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S U N DAY
APRIL 26, 2015
160th YEAR • NO. 306
Inside Today
Borrowing from HCI funds to be requested
County officials to ask
state AG for permission
By BRIAN GRAVES
Banner Staff Writer
County Trustee Mike Smith and
County Attorney Crystal Freiberg
will travel to Nashville Tuesday in
the next chapter of the county’s
Healthy Community Initiative
Fund.
Smith and Freiberg will meet
Orange and White
The Tennessee Vols participated in their annual Orange and
White game Saturday at Neyland
Stadium. Walker Valley picks up a
baseball win over No. 6-ranked
Meigs County. Joe Cannon is
(finally) back with a new
Cannon’s Corner. Peyton
Manning has made a large donation to the University of
Tennessee. Walker Valley and
Polk softball teams continue to
rack up the wins. The Cleveland
Country Club has hired a new
head tennis professional. See
Sports, Pages 17-21, 25 and 28.
Spring swing
Tips on everything from choosing paint colors to making home
improvements on a budget might
just inspire some to start swinging
their hammers. See our special
“Spring Home Improvement” section, Page 37- 46.
Rymer scholars
The finalists for Lee
University’s prestigious Rymer
Scholarships have been
announced. Nine local high
school students have so far
made the cut. See People, Page
47.
Work release
A new work-release program in
Bradley County is designed to
reduce both prison costs and
recidivism by encouraging
inmates to be better prepared for
life after prison. See Lifestyles,
Page 29.
Blood Assurance
Blood Assurance, with a new
location for its donor office in
Cleveland, is planning a “Hero
Week” and a grand re-opening
celebration. See story, Page 6.
Forecast
The forecast calls for mostly
cloudy skies with a slight chance
of morning and early afternoon
showers. Temperatures should be
in the lower 70s. Temperatures
tonight should dip to the mid to
upper 40s. On Monday expect
sunny skies a nd highs in the
upper 60s and lower 70s.
Index
Business news .............................27
Church............................................5
Classified.................................56-65
Comics..........................................51
Editorials..................................22,23
Horoscope....................................51
Lifestyles .................................29-33
Obituaries.......................................2
Stocks...........................................25
Sports................................17-21, 25
TV Schedule............................52,53
Weather........................................15
Around Town
Austin Lewis doing the most
important job on the diamond ...
Frankie Lowery showing off his
texting skills ... Daniel Pennington
enjoying an event with his wife ...
Chip and Jane Chavis giving a
friend a lift in style ... Dr. Carolyn
Dirksen sharing well-wishes with
those affected by earthquakes in
Nepal.
CLEVELAND, TN 66 PAGES • $1.00
with the state attorney general to
get permission for the county to
borrow $16 million from the fund
over a 20-year period.
The saga began on Oct. 1, 2005,
when an agreement was reached
between the Board of Trustees of
the Bradley Memorial Hospital and
Community Health Systems to sell
the
hospital’s
assets
for
$76,500,000.
The
Bradley
County
Commission asserted a claim to
control the use and disposition of
the assets remaining after all of the
hospital’s liabilities had been paid.
The
trustees
and
the
Commission formed an agreement
where $20 million of the sale proceeds would be deposited into an
account controlled jointly by both
parties.
An agreement was reached in
June 2006 by which the county
would receive $15 million of the
$20 million plus the interest
earned from investments.
On July 26, 2006, the board of
directors of the United Way and
the hospital trustees reached an
agreement where the organization
would invest, administer and disburse any funds left after the payment to Bradley County was made.
State Attorney General Paul G.
Summers said he would take no
action opposing the settlement.
The agreement, ratified by
Chancellor Jerri S. Bryant,
See HCI, Page 8
Whitaker
receives
national
accolades
CU warns
of new
scam in
the area
WVHS student wins
entrepreneurship award
By JOYANNA LOVE
Banner Senior Staff Writer
Scammers are finding new
ways to try and get money
through dishonest means.
Cleveland Utilities was made
aware late last week of a new
scam in the area.
Tim Henderson, Cleveland
Utilities vice president of administrative services, said the newest
scam involves a caller claiming
they are a part of the Electric
Power Board.
“We just have limited information that we have gotten from this
customer,” Henderson said. “But
it was an accented voice posing to
be an Electric Power Board. They
are asking for monies that would
go to provide funding for
Cleveland Utilities fiber (optics)
system.”
CU has been exploring the possibility of offering fiber optic
Internet service, but a decision on
whether it will be offered is far
from being made.
Bart Borden, vice president of
the Electric Division, said the
utility has contracted with
Uptown Services to conduct surveys to determine need for such
services.
“There is no part of that soliciting any funds,” Borden said.
If the utility were to offer fiber
optic Internet service, the system
would be paid for through a bond
issue, not private donations.
CU would never call customers
required the county seek requests
for proposals from qualified investment firms and invest the $15 million plus interest “in such a manner as to generate a fair return on
these monies.”
A minimum of 15 percent of all
interest earned annually was
required to be invested in the principal so that “the time value of
money does not erode the principal
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Banner Staff Writer
Banner photo, JOYANNA LOVE
PUBLIX EMPLOYEES volunteer with community members to put up a fence around a community garden. Impact Cleveland and the Blythe-Oldfield Community Association have partnered to create a garden as a gathering place for the community.
Partners come together to unite
community through garden
By JOYANNA LOVE
An empty lot that has never
been built on is getting a look
as a site for a community garden.
The
Blythe-Oldfield
Community Association and
Impact Cleveland have begun
work to convert the vacant,
grassy lot on 13th Street into a
community garden.
“Southview Baptist owned
the lot, and they had hopes for
it … but they ended up building a family center on the
(sanctuary) property and didn’t
need this anymore. They were
looking to sell it and we were
looking for a place for a community garden,” said Dustin
Tommey of Impact Cleveland.
A grant from Broad Street
United Methodist Church
allowed the Blythe-Oldfield
Community Association and
Impact Cleveland to purchase
the property.
“We identified a need.
Residents wanted to have this,
and we started putting a plan
together to implement it,”
Tommey said.
Tommey said the lot was
“awesome” for the project,
because there are no trees on
the property. The corner lot is
also a good location because of
the friendly neighbors who will
“keep an eye on it,” he said.
“We have several key resident leaders who are involved
See GARDEN, Page 8
See CU, Page 12
A local high school student
has won a
national award
for a business
she runs when
she is not at
school.
M a r a h
Whitaker,
a
Walker Valley
High School
student, was
Whitaker
one of five
Tennessee recipients and the
only one in the area to receive
the annual Young Entrepreneur
Award from the National
Federation of Independent
Business’ Young Entrepreneur
Foundation.
The award gave her a $1,000
scholarship and, she said, the
encouragement to continue
doing something she loves —
teaching music.
“It’s the one thing that I have
just always been passionate
about,” Whitaker said.
She runs Miss Marah’s Music,
a music education business that
currently has her teaching piano
lessons to 10 children.
The
18-year-old
senior
launched the business about a
year ago after finding a love for
teaching while showing her now
9-year-old brother, Joshua, how
See WHITAKER, Page 12
Empowering Women fundraiser
supports Boys & Girls Clubs
By JOYANNA LOVE
The Boys & Girls Clubs of
Cleveland will honor local
women leaders and raise funds
during the fifth annual
Empowering Women event May
7.
New for this year will be the
addition of an online auction.
“We wanted to do something a
little different this year,” said
organizing committee member
Margaret Schenck. “We wanted
to
highlight
Empowering
Women very early. We wanted to
reach people — besides just
those attending the gala —
because we know we have a lot
of
supporters
all
over
Tennessee. We hope to draw
those in that way.”
The online auction at
www.32auctions.com/empoweringwomen features a number
of items, including Atlanta
Motor Speedway tickets, a
bowie knife and sheath, electric
grill, paintings, stained glass
art, gift certificates and vacations trips.
The online auction will be
open until 8 p.m. the day of the
event.
Silent and live auctions will
be held on a number of vacation
and party packages, jewelry and
gift packages.
The annual Empowering
Women awards will recognize a
Empowering Woman of the Year,
an Empowering Global Woman
of the year and a Empowering
Woman Youth of the Year as
selected by an advisory team of
See WOMEN, Page 8
Goal Academy celebrates its seniors
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG Banner Staff Writer
Goal
Academy,
Bradley
County Schools’ alternative
school, recently devoted an
entire day to celebrating the seniors who have overcome life’s
challenges and will graduate
with their high school diplomas
in May.
Senior Day took place on the
school’s Sunset Drive campus
Friday, and it was filled with
opportunities for the school’s
staff, students and guests to
look back on the past and see
what progress has been made.
While the school’s senior class
is on the small side with 28 students, Goal Academy is this year
celebrating a 100 percent graduation rate.
See GOAL, Page 12
Contributed photo
SHERIFF ERIC WATSON observes as TBI Special Agent Philip
Cicero leads Detective Zachary Pike in a tire track study.
TBI holds training sessions
for Bradley County CID
By TONY EUBANK Banner Staff Writer
The Bradley County Sherriff’s
Office hosted the Tennessee
Bureau of Investigation for a
special training session for
members of the BCSO Criminal
Investigations Division.
The first-of-its-kind training
for the TBI and the BSCO, was
held over a three-day period last
week and covered an array of
investigative topics and techniques.
Banner photo, CHRISTY ARMSTRONG
The classes, led by TBI special
GOAL ACADEMY staff members place honor cords on the shoul- agents, were designed to bring
ders of one of the school’s graduating seniors during the Senior Day the BCSO CID up to speed on
celebration Friday while others display a celebratory sign.
the latest technology and to
widen the overall skill set of the
local detectives.
Sherriff Eric Watson stated
that while the TBI hosts training
all over the state at varying
times every year, this is the first
time the TBI has brought such a
training directly to a law
enforcement agency.
The seminar consisted of several one-hour classes and
hands-on training sessions that
offered CID officers the opportunity to learn more about human
trafficking, crime scene photography, interrogation techniques,
how to data mine new technoloSee TBI, Page 12
2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Sunday, April 26, 2015
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OBITUARIES
Deborah L. Bunch
Deborah L. Bunch, 57, of
Cleveland, died Saturday, April
25, 2015, at a Chattanooga hospital.
Survivors and funeral arrangements will be announced by
Ralph Buckner Funeral Home
and Crematory.
Jacquelene Burns
Jacquelene Burns, 67, of
Charleston, died Saturday, April
25, 2015.
Survivors and arrangements
will be announced by Companion
Funeral Home.
Sterling Allen Daubner
Sterling Peebles Allen Daubner,
82, passed away on Monday, April
20, 2015, at a hospital in Orlando,
Fla.
She was born in Jackson, Miss.
She was the only child of Sterling
and Lillian Peebles.
In 1954, she graduated from
Sophie Newcomb, the women's
college of Tulane University in
New Orleans, La. While at Tulane,
she met and married Robert L.
Allen, MD, her husband of 31
years who passed away in 1986.
She lived in Cleveland for four
decades before moving to Florida.
She is survived by daughters:
Elizabeth Daubner, Catherine
Allen and Deborah Fein; two sonsin-law: Michael Daubner and
Douglas Fein; and her loving husband of 13 years, Drew Daubner
of Maitland, Fla.
Drew and Sterling enjoyed a
special bond. He made her last
years completely joyful. She will
be sadly missed by all.
Interment will be held in
Cleveland.
Arrangements have not been
made at this time.
Baldwin-Fairchild
Funeral
Home, Altamonte Springs, Fla.,
was in charge of arrangements.
his parents: Traynor and Stella
McDonald; sister, Mable Clark;
and infant brother, Erskine
McDonald.
Survivors include his loving
wife of 45 years, Mary McDonald;
two sons: Chuck McDonald and
Tommy McDonald and wife,
Julie; three grandchildren: Chaz
McDonald, Katey McDonald and
Lige McDonald; one brother, T.J.
McDonald and wife, Caroline;
and three nephews: Joey
McDonald, Jimmy McDonald and
Erskine McDonald.
There will be no service at this
time.
The family would like to
express appreciation to Bradley
Home Health and Hospice.
Higgins Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
We invite you to send a message of condolence and view the
McDonald family guestbook at
www.higginsfuneral.com.
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Angela McMinn
Angela Suzanne Douthitt
McMinn, 38, of Cleveland,
passed away Thursday evening,
April 23, 2015, at SkyRidge
Medical Center.
A native and lifelong resident
of Bradley County, she was
employed
at
Signature
Healthcare and was of the
Christian faith. She touched the
lives of everyone she met.
She was preceded in death by
her father, John Lee Douthitt.
She is survived by her loving
husband, Michael McMinn, of
Cleveland;
mother,
Wanda
Headrick Douthitt, of Cleveland;
mother and father-in-law: Steve
and
Donna
McMinn,
of
Cleveland; and brother-in-law,
Vetrial M. Comeaux
Josh McMinn and wife, Jennifer,
Vetrial M. Comeaux, 95, of
of Durham, N.C.
Cleveland,
passed
away
A celebration of her life will be
Thursday, April 23, 2015.
conducted at 4 p.m. Monday,
She was born on Sept. 6,
April 27, 2015, from the
1919, in Itawamba County, Miss. Wayne Gann
Signature Healthcare Chapel.
She was a member of the
Wayne
Gann,
66,
of The family will visit with friends
Peerless Road Church of God of Cleveland, died Saturday, April after the service.
Prophecy and an honorary mem- 25, 2015.
We invite you to visit the guestber of the Center for Biblical
Survivors and arrangements book of Angela McMinn and send
Leadership.
will be announced by Companion a message of comfort to
She loved sewing and flowers Funeral Home.
www.grissomserenity.com.
of all kinds, but her favorites were
Grissom-Serenity
Funeral
roses. She loved cooking for her
Home and Cremation Services,
family and shopping and eating
Mark S. Grissom, funeral direcwith her grandchildren. Nothing
tor, is in charge of arrangements.
could perk her up like her grandchildren. Her words were always
kind and loving, and she was
always willing to lend an ear.
She was preceded in death by
her
husband,
Eugene
J.
Comeaux; her parents: Bishop
Henry M. Moxley and Georgia
Lauderdale Moxley. She was the
eldest and last surviving sibling
of brothers: Ernest, Owen and
Eugene Moxley; and her sister,
Verdia Gooding.
She is survived by her two
daughters: Jeanette C. Rollins
and Brenda C. Rollins and husband, John, of Cleveland; three
grandchildren:
Kenneth
M.
Rollins and wife, Amanda, of
Cleveland, Crystal R. Black and
husband, Dan, of Cleveland, and
Vanessa R. Kimbril and husband,
Charles (Chuck), of Kingsport;
great-grandchildren: Kathryn,
Vince and Connor Rollins, Chaz
and Cooper Kimbril, Cydney and
Nicholas Black, Ciara B. Lee and
husband, Mike; one great-great- Russell E. Kelley
grandchild, Ellie Lee; and several
Russell E. Kelley, 61, a resident
nieces and nephews.
of Cleveland, passed away
A Remembrance of Life serv- Thursday, April 23, 2015, at his
ice will be held at 4 p.m. today, residence.
Frank Moore
April 26, 2015, at Peerless Road
He was born and raised in
Church of God of Prophecy with Cleveland and was employed by
Frank
Moore,
80,
of
Pastor Brian Sutton, Bishop Beaty Fertilizer as a salesman.
Cleveland,
passed
away
Adrain Varlock Sr. and Dr. Hector
He was a member of Pine Hill Thursday, April 23, 2015, at his
Ortiz officiating.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. home.
The interment will follow at He enjoyed farming and loved to
He was the son of the late
Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Gladys
Irene Wright Moore and
hunt on the family farm.
The family will receive friends
He was preceded in death by Elmer Moore.
today from 2 until 4 p.m. at the his parents: Eugene and Mary
Moore was also preceded in
church.
Frances Bean Kelley; and a death by his wife, Patsy Moore;
The North Ocoee Street nephew, Richard Cranch.
daughter, Wanda Moore; grandChapel of the Jim Rush Funeral
He is survived by his wife, daughter, April Moore; sister,
Homes has charge of the Wanda
Trewitt
Kelley,
of Ada Moore; twin brother, Fred
arrangements.
Cleveland; two children: Joseph Moore; and brother, Cooney
We encourage you to share Kelley and John Kelley and wife, Moore.
your memories and/or condo- Anali, all of Cleveland; two sisters:
He was the co-owner and
lences with Comeaux’s family by Marilyn Kelley of Cleveland and operator of Housemovers Inc.,
going to www.jimrushfuneral- Nancy Cranch of Hendersonville; where he moved houses his
homes.com.
and one niece, Lori Cranch of entire life. He loved the outdoors, enjoying activities like
Hendersonville.
The funeral will be conducted at camping and boat riding, and
2 p.m. today, April 26, 2015, in the attended the Baptist church.
Survivors include his daughchapel of Ralph Buckner Funeral
Home with the Rev. Allen ters: Kathy Doss and her husLovelace and the Rev. Russ band, Bobby, and Anita Dixon,
Samantha Bean and her husMaroon officiating.
Interment will follow at Hilcrest band, Tom, all of Cleveland;
Memorial Gardens with Dale sons: Michael Moore and his
Jordan, Daryl Sliger, Dennis Ellis, wife, Brenda, and Bobby Moore
Devon Fansler, James Rogers and Hershel Dover, all of
stepson,
Dean
and Bobby Rogers serving as pall- Cleveland;
Bishop, and his wife, Jane, of
bearers.
We invite you to send a mes- Cleveland; 11 grandchildren;
BOSTON (AP) — A backpack
sage of condolence and view the and 12 great-grandchildren.
strap used by an Apollo 14 astro- Kelley family guestbook at
A Remembrance of Life service will be held Monday, April
naut as he moved around the www.ralphbuckner.com.
27, 2015, at 11 a.m. from the
surface of the moon in 1971 has
Wildwood Avenue Chapel of Jim
sold at auction for nearly
Rush Funeral Homes with the
$42,000.
Rev. Jim Hibbard officiating.
Massachusetts-based
RR
Interment will follow in the
Auction says the strap that Edgar
Croft Chapel Cemetery in
Mitchell brought back as a souCopperhill with Bobby Moore,
venir of the mission fetched
Hershel Dover, Michael Moore,
$41,806 this week. The buyer’s Willis McDonald
Jr., P.D. Doss, Steven Vaughn,
identity was not disclosed.
Willis “Hoop” McDonald, 78, a Bradley Dixon, Lynn Lawson
Mitchell spent nearly 9½ hours lifelong resident of Benton, and Davis Doss serving as cason the lunar surface, where he passed away Friday, April 24, ketbearers.
left the life support backpack 2015, at his home.
today from 4 until 7 p.m. at theHe
was
of
the
Baptist
faith.
before returning to Earth.
He was preceded in death by funeral home.
Backpack strap
used by Apollo 14
moonwalker sells
(USPS 117-700)
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Special to the Banner
Shona Ross
Shona Ross, 51, a resident of
Ocoee, passed away on Friday
morning, April 24, 2015, at her
home surrounded by family.
She was known for being a
great wife, mom and granny and
will be greatly missed by all who
knew her.
She leaves behind to cherish
her memory her husband of 17
years, Michael Ross; and her
children: Sherri Stevens, René
(Justin) Goodman, Michaela
Ross, Robert Ross and Micah
Ross.
She was the 10th child of 12
siblings and has five grandchildren.
A funeral is planned for
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at 4 p.m.
in the Cookson Creek Baptist
Church Cemetery, located at
1686 Sand Mountain Road,
Ocoee, TN 37361, with Brother
Brian Whitmore officiating the
service.
Interment will follow t in the
Cookson Creek Baptist Church
Cemetery.
at the church on Monday night
from 5 until 7.
You are invited to share a personal memory of Shona or your
condolences with her family at
her online memorial located at
www.companionfunerals.com.
Companion
Funeral
and
Cremation Service and the Cody
family are honored to assist the
Ross family with these arrangements.
The
Cleveland/Bradley
Chamber of Commerce has coordinated a successful Tennessee
Scholars program for many years
in cooperation with the Bradley
County and Cleveland City
Schools System.
After recent discussions with
directors of schools and a representative of Cleveland State
Community College, local leaders
agree that May 2015 is the right
time for the Chamber to discontinue offering this program in the
community.
“The
implementation
of
Tennessee Promise, the more rigorous Tennessee graduation
requirements and a change in
Cleveland State’s distribution of
scholarship funds make offering
Tennessee Scholars both redundant in some areas and no longer
effective for us in others,” Sherry
Crye, coordinator of the
Chamber’s Tennessee Scholars
program, explained.
Endorsed by the Tennessee
Department of Education and the
Tennessee
Chamber
of
Commerce & Industry, the
Tennessee Scholars program
began in Bradley County Schools
in 2005. The initial intent of the
program was to encourage students to take more rigorous
courses, especially in math, and
to reach the middle 50 percent of
students who were not likely to
pursue post-secondary education, the Chamber spokersperson
explained.
The additional requirements to
graduate as a Tennessee Scholar
— 80 hours of volunteer service,
95-percent attendance over four
years and no out-of-school suspensions — were included to
instill a good work ethic, she
added.
“The Tennessee Scholars program is not a scholarship program, but graduates do have an
opportunity to apply for scholarships at Cleveland State
Community
College,
Lee
University, Bryan College and
Tennessee College of Applied
Technology,”
Crye
said.
“Graduating as a Tennessee
Scholar is also an honor earned
in high school that would be an
asset for any scholarships
applied for at any university.”
To date, 1,707 students from
Bradley Central, Cleveland and
Walker Valley high schools and
Tennessee Christian Preparatory
School have graduated as certified Tennessee Scholars.
“We are proud of all of these
graduates and the paths they
have taken after high school to
prepare themselves for our local
workforce,” said Crye, who also
serves as director of workforce
development.
The Chamber’s involvement in
education programs for area students continues to focus on
meeting the growing demands
local industries face in finding
skilled labor, Crye said.
“It is vital that our schools prepare students for post-secondary
life whether that is a university, a
community college, technical
school or the workforce,” Crye
concluded.
OMS plans out-of-zone
enrollment April 27-May 15
To submit an obituary,
have the funeral home or
cremation society in
charge of arrangements email the information to
[email protected] and fax to 423614-6529, attention Obits.
Ocoee Middle School Principal Ron Spangler and his staff
have a challenging task ahead in determining enrollment for the
2015-16 school year.
Ocoee Middle administrators have announced enrollment for
out-of-zone students will be conducted April 27 through May 15.
Parents can register their children in the Ocoee Middle School
office between 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Following this registration process, Spangler and his staff will
determine the status of out-of-zone applications for the coming
year.
Acceptance for these students will be based on space availability at Ocoee Middle.
LOTTERY NUMBERS
(AP) — These state lotteries
were drawn over the weekend:
Sum: 23
Cash 4 Morning: 6-2-8-5
Tennessee
Friday
Cash 3 Evening: 1-0-0, Lucky
Sum: 1
Cash 3 Midday: 5-8-8, Lucky
Sum: 21
Cash 3 Morning: 7-0-5
Cash 4 Evening: 2-7-4-7,
Lucky Sum: 20
Cash 4 Midday: 5-4-6-5, Lucky
Sum: 20
Cash 4 Morning: 1-7-9-9
Mega Millions: 24-25-29-4767, Mega Ball: 4; Megaplier: 4
Tennessee Cash: 06-15-25-3133, Bonus: 2
GeorGia
Friday
All or Nothing Day: 04-06-0810-11-12-13-14-17-22-23-24
All or Nothing Evening: 01-0204-08-09-13-15-17-18-19-21-24
All or Nothing Morning: 01-0203-05-07-08-14-15-16-18-21-22
All or Nothing Night: 01-02-0305-10-11-16-17-18-19-20-23
Cash 3 Evening: 5-8-7
Cash 3 Midday: 2-4-3
Cash 4 Evening: 1-3-1-6
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‘Operation Babylift’ kids, soldiers reunite 40 years later
HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — With
the Viet Cong making their final
push toward taking Saigon in
April 1975, the fate of thousands
of Vietnamese orphans was
uncertain until President Gerald
Ford ordered remaining forces to
evacuate the children.
Forty years after the final flight
of Operation Babylift left
Vietnam, 20 evacuees and their
adopted
families
gathered
Saturday for a reunion along
with some of the servicemen who
took part in the rescue.
“Operation Babylift is one of
the few great things to come from
the Vietnam tragedy,” said Lana
Mae Noone, organizer of the
event staged at the New Jersey
Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Noone also is the founder of
the website Vietnam Babylift,
which aims to connect adoptees,
their families and veterans
involved with the mission. In all,
2,547 children were rescued and
adopted by families in the United
States and allied countries.
Noone, 68, of Garden City,
New York, adopted her two
daughters — Heather and
Jennifer — after they were
among the last children evacuated to the United States. Heather
developed pneumonia on her way
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to America, and died in May
1975.
“I promised her I would make
sure babylift would never be forgotten,” Noone said.
Dressed in a black ao dai, a
traditional Vietnamese silk
dress, Leah Heslin, 42, said she
looked forward to meeting other
adult adoptees who, like her,
were raised in America but find
interest in their Vietnamese heritage.
“It’s been very exciting, very
anxious. I’m kind of nervous,”
said Heslin, who attended with
her adoptive mother, Carole
Heslin, 72. “It brings it back to
home a little bit.”
Participants dedicated a
plaque inscribed with the names
of 138 children, volunteers and
soldiers who perished when their
C-5A Galaxy crashed while headed to Clark Air Base in the
Philippines.
Greg Gmerek, a medic for the
9th Air Evac Squadron, survived
the crash.
“Mud was flying at me and I
went flying around all over the
place” recalled Gmerek, who was
not strapped in because all the
seats were strapped with two
children a piece. “We just started
getting the babies out as best we
could.”
Gmerek said he broke six ribs
and had a partially collapsed
lung from the crash.
“I thought about them all the
time,” Gmerek said of the children.
Kim Lan Duong said she was
orphaned in the streets of Saigon
before being flown to Detroit dur-
ing Operation Babylift, where she
was adopted and raised by her
single mother and grandmother,
Sandy and Violet Howard.
“To be able to see adult
adoptees, it warms their hearts
to see us grown up,” said Duong,
43, who now lives in Dallas.
“They still call us kids and that’s
OK.”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo’s
chronically struggling school system is considering an idea gaining
momentum in other cities: public
boarding schools that put roundthe-clock attention on students
and away from such daunting
problems as poverty, troubled
homes and truancy.
Supporters say such a dramatic
step is necessary to get some students into an atmosphere that
promotes learning, and worth the
costs, estimated at $20,000 to
$25,000 per student per year.
“We have teachers and union
leaders telling us, ‘The problem is
with the homes; these kids are in
dysfunctional homes,’” said
Buffalo school board member Carl
Paladino.
He envisions a charter boarding
school in Buffalo where students
as young as first or second grade
would be assured proper meals,
uniforms, after-school tutoring
and activities.
It’s one of a pair of boarding
school proposals that have been
floated in the city, where only 53
percent of students graduate in
four years, English and math proficiency hover 20 points below the
state average, and a majority of
public schools are considered by
the state to be failing. Around 80
percent of students meet federal
guidelines for free and reduced
lunch.
“We are not hitting various
measures set by the state or ourselves,” said Tanika Shedrick, a
former charter school dean who is
trying to open the state’s first public boarding high school in Buffalo.
“Our students are leaving school
not prepared for college.”
Her charter Buffalo Institute of
Growth would supplement a college-style academic schedule with
life skills and social activities that
would keep students on campus
seven days a week, with the goal of
sending 100 percent of graduates
to college or a vocational program.
“We want to make sure we’re
there every step of the way,” said
Shedrick, who plans to submit a
charter school application to the
state this year. She estimates the
per-student cost at $20,000 to
$25,000 per year, to be paid for
with public funding and fundraising. New York’s traditional charter
school allocation is about $12,000
per student.
Both proposals in Buffalo would
be subject to state approval.
About 115,000 students board
at private schools in the United
States, federal statistics show, in a
tradition that predates the
Revolutionary War, but the idea of
public boarding schools is relatively new.
The Washington, D.C.-based
SEED Foundation opened its first
public boarding school for poor
and academically at-risk students
in 1998 and followed up with a
school in Baltimore in 2008 and
Miami in 2014. A fourth school is
in the works in Ohio at the request
of the state’s Department of
Education. The model, in which
students in grades six through 12
return home for weekends,
required changes in state laws.
The idea has been discussed in
cities including Detroit and
Niagara Falls, as well. Advocates
say the high price is the biggest
obstacle.
“Even I have to admit, in the
short run it’s expensive,” SEED
Foundation co-founder Eric Adler
said. “That’s an argument for not
doing it. I don’t think it’s a good
argument, but it’s a valid argument.”
Adler continued: “Not every
child needs this, but there are
many who do, and without it, they
wouldn’t have much of a shot.”
Tasha Poulson found SEED and
its 90-plus percent graduation rate
while researching schools after
seeing her daughter, who had
excelled in elementary school,
begin to lose ground upon entering
one of Washington’s public middle
schools.
“It was horrible,” Poulson said.
“I knew that I had to get her out of
that school, and there wasn’t
another school that I saw as a fit
for my daughter.” But she hesitated at the thought of her sixthgrader living away from home.
In the end, Poulson decided it
would give her daughter the independence and confidence she
would need to go to college. She
visits frequently and also attends
events such as poetry nights that
welcome parents. Her daughter is
headed for North Carolina Central
University next year, and a niece
and son now attend the SEED
school as well.
A Buffalo Board of Education
committee is looking at Paladino’s
proposal to explore a SEED school.
While SEED’s Adler acknowledged the annual per-pupil cost is
high in the short term, he said it
pays off with successful, taxpaying
citizens down the line.
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Belk donates almost $5,000
to Prospect Elementary School
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG
Banner Staff Writer
Banner photo, LARRY C. BOWERS
SCOUTING OFFICIALS from the Cherokee Council and Ocoee District of the Boys Scouts of
America visited the Cleveland Kiwanis Club luncheon at the Elks Lodge on Thursday. Former Scouts
met with the officials following the program including, from left, Hugh Walker, Kiwanis Lt. Gov. and program chairman Chris Newton, Shannon Ward of the Scouts, Bubba Smith, Ramone Torres, Adrian
Hackett of the Scouts, and Larry Carpenter.
Kiwanis Club gets update on
Boy Scouting opportunities
By LARRY C. BOWERS
Banner Staff Writer
Cleveland Kiwanis Club members received an update on
Scouting in Southeast Tennessee
at this week’s luncheon at the
Elks Lodge.
Adrian Hackett and Shannon
Ward of the Cherokee Area
Council and Ocoee District of the
Boys Scouts of America were the
guests. They acknowledged
Kiwanis’ work with children
organizations, and provided “a little bit” of information on Scouting.
“Our goal,” said Hackett, “is to
instill values and ethics in young
people. We try to make a huge
impact on kids.”
Hackett said members of the
Boy Scouts do some wonderful
things. He told a story of a young
man from Chattanooga, Lucas
Masingo, who spent a whole (or
gap) year in South America working with school groups.
During his second semester, he
worked entirely in Costa Rica,
where he had traveled with his
lacrosse team.
“I get to see these stories on a
regular basis,” said Hackett. “The
kids learn to give something
back.”
Hackett said the Boy Scouts are
very involved in activities in
Cleveland and Bradley County.
“We’ve launched a cooperative
program (the Ardor Program) with
Cleveland’s Boys and Girls
Clubs,” he said. “This is a program
where we find young men and
enroll them in a manhood class.”
“It is important to have a caring,
male father figure in a young boy’s
life,” Hackett emphasized in
focusing on one aspect of the program.
Hackett said he grew up in
Scouting, and for years directed
Boy Scout camps in New York and
New Jersey. “We served wealthy
and poor communities.”
He told another story from one
of the camps, which had a 90-acre
lake. He said a Boy Scout Troop
from the inner-city came to the
camp one summer, and marveled
at the lake.
“One of the kids, a big kid,
walked out on the dock and asked
me how deep the lake was and if I
could swim,” Hackett Said. “When
I told him the lake was about
seven feet, and yes, I could swim.
“He jumped right in, and went
straight to the bottom,” Hackett
said. “He stayed there and looked
up at me, until he realized he
could no longer breathe. I then
helped him out and asked why he
did that.”
He told Hackett the rest of the
Troop needed to know that we
would pull them out if they had
trouble, and they wouldn’t drown.
“I don’t know if that was insane
or brilliant,” said Hackett.
The Scout leader said the inner-
city Troop came down to the lake
every day during their stay, and
took swimming lessons. He said
some took their test over and over,
(because they knew they wouldn’t
drown).
The visitors Thursday pointed
out that the Ocoee District has
653 kids in 22 different units,
separated in Cub and Boy Scout
troops.
Hackett said one of the highlights of Scouting is starting
Explorer Posts at regional businesses. Scouting now has a
Venturing Program, which is a
spin-off from the Explorers.
The Scouts conduct several
programs in the region. They
place a flag on every veteran’s
grave on Flag Day. Charleston has
a Flag Instruction Day. There’s the
Ocoee Raft Race where kids make
their own rafts, a chapel service
after the Raft Race, flag retirement
services, a Winter Camporee, the
Pinewood Derby, and visits to the
Cherokee National Forest.
In closing, Hackett repeated an
old saying which he themed to
Scouting: “It’s easier to build
strong children, than repair a broken man.”
After his talk, Hackett was
asked about the expense of
becoming a Boy Scout. He said
the membership fee is $24 per
year, but the overall expense
would probably be between $200
and $300 for the year.
Greenway Community Services
Day planned at park May 9
By JOYANNA LOVE
Habitat for Humanity, Blood
Assurance,
the
Cleveland/Bradley
Health
Department, ANDOR, (an outreach of the Boys & Girls Club for
at-risk boys), The Refuge,
American Red Cross, Cleveland
EMS,
Cleveland
Police
Department, CASA of Cleveland,
the Cleveland Bradley County
Public Library, Durkee Road
Clinic and Unity Center.
Organizations interested in
participating should contact
Reynolds at 423-618-9157.
Friends of the Greenway was
formed last year to raise finds to
make the “Sitting Tall” (aka the
Big Yellow Chair) sculpture a permanent fixture. It serves “to promote
and
publicize
the
Cleveland/Bradley
County
Greenway to generate awareness,
goodwill, and support for the
enrichment of our community,’
according to Reynolds.
The committee sponsored a
pumpkin-painting day on the
Greenway last October as its first
community event.
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The
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County
Republican Party will meet
Tuesday, 7 p.m., in the Bradley
County Courthouse Commission
meeting room. The guest speaker
will be State Rep. Kevin Brooks.
The topic will be the ongoing conversation concerning a property
tax increase in Bradley County.
PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Principal
Steve
Montgomery, right, accepts a nearly $5,000 donation from Chris
Manning, the manager of the local Belk department store. Employees
raised money for the school by inviting customers to donate.
$5,000 “would buy a lot of cameras.”
The school and the department store formed a relationship
when store employees participated in the United Way of
Bradley County’s Day of Action.
When it had to choose a beneficiary for “Angel Days,” Belk
selected the school where
employees had volunteered to do
landscaping and painting work
and participated in a craft project with children.
“We were just so blessed,”
Montgomery said.
He also expressed his thankfulness for the customers who
chose to give.
“I think that’s a testament to
the community. The community
that we live in — they’re so will-
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ing to give back,” Montgomery
said. “Some of the customers
who gave may not even have a
child at Prospect.”
Manning said the store is currently preparing for another
charitable effort, its annual
Charity Sale on May 2. Any local
nonprofit organization can pick
up free tickets for the sale, and
customers with tickets are entitled to special discounts.
Organizations are instructed
to sell the tickets for $5 each,
and they can keep 100 percent
of the proceeds.
Manning said many don’t
know the tickets are free to the
organizations, and the local store
is encouraging more organizations to arrange to pick up tickets by calling 423-478-6300.
Open House Celebration
Worship Ministry
Friends of the Greenway is
teaming up with organizations in
the community to host the linear
park’s first Community Services
Day.
The event will be held on
Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m.
Agencies that serve the community will have tents set up along
the Cleveland/Bradley County
Greenway to provide fun activities.
“We can highlight the fact that
this is a linear park and at the
same time tell the community all
of the wonderful resources we
have. We have a lot of wonderful
community resources that nobody
knows about,” said coordinator
Missy Reynolds. “Our goal is for
them to know more about them.”
The rain date for the Greenway
party is Monday, May 11, from 4
to 7 p.m.
Family Cornerstones will be
providing face painting. The Signal
Center tent will have a container of
birdseed for children to scoop and
pour just like sand.
"It's just a better alternative in
an outdoor event than sand," said
Monica Stone from Signal Centers.
The flocks of the Greenway may
get an early treat if some falls on
the ground. Later, the birdseed
can be utilized in birdfeeders.
“Raj Yogimitra of Greenway
Down Dog Yoga Community will
lead participants in a yoga session. Kids of all ages will have the
chance to put their hands and
feet in watercolors and create
yoga works of art on a large
sheet,” Reynolds said.
The GRAAB Coalition will have
an exercise with a straw where
children will feel similar effects to
how a person who smokes has
difficulty breathing, said Kelli
Auberry.
Jessica Moore of Family
Promise said the organization
plans on having a duct-tape
bracelet making station.
Several other organizations are
still working on plans for their
tents at the event. These include
Cleveland’s Belk department
store recently donated thousands of dollars to a local
school.
Manager Chris Manning
recently presented Prospect
Elementary School Principal
Steve Montgomery with a check
for $4,960.86.
Manning said the money was
raised by the store during the
“Angel Days” sale during the
most recent holiday shopping
season. Each Belk location
chose a charitable cause to support, and cashiers asked customers making purchases
whether or not they wanted to
donate.
“This is one of the largest
checks
we’ve
presented,”
Manning said.
Since the donation Belk gave
was the result of their customers’ giving, the manager said
those who shopped and gave
deserve all the credit for the
donation. He said the store just
helped facilitate the giving.
Montgomery said the donation
will help the school make
improvements to the security of
Prospect Elementary’s campus.
“We’re always trying to
upgrade our safety,” he said.
The school has a safety committee of teachers and staff who
regularly discuss
those
upgrades. Montgomery said the
money will go into a designated
fund its members will use for the
improvements.
Among the items on the committee’s wishlist are new security cameras. He said the nearly
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Tim Akins named as
county deputy trustee
Bradley County Trustee Mike
Smith has announced the promotion of Tim Akins to deputy
trustee.
Akins will be directly responsible for trustee support services
and special projects. He will also
be assisting Chief Deputy
Trustee David Swallows in managing collections and numerous
programs offered by the trustee’s
office.
“Tim has proven he has the
ability to professionally manage
different processes while maintaining the highest level of customer service,” Smith said. “Tim’s
ability to manage major projects,
staying within budget and meeting schedule restraints has
proven to be invaluable. Tim’s
promotion is well deserved.”
Prior to joining the trustee’s
office, Akins was employed by
Eaton
Corporation
and
M&M/Mars.
He and his wife, Joy, have two
daughters, Morgan and Madison.
Hunter SHamblin poses with Trustee Mike Smith.
Shamblin joins Trustee’s
office as student intern
Bradley County Trustee Mike
Smith has announced Hunter
Shamblin is assisting the
trustee’s office as a student
intern.
Shamblin is a student at
Walker Valley High School.
He is assisting the collection
clerks and trustee in gathering
information requested by residents and other governmental
offices in addition to performing
other duties.
“Hunter is an intelligent young
man who has an interest in gov-
ernment operations,” Smith
said. “His interest in local, state
and national events will prepare
him to serve Bradley County well
in some capacity after he completes his education. I am proud
to know we have local youth like
Hunter comprising our future
leadership.”
Shamblin is involved in
numerous activities at Walker
Valley High, including being a
member of the baseball team.
He is the son of Joe and Erica
Shamblin and the brother of
Trapper.
Lee’s Opera Theatre
to perform at 3 today
Lee University’s Opera Theatre will present various scenes
from well-known operas on today at 3 p.m. in Squires Recital
Hall, located in Lee’s Humanities Center.
The program will include scenes from “Die Fledermaus,” “Don
Pasquale” and “Così fan tutte,” among others.
Opera Theatre began in the spring of 1998 as a workshop and
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This free, nonticketed event is open to the public.
Deputy AG responds to suit
against school funding formula
CHATTANOOGA (AP) — A
deputy attorney general in
Tennessee is urging the dismissal of a lawsuit aimed at the
state’s public school funding formula.
The suit claims the state doesn’t provide enough funding for
numerous expenses. It was filed
by seven county school districts,
including Bradley County.
A Chattanooga newspaper
reports the state’s response was
in a 32-page memorandum filed
in Davidson County Chancery
Court in Nashville. The state had
until Friday to respond to the
school systems’ suit.
Deputy Attorney General Kevin
Steiling says the lawsuit relies on
a “profoundly flawed interpretation” of three successful previous
lawsuits against Tennessee’s
Basic
Education
Program.
Steiling says the suit should be
“dismissed in its entirety.”
Scott Bennett, the attorney for
the county school districts that
filed the suit, declined to comment.
CHURCH ACTIVITIES
Jim Gibson, will be the speaker
Tuesday at 7 a.m., for the His
Hands Extended Ministries’ devotional at Garden Plaza.
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Mercy Call will sing tonight at 6
at Rolling Brook Baptist Church.
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The McKameys will sing at Ball
Play Baptist Church in Old Fort
Thursday at 7 p.m. No admission
required. Call 706-483-1851 for
information.
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Jim Ricketts and Christle Elam
will sing at Bethel Baptist Church
on Old Chattanooga Pike at 6
tonight.
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“Free Estimates”
Banner Staff Writer
TN Charter #4759
Sheriff Eric Watson has
issued a warning to Bradley
County residents about yet
another scam that has been
reported.
A resident voiced concerns
that other people could become
a victim of the hoax.
The resident received a check
in the mail for $4,450, the prize
he received for winning the “UK
& North America Customer
Reward Sweepstakes.” The letter
has instructions to call a phone
number for details on paying the
tax liability of $2,800. He realized it was a scam.
Taxes attached to a legitimate
prize would be deducted before
it is awarded to the recipient.
Sheriff Watson said the sheriff’s office receives calls reporting scams daily. Most people
recognize them for what they are
and are not taken in.
Many scammers employ scare
tactics by threatening imminent
arrest unless a payment is made
to a specified address.
Residents are reminded by
Sheriff Watson, “If it sounds too
good to be true, it probably is.”
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Cleveland
Police
Department's
Criminal
Investigations Division is working a case where business
checks were stolen from a business in Decatur.
These stolen checks have
been cashed in Cleveland and
Collegedale. Police have provided still photos of four Latino
male suspects who have cashed
the checks at various banks.
Based on video surveillance, it is
believed the suspects are traveling together.
Anyone with information on
any of these suspects is urged to
call Detective Matt Jenkins at
423-303-3134.
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Blood Assurance’s ‘Hero
Week’ begins on Monday
By LARRY C. BOWERS
Banner Staff Writer
Blood Assurance, with a new
location for its donor office in
Cleveland, is planning two special
events for the near future.
The Southeast Tennessee
agency, with headquarters in
Chattanooga, has scheduled a special “Hero Week” Monday through
May 2, where you can be a hero to
a local patient.
Blood Assurance has also
scheduled a grand re-opening for
its new donor center in the Village
Green. The center recently moved
from Keith Street, where it had
been located for 26 years.
The grand opening will be mostly a meet and greet, with refreshments on Thursday, May 21. It is
also an opportunity to donate
blood.
“Hero Week” is the first, and
biggest, of the two events.
Cleveland and Bradley County residents are encouraged to become a
hero for local area hospital patients
by making a critical blood donation
during the week.
All donations will be sent to local
hospitals, and could save at least
three lives per donation.
As a thank you for each donation, all heroes will receive a free
movie ticket to the movie of their
choice in celebration of the Marvel
movie premiere of “The Avengers:
Age of Ultron,” opening May 1.
In response to the rising blood
demand from the more than 75
regional health care facilities supported by Blood Assurance, the
blood center aims to see 3,800
blood donors during Hero Week.
More than 540 volunteer blood
donors are needed every day in
order to adequately supply these
regional hospitals.
In an effort to honor the community’s donor heroes, Blood
Assurance is also commending
various professional heroes within the area and calling on them to
donate blood alongside the public
on the following themed days.
These days include Firefighter
Monday,
EMT
Tuesday,
Policeman Wednesday, Teacher
Thursday and Military Friday.
In addition to the six typicallyopened centers, Blood Assurance
will be opening the doors to each of
the organization’s 15 donor locations to close out Hero Week with
Superhero Saturday.
“It is easy to forget that the need
for blood is constant. Whether it’s a
local cancer patient or an accident
victim,” said Charlie Callari, vice
president of marketing and donor
recruitment for Blood Assurance.
“People are in continuous, critical
need of blood donations,”
“Hero Week is an initiative
designed to help save lives and
meet the growing demand of area
hospitals, while also being able to
honor donors who truly are our
local patients’ heroes,” Callari
added.
According to America’s Blood
Centers, every two seconds someone in the United States needs
blood. To meet this widespread
demand, area donors may donate
every 56 days for a total of up to six
times per year.
Donating blood is an extremely
safe process, with no possibility of
disease transmission. All materials
used to collect a pint of blood are
new and used only once per donation, as well as being sterile and
disposable.
“Without our heroic donors, our
organization would not be able to
effectively help hundreds of suffering patients across our region each
year,” said Adam Ellsworth,
Northeast region marketing and
donor recruitment manager for
Blood Assurance. “We want to
show our gratitude to these everyday heroes, whose simple sacrifice
translates literally into added
years of life for individuals and
families who were in danger of losing it all.”
To be eligible to donate blood,
you must be at least 17 years old
(16 years old with parental consent), weigh 110 pounds or more,
and be in good health. Donors are
asked to drink plenty of fluids —
avoiding caffeine — and eat a meal
that is rich in iron prior to donating.
While donor appointments are
not required, they are encouraged and may be completed at
www.bloodassurance.org/appt.
For more information on
Blood Assurance, donating blood
or hosting a blood drive, please
visit www.bloodassurance.org or
call 1-800-962-0628.
‘Old Fashioned’ creator, star
to speak at Peerless Church
Rik Swartzwelder wrote, spark of the idea to seeing the
directed and starred in the film open in theaters nationrecord-breaking faith film “Old wide,” he said. “And dating culFashioned” that was released as ture changed quite a bit, even in
that relatively short time
an alternative to “Fifty
span. What began as a
Shades of Grey.”
simple
discussion
Swartzwelder
will
between a few friends
speak about the 10-year
about never seeing a
journey from concept to
mainstream romantic
release on Friday at
film that even attempted
Peerless Road Church in
to tell our kind of perCleveland.
sonal love stories evenThe night will also featually turned into an
ture an exclusive screenindie film that, against
ing of the independent
drama with questions Swartzwelder all odds, found its way
into movie houses and
and answers from attentook the discussion to a leveldees.
Swartzwelder’s appearance and sparked some debates-we
kicks off the CREATE confer- could have never dreamed of.”
The film made an impact, even
ence,
sponsored
by
the
Communications department of outside of faith-based circles, in
the Church of God of Prophecy, a part because of timing its release
weekend dedicated to discover- to hit during same weekend as
the highly anticipated and coning and celebrating talents.
“Events like the CREATE controversial film adaptation of E.L.
ference are a great chance for James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
like-minded folks to come togeth- Prior to the release, Hollywood
er and collectively learn and publications such as Variety and
grow as artists and also explore Hollywood Reporter noted the
how to better harness the arts in “David vs. Goliath” strategy by
ways that can uplift and inspire,” the filmmakers.
The CREATE conference will
Swartzwelder said.
“It’s also about mutual also feature more than 20 workencouragement; the journey of shops in areas such as writing,
creatives isn’t always an easy design, technical support,
one, so it’s important to occa- music, drama, and more.
On Saturday evening and
sionally take the time to nurture
others on the same road, and to Sunday morning, GrammyAward nominee Nicole C. Mullen
be nurtured by them as well.”
“Old Fashioned,” which earned will speak about songwriting
nearly $2 million at the box and performing as well as being
office, broke some records for a the special guest for the conferfaith-based drama and more ence’s last session on Sunday
than earned back its modest pro- morning.
For more information, visit
duction and marketing budget.
“It ended up being more than a www.createcon.org or call 42310-year journey from the first 559-5128.
DR. DON ROBINSON demonstrates hands-only CPR at a recent
KIM ENOCH of the American Heart Association presented at a
meeting of the Rotary Club of Cleveland.
recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Cleveland.
Hands-only CPR can be life saver
By JOYANNA LOVE
Learning how to save a life was
the recent agenda for the Rotary
Club of Cleveland.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
can be the difference between
survival of a heart attack and
death.
“Every 33 seconds, somebody
dies from a heart attack,” said
Kim Enoch of the American Heart
Association.
A person does not have to be
certified in CPR to be able to save
a life. Anyone who knows CPR
can save a life.
Enoch said as science has progressed, hands-only CPR has
been developed for adults.
“If you know hands-only CPR,
you can increase their rate of
survival by three times,” Enoch
said.
Unlike traditional CPR, it does
not require breathing into the victim’s mouth.
Hands-only CPR was developed
for those who are not CPR certified, so they will not be so worried
about the ratio of pushes to
breaths that they do not even
attempt CPR.
“Typically, when someone goes
down they take one last breath,
so there is still some air in there,
so even if we are just doing the
minimum there is a little bit of air
circulating,” Enoch said.
Hands-only CPR also provides
an option for those who want to
help someone they think is in
cardiac arrest, but do not want to
perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
“One of the most crucial things
about CPR is getting started with
it quickly and calling 911,” said
Dr. Don Robinson.
Enoch said most people who
have a heart attack have it while
at home.
The first step to see if someone
needs CPR is to tap the person
and ask if they are all right. If
they are unresponsive and are
gasping for breath, CPR is needed.
Enoch said it is important to
call 911 before starting CPR.
“You want them on a hard surface, so if they are on a sofa or a
bed you want to move them to the
floor,” Enoch said.
Robinson said if the building
the person is in has an AED
(automated external defibrillator),
it should be retrieved by someone. He said the device will walk
the person through what to do.
AED devices are of great benefit when someone has a heart
attack. The device delivers an
electric shock that can stimulate
the heart to begin beating again.
Robinson said he would like to
see every public place in
Cleveland have an AED.
To give hands-only CPR, one
needs to kneel next to the person
laying on the floor, then place the
heel of one’s hand in the center of
the person’s chest, placing the
other hand on top. Then push
down at least two inches. Handsonly CPR requires pushing hard
and fast, pushing down two inches deep, at a rate of approximately 100 pushes in a minute.
The presentation emphasized
the importance of “allowing the
chest to rise all the way after each
push.”
Any CPR can only be helpful to
the patient.
“Don’t be afraid of hurting the
person. You might crack a rib,
but better a cracked rib than a
stopped heart,” Enoch said. “If
the person doesn’t need CPR,
when you start they’ll wake up
and push you off.”
Robinson said it was important
for someone to keep their arms
straight as they push during
CPR.
“That way you are using the
weight of your body to push
down,” Robinson said.
He said because hands-only
CPR is tiring, it is a good idea to
switch with someone, if possible.
CPR should be continued until
an ambulance arrives.
Robinson said child CPR does
require breaths as does CPR for
possible drowning victims.
“Most child CPR is not due to a
heart attack. It’s due to something in the lungs or some neurological event such as a seizure,”
Robinson said.
Good Samaritan Laws protect
nonmedical personnel from being
held responsible for anything
that goes wrong while they are
trying to save a life.
Hands-only CPR kits are available from the American Heart
Association.
“The
American
Heart
Association … is an organization
that is dedicated to changing the
culture to one of good heart
health,” Enoch said.
She said 80 percent of heart
disease cases are preventable
through diet and exercise choices.
In Tennessee, high school students are required to have CPR
training before graduation.
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Haslam signs bill to allow guns in all Tennessee parks
NASHVILLE (AP) — Local governments in Tennessee can no
longer bar people with handgun
carry permits from bringing
firearms to parks, playgrounds
and sports fields under legislation
signed Friday by Republican Gov.
Bill Haslam.
In a letter to the speakers of the
House and Senate, Haslam said
he remains concerned about
potential unintended consequences for local leaders, but
called the final version of the legislation a “vast improvement”
from when it was first introduced.
“The final version of the bill
made clear that guns are not
allowed at school-related activities
taking place in parks,” Haslam
said in the letter.
Critics of the measure disagree,
arguing that the language is still
vague because it bans guns “within the immediate vicinity” of
school activities, but does not
define a specific distance. The law
carries no exemptions for playgrounds, greenways or ball fields
where no school activities are taking place.
The bill was drafted as a welcome gift to the National Rifle
Association’s annual convention
in Nashville earlier this month.
But lawmakers didn’t manage to
pass it until the NRA had left
town.
Chris Cox, executive director of
NRA’s lobbying arm, hailed the
new law as a eliminating “a patchwork of laws throughout the state
that could have turned law-abiding citizens into unintentional
criminals.”
Democrats have been vocal critics, arguing it would endanger
children playing Little League
games or climbing on jungle
gyms.
During the legislative debate,
freshman Sen. Jeff Yarbro per-
suaded colleagues in the upper
chamber to add the state Capitol
complex to the areas where handgun carry permit holders could be
armed.
The Nashville Democrat said
his amendment highlighted what
he called the “hypocrisy” of loosening gun restrictions near children, while keeping security in
place around lawmakers.
The House voted to strip that
amendment from the bill.
“The governor is right about the
problems with this legislation,
which takes power away from
local governments and creates
unnecessary
confusion
for
schools, parents and gun owners
alike,” Yarbro said in an email. “I
would have thought those problems would warrant a veto.”
A 2009 law allowing guns in
Tennessee parks included an optout provision for city and county
governments. More than 70 com-
munities initially decided to keep
their gun bans in place — including in Knoxville, where thenmayor Haslam presided over a
2009 city council vote that preserved a handgun ban in some of
the city’s parks.
Haslam in his letter said he’s
still concerned about local control
and security issues.
“Some of the most sensitive situations state and local leaders
must consider are those activities
involving school children,” he
said.
It only takes a majority of both
chambers to override a veto. That
hasn’t happened with any of
Haslam’s previous three vetoes.
But lawmakers twice overturned
vetoes by then-Gov. Phil Bredesen
of legislation to allow permit holders to be armed in bars and
restaurants that serve alcohol.
Republican Rep. Curry Todd of
Collierville was the chief sponsor
of the guns-in-bars legislation and
led the veto overrides of 2009 and
2010, arguing that that the measure gave “law abiding citizens in
this state a right to protect themselves.”
Todd, who was also heavily
involved in this year’s guns-inparks legislation, pleaded guilty to
drunken driving and gun charges
after a 2011 traffic stop in which
he failing roadside sobriety test
and police found a loaded .38-caliber gun stuffed next to the driver’s seat.
Kathleen Chandler Wright, the
head of the Tennessee chapter of
Moms Demand Action for Gun
Sense said she’s disappointed
with Haslam’s decision.
“Moms across the state drew a
line in the sandbox and urged legislators and Governor Haslam to
reject this dangerous bill,” she
said. “And now parents will be left
wondering whether the person
standing next to their child on the
swing set is carrying a concealed,
loaded weapon.”
Haslam told reporters that he
will keep an eye on the new law’s
effects.
Banner photos, LARRY C. BOWERS
THE RAIDER RUN was held
Saturday morning at Yates
Primary School. Participation
was limited due to threatening
weather. The event was sponsored by the school’s staff and
Parent-Teacher Organization to
raise funds to upgrade the playground, shown below. A 5K run
and a Fun Run for kids was
scheduled.
Obama uses hospital funds
to push Medicaid expansion
MIAMI (AP) — The Obama
administration is dialing up the
pressure on a handful of states
that have resisted expanding
Medicaid coverage for their lowincome residents under the federal health care overhaul.
The leverage comes from a little-known federal fund that helps
states and hospitals recoup some
of the cost of caring for uninsured
patients. The administration says
states can just expand Medicaid,
as the health care law provides,
and then they wouldn’t need as
much extra help with costs for the
uninsured.
Two top targets so far are
Florida and Texas, with large
numbers of uninsured residents.
Both have received several billion
dollars in recent years from
Washington under the so-called
low income pool, also known as
LIP.
Florida’s hospital funding is the
first of the nine states — which
include Tennessee, California,
Massachusetts, Arizona, Hawaii,
Kansas and New Mexico — to
expire on June 30. But the hospital funds are an optional program,
not entitlement programs like
Medicaid, meaning the federal
government has broad discretion
whether to grant them, experts
say.
“There’s no doubt that other
states that haven’t expanded
Medicaid are watching this,” said
Joan Alker, Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University
Center for Children and Families.
Hospitals say even with the
low-income pool funds, it still
doesn’t cover their costs for caring
for uninsured and Medicaid
patients. Several hospitals have
said they would be forced to cut
services or shut down without the
funding.
Alker said she didn’t think the
federal government would immediately drop funding to zero, even
for states that don’t expand
Medicaid. But the political standoff between some GOP states and
the feds has left hospitals anxious.
Federal health officials publicly
said for the first time last week
that Medicaid expansion should
be linked to any discussion on
extending the hospital funds.
Spokesman Aaron Albright
with the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services
said that the agency sent Florida
officials a letter detailing “key
principals” the agency will use in
considering proposals regarding
uncompensated care pool programs in the states.
“Discussions with each state
will also take into account state
specific circumstances,” he
added.
Negotiations are playing out
much the same as the rest of the
Affordable Care Act, with
Republicans crying federal overreach and threatening lawsuits as
the Obama administration pursues its goal of getting health
insurance to more Americans.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott likened
the administration to something
out of the fictional TV mobster
drama The Sopranos and said last
week he plans to file a lawsuit,
alleging the federal government is
using the federal funds to coerce
him into expanding Medicaid.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was
quick to defend Scott.
“Texas will support Florida in
its litigation against the federal
government. Medicaid expansion
is wrong for Texas. Florida’s
approach should be determined
by Floridians, not coerced by federal bureaucrats,” Abbott said.
Federal health officials have
warned states for more than a
year that the low income pool program was ending. But a Supreme
Court decision allowing states to
decide whether or not to expand
Medicaid has complicated the
hospital funds issue.
“The federal government is trying to use the LIP money to
encourage states to expand.
Whether you feel like that’s coercion or that’s encouragement is in
the eye of the beholder,” said Dan
Mendelson, CEO of the market
research firm Avalere Health.
Terms of the agreements
between the federal government
and the states vary widely,
including when they expire and
how much funding each state
receives.
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over time.”
Even though that is in the
signed agreement, the state comptroller is saying the county cannot
invest in this manner.
“Any monies generated by the
investment of these funds shall be
used to benefit the citizens of
Bradley County in the following
areas: health care, wellness and
quality of life,” the agreement
reads. “Special emphasis shall be
placed on ‘quality of life’ aspects of
this charge.”
The United Way of Bradley
County also agreed to similar
terms with no principal being
spent and 15 percent of all interest
being reinvested.
That organization agreed to perform needs assesments related to
the three areas specified with distribution of the interest decided by
a “fund distribution panel” comprised of interested residents.
The agreement also specifically
defines the three areas the monies
are to benefit:
n Health care — programs or
projects that have the purpose of
serving unmet healthcare needs
within the community regardless
of the ability to pay.
n Wellness — supporting programs or projects that have the
purpose of educating the community in the physical and mental
aspects of maintaining and
improving one’s health.
n Quality of life — programs or
services that enhance or improve
the physical and mental health of
the residents of Bradley County.
The agreement states any uses
of the funds outside the scope of
those three definitions would
require the approval of the
Chancery Court.
It also states if either the United
Way or the County Commission
believe the other is not using the
funds in a designated manner,
either can make a request of the
court that the funds be used
appropriately.
Should that not occur, the party
in error would have to give up their
portion of the proceeds and interest to the other.
So, the county got a check for
$15 million and United Way got a
check for $19.7 million.
United Way has now increased
its funds to more than $26 million
as it is able to use open financial
markets for investments.
It has also disbursed $3.8 million in grants to various county
projects.
The county, however, has some
investment restrictions as a government entity. Those restrictions
allowing it to use only the following
types of investments: bonds, notes
or treasury bills; deposits in state
and federally chartered banks and
savings and loan associations that
are properly secured; and obligations of the United States or its
agencies under a repurchase
agreement for a shorter time than
the maturity date of the security
itself.
That was all because when the
monies hit the county’s treasury,
they were considered “idle funds”
and, by law, must be maintained
in no-risk investments.
The funds were under the county mayor’s office from 2005
through 2009 when it earned
$2.52 million.
This was done by investments in
Mississippi bonds and, with a
market doing well, was netting
around 5 percent interest.
Property for the ball park on
Minnis Road was purchased for
$923,104 and another $190,000
funded grants through the Healthy
Community Initiative program.
There was soon to be another
commitment placed on those
funds for the county.
On April 3, 2007, the County
Commission approved a recommendation from the Finance
Committee for a 20-year, $1.8 million bond issue to support a $4.9
million expansion/renovation project at the Cleveland Public Library.
By their action on an 11-2 vote
(one absent), the Commission
voted to make the projected annual $145,000 payment on the bond
issue.
Approval was subject to Bradley
County Attorney Robert Thompson
determining the library project was
a “quality of life” issue, as required
for hospital revenue. It also
depended on the City of Cleveland
providing a matching amount of
$1.8 million.
A few commissioners were not
completely comfortable with the
decision.
Does building expansion and
renovation qualify as a “program or
service”?
During
that
meeting,
Commissioner Howard Thompson
said the recommendation should
have come from the county’s
Wellness Committee (since it
involves hospital money).
Connie Wilson, then-chair of the
Finance Committee, said there had
been no appointments to the
Wellness Committee.
Commissioner Jim Smith said
he felt the Commission set a precedent when it voted to use hospital
revenue to purchase property on
Minnis Road for a Parks and
Recreation complex.
Smith and Thompson expressed
their opinion that “there are going
to be many other requests for hospital interest money.”
Thompson and Smith were the
only two votes in opposition to the
provision of funding for the library
expansion.
Although the strict definition of
“quality of life” in the original
agreement does not suggest the
use of the funds were for capital
projects, no challenge to the use of
the funds for the Minnis Road park
or the library bond was ever submitted.
The day after the bond funding
was approved by the Commission,
the county trustee learned of the
decision to use those funds for the
library bond.
“I actually learned about it when
I read the Banner,” said County
Trustee Mike Smith.
