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VOL. 6, NO. 37
SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
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His has become a familiar face around Union County over the past year. Those big brown doe eyes, that long, wet snout, the huge paws, and the shiny fur; of course we’re referring to Gideon the Labrador retriever, soon to be Leader Dog for the Blind, whom the folks of Union County have practically adopted as their own.
Trainer Mary Morgan adopted Gideon when he was a pup of only
7 weeks and has been teaching him basic commands and preparing him for the next step.
Sadly, Gideon has fi nished his training with Morgan and is ready to move up to the next level. This means he is one step closer to be-ing adopted by his lifelong family but is only days away from leaving the many people who have grown to love him here in this community. For Morgan, working with Gideon began as a longing to perform a
community service, turned into a 4-H project and then into a friend.
“It’s a lot harder to let Gideon leave than I thought it would be,” said Mor-gan. “I really want to thank everyone who helped with expenses. The Lions Club helped, and Dr. (Jared) Graves took care of his medical needs.”
Morgan was responsible for all costs incurred in raising Gideon and appreciates all the help she received.
One-year-old Gideon will return to Michigan for about four weeks
of additional training with Leader Dogs. Then he will be paired up with a non-seeing person for anoth-er month before being placed with his permanent family.
Gideon attended almost as many community functions and events as did county offi cials, and his depar-ture will leave a hole in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to know him. We wish him well and hope his new family will appreciate his kind demeanor and playful spirit.
Brantley requests Goforth’s
resignationBy Cindy Taylor
All was not quiet on the county front during the Union County Commission meeting Aug. 31. A special called meeting that was in-tended as a brief assembly to inform the public about the budget situation turned into a nearly two hour question and answer session between commissioners and Director of Schools Wayne Goforth, with a few items directed at school system fi nance man-ager Glenn Coppock.
At one point, Commis-sioner Jeff Brantley called for Goforth’s resignation.
“I’d fi rst of all like to say that Mr. Goforth has done a very good job on the curricu-lum even though we’ve had problems with our budget,” said Brantley. “The state al-
Gideon goes homeGuide dog Gideon says his “goodbye” to veterinarian Dr. Jared Graves. Graves donated his time and services to Gideon for the year he was with Morgan. During
that year, Morgan trained Gideon to be a Leader Dog for the Blind. Photo by C. Taylor
‘The shot heard ’round the room’
Director of Union County
Schools Wayne Goforth ad-
dresses the commission after
his resignation was called for
by Commissioner Jeff Brantley.
Commissioner Jeff Brantley
calls for Director of Schools
Wayne Goforth to resign. Photos by C. Taylor
lowed us to loan $600,000 from debt service on a tax anticipation note to the school system. At the time, the school system had more than $500,000 in checks written with no money to cover them.
This was before the $600,000 ‘bail out’ was approved by the state. According to law, the Trustee’s Offi ce should have returned these checks, which would have been detrimental to the county. I want to know
what gives the school system the right to put our county in jeopardy. The school sys-tem took more than half our debt services balance, and we have to pay bills out of that. If the state had not approved the loan it could have been a criminal offense.”
Brantley went on to read from Goforth’s contract with the Board of Education.
“Dismissal for cause in-cludes insubordination, ne-glect of duty, ineffi ciency, incompetence or unprofes-sional conduct in accordance with the laws of the state of Tennessee,” said Brant-ley. “The school board is not here, but I solicit them to do the right thing. They were elected to protect this county, and I feel that Director Go-forth has blatantly abused the welfare of Union County. I am asking the school board to request the resignation of Wayne Goforth. We all must live within our means.”
No comment was forth-coming from anyone regard-ing Brantley’s statements. Commissioners continued to debate the issue of the school budget for the majority of the meeting.
“The state is most both-ered by the continual requests from the school system for money. The school board asks for funding each year,” said County Mayor Mike Wil-liams. “They pay us back but almost immediately request money again, so they really aren’t paying the loans off. This type of funding could affect our bond rating and ability to borrow money. The state limited the amount we could loan the school system to $600,000 when they had requested $800,000. They (the state) would like to see a balanced budget on the part of the school system and not year-after-year of requests for additional funding.”
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Welcome, Father Pawelk!Catholic church starts in Maynardville
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2 • SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 • UNION COUNTY SHOPPER-NEWS community
A good exercise program need be neither exotic nor back-breaking. In fact, regular walking is
one of the most benefi cial physical activities you can undertake. The American Chiropractic Association endorses walking as a way to stay fi t. It’s good for your cardiovascular health and will tone the muscles of your legs and lower body. Walking also can pump up your metabolism, burn calories, improve choles-terol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease.
All you need to start and maintain a regimen of walking is a sturdy pair of shoes and some discipline. If you have access to a rubberized track, that might be the best place to walk. It will reduce stress on your body. As with any exercise program, consult your physician before beginning and don’t overdo it. Start off with a 5- to 10-minute walk three to fi ve times a week, building up to a brisk speed that will let you cover a mile in about 15 minutes. To get the most from your walk, swing your arms freely in coordina-tion with your legs. Talk with your chiropractor about the benefi ts of walking.
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Benefi ts of walkingChiropractic Outlook
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A new business is com-ing to Union County that will benefi t residents as much or more than the business. Kathy Chesney plans to open Adult Day Services and will introduce the facility to the public with an open house 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Adult Day Services to open
Cindy Taylor
Work on the Highway 33 Bridge moves at a snail’s pace even with new scaffolding and
cranes in place.
Kathy Chesney stands in front of the building she is renovating
for her Adult Day Services. Photos by C. Taylor
The Rev. Craig Digmann, the Rev. Steve Pawelk and church member David Nevin.
“I’ve always been pas-sionate about seniors,” said Chesney. “My daddy was a preacher, and we visited nursing homes as I was growing up. I learned how to interact with seniors at an early age.”
As a former Medicare supplement insurance agent, Chesney continued her work with seniors in her adult years. She tried to help seniors by explaining how insurance worked and how they could save money.
“There is such a desper-ate need for each of us to have social interaction with people in our peer group,” said Chesney. “We can often get to a point where we don’t have peer groups, so at the center we will be reaching out to reintroduce that into the lives of our seniors and help take care of more than just their physical needs.”
