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Elizabethton Star
Vol. 77 • No. 258
50 CENTS DAILY
THURSDAY
November 1, 2007
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Valley Forge residents
warned of vicious dogs
By Abby Morris-Frye
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
Police are looking to locate and euthanize a pair of vicious dogs that have attacked and either injured or killed several dogs in the Valley Forge community.
According to Carter County Sheriff
Chris Mathes, the Carter County 911
Communications Center sent out a REVERSE 911 phone call to residents in the
area where the dog attacks have occurred advising them to be cautious,
keep an eye on their animals and not to
try to approach any other dogs which
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Man arrested after police
find pot plants in vehicle
Coffee, books lure
high schoolers
to library
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Holiday market
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they may see.
The vicious dogs have been described
as two large Pitt Bulls, one white and the
other brown or brindle in color. “A German Shepherd has supposedly joined
up with them as well,” Mathes said.
Several police reports regarding attacks on other animals by a pair of Pitt
Bulls have been filed by dog owners in
the Valley Forge community. According
to reports, one dog was killed at 176
King Street, another dog was killed at
221 Long Hollow Road and a third dog
was killed at 205 Clay Little Road. Addi-
By Abby Morris-Frye
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
Photo by Hannah Bader
A host of trick or treaters made their way through downtown yesterday in search of Halloween goodies. Madisyn
Umphrey as “Dorothy”, and her little dog too, is seen here
getting a treat.
A Hampton man was arrested Tuesday afternoon following a traffic stop
where police found a growing device for
marijuana containing live plants in the
man’s vehicle.
Todd Nelson Bowling, 31, 124 Stevens
Circle, Hampton, was arrested Tuesday
afternoon shortly before 5 p.m. by
Carter County Sheriff’s Department
Deputy Dennis Brown and charged with
the manufacture of Schedule VI drugs
and possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to police reports, officers
received a tip that Bowling would be
transporting marijuana plants and items
used in the growing of marijuana plants
in a silver Oldsmobile northbound on
Highway 19E. After receiving the information officers began attempting to locate the vehicle.
“While traveling southbound on
Highway 19E, I observed an Oldsmobile
passenger vehicle matching the one described by Deputy (Chad) Grindstaff
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Animal shelter
to host second
rabies clinic
Hughes to leave
Bush administration
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Sports
By Ashley Rader
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
Bucs eye NCAA
Tourney bid
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Weather
Animal shelter urges consideration
before leaving animals after hours
By Ashley Rader
STAR STAFF
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Hampton
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The Elizabethton Animal Shelter has always had to deal with drop-offs after hours
but concerns are starting to rise with the onset of winter weather.
Earlier this week, two animals were left af-
ter hours at the animal shelter after hours
and in freezing temperatures. The low temperatures at the beginning of this week
ranged from the upper 20s to the low 30s depending on location.
On Monday, Oct. 29, animal shelter employees found a female Jack Russell terrier in
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Laptop adds to security for schools
Index
Elizabethton
Photo Provided by David Broyles
This Jack Russell Terrier puppy was left after hours at the Elizabethton Animal Shelter in this
shoe box. The puppy’s tail was in bad shape as it appears someone tried to dock the puppy’s
tail themselves. The puppy is being fostered by David Broyles and his family until it is well
enough for adoption.
The Elizabethton Animal Shelter is preparing for
its second rabies clinic in the hopes of protecting animals from the disease.
If the clinics are successful, the shelter hopes to
provide them the first Saturday of every month as
long as “the weather is willing.” The clinic in October
was the first the shelter had offered.
Animal shelter employee Wendy Mathes said the
shelter first decided to hold the clinic to help promote
better health and pet care among area animals. Mathes also noted that it was the law to have your pets
vaccinated against rabies.
“We hope to make people more aware of their
pet’s health,” Mathes said. “It is the law. Anybody
owning an animal in the city of Elizabethton or in
Carter County have to have them vaccinated for rabies.”
The law applies to dogs and cats.
The animal shelter had a good turnout for last
month’s rabies clinic and hope to have a repeat this
month with even better numbers.
A veterinarian named Dr. Stewart will be performing the rabies vaccinations. The clinic will take place
Saturday, Nov. 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Elizabethton Animal Shelter. Shots are $6.
“He also does the vaccinations for Johnson City’s
animal shelter,” Mathes said. “He came and asked if
By Steve Burwick
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
The Carter County School System received a new
security tool this week, as Adrian Watkins of
Telecommunications Service donated a laptop computer to assist in monitoring the security cameras in
the schools.
“It’ll give us eyes into the school if there is an
emergency,” said Watkins. “They’re going to work
with the police departments — Elizabethton City
and Carter County — who will be able to view remotely from this laptop and be able to dispatch to
their officers. It’ll be a tremendous benefit. We’ve
only done Carter County Schools, but we’re in talks
with some of the other school systems about doing
their security too.
“If we get the hospitals, the jail and the local
school system all in one network, then the officers
will be familiar with using the software. The resource officers will have them on their laptops to be
able to view the smaller schools. They already have
them in the high schools, but they’ll be able to view
the elementary schools if they have an incident.”
“It gives them the option of providing one security guard to watch all the schools at night,” said
Photo by Hannah Bader
Todd Murray, network engineer for Telecommunications Service. “In case they have a guard that has to Todd Murray (left) and Adrian Watkins (center) of Telecommunications Service present a
leave the scene for some reason, they can provide a laptop computer to Director of Carter County Schools Dallas Williams this week. The laptop
n See LAPTOP, 8A
will be used to remotely access video cameras throughout the school system, enhancing
security in the schools.
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a spacewalk to fix the ripped solar wing at the international
space station, hoping to solve
the problem before the shuttle
Discovery undocks.
The agency wanted spacewalking astronauts to tackle the
job Friday but had to push back
the outing to Saturday to give
officials on the ground more
time to fine-tune the repair plan.
The solar panel tear is the
more pressing of two major issues hampering power production on the orbital outpost. A rotary joint that controls the solar
wings on the opposite side of
the station is also causing problems.
Both issues threaten to disrupt future construction work at
the station, including the
planned December launch of a
European lab.
But ignoring the wing damage could have even more troublesome consequences. If the
damage worsened and the panel lost all power-collecting capability and became unstable, the
wing would have to be junked,
said Mike Suffredini, NASA’s
space station program manager.
The wing ripped in two
places as it was being unfurled
Tuesday by astronauts aboard
the linked shuttle-station complex, and a hinge may have
been yanked and partially
ripped.
Engineers suspect the wing
became snagged on a support
for one of the wing’s guide
wires, Suffredini said. They do
not want to reel it in to make it
easier to access for spacewalkers, for fear it could be further
damaged.
The torn section of the wing
cannot be reached with the
space station’s 58-foot robot
arm. So NASA plans to attach
the shuttle inspection boom to
the robot arm and put astronaut
Scott Parazynski on the boom to
free the snagged part of the
wing.
It helps that Parazynski is tall
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arms. NASA doesn’t want him
bumping the wing or touching
its sunlight-collecting blankets.
There would be no need to
mend the tears.
Parazynski’s spacewalking
plans have changed several
times since the power problems
cropped up last weekend.
He originally was scheduled
to spend the fourth spacewalk
testing a technique for repairing
the shuttle’s thermal tiles. That
task was added to the mission
after a piece of fuel-tank foam
gouged Endeavour’s belly on
the last shuttle flight in August.
After a spacewalker found
steel shavings in the right rotary
joint last weekend, NASA
ditched the test and asked
Parazynski and spacewalker
Douglas Wheelock to thoroughly inspect the joint.
Now, however, they planned
to spend today and Friday gathering the tools they will need for
the wing repair and studying
the techniques being developed
on the ground for Saturday’s
spacewalk.
At least one of the problems
will need to be resolved before
shuttle Atlantis can lift off with
Europe’s lab, which is currently
scheduled for Dec. 6.
Suffredini said he and others
will figure out what to do about
the joint once Discovery undocks from the space station.
The shuttle is scheduled to undock on Monday and land on
Wednesday.
Astronauts awoke today to
the repetitive “o-wim-o-weh, owim-o-weh” of “The Lion
Sleeps Tonight,” a song sent up
by their training team.
“That was a lot of fun,” Discovery commander Pamela
Melroy said. “That certainly
gets you going first thing in the
morning.”
Also today, the astronauts
planned to take a break to speak
with former President George
H.W. Bush while he visited Mission Control.
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Longtime Bush adviser leaving
after stint pushing U.S. image abroad
Photo by Eveleigh Hatfield
Kathy Campbell, President and CEO of Northeast Credit Union, presents the Helping Teahers
Teach grant check to Denise Kind, teacher, and Brian Culbert, principal at Harold McCormick
School. The grant will help with the new Kids Closet. The school will use the closet to stock
various sizes of clothing, shoes, socks, underwear, and coats to be used as an “on needed”
basis for children who have an accident or ill-fitting clothes. The clothing will enhance the
children’s learning experience in that it will enable them to be more physically comfortable
and ready to focus on their studies. Northeast Credit Union awards $300 every month to a
classroom to be utilized for classroom needs, activities, and academic enrichment. The program is open to teachers in Carter, Johnson and Washington Counties, who are credit union
members.
Nashville Air Guard unit
to become training center
NASHVILLE (AP) — The
Tennessee Air National
Guard’s 118th Airlift Wing
in Nashville will become a
training unit and keep its
current staff levels, state
and military leaders announced Wednesday.
The unit’s eight C-130
cargo planes will still be
transferred to other bases,
as recommended in 2005 by
the Base Realignment and
Closure Commission. But
they will be replaced with
the same number of aircraft
used mostly to train foreign
air crews.
Gov. Phil Bredesen said
the decision to keep a flying
unit in Nashville is crucial
for responding to natural
disasters and other Guard
responsibilities.
“When you’re governor,
the kinds of things that
maybe keep you up at night
are the possibilities of natural disasters and man-made
disasters,” Bredesen said.
“Knowing that you have the
tools that it takes through
the National Guard to re-
spond to those is an important asset.”
The decision will also allow the unit’s medical
squadron to remain in
Nashville. It had previously
been slated to be moved to
Texas.
The new training center
will be able to train up to
150 international flight students at a time and is scheduled to begin operations by
next summer. The training
time could take from a few
weeks to up four months,
depending on the foreign
flight crews’ previous experience.
The decision “allows us
to get the foreign military
sales training in one place
and stabilize that,” said
Gen. T. Michael Moseley,
the Air Force chief of staff.
“Over the long term that
will pay benefits on strategic partnering, on strategic
capacity and developing
coalitions with allies.
“And what better place
to do that than a city like
Nashville and a state like
Tennessee, to bring in those
families and let them see
what America is like,” he
said.
Until Wednesday’s announcement, it was not
clear whether the unit
would have a future mission.
Bredesen had sued the
Defense Department in an
effort to block the decision
to move the planes. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in June.
Most training of C-130
crews is conducted at Little
Rock Air Force Base in
Arkansas, which is expanding its training mission. Besides international training,
Nashville would handle
overflow training from Little Rock, Moseley said.
Last summer Bredesen
and Tennessee’s Republican
senators announced that the
Defense Department was
considering replacing the C130s with a new kind of
light cargo plane, but that
plan was scrapped in favor
of the training mission.
Chattanooga camera nabbing
speeders impress legislators
NASHVILLE (AP) —
Chattanooga’s success using
roadside cameras to ticket
speeders has caught the eye
of other Tennessee communities.
State Rep. Phillip Pinion,
D-Union City, and Sen. Jim
Tracy, R-Shelbyville, said
Tuesday that a report on
Chattanooga using cameras
to enforce a 40-mph speed
limit on a dangerous span of
Hixson Pike changed their
minds about such antispeeding programs.
Pinion and Tracy, the
chairmen of the House and
Senate transportation committees, said they still favor
banning cities from using
cameras to enforce traffic
laws on interstates in their
jurisdictions. They said interstate camera enforcement
should be left to the state.
The state Department of
Transportation has contracted to pay the University of
Tennessee $45,000 for research on the Highway Patrol using cameras to enforce
traffic laws.
Chattanooga’s traffic engineer, John W. Van Winkle,
told lawmakers that Chattanooga has used cameras to
enforce a 40-mph speed limit
since June 1.
In Chattanooga’s first
week of camera use, 877 violators were caught on camera, Van Winkle said. By the
end of September, that had
dropped to 112 tickets, he
said. The average speed of
vehicles clocked on the
stretch of highway had
dropped by 7 mph, he said.
The cameras also led to
the arrest of a driver involved in drag racing that
caused a fatal accident, Van
Winkle said.
Knoxville police chief
Sterling Owen IV said
Knoxville, which is among
cities already using cameras
to catch motorists running
red lights, could use cameras
to enforce speed laws, if citizens support the idea.
Red Bank, a Chattanooga
suburb with a photo-enforcement program for motorists
running red lights, plans to
expand it to include speeding “probably by the beginning of the year,” City Manager Chris Dorsey said.
Chattanooga issued only
warning tickets for the first
month. After that, speeders
caught on camera were fined
$50. A violation does not go
on the driving record and is
not reported to insurance
companies.
Existing state law provides that a citation based
solely on a surveillance camera cannot become part of
the
motorist’s
driving
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of
President Bush’s last remaining advisers from the
close circle of Texas aides,
will leave the government at
the end of the year.
Hughes told The Associated Press that she plans to
quit her job as undersecretary of state and return to
Texas, although improving
the world’s view of the United States is a “long-term
challenge” that will outlast
her.
“This will take a number
of years,” Hughes said in an
interview Tuesday.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Hughes told Bush — her “very,
very close friend” — as far
back as the summer that she
would need to be back home
in Texas by the end of the
year. The president was sad
to hear the news, but understood, Perino said.
She praised Hughes’ performance, despite persistently low opinions of the
United States globally, particularly in the Muslim
countries where she was
supposed to concentrate her
efforts.
“She has done quite a
great job of transforming
public diplomacy at the
State Department and established new initiatives and
programs that will serve us
well after she’s gone,” Perino said of Hughes. “We are
making progress. I know
that we have a long way to
go.”
Announcing Hughes’ decision to leave the department in mid-December, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said she had accepted
the resignation “with a great
deal of sadness but also a
great deal of happiness for
what she has achieved” and
with the understanding that
she would continue to work
on several projects.
Karen Hughes
Rice said that Hughes had
made public diplomacy
“strong and central” to U.S.
foreign policy and had exceeded expectations in the
job.
“I knew that she would
bring a great dedication and
great commitment to all that
we’re trying to do,” Rice
said. “She has done just a remarkable job.”
Bush and Rice had picked
Hughes two years ago to retool the way the United
States sells its policies, ideals
and views overseas. A former television reporter and
media adviser, Hughes’ focus has been to change the
way the United States engages and responds to criticism or misinformation in
the Muslim world.
“Negative events never
help,” Hughes said when
asked how events like last
month’s shooting of Iraqi
civilians by private U.S. security guards in Iraq affects
the way the world sees the
United States.
Heading the broad category of U.S. outreach known
as public diplomacy, Hughes
sent Arabic speakers to do
four times as many interviews with Arabic media as
in previous years and set up
three rapid public relations
response centers overseas to
monitor and respond to the
news. She nearly doubled
the public diplomacy budget, to nearly $900 million annually, and sent U.S. sports
stars Michelle Kwan and Cal
Ripken Jr. abroad as unofficial diplomats.
Polls show no improvement in the world’s view of
the U.S. since Hughes took
over. A Pew Research Center
survey earlier said the unpopular Iraq war is a persistent drag on the U.S. image
and has helped push favorable opinion of the United
States in Muslim Indonesia,
for instance, from 75 percent
in 2000 to 30 percent last
year.
Hughes’
performance
drew mixed reviews in the
Muslim world. She got credit for hard work and frequent travel but was prone
to gaffes such as vastly overstating Saddam Hussein’s
use of poison gas against his
people before he was deposed by a U.S.-led invasion
in 2003.
Hughes said the Iraq war
was usually the second issue
that Muslims and Arabs
raised with her, after the
long-standing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Hughes said she advised Bush and Rice two
years ago that U.S. help in
ending the six-decade old
fight over Israel would probably do more than anything
else to improve the U.S.
standing worldwide.
This is Hughes’ second
departure from the Bush administration.
She
was
among Bush’s closest confidantes during his first term
before leaving the White
House in 2002. She never
fully left Bush’s employ,
serving as an offsite strategist and adviser until she returned to Washington to
take the State Department
job in 2005.
Hughes had been splitting her time between Texas
and Washington.
She worked with Bush
since the 1990s, first as director of communications while
he was governor of Texas,
from 1995 to 2000.
Tribute to the Roaring ’20s
Some of the cast for “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” an upcoming musical production of the
Science Hill High School Choral Department, are pictured above. The title role will be performed by senior SHHS student Jennifer Darden. Performances are scheduled at 7 p.m. on
Nov. 1, Nov. 3, Nov. 8., Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 as well as 3 p.m. for a matinee on Nov. 4. General
admission tickets are available for $12 for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for students. Make
ticket reservations by calling the SHHS Choral Department at 232-2194.
The Elizabethton
Kiwanis Club
Will Be Sponsoring Our 45th Annual
Pancake
Breakfast
Saturday, November 3
7:00 am - 10:30 am
First United Methodist Church
325 East E Street • Elizabethton
Cost Will Be $4.00
Editorial & Commentary
Abortion wars continue between national groups
WASHINGTON — National anti-abortion leaders
last Wednesday put finishing
touches on a letter to be sent
to all members of Congress
urging suspension of more
than $300 million in federal
funding of Planned Parenthood until a massive criminal
case brought in Kansas
against the abortion rights organization is settled. That
launches an attack against
the nation’s largest purveyor
of “reproductive health care”
— including abortions.
On Oct. 16, Kansas District
Judge James F. Vano in suburban Kansas City spent eight
hours reviewing a 107-count
grand
jury
indictment
against Planned Parenthood
of Kansas and Mid-Missouri
Inc. and decided there was
“probable cause” to proceed.
Allegations of unlawful lateterm abortions and other
abortion-connected
crimes
were brought by Johnson
County District Atty. Phill
Kline, a pro-life hero nationally who is viewed as a fanatic by abortion rights advocates. The prosecution alleges
violation of state and federal
laws and falsification of documents to justify it.
This opens a new front in
the endless abortion wars.
No change in the status quo
had seemed possible for the
pro-lifers. The 5 to 4 Supreme
Court advantage for abortion
is frozen, and a Democraticcontrolled Congress will not
pass new anti-abortion legislation, much less a constitutional amendment. The offensive against abortion now
takes dead aim at Planned
Parenthood and attempts to
expand a Kansas criminal
prosecution into a nationwide assault.
“Bloody Kansas” was the
battleground between rebel
and loyal forces nearly 150
years ago, and it is now an
epicenter of abortion conflict.
While polls show Kansas vot-
ers 60 percent pro-life, antiabortion activists call the
state “the abortion capital of
the world” — mainly because
of Dr. George
Tiller. At his
Wichita clinic,
Tiller is one of
the few American
doctors
still performing late-term
abortions.
The strugRobert
gle
has ripped
Novak
asunder
Kansas’s dominant Republican Party, with
Kline at the heart of it. He
won passage of anti-abortion
legislation during eight years
in the state House of Representatives, before his narrow
2002 election as state attorney
general. Kline’s vigorous
prosecution of alleged abortion offenses made him the
principal national target of
the abortion industry.
It pumped an estimated
$1.5 million into the 2006
campaign for attorney general of Paul Morrison, the prochoice Republican Johnson
County district attorney who
turned Democratic to run
against Kline. Dr. Tiller personally contributed $121,000
to his ProKanDo PAC, which
spent $322,680 in the campaign against Kline. An affiliated
non-profit
group,
Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection, spent more
than $400,000 on “educational mailings” obviously aimed
against Kline. Badly outspent, Kline relied on an oldfashioned hand-shaking campaign and was swamped at
the polls.
Next occurred a bizarre
event worthy of Shakespeare.
Since Morrison was elected
district attorney as a Republican, under state law his replacement was selected by
the GOP’s precinct committeemen. They chose Kline.
The abortion lobby’s cam-
paign against him had made
him unelectable to any office,
ruling out a full term as district attorney next year. So,
with time short, he immediately went to work in his new
job.
His 107 charges against
Planned Parenthood include
allegations of “unlawful lateterm abortions,” “unlawful
failure to determine viability
for
late-term
abortion,”
“making false information”
and “unlawful failure to
maintain records.” Anti-abortion activists see Kline’s prosecution as the springboard
for a national campaign.
Forty other states have abortion laws similar to the
Kansas statute that says abortion is legal only when the fetus cannot live independently outside the mother’s
womb — that is, not “viable.”
Whether or not enough
prosecutors can be found to
seek Kline-type indictments
around the country, anti-
abortion strategists are aiming at Planned Parenthood
and its 860 facilities nationwide. Concerned Women for
America and other pro-life
organizations signed this
week’s letter to members of
Congress asking for suspension of federal funding that
amounts to about one-third
of the organization’s budget:
“We urge you to act to ensure
that our tax dollars are not
subsidizing abortion clinics
that perform possibly illegal
abortions.”
While the Democratic-controlled Congress surely will
not defund Planned Parenthood, it will be pressed to fulfill its oversight mission with
congressional hearings. The
socially conservative Family
Research Council Wednesday
called for a Justice Department investigation. And Republican presidential candidates — who proceed gingerly on abortion — will be
called to combat in this war.
Return of the chicken hawks
Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif.,
has become the Democrats’
Ann Coulter — he keeps
saying things that aggrandize him, while discrediting
his political persuasion.
Last week, after President
Bush vetoed a bill to expand
the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program to cover
not only poor but also middle-class children, Stark accused Republicans of wanting “to blow up innocent
people if we can get enough
kids to grow old enough for
you to send them to Iraq to
get their heads blown off for
the
president’s
amusement.”
Speaker
Nancy
Pelosi rebuked Stark for his
“inappropriate” comments.
Before Stark finally apologized on Tuesday, he issued a statement: “I have
nothing but respect for our
brave men and women in
uniform and wish them the
very best. But I respect neither the commander in chief
who keeps them in harm’s
way nor the chicken hawks
in Congress who vote to deny children health care.”
Careful,
congressman,
you might want to think
twice about calling folks
chicken hawks. It’s not in
your party’s interest.
Sure, in 2004 Democrats
hurled the “chicken hawk”
epithet at George W. Bush,
who took America to war in
Iraq even though he only
served as a pilot in the Air
National Guard. Then-Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who had no apparent
qualms about President Bill
Clinton’s evasion of the
draft, charged that Bush was
“AWOL” during Vietnam.
You see, Democrats had
nominated John F. Kerry, a
decorated Vietnam combat
veteran, who had voted for
the Iraq war resolution. So,
just years after President
Clinton put U.S. forces into
the former Yugoslavia and
sent bombers over Iraq, Democrats argued that only a
combat vet was suited to
serve in the White House
and put U.S. troops in
harm’s way. In that mindset,
Kerry addressed the Democratic National Convention in
martial terms: “I’m John
Kerry, and I’m reporting for
duty.”
In 2008, Democratic hopefuls are twice as likely to
have been in law school than
in boot camp.
Among eight
Democrats,
Mike Gravel
served in the
Army
from
1951-1954,
while Christopher Dodd of
Connecticut,
Debra
who voted for
Saunders the Iraq war
resolution,
served in the Army Reserves.
By
McAuliffe’s
lights, Dodd was AWOL.
Be it noted, both Hillary
Clinton and John Edwards
voted for the Iraq war resolution but did not serve.
Barack Obama did not serve
in the military, but says he
would not have voted for
the war.
Among the eight GOP
hopefuls, John McCain was
a career Naval officer who
spent five years in a Vietnam
POW camp, Rep. Duncan
Hunter is a decorated Vietnam combat vet, and Ron
Paul was a flight surgeon in
the Air Force. McCain and
Hunter voted for the Iraq
war; Paul did not.