Smith said he told commissioners at the time it was not a good
idea to pin a continuing expense to
funds which have fluctuating values.
“I think that decision is why we
are now at a critical stage with the
funds,” Smith said.
Payments on the library bond
totalled almost $49,000 for the fiscal years 2008 and 2009.
The next major change for the
HCI monies came on Aug. 19,
2009.
On that day, the funds were
placed under the control of the
county trustee’s office.
County Mayor D. Gary Davis
said his rationale for making the
move was because it is the
trustee’s job to enact those types of
transactions on the county’s
behalf.
“I came to the conclusion it was
really the legal responsibility of the
county trustee to invest county
funds,” Davis recently told the
Daily Banner. “If you look up the
job description of the trustee, it is
to collect taxes and invest funds.
Even though we had been doing it
for a two- or three-year period, it
was sort of beyond my job description. It was more appropriately
placed in the trustee’s office. The
Finance Committee agreed and
ultimately that was the action
taken.”
The trustee took custody of
$16,359,157.86 — just as the
market and the economy were
about to hit a bad time.
Interest rates plummeted and
have stayed flat hovering around 1
percent.
The pattern can be seen by the
decreasing amount of grants that
have been awarded since 2009.
Those include:
2009 Grant Awards
Habitat for Humanity, $15,000.
Bradley Cleveland Services,
$34,600.
The Caring Place, $6,840.
Tri-State Therapeutic Riding
Center, $15,000.
North Lee Elementary School,
$5,700.
Bradley County Public Water
Fund, $35,000.
Bradley County EMS, $8,700.
Cleveland/Bradley
County
Greenway, $50,000.
Prospect Elementary School,
$20,000
Total Award: $190,840
2010 Grant Awards
Black Fox Elementary School,
$20,000.00.
Bradley County Emergency
Medical Service, $30,598.79.
Bradley
County
Farmers
Market, $5,000.00.
Cleveland
Civitan
Club,
$5,000.00.
Family Promise of Bradley
County, $4,200.00.
Lake Forest Middle School,
$5,000.00.
Michigan Avenue Elementary
School, $8,461.00.
People for Care and Learning,
$6,299.00.
Taylor Elementary School,
$12,500.00.
Valley View Elementary School,
$14,950.00.
Waterville
Community
Elementary School, $23,000.00.
Total Award: $135,008.79
2011 Grant Awards
Bradley
County
Schools,
$19,550.
Cleveland
Civitan
Club,
$45,000.
Habitat for Humanity, $25,000.
Veterans Home, $60,000.
2012 Grant Awards
Charleston-Calhoun-Hiwassee
Historical Society, $23,700.
Cleveland/Bradley
County
Greenway, $35,500
Bradley County Farmers Market
North, $4,750
Prospect Elementary School,
$3,000
2013 Grant Awards
Boys & Girls Club , $30,000
Life Bridges, $12,000
Veterans Home, $50,000
Since the funds have been
under the limited investment powers of the county, the balance has
increased $309,000 while the
amount of HCI grants awarded by
the county has totaled $690,446
over a period of five years.
During the same period, the
United Way-managed portion of
the funds have risen in value by $7
million and the fund has also distributed $3.8 million — effectively
outdistancing the county portion
by roughly $10 million due to the
investment constraints placed on
the trustee by the state of
Tennessee.
For the 2015 year, United Way
will allocate $998,235 in grants for
projects and programs throughout
the county.
The county HCI Committee
would have $5,363 to allocate for
the same year — an amount so
small the committee recently discussed the possibility of establishing “mini grants.”
During 2014, the county’s HCI
funds acquired $109,093 in interest.
In accordance with the original
agreement, 15 percent — $16,364
— had to be repaid into the fund to
help grow the principal.
That left $92,729 to distribute.
From that amount, a library
bond payment of $89,000 was
paid, leaving a balance of $3,729.
With the addition of funds that
were left over when the bond variable rate was less than what was
budgeted, it gave the HCI
Committee the $5,363 total for
2015 grant distributions.
County Commission recently
froze those funds from being granted, because they were so limited.
A new idea was presented late
last year when the Community
Foundation of Cleveland and
Bradley County stepped up and
said they could do better.
The Community Foundation of
Cleveland and Bradley County was
formed as a 501(c)(3) organization
in 2009, as a way to “strengthen
and enrich the community
through engaged philanthropy
that serves donors, builds permanent endowments, promotes effective grant making and stimulates
community collaborations.”
It currently manages four donor
advised funds, a project fund and
a scholarship fund.
The foundation proposed to convert the HCI funds to a donoradvised fund. The fund, according
to the foundation, would allow the
asset to be managed and invested
by the foundation and allow the
county to be involved in the grantmaking process. The foundation
said it was the only local foundation that is set up to provide such
an option.
It proposed setting up a longterm spending rate goal in the 4.5
to 5 percent range, but would
recommend a lower spending rate
in the initial three years to give
the assets time to be invested
longer.
The county’s current commitment to fund the library bond as
well as any other commitments
would have remained in place
under the Foundation’s proposal.
The Cleveland State Foundation
also presented a proposal, but
County Commission tabled the
idea on March 16.
There were two major reasons
the Foundation idea stalled.
Commissioners either expressed
an unwillingness “to let go of taxpayer money” or wanted a more
definitive answer to the question
as to whether the HCI monies
could be classified as something
other than “idle funds,” which
places the investment restrictions
on them.
At that meeting, Commissioner
Bill Winters noted the letter with
the state comptroller’s opinion saying they were “idle funds” also said
“we could go to other areas.”
Commissioner Terry Caywood
asked if that idea could be carried
out — namely a meeting with the
state attorney general.
“At [Commission’s] direction, I
requested the opinion on the funds
from the comptroller,” said
Freiberg. “Clearly and unequivocally it said those are ‘idle funds,’
in their opinion.”
She referenced the opinion’s
final statement which was suggesting “if you want to go further with
this with more questions, go to the
attorney general.”
“I don’t see there will be a difference in opinions,” Freiberg said.
That meeting is going to happen
Tuesday, but it will now involve a
new twist — the idea of the county
borrowing against the HCI funds.
Smith said investing in municipal bonds is an authorized investment for Tennessee counties.
Counties are allowed to make
short-term loans to themselves
using idle funds for a period of two
years. But the question of using
the hospital funds as collateral is
something new. And the uses of
the money are spelled out in the
court judgment.
“Bradley County will not be asking for a new designation of the idle
funds [Healthy Community
Initiative funds],” Smith said. “Due
to the uniqueness of the hospital
funds, we will be asking for an
extension of the two-year term to a
20-year term, due to the fact these
funds cannot be used for the dayto-day operation of county government.”
Smith described how the
process would work.
“Once a year I will submit a bill
to the county mayor for payment.
The county will receive 100 percent
of the annual payments, which will
be split into 85 percent of the
interest into the HCI fund and 15
percent plus principal [into] the
hospital fund account. At that
point, I would be able to reinvest
that amount back into the market,” he said.
“Today, we’re getting $81,600 in
interest at the .060 rate,” Smith
said. “One percent the first year
after the 15 percent is reduced is
going to be $136,000. After paying
the library bond, that would leave
almost $50,000 for HCI grants.”
The trustee told the Banner his
options are limited and the effort
was worth a try.
“My job is to maximize the
investments of the county taxpayers’ money,” Smith said. “I don’t
know if this will get a positive
response from Nashville or not.
There has never been a one-on-one
meeting about this. There is no
other situation like this in the
state. We are the only ones. I am
hoping we can show the uniqueness of this.”
Even if the attorney general
approves using the fund as collateral or a loan fund to the county —
two uses not included in the original agreements — the HCI grants
would still be almost a million dollars a year less than the foundation-managed portion of the funds
and be stuck at that point for 20
years.
(To view documents related to the
sale of Bradley Memorial Hospital
and the agreements reached by the
hospital, the United Way and the
county, visit the Cleveland Daily
Banner web site at www.clevelandbanner.com.)
THIS PAINTING is a part of the Empowering Women event online
auction.
THESE ITEMS are a samping of what is available through the
Empowering Women event auction raising funds for the local Boys &
Girls Clubs.
Women
From Page 1
past winners and local Boys &
Girls Clubs board members.
Winners are selected based
on the woman’s display of
empowerment, public service to
their community, demonstration as a community leader with
high moral standards and
ethics, has overcome obstacles
and puts her family first.
“It benefits our girls in seeing
they have opportunities beyond
the Boys & Girls Clubs and that
they can embrace a career like
many of the women who are
involved that are being recognized for being a CEO of a company or some form or fashion of
leadership in our community,”
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland
executive director Charlie
Sutton said.
“What we want our kids to do is
to grow up and become great citizens, great leaders. How do they
do that? They do that by getting a
different glimpse of life than
maybe they are accustomed to.”
Students from local Boys &
Girls Clubs will provide the
entertainment by featuring
their talents in singing and
dancing.
Notable
athlete
Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, world record
holder for the heptathlon, will
be the guest speaker. JoynerKersee attended her local Boys
& Girls Clubs as a child.
The Empowering Women gala
will be held at 6 p.m. on May 7
at the Cleveland Country Club.
Tickets are still available, but
are going fast.
Organizing committee member Jenny Card said the event
is open to “everyone not just
women.”
Individual tickets are available for $150. The deadline for
purchasing is May 1. For more
information, call 423-902-3402.
Sutton said the Empowering
Women event is all about girls
seeing what others have accomplished and developing confidence that they can do that also
He said many students in the
clubs are from families “where
the income is less than $10,000
a year.”
“I don’t think there is a better
time than right know for us to
address issues that girls are
facing,” Sutton said.
“The gaps between lower
class America and middle class
America is still growing and our
opportunity to change that picture for those kids is right
now.”
Funds raised during the
event will ensure the local clubs
can continue providing positive
experiences, role models and
mentors to community youth.
Garden
From Page 1
in the community association and
want to do community garden
stuff. We feel it is a way to both
help the body and soul of the community,” Tommey said.
Kim Lorello, who serves as
Blythe-Oldfield
Community
Association president, is one such
person. She said wherever she
has lived, she’s always had plants
or a garden somewhere.
“We are growing the heart of the
community,” Lorello said.
She already has hopes and
beginning plans for activities such
as free yoga classes and art days
in the garden.
Having hospice patients and
the Boys & Girls Clubs come to
the garden has been discussed.
Lorello also hopes to have animal days once a month, so local
children will have an opportunity
to see and pet farm animals.
THE FENCE for the Blythe Oldfield Community Garden nears completion.
Community partnerships contributed to a recent successful
groundbreaking at the site. Lowe’s
home improvement store donated
some vinyl fencing, and Publix
employees donated time as part
of the company’s Publix Serves
day in addition to buying wooden fence materials for the site.
Alex Starling, Cleveland
Publix store manager, said the
project had been selected from a
list of suggestions from United
Way.
Plans for the site call for an
entrance large enough for vehicles and a smaller entrance
opening to a small sitting area.
“We envision parts of this to be
raised beds, part of it things that
we are going to grow a ton of to do
rows of those,” Tommey said.
Community members will also
have opportunities to lease the
raise beds for personal use,
Tommey said.
Specific layout and other details
are still being worked out.
Lorello said the ultimate goal is
to have the garden be handicap
accessible.
The community’s first major
gathering in the new garden will
be on May 9 for a yard sale/ bake
sale to raise funds for continued
projects at the garden.
REGIONAL BRIEFS
7-foot bear breaks
out of Ellijay garage
ELLIJAY, Ga. (AP) — A 7-foot
bear that accidentally got stuck in
a North Georgia garage clawed its
way out a window as a resident
watched.
Teresa Ariail told WSB-TV the
bear finally broke its way through
her garage door window in Ellijay
and climbed out Tuesday night.
She took video of the incident
while holding a shotgun in one
hand and her cellphone in the
other.
The bear apparently entered the
garage through a side door seeking food in a trash bin. While rooting around, the bear accidentally
closed the door and locked itself
inside.
State wildlife officials said bears
are rousing from their annual
hibernation. They recommend
that residents keep food and
garbage locked away.
Land Between the Lakes
prepares for public meetings
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) — The
U.S. Forest Service is preparing
for a series of public hearings next
month over logging and management plans at Land Between the
Lakes National Recreation Area.
The meetings come on the heels
of the federal agency halting new
timber sales projects after several
months of public outcry.
Forestry officials told the
Murray Ledger & Times that
logging and burning, which also
has raised concerns, are tools
the agency is using to improve
the health of the woodland
areas.
Land Between the Lakes
spokeswoman Jan Bush blames
much of the opposition on bad
communication between federal
officials and local residents. She
said officials at Lake Between the
Lakes are looking forward to
improving communication with
surrounding residents.
Local leaders have been lobbying the forest service to focus
on preserving the area's old
growth hardwood forests and to
stop logging and burning hundreds of acres to create oak
grasslands.
Bush said the recent logging
and prescribed burning at
Demumbers and Pisgah bays is
simply part of a clean-up project
to remove loblolly pines that were
damaged in a 2009 ice storm. But
people opposed to the logging have
expressed concerns that the operation is part of a landscaping plan
that was proposed in 2014 but
never approved. That proposal
called for returning much of the
recreation area to barrens, oak
grasslands savannas and opencanopy woods.
Man sentenced to 20 years
in musician's death
NASHVILLE (AP) — A man convicted in the shooting death of
country musician Wayne Mills has
been sentenced to 20 years in
prison by a Nashville judge.
The Tennessean reports Chris
Ferrell will not be eligible for any
reduction of the 20-year term
given by Criminal Court Judge
Steve Dozier on Friday.
Ferrell shot Mills in 2013 after a
concert. The two had been drinking with others at Ferrell's nowdefunct downtown bar.
Court testimony showed they
began fighting about Mills smoking inside the bar and Mills
threatened to kill Ferrell. Ferrell
grabbed a gun from the bar and
fired three shots. One round hit
Mills in the back of the head.
A jury convicted Ferrell of second-degree murder.
Judge: Memphis mom was insane
when she killed 2 sons
MEMPHIS (AP) — A Memphis
mother who claimed evil voices
told her to kill her two young sons
was insane when she fatally
stabbed them in a home in 2013,
a judge ruled Friday.
Jamina Briggs, 31, was found
not guilty by reason of insanity in
the deaths of her sons, 6-year-old
Nicholas
and
1-year-old
Jeremiah, by Shelby County
Criminal Court Judge Glenn
Wright. The judge set a May 27
hearing to determine if Briggs
should be committed to a psychiatric facility.
Court records show Briggs
called 911 on July 31, 2013, saying she had stabbed her children.
She told the operator she suffered
from paranoid schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder.
Officers recovered a 9-inch
steak knife with what appeared to
be blood on it. Blood also was
found in the living room, kitchen
and bathroom. A medical examiner ruled Nicholas suffered eight
stab wounds and Jeremiah four.
Records show Briggs had told
relatives she had heard "evil" voices and, on the day of the stabbings, the voices told her to "go on
and do it ... get rid of them."
Briggs reported she first tried to
suffocate the children but that
method didn't work.
Indiana fugitive dies in gunfight
with Tennessee deputies
LIVINGSTON (AP) — Police say
a man wanted by Indiana police
has died in Tennessee after
exchanging gunfire with deputies.
The Tennessee Bureau of
Investigation told media it appears
Shane David Townsley died from a
gunshot wound, but it wasn't clear
whether it was from a deputy's gun.
Police say the death occurred
Thursday in Overton County,
which is about 90 miles northeast
of Nashville, after a chase involving gunfire.
TBI officials said an Overton
County Sheriff's deputy was
attempting a traffic stop on the
vehicle Townsley was driving
when he opened fire and fled. The
deputy pursued and called for
backup. After more gunfire was
exchanged, police say Townsley
crashed in a ravine.
Police said he was wanted on
felony warrants in Indiana, but
had family in Overton County.
In Lafayette, Indiana, police
Detective Lt. Brad Hayworth said
at a news conference Friday that
the 34-year-old Townsley was the
only suspect in the shooting death
of 32-year-old Wesley Ehrie.
Hayworth said Townsley was a
resident of Flora, a town 20 miles
northeast of Lafayette in north
central Indiana.
Hayworth said Ehrie died
Tuesday at a Lafayette home in a
shooting stemming from a dispute
over a television.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim
Riley told the Lafayette Journal &
Courier that Townsley also was
wanted in connection with an
April 12 burglary in the nearby
Benton County town of Oxford. A
homeowner there was shot in the
leg while trying to defend himself
and his wife from intruders.
Hayworth said Tennessee
authorities were attempting to
execute a Benton County warrant
to apprehend Townsley when the
fatal shootout ensued.
Woodbury Police chief arrested,
faces federal charges
NASHVILLE (AP) — Woodbury
Police Chief Kevin Mooneyham
has been arrested after a federal
grand jury charged him with theft
and wire fraud.
David Rivera, the U.S. Attorney
for the Middle District of
Tennessee, announced on Friday
that the 47-year-old chief is
accused of stealing federal grant
money that was supposed to pay
for DUI enforcement.
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U.S. unveils six-year-old report on NSA surveillance
WASHINGTON (AP) — With
debate gearing up over the coming
expiration of the Patriot Act surveillance law, the Obama administration on Saturday unveiled a
6-year-old report examining the
once-secret program to collect
information on Americans’ calls
and emails.
The Office of the Director of
National Intelligence publicly
released the redacted report following a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit by the New York
Times. The basics of the National
Security Agency program had
already been declassified, but the
lengthy report includes some new
details about the secrecy surrounding it.
President George W. Bush
authorized the “President’s
Surveillance Program” in the
aftermath of the terrorist attacks
on Sept. 11, 2001. The review was
completed in July 2009 by inspectors general from the Justice
Department, Pentagon, CIA, NSA
and Office of the Director of
National Intelligence.
They found that while many
senior intelligence officials believe
the program filled a gap by
increasing access to international
communications, others including
FBI agents, CIA analysts and
managers “had difficulty evaluating the precise contribution of the
PSP to counterterrorism efforts
because it was most often viewed
as one source among many available analytic and intelligencegathering tools in these efforts.”
Critics of the phone records
program, which allows the NSA to
hunt for communications between
terrorists abroad and U.S. residents, argue it has not proven to
be an effective counterterrorism
tool. They also say an intelligence
agency has no business possess-
After the program was disclosed
in 2013 by former NSA contractor
Edward Snowden, President
Barack Obama and many lawmakers called for legislation to
end that collection, but a bill to do
so failed last year. Proponents had
hoped that the expiration of the
Patriot Act provisions on June 1
would force consideration of such
a measure.
A bipartisan group of House
members has been working on
such legislation, dubbed the USA
Freedom Act. White House press
secretary Josh Earnest said
Friday that Obama is pleased the
efforts are restarting in the House.
“Hopefully, the next place
where
Democrats
and
Republicans will turn their attention and try to work together is on
this issue of putting in place
important reforms to the Patriot
Act,” Earnest said.
If no legislation is passed, the
Patriot Act provisions would
expire. That would affect not only
the NSA surveillance but other
programs used by the FBI to
investigate domestic crimes,
which puts considerable pressure
on lawmakers to pass some sort of
extension.
Each death in Baltimore makes
mistrust harder to overcome
2 nuke launch
officers face
illegal drug
charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two more
Air Force nuclear missile launch
officers have been charged with
illegal drug use in cases stemming
from an investigation that led to
the disclosure last year of a separate exam-cheating scandal, the
Air Force said Friday.
1st Lt. Michael Alonso and 1st
Lt. Lantz Balthazar, both members
of the 12th Missile Squadron at
the 341st Missile Wing at
Malmstrom Air Force Base in
Montana, face hearings to determine whether they will be courtmartialed. One of their fellow missile officers who was a target of the
same investigation pleaded guilty
to illegal drug use in January and
was kicked out of the Air Force.
The Malmstrom missile wing
operates 150 of the Air Force’s 450
Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. Launch
officers are trained to operate
ICBMs that are armed with
nuclear warheads and are on constant alert for possible launch.
Alonso was charged with violations of the Uniform Code of
Military Justice for illegal possession, use and distribution of
ecstasy and for “conspiracy related to the drug offenses,” according
to Malmstrom spokesman Josh
Aycock.
Balthazar was charged with illegal possession, use and distribution of ecstasy and cocaine and for
conspiracy related to the drug
offenses. He also was charged with
illegal use of Pentedrone, which
Aycock said is commonly called
bath salts.
Both officers were charged April
17.
Aycock said their cases will be
reviewed at Article 32 hearings,
which are akin to a civilian grand
jury proceeding, to determine
whether there is enough criminal
evidence to warrant a court-martial. The hearings have not been
scheduled, Aycock said.
Alonso and Balthazar were
among three Minuteman 3 launch
officers at Malmstrom who were
under investigation for illegal drug
use. The other, 2nd Lt. Nicole
Dalmazzi, was charged in
December and court-martialed in
January.
Dalmazzi, a member of the
same squadron, pleaded guilty to
illegal use of ecstasy and was dismissed from the Air Force and
sentenced to a month of confinement in a Montana jail. The Air
Force had also charged her with
obstructing the Air Force Office of
Special Investigations probe by
allegedly dyeing her hair to alter
the results of hair-follicle drug
tests, but that charge was later
dropped.
The cases at Malmstrom stem
from a drug investigation that
began in August 2013 at Edwards
Air Force Base in California. When
investigators examined the cellphones of two airmen at Edwards
they found text messages to or
from 11 other Air Force officers at
several other air bases, including
Malmstrom.
The
messages
allegedly detailed specific illegal
drug use and led to the discovery
that some had also improperly
exchanged answers to ICBM
launch officer proficiency tests.
ing the deeply personal records of
Americans. Many favor a system
under which the NSA can obtain
court orders to query records held
by the phone companies.
The Patriot Act expires on June
1, and Senate Republicans have
introduced a bill that would allow
continued collection of call
records of nearly every American.
The legislation would reauthorize
sections of the Patriot Act, including the provision under which the
NSA requires phone companies to
turn over the “to and from”
records of most domestic landline
calls.
AP Photo
Visiting imAm Muhammad Adeyinka Mendes delivers his sermon before prayers in the mosque at the Islamic Society of Boston
Cultural Center Friday in Boston. On Friday, the Boston mosque held
an open house themed “Still Boston Strong.” Organizers stressed
that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev and other convicted terrorists
are not representative of their faith communities.
Marathon bomber trial puts
focus on Boston Muslims
BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s
Muslim community has been once
again thrust into the spotlight as
the death penalty trial of convicted
marathon bomber Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev nears its conclusion
amid rising concerns of terrorist
recruitment in America.
Newspaper op-eds, advertisements and social media posts
have highlighted connections
between Boston-area mosques
and terrorists and suspected terrorists, despite efforts locally to
denounce them.
Tsarnaev, who grew up in nearby Cambridge, occasionally
prayed at the neighborhood
mosque with his now-dead older
brother and accomplice, Tamerlan
Tsarnaev.
Boston is also one of three cities
— along with Los Angeles and
Minneapolis — where the Obama
administration is piloting a controversial new program to tackle
extremist group recruitment
before it takes root.
Muslim worshippers expressed
frustration this week that the local
community continues to be painted with the same broad brush.
“Blaming an entire mosque just
based on a couple of radical people that don’t represent them really is unfair,” said Rania Masri, of
Quincy, just before Friday’s prayer
service at the Islamic Society of
Boston Cultural Center, a towering brick mosque in the city’s
Roxbury neighborhood. “This isn’t
a small, tight-knit community. It
represents so many different cultures and people from all around
the world. The mosque, as an entity, can’t represent all of them.”
Local opponents and national
pundits, though, continue to fault
the broader community.
In February, Americans for
Peace and Tolerance, a Bostonbased nonprofit group, took out a
large ad in The Washington Times
featuring pictures of the Tsarnaev
brothers and other terrorists or
suspected terrorists with alleged
ties to the Islamic Society of
Boston and other area mosques.
The ad, which was critical of
Boston’s pilot program focused on
combating extremism, asked:
“Why is Boston a hub for violent
extremism?”
Earlier this month, the author
and former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi
Ali made similar connections in a
Boston Globe op-ed.
Maaria Assami, of Burlington,
complained that churches and
other religious institutions where
other terrorists may have worshipped don’t receive the same
sort of scrutiny. “Islam has always
been the cliché bad guy,” she said.
“So even if (Tsarnaev) had just
passed by the mosque, it would
have still been all our fault.”
Local Muslim leaders acknowledge it’s been challenging to fight
back against detractors.
“We need to get better at becoming louder and saying ‘Hey, that’s
not us.’ We’re your neighbors,
your
co-workers,”
Nichole
Mossalam, of the Islamic Society
of Boston’s affiliated mosque in
Cambridge, said recently.
The intense coverage of the
Tsarnaev trial and the second
anniversary of the April 15 attack,
which killed three people and
injured hundreds more, has provided an opportunity to reinforce
that message.
Before Friday prayers, the
Boston mosque held an open
house with the theme “Still Boston
Strong.” Some 50 officials representing the U.S. Department of
Justice, the F.B.I., Boston Police,
politicians, and other religious
and civic groups attended.
“We just really wanted to open
up the doors and showcase who
we are and the spirit of Boston
Strong that exists here in Boston
and how we really have stuck
together,” explained Yusufi Vali,
the mosque’s executive director.
Worshippers, a number of
whom weren’t aware of the open
house, applauded the effort.
“People are afraid of the
unknown, and the propaganda
they get is all so negative,” said
Haseeb Hosein, of Boston. “If they
would stop and look, we’re just
like Jews, Christian or any Godfearing people. We don’t condone
violence.”
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(AP)
—
Baltimore’s mayor and police
commissioner came in making
big promises to the inner-city
residents and police who spent
decades staring each other down
in neighborhoods ravaged by
crack and heroin. But with each
death of a black man in custody,
their efforts to overcome mistrust
have hit hard walls of skepticism
and outrage.
Two and a half years into his
job leading the city’s police
department,
Commissioner
Anthony Batts is frustrated that
the people he was appointed to
serve have lost their faith in justice.
“They don’t believe what I say,”
Batts said in an interview
Thursday with The Associated
Press.
Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake hired Batts in September
2012 after a previous round of
police scandals involving excessive use of force, and she was
still supporting her commissioner ahead of more protests
Saturday.
Batts also rejected demands by
several African-American ministers that he resign. “That’s not
going to happen,” he announced
Friday.
He promised to be as transparent as possible without compromising an investigation that
could lead to criminal charges.
Six officers have been suspended
with pay since Freddie Gray died
of a spinal injury he suffered
during an arrest Batts characterized as questionable.
Both Batts and the mayor, who
took office in 2010, are AfricanAmerican and no strangers to
communities like Sandtown, a
set of public housing projects not
far from Baltimore’s Inner
Harbor and the Orioles’ baseball
stadium where Gray tried to outrun three bicycle cops who spotted him on a street corner on
April 12.
Gray, 25, was pinned to the
ground and already injured when
he was handcuffed and hoisted
into a van, police acknowledged
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BAltimore Police Department Commissioner Anthony Batts
speaks about the investigation into Freddie Gray’s death at a news
conference, Friday, April 24, 2015, in Baltimore. Gray died from
spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported
in a police van.
Friday. He repeatedly begged for
medical help, but officers instead
added leg irons and locked him
inside again. Gray was eventually
hospitalized in critical condition,
and died a week later.
Batts, who spent decades
policing in Long Beach and
Oakland, California, before taking this job, insists he is part of
the solution in Baltimore. He
said he’s fired 50 police employees and reduced officer-involved
shootings, and the use-of-force
reports police must file dropped
from 598 in 2012 to 435 in 2014.
“I have been a reform commissioner. I have taken an organization that has many challenges
and faced them head-on,” he
insisted, even as he acknowledged that some cases have “tarnished this badge and the reputation of the department.”
With each death in custody
and each police brutality settlement, the trust erodes even
more.
A Baltimore Sun investigation
revealed last year that the city
has paid roughly $5.7 million in
brutality settlements since 2011,
involving 102 instances of excessive force.
And taxpayers keep paying:
Just days after Gray’s death, the
city’s Board of Estimates
approved $80,000 for 37-yearold Timothy Ashe, whose teeth
were punched out by police officer after parking illegally. A week
earlier, $175,000 was awarded to
the family of Michael Wudtee,
who was fatally shot by an officer
at a gas station in July 2012.
Gray is at least the fifth black
man to die after police encounters since Batts took charge:
— Tyrone West, 44, died in
July 2013; he stopped breathing
after he was tackled and handcuffed by officers during a traffic
stop. The autopsy blamed a heart
condition aggravated by the
struggle and hot temperatures.
An internal review board said the
officers were justified, but said
officers “made several tactical
errors.” West’s family is suing.
— Anthony Anderson, 46, died
in September 2012 after police
said they broke up his drug deal.
Officers said he fought with them
and was slammed to the ground.
His death, of internal bleeding
from blunt force injuries, was
ruled a homicide, but an internal
review board ruled officers were
justified,
and
prosecutors
declined to charge them.
and screams are heard.
Flight runs into pressurization
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Autopsy: Indiana University
student died from head injuries
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) —
A coroner says an Indiana
University student whose body
was found Friday in a rural area
died from blunt force trauma
injuries to her head.
Brown County Coroner Earl
Piper said Saturday he estimates 22-year-old IU senior
Hannah Wilson had been dead
several hours by the time her
body was found.
Authorities have filed a preliminary murder charge against
49-year-old Daniel E. Messel, of
Bloomington in Wilson’s death.
He’s being held at the Brown
County Jail.
Police have not disclosed a
possible motive or said whether
Messel and Wilson knew one
another.
The
Fishers,
Indiana,
woman’s body was found about
8:30 a.m. Friday in rural area
Brown County, just east of
Monroe County, where IU’s campus is located.
Wilson was reported missing
Friday afternoon before authorities identified her body.
Mother in custody dispute freed
after 8 years behind bars
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — A
New Jersey woman jailed in a
custody dispute has been freed
after spending more than eight
years behind bars and is likely
to be reunited with her daughter
in Spain who’s been without
either parent for nearly a
decade.
The Record reports María Jose
Carrascosa, a native of Spain,
was released from jail Friday.
Carrascosa was arrested in
2006 after she defied a court
order granting custody of her 5year-old daughter to the child’s
father, and moved the child to
Spain.
Carrascosa was paroled last
year after serving a prison term
but then jailed for contempt of
court.
A judge ordered her release
Friday after her former husband
said he wasn’t against her
returning to Spain to be with
their daughter, now 14.
Love, cookies helped sisters lost
in Michigan woods survive
CRISP POINT, Mich. (AP) —
Two sisters from Oklahoma and
Nebraska said Saturday that
they survived in a remote part of
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on
love for their family, melted
snow and the little food they had
in their snow-crippled SUV.
A day after being spotted by a
police helicopter in Luce
County, Leslie Roy, 52, and Lee
Marie Wright, 56, offered thanks
to their rescuers and others
involved in the nearly two-week
search after they disappeared
earlier this month.
“Through the days and nights
while in the woods, we survived
using love and hope in our families,” they said in an emailed
statement. “Our faith in God
held our confidence that we
would eventually be found. We
took note of circling aircraft,
available water resources, the
supplies we had with us. These
factors eased our mind and
allowed us to stay alive for thirteen long days.”
Roy, of Valley, Nebraska, and
Wright, of Depew, Oklahoma,
got stuck about 3 miles from
Crisp Point Lighthouse along
Lake Superior. They had been
visiting relatives in Ishpeming,
near Marquette in another part
of the peninsula. The sisters had
planned to head south on April
11.
They had a reservation at a
hotel in Mackinaw City but
never showed up. Instead, they
were trapped in snow on a littleused road until a police helicopter pilot noticed a reflection
Friday off the Ford Explorer.
There was no cellphone service
and the vehicle eventually lost
power.
State police Detective Sgt. Jeff
Marker told The Associated
Press that Roy and Wright wore
layers of clothing to stay warm,
melted snow to drink and ate
Girl Scout cookies a bag of
cheese puffs.
Judge: Attending Pink concert
didn’t harm New Jersey girl
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A
mom’s decision to take her 11year-old daughter to a Pink concert has a judge saying, “So
what?”
The New Jersey judge says the
concert trip isn’t evidence of bad
parenting.
NJ.com reports the girl’s parents are divorced, and her father
accused his ex-wife of abusing
her parental discretion by taking
their daughter to the December
2013 concert at the Prudential
Center in Newark.
But state Superior Court
Judge Lawrence Jones rejected
the complaint in a 37-page decision that contained a brief history of rock ‘n’ roll and a commentary on the increasing use of
judges as referees for warring
divorced parents.
Jones said Pink may have
some suggestive moves and
lyrics, but she’s an artist whose
works aren’t necessarily inappropriate for preteens.
Jones noted in his decision
that he spoke privately with the
girl, who is now 12, and took
into consideration the mother’s
reasoning for allowing her
daughter to attend the show.
He found that the mother “in
no way, shape or form exceeded
the boundaries of reasonable
parental judgment” in taking the
girl to the show during her own
parenting time. He also found
that she didn’t subject the child
to any unreasonable risk of
harm, or compromise the girl’s
health, safety or welfare.
“To the contrary, when all the
smoke from the custody litigation clears, it will be self-evident
that all which happened here is
that a young girl went to her
first rock concert with her mother and had a really great time,”
the judge wrote in his decision,
which quoted the lyrics from
Pink’s songs “The Great Escape”
and “Perfect” as examples of
messages for adolescents.
Man who shot himself outside
courthouse during sex case dies
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) —
Authorities
say
a
New
Hampshire man has died after
shooting himself in the courthouse parking lot while awaiting
a jury’s verdict on charges he
sexually assaulted a piano student more than a decade ago.
Seventy-five-year-old John
Goodwin went on trial this week
on six counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault involving a
former student. The jury began
deliberating the case Friday
morning, about two hours
before Goodwin shot himself
near his car outside the
Rockingham County Superior
Courthouse in Brentwood.
The longtime piano instructor
in Atkinson was airlifted to a
Massachusetts hospital. The
Rockingham County sheriff’s
office said Saturday that
Goodwin died of his injuries.
The judge in Goodwin’s case
declared a mistrial after jurors
said they were unable to reach a
verdict.
As theater shooting trial opens,
gun debate dwindles
DENVER (AP) — When a gunman opened fire inside a packed
movie theater in July 2012,
killing 12 and injuring 70, it did
more than spread fear and
heartbreak across the Denver
suburbs. It helped revive the
national debate over gun control.
The debate gained intensity in
the state five months later when
a gunman killed 20 children and
6 adults at a Connecticut elementary school, resulting in
Democrats to require universal
background checks and ban
magazines that hold more than
15 rounds.
Gun control advocates boasted that they had found the formula to enact their policies in a
libertarian swing state. Furious
gun rights supporters recalled
two state senators who supported the measures.
But, as the trial of theater
shooter James Holmes is scheduled to begin Monday, the
debate has quieted down.
Owner spots his stolen truck in
rearview mirror; arrest made
PIEDMONT, Ala. (AP) — A
man driving to work in Alabama
suddenly noticed his stolen
pickup truck following him, setting off a chain of events that
included a pursuit, a crash and
an arrest.
Calhoun County Chief Deputy
Matthew Wade told WBRC-TV a
man called police Friday after
noticing he was driving in front
of the truck that had been stolen
from him earlier that morning
near Piedmont. Police attempted
to stop the reportedly stolen
vehicle, but the driver, 29-yearold Terry Proctor of Piedmont,
did not stop, and a pursuit
ensued.
Wade said the driver crashed
the vehicle and was ejected as
the truck rolled over. Proctor
was captured after a foot chase.
He has been booked into the
Cherokee County Jail on
charges including first degree
theft and possession of burglary
tools.
Questions after Indiana school
stage collapse injures 16
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The
superintendent of an Indiana
school district where a stage collapsed, injuring 16 high school
students when they plunged
into an orchestra pit, said
Friday that the section that gave
way was only a few years old,
but it’s unclear whether it was
ever subject to inspection.
The uncertainty surrounding
the regulation of the orchestra
pit cover that collapsed during
Thursday’s finale of a musical at
Westfield High School, 20 miles
north of Indianapolis, is reminiscent of questions that arose
in 2011, when heavy winds toppled stage rigging onto fans
awaiting a performance by
country duo Sugarland at the
Indiana State Fair.
Seven people were killed and
dozens injured in that collapse,
which sparked new state rules
on temporary, outdoor stage rigging equipment. Thursday’s collapse wasn’t deadly, and all of
the students who were injured
were out of the hospital by
Friday afternoon.
John Erickson, a spokesman
for the state’s Department of
Homeland Security, said the
state rules adopted after the fair
rigging collapse don’t apply to
the type of permanent, indoor
stages found in schools. And he
said it’s unclear whether inspections of public school stages are
required under any state rules.
“It does not look like plans were
required to be filed” for the stage
at the school, Erickson said.
Westfield Washington Schools
Superintendent Mark Keen said
he wasn’t sure who, if anyone,
handles inspections of the district’s school stages. He said
school officials are delving into
records and will provide information to investigators.
The stage collapsed Thursday
night as clapping and singing
students performed Journey’s
“Don’t Stop Believin’” in the finale
of a concert called “American
Pie.” Video supplied to The
Associated Press by Zach Rader
— who was in the audience —
shows students plummeting out
of sight before the music cuts off
DENVER (AP) — Officials say a
Southwest Airlines flight traveling from Las Vegas to Milwaukee
was diverted to Denver Friday
night after reporting “pressurization issues.”
Denver International Airport
spokeswoman Laura Coale says
that Flight 100, which departed
Las Vegas at 6 p.m. PDT, diverted
to Denver after about 90 minutes.
She tells the Denver Post that
fire department crew members
evaluated the passengers, but
just one person was transported
and that for a slip and fall injury.
She says that no one else
required medical aid.
Denver’s KMGH-TV reports
that a Southwest statement
referred to “a pressurization
issue,” but did not elaborate.
The statement says that 175
passengers and six crew members were aboard the Boeing
737-800, which will be taken out
of service and inspected.
Meanwhile, the airline says
passengers are continuing to
Milwaukee on another aircraft.
entered a plea.
The court documents made
public Friday outlined a series of
events that included several 911
hangups from a cellphone before
dispatchers could reach a 9year-old girl at her house.
Officers who went to the scene
found the three young children
and the Ayerses’ bodies.
One of Martinson’s sisters told
investigators that the couple had
learned Martinson was dating
the 22-year-old. The girl said
Thomas Ayers came home
March 7 and went upstairs and
pounded on Martinson’s door.
The girl said she then heard two
gunshots. Then Jennifer Ayers
went upstairs.
The daughter said she went to
the stairs and saw her mother
and sister fighting, with
Martinson on top. The girl said
Martinson told her to go downstairs, which she did, and she
heard her mother stop screaming. She said Martinson then
came down and told the girls to
watch cartoons on TV.
Martinson was arrested in
Indiana with her boyfriend, Ryan
Sisco. He later told investigators
he had been messaging with
people he believed to be
Martinson’s
parents
on
Facebook the day authorities
believe they were killed, and he
was warned to stay away from
Martinson because she was a
minor, according to the documents.
Documents: Argument over
boyfriend before Wisconsin killings
TOWN OF PIEHL, Wis. (AP) —
A Wisconsin teen accused of
killing her mother and stepfather
carried out the slayings the
same day they warned her 22year-old boyfriend to stay away
from her, according to court documents made public Friday.
Ashlee Martinson, 17, was formally charged in Oneida County
after being brought back from
Indiana, where she was arrested
last month.
She is accused of fatally stabbing 40-year-old Jennifer Ayers
and
shooting
37-year-old
Thomas Ayers at the family’s
home in Town of Piehl.
Investigators say Martinson
locked her three sisters, ranging
in age from 9 to 2, in a room
before fleeing their rural home.
The Stevens Point Journal
reported
that
Martinson
appeared in court by video from
the county jail, and sat silently
beside her attorney. She has not
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From Page 1
THE GRADUATING CLASS of Goal Academy, Bradley County Schools’ alternative school, gathers for a celebratory photo during the
recent Senior Day event to honor the school’s class of 2015.
Goal
From Page 1
Gathering for a ceremony in
which students were given certificates and honor cords to wear
on graduation day, students and
guests reflected on the past and
what might be next.
“This is a special celebration
day,” School Counselor Rhonda
Parris told the students. “You’ve
made it.”
First honoring the long list of
community partners that have
volunteered their time to help
with everything from art
instruction to anger management help, Parris and other
school staff members presented
certificates to all the school’s
students who had completed a
leadership program and reached
other goals.
Then, Principal Kyle Page
spoke and read the names of
seniors who will be graduating
as Gold and Platinum Scholars.
He explained students at the
school must achieve certain
academic performance levels
and a checklist of tasks like taking the ACT college entrance
PRINCIPAL Kyle Page, far left, addresses students and guests during the Senior Day celebration at
Goal Academy on Friday. Standing to his right are school staff members and seniors who had just been
recognized for graduating with honors.
exam to graduate with honors.
All students are encouraged to
do things like apply for college.
“The goal of what we’re doing
is to phase you into the next
steps,” Page said to the seniors.
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asking for funding for infrastructure.
When a customer reports a
suspected scam, the utility contacts local media to alert residents of the issue.
“There is not much we can do
about the actual scam at all,”
Henderson said.
He said he reassures customers that nothing is wrong
with their account. The utility
also reports the incident to the
police. However, such scams are
hard to track.
Henderson said such scams
are becoming more prevalent.
Henderson said the office has
also received several calls from
people who have received calls
from scammers telling them they
are behind on payments and
must purchase a Green Dot
Walmart money card.
The caller says if the person
does not comply their power will
be turned off.
“Cleveland Utilities is not going
to contact a customer and ask for
money over the phone under any
circumstance,” Henderson said.
The utility also does not accept
the Green Dot card as payment.
If a customer has a question
about their bill or service, they
can call 472-4521.
Each senior who earned the
special status one by one had
the cords he or she will be wearing on graduation day placed
around their shoulders.
Kyle also encouraged the students to continue to do whatever
work necessary to finish out the
school year well.
The day’s festivities also
included things like refreshments and drawings for two bicycles donated by Scott’s Bikes and
a cash prize donated by Bradley
County’s Gear Up program.
As they prepared to dismiss to
continue the remainder of the
school day, Parris reminded the
seniors they were “passing the
torch” to the younger students
and serving as an example of
what they can accomplish.
The seniors were also invited
to stand and share any thankyous they had for school staff or
advice for the underclassmen.
Page said later the Senior Day
event was designed to be an
important opportunity to have
students experience being celebrated for what they have done.
“So many of our seniors here
have never had the opportunity
to be acknowledged and feel
appreciated [at home], Page
said. “This is an opportunity to
feel that family embrace.”
Though all of the students at
Goal Academy have for one reason or another encountered situations that meant they could
no longer attend one of the
other public middle or high
schools, the principal said the
focus is continually on helping
students see they can set and
reach goals like graduation.
During the Senior Day ceremony, Parris noted that many of
the seniors have made plans to
attend college this fall or have
already found jobs to help them
launch their careers.
With a cap-and-gown graduation ceremony taking place May
9, he said he hopes the seniors
realize their past experiences
can serve as motivation to do
great things in the future.
“We all have our issues and
glitches,” Page said. “Your failure is not final. One thing we
say a lot around here is, ‘Your
mess becomes your message.’”
to play piano.
Her application for the scholarship award required her to
submit materials that included
a company description, a market analysis and a business
plan. She said her marketing
classes at Walker Valley and her
parents who both studied business in college, Darrell and
Michelle, helped prepare her for
the entrepreneurial opportunity.
Whitaker plans to follow in
her parents’ footsteps by attending Lee University this fall,
where she will major in public
relations and minor in music.
She said her eventual goal is to
pursue a career in public relations or marketing for the
Christian music industry or
perhaps a music-related nonprofit.
Her explanation of how she
launched her business indicates
she has already gained experience in marketing. Prior to the
Christmas season, she got the
idea to market her music lessons as potential Christmas
gifts, distributing bright green
fliers to parents who eventually
sent her some of her first
clients.
“America’s young people have
caught the entrepreneurial bug,
and we could not be more confident in our next generation of
business owners,” Molly Young,
director
of
the
Young
Entrepreneur Foundation said.
“We are impressed year after
year with the quality of these
hard-working, innovative high
school students who are making
their entrepreneurial dreams
happen.”
While Whitaker has been
making college plans and plans
to continue her business while
she is in college, she has also
had the challenge of balancing
her future goals with the
responsibilities she has in
school right now. She said this
has required a lot of careful
planning and “spending less
time on Twitter.”
“This year has been really
crazy,” Whitaker said. “But it’s
just a matter of prioritizing.”
She said she would encourage
any of her peers considering
starting a business to look at
what they love doing, evaluate
whether or not that could be a
market for a business and to set
both long- and short-term goals
to keep themselves on track.
School Counselor Richard
Jackson said Whitaker is one of
his students who has shown a
lot of initiative in making plans
to continue her education and
work after high school.
“She’s
well-deserving,”
Jackson said. “She’s definitely
done the work to make that possible.”
Helping students find scholarships to help them put the
skills they have to work in college and beyond is a big priority
for the school, Jackson added.
He estimated Walker Valley students have so far been awarded
some $6.5 million in scholarships.
Volkswagen chairman Piech
resigns after clash with board
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) —
Ferdinand Piech, chairman of the
board of Volkswagen AG and a
major figure in the German auto
industry, has stepped down after
clashing with other board members over his criticism of the company’s CEO.
Volkswagen said in a statement Saturday that Piech, 78,
was resigning with immediate
effect.
Piech had said in an interview
with Der Spiegel published earlier this month that he was distancing himself from CEO Martin
Winterkorn.
He did not publicly give a reason for his remark. Volkswagen is
profitable and saw global sales
pass the 10 million mark last
year as it pursues its goal of
dethroning Japan’s Toyota as the
world’s largest automaker. But
its core Volkswagen brand has
struggled to hold down costs and
to gain market share in the
United States.
Piech’s view on Winterkorn was
rejected by other members of the
board who said that he had not
agreed that stance with them.
They pushed back, and the
board’s six-member executive
committee, which includes Piech,
issued a statement April 17 saying Winterkorn, 67, was “the best
possible” chief executive for
Volkswagen.
Winterkorn, CEO since 2007,
got support from the head of
Volkswagen’s influential employee council, while the governor of
the state of Lower Saxony, a
minority shareholder in the company, criticized the public discussion about the company’s leadership. Piech’s cousin, Wolfgang
Porsche, said Piech’s comment
represented his “private opinion.”
The Piech and Porsche families
together control a majority of
shares
in
Volkswagen.
Volkswagen said Piech’s wife,
Ursula, was also resigning from
her board seat.
The Volkswagen AG statement
said that the board’s executive
committee had met and decided
that “in view of the the background of the last weeks the
mutual trust necessary for succesfull cooperation does not
exist.”
TBI
From Page 1
gies and various forensic disciplines.
“I’m very proud and honored
to have the Tennessee Bureau of
Investigations here at the
Sheriff’s office. This is unheard
of. It’s very exclusive training.
The TBI doesn’t just go to
departments and do three-day
training seminars,” said Watson
Watson continued, “This is
the first time they’ve done that
for any sheriff’s office in the
state. My goal is for the sheriff’s
office, for this county and city,
to have the most and best-educated officers in the state. We’re
going to do everything we can to
make it happen.”
Watson discussed in more
detail his goals for improving
the BCSO.
“Next week, I have the
University
of
Tennessee
Knoxville coming down here to
teach a leadership structure
and supervision school. Talking
about ethics, racial profiling,
how to treat people, media relations, and that’s for my first line
supervisors, sergeant and
above,” Watson said.
Watson said all 33 of his
supervising officers will be
attending the UTK training. He
would be supervising the patrol
divisions himself so they can
have the time to do it.
“It’s very important for me to
have my supervisors in that
class, because we’re living in a
community now that demands
education and demands respect
for the community. And we have
experts coming in to give us that
instruction and to help us to
become better officers. We’re
good at what we do now. I’m
proud of the officers, but we can
Banner Photo, Tony Eubank
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
A BCSO DETECTIVE practices crime scene photography methTBI SPECIAL AGENT Howard Patterson discusses with BSCO investigators new technologies and
ods.
Part of the training included forensic photography shooting
ways to find needed information on them.
techniques and way to enhance photographs in order to capture and
analyze latent fingerprints.
always do better,” Watson
explained.
Watson explained he wants to
raise the performance and prestige of the department.
“I remember the days when
other departments in the state
came to Bradley County to be
trained. This was a training
ground for a lot of departments
and we had one of the best
forensics divisions in the state.
People brought stuff in here all
the time and they still do. I want
to get back to that level of
expertise, like the TBI and the
FBI, to have the best in forensics, cell phones, and homicide
and missing persons investigations.”
Watson stated he wants to
accomplish these goals without
costing the taxpayers a lot of
money.
“If I was to send 23 officers to
an investigators school, that
would of cost us probably
around $23,000,” Watson
explained.
Watson went on to explain
that the TBI training was free to
the department.
Watson stated the called the
TBI Director Mark Gwyn and
asked, “What will it take and do
you need from me for the TBI to
come to the sheriff’s office? And
he said we’ve never done it
before but let’s try it. He said
this might be something we
could start doing across the
state for other departments as
well.”
BCSO Detective Zachary Pike
commented, “It’s been a very
unique training that we normally don’t get at the sheriff’s office.
It’s been hands on. It’s been
classroom as well, so we’re not
just sitting in the classroom the
entire time, we’re actually learning it first hand. It’s training
that we can use everyday in the
course of our jobs.”
CID INVESTIGATORS practice setting up a crime scene for a thorough forensic sweep of an area.
Health officials say ice cream is safe
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Becky RoBBins, general manager of the Appalachian Harvest
facility shows labels famers use to tag their produce during a tour
Friday in Duffield, Va. Appalachian Harvest has grown to a $1.5 million business that derives only a sliver of its budget from grants while
delivering vegetables to grocers including Whole Foods, Ingles and
Food City. The 15-year-old nonprofit is a standout success in a distressed region where economic development efforts come and go.
Appalachian nonprofit
links small farmers
with big grocers
DUFFIELD, Va. (AP) — In a
warehouse in Virginia’s southwestern tip, a forklift stacks crates
of cabbages and preserves onto a
truck bound for a big-name grocer.
Even in the lull before growing
season, it’s a busy day at
Appalachian Harvest, a 15-yearold nonprofit that’s a standout
success in a distressed region
where economic development
efforts come and go.
The Virginia-based nonprofit
organization has grown to a $1.5
million business that derives only
a sliver of its budget from grants
while helping farmers in remote
areas sell produce to Whole Foods
and other grocers. To develop its
business
from
scratch,
Appalachian Harvest has finetuned how it helps farmers while
expanding from organic to conventional crops and learning a crashcourse in trucking.
For decades, economic development has been an important but
difficult goal in a region where
farmers have faced the decline of
tobacco and communities have
seen mining and industrial jobs
dwindle.
Increasingly,
Appalachian entrepreneurs are
combining charitable goals with
the discipline needed to make
money off goods and services.
Appalachian Harvest is considered a pioneer of this model for
helping small farms pool produce
into tractor-trailer loads for brokers and chains that also include
North Carolina-based Ingles and
Food City, which has stores in
Virginia,
Tennessee
and
Kentucky.
“They help anywhere they can,”
said Josh Watson, a 30-year-old
farmer in Surry County, North
Carolina, who has sold through
Appalachian Harvest for three
years. “They do classes on food
safety regulations, and if you had
a problem with anything, they can
find you an answer.”
Inside Appalachian Harvest’s
15,000 square-foot warehouse are
massive coolers and packing
equipment, including a 30-foot
green
conveyor
belt-driven
machine that cleans and dries
vegetables. In the summer, the
warehouse is full of farmers
adding the brand’s green and yellow labels to produce, often late
into the night.
During the winter, general manager Robin Robbins receives projections from grocers, calculates
how many plants are needed and
helps farmers phase their planting
and harvesting. It sells produce
from as many as 60 farmers.
“You don’t need 500 peppers all
in one week. You need so many
every week,” Robbins said. “When
you call us in July for tomatoes,
we had to know in December to
order the seeds, get the transplants, get the ground ready.”
Appalachian Harvest generated
86 percent of its 2014 budget from
sales, said Kathlyn Terry, the head
of its parent organization
Appalachian
Sustainable
Development. She hopes to be
more self-sufficient this year
because two new trucks should
reduce maintenance costs.
Appalachian Harvest started in
2000 to help farmers learn to grow
organic vegetables as the government phased out price and production controls for tobacco. Early
on, the business shut down for
several months when the local
growing season ended.
Now, to keep its trucks running
in the winter, the organization also
works with farmers outside of
Appalachia. It decided to expand
several years ago from organic to
conventionally grown produce,
which now makes up two-thirds of
what it sells.
They’ve also gotten smart about
trucking, with routes that include
grocery hubs in Maryland and
Georgia. When one of its trucks
drops off vegetables it often
returns with products for distribution centers nearby, ranging from
baby formula to dog food. Terry
estimated that the backhauling
makes up 10 percent of their revenue.
Input from grocers and other
experts several years ago helped
the charity streamline, including
shifting the packing of vegetables
to farmers. Its training budget —
about $100,000 per year funded
by grants — was also moved onto
the books of Appalachian
Sustainable Development, Terry
said.
“Our expenses were just so far
out of whack,” she said. “We had
to make some adjustments.”
The moves paid off, and Terry
was invited to speak at a late 2014
seminar on self-sustaining nonprofit ventures.
One of the seminar’s leaders,
Paul Wright of the Kentuckybased Mountain Association for
Community
Economic
Development, said social enterprises must have business discipline but they don’t necessarily
need to break even if donors are
willing to invest in their impact.
Wright said that Appalachian
Harvest has had exceptional success for a nonprofit: “They would
represent the top, cream of the
crop.”
At the warehouse, Robbins
appears visibly excited as the forklift loads the last pallet on the
truck, saying the sight of a full
tractor-trailer always makes her
happy.
This winter, Appalachian
Harvest developed blackberry butter, peach salsa, pickled baby
beets and other jarred products.
The truck is taking a shipment for
a test-run at Ingles.
Robbins, who comes from a
family of tobacco farmers, sees the
preserves as another way for
farmers to make money in a tough
business.
“We’re all in it together,” she
says.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
health officials say ice cream is
still safe to eat — even amid recalls
by two ice cream companies after
the discovery of listeria bacteria in
their frozen confections.
The
Food
and
Drug
Administration and the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
say there’s no reason to think that
listeria illnesses and deaths linked
to Texas-based Blue Bell
Creameries and the discovery of
listeria in Ohio-based Jeni’s
Splendid Ice Creams are related.
“Based upon what we know
now, there is no connection
between these two ice cream companies nor any reason to suspect
that ice cream as a whole poses
any special foodborne disease
risk,” said CDC’s Dr. Robert
Tauxe.
Blue Bell, which recalled all of
its products Monday, is linked to
10 illnesses, including three
deaths, in four states. Jeni’s ice
cream hasn’t been linked to any
illnesses, but the company
recalled its products Thursday
after Nebraska health officials
found listeria in a sample of ice
cream.
On Friday, Jeni’s said early testing suggested that listeria was
present in other pints from the
same batch the Nebraska officials
tested, and possibly another batch
as well. The company said additional testing appeared to show
that listeria was present in Jeni’s
manufacturing
plant
in
Columbus.
“We are encouraged that the
early indications suggest we have
found it and can focus on eradicating it,” said John Lowe, Jeni’s
CEO, in a statement on the company’s website.
Tauxe said the discovery of listeria is a “wake-up call” for the
industry, since the bacteria isn’t
very common in ice cream. While
the hardy bacteria thrive in cooler
environments, they can’t grow at
freezing temperatures.
At least one other major ice
cream manufacturer, Unilever,
appeared confident, saying in a
statement that the company has
“robust quality and safety protocols across our ice cream network
designed to prevent listeria contamination.” Unilever owns Ben &
Jerry’s, Breyer’s and other ice
cream brands.
In
a
statement,
the
International
Dairy
Foods
Association said the dairy industry
is “seeking to understand how and
why” listeria ended up in the products.
“Ice cream makers are double
and triple checking safety protocols to make sure you can shop
with confidence when buying ice
cream,” the industry group said.
The FDA agreed consumers
should feel safe eating anything
that hasn’t been recalled.
“Despite these recalls, it is
important to understand that ice
cream in the United States is generally safe,” said the FDA’s Jeff
Ventura. “These recalls are an
example of companies taking
appropriate action by getting
potentially unsafe foods off the
market.”
The FDA is investigating the
Blue Bell outbreak but hasn’t said
what caused it. On Thursday,
Blue Bell said its plants in Texas,
Oklahoma and Alabama are
undergoing intensive cleaning.
Listeria illnesses generally only
affect the elderly, people with compromised immune systems and
pregnant women. The three people
who died consumed the Blue Bell
product in a Kansas hospital.
The bacteria is found in soil and
water, and it can be tracked into a
manufacturing facility, carried by
animals or spread by employees
not using proper sanitation practices.
Bill Yarbrough of New Albany,
Ohio, said he understands why
the recalls are concerning to those
most at risk but he’s not going to
stop buying ice cream. Expecting
the company would take a hit,
Yarbrough started recruiting fellow fans on Facebook to help
Jeni’s rebound.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A bill that
would make Hawaii the first
state to raise the legal smoking
age to 21 cleared the Legislature
on Friday and is headed to the
governor.
The bill would prevent adolescents from smoking, buying or
possessing both traditional and
electronic cigarettes.
“It’s definitely groundbreaking
legislation,”
said
Jessica
Yamauchi, executive director of
the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free
Hawaii, which pushed for the
bill. “It’s amazing to be the first
state in something. That’s very
exciting for us.”
Gov. David Ige hasn’t yet
decided whether he will sign the
bill, and his staff has to vet all
bills for legal issues, he said.
“The departments will be doing
their review and then we’ll have
the opportunity to look at it,” Ige
said.
Those caught breaking the
rules would be fined $10 for the
first offense, and subsequent violations would lead to a $50 fine
or mandatory community service.
Dozens of local governments
have similar bans, including
Hawaii County and New York
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Nepal quake: Nearly 1,400 dead, Everest shaken
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) —
Tens of thousands of people were
spending the night in the open
under a chilly and thunderous
sky after a powerful earthquake
devastated Nepal on Saturday,
killing nearly 1,400, collapsing
modern houses and ancient temples and triggering a landslide on
Mount Everest. Officials warned
the death toll would rise as more
reports came in from far-flung
areas.
Inspector Yuvraj Khadka of
Nepal’s national police force said
that rescue effort was continuing
through the night and the death
toll had reached 1,394 people.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake,
which originated outside the capital Kathmandu, was the worst
tremor to hit the poor South
Asian nation in over 80 years. It
strong enough to be felt all across
the northern part of neighboring
India, Bangladesh, Tibet and
Pakistan, where a total of 50 people died.
As Nepal trembled, residents
fled homes and buildings in
panic. Walls tumbled, trees
swayed, power lines came crashing down and large cracks opened
up on streets and walls. Clouds of
dust began to swirl all around.
Within hours of the quake,
hospitals had filled up with hundreds of injured people. With
organized relief and rescue lacking, many survivors were brought
to hospitals by friends and relatives in motorized rickshaws,
flatbed trucks and cars.
Residents used their bare hands,
crowbars and other tools to dig
through rubble and rescue survivors.
More than two dozen after-
Experts gathered in Nepal a
week ago to ready for quake
The Associated Press
Nepal’s devastating earthquake
was the disaster experts knew was
coming.
Just a week ago, about 50
earthquake and social scientists
from around the world came to
Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out
how to get this poor, congested,
overdeveloped, shoddily built area
to prepare better for the big one, a
repeat of the 1934 temblor that
leveled this city. They knew they
were racing the clock, but they
didn’t know when what they feared
would strike.
“It was sort of a nightmare waiting to happen,” said seismologist
James Jackson, head of the earth
sciences department at the
University of Cambridge in
England. “Physically and geologically what happened is exactly
what we thought would happen.”
But he didn’t expect the massive
quake that struck Saturday to
happen so soon. The magnitude
7.8 earthquake killed at least
1,180 people and caused widespread destruction.
“I was walking through that very
area where that earthquake was
and I thought at the very time that
the area was heading for trouble,”
said Jackson, lead scientist for
Earthquakes Without Frontiers, a
group that tries to make Asia more
able to bounce back from these
disasters and was having the
meeting.
A Kathmandu earthquake has
long been feared, not just because
of the natural seismic fault, but
because of the local, more human
conditions that make it worse.
The same size shaking can have
bigger effects on different parts of
the globe because of building construction and population and
that’s something the U.S.
Geological Survey calculates
ahead of time. So the same level of
severe shaking would cause 10 to
30 people to die per million residents in California, but 1,000
maybe more in Nepal, and up to
10,000 in parts of Pakistan, India,
Iran and China, said USGS seismologist David Wald.
While the trigger of the disaster
is natural — an earthquake — “the
consequences are very much manmade,” Jackson said. Except for
landslides, which in this case are a
serious problem, “it’s buildings
that kill people not earthquakes,”
Jackson said. If you lived in a flat
desert with no water, an earthquake wouldn’t harm you, but
then few people want to live there.
“The real problem in Asia is how
people have concentrated in dangerous places,” Jackson said.
Kathmandu was warned, first
by the Earth itself: this is the fifth
significant quake there in the last
205 years, including the massive
1934 one.
“They knew they had a problem
but it was so large they didn’t
where to start, how to start,” said
Hari Ghi, southeast Asia regional
coordinator for Geohazards
International, a group that works
on worldwide quake risks. Ghi,
Jackson and Wald said Nepal was
making progress on reducing its
vulnerability to earthquakes, but
not quickly or big enough.
Ghi’s group on April 12 updated
a late 1990s report summarizing
the Kathmandu Valley risks.
“With an annual population
growth rate of 6.5 percent and one
of the highest urban densities in
the world, the 1.5 million people
living in the Kathmandu Valley
were clearly facing a serious and
growing earthquake risk,” the
report said, laying out “the problem” the valley faces.
shocks jolted the area after the
first quake, which struck just
before noon. At the time, Shrish
Vaidya, who runs an advertising
agency, was in his two-story
house outside the capital
Kathmandu with his parents.
“It is hard to describe. The
house was shaking like crazy. We
ran out and it seemed like the
road was heaving up and down,”
Vaidya, 46, told The Associated
Press. “I don’t remember anything
like this before. Even my parents
can’t remember anything this
bad.”