Some of the services the center will offer will be breakfast and lunch daily, group exercises, spiritual uplifting, fun time with arts and crafts, music and read-ing, television, and a time for sharing and reminiscing.
ETHRA will be avail-able to pick seniors up at their homes if they have no transportation to get to the center. The center will be lo-cated at 1545 Maynardville Highway.
Info: 566-3289 or www.tnadultdayservices.com.
New Catholic ■
church forms in MaynardvilleThe Revs. Steve Pawelk,
Craig Digmann and Joe Steen are establishing two new Catholic churches, one in Maynardville and one in Rutledge. Their decision to form a Catholic church in Union County is due to the response of Union County residents.
“We believe the church is the yeast,” said Pawelk. “We want to provide a unifi ed worship community. The purpose of any church is not to serve its members but to serve Christ, and to serve Christ is to serve everyone in the county. We are to be a Christian witness. Even though our worship expe-rience will be a Catholic
service, we are here for the whole community.”
The newly formed church participated in the recent prayer march to help make people aware that they are now a presence in the county. An informational and planning meeting was held Sept. 1 at the Senior Center.
“We hope to make a deci-sion on the physical church location soon and to form mission teams to help in that search,” said Pawelk. “We have some outside re-sources helping us to get started.”
Union County residents have already opened their hearts to Pawelk. He ar-rived in Union County to an empty house, but thanks to the generosity of the com-munity his needs have now been met. The fi rst public worship was actually held Sept. 7 at his home.
“Once we get things set up, we will be ready for our fi rst Sunday worship,” said Pawelk. “Any time a new Christian church comes to an area, you will fi nd peo-ple who have been disillu-sioned, recovering addicts or those who have experi-enced other issues. It can become a real service to those searching for Christ to fi nd a new church home where they aren’t known because it is such a small community.”
Pawelk calls himself a pig farmer from Minneso-ta turned priest and most recently hails from Ken-tucky.
“There are many Span-ish speaking people here in this county,” said Pawelk. “I worked mostly with them in the mountains and be-came fairly fl uent in that language.”
The church will meet at the home of Pawelk at 131 North David Drive for the time being until a perma-nent location can be found.
“We want to take our time so we start well and it is a good experience for the local people,” said Pawelk. “We are very open to work-ing with all churches who claim Christ as their Lord and Savior.”
Road work update ■
The contractor is moving full force on the widening project of Highway 33 in the heart of Maynardville. Pav-ing crews moved in Aug. 29 to begin placing asphalt on the widened portions. Signal pole foundations and sidewalks are also being constructed.
This project is quickly wrap-ping up as crews expect to be fi nished later this fall.
On Ailor Gap Road, the contractor is on schedule to complete the project by Sept. 30. The bridge deck was scheduled to be poured Aug. 29, and after the prop-er cure time work will con-tinue to install the bridge rails, guardrail and strip-ing. TDOT spokesperson Mark Nagi said that there is a possibility work could be completed slightly ahead of schedule if the weather con-tinues to cooperate.
Work continues to move slowly on the 33 bridge project.
“Currently, they are working on deep water foundation No. 4,” said Nagi. “Because of unantici-pated geological conditions discovered during the con-struction process, the deep water foundations are under review as to their impact on the existing foundations.
This has led to the project being behind schedule at the present time.”
Farmers Market ■
gears up for fallFall is just around the
corner and so is fall pro-duce. September at the mar-ket should see apples, mus-cadines, red raspberries, watermelon, cantaloupe, cabbage, lettuce and other greens, onions, garlic, cu-cumbers, zucchini and oth-er summer squashes, green beans, bell peppers, hot peppers, corn, okra, beets, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash, pumpkins, gourds, and herbs. Sorghum molasses will also be available. Nurs-ery products will include mums and fall decorations.
The Farmers Market is held each Saturday in the Union County High School parking lot.Contact Cindy Taylor at brentcindyt@
gmail.com.
Health fair and fi sh fry at Sharps ChapelThere will be a health fair at the Sharps Chapel Se-
nior Center from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, with a fi sh fry to follow. Everyone is welcome.
Free GED off eredThe Union County Adult Education Program is
enrolling students for the free GED testing program now. All testing is free, and the staff will help get candidates ready for the test. Classes are currently underway. Call the Adult Education Center or stop by between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily. Upcoming GED test dates are: Sept. 19 and 21, Oct. 24 and 25, Dec. 12 and 13. All tests begin at 3:30 p.m. Bring photo ID and a document showing Social Security number. Info: 992-0805.
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Children’s Charity Christmas program, Toys for Tots, will take place Saturday, Sept. 24, with registration at 11 a.m. and the ride departing at 1 p.m. from Pete’s Place on Highway 33. Cost is $15 per bike, $5 extra with passenger. Registration includes one free T-shirt. Ad-ditional shirts are $10. There will be door prizes, great food specials and music by Rufkut. Info: Carolyn at 992-8021 or [email protected]; Kathy at 992-5260 or [email protected].
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This is the fi rst of a series of writings about a most remarkable Union Countian. Look for more in the coming weeks. This piece is taken from a short autobiography typewritten by Dr. Claudius Meade Capps in 1945. His daughter, Ethel, refers to it in her biographical sketch of her father:
Bonnie Peters
Dr. Claudius Meade Capps of Hogskin
Claudius Meade Capps was born April 9, 1863, two miles below Walkers Ford on the Clinch River in Union County, Ten-nessee. He moved with the family in 1869 to the Maynardville Valley (Nave Hill area) seven miles east of Maynardville, the County seat of Union County. Here he spent his boyhood and young manhood. At that time there were no educational opportunities in this county, and he edu-cated himself as best he could by study-ing at home – often at night by a dipwick light or a blazing pine knot by the kitchen fire. By this means of study he was able at the age of 19 to pass a first class exam-ination for public schools and was given (hired to teach at) a school on Dodson’s Creek in Union County, Tennessee, at the remarkably low sum of $18 per month. He taught three months, which was the usual school term at this time. He earned $54; and with these earnings he entered Arlington Academy in Grainger County, Tennessee, in 1883-84. When he returned home in the spring of 1884 he still had $22.50 of his school money.