Some Bush-haters also
trashed
the
president’s
daughters because they have
not enlisted, even if few held
the Kerry daughters to the
same standard. I don’t ascribe to the notion that candidates’ children are chattel,
who have to enlist because
of their parents’ views. But if
you think otherwise, you
should know that Chelsea
Clinton is a hedge fund analyst, Edwards’ elder daughter is in law school, and
Obama’s daughters are children.
McCain has a son in the
Marines and a son at the U.S.
Naval Academy. The Giuliani kids are in college. As
for Mitt Romney, who was a
Mormon missionary during
Vietnam, in August he exhibited appalling judgment
when a peace activist asked
him why his five grown sons
had not served in the military. Romney answered,
“One of the ways my sons
are showing support for our
nation is helping me get
elected because they think
I’d be a great president.”
Parents with children serving in Iraq must shudder.
According to the Gallup
poll, 18 percent of American
voters served in the military.
I never served myself, so I
am in no position to attack
others for not having served.
Still, all things being equal,
I’d rather vote for a candidate who has served in the
military and knows the horrors of war. I would imagine
other non-veterans would
agree, because we appreciate
the sacrifices made by those
who stepped up when others did not.
Yet even veterans don’t
insist that candidates be
vets. In August, Gallup
found that GOP presidential
candidate Rudy Giuliani
had the highest favorability
rating (64 percent favorable,
29 percent unfavorable)
among military veteran voters. McCain garnered a 52
percent favorable rating;
Obama, 44 percent.
Back to the chicken hawk
label. Three years ago, Democrats shamelessly donned
a military mantle. In a display of craven opportunism,
they embraced an argument
that seemed phony then,
and now has vanished. They
argued their candidate was
better because he was a combat vet. Today, none of the
Dems’ top three candidates
has a military record.
Here are three words you
won’t hear from the nominee at the 2008 Democratic
National Convention: Reporting for duty.
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Fish Springs water woes cited
Editor:
I am writing this letter concerning the Fish
Springs water project. Where is the grant
money that has already been given towards
this project? My husband and I work every
day and have a baby to care for.
I have lived in this community for 10
years and never asked the county for anything. On August 20 our spring was dry and
I called Michael Hughes’ office asking for
help and was promised water that day if
they could get a truck to haul it.
Thank God I could take the baby and go to
my parents’ home and thank God my husband found another spring to use, otherwise
my family and I would be dead from thirst
by now.
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Another Viewpoint
Proposed law protects
public’s right to know
“I believe the only check
on government power in real time is a free and independent press. (A reporter
shield law) is not about protecting reporters, it’s about
protecting the public’s right
to know.”
That quote could come
from a number of sources.
Thomas
Jefferson,
Ben
Franklin and others of the
Founding Fathers knew that
a free press is the backbone
of a society free of government oppression.
But the quote above
comes from U.S. Rep. Mike
Pence, R-Ind., a conserva-
tive who co-sponsored a bill
to back reporters’ rights to
protect the confidentiality
of sources in federal court
cases. The House passed the
bill 398-21 on Tuesday.
Forty-nine states have
similar laws or precedents
protecting reporters’ rights
in state courts.
Yet the White House has
threatened to veto the federal legislation, if adopted
by the Senate. The White
House said the measure
could (surprise!) threaten
national
security
and
thwart efforts to prevent
terrorism — even though
the bill contains provisions
to compel reporters to testify under those specific circumstances.
Without source confidentiality, the public would
never have learned about
prison
abuse
at Abu
Ghraib, clandestine CIA
prisons and shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center.
The Senate should adopt
the legislation this session
and send it to President
Bush, who should sign it in
order to protect the public’s
right to know.
—Decatur (Ala.) Daily
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Ted Bowers
Ted Bowers, 65, 534
Teaberry Road, Roan Mountain, has gone home, from his
residence, on Tuesday, October 30, 2007, following an extended illness.
Mr. Bowers was a native
of Avery County, N.C., however he made his home in
Carter County, Tenn., for
most of his life. He was the
son of the late George and
Charlotte Hicks Bowers.
Mr. Bowers was a carpenter and a member of Lewis
Chapel
Freewill
Baptist
Church of Minneapolis, N.C.
In addition to his parents,
he was preceded in death by
a twin brother, Clifton Bowers, a daughter-in-law, Meloney Bowers, and a niece,
Lydia Pritchard.
Survivors include his wife
of 23 years, Peggy Hicks
Bowers, of the home; two
sons and daughters-in-law,
James and Robin Bowers and
Kenneth and Noka Bowers,
all of Roan Mountain; two
sisters and brothers-in-law,
Gail and Sherman Pritchard,
Elk Park, N.C., and Mary and
Harold Johnson, Newton,
N.C.; a brother and sister-inlaw, Fred and Sylvia Bowers,
Minneapolis, N.C.; eight
grandchildren and three
great-grandsons.
Several
nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service for Mr.
Bowers will be conducted at
8 p.m. Thursday, November
1, in the Rhododendron
Chapel of Tetrick Funeral
Home, Roan Mountain, with
Rev. Gary Perkins and Rev.
Barry Shepherd officiating.
Music will be under the direction of the Melody Trio.
The graveside service and interment will be conducted at
2 p.m. Friday, November 2, in
the Bowers Cemetery in Minneapolis, N.C. Active pallbearers will be Matt McKin-
ney, John Pritchard, Ray Blair,
John Hicks, Joe Hicks, Gene
Howell, Freddie Bowers and
Ricky Hamby. Honorary pallbearers will be Frankie
Townsend, Kenny Caraway,
Jeff Caraway, David Arnett
and Gerald Jones. Those
wishing to attend the graveside service are asked to meet
at the Rhododendron Chapel
at 1 p.m. Friday to go in procession to the cemetery. The
family will receive friends in
the funeral home chapel from
6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, prior to
the service, and at other times
at the residence. The family
would like to extend a special
thank you to the Perkins family for their love and concern
during Mr. Bowers’ illness.
Condolences may be sent to
the family by signing the
guestbook at www.tetrickfuneralhome.com or by fax to
(423) 542-9499.
Tetrick Funeral Home,
Rhododendron Chapel, Roan
Mountain, is serving the
Bowers family. Obituary
Line: (423) 543-4917. Office:
(423) 772-7131.
Lorie Guy, Roan Mountain;
his step-father, Darrell Honeycutt, Hampton; a brother,
Leon Guy, Elizabethton; a
sister, Ella Reed of North
Carolina; his grandmaw, Ella
Guy, and grandpa, Conley
Guy, both of Hampton; his
aunts, Ella Burrow Markland, Lela Sherrill and Cathy
Burrow; his uncles, William
Burrow,
Henry
Burrow,
Wayne Guy and Jody Guy;
and a special “step-father,”
Casey Reed. Several special
cousins also survive.
The funeral service for
Pvt. Guy will be conducted
at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 3, in the Chapel of Peace
of Tetrick Funeral Home
with Rev. Dean Presnell officiating. Music will be under
the direction of Michael
Reed. Interment will follow
in the Captain Nelson Cemetery with Military Honors
provided by the Tennessee
Army National Guard. Active pallbearers will be
William Burrow, James Burrow, Leon Guy, Darrell Honeycutt, Henry Burrow and Jeremy Cook. Honorary pallbearers will be the members
of the U.S. Army B Co. 266th
Qm Bn. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Friday, November 2, in the
funeral home chapel. Friends
may also call at the residence
at anytime. Condolences
may be sent to the family by
signing the guestbook at
www.tetrickfuneralhome.co
m or by fax to (423) 542-9499.
Tetrick Funeral Home of
Elizabethton is serving the
Guy family. Obituary Line:
(423) 543-4917. Office: (423)
542-2232.
Pvt. Johnny Wayne
Guy, U.S. Army
Pvt. Johnny Wayne Guy,
U.S. Army, 22, 201 Roark
Park Lane, Hampton, died
Friday, October 19, 2007, in
Bariere, British
Columbia,
Canada, from
injuries
received in an automobile
accident.
A native of Carter County,
he was a son of Sally Ann
Guy Honeycutt of Hampton.
Pvt. Guy was a graduate
of Hampton High School and
was a certified chef with the
U.S. Army serving in Fairbanks, Alaska. He attended
Pleasant
Beach
Baptist
Church.
Survivors, in addition to
his mother, include his wife,
Novella H. Marlow
Novella H. Marlow, 78, 102
Marlow Lane, Hampton, died
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at
the residence of a daughter,
Barbara Vines.
A native of Carter County,
she was a daughter of the late
Samuel and Eula Pearl Vines
Guinn.
Mrs. Marlow was a homemaker and was of the Baptist
faith. She was an avid seamstress.
In addition to her parents,
she was preceded in death by
her husband, James Walter
Marlow, December 21, 1992,
two grandchildren, six brothers and three sisters.
Survivors include two
daughters and sons-in-law,
Barbara and Raymond Vines,
Elizabethton, and Robin M.
and John Young, Johnson
City; four sons and three
daughters-in-law, Darrell and
Barbara Marlow, Elizabethton, Gregory and Tina Marlow, Harry Marlow and Sissie
Banner and Jeffrey and Lisa
Marlow, all of Hampton; two
granddaughters,
Christy
Williams and Haley Marlow;
seven grandsons, Brandon
Vines, Justin Marlow, Cody
Marlow, Zach Young, Alex
Marlow, Jerry Ray Marlow
and Jacob Marlow; two stepgrandchildren, Richard Griffin and Greg Griffin; a stepgranddaughter, Jennifer Griffin; two great-grandchildren,
Katelyn Williams and Mason
Williams; two step-greatgrandchildren, Dustin Bishop
and Matt Bishop; a sister, Ann
Heaton, Elizabethton; several
nieces and nephews; and a
special friend. Angie Marlow.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Marlow will be conducted at
8 p.m. Thursday, November
1, at Memorial Funeral
Chapel with the Rev. Quincey
Norris officiating. Graveside
services and interment will be
at 1 p.m. Friday, November 2,
in the Walnut Mountain
Cemetery. Active pallbearers
will be sons and grandsons.
Honorary pallbearers will be
friends of the family. The family would like to express a
special “thank you” to Dr.
Stephen May, employees of
Sycamore Shoals Hospital
and Caris Hospice for all their
love and care. The family will
receive friends from 6 to 8
p.m. Thursday at the funeral
home. Friends may also call at
her residence. Family and
friends will assemble at the
funeral home at 11:45 a.m.
Friday to go to the cemetery.
Condolences to the Marlow
family may be e-mailed to
[email protected].
Memorial Funeral Chapel
is in charge of the arrangements.
Jury awards nearly $11 million in
verdict against funeral protesters
BALTIMORE (AP) — A
grieving father won a nearly
$11 million verdict Wednesday
against
a
fundamentalist
Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief
that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation’s tolerance
of homosexuality.
Albert Snyder of York, Pa.,
sued the Westboro Baptist
Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Marine Lance
Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who
was killed in Iraq.
The federal jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned in
the afternoon with its decision
to award $6 million in punitive
damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing
emotional distress.
Snyder’s attorney, Craig Trebilcock, had urged jurors to determine an amount “that says
don’t do this in Maryland
again. Do not bring your circus
of hate to Maryland again.”
The defense said it planned
to appeal, and one of the
church’s
leaders,
Shirley
Phelps-Roper, said the members would continue to picket
military funerals.
“Absolutely; don’t you understand this was an act in futility?” Phelps-Roper said.
Church members routinely
picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and
Afghanistan, carrying signs
such as “Thank God for dead
soldiers” and “God hates fags.”
Snyder claimed the protests
intruded upon what should
have been a private ceremony
and sullied his memory of the
event.
The church members testified they are following their religious beliefs by spreading the
message that soldiers are dying
because the nation is too tolerant of homosexuality.
Their attorneys maintained
in closing arguments Tuesday
that the burial was a public
event and that even abhorrent
points of view are protected by
the First Amendment, which
guarantees freedom of speech
and religion.
A number of states have
passed laws regarding funeral
protests, and Congress has
passed a law prohibiting such
protests at federal cemeteries.
But the Maryland lawsuit is believed to be the first filed by the
family of a fallen serviceman.
The church and three of its
leaders — Fred Phelps and his
two daughters, Phelps-Roper
and Rebekah Phelps-Davis, 46
— were found liable for invasion of privacy and intent to inflict emotional distress.
The group is confident the
award will be overturned on
appeal, Phelps said
“Oh, it will take about five
minutes to get that thing reversed,” he said.
Earlier, church members
staged a demonstration outside
the federal courthouse. Phelps
held a sign reading “God is
your enemy,” while PhelpsRoper stood on an American
flag and carried a sign that read
“God hates fag enablers.”
Members of the group sang
“God Hates America” to the
tune of “God Bless America.”
Snyder sobbed when he
heard the verdict, while members of the church greeted the
news with tightlipped smiles.
It was unclear whether the
KINGSPORT (AP) — An accused child rapist is headed back
to Tennessee after he jumped bond a few years ago and fled to
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Before the jury began deliberating the size of punitive
damages, U.S. District Judge
Richard Bennett noted that the
size of the compensatory
award “far exceeds the net
worth of the defendants,” according to financial statements
filed with the court.
Defense lawyer Jonathan
Katz said the church has about
75 members and is funded by
tithing.
The defense attorney said
that the assets of the church
and the three defendants are
less than a million dollars and
that the compensatory award is
about three times the defendants’ net worth, mainly in
homes, cars and retirement accounts.
One of Snyder’s attorneys,
Sean Summers, said he would
tirelessly seek payment of the
award.
“We will chase them forever
if it takes that long,” Summers
said.
Arrests
• Kathryn Danielle Shingledecker, 22, 3216 Mayfield Drive, Johnson City, was arrested early Wednesday morning by
Carter County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Eric Buck on a warrant charging her with violation of probation and a capias
charging her with failure to appear in court.
• Michael Paul Williams, 22, 660 Jena Beth Drive, was arrested early Wednesday morning by CCSD Deputy David Peters on a warrant charging him with violation of probation.
• Kelvin Wayne Peterson, 47, 182 Telford Road, Telford,
was arrested Tuesday evening by CCSD Deputy Doug
Combs on a warrant charging him with being a fugitive from
justice.
• Daniel Lee Grindstaff, 31, 127 Hazelwood Hollow,
Hampton, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by CCSD Deputy
Shannon Winters on a warrant charging him with violation of
probation.
• Angela Fisher, 30, 122 Ed Davis Road, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by officers of the CCSD on a capias charging
her with failure to appear in court.
• Timothy Brian Able, 48, 200 Hamilton Road, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Larry Burrow on a
capias charging him with failure to appear in court.
• Christopher Wayne Henson, 19, 130 Volunteer Drive,
was arrested Tuesday morning by CCSD Deputy Larry Burrow on a warrant charging him with violation of probation.
• Jason Ford Chambers, 31, 427 E. Sullivan St., Kingsport,
was arrested Tuesday afternoon by CCSD Deputy Larry Burrow on a capias charging him with failure to appear in court.
• Lisa Mizell, 41, 131 Ray Simerly Road, Hampton, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Elizabethton Police Department
Ptl. John Lunceford and charged with DUI, speeding and failure to obey a traffic control device.
• Pamela Hetkey, 40, 7596 Boneta Road, Wadsworth, Ohio,
was arrested early Wednesday morning by EPD Sgt. Jack
Ramsey and charged with DUI.
• Elizabeth Demar, 25, 123 Place Road, Johnson City, was
arrested early Wednesday morning by EPD Ptl. Matt Croy
and charged with public intoxication.
Man arrested after
shooting window
out of occupied car
By Abby Morris-Frye
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
A Roan Mountain man was
arrested Tuesday evening after
he reportedly fired a gun into a
vehicle which two female subjects were in.
Jonathan Howard Arnett,
22, 7645 Highway 19E, Roan
Mountain, was arrested Tuesday shortly after 7 p.m. by
Carter County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Shane Watson
and charged with two counts of
aggravated assault.
According to police reports,
officers of the Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to Arnett’s residence on a report of a
shooting incident.
“Upon arrival I spoke to
Jonathan Howard Arnett who
stated that his girlfriend, identified as Sheena Hicks, had re-
ceived text messages stating
that two girls identified as
Rachel Homey and Jessi Teaster
were going to come to her
house. When Mr. Arnett arrived home he saw a vehicle
that he knew was possibly occupied by Ms. Homey and Ms.
Teaster coming up the driveway,” states Watson in his report on the incident. “At that
time, Mr. Arnett went into the
home and retrieved a Mossberg
12-gauge shotgun. Through
statements and further investigation it was determined that
Mr. Arnett fired one shot into
the back glass of the vehicle.”
At that time Arnett was taken into custody and charged
with two counts of aggravated
assault and transported to the
Carter County Jail. He is scheduled to appear in Carter County General Sessions Court on
Nov. 6.
Man lying on highway
at night killed by car
COOKEVILLE (AP) — A
man lying in the middle of a
road at night while wearing
dark clothes was struck by a
car and killed, authorities said.
Kenneth Pagano, 43, died
from the accident that occurred at 11:35 p.m. Monday
in front of his home at 2136 W.
Broad St., according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Dispatchers said a 17-yearold Cookeville girl was driving near Pagano’s home when
“she came upon a pedestrian
who was lying in the eastbound lane” of the highway.
The driver, whose name
was not disclosed because she
is a minor, did not see the man
in time to stop before striking
him.
State Trooper Sgt. Mark Dial said Pagana was wearing
dark clothing, making it nearly impossible for the driver to
see him.
“For some odd reason, he
was lying in the road and had
on dark colored clothing,” Dial
The Board of Commissioners of the
Carderview Utility District of Johnson
County Tennessee will hold a special session
on November 5th 2007 at 6 p.m. The meeting
will be held at the Butler Ruritan Building.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss
plans to install waterlines on the Loan Meyers
Road in Butler.
If you should need more information please
contact Sharon Church at our office or attend
the meeting to voice your opinion.
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The Carderview Utility District
said. “It’s pitch dark there at
that time of night.”
After her car struck Pagano,
the driver pulled over and
stopped, according to the report. Dial said the teenager
“was very distraught” over
the accident.
Local law enforcement officers said they have been called
to the same area more than
once before to investigate complaints by motorists about a
man lying in the roadway.
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Dear Abby
High school libraries luring
Jealous granddaughter
students in with coffee, then books
loses compassion
for troubled friend
DEAR ABBY: I have a serious problem. Several months
ago, my 15-year-old granddaughter, “Brittany,” brought
a girlfriend to my home explaining that “Megan’s”
mother was on drugs and
Megan had no place to live.
The
mother
was living between her car
and an occasional motel
room.
I felt sorry
for the girl and
allowed her,
with her mother’s
permission, to stay
with us. Megan’s mother ultimately abandoned her.
Megan wound up in police
custody through no action of
her own. I was called to retrieve her from the police station.
I was then asked to take
the girl into my home, as
there is a shortage of foster
homes in our area and I had a
foster license from years ago.
Megan moved in, and I provided her with the essentials
— some clothing, a bedspread of her choosing, a
yearbook from school, etc.
Suddenly, Brittany has decided that she “hates”
Megan, and she is now begging me to get her out of my
home. I agreed to foster this
girl, and there is nowhere
else for her to go.
Brittany is now avoiding
us. She is no longer speaking
to Megan and has stated that
she’ll let us have our “new
granddaughter” — she hates
her. She’s overly rude to
Megan at family functions,
excludes her from regular social occasions, and barely
speaks to me or her grandfather anymore.
I’m not stupid. I know
Brittany is jealous, although I
have assured her that no one
can ever take her place. She
insists that I “get rid of”
Megan — and she doesn’t
care where she goes. My
daughter just says, “Well,
what did you expect?” and
gives me no backup or support.
I don’t want to put Megan
into the “system,” as she
would go to a group home
from here. However, I am
very torn at obviously hurting my granddaughter. I
don’t know what to do.
Please help me. — PULLED
IN TWO IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR PULLED IN TWO:
Stay the course. Brittany
may be 15, but she’s acting
like a 7-year-old. She wanted you to help her friend on
HER terms — but not too
much. The rivalry she’s exhibiting is uncalled for, and
the fact that your daughter
is not joining you in giving
Brittany an attitude adjustment is puzzling and disappointing.
If your granddaughter
wants to sulk, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Right now, there are more
important things to consider
than your granddaughter’s
spoiled behavior — specifically, the welfare of a young
girl who is in trouble
through no fault of her own.
Please continue to support
her rather than allowing
yourself to be manipulated
by a child who clearly has
no idea of what life is really
about.
—————
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in my 50s, fit, and wear an
ankle-length (either dark or
light blue) robe around the
house when I’m not ready to
get dressed. Neither is ratty,
worn or in disrepair.
We live in a quiet, middleclass neighborhood. Abby, I
sometimes go out and pick
up the newspaper from the
front lawn wearing my robe.
My wife thinks this is inappropriate. Is it? — COMFORTABLY LOUNGING IN
FORT WORTH
DEAR COMFORTABLY
LOUNGING: Not from my
perspective. If this is all
your wife can find to complain about, she’s a lucky
woman.
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FRANKLIN (AP) — Even before the
bell rings each morning, students at
Centennial High School are lined up to
get into the library. But they aren’t necessarily looking for books.
They are waiting for a morning cup
of joe at the Cougar Cafe, a coffee shop
run by students.
Coffeehouses are springing up in
high school libraries around the country,
marking a big departure from the days
when librarians sternly prohibited food,
drinks and talking.
Some health advocates wonder
whether high school students really
need any more caffeine, or the calories
in that caramel mochaccino.
But school officials say these coffee
shops are promoting reading and studying by attracting teenagers who might
not otherwise hang out in a library.
“Once they have them in there, they
have their eyes and hopefully have their
minds for a little bit,” said Doug Johnson, a school library consultant from
Minnesota.
The school library cafes are usually
simplified versions of the coffee shops
at Borders or Barnes & Noble bookstores. Centennial High’s cafe, which
has been open for only a few months,
has an espresso machine and a milk
frother, and sells fancy coffee drinks,
hot and iced teas and hot chocolate.
“School food reflects the larger culture, so if there’s a proliferation of cof-
Photo by Larry N. Souders
The Happy Valley High School WATA Club (Water, Air, Trees and Animals) recently held a
food drive for the animals at the Carter County Animal Shelter. Groups of club members also
volunteer every Saturday to clean, pet and provide attention for the dogs and cats at the
shelter. Pictured are School Counselor Jennifer Ellis, club members Kristina Gregory, Beka
Addison, Megan McMahan, Jodi Sterrett, Destri Richardson (club president), Kassandra
Hayes, Kayla Peterson, Matt Shepard, Steven Hyder, Zach Young and Vernon Clawson. Not
pictured is sponsor Karen Hampton.
NSTCC strategies seminar eases
students’ concerns about math
BLOUNTVILLE — Are algebra problems
giving you dirty looks? Does the term “complex integers” keep you up at night?
Northeast State Technical Community
College wants to lay those fears to rest with
two free seminars for students that will focus
on strategies for coping and alleviating the
fear of math. Math Anxiety!
Math Learning Strategies is open to any interested student and scheduled to meet two
days a week for five weeks, beginning Monday, Nov. 5. Two sections are being offered on
the following days and times:
• MALS 100 — Mondays and Wednesdays, Nov. 5 to Dec. 3 from 2:35–3:30 p.m.
• MALS 102 — Tuesdays and Thursdays,
Nov. 6 to Dec. 4 from 9–10 a.m.
Both seminars will be held in the Humanities Building, Room H241 at the college’s
main campus, 2425 Highway 75, adjacent to
Tri-Cities Regional Airport.
Northeast State math Instructor John Melendez will help students define math anxiety, use strategies and techniques to counteract their fears, and identify campus resources
that can assist them with learning math. The
seminars will show students how to build
confidence and eliminate worries, make math
study skills effective and efficient, and use
time management strategies so study time
gives students real knowledge about the subject.
For more information, call the Campus Information Center at 323-0229.