Once the first shaking stopped,
Vaidya thought his family could
return indoors by evening. But
the jolts kept coming, and they
felt safer outdoors. “It’s cold and windy so we are
all sitting in the car listening to
the news on FM radio,” he said.
“The experts are saying it’s still
not safe to go back inside. No one
can predict how big the next aftershock will be.”
So the family ate dinner outside
with the headlights of their car
providing light. Vaidya was grateful his wife and 10-year-old son
were on holiday in the U.S.
In his largely affluent neighborhood of low-rise, sturdy homes in
suburban Kathmandu the damage was relatively light. In other
parts of the city where the buildings are older and poorly built
people were not as lucky.
Forecasts called for rain and
thunder showers later Saturday
and Sunday and the temperatures were in the mid-50s (14
Celsius), cold enough to make
camping outside uncomfortable.
Thousands of people were
spending the night at Tudikhel, a
vast open ground in the middle of
Kathmandu, just next to the old
city that is lined with historic
buildings and narrow lanes. Now
it is in ruins.
People lay on plastic sheets or
cardboard boxes, wrapped in
blankets. Mothers kept their children warm; some lit fire with
whatever wood they could find.
Most were eating instant noodles
and cookies.
Deepak Rauniar, a shop worker
who was there with his friends,
said: “We are too scared to go
back to our apartment. It is surrounded closely by houses, most
of them old. The houses could collapse while we are still sleeping.”
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala,
who was attending a summit in
Jakarta, tried to rush back home
but made it as far as Bangkok
where his connecting flight to
Kathmandu
was
canceled
because the capital’s international airport was shut down for commercial flights.
Indian Air Force planes were
allowed to bring in 43 tons of
relief material, including tents
and foods, and nearly 200 rescuers, India’s External Affairs
Ministry spokesman Vikas
Swarup said. The planes were
returning to New Delhi with
Indian nationals who were
stranded in Kathmandu. India’s
state-run Air India announced
that it would begin relief flights
to the Nepalese capital Sunday.
Hospitals in the Kathmandu
Valley were overcrowded, running out of room for storing dead
bodies and running out of emergency supplies, the United
Nations said in a statement.
“The reports of the devastation are still coming in and the
numbers of people killed,
injured and affected by this
earthquake continue to rise,”
U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon said. “It
is clear that very many lives
have been lost. There has also
been significant damage to
Nepal’s irreplaceable cultural
heritage.”
Zhou Shengping/Xinhua via AP
In thIS Photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a collapsed building is seen in Nepal’s
capital Kathmandu Saturday. A strong earthquake shook Nepal’s capital and the densely populated
Kathmandu Valley before noon Saturday, causing extensive damage with toppled walls and collapsed
buildings, officials said.
10 dead as quake and avalanche
sweep the Mount Everest region
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An
avalanche triggered by a massive
earthquake swept across Nepal’s
Mount Everest region on
Saturday, killing at least 10
climbers and guides, slamming
into a section of the mountaineering base camp, and leaving an
unknown number of people
injured and missing, officials
said.
Numerous climbers may now
be cut off on routes leading to the
top of the world’s highest peak.
The avalanche began on Mount
Kumori, a 7,000-meter (22,966foot) -high mountain just a few
miles (kilometers) from Everest,
gathering strength as it headed
toward the base camp where
climbing expeditions have been
preparing to make their summit
attempts in the coming weeks,
said Ang Tshering of the Nepal
Mountaineering Association.
The avalanche — or perhaps a
series of avalanches hidden in a
massive white cloud — plowed
into a part of base camp, a sprawling seasonal village of climbers,
guides and porters, flattening at
least 30 tents, Tshering said. With
communication very limited at
Everest, it was not immediately
clear how many of those injured
and killed were at base camp, and
how many were elsewhere on the
mountain.
Survivors reached over Internet
messaging services, however,
described a scene of terror as the
snow and ice roared through the
nearby Khumbu Icefall and into
base camp.
Azim Afif, the 27-year-old
leader of a climbing team from
University
of
Technology
Malaysia, said in an interview on
the service WhatsApp that his
group was in a meal tent waiting
for lunch when suddenly the table
and everything around them
began shaking.
When they ran outside, they
saw “a wall of ice coming towards
us,” and heard the cries of Sherpa
guides shouting for people to run
for their lives, he wrote. “We just
think to find a place to hide and
save our life.”
The small team planned to
sleep together Saturday night in
one large tent “to make sure if
anything happen, we are together,” Afif said.
Quickly, though, climbing
teams scattered across base camp
began to work together to search
for survivors.
Gordon Janow, the director of
programs for the Washingtonbased guiding outfit Alpine
Ascents International, said from
Seattle that his team had come
through the avalanche unscathed.
Japan’s views of WWII history
rankle some U.S. veterans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lester
Tenney endured three years as a
Japanese prisoner during World
War II, but he has made peace
with his former enemy. Yet as
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe prepares to address Congress
on Wednesday, in the 70th
anniversary year of the war’s end,
something rankles Tenney about
Japan’s attitude toward its past.
“They don’t want the young
people to know what really happened,” complains Tenney, now
94.
The Associated Press spoke to
three U.S. war veterans about
their surrender in the Philippines
in 1942 and their exploitation as
slave laborers in Japan. It’s an
episode of history most notorious
for the Bataan Death March,
when tens of thousands of Filipino
and American POWs were forced
65 miles on foot to prison camps.
Thousands are believed to have
perished.
The AP also asked the veterans
for opinions about Japan today.
Japan issued a formal apology to
American POWs in 2009 and
again in 2010, and has paid for
some veterans to travel to Japan,
leaving them with a more positive
view of the Japanese people.
—Tenney, with the Army’s 192nd
Tank Battalion, said he was made
to march for eight days after his
capture.
“You had to stand on your own
two feet and you had to keep moving. If you fell down, you died. If
you had to go to the bathroom,
you died. If you had a malaria
attack, you died. The Japanese
would just kill you, period. You
had to stay on your feet. ... If you
looked at a Japanese soldier in
the wrong way, he would beat the
hell out of you.”
After a 28-day journey by ship
to Japan, Tenney worked at a coal
mine near the town of Omuta run
by the Mitsui Mining Co., shoveling coal 12 hours a day for three
years.
He said British, Australian and
Indonesian prisoners also worked
there and they had no protective
gear, and they would injure themselves intentionally to get days off.
His weight dropped from 189
pounds to 97 pounds. He said
Mitsui has never responded to his
letters calling for an apology.
(Mitsui & Co., which was disbanded after the war and then reestablished as a major industrial
group, denies having any legal or
historical responsibility for Mitsui
Mining Co.’s treatment of forced
laborers before or during the war.
It says therefore it cannot comment on complaints or requests
for apologies.)
“If Mr. Abe comes here I would
like him to say, ‘I bring with me an
apology from the industrial giants
that enslaved American POWs.’
He could say that very easily. ...
I’m afraid that when Mr. Abe
leaves here, all of it’s going to be
forgotten. They’re going to forget
about apologies to the POWs,
they’re going to forget they did
anything wrong. It’s going to like
whitewashing the whole thing.”
“You can’t have a high-ranking
country today if you’re not willing
to face your past. They have to
admit their failures. If they admit
their failures, then by golly they
deserve to have the best.”
After the war, Tenney became a
professor of economics at Arizona
State University and today lives in
Carlsbad, California. He has
returned to Japan five times and
was instrumental in starting
Japanese government-supported
“friendship” visits by POWs.
“The Japanese people were
wonderful. They were very kind,
they were very hospitable, no
question about it. They treated us
beautifully ... And there’s no reason why they shouldn’t. We didn’t
do anything wrong (in the war).”
——
Harold Bergbower, 94, was a
private with the Air Force’s 28th
Bomb Squadron when he was
captured on the southern
Philippine island of Mindanao and
sent eventually to Davao penal
colony.
“We could not have been treated
any worse in prison camp,” he
said. “It was inhuman.”
Intensely sick during the voyage, he cannot recall the journey
to Japan, in the broiling, closed
holds of “hell ships” that carried
POWs and Asian laborers. They
were starved of food, deprived of
water. Only decades after did he
learn that the first ship he was
on was hit in a U.S. bombing
attack and forced to dock for
repairs. Thousands died on such
voyages.
Bergbower spent two years in
brutal labor, scooping ore into
open furnaces at a steel mill in the
city of Toyama.
“When I got back to the States
after the war, I was told to go
home and forget about it and
that’s exactly what I did. I didn’t
talk to anybody.”
His view of Japan changed
when he went on a friendship visit
in 2011 and returned to the factory where he’d been enslaved. Staff
there apologized “from the heart”
for what the POWs had been
through. “I came away with a
much different impression of
Japan. We couldn’t have been
treated any better.”
Bergbower, who lives near
Phoenix, said he has forgiven the
people of Japan, but not the government.
—Darrell Stark, 93, was a new
recruit of the Army’s 31st Infantry
Regiment when he was captured
and eventually shipped to
Yokkaichi, where he was forced to
shovel coal at a copper mill.
Five years after the war, Stark
received a letter from a Japanese
man who showed him kindness
and gave him food at the mill.
Stark always regretted that he
never replied.
Stark suffered post-traumatic
stress disorder, but he recovered
and enjoyed a long career as a
corrections officer in Connecticut.
He went to Japan on a friendship
visit last October, and the current
deputy director of the mill clasped
his hand and apologized.
Stark has also exchanged letters with the son of the man, now
deceased, who showed him kindness 70 years ago.
“I found the people (in Japan)
to be very friendly, the country
very clean and the people that I
talked to were very nice. It is
amazing what the two countries
have done together to accomplish
what we have over all these years.
It’s also amazing that with all this
we have accomplished, they are
not completely coming out with
the truth.”
“It really upsets me there are
certain individuals who have completely ignored history and rewritten it to make it look like Japan
was attacked, and that there was
no Bataan Death March and no
cruelty at all on their part. That’s
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RetiRed chieF Master Sgt. Harold Bergbower, 94, who was in the US Army Air Corps and then the
US Air Force, looks solemnly at the American flag as he talks about spending almost four years in various
Japanese prisoner of war camps and his nightmares about his treatment almost 70 years after World
War II in Phoenix. During his stay in various camps, eventually on mainland Japan, had his weight at
one point dipped to under 75 pounds. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address Congress next
week in the 79 anniversary year of the war’s end and Bergbower says, “We could not have been treated
any worse in prison camp. It was inhuman.”
not all the people. But there are
some.
“I think when (Abe) comes, and
if he really wants to do something
great for his nation and maybe for
the world, he should make an
apology and be grateful, in a way
of appreciation, for things the two
countries have done together.
That would just about wind it up
right there, because we need to be
allies.”
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Residents evAcUAte with a few salvaged belongings after their home was destroyed by a volcanic mudflow, caused by the eruption of the Calbuco volcano, in an area along the Rio Blanco in Puerto
Montt, Chile, Saturday. Authorities urged 2,000 people living near the volcano to evacuate Friday after
potentially devastating mudflows of volcanic debris were detected in a nearby river, the result of two huge
eruptions this week that sent ash across large swaths of southern South America.
Chile no longer fears volcano major blast
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) —
Authorities downgraded the
likelihood of a major eruption at
the Calbuco volcano, although
the mountain remained active
Saturday and the ash clouds it
already ejected caused cancelations of more airline flights.
Rodrigo Alvarez, head of the
National Mining and Geology
Service, told TVN television that
Calbuco’s seismic activity had
changed and experts no longer
expected any additional eruption to exceed the two big blasts
of Wednesday and Thursday. He
stressed that the volcano was
likely to remain active and said
more eruptions are possible.
Officials urged people to keep
using masks or handkerchiefs
to prevent breathing in dust and
they warned against drinking
water from surface springs that
could have been contaminated
by falling volcanic ash.
A few airline flights were cancelled Saturday as ash from
Calbuco spread over more of the
southern half of South America,
although most flights were unaffected.
At the foot of the volcano,
authorities allowed some of the
1,500 people who evacuated the
town of Ensenada to return
temporarily to their homes to
carry out belongings and clean
up damage from the heavy ash
fall. Numerous buildings were
damaged by the weight of ash
blanketed Ensenada, which is
the closest town to Calbuco.
“Here there is nothing else to
do, rescue the little that you can
and move on. And there are no
more words. All that happened
is in sight and this house is no
longer good for anything,”
Andres Reyes said of his house.
Residents also sought to care
for their cattle, the main livelihood of the town.
Interior Minister Rodrigo
Penailillo, who visited the area
around the volcano about 620
miles (1,000 kilometers) south
of Chile’s capital, said the government would compensate
farmers for losses from the
eruptions.
Fish farms, another major
business for the affected area,
also had significant damage,
with ash fall choking thousands
of fish in their tanks.
More than 6,000 people have
been evacuated and authorities
are maintaining a 12-mile (20kilometer)
exclusion
zone
around the volcano.
Calbuco roared back to life
Wednesday afternoon, after
lying dormant since a minor
eruption in 1972.
Former Guantanamo detainees protest in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP)
— Four former Guantanamo Bay
prisoners protested for a second
day Saturday demanding more
help from both the Uruguayan
and the U.S. governments for
adapting to life in their new
home in this South American
country.
The men began their protest in
front of the U.S. Embassy in
Montevideo on Friday and said
they slept there through the
night. They insisted would stay
until they met with the U.S.
ambassador.
“We’ll be here until Monday.
We are not leaving until with
speak with the ambassador,” former
detainee
Adel
bin
Muhammad El Ouerghi said.
The men began their protest
after the embassy closed for the
weekend, and U.S. officials had
not responded to messages
requesting comment.
As a humanitarian gesture,
Uruguay’s government took in
the four and two other men in
December after U.S. authorities
freed them from Guantanamo.
They had spent 12 years at the
U.S. military prison for suspected al-Qaida ties, but U.S. officials decided they were no longer
a threat and let them go.
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Rumors of
retirement
premature
A funny thing happened on my
way to Walker Valley to cover a
pair basketball games on Jan. 16.
When I finally got there, they were
playing softball.
Contrary to rumors of my
“retirement,” I have not been put
out to pasture just yet.
My recent absence from the
Banner pages wasn’t from Rick
Norton trying to hold me down so
he could finally have a chance at
winning the “Favorite Newspaper
Columnist” in the Reader’s
Choice Award voting, which took
place while I was gone.
It wasn’t even that I needed
some time to recuperate from
delivering all those presents at
Christmas time.
My time lapse certainly had
nothing to do with Monday’s
mythical holiday, but rather I
simply had a chance meeting with
some old friends and lost track of
time — a little over three months.
On my way to cover the
Bradley-Walker Valley heated
hoop action that fateful January
evening, I was involved in an auto
accident that not only snarled
traffic on North Lee Highway but
sent me and one of my friends for
a $30,000 helicopter ride, while
another friend went by ambulance to the same Chattanooga
hospital.
Somehow between drifting inand-out of consciousness before
help arrived, I had enough clarity
of mind for a 20-second phone
call to my boss, Richard Roberts,
to tell him I didn’t think I was
going to make it to the basketball
games.
I don’t remember being cut out
of my van, but I do remember
talking to William Lamb, another
friend who happens to be the
chaplain for Bradley County
Emergency Services, and he
assured me he’d notify my family
of what had happened, although
at that time I wasn’t quite sure
what had taken place.
A few hours later while I was
still in the emergency room at
Erlanger, a Tennessee state
trooper stopped by to give me
some information.
That was when I found out I
had been rear ended by some lifelong friends and fellow church
members, who were on there way
home to Charleston that evening.
The husband is actually a driver for the same bus company for
which I work.
I guess it is a small world after
all.
Contrary to the rumors that
swirled at “The Stable” that
evening, I did NOT have a heart
attack, but I did suffer an injury
to my spine, requiring surgery to
insert eight, four-inch screws and
a pair of six-inch rods to secure
the T-9 and T-10 vertebrae.
After an 11-day stay in
Erlanger’s snug facilities, I was
transfered to the spacious
HealthSouth accommodations for
two and a half weeks of physical
and occupational therapy.
I came home Feb. 11, where
therapists came to work with me
for another month.
Finally, after more than 12
weeks, I got to shed my hard
plastic turtle shell brace and was
able to return to the semblance of
a normal life.
I was allowed to return to work
at the beginning of this week,
gladly greeted by my overworked
sports compadres — Richard and
Saralyn Norkus — who had to
pick up my slack during my
“leisure.”
The rest of my co-workers also
joined in on the welcome with
hugs and handshakes and a few
gentle pats on the back where I
had surgery.
I also got a very warm welcome
from the kids on my school bus
and a promise from longtime
friend and Michigan Avenue
School principal Angela Lawson
See RUMORS, Page 28
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Sports Editor
Phone 472-5041 or fax 614-6529
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Orange tops White in front of 63,016 fans
From UT Sports Information
KNOXVILLE — The White-clad
offense put on a show in the Dish
Orange and White Game on
Saturday afternoon, but it was
the Orange-shirted defense that
took home the victory, 54-44 in
front of 63,016 at Neyland
Stadium.
Down by a 44-40 score late in
the third quarter, the Orange
scored the final 14 points off the
game thanks to a stalwart defense
to the secure the win. The defense
stopped the offense on all six
series in the second half.
Junior quarterback Joshua
Dobbs was 5-of-8 for 94 yards
with a touchdown through the air.
Freshman Quinten Dormady was
5-of-11 for 96 yards while fellow
mid-year addition ran for a teambest 58 yards keyed by a 45-yard
scoring dash.
Jayson Sparks added 51 yards
on 12 carries while Jalen Hurd
had 40 yards on the ground
including a long of 26 yards. Alvin
Kamara ran for 19 yards on 10
totes including the first TD of the
day.
Pig Howard led all receivers
with three catches for 49 yards.
Josh Malone had two receptions
for 80 yards including a 65-yard
bomb from Dormady. Ethan Wolf
caught the other TD from Dobbs.
On defense, sophomore Evan
Berry led the Orange with nine
tackles. Classmate Todd Kelly Jr.,
had six stops and junior Jalen
Reeves-Maybin notched five tackles including two sacks.
"I'm still learning. I try to learn
from the older guys like Cam
Photo from Tennessee Athletics
DEFENSIVE BACK CAMERON SUTTON (23) of the Tennessee Volunteers celebrates with team
mates after scoring a touchdown during the Spring 2015 Orange and White Game at Neyland Stadium
in Knoxville.
Sutton and LaDarrell (McNeil) and
Brian Randolph. I look up to
them. In these 15 practices, I'm
trying to put in all the effort in and
strain that I can. I'm learning
every day, trying to watch film
with those guys and watching
them as they go ahead of me, so
that when they're gone, I'll know
what to do. I'm trying to get better
every day,” Kelly Jr. commented.
Overall, the Orange Swarm had
9.0 TFLs and five sacks with
Andrew Butcher and Kendal
Vickers each posting one.
The day kicked off with the
Circle of Life drill, which matched
offensive and defensive players for
single points. A.J. Branisel,
Chance Hall and Austin Sanders
came away with wins for the
offense, with Andrew Butcher and
Charles Mosley picking up points
for the defense. A point was
awarded to the Orange for a
defense-on-defense draw between
Evan Berry and Todd Kelly Jr.
The first-team offense scored on
each of its first three possessions,
with big plays factoring prominently into each drive Dobbs hit
Johnathon Johnson for 37 yards
on the opening drive to put the
White in business inside the 15.
Back-to-back rushes by Dobbs
set up a 2-yard touchdown run for
Kamara.
Dobbs found Howard for a 31-
yard gain on the second possession, but a sack by ReevesMaybin for 10-yard loss on 3rd
down seemed to put a stop to the
scoring threat. But Aaron Medley
stepped up and nailed a 55-yard
field goal to make the first team
two-for-two on scoring drives.
Hurd made his presence felt on
his first carry of the afternoon to
open the third possession for the
first team with a 26-yard run up
the near sideline. After a pass
interference call moved the White
15 yards closer, Hurd broke a 13yard run to set up a Dobbs-toEthan Wolf connection for a 15yard TD.
After a pause for a wide receiv-
er-defensive back drill in which
the DBs won all seven match-ups,
Dormady found his stride on his
second possession as Volunteer
QB, hitting Josh Malone in stride
for a 65-yard, one-play drive that
put the White team up 33-18.
The Orange was able to fight
back right way. With the Dobbs
and the first team offense back on
the field, a trick play went awry,
as Cam Sutton picked up a fumble on a double reverse and took it
20 yards to the house to bring the
orange within 2, 33-31.
Jennings added to the offensive
show with a 45-yard touchdown
run on the final play of the opening half.
"I just saw a little opening. I
took it, and once I saw the end
zone I couldn't stop. I couldn't
stop,” Jennings stated.
As part of the halftime activites,
Dobbs came up with a clutch performance in the quarterback
skills challenge, hitting a target on
his final throw to defeat Dormady,
8-7.
Spring awards were announced
at halftime. The Al Wilson
Leadership Award for defense
went to Sutton, while Dobbs
earned the Inaugural Peyton
Manning Leadership Award for
offense. The Harvey Robinson
Offensive Player Award was given
to Jashon Robertson, the Andy
Spiva Defensive Player Award to
Rashaan
Gaulden.
Malik
Foreman, Robertson and Kendal
Vickers were named winners of
the John Stucky Award.
Johnathon Johnson took home
the 63 Award.
Mustangs comeback
to defeat No. 6 Tigers
By RICHARD ROBERTS
Banner Sports Editor
DECATUR — The Walker
Valley Mustangs staged a seventh-inning mini rally in
Decatur Friday evening to pick
up a 2-1 win over Meigs County
in one of the Mustangs' final
regular season tune-up games.
“It's a win against a quality
opponent,” said Mustangs
Coach Joe Shamblin. “They've
got a good ball team, and their
pitcher kept us off balance all
night long. We didn't hit it great,
but we got enough hits to win.”
“We're just getting ready for
the district tournament, trying
to get everybody firing on all
cylinders.”
Winning pitcher Ben Clark
went the distance for the
Mustangs (17-10), striking out
five Tigers and giving up an
equal number of hits. Clark
gave up no walks but hit one
batter.
Dustin Kennedy took the loss
for No. 6-ranked (A) Meigs
County (19-5). Kennedy gave
up five hits before being
relieved in the top of the seventh-inning with one out and
one Mustang on base.
Clark gave up a lead-off hit to
open the game but settled into
a pitching dual with Kennedy
the rest of the way. The
Mustangs' righty held the
Tigers scoreless for four innings
before giving up an unearned
run in the bottom of the fifth on
back-to-back Walker Valley
errors.
“Ben has been like that for us
all year long,” said Shamblin.
“We also got some great defense
that saved us a couple of times.
We had some good play in the
outfield. I am proud of them
and the infield. [Shortstop]
Jacob [McCall] made some
great plays for us out there
today.”
McCall showed his stuff in
the third and fourth innings sitting the Tigers down with perfect play on four ground balls
and a diving stop on a line drive.
The Mustangs shook off the
shaky play to tie the game 1-1
in the top half of the sixth. Holt
Spencer picked up a one-out
single and put himself in scoring position with a stolen base.
Spencer reached third on a
fielder's choice and crossed the
plate on a two-out Stu Clark
RBI single to left field.
Walker Valley took the lead in
the upper portion of the seventh inning. Grayson Rountree
reached on a Meigs County
error and moved up on a
McCall single to left. After a
Tigers pitching change, Brian
Oliver put the Mustangs ahead
2-1 with another single to left
that scored McCall.
“Brian hit it good today. I'm
glad to see him hitting as the
district tournament comes
around,” said Shamblin.
The Mustangs return to the
field today with a 3 p.m. game
against the Baylor Red Raiders.
MUSTANGS 2, TIGERS 1
Walker Valley
000 001 1 — 2 6 3
Meigs County
000 010 0 — 1 5 3
WP: Ben Clark. LP: Dustin Kennedy. 2B: J.T.
Goforth (MC). Highlights: Brian Oliver 2-3 RBI,
Stu Clark 1-3 RBI (WV); Goforth 2-3. Records:
Walker Valley 17-10; Meigs County 19-5.
Banner photo, LYNNAE ROBERTS
WALKER VALLEY RIGHT-HANDER Ben Clark fires to the plate in the first inning against Meigs
County Friday, in Decatur.
Contributed photo
FORMER UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE head football coach
Phillip Fulmer will be the guest speaker at the third annual Walker
Valley Football Spring Fundraiser banquet May 7, at First Baptist
Church of Cleveland.
Fulmer to speak at Walker Valley
spring fundraising banquet
Walker
Valley
Mustang
Football will be hosting an
evening with Phillip Fulmer, former University of Tennessee
head football coach, at the third
annual Spring Fundraiser
Banquet, May 7 at First Baptist
Church of Cleveland.
Activities start at 5:30 p.m.,
followed by dinner at 6:30 and
then special guest Fulmer.
Fulmer was head coach of the
Tennessee Volunteers from 1992
to 2008, compiling a 152–52
record. He guided the Vols to the
Division
I
National
Championship in 1998. He has
recently been instrumental in
implementing the return of football to East Tennessee State
University
Corporate sponsor tables are
on sale now with only a few left.
Each table sponsor receive eight
tickets for a 5:30-6:15 p.m. meet
and greet with Coach Fulmer.
Dinner will be served at 6:30
and at 7:30, the guest presentation will begin. Corporate sponsors also receive a 4-by-8-foot
stadium sign and half-page
color ad in the Fall 2015 program book for advertising. Sign
and ad packages only are also
available for renewing sponsors
or businesses new to supporting
Walker Valley Football.
Balcony seats are also on sale
for only the speaking presentation for $25 each. Doors will
open at 7:15 to allow these tickets holders to take their seats in
the auditorium.
In the past, Walker Valley
Football Boosters have hosted
other great guests such as Inky
Johnson, former UT cornerback,
who suffered a career-ending
injury on the field but has
emerged as a highly sought after
motivational and inspirational
speaker. The very first guest was
Phil Robertson of “Duck
Commander” fame.
“Our first spring event was so
successful we chose to continue
with this type of fundraiser
instead of selling coupon books,
discount cards and other door to
door items. The Spring Banquet
Fundraiser allows our players,
their families, the coaches and
the booster club to focus only on
each weeks practices and games
when fall rolls around,” said
Mustangs Booster Club president David Clark.
Mustangs head coach Glen
Ryan added, “The players and
coaches enjoy this banquet
every year. Our players serve as
waiters and ushers for this
event and get to experience
some great speakers. It gives the
team and the coaches an opportunity to interact with our community of supporters and financial sponsors who keep our program moving forward.
Booster club event coordinator Ginger Savage noted several
companies playing a key role in
bringing coach Fulmer to
Cleveland.
“This year several local businesses were invited to sponsor
our speaker fees and expenses
instead of being paid from the
proceeds of the banquet. Check
into Cash, Buy Here Pay Here
and US Money Shops quickly
responded and covered the
entire event for us and we really
appreciate their generous support of Walker Valley Football,”
said Savage. “We have other
sponsors that through the years
have been significant contributors to Walker Valley Football
such as Wright Brothers
Construction, Ed Jacobs &
Associates,
Santek
Environmental, Dr. Gary Voytik
See FULMER, Page 25
WV, Polk notch softball wins
From Staff Reports
A pair of local high school softball teams hit the road Friday for
some diamond action and came
back home with another victory
notch in their impressive belts.
Walker Valley went north to
Athens for its second District 5AAA battle with McMinn County
this week, blanking the Tribe this
time around, while Polk County
crossed the state line to the east,
venturing to Murphy, N.C., for a
run-rule victory.
After blasting five home runs in
a 10-run win over the Lady
Cherokees to begin the week, the
“Feisty Fillies” bookended their
runs Friday with a pair in the
opening at bat and two more in
their final try for a 4-0 win.
“We scored at both ends of the
game. We came out and got a couple of runs in the first, then were
able to finish strong with two
more in the seventh,” related
Walker Valley head coach Lauren
Limburg. “I’d like to have some
more scoring in the middle, but
I’m very proud of the way we finished off a very busy week.”
The Lady Mustangs claimed
four district victories in five days
and now lead the league race with
a 9-1 mark.
The “Herd” has make up games
on the road at East Hamilton
Tuesday
and
Soddy-Daisy
Thursday before the 5-AAA tournament begins Friday at Bradley
Central.
Now 19-5 on the season,
Walker Valley will hold Senior
Night festivities Monday as Red
Bank comes to Larry Haney Field,
plus they will journey to Hixson
Wednesday.
“It’s going to be another full
week. Monday will be a very emotional day saying goodbye to this
group of seniors [Alicia Raymond,
Hallie Davis, Carly Frost, AJ
Chancey, Lara Bean and
Mackenzie
Elrod],” declared
Limburg. “They have been such a
big part of our success the last
four years. It’s tough to see them
go.”
Five of the six have accepted
scholarships to play ball in college, while the sixth has chosen
not to continue playing on the
next level.
Raymond improved her pitch-
ing record to 14-5, earning her
fourth circle victory of the week,
striking out a half dozen and
walking just one, while plunking
another in the complete-game,
three-hit shutout. The Lincoln
Memorial signee also led the way
at the plate, going 3-for-4, plus
she drove in a teammate.
“Alicia pitched extremely well,
plus we played one of our best
defensive games of the season,”
praised Limburg. “This was
another big district win for us as
we get ready for the tournament.”
Chancey continued her recent
hot streak by blasting her fourth
home run of the week, to go along
with a trio of doubles while going
9-for-15 during the stretch. The
Tennessee Wesleyan signee drove
in three runs to up her season
RBI total to 23, plus a dozen of
her 22 hits this season have gone
for extra bases.
Future Lee University Lady
Flame Hallie Davis went 2-for-4
Banner file photo, Joe Cannon
in the victory.
Walker Valley senior AJ Chancey, right, is welcomed by the rest of the “Feisty Fillies” after hitting
Meanwhile over in the Tar Heel
State, the District 5-AA regular one of her four home runs this past week. The Tennessee Wesleyan signee also had a trio of doubles
See SOFTBALL, Page 25
Golf tournament raised funds for
Legg Up Scholarship Fund
Bachman Academy, a premier
boarding and day school for students with learning disabilities,
partnered with Chatata Valley
Golf Course to hold the second
annual Fred Lupton Memorial
Golf Tournament, April 18.
Mark Frizzell, CEO/headmaster of Bachman Academy said,
“This tournament is set to make
a large impact on the Legg Up
Scholarship Fund. The fund,
founded by Fred Lupton, will
provide much-needed scholarship dollars to local students
and others who would not be
financially able to attend the
academy otherwise.”
Although rain and thunderstorms were persistent all week
prior to the tournament,
Saturday morning dawned with
dry conditions and partly sunny
skies. The day commenced with
a shotgun start that began 18
holes of golf. Players had a
chance to win $10,000 with a
hole-in-one. They also participated in a putting contest,
enjoyed a barbecue lunch and a
trophy presentation. Door prizes
and raffle items concluded the
day.
For more than 60 years, Fred
Lupton of Chattanooga was a
volunteer, board member and
benefactor
of
Bachman
Academy. He founded the Legg
Up Scholarship fund in memory
See LEGG UP, Page 25
Contributed photo
Taking firsT PlaCe in the second annual Fred Lupton Memorial Golf Tournament were, from
left, Robert Devine; Mark Campbell, Bachman Academy Board Chairman; Mark Frizzell, Bachman
Academy CEO/headmaster; Brandon Moore; and Doug Goodfellow.
while going 9-for-15 with a dozen RBI as the Lady Mustangs notched four District 5-AAA victories in a
five-day span.
Cougars end regular season on winning note
From Cleveland State Sports
Information
Cleveland State heads to the
post season victorious after a
high scoring regular season
finale against Roane State.
Leftfielder Connor Coakley
drove in four runs on a homer
and single helping the Cougars
take the 10-7 win. First baseman Caleb Longley added a two
run homer in the bottom of the
sixth.
Cleveland State (22-20, 9-17)
trailed the Raiders 7-4 entering
the bottom of the fifth before
tacking on six more runs.
Drew Korzybski earned the
victory pitching 4 2/3 innings
allowing one unearned run on
four hits with three strike outs
and no walks.
The Cougars host Motlow
State on Wednesday in a play-in
game to the TCCAA Tournament
at
Chattanooga
State
Community College with first
pitch scheduled for 3 p.m.
FRIDAY
One bad inning caused
Cleveland State to split today's
double header with Roane State
at Cougar Field.
The Raiders rallied in the final
inning scoring six runs on seven
hits leading to a 7-4 victory.
Roane State pitcher Mason
Sawicki shut the Cougars down
in their half of the inning.
Cleveland State (21-20, 8-17)
centerfielder Wright Hackett
homered in the bottom of the
fifth to give the Cougars a 4-1
lead. Rightfielder Hagen Wilkey
drove in two runs in the bottom
of the fourth on a single.
In game one Jake Wyrick
earned his fourth victory of the
season, pitching a complete
Horses, trainers preparing for Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — One
week ahead of the Kentucky
Derby, several horses completed
their workouts at Churchill
Downs before the rain came
down.
The threat of severe weather
across the state hastened things
Saturday morning for Derby
hopefuls such as International
Star, Keen Ice and Tencendur,
whose workouts at Churchill
Downs came before daybreak and
just ahead of the rain.
Carpe Diem worked out at
Keeneland
in
Lexington,
Kentucky, and trainer Todd
Pletcher said "We got fortunate
with the weather."
Santa Anita offered better
California weather for Dortmund
and Firing Line. They completed
final works before heading to
Churchill Downs for the 141st
Run for the Roses next Saturday.
Tencendur breezed through five
furlongs in a minute flat.
"I thought he worked well,"
trainer George Weaver said. "I
asked the boys to go out there and
go a minute, and he went a
minute. It was pretty much what I
wanted it to be.
"Going into the Derby, I didn't
want to go in there off an easy
work. I wanted to get something
out of it."
The main goal was just getting
in a workout because of the
impending bad weather. The
trainers caught a break when
showers didn't arrive until around
8 a.m., long after many had completed their runs under cloudy
skies.
Pletcher moved up Carpe
Diem's workout a day at
Keeneland. He came away pleased
with the half-mile time of 48.60
seconds at the track where the
horse won the Blue Grass Stakes
aP photo
JoCkey Tammy fox, outside, puts Kentucky Derby hopeful Keen Ice through a morning workout at
Churchill Downs in Louisville, Saturday.
earlier this month and established
himself as a Derby contender.
"He's continued to develop,"
Pletcher said of Carpe Diem, who
has four wins and a second in five
starts. "He's really in a good place
now. He's just very happy with
himself, content, galloping well;
his appetite's good. Just all the
indications you'd like to see leading up to a big race. He's giving us
all the right signs."
Pletcher felt the same about
some of his four other horses during Friday's workout at Churchill
Downs before deciding later to
drop Madefromlucky from his
contingent after consulting the
owners.
That move opened the door for
Dale Romans-trained Keen Ice to
make the 20-horse field with Kent
Desormeaux aboard. Keen Ice is
still seeking his first graded stakes
win, but his fourth-place finish in
the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby
behind
Derby
entrants
International Star, Stanford and
War Story was good for 10 additional points and 22 overall,
which earned a place in the
Derby.
Keen Ice covered five furlongs
Saturday in 1:01.60, just a week
after running six in 1:13.20.
"We let him do his own thing,"
Romans said. "He had two really
fast drills, got some long miles in
him here. The heavy lifting is
over."
At Santa Anita, unbeaten
Dortmund gave trainer Bob
Baffert something to feel good
about as he mulls whether to
work possible Derby favorite
American Pharoah on Sunday at
Churchill Downs despite rain in
the forecast. Dortmund ran six
furlongs in 1:13.60 before departSee DERBY, Page 25
from CsCC sports information
CleVelanD sTaTe CenTerfielDer Wright Hackett had a
homerun in Friday’s game against Roane State.
game three hitter allowing one
earned run in the 5-2 win.
Cougars first baseman Caleb
Longley hit a home run driving
in two in the bottom of the third.
DH Austin Phillips drove in two
insurance runs on a single in
the bottom of the sixth.
Vols battle back to defeat SEC
rival South Carolina
KNOXVILLE — The Tennessee
Volunteers came from behind to
take a 4-3 walkoff victory in
Saturday's grudge match against
South Carolina at Lindsey Nelson
Stadium.
With the win, Tennessee
improves to 17-21 on the year
and 6-14 in SEC play, while
South Carolina (26-18) slips to 911 in conference competition.
"I'm proud of the guys, they
deserve to be excited," Head
Coach Dave Serrano said.
"They've been hearing some tough
stuff from me. They know my disappointment. They know our season isn't over with and that we
have to do something like today to
stay afloat.
"It's funny, I really knew that
we were going to win that game.
Not because of where we were at
in the lineup, but there were just
some things. For me, I thought
the focus was way better."
At the plate, second baseman
Nick Senzel (1-for-5, 2 RBI),
shortstop
A.J.
Simcox (2-for-4, R,
RBI) and catcher
Benito Santiago
(1-for-2, 2 R, 2 SB)
led the Volunteers.
Tennessee
outhit
the
Gamecocks with nine knocks
in the contest.
South Carolina struck
early, pushing one run
across in the first and
taking a 2-0 lead following a solo
homer by Gamecocks shortstop
Jordan Gore in the second
inning.
Tennessee came back to even
the score at 2-2 in the bottom of
the second, as right fielder
Johnny Youngblood and catcher
Benito Santiago were each hit by
a pitch in back-to-back at-bats.
First baseman Parker Wormsley
then advanced runners to second
and third on a sacrifice bunt, setting the table for Senzel and
shortstop Simcox to drive in two
runs in the frame.
The Vols held South Carolina
until the fifth, when first baseman Kyle Martin hit a solo home
run to right-center field and make
it a 3-2 ballgame. Again,
Tennessee fought back and
scored in the sixth to bring the
score to 3-3, as Santiago reached
on an infield single and swiped
two bags to be brought home by
Senzel.
Tennessee staged a late rally in
the bottom ninth, as Simcox led
off with a line drive to right field.
Left fielder Christin Stewart then
executed a perfect hit and run
with a liner to center, moving
Simcox to third. After an intentional walk issued to designated
hitter Andrew Lee, third baseman/right fielder Jordan Rodgers
knocked the game-winning RBI
single into right field.
"We pretty much knew if we got
A.J. [Simcox] on, we had a pretty
good chance to win the game,"
Rodgers said. "I was just trying to
get a good pitch and put the ball
in play to the outfield. This isn't
about me, it's about all the hard
work coming together."
In his 11th start of the season,
senior Bret Marks dealt 7.0
innings, allowing three runs on
five hits in the outing. After a
shaky start, the righthander settled in and went on to toss a
strong, season-high 124 pitches,
including eight strikeouts against
South Carolina.
After beginning
the game as UT's
designated hitter,
righty Andrew Lee
worked 2.0 one-hit
innings of relief, holding
South Carolina scoreless en
route to earning his second
win of the season.
"It's always important
to win. I'd be lying if I
said this wasn't a little extra
important for us," Simcox said. "
This gives us a little pick up and
hopefully we can carry the
momentum into tomorrow."
"I have confidence that we're
going to win every game to be
honest with you, but I really had
a feeling we were going to do
something [today] to overcome
our short coming of winning
games late," Serrano added.
On Sunday, Tennessee hosts
South Carolina in the series
finale at Lindsey Nelson Stadium,
with first pitch slated for 1 p.m.
ET. Game action will be available
for viewing via SEC Network television, as Tennessee Baseball
Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike
Keith joins VFL Rusty Ensor on
the broadcast.
For the most up-to-date information about the Tennessee
baseball
program,
visit
UTSports.com/baseball and follow @Vol_Baseball on Twitter.
Some stars decide to skip NFL draft
The hat-and-hug routine with
the NFL commissioner that has
become a rite of passage for
many college football stars on
draft night is not for everybody.
The waiting is the hardest
part, even for players good
enough to be invited to the
draft, and some prefer to do it
away from the ever-present eyes
of a national television audience.
“I know that the draft is really
a great event and a great thing
to go to,” said University of
Pittsburgh offensive tackle T.J.
Clemmings, a potential firstround pick who declined an
invitation to attend the draft in
Chicago next week. “It also can
be pretty stressful. Nobody
knows where they’re going to go.
But the wait, I’d rather have
that wait with my friends and
family here at home in New
Jersey.”
There will be several noticeable absences when the threeday draft starts Thursday night,
including potential top picks.
Florida State quarterback
Jameis Winston, Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota and
Alabama wide receiver Amari
Cooper all plan to skip the spotlight.
Either Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback could be the
first overall selection, with the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers holding
the top pick and in need of a
passer. The last time the No. 1
pick did not attend the draft
was 1994, when Cincinnati
selected Ohio State defensive
tackle Dan Wilkinson.
But
this
year,
NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell
might have to wait until pick No.
3 or even 4 — Cooper could go
in the top three, too — to pose
for a picture with a just-drafted
player, his new team’s jersey in
hand.
Not to worry. Goodell won’t be
lonely. Twenty-eight players are
scheduled to attend, including
Southern California defensive
lineman Leonard Williams and
West Virginia receiver Kevin
White.
From 2000-09, an average of
six prospects attended the draft,
and even then some declined
the
invitation.
Former
Wisconsin offensive tackle Joe
Thomas went fishing with his
father the day he was drafted
No. 3 overall by the Cleveland
Browns in 2007.
When the NFL moved the
draft to prime time in 2010, it
expanded the invitations and 17
prospects attended.
“More and more asked how
they could take part,” NFL vice
president of football communications Michael Signora said.
The NFL pays for two firstclass or four coach airline tickets for each player, whichever
See NFL DRAFT, Page 25
Tennessee WR Pearson named
as suspect in rape investigation
AP photo
Denny HAmlin holds the trophy as he celebrates winning the
Xfinity series race at Richmond International Raceway Friday.
Hamlin dominates to win
Xfinity race at Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) —
Denny Hamlin returned from
last week’s injury-shortened
weekend and led almost from
start to finish Friday night to
win the NASCAR Xfinity Series
race at Richmond International
Raceway.
Hamlin led the first 154 laps
after starting on the pole. He
relinquished the lead for one lap
to Brian Scott during a series of
green-flag pit stops, and to
Elliott Sadler during another
green flag stop late in the race,
but both times regained the lead
on the following lap. The
Virginia driver routinely built
leads of several seconds on the
0.75-mile oval and won by 3.719
seconds.
“It’s been a great day obviously right from the very start,”
Hamlin said. “Our car had some
great speed and that’s the key to
victory. It’s not tricks or anything like that. It’s just you’ve
got to have a fast car.
“They gave me something special tonight and we were able to
dominate with it. You don’t get
these cars often.”
The victory was Hamlin’s 12th
in the series and third at
Richmond. Following up on Kyle
Busch’s wire-to-wire victory for
Joe Gibbs Racing in the series
last September, the JGR teams
have led 498 of the last 500 laps
run in the series at RIR.
It also was Toyota’s 100th victory in 281 races since the manufacturer joined the series in
2007.
The victory also capped a
remarkable return for Hamlin,
who started the race last weekend at Bristol, then turned the
car over to NASCAR novice Erik
Jones during a rain-delay
because he was experiencing
neck and back pain.
KNOXVILLE (AP) — Knoxville
Police have named Tennessee
wide receiver Von Pearson as a
suspect in a rape investigation,
and he has been suspended from
the team.
Police said Friday that Pearson
has not been charged in the case.
Knoxville police said Friday that
investigator Colin McLeod went to
the University of Tennessee
Medical Center about 6 a.m. to
check on a report that a rape had
occurred at a Knoxville apartment.
Police said the investigation is in
the early stages and is ongoing.
Tennessee athletic department
spokesman Jimmy Stanton said
Friday that Pearson had been suspended indefinitely from all activities.
The police report lists six witnesses, including Tennessee wide
receiver Alton “Pig” Howard and
defensive lineman Dimarya Mixon.
Only Pearson is listed as a suspect.
A call to a phone number listed
for Pearson on the police report
was not answered Friday evening.
The report comes as former
Tennessee
linebacker
A.J.
Johnson and suspended cornerback Michael Williams face aggravated rape charges in an unrelated case. Johnson and Williams
were indicted in February after
being named as suspects and suspended from the team in
November. Johnson has since
graduated and completed his eligibility.
Johnson and Williams have
both pleaded not guilty to the
charges, and lawyers for both men
have said their clients are innocent.
Pearson, 23, caught 38 passes
for 393 yards and five touchdowns
as a junior last season while playing in 11 games. Pearson, who is
from Newport News, Virginia,
joined Tennessee’s team last year
after spending two seasons at
Feather River College in Quincy,
California.
See HAMLIN, Page 25
Islanders force Game 7 with Capitals
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) —
Nikolay Kulemin scored the goahead goal with 9:27 left and the
New York Islanders beat the
Washington Capitals 3-1 on
Saturday to force Game 7 in the
first-round playoff series.
Islanders
captain
John
Tavares had a goal and assist,
and Nick Leddy had two assists
in what could still be the franchise's final game at Nassau
Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Cal
Clutterbuck then got the loud
crowd on its feet to seal the win
with an empty-net goal with 53
seconds remaining.
John Carlson scored for the
Capitals, who will host the deciding game Monday night. The
series winner advances to face
the Presidents' Trophy-winning
New York Rangers, who finished
off the Pittsburgh Penguins in
five games Friday night.
Jaroslav Halak made 38 saves
— including 13 in the final period
— and bounced back from a 5-1
loss in Game 5 on Thursday
night.
Kulemin's goal came during a
frantic stretch in which officials
allowed the play to continue
despite players from both teams
tangling in front of their benches.
Tavares started the play by
driving into the Capitals' zone
and attempting to split two
defenders. He failed to get a shot
off and then was bowled over
heavily in the left corner by Alex
Ovechkin and Karl Alzner.
No one seemed to notice that
the puck squirted to Leddy at the
left boards. He then fed Kulemin,
who was all alone in front.
Kulemin went across the top of
the crease and wrapped the puck
inside the left post.
Capitals forward Jay Beagle
missed on a golden opportunity
to tie it with 5:33 left.
Halak stopped Troy Brouwer's
initial shot, and the rebound
dribbled into the slot. Beagle got
to it and lifted a shot over Halak
but bounced it off the crossbar.
The puck landed in the crease,
where Islanders defenseman
Johnny Boychuk shoveled it
under Halak to stop the play.
Tavares opened the scoring 7
minutes in. After Islanders forward Ryan Strome was checked
off the puck by Brooks Orpik,
Tavares followed up and drove
the zone up the right wing. With
Carlson backing in, Tavares took
advantage by cutting into the
middle a snapping a shot in.
The Islanders were called for
three penalties in the opening
period, and the third one cost
them. Carlson tied it at 1 with 5
seconds left and Tavares in the
box for slashing Evgeny
Kuznetsov.
Brouwer started the play by
getting a lengthy pass at the
Islanders blue line, and driving to
the net. Jaroslav Halak stopped
Brouwer, and then shoveled the
puck to his right, and directly to
Ovechkin in the circle. Ovechkin
fed a pass across to Carlson, who
took a few steps in and snapped
it through a crowd and in off
Halak.
The Islanders have a 3-4
record in Game 7s. The Capitals
are 3-9, and 2-7 when hosting a
seventh game.
Unless the Islanders advance,
the Game 6 victory will be their
final game at the arena. The franchise that won consecutive
Stanley Cup championships from
1980-93 and produced such
See ISLANDERS, Page 25
Rain delays
Zurich Classic
AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Erik
Compton birdied four of six holes
after a nearly six-hour rain delay
Saturday, giving the two-time
heart transplant recipient a share
of the lead with Jason Day early
in the third round of the rainplagued Zurich Classic.
Compton and Day were at 13
under, a shot ahead of Justin
Rose, Blayne Barber, Jerry Kelly
and David Hearn at TPC
Louisiana when play was suspended because of darkness.
Compton finished six holes,
and Day played three. Before rain
halted play at 12:14 p.m., Day
finished off a 7-under 65 to take
the second-round lead.
A strong storm moved that
moved through the area downed
at least one tree and toppled
tables. Play resumed at 5:57 p.m.
and was suspended for the day at
7:32 p.m.
PGA Tour officials said play is
scheduled to resume at 7:30 a.m.
Sunday. The players will not be
repaired for the final round.
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SCOREBOARD
oN Air
tv sportsWatch
sunday, April 26
Auto rACiNg
2 p.m.
ESPN2 — NHRA, SpringNationals, at Baytown, Texas (sameday tape)
3 p.m.
NBCSN — IndyCar, Grand Prix of Alabama, at Birmingham
College BAseBAll
1 p.m.
ESPN — Alabama at Mississippi
3 p.m.
FS1 — Kansas St. at Baylor
golF
6 a.m.
TGC — European PGA Tour, China Open, final round, at
Shanghai (same-day tape)
1 p.m.
TGC — PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, final round, at Avondale, La.
3 p.m.
CBS — PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, final round, at Avondale, La.
TGC — Champions Tour, Legends of Golf, final round, at
Ridgedale, Mo.
6 p.m.
TGC — LPGA, Swinging Skirts Classic, final round, at Daly
City, Calif.
MAJor leAgue BAseBAll
1:30 p.m.
MLB — Regional coverage, Boston at Baltimore or Atlanta at
Philadelphia
8 p.m.
ESPN — N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees
NBA
1 p.m.
ABC — Playoffs, first round, Game 4, Cleveland at Boston
3:30 p.m.
ABC — Playoffs, first round, Game 4, LA Clippers at San
Antonio
6:30 p.m.
TNT — Playoffs, first round, Game 4, Toronto at Washington
9 p.m.
TNT — Playoffs, first round, Game 4, Houston at Dallas
Nhl
3 p.m.
NBC — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals
7:30 p.m.
NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals
10 p.m.
NBCSN — Playoffs, conference quarterfinals
soCCer
8:25 a.m.
NBCSN — Premier League, Manchester United at Everton
10:55 a.m.
NBCSN — Premier League, Chelsea at Arsenal
5 p.m.
ESPN2 — MLS, Los Angeles at New York
7 p.m.
FS1 — MLS, Toronto at Orlando
9:30 p.m.
FS1 — MLS, Portland at Seattle
oN tAP
sunday, April 26
BAseBAll
Lee at Christian Brothers, 2
Baylor at Walker Valley, 3
soFtBAll
Lee at Christian Brothers (DH), 1
Monday, April 27
BAseBAll
Walker Valley at Baylor, 5:30
Chattanooga Central at Bradley Central, 7 (JV 4)
soFtBAll
Red Bank at Walker Valley, 5
Cleveland at Notre Dame, 5
East Hamilton at Bradley Central, 5
Tellico Plains at Polk County, 5:30
McMinn Central at Bradley Central, 6:45
soCCer
Cleveland at Bradley Central
teNNis
Cleveland at Ooltewah, 4
tuesday, April 28
BAseBAll
Polk County at Tellico Plains, 5
Walker Valley at Cleveland, 7
soFtBAll
Walker Valley at East Hamilton, 5
Bradley Central at Ooltewah, 5
Red Bank at Polk County, 5:30
soCCer
Walker Valley at Sequoyah, 5
Cleveland at Boyd Buchanan, 7
trACK
County Championship at Cleveland, 4:30
Wednesday, April 29
BAseBAll
district 5-AAA tournament
in Athens
Cleveland vs. McMinn County, 6
soCCer
Red Bank at Bradley Central, 5
soFtBAll
Walker Valley at Hixson, 5
Bradley Central at McMinn Central, 5:30
thursday, April 30
BAseBAll
in Athens
Cleveland/McMinn winner vs. Bradley Central, 5
Walker Valley vs. Ooltewah, 8
soFtBAll
Walker Valley at Soddy-Daisy, 5
Bradley Central at Polk County, 5:30
trACK
SETAC Championship (middle school) at Cleveland, 4:30
Lee at NCCAA Outdoor Nationals, Rome, Ga.
teNNis
Walker Valley vs. Cleveland, Lee University, 4
Friday, May 1
in Athens
Cleveland/McMinn/Bradley winner vs. East Hamilton, 5
WV/Ooltewah winner vs.Soddy-Daisy, 8
soFtBAll
at Bradley Central
pairings & times, TBA
trACK
saturday, May 2
BAseBAll
in Athens
Friday losers, Elimination game, 1
Friday winners, Winners bracket final, 4
soCCer
pairings, sites & times, TBA
soFtBAll
at Bradley Central
pairings & times, TBA
trACK
BAsKetBAll
NBA daily Playoff glance
First rouNd
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
eAsterN CoNFereNCe
saturday, April 18
Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT
Golden State 106, New Orleans 99
Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91
Houston 118, Dallas 108
sunday, April 19
Cleveland 113, Boston 100
Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92
Memphis 100, Portland 86
L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio 92
Monday, April 20
Chicago 91, Milwaukee 82
Golden State 97, New Orleans 87
tuesday, April 21
Cleveland 99, Boston 91
Washington 117, Toronto 106
Houston 111, Dallas 99
Wednesday, April 22
Atlanta 96, Brooklyn 91
Memphis 97, Portland 82, Memphis leads series 2-0
San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, OT
thursday, April 23
Cleveland 103, Boston 95, Cleveland leads series 30
Chicago 113, Milwaukee 106, 2OT
Golden State 123, New Orleans 119, OT, Golden
State leads series 3-0
Friday, April 24
Houston 130, Dallas 128, Houston leads series 3-0
Washington 106, Toronto 99, Washington leads
series 3-0
San Antonio 100, L.A. Clippers 73, San Antonio leads
series 2-1
saturday, April 25
Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 83, Atlanta leads series 2-1
Milwaukee 92, Chicago 90, Chicago leads series 3-1
Golden State at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Memphis at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
sunday, April 26
Cleveland at Boston, 1 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 3:30 p.m.
Toronto at Washington, 6:30 p.m.
Houston at Dallas, 9 p.m.
Monday, April 27
Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBA
x-Milwaukee at Chicago, TBA
Memphis at Portland, 10:30 p.m.
tuesday, April 28
x-Boston at Cleveland, TBA
x-New Orleans at Golden State, TBA
x-Dallas at Houston, TBA
San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TBA
Wednesday, April 29
x-Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA
x-Washington at Toronto, TBA
x-Portland at Memphis, TBA
thursday, April 30
x-Cleveland at Boston, TBA
x-Chicago at Milwaukee, TBA
x-Houston at Dallas, TBA
x-L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, TBA
Friday, May 1
x-Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBA
x-Toronto at Washington, TBA
x-Golden State at New Orleans, TBA
x-Memphis at Portland, TBA
saturday, May 2
x-Boston at Cleveland, TBA
x-Milwaukee at Chicago, TBA
x-Dallas at Houston, TBA
x-San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TBA
sunday, May 3
x-Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA
x-Washington at Toronto, TBA
x-New Orleans at Golden State, TBA
x-Portland at Memphis, TBA
BAseBAll
National league
east division
W
l
Pct gB
14
4
.778 —
8
8
.500 5
7
11
.389 7
7
11
.389 7
6
11
.353 7½
Central division
W
l
Pct gB
St. Louis
11
4
.733 —
Chicago
9
7
.563 2½
Pittsburgh
9
8
.529 3
Cincinnati
8
9
.471 4
Milwaukee
3
14 .176 9
West division
W
l
Pct gB
Los Angeles
10
6
.625 —
Colorado
10
7
.588 ½
San Diego
10
8
.556 1
Arizona
8
8
.500 2
San Francisco
7
11
.389 4
Friday's games
Philadelphia 1, Atlanta 0
N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 1
Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 3, 11 innings
Miami 3, Washington 2
St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 0
Colorado 6, San Francisco 4
Pittsburgh 4, Arizona 1
L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 0
saturday's games
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, ppd., rain
N.Y. Mets 8, N.Y. Yankees 2
Miami 8, Washington 0
Atlanta at Philadelphia, after presstime
St. Louis at Milwaukee, after presstime
Pittsburgh at Arizona, after presstime
San Francisco at Colorado, after presstime
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, after presstime
sunday's games
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 2-1) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-0), 1:10
Washington (G.Gonzalez 1-1) at Miami (Haren 1-1), 1:10
Atlanta (Cahill 0-2) at Philadelphia (Williams 1-1), 1:35
St. Louis (Lynn 1-1) at Milwaukee (Fiers 0-3), 2:10
L.A. Dodgers (S.Baker 0-0) at San Diego (Morrow 0-0), 4:10
Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-1) at Arizona (Hellickson 1-2), 4:10
San Francisco (Lincecum 1-1) at Colorado (Matzek 1-0), 4:10
N.Y. Mets (Niese 2-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 1-0), 8:05
Monday's games
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 7:10
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 7:10
Washington at Atlanta, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:05
Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8:15
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40
Houston at San Diego, 10:10
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
New York
Atlanta
Miami
Washington
Philadelphia
NAtioNAl leAgue leAders
BATTING-LeMahieu, Colorado, .414; AGonzalez, Los
Angeles, .403; MCarpenter, St. Louis, .387; Alonso, San
Diego, .379; Holliday, St. Louis, .367; DGordon, Miami, .364;
Markakis, Atlanta, .352.
RUNS-Hechavarria, Miami, 15; Myers, San Diego, 15;
Goldschmidt, Arizona, 14; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 14;
Hamilton, Cincinnati, 14; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 13; Inciarte,
Arizona, 13; Kemp, San Diego, 13; Rizzo, Chicago, 13.
RBI-Goldschmidt, Arizona, 16; Stanton, Miami, 16; AGonzalez,
Los Angeles, 15; Votto, Cincinnati, 15; Dickerson, Colorado,
14; Kemp, San Diego, 14; Frazier, Cincinnati, 13; Hechavarria,
Miami, 13.
HITS-DGordon, Miami, 28; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 25;
Kemp, San Diego, 25; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 24; LeMahieu,
Colorado, 24; Aoki, San Francisco, 23; Pagan, San Francisco,
23.
DOUBLES-MCarpenter, St. Louis, 9; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 9;
Arenado, Colorado, 8; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 8; DeNorris,
San Diego, 8; Desmond, Washington, 7; Duda, New York, 7.
TRIPLES-Blackmon, Colorado, 2; GBlanco, San Francisco, 2;
Fowler, Chicago, 2; OHerrera, Philadelphia, 2; Kemp, San
Diego, 2; Revere, Philadelphia, 2; Trumbo, Arizona, 2; Young
Jr, Atlanta, 2.
HOME RUNS-AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 6; Votto, Cincinnati, 6;
Dickerson, Colorado, 5; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 5; Marte,
Pittsburgh, 5; Stanton, Miami, 5; 6 tied at 4.
STOLEN BASES-Hamilton, Cincinnati, 12; DGordon, Miami,
8; Polanco, Pittsburgh, 6; Aoki, San Francisco, 4; Fowler,
Chicago, 4; Revere, Philadelphia, 4; Rizzo, Chicago, 4.
PITCHING-BColon, New York, 4-0; Harvey, New York, 4-0;
Greinke, Los Angeles, 3-0; Benoit, San Diego, 3-0; Wacha, St.
Louis, 3-0; Cole, Pittsburgh, 3-0; 25 tied at 2.
ERA-DeSclafani, Cincinnati, 0.86; Scherzer, Washington,
1.26; Wacha, St. Louis, 1.33; CMartinez, St. Louis, 1.35;
Nelson, Milwaukee, 1.35; Greinke, Los Angeles, 1.35; Harang,
Philadelphia, 1.37.
STRIKEOUTS-Kershaw, Los Angeles, 35; Cueto, Cincinnati,
32; Harvey, New York, 31; Scherzer, Washington, 29; Shields,
San Diego, 29; TRoss, San Diego, 28; Cole, Pittsburgh, 27.
SAVES-Familia, New York, 8; Rosenthal, St. Louis, 7; Grilli,
Atlanta, 6; Casilla, San Francisco, 5; Kimbrel, San Diego, 5;
Storen, Washington, 4; Melancon, Pittsburgh, 4; Chapman,
Cincinnati, 4.
American league
Boston
New York
Tampa Bay
Toronto
Baltimore
Kansas City
Detroit
Chicago
Cleveland
Minnesota
Houston
Los Angeles
Seattle
Oakland
Texas
east division
W
10
10
9
9
7
Central division
W
12
12
6
6
6
West division
W
10
8
7
8
6
Friday's games
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4
6
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10
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9
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11
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Boston 7, Baltimore 5
N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 1
Cleveland 13, Detroit 1
Tampa Bay 12, Toronto 3
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City 2, tie, 9 innings, susp., rain
Houston 5, Oakland 4, 11 innings
L.A. Angels 3, Texas 2
Seattle 2, Minnesota 0
saturday's games
Detroit 4, Cleveland 1
Kansas City at Chicago, ppd., rain
Houston 9, Oakland 3
N.Y. Mets 8, N.Y. Yankees 2
Toronto at Tampa Bay, after presstime
Boston at Baltimore, after presstime
Texas at L.A. Angels, after presstime
Minnesota at Seattle, after presstime
sunday's games
Cleveland (Carrasco 2-1) at Detroit (Lobstein 1-1), 1:08
Toronto (Buehrle 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 2-2), 1:10
Boston (Miley 1-1) at Baltimore (B.Norris 0-2), 1:35
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City 2, tie, 9 innings, comp. of
susp. game, 2:10
Kansas City (Volquez 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-2),
3:10
Texas (N.Martinez 2-0) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-1), 3:35
Houston (Wojciechowski 0-1) at Oakland (Pomeranz 1-2), 4:05
Minnesota (Gibson 1-2) at Seattle (Elias 0-0), 4:10
N.Y. Mets (Niese 2-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 1-0), 8:05
Monday's games
Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10
Toronto at Boston, 6:10
Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Seattle at Texas, 8:05
Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10
Houston at San Diego, 10:10
AMeriCAN leAgue leAders
BATTING-AJones, Baltimore, .413; Cain, Kansas City, .390;
JIglesias, Detroit, .382; Fielder, Texas, .375; Travis, Toronto,
.375; Vogt, Oakland, .364; MiCabrera, Detroit, .354.
RUNS-Fuld, Oakland, 15; Donaldson, Toronto, 14; Ellsbury,
New York, 14; AJones, Baltimore, 14; Moustakas, Kansas City,
14; Trout, Los Angeles, 14; Cain, Kansas City, 13; Kinsler,
Detroit, 13.
RBI-NCruz, Seattle, 18; Teixeira, New York, 18; AJones,
Baltimore, 16; Travis, Toronto, 16; Vogt, Oakland, 14; Abreu,
Chicago, 13; Cespedes, Detroit, 13; Donaldson, Toronto, 13;
Freese, Los Angeles, 13; HRamirez, Boston, 13.