He informed his father that he was going to study medicine, but his father tried to discourage him from this effort on account of lack of money to pursue that course of study. Notwithstanding his father’s advice, he sent his last dollar to Lea Brothers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ordered the three fi rst books on Medicine. These books were Gray’s Anatomy, Dunglesen’s Medical Dictionary, and Flint’s Physiol-ogy. With these three books he commenced the long years for a medical education. In 1886 he entered the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee at Nashville. At the end of his fi rst term in Medicine at the University in 1887, he returned to his home in Union County and took up the general practice of medicine. He was successful from the start; and in less than sixty days he had built up a paying practice. In 1888, he returned to the University of Tennes-see at Nashville and completed his medical course in 1889 with the title of medical doc-tor – M.D.
In 1892 he moved to Corryton, Ten-nessee, and was appointed Ry surgeon to Morristown and Cumberland Gap, Ry. [Editor’s note: I am not sure of the mean-ing of “Ry,” but I am assuming it may mean railway surgeon.] After practicing gener-al medicine for ten years, he decided to take up special work in the eye, ear, nose and throat department. He left Corryton for the New York Polyclinic in 1896 where he studied in this branch of medicine for two terms. He then moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1898. There for the next 25 years he was one of the leading phy-sicians in this line of practice. During his time in Knoxville, he organized the
‘The shot heard ’round the room’From page A-1
Commissioner Jonathan Goforth, no relation to the Director of Schools, was al-ready a Union County school system employee prior to be-ing elected commissioner.
“We are 125th out of 136 school districts,” said Jona-than Goforth. “That is a real-ly low ranking. I understand that we are not going to be able to give everything the schools ask for, but are we go-ing to be a county that stands by and watches our funding shrink for our schools while the cost of water, electric-ity and insurance continues to rise? We are only funding the schools at 9 percent, and we’re going to sit here and ar-gue till the cows come home over that 9 percent? Excuse me, but I am a teacher of the children in this county. The people knew I was a teacher when I was elected, and I will not sit here while every single penny is questioned over 9 percent funding of the total overall school budget. It is a tragedy, and I ask the good people of Union County to talk to your commissioners and see that they fund these schools in a just way.”
“Everyone on this commis-sion wants to see our schools do well,” said Williams. “Some have mentioned raising taxes. Our county is on the verge of some serious fi nancial prob-lems, but we have trouble now with some people being able to pay their taxes. If you raise taxes you may actually take in less. The school sys-tem is not in the best fi nancial shape, and if we don’t handle this carefully they will get the county in the same shape.”
“I don’t think there is anyone here who cares more for children than I do,” said Commissioner Joyce Mel-tabarger. “I work for the school system and can’t vote on the school budget. I just want everyone to know that it is not my salary of $12,000 a year that is throwing this budget out of whack.”
Wayne Goforth eventu-ally requested his time at the podium.
“I have yet to fi gure it out, but I feel like there is a per-sonal vendetta between Mr. Brantley and myself,” said Wayne Goforth. “The truth is that when I took over this po-sition in 2008, the school sys-tem had a million dollar defi -
Commissioners Joyce Meltabarger and Jonathan Goforth make
their stance known.
cit. We worked hard to fi nd the money to overcome that. We’re still doing without some things because of cuts we did at that time, and we have made cuts again this year as well. It was my intention, Mr. Brantley, to bring you a bal-anced budget, but when you are dealing with less money coming in and more money going out then you are looking at a big defi cit. I would be will-ing to bet that whoever sat in my chair would still have the same problem. …
“This community must work together to make cer-tain we don’t end up in bad fi -nancial shape. Now, you may not like me but you should not hold the children of Union County hostage because of a little money. Our children’s futures are at stake here. We have a problem, and we need help with this budget.”
When asked later what he thought about Brantley’s request, Wayne Goforth said that he did not work for the Commission but for the school board and the chil-dren of Union County.
Addressing Wayne Go-forth, Williams said, “The budget was due from the school system by April 1, and that was not received. You ask us to work with you, but you need to work with us as well. Give us a budget on time and we can better work with you and meet the state law requir-ing a budget be in place for the county by July 1. At the end of the day, we have all got to work together, and I believe we will get there. We have a very good commission who tries to do things the right way. Ulti-
mately, we will do what is best for this county.”
In order to balance the budget for 2011-2012, the Union County board of edu-cation approved a plan at its Aug. 16 meeting that called for a 26-cent tax increase. In a letter from Wayne Goforth to Williams dated Aug. 24, Wayne Goforth proposed oth-er means to repair the school system budget that would not require a tax increase:
The county would pay the $500,000 payment for Union County High School;
The county would pay for the school resource offi cers;
The county would trans-fer an additional 10 cents to the General Purpose Schools fund from County General Budget for a total of 83 cents rather than the 73 cents the schools have been receiving for more than 16 years. Tax rate would remain at $1.73.
Other news media re-ported that Williams said commissioners would most likely approve a budget and a possible tax increase at their September meeting. Wil-liams says he made no such statement regarding taxes.
“We will probably ap-prove the budget in Septem-ber,” said Williams. “What I said about taxes was that the school board is asking for a 26-cent tax increase.”
The commission deferred any other action until the regularly scheduled meet-ing in September. Brantley told this paper that he plans to approach the school board to request Wayne Goforth’s resignation.
Dr. Claudius Meade Capps Photo submitted
Knox County Medical Society, was spe-cial surgeon of the staff of the Knoxville General Hospital and served as Profes-sor of Opthalmology, Otology, Rhinelogy and Larynology in the Medical Depart-ment of Lincoln Memorial University at Knoxville.
Also during his medical career he con-tributed many valuable papers to medical literature. In 1925 he passed an examina-tion in the United States Veterans Hospi-tal Corps and was assigned to duty at As-penwall, Pennsylvania, where he served two years. After two years he resigned to come home to Knoxville and resume the Ear, Nose, and Throat practice, his chosen profession.
Dr. Capps married Ollie Beeler on Aug. 21, 1889. Ollie was also of Hogskin, and they had eight children: Samuel, Ethel, Mildred, Edith, Audrey, Beryl, Claudius Jr. and Paul. Ethel taught school in Knox County and later at Berea College at Be-rea, Ky. They made their home on Taze-well Pike across from Greenwood Cem-etery. Dr. Capps died Aug. 27, 1951, and is buried near his home in Lot 7, Greenwood Cemetery.