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The cafe uses 2 percent milk, offers
sugar-free syrups and decaf coffee, and
doesn’t sell doughnuts or danish, said
Robbie Reed, the Centennial marketing
teacher who oversees the coffeehouse.
John Witmer, who has run a beforeschool cafe at Hastings High School in
Houston since he became librarian in
2003, said it is extremely popular with
the 2,800 students.
Before the coffeehouse opened, “they
were running about 6,000 visits per year
to the library and checking out about
3,000 books,” he said. Now, “we’re running about 65,000 visits and checking
out about 45,000 books.”
He has used the money earned to
eliminate library fines, he said.
On a recent school day at Centennial,
14-year-old Desmond Dwight, who
works at the cafe, was sitting at one of
the small round tables with friends. He
said he visits the cafe “because I can get
a cup of coffee and go sit and read a
book.”
Would he be reading in the library
anyway if there were no coffee?
“I don’t think so,” he said, “because it
would be boring just sitting here.”
But 17-year-old Aaron Nall, a senior,
said he doesn’t think his fellow students
read any more because of the cafe.
“I think this place is more a social
scene than anything,” he said. “And it
makes it loud if you’re trying to use the
library.”
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fee shops in bookstores out in the
world, it’s going to happen in schools,”
said Jan Poppendieck, a sociology professor at Hunter College in New York
who is writing a book on school meals.
Marketing students work as baristas
in the Centennial cafe, which brings in
about $200 a day. After expenses, the
cafe should make about $10,000 during
the school year, and that will be turned
into scholarships for the 10 to 15 student employees.
The coffeehouse trend comes at a
time when many school systems
around country are removing junk food
and soda machines.
“They’re already providing horrible
school lunches. Now they’re adding to
that with 800-calorie drinks,” said Susan Levin, a registered dietitian with
the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Many students load up
their coffee with sugar and cream or
buy dessert-like coffee drinks, Levin
said.
Terry Shrader, Centennial High principal, said the Parent Teacher Student
Organization considered whether it
was a healthy idea before opening the
cafe.
“Then they came in one morning and
watched how many students walk
through the door with Starbucks or
those Vaults, caffeinated drinks,” he
said. “There’s not any increase in the
amount of caffeine they’re drinking.”
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A holiday gift market featuring unique gifts and local
artistry will be held at Milligan College this weekend,
Nov. 2-3. Sponsored by Associated Ladies for Milligan
(ALM), the event will provide
holiday
shoppers
from
throughout the region an opportunity to explore the
sights, sounds and smells of
the season.
Milligan's Derthick Hall
will be transformed into a holiday market with various vendors displaying an array of
gifts, handmade goods, specialty foods and crafts for
“Festival of Seasons: A Holiday Gift Market.”
This event offers something
for everyone. For the Christmas shopper, it's a wonderful
way to get a jump on holiday
shopping in a unique and festive environment with a variety of items designed for that
hard-to-buy-for-person
on
your list. Some of the unique
items which will be sold are:
jewelry, baskets, pottery, candles, home décor, Christmas
ornaments, stocking stuffers
and much more.
For those not interested in
shopping, listen to local jazz
talent and Milligan professor
Rick Simerly while sampling a
variety of coffees or hot cider
at the Friday night event.
“We have a wonderful
group of very talented women
who have organized this
event to be one of the premier
holiday shopping events in
this region,” said Clarinda
Jeanes, founder and president
of ALM. “People can do their
holiday shopping for that special gift while donating to student scholarships.”
The market will be open on
Friday, Nov. 2, from 6 to 9
p.m., and on Saturday, Nov. 3,
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A $5 donation for admission is requested, with all proceeds
benefiting student scholarships at Milligan College.
For additional information
about “Festival of Seasons: A
Holiday Gift Market,” call
461-8710, or e-mail [email protected].
St. Elizabeth
sets bazaar
The Ladies Guild of St.
Elizabeth Catholic Church,
510 W. C St., Elizabethton, will
hold their annual bazaar on
Saturday, Nov. 10 from 9 a.m.1 p.m. in the church fellowship hall.
A wide variety of handmade crafts and baked goods
will be for sale.
The ladies of the guild have
also sewn a quilt to be sold at
a silent auction. For answers
to questions about the quilt,
call Delores King at 928-1986.
How much do you “tip” your
cable TV company every month?
The answer may shock you.
Tennessee families could save serious money if they had a real choice.
How much could you save?
Prices drop 28 to 42% in places with real competition according to
Bank of America Equity Research.*
Do the math — without competition, it’s like tipping the cable company
an extra $20 a month on a $60 cable bill.
The General Assembly is considering a proposal to give you a new choice
to traditional cable TV.
Tell your elected officials you want a real choice.
1-800-822-9773 • www.WeWantTVChoiceTN.com
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TODAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
National Weather for Nov. 1, 2007
MONDAY
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0s
10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s
Seattle
53/37
Billings
60/31
Minneapolis
52/38
BRISK
Sunny
Areas of
morning fog
A full day of
sunshine
Sunshine and
patchy clouds
Partly sunny
PLEASANT
Chicago
56/35
San Francisco
66/52
WARMER
Denver
62/32
66°
62°
31°
64°
38°
34°
37°
59°
39°
63°
Bristol Almanac
RealFeel Temp
UV Index Today
Statistics are through 6 p.m. yest.
The patented RealFeel Temperature® is
AccuWeather’s exclusive index of the effects
of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine,
precipitation and elevation on the human
body. Shown are the highest values for each
day.
8 a.m. .............................................. 0
Noon ............................................... 3
4 p.m. .............................................. 1
Temperature:
High yesterday ........................ 71°
Low yesterday ......................... 27°
Precipitation:
Today ........................................... 68°
Friday ........................................... 67°
Saturday ....................................... 62°
Sunday ......................................... 56°
Monday ....................................... 62°
24 hrs. ending 6 p.m. yest. ... 0.00"
AccuWeather.com
0-2:
3-5:
6-7:
Low
Moderate
High
8-10:
11+:
Very High
Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2007
Tennessee Weather
Camden
67/36
Nashville
64/42
Knoxville
69/40
The State
Sunrise today ....................... 7:51 a.m.
Sunset tonight ...................... 6:33 p.m.
Moonrise today ........................... none
Moonset today .................... 2:32 p.m.
City
Athens
Bristol
Chattanooga
Clarksville
Cleveland
Cookeville
Crossville
Erwin
Franklin
Greeneville
Johnson City
Moon Phases
Last
New
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Nov 9
First
Full
Nov 17 Nov 24
Today
Hi Lo W
68 41 s
65 34 pc
68 47 s
64 37 s
67 43 s
63 38 s
62 40 s
66 35 pc
64 42 s
67 37 pc
65 34 pc
Hi
68
67
71
65
68
65
63
62
66
66
67
Fri.
Lo W
38 s
30 s
41 s
36 s
40 s
38 s
36 s
31 s
40 s
31 s
30 s
COOLER
El Paso
74/49
Today
City
Hi Lo W
Kingsport
66 36 pc
Knoxville
69 40 s
Memphis
67 46 s
Morristown 66 38 s
Mountain City 63 36 pc
Nashville
64 42 s
Newport
69 41 s
Oak Ridge
67 38 s
Pigeon Forge 69 40 s
Roan Mtn.
65 35 pc
Sevierville
69 40 s
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67
66
65
61
66
66
67
67
60
67
Atlanta
74/50
Houston
82/55
WINDY
Cold front
Warm front
Stationary front
Showers
T-storms
Rain
Miami
86/77
Flurries
Snow
Ice
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.
Temperature bands are highs for the day. Forecast high/low temperatures
are given for selected cities.
The World
The Nation
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Sun and Moon
Los Angeles
76/56
As Noel moves over the Bahamas today, gusty winds, rough surf
and beach erosion will continue along the east coast of Florida
and points farther north along the Southeast coast. Showers are in
store for parts of the Northeast.
Murfreesboro
65/39
Waynesboro Chattanooga
68/47
65/38
Memphis
67/46
Kansas City
62/38
National Summary
Elizabethton
66/38
Union City
64/37
New York
Detroit
65/46
54/34
Washington
68/44
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74 50 s
Boston
64 42 pc
Charleston, SC 76 58 pc
Charlotte
74 45 pc
Chicago
56 35 s
Cincinnati
59 35 s
Dallas
66 48 s
Denver
62 32 s
Honolulu
83 70 pc
Kansas City 62 38 s
Los Angeles 76 56 s
New York City 65 46 pc
Orlando
83 70 pc
Phoenix
88 61 s
Seattle
53 37 pc
Wash., DC
68 44 pc
Fri.
Hi Lo
68 44
53 36
68 47
63 38
58 37
60 37
73 51
57 31
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62 38
78 56
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Barcelona
64 51 c
Beijing
53 36 s
Berlin
55 45 pc
Dublin
59 50 pc
Hong Kong 76 69 sh
Jerusalem
76 56 s
London
64 46 pc
Madrid
63 41 s
Mexico City 72 43 s
Montreal
50 32 c
Paris
59 46 pc
Rome
64 54 r
Seoul
51 34 pc
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83 77 t
Hi
88
55
62
56
55
59
77
74
61
63
70
45
61
66
55
86
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Lo W
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48 c
51 pc
39 pc
47 c
48 pc
71 c
56 pc
51 pc
43 pc
44 pc
36 s
46 pc
52 c
39 pc
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Tropical storm watch issued for SE Florida
SOUTH PALM BEACH,
Fla. (AP) — A tropical storm
watch was issued Wednesday afternoon by the National Hurricane Center for portions of southeast Florida already being buffeted by
strong winds and high surf.
The agency warned gusty
winds swirling between Noel
and a high-pressure system
over the East Coast would
continue hitting Florida
through today as Noel was
expected to skirt the state’s
coast.
At 11 p.m. EDT, Noel’s
center was about 210 miles
south-southeast of Miami.
The storm was moving toward the north at 3 mph, but
was expected to eventually
turn north away from Florida
and speed over the Bahamas.
It had top sustained winds
near 60 mph, with stronger
gusts, up from 40 mph earlier in the day, forecasters said.
The tropical storm watch
was issued for about a 140mile stretch of southeast
Florida from just north of the
Keys to Jupiter.
Meanwhile, wind and
waves washed out beaches
from the Georgia border to
Miami and threatened a
handful of coastal structures,
but damage so far was minimal.
At least one home in St.
Johns County, where officials
issued an emergency declaration, was in danger of
falling into the ocean.
The city of Fernandina
Beach near the Georgia border declared a local emergency, Flagler Beach could
see problems with overwashing of the A1A coastal
highway and several properties were threatened in Brevard County, state officials
said.
Residents of a waterfront
condominium in South Palm
Beach were evacuated Tuesday after pounding surf destroyed a retaining wall that
had been damaged earlier
this month in another storm.
Waves lashed at dunes
Wednesday as workers laid
cement blocks along the
building’s edge to protect it
from further erosion.
Michael Mead, 61, lives at
the condo complex and
watched as the sea wall
crumbled in the middle of
the night.
“It was crackling,” Mead
said. “Then I turned around
for a second and boom! It
just went down.”
Damage was expected to
be minimal in Broward
County, where officials have
spent more than $80 million
over the past 25 years restoring beaches, said Stephen
Higgins, the county’s beach
erosion administrator.
“We don’t expect any
structural damage or catastrophic problems,” Higgins
said. “It’s not that bad. I
would expect some erosion
from this, some loss of sand,
but nothing disastrous.”
Palm Beach County was
seeing major erosion problems in just a few “hot spots”
along a combined five miles
of coastline, said Leanne
Welch, with the county’s Department of Environmental
Resources Management.
“Overall, I think we’re doing OK,” Welch said of the
county’s 46-mile coastline.
Beaches in Jupiter were
taking a beating mostly because turtle nesting season
had delayed the start of a
full-scale dune restoration
project there, Welch said.
Several
structures
at
Jupiter Beach Park were
threatened but “so far, so
good,” she added.
In May, the county added
about 70,000 cubic yards of
sand along beaches on Singer
Island, much of which
washed away during storms
a few weeks ago, Welch said.
“That was pretty devastating to us,” she said. “Everything we put out is eroded
and this is making it worse.”
Miami-Dade County was
also being spared the brunt
of the storm for now, but officials said it was too soon to
assess any damage.
“At this point, we haven’t
received any news of major
impacts along the 13-mile
stretch of our beaches, but
we’re monitoring it,” said
Luis Espinoza, a spokesman
for the county’s Department
of Environmental Resources
Management.
Beach erosion is always a
problem up and down Florida’s 1,350-mile coastline,
more than a quarter of which
is considered critically eroded. About $80 million is spent
annually restoring Florida’s
beaches, but it’s a constant
challenge as storms sweep
away sand and coastal development swallows barrier islands.
plant. We’re getting ready to
do a project at the Carter
County Jail. We’ll be redoing
its security cameras. We’re
trying to offer convergence
solutions for everybody. We
can give them an all-in-one
phone system, paging system, voicemail, security cameras — everything in one
stop. The only thing we don’t
do is alarm panels, like fire
alarms.”
Director of Carter Schools
Dallas Williams was pleased
with the added security benefit provided by the remote
laptop.
“Our board has taken a
very proactive approach in
providing safety and security
for our students,” said
Williams. “We’re very thankful that our students’ welfare
is a number one priority.
With the times we are living
in and the threat of terrorism
that we’re facing these days,
we feel that this is going to
provide a more advanced
technology approach. We’ll
have the ability to not only
see what’s going on inside
the buildings but to record
what happens. That will be a
very valuable benefit to us.
“Hopefully, we will never
have a serious incident, but
we feel more prepared if we
do. David Mitchell, who is
the Governor’s Homeland
Security person in the state,
said that through their research, they’ve found that
schools are a target, and we
feel that based on that information, we need to do everything that we can to provide
a safe, secure environment
for our students.”
As this interview was progressing, the STAR photographer on the scene was dispatched to T.A. Dugger Junior High School due to a
bomb threat, which fortunately turned out to be a
false alarm.
“Had that been a county
school, Mr. Williams and all
the officials here would have
been able to use the software
and see that the evacuation
was proceeding smoothly,”
said Murray. “If they needed
to send extra resource people
there, the Sheriff’s Department could have called over
and asked them to view it
and see if they had seen anything.
“The cameras are set up to
record off motion detection,
so it’s quicker to do the
searches. You don’t have to
watch eight hours of video to
find out what happened in
that eight-hour time period.”
“During the night time, if
nobody’s supposed to be entering this area we’re looking
for somebody who’s entered
this doorway — say they
broke in to do a vandalism —
and the camera would only
record that person when they
came through the doorway,
instead of recording all that
time during the evening,”
said Watkins.
Telecommunications Service has been in business in
Elizabethton since 1983, providing security and other
business solutions.
Laptop
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backup. One of the biggest
things that we provide is
connectivity between businesses. We offer point to
point VPN (virtual private
network) solutions that provide voice, video and data
that can be shared across the
Internet, which will cut
down on certain long distance and other charges you
can incur in communications.
“Say you had another office in Knoxville,” Murray
continued. “I could connect
the two offices together so
you could do four-digit dialing and four-digit faxing.
You could do televideo conferencing during the day. You
could have the laptop with
the software running and use
a USB headphone and mike
to communicate with a person on the other end of the
video camera system.”
“We do business telephone systems, computer
networks and security camera systems,” said Watkins.
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tionally, a dog was attacked
and injured at 174 Clay Little
Road and another was attacked and injured at 183
Earl McKinney Road. In the
attack on Earl McKinney
Road, the owner of the dog
which was attacked also reportedly sustained an injury
to his foot while attempting
to rescue his dog from the
two Pitt Bulls.
Mathes stated that “the
patrol division is heavily
looking for” the dogs and
that he has “the SWAT Team
on standby” due to the aggressiveness displayed by
the dogs. Mathes further stated that he plans to have the
dogs euthanized because of
their aggressiveness.
“They have not attacked
any humans but they are cer-
tainly
dog
aggressive,”
Mathes stated.
According to Mathes, residents of the area where the
dog attacks have occurred
are advised to contact 911 if
they see the dogs.
Mathes stated that in addition to warning residents
that the Valley Forge Elementary School and churches in
the area were also notified.
According to police reports, the owners of the dogs
have been identified as residents of that community.
Mathes stated that he anticipates charges will be filed
against the owners of the Pitt
Bulls in connection with the
incidents. “They need to be
held responsible for their
dogs,” he stated.
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traveling northbound in the
area of CVS. I then turned
and followed the vehicle until it turned onto Broad
Street, at which time I initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle at the intersection of Main
Street and made contact with
the operator, identified as
Todd Nelson Bowling, and
requested his license and
other information,” states
Brown in his report on the incident. “While speaking to
Bowling I noticed an extension cord and two fluorescent lights in the back seat of
the vehicle, matching the description of items used in the
growing process, and some
type of object which was being concealed by a blanket.
“I then asked Bowling if
there was anything in the vehicle I should be aware of
and he stated ‘I have some
dead marijuana plants in the
back seat.’ Bowling was then
removed from the vehicle
and detained for the safety of
all parties. Other officers arrived and the blanket was removed from the item, revealing a Stealth Hydro — brand
name — growing device
used to grow marijuana,
which contained four small
live marijuana plants.”
Officers photographed all
of the items in the vehicle
and the items and photographs were then placed into
evidence. Officers additionally seized the vehicle, a 1990
Oldsmobile CSF.
Bowling was taken into
custody and charged with
the manufacture of Schedule
VI drugs and possession of
drug paraphernalia. He was
transported to the Carter
County Jail and is scheduled
to appear in Carter County
General Sessions Court on
Nov. 13.
Shelter
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a shoe box. The puppy’s tail
was in bad shape because it
appeared that someone had
tried unsuccessfully to dock
the tail on their own.
Because the puppy was
found on Monday morning,
it is not known when the animal was actually dropped off
at the shelter. The shelter
closes at 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays so it could have been
anytime after that.
On Tuesday, Oct. 30,
workers found a small poodle tied to the animal shelter’s fencing.
Animal shelter employee
Wendy Mathes is concerned
for all animals who are left at
the shelter after hours no
matter what the temperature
is.
“It is just not humane to
drop animals off like that,”
Mathes said.
Mathes said there are
more animals dropped off after hours than the animal
shelter actually finds out
about and there are many
dangers present for animals
who are dropped off after
hours.
She said it is possible that
the animals wonder off from
the shelter if they are not secured. If the animals get
away from the shelter, they
could be hit by cars on the
high traffic road and killed or
injured.
Those animals who are
left sometimes walk the road
for days before finally trusting the animal shelter employees enough to get close
to them.
Mathes said if individuals
drop off the animals during
shelter hours it makes it easier to adopt the animals because more information is
known about them.
Another danger that is
posed to animals left after
hours is a result of the same
problem.
Mathes said there is a
pack of approximately 20
wild dogs that roam the area
surrounding the animal shelter. She said the dogs cause
problems for local farmers
and residents by attacking
their animals.
She said the shelter has
tried to control the animals
but they run into the mountains and can’t be found. She
said they could tranquilize
them with darts but that they
would run into the mountains and sleep it off.
A main concern surrounding those dogs is what could
happen if they came up on
an animal that had been tied
to the fence of the shelter.
The weather is always a
concern when animals are
left. In the winter, freezing
temperatures are a problem
but rain and heat produce
their own hazards. When the
animals are dropped off, they
are most often left without
food, water or shelter. One
dog was even dropped off
and tied to the fence without
enough leash to even allow
him to sit down.
Mathes feels there is really
no reason for individuals to
drop off their animals after
hours. The shelter is open
from noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from
11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
“If they can’t get here during the week they can certainly make it on Saturday,”
Mathes said.
Clinic
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that would be something we
would be interested in.”
There are many types of
rabies, depending on the animal that spread the disease so
symptoms will vary from
case to case and animal to animal.
“It is not anything like Cujo like people think,” Mathes
said.
Mathes said if your pet
starts to act differently than it
normally would to take it to
the vet. Common symptoms
of rabies, such as not eating,
irritability and occasional
seizures, are also common
will other ailments that may
affect pets.
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November 1, 2007
Sports Editor Wes Holtsclaw
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Cloudland,
Hampton
game one of
state’s unique
FB rivalries
One of the state’s unique
football rivalries features a
pair of communities 10 miles
apart on the same highway.
Two of the smaller schools
statewide, none have more
pride in their programs than
tradition-rich Hampton and
Cloudland. The head-knocking mountain boys tee it up on
Friday night, in Roan Mountain at 7:30 p.m, in their annual Carter County slugfest.
The Mountain East Conference championship, and top
seed for the
Class A state
playoffs, is on
the line. But
more than that,
bragging rights
are at stake
about who are
Rick
the
toughest
S h e e k guys this fall on
19E.
“There have been a lot of
good games,” said Mike
Lunsford, Hampton’s offensive coordinator and for 15
years the coach at his alma
mater Cloudland. “There have
been a lot of rivalries. It means
a lot to both schools, all the
kids. Everybody usually plays
hard in that game.”
The series began in 1941
with six-man football. The
schools began competing in
the current format of 11-man
football in 1950, and the Bulldogs hold a 44-27 advantage.
“Everybody knows everybody,” Hampton coach J.C.
Campbell, in his 40th year as
head man, said. “Most of them
know the families. Good
friends.”
The undefeated Bulldogs,
ranked second in the state 1A
rankings, have beaten the
Highlanders the past three
meetings. Prior to that, Cloudland
prevailed
under
Lunsford for 10 straight decisions.
“Jay wanted to beat me
worse than anybody, and I
wanted to beat him worse
than anybody – because we
had respect,” Lunsford said. “I
respected him and he respected me.”
A classic matchup occurred
in 1996 when Hampton, then a
2A state power, and Cloudland were each undefeated at
midseason. The teams clashed
at J.C. Campbell Stadium,
with the Bulldogs winning 147.
“We probably knew we
didn’t have as good a players,
and we knew we had to play
harder,” Lunsford said. “We
didn’t have the talent. They
had
(Jason)
Davenport,
(Mark) Watson and big ol’
kids like that.
“Our linebackers weighed
about 135, 140 pounds, but
they played hard. They kept it
a close game, played their butt
off.”
Current Cloudland coach
Robby Turbyfield, the quarterback, was an all-state performer for the Highlanders.
B.J. Taylor, one of the top running backs in Carter County
history, led the Bulldogs to a
12-1 campaign and quarterfinal appearance in the state
playoffs.
“We thought we had as big
a line,” Lunsford said. “Our
backs were so much smaller,
but they just played so hard.
That was one of the best
games that I ever remembered
as far as well-played on both
sides.
“The kids played really
hard, and I think the best team
won. I thought we played an
outstanding game. I thought
we played as hard as we can
play, I thought we might have
taken it a little bit harder, but
Hampton was just a better
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As reigning Atlantic Sun Player of the Year, East Tennessee State guard Courtney Pigram is expected to have another banner year in a Buccaneer uniform.
Courtney’s Challenge:
ETSU’s Pigram motivated to guide Bucs into NCAA Tournament
By Wes Holtsclaw
SPORTS EDITOR
[email protected]
JOHNSON CITY — He’s one of
the top players in mid-major college
basketball. And he knows it.
But East Tennessee State junior
guard Courtney Pigram doesn’t let
his success on the hardwood get to
his head. Instead, his success motivates him to take his game one notch
higher each time he sets foot on the
court.
When the reigning Atlantic Sun
Conference Player of the Year found
out he was picked to duplicate his
success on the hardwood this season,
he took it as a challenge.
“I just take that as a challenge,” Pigram said. “Coming in number one
and being preseason number one, I
don’t look at all of that. I just get on
the floor and play hard, play every
game like it’s my last.”
There’s one other, small thing
challenging Pigram. It challenged the
Memphis native and his teammates
all summer long.
“It’s a big challenge,” Pigram said
of the obstacle. “I’m ready for it. I
worked all summer for it. I’m just
ready to ball right now.”