HITS-AJones, Baltimore, 26; BButler, Oakland, 24; Fielder,
Texas, 24; Altuve, Houston, 23; MiCabrera, Detroit, 23; Cain,
Kansas City, 23; Donaldson, Toronto, 23.
DOUBLES-Cano, Seattle, 7; Cain, Kansas City, 6; Donaldson,
Toronto, 6; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 6; 14 tied at 5.
TRIPLES-Orlando, Kansas City, 5; Fuld, Oakland, 3;
ACabrera, Tampa Bay, 2; 31 tied at 1.
HOME RUNS-NCruz, Seattle, 9; Teixeira, New York, 8;
HRamirez, Boston, 6; Abreu, Chicago, 5; AJones, Baltimore, 5;
JMartinez, Detroit, 5; Travis, Toronto, 5; Valbuena, Houston, 5.
STOLEN BASES-RDavis, Detroit, 6; Altuve, Houston, 5; Betts,
Boston, 5; Cain, Kansas City, 5; Gardner, New York, 5;
JIglesias, Detroit, 5; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 5; Trout, Los
Angeles, 5.
PITCHING-Simon, Detroit, 4-0; Betances, New York, 3-0;
FHernandez, Seattle, 3-0; Buehrle, Toronto, 3-0; Pineda, New
York, 3-0; McHugh, Houston, 3-0; Greene, Detroit, 3-1.
ERA-NMartinez, Texas, 0.45; Keuchel, Houston, 0.62; Bauer,
Cleveland, 0.95; Kazmir, Oakland, 0.99; Archer, Tampa Bay,
1.07; FHernandez, Seattle, 1.61; Simon, Detroit, 1.65;
Odorizzi, Tampa Bay, 1.65.
STRIKEOUTS-FHernandez, Seattle, 32; Kluber, Cleveland,
31; Kazmir, Oakland, 30; Archer, Tampa Bay, 30; Buchholz,
Boston, 29; Pineda, New York, 27; Bauer, Cleveland, 26.
SAVES-AMiller, New York, 6; Soria, Detroit, 6; Street, Los
Angeles, 6; Boxberger, Tampa Bay, 4; MCastro, Toronto, 4;
Britton, Baltimore, 4; GHolland, Kansas City, 4; Rodney,
Seattle, 4; WDavis, Kansas City, 4.
hoCKeY
Nhl daily Playoff glance
First rouNd
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Wednesday, April 22
Ottawa 1, Montreal 01
N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT
St. Louis 6, Minnesota 1
Anaheim 5, Winnipeg 2, Anaheim wins series 4-0
thursday, April 23
Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 2, OT, series tied 2-2
Washington 5, NY Islanders 1
Nashville 5, Chicago 2, Chicago leads series 3-2
Vancouver 2, Calgary 1, Calgary leads series 3-2
Friday, April 24
Ottawa 5, Montreal 1, Montreal leads series 3-2
N.Y. Rangers 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT, N.Y. Rangers wins series 41
Minnesota 4, St. Louis 1, Minnesota leads series 3-2
saturday, April 25
N.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1, series tied 3-3
Detroit at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.
Nashville at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.
sunday, April 26
St. Louis at Minnesota, 3 p.m.
Montreal at Ottawa, 6 p.m.
Monday, April 27
Tampa Bay at Detroit, TBA
NY Islanders at Washington, TBA
x-Chicago at Nashville, TBA
x-Calgary at Vancouver, TBA
tuesday, April 28
x-Ottawa at Montreal, TBA
Wednesday, April 29
x-Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBA
x-Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA
AP photo
PhilAdelPhiA Phillies shortstoP Freddy Galvis, right, throws to first base after forcing out
Atlanta Braves’ Cameron Maybin at second on a double play by Kelly Johnson during the ninth inning,
Friday in Philadelphia. Philadelphia won 1-0.
Errors, lack of offense doom Braves
PHILADELPHIA
(AP)
—
Defensive miscues and an ineffective offense doomed the
Braves against Philadelphia.
Freddie Freeman mishandled
Ben Revere’s ground ball to
first, allowing Freddy Galvis to
score in the ninth to give the
Phillies a 1-0 win on Friday
night.
Galvis led off with a single to
center against Jim Johnson (12), went to second on Cesar
Hernandez’s sacrifice bunt and
third on a passed ball.
Revere chopped the ball
toward first base and Galvis
broke for home. Freeman had a
play at the plate but he bobbled
the ball.
“I thought I had a chance to
get him,” Freeman said. “I tried
to act like a shortstop. We had
too many miscues tonight.”
It was one of four errors for
the Braves, who have lost four
straight and eight of 11. The
Braves were leading the majors
in fielding percentage (.993) and
entered with four errors on the
season.
“I’m not so sure if Freeman
comes up with it he scores (anyway),” Atlanta manager Fredi
Gonzalez said. “But it doesn’t
sit right with four errors.”
Ken Giles (1-0) pitched a
scoreless ninth for the win.
Aaron Harang struck out six
and walked one while allowing
just two hits in eight shutout
innings.
“He did everything he could
to help himself tonight,” Phillies
manager Ryne Sandberg said.
Harang was 12-12 with a
3.57 ERA in 33 starts with the
Braves last season.
“We didn’t do anything with
Harang, a guy we’ve seen often,”
Gonzalez said. “He had great
command and mixed his pitches really well.”
The Braves got their only hits
in the fifth inning when A.J.
Pierzynski stayed hot with a
one-out double followed by
Chris Johnson’s line-drive single. But that was all Atlanta
could manage off Harang, who
retired his final 10 batters.
“I was really on,” Harang
said. “I had to work to find out
my limitations and try and find
the limitations of the strike
zone. Once I was able to establish that, I was good to go and
everything kind of fell into
place.”
Alex Wood didn’t allow a run
in 5 2-3 innings, giving up five
hits while striking out one and
walking two. Cody Martin and
Luis Avilan combined for two
scoreless innings of relief.
“My stuff is coming around,”
said Wood, who is 1-0 with a
3.00 ERA in four starts this
season.
Philadelphia’s
struggling
offense couldn’t get Harang the
lead despite several chances.
The Phillies entered the game
last in the majors in both runs
(41) and average (.213) and
showed why on Friday.
“Overall, we had some hits up
and down the lineup but
weren’t able to get the hit with a
man on base like we’d like to,”
Sandberg said.
See BRAVES, Page 25
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Friday
At richmond international raceway
richmond, va.
lap length: .75 miles
(start position in parentheses)
1. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 250 laps, 150 rating, 0 points,
$53,835.
2. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 250, 122.5, 0, $35,480.
3. (8) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 250, 109.4, 41, $34,901.
4. (3) Erik Jones, Toyota, 250, 117.7, 0, $32,289.
5. (7) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 250, 109.2, 39, $29,956.
6. (9) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 250, 97.7, 38, $28,236.
7. (5) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 250, 109.6, 38, $26,792.
8. (13) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 250, 102.1, 0, $20,702.
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Banner photo, riChArd roBerts
the BrAdleY CeNtrAl BeArettes celebrated Senior Night between games at their Thursday
doubleheader. From left are, Von Harrison, Chanler Grady and Abby Abernathy.
Contributed photo
the dustiN ledFord live Wide oPeN golf tournament will be held June 13 at Chatata Valley
Golf Club. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Dustin Ledford Live Wide Open Scholarship
Foundation for students at Bradley Central, Cleveland and Walker Valley High Schools. The 4-person,
select shot tournament will tee off at 8 a.m. Toyota of Cleveland is providing a 2015 Camry for a hole-inone on a selected hole. Other prizes will also be awarded, and golfers will receive a T-shirt and goody
bag. Pictured with the 2015 Camry are, from left, Mark Smith, Toyota of Cleveland sales manager; Eddie
Triplet, general manager; and Kim Ledford and Danny Ledford, Dustin’s mother and father. For more
information, contact Kim Ledford at 715-3157 or email [email protected].
Contributed photo
the sixth-grAde teNNessee Flight seleCt basketball team went undefeated in the
Alabama Premier Southern Spring Invitational tournament championship April 17, in Birmingham, Ala.
Front row, from left: Ciara Taylor, Aaliyah Vananda, Bralyn McGaha, Campbell Penland, Macy Kirby,
and Maci Pitner. Back row, from left: coach Brent Stallings, Jamaryn Blair (Cleveland Middle School),
Heaven Wyrick, Joy Douglass (Cleveland Middle School), Gabby Carter, Tessa Miller, Keaton Freitag
and Sylar Sheridan.
Spurs take 2-1 lead over Clippers
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Kawhi
Leonard has a passion for playing defense, but the San Antonio
Spurs forward does not want to
be regarded a one-dimensional
player.
So, a day after earning NBA
Defensive Player of the Year honors, Leonard’s offensive outburst
helped San Antonio break the
Los Angeles Clippers’ “spirit” in
a blowout victory.
Leonard had a postseason
career-high 32 points and the
Spurs never trailed in dominating the Clippers 100-73 on
Friday night to take a 2-1 lead in
their first-round series.
“He continues to impress me
every time he’s out there,” San
Antonio veteran Tim Duncan
said. “He can put on a show like
that in a situation like this. It’s
not only great for us, but it’s
impressive to watch.”
The Clippers scored a franchise postseason low and their
11 points in the third were their
fewest in any quarter this season. Los Angeles shot 34 percent
from the field and 26 percent
from 3-point range.
“We’ve had this happen a couple of times this year, we lose
our spirit because we can’t make
shots,” Clippers coach Doc
Rivers said. “I thought that’s
AP photo what happened as the game
SAn Antonio SPurS’ Kawhi Leonard (2) grabs a loose ball in front of Los Angeles Clippers’ Matt went on. Every time we missed a
Barnes, left, and DeAndre Jordan (6) during the first half of Game 3 in an NBA first-round playoff series, shot, we played less and less
defense.”
Friday in San Antonio.
Boris Diaw had 15 points and
Danny Green added 11 for San
Antonio, which led by as many
as 37 points after two tense
games in Los Angeles.
Game 4 is Sunday in San
Antonio.
Duncan was held to four
points on 2-for-6 shooting but
his production wasn’t needed
with Leonard surpassing the 29
points he collected in Game 3 of
last year’s NBA Finals against
Miami.
“I’m just doing whatever it
takes to help the team win the
game,” Leonard said. “Tony
(Parker) did a good job getting off
early and just created opportunities for me knocking down
shots and I just got a rhythm.”
Blake Griffin had 14 points
and 10 rebounds and DeAndre
Jordan added 10 points for the
Clippers.
Griffin averaged 27.5 points
on 47 percent shooting in the
first two games, but was held to
6-for-15 shooting against a collapsing Spurs’ defense in Game
3.
After a series of highlight
dunks in the opening two
games, Griffin could only watch
from under the basket as
Leonard rose high above the rim
to corral a pass from Green for a
one-handed dunk on a 2-on-2
break. The dunk was part of a 90 run that made it 46-33 late in
the first half.
Nets beat Hawks, pull within 2-1 in series
NEW YORK (AP) — They were
beaten badly in the regular season and were losing by a little in
the playoffs.
On their seventh try this season, the Nets finally got a victory
over Atlanta. Get another one
Monday, and they will be all even
with the No. 1 seed in this
Eastern Conference series.
Brook Lopez had 22 points and
13 rebounds, Thaddeus Young
added 18 points and 11
rebounds, and Brooklyn trimmed
Atlanta's lead to 2-1 with a 91-83
victory Saturday.
"We know they're going to make
adjustments, but we really feel we
can compete with these guys and
we have a lot of confidence right
now," Lopez said.
The Nets seized control with an
18-0 run spanning the third and
fourth quarters after the Hawks
grabbed their first lead since the
opening
basket.
Bojan
Bogdanovic added 19 points for
the eighth-seeded Nets, who qualified for the playoffs on the final
night of the regular season.
They didn't appear to be much
of a threat to the 60-win Hawks
after dropping the first three
meetings during the regular season by double digits — including
a 32-point stomping on April 4.
They nearly won the final
matchup before close losses in
Games 1 and 2 in Atlanta.
"I think they're a confident
group, just like we are. It's the
playoffs," Hawks coach Mike
Budenholzer said. "I think they've
played well really for stretches
from the beginning and it's going
to be a series."
DeMarre Carroll scored a playoff career-high 22 points for the
Hawks, who were denied what
would have been their second 3-0
lead since moving to Atlanta in
1968. Paul Millsap added 18
points and 17 rebounds.
The other three East series
were all 3-0 entering Saturday,
but the Hawks won't be able to
wrap this one up quickly after
getting poor performances from
All-Stars Kyle Korver (two points,
0 for 5 on 3-pointers) and Al
Horford (3 for 12, seven points).
"From the beginning of the
game, they had more of an edge
than we did," Horford said. "This
was a big game for them and they
came out and handled their business."
Still, the Hawks had recovered
from a poor start to grab the lead
late in the third quarter before the
Nets put together their big run.
Young, who apologized to his
teammates after scoring only two
points on 1-of-7 shooting in Game
2, answered Atlanta's 11-0 run
that gave the Hawks a 62-58 lead
with three straight baskets to put
the Nets ahead to stay. They
scored the last nine points of the
third, and Lopez took over when
they went 9-0 to open the fourth
and build a 76-62 lead.
"No matter what or how I felt
about Game 2, I knew I had to
come back and bounce back in
Game 3 for us to get a win,"
Young said.
After getting outscored by 17
points in the first quarter of the
first two games, the Nets got the
quick start coach Lionel Hollins
wanted — though plenty of fans
missed it.
Black giveaway T-shirts hung
over loads of empty seats all
around the arena at the start of
the mid-afternoon game. The
Nets, who wore their road black
uniforms, ran off 11 straight
points in the opening minutes,
then closed the first quarter with
nine straight to open a 31-16
lead.
TIP-INS
Hawks: Atlanta's lone 3-0 lead
was in 1969-70 against Chicago
in the Western Division semifinals, a series it won 4-1. ...
Horford added eight rebounds
after having double-doubles in
the first two games.
Nets: Brooklyn had dropped
seven straight to Atlanta dating to
last season. ... The Nets had nine
“He has really progressed by
leaps and bounds on both ends
of the floor,” San Antonio coach
Gregg Popovich said. “He’s
turned into a fine offensive player, as well as a defensive player.
He’s not a one-trick pony kind of
guy. He’s something else.”
Leonard faked a spin outside
and stutter-stepped to get by
Matt Barnes on a drive and then
feigned an upfake to hold
Jordan in place long enough to
lay the ball in ahead of the
Clippers’ 6-foot-11 center.
Leonard followed that up with a
stepback, fadeaway jumper on
Barnes for a 56-43 lead.
“He did it the right way, he
stayed within our offense,”
Duncan said. “He got some
shots going early on and then he
just kind of got comfortable and
kind of got on a roll. Then you
see him start to see his level of
difficulty kind of going up,
shooting over double teams, fading away, making plays and
from there, he was just off to the
races.”
Parker attacked the basket
early for the Spurs with unexpected bursts of quickness and
energy, showing no indication of
the tightness in his right
Achilles that put his playing status in question only hours earlier.
“He was aggressive out the
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assists on their 11 first-quarter
baskets.
WILLIAMS' WOES
Deron Williams, who went 1 for
7 in Game 2 and missed a jumper
that would have tied it in the closing seconds, was 1 for 8 in this
one, appearing to hurt his leg in
the first half, then going to the
bench just before the Nets started
the pivotal run and staying there
the rest of the way.
KORVER COUNT
Korver, who made a 3-pointer
in 51 straight games during the
regular season, was 1 for 8 overall
Saturday.
"I didn't get any good looks
early and I tried to force a couple
late," he said. "I need to be better
on Monday."
NEW YORK NIGHTLIFE
The Hawks are back in New
York for the first time since
reserve
swingman
Thabo
Sefolosha was lost to a broken
right leg when he and Pero Antic
were arrested by New York police
outside a nightclub. Budenholzer
said then his players didn't have a
curfew and he wasn't worried
about them on this trip, either,
saying the Hawks have mature,
responsible players. "I think
AP photo
they're all in a good place and
Brooklyn
netS
center
Mason
Plumlee
(1)
goes
to
the
basknow how important what's happening is," he said. "We're just ket agains Atlanta Hawks center Al Horford (15) during the first half
in Game 3 of a first-round NBA playoff series, Saturday, at New York.
going about our business."
MLB hands out punishments for baseball brawl
AP photo
kAnSAS city royAlS and Chicago White Sox players fight during the seventh inning of a baseball
game Thursday, in Chicago. The MLB handed out punishments to both teams for their actions.
Penguins looking for answers after quick playoff exit
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney
Crosby wasn’t making excuses so
much as stating the obvious.
The Pittsburgh Penguins raced
through the fall, but limped
through the winter and an alltoo-brief spring. The faces, the
pace, the results all changed
when the health issues and
injuries that began with defenseman Olli Maatta’s cancer surgery
never let up.
“Usually you go through a span
of injuries and you get through it
and you kind of settle in,” Crosby
said. “We never really got through
it. We went through the end of the
year into the playoffs.”
The margin between the
Penguins and the New York
Rangers proved only lopsided in
the result — a 4-1 win for the
Presidents’ Trophy winners in
their opening-round playoff
series. Yet Pittsburgh and New
York played 17 periods of taut,
tight hockey. All four Ranger
wins came by the same 2-1
score. A bounce here, a bounce
there and maybe things are different.
Pittsburgh lurched into the
postseason without defensemen
Mattaa, Kris Letang, Christian
Ehrhoff and winger Pascal
Dupuis. That makes it harder to
upset the team with the best
record in the league.
Now, the team heads into a
longer-than-anticipated offseason that could lead to another
summer of upheaval. Not that the
Penguins planned on dwelling
much on what’s to come after
Friday night’s overtime loss and
the franchise’s earliest playoff
exit in eight years.
“You look at the way your players play and you can ask so
much of them,” coach Mike
Johnston said. “You ask them to
battle, ask them to compete and
play well defensively. You look at
all those things and we were really good in the series, really good.
It’s just a fine line with all those
2-1 games.”
It’s been the wrong side of the
line all too often since raising the
Stanley Cup in 2009.
The team fired general manager Ray Shero and coach Dan
Bylsma last year and brought in
Johnston and general manager
Jim Rutherford to make the necessary tweaks. Rutherford turned
over more than half the roster but
after a strong start the Penguins
spent the last five months going
through healthy bodies. There
was also a bout with the mumps
and an inability to generate consistent momentum on offense.
See PENGUINS, Page 25
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The
Kansas City Royals and Chicago
White Sox each lost Saturday
without playing a game.
Four members of the Royals
and three from the White Sox
were punished for their roles in a
series-opening brawl in Chicago,
and six of the players drew suspensions. Major League Baseball
placed the blame for the fighting
squarely on both teams.
Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura
was handed a seven-game suspension, fellow starter Edinson
Volquez given five games and outfielder Lorenzo Cain and reliever
Kelvin Herrera got two games
apiece. White Sox pitchers Chris
Sale and Jeff Samardzija were
suspended five games each, while
catcher Tyler Flowers escaped
suspension but joined the others
in getting an undisclosed fine.
All the players who received
suspensions are appealing, which
means they will be able to play in
Sunday's series finale. The game
scheduled for Saturday was
rained out.
"Everybody had some elements
of their behavior over the course
of that incident on both sides that
they wish they handled differently," White Sox general manager
Rick Hahn said during a conference call Saturday. "Respect the
fact that our players stood up and
took responsibility for their
actions and expressed remorse
over those things they wish had
been handled better.
"It is something that happens
from time to time," Hahn added.
"It's part of the game."
It's a costly part of the game,
though. Along with the suspensions, Hahn said reliever Matt
Albers fractured a finger on his
throwing hand in the melee and
will go on the disabled list.
Meanwhile, Herrera is already
awaiting an appeal on a five-game
suspension that was handed
down after he threw a pitch
behind Oakland third baseman
Brett Lawrie during a series last
weekend. Ventura was fined for
hitting Lawrie with a 99 mph fastball during the same series.
"We understand that Major
League Baseball has to do what
they think is fair in situations like
this," Royals manager Ned Yost
said in a team statement. "Now,
we just have to wait for the
appeals process to play out."
Tensions between the Royals
and White Sox had been building
since the opening series of the
season, when the teams combined to hit six batters. Two more
were plunked early Thursday
night when Ventura hit Jose
Abreu in the fourth inning and
Sale hit Mike Moustakas in the
fifth.
The simmering anger finally
boiled over in the seventh, when
Ventura snagged a grounder from
Chicago outfielder Adam Eaton
and the two exchanged words
before Eaton was thrown out at
first. Eaton had to be restrained
from Ventura, who was ejected
from his second straight start.
"It was a messy situation,"
Ventura said through a translator.
Players from both dugouts and
bullpens then ran onto the field.
Volquez whiffed throwing a haymaker, and several other players
threw punches in a fight that lasted several minutes.
"There are real negative repercussions of this," Hahn said."
After he was thrown from the
game, Sale went to the Royals
clubhouse and was seen pounding on the door. While nothing
more transpired, Hahn said he
spoke to his star pitcher about it
Friday.
"It was a private conversation,"
Hahn said. "We certainly understand where Chris was coming
from in terms of the emotion
involved in the moment and what
he was hoping to accomplish, and
at the same time realizing that
perhaps there was a better way to
handle these things going forward."
Five players ultimately were
ejected from Thursday night's
game, which the Royals won in 13
innings. Among them was Cain,
who has been hit by pitches four
times this season. Moustakas and
teammate Alex Gordon have been
hit an AL-leading five times
apiece, and the Royals have been
hit 17 times as a team — tied with
Texas for the league lead entering
the day.
"This game's emotional and it
seems to follow them around,"
said White Sox manager Robin
Ventura, who famously charged
the mound and was pummeled by
the Rangers' Nolan Ryan during a
game in 1993. "Everybody gets
emotional and reacts to things
and that's what happened."
The Royals are starting to earn
a fighting reputation. Along with
their two series with the White
Sox and a tense three-game set in
Oakland, Ventura got into a heated argument with Angels slugger
Mike Trout during a series in Los
Angeles.
While acknowledging that the
Royals must do a better job of
containing their emotions, Yost
insisted that his club has rarely
been the instigator in a string of
testy situations.
"Hopefully it's all behind us," he
said Thursday night, "and we can
move forward."
The teams played eight innings
Friday night without incident, but
the rest of the game was postponed due to rain with the score
2-2. It was supposed to resume
Saturday, but more rain in
Chicago means that it will now
resume Sunday with the Royals
batting in the top of the ninth.
John Danks is scheduled to
start for the White Sox in the second game Sunday, while fellow
left-hander Jason Vargas is
expected to go for the Royals.
No
makeup
date
was
announced for Saturday's game.
Editorials
Planting a tree of hope;
inspiring all to stand tall
W
ords spoken at a
recent tree planting
and memorial at the
Bradley County Courthouse in
honor of a good man should
be forever revered and always
practiced.
They came from Dr. Lindsay
Hathcock, executive assistant
to Bradley County Mayor D.
Gary Davis, who said this of
those we love and all whom
we admire, whether from long
distance or within the same
spaces.
“His passing leads us to
remember it is always a good
idea to check on your fellow
person to let them know how
important they are, to let them
know how much they mean to
you,” the much-respected
county administrator offered.
“May his tree be a reminder of
that.”
Hathcock’s endearing plea
came in reference to the late
Hon. Bill Moss, long-time
municipal judge for the city of
Cleveland since 1972. This
aging man of wisdom, whose
sharp legal mind and downhome wit were comparable to
any, lived in failing health during his final days on this earth.
He died last summer by his
own hand.
In life, Judge Moss had a gift
... one some knew as a gift of
gab, not because he enjoyed
hearing his own voice but
because he believed in making others feel good about
themselves and their roles in
making a difference.
In death, his gift remains.
Cleveland attorney Ashley
Ownby, speaking on behalf of
the Bradley County Bar
Association and the Bradley
County Courthouse, pointed to
Judge Moss’ legacy.
“I don’t think a week has
gone by that someone has not
said something about Judge
Moss, something he did,
something he said, and we
smiled and we laughed,
because that’s what Judge
Moss was all about,” Ownby
told the crowd whose numbers
gathered
along
the
Courthouse Plaza just across
the street from the LoganThompson law firm where
Moss practiced prior to being
named city judge.
Sponsored by the city of
Cleveland, Bradley County,
Logan-Thompson and the
Cleveland Shade Tree Board,
the tree planting — a
Japanese zelkova — served
as a thoughtful memorial to a
thoughtful man.
Legendary poet Joyce
Kilmer said it best in his inspiring 1914 work, titled “Trees,”
when he wrote, “I think that I
shall never see, a poem lovely
as a tree.” And later he
penned, “Poems are made by
fools like me, but only God can
make a tree.”
And for those who live their
lives by the Scriptures, only
God can make a man.
It is oddly appropriate then
for a man to be remembered
by a tree. In their greatest
sense, both are beautiful and
each personifies the good in
life.
The fact that Judge Moss’
memorial tree replaces another that had died in the same
spot of the Courthouse lawn
gives us pause to remember:
Immortality is little more than a
fleeting wish. No one, no thing
lives forever ... not man, not
tree; and not a pure-hearted
municipal judge whose knack
for finding the good in others.
But memories do last.
Nurtured by the will of others
not to let go, memories are
what we make them. And if we
keep them by planting a tree,
then its namesake will grow as
well as the sapling whose
roots take hold of life and cling
to its potential.
A lighthearted story told by
his daughter, Jami Moss Wise,
also points to why the
Courthouse’s newest shade
bearer takes special meaning.
Judge Moss himself once
planted a tree. It was a
spindly, little stick that none
gave hope for survival. But it
lived. And it grew. Its miniature
roots embraced hope. It
accepted the gifts that life
brings to those who believe.
And it prospered.
“That tree was the most pitiful looking tree you have ever
seen in your life, and we
laughed about that tree for
years and years, that it would
never grow,” Jami offered.
She added, “... And it did
finally one day just shoot up
and it became this beautiful
water oak.”
The measure of a man, or a
woman, is best gauged by the
words of others.
One is Cleveland attorney
Matthew Coleman who said,
“On July 14, our community
lost a great friend, mentor and
colleague in the Honorable Bill
Moss.”
One is Cleveland Mayor
Tom Rowland who could not
attend the outside ceremony,
but who sent along a message, “This tree will stand as a
reminder of Bill’s life, and he
will always be present with
us.”
One is the aforementioned
Hathcock, who mentioned his
final memory of the beloved
city judge: “The last time I saw
him was almost literally this
exact same spot. He was
walking across the street. Few
people impact people the way
Judge Moss did. He was one,
when you saw him, your day
was better instantly.”
One is Cleveland attorney
James Logan who is also a
longtime fixture in civic
involvement, “He was always
sympathetic to people who
were hurting. He would give
people a pat on the back when
they needed it most.”
All who attended the brief
downtown memorial did so
with purpose. They knew the
Hon. Bill Moss. They respected him in life. They loved him
in spirit. They remember him
in death.
No man is an island, it has
been said. All men are unique
but all are molded by the fabric
of their surrounds. It is a belief
that we believe Judge Moss
embraced.
He also lived life by a set of
humanitarian codes.
No man is better than the
next man.
No man is any more a promise of the future than another.
No man is a gift to humanity,
but all men are gifted with
opportunity to influence its
well-being.
No man is the secret to happiness, but any man can follow its path.
No man is privy to all the
answers, but every man can
ask the questions.
Like those who knew him,
those who loved him and
those whose days were made
special by his wit, we will
remember Judge Bill Moss.
And, we will miss him.
On our bad days we will
shed a tear. On our good days
we will smile while standing
along the Courthouse Plaza
and watching another miracle
take form.
By the eye, it is just a tree.
By the heart, it is a life that
will glow eternal.
Good-bye Judge Moss.
Godspeed in your newest travels.
Slow down, take time to learn
Today’s technology not always a good thing
The best writers are avid readers — or so
I’ve been told.
Because of that, I made a New Year’s resolution that I would read more books this
year — not just short blog posts and articles
found online but real, honest-to-goodness
books.
Months later, I have fallen behind on my
desired number.
It must be a sign of the times.
Technology has changed everything,
including how we read things.
Even more so than with things like reading, it has also changed how we interact
with each other. For example, I have friends
who say they much prefer text messaging to
talking on the phone.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’d rather talk
than text, if I have the time. The problem is
that most of us do not make as much time
for things like verbal conversation as we
may have in the past.
Why ask a loved one to describe their
reaction to first seeing a new baby in the
family when they can just text you a photo?
Why congratulate a friend on his or her
engagement when you can “like” the
announcement on a website like Facebook?
A while back, I read about a man named
Matt Kulesza who realized he had so many
friends on Facebook that he did not know
most of them well.
His experience was like that of many; he
had more than a thousand “friends,” but
some were merely acquaintances.
The Australian decided to remedy that
problem by resolving to go out for coffee to
catch up with or get to know every single
one of those people, amounting to more
than a thousand coffees. He has since been
chronicling his coffee meet-ups on an online
blog aptly titled “1000+ Coffees.”
I love that idea, as I believe nothing compares to the laughter one experiences in
conversation — not even the typed assurance that someone is “LOL,” or “laughing
out loud.”
I’ve heard it said people today are more
“connected” than ever, but that might just
be a common misconception.
Sometimes we can be guilty of making
better eye contact with our smartphones
than other people, and that is a problem.
One cannot overemphasize the importance of getting to know others in person,
’STRONG
THOUGHTS
Christy Armstrong
Banner
Staff Writer
offline.
I keep hearing educators say they are
having to teach students more and more
that they must do things like shake hands
with people and look them in the eye.
While such consequences of technology
might seem like a problem only young people face, I have also met adults in their 60s
who tend to keep their faces glued to their
iPhones.
Is communication actually starting to
become a lost art? Is it lost already?
Technology is wonderful, even if it sometimes encourages us to move quickly and
not take as much time to appreciate things
like long works of literature or good conversations in person or on the phone.
However, too much of a good thing can be
a bad thing. The evidence of too much technology being a bad thing is already a familiar thing to many.
I am not an expert on etiquette or social
interactions, but I do know what it is like to
have people text messaging while I am trying
to have a conversation.
I have seen countless people sending text
messages and emails in the middle of meetings, which always makes me wonder if they
are really taking in what is being said in the
room.
Technology has some wonderful applications in settings like meetings, but it cannot
truly replace the collaboration that takes
place when people really listen and collaborate.
Though life isn’t really like a romantic
comedy movie, I kind of have to chuckle
when I find myself pondering what life might
be like if people actually spoke to strangers
in coffee shops instead of pulling out their
devices.
After all, there are very few things that
can really replace the simultaneously wonderful and awkward experience of having a
genuine tête-à-tête with someone you just
met.
I won’t go into too much detail about
another frustration of mine — people relying
only on short online status updates to get
news about current events. Still, it is a
problem.
There is an online abbreviation that people use to summarize things they believe
others won’t take the time to read: “TL;DR”
(or “tldr”) which is short for “Too long; didn’t
read.” (Feel free to skip to the end if you
want to see how this works.)
People not reading long pieces of writing
is such a given in today’s society that my
journalism professors in college instructed
us to always try to put the most information
at the top of an article.
The idea was that someone could perhaps
still gain a vague idea of current events even
if he or she does not make much time for
news. It’s basically like starting a story with
the ending; there’s little suspense.
Archives of news articles published before
computers were ever used indicate journalists were not always so concerned about
short attention spans.
While I am of one of the younger generations, I refuse to see technology’s effects on
society as a generational challenge. It’s
something society as a whole has to
address.
The world we live in is a fast-paced one,
and we need to remember that it is OK to
slow down and get to know others the way
people did centuries ago.
What would you do if you didn’t have
technology? What if the power went out and
the towers that make cellphone use possible
suddenly went offline?
What would be left would be whatever you
decided to invest time in when you weren’t
busy investing in things like your online
presence.
TL;DR — Here’s my advice: Don’t take life
too quickly. Though life may have you moving at a terribly fast pace, take the time to
enjoy and learn from those around you.
Meet new people. Catch up with the ones
you already know. When you’re not around
others, take the time to read a book — or, of
course, a newspaper — to learn more about
the world around you.
Enjoy whatever the future brings, but
don’t overlook what it is already in front of
you. You might just miss something great if
you do.
ANNIE’S
MAILBOX
Spreading some Greenway love to others
who share the same community passions
From April 15-17, city and
county planners, parks and recreation officers, community leaders
and volunteers gathered at
Montgomery Bell State Park near
Dickson for the biennial statewide
Greenways and Trails Forum.
This was my third time attending the forum and every time I
have come away energized and
inspired.
Serving as chairman of the
Cleveland/Bradley
County
Greenway has been my privilege
for the last nine years and it has
become my No. 1 most rewarding
volunteer activity. However, to
come together for three days with
about 100 others who share my
same passion for building, promoting and planning a community linear park gave me a renewed
infusion of determination and
resolve.
The forum started with a fourhour tour of Cheatham County’s
extensive blueway system.
Jane Polansky of the Park
Service led the tour of the Harpeth
River Blueway, showcasing a
number of put-ins and access
points. Although the purpose of
this tour was not about greenways, it enlightened me to what a
group of planners are in the
process of doing along the
Hiwassee River. One of the access
points to the Hiwassee River
Blueway will be in Charleston as
part of the interpretive Greenway
that is underway there.
A roomful of exhibitors was a
highlight of the forum for me as I
was able to chat with firms and
organizations that can ultimately
benefit our Greenway. I spoke
with representatives who specialize in elevated walkways, something we may have to consider
sometime in the future.
There were also reps for playground equipment, benches and
other specialty items relevant to a
Keeping it
green
Cameron
Fisher
Cleveland/Bradley
Greenway Board
Greenway. One of the catalogs I
brought home was from
Freenotes, a company that specializes in outdoor music displays.
Who knows, one or more of them
may end up on our Greenway!
The rest of the forum consisted
of sessions, meal functions and
breakouts between Greenway
planners from all across the state.
Topics included such titles as
“Greenways and Greenbacks,”
“Building Great Trails and Great
Partnerships,” and “Greenway,
Bicycle and Blueway Master
Plans.”
This year I was invited to present a session called, “David and
Goliath:
Community
vs.
Metropolis.” The session evolved
from my observation of the 2013
forum and how a majority of the
sessions highlighted greenways
from the big Tennessee towns like
Memphis,
Knoxville
and
Chattanooga. My thought was
there were several planners from
smaller cities that might have felt
intimidated — or even disillusioned — that their “small town”
greenways couldn’t compete for
grants and notoriety.
Not so in the case of Cleveland
and Bradley County. For 30 minutes, I rambled nonstop about the
success of our Greenway. I highlighted the support from day one
of our city and county leaders.
I told how we have secured over
$2.2 million in grants. I showcased the extensive list of gifts and
donations that have been received
to enhance our Greenway. I was
able to squeeze in some great pho-
tos of the April 11 “Groovin’ on the
Greenway” event that utilized the
still-under-construction stage in
Greenway Park.
But perhaps most importantly,
I was able to emphasize the community-wide acceptance and
usage of our Greenway. Without
that, why bother?
This is another opportunity to
say thanks to everyone who uses
and supports our Greenway.
Because of this support, I was
able to confidently share our successes and hopefully inspire others that a Greenway can be one of
our best assets!
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Dear Annie: I have a question
about when someone gives something to another person.
A cousin gave my sister several
nice articles of clothing. After several years, the cousin now wants
the clothes back. She even
requested that the items be delivered to her house. My sister never
asked for these articles of clothing
to begin with. My cousin simply
thought my sister needed them.
Is it correct for my cousin to
request the return of the items?
— C.P.
Dear C.P.: It depends. When
your cousin gave the clothes to
your sister, did she say it was a
loan? Did she say, “You can borrow these”? If so, she didn’t
intend for your sister to keep
them. But otherwise, when someone gives something away, it
belongs to the recipient, who is
under no obligation to return it.
Of course, if your sister wants
to maintain a good relationship
with this cousin, she might consider returning the items anyway
just to avoid ill will.
———
(About the writers: Annie’s
Mailbox is written by Kathy
Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers
column. Please email your questions
to
[email protected], or
write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o
Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd St.,
Hermosa Beach CA 90254.)
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life is the decisions we make, right or wrong
"I can bring you to the door, but you have
to walk through."
— Jean Paul Vadnais
Canadian author
(Died, Sept. 25, 2009)
———
Folks who hit a certain age often find
themselves becoming more retrospective;
that is, they enjoy looking back which for
some leads to looking in.
I don’t know which birthday marks the
occasion. But I’m pretty sure I’ve had
mine.
It wasn’t a bad thing. It wasn’t a
painful thing. It was just ... a thing.
It doesn’t make me a lesser person, a
better person or a smarter person. It just
means the events of today sometimes
take me back to a moment from another
day, to a time when times were different
and to a place where the journey was
frightening and new.
Psychologists probably call it a part of
the aging process. It’s not a surrender,
they’ll caution. It’s just a pause to look
back and to gaze upon the crossroads of
past decisions made, right or wrong.
Seems like I’ve been doing more of that
lately. Maybe it’s because over the last
few years, I — like so many others in my
age group — have learned of the loss of
more and more classmates from their
high school years. For me, several have
been graduates from our Class of ’73 at
Collierville High School over on the
state’s western end.
Like anybody else, until now I have
been taking the heartbreaking news one
loss at a time, weathered the emotional
storm and moved on.
Then came the latest. I wrote about it
INKSPOTS
Rick Norton
Assoc. Editor
last week. It was a reflective piece about
Johnnie, a schoolmate who had passed
in 1984. I didn’t find out about it until
31 years later.
I’m trying not to be redundant in
approaching the same hurt a week later,
but last Sunday’s perspective apparently
stirred some emotions in others — all of
whom have been dealing with the same
kinds of trauma in their lives.
“Where was I?” I rhetorically asked a
co-worker of the fact that three decades
had passed since my friend’s death, and
I was just now learning of it.
“How could I not know?” I asked him.
I already knew the answer. It was as
obvious as it was heartbreaking.
I didn’t try.
Over the years, I had made no real
effort to stay in touch with my own graduating class, much less those who were
juniors when we seniors were tossing our
maroon mortarboards high in the air of
that hot high school gymnasium.
I never called anybody. I never wrote a
letter or sent a postcard from Cleveland,
Tennessee. Even once technology allowed
it, I didn’t send emails, post to Facebook
nor did I Twitter; at least, not until 2013
when I did reach out to some old high
school football buddies for a 40-year,
state runner-up reunion.
That was how, and when, I learned
about losing two teammates — in chat
sessions on Facebook. Both had been
good friends. Each was a good guy. But,
I accepted the news and I dealt with its
sadness.
So why was word of Johnnie’s passing
so painful? As I said, she was a junior. I
was a senior. She was a cheerleader. I
was a student athletic trainer. She was
black. I was white. We talked a lot. But
we had little in common.
So why was I in tears?
Last week a friend offered an opinion.
“Maybe you were closer than you
thought,” my confidant suggested.
“Maybe you cared for her far more than
you remembered.”
Looking back, I realize his reasoning
was sound.
We were schoolmates in the early ’70s,
a still-volatile time from late in the Civil
Rights era when court-ordered desegregation was closing schools and busing
students to distant institutions — all
with the aim of creating education equality, improving opportunity and creating a
new culture ... a culture of racial tolerance and social understanding.
It took a few years, and it remains a
work in progress. But it succeeded. Our
kids today are the living proof. And God
Bless them all, each and every one.
But that wasn’t the case 42 years ago.
In 1973, a white male student wouldn’t
dare be attracted to a black female student. Or vice versa. Society said no.
Protocol said no. All the surrounding
frowns would have said no.
And here I was, wanting to challenge
the system. I can’t speak to how Johnnie
felt. It is a secret known only to her, to
From the pages of The Banner
This Week
in
hisTory
The following items were compiled by the Cleveland Bradley County Public Library from old issues of the
Cleveland Daily Banner and its forerunners, the Cleveland Banner, the Journal, and the Journal and Banner.
The following items were compiled by the
Cleveland-Bradley County Public Library from old
issues of the Cleveland Daily Banner and its forerunners, the Cleveland Banner, the Journal and
the Journal and Banner.
April 26, 1968
Four-car mishap
A four-car mishap took place on city streets
at 10:50 a.m. Thursday morning when autos
driven by Martha Beck, Lucille Porter and Leslie
Stepp, all of Cleveland addresses, collided at the
intersection of Third and Worth streets.
The fourth auto, owned by James E. Barrett
of 609 Lakeland Drive, was parked at the corner and was hit in the wreck. Lynn Geren, city
police officer, investigated the multiple crash.
———
April 27, 1968
Capacity crowd
The Kiwanis Queen docked at 8 o'clock on a
Friday evening at the Bradley High auditorium,
and brought to a capacity crowd a fun-filled
evening of songs and dancing.
Crill Higgins directed the annual Kiwanis
Minstrel that began with an arrangement of
"Hello My Baby," "Shortnin' Bread," and "Down
at Papa Joe's."
Then after a medley of "Pretty Baby," "Baby
Face" and "Your Feets Too Big," Connor Hall
sang the lovely "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" in
his wonderful tenor voice.
God and to Heaven.
After reading last Sunday’s column, a
colleague who serves as unofficial newsroom counselor said the other day he
believes Johnnie and I were on the verge
of testing the waters of social acceptance.
“At the time it may have been the
equivalent of a barrier-breaking relationship with strong possibilities,” he said. “A
crush can equal a blooming romance
when both parties are aware and participate in a growing friendship.”
Sounds reasonable.
And if so, maybe that explains the
unexpected emotion to Johnnie’s passing. Maybe that speaks to this feeling of
distraction that has gnawed at me for
two weeks now. Maybe that says a little
something to the ties that bind — even
as teenagers — and how the memories of
our youth are like a simmering ember
that rekindles with something as simple
as a word, a picture or a prayer.
Yet, in spite of what it may seem,
today’s column is not just about
Johnnie. I eulogized my dear friend last
week, and I took great comfort in writing
it. The words returned a warmth, the
thoughts revived a glow.
This goes a little deeper, one whose
depth is best measured one heart at a
time.
This is about those mystical crossroads faced by all.
This is about the decisions that
seemed so searing as a restless, wistful
teen, yet in hindsight become gently
reassuring in the eyes of the aged.
Life is not a moment, a minute or a
day in time.
Life is the decisions we make, and the
struggles we face in their making.
In 1973, I could have tested the norm
and asked Johnnie on a date. She might,
or might not, have accepted. I will never
know. But in that tiny, yet pivotal slice of
our lives so long ago, I bowed to the
pressures of the day and stayed the
course of accepted travel.
It was not the right decision. It was
not the wrong decision. It was just the
decision of the day made in a confusing
day gone by.
It was my crossroads, yet one whose
path was the road most taken.
But the beauty of time is not the decisions we make today, but our willingness
to change the future when change is
right.
Choices may be questioned, but never
should they be dwelled upon.
In the words of Atlanta artist Betsy
Canas Garmon, “To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your
neck from looking back at the crossroads.”
And this I have done.
Happily married now for 38 years, I
can imagine no greater life nor any deeper love than sharing another 38 with the
woman I adore and with whom I shall
gladly grow old.
And as we age, gone will be the days of
our youth and the innocent passions of a
time, and a place, so very long ago.
But in their place will remain a smile
unforgotten, a memory of the heart and a
heart long remembered.
———
(About the writer: Rick Norton is an
associate editor at the Cleveland Daily
Banner. Email him at [email protected].)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Victor Cook
thanked for
helping Lee
To The Editor:
Having spent over 30 years in
this community and realizing the
benefit of corporate partners, I
want to take a couple of minutes
to recognize one that has invested
time, effort and money in the lives
of some Lee University students
primarily from the Department of
Business and the Department of
Communication and the Arts.
This corporate partner has
silently, but significantly, provided assistance to our students as
they transition from the academic
community to the working world.
This corporate partner is Olive
Garden, under the leadership of
Victor Cook.
Mr. Cook hosted Etiquette
Dinners for our students over the
last few years. During the dinners,
students learn how to conduct
themselves in a corporate environment which includes a meal,
whether that is the initial interview or a business meeting. We
believe this benefits our students,
who are future employees, with
increased confidence and a positive attitude as they engage in
business conversations. They
learn how to collaborate with an
improved professional image that
enhances career opportunities.
Since many business opportunities are brokered over a meal, we
see great potential benefits for the
employers as well. They hire our
students who then represent their
company with confidence. We
believe this gained self-confidence
will make them a more productive
employee; success breeds success!
We see how this training
encourages our students to take
on challenges resulting in a successful employee that generates
company revenue.
Our students learn the hard
skills in the classroom. They learn
how to analyze a company and
present findings to superiors, but
the Etiquette Dinner that Mr.
Cook provides helps them learn
the soft skills needed in the current corporate culture.
Thank you, Mr. Cook, on behalf
of the students who have benefited from your generosity.
— Dewayne Thompson,
D.B.A.
Chair, Department of Business
Lee University
State legislators focus on jobs, education, tax cuts
By STATE REP. KEvin BRooKS
24th Legislative District
and
STATE REP. DAn HowEll
22th Legislative District
Last week, the Tennessee House of
Representatives wrapped up the first
half of the 109th General Assembly,
focusing efforts on passing commonsense legislative initiatives to aid both
immediate and long-term economic
development in Tennessee’s private sector.
Measures to empower teachers,
ensure employers find Tennessee an
attractive destination for their businesses, and reinvigorate the state’s
education system to better train the
next generation of Tennessee workers
were among the House’s priorities. In
addition, the House worked hard this
year to cut taxes and ensure the state
continues to foster an environment
where new jobs are created and small
business can thrive.
With Republicans at the helm, the
Legislature finished its work in record
time compared to previous years, saving millions of dollars for taxpayers
across the state.
With the first half of the 109th
General Assembly now in the books,
the House Republican Caucus is ready
to continue advocating for conservative
fiscal policies to carry forward this
year’s efforts into the next legislative
session.
Several of the highlights from this
year include:
Fiscal responsibility
and tax cuts
In the final few days of this year’s
legislative session, the House of
Representatives passed Tennessee’s
annual budget with an 80–12 vote. The
bill’s passage was the culmination of
months of tireless work crafting a fiscally responsible and balanced budget.
The $33.3 billion budget cuts taxes,
puts $73.5 million in the state’s Rainy
Day Fund, improves our educational
system, and provides an even better
environment for businesses to grow
and for jobs to flourish.
In addition, the House cut $43.9 million in taxes this year, including a cut
in the Hall income tax and the continuation of property tax relief for veterans,
seniors and the disabled.
Education made priority
A large portion of this year’s budget
efforts focused on education, including
funding for K-12, higher education and
Brooks
Howell
proposals designed to build on the
Drive to 55 program — an effort to
raise the percentage of Tennesseans
with a degree or certificate beyond high
school from 32 to 55 by the year 2025.
This year’s budget includes an approximate $170 million increase in education funding over last year.
Other education highlights include:
—The repeal of Common Core in the
state with funding to replace the educational standards with a system
based solely on Tennessee values and
ideas;
—$100 million in funding for teacher
raises, which amounts to a 4 percent
pool that education associations will
have available as they make local decisions to increase teacher pay;
—An extra $30 million to pay for
teacher’s health insurance; and
—$5 million for liability insurance for
all teachers.
Crime prevention takes
spotlight in 2015 session
The House worked this year to pass
legislation to prevent crimes and assist
victims, while working to crack down
on those who choose to violate state
laws. Key bills and efforts include:
—Legislation to permit the Board of
Probation and Parole to deny an
inmate’s parole if he or she is using the
parole hearings process to intimidate
and harass a victim;
—An extension of the statute of limitations for promoting prostitution from
10 to 25 years in order to give victims
more time to address the issue and
prosecutors more time to prosecute
offenders who are promoting prostitution;
—Legislation to give law enforcement
and other officials more training to
identify, investigate and prosecute
cases of human trafficking in
Tennessee;
—A bill which increases the penalty
and provides for harsher punishment
for those convicted of the sexual
exploitation of a minor; and
—Legislation that removes the provision in state law that allows judges and
magistrates to waive the 12-hour “cooling off” period during which a person
charged with a domestic violence
offense or an elder abuse offense cannot be released on bail.
Veterans remain
a top state priority
The House worked tirelessly this year
to pass bills to aid Tennessee veterans
and their families. From education
assistance to the extension of veterans’
treatment courts, legislators have
vowed to continue fighting to ensure
Tennessee military men and women are
taken care of. Some of these bills from
2015 include from 2015:
—Legislation designed to better support the healthcare needs of military
men and women by authorizing healthcare providers who are in the National
Guard to provide volunteer clinic services in a Tennessee military armory for
veterans in need;
—A bill giving 501(c)(19) veterans
organizations the same opportunity as
501(c)(3) organizations to conduct
annual fundraising events like cake
walks, raffles and other games of
chance to raise funds for charitable
purposes. This legislation codifies the
passage of Amendment 4 to the State
Constitution, which won approval by
voters in November of last year;
—The extension of the Veterans
Court pilot program, which is currently
in place in Shelby, Montgomery and
Davidson counties. These courts help
give service members in Tennessee the
option of pursuing treatment and
recovery programs rather than incarceration;
—Legislation that adds spouses and
dependent children of veterans as parties eligible for in-state tuition rates;
—A bill that gives non-resident veterans the same authorization as veterans
who are Tennessee residents to use
their experience as a military truck
driver to receive a commercial driver’s
license (CDL) in the state;
—Legislation that ensures high
school students that train between
their junior and senior year in the
National Guard or go to advanced
training after their senior year will still
remain eligible for the state’s Tennessee
Promise program; and
—$1 million to establish competitive
grants to two-year and four-year institutions to develop initiatives specifically
designed for veterans.
Pro-Life bills
take center stage
Legislative proposals sponsored this
year to place restrictions on abortion
procedures following the passage of
Amendment 1 last November took center stage during the last few weeks of
this year’s legislative session.
Amendment 1, which was approved by
the people of Tennessee during the
November 2014 general election, overturned a 2000 Tennessee Supreme Court
decision that restricted the Legislature’s
ability to provide commonsense regulations to the state’s abortion policies.
Two of the major bills passed this
year pertaining to abortion include
House Bill 1368, which requires state
licensure and inspection of abortion
facilities in Tennessee, and House Bill
977, which provides for informed consent and establishes a 48-hour waiting
period following that consent before an
abortion can occur. Currently,
Tennessee has no laws regarding these
areas of abortion law.
Supporters of these bills agree the
proposals fulfill a promise made by legislators last summer that the General
Assembly would work to restore commonsense protections for women considering abortion in Tennessee.
As data from the Centers for Disease
Control notes, 1 of 4 abortions in
Tennessee are performed on women
residing in another state, the third
highest out-of-state abortion rate in the
nation. Such numbers have resulted in
Tennessee becoming known as an
abortion destination.
Legislators hope by passing these
bills that safeguards will finally be in
place to ensure state laws are strong
enough to protect women seeking an
abortion in Tennessee.
Additional key bills
Other key bills passed this year
include:
—House Bill 10, which promotes
civics education in Tennessee classrooms;
—House Bill 606, which establishes
an online verification program to help
ensure compliance with state laws
requiring motorists to have car insurance;
—House Bill 404, which bans the
sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol
in Tennessee;
—House Bill 537, which extends civil
liability protection to those that break a
car window in an attempt to rescue an
animal locked in a vehicle if they
believe the situation threatens their
well-being. This protection already
applies to children and minors locked
in a vehicle unattended;
—House Bill 138, which provides
additional pathways to customized education for students with special needs,
giving parents the flexibility to direct
their child's funding to the schools,
courses, programs and services that
best fit the learning needs of their child
through an Individualized Education
Account (IEA);
—House Bill 556, which allows the
Department of Safety and Homeland
Security to develop an electronic driver’s license system;
—House Bill 935, which authorizes
the seizure of assets derived from, used
or intended for use in acts of terrorism
upon conviction;
—House Bill 745, which creates a
voluntary program to purchase a lifetime handgun carry permit in
Tennessee;
the Community College Reconnect
Grant program — a last-dollar scholarship for adults who want to return to
community college and complete their
associate’s degree;
the “Go Build Tennessee Act” to promote and encourage the recruitment of
students in the construction industry;
—House Bill 198, which increases
the time period a driver’s license is
valid from five to eight years, cutting
down on the wait time at driver’s
license centers statewide;
—House Bill 1341, which prohibits
public funds or resources in Tennessee
from being allocated toward enforcement of federal laws if that results in a
violation of any other Tennessee law or
the Tennessee Constitution;
—House Bill 114, which prohibits the
printing of social security numbers on
checks in order to receive a benefit,
good or service; and
—House Bill 1105, which changes
the way Tennessee currently manages
its State Aid Road Grant Program to
make it easier for counties to access
state funds to upgrade, repair and
improve roads and infrastructure.
———
(About the writers: State Rep. Kevin
Brooks, R-Cleveland, represents the 24th
Legislative District and serves as assistant Majority Leader in the House of
Representatives. State Rep. Dan Howell,
R-Georgetown, represents the 22nd
Legislative District, and is a freshman
legislator.)
Pet oxygen mask campaign continues
By Sue LittLe
Another supply of life-saving
pet oxygen masks was delivered
this week to Bradley County
Fire Chief Troy Maney and his
staff by Exclusively Shelter Pets
in the continuing campaign to
provide every fire station in
Cleveland and Bradley County
with the special masks.
Many may remember that the
campaign began to honor a
brave little Dachshund named
Lexy who almost died on a cold
December day some four years
ago when her family's home was
consumed in flames. Her
human family managed to
escape the flames unharmed
and Lexy had followed them.
But firemen said as she was
running out of the burning
house they soon saw that her
body looked like "a little ball of
fire."
One of the firemen managed
to save her and rushed her to
Bradley Veterinary Hospital on
Georgetown Road.
Drs. Howard Hamilton and
Jerry Bancroft recognized her
prognosis was not hopeful due
to the severity of her burns
along with the damage caused
by smoke inhalation.
The Bradley veterinarians and
staff immediately rallied to give
her constant care by taking
turns day and night to save her
with specialized treatments and
constant monitoring.
Two local organizations, ESP
and PALS, joined together to
solicit donations to pay for
Lexy's intricate, life-saving
treatments. The Cleveland Daily
Banner published continuing
reports of Lexy's needs and
progress. Local residents immediately responded with the generosity so typical of Cleveland
and Bradley County residents.
After months of hospitalized
care, Lexy was permitted to go
home with one of the hospital's
vet techs who would then return
her daily to the hospital for the
doctors' observation and care.
When she was completely
healed and healthy, she was
adopted by the same vet tech
who loved her so dearly and who
she adored. Tears of joy came to
many eyes on this special occasion.
In honor of Lexy and to save
the lives of dogs, cats, ferrets,
guinea pigs and other pets of all
sizes — large, medium or small
— ESP began the campaign to
eventually donate the costly pet
oxygen masks to each fire station in Cleveland and Bradley
County.
Many cities already have the
life-saving masks on every truck
throughout their jurisdiction.
The masks can be used for both
conscious and unconscious pets
suffering from smoke inhalation
and toxic fumes. Each mask
can also be attached to a special
bag in case the pet also requires
manual breathing assistance.
Due to the large number of
rescued pets' vetting, the many
treatments of pet injuries and
illnesses that ESP has made
possible for local residents with
pets in need of immediate veterinary care, the pet oxygen mask
campaign has again been temporarily slowed.
Now, we are pleased to
announce it has been resumed
with the newest donation going
to Bradley County Fire Chief
Troy Maney and his staff at the
county fire station which they
will have available when needed
to save precious pets' lives.
To help ESP give each county
and city fire station lifesaving
masks on their trucks, taxdeductible donations may be
made to: ESP's Lifesaver
Campaign, P.O. Box 4864,
Cleveland, TN 37320.
For further information,
please call 728-5414. ESP will
continue to provide ongoing
help to pets and people in other
ways along with providing pet
troY maNeY, Bradley County fire chief, and staffers were smiling as they received life-saving pet
oxygen masks in three sizes from Exclusively Shelter Pets during ESP's continuing campaign to equip
each fire station in the county and city with the special masks. From left are Tyler Goins; Chief Troy
Maney; ESP's Sue Little; Chris Terry; Tommy Suits, holding Lily Belle, a little dog adopted from the
Cleveland Animal Shelter eight years ago by Sally Little of ESP; and fireman Justin Coffee.
sUNNY is a happy pit bull-mix,
about 1 year old, now available
for adoption into a forever home.
Animal control officer Roy
Womack hopes some caring person will adopt Sunny or one of
the many highly adoptable pets
at the municipal Cleveland
Animal Shelter, 360 Hill St.
oxygen masks as funding makes
all of this varied help possible.
Paws up this week to all who
rescued a pet with the assurance of providing a long, wonderful life in a forever home.
Call me with your pet and
wildlife stories.
tYler hall, animal control officer at the friendly Cleveland
Animal Shelter, gave special attention to Blossom, a lovable little
female dog about 1 year old who is hoping for a new forever home
where she can be someone's loving indoor companion. Blossom
would like to adopt you now at the municipal shelter, located at 360
Hill St., off Inman Street. Shelter hours are weekdays, 11 a.m. to 5
p.m.; and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon.
BitsY is a sweet little dog who
needs a loving family to make
her one of their favorite family
members. Meet Bitsy today at
the friendly Cleveland Animal
Shelter, along with many other
wonderful pets in great need of
loving homes.
Queen’s
granddaughter
withdraws
from event
Cash, a male chow / spitz mix, was surrendered to the SPCA shelter as a stray on Feb. 11.
He was adopted by Christopher Flint on April 15,
after being at the shelter a little more than two
months. SPCA of Bradley makes every effort to
find local forever homes for animals placed in
their care.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — An
equestrian
competition
in
Kentucky lost some star power
when British rider Zara Phillips, a
granddaughter
of
Queen
Elizabeth II, withdrew after her
horse suffered a minor injury.
Phillips told the Lexington
Herald-Leader she was looking
forward to riding the course at the
Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event
in Lexington. She says the course
would have suited her horse,
High Kingdom.
It would have been Phillips’
debut at the Rolex Kentucky, an
annual Olympic-level competition
held at the Kentucky Horse Park.
Norris, a 6-week-old orange tabby bobtail kitAs she was preparing for dresten, was surrendered with his three brothers. He sage Friday, High Kingdom got
was adopted less than an hour later by Alice hurt when he kicked while in the
stable.
McDowell.
Coyotes found in NYC
Neil DiamoND, a domestic long-haired gray tabby, was surrendered to the SPCA as a stray. He was adopted 10 days later by John
Joffrion and family.
We Are
Still Your:
NEW YORK (AP) — One
moseyed around Manhattan’s
East Village. Another was caught
in trendy Chelsea. Yet another
rambled through a Hudson River
park this week.
Tourists? Hipsters?
No: coyotes.
They’ve been spotted periodically in New York since the 1990s,
but a string of recent sightings in
Manhattan has drawn new attention to them.
And experts say New Yorkers
should expect to see more of the
adaptable animals, which have
shown they can make it in densely populated places.
At least four coyotes have been
spotted around Manhattan so far
this year.
Urban Park Rangers program
director Sarah Aucoin says three
were captured and released.
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Without ID, 90% won’t return home.
James Frith saw Trudy, a 5-year-old Corgi/pug, on The Ark's
Adoptapet.com site. He called for more information then decided to
drive from Antioch to meet her. Frith has a resident cat so spent time
with Trudy in the cage-free cat habitat to be sure she was cat friendly.
After a long walk and time in a bonding room, Trudy became a member of the family. Frith reviewed veterinary records and completed the
adoption contract. Ryan, who helped make the lifelong decision to
adopt Trudy, picked her out a free harness and retractable leash.
Trudy posed briefly for a farewell photo then headed to Petco with
her "Think Adoption First" coupon book provided by Petco Shelter
Outreach.
NFL Draft
Islanders
From Page 19
From Page 19
the player chooses, and two
hotel rooms, plus some in-town
transportation.
Since 2010, the NFL has had
at least 23 prospects attend
each draft.
Players often slip out of the
first round and into Day 2 —
which can be a little uncomfortable.
Quarterbacks tend to draw
the most attention, especially
when they aren’t selected as
early as projected. Cal’s Aaron
Rodgers was the first to endure
the long, televised wait when he
dropped to No. 24 in 2005
before being scooped up by the
Green Bay Packers. Southern
California Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart (No. 10 to
Arizona in 2006) and Brady
Hamlin
From Page 19
But he pronounced himself
“100 percent” Friday at the
track just 15 miles from where
he grew up, and announced his
return by winning the pole for
the Xfinity race and then qualifying second for Saturday
night’s Sprint Cup race.
The superiority of his car,
Hamlin said, was evident
throughout, even when he
struggled on restarts.
“I knew if I could get through
the first five laps of a restart, I
would be able to set the pace,”
he said.
The race also was the second
dominant performance in the
series in a row, Joey Logano
having led wire-to-wire to win
the 300-lap race last weekend at
Bristol Motor Speedway.
“I know what it feels like to be
on the other side of the buttwhooping now,” Logano joked
afterward. He started second
and ran in the top five all night,
but said “We were just a secondplace car. Straight up, that’s
where we were. I couldn’t catch
him.”
Regan Smith was third, followed by Jones and Chase
Elliott.
Braves
From Page 20
BAD BUNT
Sandberg said he would’ve liked
Asche to swing away in the
eighth.
“He did that on his own,”
Sandberg said. “He had an idea
there to lay down a bunt.”
COLD NIGHT
It felt more like football season
in Philadelphia with a game-time
temperature of 55 degrees and a
strong wind making it feel much
colder.
“It’s one of those things where
you go all spring in warm weather
and then all of the sudden it’s cold
and windy,” Wood said.
He said he had a hard time gripping the ball because of the conditions, but “so did everybody else.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Braves: Andrelton Simmons
took a hard bump from first baseman Ryan Howard at the bag
while trying to beat out a double
play in the fifth inning. After walking it off, Simmons stayed in the
From Page 17
game.
Phillies: Closer Jonathan
and many others. All our sup- Papelbon wasn’t with the team
porters and sponsors play a key due to a sickness that kept him
roll in the success of the pro- home in bed all day Friday,
gram and what we are able to according to Sandberg.
UP NEXT
provide for our players.”
Braves: RHP Shelby Miller (2-0,
For more information on how
to attend the banquet by pur- 1.69) aims to continue his strong
chasing a table for eight guests, start when the Braves play the
contact David Clark at 423-503- second of three games in
0747 or Ginger Savage at 423- Philadelphia at 7:05 Saturday
667-2711. Individual tickets for night.