Current Union County connections are Mona Grace Lynch George, who married well-known sportsman C. Edwin “Eddy” George, a grandson of Dr. Claudius and Ollie Capps. Mona George has graciously shared the Dr. Capps papers with me, and I am most grateful to her for sharing this Union County history.
Joann Beeler Bridges and Doug Beeler are a great-niece and great-nephew of Dr. Capps. Their grandfather Beeler married Dr. Capps’ sister. Dr. Capps is also the uncle of Peggy Haynes Warwick and Jean Haynes Seymour of Union County. Their mother, Rebecca Capps Haynes, is Dr. Capps’ sister. Peggy tells me that Dr. Capps removed her tonsils and adenoids when she was just 5 years old. Not only that, this was the second operation Dr. Capps had ever performed.
Look for my column later this month for more about Dr. Capps.Bonnie Peters is the Union County Historian and the author
of many books. Contact Bonnie at 687-3842 or bhpeters@
esper.com.
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Ten years ago I took my fi rst trip to New York City.
That Saturday morning dawned bright and clear. It was a beauti-ful late summer day. Labor Day weekend. Not a cloud in the sky. You could just feel the chill of an early fall.
We hopped a train near my high school friend Drew Weaver’s home in Branford, Conn., and set out for the big city. This was also my fi rst time on an honest-to-God passen-ger train. Danged if the conductor didn’t come by for tickets wearing a spiffy uniform and a cool hat, just like in the movies!
We arrived at Grand Central Station and followed the crowd up the stairs and out into Manhat-tan. I tried not to look like a tour-ist, but I couldn’t keep from gaz-ing skyward. I’d never seen such a sight. This was a city. You know what they say. If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere.
First things fi rst, though. I made a beeline for the newsstand and bought a copy of The New York Times. (What can I say? My blood is fi lled with newsprint.)
We had some time to kill before the matinee performance of Herb Gardner’s “A Thousand Clowns,” so we walked down to the Empire State Building. Up on the observa-tion deck, I just knew I’d see Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. So much for “An Affair to Remember.”
Off we looked into lower Man-hattan, gazing toward the grand ol’ Statue of Liberty, yes, but especial-ly toward those magnifi cent twin towers. The World Trade Center. The center of the world’s fi nancial market. “The Center of the World,” as one TV show put it.
By lunchtime we made our way toward Times Square. Being the
PULL UP A CHAIR … | Jake Mabe
In this June 23, 1999, file photo, an aerial view shows the twin towers of
the World Trade Center in New York. Since the 9/11 attacks that brought
down the buildings in 2001, much has changed at skyscrapers around
the country, but experts say obvious precautions still leave thousands
of buildings vulnerable because the costs to retrofit existing structures
may be too costly, and cities and states may be slow to adopt newer,
tougher building codes for new construction like those recommended
after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File
Ten years ago …
him, how much I’d enjoyed his TV westerns, how I loved “Magnum” so much so that I had every epi-sode on tape.
I got up there to him, stuck out my hand, opened my mouth, smiled and couldn’t think of one word to say. Speechless.
So, I just looked up at him, my mouth hanging open like an idiot. I managed to croak out, “Hello, Mr. Selleck.”
He shook my hand, nodded, wait-ed for me to get over my star-struck state then fi nally turned to talk to the person beside me. So much for my moment with Magnum.
Just before the lights dimmed, I saw Phil Donahue making his way to some seats up front. I thought about going to say hello, but after my Selleck stupor, I stayed seated.
Selleck was great in “A Thou-sand Clowns.” He played the role Jason Robards made famous in
the movie. I hated to admit it, but the young actor Nicholas King, who played the other main role in the story, was so good he stole the show, even from Magnum.
The play ended as late after-noon shadows began to blanket the city. We made our way back to Grand Central, back to Connecti-cut, back to reality.
The date was Sept. 1, 2001. You know what happened 10 days later.
I went back to Manhattan the following February to pay my re-spects.
We took the subway down to what used to be the World Trade Center on a cold and gray Tuesday afternoon. The sky was spitting snow like frozen teardrops.
New York is a busy and loud city, full of cacophony – honk-ing taxi cab horns, screeching brakes, barking yells from street vendors.
But Ground Zero was silent. No traffi c. No talk. It reminded me of the awkward silence one encoun-ters while standing in a receiving line at a funeral.
Workers were still uncovering remains. The Times listed each one in the paper. I think they found fi ve people while we were there.
You could still see the hand-painted signs that families had left near the wreckage. “Have you seen me? Please call XXX,” one read underneath the pho-tograph of somebody too young to die. Another sign was a little more to the point.
“Osama: Kiss my ass.” I thought then that the world
would change forever. I fi gured our national discourse would be-come nicer, calmer, more caring, more thoughtful.
It didn’t.Ten years have rolled by
and Sept. 11, 2001, seems but a memory, something in the his-tory books. A high school teacher friend of mine says his 9th graders don’t even remember it. They were 4 years old.
We lost friends, family mem-bers and acquaintances that day. Tony Karnes, who used to go to church at Clear Springs Baptist with me and my family years and years ago, was one. We can’t ever forget them. We can’t ever forget.
“9/11, how can you possibly use it for good purpose?” asked for-mer New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in a PBS special after the attacks. “Look, what this reminds you of is the importance of your own life, and making the most of it, because you can lose it in a fl ash. And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that, my God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and there-fore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it.
“Now, it’s not going to teach you what to do with your life, but it will teach you to do with your life, and todo it more and quicker and better.”
Words worth remembering, lest we forget. Call Jake Mabe at 922-4136 or email JakeMabe1@
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adventuresome Halls kids that we were, we ate at McDonald’s. Au-thentic New York cuisine, right?
Never having been to a Broadway play before, we didn’t know exactly what to expect or when to arrive. So, we got to the Longacre Theatre about an hour and a half before show time. They didn’t let us in.
Standing around outside with about 15 or 20 others, we passed the time by watching the people and the traffi c go by. After awhile, up pulled an SUV with tinted win-dows. A tall, good-looking man who looked vaguely familiar got out of the car.
“I know him from somewhere,” I told my two companions.
“That’s Tom Selleck!” one of them said. “He just doesn’t have his mustache.”