Last season, Pigram often drew
the opposing team’s best defender.
He still managed to average 18.1
points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.7 assists and
2.6 steals per game. He was a key
reason the Bucs finished 24-10 a year
ago with a 16-2 mark in conference
play and an NIT berth.
And the last time Pigram donned
an East Tennessee State uniform, he
nearly led the Bucs to an upset of
Clemson in the first round of the NIT.
Pigram scored 25 points, grabbed
six rebounds, delivered four assists
and stole five balls in that game, but
even his performance that night wasn’t enough to get it out of his mind.
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Baughman, Ensor
expected to lead
Milligan Lady Buffs
By Ben Davis
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
Photo by Eveleigh Hatfield
Milligan’s Rikki Baughman (left) and Renee Ensor (right)
want to lead the Lady Buffs to a successful season.
Elizabethton
graduate
Rikki Baughman and Unaka
alumnus Renee Ensor are
both entering the junior seasons as members of the Milligan Lady Buffs basketball
team.
For Baughman, a repeat
of her outstanding sophomore season in which she
averaged a double-double
would be a welcome thing.
On the other hand, Ensor
most certainly wants no
part of what she endured
last year.
Ensor missed the entire
season after tearing her
ACL in October. She underwent surgery in November
and has been working on
her comeback ever since.
“It was really hard last
year to just sit there most
of the time, because I was
out from the beginning of
the year,” Ensor said.
“I’m really happy to start
playing again.”
Baughman was named
first team All-Appalachian
Athletic Conference after
averaging 14 points and almost eleven rebounds a
game. Her rebounding total
was seventh best in the nation while her 91% free
throw shooting effort was
second.
“I wouldn’t mind having
another year like last year,”
Baughman said, who noted
that she’s not worried about
individual
accomplishments, but thinks the Lady
Buffs whole team is in for a
good season. “I think we
can go to the nationals. I
think we set pretty high
goals for ourselves.”
Milligan
coach
Rich
Aubrey feels that the talented Baughman will pick up
right where she left off.
“Rikki had a great sophomore season,” the coach
said. “And we are expecting
her to have another really
good season her junior
year.”
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Lady Bucs - 3
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Lady Buffs - 3
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Buccaneers aim to get back to NCAA Tourney
By Wes Holtsclaw
SPORTS EDITOR
[email protected]
JOHNSON CITY — East
Tennessee State was one win
away from the NCAA Tournament last season.
With seven returning contributors and a strong group
of newcomers, it would be
hard pressed for the defending Atlantic Sun Conference
regular season champs to
miss the big dance once again.
Picked by a panel of coaches and members of the media
to take top honors in the ASun, this season, it appears as
though the league is State’s to
lose.
“(The expectations are) a
good thing because it means
you have pretty good players,” said ETSU coach Murry
Bartow (169-131), who returns
for a fifth season as Buccaneer
skipper.
“It’s good to have high expectations. It’s pretty simple.
It means you’ve got some
good, returning guys, which
we do, plus, the mix of new
guys. Hopefully we’ll have a
good year.”
From top to bottom, this
may be Bartow’s deepest
team since he began at East
Tennessee State in 2003.
“I think we’ve got a lot of
depth if we’re healthy,” the
coach said. “I think we can go
9 or 10 deep pretty easy. We’re
pretty athletic players.”
Leading the way is returning Atlantic Sun Player of the
Year Courtney Pigram.
Pigram, a 6-1 junior guard
from Memphis, averaged 18.1
points, 3.7 assists and 2.6
steals per game during his
sophomore campaign with
the Bucs.
An electric player with a
sharp outside shot, Pigram is
a sure bet to be one of the conference’s top points producers
this season.
Coming off a stellar freshman campaign, Mike Smith
(6-6; Vandalia, Mo.) is also a
lock as a starter at the three
guard. Smith averaged 11
points and 3.7 rebounds per
game en route to A-Sun AllFreshman honors last season.
One newcomer slated to
make an instant impact is
junior college transfer Kevin
Tiggs.
A 6-4 junior forward, Tiggs
is a guy that many will become familiar with as the sea-
“I think what (fans will)
like, is he’s an energy guy, always laughing, always smiling. He loves to play and I
think that’s what people will
see very quickly.”
Tiggs could be exciting on
both ends of the floor. The NJCAA Division II National
Player of the Year from Mott
Community College, Tiggs
averaged 18.8 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.2 steals per
game while leading his team
to a national championship
last season.
When asked what fans
could expect from him this
season, Tiggs’ answer was
simple: “(They can expect)
everything. Defensive steals,
defensive blocks, everything.
Offensive scoring, everything.
All of it.”
From there, it gets interesting.
Figuring into the line-up at
some point in a guard position is returning senior Travis
Strong (6-2; Memphis), who
missed last season with a medial redshirt due to a knee injury.
Strong
averaged
10.4
points per outing his junior
year and has proven to be a
dangerous shooter from the
perimeter.
“It’s a long road after ACL
surgery,” said Strong. “I’ve
worked real hard. I’m playing
like I’ve played all my other
years. Just going in and making shots like coach would
want me to do.”
The point guard position’s
a toss-up between returning
starter Dequan Twilley (6-0;
Shelbyville) and junior college
transfer Jacolby Davis (6-1;
Meridian, Ms.).
Twilley averaged 5.8 points
and 4.0 assists per game as a
freshman. Davis comes to ETSU from Georgia Perimeter
where he led his team to the
national tournament a year
ago averaging 15.8 points, 4.2
rebounds and 5.6 assists per
game.
“It’s too early to tell at the
one,” Bartow said. “You’re
looking at Jacolby or Dequan,
and I think both of those guys
(are playing well). I have no
clue who will start. It’ll be a
battle to see who starts. And
then they’ll both play a lot.
They’ll both compliment each
other.”
Inside, senior Andrew
Reed (6-8; Port Richey, Fla.)
is slated to fill the center
spot, backed up by fellow
classmate Kenyona Swader
(6-9; Smyrna) and sophomore Blake Mishler (6-8;
Metamora, Ill.).
Reed averaged 9.1 points
and 4.8 rebounds per game
his junior season. He is an athletic player known for his
leaping ability and dunks.
“We worked very hard (in
the offseason),” said Reed.
“We’ve been lifting all summer and playing all summer
trying to get our chemistry
down and working on our de-
More importantly, the loss
kept Pigram and the Bucs
from their goal of reaching
the NCAA Tournament.
“The loss to Belmont left a
bad taste in our mouths,” Pigram said. “That’s what we
worked in the summer for.”
Pigram and other returning Bucs worked all summer
long to make sure they’re not
disappointed again in March.
The guard and a handful
of his teammates were
among those who participated in the Pilot Rocky Top
League in Knoxville.
Each day, they faced several University of Tennessee
players and professionals
such as Jalen Rose and Ron
Slay. The up-tempo, physical,
son progresses.
“He’s just an exciting guy,”
said Bartow. “He really doesn’t
have a true position. He’s an
unorthodox type of player.
He’s a good player. (He brings)
a lot of excitement, a lot of energy, does a lot of things on
both ends of the court. You’ll
see very quickly once you start
watching him play. He’s a pretty talented kid.
Mike Smith
Kevin Tiggs
ETSU seniors Andrew Reed (left), Travis Strong (center) and Kenyona Swader (right) look
to guide the Bucs to an A-Sun Championship.
fense.”
Swader has the potential to
do good things on both ends
of the floor. He’s big guy that
can shoot the three and score
inside, but he has struggled
some on defense.
“I hope he has a breakout
year,” Bartow said of Swader.
“If we’re in March and let’s
assume we have a good year,
he’ll be a big part of it. He’s
got the longest reach height
on our team. He’s a smart offensive guy. I just want him to
do more on the defensive end.
He’s done that to this point in
the preseason. He’s an important guy.”
Mishler saw action in 24
games, starting two, for the
Bucs as a freshman. He expects to add to the team’s de-
fensive game.
Other newcomers looking
to make an impact include 6-7
junior Greg Hamlin, a junior
college transfer from Flint,
Michigan, redshirt freshman
Micah Williams (6-4; Manchester) and freshmen Tommy Hubbard (6-4; Boston,
Mass.) and Isiah Brown ( 6-8;
Miami, Fla.).
Williams and Hubbard are
slated for roles at the guard
position. Both are talented defenders.
Hamlin (6-7), a teammate
with Tiggs at Mott, and
Brown will help inside.
Brown is an exciting uptempo player with good leaping ability. He averaged 18.6
points, 9.7 rebounds and 5.3
assists per game out of South
Miami High in Florida’s
largest classification earning a
McDonald’s
All-America
nomination.
Added Strong: “I think we
can go real deep on the bench.
We’ve got a lot of good guys
coming back and a lot of new
guys coming in so depth is
going to be real important at
the end of the season.”
The Bucs face a tough
schedule including Oklahoma State, Syracuse, Georgia with familiar foes including Chattanooga, Appalachian State and Marshall. State
will also host an ESPN
Bracket Buster contest in
February.
ETSU’s exhibition schedule opens Saturday at home
against Mars Hill at 4 p.m.
professional style of play
helped Pigram tone his
game.
“It helped a lot. It was a
lot of competition — a lot of
body down and up and
down,” Pigram said. “That’s
the type of game I like to
play. There were a lot of big
bodies. It was physical. This
league, there’s not a lot of big
bodies, so that’ll help me a
whole lot.”
When Pigram and others
got back together on campus,
talented newcomers including Kevin Tiggs and Jacolby
Davis were immediately
added to the Buccaneer mix.
Also suiting up was Pigram’s
roommate and former high
school
teammate
Travis
Strong, who missed last season due to a torn ACL.
Once the team began to
work on the floor, everything
began to mesh.
“We’ve all been coming
together as a team like we
should. Probably more than
we should (at this point). It’s
a great group of guys right
here,” Pigram said. “We
want to get back on the court
and get ready to take that
challenge again.”
Pigram and his teammates
will get an opportunity to
write last season off their
minds.
Before the Bucs get where
they want to be, Pigram is
going to have to challenge
himself each time he takes
the floor. If he motivates himself enough to play his best
this season, there’s a good
chance ETSU can reach the
NCAA Tournament.
Neither Pigram or his
teammates will be able to
leave shots on the floor as
they did against Belmont. He
knows it.
Pigram
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It is ETSU’s loss to Belmont in the Atlantic Sun
Tournament finale.
The tough loss to the Bruins at the Memorial Center in
front of a national television
audience left a sour taste in
the mouths of returning Buccaneers, especially Pigram,
who felt like he left several
shots on the floor that day.
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Buffs look to improve off fourth place finish
By Ben Davis
STAR STAFF
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Coach Tony Wallingford is
entering his 20th season as
head coach of the Milligan
men’s basketball team.
He has compiled a 369-230
record with the Buffs and he
will be looking to add to that
win total this year with three
starters returning from a
squad that went an impressive 22-9 and finished fourth
in the Appalachian Athletic
Conference last season.
“We are very happy to
have three starters coming
back who did a great job for
us last year,” Coach Wallingford said at a media day earlier this month. “We think that
we will be certainly competitive and we hope by the end
of the year we will be playing
our best.”
The three starting return-
ers are juniors Jeff Barnes
(Franklin, TN) and Tyler Estepp (David Crockett H.S.),
along with sophomore Danny
McKeehan (Little Miami,
OH).
Barnes, a 6’6 center, was
second team All-AAC after
averaging 15.52 points and
10.26 rebounds per game.
Barnes return will be a key
for the Buffs, who lost three
other big men in Serge Babo,
Frankie Harris and Adrian
Harrison to graduation.
“We’ve got to build around
Jeff inside,” said Coach
Wallingford, whose team also
lost senior guard Zach
Dezarn. “We have four seniors that will be very much
missed.”
Estepp returns after averaging 7.2 points and 2.0 assists as a freshman point
guard last year.
“He did a nice job of transitioning from high school
ETSU WOMEN
Lady Bucs want
postseason success
to become habit
By Wes Holtsclaw
SPORTS EDITOR
[email protected]
JOHNSON CITY — Last
season, for only the second
time in its history, the East
Tennessee State Lady Buccaneers capped its year with a
postseason berth.
That’s a trend the Lady
Bucs hope to continue this
year.
Coming off a 20-12 season
with an appearance in the
2007 Women’s NIT, East Tennessee State expects to challenge for the Atlantic Sun
Championship.
“We’re very optimistic,”
said ETSU women’s coach
Karen Kemp. “We had a really good year last year, so that
Siarre Evans
Michele DeVault
gave us some momentum.
Our practices thus far have
been very intense and competitive, so there’s a lot of excitement in the air.”
The Lady Bucs return nine
players, including A-Sun
Freshman of the Year Siarre
Evans and second team AllAtlantic Sun selection senior
Michele DeVault.
On paper, Kemp appears
to have more talent than any
squad she’s coached in her
previous 13 years as head
women’s coach at ETSU.
“At this point, we are better than any other team I’ve
had at this point,” Kemp said.
“I think it’s because we have
a great deal of experience
coming back. They started
competing hard immediately
and the freshmen have
caught on. Practices have
been fun because they’re
working hard and competing.”
The Lady Bucs will dress
four seniors, five sophomores
and four freshmen this season.
Seniors include DeVault (511;
Columbus,
Ohio),
Nichelle Akers (5-10; Sumter,
SC), Jenny Norman (6-2;
Peachtree City, Ga.) and Kelly
Turman (5-11; Atlanta, Ga.).
DeVault is the team’s leading returning scorer. She averaged 12.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game last year.
Akers averaged 5.6 points
and 4.0 rebounds and Turman
averaged 8.2 points and 3.1
boards each outing.
Norman averaged 8 points
and 3.7 rebounds per outing a
year ago.
Evans (5-11; Griffin, Ga.)
leads the way for the sophomore class which includes
Latisha Belcher (6-2; Martinsville, Va.), Devin Thompson
(6-1;
Murfreesboro),
TaRonda
Wiles
(5-10;
Danville, Va.) and Brianna
McClelland (6-0; Douglas,
Ga.).
Evans averaged 12.2 points
and 7.3 rebounds per game
last year, while Thompson,
Belcher and Wiles saw plenty
of action from the bench.
With Evans, Thompson
and Belcher each earned ASun All-Freshman accolades.
Newcomers are Brittany
Daniels (6-0; Shellman, Ga.),
Tara Davis (5-5; Murfreesboro), Kami Phillips (5-9; Augusta, Ga.) and Sabrina
Treakle (5-4; Richmond, Va.).
DeVault, Akers, Turman
and Evans are currently slated to start, according to
Kemp. The only weakness on
the team is point guard,
where the squad is going to
have to turn to one of its
freshmen, either Phillips or
Treakle.
“I’ve got four that have
been working very, very hard
in practice from an intensity
level,” Kemp said. “Three of
them being my seniors.
Michele DeVault, Nichelle
Akers, Kelly Turman and
Siarre Evans. Those four have
been playing very well in
practice every day.
“Our only area that I
would say that would be a
weakness right now would
be at point guard because we
only have freshmen at that
position right now. Losing
Brooke Wilhoit, who had a
great season last year, that’s
going to be a difficult hole to
fill. But I feel like, by the time
we open up at Western Kentucky that we’ll have our
freshmen ready to go.”
The Lady Bucs begin their
regular season in the preseason Women’s NIT and take
on Davidson, Xavier, Georgetown and Alabama before
working its way into a tough
conference slate.
The team’s exhibition
opener is Sunday at home
versus Wingate at 2 p.m.
from being kind of a scorer to
his freshman year here where
we wanted him to become a
point guard,” coach Walling-
Just things that happen, when
the ball goes here or there, he
is always there. He is a good
versatile player.”
MILLIGAN MEN
ford said of Estepp. “He really blossomed last year. Last
year, I thought he did a great
job of evolving his game to a
true point. He can score, and
we’re not telling him not to
score, but he is doing a real
good job at the point.”
McKeehan was AAC cofreshman of the year after averaging 13.03 points, 4.71 rebounds, 2.26 assists and 1.71
steals per game last season.
“He’s got a nose for the
ball,” Coach Wallingford said
of McKeehan. “He’s just aggressive, and gets all the incidental points and rebounds.
The Buffs have several other returners with game experience. Seniors Yony Kifle
(Alexandria, VA), Joe Brown
(Blountville, TN) and Josh
Terry (Jonesville, TN) are all
back after solid performances
last season, as is sophomore
Jon Dye (Clinton, TN).
Former
Elizabethton
standout Derrick Nave is
back for his sophomore season and is expected to be a
large contributor at the guard
position.
“We’re very happy with
Derrick’s progress,” said
coach Wallingford. “He start-
ed in one of our scrimmages
the other day. He’s got excellent strength and he’s a good
athlete with good physical
skills. We’re looking forward
to working with Derrick.”
Transfers Randall Smith
(Maryland C.C.) and Austin
Rich (Kentucky State) are also
expected to make an impact,
as are freshman Ike Weaver
(Unicoi Co. H.S.), Davis
Warner (Smyrna, TN), Isaiah
Harris (Nashville, TN), and
Antoinne
Knight
(Adamsville, TN).
“We have a lot of guys
who are similar in abilities
and talent,” Coach Wallingford said of the depth of his
team. “I think we’re going to
play a lot of people.”
Coach Wallingford also
noted that depth is going to
all his team to play at a faster
pace.
“We’ve got a lot of bodies,”
he said. “We’re going to try to
play a little faster and play
more guys.”
The quick pace will come
in handy when playing in the
AAC, which boasts several
talented teams including
King, Tennessee Wesleyan,
Bluefield and Montreat.
“When you’re in our
league you don’t have to go
looking for tough games,
every night your going to
have one,” said the coach.
“We just hope we can continue to get better, and when the
meat of our schedule comes
we are playing our best ball.”
Milligan opens their regular season schedule at home
on Saturday against Tennessee Temple. Tip-off is set
for 3:00 p.m.
MILLIGAN WOMEN
Juniors to lead Lady Buffs
By Ben Davis
STAR STAFF
[email protected]
With no seniors on this year’s squad,
the Milligan women’s basketball team
will go as far as their talented class of juniors takes them.
“We will have no senior night this year,
because we have no seniors,” joked Lady
Buffs coach Rich Aubrey at a media day
earlier this month. “We have an interesting team this year.”
Despite the lack of senior leadership,
there aren’t too many concerns considering what the junior class as already accomplished in their time at Milligan.
“We do have a really strong junior
class,” said Coach Aubrey. “We are looking forward to this upcoming season.”
The returning junior class includes former Elizabethton standout Rikki Baughman, who was first team all Appalachian
Athletic Conference last season after averaging 14 points and nearly eleven rebounds per game.
Forwards Leah Anderson (Lexington,
KY) and Hali Sparks (Unicoi Co. H.S.) are
also back. Anderson averaged 9.3 points
and 4.4 rebounds per game and ranked
17th in the nation hitting almost 41% of
the three-pointers she took. Sparks contributed 10.5 points and 3.8 boards per
contest.
“Leah was our best three point shooter
last year, and she’s a very good defensive
player and brings a lot of experience,”
Coach Aubrey said, also noting that
Sparks was solid last season. “Hali really
came into her own last year and she has
had a really good fall so far. We are excited about the season she is going to have.”
Junior Renee Ensor, a Unaka graduate,
is also back in the mix after missing last
season with a torn ACL. Ensor and sophomore Brit Whit will handle the point
guard duties. White filled in at the position last season after Ensor was hurt.
“Having Renee back, along with Brit
White, we have two starting point guards
in other words,” Coach Aubrey noted, explaining that is a good predicament to
have. “That bodes well for us to have
those two. They do a great job of guarding the ball.”
Junior guards Kara Monk (Guard,
Oliver Springs, TN), and Rose Pezzimenti
(Johnson City, TN), along with sophomore guard Brittany Kilgore (Kingsport,
TN) also come back with valuable game
experience. Monk averaged 6.63 ppg last
season while Kilgore and Pezziment
chipped in 5.09 and 1.45, respectively.
“With all those people, we are fortunate to bring back a lot of experience,”
Coach Aubrey said of his returners, also
noting there are some new additions to
the Lady Buffs that will contribute.
“We’re excited about our newcomers as
well.”
One of those newcomers is 6’0 freshman center Heather Mandela (Fairfax,
VA), who is expected to make an immediate impact.
“Heather is a very, very special play-
er,” said Coach Aubrey. “She is a good
athlete with good hands. She seems to
have a motor that never stops. She has really given us flexibility to what we can do
offensively.”
Sarah Muniz, a sophomore guard who
transferred from East Tennessee State University, has also been a welcome addition
to the program.
“We are glad to have her,” Coach
Aubrey said of Muniz, who won a state
championship in high school playing for
Mt. Juliet High School. “She is an excellent
shooter.”
Milligan finished last season with a 1913 record and a fifth place finish in the
AAC. With the talent returning this year,
the 2007-2008 version of the Lady Buffs
will be looking for even more success.
“We’re going to try and take advantage
of our depth this year,” said Coach
Aubrey, whose team this weekend with
games against Brescia and the University
of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky.
“We are going to play a faster style. It
should be a very, very exciting year.”
File Photo
RIkki Baughman drives inside during a Lady Buffs game last year.
Milligan
n Continued from 1B
As for Ensor, she is just
happy to be healthy and get
back on the court.
“It’s a little different trying to get used to wearing a
brace and stuff,” she said
when asked of how her
knee has felt in practice so
far. “It’s getting better.”
Ensor and sophomore
Brit White will be running
the point guard position for
the Lady Buffs.
“It doesn’t matter between us who plays,” Ensor
said of competing for playing time with White. “We
are both rooting for each
other. I know we will both
play as hard as we can
when we are in there.”
Coach Aubrey is very
happy to have Ensor back.
“I am just absolutely
thrilled where she is physically, and just as importantly where she is mentally,”
he said. “She really seems
to have cleared both those
hurdles very well. We are
excited about Renee’s return to the team.”
Baughman and Ensor
will both play major roles
on a team that has no seniors, but a great class of juniors.
“Practice has been going
well, we have a lot of team
chemistry,” said Baughman, who noted it’s a little
unusual to play on a team
with no seniors. “It’s kind
of different to not have any
seniors on the team. It’s different because all of the
juniors are having to step
up and be leaders.”
However, there is an upside to a team that has a
wealth of talent in its junior
class. They all know they
will be together for the next
couple of seasons.
“We know that after this
year we are not going to be
losing
anybody,”
said
Baughman. “We are going
to be together again next
year, so that’s good.”
That could be bad news
for the rest of the AAC.
However, Ensor noted that
their conference is always
tough and the Lady Buffs
will have to be ready every
game.
“Everyone we play, we
have to come and play
every night, because you
can get beat any night,” she
said. “We are just trying to
do the little things at practice. The first few games are
on the road against nonconference teams that are
pretty good, so hopefully
that will help us.”
A tough non-conference
schedule may help down
the road, but the return of
Ensor and the continued
success of Baughman will
help even more.
Down in Cajun country,
they’ve had this one
circled all year
By the Associated Press
Nothing gets college football fans more riled up than a
coach who bolts for a big-money contract in the NFL.
Wait, there’s one thing
that’s even worse: When that
same coach returns to the
same conference to lead a rival
school.
That’s why Nick Saban is so
reviled in Cajun country, this
week more than ever as his
former team, No. 3 LSU, gets
set to play his current team,
No. 17 Alabama.
At least Saban has the good
fortune of playing Saturday’s
game in Tuscaloosa, where
he’ll be in the safe confines of
adoring fans who have already anointed him the second
coming of Bear Bryant.
Just imagine if he had to go
to Death Valley this weekend.
“They may have had to add
a little something extra to the
police force,” Saban quipped
Wednesday.
Otherwise, he insists this
matchup is nothing personal.
It will be decided by the players on the field, Saban said, not
the guys on the sidelines or the
people in the stands.
“Look, I had a lot of great
relationships with a lot of people at LSU,” Saban said, offering up his version of a truce.