Phillies: RHP David Buchanan
the speaker portion of the
evening may be purchased at (0-3, 9.22 ERA) will look to get
the Walker Valley High School back into the form he displayed
in spring training.
office.
Revere grounded out with a
man on second in the fifth,
Carlos Ruiz popped out to left
with the bases loaded in the
sixth and Odubel Herrera
grounded out with a man on second in the seventh.
Their best chance to score
before the ninth came in the
eighth with runners on first and
third with one out. But Cody
Asche, who entered batting a
team-best .333, popped out to
first after a surprising bunt
attempt and Ruiz struck out.
The Phillies played a flawless
game in the field after committing five combined errors while
getting outscored 15-2 in losses
to Miami on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Fulmer
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597.81
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Firing Line is also due in
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1:02.20 at Santa Anita.
At Belmont, El Kabeir breezed
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of a dear friend.
Bachman Academy is a nonprofit boarding and day school for
intelligent students with learning
differences. Students are unique
in that their educational needs
cannot be met in a traditional
classroom setting. The academy
receives no state or federal funding. As a specialty school, the
The Penguins finished 19th in
scoring even with Crosby and
Evgeni Malkin both in the top 20
in points. Pittsburgh managed
more than four goals just once
over its final 20 games. And while
goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury did
his best to keep the Penguins
competitive against New York, in
the end it wasn’t nearly close to
enough.
“I felt when we entered the
playoffs, we cleaned the slate and
said ‘Hey, this is what we’ve got
right now and we’ve got a tough
series on our hands,” Johnston
said. “I thought we handled the
series really well.”
Now Johnston and his players
will find out if management will
handle another disappointing
spring as gracefully. Johnston
has another year left on his contract and there are several personnel decisions that have to be
made with players like defenseman Paul Martin ready to hit free
agency. It’s been six long years
18,200
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season champion Polk County
squad broke open a tie game with
a 10-run rally in the top of the
sixth inning for a 15-5 victory.
“We started out a little slow.
They (Murphy) had a little offspeed pitcher, and we were getting
out on our front foot trying to hit
her,” explained Lady Wildcat
coach Bill Triplett. “We were able
to make some adjustments and
blow the game out late.”
“I’m satisfied with the way we
are hitting the ball, considering
we had eight days off,” he added.
“We had 14 hits against Bradley
Thursday and 10 Friday [in
since that giddy June when
Crosby led Pittsburgh to a championship.
It remains the franchise’s last
victory parade — and the last
year the Penguins won a game
beyond the conference semifinals. Johnston will wait a few
days before sorting through the
rubble of dashed expectations.
While this was his first season as
a head coach at the NHL level,
he’s been around the game long
enough to know trying to predict
the future is unwise. Maybe
Pittsburgh co-owner Mario
Lemieux will decide it’s time to
really blow things up. Or maybe
the team will return in the fall
with the same core and the same
high standards.
“I’m sure there’s going to be
lots of talk about it,” center
Brandon Sutter said. “But as
players we’re not going to worry
about it. We’ve got a good group
here and unfortunately it ended a
little bit too soon.”
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Murphy].”
“Our younger players are feeling more comfortable and hitting
the ball well,” assessed Triplett
who started four freshmen Friday.
One ninth-grader, Cambaria
Woody is hitting over .400 this
season and led the victory over
the Lady Bulldogs by going a perfect 4-for-4 with three stolen
bases and four runs scored.
Junior pitcher Hannah Triplett
did the job both in the circle and
at the dish for the Lady ’Cats. She
struck out five and didn’t give up
an earned run in the completegame effort to improved to 9-3 on
the rubber, plus went 3-for-5 with
four “ribbees” and a double with
the bat.
All-staters Aubrie Bowman and
TWC signee Brianna Muller
played a big part in the Polk victory, both driving in a pair of teammates, while reaching base four
and three times respectively.
Ashlynn Johnson and Makayla
Maynard also drove in a couple of
Lady Wildcat runs each.
Polk County will play host to
Tellico Plains Monday. Red Bank
comes to Benton for a doubleheader Tuesday before the Lady
Wildcats wrap up the regular season by entertaining Bradley
Thursday.
SUMMARY
Walker Valley
200 000 2 — 2 10 0
McMinn County
000 000 0 — 0 3 2
WP: Alicia Raymond (14-5) 7 IP, 6 Ks, 1 BB, 1 HBP,
3 hits, 0 ER; LP: Hope Mizzell. HR: AJ Chancey
(WV). RBI: Chancey 3, Raymond (WV). Highlights:
Raymond 3-4, RBI; Hallie Davis 2-4; Chancey 1-4,
HR, 3 RBIs (WV). Records: Walker Valley 19-5, 9-1
District 5-AAA; McMinn County 11-14, 2-10 District 5AAA.
Polk County
120 02(10) — 15 10 2
Murphy, NC
100 130 — 5 8 6
WP: Hannah Triplett (9-3) 6 IP, 5 Ks, 8 hits, 0 ER; LP:
Cook. 2B: Triplett (PC). RBI: Triplett 4, Brianna
Muller 2, Aubrie Bowman 2, Ashlynn Johnson 2,
Makayla Maynard 2, Cambaria Woody (PC).
Highlights: Woody 4-4, 4 runs, 3 SB, RBI; Triplett 35, 2B, 4 RBIs; Muller 1-3, 2 BB, 2 RBIs, Bowman 12, 3 BB, 2 RBIs. Records: Polk County 14-5, 7-1
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Softball
From Page 21
Dow Jones industrials
Washington-TV that he might
consider taking a chair home as
a souvenir.
It was a very chippy game that
even had both captains —
Tavares and Ovechkin — get tangled up and exchange shoves at
center on their way to their
respective benches for a line
change in the first period.
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From Page 18
THE MARKET IN REVIEW
5,000
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Derby
can't get along. A fight between
two fans wearing Islanders jerseys erupted in the stands a few
moments
before
Nicklas
Backstrom scored in overtime of
a 2-1 win in Game 4.
Orpik had beer spilled on him
while celebrating Backstrom's
winner Tuesday.
Ovechkin made a joke to CSN
From Page 18
DAILY DOW JONES
4,880
5,200
stars as Mike Bossy, Denis Potvin
and Billy Smith, is moving to the
Barclays Center in Brooklyn for
the start of next season.
The Islanders are leaving Long
Island after 43 seasons.
NHL Commissioner Gary
Bettman on Friday said the move
was long overdue because the
arena was outdated, and placed
the blame on local politicians for
failing to approve several proposed plans for a new arena.
One fan carried a sign that
read: "This Is Home, Not
Brooklyn."
After the second period, fans
inside the arena booed a commercial pitching season tickets
for next season.
The Islanders and the NHL
stepped up security inside and
outside the arena, including having officers patrolling the surrounding parking lots on horseback.
Capitals fans complained they
had their cars — bearing District
of Columbia and Virginia license
plates — vandalized last weekend. And even Islanders fans
Quinn (No. 22 to Cleveland in
2007) also endured the slide.
Leinart said he’s glad he had
the experience of going to the
draft, but he would plan things
differently if he could do it over
again.
“I would have stayed home,
had a big party in my parents’
house with all my closest family
and friends over. Been just
super relaxed. Played golf.
Whatever it may be,” he said.
“Enjoyed it with my family in a
stress-free environment.”
Last year it was Texas A&M
quarterback Johnny Manziel
who had to wait backstage, with
TV cameras cutting to him on
just about every pick as he
checked his phone and took
swigs out of a water bottle. The
Browns ended up taking
Manziel at 22, and the cameras
switched focus to Teddy
Bridgewater, Louisville’s star
quarterback.
The Vikings kept Bridgewater
from having to return for Day 2
by taking him with the 32nd
and last pick of the first round.
Geno Smith was not so lucky
back in 2013. The West Virginia
quarterback tumbled all the way
out of the first round after there
was talk he could be an early
first-rounder. Smith considered
not showing up for Day 2, but
did and the New York Jets took
him with the seventh pick of the
second round.
Mariota and Winston probably don’t need to worry about
sliding that far, but still have
decided there’s no place like
home.
“I applaud their decision,
being home in a comfortable
environment,” Leinart said. “For
Mariota, he’s a shy person.
That’s not his deal. Jameis
Winston is probably avoiding it
for other reasons. To stay out of
the media.”
Winston had a series of offfield issues at Florida State,
including a rape accusation
against him. He has said he
plans to spend draft night with
loved ones, including his paternal grandmother whom, he said,
has type-2 diabetes and cannot
make long trips.
“I want the people who have
been there since Day 1 to enjoy
this moment,” Winston told NFL
Network after his pro day at
Florida State last month. “It’s a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
that I would look forward to
spending with my family.”
Mariota will be in his beloved
home state of Hawaii, with more
than 200 people at his high
school alumni clubhouse, he
said.
“For me it was a way to culturally pay respect to where I
come from and to be with my
family and friends, and at the
same time to be with everybody
who has helped me get here,
and making sure they are all a
part of this moment,” Mariota
said. “These are the people who
got me here.”
The commissioner can wait.
3858 Candies
Creek Ln.
Suite C
476-3320
112 Stuart Rd. NE,
Farmland Corner
476-4325
1053 Peerless
Crossing
339-2885
London man may
have helped trigger
the 2010 ‘flash crash’
Brandi Keen
Cheri Worley
Danielle Seals
Melissa England
City recognizes AmeriCorps Vistas
The Cleveland City Council
took time April 13, to recognize
the impact AmeriCorps VISTA
members have on the city.
Mayor Tom Rowland read statistics that showed the influence
of seven volunteers who served
from February 2014 to March
2015, but it was not until later
that the VISTA’s revealed their
reasons for their work in
Cleveland, but also the impact
“The City With Spirit” had on
them.
The recognition of the volunteers of the full Council followed
the Mayors Day of Recognition
for National Service on April 7.
On that day, Mayor Rowland
presented the VISTA’s with a
proclamation thanking them for
their positive impact on
Cleveland.
“Regardless of why you came
to Cleveland, what you have
done is to make our city more
giving and more compassionate
than it already was. I only hope
that
Cleveland
somehow
enriched your lives as well,” he
said.
The United Way of Bradley
County is the local VISTA coordinating agency that recruits
and assigns volunteers to various organizations throughout its
service area.
Director of Volunteer Services
Jaynese Waddell said the impact
of seven VISTA AmeriCorps volunteers on the City of Cleveland
in 2014 included management
and recruitment of 654 community volunteers who served more
than 4,783 hours; more than
$25,500 in cash value of
resources, and more than
$95,000 in non-cash value of
resources.
From February 2014 through
this past February, volunteers
made
those
contributions
through service at Family
Promise, The Refuge, Tri-State
Therapeutic Riding Center,
Impact Cleveland, Hope Child
Advocacy Center, Community
Action Network and Signal
Center.
Danielle Seals, 24, originally
from Lebanon, Ohio, graduated
from Lee University with a bachelor of science in psychology and
a master of science in holistic
child development. She chose to
put her degree to use in a very
practical way.
She successfully applied for a
VISTA opening at Community
Action Network, an initiative of
the United Way of Bradley
County. The Community Action
Network’s mission is “Serving
those who serve the Ocoee
Region” by offering resources to
local nonprofits so they are best
equipped to serve the community.
Between February 2014 and
March 2015, Seals gained real
hands-on experience and served
at a great place for professional
development and she views the
experience as a springboard for
launching a recent graduate’s
career. Now that her contract
has expiredm Seals is currently
exploring her next step, but
wherever that next step leads,
her future goals include community development.
“I am of the upbringing that
you leave something in better
condition than you found it, and
that you aspire to be and do the
best you can in everything-those
two principles carry-over into all
aspects of my life, my work not
being the least of these,” Seals
said.
United Way of Bradley County
recently hired Seals as the special events and communications
coordinator.
Cheri Worley, 28, from
Morristown, earned a bachelor
of science in geography with a
minor in education from East
Tennessee State University. She
heard about the VISTA program
from a National Park Service coworker and found the position
on the AmeriCorps website jobs
page where the openings advertised. Worley’s application and
resume submitted to Impact
Cleveland were accepted.
Leanna Martin
Brittany Stoess
Worley chose to serve in order
to gain noncompetitive status
for employment with the federal
government.
“I also wanted to help the
Blythe community accomplish
its goals while learning about
nonprofit work,” Worley said.
After completing her 12month stint in March, she took
another step toward her dream
by working as a park ranger for
the National Park Service at the
Lincoln Home in Springfield,
Illinois.
Worley hopes to one-day work
as an education specialist for
the National Park Service,
designing curriculum for the
park and working with local
schools to schedule tours. She
also wants to return to Impact
Cleveland as a program assistant or administrative assistant.
Brandi Keen served as the
AmeriCorps VISTA in the 20142015 cohort at the Hope Center.
Brandi graduated from Lee
University with a bachelor of
arts. in English literature and
master of science in holistic
child development. She chose to
serve as a VISTA to gain insight
into the inner workings of nonprofit as well as to gain handson experience with people in
need.
Keen, whose contract ended in
March, is now the resource
coordinator at Omni Visions in
Chattanooga.
Brittany Stoess, 24, served at
Tri-State Therapeutic Riding
Stables. She graduated from Lee
University with a bachelor of
arts in psychology and an master of science in holistic child
development.
Stoess chose the VISTA program to gain experience and
learn new valuable skills.
“The VISTA program will provide me with the opportunities
to form new connections in the
nonprofit community that would
not have otherwise been available to me,” she said.
Stoessis currently doing freelance marketing for local nonprofits.
Leanna Martin served at
Signal Center. Martin, 24, is a
2014 graduate of Lee University
with a master of science in holistic child development. She saw
VISTA as an opportunity to see
firsthand how a nonprofit organization functions.
“The VISTA program made it
possible to gain experience while
in school that helped me in my
future endeavors of service,”
Leanna said.
In June, Martin will take a
position teaching Spanish as a
lateral entry teacher for TNTP
Teaching fellows in Charlotte,
North Carolina. TNTP Teaching
Fellows is a rigorous alternative
certification program that
recruits and trains talented
career changers and recent college graduates to be outstanding
teachers in high-need schools
across the country. Programs
are located in Baltimore,
Charlotte, Washington, D.C.,
Fort Worth, Texas, Indianapolis,
Nashville, New York City and
New Orleans.
Martin begins the intensive
summer training program to
learn the fundamentals of great
teaching. Every day, expert educators will help her master critical teaching skills — skills she
will practice in real classrooms,
with real students. After completing summer training, she
will begin teaching full time.
In 2015, the number of volunteers
allotted
Cleveland
increased to 15. Among the
cohort of seven that started in
February is AmeriCorps VISTA
leader Cindy Lawson, who manages volunteers at Impact
Cleveland, Family Promise, TriState Therapeutic Riding Center,
CASA of Bradley County, Boys
and Girls Club and KARIS
Dental Clinic. Eight more volunteers begin in May at Impact
Cleveland, Community Action
Network, Boys and Girls Club of
Benton, Volunteer Center,
Housing Coalition, YCAP, Andor
and Signal Center. Eight more
begin their terms in May.
Melissa England is the current VISTA at the Boys and Girls
Club. England, 44, is originally
from Columbus, Ohio, and holds
an associates of science in
graphic design.
“During the last several years,
I’ve had the opportunity to work
for nonprofit organizations. By
doing so, it has become a passion for me,” England said.
“Nonprofit jobs are not the highest paying jobs, but knowing I
can make a difference in someone’s life and see a smile on
their face means more to me
than money.”
England hopes to use this
VISTA opportunity as a launching pad for a lifetime career.
Shiloh Capone, 23, is the current VISTA at Impact Cleveland.
The native of St. Petersburg,
Florida, earned a bachelor’s
degree in English literature with
emphasis on literary theory and
criticism from the University of
South Florida. She chose to
serve as a VISTA for two reasons.
“The first is my experience
with poverty in India. I was
appalled by what I saw and as
hard as I tried, was unable to
make a difference. I realized that
the best thing I could do was
start fighting poverty at home in
America,” Capone said.
“I believe that was where I
could make the most impact. My
second reason is that I have
been dreaming of serving with
the Peace Corps since I was
young, but after my experience
in India, I decided to remain in
America for a little bit longer and
enjoy what we have here. I hope
to move the needle in the community I serve and make some
impact during my year as a
VISTA. If I could make a difference in just a single life during
my term, I will consider my year
a success.”
After Capone’s year of service,
she hopes to either renew her
term with Impact Cleveland or
through another program or join
the Peace Corps and travel to
Sudan.
Cleveland native Hannah
Wimberly, 21, is the current
VISTA at Tri-State Therapeutic
Riding Stables while pursuing a
bachelor’s degree. She chose to
serve because she wanted a job
that had meaning, purpose, and
helped others.
“I wanted to do something I
love and I definitely think it will
help my resume, but more
importantly, I hope to gain
direction from it,” Wimberly
said.
Philip Maher, 22, of Stratham,
New Hampshire, is the current
VISTA at Karis Dental Clinic. He
graduated from Great Bay
Community College with an
associate degree in liberal arts.
Maher chose to serve as an
AmeriCorps VISTA because he
wanted to learn how to change
the world by helping individuals.
He hopes to use his service as a
launching pad for a long career
of service.
Another Cleveland resident,
Jessica Moore, 24, is at Family
Promise of Bradley County.
Moore graduated from Lee
University with a bachelor of science in history and education
licensure. She chose her role as
an AmeriCorps VISTA member
because she has always loved
working with nonprofits in the
past. She wanted to give back to
her community in some way and
the VISTA program allows her to
not only work with the United
Way and Family Promise, but
also to work daily to give back to
the her hometown.
“My future goals are to eventually go back to school to pursue a master’s degree in biblical
counseling and further help people by working with people who
are struggling with things like
depression, anxiety, and PTSD. I
know that I want to be able to
help people who are struggling
to find hope in their everyday
life,” she said.
Cindy Lawson, 43, is the
VISTA Leader at the United Way
of Bradley County. She too, is
from Cleveland. She recently
graduated from the University of
Phoenix with a bachelor of science degree in health administration. She is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration with a human resource
concentration.
Lawson served as the VISTA of
Family Promise of Bradley
County in 2014.
“While attending college, I
heard about the AmeriCorps
VISTA program from an instructor. I loved the concept of giving
back while also growing professionally,” she said. “Working
with Family Promise, I could see
the difference that nonprofit
organizations make in so many
lives. I actually loved the VISTA
program so much that I signed
on for another year.”
Lawson is hopeful she will
gain knowledge and experience
about the nonprofit and business world to launch her career
— and the AmeriCorps VISTA
program will be her launching
pad.
NEW YORK (AP) — He operated
from a modest suburban London
home he shared with his parents,
far from the city’s glamorous
financial center. He used off-theshelf software anyone can buy.
Yet, if U.S. authorities are correct, Navinder Singh Sarao, 36,
managed to send a jolt of fear
through the world’s markets by
helping to set off the 2010 “flash
crash,” in which the Dow Jones
average plunged 600 points in
less than seven minutes.
Just how big a role he played
has been hotly debated since the
federal complaint was unsealed
earlier this week, but the idea
that a little-known investor had
even a small part is deeply troubling, say traders and market
experts.
“If this guy can do it,” asks
finance professor James Angel of
Georgetown University, “who else
is doing it?”
In an age of rapidly advancing
computer power, the fear is that
it’s not just big banks and hedge
funds that can create chaos on
exchanges and wipe out the savings of millions of ordinary
investors. Someone working from
home might be able to do it, too.
“The risks are coming from the
small guys who are under the
radar,” says Irene Aldridge, managing partner of research firm
ABLE Alpha Trading and an
expert in the kind of high-speed
computerized trading that Sarao
did. “The regulators don’t have
the real-time tools to monitor
them.”
Sarao allegedly employed a
ruse called spoofing, a bluffing
technique in which traders try to
manipulate the price of stocks or
other assets by making fake
trades to create the impression
they want to sell when they really
want to buy, or vice versa.
Eric Scott Hunsader, founder
of Nanex, a provider of financial
data that has documented what
it claims are cases of blatant
spoofing, says the practice is
widespread — in stocks and
bonds, oil and gold, cotton and
coffee. He says bluffing is turning
markets into a lawless Wild West,
despite efforts by trading firms to
fight back with software that can
sniff out the false trades.
If the allegations against him
are true, Sarao may rank among
the best of this new breed of
bluffers.
His feat was impressive
because of the target of his
alleged bluffing — investors in EMini S&P 500 futures, which are
financial contracts that allow you
to bet on the rise and fall of the
Standard and Poor’s 500 stock
index. Passing off a fake trade
like that as real, much less moving prices, isn’t easy, because EMini is one of the most widely
traded, transparent and scrutinized markets in the world.
“Everyone is watching it,” says
Manoj Narang, former CEO of
Tradeworx, a high-frequency
trading firm.
A key to spoofing is placing
large orders to sell or buy without
ever executing them. Since other
traders can see your orders, a
large one to sell might convince
them prices are likely to head
down. One to buy might make
them think prices are likely to
rise. So they will often mimic
your order, which moves prices
up or down, as if you had sold or
bought yourself.
Next, you cancel your order,
and do the opposite — buying at
the new, artificially lower price or
selling at the new higher one.
The advent of high-frequency
trading firms has added a level of
sophistication and speed to this
bluffing technique.
Using computers to sift
through news articles, social
media feeds and other data in
split seconds, these firms are
able to snatch tiny, fleeting profits that mere mortals can’t spot.
The firms can also bluff fast,
sending a series of sell orders, for
instance, then canceling them as
the price moves down and
replacing them with new orders
— all within thousandths of a
second.
The complaint against Sarao
says it was just this sort of lightning-fast
spoofing,
called
dynamic layering, that allowed
him to make nearly $880,000 on
May 6, 2010, the day of the flash
crash.
His computer sent a series of
orders to sell E-Mini futures.
Then, as their prices moved, his
computer changed or replaced
those orders in rapid succession
— a stunning 19,000 times in
less than 2½ hours before it canceled all of them, according to
the complaint. Sarao’s offers to
sell were so numerous that at
one point they represented at
AP Photo
In this May 6, 2010 file photo,
Frank Masiello works on the floor
of the New York Stock Exchange
in New York. If U.S. authorities
are correct, Navinder Singh
Sarao, helped set off the “flash
crash” that day, raising fears that
it’s not just big banks and hedge
funds that can create chaos on
exchanges and wipe out the savings of ordinary investors.
least one-fifth of all orders to sell
E-Mini futures from around the
world.
“This is the equivalent of an
elephant coming to a tea party,”
says Nanex’s Hunsader. “It’s
hard not to spot.”
Stocks lost $1 trillion in value
during the flash crash. The market bounced back by the close of
trading, but the breadth and
speed of the drop rattled
investors and regulators alike.
British-born Sarao, a former
bank employee and Brunel
University student, is charged
with fraud, commodities manipulation and other offenses. He
was arrested in London on
Tuesday and indicated in court
that he will fight extradition to
the U.S.
In court, his lawyer said the
arrest came as a “bolt from the
blue” to Sarao. The attorney did
not respond to requests for comment for this article.
Between 2010 and 2014,
Sarao earned $40 million on EMini trading alone, according to
authorities, though the complaint doesn’t say how much of
that was through allegedly illegal
trades.
Narang, the former high-speed
trading executive, casts doubt on
that figure, noting that the complaint doesn’t list Sarao’s losses,
just his winnings.
He also says Sarao’s allegedly
bogus sell orders were often too
far from the prevailing prices for
traders to take seriously. In fact,
Narang wonders if Sarao played
much of a role at all in the flash
crash.
Larry Tabb, CEO of financial
markets consultancy TABB
Group, has his doubts, too: “I
don’t think that what he was
doing on a normal day would
have any impact on the markets.” A regulatory review after
the flash crash found that the
market was vulnerable to a
plunge that day because a computerized selling program at a
mutual fund had run amok.
Whatever Sarao’s role, regulators are clearly worried.
Spoofing was prohibited by the
Dodd-Frank law in 2010, the
Wall Street overhaul enacted
after the financial crisis. But
what is spoofing and what is
legitimate trading is sometimes
hard to pin down. Traders cancel
orders all the time because of
new information. It’s the intent to
fool others, and not the canceling
itself, that is illegal.
Still, regulators are starting to
crack down. In January, a
Canadian trader was arrested on
spoofing charges. That followed
charges against a New Jersey
trader who allegedly made $1.5
million entering false trades in
the gold, soybean oil and copper
markets.
The criminal charges are not
coming fast enough, though, for
Nanex’s Hunsader, who thinks
spoofing is rampant and far too
easy to pull off. After all, if Sarao
really did help crash the market,
he asks, why not “a terrorist cell
or someone with deeper pockets?”
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Chattanooga
Lookouts’ AT&T
Field. The
Lookouts recently
teamed with Blood
Assurance of
Southeast
Tennessee in promoting regional
donations.
Lookouts GM Rich
Mozingo said, “The
Lookouts love finding ways to give
back to our community, and we
can’t think of a better way to do that
than by partnering
with Blood
Assurance.”
Lookouts team with regional blood centers
CHATTANOOGA — With baseball season
arriving, Blood Assurance, partnered with
the Chattanooga Lookouts in giving away
tickets.
Participating donor centers included
Downtown Chattanooga; Cleveland; Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga.; North River in Hixson, and
Dalton, Ga.
“Donors are pivotal to our mission and,
without the community’s generous response,
we would not be able to save lives across this
region,” said Charlie Callari, vice president of
marketing and donor recruitment for Blood
Assurance.
It takes 540 donations a day to meet our
region’s ongoing need, and, as a token of
appreciation Blood Assurance gave away
tickets.
Blood Assurance believes in giving back to
the communities in which they serve. Blood
donations stay local, but when local supplies
are insufficient to meet needs, the organization has a Blood Assurance network of 15
regional donation centers and 13 mobile centers available to help.
“The Lookouts love finding ways to give
back to our community, and we can’t think of
a better way to do that than by partnering
with Blood Assurance, an organization that
saves lives every day across the Chattanooga
region,” said Rich Mozingo, general manager
for the Chattanooga Lookouts.
“This is a great opportunity for the community to make a difference in someone’s
life,” he added.
To be eligible to donate blood, you must be
at least 17 years old (16 years old with
parental consent), weigh 110 pounds or more
and be in good health. Donors are asked to
drink plenty of fluids - avoiding caffeine - and
eat a meal that is rich in iron prior to donating.
For questions about donating blood, please
call (423) 756-0966. For more information on
Blood Assurance, donating blood or hosting a
blood drive, please visit www.bloodassurance.org.
There are major differences in debt
Dear Dave,
My wife and I are on Baby Step
Three of your plan. We’re also saving up to buy a car with cash.
We’re about $3,000 away from our
goal, but now my wife wants to go
ahead and finance the rest.
She has started wondering
what the difference is in borrowing to buy a car and borrowing to
buy a house.
— Lex
Dear Lex,
This is a good question. It
sounds like you guys have made
good progress, but now one of you
is running out of steam. That’s
okay. Getting out of debt and
staying out of debt can be a tough
road.
For one thing, cars go down in
value. The second thing is I don’t
like debt of any kind. I don’t really
like borrowing for a house even,
but I tolerate it as long as you use
a 15-year, fixed rate mortgage
with payments that are no more
than a fourth of your take-home
pay.
Dave Says
By
Dave
Ramsey
want right now. What your wife is
asking is a normal request, but
it’s also a sign that we all have to
address that little kid that’s inside
us once in a while — and tell that
kid no!
— Dave
Car debt
I mean, it’s a much larger purchase. You can get a great car for
$15,000 to $20,000 dollars.
Depending on where you live, a
good home can cost you 10 times
that or more.
Still, the best way to build
wealth and have a high-quality
financial life is to not be in debt.
You’re never going to win with
money in the long term if you
can’t learn to delay pleasure.
That’s the bottom line. Personal
finance is about controlling the
person you see when you look in
the mirror.
Every one of us has that little
four-year-old kid inside, a little
kid whose name is Immaturity,
and he or she wants what they
Dear Dave,
My wife and I have just started
getting on track with our money.
We have $2,000 in savings, and
the only debt we have is our house
and two cars. I work in the oil and
gas industry and make about
$180,000 a year, but things are
pretty volatile right now.
We’re upside down on both
vehicles, and we owe $39,000 on
one and about $48,000 on the
other. Under the circumstances,
should we go ahead and build a
fully-funded emergency fund or
work on paying off the cars?
— Kendall
Dear Kendall,
Are you kidding me? Sell the
cars, dude!
You need to go to Kelly Blue
Vaughn honored with award
A
seasoned
conceptual
thinker, strategist, writer and
CHATTANOOGA
—
The filmmaker with 20-plus years of
American Advertising Federation experience, Vaughn is a full-serof Chattanooga (AAF
vice,
AAAA-member
Chattanooga) has recogagency founded in 1996
nized Roger Vaughn,
in Chattanooga. His
partner and creative
advertising
portfolio
Director
for
The
includes
television,
Johnson Group, as the
radio, print and digital
recipient of the organiwork for such clients as
zation’s most prestigious
M c D o n a l d ’ s ,
lifetime
achievement
Volkswagen, Comcast,
award, the 2015 Silver
Krystal, Cracker Barrel,
Medal.
Sprint, Cricket Wireless,
The
American
Sunbelt Granola Bars,
Vaughn
Advertising Federation’s
Brach’s Candy, Blue
Silver Medal Award
Cross/Blue
Shield,
Program was established in 1959 Rubbermaid,
and
AirTran
to recognize advertising industry Airlines.
professionals who have made
His work has been recognized
outstanding contributions to with multiple local, regional and
advertising and who have been national
ADDYs;
national
active in furthering the indus- EFFIEs; ShowSouth awards; and
try’s standards, creative excel- ADWEEK magazine’s Icon Award
lence and responsibility in areas for Technology Marketing.
of social concern.
Joe Johnson, CEO of The
Annually, AAF member clubs Johnson Group, says, “Roger
present this honor upon out- challenges the status quo, every
standing members of the local day with his creative thinking.
advertising community.
He’ll push the boundaries of creSpecial to the Banner
ativity so far on some ideas that
it scares you. And he’ll really
fight for a great idea because he
knows it’s the right thing to do.”
In addition to his advertising
work, Roger has created music
video concepts for high-profile
acts including Eric Church,
Florida-Georgia Line, Josh
Turner, Thomas Rhett and Sara
Watkins of Nickel Creek.
This work has been recognized
with multiple CMA, CMT and
ACM awards and nominations.
Roger is an alumnus of the
University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga.
Entries for the Silver Medal
awards are gathered each
February
and
March.
Nominations are submitted on
behalf of the individual. Through
a blind judging process, Roger
was selected as this year’s recipient.
"We are thrilled that Roger
Vaughn was chosen and is being
recognized for his leadership,
influence and many accomplishments," Casey Knox, AAF
Chattanooga President, said.
Williams to manage Project Controls
Day
&
Zimmerman
Construction and Maintenance
Company has announced that
Todd Williams has accepted the
position of senior manager of
Project Controls, reporting
directly to Project Controls Vice
President Rich Feaster.
Williams assumes responsibili-
ty for all Project Control
Functions associated with engineering contracts.
He is also ethics officer for the
company.
Williams is a graduate of East
Tennessee State University, and
has been employed with D&Z for
the past 12 years. On the
Eastman contract he was the
Project
Controls
manager
responsible for Project Controls
functions.
He will continue to be based
out of the Eastman office in
Kingsport,.
Williams and his wife,
Suzanne, have two children,
Austin and Madison. They reside
in Johnson City,
Williams is the son of Ron and
Betsy Williams of Cleveland.
Book’s website right now, and find
out what your cars are really
worth. Then, put them on the
market as a private sale. You’ll get
thousands more selling them that
way than you will at a dealership.
You’ll have to talk to a local
credit union or bank for a small
loan to cover the difference, plus a
little bit more so you guys can get
a couple of little beaters to drive
for a while.
But man, you’ve got close to
$100,000 in car debt hanging over
your heads. That’s a disaster! I
want you to take a moment and
think about how things would be
without these stinking car payments. Your lives would change
completely!
Hopefully, you’ll be able to keep
your job. But this car debt is the
scariest thing I’ve heard in a long
time, even with your great income.
Get rid of those things now!
— Dave
———
—(Dave Ramsey is America’s
trusted voice on money and business. He has authored five New
York Times best-selling books. The
Dave Ramsey Show is heard by
more than 8.5 million listeners
each week on more than 550 radio
stations. Dave’s latest project,
EveryDollar, provides a free online
budget tool.
Southern Heritage Bank has
announced that Brenda Lawson
has been elected to serve on the
its board of directors.
Lawson is the founder of
Brenda Lawson & Associates
LLC, a management company
formed for the oversight of businesses in which she is a majority
owner.
As co-founder of two rent-toown businesses and a deferred
presentment business, she has
managed the financial and organizational growth of companies
serving 17 states with more than
1,500 employees and revenues
exceeding $100 million. She and
her husband, Stan, are principal
owner/developers of Spring
Creek Development, Cleveland’s
first lifestyle neighborhood offering residential, retail and business park properties.
Lawson is owner and chief
executive officer of numerous
companies across the state
including Swing Perfect, Friendly
Auto, Solutions Finance and Iron
Doors, LLC.
Lee Stewart, Chairman and
CEO of Southern Heritage Bank,
said, “We are very pleased to have
Brenda join our board of directors. With her diversified business knowledge and deep
Cleveland roots, she will make an
outstanding board member. We
are very fortunate to have her
associated
with
Southern
Heritage Bank.”
Lawson is an avid supporter of
The University of Tennessee at
Knoxville and Chattanooga, serving as a member of the UT
Development
Council
and
Executive Committee of the
University of Tennessee Alliance
for Women Philanthropists.
She has also co-chaired the
Capital Campaign for the
University of Tennessee, and is
on the UTC Foundation Board of
Trustees and the UTC Advisory
Board for the College of
Business. Currently, she is
chairing a capital funds campaign for Tennessee Christian
Preparatory School.
She serves as President of
Cleveland 100, an organization
that lends financial assistance to
families of emergency first
responders who lose their lives in
the line of duty. She organized
and chairs Diaper Love of
Bradley County, a program to
provide diapers to needy families.
Lawson founded Creating
Christmas Memories which
works with local elementary
school officials and provides
Christmas gifts for those in need.
She is a past President of the
Bradley/Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, past United Way
Campaign Chair and serves on
the boards of the Boys & Girls
Brenda Lawson
Club and the United Way of
Bradley County. She is also a
member
of
the
Bradley/Cleveland
Public
Education Foundation.
She is a past recipient of the
Southern
Conference
Distinguished Service Award
along with the local Junior
Achievement Free Enterprise
Award. She is past recipient of
the Sertoma Service to Mankind
Award and a 2004 UTC College of
Business
Entrepreneurial
Honoree
and
the
2006
Entrepreneur of the Year.
In 2006, she was awarded the
Outstanding Philanthropist of
the Year by the Association of
Professional Fund Raisers. In
2010, she was the recipient of the
M.C. Headrick Free Enterprise
Award
from
the
Cleveland/Bradley
County
Chamber of Commerce.
She and Stan have three children, Steve McKenzie, Ashley
Wallace and Zach Lawson, and
one grandson, Tripp.
Southern Heritage Bank was
locally organized in 1999, operating three banking offices in
Bradley County and is a division
of First Citizens Bancshares Inc.
For more information about
Southern Heritage Bank, please
visit the web site at www.southernheritagebank.com.
Athens Bancshares
lists cash dividend
ATHENS — Athens Bancshares
Corporation has announced that
its Board of Directors has
declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per outstanding
share of common stock.
The dividend will be paid on or
about May 15, 2015, to stockholders of record as of the close of
business on April 30, 2015.
Athens
Bancshares
Corporation is the parent holding
company of Athens Federal
Community Bank, a federallychartered, FDIC-insured savings
bank organized in 1934.
TDCI shines light on dealer fees
NASHVILLE — In recognition
of Financial Literacy Month, the
Tennessee
Department
of
Commerce and Insurance (TDCI)
has issued an advisory to help
raise investor awareness about
fees charged by broker-dealer
firms for services and maintenance of investment accounts.
“A key component of building
financial literacy is understanding what you need to know and
where to find it,” said TDCI
Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak.
“That is especially important
when it comes to understanding
what services you are paying for
and how much you are paying.”
The advisory follows new
research from the North
American
Securities
Administrators
Association
(NASAA), of which TDCI is a
member. The research shows
investors are confused about
brokerage service and maintenance fees and want clear and
easy access to fee information
from their broker-dealer firm.
A national public opinion poll
commissioned by NASAA found
that fees are important to
investors, but a general lack of
standardization and clarity in
their disclosure has left investors
unaware of how much their broker-dealer firm charges for the
service and maintenance of the
investment accounts.
To help raise investor understanding of broker-dealer fees,
TDCI suggests investors focus on
the timing, method and content
of fee disclosures.
— Pay attention. Fees are typically disclosed when a customer
account is opened. Ask for a fee
schedule and make sure it is up
to date. If it is not readily available, do not place any assets
until it is provided. You have the
right to know the fees in
advance.
Also, watch out for fee
changes. Most broker-dealers
disclose fee changes at least 30
days in advance, but they may
use different methods to reach
investors. Make sure your broker
dealer firm knows how you prefer to be contacted.
— Read the fine print. Most
broker-dealer firms disclose fees
for certain services on a table,
chart, or list, while some use a
narrative, but it may not list dollar amounts or formulas.
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Peyton Manning announces $3 million leadership commitment
KNOXVILLE — Vol for Life and
five-time National Football
League Most Valuable Player
Peyton Manning and his wife,
Ashley, announced Friday a $3
million leadership commitment
to the University of Tennessee.
This gift commitment will benefit
both the Tennessee football program and the Peyton Manning
Scholarship Endowment.
This commitment will also
honor two individuals, Gus
Manning and Carmen Tegano,
who are very special to Peyton
Manning. Gate 16 at Neyland
Stadium will be named the Gus
Manning Gate, honoring the
Tennessee legend who has
served the University and its athletic program for 64 years.
Gus joined the UT department
of athletics in 1951 as the sports
information director and worked
closely for many years as the top
assistant within athletics to Gen.
Robert R. Neyland. He has served
in many roles during his tenure
at Tennessee, including responsibility for all business operations as a senior associate athletics director and also as the executive assistant to director of athletics Doug Dickey.
The Carmen and Deborah
Tegano Student-Athlete Dining
Hall will be established in the
new residence hall under construction at the corner of Lake
Loudoun
Boulevard
and
Volunteer Boulevard on the UT
campus. Carmen is an associate
athletics director for UT and is in
his 31st year of service to the
University, while Deborah was
one of Peyton's professors during
his time at UT.
Carmen serves as a liaison for
former student-athletes as well
and maintains close relationships with many former Vols to
this day. He is currently the
sport administrator for the UT
baseball program, and his previous roles within the athletics
department include oversight for
the academic services and student life programs, assisting with
development-related projects,
and administrative oversight of
several sports.
"Gus and Carmen both personify what it means to be a Vol
for Life, and both have made the
University of Tennessee a better
place," said Peyton Manning. "No
one has served Tennessee and its
athletics program better than
Gus, and Carmen has also
served this University with
tremendous distinction.
"We have been fortunate to
maintain a close friendship with
Gus, Carmen, and Debbie
Tegano since I left UT, and our
PEYTON MANNING announced a $3 million leadership commitment to the University of Tennessee
on Friday. sincere hope is that the decision
to honor them in this way is
reflective of the positive impact
they continue to have on this
great University."
Awarded annually since the
1998-99 academic year, the
Peyton Manning Scholarship is a
four-year scholarship presented
to first-year students participating in the University of
arship program has distributed
$526,000 in scholarship money
to 21 students.
"We are grateful for the opportunities we have had to give the
gift of an education to deserving
UT students every year through
the scholarship program," said
Peyton Manning. "It means a
great deal to us to give young
people an edge in maximizing
Sanford named new head tennis pro
Clippers
The new tennis pro played all
four years in high school and then
played collegiately at North
Recently,
the
Cleveland Georgia University for a year
Country Club finished its search before finishing up his athletic
for a new head tennis professional and academic career at Reinhardt
and hired 24-year-old
University. Sanford holds
Garrick Sanford to take
a degree in sports manover the tennis program.
agement with a minor in
Sanford, who is a
business.
Dalton native, had been
“I started teaching
working for the Dalton
when I was 19 years old
Country Club.
at Murray County High
“I was the assistant pro
School. From there, I
at Dalton Country Club,
went to Lakeshore and
and Lamar Mills and
was an assistant there,
Charlie
Smith
then went to Dalton
approached me with the
Country Club,” Sanford
Sanford
possibility of becoming
said of his instructing
the head pro here. After
experience.
going through the interview
Now that he has taken over the
process, it just seemed like it was tennis program at the Cleveland
the right choice for me,” Sanford Country Club, Sanford wants to
explained.
build up youth tennis in the area.
By SARALYN NORKUS
Banner Sports Writer
From Page 21
gates, he was great out the
gates,” Duncan said. “He really
drove the ball into creases and
made things happen. I thought
he felt good early on. I don’t
think he made as many shots as
he wanted to, obviously, but I
thought just having him out
there was huge for us and will be
huge going forward.”
While Parker struggled to
score, finishing with six points,
his drives drew defenders and
opened up the outside for San
Antonio. The Spurs opened the
game 5 for 10 from 3-point range
and finished 10 for 24 from
beyond the arc.
TIP-INS
Clippers: The Clippers are 3-8
all-time in Game 3s of a best-ofseven series. ... Griffin averaged
Tennessee Honors Program. The
Manning Scholarship covers the
costs of tuition, room, and board
and is granted on the basis of
academic achievement, leadership and community service. The
goal of this gift is to expand the
annual number of students who
will receive four-year scholarships per class from two to four
annually, and to date, this schol-
their potential.
"This scholarship program and
its recipients have developed into
a family, and witnessing the
growth and successes of these
students academically, personally, and ultimately as professionals in the workforce has made
this one of our most rewarding
endeavors."
In addition to the scholarship
program that bears his name,
Peyton has supported numerous
campus, athletics department,
and UT football-related initiatives since leaving UT in 1997, as
a lead donor in the Neyland
Stadium Master Plan renovations and specifically the Peyton
Manning Locker Room, as well as
donating to the state-of-the-art
Anderson Training Center project. Peyton has also made significant contributions to the
Thornton Center and the College
of Communications. The current
gift commitment will also be utilized to benefit the football program.
"I believe very strongly in the
direction in which Coach Jones
is leading our football program,"
said Peyton Manning. "There is a
great deal of momentum and
energy surrounding Tennessee
Football right now, and I look
forward to what this team will
accomplish in the coming years."
26.2 points in his previous five
games against the Spurs. ...
Chris Paul played in his 700th
career game.
Spurs: Leonard was recognized
as the NBA Defensive Player of
the Year before the game. Duncan
playfully feigned presenting the
trophy to Leonard a few times
before laughing and handing it to
the forward. ... Parker had three
assists, giving him 1,043 for his
postseason career and breaking
the tie he had with Kobe Bryant
for seventh in the NBA history.
SAY WHAT?
Popovich’s pregame press conference got off to an auspicious
start when a reporter said he
would ask “the first stupid question,” and asked Popovich what
was the single most important
lesson he has learned from the
postseason.
After staring incredulously
around the room, Popovich broke
character and provided an
answer.
“I’m worried about the pick
and roll, and now you want to
ask about philosophy,” Popovich
said, pausing before answering
the question. “It’s a long, long,
long process.”
Popovich was later asked
about what impact Green has
when he is making 3-pointers.
“It’s always better to make
your 3-point shots than to miss
them,” Popovich said before
turning with a wry smile to the
reporter who asked the initial
question. “This is also something
I’ve learned.”
second of which involved losing
control on a patch of black ice
and rolling my VW bug several
times down in embankment
toward the Harpeth River.
Thankfully the car came to rest
on its top against some downed
trees before we reached the
water.
After none in the first 10 years
of driving a school bus in Ohio
and West Tennessee, I’ve had a
couple while driving for Bradley
County Schools.
The first of which was a fivevehicle wreck when an old van
cut across Stuart Road to turn
into Sonic and was T-boned by a
Mustang in the lane beside me.
Somehow, I was the only driver
named in former Banner reporter
Greg Kaylor’s story (thanks,
buddy).
My bus was fully loaded at the
time, but none of my students
were injured, although a few parents did take a couple of them to
the hospital just to get checked
out later that evening.
I’ve been very blessed to have
logged well over a million miles
on the roads of our great country
from Massachusetts to Florida to
Colorado, Texas and Minnesota
and many points in between,
without many more scraps than
that.
In fact, all five of my accidents
have occurred in the county in
which I lived in at the time, so
watch out Bradley County
because I plan to live here the
rest of my life.
This first week back to work
has been exhausting.
After not being able to do
much for three months to all of a
sudden jumping right back into
working 10 to 12-hour days
between my two jobs, has taken
its toll.
As physically sore as I am from
using muscles that haven’t had
much of a workout lately, the
exhilaration of getting back to
seeing old friends and young
faces has breathed fresh air into
my weary old soul.
I may not be moving as spry as
I used to (yes, that was a joke, as
400-pound grandpas don’t do
anything quickly), but I’m trying
to get the job done.
Thank you for the overwhelmingly warm welcome back from
those I’ve seen and the many I’ve
gotten calls and text from.
I great big thank you also to
Richard, Saralyn, Chip Chavis
and a few others who have
pitched in and done a great job in
my absence.
Now let’s see — when can I get
my two weeks’ vacation?
“Right now my focus is on the
kids and getting them out here.
Tennis is my passion, and I just
want to see tennis grow in this
community,” Sanford stated. “This
is a sport that you can play
throughout your whole life; you
can always play tennis.”
The tennis pro would also like
to see the area adult leagues continue to grow.
“The USTA adult league in
Dalton is really booming, and
we’re hoping to have that happen
up here,” he explained.
Throughout the week at the
country club, Sanford is offering
various instructional clinics and is
available for private lessons on the
weekend.
For more information on the
tennis offerings at the Cleveland
Country Club, Sanford can be
reached at 706-264-1512.
Rumors
From Page 17
to finally deliver a giant get-well
card the kids had signed that
was still in the trunk of her car.
In her defense, I had not been
able to attend services at the
Peerless Road Church, where she
and I both worship, during my
convalescence.
She gave me the card midweek, and I have posted it on my
desk in the Banner newsroom
and have included a photo of it
with this column.
Along with the kids’ signatures, I especially like the part
that says “What’s missing? You
are” with an arrow pointing to an
empty driver’s seat.
Thanks guys; I missed you,
too.
I do deeply appreciate the
many, many prayers, calls, texts
and visits I received during my
recovery, especially those from
my very concerned friends who
were involved in the accident and
are still recuperating from their
own injuries.
In more than 42 years of driving (I started when I was 13 without my parents’ knowledge), I
have been in just five accidents,
with the most recent being the
first requiring medical attention.
Two came less than a week
apart during the bad winter
snows of February, 1985, the
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MY MICHIGAN AVENUE students who ride Bradley County school bus No. 2 made me a very nice
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and a very special message saying, “What’s missing? You are. Get well soon.” It’s good to be back.
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Lifestyles Editor
Phone 472-5041 or fax 614-6529
[email protected]
A new way for justice to work
By WILLIAM WRIGHT
Lifestyles Editor
AT ThE LIbrAry
—Bring a friend Monday
night for Adult Gaming
beginning at 6:30 p.m. Feel
free to being a game to
share with others.
—Monday brings bouncing babies to the library for
the Wiggle Worms program.
It’s designed for babies, 2
and under, to explore and
learn in a unique and imaginative environment. Every
Monday at 3 p.m., join Ms.
Lauren in the Community
Room.
—On Tuesday, join Jeff
Kinney, the creator of “Diary
of a Wimpy Kid.” The library
will be taking part in this
unique program in the
Community Room at 9:30
a.m.
—The teens will get
together to discuss the book
“Graceling,” by Kristin
Cashore, Tuesday at 4:30
p.m. Join the Teen Services
Librarian every month at the
Teen Book Talk to discuss
more of your Young Adult
favorites. Email
[email protected]
g for more information.
—Come see the awardwinning film “Birdman” at
6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Discover the struggle of a
washed-up actor trying to
make it big in the Broadway
scene while enjoying popcorn in the Community
Room. The movie is rated R.
—Come hear stories with
the Cleveland Storytelling
Guild on Tuesday evening at
7 p.m. Learn about this
wonderful community
organization while hearing
unique tales.
—On Tuesdays and
Fridays at 10:30 a.m., Ms.
Keisha leads a preschool
story time. On Thursdays at
10:30 a.m. Ms. Lauren
reads babies the interactive
stories at Baby Bookworms
and on Saturdays Ms. Abby
leads a family story time at
2 p.m. All of these include a
unique craft for your child
to create.
—Wednesday, bring the
whole gang in for Family
Game Time at 4:30 p.m.
Play board games and enjoy
Wii sports during this interactive program for all ages.
—Lego Club will meet
Thursday at 4:30 p.m. to
continue construction on
their “Land of Good and
Evil: Heroes vs. Villains.”
—The annual Spring
Author Event sponsored by
Friends of the Library
Association will be
Thursday at 7 p.m. Steven
James will be the guest
author. Tickets are on sale
and space is limited. You
may order them at the
library or through the website.
— Zumba is offered every
Tuesday and Thursday
morning at 8:05 a.m.
—The Belk Charity Sale
will be held on May 2 from 6
through 10 a.m. Tickets are
$5 and can be bought at the
Circulation Desk. All proceeds go to support adult
programming at the library.
—The STEAM program
will be held on the first
Thursday of May at 4:30
p.m. Different activities
include Doodle Bots, Snap
Circuits, Lego building and
reaction science. Sign-up is
required.
DININg wITh
DIAbETES, a four-week
workshop, begins May 7
and continues on
Thursdays, May 14, 21 and
28 at the UT ExtensionBradley County office at 95
Church St. S.E. Class time
will be 5 to 7 p.m. each
evening. Call the UT
Extension office for registration details at 728-7001.
See CLEVELAND, Page 30
A new work-release facility for
inmates in Bradley County may
hold the key to their transitions
back into the community as productive, valued members of society who can reconnect with family members, retain employment,
pay court costs, fines and their
debt to society while ultimately
relieving taxpayers of incarceration expenses.
At least that is what citizens
like Alvin Word and Rich Kienlen
believe will happen with the
upcoming Bradley County Work
Release Program beginning next
year. Word, the foreman on the
Bradley County grand jury, and
Kienlen, the Bradley County misdemeanor probation director,
both call this new program for
prisoners an opportunity for selfimprovement which assists
inmates in creating a productive
lifestyle that can be sustained
upon their release.
Rather than sitting in a jail cell
all day, Word said the new workrelease program can make productive use of inmates’ time. If
an inmate has job skills, they are
more likely to obtain lawful
employment rather than turning
to crime. Reducing crime rates
helps keep communities safe.
Also, having a job allows the
inmate to become a tax-paying
citizen, which gives inmates the
opportunity to pay back fines
and restitution owed to the court
and victims. However, with no
job, no money and no place to
live, inmates often find themselves facing the same pressures
and temptations that landed
them in prison in the first place.
“This is really about them
making a lifestyle change,” Word
explained. “This will allow those
who have been found guilty of
some misdemeanor or nonviolent
felony — to keep their jobs, if
they have one, and do their time.
If they don’t have an education,
we’ve worked with Cleveland
State Community College to help
them get their GED and learn a
trade. We also have a number of
faith-based groups in Cleveland
that will work with that population to help them find a moral
compass to change their lives.
They only have two choices: Go
back to the same lifestyle or find
a new lifestyle that works. There
are no guarantees, but this could
work.”
Kienlen
agreed,
adding,
“People don’t realize the indirect
cost of putting someone in jail.
When we put someone in jail for
90 days for not paying child support — they lose their job, their
kids have to go on food stamps
and Mom has to go find government housing. So, not only are
we housing them, but now we’re
having to pay for their kids and
their food stamps. The indirect
cost is a lot more than simply
housing an inmate.”
The pressing need to relieve
prison overcrowding is also an
issue, according to Kienlen, who
said, “They built this jail in 2004
for 408 inmates, hoping it would
last 20 years, and 11 years later
it’s already running 430, 440,
450 inmates. When Sheriff
Watson took over we were almost
at 500 inmates. That number is
not going to go down. It’s only
going to go up. Then we have a
banner photo, wIllIAm wRIGHT
A new work-release program in Bradley County is designed to reduce both prison costs and recidivism by encouraging inmates to be better prepared for life after prison. Alvin Word, left, and Rich
Kienlen, right, are hoping the upcoming Bradley County Work-Release Program will serve as a bridge
between life in prison and life in the community. Word and Kienlen stand in front of the area that is
planned to facilitate male work-release inmates. Female inmates will be housed on the opposite end of
the building. Both Kienlen and Word agreed that the sooner the project can get started the better.
new DA’s office that’s very
aggressive. For example, their
policy is: If you burglarize a
house, you’re going to serve 90
days (in jail) even if you get probation. I have over 2,000 outstanding warrants just out of my
office. We have 100,000 people in
Bradley County and 5,000 are on
misdemeanor probation. We’re
hoping people in the new work
house will help change some of
this.
“I know it’s a new concept. But
take, for example, Fort Hill
Cemetery — the city gives
$10,000 and the county gives
$10,000 to mow a portion of Fort
Hill Cemetery. That’s $20,000
that could be put elsewhere. We
can use these work-release
inmates on the weekend to do
community service up there.
Monday through Friday they can
be going out working a real job
and on weekends they can do
community service. This is a winwin situation.”
One of the differences in the
new work-release program and
the current inmate work crews
who collect trash along highways
or work on state construction
projects is that inmates under
the new work-release project will
receive the same prevailing
wages as any other employee.
This allows the state to deduct
the inmates’ room and board as
well as other obligations like
child support, victim restitution,
See JUSTICE, Page 30
Local couple invites all to ‘Pair Up’ with Parkinson’s Foundation
The couple first got involved with
PDF last year, when Anne comCleveland couple Anne and pleted an online survey for PDF’s
James Newbould are asking Community Choice Research
everyone to “PAIR Up” for Awards. She didn’t expect much
Parkinson’s disease research, in when submitting the survey,
collaboration
with
the which is essentially a “people’s
Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. choice” for Parkinson’s research
The couple recently completed grants. But it turned out, of the
an intensive three-day training to more than 300 people who parjoin
the
organization’s ticipated, the question she posed
Parkinson’s
Advocates
in (How can scientists help with my
Research program. They have husband’s fatigue?”) was chosen.
PDF funded scientists with a
returned home, and are inviting
the community to help them in $15,000 grant to study the issue.
The couple says that this expebringing about better treatments
rience inspired
for Parkinson’s
them to be, “part
disease at a
of
the
faster pace.
PDF’s second annual
Parkinson’s
April
is
Community Choice
r e s e a r c h
Parkinson’s
Research
Awards
process from the
Awareness
survey is open until
very beginning.”
Month.
Thursday, April 30.
So last month,
“We live in
Visit:http://www.pdf.
along with 30
an area where
org/ communityother
people
no
clinical
choice.
with Parkinson’s
research
in
disease and care
Parkinson’s
partners,
they
disease is currently being done, and there is underwent training in New
little information out there in the Jersey to join PDF’s PAIR procommunity. We became PDF gram. The program aims to bring
Research Advocates so we can about better treatments by pairhelp educate others,” said Mrs. ing advocates with the research
Newbould.
“Being
directly community. It includes a netfor
200
Research
involved in research is a win/win work
situation for every side. Who bet- Advocates, of which the
ter to voice research needs than Newboulds are now a part.
The couple has returned home
patients themselves?”
James Newbould has been liv- just in time for April’s
ing with Parkinson’s since 2009. Parkinson’s Awareness Month,
Anne And JAmes newbould are asking everyone to “PAIR
Up” for Parkinson’s disease research, in collaboration with the
Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. The couple recently completed an
intensive three-day training to join the organization’s Parkinson’s
Advocates in Research program.
ready to get the local community
involved. They are starting out by
encouraging
people
with
Parkinson’s and their care partners to take PDF’s second annual “people’s choice” awards survey by visiting www.pdf.org/communitychoice. They are also
looking for other ways to work
with researchers and educate the
local community about opportunities to get involved.
“As PDF Research Advocates,
the Newboulds are key partners
in our mission to support the
research and ideas that will
improve the lives and futures of
those touched by Parkinson’s,”
says PDF President Robin Elliott.
“We believe that when members
of the Parkinson’s community
are equal stakeholders — alongside research professionals, government agencies and private
industry — their presence will
improve research and speed new
treatments for Parkinson’s.”
Are you a person with
Parkinson’s disease, a care partner or a member of the research
community? Connect with the
Newboulds and other PDF
Research Advocates by contacting PDF at 800-457-6676 or
[email protected].
EDITOR’S NOTE: Parkinson’s
disease is a progressive neurological disorder that affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S.
Although promising research is
being conducted, there is currently no cure for Parkinson’s.
Family works
By Rob Coombs
ID. Min. Ph.D.
Speaking on child abuse
Another call from a concerned
teacher served to remind me of
the sad prevalence of child abuse
and the bewilderment of many
who simply don’t have any idea
how to move their concern to protection.
Days or even months may pass
and the child continues to
endure one painful night after
another, helpless to do anything
about it. When such situations
explode into the public eye, we
wonder why no one, especially
those in the know, did nothing.
In defense of many who would
like to do something, I view their
lack of doing anything not as
apathy, but rather as frustration
that leads to stagnation.
Dave Pelzer gives a picture of
an abused child trapped in a hell
with seemingly no escape. No one
could possibly convey what he
endured better than himself and
with courage unknown to most,
he decided to write about the
emotional and physical abuse
that he endured for eight years
from his mother, a truly evil
woman by any standard and a
father who participated in the
abuse by refusing to intervene.
Pelzer has written three bestselling books giving an excruciatingly painful look into his inner
world as he struggles to live day
by day, and glimpses of hope as
he eventually makes sense of the
physical abuse he endured. His
first book, “A Child Called It,”
chronicles the childhood years
where he endured his mother
forcing him to eat dog waste, rubbing dirty diapers in his face,
pouring ammonia down his
throat, sitting on his hands for
years on end at the bottom step
of the stairs to the garage when
not performing the family chores,
sleeping in a cold garage without
even a blanket, being deprived of
food often for days at a time,
lying for hours in a tub filled with
cold water with only his nostrils
above water, his arm pulled out
of socket and even actually being
stabbed, for which he received no
medical attention.
His second book, “The Lost
Boy,” chronicles the intervention
by the school system and his
placement in numerous fostercare homes. Although often not
easy, the foster-care system
saved him, as this was his first
experience receiving love.
In his third book, “A Man
Called Dave,” the author reveals
his painfully slow process of
building a healthy self-esteem,
his yearning to make a difference
for the thousands of children
trapped in abuse and his desire
to give to his son what he never
had — unconditional love.
Of all the books I have read on
abuse, no other works better to
capture the pain an abused child
may endure, and the determination it takes to rise above the
abuse. This is a must-read for
every teacher, parent and concerned citizen.
There are so many heartbreaking realities reflected in his book
that it is difficult to determine
what is most disturbing concerning what he endured. For me,
there were three prevailing
themes that I found very troubling.
—First, the viciousness of his
mother. How could one person
find so many different ways to
torture her child? She must have
willfully and deliberately planned
how to abuse him again and
again without actually killing
him. Even after he was placed
into foster care, she found creative ways to continue psychic
abuse from a distance.
—Second, the cowardliness of
his father, who knew what was
going on but chose to do nothing.
—Third, his repeated attempts
to gain the love of his parents —
his undying fantasy that somehow, some way, his mother and
dad would one day see him as a
person worthy of love. This unrealistic desire only served to open
the door to further abuse.
If you have concerns that a
child may be trapped in abuse,
please pick up the phone and call
the Domestic Violence Hotline at
423-476-3886. Your call is confidential. An investigation will follow and intervention for the
abused child can take place.
Don’t delay. Every night is another night of a living hell.
Court orders Nevada to
say what’s in prison food
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A convicted
pedophile’s complaint about
Nevada prison food has the state
Supreme Court ordering an
accounting of what’s in unnamed
sack lunches and “chef’s choice”
dinners given to inmates, and
whether the meals are healthful.
A strongly worded ruling by a
three-judge panel declared it isn’t
enough for the top state health
officer, Dr. Tracey Green, to simply state that prisoners aren’t
malnourished.
“Green’s report does not detail
what foods are being served to
inmates ... much less provide any
explanation of how these unidentified foods provide inmates with a
nutritionally adequate diet,” the
court said after reviewing Green’s
2011 report to the Board of Prison
Commissioners.
Green, head of the Nevada
Division of Behavioral and Public
Health, said in a statement that
since 2011, her annual inspections of prison sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness, safety, diet
and food preparation were up-dodate.
She said reports in the past
“would only reflect deficient practices rather than demonstrate
areas of compliance,” and said her
state Bureau of Health Care
Quality and Compliance “plans to
better document how the review
takes place.”
“The chief medical officer will
continue to comply with law and
any additional direction from the
district court,” the statement said.
State prisons are required to
provide inmates with a “healthful
diet.”
As of Dec. 31, 2014, Nevada
had nearly 12,800 inmates at
seven prisons and 10 conservation camps, plus a restitution
center and a transitional housing
center. The Department of
Corrections budget for 2013-15
was $487 million, down $9 million
from the previous two-year budget period.
Nevada prisons budgeted $11.7
million for food in fiscal 2014 and
$11.8 million in fiscal 2015,
according to the state Legislative
Counsel Bureau. Not counting
staff time, and if the prison population has been consistent, the
state spends an average of less
than $925 on food per inmate per
year.
A “thrifty” adult aged 19 to 50
in the United States spent about
$187 on food in November,
according to a U.S. Department of
Agriculture report. That averages
a little less than $2,250 a year or
2½ times the Nevada prison food
budget.
Prisons also must account for
religious and medical diets, and
the age, sex and activity level of
inmates.
Cleveland
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Christian
ClassiCs
Choir meets for rehearsal each
Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the
Pentecostal Theological Seminary
Chapel. For more information or
to become a member, email
Daniel
Petty
at
[email protected], or call
903-530-3017.
