all four years at Central and his teacher, Pace Moore Johnston, helped ig-nite a strong interest in languages and ancient cultures, introducing him to writers such Virgil.

Ralph received a Bachelor of Arts from UT in 1954 with ma-jors in philosophy and English, then a master’s in philosophy in 1956. In 1955-56, he was ac-cepted as a Fulbright Scholar to Tubingen University in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. He also had the opportunity to attend in-formal English-language semi-nars conducted by famed Swiss theologian Karl Barth in Basel.

Dr. Ralph Norman, founding head of UT’s Department of

Religious Studies, will be inducted into the Central High

Wall of Fame on Saturday, Nov. 12. Photo submitted

Breakfast is Nov. 12The 10th annual Central

High School Wall of Fame breakfast is 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Central High commons. Other inductees include Charlotte Davis, Ed-die Mannis and the Rev. Billy Wallace. Tickets are available at the school offi ce or by call-ing 922-5433.

Norman to be inducted to Central High Wall of Fame

He then studied at Yale where Connie became director of the Yale University Divinity Nursery School. In 1961, having obtained his divinity degree and a second master’s, Ralph completed his doctorate in philosophical the-ology. Five degrees in 10 years reflect the profound love of aca-demia and scholarship which have marked his career.

In 1961, Ralph and his fam-ily left Yale for a position at Mi-ami University in Oxford, Ohio, as an assistant then associate professor in the departments of philosophy and religion. In 1966, UT recruited him to begin a Department of Religious Stud-ies. He accepted the challenge which provided the opportunity to cross-fertilize between differ-ent disciplines and departments.

Another opportunity to en-courage interdisciplinary schol-arship arose when Vanderbilt University decided to cease spon-sorship of Soundings, a journal

university, he was unable to per-suade former athletic director Doug Dickey to include croquet as a university sport. Among his honors are the Chancellor’s Cita-tion for Extraordinary Service to the University (2003) and the University Studies Award for Distinguished Service (2002).

Dr. Norman’s interests in hu-manities and the arts extend beyond academics. He chaired the Tennessee Committee for the Humanities and served on the board of the Knoxville Op-era Guild. He has combined his love of croquet with community service through croquet tour-naments benefitting the Opera Guild and the High Country Women’s Fund in Avery County, N.C. He has been involved in arts councils for the city of Knoxville and the state of Tennessee.

Connie and Ralph raised two children, son Stephen and daughter Emily. Knoxville is home to Emily and her husband, David Cox, and children, Jona-than and Caroline. Son Stephen passed away in 2000.

Connie passed away in 2007. Now retired, Ralph Norman di-vides his time between Knox-ville, Blowing Rock, N.C., and Key Largo, Fla. He met his new wife, Linda, in Blowing Rock and has enjoyed introducing her to competition croquet. A native of Albany, N.Y., Linda Lillo Nor-man has also enjoyed being in-troduced to Knoxville’s version of Southern culture.

devoted to interdisci-plinary writings in the humanities. Dr. Nor-man advocated for UT to become the publish-er and he served as edi-tor from 1985 through 2000.

“Seek Simplicity and Distrust It,” a quota-tion from philosopher Alfred North White-head, became the pur-pose statement for the journal. Peruse a few of Dr. Norman’s intro-ductory essays in this journal and hold your hat for a rollercoaster of writing, threading together ideas and in-terlacing themes in subjects as diverse as Satchel Paige and Or-pheus. His editing dis-plays a willingness to take on profound ques-tions, with the room to consider contradictory answers. His writings

include “Community in America” with Charles Reynolds.

In 1971, Dr. Norman became the associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts then moved into the university administration as Associate Vice Chancellor then Vice-Provost. He oversaw the de-velopment of a faculty exchange program in American Studies with Bonn University, as well as participation Bonn’s Transatlan-tic Summer Academy on Europe-an Integration. In 1991 and 1996, he served as a guest professor in Bonn’s North American Studies Program. His office oversaw the development of UT’s Normandy Scholars Program, allowing se-lect students from UT to explore different aspects of the 1944 al-lied invasion of Normandy.

Ralph developed lighter inter-ests as well, including an interest in croquet, the formal game in which participants are expected to wear white. Despite his po-sitions of influence within the

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I was meant to be an October baby, a fact no one pointed out to me while I lay curled up, warm and cozy and protected in my mother’s tummy. For three weeks past her due date, I lazed around, getting fat, quite unconcerned with cal-endars. Then, on Halloween night, I decided it was time to make my debut, and Dad-dy drove Mother to the hos-pital. (I have never until this moment thought to wonder if my brother got to go trick-or-treating that night!)