Tom Selleck! “Magnum, p.i.” My hero!
Selleck was gracious enough to stop and sign autographs or have photos taken with everybody who wanted one. (Naturally, we didn’t have a pen or a camera.)
“You’re awesome!” somebody said.
“That’s sweet,” Selleck replied. A thousand thoughts fl oated
through my head. I was going to tell Selleck how much I admired
HOSA to host 9/11 lunchUnion County High
School HOSA will host an honorary 9/11 lunch at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, in the high school commons area. Cost is $8 for one ticket or $28 for four, and the meal includes choice of spaghetti or lasagna, salad, dessert and drink. A memo-rial ceremony will begin at 1:54 p.m. There will be door prizes. Everyone welcome.
Powers to hosttown hall meeting
State Rep. Dennis Pow-ers and Tennessee Secre-tary of State Tre Hargett
will host a town hall meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the large court-room of the Union County Courthouse. Everyone is welcome.
Heritage Festival upcoming
The seventh annual Union County Heritage Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, in Wilson Park next to Union County High School. There will be live entertainment all day, an authors tent, antique tractor show, old-time demonstrations, great food, farmers market and
more. The festival is seek-ing all types of vendors, including artists, crafters, food vendors, authors, genealogical researchers, antique dealers, business owners, professionals, non-profi t organizations and re-enactment groups of all kinds. Info: Betty Bullen, [email protected].
Foster parentopen house
The Union County Children’s Center will host an open house for those in-terested in becoming foster parents. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the center, 120 Veterans St., Maynard-ville. Info: Jeremy Turner, 633-9844, or the Union County Children’s Center, 992-7677.
Diabetes class off eredThe Union County
Senior Center will offer a class about living with diabetes at 9:30 a.m. every Thursday through Oct. 6. Info or to register: 992-3292 or 992-0361.
AARP drivingclass for seniors
The AARP will offer a driving class for people in Union County ages 55 and older. The class needs 10 people signed up to begin. Cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers, and the class can yield a discount on car insurance. Info: 992-3292 or 992-0361.
Open house atHumane Society
The Union County Hu-mane Society will have an open house at the animal shelter on Hickory Star Road from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. Light refreshments will be served. Director Tammy Rouse will give a speech at 3 p.m. All are welcome.
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Community servicesGraveston Baptist Church ■ , 8319 Clapps Chapel Road, is enroll-
ing children 11 months through Pre-K for Parent’s Day Out. The
program has small classroom sizes. Info: 465-9655 or www.
graveston.org.
HomecomingsBeulah Baptist Church ■ , off Loyston Road near the entrance of
Welch’s Mobile Home Park on Raccoon Valley Road, will have
Homecoming services at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, followed by
lunch in the fellowship hall. Special singers include Three On A
Journey and others. All are welcome. Info: 992-6104.
Cedar Ford Baptist Church ■ , on Highway 61 in Luttrell, will
have Homecoming services Sunday, Sept. 11. All are invited for
Sunday school at 9:15 a.m., church service at 10, special sing-
ing at 11, followed by a covered dish lunch. There will be no
evening service.
Men’s programsRevival Vision Church ■ , 154 Durham Drive in Maynardville, holds
a men’s prayer breakfast at 7 a.m. each Wednesday. All are invited
to join in praying and fasting for Union County. Info: Jim, 684-
8916.
Music servicesWMRD 94.5 ■ FM hosts “Traditional Hymns Hour” with Kathy
Chesney from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. every Sunday. Call in your requests
or dedications to 745-1467, and tune in to listen or sing along.
Women’s programsFairview Baptist Church ■ , 7424 Fairview Road in Corryton, will
host MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every third
Monday for devotions, food and fellowship. Child care provided.
Info: Anne, 621-9234.
Those who follow col-lege football occasion-ally encounter unfriendly places.
Beyond that is another level called hostile envi-ronments. Death Valley comes to mind. Finally, there is loud, unfriendly, hostile Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field.
Steve Spurrier reduced the verbiage and named it “The Swamp.” He said a swamp is a hot and sticky place that can be dangerous.
“Generally speaking, only Gators get out alive.”
Stadium design traps noise and prevents even a hint of a breeze. Fanatics are a factor. How ugly are fans? Well, Vickie Fulmer once weathered a profan-ity attack because her husband was a prominent coach.
A deranged villain tried to spit into Tennessee wa-ter coolers. The late, great George Cafego, slow exit-ing, caught a cup of liquid
dropped by a Florida fan. George, tilting toward po-liteness, said it was prob-ably whiskey. He knew it was urine.
The Swamp is a bad place because, for years and years, Florida has had good players. Some may have been mean-spirited.
Ready or not, into this challenge go the nice, sweet, youthful Volun-teers. Big prize. Tough task. Children should cov-er their ears.
It is a habit of mine: making up stories to go with interesting people I see. I watch a young couple over dinner and try to fig-ure out how long they have been dating. I see an older couple holding hands, and I imagine what their hands looked like when they placed those gold bands on one another’s fingers.
But there is one man who haunts me. It has been 40 years, and though I can still see his face, I have made up no story for him. None at all.
I was on a touring boat sailing north on the Rhine between Mainz and Bonn. The boat was a double-decker, and I, wanting to see every last tree and castle and f lower, was on the top deck. It was a sun-ny day in summer, but the wind and water conspired to make it cooler than I ex-pected.
Most of the folks on the boat were tourists, talking in small groups, cameras at the ready. My job was to chaperone the crew of uni-versity students who were laughing and pointing at the sights and enjoying each other’s company as much as the scenery.
But there was one small man sitting on the far side of the boat, alone and very still. He could have been
anywhere from 55 to 75. His face was weathered, and his hair, silvery. His black sport coat, worn thin and shiny, was lit-tle protection from the wind. With one hand, he clutched its lapels togeth-er at his throat. He looked frail, and I worried that he was cold.
He had no companion, and I was certain he was not a tourist. He didn’t have a camera, nor did he throw more than desultory glances at the passing scen-ery. He didn’t even turn his head when the tour guide pointed out the Lorelei, the great cliff where legendary sirens sang sailors to their doom. He seemed to be deep in thought, in a world of his own.