“I’m sure some of those people
are anxious for this game.
Anytime you know somebody
and have relationships with
people, it creates a tremendous
opportunity when you compete against them. You don’t
really have to hate somebody
to compete against them.”
Maybe not, but there are
plenty of folks in Louisiana
who despise Saban for abandoning the Tigers after the
2004 season, then returning
just three years later to lead a
team that’s in the same division as LSU and standing in
the way of a possible run at the
national championship.
Saban’s
successor,
Les
Miles, chose his words carefully when asked if there was a
different feeling about this
game.
“I probably got more ticket
requests from boosters than I
normally do,” he said. “Knowing the opponent’s coach as
well as they do around here
has certainly made it a little bit
more interesting.”
The Web was buzzing with
plenty of talk about Saban facing his former team. For instance, a chat room run by The
Times-Picayune of New Orleans allowed people to vent
behind the anonymity of the
Internet.
“When you talk, you don’t
know what to believe,” one
blogger wrote. “He always
says he is happy where he is
and wants his family to stay
there, and then denies entertaining job offers and then before you know it he is gone.
We just want someone who is
upfront and honest.”
“I don’t hate him,” another
LSU fan chimed in, “but let’s
flip it around. Truthfully, think
of any former UA coach (you
have a few to choose from).
When Bama was to play them,
wouldn’t you want Bama to
win just a little more so as to
remind him what he left behind? That’s how I feel about
Saban. He’s a good coach, but I
want LSU to beat him pretty
good.”
Make no mistake, Tiger fans
appreciate the job Saban did
during his time in Baton
Rouge.
LSU stumbled through the
1990s with more coaches (four)
than winning seasons (three).
Saban arrived in 2000 and immediately
turned
things
around, taking advantage of
the state’s enormous high
school talent base and shutting
off other teams from swooping
in to take the best players.
In Saban’s second year, the
Tigers won their first Southeastern Conference championship since 1988. That was
only a prelude to the 2003 season, when LSU defeated Oklahoma in the BCS title game to
claim a share of the national
championship.
At that point, Saban was so
popular he probably could
have been elected governor of
Louisiana. Instead, he hung
around just one more season
before taking a lucrative offer
to coach the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.
While the money was good,
Saban wasn’t a good fit for the
pro game. He yearned for another college job and, after vehement denials that he was
leaving, he took a $4-million-ayear offer from the Crimson
Tide, which had fired Mike
Shula after a disappointing
season.
Back at LSU, there was an
angry outcry against Saban,
whose name was accompanied by words such as “betrayal” and “turncoat.” Everyone
in purple and gold circled one
date on their calendars — Nov.
3.
“I don’t think it surprised
anyone that he returned to college football,” said Herb Vincent, who serves as a liaison
between LSU’s athletic department and its fundraising
group. “He always talked
about how much he enjoyed
coaching college players. What
took everybody by surprise
was that he would come back
to not only the SEC, but right
into our division. That adds a
little bit of an edge to this
game.”
A little bit of an edge?
That’s an understatement.
When LSU started taking
orders for the 7,000 tickets it
was allotted for Saturday’s
game, it was bombarded with
33,000 requests.
“That exceeds most bowl
game requests,” Vincent said.
“That in itself shows the anticipation for this game. I’m sure a
lot of our fans are going just to
go, even though they may not
have tickets.”
Saban recruited most of
LSU’s starters, but the players
have largely gone along with
the company line. Yes, this is a
very important game. No, it
has nothing to do with the guy
coaching the other team.
“This game is more than
coach Saban,” senior defensive
end Kirston Pittman said. “It’s
about winning the SEC West. I
have a lot of respect for coach
Saban. He brought a lot of fire
to the table. He expected excellence. He didn’t expect you to
make a mistake. He would get
in your face if you did make a
mistake.”
Still, this game rekindles
some long-buried emotions for
those who came to LSU largely
because of Saban.
“Coach Saban took it to another level,” Pittman said. “I
was a little uneasy when he
left.”
The transition to Miles has
gone smoothly, though there
are still those who believe he’s
just winning with his predecessor’s players.
No doubt, there will be
plenty of grumbling among
the Tiger faithful if their current coach gets outsmarted by
their former coach.
Quarterback Matt Flynn
tried to put some of that talk to
rest.
“This is no referendum on
coach Miles,” the senior said.
“One game doesn’t prove he is
or isn’t a good coach. Coach
Miles is a winning coach. He
has won a lot of big games.”
Now, he’s just got to win
the biggest one of all.
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Denver
Minnesota
Seattle
Portland
FootBall
Prep Standings
Region 1-4A
Mountain Lakes Conference
Conf
Overall
W L W L PF PA
Sullivan South
6 0 8 1 395 105
Tennessee High
6 0 8 1 227 72
Johnson Co.
4 2 6 3 196 172
Sullivan East
3 3 6 3 203 184
Elizabethton
2 4 3 6 141 250
Sullivan North
2 4 3 6 149 227
Sullivan Central
1 5 1 8 97 260
Unicoi County
0 6 2 7 93 174
Region 1-2A
Watauga Conference
Conf
Overall
W L W L PF PA
Gatlinburg-Pit.
6 0 9 1 392 132
Cumberland G.
4 0 8 0 361 149
Happy Valley
3 2 3 6 162 204
Chuckey-Doak
2 3 4 6 167 195
South Greene
2 3 3 6 121 168
West Greene
1 4 1 8 118 319
North Greene
0 5 1 8 108 420
Region 1-A
Mountain East Conference
Conf
Overall
W L W L PF PA
Hampton
4 0 9 0 328 103
Cloudland
4 0 7 2 274 213
Jellico
1 3 5 3 193 155
Grace Christian
1 3 5 4 279 164
Unaka
1 3 5 4 166 149
Cosby
1 3 2 7 128 236
Friday’s Games
Unicoi County at Elizabethton
Happy Valley at Chuckey-Doak
Hampton at Cloudland
Unaka at Jellico
Cosby at Grace
Johnson County at Sullivan North
Science Hill at Dobyns-Bennett
Bearden at Jefferson County
Karns at Campbell County
Sullivan Central at Sullivan East
Tennessee High at Sullivan South
Cocke County at Morristown West
David Crockett at Greeneville
Morristown East at Daniel Boone
Volunteer at Cherokee
North Greene at South Greene
West Greene at Cumberland Gap
NFL Glance
W
New England 8
Buffalo
3
N.Y. Jets
1
Miami
0
Indianapolis
Tennessee
Jacksonville
Houston
W
7
5
5
3
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Baltimore
Cincinnati
W
5
4
4
2
Kansas City
San Diego
Denver
Oakland
W
4
4
3
2
AFC
East
L T
Pct
0 0 1.000
4 0 .429
7 0 .125
8 0 .000
South
L T
Pct
0 0 1.000
2 0 .714
2 0 .714
5 0 .375
North
L T
Pct
2 0 .714
3 0 .571
3 0 .571
5 0 .286
West
L T
Pct
3 0 .571
3 0 .571
4 0 .429
5 0 .286
PF
331
97
139
166
PA
127
135
205
244
PF
224
145
131
179
PA
102
117
110
209
PF
184
194
124
177
PA
91
203
119
211
PF
102
172
119
135
PA
113
129
183
153
NFC
East
W L T
Pct PF PA
Dallas
6 1 0 .857 227 158
N.Y. Giants 6 2 0 .750 200 159
Washington 4 3 0 .571 129 140
Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 139 117
South
W L T
Pct PF PA
Carolina
4 3 0 .571 130 141
Tampa Bay 4 4 0 .500 147 134
New Orleans 3 4 0 .429 132 162
Atlanta
1 6 0 .143 95 153
North
W L T
Pct PF PA
Green Bay 6 1 0 .857 161 120
Detroit
5 2 0 .714 156 178
Chicago
3 5 0 .375 144 181
Minnesota 2 5 0 .286 131 137
West
W L T
Pct PF PA
Seattle
4 3 0 .571 137 108
Arizona
3 4 0 .429 147 157
San Francisco2 5 0 .286 88 166
St. Louis
0 8 0 .000 99 219
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Sunday’s Games
Denver at Detroit, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Minnesota, 1 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.
San Francisco at Atlanta, 1 p.m.
Cincinnati at Buffalo, 1 p.m.
Jacksonville at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
Green Bay at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Arizona at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.
Seattle at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m.
Houston at Oakland, 4:15 p.m.
New England at Indianapolis, 4:15 p.m.
Dallas at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m.
Open: Miami, N.Y. Giants, Chicago, St. Louis
Monday’s Game
Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 11
Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at New Orleans, 1 p.m.
Denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m.
Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m.
Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.
Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m.
Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m.
Cincinnati at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.
Chicago at Oakland, 4:15 p.m.
Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:15 p.m.
Detroit at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.
Indianapolis at San Diego, 8:15 p.m.
Open: New England, N.Y. Jets, Tampa
Bay, Houston
Monday, Nov. 12
San Francisco at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.
BASKETBall
NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
New Jersey
1
0 1.000
Toronto
1
0 1.000
Boston
0
0
.000
New York
0
0
.000
Philadelphia
0
1
.000
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Orlando
1
0 1.000
Atlanta
0
0
.000
Charlotte
0
0
.000
Miami
0
0
.000
Washington
0
1
.000
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Indiana
1
0 1.000
Detroit
0
0
.000
Chicago
0
1
.000
Cleveland
0
1
.000
Milwaukee
0
1
.000
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
San Antonio
2
0 1.000
Dallas
1
0 1.000
Houston
1
0 1.000
New Orleans
1
0 1.000
Memphis
0
1
.000
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
Utah
1
0 1.000
GB
—
—
0.5
0.5
1.0
GB
—
0.5
0.5
0.5
1.0
GB
—
0.5
1.0
1.0
1.0
GB
—
0.5
0.5
0.5
1.5
GB
—
0
0
.000
0
0
.000
0
0
.000
0
1
.000
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
L.A. Clippers
0
0
.000
Phoenix
0
0
.000
Golden State
0
1
.000
L.A. Lakers
0
1
.000
Sacramento
0
1
.000
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Tuesday’s Games
San Antonio 106, Portland 97
Utah 117, Golden State 96
Houston 95, L.A. Lakers 93
Wednesday’s Games
Orlando 102, Milwaukee 83
Indiana 119, Washington 110, OT
Toronto 106, Philadelphia 97
New Jersey 112, Chicago 103, OT
San Antonio 104, Memphis 101
Dallas 92, Cleveland 74
New Orleans 104, Sacramento 90
Seattle at Denver, late
Thursday’s Games
Detroit at Miami, 8 p.m.
Houston at Utah, 9 p.m.
Phoenix at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
0.5
0.5
0.5
1.0
GB
—
—
0.5
0.5
0.5
NBA Game Caps
Mavericks ............................................92
Cavaliers..............................................74
CLEVELAND — The Dallas Mavericks began anew. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers wish they could start over.
Magic ................................................102
Bucks ..................................................83
ORLANDO, Fla.— Rashard Lewis scored 26
points and Hedo Turkoglu had 24 to lift Orlando.
Pacers ...............................................119
Wizards....................................................
110, OT
INDIANAPOLIS — Jamaal Tinsley scored
16 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter
and overtime, and Indiana won in coach
Jim O’Brien’s debut.
Tinsley had nine rebounds and eight assists.
Raptors .............................................106
76ers ...................................................97
TORONTO — Andrea Bargnani scored 20
points and Toronto began defense of the Atlantic
Division title with the win over Philadelphia.
Nets ...................................................112
Bulls ...........................................103, OT
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Antoine
Wright scored 14 of his career-high 21
points in the fourth quarter and overtime to
lead New Jersey over distracted Chicago.
Spurs ................................................104
Grizzlies ............................................101
MEMPHIS — Manu Ginobili scored 30
points, including the go-ahead basket with
32 seconds left, for San Antonio.
Hornets .............................................104
Kings ..................................................90
NEW ORLEANS — Chris Paul had 22
points and 12 assists, while Peja Stojakovic
added 19 points for the Hornets in their first
game returning to New Orleans full-time.
Tuesday
Rockets ...............................................95
Lakers..................................................93
LOS ANGELES — Shane Battier made a
tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left,
and Houston withstood a furious rally from
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
Jazz ...................................................111
Warriors ..............................................96
OAKLAND, Calif.— Carlos Boozer had 32
points and 15 rebounds, Deron Williams
added 24 points and Utah jumped right
back into last season’s playoff form while
beating Golden State.
hockey
NHL Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L OT Pts GF
Philadelphia
7 3 0 14 35
Pittsburgh
6 4 1 13 34
N.Y. Islanders
5 4 0 10 26
New Jersey
4 6 1 9 28
N.Y. Rangers
4 6 1 9 19
Northeast Division
W L OT Pts GF
Ottawa
9 1 0 18 34
Montreal
6 2 3 15 37
Toronto
5 5 3 13 47
Boston
6 4 0 12 25
Buffalo
5 5 0 10 36
Southeast Division
W L OT Pts GF
Carolina
7 3 3 17 49
Tampa Bay
5 5 1 11 34
Washington
5 6 0 10 31
Florida
5 7 0 10 31
Atlanta
4 8 0 8 27
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
W L OT Pts GF
Detroit
10 2 1 21 45
Columbus
6 3 1 13 28
St. Louis
6 4 0 12 28
Chicago
6 6 0 12 34
Nashville
4 7 0 8 26
Northwest Division
W L OT Pts GF
Minnesota
7 3 2 16 30
Calgary
6 3 3 15 42
Colorado
7 4 0 14 36
Vancouver
5 7 0 10 32
Edmonton
5 8 0 10 30
Pacific Division
W L OT Pts GF
San Jose
6 5 1 13 29
Los Angeles
6 6 0 12 39
Dallas
5 5 2 12 34
Anaheim
4 7 2 10 27
Phoenix
4 6 0 8 22
Two points for a win, one point for
time loss or shootout loss.
———
Wednesday’s Games
New Jersey 6, Tampa Bay 1
Florida 4, Carolina 2
Chicago 5, Dallas 4
Columbus at Los Angeles, late
Thursday’s Games
Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Atlanta at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Colorado, 9 p.m.
Columbus at Anaheim, 10 p.m.
Nashville at Vancouver, 11 p.m.
GA
22
35
33
35
22
GA
19
30
52
24
34
GA
35
36
30
36
47
GA
30
20
22
36
38
GA
28
37
31
37
42
GA
29
38
33
35
29
over-
NHL Game Caps
Devils.....................................................6
Lightning ...............................................1
NEWARK, N.J. — Jay Pandolfo scored
three goals to lead New Jersey to a 6-1
win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on
Wednesday night, giving the Devils their
first victory at the Prudential Center.
Panthers ...............................................4
Hurricanes ...........................................2
SUNRISE, Fla. — Richard Zednik scored
the go-ahead goal and Florida scored four
times in the final period to beat Carolina
for the first time in eight tries.
Auto Racing
Nextel Cup Standings
June 4 — Autism Speaks 400, Dover, Del.
(Martin Truex Jr.)
June 10 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa.
(Jeff Gordon)
June 17 — Citizens Bank 400, Brooklyn,
Mich. (Carl Edwards)
June 24 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Juan Pablo Montoya)
July 1 — LENOX Industrial Tools 300,
Loudon, N.H. (Denny Hamlin)
July 7 — Pepsi 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.
(Jamie McMurray)
July 15 — USG Sheetrock 400, Joliet, Ill.
(Tony Stewart)
July 29 — Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, Indianapolis (Tony Stewart)
Aug. 5 — Pennsylvania 500, Long Pond,
Pa. (Kurt Busch)
Aug. 12 — Centurion Boats at The Glen,
Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Tony Stewart)
Aug. 21 — 3M Performance 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Kurt Busch)
Aug. 25 — Sharpie 500, Bristol, Tenn.
(Carl Edwards)
Sept. 2 — Sharp AQUOS 500, Fontana,
Calif. (Jimmie Johnson)
Sept. 8 — Chevy Rock-and-Roll 400,
Richmond, Va. (Jimmie Johnson)
Sept. 16 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H.
(Clint Bowyer)
Sept. 23 — Dodge Dealers 400, Dover,
Del. (Carl Edwards)
Sept. 30 — LifeLock 400, Kansas City,
Kan. (Greg Biffle)
Oct. 7 — UAW-Ford 500, Talladega, Ala.
(Jeff Gordon)
Oct. 13 — Bank of America 500, Concord,
N.C. (Jeff Gordon)
Oct. 21 — Subway 500, Martinsville, Va.
(Jimmie Johnson)
Oct. 28 — Pep Boys Auto 500, Hampton,
Ga. (Jimmie Johnson)
Nov. 4 — Dickies 500, Fort Worth, Texas.
Nov. 11 — Checker Auto Parts 500, Avondale, Ariz.
Nov. 18 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla.
x-non-points race
———
Driver Standings
1. Jeff Gordon, 6,201
2. Jimmie Johnson, 6,192
3. Clint Bowyer, 6,090
4. Carl Edwards, 5,940
5. Tony Stewart, 5,879
6. Kyle Busch, 5,873
7. Kevin Harvick, 5,809
8. Jeff Burton, 5,801
9. Kurt Busch, 5,782
10. Denny Hamlin, 5,777
11. Matt Kenseth, 5,753
12. Martin Truex, Jr., 5,688
13. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., 3,714
14. Casey Mears, 3,635
15. Greg Biffle, 3,633
16. Ryan Newman, 3,6
Busch Series Glance
June 2 — Dover 200 (Carl Edwards)
June 9 — Federated Auto Parts 300,
Lebanon, Tenn. (Carl Edwards)
June 16 — Meijer 300, Sparta, Ky.
(Stephen Leicht)
June 23 — AT&T 250, West Allis, Wis. (Aric Almirola)
June 30 — Camping World 200, Loudon,
N.H. (Kevin Harvick)
July 7 — Winn-Dixie 250, Daytona Beach,
Fla. (Kyle Busch)
July 14 — USG Durock 300, Joliet, Ill.
(Kevin Harvick)
July 21 — Gateway 250, Madison, Ill.
(Reed Sorenson)
July 28 — Kroger 200, Indianapolis (Jason
Leffler)
Aug. 4 — Napa Auto Parts 200, Montreal
(Kevin Harvick)
Aug. 11 — Zippo 200, Watkins Glen, N.Y.
(Kevin Harvick)
Aug. 18 — Carfax 250, Brooklyn, Mich.
(Denny Hamlin)
Aug. 24 — Food City 250, Bristol, Tenn.
(Kasey Kahne)
Sept. 1 — Camping World 300, Fontana,
Calif. (Jeff Burton)
Sept. 7 — Emerson Radio 250, Richmond,
Va. (Kyle Busch)
Sept. 22 — Dover 200, Dover, Del. (Denny
Hamlin)
Sept. 29 — Yellow Transportation 300,
Kansas City, Kan. (Kyle Busch)
Oct. 12 — Dollar General 300, Concord,
N.C. (Jeff Burton)
Oct. 27 — Sam’s Town 250, Memphis,
Tenn. (David Reutimann)
Nov. 3 — O’Reilly Challenge, Fort Worth,
Texas.
Nov. 10 — Arizona.Travel 200, Avondale,
Ariz.
———
Driver Standings
1. Carl Edwards, 4,364
2. David Reutimann, 3,833
3. Jason Leffler, 3,606
4. Kevin Harvick, 3,523
5. David Ragan, 3,464
6. Bobby Hamilton Jr., 3,313
7. Stephen Leicht, 3,203
8. Marcos Ambrose, 3,152
9. Greg Biffle, 3,136
10. Mike Wallace, 3,083
11. Matt Kenseth, 2,981
12. Scott Wimmer, 2,907
13. Denny Hamlin, 2,841
14. Clint Bowyer, 2,801
15. Jeff Burton, 2,665
16. J.J. Yeley, 2,652
17. Kyle Busch, 2,573
18. Kyle Krisiloff, 2,552
19. Steve Wallace, 2,545
20. Casey Mears, 2,418
Craftsman Truck
Glance
Feb. 16 — Chevy Silverado HD 250, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Jack Sprague)
Feb. 23 — San Bernardino County 200,
Fontana, Calif. (Mike Skinner)
March 16 — American Commercial Lines
200, Hampton, Ga. (Mike Skinner)
March 31 — Kroger 250, Martinsville, Va.
(Mike Skinner)
April 28— O’Reilly Auto Parts 250, Kansas
City, Kan. (Erik Darnell)
May 18 — Quaker Steak and Lube 200,
Concord, N.C. (Ron Hornaday Jr.)
May 26 — Ohio 250, Mansfield, Ohio
(Dennis Setzer)
June 1 — AAA Insurance 200, Dover, Del.
(Ron Hornaday Jr.)
June 8 — Sam’s Town 400, Fort Worth,
Texas. (Todd Bodine)
June 16 — Michigan 200, Brooklyn, Mich.
(Travis Kvapil)
June 22 — Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200,
West Allis, Wis. (Johnny Benson)
June 30 — O’Reilly 200, Memphis, Tenn.
(Travis Kvapil)
July 14 — Built Ford Tough 225, Lexington, Ky. (Mike Skinner)
July 27 — Power Stroke Diesel 200, Indianapolis (Ron Hornaday Jr.)
Aug. 11 — Toyota Tundra 200, Lebanon,
Tenn. (Travis Kvapil)
Aug. 22 — O’Reilly 200, Bristol, Tenn.
(Johnny Benson)
Sept. 1 — Dodge Dealers Ram Tough 200,
Madison, Ill. (Johnny Benson)
Sept. 15 — New Hampshire 200, Loudon,
N.H. (Ron Hornaday Jr.)
Sept. 22 — Las Vegas 350 (Travis Kvapil)
Oct. 6 — Mountain Dew 250, Talladega,
Ala. (Todd Bodine)
Oct. 20 — Kroger 200, Martinsville, Va.
(Mike Skinner)
Oct. 27 — EasyCare Vehicle Services
Contract 200, Hampton, Ga. (Kyle Busch)
Nov. 2 — Silverado 350, Fort Worth, Texas
Nov. 9 — Casino Arizona 150, Avondale, Ariz.
———
Driver Standings
1. Ron Hornaday, 3,547
2. Mike Skinner, 3,543
3. Travis Kvapil, 3,227
4. Johnny Benson, 3,139
5. Todd Bodine, 3,139
6. Rick Crawford, 3,076
7. Ted Musgrave, 2,754
8. Matt Crafton, 2,666
9. David Starr, 2,610
10. Jack Sprague, 2,602
11. Erik Darnell, 2,600
12. Dennis Setzer, 2,519
13. Brendan Gaughan, 2,476
14. Terry Cook, 2,341
15. Willie Allen, 2,203
16. Tim Sauter, 2,137
17. Chad McCumbee, 1,946
18. Ken Schrader, 1,913
19. Mike Bliss, 1,784
20. Stacy Compton, 1,565
NHRA Glance
Driver Standings
Top Fuel
1. Rod Fuller, 3,135
2. Larry Dixon, 3,083
3. Brandon Bernstein, 3,074
4. Tony Schumacher, 3,068
Funny Car
1. Tony Pedregon, 3,147
2. Gary Scelzi, 3,056
3. Robert Hight, 3,048
4. Ron Capps, 3,034
Pro Stock
1. Greg Anderson, 3,136
2. Jeg Coughlin, 3,102
3. Dave Connolly, 3,088
4. Allen Johnson, 3,033
Pro Stock Motorcycle
1. Andrew Hines, 3,147
2. Chip Ellis, 3,108
3. Matt Smith, 3,096
4. Peggy Llewellyn, 3,054
Soccer
MLS Playoff Glance
Conference Semifinals
(Two-leg Aggregate Score Series)
Eastern Conference
D.C. United vs. Chicago
Thursday, Oct. 25: Chicago 1, D.C. United
0, Chicago leads series 1-0
Thursday, Nov. 1: Chicago at D.C. United,
7:30 p.m.
New England vs. New York
Saturday, Oct. 27: New England 0, New
York 0, tie, series tied 0-0
Saturday, Nov. 3: New York at New Engand, 7:30 p.m.