Martha Bostic at 479-9207.
the United ClUb will meet
Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. at the
Golden Corral. The speaker will
be Bettie Marlowe from the
Cleveland Daily Banner. For
information on the United Club
or to become a member, call
EDITOR’S NOTE: To submit
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publication in the Lifestyles section to [email protected].
“eat YoUr art oUt,
Cleveland!” which began on
Valentine’s Day and runs
through April, is sponsored by
The Greenway Public Arts
Committee in the promotion of
local art and businesses.
Justice
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court costs and fines from their
salary, which saves taxpayers
thousands of dollars.
“The existing work-release program has about 48 beds on the
premises, which will be turned
into a work-release area just for
women,” Word explained. “Then
we’ll add a new 128 bed area just
for men. This would give our
community a better handle on
how we can make that population more productive and contribute to society instead of taking away from it. Hopefully, it will
give them the opportunity to get
their lives back in sync with the
community. This program will
pay for itself over time. It’s an
investment in the community.
Right now we’re taking money
from the state or county to house
these inmates. Under this new
work-release program these people will be paying their way into
jail.”
Research conducted by the
Washington State Institute for
Public Policy indicates that workrelease programs produce a positive cost-benefit impact. Their
research showed that for every
dollar spent, $3.82 is returned to
the state. The new work-release
program also allows inmates to
arrive at their release date with a
job and savings, instead of homeless, and the temptation to
return to a life of crime.
Additionally, they learn to refine
their social and living skills when
riding the bus, interacting with
others and managing their personal finances while still under
supervision.
Although there is always the
possibility that some inmates
may decide to escape during
work-release, Word and Kienlen
said they believe the benefits of
the program will far outweigh
any concerns that a few might
abuse the program.
“Of course, there are no guarantees. The only guarantees in
life are death and taxes. But
every time the county grows,
crime grows. It goes hand-inhand. If these people don’t
change their lives and end up
going back to the same place,
same community and hang
around with the same people,
they’re going to have the same
results. We don’t want that. To
me, this is not a probation problem, it’s not a judicial problem
and it’s not the sheriff’s problem. It’s a community-wide
problem and I’m part of that
community. I want to be part of
the change that can make it a
Banner photo, WILLIAM WRIGht
InMAtEs currently working around Bradley County will get added benefits under the new work
release program that focuses prisoners on finding gainful employment, being financially responsible,
building self-esteem and life-skill development to service themselves and the community. Under the new
program inmates will receive the same wages as any other employee, which allows the state to deduct
the inmates’ room and board as well as other obligations like child support, victim restitution, court costs
and fines from their salary, which saves taxpayers thousands of dollars. Above, supporters of the upcoming Bradley County Work Release Program observe local inmates at work. From left to right are,
Misdemeanor Probation Director Rich Kienlen, District Attorney General Stephen Crump, Bradley
County Sheriff Eric Watson, Deputy Rob Jensen, and Chief Deputy Brian Smith.
better system.”
Many experts agree that participation in transitional programs greatly increases inmate
success after release from prison
since they learn the value of taking responsibility, earning a living, self-respect, empowerment
and craftsmanship, which are
essential when looking for work
in the private sector.
Word, who is also involved in a
prison ministry through Kairos
Prison Ministry International in
the Bledsoe County state prison,
said the faith-based program
used in Bledsoe County prison is
another reason why many of its
inmates are turning their lives
around, something he is excited
to see Sheriff Eric Watson utilizing in Bradley County.
In a recent letter to the Bradley
County Commissioners, Word
wrote, “I want to personally
thank
the
Work
House
Committee for all their time and
effort spent in time and travel to
make this much need facility a
reality. The commissioners, led
by Louie Alford, and our County
Mayor, Gary Davis, have provided great insight to the grand jury
and to the Work House
Committee. It is our belief and
understanding that this program
will help with the overcrowding of
our current jail facility and give
those who are sentenced to this
program an opportunity, with a
nonviolent conviction to pay their
debt to society, keep a job, get a
GED if needed to get a job and to
be given a direction, if wanted to
find their moral compass for
their life. The vast majority of
these men and women are good
people who have made one or
more bad choices. I am glad to
have been part of this program
that over time will be of great
benefit and importance to all of
our community.”
County Mayor Davis said, “The
commissoners have approved the
project and I have begun working
with the architech to get some
plans in place so we can take
back to the commission for their
approval. We are moving forward
with the project. We’re probably a
year out from completion.”
In an earlier comment regarding the new work project Sheriff
Watson said, “I am pleased with
the vote of the County
Commission to allow the Sheriff’s
office to operate the new county
workhouse. Let me assure
Commission members and the
citizens of Bradley Count that
this is a challenge we look forward to with great anticipation. It
will be a positive step for the
county.”
According to the U.S.
Department of Justice, United
States prisons release more than
650,000 individuals each year.
Within three years of release,
approximately two-thirds will be
back in prison. Work-release programs has the potential to introduce these individuals back into
society and the labor market.
In 2004, President George W.
Bush, said in his State of the
Union Address, “This year, some
600,000 inmates will be released
from prison back into society. We
know from long experience that if
they can’t find work, or a home,
or help, they are much more likely to commit more crimes and
return to prison. America is the
land of the second chance, and
when the gates of the prison
open, the path ahead should lead
to a better life.”
New Whitney design by Renzo Piano a game changer for museum
NEW YORK (AP) — Street banners for weeks have teased:
“Whitney, Unpacking in the
Meatpacking, May 2015.”
Finally, after four years of construction, the Whitney Museum
of American Art is unpacked and
ready to greet fans old and new
in its new home — a gleaming
asymmetrical steel-and-glass
architectural sculpture with
sweeping views of the High Line
and the Hudson River in
Manhattan’s hip Meatpacking
District.
The $422 million Renzo Pianodesigned building is a gamechanger for the museum. The
220,000-square-foot
space,
including 18,000 feet unencumbered by structural columns and
13,000 feet of outdoor terrace
galleries, doubles its former
home on the Upper East Side.
That translates to more room for
its 22,000-object permanent collection, more galleries for temporary exhibitions, more programming and for the first time room
for a works-on-paper study center, a 170-seat theater and an
education center with state-ofthe-art classrooms.
The Whitney officially opens
May 1 with an inaugural exhibition that showcases the airy,
light-infused building and the
breadth and depth of its permanent collection.
“America is Hard to See” —
which takes its name from a
Robert Frost poem — features
650 works by 400 artists from
1900 to the present, filling every
gallery floor of the eight-story
building. Roughly one-quarter of
the art has never been seen before
or not for decades and more than
150 are making their debuts.
Probably best described as
industrial modern, the facility is
an eccentric mix of shapes and
angles with many floor-to-ceiling
windows.
In an interview, Donna De
Salvo, the museum’s chief curator who worked closely with the
architectural team, spoke animatedly about the opportunities
the design presented for “new
narratives about how we think
about American art.”
The museum has raised a
total of $760 million, which
includes $225 million for its
endowment.
The game changer is the space,
De Salvo said. “We didn’t have
adequate space in our prior facility to really fully take advantage of
all the things we have to offer.”
Now two floors are designated
for its permanent collection; two
other floors and the lobby house
temporary exhibitions. The elevators are custom-designed with
works by artist Richard
Artschwager.
De Salvo said she believed
artists will be inspired by the
new spaces and will “reinvent
them over and over again.”
They’re tailored to the needs of
how artists — and curators —
work, she said. Floors throughout are sprung, allowing for both
performance and installations.
Open-grid ceilings permit walls
and art to be arranged into multitude configurations.
The column-free gallery — the
size of a football field — can hold
multiple exhibitions or a single
show. Four open-air terraces
provide a place for sculpture,
installations, projections and
performance pieces and open up
to the neighborhood and its
trendy restaurants, luxury
apartment buildings, boutiques
and clubs. The gallery-rich
Chelsea area lies north and
Greenwich Village is just south
of the museum.
Bounded on the east by the
High Line and the Hudson River
Park on the west, the Whitney
serves as “a metaphorical bridge
between the two spaces,” said
museum
director
Adam
Weinberg. Outdoor metal staircases connect to the terraces on
three floors, steps from lower
building rooftops.
People strolling along the
1.45-mile elevated park can get a
glimpse of the museum’s conservation lab and art handling area.
“You can actually see art moving through the building to give
you a sense of the process of
what goes on behind the scenes,”
said Weinberg. “The idea is to
connect to the process of the art
and the museum, to reveal what
goes on inside.”
AP photo
In thIs Photo, Barbara Kruger’s “Untitled (We Don’t Need
Another Hero)” is displayed with David Moffett’s “He Kills Me” at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Whitney officially
opens May 1 with an inaugural exhibition that showcases the airy,
light-infused building and the breadth and depth of its permanent collection.
The inaugural show begins in
the lobby gallery with an introduction to the museum’s precursor, the Whitney Studio Club in
Greenwich Village, and its founding in 1930 by heiress-sculptor
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
The museum migrated north
over the years, moving into its
third home in 1966 at the Marcel
Breuer-designed building on
Madison Avenue, now leased to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The exhibition continues on
the top floor and works down
chronologically,
presenting
works in 23 “chapters,” each
named for a work of art. One
section called “Music, Pink and
Blue,” derived from a Georgia
O’Keefe painting, looks at artmaking in the 1920s when
artists tried to capture the feeling and sensation of music in
their art form. Another section
looks at the engagement of
artists as activists during the
1930s.
Each section presents works
across all media — painting,
photography, video, installation
and drawing — because “it’s a
much truer picture of how
artists work,” said De Salvo.
A major exhibition of the
works of Frank Stella that will
occupy the entire fifth floor will
be presented in the fall.
“I love the connectivity to the
city,” said Laurel Emery of the
building as she came down from
the High Line with Jim Kegley.
The two real estate developers
from Atlanta said they loved how
the design interacted with the
surrounding architecture.
“It’s very approachable. It’ll
attract a lot of art people,” said
Kegley.
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LIBRARY CORNER
Tickets for the Belk Charity
Sale available at the library
This week’s HOT Pick is
“Private Vegas” by James
Patterson.
No. 9 in Patterson’s Private
series brings Private Jack
Morgan to a whole new level of
seductively criminal organizations. Talk about a HOT pick!
Check it out today.
The library is selling tickets to
the Belk Charity Sale, held on
May 2 from 6-10 a.m.
You must have a ticket to
shop at Belk that day and it
gives you special discounts
when shopping.
Tickets are $5 and can be
bought at the Circulation Desk.
All proceeds go to support adult
programming at the library.
Attention Tween STEAM fans!
The STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math)
program will be held on the first
Thursday of May at 4:30 p.m.
This month, come dip your
brain in a number of different
activities including; Doodle
Bots, Snap Circuits, Lego building and reaction science.
Sign-up is required and can
be done in the Children’s Room
or by calling the library. The
History Branch is currently
undergoing work to preserve its
beauty and history.
Unfortunately, that work has
forced that branch to temporarily close the wheelchair accessible ramp.
Once all other work is completed, a new ramp will be
installed. The library thanks you
for your patience and understanding.
Monday night stop in for
Adult Gaming beginning at 6:30
p.m. Join in on virtual, board, or
card games while enjoying the
atmosphere of the library. Feel
free to being a game to share
with others. Video games must
be multiplayer.
This Tuesday, join Jeff
Kinney, the best-selling creator
of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” as he
is broadcast around the world in
an interactive webcast. The
library will be taking part in this
unique
program
in
the
Community Room at 9:30 a.m.
The teens will get together to
discuss the book “Graceling,” by
Kristin Cashore, Tuesday at
4:30 p.m. The first in the
“Graceling
Realm
Trilogy”
explores the rare gift a Graceling
possesses.
Join the Teen Services
Librarian every month at the
Teen Book Talk to discuss more
of your Young Adult favorites.
Email
[email protected] for more information.
Come see the award-winning
film “Birdman,” at 6:30 p.m. on
Tuesday. Discover the struggle
of a washed-up actor trying to
make it big on the Broadway
scene, and enjoy popcorn in the
Community Room. The movie is
R rated.
Steven James will be at the
library this week for the Annual
Spring Author Event sponsored
by the Friends of the Library
Association.
James is a national bestselling novelist and storyteller
who constructs pulse-pounding
tales that keep you up all night
reading. Come hear him and
support the library on Thursday
at 7 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now and
priced as follows: $5 for students with a valid ID, $10 for
current FOLA members, and
$15 for nonmembers. You may
order them at the library or
through the website. The library
has a number of his books located in the display case in the
Fiction Room, so come read one
today.
As always, the following programs are going on this week:
Wiggle Worms for babies on
Monday at 3 p.m.; gaming for
teens on Monday at 4:30 p.m.;
story times on Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday morning at
10:30 a.m.; and Family story
time on Saturday at 2 p.m.
This year the MotherDaughter Tea will be held on
May 9 at 4 p.m.
The theme is princesses, so
come dressed as your favorite
queen or princess, adults as well
as children.
This program is for girls ages
4-12 and one adult per household.
Reservations and a refundable
$5 deposit per family are
required to participate. Stop by
the Children’s Room Desk to
sign up today.
The Lions Club of Cleveland is
collecting used prescription eyeglasses to distribute to individuals throughout our community.
If you have some you can
donate, it will go a long way to
make Cleveland a better place
for all. There is a box at the
Circulation Desk where you can
drop them off.
The Scholastic Book Fair is
coming to the library from May
26 to June 2. Stop in the
Children’s Room during regular
business hours to shop.
All items are buy one, get one
free. Proceeds go toward purchasing easy, juvenile, and
young adult materials as well as
supporting children, tween and
teen programming.
Try BonLife Coffee today at
the library, and support a local
business.
library and its services, visit
clevelandlibrary.org.
CDPAC dancers compete
at Prime Time dance finals
Cleveland Dance & Performing
Arts Center's Company dancers
recently competed at Prime Time
dance finals with the following
results:
Shelbee Jordan — Platinum,
third overall Junior Cutting Edge
Grand Champion soloist, Ballet
Ido; Brittany Zachman —
Platinum, first overall Petite
Xtreme Grand Champion soloist,
Xtreme Costume award, Miss
Xtreme Primetime; Caroline
Shotts — Platinum, first overall
Junior Breakthrough Grand
Champion soloist, runner-up
Miss Junior Breakthrough
Primetime,
Breakthrough
Costume Award; Marlee Gross —
Ninth
overall
Junior
Breakthrough soloist; Caroline
Saunders — Third overall Junior
Breakthrough soloist; Madie
Hall — High Gold; Courtney
Widdows — Platinum, first overall Teen Breakthrough soloist;
Ashley Harper — Sixth overall
Teen Cutting Edge soloist; Lexi
Valliere — Platinum for both
solos, first overall Xtreme Teen
soloist, runner-up for Miss
Xtreme Primetime; Emily Derrick
— Platinum for both solos, second overall Xtreme Senior
soloist; Marlee Gross, Sydney
‘Dining with Diabetes’ workshop begins May 7
The “Dining with Diabetes”
school will begin on May 7 and
continue May 14, 21, and 28.
Classes will be held at the UT
Extension-Bradley
County
Extension Building, 95 Church
St. S.E. Class times will be 5 to 7
p.m. each week. Instructors will
be Pam Newton, registered dietitian,
Southeast
Region,
Tennessee Department of Health,
and Kaye Smith, Extension
Agent with the University of
Tennessee Extension-Bradley
County office.
Topics for the four two-hour
classes will include the use of
artificial sweeteners, preparation
of foods with less salt, fat, and
sugar, meal plans and use of seasonings. Students will learn how
to prepare several meals that are
healthier and easier to prepare.
Participants will also have the
opportunity to taste a variety of
dishes. Participants will learn
Dear Readers: With our busy
lives, and many of us spending a
lot of time going to and from, it’s
sure easy to “drive through” a
FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT to
pick up dinner! Hey, I’m one of
you.
After a full, busy day working
on this column, doing phone
work, checking and sending
important emails, dealing with
service folks, etc., I sure don’t
want to fix dinner. Plus, it’s just
David (my husband) and me now.
Oh, yes, he usually is the one
who “brings home the dinner,”
since I work from my home office.
Here are my personal Heloise
hints for eating as healthy as
possible:
— No FRIED food, or if it’s battered, I try to pick off the batter
and skin. I do love French fries
and onion rings, so I limit the
amount I eat by putting a few on
my plate, not eating from the
bag. Side salads, soups and fruit
slices are available, too. Skip
mayo on a sandwich or burger
(veggie for me), and “86” (cancel)
the cheese.
— Soft drinks are jampacked
with useless calories and cost a
lot! Water for me, or iced tea.
— Gravies, high-calorie
sauces and most salad dressings
add more calories and fat than
you might think. A taste or two
usually is enough for me.
— Kids’ meals are perfect
when I’m not famished. NO, you
up-to date information on nutrition, meal planning, exercise and
how to understand common diabetes-related medical tests.
Several recipes will be sampled
each week with handouts given
to each participant.
Diabetes is a very serious and
costly disease but research has
shown that those who learn to
manage their blood glucose
(sugar) levels by eating healthier
and exercising regularly can
lower their risk of complications
and lead a healthier and more
productive life.
A registration fee of $30 for the
first person and $15 for an additional family member covers the
four classes and is due before the
first session. There is a reduced
fee for food stamp eligible recipients. The classes are open to
those with diabetes, family members, friends, caretakers and others interested in healthier eating.
For more information or to make
reservations for the four classes,
contact University of Tennessee
Extension-Bradley County at
728-7001.
Reservations need to be made
by May 4.
“Dining with Diabetes” is an
educational
program
of
University
of
Tennessee
Extension and is open to all eligible persons regardless of race,
color, national origin, sex, disability, religion or veteran status.
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Wilson and Brittany Zachman —
High Gold, second overall Grand
Champion Petite trio; Shelbee
Jordan and Caroline Shotts —
Platinum, first overall Cutting
Edge Grand Champion Junior
Duo; Ashley Harper & Courtney
Widdows: High Gold & 2nd
Overall Cutting Edge Grand
champion Teen duo; Emily
Derrick & Lexi Valliere: Platinum
& 1st Overall Xtreme Grand
champion Teen duo; Let the
River Run: High Gold, 2nd
Cleveland danCe & Performing Arts Center's Company
Overall Junior Xtreme Grand
Champion small group; Isn't She dancers recently competed at Prime Time dance finals in Chattanooga,
Lovely: Platinum, 1st overall with dancers capturing several top awards. They will compete in five
Xtreme Junior Grand champion more regional competition and other national championships.
small group, call-back for
Primetime Live Finals, first; Hey Platinum, second Overall Xtreme regional competitions and attend
Daddy — Platinum, first overall Grand Champion Teen small National Championships in
Xtreme Petite Grand Champion group; The Golden Age — Gatlinburg in June and Hershey,
small group, call-back for Platinum, sixth overall Xtreme Pennsylvania in July.
CDPAC is under the direction of
Primetime Live Finals, first; Teen small group; Eclipse —
Candle in the Wind — Platinum, Platinum, fifth overall Xtreme Nisa Hooper with contributing
first overall Cutting Edge Grand Teen small group; Just Like staff and choreographers: Travis
Champion Petite large group, Heaven— Platinum, first overall Smith, Caitlyn Lynn, Jackson
call-back for Primetime Live Xtreme Grand champion Teen Alvarez of Charlotte, N.C., Victor
Finals, first; Hot Cheetos and small group, call-back for Smalley of Miami, Fla., and Ade
Takis — Platinum, second overall Primetime Live Finals, second; Obayami of Los Angeles.
Registration for Summer Kids
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Champion Large group, call-back Teen small group; From The Princess Camps, Summer Dance
for Primetime Live Finals, third; Block — Platinum, first overall Classes and Summer Intensives is
now being accepted. Email
Britney — Platinum, fourth over- Grand Champion Teen line.
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Garde [email protected] for more
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small
group;
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skin. — Heloise
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rides
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and forthcoming marriage of Elizabeth Ann
“Beth” Cearley and
Keith Ronald Rodgers
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and Judy Cearley, the
parents of the brideelect. The future bridegroom is the son of
Ron Rodgers and the
late Marcelene “Marcy”
Rodgers. The couple
will exchange wedding
vows on May 9.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Peter
Copping had hoped to work alongside Oscar de la Renta, but it was
not to be: Just days after Copping
was hired last October as artistic
director of the luxury label, the
legendary de la Renta passed
away from cancer.
In February, Copping presented
his debut collection at New York
Fashion Week, and on Saturday
— barely two months later — he
showed his first bridal line, a big
occasion for a label known for
dressing high-profile brides like
Amal Clooney.
Luckily for Copping, who is
British, the New York weather on
Saturday was decidedly summery
— perfect for brides. His collection
retained much of the classic de la
Renta glamour — lots of tulle and
organza — but added a few more
modern-looking silhouettes, some
new takes on fabric work, and
some silvery sequins.
One of the most versatile looks
came last, a white tiered ballgown
in tulle with two bottom layers
that were removable, to form a
stylish minidress for dancing into
the night.
Backstage after the show,
Copping reflected on the collection. (The interview has been edited for length.)
AP: You showed your first collection in February, and now this.
Has it been a whirlwind?
Copping: Yes, it’s tough to get it
done in the time you have. But I
did take some of the elements
from the fall collection and
brought them through into this
one. Some of the ways we were
working with fabrics for fall
seemed really appropriate for
bridal, so I thought it would be
nice to use that as a stepping
stone. For example, one dress was
AP Photo
A model wears a creation from the Oscar de la Renta Bridal
Spring 2016 collection April 18 in New York.
formed from lots of strips of
organza; there was something
very similar in a bordeaux (color)
in the last show. So we did it in a
lighter fabric here and we added
lace as well.
AP: You’ve spoken of the need to
both preserve tradition in your
new post, but also add in your
own new touches. Did you do that
here?
Copping: Yes, I think the way
we treated some of the embroidery, and some of the silhouettes;
you know it’s just small touches,
but small things can go a long
way.
AP: Anything absolutely new for
you here?
Copping: I haven’t done a lot of
tulle like this, so that’s quite new
for me. I do think there a lot of
women that do want that sort of
princess gown. So that’s really
important, to cater to that clientele. And this (last gown) — we
also made it very versatile, the two
layers underneath can be
removed and you end up with a
very ballerina, swanlike dress. So
that can be perfect for later in the
evening when she wants to let
loose and party. Also new is a lot
of the ways lace is used — sometimes using strips of it. We were
playing around with it a bit.
AP: Do you feel there’s less freedom in a bridal collection?
Copping: There are certain
restrictions, but that’s not a bad
thing. I like to work within parameters sometimes. For example, not
having to really worry about color!
It was white or ivory, with little
touches of silver. That’s why we
played around with the shoes,
putting color there, and on some
of the ribbons on the clothes.
AP: It’s still your first year at the
label. Are you getting more comfortable?
Copping: Well, coming up is
resort and then after that is the
spring-summer collection. I think
it’s only going to be once I’ve done
an entire year of collections that
I’ll really get a good handle on
things.
AP: Are you enjoying the move
to New York?
Copping: I am. After 20 years in
Paris, I quite surprised myself
with how much I’ve settled in and
am enjoying the city.
Country clubs use myriad of
ways to survive slow economy
MEADOW VISTA, Calif. (AP) —
Once considered a jewel of
Northern California, Winchester
Country Club became nearly
unrecognizable after the landowner was forced to foreclose the
property during the economic
downturn.
During five years of bank ownership, the golf course turned
brown, the native areas between
the holes overgrown and unruly.
Membership dwindled and the
course opened for public-fee play
just to keep the club afloat.
It barely survived.
But once the economy leveled a
bit, Winchester’s new owners took
a novel approach to help it
rebound: They sank more money
into it, hoping a more luxurious
club would drive up the real estate
and, in turn, make the club more
appealing to potential members.
“Nobody believed that you could
turn this thing around and make
it vibrant again because there
were so many things that needed
to fall together to make that happen,” said David Bennett,
Winchester Country Club’s general manager. “We kind of had to do
a dance to choreograph this all to
make it work.”
Winchester’s plan worked.
Other country clubs weren’t so
fortunate.
In the late 1990s through early
2000s, country clubs hit an apex.
Golf was as popular as ever —
in part because of Tiger Woods’
mass appeal — and the economy
was flourishing. New golfers took
up the game like never before and
country clubs, along with real
estate developments around them,
cropped up across the country.
But even before the economy
started to sour, interest in golf
began to wane.
After years of growth, more golf
courses closed than opened in
2006, a trend that continued every
year through 2014 at a ratio of
more than 10 to 1, according to
the National Golf Foundation.
The number of rounds played
also went on a steady decline,
falling to 462 million in 2013, the
lowest mark in 18 years.
Once the economy started to
decline, country clubs began to
suffer. People had less disposable
income or free time and country
club memberships were an easy
place to trim expenditures.
By 2012, 52 percent of country
clubs in the United States reported a loss in memberships, with
just 22 percent seeing a gain,
according to a 2015 Sports
Leisure Research Group report.
That left country clubs and
developers caught in a bubble,
needing capital to keep running
the club and community, but no
way to pay for it.
“We got overbuilt, there were too
many clubs built for how many
golfers there were, then the golfers
started to drop off,” said Jim
McLaughlin, senior vice president
of operations at Troon Prive, Troon
Golf’s private-club arm. “When
you’ve lost 15-20 percent of your
market and growth still going on,
that’s when you get into trouble.”
The economic downturn forced
many country clubs to dramatically alter how they operated or
face shutting down.
Clubs that were once invitationonly began opening their doors,
drastically dropping initiation fees
or eliminating them all together.
Annual dues were slashed and
some clubs even offered trial
memberships with money-back
guarantees.
Many country clubs were forced
to offer reduced-rate tee times to
the public just to stay afloat. Some
became semiprivate, keeping
members while allowing outside
play, while others were forced to
become fully public.
As the economy has started to
recover, so have the country clubs
that survived.
The rate of course closings hasn’t waned — about 120-130 per
year — but people have started
returning to country clubs. In
2014, 39 percent of country clubs
gained new members while just 26
percent had more members going
out than coming in.
Winchester Country Club has
started to bounce back after
upgrading the clubhouse, the staff
and the golf course, one of the last
co-designed by Robert Trent
Jones Sr. and his son, Robert Jr.
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This PhoTo shows Julia Hamilton dancing with Paul Rhodes at a
This PhoTo provided by Kathty Lovetere shows Kaitlin McCarthy
prom that students held at Rhodes College in Memphis. The college and Matty Marcone, students at Canton High School in Canton, Mass.,
students invited members of a local senior citizens center to attend the at the school’s junior prom. Kaitlin invited Matty, who has special needs,
prom, and they danced to everything from big band music to R&B.
to be her date and they were crowned prom king and queen.
For some, prom is a platform for good deeds, social change
NEW YORK (AP) — Proms have
traditionally been a night of glamour and romance, complete with
backstage drama over dates and
dresses. But prom culture is
changing. Some teens now see
prom as an opportunity to be
inclusive rather than exclusive.
They’re using proms as vehicles
for good deeds and to take a stand
on issues that matter to them.
Teens are inviting classmates
with autism to be their dates. One
student group organized a prom
for senior citizens. In Louisiana, a
gay female student fought for the
right to wear a tux. And a museum now displays a prom dress
worn by a student who spearheaded a racially integrated
prom.
“Change can look like a prom
dress,” said Matthew McRae,
spokesman for the Canadian
Museum for Human Rights in
Winnipeg. “We thought it was a
great example of someone making
a change at the community level.”
Prom can be “a platform for
social change,” said April Masini,
who writes the AskApril.com
advice column. While some teens
see prom as a night of playing
grown-up by dressing in fancy
clothes, for others, “their idea of
being an adult is standing up for
what they believe in.”
Here are some stories about
teenagers who, instead of worrying about how to fit in, used their
proms to reach out to others or
express their right to be different.
Inviting A Classmate
With Special Needs
Kaitlin McCarthy, 17, is a high
school junior in Canton,
Massachusetts. Her schoolmate,
Matty Marcone, has special needs
and a range of medical issues.
“He’s the sweetest kid,” Kaitlin
said. “I see Matty for who he is. I
say, ‘Oh, that’s my buddy Matty,’
not ‘Poor Matty, he’s dealing with
this or that right now.’”
Matty told Kaitlin he wanted to
buy Disney World for her. “I said,
if he’s going to buy Disney World
for me, I should bring him to the
prom,” said Kaitlin.
The whole school — including
Kaitlin’s boyfriend — joined the
effort. Matty learned to dance.
Special ed teachers and the
school nurse chaperoned to help
manage Matty’s diabetes. The
hockey team, which had previously chosen Matty as team CEO,
made sure he had friends to hang
out with in addition to Kaitlin.
Matty and Kaitlin ended up
being crowned prom king and
queen.
“A lot of the kids know his situation, that he’s very sick. But they
also respect him as a peer. This
wasn’t done out of pity,” said
Matty’s mom Susan Marcone.
“There was magic in the room
that night.”
Another kind of magic took
place at Division Avenue High
School in Levittown, New York,
when senior Sarah Kardonsky
invited a friend with autism,
Michael Pagano, to the prom.
Michael had asked several girls
to the prom but all said no. “I was
going to go by myself if I didn’t get
a date,” he said. “But it turned
out Sarah had a plan.”
And what a plan. Michael is a
New York Jets fan, so Sarah messaged Jets players via Instagram
and asked for help making a video
prom invitation. To her surprise,
Antonio Cromartie and eight
other Jets sent videos of themselves saying, “Mike, will you go
to the prom with Sarah?” She
stitched the videos together and it
was shown one morning in school
with the day’s announcements.
“He’s such a great kid, I didn’t
want him to go alone,” said
Sarah. “He had already been
turned down so many times, I
wanted to make it special for
him.”
The publicity led to a free limo,
free tux and an appearance on
“The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” But
here’s what matters to Sarah:
“People who worry so much about
what dress to wear or who to go
with, that’s not what prom is
about. Prom is about having a
good time. You should just be
surrounded by people who make
you happy.”
Being Yourself At Prom
Claudetteia Love, 17, was
barred from wearing a tux to the
April 24 Carroll High School prom
in Monroe, Louisiana. After word
of her quest got out, the dress
code was changed with the support of the school board president.
“I am thankful that my school
is allowing me to be who I am,”
she said.
“Proms are a very traditional
part of the high school experience,” said Asaf Orr, staff attorney at the National Center for
Lesbian Rights, which supported
her case. “Participating in those
events as your whole self, that’s
really what it’s about. These kids
are saying, ‘I want to go to this
event, I’m not going to hide part of
who I am.’”
Prom Dress In A Museum
Last fall, Mareshia Rucker’s
red sparkly prom dress went on
display at the Canadian Museum
for Human Rights.
She wore the dress in 2013 to
a racially integrated prom that
she and other teenagers from
Wilcox County High School in
Rochelle, Georgia, organized.
Until then, segregated proms
had been arranged by families in
the community.
“Human rights isn’t just
something addressed by world
leaders or famous people,” said
McRae, who helped curate the
exhibit.
“It’s something we can all
make a difference in.”
A Prom For Young And Old
When Rahul Peravali was a
student at Houston High School
in Germantown, Tennessee, he
participated in a prom that
brought students and senior citizens together.
When he got to Rhodes College
in Memphis, he proposed it as a
project for the college class
council.
On April 7, dozens of kids
showed up to dance with folks
their grandparents’ age.
For the seniors, it was special
because “so many of them did
not get to go to their own proms,”
said Kay Lightfoot, director of
the Lewis Center for Seniors.
But the “students had a great
time too,” said Peravali.
The seniors taught the youngsters some steps for big-band
numbers.
And students led the line
dance for the 2007 R&B hit
“Cupid Shuffle.”
CLUB NOTES
Contributed photo
Dr. Joy
yATES, left, chairman of the scholarship committee,
introduced the
2015 Katherine
Trewhitt
Scholarship winner, Ashley
Shoemaker, right,
at the April meeting of the Lambda
Chapter of Delta
Kappa Gamma.
“Alice’s Dream” by Ellen Franklin
‘Change is Good’ at In-Town
Gallery — reception May 1
Lambda’s 2015 scholarship
awarded to Ashley Shoemaker
Lambda Chapter of Delta
Kappa Gamma President Wilma
Jean Pippenger welcomed the
members and guest to the April
meeting.
The Collect and invocation
were given by Wanda Ackerman.
After dinner, the minutes of
the March meeting were presented by Secretary Belinda
Henley.
The treasurer’s report was
given by Louetta Moats.
Appreciation was expressed to
Linda Whitmire for making the
dinner reservations for the year;
Brittany Hicks for editing the
monthly newsletter; and Kim
Foxworth for her help on the
state’s reports.
The president gave thanks to
all the members for their dedication to Delta Kappa Gamma and
the help they had given to her
this year.
Dr. Joy Yates, chairman of the
scholarship committee, introduced the 2015 Katherine
Trewhitt scholarship winner,
Ashley Shoemaker.
She gave a brief description of
her high school years and her
plans to attend Lee University in
the fall to work toward dual certification of special education
and elementary education.
She was chosen from an outstanding group of 10 young
ladies from Bradley, Cleveland,
Walker Valley, and Polk County
high schools.
Appreciation was expressed to
Yates, Barbara Ector, Patty
Puckett, Julie Mitchell and
Shelia Presswood for their work
on the scholarship committee.
The theme for In-Town Gallery’s
spring, all member show, is
“Change is Good.”
It’s time for spring cleaning and
paintings, jewelry and threedimensional works will all be
removed and new works brought
in. The gallery will close for a couple of days for patch and paint
and getting things prepared for
the big reveal.
The twice yearly changeover, allmember shows are eagerly anticipated as the windows are covered
and the First Friday event is a particularly festive event. Most artists
come to greet guests at the reception which will be on May 1. The
public is invited to the event at
26A Frazier Ave., Chattanooga,
May 1 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Photographer Virginia Webb
brings more views of Chattanooga
and the bridge series, one of her
popular motifs. Some of the blackened white works reveal the
fragility of a spider web attached
to the arches in the structure of
the Walnut Street Bridge. The lacy
web of an eight legged builder
done entirely by instinct chose to
use the structure and strength of
steel to anchor her food pantry.
This example of the contrasts in
nature provides the viewer with
much food for thought.
Painter Marie Miller, also on the
Market Street Bridge, found the
colors of early morning inspiring.
The reflections of the colors of the
bridge on the still water create a
mirror image nearly indistinguishable from the structure itself. The
boats moored on the south side of
the river, perhaps tourists in for
overnight and some sightseeing,
allow us a bird’s eye view. Colors
appearing in unexpected places
give us the sense of movement as
we follow the pinks and terra cotta
shapes in the bridge itself
Ellen Franklin has several new
works in a variety of media. Often
using encaustic, the hot wax, layered paintings, she has returned
to oil and acrylic paintings for
spring. Her horizontal, oil painting
“Alice’s Dream” is a panorama of
brightly colored tree trunks which
move rhythmically across a mountain landscape background. The
colors are pushed to maximum
vibrancy as though seen in a
dream rather than a faithfully rendered imitation of a realistic scene.
Updated, hip jewelry is the specialty of Barbara Murnan. Using
silver and copper to fashion earrings, necklaces and bracelets she
often adds a patina for an
antiqued finish. These pieces are
unique and always elicit conversation — show stoppers for sure. A
silver, cuff bracelet with copper
wire overlay is one such example
for the young and young at heart.
Oil painter Maddin Corey will
hang new works painted while
Market Street Bridge
Marie Miller
In Town Gallery
Contributed photos
Walnut Street Bridge
Virgnia Webb
Bracelet
Barbara Murnan
“Artichoke”
Maddin Corey
waiting out the severe weeks of
winter. Her “Unexpected Guests,”
a small painting of white roses in
a glass globe. Another small
painting “Artichoke” poses a perfect artichoke revealing the various greens of prickly leaves and
the realism evokes the fantasy of
boiling water and melted butter.
These and some of her dog paintings will round out the offerings in
the new lineup of works. Other
new additions will be stone and
metal sculptures, pottery, wooden
bowls and furniture, fused glass
bowls, woven shawls, fountain
pens, etchings and collages.
In-Town Gallery, one of the oldest co-op galleries in the nation,
was founded in 1974. Located on
Frazier Avenue between Market
Street and Walnut Street bridges
on the North Shore, the gallery is
open every day year-round except
major holidays.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Monday through Saturday; 1 to 5
p.m. Sunday; and until 8 p.m. on
First Friday. Call 423-267-9214
or visit www.intowngallery.com or
www.facebook.com/intowngallery.
Contributed photo
ThE LAMBDA ChApTEr
of Delta Kappa Gamma had
its April meeting recently.
From left are Barbara Ector,
Julie Mitchell, Todd
Shoemaker, Ashley
Shoemaker, Tina Shoemaker
and Dr. Joy Yates.
Contributed photo
UDC Jefferson
Davis Chapter
No. 900 met on
March 14 at
Kinser Church of
God. From left,
front, are Peggy
Morrison, Lisa
Pritchett and
Debbie Riggs;
second row,
Robin Ramsey,
Harriett Caldwell
and Marilyn
Kenne; and
back, Ashley
Anderson and
Anita Green.
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UDC chapter discusses Confederate currency
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Jefferson Davis
Chapter No. 900, held its monthly
meeting on March 14 at the
Kinser Church of God.
The meeting included a double
theme for March — St. Patrick’s
Day and Dr. Seuss’s Birthday
were celebrated with green deviled
eggs, ham and other delicious
green food and desserts. Robin
Ramsey provided the festive meal.
Robin Ramsey called the meeting to order, in the absence of
President Marilyn Kinne, who was
attending a UDC district meeting
in Tellico Plains. Lisa Pritchett led
the Ritual, the pledges to the
Flags, and the songs. Minutes of
the February meeting were read
by Debbie Riggs, secretary. The
treasurer’s report was presented
by Peggy Morrison. The registrar’s
report was given. Five new
prospective members are being
prepared for membership.
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OFFICE
VISIT
In old business, everyone was
urged to be collecting items for
Veterans Home donations, cans
for the Bradley County Fire and
Rescue and coupons for the soldiers, and families stationed in
Japan.
In new business, the upcoming
Military Awards Service, which is
set for May, was discussed. Also,
the UDC is in the process of working on a cookbook from the original charter members of the
Jefferson Davis Chapter. The
cookbook should be ready for sale
by the end of June. UDC members discussed the preparation of
a new history pamphlet to be
given to area school children for
the 2015-16 school year.
Robin Ramsey presented the
program on Confederate currency. During the Civil War the
Confederate States of America
printed their own currency. It was
printed between 1861-64. Now
the earlier currency which was
issued is worth more than the
later ones. The Confederates
thought if the South won the war,
the money would be redeemable.
The Confederate Currency was
hand signed, and numbered.
Counterfeiting became a major
problem for the South. Today the
value of Confederate currency is
far from worthless. Quality
Confederate Currency notes have
steadily increased in value.
Collecting Confederate Currency
is a great opportunity to own currency that was once used by soldiers and civilians during that
tragic war.
The April meeting will be a visit
to the Historical Bleak house in
Knoxville. Anyone interested in
the Daughters of the Confederacy
can visit www.udcjeffersondavischapter900.com or visit facebook
at www.facebook.com/udcjeffersondavischapter900.
Winners of Farm Bureau, 4-H poster
and essays competitions announced
The Tennessee Farm Bureau
and the University of Tennessee
4-H Extension Program recently
held the annual poster contest.
The fourth-graders in Bradley
County Schools prepare posters
with the title “Where Do We Get
Our Food?” The posters were
judged using originality, neatness and correct use of theme as
the factors.
The first-place poster will be
sent to Columbia to compete
against all other fourth-graders
in the state competition.
Locally, the winners of the contest received a cash prize for first,
second and third places. These
KynSlei SimS of Ocoee Middle School took first place in the 4-H and Farm Bureau essay competi- prizes were furnished by the
Bradley County Farm Bureau.
tion. She is flanked by her teacher Stan Green and Carolyn Earnest.
The seventh-grade essay contest is based on the theme “What
is a Farmer?” The essays were
SeCond PlaCe in the 4-H and Farm Bureau essay contest was won by Hallie Wielfaert of Ocoee
Middle School. From left are teacher Stan Green, Hallie and Carolyn Earnest.
judged on content of information,
originality of thought, clarity of
expression, and correct use of
grammar, spelling and punctuation. The winning essay will be
sent to Columbia for statewide
competition. Locally, winners
were awarded cash prizes for
first, second, and third places
entries, as well.
The Bradley County Farm
Bureau supports and promotes
the poster and essay contest.
“We truly appreciate the 4-H
program for making this contest
possible for our students,” a
spokesman said.
As part of the partnership with
4-H, Carolyn Earnest with Farm
Bureau Women delivered coloring books to second-grade students and bookmarks to fifthgrade students.
“Our desire is for each of us to
value the contribution of the
farmers to our community, economy, and lives,” Earnest said.
Poster contest winners were
Kaitlyn Hulvey, first place, from
North Lee Elementary, teacher,
Logan Hamsley; Camie Knott,
second, Hopewell Elementary,
teacher, Amanda Taylor; Carly
Coleman, third place, Michigan
Avenue, teacher, Stephanie
Jones; and Dawson Durrett,
Black Fox, teacher,
Kevin
England.
Essay Contest winners were
Kynslei Sims, first place, Ocoee
Middle School, teacher, Stan
Green; Hallie Wielfaert, second
place, Ocoee Middle School,
teacher, Stan Green; and Micah
Lyon, third place, Ocoee Middle
School, teacher, Stan Green.
FiFth-grade StudentS at Charleston Elementary receiving book marks were, from left, Autum
Price, Madie Hall, Ashlan Crittenden, Jhada Bates, Carolyn Earnest, Becca Calfee, Seth Yarber and
Aiden Gibson.
SeCond-grade students at Hopewell Elementary receiving coloring books were, from left, Kaden
miCah lyon of Ocoee Middle School was third-place finisher in the 4-H and Farm Bureau compe- McConnell, Suzie Napora, Jonathan Pugh, Chloe Rapson, Kellen Wilson and Kiarah Westfield. In back
tition. From left are teacher Stan Green, Micah and Carolyn Earnest of the Tennessee Farm Bureau.
are Carolyn Earnest and teacher, Denise Sherlin.
Above:
PoSter ConteSt firstplace winner Kaitlyn Hulvey of
North Lee Elementary poses
with Carolyn Earnest of Farm
Bureau.
Camie Knott, center photo, of Hopewell Elementary took second-place honors in the poster contest. With Camie, right, is Carolyn Earnest with the Tennessee Farm Bureau.
Carly Coleman, right photo, of Michigan Avenue received third-place accolades in the poster contest. From left are Carolyn Earnest of the Tennessee Farm Bureau and Carly.
Computer program to take on world’s best in Texas Hold ’em
reCeiving honorable
mention in the poster contest
was Dawson Durrett of Black
Fox school. Carolyn Earnest of
the Tennessee Farm Bureau
made the presentation.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie
Mellon University researchers are
going all in, pitting a computer
program against some of the
world’s best professional poker
players.
Computer science professor
Tuomas
Sandholm
and
researchers Sam Ganzfried and
Noam Brown are taking their
poker-playing computer program,
Claudico, to Rivers Casino on
Friday. Claudico — the Latin word
for limp, as in limping in to a bet
— will take on Doug Polk, Dong
Kim, Bjorn Li and Jason Les.
They’ll split a prize purse of
$100,000 in a competition funded
by the casino and Microsoft.
Getting a computer to beat
humans in poker has been a goal
for more than 10 years, Sandholm
said. The numerous unknown
variables are the perfect test for
artificial intelligence. The machine
must account for about 10 to the
161st power of variables — more
than all the atoms believed to exist
in the universe.
Les, 29, is a professional poker
player but has a degree in computer science. He said he relishes the
opportunity to play Claudico.
“I think in the early stages, the
computer might have an advantage, but at a certain point the
players can figure out what’s going
on and adjust,” Les said. “But it’s a
strategy game. You bring a strategy
to the table and the computer’s
strategy may be better than mine.”
The competition continues the
work of other Carnegie Mellontrained scientists who have contributed to past artificial intelligence challenges, such as IBM’s
Deep Blue program that beat
chess master Garry Kasparov in
1997 and IBM’s Watson, which
beat Jeopardy champions Brad
Rutter and Ken Jennings in 2011.
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SUNDAY
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Christy. [email protected]
WVHS DECA students advance
Some students representing
Walker Valley High School’s
DECA chapter found success in
this year’s state competition and
advanced to an international
competition.
Nine students in the school’s
marketing department took part
in the recent state competition in
Nashville, and four earned the
opportunity to advance to competitions at FBLA’s International
Career Development Conference.
The following students earned
honors allowing them to
advance:
n William Dickinson, who
placed third in Role Play 1 and 2,
third on the test and first overall
in the Marketing Management
event;
n Breanna Long and Mason
Hunt, who placed third in Role
Play and third overall in the
Hospitality
Services
Team
Decision Making event; and
n Audrey Scoggins, who
placed first in Role Play and
third overall in the Human
Resources event.
The state winners were expected to prepare for the ICDC
scheduled for this weekend in
Orlando, Fla., by taking practice
tests and practicing role play
scenarios.
The following students also
represented Walker Valley in
state competition:
n Blake Kitterman, who
placed eighth in the Retail
Merchandising event;
n Makayla Jenkins, who
placed fifth in the Hotel &
Lodging event;
n Cooper Abel, who participated in the Leadership Academy,
where he learned about chapter
development and recruitment;
n Caroline Logan, who partici-
pated in the Principles of
Hospitality & Tourism event; and
n Alexandria Smith, who participated in the Restaurant &
Food Management event.
When they are not competing
with DECA under the leadership
of marketing teacher and club
sponsor Jayla Swafford, the students learn about business in
their school’s Medical and
Business Academy.
“The future is a bright place in
the marketing department of
Walker Valley High School,”
Swafford said.
WALKER VALLEY DECA students gather for a photo during their recent state competition in Nashville.
Next year the three marketing From left are Samuel Kitterman, Makayla Jenkins, Breanna Long, Mason Hunt, Audrey Scoggins, Caroline
classes at Walker Valley will be Logan and Cooper Abel. Team member William Dickinson was unavailable for the photo.
Introduction to Marketing,
Entrepreneurship and the
apprenticeship.
The apprenticeship is a new
addition to the department, and
it will allow students to go into
business and be challenged to
make a profit.
BLACK FOX ELEMENTARY recently completed a successful Jump Rope and Hoops for Heart event,
raising over $3,400 for the American Heart Association. Students of all grades participated in endurance
and trick jumping contests, and fourth- and fifth-graders also competed in hot shot, lay-up, free throw and
3-point contests. Several students raised $100 or more, and kindergartner Evan Combs led by raising
$394. Pictured are AHA coordinator Jean Saunders, physical education teacher Darryll Canida, P.E.
teacher Sara Gibson, Principal Dr. Kim Fisher, Leah Finnell, Noah Bos, Lily Hysni, Braden Malone,
Tucker Womack, Evan Combs, Clayton Crowden, Baylor Cantrell, Elle Rutledge and Ethan Malone. STUDENTS at Michigan Avenue Elementary recently graduated from the DARE program. It was the second time students at a local school had graduated from the 10-week program designed to discourage risky
behaviors like drug use since it was reinstated with help from Bradley County Sheriff Eric Watson. Above, students proudly show off their certificates as they are joined by school and BCSO staff members. Below,
Watson and School Resource Officer Mitchell Roe join three essay contest winners, Seth Sausville, Edward
Couvillion, Jackson Arthur, for a photo. A fourth winner, not available for the photo, was Abby Bennett. SHARING history lessons with all attending, students in Amanda Taylor’s fourth-grade class recently
presented “A Night the Museum,” where they dressed as different historical figures and shared information about those people’s lives. Here, Caleb Whigham portrays Abraham Lincoln while Kera Hamilton
acts as Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Jacob Percy plays Albert Einstein. Other participating students
included Rider Martin and Cami Knot.
HONOR ROLLS
Lake Forest Middle School
Gold Honor Roll —
Sixth grade:
Samantha Avans, Lauren
Baker, Abigail Beasley, Emma
Bentley, Hannah Brooks, Kelsey
Carman,
Kayla
Chastain,
Susanne Cooper, Kailey Cox,
Haley Crisp, Matthew Fann,
Keegan Farkas, Paige Frady,
Mikayla Gale, Nathaniel Garagan,
Gabrielle Graham, Alana Gregory,
Sarah Hooker, Jessica James,
Landen Kibler, Ethan McGuire,
Lana Neeley, Landon Norman,
Kimvirli Ortiz-Ruiz, Destiny
Patterson, Elijah Patty, Gabriella
Peacock, Mason Rothwell, Kaylee
Shell, Delaney Stone, Josie
Strickland, Ashlyn Torbett, Emma
Ward and Hannah Winters;
Seventh grade:
Sophia Beachboard, Kaitlyn
Ben-Judah, Gabrielle Bennett,
Brianna
Bettis,
Anthony
Burlachenko, Haley Campbell,
Kristin Day, Hannah Deal, Rachel
Flowers, Taylor Gladson, Breanna
Graham, Anastasia Gutsol, Halee
Kazy, Mackenzie Lester, Caleb
Long, McKenna McCall, Marissa
McCoy, Jacob Monneyham,
Shiloh Parker, Jackson Prater,
Trinity Raines, Allison Rymer,
Tucker Still, Alondra Suarez,
Dallas Taynor, Kierstyn Viola,
Kamryn Woody and Jacob Young;
Eighth grade:
Dani Allison, Timothy Baiz,
Shelby Beasley, Jordyn Biscoe,
Easton Clark, Logan Colbaugh,
Mya Cole, Madison Colgan, Alysa
Dugais, Shayla Dye, Alyssa Fox,
Brynna Frakes, Matthew Gable,
Jacob Garrett, Seth Gerena, Kate
Gwaltney, Carson Hamilton,
Lyudmila Harjevskay, Grant
Holden, Jared Hooker, Kaitlin
Hullender, Yulianny Javier, Larry
Johnson, Shaw Kertesz, Reagan
Kibler, Elizabeth Koger, Kristina
Kotok, Mackenzie Mancini, Tailor
Mangrum, Emiliya Maystruk,
Katherine McBride, Jessica
McCormick, Destiny McHone,
Zinnen McKenzie, Wendy Mendez,
Avery Morrison, Adam Neighbors,
Matthew Robinson, Bailey Rogers,
Payton Sowder, Dylan Standifer,
Alexis Stedman, Anna Stouffer,
Madison
Tennant,
Vincent
Vaughan, Maylee Weber, Victoria
Weldon, Emily White and
Johanna Woodruff.
Silver Honor Roll —
Sixth grade:
Braxton Armstrong, Skyler
Bates, Stephanie Bates, Makayla
Boyland, Malia Breckenridge,
Haley Brewer, James Brooks,
Michael Bruce, Ashley Burger,
Chandler Carpenter, Alyson
Caylor, Carly Chastain, Braydon
Clark, Alana Cordell, Loralei
Cordell, Carter Davenport, Larry
Dillard, Blake Eberhart, Zorra
Elkins, Gracie Epperson, Anesa
Erickson, Cara Flowers, Trevor
Forester, Ian Frakes, Cameron
Free, Jaxon Frerichs, Shaleah
Garrett, Alexandria Geren, Alexis
Germain, Robert Grady, Micayla
Gray,
Andrew Guthrie, Zoe
Harden, Kennedy Hatten, Nevada
Hembree, Titan Henley, Malachi
Hewitt, Seth Hicks, Corey Hodge,
McKenzie Holder, Kaylie Howard,
Mikaila Johnson, Logan Lambert,
Wade Lanier, Zachary Long, Angel
Lopez-Gallegos Angel, Alexis
Marshall, Taylor McCroy, Evan
McNabb, Carson Melton, Eric
Mendenshall, Emily Meyer, Brian
Murphy, Laurabeth Nease,
Canyen Norman, Camila Parson,
Justin
Patterson,
Danielle
Phillips, Tucker Pope, Caleb
Prater, McKennah Pritchard,
Nathan Rider, Stryker Rose,
Nehemi Rossignol, Brooke Rue,
Jackson Ruth, Riley Sermons,
Elizabeth Shaw, Abby Shelton,
Alyssa Smith, Joshua Smith,
Maggie Swick, Colter Thomas,
Tucker Thompson, Kevin Ulrich,
Sierra Underwood, Jaylin Viviano,
Ravyn Waugh, Kurt West, Mason
Wilcox, Vianca Willis, Austin
Wilson, Andrew Womac and Kayla
Yoder;
Seventh grade:
Robert Ables, Bashaar AlHussieni, Autumn Allen, Riley
Allison, Lucas Armstrong, Hanna
Arrowood, Kameron Arrowood,
Haley Atwell, Lauren Aulerich,
Rylan Barbina, Tiana Barham,
Alexis Barnes, Laina Baxter, Ryan
Blair,
Montana
Blaylock,
Madeline Boshers, Shannon
Boyer, Joshawna Brown, Tiffany
Brown, Andrew Bunch, Ciara
Burchfield, Michael Burger,
Gregory
Carney,
Bryson
Cartwright, Kaelyn Cartwright,
Francisca Castellanos, Chandler
Caylor, Mark Churyuk, Summer
Collette, Summer Conley, William
Crick, Macayla Crumley, Dakota
Davis, Peyton Dobbs, Elizabeth
Dove, Dakota Drury, Macie
Earwood, Haley Fox, Jerad Fox,
Faith Frazier, Jordan Frerichs,
Ashley Gilbert, Madison Golden,
Seth Gregory, Dylan Hall,
Cheyenne
Harrell,
Alexis
Hartness, Jacob Helton, Peyton
Henderson, Hannah Henry,
Joshua Hicks, Michael Holyfield,
Kelsey Hughes, Caleb Johnston,
Randy Jones, Evie Kendrick,
Grant Kibble, Marion Kyle,
Aleksey Kyslytsya, Dawson
Langford, Caleb Ledford, Britney
Lee, Joseph Lewis, Jacob Long,
Haley Looper, Ciara Mahlo,
Rachael
Mancini,
Spencer
Mantooth, Aubreigh Marchese,
Oleg
Marchuk,
Tucker
McCracken, Hanna McKinney,
Olivia
McMahan,
Victoria
Michaelchuck, Peter Navarro,
Jordan Neely, Drake Norman,
Adrian O’Neal, Josie Painter,
Caleb Pearson, Silas Pickel, Lilya
Pyatak, Brianna Richmond, Tyler
Ryback, Deanna Ryabchuk,
William
Schamens,
Logan
Schuch, Carri Self, Gavin Sewell,
Taylor Shutt, Bryan Smith,
Brittany St Clair, Novalee Stalcup,
Tucker Staton, Makayla Stewart,
Sarah Stinnett, Emily Swafford,
Delaney Swilling, Catelynne
Vazquez, Yvonne Waldo, Elizabeth
Waters, Halie Watson, Shelby
Willis, Michael Wilson, Christian
Wooten and Isaiah Yarber;
Eighth grade:
Logan Anderson, Halli Bates,
Jacob Beck, Hailey Bonner, Kylee
Botts, Aberum Bowers, Morgan
Boyd, Austin Burton, Charisma
Carpenter, Kendall Cate, Blake
Caylor, Allie Climer, Abigail
Crawford, Marie Culp, Alison
Cummings, Raigan Davis, Kaitlyn
Estes, Dalton Fansler, Devin
Farmer, Taylor Farris, Elizabeth
Fennell, Amber Frady, Ryan
Giovengo, Kyla Goins, Trent
Goins, Luke Haney, Gavin
Harmon, George Hayes, Cameron
Hill, Haley Holdren, Caroline
Johnson, Chailee Jones, Rachel
Jones, Satina Kaylor, Peyton Kent,
Marcus Kyle, Kahlil Lamberth,
Jared Lay, Benjamin Lee, Justin
Lewallen, Madelyn Lewis, Kaylee
Logan, Ronald Lucas, Kateryna
Makydon, Ahleeya Marshall,
Maddison McCracken, Gavin
Miles, Casey Mong, Colby Mong,
Luke Pace, Logan Pendegrass,
Ryan Pokorny, Salijacee Porter,
Jennah Pritchard, Jacob Prock,
Tyler Ramage, Mary Reed,
Courtney
Roberts,
Kyndal
Rolland, Caleb Smith, Lacey
Smith, Allyssa Stancil, Anna
Stepp, Jacqueline Stiles, Garrett
Stone, Anndraya Swafford,
Brianna Tate, Jacob Taylor, Jake
Thompson,
Erica
Triplett,
McKenzie Truelove, Antonio
Venegas, Morgan Warner, Lauryn
West and Ashlyn Wilcoxon.
Waterville Community Elementary
Gold Honor Roll —
Third grade:
Matthew
Rogers,
Abigail
Bennett, Jasmine Frerichs, Abella
Mullins,
Zander
Rawlings,
Hannah Wright, Cameron Achata,
Julia Bodnar, Kayla Martin,
Savannah Sanchez, Alex Stevens
and Kaylie Frank;
Fourth grade:
Emma Hamilton, Hannah
Yarber, Will Young, Jake Letner,
Gabbie Rawlings, Esther Van
Otterloo,
Kaleb
Balinger,
Brooklynn Harris, Madison
Martin and Chandler McDaniel;
Fifth grade:
Lexi Ben-Judah, Treagan Hall,
Amanda Ledford, Julia Staton,
Abigail Vile, Madi Fletcher and Ivy
Vu.
Silver Honor Roll —
Third grade:
Audrey Keenum, Ryan Keith,
Savannah McLaughlin, Emma
Phillips, Tristen Robinson, Mason
Bailey,
Viktoria
Marchuk,
Donnelly Pohl, Layla Rogers,
Braydon
Barrineau,
Emily
Hyberger, Sky Key, Sebastian
Morales, Aden O'Neal, Ethan
Parker, Emily Bingham, Ashlee
Davis, Riahn Graves, Hailey Huff,
Jonas Pols, Fritz Rackl, Olivia
Reddish, Cannon Rehagen and
Sam Wyatt;
Fourth grade:
Tamara Evans, Emily Hines,
Alexus Lay, Christian Taynor,
Wade Brooks, Elizabeth Diaz, Eli
Duncan, Cameron Hardwick,
Kallie
Pendergrass,
Mark
Schamens, Hannah Battle, Ashley
Dalton, Calli Dussia, Susie
Roblero, Autumn Calderon, Chloe
Howard, Mandi Johnson, Kiarra
Nicholes, Emily Pendergrass and
Jessie Pickens;
Fifth grade:
Hannah
Ankeny,
Ciera
Chapman, Shayla Bullard, Ayla
Harper, Lauren Patterson, Emily
Payne, B. Joe Pierce, Kinsey
Sanders, Dylan Womac, Hannah
Chambers, Cheyenne Collette,
Jacob Cunningham, Daniel
Homechko,
Madalynn
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Gunderson, Anna Stewart, LeeLa
Watson, Danica Kakunes, Megan
Kennedy, Reed McCall, Dylan
Monroe, Mady Price, Carson
Rehagen, Hunter Watson, Caleigh
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The other news is that designers are mixing things up, so an
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instance, or a rustic flat-weave rug can sit in front of a 19th century marble mantel, or a farmhouse table can be placed under
an ornate glass chandelier.
“Design pros have always known it’s the combination of finishes that give a room style — it takes the sleek with the matte;
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metallic finishes for a room to look ‘done,’” says Elaine Griffin, a
New York-based designer.
Now, thanks to home-design TV shows and social media, we’re
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Mass-market retailers are not only offering more products
that straddle styles, they’re doing a better job of showing us how
to use them. In-store displays and free design advice help shopSee TRENDS, Page 46
Ask a Designer:
Let the sun shine in:
Cleaning windows, window treatments
threads,” she says.
“Washing them keeps the colors bright, it keeps the threads
soft and it does add to the life of
the curtain.”
—CURTAINS AND DRAPES
Window treatments should be
cleaned once or twice a year,
experts say, and the best method
varies by material. Some can be
refreshed in the washer or
cleaned with a vacuum, while
others may require a pro.
Start by reading the care tag or
directions that came with the
product: Some items are dry
clean only. If the instructions are
unavailable, experts offer general
guidelines:
Most curtains that are lined or
made of silk likely require dry
cleaning, Kupernik says.
Curtains that are not lined or
insulated usually can be washed
by machine, in a short, gentle
cycle with cool water, she says.
Those made of a poly-cotton
blend can usually go in a medium-heat dryer, but 100 percent
cotton curtains should be linedried to prevent shrinkage.
Curtains and roller shades
that are insulated with a bonded
layer that keeps out the cold can
be machine washed in a short,
gentle cycle in cool water and line
dried, Kupernik says. If the insulated sides touch each other
while drying, they can peel off
If you’re like some people
and ruin the curtain.
(ahem) who put up window treatSheer and lace curtains should
ments and never give them a secbe washed by machine in a short,
ond thought, even as dust accugentle cycle with cold water and
mulates, this might just be the
line dried, Kupernik said, adding
season to pay them a little
that both can be touched up with
respect.
light ironing. Once sheers get in
No need to stress out about
the high heat of a dryer, wrinkles
adding another task to your
become permanent, she said.
spring-cleaning to-do list: You
After curtains come down for
don’t have to clean curtains,
cleaning, dust the rod before
shades and the windows themhanging them back up.
selves THAT often. And many
If you don’t want to take them
times, it’s not that difficult.
down, Goldberg offers this
“In our experience, the winmethod for cleaning unlined curdows and window treatments are
tains made from lightweight,
something that people avoid
sheer or semi-sheer fabric: Close
cleaning because they’re not
the windows and the curtains
entirely sure the best way to do
and spray the curtains with a
it,” says Betsy Goldberg, home
wrinkle releaser/odor eliminator
director of Real Simple magazine.
product. Use a handheld fabric
“It’s not hard,” she adds. “It
steamer, working from bottom to
just takes a little bit of time.”
top in 1-foot sections, holding the
If simply removing dirt isn’t
steamer nozzle about an inch
reason enough to clean, consider
from the fabric.
that dust can dull the fabric of
For drapes, which are generalcurtains and shades. Household
ly made of heavier fabrics like
odors can linger. And washing
brocade, suede or velvet and are
helps preserve the fabric, espeoften lined and pleated, vacuum
cially for window treatments that
each panel on a low setting with
get a daily dose of sunshine, says
the brush attachment, holding
Tammy Kupernik of retailer
the vacuum about an inch away
Country Curtains.
from the fabric, Goldberg says.
“If you don’t wash them, the
Fabric curtains and shades,
sun will break down the
except silk ones, can usually be
spot cleaned with warm water
and a mild laundry detergent like
Woolite, Kupernik says.