I watched him, between my own photographic for-ays from one side of the boat to the other. I won-dered if he was sad, or lonely. I wondered where he was going, and why he chose a tourist boat as his mode of transportation. I wondered what he – in his stillness – thought of this gaggle of energetic and an-imated college students.
Had it not been for the language barrier (my Ger-man is limited to the lyr-ics of a very few German art songs), I might have spoken to him. At the very
TALES OF TENNESSEE | Marvin West
Two tripsto Florida
Two trips to Florida live in infamy. The worst loss of Phillip Fulmer’s coaching career happened in Gainesville four years ago. It was 59-20. It was marked by Tennessee’s in-ability to run the football, as in 37 yards on 22 at-tempts.
I seem to remember a sizable gap between Ten-nessee tacklers and Ga-tors scampering around with the football. There wasn’t much resistance on the perimeter or depend-able coverage deep. Eleven plays netted Florida 296 yards.
Tim Tebow had comple-tions of 25, 30, 49, 48, 20 and 44. Young Eric Berry was among those burned. Three times.
The Gators gained many additional yards in more conventional ways.
If you were there, you won’t forget the third-quarter fumble returned for a touchdown. Erik Ainge and Arian Foster failed to mesh on a han-doff. It was discouraging. The deficit was only eight at the time. Some aw-ful things happened after that.
There was a bad trip in 1995. It ended 62-37. Be-lieve it or not, this was a comeback romp. Tennes-see led 30-14 in the sec-ond quarter. What trans-pired after that remains a mystery. It was one heck of a Florida rally or a total Tennessee collapse.
Peyton Manning re-members whatever it was happened fast. Personas changed at intermission. One team came back blaz-ing. The other was f lat. Hitting seemed one-sided.
Joey Kent got knocked out and needed a dozen stitches. Two Jay Graham turnovers and a couple of tipped passes turned into a giant snowball. Defense disappeared.
Danny Wuerffel passes generated 381 yards and six touchdowns. Ike Hill-iard caught four. Some-body from Knoxville said it was embarrassing.
Do not totally blame that disaster on the Swamp, heat, noise, rude fans or great Ga-tors. There had to be other forces at work. Florida’s 62 points were historic, most against UT since 1893. OK, if you really must know, Duke once scored 70.
Before and after that Florida trip, 1995 Tennes-see was undefeated. The record was 11-1. Go figure.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
address is [email protected].
CROSS CURRENTS | Lynn Hutton
A solitary man
In that day also he shall come even to thee … from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river …
(Micah 7:12 KJV)
least, I wanted a picture of him and finally managed a profile shot as he (unaware of my camera) gazed out over the water.
Years and years later, I moved from one house to another and forgot to go into the attic to retrieve my European photos. His image is forever lost to me, but I can still see his face, and that hand clutch-ing his coat for warmth still makes me sad when I think of him.
I will never know what his story was, but I am certain he had one, just as we all do. I believe that, one way and another, we are all among the walk-ing wounded. There are enough hurts and failures, enough sadness and lone-liness to go around, and when it comes right down to it, we are all like him, alone, inside our heads.
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Why pay to recycle when you can do it for free? Resi-dents throughout Goodwill Industries-Knoxville Inc.’s 15-county service deliv-ery area are now able to recycle their computers and computer equipment free of charge. Goodwill Indus-tries and Dell have teamed up to offer the Reconnect program which will allow consumers to drop off their computers and computer equipment at any Goodwill Industries-Knoxville retail location or attended dona-tion center for recycling.
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By Cindy Taylor
The term “computer geek” was once a derogatory expression but has become a badge of honor. Aaron Rus-sell is a 10-year veteran on staff at Union County High School and might seem to fall into this category; but if you talk to Russell you real-ize the true genius behind the glasses.
Just this year, Russell has added new applica-tions to the Union County High School intranet site. Many of these applications sprang from programs Russell wrote, and many of them are used by all the county’s schools.
“About fi ve years ago I created an internal site for the school where employees
could submit a request for help to resolve their techni-cal issues,” said Russell. “At fi rst it was a simple site where they fi lled out a request form that was emailed to the tech-nology department. The form gathered information from the user that helped us repair their issue.”
Since then, the site has grown in size and func-tion. Now, the help desk requests are logged in a database along with the repair status, thus creating a history and keeping the user informed of the status of the repair. The internal site has continued to grow and now includes mainte-nance requests, curricu-lum standards, order forms and classroom resources.
Russell has recently added an inventory database for special education, a solu-tion database and the let-ter of intent database.
“This year (Director of Schools Wayne Goforth) asked for the addition of Time Clock and Blue Cards,” said Russell. “Time Clock is our electronic sign in and sign out system for employ-ees. Each employee has a login and can now clock in and out from their own com-puter. Time Clock also has a reporting feature so time sheets can be printed.”
The Blue Card system gets its name from the blue employment cards teach-ers fill out at the beginning of each school year. Keep-ing with this tradition, the
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electronic version also has a blue background. This system allows required information to be stored more efficiently, is more user-friendly and aids in the creation of reports.
Another project Russell has been involved in for the past year is a new cloning management system. This system allows Russell to push a button and deploy an
operating system to a work-station from his iPad. While that is impressive, it actu-ally gets better. Not only will it deploy an operating system with 100 percent automation, but each work-station will name itself, join the school domain and in-stall common software such as anti-virus, Offi ce, Fire-fox, Flash, Adobe and many other applications. Russell
continues to work on creat-ing new programs and im-proving existing ones.
“I’m excited and thank-ful to have an opportunity to make a difference,” said Russell.
Even with all of this, Rus-sell considers himself just one of the many who are work-ing to make Union County Schools a better and smooth-er operation overall.
By Cindy Taylor
Union County’s fourth annual Cystic Fibrosis Beth Holloway Memorial Walk-a-Thon will be held Sept. 24 at Wilson Park in conjunction with the May-nardville Walk for a Cure Bake Sale and Silent Auc-tion.
“So much progress has been made in the 33 years I have been involved with the Cystic Fibrosis Foun-dation,” said Janet Hol-loway, founder of the walk and mother of the walk’s namesake. “Lives have been made much easier for CF patients, they have more hope.”