———
Western Conference
CD Chivas USA vs. Kansas City
Saturday, Oct. 27: Kansas City 1, CD
Chivas USA 0, Kansas City leads series 1-0
Saturday, Nov. 3: Kansas City at CD
Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m.
Houston vs. FC Dallas
Saturday, Oct. 27: FC Dallas 1, Houston 0,
FC Dallas leads series 1-0
Friday, Nov. 2: FC Dallas at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
———
Conference Championship
Eastern Conference
Thursday, Nov. 8: TBD, 7:30 p.m.
———
Western Conference
Saturday, Nov. 10: TBD, TBA
———
MLS Cup
At Washington
Sunday, Nov. 18: TBD, Noon
TRANSACTIONS
Wednesday’s Deals
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
MLB—Suspended free agent OF Mike Cameron 25
games after testing positive a second time for a
banned stimulant.
American League
BOSTON RED SOX—Purchased the contract of C
Dusty Brown from Pawtucket (IL). Designated INF
Royce Clayton for assignment.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Declined their 2008 contract
options on INF-OF Darin Erstad and LHP Mike Myers.
DETROIT TIGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Gabe
Benitez, RHP Preston Larrison, RHP Aquilino Lopez,
C Nick Trzesniak and INF Erick Almonte on minor
league contracts. Named Mike Rojas minor league
field coordinator; Kevin Bradshaw minor league infield
coordinator; A.J. Sager pitching coach of Toledo (EL);
Ray Burris pitching coach of Erie (EL); Andy Barkett
manager of Lakeland (FSL); Tom Brookens manager,
Alan Mills pitching coach, Benny Distefano coach and
Jay Pierson trainer of West Michigan (MWL); Mark
Johnson pitching coach and Luis Quinones coach of
Oneonta (NYP); and Basilio Cabrera manager and
Garrett Guest coach of the Tigers (GCL).
TEXAS RANGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP
Joaquin Benoit on a two-year contract.
National League
CINCINNATI REDS—Exercised the 2008 contract
options on 1B Scott Hatteberg, LF Adam Dunn and
C Javier Valentin. Declined their 2008 contract option on LHP Eddie Guardado.
COLORADO ROCKIES—Exercised their 2008 contract option on RHP Aaron Cook. Declined a mutual
2008 contract option on RHP LaTroy Hawkins.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Named Mike Brumley
assistant field coordinator. Promoted Gene Clines to
minor league hitting coordinator.
NEW YORK METS—Exercised their 2008 contract
option on OF Moises Alou. Agree to terms with INF
Damion Easley on a one-year contract.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Named John Mozeliak
general manager and signed him to a three-year
contract.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
NBA—Suspended L.A. Lakers owner Jerry Buss for
the first two regular-season games and fined him
$25,000 after his conviction on a misdemeanor
drunk driving charge.
HOUSTON ROCKETS—Exercised the third-year
contract option on G Luther Head.
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES—Exercised the
third-year contract option on G Randy Foye and the
fourth-year option on G Rashad McCants.
ORLANDO MAGIC—Signed G Jameer Nelson to a
five-year contract extension.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
NFL—Fined K Joe Nedney $7,500 for making an
obscene gesture at his home fans during an Oct. 28
game against New Orleans.
CAROLINA PANTHERS—Placed CB Curtis Deloatch on injured reserve. Signed CB Patrick Dendy.
CLEVELAND BROWNS—Placed NT Ted Washington on injured reserve. Claimed DB Ricardo Colclough off waivers from Pittsburgh.
HOUSTON TEXANS—Placed LB Shawn Barber on
injured reserve. Signed OT Brandon Frye from the
practice squad. Re-signed WR Harry Williams to the
practice squad.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Signed DT Grady
Jackson to a one-year contract. Placed DT Tony McDaniel on injured reserve.
MIAMI DOLPHINS—Claimed RB Samkon Gado off
waivers from Houston. Waived DT Sam Rayburn.
OAKLAND RAIDERS—Signed WR Tim Dwight.
Signed DT Jonathan Lewis to the practice squad.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed WR Chas
Gessner. Placed CB Torrie Cox on injured reserve.
Released WR Chad Lucas. Signed CB Darrell
Hunter to the practice squad. Released WR Derrick
Hamilton from the practice squad.
SPORTSCAST
Television
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
7:30 p.m. — (ESPN) Virginia Tech at
Georgia Tech
GOLF
5 p.m. — (TGC) Nationwide Tour Championship
MLS PLAYOFFS
7:30 p.m. — (ESPN2) Chicago at D.C.
NBA
8 p.m. — (TNT) Pistons at Heat
10:30 p.m. — (TNT) Suns at Sonics
STAR — THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2007 — PAGE 5B
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By: Eugene Sheffer
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) Don’t kid yourself about
your ability to achieve certain
goals or objectives that you
know are beyond your skill and
know-how. You’ll only get
yourself in the middle of a big
mess.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) When your better
judgment is telling you not to
do something, listen. If you go
against this inner voice, you’ll
end up being your worst enemy
and regret it bitterly.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) You know better than
to put yourself under obligation
to an individual who makes
you feel small and inadequate,
yet it looks like you may make
this counterproductive arrangement again.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) Before making any promises to share something with
another, be certain you can live
up to your pledge. Your word
may not be kept if you feel you
are carrying most of the load.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) Be careful about whom
you ask to help you achieve a
critical task, because the wrong
type may think he or she is better at giving the orders while
you’re only good at doing the
work.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) Your ability to judge others
is a trifle iffy, so be careful in
whom you place your faith and
trust. You should stick to dealing with those you’ve known
for a long time, people with
whom have a track record.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) Sometimes it’s OK to let
one person or another have his
or her way, but in order to
maintain harmony on the home
front, a compromise may be
called for. Be prepared to make
concessions.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
It is not uncommon for you to
go out of your way for another
who needs help. However, you
might choose to spend time
only with those who can do
something for you.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) If you’re not budget conscious, you are likely to frivolously spend funds earmarked
for essentials. Later, when you
need to pay your bills, you’ll
regret your lack of careful budgeting.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) It is
truly unwise to treat those you
outrank in an arrogant manner.
If you do, be assured they’ll
find a way later to even the
score in ways that will put you
down in front of others.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Generally speaking, you’re the
type of person who is quite tolerant of those who have diverse
opinions. But should someone
differ from your way of thinking, you’ll not take kindly to it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
Don’t be influenced or pressured by friends into making a
commitment to do something
you consider too rich for your
pocketbook. You’ll end up
angry with both yourself and
them.
WHAT’S ON TONIGHT
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For Thursday
November 1, 2007
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bag, senior discount.
10yrs. experience. Riverside
Mowing.
423-474-3897.
FREE ESTIMATES! Heating, A/C, remodeling,
vinyl siding, roofing,
ceramic, hardwood
flooring, plumbing,
electrical. 335-0841.
HAUL gravel for driveways, dirt for sale,
also backhoe work of
any
kind.
Call
423-542-2909.
HOMES & MOBILE
HOME IMPROVEMENTS.
Additions, sunrooms,
textured
ceilings,
porches, carports, garages. Work guaranteed. (423)542-9483
IMMACULATE MOWING: Fall clean-up,
leaf removal. Dependable. References
furnished.
423542-6911.
JANITORIAL services
offered in Elizabethton
only.
Offices,
Churches. Reasonable
rates. 423-542-5210,
ask for Jeff.
JLJ HOME IMPROVEMENT, remodeling,
room additions & vinyl siding. Licensed &
Insured. 423-543-2101.
KY CONSTRUCTION
Specializing in finished
grade
work
and
demolition. All types
of front end loader
work. Dirt for sale.
Quality, honest work
at the best price. Will
beat any other estimates, guaranteed.
Keith
Younce,
(423)543-2816.
423-341-7782
PIANO teacher in
Stoney Creek. Accepting new beginning and intermediate
students.
(423)
474-4375,
(423)213-7205.
RESIDENTIAL
TREE
WORK, free estimates,
reasonable rates, licensed and certified,
Mike at 423-335-3410.
SOUTHERN COMFORTS:
Cleaning, hauling off,
yards, homes, offices,
debris, Some demolition. References. Licensed,
Insured.
(423)213-7937.
STONEY Creek Chimney Sweep and Rebuilding. Service in
Tri-Cities, Free estimates. 423-512-9014.
WEEKEND electrical
work at reasonable
rates.
Call
(423)342-7371
or
(423)647-7080.
16 BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
610 Watauga Ave
Nice duplex in city
limits. Great investment
opportunity.
Over 2100 square
feet. Rent can pay
your payment.
$109,900
Call Jason@
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
20 ARTICLES
FOR SALE
now.
$25.
cash.
Walk-in
anytime.
Hampton.
(423)543-2584.
GLASS Top Dining
Room Table with 6
white stuffed chairs.
$125firm.
423-543-1605.
HEAVY duty motorized
wheelchair, battery
charger
included.
Call (423)543-5569 after 5:00 p.m.
23 YARD
SALES
** ESTATE SALE **
Of The Late
TONY EMIREN
300 West K Street
Friday and Saturday
8:00AM-2:00PM
www.HomeLiquidationServices.com
3-FAMILY, old Elizabethton Hwy. Near old
Betty Ann Service Station. Friday, Saturday.
Clothing, coats, all
dishes. Many items.
CHEAP.
510 Paty Place. Friday,
Sat.
8a.m.-2:00p.m.
Household items, Thomas Kincaid collectibles, like new womens
dress and casual
clothing. Some mens
clothing. NO EARLY
SALES.
518 WILLOW SPRINGS
ROAD,
Saturday,
9:00AM-3:00PM Miscellaneous items.
YARD SALE, 228 West
Doe Avenue behind
T.A. Dugger Junior
High. Thursday and Friday Nov. 1st and 2nd
8:00AM-? Household
items, winter clothes,
furniture, lots of Christmas items, truck, glassware, curtains, boat
seats. Lots of everything.
Reasonable
prices must clear out.
CORNER of Starlight &
Cross Street, Lynn Valley. Clothing event of
the year! Ladies 8-18,
shoes, accessories, Alfred Dunner, Koret, Liz
Claiborne, Easy Spirit,
Aeropostle, all practically new. Young men
&
boys
clothing,
household
items,
much more. YOU WILL
NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
Fri. 8-?, Sat. 9-?.
YARD SALE, V.F.W. inside, November 2nd
and
3rd.
8:00AM-5:00PM. Benefit East Tennessee
Christian Home.
149 & 152 Old Mill
Ridge, off Powder
Branch, just above
Quail Hollow. Follow
signs. Saturday 8a.m.
Antiques, collectibles,
lawnmower, Chipper
shredder, misc. household.
FIRST Time Sale. 5 families. Saturday 8-2. 511
Dogwood
Lane,
Watauga,
Wisperwood Subdivision. Lots
of
namebrand
clothes, new & used
size M-2X(mens &
womens),
lots
of
household
items,
some baby items. Follow signs, everything
must go!
1615 Hillview Drive, Friday,
Saturday
8a.m.-5p.m. Exercise
Equipment,
dishes,
glassware,
table,
lamps, iron bed, baby
bed, lots more.
2 FAMILY GARAGE
SALE, Friday and Saturday 8:00AM-2:00PM
Baby items, clothing,
toys, household items,
wedding dress. 204
Constitution Avenue,
Colonial Acres.
now.
$25.
cash.
Walk-in
anytime.
Hampton.
(423)543-2584.
MULTI-FAMILY. Friday,
Sat. 8:00a.m.-3:00p.m.
126 Lincoln Drive,
Lynn Valley. Lots of
stuff!!!
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Fair Housing Act which
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial
status, or national origin, or an intention, to
make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. ”Familial
status includes children under the age of
18 living with parents
or legal custodians;
pregnant women and
people securing custody of children under
18. This newspaper will
not knowingly accept
any advertising for
real estate which is in
violation of the law.
Our
readers
are
hereby informed that
all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an
equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD
Toll-free
at
1-800-669-9777. The
Toll-free
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number for the Hearing
Impaired
is:
1-800-927-9275
Take 91, pass Airport,
1
1/2
miles
to
Bluesprings Rd. (B.P.),
turn right, follow yellow signs.
CHARITY HILL F.W.B.
Church
Fellowship
Hall, Eastside, Siam Rd.
to Nave St. to Charity
Hill Rd., 1.25 mile. Children & Adult winter
clothing, some furniture.
Household
items, Floral arrangements. HOT DOG
Lunches, Bake Sale,
Friday 8am-4pm, Saturday 8am-1pm.
ESTATE GARAGE SALE,
127 PLEASANT BEACH
ROAD, SANDY BOTTOM,
Saturday
8:00AM-3:00PM Many,
many items. Must see!
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
Don’t Miss This One!!
801 QUAIL RIDGE
COURT in QUAIL HOLLOW
SUBDIVISION,
Saturday, 8:00AM-?
Name brand children
and baby clothes and
toys, exceptional condition, lots of household items. HUGE!
1462 Hwy. 91. Fri., Sat.
9-?. Infant to 5T boy,
ladies 6-8, mens, 38’s,
large-2X, baby denim,
bedding, log chain,
reloading brass.
2BR, 1.5BA Townhouse.
W/D hookup, appliances, carpet, D/W,
deck, paved driveway. $475.mo. plus
deposit. 423-483-4875.
Furniture, some are
antique, 9x11 oval
braided rug, large
computer desk, 1978
Ford, 4x4 truck, 1966
Johnson O.B.M. Nice
fishing poles, Hydra
Sport Bass Boat, good
Western boots, family
clothing, glassware,
much more.
SATURDAY
only
9:00AM-2:30PM HUGE
GARAGE SALE, 1734
Southside Road. Guns,
mens jeans, wool
shirts, womens and
girls teen clothing,
glassware, entertainment center. Lots and
lots of misc. items,
Please no early sales.
EARL STREET off Ruby
Avenue,
Friday,
8:00AM-?
Children
and
adult
winter
clothing, household
items, Adult hunting
bow and arrow.
29 TOWNHOUSES
CONDOS FOR
SALE/RENT
1BR, appliances furnished. Allen Ave.
$295.mo., $100.dep.
423-647-9829,
6471040.
25 PETS
& SUPPLIES
AKC English Bulldogs.
male, 3 females, fawn
and
white, vet
checked,
shots.
$1,700.
each.
(423)725-4885.
1BR, CH&A, appliances, water furnished. No pets. References
required.
$275. month, $150. deposit. 423-543-8939.
COCKER SPANIELS, 2
females, AKC register,
7 weeks old, ready to
go.
$300each
(423)213-2203.
1BR, stove, refrigerator, water, garbage
pickup
furnished,
mini-blinds.
Call
(423)542-9200.
26 COAL-OILWOOD
FOR SALE
1BR, very private, utilities, cable included.
$400mth.
+dep.
423-538-9481,
423-340-2309.
SEASONED Hardwood.
pick up load delivered
and stacked mixed
$65 all hickory $75
423-926-6398.
2BR
Biltmore,
$300.mo, $150.dep,
appliances,
water,
garbage pick-up furnished; 3,000sq.ft. garage, Lovers Lane.
423- 543-5638.
WOOD for sale. $60.
3/4 ton load. All hickory $75. (423)772-3791.
27 LIVESTOCK
& BREEDING
2BR, 1BA, on 2.25
acres, 30’ deck, 4 car
garage, washer, dryer,
separate kitchen, living room, dining room
combo, private road,
separate building, no
neighbors.
Walking
distance
to
Lake
Watauga, 5 minutes
to Elizabethton, 20
minutes to JC. Available 11-1-07. Month to
month. No lease. $650.
plus utilities. Danny,
(323)257-7202. Will be
shown November 4,
between 5p.m.-6p.m.
GOAT Sale. Godsey
Boer Goat Exchange.
675 Herb Hodge Rd.
Johnson City, TN, November 3rd, 07. 1p.m.
Doe reduction sale.
For more information
call
(423)926-9442
(423)946-8567.
28 CHILD CARE
HELP/SERVICES
IN HOME DAY CARE
ages 1-5, call for an
appointment. Jeannie
423-391-7070
leave
message.
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24.19 +2.15 -64.9
34.01 +.01 -4.4
34.76 +.06 +5.0
48.63 -.07 -4.5
31.10 +.27 +21.8
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC.
n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt =
Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or
receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables
at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
STOCK MARKET INDEXES
52-Week
High
Low
14,198.10 11,939.61
5,487.05 4,486.60
537.12
440.32
10,387.17 8,684.79
2,515.76 1,116.16
2,834.00 2,316.82
1,576.09 1,360.98
926.67
769.71
856.48
736.00
15,938.99 13,639.88
Name
Dow Industrials
Dow Transportation
Dow Utilities
NYSE Composite
Amex Market Value
Nasdaq Composite
S&P 500
S&P MidCap
Russell 2000
Wilshire 5000
Last
Net
Chg
%Chg
YTD
%Chg
12-mo
%Chg
13,930.01
4,907.96
534.95
10,311.61
2,530.38
2,859.12
1,549.38
907.70
828.02
15,673.36
+137.54
+65.80
+8.49
+146.64
+41.60
+42.41
+18.36
+15.08
+11.87
+191.35
+1.00
+1.36
+1.61
+1.44
+1.67
+1.51
+1.20
+1.69
+1.45
+1.24
+11.77
+7.63
+17.12
+12.83
+23.05
+18.38
+9.24
+12.85
+5.12
+9.93
+15.78
+4.99
+18.18
+18.28
+29.83
+22.48
+13.27
+17.05
+10.09
+14.33
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Total Assets
Name
Obj ($Mlns) NAV
American Funds GrowAmerA m LG
94,406
38.38
American Funds IncAmerA m MA 68,824
21.49
American Funds InvCoAmA m LV 78,309
36.70
American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 71,170
37.79
Fidelity Contra
LG 78,354
79.20
Fidelity Magellan
LG 45,351 104.21
Oppenheimer DiscoverA m
SG
597
60.94
Putnam GrowIncA m
LV 11,191
20.26
Putnam VoyagerA m
LG
4,548
20.14
Vanguard Wndsr
LV 14,525
19.52
Total Return/Rank
4-wk 12-mo
5-year
+2.4 +19.8/C
+16.9/A
+1.4 +12.8/C
+14.8/A
+0.3 +13.9/B
+14.2/C
+0.3 +13.5/B
+13.7/D
+5.0 +26.0/B
+18.3/A
+5.3 +25.6/B
+13.1/C
+6.3 +34.5/A
+15.3/E
-0.7 +6.5/E
+12.3/E
+4.2 +12.9/E
+9.1/E
+0.7 +11.2/C
+16.0/B
Pct Min Init
Load
Invt
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
NL
2,500
NL
2,500
5.75
1,000
5.25
500
5.25
500
NL
3,000
CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign
Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs.
others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.
STAR - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2007 - Page 7B
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
129 Commodore
$12,500
OLD BRISTOL HWY.
OWNER FINANCING
$5,000 DOWN
$350.00 MONTH
Lot 50 & 51
Norris Hollow Rd.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
2BR, 1BA, newly renovated, tile, carpet,
appliances,
water,
sewer and garbage
furnished, nice neighborhood,
$375.mo.
deposit & references
required.
423-764-3105
2BR, 1BA. $375-$400.
Security
deposit
$375-$400.
Airport
Apartments.
(423)
547-2871.
2BR, 1BA. Great location. $375. month,
$375. deposit. Call
(423)833-4059, (423)
647-4993.
2BR,
near
Elizabethton, appliances,
W/D hook-up, private
drive. References, No
pets, smokers. $395.
month.
(423)543-4131.
EXTRA large 2BR, 2BA,
laundry room, CH&A,
hardwood floors, private decks, conveniently
located.
$675.mth.
(423)957-4847.
SPACIOUS
3BR,
1
1/2BA, W/D hook-up,
water
included,
CH&A,
No
pets.
$500.mth., $300.dep.,
(423) 542-5537.
Upscale luxury apartment, private lot,
beautiful
setting,
loaded, 2BR, 2BA, References, application
required.
423-512-1251,
423-542-5065.
VARIETY of 1BR and
2BR apartments available.
Rent:
$250month & up. Call
Manager.
423-547-2871.
32 HOUSES
FOR RENT
ASSORTMENT of rentals: Farm, brick, frame,
pets, rent to own, furnished and unfurnished. 282-6486.
CUTE 2BR/1BA, City
Schools, stove, refrigerator, W/D hook-up,
$450. month, $250. deposit.
No
pets.
(423)474-2960,
Doublewide: 3BR, 2BA,
large kitchen, livingroom, CH&A, appliances, Section 8 accepted.
$500.mth.,
$250.dep.
(423)
542-3002.
FOR rent or lease. 3800
sq.ft. with 4 car garage, Jonesborough.
(423)895-0442,
895-0438.
NEW 2BR, 2-1/2BA
townhouse, garage,
private, wooded area,
located
on
19E.
$650mth.
+dep.
423-538-9481,
423-340-2309.
NICE 2BR, large private lot, storage building, appliances, No
pets. References, deposit. $450. month.
(423)474-2660.
Small
3BR,
W/D
hookup, appliances.
$400.mo. $100.dep.
Sims
Hill
Rd.
423-542-2431
after
6:30p.m.
33 MOBILE HOME
FOR RENT
3BR,
1.5BA,
in
Watauga, Newly remodeled, water, trash
included. No pets.
$425.mo. $425.dep.
423-323-8420,
423-956-0195.
3BR, 2BA, CH&A, appliances, large lot,
Happy Valley, references
required,
423-257-2106
or
423-416-0021.
Three minutes outside
city limits in the Elizabethton High School
zone.150x125 lot suitable for any mobile
or stick built homes.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
6.76 wooded acres.
Road cut in, sloping
terrain, hardwood,
several good building sites with view,
only one mile down
Bristol Hwy. from Mc
Donalds on right.
$38,500.
Call
830-377-7559.
Great lake view lots
at a great price.
Large lot overlooking
the
waters
of
Watauga
Lake.
$129,000 each.
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
Call Tom 725-4000
40 LOTS
FOR RENT
LEVEL lot space available, convenient location, 3 minutes from
downtown. $125. mth.
423-543-6126.
DRY HOLLOW
ROAD
$558,000
Pete Slagle Road
46.5 acres of good
lying land with flat
grassy pastures and
unsurpassed mountain views. Property is
suitable for farming,
retreats, or subdividing. A portion joins
the U.S. National Forest.
Nice wooded 2 acre
lots. 2 acres $35,900,
lots , 4 acres $69,900
or 6 acres. $99,900.
NEW mobile home
park, Stoney Creek,
paved
driveways,
level lots, 1 lots available,
call
423-474-2704.
42 HOUSES
FOR SALE
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
823 Walker St. 2BR,
1BA, large living, dining
room, full size
basement, CH&A, outside buildings. Large
corner lot. $92,000.
(423)543-3821.
Hwy. 11E
$255,000
Get the best price for
property, Contact Realtor® Luther Grindstaff
423-773-4459. SHELL &
ASSOCIATES
HOUSE
For
Sale,
Owner Finance, 2BR,
1BA,
1100sq.
ft.,
1/3acre, Elizabethton
423-646-1208
$900. down, $575.mth.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
SPEARBRANCH
ROAD
587 feet of road frontage on U.S.11E. Ideal
site for zoned B4
commercial usage
that would conform
well to the Piney Flats
area.
4.39 beautiful acres
with split-rail fencing
in a restricted mountain
development.
Additional 4.36 acre
tract
available.
$120,000.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
Great Location! 3
bedrooms 3 bath
home. Formal Living
& Dining Room, Den,
2
fireplaces, patio with
grill, and level yard.
Lakeview Drive
$150,000
184 feet of Watauga
Lake
Front,
just
across the street from
the new development called The Retreat at Doe Mountain. This lot is a great
investment!
Blue Ridge Properties
423-282-5182
Sheryl Garland
423-895-1690
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
MESSIMER LANE
7.41 acres with over
400ft. of frontage on
Watauga
River.