Even at the hospital, still reluctant to leave the secu-

My (annual)ode to autumn

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the fl ower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away. (Isaiah 18: 5 NRSV)

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. …(“Ode to Autumn,” stanza 3, John Keats, 1819)

leaf, and the leaves them-selves a riot of color, my heart sings, and I know it is true.

I am a child of October.Years later, when I was

a student at UT, my sopho-more English professor was of English descent. I think of him every year at this time, not because of all the wonderful things he taught me, nor his dry British hu-mor, or the twinkle in his eyes, but because he spoke of Keats’ “Ode to Autumn” with such reverence.

Every October I take out my textbook, “World Mas-terpieces,” and reread not only Keats’ poem, but also the notes I wrote in the mar-gins of the page. I can still hear Dr. Sanders saying, “This is the perfect poem. This poem doesn’t say some-thing; it is what it says.”

He went through the poem word by word, help-ing us appreciate the imag-ery, the sensuous sound and pace of the words, the ar-rangement of the letters. He pointed out the perfection of the brief moment captured in the poem, a moment that

is balanced in perfect ma-turity: ripeness, suspended between growth and decay.

He waxed eloquent also about the perfection of the arrangement of words: the three stanzas (three being a perfect number: beginning, middle, end), and the fact that all the senses get drawn into play. The fi rst stanza, he noted, is all about taste, touch and smell. The second deals with sight, and the third is devoted to sounds.

Rereading that poem re-minds me to taste and touch and smell autumn in all its glory, as well as to see it. Keats nudges me: turns my face to look, to savor, to lis-ten, to breathe.

I am so grateful to live here, in this place, with four distinct seasons, with the turning of the year painted in gold and amber and scar-let, with the quiet brook ly-ing at the back of my mead-ow, and the sky so blue it hurts my heart.

I am so blessed to have eyes to see, ears to hear, a mind to wonder, and a soul to give thanks.

Happy autumn!

rity of the womb, I procras-tinated further and did not draw my fi rst breath in this world until late afternoon, the next day. So I missed Oc-tober altogether that year.

But nowadays when I see the blue October skies, the air so clear I can see every

Fall means Dr. Carvenstein, too! Dr. Carvenstein (aka Ken Clayton) carves up a pumpkin at the

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Cross Roads Presbyterian ■

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try food pantry from 6-8 p.m.

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Knoxville Free Food Market ■ ,

4625 Mill Branch Lane (across

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distributes free food 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of

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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.

Temple Baptist Academy ■

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food items through Friday,

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Dante Church of God, ■ 325

Qualls to

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guest speaker for the Knox-ville Fellowship Luncheon at noon Tuesday, Nov.1. The KFL is a group of Christian men and women who meet weekly at the Golden Corral in Powell.

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Fundraisersand sales

Beaver Ridge UMC, ■ 7753 Oak

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Faith UMC ■ , 1120 Dry Gap

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Fountain City UMC ■ will have

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Parlor/Logos room. The pub-

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Jelf, 357-6134.

Youth programsNew Hope Baptist Church ■ ,

7602 Bud Hawkins Road in

Corryton, hosts Celebrate

Recovery adult and youth

classes 7 p.m. Tuesdays

and 12-step class 6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays. Info: 688-5330.

Thanksgiving DayNew Liberty Baptist ■

Church, 5901 Roberts Road,

Corryton, will host a Thanks-

giving dinner for anyone

who would be alone during

the holidays. The event will

be 3-5 p.m. Thanksgiving

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fashioned turkey dinner with

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To donate: Andrew Foth,

335-6680, or Charmin Foth

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2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at

the church. Crafts, antiques,

eclectic items, holiday designs,

bakery, sweets, recycled

toys, books, CDs and more.

All money goes to missions.

Lunch of soups, sandwiches,

salads, chips, desserts and

drink will be served in Wesley

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Rutherford Memorial ■ UMC,

7815 Corryton Road, will host

a benefi t BBQ and auction Sat-

urday, Nov. 12. Uncle Butch’s

BBQ will be served 4:30 to

6:30 p.m. and the auction will

begin at 6:15 p.m. Proceeds

to benefi t Seth Cate, who was

recently diagnosed with Duch-

enne muscular dystrophy.

New Beverly Baptist ■

Church’s Holiday Bazaar is 9

a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

5. Multiple vendors.

Shepherd of the Hills Baptist ■

Church, 400 E. Beaver Creek

Drive, will hold an end-of-the-

year yard sale 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5.