According to the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation, CF is an inherited chronic dis-ease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States. In the 1950s, few children with cystic fibrosis lived to attend elementary school. Today, advances in research and medical treatments have further enhanced and extended life for children and adults with CF. Many people with the disease can now expect to live into their 30s, 40s and beyond thanks to money raised for research from events such as this one.
Info: www.walkforbeth.com or 992-4604.
Memorial walkin fourth year
SCHOOL NOTES
Horace MaynardThe school is raising funds by ■
off ering discount cards for
Subway in Maynardville and
Papa John’s in Halls. Cards
are $10 and can be purchased
from students or at the school
offi ce. Every card has multiple
buy one, get one free stick-
ers on the back.
REUNIONSBeason family ■ reunion will
be held Saturday, Sept. 10, in
the Big Ridge State Park tea
room. Come early to visit, eat
lunch at 1 p.m. Bring a cov-
ered dish. Info: Patsy Gardner,
771-0539.
Horace Maynard High ■
School Class of 1971 will
have a reunion 6 p.m. Satur-
day, Sept. 10, at the Maynard-
ville Senior Center, 296 Main
St. Info: Donna B. Jones, 702-
2998 or [email protected].
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Union County Youth Football 2011 schedule
Union County Youth Football will play home games at Union County High School unless other-wise noted. Game times are: ages 5-6, 4 p.m.; 7-8, 5 p.m.; 9-10, 6 p.m.; and 11-12, 7 p.m. The Sept. 17 games will start at 10 a.m. Game times are subject to change.
Sept. 10, vs. S. Clin- ■ton, at Horace Maynard Middle School
Sept. 17, vs. Clinton, ■home
Sept. 24, vs. Claxton, ■away
Oct. 1, vs. S. Clinton, ■away
Oct. 8, vs. Lake City, ■home
Oct. 15, vs. Scott ■County, home
Saddle Up for St. JudeThe annual Saddle Up
for St. Jude horseback ride is set for 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at JFG Coffee Farm in Maynard-ville. The 10-mile trail ride with beautiful trails and views will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s fight against childhood cancer and other catastrophic dis-eases. Sign-up forms are
Luttrell Bluegrass Festival upcoming
The 2011 Luttrell Bluegrass Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at Luttrell Community Park. There will be a car show and a music competition for children up to 18 years old. The prize for fi rst place will be a paid gig at the Union County Heritage Festival on Oct. 1. All proceeds from the Luttrell Bluegrass Festival will go to the Luttrell Volunteer Fire Department. Info: www.luttrellbluegrassfestival.com.
available at Union County Animal Hospital, 596 John Deere Drive, May-nardville. Info or to make a donation: Dr. Jared Graves, 992-7181.
TENNderCareavailable for children
The TENNderCare program wants babies, children, teens and young adults to get the health care they need. Good health begins at birth, so it’s important to “Check
In, Check Up and Check Back” with your doctor every year. The program continues to increase the rate of children receiving health care services every year. Call today to set up a TENNderCare visit with your doctor or go to the Union County Health Department. Your health plan will help. Info: 1-866-311-4287 or www.tennessee.gov/tenncare/tenndercare.
Contact HumaneSociety for lost pets
The Union County Humane Society asks that pet owners contact them immediately if a pet becomes lost. Pets without identification and rabies tags are only required to be held for 72 hours by Tennessee state law. The Humane Soci-ety makes every effort to place animals in “forever homes” as soon as pos-sible. Timely contact will ensure that your lost pet is not adopted by new owners. Remember, iden-tification and rabies tags are your pet’s protection. Info: 992-7969.
Louie Bluie Festival accepting vendors
This year’s Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival will be Saturday, Oct. 1, at Cove Lake State Park in the Cumberland Moun-tains. Festival organizers are seeking interested vendors. Booth fee is$40.
There will be musi-cians, storytellers, work-shops, drama, children’s activities, a crafters’ village and more. Info: 423-871-2097 or visit www.louiebluie.org.
Seeking new sellersAre you and artist or
crafter? Consider going through the jury process to sell your craft at the Appalachian Arts Craft Center. The next jurying session is Tuesday, Nov. 8.
Bring three samples of your work to the center by the Nov. 3 deadline. You may pick your items up afterwards. Each person going through the process must fill out a form and pay a nonrefundable $25 jurying fee.
Info or for application form: 494-9854, email [email protected] or visit www.appalachianarts.net.
Radio hall of fame seeks members
The newly-created Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame is accepting nominations for its first group of inductees. For an application or more information, visit www.tennradiohalloffame.org.
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Zac and I are going on a trip soon, and our son, Daniel, will be staying with my parents. Daniel is already pumped about it, because Gran and Bear have a fun-filled weekend planned, complete with pony rides and a visit to a real fire station.
I asked Daniel this morning to tell me what he was going to do with Gran and Bear, and he recited the whole agenda with ex-citement.
“You’re not even going to miss me, then, are you?” I said.
Daniel looked at me for a moment, threw his arms around my neck and said, “No, Mommy. I miss you.”
Well, gentle reader, I’m going to miss you, too.
It’s been a wonderful, wacky journey. In this col-umn each week for more than three years, I’ve covered every parenting jubilation,
BenedictionsNever say goodbye because goodbye means going
away and going away means forgetting.– From “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie
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Union County High School Athlete of the Week
Ruiz is soccer leader
By Cindy Taylor
Soccer is some-times overlooked at the high school level, but girls soccer coach Lance Lay will tell you it shouldn’t be so. His squad is working hard to improve their ability to play as a team; none more so than senior Kylie Ruiz.
Ruiz is captain of the girls soccer team and would be quick to say that playing soccer is not for the weak. The team won their first game of the season 6-2 on Aug. 30.
“The team is improving as far as playing together,” said Ruiz. “Our defense stayed strong throughout the game, and one of our freshmen scored. She was really excited about that. We passed much better than we had in past years.”
“Kylie has a great work ethic and is a strong athlete and competitor,” said Lay. “The girls are realizing that this is more of a team sport and are really coming to-gether to support each other.”
Ruiz plans to play soccer at the college level if given the opportunity. She hopes to stay close to home but would go out of state if that is what she needs to do in order to continue to be a part of the sport.
Captain of the Union County
girls soccer team Kylie Ruiz
freak-out and goof, every burp, tooth and potty inci-dent in Daniel’s fi rst years.