Mostly level with
some sloping. Good
river access presently being used for
pasture. $330,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
TBD Hwy 19E.
Approximately
4
acres fenced in for
horses or cattle. Barn
with side shed. Road
frontage and creek.
$99,000
C21 Whitehead
Sherree Holt
543-4663
38 LOTS
FOR SALE
1.69 acre. Very nice.
Just graded. Ready to
build, no restrictions.
Gap Creek. $25,500.
423-895-1159.
707 TIPTON
2BR, 1BA. Nice starter
home or investment
property. Located in
City limits close to
schools and downtown. Updates include Vinyl tilt-in
windows, Stone fireplace, and bricked
front. Flat partial
fenced back yard
with alley way access. $65,000.
Lake views from front
and mountain views
all around. Public
water, septic for 3BR
home is already installed.
1250 Bristol Highway
Nice 3BR, 1.5 BA
home just outside city
limits.Would make a
great starter home or
rental.$75,000.
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
423-895-3860
Randy
Immaculate
3BR
home offers a wonderful view of the
mountains, a large
level lot, hardwood
floors, tiled porches
and patio, and an
outdoor grill for entertaining.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
1111 ARNEY STREET
Beautifully restored
brick home near the
downtown
area.
Large living room
w/colonial fireplace
and dining area.
New,
updated
kitchen w/all new
cabinetry.
Large
bathroom. 2 Good
size bedrooms. Den
could be third bedroom.
Concrete
basement
w/one
car garage. CH&A.
Updates
include
newer roof, replacement windows, all
new floor coverings,
all new paint inside
and out, and new
cabinets. This is a
good buy, in like
new
condition.
$79,500
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
37 LAND W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
39 LOTS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
105 Browns
Branch Rd.
MOUNTAIN
MEADOWS
Bunker Hill
Nice building lot in
Mountain Meadows.
Lovely cabins already
built in this development and everything
is first class. Three lots
available,
ranging
from $18,900-$24,900.
2 joining lots in Colonial Acres with fantastic view. House
pad already cut in.
Septic permit for 3BR.
Both lots sold as one
for only $25,000
Call 830-377-7559
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
105 Stevens
3BR, 2BA
doublewide,
located in
Hampton. Possibility
of owner leasing lot.
Call Sherree Holt for
your private showing!
$35,000.
C21 Whitehead
423- 543-4663
Hwy. 91
$79,000
Watauga Lake front in
a desirable location
with investment potential. Water and
electricity tap fees already paid. Great
view and 187 feet of
lakefront.
Commercial lot on
high traffic county
highway suitable for
any small business.
Septic and water tap
installed and 216 feet
of creek footage.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
423-543-5959
127 JOURNEYS END
Sit on your porch
and listen to Doe
River rushing by
across the street.
Well maintained one
level brick & vinyl
home, situated on a
large
level
lot
on dead end street.
Updates include replacement windows,
refinished hardwood
flooring, and ch&a.
Open floor plan offers large living/dining
combination,
kitchen w/all appliances, and large
bath. Attached carport. Partial basement. Security system. Barn outbuilding for mower storage. $74,900
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
1523 COFFEE RIDGE
LOOP
HIDDEN AWAY IN THE
MOUNTAINS
BETWEEN ERWIN TN.
AND ASHEVILLE N.C.
BREATH
TAKING
SCENERY AND A
GENTLE
FLOWING
CREEK. THIS BRICK
HOME FEATURES 3
BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS,
FORMAL LIVING AND
DINING ROOM, EAT
IN KITCHEN, DEN
AND YOUR OWN
HOME
THEATER.
BEAUTIFUL
WORKMANSHIP IN EVERY
DETAIL.
203 Lina Harvey
Road
$450,000
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
282-5182
SHERYL GARLAND
895-1690
155 Pleasant Hill
This 2 or 3BR home
on 4.48 acres offers
spectacular views of
the surrounding valley and mountains, a
beautiful yard, large
horse barn, large
decking for entertaining and a pool.
$239,900.
133 Wedgewood
Circle
$350,000
Beautiful home with
nice amenities for
one
level
living.
Home offers spacious
rooms, plenty of light,
large master suite,
entertainment areas
inside & out, and
uniquely lit archways.
1708 Southside Rd.
Jay Crockett
(423)341-6884
Jil Piercy
(423)741-1182
REALTY EXECUTIVES
(423)952-0226
Brand new Holston
View Condominiums.
Located in the desirable Hunter Community. Each unit features large living
room with hardwood
flooring and cathedral ceilings. Open
kitchen, offering bar,
range,
dishwasher
and built-in microwave. 2 large bedrooms with abundant
closet storage. Two
bathrooms, each with
ceramic tile flooring.
Covered front and
back porches with
storage room off
back porch. Featuring a level, corner lot,
paved parking and a
clean pretty neighborhood. This beautiful new development
offers the best for
those seeking a low
maintenance, secure
condominium
lifestyle. $99,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
1708.5 Southside Rd.
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
282-5182
SHERYL GARLAND
895-1690
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
Nice home
with
wonderful
views,
city limits. Home features 3BRs, 2FBAs,
open floor plan,
master bath has garden tub with separate shower.
Priced To Sell
$54,900
205 DAWN DRIVE
206 MARION
BRANCH
Spacious
home!
Master on the main,
2 bedrooms upstairs,
2 full baths, 2 half
baths, formal living
and dining room,
den, eat in kitchen.
Plenty of storage inside and outside.
workshop/barn with
loft. mountain views!
Nice 3 BR, 2 BA home
in Westside School
district.
Beautiful
hardwood
floors.
Priced
to
sell.
$129,900.
Must See To
Appreciate!
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
Nice 3BR, 2BA brick
home on level 4.92
acres. Land can be
purchased
separately. $192,000.
RAINBOW REALTY
423-547-2800
2BR,
2BA
brick
rancher perfect for
vacation or retirement. Approx. 34
acres with 834' bordering the National
Forest with a southern
exposure.
Nice brick raised
ranch with 3BR, 2.5BA.
West Side school district. Beautiful hardwood floors and tile.
Over 2300 square
feet.
$229,900.
134 RUFUS TAYLOR
RD.
135 DANIEL LANE
208 RIVER ROAD
(Valley Forge)
173 Lacy Hollow Rd.]
Totally Remodeled
House!
3
BR's,
Kitchen,
Dining
Room, Family Room.
Beautiful wood walls
and ceilings. 2 car
garage with
Apt.
1960 sq. ft.
Call Linda Today!
C21 Whitehead
(423)543-4663
Nice 2BR, 1BA home
with den. This home
has hardwood floors
and is completely
furnished and ready
to move in. House is
on a level lot with
paved drive with
over 1100 sq. ft. of
living space. Nice
view of river which
runs behind property.
423-543-6554
BY OWNER
1808 FIELD ROAD
Near West Side, T.A.
Dugger
Elizabethton High
Schools
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
Nice 3BR, 2BA ranch
situated on 3.57
Acres. Nice flowing
creek in the front
yard.
Carport.
$129,900.
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
00 Poga Rd.
Butler
Patsy
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
423-725-4000
Nice 3BR, 2BA home
in Stoney Creek.
Covered front porch.
Hardwood floors in
diningroom.
Drive
under garage, with
lots
of
space.
$127,900.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
127 A O Buckles Rd.
4BR, 2BA, in ground
pool, 2 stone fireplaces and so much
more! $219,723.
Nice lot located on
the corner of Sneed
Hill and Southside
Roads. $30,000.
Beautiful 3BR, 1BA
home with FP. Tile,
hardwood floors, new
appliances with large
deck, 2 separate garages with exercise
room and outbuilding, asphalt and concrete
driveways,
beautifully
landscaped on 1 acre.
Needs nothing, ready
to move in. Have appraisal for $188,000,
will take $118,000.
FIRM.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
119 Watauga Valley
Church Rd.
5 acres, Charles Smith
Rd.,
Watauga.
$90,000.
(423)543-3821.
Patsy Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
132 HONEYCUTT
RD.
Hampton
418 W E Street
Elizabethton, TN
37643
36 LAND
FOR SALE
1279 Goose
Bradley Road
$209,900
C21 WHITEHEAD
SARAH PRESNELL
423-543-4663
00 HIGHWAY 67
FANTASTIC
LOCATION! Minutes from
Watauga Lake/Appalachian Trail .34
acre lot has 156 feet
of road frontage.
$22,900
126 Creekbank
Road
$125,000
TOM
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
QUAIL HOLLOW, new
kitchen, 2BR, 2.5BA,
basement, garage,
formal dining, FP, City
Schools,
$127,000.
(423)483-1799.
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
423-725-4000
121 SUNSET
3/4BR 1.5BA brick
ranch in great location!
HW
floors,
eat-in-kitchen,
all
appliances
stay!
MUST SEE!! $164,900
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
11 MYRTLE DRIVE
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
34 TOWNHOUSES
SALE/RENT
11+/SECLUDED
ACRES OF MOUNTAINS...Next to National Forest. Level
home sites just waiting to be built upon.
108 Greene
Meadows Drive
Beautiful
2-story
home on .96 acre
level lot, two car attached garage. Additional 1800 sq.ft.
garage with 16x52 ft.
of
attic
storage
space.
Ideal for
Boat/RV storage or
workshop. Minutes
from Watauga Lake.
Home features beautiful kitchen with
granite countertops,
abundant storage,
adjoining
dining
room and outside entrance to porch area.
Huge master suite includes a Jacuzzi tub,
his and her sinks with
a separate shower as
well as a large
walk-in closet. This
home is beautiful including the new
hardwood
flooring
and ready to move
into condition. You'll
enjoy
the
wraparound porch and
the views of the surrounding mountains.
Don't hesitate to see
this one! $249,900.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
209 ROOSEVELT
138 BILL LEWIS ROAD
-2 Bedroom, 2 Baths
on 2.22+/- acres.
Open floor plan.
Huge Eat in kitchen,
Sunroom and creek
frontage
all
for
$154,500.
121 HYDER ST.
Located in the desirable Hunter Community and situated on a
level lot on a dead
end street, this one
level brick home features 3BR, 2BA, large
living room with fireplace, and kitchen
with all appliances.
Updates
include
ch&a, new kitchen
counter tops plus
stove top, and new
water heater. There is
also a 2 car detached carport and
27' round above
ground
pool.
$115,000. MLS 252491
128 Winner Street
Hunter Area
Completely Remodeled 3BR, 2BA. Large
Corner Lot, New Heat
Pump, Roof, Siding,
Windows,
Linda
C21 WHITEHEAD
(423)543-4663
Beautiful 4BR, 2.5 BA
brick home, over
3,100 finished sq.ft.,
4,500 sq.ft. total, on 1
acre lot, large 51’
long family room, formal living, dining
room,
spacious
eat-in kitchen, tons of
storage.
Ready To Move In!
(423)542-5746
100% Financing For
Qualified Buyers
$109,000.
423-213-8172
146 SOUTHGATE
130 Blevins
3BR 1.5BA cottage
tucked away in the
mountains.
Great
floor plan and various updates! Private
shooting
range!
$119,900
Lynn Valley location
with beautiful views
of Holston Mountain!
4BR, 3 car garages,
new
architectural
roof, oak flooring,
Andersen windows,
level tree shaded
yard with fencing,
fireplace with gas
logs, ceiling fans,
and almost everything is new or like
new! Very roomy
with
2,593
sq.ft. $229,500.
C21 Whitehead
Sherre Holt
(423)543-4663
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
203 DRY BRANCH
.27 acres lot in
Stoney Creek w/water, power, and septic already on property. $18,000
PASTY WOODSON
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
Minutes from town,
yet
totally
secluded, one level
cedar shake home is
ideal for those seeking privacy and a
unique,
custom
home. Immaculate
condition. The only
views from this georgous home are of
trees and mountains.
Features open living,
dining, kitchen with
hardwood flooring,
all appliances included, and rock
fireplace in the dining
area.
Huge
sunken family room
with fireplace, wall of
windows,
built-ins
and an office alcove.
Two bedrooms and 2
updated baths. Master offers a private
glassed and heated
sunroom.
Trane
CH&A and triple
pane windows. Detached 3 car carport
with workshop. Beautiful home has been
lovingly maintained
and is reasonably
priced. $104,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
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210 BLACK BEAR
PATH
43 HOUSES
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238 Ranger Drive
$ 125,000
Fully furnished cabin
offering large sitting
room,
loft,
wrap
around porch, and
hot tub. This home is
a private get away in
itself.
One level, 3BR, 2BA
brick home, convenient location, level
lawn, low maintenance, clean and
neat. Also features
CH&A, fireplace, 2
car garage & landscaping.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
$230,000
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410 Hog Hollow
3BR, 2BA, 2 car garage home in great
location. Spacious
floor plan. Approximately 1 acre lot.
$124,900.
C21 Whitehead
Deborah Sutherland
423- 543-4663
43 HOUSES
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615 South Lynn Ave.
BY OWNER
Milligan/Pinecrest
Area
Nice well kept 3BR, 1
BA home in City limits. This is not a drive
by. Large attached
carport with storage
roon. This would
make an excellent
starter
home
or
rental. $89,900.
3BR, 2BA, hardwood
floors, new carpet,
vinyl windows, large
family room downstairs, large level lot,
Appx.
2,000sq.ft.
$138,500.
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
423-928-1392
423-483-5294
45 MOBILE HOMES
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DOUBLEWIDE
CLOSEOUT!
32x72, Clayton
45 MOBILE HOMES
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Site Built Quality@
Factory Pricing
PRE-OWNED
Stk. #MB108
Save Thousands
2002 Ford F150
Supercab Lariat
3BR, 2BA, dream
kitchen with black
appliances, large island kitchen, over
2300 sq. ft.
28x60 Norris, dream
kitchen with stainless
appliances, all the
upgrades.
www.artsfinerhomes.com
Arts’s Finer Homes
(423)543-1531
Art’s Finer Homes
(423)543-1531
64 4X4 W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
4x4, 5.4L, V-8, leather
power windows, locks
and seats, new tires,
one owner, 75K, extra clean. Excellent
condition.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
AUTO SALES
(423)543-8603
SOLD
212 Dogwood
Acres Road
$139,900
2548 Bob Little
Road
$135,995
Beautifully updated
and decorated 3BR
2BA brick features
fireplace,
large
decks, 2 car garage
& convenient to
schools,
Watauga
Lake, and Appalachian Trail.
Brick home close to
town, move in condition. 3BR, CH&A,
beautiful hardwood,
open kitchen, den
area,
fireplace,
heated
sunroom,
double garage.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
416 CARTER BLVD.
$134,500
FOR SALE BY OWNER
3BR, 2FBA, hardwood
flooring, master BR on
the
main
level,
fenced
backyard
with deck and gazebo.
Condo, 2BR, 2BA,
approx. 1200sq. ft. All
appliances
stay,
walking distance to
downtown, move in
ready priced to sell.
423-542-8147 afternoon.
A Must See!
CALL LESLIE GLOVER
REALTY EXECUTIVES
DIRECT:423-773-2758
OFFICE:423-952-0226
434 H Heaton
212 East K Street
Nice 3BR, 2BA home
in the Elizabethton
city limits. Covered
front porch. Hardwood floors.
Reduced for quick sale.
$79,900
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
261 LITTLE
PLUMCREEK
3BR 2BA cabin partially secluded in the
mountains. Beautiful
views! This home is a
must see!! $289,900
C21 WHITEHEAD
LINDA WHITEHEAD
423-543-4663
4BR, 2BA ranch offers
pool and brick bath
house!
Gourmet
kitchen and much
more . $349,900.
PATSY
Century 21
Whitehead Woodson
725-4000
Rare find with over
2000 sq. ft. of living
space, 4.31 acres of
level land, 3BR & 2BA
& a fenced yard.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
505 CRUMLEY STREET
Great city location.
One level living features
3BR.,
2BA.
Some
hardwood
floors. Screened in
porch. Nice corner
lot. REDUCED $10,00.
Call Home Owner
Concept
741-6759/ 434-0440
C21 Whitehead
Deborah Sutherland
543-4663
Brand new home, located in West Elizabethton and the Westside School District.
One level living on a
level lot. House features open floor plan
with arge great room,
kitchen with range,
dishwasher and microwave. 2 Large
bedrooms, each with
walk-in closets and
bathrooms.
Large
laundry room. CH&A.
Rarely does a new
home in West End, on
a nice level lot, become
available.
Completion date anticipated for April,
2008. Photo similar.
$99,900.
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
296 Blackberry Cove
Circle Roan
Mountain
Beautiful views! 3BR,
2.5BA, on 5 acres.
Full basement. Open
floor plan
.
Aimee Waldrop
C21 Whitehead
Woodson
423-725-4000
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
331 Aviation
1BR 1BA rustic cabin
on approx. 13.72
acres
adjoining
Cherokee National
Forest. Hunter’s retreat with beautiful
views! $104,900
C21 Whitehead
Trish Graybeal
(423)543-4663
2234 Hwy. 91
Family business for
sale in Elizabethton!
Restaurant, beauty
shop, and two garages. Great income
potential! $89,900.
C21 Whitehead
Sherree Holt
423-543-4663
226 and 230
MARION BRANCH RD
Two
brand
new
homes. Both are 2
bedroom, 2 bath
homes with CH&A
and open floor plan.
Beautiful
covered
front porches, perfect
for rocking chairs.
One house has 1.536
acres and one has
2.102 acres. $89,900
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
Wonderful
family
home located in the
West End of Elizabethton. This 3BR, 2BA
split foyers, updates
include
paint
throughout, front and
back entry doors, all
light fixtures, water
heater, laminate &
ceramic flooring, appliances,
garage
doors, the list just
goes on and on. Two
car drive under garage allows for ample
storage space. Move
in ready. $129,500.
408 LINDA CIRCLE
Brand new home, located in West Elizabethton and the
WestSide School District. One level living
on a level lot, with
frontage on Gap
Creek. House features open floor plan
with large great
room, kitchen with
range, dishwasher
and microwave. 2
large
bedrooms,
each with walk-in
closets and bathrooms. Large laundry
room. CH&A. Rarely
does a new home in
West End, on a nice
level lot, become
available. Completion date for April,
2008. Photo similar.
$99,900.
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
MLS #354307
$99,000
ERA Golden Key
Real Estate
423-952-4950
Lora Owens
423-677-6606
New home under
construction in West
End of Elizabethton.
Very convenient location. Choice level
lots. One level living
offers Great Room,
large kitchen, dining
combo, 3brs, 2 full
baths, 2 Car Attached
Garage.
Hardwood and tile
floors. $154,900.
901 WALKER
Cute 3/4BR 1BA cottage on corner level
lot. City schools, HD
floors, Private back
patio. Priced to sell
$95,900
C21 WHITEHEAD
SHERREE HOLT
543-4663
Art’s Finer
Homes
JIM ELLIOTT
Beautiful 32.9 acre
farm, located in the
Gap Creek, Powder
Branch areas. Good
road frontage. Front
portion of property
is rolling pasture
with the remainder
wooded acreage.
32’ X 36’ Pole Barn.
Utility water in the
road. Rarely does
acreage this nice
ever become available. $224,000.
HAPPY VALLEY
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Double wide home,
2BR, 2BA, CH&A,
basement, on 1/2
acre lot. 3 mile up
Powder
Branch.
$64,950.
Good credit and
10% down, will help
with financing.
Call 423-542-8659
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
423-543-5741
PRE-OWNED
Stk.#MB53B
1996 Toyota Rav4
4DR, 4x4, 5-speed,
air condition. Runs
great. Extra Clean,
Local trade-in.
(423)543-1531
1997 Suzuki 1400 Intruder
Motorcycle,
36K, Good tires. Runs
good.
$3,200.
(423)895-2918,
725-3227.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
AUTO SALES
(423)543-8603
65 TRUCKS &
SEMI’S
SOLD
59 AUTOS
FOR SALE
1992 Honda LX, 209K.
Navy blue. Runs good.
$2,000.
725-3227,
(423)895-2918.
1999 TOYOTA SOLARA,
EXCELLENT
CONDITION, GARAGE KEPT,
ALL POWER, DARK
GREEN
EXTERIOR.
$11,500.
OBO
423-547-9427.
60 AUTOS
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PRE-OWNED
Stk.# MB147A
1995 Ford F250
Supercab XLT Lariat
4x4, V-8, automatic,
air condition, PW, and
locks, tilt and cruise.
Runs great. Great
work or farm truck.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
AUTO SALES
(423)543-8603
PUBLIC NOTICES
ONLY $45/sq.ft.
ENJOY LIVING ON
WATAUGA LAKE! LOCATED IN A COZY
COVE. GREAT MOUNTAIN VIEWS! GREAT
PRICE! CALL TODAY!
BLUE RIDGE
PROPERTIES
282-5182
SHERYL GARLAND
895-1690
WEST END
1614 HILLVIEW STREET
REDUCED
$168,900
One
level
brick
home. Features 4BRs,
2BAs, over 2,000 sq.
ft. on a double lot.
Home has been
completely remodeled.
REALTY EXECUTIVES
952-0226
Jay Crockett
341-6884
Jil Piercy
741-1182
Completely Furnished
4BR, 2BA, huge living
room; open kitchen,
large master bedroom.
Priced To Sell!
Art’s Finer
Homes
(423)543-1531
OWNER FINANCING
AVAILABLE
10K Down,
10% interest
$661.59 monthly/PITI
4.005 acres with
newer 3/2. Excellent
condition, beautiful
inside. Rented for
$450mth. until February, room for additional building lots.
Only $80,000.
423-213-5312
16x70, 1989, 3BR, 1BA,
CH&A. Must move.
$13,000. Northeast TN
Rental Property &
Sales. (423)547-2871.
New 28x52 3BR, 2BA
on private lot. Upper
Stoney Creek, owner
financing.
423-943-3418.
45 MOBILE HOMES
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PRE-OWNED
Stock #MB128A
2004 Ford Taurus
Ses.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
per
§TCA 30-2-306
MEREDITH BROTHERS
AUTO SALES
(423)543-8603
LOLA BEATRICE DAVIS
ENSOR
PRE-OWNED
Stk.#MB160A
2001 Buick LeSabre
Custom
V-6, automatic, PW,
PD, PL, tilt and cruise
control, new tires,
91K. Local trade-in.
Extra clean.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
AUTO SALES
(423)543-8603
61 CAMPERS &
RV’S
QUICK SALE!
2003 NORRIS
14X76
$36,500
423-543-7496
PROBATE NO. P070145
ESTATE OF
64 4X4 W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
2BR, 2BA, CH&A, fireplace, deck, jacuzzi
tub, laminated floors,
some
furnishing,
pantry, appliances.
IN THE CHANCERY
COURT, PROBATE
DIVISION OF CARTER
COUNTY, AT
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE
3.0L V-6, PW, PDR
locks,
tilt
wheel
cruise control, power
seat. Local Trade-in.
Excellent condition.
1996
Terry
Expo
Camper, $5,000. Call
423-542-4465,
423-543-3374.
44 MOBILE HOMES
FOR SALE
516 JOBE ROAD
32x60 Norris, upgrade kitchen with
stainless appliances,
hand finished drywall, fireplace, 3BR,
2BA.
DECEASED
Notice is hereby given
that on the 23rd day
of October, 2007,
Letters of Administration, in respect to the
Estate of
Lola Beatrice Davis
Ensor
deceased, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery Court Clerk and
Master, Probate Division, of Carter County,
Tennessee.
All persons, resident
and
non-resident,
having claims, matured or un-matured,
against the Estate of
Lola Beatrice Davis
Ensor
are required to file the
same with the Clerk
and Master of the
above Court within
four (4) months from
the date of the first
publication of this Notice; otherwise, their
claims will be forever
barred.
All persons indebted
to the above Estate
must come forward
and make proper settlement with the undersigned at once.
This the 23rd day of
October, 2007.