HomecomingsBookwalter UMC ■ , 4218 Central

Avenue Pike, will have its annual

homecoming Sunday, Nov. 6.

Sunday school starts at 10 a.m.;

worship service at 10:45. A cov-

ered dish luncheon will follow

the service. Info: 689-3349.

RevivalsClear Springs Baptist ■

Church, 8518 Thompson

School Road, will host re-

vival 7 p.m. Monday through

Wednesday, Oct. 31 to Nov.

2. Special music. Info: www.

clearspringsbaptist.net or

688-7674.

Mt. Harmony Baptist ■

Church, 819 E. Raccoon Val-

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By Greg HouseholderLast Thursday at Powell

High School, musical talent was in abundance.

The PHS choral depart-ment presented its fall con-cert.

Under the direction of Jim Kennedy and with ac-companist and guest con-ductor Will Brimer, the Concert Choir opened the show with “Festival Sanc-tus,” “O, America” with Tori Palmer as soloist, “Allellia” and “Hiney Mah Tov.”

The quartet Adelphi, consisting of Katherine Cobb, Tori Lentz, Hannah Strozyk and Ashton Wade, performed “Candle on the Water.”

The Boys Ensemble, made up of Curtis Allred, Brandon Barnes, Brandon Evans, Luke Nightwine, Tye Sharp and Matthew Under-wood, performed “Zuman-guaza,” “Bwana Awabari-ki” with Allred as soloist, “Kum-ba-ya” with Sharp as solist, “Wimoweh” with Mi-chael Hurst as soloist and “Siyahamba.”

The quartet Four and No More – Ashley Spangler, Erin Parks, Samantha Ma-jor and Tori Palmer – sang “Rock Around the Clock.”

The male quartet Three and a Half Men, Caleb Brewer, Harrison Cooke, Noah Muncy and Kyler Rob-erts, performed “Coney Is-

land Baby.”The foursome called The

Ringers, made up of Katlyn Householder, Emily Morrow, Whitney Pittman and Kelsie Shipley, sang “Sh-Boom” and “Mr. Sandman.”

The Girls Chorus took the stage accompanied by Spen-cer Devine and performed “We are Blessed,” “Walking in the Air” with Haley Har-bin as soloist, “Adiemus” with Tori Lentz as soloist and “Cross the Wide Missouri.”

The Adelphi quartet re-turned to perform “Lean on Me.”

The PHS Singers closed out the show with “Doluri” and “Baba Yetu” with Kyler Rob-erts as soloist, Corbyn Skeen

as ASL interpreter and Har-rison Cooke on percussion. The Singers also performed “Alluluia,” “Somewhere over the Rainbow” with Noah Muncey and Katlyn House-holder as soloists and Caleb Brewer on the ukulele, and “La Cucaracha.”

Soloist Alex Strozyk per-formed “I Can Go the Dis-tance” and soloists Allie Pat-ton and Justin Wood sang “When You Believe.”

The show closed with “I Can See Clearly Now” and “The Lord Bless You and Keep You.”

Wesley Kirkland was chief executive audio manager and Brandon Hall was the light-ing boss.

A special senior classVeterans cap

successful career

at PHSBy Greg HouseholderAs this is written, one

thing is for certain: the 23 seniors on the Powell High School football team have not played their last game on Hayworth Field at Scar-bro Stadium.

The Panthers are defi -nitely in the playoffs and as a top seed will host the fi rst round and perhaps beyond. The only question as of press time is who they will play.

On Oct. 21, the 2011 Powell seniors and their teammates completed their second un-defeated regular season cam-paign in as many years with a 34-0 win over Central. This crop of seniors has made the playoffs all four years of their career and many of them have been three- and even four-year starters.

Their presence will be missed next year.

“They are arguably one of the best if not the best classes to come through here either ever or in a long, long time,” says head coach Matt Lowe.

A good number of the players have been together a long time – like a decade in some cases, playing up through the Powell youth football system.

“This class is one of the biggest that has stuck to-gether since they were 7 or 8 years old,” says Lowe. “And they were successful back then, too.”

The 2011 seniors are, in roster order: Dyshawn Mobley, Justin Wood, An-drew Irby, Dustin McPhet-ridge, Brady Williams, Landon Wright, Jonathan Staggs, Darian Logan, Nick Hammond, Colby Skeen, Drake Owenby, Alan-Mi-chael Agee, Cade Smith, Gray Bunch, Chris East-erday, Koby Crisp, Cory Headrick, Zach York, Wes-ley Sparks, Xavier Walker, Tony Foster, Darrian Farm-er and Sinjin Meyers.