I’m sorry to say, it’s time to bring the tale to a close.
It’s not just that times are tough, and the Shop-per is looking at ways to trim costs, one of those be-ing paper. It’s also the very real concern that Daniel is getting to be old enough to know what I’m doing. Soon, he’ll be old enough to be embarrassed by it. I’m not writing an anonymous blog here. My name and face are right up there.
The poor little guy is still going to have to en-
dure some “I read all about your potty training” trau-ma, just like the Shopper’s Jake Mabe is still haunted by ghosts of Elvis perfor-mances past.
I started writing this col-umn in the winter of 2008. I was very pregnant, very idealistic and very scared. I wrote about “mom” is-sues, and once Daniel ar-rived, these columns be-came more and more about his life and mine.
And, whenever I was sure I was just quacking into the void, one of you would see me and Daniel at the park or at the grocery story and talk about how much you enjoyed reading about him. From my heart, thank you. In the six years that I’ve been a profession-al journalist, I’ve gotten more positive responses about this column than I have for anything else I’ve done.
Just as Daniel has changed over the years, growing from an infant to a little man with opin-ions and personality, I’ve changed. We’ve worked on each other like a trickle of water works on a moun-
tain. Over time, the trickle is a stream and its path is a valley.
Daniel has taught me patience. He’s taught me to accept life as it comes. He’s taught me to let go of my plans. Most of all, he’s taught me about love. I can say with certainty that there’s no love on Earth like a mother’s love for her child. It’s even a little scary some-times when I realize that there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for my son. It’s overpow-ering and humbling, like riding an ocean wave.
While there were weeks when I thought I’d never come up with a column, I will miss this writing. I think the forced reflection made me a better, more thoughtful mother. If you’d like to keep up with me and my little family, feel free to make me a friend on Fa-cebook (shannon.b.carey) or follow me on Twitter (@Shannon_Carey). Or, just stop by the Shopper office, and we’ll chat the old-fash-ioned way.
Until then, farewell, and thanks for everything.Contact Shannon Carey at shannon@
ShopperNewsNow.com.
Smoky Mountain 4-H kicks offThe Smoky Mountain 4-H Club held their kickoff
meeting Aug. 29, and offi cers were elected for the coming year.
Offi cers elected were president Kaily Huffman, vice president Rebekah Kadron, secretary Claire Smith and reporter Bethany Long.
Summer events were discussed, and Sarah Morgan was presented the 4-H Sheep Show High Achiever Award.
Pottery DVDThe Appalachian Arts
Craft Center in Norris has DVDs for sale featuring a pottery demonstration by internationally known pot-ter Charles Counts. Cost is $10. Info: 494-9854.
AMSE calendarThe American Museum
of Science and Energy, located at 300 S. Tulane Ave. in Oak Ridge, is open Monday through Satur-day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. Info: www.amse.org.
“Notable Trees ■of Tennessee” photog-raphy exhibit Thursday, Sept. 15, through Sunday, Nov. 6, from the Ten-nessee Urban Forestry Council. AMSE lobby.
Homeschool Fri- ■day program “Insects” at Freels Bend Cabin on Friday, Sept. 23. Grades K-2 meet 10:30 a.m., cost is $8 nonmembers, $5 members; grades 3-6 will meet 12:30 p.m., $20 nonmembers, $9 mem-bers. Deadline to register, Friday, Sept. 16.
Smithsonian ■Magazine Free Admission Day, for one person and a guest Saturday, Sept. 24. Info: www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/
“Noise!” ■ travel-ing exhibit about sound, Friday, Sept. 30, through
Saturday, Dec. 31. AMSE second level.
Ongoing classesat the Art Center
The Appalachian Arts Craft Center is located at 2716 Andersonville High-way 61 near Norris. Info on these ongoing classes: www.appalachianarts.net or 494-9854.
Weaving■ with Carol Pritcher, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays. Six classes for anyone interested in gain-ing knowledge of the loom and beginning weaving. Classes can be scheduled on an individual basis by calling Carol on Tuesdays at 494-9854. $100 mem-bers, $110 nonmembers plus a small materials fee. Beginning-intermediate.
Hand-Sewing Day■ with the Quilting Depart-ment, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays. Bring your hand-sewing project or help out with the group
quilting project with a group of ladies which meets each Wednesday to quilt, laugh and enjoy lunch together. No need to call ahead; just bring your lunch. No cost. All levels.
Christian music festivalThe Sherman Oaks
Christian Music Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17-18, at Sherman Oaks Campground, 1601 E. Highway 25/70 in Dandridge. Award winning artists including Soul Sister Sally, Lara Landon and UR1 will perform. Gates open at 9 a.m. Tickets are available at www.itickets.com or at Lifeway Christian Bookstores. Info: www.shermanmusicfestival.com.
Shape Note SingingsEveryone is invited.
Tunebooks are provided. Info: www.oldharp.com.
The Annual Singing ■
with Sean McCullough’s Music of Appalachia Class from UT, 6:30 p.m. (pot-luck at 5:30) Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Laurel Theater. Info: Robin Goddard, 982-6148.
Old College Monthly ■
Harp Singing, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 123 Jackson Ave. in Ath-ens. Info: Cora Sweatt, 423-745-0248.
Sevier County ■
Monthly Old Harp Sing-ing, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, Middle Creek United Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road in Pigeon Forge. Info: David Sarten, 428-0874.
Annual Headrick Cha- ■
pel Singing and Dinner,
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, Headrick Chapel in Wears Valley. Info: Ann Strange, 573-4468.
Scots-Irish FestivalThe Dandridge Scots-
Irish Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 24, in historic downtown Dandridge. Admission is free. There will be food vendors, clan tents and much more. Info: www.scots-irish.org or www.mainstreetdandridge.com.
Cancer Support Community programs
All programs of the Can-cer Support Community of East Tennessee (formerly the Wellness Community) are offered at no cost to
individuals affected by cancer and most are of-fered at 2230 Sutherland Ave. in Knoxville. Info: www.cancersupportet.org or 546-4661.
Weekly cancer survi-■
vor support groups, Mon-day evenings and Tuesday mornings and Tuesday evenings.
Weekly support ■
groups for cancer caregiv-ers, Monday evening.
Weekly cancer fam-■
ily bereavement group. Thursday evening.
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