—OTHER BLINDS AND
SHADES
Clean Roman shades with a
vacuum or roller brush,
Kupernik says. Vinyl shades can
be cleaned as needed with a
sponge.
Goldberg suggests vacuuming
wood blinds and wiping each slat
with a cloth dampened with a
mix of water and a few drops of
dish soap, wiping off excess
moisture with a dry cloth. First,
angle the slats down and wipe
each one; then angle them up
and repeat. To clean the cord,
pull the shade all the way up and
run the damp cloth up and down
it, followed by the dry cloth. If
you have a wand, follow the same
steps with the cloth.
—WINDOWS
For window panes, if the glass
gets dirty enough, you may want
to clean them every few weeks.
“Realistically, if people get
around to it every few months,
that’s fine,” Goldberg says.
Before cleaning, sweep dirt
from the screen and window
frame with a brush like the one
that comes with your dustpan, or
the vacuum with the dusting
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attachment. Spray glass cleaner
This undATed photo provided by Burnham
or a mix of water and a squirt of
Design shows a prep kitchen where the design
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This undATed photo provided courtesy of a microfiber cloth, starting with
firm used Sherwin Williams “Olive Grove” paint
in a satin finish, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Burnham Coastal Living shows a remodeled kitchen in the outside and then the inside
By LISA FLAN
For the Associated Press
the panes and moving in an “S’’
motion rather than back and
forth to avoid redepositing dirt.
Goldberg suggests wiping in a
horizontal motion on the inside,
vertically on the outside so you
can more easily find streaks and
wipe those areas again. Clean on
a cloudy day because direct sun
makes the glass cleaner dry too
quickly and leaves streaks.
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Improving the kitchen in small (or big) ways
Another holiday season has
passed, and with it the marathon
cooking and baking sessions. The
hours spent using every kitchen
appliance and inch of counter
space had a potential benefit
more lasting than a good meal:
When we really use our kitchens,
we discover what does and
doesn’t work in this very important room.
Remodeling a kitchen can be
expensive and challenging, but
you can make substantial cosmetic changes with just the help
of a painter and electrician, says
interior designer Betsy Burnham
of Burnham Design in Los
Angeles. And if you’re ready for
even bigger changes, it’s still possible to stay on budget and create
a gorgeous kitchen with a minimum of stress.
Step one is deciding what really
needs to be done. Can you work
with the appliances and cabinets
you’ve got, or is it time for a fullscale remodel?
Step two is the budget, coming
up with a realistic estimate for
each expense, says designer
Brian Patrick Flynn of Flynnside
Out Productions.
Then, the fun can begin. Three
areas where a little improvement Design is currently designing a kitchen that’s Coronado, Calif., that is functional and chic with a
can go a long way:
predominantly a sophisticated cream color, and large parsons-style island, pale grey-blue shaker cabSTORAGE
A smoothly functioning kitchen
has space for everything to be
stored away, within reasonable
reach. Can you achieve that with
your current cabinets? If so,
Flynn suggests keeping them and
just replacing or refinishing the
doors. “Cabinetry installation
adds a lot to a budget,” he says,
“so saving by simply reusing what
you’ve got can be a massive help.”
If your cabinet doors are
stained wood, consider painting
them. Then, change the hardware. Drawer pulls and cabinet
door handles “can make or break
the look of the space,” says Lee
Kleinhelter of the Atlanta-based
design firm Pieces. Take time
choosing new ones.
Flynn agrees: “I always use
high-end hardware regardless of
how high or low my budget is,” he
says. “Adding an interesting
this Beverly Hills kitchen that has dark olive inetry, and large industrial pendant lights, designed by
green cabinets and a textured black stone coun- Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design.
tertop.
metal and finish to your doors
just really adds character and
uniqueness. You can never go
wrong with dull black pulls and
knobs, and I’m also a huge fan of
antique brass. When it comes to
silver tones, I try to stay classic
and go with polished nickel.”
If you do need to add or replace
cabinets, Burnham suggests
having them custom-made. It
can be expensive (Flynn estimates that ready-made cabinets
cost about one-third as much as
lower-end custom designs). But
they are worth the investment,
Burnham says. “You’ll get wellmade pieces, built to your needs,
that will last through time, kids
and tons of use.”
Rather than adding cabinets
with doors, she suggests
installing drawers. “Deep drawers provide excellent storage for
pots and pans, and even oversize
plates,” Burnham says, “and
banks of drawers just look cool.”
FRESH COLORS
AND MATERIALS
Painting kitchen walls can be
“a quick, inexpensive solution to
a kitchen remodel on a low budget,” Kleinhelter says, and “any
color can work.” But she advises
clients that kitchen decor
“should work with the rest of the
house.” Bring in colors that
appear in nearby rooms, or stick
to a neutral palette.
If you’re trying to update your
kitchen’s look, Burnham says
“there’s been a shift from the
once-ubiquitous
all-white
kitchen toward gray-painted cabinets, and we’ve found ourselves
experimenting with color.” Her
office is currently designing one
kitchen “that’s predominantly a
sophisticated cream color, and
another that will have dark,
olive-green cabinets and a textured, black-stone countertop.”
Homeowners are also getting
more creative and saving money
with materials like concrete.
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niture piece that could easily work indoors. The blurring of lines toward pieces that can work both indoors and out.
between indoor and outdoor furnishings continues to be a strong
trend for spring/summer 2015.
Right at Home: What’s hot in outdoor furniture
Outdoor living spaces have
come a long way from the days
when “outdoor furnishings”
meant a few inexpensive folding
chairs around a flimsy plastic
table.
Today’s outdoor chairs might
be wrought iron or wrought aluminum, with upholstered seats.
The table might be stone or wood
or an elegant faux version of
either, and would not look out of
place inside in the dining room.
Add outdoor sound systems, carpets and lighting, and the backyard or balcony can look and feel
like an extension of the home.
That notion gets ramped up
this spring and summer; manufacturers are offering new furniture, textiles and materials that
resemble indoor furnishings yet
can withstand the elements.
Getting the right look can be
tricky; you don’t want it to seem
like you just plunked a sofa from
the living room down onto the
patio.
Here’s a look at what’s hot for
Warm Weather 2015:
—VINTAGE MODERN AND
ULTRA-MODERN
Watch for midcentury modern
styling in outdoor pieces to coordinate with this popular interior
style. Gloster’s Dansk collection
includes a chair with marinegrade, leather-look upholstery
and teak tables, designed by
Dane
Povl
Eskildsen.
(www.gloster.com )
After World War II, California
designer Walter Lamb was helping salvage sunken Navy warships at Pearl Harbor when he
started messing around with the
brass tubing and fittings. His
prototypical outdoor furniture
collection was put into production by Brown Jordan, the
Pasadena-based company that
pioneered outdoor furniture.
Today’s iterations of Lamb’s
pieces are still crafted from
brass, which you can leave alone
to develop a patina or polish to
retain the shine. The seats are
marine-grade
cording.
(www.dwr.com )
Luxe looks evoking old
Hollywood are also in. Beautiful
on an urban terrace, these pieces
are chic and sophisticated, with
tailoring details on upholstery,
elegant finishes and striking colors.
Frontgate’s Grayson Jade collection comes in a fashion-forward bright green, in a powdercoated finish that looks lacquered. Here too, a zebra-print
outdoor rug and pillows with
exotic
botanical
prints.
(www.frontgate.com)
Gloster’s Wedge seating has a
stainless-steel base and waterproof fabric over a new type of
outdoor foam that breathes well
and resists mold.
And Candace Olson designed a
collection for Century that
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material that comes in an incredible array of colors and patterns,”
Burnham says, and “it works for
backsplashes or kitchen flooring,
and really makes a statement.”
Try mixing affordable elements
with higher-end ones: “Basic
butcher block is my favorite
countertop because of its classic
appeal, and it’s insanely affordable. By juxtaposing it with a
unique backsplash, like a mosaic
marble or rustic stone, it looks
more high-end,” Flynn says. “My
biggest splurge on kitchens is
usually my lighting and backsplashes.”
And choose colors and materials you’ll be happy with longterm, rather than something
includes slipcovered furniture,
and a smart accent table crafted
of brass-finished aluminum and
topped with a faux-croc surface.
(www.centuryfurniture.com )
—GLOBAL STYLE
Global elements stay as strong
in outdoor furnishings as they
are in indoors: Those Asian
ceramic stools show no signs of
disappearing, and are offered in
more colors and patterns than
ever.
Look for Moroccan influence in
lanterns, Mediterranean motifs
in textiles, and Silk Road accents
like elephant-shaped tables,
daybeds and handcrafted accessories.
—-
trendy. “Classic and simple is
where it’s at,” says Burnham.
SEATING
A new table and chairs can
update a kitchen’s look and make
it more comfortable. But it’s
tempting to sacrifice function for
style. Don’t.
“We all live in our kitchens,”
says Kleinhelter, “so it is important to have comfortable and
durable seating.”
Stools are popular, and
Burnham says designers in her
office love the simple, clean look
of a row of stools arranged along
a bar or kitchen island. But, she
says, comfort is key: “We find
most clients like seats with backs
and arms.”
Also, choose seating that’s easy
to clean and durable. “I love to
use vinyls or faux leathers,” says
Kleinhelter, “because it is so easy
to clean, but still looks polished.”
Burnham’s favorite for seating:
the natural texture and style of
rattan.
Whether you’re simply buying
a new table and chairs or beginning to plan a full kitchen remodel, Flynn offers one last piece of
advice: Take time to choose the
things you really want, and be
patient if the project takes longer
than you’d hoped. What matters
is the final result, not how many
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Leaks are not only the sign a roof might need repair
A harsh winter has taken a toll
on many roofs.
Maybe there’s a tell-tale leak,
but sometimes problems are
harder to spot.
When the snow melts, it’s a
good time to take stock.
—IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS
John Galeotafiore, associate
director of home improvement
testing for Consumer Reports,
recommends that homeowners
take out a pair of binoculars and
check the roof from street level.
Roofing contractors also can be
hired to inspect the roof.
Do you see any missing shingles? Are some of them curled or
cracked? Are there pieces of
flashing missing?
Dirty or splotchy shingles also
can be a sign of a problem, says
Jim Englehart, senior merchant
for building materials at Home
Depot. “It’s indicative of the granules being worn away,” he said.
Weather-related damage can
include ice damming, when water
backs up under the shingles, ices
and then begins to melt.
High winds can dislodge shin-
gles or the flashing around chimneys or skylights.
—REPAIR OR REPLACE?
Age is one factor in deciding
whether to repair or replace a
roof.
“If the roof is about 20 years
old and you’re getting leaks,
you’re probably going to have to
change it,” Galeotafiore said.
You might be able to patch
newer roofs if the damage is limited.
“It gets down to aesthetics,”
Englehart said. “If it’s on the
front side of the house I don’t
want to patch. The patch is going
to be a different color.”
Sometimes, new shingles can
be layered over an existing
asphalt roof, saving some labor
costs. But no more than two layers total is advised, in part
because of the added weight on
the home.
—ROOF TYPES
Most homes in the United
States have a pitched roof.
Asphalt shingles make up a large
share of the market, but some
roofs are slate, metal or a composite material. Wood shakes and
tile also are used.
A lot depends on your aesthetics and your budget. “You could
spend an extra $30,000 for real
slate or wood shakes — or you
could get a similar look for much
less,” Consumer Reports said.
And then there’s geography.
“Different kinds of material will
perform better in different climates,” said Bill Good, executive
vice president of the National
Roofing Contractors Association.
In the Midwest and MidAtlantic, he said, a lot of asphalt
shingle is used. Asphalt shingles
come in two main types: threetab shingles, which are a single
layer, or laminated or architectural shingles, which are thicker.
But strong sun can take a toll
on asphalt roofs, so in Florida
and the Southwest, roofs are frequently made of tile, according to
the National Roofing Contractors
Association. In New England, you
see a lot of slate because that’s
where it’s quarried, according to
Good.
Composite shingles are made
to look like slate or wood shakes.
“The look would be as close as
you could get to the real thing,”
said Mark Hansen, vice president
of sales and marketing for
DaVinci Roofscapes, based in
Lenexa, Kansas. The company
uses a high-performance polymer
for its roofing materials.
Metal roofs range from steel to
copper and other materials,
either in panels or in shingles
similar in size to asphalt shingles. Good said they last a long
time, and “also tend to be reflective, so they can help with energy
conservation inside the home.”
Check a roofing material’s
weight to make sure it’s OK for
your home.
As for cost, asphalt is generally
the lowest among roofing options.
Slate and copper roofs, for examAP Photo/Susan Walsh
ple, can be much costlier.
Roofing mAteRiAlS are on display at the Home Depot in Falls
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Replacing a roof is probably of binoculars and take stock.
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5 signs your insulation is not working
(MS) — Some insulations can
lose performance over time, sustain damage or simply no longer
meet updated building codes. It’s
an issue that can be costly,
because if your home’s insulation isn’t doing its job, you could
be wasting money and resources.
You don’t have to be a trained
professional to know you have a
problem. Here are several signs
that your insulation is lacking:
1. Energy bills — High energy
bills are the biggest red flag,
especially relative to the size, age
or condition of the home. If you
have a run-away energy bill,
your insulation may need to be
upgraded. This can be the case,
even in a newer home.
2. Drafts — Do you need to put
on a sweater even with the heat
on, or does your air conditioner
run incessantly without making
enough of a difference? That’s a
sign of a deficiency in your building envelope.
Outdoor
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FLEXIBLE USE
While dedicated dining areas
remain
popular
outdoors,
there’s also a trend toward “chat
and chill” configurations of furniture. Indoor-style seating
includes comfy lounge chairs
and sectional pieces that can be
grouped or separated, with
ottomans, side tables and coffee
tables that can also be used for
casual dining.
Watch for new, portable fire
pits, bars and coffee tables.
Agio, the world’s largest outdoor furniture supplier, introduces their Kolea collection this
year featuring a fire pit and a
sofa with built-in bar. Burnt
orange fabrics and a lower profile
are
on-trend.
(www.agiousa.com)
—COLOR COMMENTARY
Deep indigo looks fresh and
new, and so does coral.
Frontgate’s got a cane-print rug
in both hues.
Dark blue looks nautical and
preppy paired with crisp white,
apple red or sunshine yellow, so
think about mixing things up in
a fun way by putting the brighter
hues on the furniture pieces — a
wicker or Adirondack chair, perhaps — and the blues on accent
pieces. Or get a more dressed-up
vibe by keeping the pops of color
on accessories while the outdoor
space is anchored with darkertoned furniture.
The natural neutrals — sand,
mocha, charcoal, cream — stay
strong for 2015. Their versatility
makes them good choices whatever the climate.
—PATTERN PANACHE
Designer Elaine Smith has a
new collection of luxury outdoor
pillows reflecting her love of fashion, nature and exotic locales.
There are Latin American and
African kuba cloth prints;
menswear-inspired
hound’stooth; chinoiserie florals; whimsical bird motifs; and Missoniinspired prints in soft green and
gold. She’s added “jewelry” to
some pillows, with braided frog
trims and pewter medallions.
(www.authenteak.com)
—RUSTIC CONTEMPORARY
Echoing an interior-design
trend, this look combines handhewn wood and stone (or facsimiles) and rustic touches like
chicken-wire doors and weathered-look metals with contemporary seat materials and colors.
Gloster’s Oyster Reef collection
features a teak farmhouse-style
table, while the Pepper Marsh
line pairs woven synthetic fiber
with teak arms and legs.
Designer Michael Berman’s
Marin collection for Brown
Jordan
really
blurs
the
indoor/outdoor living lines. Teak
frames strapped with yacht cording hold cushions covered in UVresistant Suncloth, suede or
leather for a furniture group that
would work in an outdoor Great
Room, or an indoor one.
(www.brownjordan.com )
Jensen Leisure’s Tivoli group
of clean-lined bench seating and
tables is made of roble, a sustainably produced Bolivian wood
with a smooth grain. (www.
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— Is it warm in one room, but
cold in another? Are your walls
or interior closets cold to the
touch? It’s possible that while
your whole home may not need
attention, certain rooms may
need to be addressed.
4. Condition of insulating
materials — Consider the age of
your insulation. Would it stand
up to today’s building codes? Is it
in good shape or is it crumbly? If
your insulation has degraded or
isn’t performing, it’s time for an
upgrade. But be careful, as certain types of older insulation,
such as Vermiculite insulation,
may contain asbestos. If you’re
unsure, do not disturb it and
hire a professional to conduct
testing and/or removal. This
should not be a do-it-yourself
job.
5. You detect pests and/or
moisture — Insulation — and
your building envelope — can be
compromised by the presence of
pests. Moisture is an even bigger
obstacle to optimal thermal performance, as some types of insulation can sag or collapse when
damp, leaving voids and causing
air to flow in and out of the
building envelope.
While some solutions may be
more complicated, requiring the
opening of the existing wall cavities, others can be addressed
more easily. The best way to
improve thermal performance
and increase energy efficiency is
to upgrade attic insulation.
Laying Comfortbatt insulation
over existing material to achieve
a minimum depth of 16 inches,
or an R-value of R50, is a simple
DIY project that can generate
immediate results. To fully
assess your home and explore
remediation solutions, consider
hiring a professional home energy auditor to evaluate your
home’s energy performance.
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Concrete gains ground as decorative material
By the Associated Press
The Pantheon. The Panama
Canal. The Hoover Dam.
When you think of concrete,
you might imagine great feats of
engineering, or at least highway
overpasses and other sturdy,
stolid structures.
But concrete has become a
stylish medium in the home,
thanks to interior designers and
artisans.
“Concrete is such an amazing
and cheap material. I can get an
80-pound bag from Home Depot
and turn it into tables, vases and
planters without using power
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This PhoTo provided by Restoration
Hardware shows a Malay table. It is a teak root
cast in lightweight all-weather cement; it’s textural, wind-scoured look makes it a striking piece for
a modern pool or patio deck.
AP Photo
in This PhoTo, below, provided by
AllModern.com, a Concrete Chic coffee table’s top
is finished with a lacquer to protect it and give it a
weathered metal look.
AP Photo/AllModern.com
This PhoTo provided by
AllModern.com shows a Nico
concrete stool, that would be a
useful piece on a patio, or in an
urban indoor living space.
Dryers: Homes’ energy guzzlers get greener
For the first time in six years,
Energy Star certification, a standard seal of approval for energy
efficiency, has been expanded to
include another major household
appliance. Clothes dryers, perhaps the
last of the major household
appliances to be included in the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s program, became available in 45 Energy Star models
starting Presidents’ Day weekend, according to the EPA. “Dryers are one of the most
common household appliances
and the biggest energy users,”
said EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy.
While washing machines have
become 70 percent more energyefficient since 1990, dryers —
used by an estimated 80 percent
of American households — have
continued to use a high amount
of energy, the agency says.
The Energy Star program is
designed to help consumers’ help
save money and protect the environment by curbing energy consumption.
“Refrigerators were the dominant energy consumer in 1981.
Now dryers are the last frontier
in the home for radical energy
conservation,” said Charles Hall,
senior manager of product devel-
opment for Whirlpool.
Energy Star-certified dryers
include gas, electric and compact
models. Manufacturers offering
them include LG, Whirlpool,
Kenmore, Maytag and Safemate.
All of the energy-efficient models include moisture sensors to
ensure that the dryer does not
continue running after the
clothes are dry, which reduces
energy consumption by around
20 percent, the EPA says.
In addition, two of the Energy
Star-approved models — LG’s
EcoHybrid Heat Pump Dryer
(model
DLHX4072)
and
Whirlpool’s HybridCare Heat
Pump Dryer (model WED99HED)
— also include innovative “heat
pump”
technology,
which
reduces energy consumption by
around 40 percent more than
that, the EPA and manufacturers
say. Heat-pump dryers combine
conventional vented drying with
heat-pump technology, which
recycles heat. The technology,
long common in much of Europe,
is similar to that used in air conditioners and dehumidifiers.
Although Energy Star models
can cost roughly $600 more than
comparable standard models,
Hall said the higher cost is more
than balanced out by energy savings and up to $600 rebates
offered by government and utility
incentive programs.
But the real impact will be felt
once the transition to Energy
Star
models
is
complete. According to the EPA,
if all the clothes dryers sold in
the U.S. this year were Energy
Star-certified, it would save an
estimated $1.5 billion in annual
utility costs and prevent yearly
greenhouse-gas emissions equal
to more than 2 million vehicles. To earn the Energy Star label,
products must be certified by an
EPA-recognized third party based
on rigorous testing in an EPArecognized laboratory.
—To find local incentive programs for rebates on Energy Star
dryers, see www.energystar.gov .
Many local utilities also offer
their own incentive programs,
generally listed on their websites.
tools,” says Boston-based designer Ben Oyeda, who offers instructions for several projects on his
website, www.homemade-modern.com .
Oyeda uses Lego blocks to
make the molds for his tables;
his pendant fixtures start with
plastic bottles.
“Working with concrete has
changed the way I see waste,” he
says. “Every plastic bottle or box
has the potential to be used as a
mold for making a concrete
object.”
Eric Boyd of Charlotte, North
Carolina, makes creative countertops by mixing concrete with
other materials. Aggregate additions such as recycled glass or
semi-precious stones give the
concrete a terrazzo look, and he
hones the slabs to emphasize
their geologic characteristics. He
has used shells, mother of pearl,
tiger’s eye or bands of copper to
create one-of-a-kind slabs for
homes and stores.
For one client, his team took
inspiration from the home’s location: “The (kitchen) island has a
topographic feature which was
taken from a map of their property. There are also various pebbles
from the property, and a few fossils that were inlaid as well,” he
says. (www.reachingquiet.com )
Danish designer Doreen
Westphal uses fine Belgian lace
to make patterns and molds for
concrete curtains, vases and
tables. There’s a yin-yang tension
that emerges from the interplay
of the delicate lace motifs and the
sturdy concrete. (www.menschmadedesign.com )
AllModern’s got an affordable
collection of rustic, modern, concrete side and coffee tables with
wooden bases. Also here is
Montreal-based
CDI
International’s collection of midcentury modern-style coffee table
and stools with oak legs.
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West Elm has the little Mesa
side table cast in a composite
concrete that relieves some of the
weight of the solid material.
Brass-finished steel legs hold a
cantilevered concrete top in an
industrial-chic
console.
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Crate & Barrel’s Mason
Parson’s-style coffee, side and
console tables are made of concrete embedded with an aggregate that adds interest. The
retailer has introduced the curvy
new Morocco concrete dining
table this spring, for indoors or
out. (www.crateandbarrel.com )
Restoration Hardware’s got a
honed concrete table top on a
wood base crafted from British
timbers; the juxtaposition of
materials makes for a striking
piece.
And the retailer’s Malay castconcrete coffee table resembles a
chunk of sun-bleached driftwood; like the dining table above,
it would work indoors or out.
A concrete game table would
make a substantial permanent
fixture for outdoor entertaining.
Add the Laguna fiber-cast concrete fire pit, a sleek coffee tablesize piece with glass panels and a
contemporary
vibe.
(www.restorationhardware.com )
If the look of concrete intrigues
you but you’re not prepared to
deal with the material itself, consider wallpaper photoprinted to
look like raw concrete slabs;
some even come with graffiti, if
you’re after an edgier look.
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Common mistakes
made on home
renovation projects
(MS) — Home improvement projects can turn a house into a
home.
Homeowners plan scores of renovations to transform living
spaces into rooms that reflect their personal tastes and comforts.
Homeowners going it alone may find things do not always go
as planned. In fact, a Harris Interactive study found that 85 percent of homeowners say remodeling is a more stressful undertaking than buying a home. But homeowners about to embark
on home improvement projects can make the process go more
smoothly by avoiding these common pitfalls.
Failing to understand the scope of the project
Some homeowners don’t realize just how big a commitment
they have made until they get their hands dirty. But understanding the scope of the project, including how much demolition and reconstruction is involved and how much time a project
will take can help homeowners avoid some of the stress that
comes with renovation projects. For example, a bathroom renovation may require the removal of drywall, reinforcement of
flooring to accommodate a new bathtub or shower enclosure and
the installation of new plumbing and wiring behind walls. So
such a renovation is far more detailed than simply replacing
faucets.
Not establishing a budget
Homeowners must develop a project budget to ensure their
projects do not drain their finances. If your budget is so inflexible that you can’t afford the materials you prefer, you may want
to postpone the project and save more money so you can eventually afford to do it right.
Without a budget in place, it is easy to overspend, and that
can put you in financial peril down the line. Worrying about
coming up with money to pay for materials and labor also can
induce stress. Avoid the anxiety by setting a firm budget.
Making trendy or overpersonal improvements
Homeowners who plan to stay in their homes for the long run
have more free reign when it comes to renovating their homes.
Such homeowners can create a billiards room or paint a room
hot pink if they so prefer. However, if the goal is to make
improvements in order to sell a property, overly personal touches may make a property less appealing to prospective buyers.
Trends come and go, and improvements can be expensive. If
your ultimate goal is to sell your home, opt for renovations that
will look beautiful through the ages and avoid bold choices that
may only appeal to a select few buyers.
Forgetting to properly vet all workers
It is important to vet your contractor, but don’t forget to vet
potential subcontractors as well. Failing to do so can prove a
costly mistake. Contractors often look to subcontractors to perform certain parts of a job, and it is the responsibility of homeowners to vet these workers.
Expecting everything
to go as planned
Optimism is great, but you also should be a realist. Knowing
what potentially could go wrong puts you in a better position to
handle any problems should they arise. The project might go off
without a hitch, but plan for a few hiccups along the way.
Overestimating DIY abilities
Overzealous homeowners may see a renovation project in a
magazine or on television and immediately think they can do the
work themselves. Unless you have the tools and the skills necessary to do the work, tackling too much can be problematic. In
the long run, leaving the work to a professional may save you
money.
Home improvements can be stressful, but homeowners can
lessen that stress by avoiding common renovation mistakes.
It’s convenient to pick up
some laundry detergent at the
store, but it’s not difficult to create your own.
Soap and water are a timetested duo against dirt and
germs, and homemade cleaners
can carry away grime without
added chemicals or perfumes.
All it takes are a few, simple
ingredients to make laundry
detergent — liquid or powder —
and fabric softener. Then cut
down on drying time and static
cling by tumbling wet clothes
with homemade dryer balls.
Faith Goguen Rodgers’ switch
to homemade cleaners began a
few years ago after she used a
commercial-brand cleaner on
the bathtub.
“I’d cleaned it, and then I really didn’t want to get in it. The
bleach smell and feel — it didn’t
feel good,” she says.
“Then when I had kids, it didn’t make sense at all. It feels a
lot safer knowing what’s in my
cleaners.”
Rodgers is an herbalist with
three young children who creates all the cleaners she uses in
her Lafayette, Colo., home —
even the toothpaste. While the
health piece is “really big” for
her, she’s also motivated by
cost.
“You save a ton of money
making your own,” she says,
especially if you buy ingredients
in bulk.
Homemade cleaners, particularly laundry soap, lack much
odor, but a pretty scent can be
added with essential oils. This
lifts the laundry-detergent-making project up a notch — adding
some olfactory fun.
“You and your family can get
creative and come up with your
own signature laundry scent,”
Rodgers writes on The Little
Herbal blog, where she posts
her natural cleaning recipes.
“Our laundry comes out clean
and smelling fresh.”
Her favorite combinations of
essential oils for laundry detergent include lemon and eucalyptus, orange and geranium,
and grapefruit and lavender.
Sherri Griffin’s foray into
homemade laundry soap began
when she got a rash and wanted
something gentler than storebought laundry detergent. She
started researching alternatives, and recommends checking out what’s in commercially
made
products
on
the
Environmental Working Group’s
website.
An Orlando, Fla., nurse,
Griffin started a blog, Overthrow
Martha, to educate people about
natural cleaners. Besides sharing a fabric softener recipe, she
recommends simple-to-make
dryer balls. Dryer balls decrease
drying time, eliminate static
cling and decrease wrinkles, she
says. Essential oils can be
added to them every few loads to
softly scent clothes.
“I often hear that people can’t
give up the fresh smell they get
from using dryer sheets, but
what people don’t understand is
that smell comes from . chemicals,” says Griffin.
Karyn Siegel-Maier shares
laundry and other “green”
cleaning formulas in “The
Naturally Clean Home” (Storey,
2008). The publisher recently
posted her recipes for liquid and
powder laundry detergent at its
blog, Inside Storey, to “sanitize,
soften and scent clothes and
linens — naturally.”
Some recipes from these
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This PhoTo provided by Sherri Griffin shows dryer balls that
reduce drying time, static cling and wrinkles. Griffin, of Orlando, Fla.,
calls her homemade laundry detergent, fabric softener and dryer
balls “a dream team.” “I often hear that people can’t give up the fresh
smell that they get from using dryer sheets, but what people don’t
understand is that smell comes from chemicals,” says Griffin.
experts:
—Rodgers’ Homemade
Laundry Detergent (powder)
Supplies:
3 cups washing soda (similar
to baking soda; look for it near
laundry products at the supermarket)
3 cups borax
1 cup baking soda
1 bar of castile (olive oilbased) soap, such as Dr.
Bronner’s Pure Castile Soap
Pure, organic essential oils
(optional)
Directions:
1. Grate the bar of soap into a
small bowl and set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl,
combine the washing soda,
borax and baking soda. Mix well
to get rid of clumps. Add the
essential oils, if desired. Mix
them into the powder well to
avoid clumping.
3. Add the grated soap and
mix ingredients together.
4. Store detergent in a halfgallon mason jar or other wellsealed container. Use 2 to 4
heaping tablespoons per load of
laundry.
—Basic Laundry Liquid
Formula from Siegel-Maier’s
“The Naturally Clean Home”
Supplies:
2¼ cups liquid castile soap
¼ cup white distilled vinegar
1 tablespoon glycerin
¾ cup water
10 to 15 drops essential oil of
your choice (or skip the essential oils by using a scented liquid castile soap)
Directions: Combine all the
ingredients in a plastic container or squirt bottle. Shake once
or twice before adding to the
wash. Use ¼ cup per average
load; ½ cup for extra large or
heavily soiled loads.
—Griffin’s Natural Laundry
Fabric Softener
Supplies:
3 cups white vinegar
¼ cup rubbing alcohol
20 drops of essential oil
(optional)
Directions: Combine all ingredients in a glass jar and shake.
Add to the fabric softener dispenser of washing machine.
—Griffin’s Wool Dryer Balls
Supplies:
100 percent wool yarn
Pantyhose
Essential oil (optional)
Directions:
1. Wrap wool yarn around two
or three fingers at least a dozen
times, then make a bow by
wrapping yarn tightly around
middle of wrapped yarn. Bring
such as safety glasses or goggles. the two sides together and conn Wear standard cotton or
leather work gloves to protect
hands.
n Consider the use of earplugs
or earmuffs with loud power
tools.
n Don't use power tools in
proximity to flammable vapors,
dust or construction materials.
n Always check that wires are
kept away from blades.
pantyhose between each ball so
they don’t touch. Run through
the washer with a load of towels
on hot cycle, then toss into
dryer on hot. Once dry, remove
from pantyhose. Each ball
should appear “felted” — the
wool fibers tightly adhered. Snip
any loose strands.
To use:
1. Scent balls with essential
oil, if desired (it’ll last a few
loads).
2. Toss at least 2 balls into
dryer with wet laundry.
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tinue wrapping tightly in different directions to make a small
ball the size of a lemon. Repeat
to make several balls.
2. Push the wool balls into
one pantyhose leg, knotting the
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(MS) — Power tools can dramatically reduce the time it takes
to complete home improvement
projects. Professional contractors
regularly rely on power tools for
cutting and sanding, and many
do-it-yourself renovators follow
suit and invest in power tools to
help get the job done. But power
tools, in spite of their usefulness,
are not without risk. According to
the Work Safe Center, power tool
injuries account for as many as
400,000 emergency room visits
in the United States each year.
Power nailers, chain saws and
table saws account for the greatest number of injuries. Keeping
safe is of the utmost priority
when using power tools. Here's
how:
n Read all manufacturers'
instructions and guidelines
before use.
n Keep your tools clean and in
proper operating condition.
n Use the right tool for the job.
n Always wear eye protection,
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Right at Home: Artistry and artifice in new tiles
By KIM COOK,
Associated Press
Tile has a rich and varied history
in decor, from Roman floor mosaics
to majolica to Delft ceramics to
Mexican terracotta.
These styles and more continue
to inspire artistry. Many of the
newest collections of ceramic and
porcelain tile were on display this
fall at the five-day Cersaie international exhibition in Bologna, Italy.
Some of the trends:
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Across the show, faux finishes
ruled. What seemed to be barnwood or other timber planking was
actually porcelain. Manufacturers
can now produce tile that looks —
and even feels — like wood, marble, granite or cement, but is thin
and lightweight.
The application advantages are
obvious: A 20-foot slab of slim
porcelain printed to look like
stone is a lot easier to make and
install than the real thing. It can
be wrapped up kitchen islands,
walls and even ceilings, and is
easily cut to accommodate plugs
or faucets.
Advancements in digital printing
have taken faux finishes a long way
from earlier versions that looked
unrealistic and one-dimensional.
Now the detail is more precise, the
image is embedded deep in the tile,
and the surface texture is transformed.
In the U.S., the Reclamation collection from Crossville, based in
Crossville, Tennessee, is comprised
of an urban-industrial mix of
cement and tiles that look like salvaged wood in colorways with
names like Steel City, Cotton
Exchange and Tobacco Road.
(www.crossvilleinc.com )
Serenissima Cir, based in
Casalgrande, Italy, got hold of a
palette of brick from Prohibitionera Chicago and used it to create a
tile collection that looks and feels
like time-worn brick, right down to
the original maker’s “Chicago”
stamp. (www.cir.it )
Metallic glazes are also evolving.
You’ll see patterns with a subtle
brush of coppery glitter, while others have dramatic gold, copper
and silver finishes — especially
striking on 3-D tiles. Antiquing
gives mirrored tiles a mercuryglass quality.
nary tile and real wood.
Another fresh idea was Mirage’s
XGone series of hexagonal tiles
designed by Javier Deferrari and
Lavinia Modesti. Several sizes of
hexagonal tiles include some that
are notched to connect to others;
the resulting pattern, in an array
of complementary tonal hues, had
a modern-art vibe. (www.mirage.it)
UNUSUAL SIZES
Tile has typically come in standard sizes, squares and rectangles
measuring between 4 inches and
12 inches. But larger versions up
to 24 or even 36 inches are now
available, and the faux-wood ones
resemble planks.
Dwell Patterns has collaborated
with Heath Ceramics, of Sausalito,
California, on a hip-looking collection that incorporates a diamond
shape and two different hexagonal
ones, available in glossy or matte
finishes in a broad color palette.
(www.heathceramics.com)
At Cersaie, hexagons and triangles small and large were shown in
earthy hues like cream, mocha,
mud and charcoal. Unica by
Target Studio’s Origami collection
added subtle textural patterns to
tone-on-tone black, white or gray
tile in shapes evoking the artistry
of Japanese paper folding.
(www.targetstudio.net)
Ragno’s booth offered an
intriguing way to use both their
Rewind hexagonal tile and
Woodplace faux wood; the different tiles married in the middle
with a seamlessness that would
have been impossible with ordi-
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Neoclassical and oriental tapestry and lace patterns turned tile
into elegant wallpaper in the Onice
and Wallpaper collections at the
Marazzi booth. (www. marazziusa.com) The company also
showed an oversize vintage floral
in a new way, as a ceiling-to-floor
accent on an otherwise solid-color
wall, again evoking paper or fabric
wallcovering.
Ancient Mediterranean motifs
printed on matte-finish tile in
faded, organic hues bridged the
centuries. Panaria’s Memory collection recalls Provencal paver patterns of the late 1800s. And
Tagina’s Terre Nostre collection
echoes the pavers of Umbrian
medieval villages. You can find
similar, smaller-scale versions at
www.cementtileshop.com .
Ceramica Bardelli featured the
work of London designer Robert
Dawson. He took the classic
Willow porcelain design, deconstructed its chinoiserie elements
and printed them on large-scale
tiles. The effect is as if an enormous china plate had been shattered, then affixed to the wall.
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TILE AS ART CANVAS
Ascot has launched Game of
Fifteen, a series of tile designs honoring contemporary art. Keith
Haring’s radiant baby and running
figures pack graphic punch in
black on glazed white ceramic.
(www.ascot.it)
ABK’s Do Up collection includes
an image of a contemporary geisha
and tiles printed with faux-spraypainted graffiti a la Banksy.
(www.abk.it)
In a collection called Portland
325, ABK’s Ariana group took
inspiration from the walls of an
abandoned factory, transforming
graffiti into elegant art tiles with
iridescent finishes.
Sicis showed the possibilities of
mosaics by creating wall panels
embedded with butterflies, stars
and flowers. The vibrant reds,
blues and golds were achieved
with minerals like copper and
lapis. (www.sicis.com)
Scottish wallpaper studio
Timorous Beasties is moving into
tile design through the tile studio
Cle, in Sausalito. Medieval damask
motifs are combined with ink-blot
patterns to create stylized designs
that are hand-lithographed onto
limestone and marble tiles. Cle
showcases several innovative tile
artists in its online shop.
(www.cletile.com)
Finally, at Modwalls, you’ll find
mosaic tile made of sliced, recycled
wine corks, and pennies. Here,
too, a paint box full of hues in
glass subway tiles, including
orange, lemongrass, pool blue and
poppy. (www.modwalls.com)
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tool.
n Do not overreach when using
tools, and maintain balance.
n Pay attention when working
with any power tool.
n Only use attachments specifically recommended for the power
tools and ensure proper installation.
n Unplug all power tools during
breaks and anytime when tools
are not in use.
n Routinely inspect tools for
damage.
n Keep tools stored in secure
locations when not in use.
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Ask a Designer: From clutter to decor
HAnging items vertically frees up more space in a shed or garage.
Some secrets to keeping
your shed organized
(MS) — Despite other intentions, homeowners often turn
their garages into storage centers
for random, little-used items,
leaving little to no room for the
tools and even vehicles that actually belong in a garage.
Such homeowners may turn to
sheds to store their garage overflow and keep yard equipment at
the ready, but storage sheds are
not immune to clutter, and
homeowners may find the very
structure erected to keep them
organized requires a bit of organization itself.
A well-organized shed can save
homeowners time and energy, as
it’s easy to abandon or delay a
project if you can’t find that pair
of work gloves you stashed.
The first step to any organizing
project is to take everything out
of the shed and determine just
what needs to go back in.
Items that do not belong in the
shed should be moved to their
rightful locations or tossed in the
trash if they’re no longer needed.
Make a pile of anything that
will be kept, a separate one for
donations and a third for
garbage.
Take inventory of what you
have so you know whether you’re
missing any items or you have
something and do not need to
purchase another.
Now that the entire shed is
empty, you can assess just how
much room you have. Utilizing
vertical and overhead space
effectively can free up areas on
the floor for larger equipment.
Shelving, racks, pegboards
and any other materials that
enable you to hang or store items
off the floor are good investments.
Visit your nearby home
improvement retailer to find
items that can simplify your storage. You also may be able to put
scrap wood to use to make your
own storage shelves or a work
bench.
Extra kitchen cabinets can be
installed in the shed to organize
additional items.
In order to remember where
items go, label or sort them
accordingly.
Some people like to take
organization a step further by
tracing the outline of tools hung
on the wall so they can be placed
back in the same spot after use.
This also serves as a visual
reminder of which tools are missing and which ones need to be
purchased.
Don’t forget to utilize shed
doors as additional storage
space. Hang frequently used
tools, such as rakes and shovels,
on the inside of the doors so they
will always be easily accessible.
You also can repurpose storage
solutions designed for other
areas of the home. For example,
magnetic knife holders can be
mounted to a shed wall to keep
paintbrushes organized.
These holders also can be used
to keep many small metal tools
tidy. Metal funnels can hold
twine and string. Thread through
the narrow end of the funnel for
a handy dispenser.
Keep dangerous substances off
the floor and out of reach.
Gasoline, chemical fertilizers and
other potentially dangerous substances should be stored high up
to keep pets and children safe.
Make sure the shed floor is
sturdy and level. This makes it
easier to neatly store larger
items.
Roll in the lawnmower, wheelbarrow and any other cumbersome items. Now that more
things are mounted vertically,
you should find that you have
more area to move around.
Taking the time to clean and
organize a shed can help make
anyone more productive.
Add upcycling to home DIY tools
(MS) — Upcycling is not just
for craft projects — it offers lots
of possibilities to make changes
in your home décor, especially
cabinets and furniture that will
save money and reduce your contribution to the local landfill.
Woodcraft can help you with
upcycling ideas, products and
advice.
For the past year, Woodcraft
retail stores have hosted upcycling demonstrations on the third
Saturday of the month to help
customers discover the potential
for upcycling in their home projects.
“To support this upcycling
effort, Woodcraft.com added an
Upcycling Resource Center to our
website
(http://www.wood
craft.com/media/upcycling.aspx
) to introduce viewers to upcycling and announce demo topics
and dates,” Vince Grlovich, vice
president for sales and marketing, said. “Viewers can also
watch a segment of Lifetime’s
Designing
Spaces
where
Woodcraft product development
manager Kent Harpool shows
host Aliane Baquerot how to create a shelf from a wooden pallet.”
Both Woodcraft’s Pinterest
page (www.pinterest.com/woodcraftsupply/upcycling)
and
Instagram gallery (http://instagram.com/woodcraftgallery)
include upcycling ideas, and the
blog, Woodworking Adventures
(http//:blog.woodcraft.com) has
featured upcycling several times.
Jewelry Armoire Makeover
Inspired by the upcycling
trend, many Woodcraft employees have completed projects,
A few repAirs, a new coat of paint, sparkly new pulls, and interior flocking turned this piece into a stylish, modern Jewelry Armoire.
including marketing manager
Lori Haught, who transformed a
1980s Jewelry Armoire (see
photo) into a more stylish, modern piece for her bedroom. She
gave it a new coat of paint, new
silver/glass pulls and flocking on
the drawer interiors. You can see
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searching for “The Jewelry
Armoire Makeover.”
An Irwin Marples Blue Chip
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changes to Lori’s armoire.
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Designers often surprise their
clients by sharing a secret: You
can dramatically change the look
of a room simply by changing or
rearranging the items on your
bookshelves and tabletops.
Just as fashion accessories can
have a big impact on an outfit, the
items you display on shelves and
tables can have a powerful effect
on the style of any room.
Yet we often pay little attention
to these spaces. Shelves get cluttered with stuff we’ve gotten as
gifts or things we’re not sure where
to store.
Think about “how the items
you’re displaying will continue the
story you’re trying to tell in your
space,” advises designer Brian
Patrick Flynn, founder of the
Flynnside Out design blog.
A little editing of your collection
can help banish clutter, and putting different items in the spotlight
can reveal fresh combinations of
things you already own.
Begin by exploring photos of
bookshelves and tables on
Pinterest, or other websites or
magazines, suggests interior
designer Betsy Burnham of
Burnham Design, in Los Angeles.
You may find you’re more drawn to
sparse, streamlined surfaces than
you’d expected. Or you may love
the look of surfaces decorated with
items in one color scheme.
Once you’ve got some ideas
bubbling, it’s time to dive in.
CLEAR, THEN CLASSIFY
First, empty all the shelves and
tables from one or several rooms of
your home. Place all the items on
the floor or perhaps on an empty
dining table. Begin grouping them
however you wish: by color, texture, type of object or any other
classification.
Look for patterns. You might
find, for example, that you have
several items relating to animals,
or more pieces of brass or stone
than you realized, says designer
Molly Luetkemeyer of M. Design
Interiors in Los Angeles.
Eliminate things that aren’t
your taste anymore or don’t fit the
room. We tend to add to our
shelves and tables over time,
Burnham says, so paring down
from time to time is necessary.
Luetkemeyer agrees: “You can’t
use what you have if you can’t see
what you have,” she says. “So you
kind of have to be merciless.”
If it’s hard to eliminate anything, invite a friend to help. And
if getting rid of things permanently is tough, simply box up
items that aren’t working and
put them away for a few months.
Or loan them to a friend.
LOOK INSIDE
Before putting anything back on
the shelves, consider painting a
bookshelf’s interior, or covering
the wall behind an open bookshelf
with wallpaper or another wall
covering.
“The back panels of built-ins
and bookshelves act just like
backdrops to a TV set or a stage,”
says Flynn. “I usually paint the
back panels the same colors as a
room’s walls, or I use wallpaper or
grasscloth to introduce texture
and create visual tension between
the graphic shapes of books, picture frames and objects.”
Once you’ve prepared that canvas, it’s time to begin putting stuff
back.
MIX AND MATCH
Besides clustering some items
by color, subject matter or material, also think about shape and
height. And don’t be afraid to mix
art objects with books, or decorative boxes with vases of flowers.
“For every stack of books I add
to a shelf,” Flynn says, “I like to
have at least two interesting
objects to offset the linearity.”
All three designers suggest vary-
ing the orientation of your books’
spines. “I like to stack some vertically and anchor them with book
ends or objects,” Flynn says, “and
then I stack some horizontally and
use them as risers to showcase
frames or trinkets, kind of like
makeshift pedestals.”
Burnham suggests gathering
smaller items in decorative trays
or bowls.
“One of the most interesting
ways to define space on a coffee
table or sideboard is using trays,”
she says. To bring style to a coffee
table, stack several books on a
large decorative tray, then “have a
smaller tray where you put your
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“If you’re someone who’s a world
traveler, keep things totally random and collected, or arranged artfully like a curated gallery collection,” Flynn says. “If you’re all
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‘Going Faux’ can transform a home’s style
Phoebe Taylor’s 20-year-old
suburban Atlanta ranch house
began plain and “builder grade.”
A professional decorator, she
transformed it with faux wood
beams, decorative molding and a
gold-spun paint job that looked
like “soft marble.” Her vision:
“what our dream house would
have been if we had gone out and
bought it.”
It’s called “Going Faux” —
turning homes into something
they basically are not through
prefab architectural embellishments and eye-tricking wall finishes. Enthusiasts say there’s no
reason for even the most budgetconscious among us to live a
cookie-cutter existence.
“My house was not an expensive house. But even the million
dollar houses don’t have this
kind of detail,” says Taylor,
adding that she recently sold the
house in just one day.
Other “faux” features to consider include ceiling decals that
look like parts of elaborate chandeliers, cabinetry embellishments and painted wainscoting.
“I have seen some trailer
homes that have more personality to them thanks to paint, sweat
equity, buying some lumber, and
their owners using their creativity,” says Lee Gamble, a
Steamboat Springs, Colo.-based
designer and painter who specializes in faux finishes.
Gamble says a homeowner can
change anything with desire and
patience — even ambitious projects like, say, making the interior
of a standard subdivision home
look like a cozy Tudor or classic
Colonial, or like something out of
the rustic West.
The Internet is a DIY decorator’s best friend, she says, offering inspiration and sources for
adding architectural and decorative elements to a home.
Next is paint, which Gamble
calls “the cheapest way to
improve your house” — and it’s
about more than just giving the
walls new color. Paint can be
used to create illusions of architectural elements: For example,
you can use blocks of color on
walls to create the look of molding, or three variations of one
color for a three-dimensional
look — an old technique called
trompe l’oeil that can make your
home look just a little more like
the Palace of Versailles.
Paint can make high ceilings
look lower — extend the ceiling’s color to a lower point on
the wall — or give them more
height by going dark. Using different colors on the top and bottom halves of a wall can create
the look of wainscot, Gamble
says.
Ornamental appliqués that
adhere to anything from cabinetry, walls, mantels and molding to furniture and picture
frames add ready-made detail
without breaking the bank, she
says.
The decorative appliqués,
which can be painted, stained or
glazed, are particularly helpful in
transforming the look of kitchen
cabinets. “If they are in good
shape and the flow works for
you, then there is no reason to
change them out,” Gamble says,
adding that the appliqués, paint
and new cabinetry hardware can
transform a “builder-grade
kitchen” to any style from classic
to contemporary.
“Suddenly you have a new
kitchen,” she says.
The products that make such
projects possible are becoming
easier to use, home designers
says.
The manufacturer Fypon, for
example, makes synthetic ceiling
beams and medallions and decorative millwork that are lighter
and more manageable than real
wood, Gamble says.
Decorative millwork like, say,
a sunburst pediment over a door,
is an easy improvement to a
room, says Kathleen Ziprik, a
Fypon spokeswoman.
Taylor says she used tricks
like that in her renovation. In
redoing her master bath, for
example, she started with “just a
straight shot bathroom.” She
added molding and wood panels
to the walls, and framed the
bathtub, using new material with
decorative embellishments.
“It looked very dramatic,”
Taylor says, adding that buying a
new home with those real architectural features would not have
been affordable.
“It really looked real,” she
says.
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Ask a Designer: embracing the ‘new feminine’
A year ago, menswearinspired decorating was wildly
popular. Interior designers hung
sharply tailored draperies
alongside furniture covered in
pinstripes.
Sophisticated
shades of gray were everywhere,
as was navy blue.
But “since the pendulum
always swings, we’re starting to
see fresh feminine spaces,” says
interior designer Brian Patrick
Flynn, “regardless of who lives
in them.”
The trend that designers are
calling “the new feminine” isn’t
a return to an excess of florals,
shabby-chic lace and other
cliches of feminine decor from a
decade ago. Instead, “feminine
style” has evolved into “an aesthetic that’s classic with a soft,
eclectic spin,” says Flynn,
founder of Flynnside Out
Productions.
Pretty is back, but designers
are using traditional florals on
furniture with edgy, sleek lines
to create modern mashups.
Even the color pink has enjoyed
a makeover: Pantone’s “color of
the year” for 2015 is a sexy,
dark pink called “marsala.”
“There was a period in design
when ‘pretty’ or ‘feminine’ were
considered bad words,” says
New York-based designer Young
Huh. “It was considered lightweight and not serious. Ideal
rooms were masculine, a bit
somber, devoid of pattern and
softness. Recently, there is a
return to appreciating traditional design and also pretty
rooms.”
Believe it or not, Huh says,
“there is a new generation discovering chintz and florals.”
So how do we pull off this new
look to give rooms a beautiful,
feminine touch without getting
too “girly”?
—CONTRAST IS KEY
Anne Maxwell Foster and
Suysel dePedro Cunningham,
the designers behind the design
firm Tilton Fenwick, suggest
layering a feminine room with
an eclectic mix of furniture and
patterns.
“We love traditional-style
upholstery details (like a gathered skirted chair, for example),
but aren’t afraid to pair it with a
clean and modern side table,”
they said in an e-mail.
Huh also emphasizes contrast: “When I think of feminine
elements, I turn toward traditional design, such as the curvilinear shapes of Louis VI pieces,
floral or other nature-inspired
textiles and wallpapers, trims
and passementerie, and traditional curtain and furniture
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In thIs Photo provided by Brian Patrick Flynn/HGTV.com,
Flynn used all classic elements when designing this master bathroom for a female client. The floor tile and clawfoot tub are classic
and gender neutral; however, the space was made feminine with
easily changeable elements such as the crystal chandelier and
lavender wall color.
making,” she says. “But to make
the style fresh and modern,
make sure the room contains
contrasting elements that are
edgy, clean and contemporary.
... Having modern bookcases,
simple molding and contemporary architectural lighting make
the feminine embellishments
look new and fresh within that
context.”
—SHAKE UP THE COLORS
Pink is possible, but it doesn’t
have to be your starting point.
“I’ve been designing and decorating homes for eight years,
and not once has a female client
asked for a pink room,” says
Flynn. “There are so many colors to choose from that add a
soft, feminine spin. ... You can
never go wrong with white on
white, but if that’s too impractical, mint green and red, laven-
der and white, and turquoise
mixed with just about anything
are excellent modern-day feminine options.”
If your heart is set on pink, he
says, “pair it with navy blue.
Dark blue and muted pink
strike a gender-neutral balance
and also create a super preppy
vibe.”
The Tilton Fenwick designers
suggest uncommon color pairings. “Color combinations like
olive green and turquoise, for
example, feel unique and fresh
rather than stuffy and dated,”
they say. “It allows you to use
traditional patterns in fabrics
and textiles without feeling
dowdy.”
One of Huh’s favorite tricks
for giving a feminine room edge
is to add black (or another
“masculine” color). “Paint some
molding black, the legs of a
can be used to clean and restore
the luster to a clear finish, as well
as hide minor issues like scratches. It will also remove water rings.
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Although an overload of floral
patterns will look dated, don’t
avoid flowers completely if you
love them.
“Florals are a great starting
point for a feminine feel” but
pair them with a more modern
and clean palette, say the
designers at Tilton Fenwick.
They also suggest mixing in
“more modern or unexpected
furniture pieces, art and accessories — a modern photograph
for example — that adds a layer
of interest.”
—BREAK THE RULES
If a client wants some shabby
chic, Flynn gives it an eclectic
twist. “Instead of the classic
shabby chic look of white lace,
weathered ivory finishes and
lots of silver,” he says, “I like to
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mixed with clean, tailored
lines.”
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a soft shade of gray, added tailored drapery and then brought
in almost all worn, weathered
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From pastels to ‘Noir,’ the colors of 2015 decor
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BENJAMIN MOORE has selected Guilford Green framed with white as its color hue of the year.
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CORAL REEF is a vibrant pink-orange that Sherwin-Williams picked as “color of the year.” Jackie
Jordan, color marketing director for Sherwin-Williams, suggests pairing it with white, black or floral hues.
Trends
From Page 138
pers envision how pieces can
work at home.
“We’ve become semi-pros at
DIY décor,” says Griffin.
Feeling confident and inspired?
Let’s look at some of what
spring’s got in store.
FURNITURE STYLES
Griffin sees midcentury modern becoming even more
entrenched in the décor landscape. The pieces are comfier
than the originals because of
modern construction methods
and materials.
“The new shapes are the love
children between midcentury
modern’s twigginess and the traditional overstuffed look. They’re
so fresh-looking that they’re irresistible,” she says.
West Elm’s Peggy collection of
trim, tailored sofas and loveseats
feature nubby cayenne or pebble-gray upholstery tucked under
slim, pecan-stained legs. The
Crosby collection puts a tufted
cushion on a trimmed-down
wingback that’s especially smart
in armchair and sectional versions.
Urban Outfitters’ Sterling sofa
and Dagmar chair fit the vibe, as
does the Draper media cabinet,
which resembles a retro hi-fi console.
Griffin says Art Deco will really
start to emerge this year.
“We’re seeing its first wave now
in the new linear, jazz-inspired
graphics and block prints,” she
says. “I’m predicting that we’ll be
seeing Deco-inspired furniture
and accessories for fall 2015 and
spring 2016, viewed through the
sleek aperture of midcentury
modern.”
The sophisticated style’s got
legs in both traditional and contemporary décor, so there are lots
of ways to incorporate it.
Ethan Allen has the Shelton
sofa with high, curvy arms, the
Atwood chair with two swooping
sides, and a chic little nickelplated side table. Urban
Outfitters has a vintage-style velvet chaise and fainting couch
available in of-the-moment hues.
—COLOR AND TEXTURE
A heady blend of plum, wine
and burgundy, Marsala is
Pantone’s color of the year, and
while it’s likely to be more prevalent come autumn, you can jump
on the trend now by adding
dashes of the hue.
Overstock’s Presley throw pillow comes in a striking deep-redand-white houndstooth print.
The Calantha wall mirror features a lacquered frame carved in
a floral design. And Safavieh’s
Palmer ottoman pairs creamand-red, windowpane-printed
cotton with nickel rivets for a
versatile little bench.
Look for color used in dramatic
ways: a navy lacquered cabinet
(at CB2), or a glossy burgundy
vanity (Hastings Tile & Bath’s
Made collection). Black is back,
in a sexy bowfront chest at
Wisteria, on walls (Noir is Pratt &
Lambert’s color of the year) and
in Pottery Barn’s new Stinson
bedroom furniture with curly,
barley-twist details. Griffin predicts that kitchens with a lot of
black — mixed with lighter woods
or white — will be hot this year.
Sophisticated pastels — what
Griffin calls the “Jordan almond’
hues — grace textiles, case goods
and even lamps, with mint green
and blush pink being the dominant colors. Wisteria has a collection of sleek, contemporary,
sea-foam green acrylic desks and
tables with a waterfall edge.
Textured linens, silks and cottons in tone-on-tone or colorful
embroidered prints, embossed
fabrics, leathers, and luxe velvets
will grace drapery, upholstery
and rugs.
We were introduced to warm
metallics last year; this year, we’ll
get to know them better. Lighting
and accessories are being rendered in brass, copper and rose
gold.
At the modern end of the spectrum, powder-coated metal is
showing up in pastels and bright
colors, in fun wire lounge chairs
at Land of Nod, file cabinets at
CB2 and steel baskets with birch
handles at Ikea.
Bernhardt’s new collection
includes a brass-clad dresser
and several gold or silver side
tables and benches — elegant
jewelry for a room.
Nate Berkus’ new collection for
Target features geometric metallic motifs on pillows and an interesting piece of wall art. Faceted
lamps and bath accessories come
in white and brushed gold.
“I gravitate toward pieces that
feel architectural,” Berkus says.
He mixed “beachy touches” of
color for a vibe he considers “‘70s
modernism.”
Pierced metal lampshades
could only be found at highdesign ateliers a year ago, but
now Ikea’s Nymo collection
comes in black or white with copper interiors.
Lighter woods reflect both mid-
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century and farmhouse modern
aesthetics; look for light oak and
pine, maple, walnut, acorn and
beech.
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www.hastingstileandbath.com
www.ethanallen.com
www.urbanoutfitters.com
www.westelm.com
www.wisteria.com
www.overstock.com
For 2015, the hot colors in
home decor range from yummy
ice cream pastels to a few deep,
saturated hues.
The pastels include blush, sky
blue, vanilla, lilac and pale peach,
hues traditionally associated with
tropical or desert climes. But they
work in northern light, too — just
ground them with darker shades
like charcoal, chocolate or navy.
Mint and shell pink might seem
lightweight or juvenile at first
glance, but the way they’re being
used gives them some gravitas. A
task lamp; a midcentury-style
chair; a bookcase — rendered in
one of these hues, a room instantly looks Right Now. Mints to consider include Behr’s Mountain
Mint and Pratt and Lambert’s
Glacial Green; check out Pratt
and Lambert’s Coral Pink and
Behr’s Secret Blush for a gentle
yet sophisticated soft pink.
Each year, paint companies
and color trend gurus assess
which hues will be hot in fashion
and décor. Many choose a “color
of the year.”
Coral Reef, a vibrant pinkorange, is Sherwin-Williams’ pick.
Debra Kling, a New York-based
color consultant, thinks it’s a
region-specific hue.
“It feels more suitable for South
Beach, the Southwest or the
South Pacific,” she says.
Jackie Jordan, color marketing
director for Sherwin-Williams,
says the color embodies a cheerful approach to design that’s a
hallmark of 2015. “From our
research, we know people do seek
colors and décor that bring back
memories of a destination vacation,” she says. “Coral Reef evokes
that for people; others just love
the color.”
She suggests pairing it with
white, black, or floral hues like
lush green or deep violet to make
it really sing. To calm things
down, consider complementary
shades of soft gray, driftwood or
butter yellow. Patinated brass
and medium wood tones would
also be pretty accompaniments.
Benjamin Moore has gone with
Guilford Green, a soft hue that
some decorators and designers
see as too pale while others tout
its versatility as a “standard, go-to
green.”
Framed with crisp white,
Guilford Green gives off a pretty,
garden-room vibe; add deeper floral tones like peony, daffodil and
iris to enhance the botanical feel.
Undertones of gray and brown
make it a perfect color against
just about any wood, creating a
restful backdrop for a kitchen,
nursery or sunroom, and it’s a
good exterior hue, too. Check out
Farrow & Ball’s Breakfast Room
Green, a similar shade.
Blues will also be strong this
spring in decorative elements and
room color, evoking locations as
diverse as the South Pacific and
the Pacific Northwest. There’s
global influence with indigos,
while the navies have a preppy
complexion. Behr’s Solitude and
Vintage Velvet, and Benjamin
Moore’s Blue Danube and Harbor
Fog are all attractive. Glidden’s
top color for 2015 is a beachy,
intense Caribbean Blue.
Another blue getting buzz is
Pittsburgh Paint’s color of the
year, Blue Paisley. Some designers think it’s pretty but not especially “new,” since it’s been punctuating the popular gray palette
for a couple of years now.
Nonetheless, it’s a color with legs.
You’ll see it and a deeper teal in
accessories and textiles, and as
accents on smaller furniture
pieces. It can lend a midcentury
aesthetic to trim upholstery and
woods like pecan and walnut that
speak to retro style but also reference classic taste.
Color giant Pantone has
deemed Marsala its color of the
year. New York designer Elaine
Griffin is delighted: “I think it’s a
winner. Red is a color that we
haven’t seen in a while. In this
interpretation as a deep-ish wine
hue, it’s both fresh-looking and
sophisticated, and pairs stylishly
with the new neutrals of gray,
smoky teal and black.”
Kling said some colors have a
mysterious quality “one can’t
quite identify — and Marsala is
one of them. It draws us in. Not
quite brown and not quite burgundy, Marsala lends sophistication and warmth.”
She says it’s well-suited to textures, and as a saturated hue it’s
something special; she just did a
velvet chaise for a client in
Marsala velvet.
While it’s already emerging in
some furnishings, appliances and
cabinetry, Marsala will likely turn
up in much more from retailers
come fall; it projects coziness,
warmth and luxury.
Watch in the fall, too, for olive
green, deep teal, burnt orange
and mustard, all punctuating
midcentury modern style. Fruity
acid versions of lemon, lime and
grape will nod to mod, ‘70s-era
décor.
Pratt & Lambert’s color of the
year is Noir, a bold, inky blueblack. Kling calls it sultry and forbidding. A tray ceiling in a master
bedroom, painted like a night sky,
comes to mind.
“I can imagine a lacquered Noir
library, dining room or other cozy
space used primarily at nighttime,” she says.
Griffin loves the bold choice.
“Black and deep navy were once
seen as the most theatrical colors,
the exclusive domains of the
uber-stylish and certainly not for
the faint of heart,” she says. “But
2015 officially heralds their establishment as neutrals.”
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Good things
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Beavers
a. Brown
J. Brown
estrada
garrett
Nine selected as Rymer Scholar finalists
Lee
University
recently
announced the 2015 Rymer
Scholarship finalists.