Many a familiar name on that list, no doubt.

Congratulations to the seniors and the rest of the Panthers for another per-fect regular season. Kickoff Friday for round one is at 7 p.m., 30 minutes earlier than the usual starting time.

The Powell High School Concert Choir under the direction of Jim Kennedy opens things up at the fall concert last Thursday with

“Festival Sanctus.” Photo by Greg Householder

Singers shine at choral fall concert

Temple Baptist Academy ‘adopts’ CandleridgeThe 3rd graders at Temple Baptist Academy sing for the residents of Candleridge Plaza Apart-

ments in Powell last Wednesday. The kids came with songs and goodies to help the residents

celebrate October birthdays. The visit was part of TBA’s “Embracing Our Community” campaign

and the academy has adopted the Candleridge senior residence. Each month a class will visit to

help celebrate birthdays and throw a party for the residents. Photo by Greg Householder

By Ruth WhiteSecond grade students

at Brickey-McCloud El-ementary School last week visited the Teddy Bear Emergency Room and re-ceive quality care for be-loved stuffed pets.

The clinic was set up to build on classroom instruction in science (germs and preventing illness), health and safety (hospitals are safe places to go for help) and social studies (community work-ers that provide help). Students learned that hospitals are places where people are there to help them feel better.

Each student wrote out what had happened to their pet and clinic staff members helped make each stuffed pet feel better. Students were required to give their pets love and care and read three books to it to help with healing.

Brickey-McCloud Elementary student Emma Wade receives

“medical attention” from Patty Long for her stuff ed pet at the

Teddy Bear Emergency Room. Long prescribed love six times

a day for Cookie, and Wade was asked to read three books to

her pet.Photos by Ruth White

Julie Poteet shows Kellen Magnus an “X-ray” of his stuff ed pet

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Nipping Middle Tennes-see State will be a giant step forward. After that comes an inconvenient trip to Arkansas and then the old faithfuls, Vandy and Kentucky. Push hard, men. End this season with a bang!

Ah yes, Johnny Majors had it right, people remem-ber what you do in Novem-ber. And December. Last year, Tennessee and the officials found a way for North Carolina to prevail in the lovely Music City Bowl. OK, so it required overtime. And Tyler Bray didn’t notice the Tar Heel linebacker.

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Young players who are now just watching get ex-tra practice opportuni-ties. No doubt you noticed widespread improvement generated by the additional workouts of last December.

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Temple Baptist

Church

The center can take kids ages 2-and-a-half up to kin-dergarten aged. The pre-school is open to anyone in the community, and students or their parents do not have to members of Temple Bap-tist Church or future students of Temple Baptist Academy.

The academy formerly had a “K4” program for 4- and 5-year-olds who missed the birth date cutoff for kin-dergarten, but it stopped that program when Little Lambs opened this year. The Little Lambs Learning Center, while a ministry of the church, is totally sepa-rate from the academy.

The preschool falls under the regulation of the state Department of Human Ser-vices and is a 501(c)(3) orga-nization.

“The reason Little Lambs is here is because of the vi-

sion of our pastor (the Rev. Clarence Sexton) to reach all ages,” says Swope.

The preschool uses a cur-riculum that prepares chil-dren for kindergarten. They learn about colors, shapes and other pre-kindergarten subjects.

The center provides two prepackaged snacks each day. Children are required to bring their own lunches.

Tuition is $125 per week for the fi rst child; $115 for a second child and $100 per child for three or more children. There is a $50 an-nual enrollment fee and $30 annual art fee. For parents who enroll their children in November, the $50 enroll-ment fee will be waived.

For information regard-ing enrollment, contact Mary Rogers at 704-881-4438.

Goodwill opens Powell storeEven in Friday’s rain, Goodwill Industries drew a huge turnout for the grand opening of

its 26th retail store, located at 7623 Clinton Highway. The line was so long that officials

opened the store early. Cutting the ribbon are: Elaine Clark with Waste Connections; Lori

Reid, Goodwill Powell store manager; Dr. Robert G. Rosenbaum, Goodwill Industries-Knox-

ville Inc. president and CEO; Liz Nother, Goodwill Industries-Knoxville executive vice presi-

dent; Russ Jensen, representing Mayor Dan Brown for the city of Knoxville; and April Tomlin,

representing Mayor Tim Burchett for Knox County. Photo submitted

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