James E. Ensor, II
Administrator
1983 FORD F-150
302, 4-speed, 4x4,
AM-FM-CD, Chrome
roll bar and running
boards.
Deceased:
Lola Beatrice Davis
Ensor
William J. Byrd
Attorney
(423)542-6641
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
Melissa Moreland
Clerk and Master
10/25, 11/1
LEGAL NOTICE
912 Fairview Road
$125,000
517 Washington
Ave.
Nice 3BR, 2BA home
in a great central location.Home features
over 1300 square
feet. $89,900.
Call Jason @
Randall Birchfield
Real Estate
543-5959
Well maintained one
level
brick
with
beautiful landscaping. Home features
large bedrooms, new
carpet, lots of living
space, and a spacious patio.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
DOUBLEWIDE
CLOSEOUT
28x60 Clayton
3BR, 2BA, $40./sq.ft.
Front corner kitchen,
bronze front fireplace,
glamour master bath.
Art’s Finer
Homes
(423)543-1531
SELLERS MOTIVATED
MAKE OFFER!
5.15
acres,
two
newer,
mobile
homes, live in one,
rent other. Head of
Stoney
Creek.
$85,500.
423-773-4459
423-543-2393
SHELL AND
ASSOCIATES
PRE-OWNED
2003 Toyota
Tacoma Crewcab
SRR 5
Stk#MB168
4x4, V-6, automatic,
PW, PL, tilt wheel,
cruise control, fully
loaded, new tires,
70K, local trade-in.
One owner.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
AUTO SALES
(423)543-8603
LEGAL NOTICE
THE ELIZABETHTON REGIONAL
PLANNING
COMMISSION
WILL
HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007 AT
6:00 P.M. IN CITY HALL
COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
136 SOUTH SYCAMORE
STREET TO CONSIDER
AN AMENDMENT TO
THE CITY’S ZONING
ORDINANCE
FOR
HIGHWAY ENTRANCE
OVERLAY
DISTRICT.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO
ATTEND THIS MEETING
AND ADDRESS ANY
QUESTIONS YOU MAY
HAVE CONCERNING
THIS MATTER.
SIGNED,
DAVID R. ORNDUFF,
DIRECTOR
PLANNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
11/01
SUBSTITUTE
TRUSTEE'S SALE
YEAR END
CLEARANCE
57 MOTORCYCLES
FOR SALE
PIERCETOWN
ROAD BUTLER
Gleaming hardwood
floors throughout, remodeled bath with
tile.
Refinished
kitchen cabinets and
tile floor. New heat
pump
and
duct
work, roof, interior
doors, textured walls
and paint, sidewalk
and landscaping. All
new appliances including washer and
dryer. Right on the
river. Broad Street to
McDonald’s. Turn left
on Lynn Avenue, turn
left at red light onto
Mill St. Turn right on
Hemlock. Home is on
the left. See Sign.
16x80, 3BR, 2BA, on
1/2 acre lot, nice
home
with
lot.
$46,500. With good
credit
and
10%
down, will help get financing.
Call 423-542-8659
C21 WHITEHEAD
Trish Graybeal
543-4663
823 Hemlock
Elizabethton
511 ALLEN
2148 West G Street
RUSS SWANAY
REALTY
543-5741
80 Old Lacy Hollow
.53 acre lot with septic, water, electric
and driveway already in place. Mobile home on property.
2652 Hwy 91
$205,000
214 Constitution
Avenue
Delightful home sitting on .70 acre +/-,
offers 2BR, 1BA, living
room, laundry room,
kitchen, and office.
705 N MAIN
Classic river front
cottage located on
one of the more historic streets in the
City. Large
living
room w/fp & built-in
bookshelves, large
dining room, breakfast nook & 2 bdrms
each w/private updated baths, ch&a,
and hardwood flooring compliment the
home. Level backyard fronts on Doe
River, w/one of the
prettiest views of the
river we have seen.
This house has been
completely
renovated with a classic,
traditional
decor
throughout. $115,000
HAPPY VALLEY
UP POWDER
BRANCH,
1999 OAKWOOD
PUBLIC NOTICES
The Elizabethton City
Council will hold its
Regular Session meeting on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 6:00
P.M. in the City Hall
Council Chambers,
136
S.
Sycamore
Street, Elizabethton.
The agenda is available
in the City
Clerk's office Monday
thru Friday from 8:00
A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Larry Clark,
City Clerk
11/1
Sale at public auction
will be on November
27, 2007, at 2:00 PM,
local time, at the front
door on Main Street
door, Carter County
Courthouse,
Elizabethton, Tennessee
pursuant to Deed of
Trust executed by
Daniel Kehs and Susan
F. Wilson to Scott B.
Goldschein, Trustee,
on June 28, 2006 at
Book T784, Page 868
and conducted by
Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP,
Substitute Trustee, all
of record in the Carter
County Register's Office.
Owner of Debt: Deutsche Bank National
Trust
The following real estate located in Carter
County, Tennessee,
will be sold to the
highest call bidder
subject to all unpaid
taxes, prior liens and
encumbrances of record:
Described property located
in
Carter
County, Tennessee to
wit:
Lot Number Eighty-six
(86) of the Martindale
Estates
Subdivision,
Section 1 of Part II, as
shown by subdivision
plat bearing the legend Martindale Estates, Section 1 of Part
II, of record in Plat
Book 2, Page 154, In
the Register's Office
for Carter County,
Tennessee, to which
plat reference is here
made for a full and
complete description
of said lot.
Street Address: 3319
Martindale
Drive,
Johnson City, TN 37601
Owner(s) of Property:
Daniel Kehs, and Susan F. Wilson
Current Owner: Daniel
Kehs and Susan F. Wilson, as Tenants by the
Entirety
The street address of
the above described
property is believed to
be 3319 Martindale
Drive, Johnson City, TN
37601, but such address is not part of the
legal description of
the property sold
herein and in the
event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall
control.
All right of equity of redemption, statutory
and otherwise, and
homestead are expressly waived in said
Deed of Trust, and the
title is believed to be
good, but the undersigned will sell and
convey only as Substitute Trustee.
The right is reserved to
adjourn the day of the
sale to another day,
time, and place certain without further
publication, upon announcement at the
time and place for the
sale set forth above.
If the highest bidder
cannot pay the bid
within twenty-four (24)
hours of the sale, the
next highest bidder, at
their highest bid, will
be deemed the successful bidder.
This property is being
sold with the express
reservation that the
sale is subject to confirmation by the lender
or trustee. This sale
may be rescinded at
any time.
This office is a debt
collector. This is an attempt to collect a
debt and any information obtained will
be used for that purpose.
Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP
Substitute Trustee
www.kirschattorneys.com
Law Office of Shapiro
& Kirsch, LLP
6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410
Memphis, TN 38119
Phone 901-767-5566
Fax 901-767-889
File No. 07-15050
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NEXTEL CUP SERIES
Busch Series
DALE JARRETT
April 15
FINISH START
PIT ROAD
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NEXTEL CUP SERIES
Nov. 4
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Can you believe that three
teams — those of pole winner
Greg Biffle, Dave Blaney and
Denny Hamlin — had trouble
stemming from water being
found in their fuel at Atlanta?
Every week Dale Earnhardt Jr.
has his moments, and every
week, something happens.
Three races to go. The most
consistent driver, Jeff Gordon,
leads the biggest winner, Jimmie
Johnson, by nine points. What
could be more just?
Reed Sorenson had a careerbest finish, third, at his home
track. Sorenson is from nearby
Peachtree City, Ga.
Clint Bowyer isn’t conceding
the championship to Gordon
and Johnson, but his odds are
long. A sixth at Atlanta, which
matched his best at the track,
wasn’t enough to put a dent in
his deficit.
Second place gave Carl Edwards some relief. His embarrassing altercation with teammate Matt Kenseth after the
Martinsville race was only the
beginning. Edwards weathered
persistent criticism from some
of his peers. Who came to his
defense most energetically?
Bowyer.
Johnson has swept two races
at one track in a single season
nine times in his career. He’s
done it three times this year.
The all-time leader in sweeps
was, not surprisingly, Richard
Petty, who did it 23 times. Petty,
of course, won 200 races. Johnson’s latest victory was his
31st.
Of the three remaining races,
two are at tracks where Gordon
has never won.
Patrick Carpentier will take
over for Scott Riggs in the No.
10 Dodge for the final two races
of the season.
Race: Silverado 350K
Where: Texas Motor
Speedway, Ft. Worth (1.5
miles), 146 laps/219
miles.
■ When: Friday, Nov. 2
■ Last year’s winner: Clint
Bowyer
■ Qualifying record: Clint
Bowyer, Chevrolet, 184.464
mph, Nov. 2, 2006.
■ Race record: First at this
distance.
■ Last week: Kyle Busch,
driving a Chevrolet, won at
Atlanta Motor Speedway,
the fifth time he has visited
victory lane in trucks.
TU
Silverado 350K,
8:30 p.m., Friday
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Truck Series
Race: O’Reilly Challenge
Where: Texas Motor
Speedway, Ft. Worth (1.5
miles), 200 laps/300
miles.
■ When: Saturday, Nov. 3
■ Last year’s winner: Kevin
Harvick
■ Qualifying record: Jeff
Green, Chevrolet, 193.493
mph, April 5, 2002.
■ Race record: Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 145.710
mph, Nov. 4, 2006.
■ Last week: David Reutimann won for the first time
ever, putting a Toyota in victory lane at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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O’Reilly Challenge,
3 p.m., Saturday
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Dickies 500,
3 p.m., Sunday
500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Johnson’s won eight races
this year. He’s swept two races
at the same track three times:
Martinsville and Richmond in
addition to this one. It was the
ninth time in his career he’s
won two races at the same
track in the same season. By
winning for the second time in
as many weeks, Johnson whittled teammate Jeff Gordon’s
Nextel Cup point lead from 53
to a bare minimum of nine. For
the teammates who have utterly dominated the season from
start to finish — one or the
other has won the past four
races and 14 of the season’s
33 — it was another astonishing week of making the most
out of every single race.
RN
Nextel Cup
Race: Dickies 500
Where: Texas Motor Speedway, Ft. Worth (1.5 miles), 334
laps/501 miles
■ When: Sunday, Nov. 4
■ Last year’s winner: Tony
Stewart
■ Qualifying record: Brian Vickers, Chevrolet, 196.235 mph,
Nov. 3, 2006.
■ Race record: Carl Edwards,
Ford, 151.055 mph, Nov. 6,
2005.
■ Last week: Jimmie Johnson’s
best move was eliminating opposition and turning the Chase
for the Nextel Cup into a twoway duel with friend, teammate
and, yes, rival Jeff Gordon.
Somehow Johnson, who for
once didn’t have the dominant
car, won the Pep Boys Auto
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All times Eastern
Distance:....................1.5 mile oval
Length of frontstretch:.....2,250 ft.
Length of backstretch:.....1,330 ft.
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NO. 44 UPS TOYOTA
Edwards
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Carl Edwards
vs. Matt Kenseth
A post-race incident at Martinsville exposed a bit of bad blood
between the Roush Fenway teammates. Edwards was caught on video
seemingly threatening Kenseth with
physical force, and the tension intensified when Edwards addressed a
need for more “team spirit.” Kenseth
said, “It will be fine.”
NASCAR This Week’s Monte
Dutton gives his take: “Edwards is
direct, Kenseth a bit more secretive.
Both are good guys. They’re just different. They don’t have to be best
friends. However, Edwards should
know better than to get in another
driver’s face with a camera around
— and they’re always around a racetrack.”
George Bush (no, not that
one) was once a racer
John Clark/NASCAR This Week
Dale Jarrett, who turns 51 after the season, announced recently that he is going to retire before the midpoint of the 2008 season.
THE POINTS RACE
Guess what? NASCAR once had a
George Bush, though he was no relation to either of the American presidents with that name. Bush, who was
from Hamburg, N.Y., competed in five
races in 1952, finishing in the top 10
in three of them. His best finish was
seventh in a race run at Atlanta’s
Lakewood Speedway, a mile dirt
track, on Nov. 16, 1952. Bush drove
an Oldsmobile in all five races, but
the records don’t reveal what number
was on it.
NEXTEL CUP
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Jeff Gordon
Jimmie Johnson
Clint Bowyer
Carl Edwards
Tony Stewart
Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick
Jeff Burton
Kurt Busch
Denny Hamlin
Matt Kenseth
Martin Truex Jr.
6,201
-9
- 111
- 261
- 322
- 328
- 392
- 400
- 419
- 424
- 448
- 513
BUSCH SERIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Carl Edwards
David Reutimann
Jason Leffler
Kevin Harvick
David Ragan*
Bobby Hamilton Jr.
Stephen Leicht
Marcos Ambrose*
Greg Biffle
Mike Wallace
-
4,364
- 531
- 758
- 841
- 900
1,051
1,161
1,212
1,228
1,281
CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ron Hornaday Jr.
Mike Skinner
Travis Kvapil
Johnny Benson
Todd Bodine
6. Rick Crawford
7. Ted Musgrave
8. Matt Crafton
9. David Starr
10. Jack Sprague
3,547
-4
- 320
- 408
- 408
- 471
- 793
- 881
- 937
- 945
One Last Hurrah
Veteran Jarrett getting ready for his last few laps around the track
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
HAMPTON, Ga. — Dale Jarrett, a
champion and three times a Daytona
500 winner, is winding down his career with dignity and hoping for a last
hurrah.
Jarrett, who turns 51 after the season, announced recently that he is going to retire before the midpoint of
the 2008 season. The Hickory, N.C.,
driver will run only six races next
year in the No. 44 Toyota of Michael
Waltrip Racing.
This year Jarrett, who has spent the
majority of his career driving Fords,
took a bold move by joining his friend
Waltrip with the new Toyota effort. It
didn’t give the 1999 Winston Cup
champion the career boost he was
seeking. Jarrett and his new team
have improved, but it’s been nothing
to get excited about.
Nineteenth place in the Pep Boys
Auto 500 in Atlanta was Jarrett’s best
of the season. He qualified third,
though, and that was 10 spots better
than any previous showing.
No one said it was going to be easy,
least of all Jarrett. After winning 32
times in NASCAR’s premier series,
first in 1991 and most recently in
2005, said he left Robert Yates’ team
after 12 years because it wasn’t “new
and exciting anymore.”
Jarrett said, “I’ve always been excited about getting in the car, but this
is a lot more than just getting in the
race car.”
The team was ill-prepared, though,
when the season began, and Jarrett
has only made the field in 22 of the 33
races to date.
At last, there are signs that Toyota
is ready to contend. Next year Joe
Gibbs Racing is coming on board,
bringing with it three of NASCAR’s
more talented drivers: Tony Stewart,
Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch.
Jarrett hopes to make something of
what little time, by his own choice, he
has left. He’d like to win one more
time, but the streak of losses has now
reached 76.
It’s entirely possible that Jarrett
will never receive just credit for his
role in making Toyota competitive. He
took quite a chance, and it hasn’t
worked out particularly well. One day,
however, Toyota will win races and
championships, and Jarrett will be
able to take some personal satisfaction for playing a role in the Japanese
manufacturer’s early development.
Want to read more from Monte
Dutton? Check out http://www.gastongazette.com/sections/sports/nascar
NASCAR is slipping away
right in front of our eyes
It's always sad to see a very
good friend get a terminal illness
and watch the dying process. That
friend is NASCAR.
All one has to do is look at what
they (Tony George) did to Indy-car
racing. The stands were packed and
the racing was exciting. Now the
stands are virtually empty. …
… NASCAR is following the same
path. Recruiting drivers from other
racing venues. Forcing cars on
teams and fans that make no room
for creativity (cheating). For the first
time in decades, I'm seeing huge
blocks of seats at NASCAR races
that are empty. …
… It's time to get back to the
roots of NASCAR, and stop trying to
make it all-inclusive, and make it
less commercial. … It's hard not to
appear xenophobic to say that foreign-born drivers are harmful to the
sport, but it's a fact, and NASCAR
needs to look at fans instead of the
bottom line. Otherwise, there will be
no bottom line. …
… Trying to fix a healthy horse
doesn't make for a better race.
John Shilling
Mount Sterling, Ohio
We appreciate your allowing us
access to your thoughtful and compelling letter. We hope NASCAR officials will at least begin to listen to
what their fans have to say.
Mergers and acquisitions an often overlooked theme
Who’s hot — The last four
races have been won by either
Jimmie Johnson or Jeff Gordon. Johnson’s the season’s
biggest winner, but Gordon
leads the standings by nine
points.
Who’s not
— Tony
Stewart
stumbled to
a troublefilled 30th at
Atlanta, ending any faint
hope for a
third champi- STEWART
onship. ...
Mark Martin crashed early and
wound up last.
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
HAMPTON, Ga. — This has
been the season of a foreign
manufacturer, a new car design and an amended Chase for
the Nextel Cup, but it has also
been the season of mergers and
acquisitions.
What previously was Roush
Racing is now Roush Fenway
Racing. Dale Earnhardt Inc.
enveloped
Ginn
Racing.
George Gillett bought a majority share of Ray Evernham’s
team, forming Gillett Evernham Racing. Dale Earnhardt
Inc. and Richard Childress
Racing merged engine operations.
“Most of the traditional people in this business are not big,
giant marketing and advertising people,” said Evernham.
“We are just not trained that
way, but the business has
grown to that level. The only
way we can continue to survive
or be a part of it is if we partner with somebody.”
■
Seemingly set — Haas CNC
Racing announced last week
that Jeremy Mayfield would
replace Jeff Green for the rest
of the season.
The team also announced
that Mayfield would have a
full-time ride next year, though
not specifying which of its two
teams.
A similar announcement was
made several weeks ago when
Scott Riggs announced he
would join Haas CNC next
year, which begs an obvious
question.
Green is now out. The team’s
other entry, the No. 70, has
Johnny Sauter as its driver. If
Mayfield and Riggs are in, is
Sauter out? Not officially.
Could this team be expanding to three regular entries? If
so, who gets the owner points?
Another factor is the possibility of changes being made in
the formula by which automatic spots in starting fields are
determined.
“Every indication is that this
is a team with unlimited potential,” said Mayfield. “The shop
is state-of-the-art, the equipment is first-rate, there’s an
outstanding relationship with
Hendrick Motorsports here,
and it’s my challenge to make it
all equal success on the track.”
■
Lightning strikes — The National Stock Car Racing Commission seldom overturns
NASCAR rulings, but it happened last week when the body
overturned an assessment involving an alleged engine irregularity in Kyle Busch’s winning car at the Busch Series
race in Kansas.
The panel consisting of Chairman George Silbermann, David
Hall and Richard Gore overturned the $10,000 fine assessed
Busch’s crew chief, Michael
Bumgarner, ruling, “The manifold did conform to the applicable NASCAR-approved gauges
and other measuring devices.”
P R E D S
Leipold
extends
negotiating
rights to
local group
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Owner Craig Leipold decided
Wednesday to give more time to
the local investors trying to buy his
Nashville Predators and keep
them from leaving town.
The local investors put down
$10 million as a deposit in August
for the $193 million purchase and
faced a midnight deadline
Wednesday to finalize the sale or
lose exclusive negotiating rights.
They have been working with
Metro Nashville officials to revise
the team’s arena lease to give them
a better chance of making rather
than losing money. Leipold is selling because he estimated he has
lost $70 million in his 10 years of
ownership.
Leipold said in a statement released by the team late Wednesday
afternoon that he had met with
Mayor Karl Dean for an update on
where the city is in the lease negotiations with the group led by David
Freeman.
He also met with Freeman for
an update on the group’s progress
toward finalizing this deal. He did
not say how much more time he is
giving them to finish the deal but
said he looks forward to completing the sale.
“We understand how complex
this transaction is and how much
time and effort David, his group,
the Mayor’s office and others have
invested into the process all with a
goal of keeping the Predators in
Nashville and making the franchise viable for the long-term,”
Leipold said.
“Based on the progress being
made, I am convinced all parties
will benefit from extra time to complete this transaction so we will extend the purchase agreement with
David’s group with a goal of completing the sale as soon as possible.”
The investors declined to comment after Leipold announced the
extension. But the group does have
a new partner. Doug Bergeron is a
businessman and friend of California venture capitalist William
“Boots” Del Biaggio — who had
been the only non-Nashville investor.
Freeman said in a statement
that nothing is changing in the
ownership group.
“Boots is simply diversifying or
diluting his personal interest and
bringing another very bright, high
quality, hockey-loving investor into his group. We are very happy
that Mr. Bergeron will be part of
our ownership group,” Freeman
said.
Leipold didn’t say much more
himself.
“We do not plan to comment
further on the sale status until
there is significant and definitive
news,” Leipold said.
Leipold originally announced a
deal to sell his team in May to
Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie
for $220 million. But the deal fell
through in June when the co-CEO
of Blackberry makers Research in
Motion Ltd. started taking season
ticket deposits in Hamilton, Ontario.
He remains interested in purchasing the team. Balsillie retained
a local attorney who shared a letter
with the Nashville Sports Authority recently in which he called
Nashville a great hockey market.
Del Biaggio lost out to Balsillie
on his own separate bid to buy the
Predators when he had a deal to
put a pro team in Kansas City’s
new arena. He could bid on his
own again if this deal falls through.
The local investors have struggled to work out lease changes for
the arena because local elections
slowed down negotiations. The
past mayor preferred to leave the
deal to his successor, and Dean has
said the investors’ deadline was
not the city’s.
Last week, city officials asked
the investors to commit to keeping
the Predators here for five years in
exchange for subsidies and $6.9
million for further arena upgrades.
The investors agreed to the fiveyear commitment, but they want
more help to avoid losing money.
Under the current lease, the
team must average 14,000 in paid
attendance this season or the lease
will be void, allowing the Predators to leave. The team averaged
13,815 in paid attendance last season but is off to a 4-7 start after
choosing not to keep expensive
players like Paul Kariya and Kimmo Timonen.
Dean told The Tennessean earlier Wednesday that the city and the
investors have made progress but
he wouldn’t discuss any changes.
“We’re going to keep working,”
he told the newspaper.
Cloudland
n Continued from 1B
team.”
A dejected Lunsford sat in
the visiting lockeroom after
that outcome. He said it was
the best lineup he had ever
challenged since taking over
following Orr’s retirement in
1988.
“I thought they had more
talent,” Lunsford said. “I was
awful proud of my kids there
that game, but I still feel the
best team won. If we had
played them 10 times, I think
they would have beat us 10
times. That’s about as good a
team as I’ve ever seen.
Campbell stresses each incounty rivaly holds a different meaning. But none closer
to the heart than this Friday
night at Orr Field.
“Cloudland may be a little
more special, in the fact that
we use to play them twice a
year,” Campbell said. “Neither one of us could get a
game in the confines of the
United States. We were having to go to Siberia to play,
and we played twice a year.
“We’ve had some great,
great games with Cloudland.
We’ve won some and lost
some.”
Lunsford played for the
Highlanders from 1976-79.
He assisted there after graduating from East Tennessee
State and was on Campbell’s
staff before returning to
Cloudland.
“We never beat them when
I was there, when I was playing,” Lunsford said. “They
were quite a bit better than us.
The first team I remember
beating them was the year
Coach Orr had a brain tumor.
“We beat them up there at
Cloudland. I was coaching
and my brother was a senior.
That was a good game, the
last game of the season.”
That was 1982, when
Lunsford was still in college.
Campbell recalled a visit to
the hospital to visit Orr.
“I went over to see John
Orr when he had his brain
surgery,” Campbell said. “We
played them the last game of
the season, didn’t have but
one quarterback and he broke
his leg early in the game.
“John said, ‘Was it a clean
hit? Was it dirty?’ No it wasn’t – just something that happened. That’s the kind of person John Orr was.”
That’s the kind of series
this is. These are hard-hitting
kids, but there is the utmost
respect.
———
Rick Sheek is a sports writer
for the Elizabethton Star. He
can be reached via e-mail at
[email protected]
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