The scholarships, which are
provided through the Rymer
Foundation, honor local student
achievement and encourage talented high school students to
remain in the Cleveland area.
The nine students selected as
Rymer finalists for 2015 are
Megan Beavers, Abigail Brown,
Joshalyn Brown, Marisa Estrada,
Rachael
Garrett,
Makayla
Jenkins, Sarah Locke, Savannah
Stone and Tyler Webb.
Three finalists will be designated as Rymer Gold Scholars, three
as Rymer Silver Scholars, and
three as Rymer Bronze Scholars.
Principals
from
Bradley
Central, Cleveland, and Walker
Valley high schools have selected
faculty representatives to serve
alongside Lee University representatives, chosen by Lee
President Dr. Paul Conn, on a
selection committee. The committee conducts interviews with each
finalist and will announce the
award recipients at the annual
Rymer Scholarship banquet on
April 29.
Winners are chosen based on
outstanding high school achieve-
Jenkins
Locke
ment and demonstrated potential for a successful college
career. The scholars are assessed
based on their leadership in
extracurricular, athletic, and
church-based activities, highschool rank, grade point average,
college entrance exam scores,
and a personal interview.
n Beavers, a senior at Bradley
Central High School, is the
daughter of Angela and Steve
Beavers Jr. She is currently
ranked 37 out of 372 with a 3.9
GPA. She is the captain of the
ron CorChnoy of Copperhill was charter
member No. 5 and associate conductor of the
Greater Cleveland Concert Band.
varsity basketball cheerleading
squad. She was named an AllAmerican Cheerleader at a
Universal
Cheerleader’s
Association camp. She has participated
in
Distributive
Education Clubs of America
(DECA), student council, and
National Honor Society (NHS).
She was also voted Homecoming
Queen.
In addition to school activities,
she has participated in countless
church-related activities such as
Vacation Bible School and
stone
church youth programs, and has
volunteered with Christmas
Memories and other community
outreach programs.
n A senior at Cleveland High
School, Abigail Brown is the
daughter of Jerry and Melissa
Brown. She is currently ranked
first in her class of 339 with a 4.0
GPA.
She has been a member of the
basketball cheerleading squad,
student government, Beta Club,
NHS, Interact Service Club,
Model UN, and the Cleveland
Webb
City/Bradley County Chamber of
Commerce Youth Leadership
Program. Abigail is a Tennessee
Scholar and a Raider Scholar.
She has volunteered with
Christmas Memories, Special
Olympics, and Life Bridges
Christmas, as well as a variety of
other community programs and
events.
She attends First Baptist
Church of Cleveland and Mount
Olive Ministries, where she parSee FINALISTS, Page 48
WooDWInDs in the Greater Cleveland Concert Band include clarinetists Richard Borders, Valerie Nozzolo,
DeAnna Moore and Amy Smith.
Greater Cleveland Concert Band plays Pangle Hall Tuesday
The familiar sounds of
“Broadway and Movie Classics”
will fill the evening Tuesday as
the Greater Cleveland Concert
Band plays at Lee University’s
Pangle Hall.
The free concert begins at 7
p.m.
Sarah Pearson, conductor, will
begin the evening at 6:30 with a
pre-concert talk for early
arrivals. She wants to share
some intriguing lore of the
Broadway
musicals
and
Hollywood blockbuster movies
as a pre-opening warm-up.
The featured soprano soloist
for the evening will be Mary Beth
Torgerson.
She will be presenting selections from “Carousel,” a symphonic band arrangement by
Eric Leidzen of Rogers and
Hammerstein’s masterpiece.
Torgerson’s recent stage credits include the Closed Door
Entertainment Stage and Screen
“Cabaret,” “Les Miserables,”
“Titanic the Musical” and
“Cinderella.”
May 22 and 24, Torgerson will
be playing the title role of Mary
Poppins in “Mary Poppins the
Musical” at Chattanooga’s
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial
Auditorium.
As a voracious reader and
storyteller, Torgerson found an
outlet for her passions as managing
editor
for
three
Chattanooga magazines. When
not performing, she loves to volunteer as a character performer
for nonprofit children’s organizations, including the Ronald
McDonald House and Bethany
Christian Services.
She resids in Chattanooga
with her husband Nathan.
Before
jumping into the
Broadway stage musicals,
Pearson will prime the audience
to the State Opera House in
Vienna, Austria, with Karl L.
Mary Beth
torgerson, left,
will be the soprano
soloist for Tuesday’s
concert by the
Greater Cleveland
Concert Band at
Pangle Hall.
sarah
Pearson, right, is
the Greater
Cleveland Concert
Band conductor.
King’s classic “Old Vienna
Overture.”
King composed more than 300
works of many styles, but is
most famous for his circus
marches. In “Old Vienna
Overture,” King displays his
composing versatility with an
andante maestoso opening,
transitioning joyously to a waltz,
followed by a typical Kin acceleration into an allegro, which soon
slams into circus vivace finale.
See CONCERT, Page 48
In law enforcement, as in
business or any other type
of work, numbers often play
an
important
part.
Numbers can swamp us,
even make our eyes glaze
over at times. After my time
in business, law enforcement and eight years in the
state Capitol, I have seen
my share of numbers.
Recently, some numbers
came to my desk that my
command staff and I studied intently. These are very
important numbers, in that
they reflect how successful
your
Bradley
County
Sheriff’s Office is in solving
burglary cases.
Burglaries continue to be
one of the biggest problems
we face, as most stem from
folks stealing from homes
and businesses to feed a
drug habit.
It is clear that drugs and
theft go together almost 100
percent of the time. Your
Sheriff’s Office continues to
make drug arrests daily, in
many instances with stolen
merchandise nearby.
The BCSO Criminal
Investigations
Division,
along with patrol, is on the
alert 24 hours a day for suspicious people or vehicles
that just “look out of place.”
Many times, the “gut feeling” these officers have
results in arrests.
I can assure you, since I
have been able to add more
officers and more patrol
units on the road — up to
some 20 at a time — our
home, school, business and
church checks have greatly
increased.
Now, let us get back to
the numbers.
The
Tennessee
Bureau
of
Investigation released a
report late last week that I
feel like reflected the hard
work our CID and Patrol
have been doing.
According to the TBI
report, your Bradley County
Sheriff’s Office has solved
26 percent of all cases.
That is almost double the
state rate of some 12 percent
and
the
East
Tennessee rate of 14 percent. There has been hard
work behind those numbers, not to mention the
extraordinary cooperation
we have had from the citizens of Bradley County.
One of the largest burglary cases in recent memory
was solved shortly after
Sept. 1, and it was the
result of one phone call by
one citizen. Hundreds of
burglary cases were closed
and thousands of dollars
worth of stolen items were
recovered, all because the
caller thought a vehicle,
leaving the area near her
house looked suspicious.
The young man involved in
those burglaries remains in
jail today.
I cannot say enough
about the spirit of teamwork
within the BCSO and the
help we receive from the
public. I am so thankful for
the folks that live in Bradley
County.
Your cooperation and
friendship has greatly contributed to the good things
that are happening at your
Bradley County Sheriff’s
Office.
To the residents of
Bradley County: Thank you!
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Ollie J. Lee Symposium showcases
Lee University student research
Greater clevelanD Concert Band members span all age levels. Alexs Bramlett, left, from Benton
is a percusionist for the band. Lamar Strickland, right, from Dayton, is a French horn veteran.
Concert
From Page 47
The band will then take the
concertgoers to a village rooftop
by fiddling with Tevye, a Jewish
milkman who had five daughters, causing struggles with how
to deal with mixed marriage in
his family. Jerry Brock’s musical, “Fiddler on the Roof,” was
nominated for 10 Tony Awards,
winning nine times.
England has had its share of
great composers. Among their
most famous is Andrew Lloyd
Webber with his “Phantom of the
Opera” thriller.
“Carousel” initially ran for 890
performances and was repeatedly revived, prompting Time
Magazine to call it the best
musical of the 20th century. If
the audience echoes a lingering
tune in the days following the
concert, it will most likely be the
“Carousel” finale, “You’ll Never
Walk Alone.” The story setting
revolves around a carousel barker boy who falls in love with a
millworker girl, resulting with
the loss of their jobs.
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and
Juliet” was the inspiration for
American Leonard Bernstein’s
“West Side Story.” Its plot venue
is New York City’s upper west
side where during the mid
1950s, the ongoing rivalry
Finalists
From Page 47
ticipates in various youth group
activities.
n Cleveland High School senior
Joshalyn Brown is the daughter
of Joe and Jacqueline Brown.
She has a 4.0 GPA and is ranked
first in her class of 339.
She has been a member of the
varsity soccer team, Healthcare
Occupations Students of America
(HOSA), NHS, Winterguard,
Silhouettes Choir, and CHS
Choir. She was a Dream Keeper
Award recipient, Cleveland High
School Honor recipient, and
Raider Scholar.
She attends North Cleveland
Church of God, where she has
been a participant in team and
individual Bible quizzing for Teen
Talent.
She is also a volunteer in the
children’s ministry, church nursery, and a local shelter.
n Estrada, the daughter of Noé
and Tammy Estrada, is a senior
at Bradley Central High School.
She is ranked 48 out of 372 and
has a 3.91 GPA.
She has been a part of the
dance team, NHS, Beta Club,
HOSA, varsity basketball and
football
cheerleading,
and
Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
where she is a worship and small
group leader. She has volunteered with Christmas Memories,
Signature Healthcare, and the
Salvation Army Kitchen.
She is a youth worship leader
at Peerless Road Church of God
of Prophecy and a volunteer for
the church nursery and food distribution program.
n Garrett, daughter of Jeffrey
and Linda Garrett, is a senior at
Bradley Central High School.
She is currently ranked seventh
of 372 with a 4.0 GPA.
She is a member of the tennis
team, the head of Bake Shop,
and a participant in Skills USA.
She has also participated in the
ProStart team and the volleyball
team. She placed third in the
state ProStart competition and
received “Most Digs” in volleyball. During the summer, Garrett
coaches tennis to young children.
In addition, she has volunteered with Vacation Bible School
and the Night of Lights 5K.
n Jenkins is ranked seventh in
her senior class of 374 at Walker
Valley High School, where she
has maintained a 4.0 GPA. She is
the daughter of Danny and Kathy
Jenkins.
She has participated in countless activities with DECA and is a
member of NHS, Beta Club,
National English Honor Society
(NEHS), World Language Club,
German American Partnership
Program, and Drama Club.
Jenkins is a member of Circle of
Champions and has been named
a Tennessee Scholar. She has
volunteered with Christmas
Memories and a refugee community in Atlanta, Georgia.
At Westwood Baptist Church,
she is a member of the dance
team, teaches children’s church,
participates in the Christmas and
Easter programs, and volunteers
with Vacation Bible School and
youth mission trips.
n The daughter of Randall and
Melissa Locke and senior at
Walker Valley High School, Locke
is ranked 54 out of 374 with a 4.0
GPA.
She has been a Tennessee
Scholar as well as a member of
the Walker Valley High School
Ladies
Choir,
Circle
of
Champions, and Dance Team,
where she served as captain. She
has also been a member of the
student government association,
NEHS, Beta Club, and Chamber
of
Commerce
Leadership
Council.
She has volunteered with
Christmas Memories, Morning
Point Assisted Living Center,
Ronald McDonald House, New
Hope Pregnancy Center, the
Alzheimer’s Walk, and Habitat for
Humanity,
among
others.
Additionally, Locke formed the
City of Charleston Neighborhood
Watch Program.
n Stone, a senior at Walker
Valley High School, is the daughter of Vince and Tena Stone. She
is ranked eighth of 374 with a 4.0
GPA.
She has been a Tennessee
Scholar and a member of Circle
of Champions as well as a member of the marching band, concert band, NHS, NEHS, and student government.
She was the winner of
Cleveland’s Distinguished Young
Women’s Scholarship Program in
2011.
Stone was a leading member in
the founding of The Manna
Project, a food distribution project. She is a member of the youth
drama team and orchestra at
Westmore Church of God, and
she has attended mission trips to
Haiti with her church and to
Mexico with a nonprofit organization called OneHope.
n Webb, a senior at Walker
Valley High School, is the son of
Brian and Jessica Webb.
He is ranked ninth of 374 in
his senior class and has a 3.96
GPA. He has been a member of
the student superintendent advisory board, NEHS, NHS, Circle of
Champions, and Tennessee
Scholars.
He also participated in AllState and All-East choirs as well
as four spring musicals. At Mt.
Olive Church of God, Webb has
been involved with the LH20
Student Ministries Drama Team
and Student Council, and participated with synchronized movement teams in the Teen Talent
competition.
between two street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds stirs
up heated musical emotions.
Another English origination
based on George Bernard
Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” is Allen Jay
Lerner and Frederick Lowe’s “My
Fair Lady.” Liza Doolittle, a
Cockney flower girl; takes
speech lessons form professor
Henry Higgins in an effort to
pass a lady. The Broadway production set a record at th time
for the longest run of any major
musical production in history,
and is often referred to as “the
perfect musical.”
The concert finale will be Paul
Lavender’s arrangement of medleys by American composer John
Williams. titled “John Williams
in Concert, the piece begins with
“Theme form E.T.,” then “The
Mission Theme,” “The Imperial
March and wrapping up with a
medley from “Star Wars,”
“Cantina Band,” “Olympic Spirit
and “Theme from Jaws.”
Pearson accepted the GCCB
music director and conductor
roll last fall. She received the
“enthusiastic endorsement” of
Maestro Robert Bernhardt, conductor
emeritus
of
the
Chattanooga
Symphony
Orchestra
and
Opera
Association and current artistin-Residence of the Lee
University Symphony.
Her credentials include conducting a Europeans music festival, Julliard School of Music
and for symphonies in Atlanta,
Buffalo,
Chattanooga
and
Houston.
On Set. 22, 2008, Lowell
Brannon joined the band as a
trumpeter. A Church of God
bishop for more than 45 years,
he passed away Jan. 19 at
Vanderbilt Medical Center. An
insert in the concert program
will pay tribute to Lowell’s contributions to the band.
Pangle Hall, at 340 Church
St., is located in the former First
Baptist Church site. There is
ample parking on both sides of
the street. A front entry ramp is
available if needed.
A chartered nonprofit organization, the Great Cleveland
Concert Band invites donations
to help with their operating band
fund. The band’s community
outreach projects have supported student scholarship, music
stand purchases for BlytheBower Elementary, food drives
for the Caring Place, plus supplies and music purchases.
For additional information,
contact band president R.G.
Wolfe at 423-614-0060.
State agrees to let
couple give child
chosen surname
NASHVILLE (AP) — The state
Department of Health has agreed
to let a Brentwood couple give
their child the surname of their
choice, bringing to an end a contentious legal battle that began
last year.
The American Civil Liberties
Union filed a lawsuit last year on
behalf of Dr. Carl Abramson and
Kimberly Sarubbi after the state
refused to allow the couple to give
their third child the last name
Sabr. The name is a combination
of both parents’ last names.
An attorney for the ACLU says
that the lawsuit was dismissed on
Thursday and the state issued a
birth certificate with the surname
that the parents chose for the
child.
State officials did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
The Lee University Department
of Behavioral and Social Sciences
hosted its fifth annual Ollie J.
Lee Symposium on April 9 to
honor Distinguished Professor of
Sociology Dr. Ollie J. Lee.
The symposium showcased
original student research in
anthropology, psychology and
sociology.
Dr. Lee joined the Lee faculty
in 1967 and has served for 48
years in numerous roles, including vice president of Academic
Affairs, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, and chair of
the Department of Behavioral
and Social Sciences. He now
serves as Professor Emeritus.
According to Dr. Carolyn
Dirksen, director of the Center
for Teaching Excellence, Lee was
influential during the period
when he was beginning the transition from Bible college to liberal
arts institution.
He helped prepare for the
accreditation review of the new
majors, write the faculty constitution, and formulate the rights
and responsibilities of Lee faculty. He also chaired the committee
that wrote Lee University’s mission statement and formulated
the institutional goals.
Since that time, Lee has been
instrumental in helping to further the academic and professional life of the university,
including chairing the General
Education Core Task Force that
redesigned core requirements
and chairing the committee that
directed academic aspects of the
transition from college to university.
“Every faculty member and
every student is touched every
day by Dr. Lee’s foundational
work,” said Dirksen. “The Lee
University of 2015 is significantly
different from the Lee College of
1967, and much of the hard,
behind-the-scenes work of that
transformation has been done by
Ollie Lee.”
There were more than 60 students with 36 presentations at
the symposium held in Lee’s
honor, including both oral expositions and poster displays.
There were seven presentations
from anthropology students, 19
from psychology students, and
10 from sociology students.
In the plenary session, Dr.
Jeffrey Sargent, chair of the
Department of Social and
Behavioral Sciences, and Lee
President Dr. Paul Conn gave
opening remarks about the symposium. As an academic of psychology, Conn described the
social sciences as “the sweet spot
between philosophy and science.”
Jacqueline camPbell, Winter Bunch, Dr. Susan Carter, professor of psychology and human development at Lee, and Mikaela
Peachey were members of a research team that presented an oral
presentation at the symposium.
Dr. Paul conn, Lee University president, speaks of the joys of
behavioral and social science research to the symposium attendees
during the plenary session.
“Presenting at the Ollie J. Lee
Symposium was by far the most
rewarding academic experience I
have had during my time at Lee,”
said Mikaela Peachey, a junior
psychology major. “It allowed me
to push myself way beyond the
normal classroom expectations
and to grow immensely.”
The poster presentations provided 23 different topics within
the three disciplines. During the
oral presentations, anthropology
research topics included catastrophe and social reconstruction
in the areas surrounding Mt.
Vesuvius, possibilities for and
perceptions of “home” among the
homeless, and midwifery, among
others.
Within the psychology discipline,
students
presented
research topics such as the effect
of gender on altruistic behavior,
young adults’ sexual attitudes
and behaviors, and activating
transcendence in family and
church settings. Sociology students presented on students with
learning disabilities, juvenile
delinquency, and the murder of
Sheila Bellush, along with other
topics.
“With over 170 attendees and
36 student presentations, this
year’s Ollie J. Lee Symposium
exceeded all expectations,” said
Dr. Bryan Poole, assistant professor of psychology. “Our students’ research was skillfully
conducted and masterfully presented.”
the Lee University Department of
Behavioral and Social Sciences,
contact Dr. Jeffrey Sargent at
[email protected] or
423-614-8125.
Zachary
Sawyer
presents his
research about
the differences
between mental health and
mental illness
to a group of
symposium
student attendees.
Lee Senior Showcase underway
at Museum Center at Five Points
Lee University senior art
majors are currently displaying
their work at a Senior Showcase
through May 8 at the Museum
Center at Five Points in downtown Cleveland.
The presenting students
include Alice Antimie, Shanna
Calfee, Carly Chamerlik, Giselle
Garrett, Abbye Head, Demetrius
Jackson, Emily Lockman, Angela
Sesler, Kathryn Sloan and Olivia
Webb.
Head, a senior art and advertising double major, is displaying
her showcase titled “Escaping
Humanness.” Her focus is with
graphic design and charcoal
drawings, both of which are featured in her showcase based on
surrealism and dreams. There
will be six pieces displayed in
Lee’s Communication Arts building and one piece at the museum.
“The piece at the museum
stands separate from the others
but still represents the dreams,
freedom, and limitless possibilities that come with totally committing your life to Christ,” Head
said.
Chamerlik, originally from
Chicago, is a senior art major
with a studio emphasis. She primarily works in oil paints and
focuses
on
portraiture.
Chamerlik’s showcase features
three life-size dancers displaying
movement and light, along with a
few other larger-than-life portraits.
“The main thing I tried to convey in my show is the essence of
natural beauty and how the overprocessing in popular culture
and the media devalues raw,
unedited states of being,”
Chamerlik said. “It's a commentary on life as a young woman in
the 21st century.”
Head and Chamerlik’s work,
along with the other students’
pieces, can be viewed at the
museum Tuesday through Friday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Additional work is on display at
Lee University in the Squires
Library, Humanities Building,
and the Communication Arts
Building.
“This year’s senior art students
have done outstanding work, and
display a lot of talent,” said John
Simmons, assistant professor of
art at Lee. “We are proud of them
and all of their artistic accomplishments and encourage everyone to visit the various sites to
view their work.”
showcase or Lee’s Art Program,
contact the Department of
Communication Arts at 423-614dURING ThE mOsT recent meeting of the Cleveland Civitan Club, Jeff Cocks, president of Corporate
8341.
Network Solutions ,gave a brief synopsis of Internet capabilities, Google functions and abilities and some
amazing computer facts not only for our region but for the world wide web. From left are Pam Edgemond,
Pat Sosebee, Brenda Richardson, Jeff Cocks, Linda Wheeler and Phil Brown.
FROm lEFT are Mary Mathias-Dickerson (art faculty), Shanna Calfee, Olivia Webb, Carly Chamerlik,
Emily Lockman, Abbye Head, Alice Antimie, and Demetrius Jackson; back, Giselle Garrett, and John
Simmons.
Christian Single Friends plan meetings
for Thursdays April 30 through June 4
Cleveland Christian Single
Friends will be meeting Thursday
nights, April 30 through June 4,
for a spring study series.
This will be a six-week series
utilizing the book "The Prodigal
God" by Timothy Keller. The
group will take a look at one of
Jesus' most well-known parables
and discover that we miss the full
message if we focus only on the
wayward son. This is a story that
reveals how God loves us with
lavish abundance and reckless
extravagance.
The study will meet at
Westmore Church of God, Room
218, at 6:30 p.m. Copies of the
book will be provided.
To help cover the cost, donations will be welcomed, but not
required.
Cleveland Christian Single
friends is a nondenominational
group and members are from
several Bradley County and
Hamilton County churches. You
can contact to the group or find
out about future events by visiting its Facebook page, Single
CElEbRATING AdmINIsTRATIVE Assistant Day at Ocoee Middle School, the administrative assisFriends-Cleveland TN or email
tants
were given a limo ride (provided courtesy of Fike-Randolph and Son) to Five Point Square
the group at clevelandRestaurant. From left, back, are Debbie Hysinger, Joyce Ratcliff, Tabitha Bryant, Mandy Manning, Bea
[email protected].
Holappa, Paula Neighbors; and front, Donida Pigg and JoAnn Whitehead.
Adults deserve a Promise too!
Cleveland State’s last dollar scholarship for adult students.
OAK GROVE RURITAN Club’s special guest during April was
Robby Cody of Companion Funeral and Cremation Service. He gave
information about funeral arrangements and cremation. From left is
Ray Myers, program chairman and zone governor; Cody; and
Barbara Trentham, president and treasurer.
William Lamb earns doctorate
Dr. William Lamb, director of and leadership magazines. A U.S.
Lee University’s Leonard Center, Marine Corps veteran, he also
recently earned a doctorate in serves as a chaplain for Bradley
organizational leadership from County Fire-Rescue and the
the School of Business and Sheriff’s Office. He is in his secLeadership at Regent University ond term as a member of the
in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Tennessee
Governor’s
Lamb’s dissertation, titled Commission on Volunteerism and
“Service-Learning and
Service.
University
Students’
Lamb holds a master’s
Motivation to Lead,”
degree in youth and faminvestigated the relationily ministry and a bacheship between students’
lor’s in religious studies.
service experiences and
“I appreciate the
their motivation for leadencouragement of my
ership. According to
family and friends as
Lamb, the data revealed
well as my colleagues at
that students’ serviceLee University along this
learning
experiences,
Ph.D. journey,” said
their self-efficacy, and
Lamb. “I look forward to
Lamb
their perceived leadercontinuing my work with
ship skills all have a strong bear- service-learning and student
ing on their desires to show lead- development at Lee.”
ership.
He and his wife, Angela, have
In addition to serving as direc- three sons and one daughter-intor of the Leonard Center, Lamb law, Tyler and Megan, Nicholas,
teaches courses on Christian and Benjamin.
Benevolence and Global Missions,
Lee’s Leonard Center guides
is a Gateway instructor for fresh- students in service-learning and
man classes, and is a lecturer in partners with various organizaLee’s Summer Honors program.
tions to give students the opporHe is the co-author of “Answers tunity to engage in a high-impact
to Questions Youth Workers, learning experience while proParents, and Pastors Ask” and is moting the mission of community
frequently published in ministry organizations.
The Tennessee Promise scholarship was
developed by the State to assist students right out
of high school go to college. So what’s out there for
adult students?
Enter the Adult Promise Scholarship from Cleveland
State Community College! It’s our commitment to our
adult students to ensure that they have the resources
to attend college. If you’re attending college for the
first time, or returning to college to complete your first
degree this scholarship was created just for you!
For more information call (423) 472-2310, or go to
clevelandstatecc.edu and check out the scholarships page.
Bradley 4-H demonstration
contest winners announced
Bradley County 4-h students who won at the
classroom level advanced on to the County
Demonstration Contest held april 17 at Cleveland
state Community College.
First-place winners in grades sixth through eight
were line and Design, McKenzie Decker;
engineering/safety science, andrew Womac;
Companion animal, Bethany hobbs and autumn
Miller; Consumer education, Brady shubert; and
Forestry/Wildlife/Fisheries; Neyland O’Daniel.
First-place winners in fourth grade were line and
Design, hannah Watson; leadership/Personal
Development, allie Maples; Performing arts and
FIFTH-GRAdE wINNERS included Victoria Majeske, Minnie Brock, Lindsey Hughes, Keller Melton Recreation,
Tommy
Coleman;
and Klay Brancefield; and back, Kaylie Riley and Cathy Hicks, with judge Cameron Taylor; and Kade Nutrition/health/Fitness; Briana Cole, animal
Deuster.
science, Noah Birdwell; Companion animal, Ruby
anziano;
Forestry/Wildlife/Fisheries,
Klay
Brancefield; electric, Keller Melton; and
Photography, Cassie hicks.
First-place winners in fifth grade were line and
Design, Cathena hightshoe; Performing arts and
Recreation, aubrey Neidich; Companion animal,
Jessie henderson; horticulture/Gardening, Caleigh
White; Photography, victoria Majeske; and electric,
Kade Deuster.
The first-place winners of the County Contest will
advance on to the Multi-County Contest to be held
in Bledsoe County on May 2.
FIRST plACE in fifth-grade Food Science was
won by Salada Alderman. Judge was Kathryn
Ervin.
FOURTH-GRAdE competitors included Taylor Rose, Alyssia Taylor, Noah Birdwell, Jessie Henderson,
Ruby Anziano and Caleigh White. Judges, back, were Doug Bunch and Karen Lowe.
FOURTH-GRAdE competitors included Briana Cole, Allie Maples, Naysa Janney, Tommy Coleman,
Marissa Bivens and Hannah Watson. Judges, back, were Shannon Kelley and Arlene McAree.
Going viral
Driving to a call this last week
i saw something that i thought
was especially poignant — a
homeowners had set out a couple
packs of bright new pansies in
their plastic pots and had
stepped back to take a picture
with their camera-phone.
i wondered — were they posting about their green thumb on
Facebook?
Were they texting the image to
their children and friends?
Did they have a question for
their extension agent, and were
they about to email me the picture with a question?
Whatever reason they had for
snapping a shot of their work-inprogress, i appreciated them taking the time to document a step
in the gardening process.
Too often, the pictures that get
sent my way are taken when it’s
too late to help, or when whatever
control is necessary has become
expensive or time-consuming.
a recent call to a local gardener
was a reminder of this, and
should serve as a piece of advice.
Thorny Business
Rose rosette disease is a virus
that attacks roses and is often
fatal. its hallmark characteristics
are bright red, mottled leaves,
prolific thorns on the plant’s
stems, and the telltale “witch’s
broom,” a bristling profusion of
brightly colored growth.
The virus is thought to be
spread by microscopic rust mites
and affected roses continue to
bloom for a time before eventually succumbing and dying.
in this particular situation,
the homeowner had a bad case
of rose rosette on one plant the
first year, then on several more
plants the second year, and
finally on the third year all the
plants were diseased.
By the time i was asked to
identify the disease and give a
recommendation, it was four
years too late.
The rose’s new growth was
bright red and the stems were
furred by thorns — the witch’s
broom, while not obvious yet,
had apparently been seen in the
past couple years.
Because all of the plants were
affected, my recommendation
had to be a full replacement of
all the roses and a rest period
From the County
Agent’s Desk
By Patrick Sweatt
TSU Extension Agent
Bradley County Agriculture
and Natural Resources
before more were planted. The
virus gets into the plant’s tissue
and if not immediately detected
and cut out will go systemic.
if we had caught the disease in
one of the previous growing seasons, it is possible the homeowner could have used an insecticide
to control the mites that spread
the disease or removed the
affected plants before the virus
spread.
Swiping Forward
While hindsight might be
20/20, it’s the megapixels in
your camera that really allow
you to look back in the past and
clearly identify horticultural
problems.
i would suggest taking a cue
from the gardener at the beginning of this article and stepping
back to take a look at the whole
picture.
even if you don’t post what
you see on the internet, there’s a
good chance that you might
notice something new.
NRCS providing $1.8M to protect and
restore agricultural lands in Tennessee
Nashville — United states
Department of agriculture’s
Natural Resources Conservation
service in Tennessee is making
available up to $1,801,989 in
financial and technical assistance
through
the
agricultural
Conservation easement Program
(aCeP).
NRCs is making $332 million in
financial and technical assistance
available nationwide to help productive farm and ranch lands
remain in agriculture and to protect the nation’s critical wetlands
and grasslands.
“NRCs helps farmers, ranchers,
private forest landowners and
partners to achieve their conservation goals using our technical
expertise, Farm Bill funding and
sound conservation planning,”
Kevin Brown, Tennessee state conservationist, said. “Conservation
easements are an important tool to
help these landowners and partners voluntarily provide long-term
protection of our nation’s farmland, ranchland, wetlands and
grasslands for future generations.”
The 2014 Farm Bill consolidated
three previous conservation easement programs into aCeP to make
it easier for diverse agricultural
landowners to fully benefit from
conservation initiatives. NRCs
easement programs have been a
critical tool in recent years for
advancing landscape-scale private
lands conservation.
in FY 2014, NRCs in Tennessee
used $2,653,443 in aCeP funding
to enroll an estimated 1,129 acres
of farmland, ranchland, grassland
and wetlands through 10 new
easements.
aCeP’s agricultural land easements not only protect the longterm viability of the nation’s food
supply by preventing conversion of
productive working lands to nonagricultural uses, but they also
support environmental quality,
historic preservation, wildlife habi-
FIFTH-GRAdE participants included Cathena
Hightshoe, Haley Cabrera,
Chance Atterton, Aubrey
Neidich and Abby Ellis.
Judge was Janet Bunch,
back.
tat and protection of open spaces.
american indian tribes, state
and local governments and nongovernmental organizations that
have farmland or grassland protection programs are eligible to partner with NRCs to purchase conservation easements.
Wetland reserve easements
allow landowners to successfully
enhance and protect habitat for
wildlife on their lands, reduce
impacts from flooding, recharge
groundwater and provide outdoor
recreational and educational
opportunities. NRCs provides
technical and financial assistance
aCeP applications can be submitted at any time to NRCs; however, applications for the current
funding round must be submitted
by May 15.
aCeP applications are currently
being accepted for both agricultural land and wetlands reserve easements. applications are available
at local UsDa service Centers.
SIXTH THROUGH
EIGHTH- GRAdE winners, left, were Neyland
O’Daniel, McKenzie
Decker and Andrew
Womac. At back are
Brady Shubert and
Bethany Hobbs.
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tina’s Groove
CROSSWORD
By Eugene Sheffer
Baby Blues
Blondie
ASTROLOGY
SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2015
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:
Jemima Kirke, 30; Channing Tatum, 35;
Tom Welling, 38; Kevin James, 50.
Happy Birthday: Carefully assess
every move you want to make this year.
It will be easy to get caught up in situations that can end up costing you more
than you anticipate. Being conservative
doesn't necessarily mean being boring.
Avoid impulsiveness, stick to your budget
and set goals without giving in to temptation or pressure. Choose stability over
extravagance. Your numbers are 5, 7,
22, 31, 35, 43, 49.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Engage in
activities that offer adventure. Challenge
yourself to do better. Don't let critical individuals bring you down or hold you back.
Believe in your abilities, negotiate on
your own behalf and make your dreams
come true.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Problems
at home will escalate if someone has
spent too much money or behaved selfishly. Try not to let your emotions take
over. Staying calm and looking for workable solutions will bring the best results.
Use brains over brawn.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Love is on
the rise, and romance will help your personal life flourish. Socializing and sharing
your ideas will lead to a positive lifestyle
change. Don't pass up an opportunity
someone offers.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Living in
the past will not propel you forward.
Reminiscing may take your mind off
something you are avoiding, but eventually you will have to deal with the
changes you are facing. Put problems
behind you instead of running away from
them.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will face
temptation. It's good to take action, but
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don't overdo it, or you'll face criticism and
setbacks. Focus on what you do best,
and you will secure your position instead
of jeopardizing your chances to get
ahead.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Find out
all you can about the people who can
influence your life, position or future. A
problem with someone close to you will
limit your ability to do what you like.
Preparation and organization will be
required to avoid disappointment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Step things
up a notch. It's up to you to exhibit your
beliefs, ideas and plans to bring about
change. Your dedication, loyalty and
intelligence will help you overcome any
negativity or opposition you face. Love is
highlighted.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Emotional situations will escalate rapidly,
leaving you in a precarious position.
Don't try to cover up for a mistake someone else has made. Stick to the truth and
offer suggestions that are clear-cut and
doable. Stay calm -- anger will get you
nowhere.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Travel, learning and engaging in interesting pastimes will lead to positive lifestyle
changes. Don't be fooled by a slick sales
pitch. Do your research, and you will get
the most for the least. Love is on the rise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Share your ideas with those who will be
affected by your plans. A change will
frighten someone who is comfortable
with things the way they are. Use all the
information you have gathered, and you
will get your way.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A situation between yourself and a friend, relative or lover will spin out of control. Don't
get angry or overreact. Give yourself
some time to rethink your strategy. Focus
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on personal pampering, not criticizing or
trying to change others.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pick up
the knowledge, experience and skills
required to get ahead. Embellishing what
you have to offer will lead to disappointment. Be honest about your capabilities
and your willingness to learn, and you will
be given greater consideration.
Birthday Baby: You are precise,
practical and intelligent. You are familyoriented and conservative.
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:
Austin Dillon, 25; Jenna-Louise
Coleman, 29; Patrick Stump, 31; Ari
Graynor, 32.
Happy Birthday: Keep your life simple, focused and on track. You will be
taken for granted if you are too willing to
help others achieve before you master
your own goals. Deal with emotional situations before they have a chance to
escalate. It will be your promptness and
your strong sense of justice that will prevail. Learn as you go. Your numbers are
6, 13, 19, 22, 27, 31, 46.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aim to
impress. Love is on the rise and romance
in the stars. No matter what your focus is,
do your best. An older relative will appreciate your concern. Neglect will play a
role in the way a situation unfolds.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stick to a
set formula or conservative strategy
when it comes to budgeting and making
your nest egg grow. Don't feel pressured
by what others do or say. Think for yourself, do your own thing and you will avoid
a loss.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Focus on
home, family and self-pampering. Do
whatever it takes to keep things running
smoothly. A problem when dealing with
institutions will crop up. Put off any legal,
financial or medical matters for now.
Love is in the stars.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Accept
whatever changes are going on around
you and keep moving in the direction that
seems the most appropriate. It's best not
to make a fuss or promise too much. Just
do what's expected of you and avoid
emotional conflict.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Overreacting
will not help you avoid disputes at work or
at home. Make whatever changes are
necessary and do your best to take care
of your responsibilities to avoid complaints or criticism. Discipline and hard
work will be your best response.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Live and
learn. Ask questions and respond with
confidence. Taking part in community
events or traveling for business will be
emotionally draining, but will give you
plenty to think about. Progressive action
will pay off.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expect the
unexpected. Learn to go with the flow
and you'll keep the peace as well. Don't
get involved in a joint venture or put cash
into something that is aimed to help
someone else instead of helping you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Taking
an introspective look at your life and the
way you've been living will help you
make some necessary adjustments that
will lead to a more creative and interesting future. Don't worry about what others
do -- follow your heart.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Look around you and make personal
changes that will bring you added confidence, greater satisfaction and improve
your love life. Real estate investments or
fixing up your residence will help your
assets grow. Romance is highlighted.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Concentrate on the changes you can
make at home that will better your life. A
last-minute change someone makes
must not alter your plans or leave you
feeling confused. Use your imagination
and your skills to improve your surroundings.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You'll
be offered help, but before you accept,
find out what it will cost financially, emotionally or physically. You may be best to
go it alone or negotiate your position and
what you are willing to give in order to
receive.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Expect
to face a roadblock. Challenge anyone
who gets in your way or criticizes you. Be
willing to let someone walk away if it is in
your best interest. Try to surround yourself with positive, upbeat and helpful people.
Birthday Baby: You are observant,
charming and persuasive. You are brave
and outspoken.
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Law & Order Å (DVS)
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››› “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012, Action) Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans.
››› “The Incredible Hulk” (2008, Action) Edward Norton, Liv Tyler.
››› “Thor” (2011, Action)
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Criminal Minds ’ Å
Bates Motel “Norma Louise” Bates Motel ’ Å
The Returned “Rowan” ’
The First 48 ’ Å
Paid Program Paid Program Joel Osteen In Touch
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Everest: Beyond the Limit
Bear Grylls: Man vs. Everest Last Frontiersman ’ Å
Naked and Afraid ’ Å
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›› “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1987) Patrick Dempsey.
››› “The Breakfast Club” (1985) Emilio Estevez.
›› “Stick It” (2006) Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym.
› “What a Girl Wants” (2003) Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth.
›› “A Cinderella Story”
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Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls (:12) The Golden Girls Å
Golden Girls Instant Mom The Soul Man Cleveland
Roseanne ’ Roseanne ’ Roseanne ’ Roseanne ’ Roseanne ’ Roseanne ’
(6:59) Mad Men Å
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TURN: Washington’s Spies (:02) ›› “The Shadow Riders” (1982) Tom Selleck. ‘PG’
››› “We Were Soldiers” (2002, War) Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe. ‘R’ Å
››› “Jurassic Park”
(6:00) ›› “Bitter Sweet”
››› “The Private Life of Henry VIII” (1933) Å
›› “Algiers” (1938) Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr.
››› “Le Mans” (1971, Action) Steve McQueen. Å
››› “The Spanish Main” (1945) Paul Henreid. Å
I Love Lucy I Love Lucy The Middle
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Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls “All of My Heart” (2015, Romance) Lacey Chabert. Å
›› “In My Dreams” (2014) Katharine McPhee. Å
›› “Elevator Girl” (2010)
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›› “Dinocroc vs. Supergator” (2010) David Carradine.
›› “Dinoshark” (2010, Horror) Eric Balfour, Aarón Díaz.
“Robocroc” (2013) Corin Nemec, Steven Hartley.
“Mega Shark vs.”
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Body Beast! Shaun T’s
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Bar Rescue ’
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(11:55) ›› “Dinner for Schmucks” (2010) Steve Carell, Paul Rudd. Å
››› “Hot Tub Time Machine” (2010)
Catfish: The TV Show ’
Teen Mom Maci is expecting. Teen Mom ’ Å
››› “Mean Girls” (2004) Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams. ’
(:20) ››› “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” (2012) Logan Lerman.
VH1, Music The Buzz Re Top 20 Video Countdown
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The Ride Jessie J. ’
(:05) Saturday Night Live “SNL’s NFL Saturday” ’ Å
(:15) ›› “Radio” (2003, Drama) Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard. ’
CMT Music ’
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Hot 20 Countdown A countdown of the biggest music videos. Å
Reba Å
(:35) Reba ’ (:10) Reba ’ (:45) Reba ’ Å
(:20) Reba ’ (2:55) Reba Bucket
BET’s Morning Inspiration Peter Popoff Pastor Chris Bobby Jones Gospel Å
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››› “The Color Purple” (1985) Whoopi Goldberg. Based on Alice Walker’s portrait of a rural black woman. Å
Madea’s Big Happy Family
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Book Discussion on ISIS Exposed ’
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›››› “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Henry Thomas. ’
››› “The Fugitive” (1993) Harrison Ford.
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Prison Wives Debra Wilmont. Trauma: Life in the ER ’
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John Hagee Marriage
Bal. Living
Greg Dickow T.D. Jakes
Joyce Meyer Lead the Way The Blessed Joel Osteen Kerry Shook K. Copeland Creflo Dollar ››› “The Shoes of the Fisherman” (1968, Drama) Anthony Quinn.
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GSL: Cities of Champions
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The Closer Å
The Good Wife ’ Å
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Mike & Molly Mike & Molly How I Met
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(3:00) Reagan ’ Å
America’s Ballroom Chall
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Call the Midwife (N) Å
(:05) Masterpiece Classic (N) Wolf Hall on Masterpiece (N) (:03) Masterpiece Classic ’ Call the Midwife ’ Å
Supernatural! Keith Moore D. Jeremiah J. Ankerberg Jeffress
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NBA Basketball: Clippers at Spurs
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(:01) Revenge “Aftermath”
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Civil War: The Untold Story Weekend
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(:05) Masterpiece Classic (N) Wolf Hall on Masterpiece (N) (:06) Independent Lens ’ Å
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›› “National Security” (2003) Martin Lawrence. Å
Simpsons
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Blue Bloods “Devil’s Breath”
PGA Tour Golf Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Final Round. Ray Charles CBS News
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Susan Graver Style Easy wear and care fashions.
(3:30) Washington This Week ’
Washington Newsmakers White House Dinner
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British House of Commons Road to the White House ’ Q & A ’
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(2:30) ›› “The Art of War” ›› “The Guardian” (2006, Drama) Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward.
›› “Fantastic Four” (2005, Action) Ioan Gruffudd. Å
Salem “Book of Shadows”
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››› “Bridesmaids” (2011, Comedy) Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne.
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NCIS: Los Angeles ’ Å
NCIS: Los Angeles “LD50”
Brew Dogs “Berlin”
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(3:00) “Til Death Do Us Part” ›› “Lizzie Borden Took an Ax” (2014) Christina Ricci.
Lizzie Borden Chronicles
(3:00) 19 Kids and Counting 19 Kids
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Bad Teacher ››› “Knocked Up” (2007) Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl. (DVS)
Big Bang
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››› “Knocked Up” (2007) Seth Rogen. (DVS)
(2:45) ›››› “The Dark Knight” (2008) Christian Bale.
NBA Tip-Off NBA Basketball Toronto Raptors at Washington Wizards. (N) (Live) Å
NBA Basketball Houston Rockets at Dallas Mavericks. (N) (Live) Å
Inside the NBA (N) Å
Basketball
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(3:00) ››› “Thor” (2011, Action)
››› “Captain America: The First Avenger” (2011, Action) Chris Evans.
››› “Marvel’s the Avengers” (2012, Action) Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans.
››› “Marvel’s the Avengers” (2012) Robert Downey Jr.
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SportsCenter (N) Å
Sunday Night Countdown
MLB Baseball New York Mets at New York Yankees. (N) (Live)
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MLS Soccer Los Angeles Galaxy at New York Red Bulls.
30 for 30 Å
Year of the Quarterback
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ESPN FC (N)
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MLB Baseball Braves Live! Braves Live! Game 365
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College Football Spring Game: Tennessee. (Taped)
College Football Spring Game: Arkansas.
SEC Now
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PGA Tour Golf Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Final Round. From Avondale, La.
(3:00) College Baseball Kansas State at Baylor. (N) Å
Moments
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MLS Soccer Portland Timbers at Seattle Sounders FC. (N)
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Cheerlder
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College Softball Iowa State at Baylor.
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Tornado Alley Å
Tornado Alley Å
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4 Seasons
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Secret Lives On Money
America’s Gun: The Rise
“Cocaine Cowboys II”
Mexico’s Drug War
››› “Cocaine Cowboys” (2006, Documentary)
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Anthony Bourdain Parts
High Profits “Hazard Pay”
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Legends & Lies: Real West Legends & Lies: Real West Stossel
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Ax Men “Cuts Like a Knife”
Ax Men “Fall of a Legend”
Ax Men “Rock Bottom” ’
Ax Men “Great Logs of Fire” Ax Men “All Hands on Deck” Ax Men “Axpocalypse” ’
Shelby
Shelby
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Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Hack My Life Hack My Life Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers
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The First 48 ’ Å
8 Minutes “Gorilla Pimped”
Intervention “Sandi” Å
Intervention “Daniel” Å
Intervention “Sarah” Å
Intervention “Samantha” (N) (:01) 8 Minutes ’ Å
(12:01) Intervention “Daniel”
Naked and Afraid: Uncen
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Outlaw Bikers
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(:06) The Raft “To the Bone” (:06) Wicked Tuna
(12:06) The Raft
Food Parad. Food Parad. Food Paradise Å
Food Paradise Å
Food Paradise Å
Bourdain: No Reservations Breaking Borders (N) Å
No Reservations (N) Å
The Layover with Bourdain Breaking Borders Å
Chopped “First Responders” Chopped
All-Star Academy
Guy’s Grocery Games
Guy’s Grocery Games (N)
Spring Baking Championship Cutthroat Kitchen (N)
Cutthroat Kitchen
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Ice Cold Gold “Eqi Gold” (N) River Monsters ’
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(3:00) “A Cinderella Story” ›› “The Princess Diaries” (2001) Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway.
›› “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” (2004) Anne Hathaway. ›››› “The Little Mermaid” (1989, Fantasy) Pat Carroll
Joel Osteen Dr. Jeremiah
Jessie Å
Jessie Å
Jessie Å
Austin & Ally Austin & Ally K.C. Under. K.C. Under. Pre-Show
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Liv & Maddie Austin & Ally Good-Charlie Good-Charlie
SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob SpongeBob Breadwinners SpongeBob Harvey Beaks Sanjay, Craig Full House
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Fresh Prince Fresh Prince Friends ’
(:36) Friends The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Gumball
Gumball
Teen Titans Teen Titans Advent. Time Advent. Time Advent. Time Advent. Time King of Hill King of Hill Jack
Cleveland
Cleveland
Family Guy Family Guy China, IL (N) Aqua
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Reba Å
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Reba Å
Reba Å
Reba Å
Reba Å
Reba Å
Reba Å
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Raymond
Raymond
King
King
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Friends ’
Friends ’
(3:00) ››› “Jurassic Park” (1993) Sam Neill. ‘PG-13’
››› “The Green Mile” (1999) Tom Hanks. A guard thinks an inmate has a supernatural power to heal. ‘R’ Å
Mad Men “Time & Life” (N)
TURN: Washington’s Spies (12:05) Mad Men Å
›››› “The Pride of the Yankees” (1942) Gary Cooper.
(:15) ››› “Sleeper” (1973, Comedy) Woody Allen. Å
›› “What’s the Matter With Helen?” (1971) Å
›››› “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) Gene Kelly.
››› “The Ace of Hearts”
(3:00) ›› “Elevator Girl”
“Portrait of Love” (2014, Romance) Jason Dohring. Å
“A Wish Come True” (2015, Romance) Megan Park. Å
“Bridal Wave” (2015, Drama) Arielle Kebbel. Å
Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls
Snapped: Killer Couples (N) Snapped “Janet Harrell”
Snapped “Omaima Nelson”
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Housewives/Atl.
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Prancing
Happens
Blood, Sweat & Heels (N)
Housewives/Atl.
Fashion
Housewives
“Mega Shark vs.”
“Sharktopus” (2010) Eric Roberts, Kerem Bursin.
“Lake Placid vs. Anaconda” (2015) Robert Englund.
“Piranhaconda” (2012) Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter.
“Ghost Shark” (2013) Mackenzie Rosman, Richard Moll.
Bar Rescue ’
Bar Rescue ’
Bar Rescue ’
Bar Rescue ’
Lip Sync
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Lip Sync
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Bar Rescue “El Moronte!!”
“Hot Tub Time Machine”
(4:49) ›› “The Rocker” (2008) Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate. Å
››› “Dumb & Dumber” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels.
››› “Dumb & Dumber” (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels.
Amy Schumer
››› “Mean Girls” (2004, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan. ’
›› “Mean Girls 2” (2011, Comedy) Meaghan Martin. ’
(3:55) ›› “Romeo Must Die” (2000, Action) Jet Li, Aaliyah. ’
››› “New Jack City” (1991) Wesley Snipes, Ice-T. ’ Å
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta ’ Love
›› “Romeo Must Die” (2000, Action) Jet Li, Aaliyah. ’
(3:30) ›› “The Bucket List” (2007) Jack Nicholson.
The Dukes of Hazzard
Cops Rel.
Cops Rel.
(3:00) Madea’s Big Happy Family Å
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Lee Business students prepared
tax forms for Life Bridges clients
A group of Lee University business students from Lee’s
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
program recently visited Life
Bridges to provide clients with
assistance on tax preparations.
Life Bridges is a local organization dedicated to serving individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities in the Cleveland
area. They offer occupational,
physical, nutritional, speech,
and behavioral therapy services,
as well as a day program, resi-
dential services, and outside
employment opportunities to
service recipients.
“Being able to provide tax
return service to an organization
that does so much good for the
local community is what our students thrive on,” said Dr. Randy
Miedaner, VITA program director
and assistant professor of business at Lee. “This was a natural
fit for our community service
involvement.”
Lee University’s VITA service is
available to the entire community. Now in its eighth year, VITA is
a tax return preparation service
for any qualified individuals or
families whose maximum gross
annual income does not exceed
$50,000. For those wishing to get
their returns done next year,
sign-up will occur the second
week of February in 2016.
the VITA program, contact Lee’s
Department of Business at 423614-8160.
sTaTerep.danhowell receives a check from Cindy Wheeler, left, of St. Barnabas at Siskin
Hospital and Diana Miller of Siskin Hospital’s Subacute Rehabilitation Program, at the Tennessee Health
Care Association’s annual charity giveaway.
Howell wins money for charity
NASHVILLE — Sixty legislators
won a total of almost $10,000 in
donations for charities in their
communities
during
the
Tennessee
Health
Care
VITaVolunTeers pose with two Life Bridges clients and Life Bridges CFO Ginger Davis. From left Association’s annual “Partnering
rear are Candis Ellis, client, Cody Borsellino, Kyle Weldy, Kyle Ma and Caleb Hiddleson. Seated are for Charity” event March 18 at
Katie Buuck, client, Dr. Randy Miedaner and Davis.
The Hermitage Hotel, including
Rep. Dan Howell, who won $200
for The Caring Place.
Each year, the charity give-
away is a highlight of THCA’s
Legislative Conference, an event
that brings long-term care professionals together with state
lawmakers to discuss what it
takes to provide quality services
for the state’s elderly and disabled.
“Every year, our members look
forward to this event,” said THCA
Executive
Director
Jesse
Samples. “It is a great opportunity to join forces with legislators to
give back to the areas they
serve.”
THCA is a nonprofit association representing long-term care
facilities throughout the state.
For more information about longterm care in Tennessee, contact
THCA at 615-834-6520 or visit
www.thca.org.
Ducktown Miners Homecoming Gospel Night
to feature Singing Cookes, Cooke Brothers
Southern Gospel recording
artists The Singing Cookes along
with the Cooke Brothers will be
performing at the Ducktown
Miners Homecoming Gospel
Night on Friday evening, June
26, beginning at 7 at the William
R. Lee Stage (located behind the
old Ducktown Banking Company
building) in Ducktown
The Bradley County Democratic Women recently elected new officers. From left are Historian
Hubert and Jeanette Cooke
Carolyn Harris, Secretary Jamie Hargis, President Angela Minor, Vice President Dr. Tammy Magouirk were God-inspired to start
and Treasurer Pam Edgemon.
singing together back in 1962,
and were regular guests on the
Mull’s Singing Convention during
the 1970s to 1990s and staples
on Southern gospel radio. Their
hits include, “He Rows Me Over
The Tide” and “I Want Us To Be
Together In Heaven.” Their sons,
the Cooke Brothers, are also
scheduled to perform as well as
local group, Back To Bethany
from Fannin County, Ga.
Admission to the event is free,
just please bring your lawn chair
if possible.
Food vendors will be available.
The Gospel Night is part of the
Ducktown Miners Homecoming,
a two-day festival that will be celebrating its 40th consecutive
year in 2015.
For information about vending
or hosting an event at this year’s
festival please contact Doug
Collins at 423-241-2284.
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www.singingcookes.com
Downtown Dine Around sampling
tour returns Thursday at 10 sites
By TONY EUBANK
Banner Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN DINE AROUND will feature a sampling tour at 10 downtown restaurants, live music at
four locations and retailers open with specials.
MainStreet Cleveland has
announced that one of last
year’s most popular and talked
about events is back.
The 2015 Downtown Dine
Around sampling tour is scheduled for Thursday, April 30,
from 5 to 8 p.m. This year’s is
even bigger and better with 10
restaurants participating, live
music in four locations, a free
carriage ride with your ticket,
and retailers open with specials.
Downtown boasts locally
owned and operated restaurants of variety and quality,
ranging from fine dining to
casual.
The Downtown Dine Around
is MainStreet’s way of showcasing these delicious dining
options and for the public to get
a taste of them all for one low
price. Enjoy food samples at
each of the 10 downttown dining establishments, all within
easy walking distance. Live jazz
music will fill the air with performers located on Ocoee Street,
Broad Street, 1st Street, and at
First Street Square.
Participating
restaurants
include Café Roma, Cobblestone
Grill, The Spot, Catch Bar &
Grill, CBC Cleveland, Bon Life
Coffee, The Five Point Square,
Mash & Hops, Side Street Café,
and Mexi Wings. Retail stores
will be open that evening and
offering specials including
Haskell Interiors, Meagher &
Meagher Furniture, Museum
Store,
Razzberry’z,
Hyderhangout, Steelwood Rustic
Furniture (now open next to Bon
Life Coffee) and The Red Ribbon.
The event debuted in May of
last year to a sellout crowd and
was so popular that a second
one was held in October.
"There are such talented
chefs in these locally owned and
operated restaurants. This
event showcases these talents
and gives the community a
chance to experience the unique
atmospheres of each location,”
said MainStreet President
Sharon Marr.
Advance tickets are on sale
now for $20 and are available at
Café Roma, Catch Bar & Grill,
and the Bank of Cleveland Main
Office.
Tickets are $25 if purchased
during the event and will be
available at the Courthouse
Plaza. Please note that tickets
are limited to 400 to make it
manageable for restaurant owners and have previously sold
out.
For more information, visit
mainstreetcleveland.com or call
479-1000.
DELICIOUS fOOD will be the focus of
Downtown Dine Around tour on Thursday. This
photo was taken at Mexi-Wing on Broad Street.
Your Best Shot
Recent photos — within the last year — may be submitted for Your Best Shot by emailing gwen.swiger@cleveland
banner.com, mailing good quality photos to Your Best Shot, P.O. Box 3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600 or dropping
them off at 1505 25th St.
DONNA
HOPPER has a
family of Eastern
Bluebirds nesting
in her birdhouse.
Photos above
show them taking
insects for their
young. At left a
rose-breasted
grosbeak takes
food from
Hopper’s bird
feeder.
KEISHA BAKER shared this photo of a rainbow.
ABSOLUTE ESTATE
Saturday, MAY 9th, 2015
Beginning at 10:30 AM
PREVIEW
Sunday, May 3
from 1-3
Friday, May 8
from 10-4
Nice 3 Bedroom Home
& Extra Lot on the Beautiful
Hiwassee River in Bradley County
916 Eads Bluff Road NW
Georgetown, TN 37336
Beautiful Home on River
• Bradley County • Good Water
• Covered Boat Dock • Boat Ramp
• 3 Bedrooms • 3 Baths • Unfinished
Basement with Garage • Hardwood
Flooring • Granite Counter Tops
• Roof & Central H&A, 2 years old
• Sunroom with Beautiful River Views
DIRECTIONS: From I-75, Exit 25, travel west onto
Georgetown Rd (Hwy 60), turn right onto Eureka Rd,
AUCTION PREVIEW
travel 5.5 miles, turn left onto Lower River Rd, travel
Sunday, May 3 from 1 to 3 pm less than one mile, turn right onto Eads Bluff Road.
Friday, May 8 from 10 am to 4 pm Property is one mile on the right. Watch for Signs.
ABSOLUTE ESTATE AUCTION – NO MINIMUMS – NO RESERVES
Property Like This Doesn’t
Come Along Very Often!!
NICE TEMPERATURES
and plenty of
rain have made
many flowers
and bushes in
the community
brighten up with
blooms. These
photos, left and
above, are courtesy of Sharon
Guy.
Live on the Beautiful
Hiwassee River in
Bradley County
Beautiful
River
Views!!
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Terms: $30,000 nonrefundable earnest money will be required on
day of sale on house tract, $15,000 on vacant lot. Funds may be
personal, business or cashiers check. Balance due within 30 days.
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Memories haunt both sides of Gallipoli tragedy, 100 years on
GALLIPOLI, Turkey (AP) —
Whenever he leaves the house,
Kenan Ersoz hides the bayonet
his father used to defend the
crumbling Ottoman Empire
against the British-led invasion
of Gallipoli a century ago. The
father saw it as a friend that
kept him alive. The son keeps it
as his most prized possession.
The campaign is no less present for descendants of soldiers
from Australia and New Zealand
who played a leading role for the
other side.
John Carnell traveled from
Sydney with his wife, Carol, and
two children, Kate and Tom, to
visit spots where his greatgrandfather landed on the
peninsula — and where he was
mortally wounded months later.
In the lottery to obtain tickets
for the 100th anniversary commemoration this week, Carnell
wanted his children to come
more than he wanted to come
himself.
“People only really die when
The campaign’s enduring
the living stop talking about poignancy may be that it forged
them,” he said. “I can bang on national identities for countries
about my ancestor for another on both sides.
20 years or so. My children can
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk used
do it for 50 and they can tell his prominence as a commandtheir grandchildren.”
er at Gallipoli, known as
As world leaders gather Canakkale to the Turks, to vault
Thursday and Friday with the into prominence, lead Turkey’s
descendants, the memories of War of Independence — and
one of the most harrowing cam- ultimately found the Turkish
paigns of the 20th century have Republic. Similarly, the tragic
come surging back to life. The fate of troops from Australia
doomed Allied offensive to and New Zealand, who played a
secure a naval route from the key role in the campaign, is said
Mediterranean to Istanbul to have inspired an identity disLEGAL PUBLICATION
through the Dardanelles, and tinct from Britain. The anniverSUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on May 28, 2015 on or take the Ottomans out of the sary of the start of the land
about 11:00AM local time, at the Bradley County war, resulted in over 130,000 campaign on April 25, known as
Courthouse, Cleveland, Tennessee, conducted by deaths on both sides. It came to ANZAC Day, after the Australia
the Substitute Trustee as identified and set forth be seen as a folly of British war and New Zealand Army Corps,
is marked as a coming of age for
herein below, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed planning.
by JONATHAN TODD CORDELL AND KEVIN MICHAEL CORDELL, to ARNOLD M. WEISS, ATTORLEGAL PUBLICATION
NEY, Trustee, on September 21, 2005, at Record
Notice
Book 1578, Page 334 as Instrument No. 05018341 Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be
in the real property records of Bradley County Reg- held on the 11th day of May, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. by
ister's Office, Tennessee.
the City Council of the City of Cleveland, TennesOwner of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL see at their regular meeting place in the Cleveland
ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STAN- Municipal Building, 190 Church Street, NE, to hear
LEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2006-WMC1, public comments concerning the FY2016 City
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SE- Budget. The hearing is open to the public.
RIES 2006-WMC1
Witness my hand this 26th day of April, 2015.
The following real estate located in Bradley County, CITY OF CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE
Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder Shawn McKay, City Clerk
subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encum- April 26, 2015
brances of record:
LOCATED IN THE FIRST CIVIL DISTRICT OF BRADLEGAL PUBLICATION
LEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, TO-WIT:
SUBSTITUTE
TRUSTEE'S SALE
LOT 10 IN TIMBER HILL ESTATES, SECTION
Sale
at
public
auction
will
be on May 28, 2015 on or
THREE, A PLAT OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN PLAT
BOOK 3, PAGE 218, IN THE REGISTER`S OFFICE about 11:00AM local time, at the Bradley County
Courthouse, Cleveland, Tennessee, conducted by
OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
SAID LOT IS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS the Substitute Trustee as identified and set forth
BEGINNING IN THE NORTHEAST LINE OF TIMBER herein below, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
HILLS DRIVE, 162.6 FEET NORTHWEST OF WHERE by JANNUTH M FARMER AND BILLY SEAN
SAID LINE OF SAID DRIVE WOULD BE INTER- FARMER, to WESLEY D. TURNER, Trustee, on June
SECTED BY THE NORTHWEST LINE OF TWIN OAKS 19, 2006, at Record Book 1654, Page 3 as InstruCOURT(A CUL-DE-SAC), IF SAID LINES OF SAID ment No. 06012024 in the real property records of
DRIVE AND COURT WERE EXTENDED TO THEIR Bradley County Register's Office, Tennessee.
INTERSECTING POINTS, ON THE MOST WESTERLY Owner of Debt: HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCORNER OF LOT9, AS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT; AND CIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
RUNNING THENCE WITH SAID LINE OF SAID DRIVE HOLDERS OF THE CITIGROUP MORTGAGE LOAN
ON SAID PLAT; THENCE WITH SOUTHEAST LINE TRUST INC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CEROF LOT 11, NORTH 23 DEGREES 34 FEET EAST, TIFICATES, SERIES 2007-SHL1
119.9 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST LINE OF THE The following real estate located in Bradley County,
LAND OF DALE; THENCE WITH SAID LINE OF Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder
DALE, SOUTH 63 DEGREES EAST, 80 FEET TO THE subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumMOST NORTHERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 9; brances of record:
THENCE WITH NORTHWEST LINE OF LOT 9, LOCATED IN THE THIRD CIVIL DISTRICT OF
SOUTH 23 DEGREES 35 FEET WEST 120.6 FEET BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEETO-WIT:
TO THE BEGINNING, AS SHOWN BY SURVEY OF OS- LOTS SEVENTY-EIGHT (78) AND SEVENTY-NINE
(79), EASTVIEW SUBDIVISION, PROPERTY OF J.A.
CAR G DYKES, JR., DATED JUNE 5, 1971.
THE GRANTOR`S SOURCE OF INTEREST IS A DEED RAMSEY, WHICH PLAT IS DULY RECORDED IN
RECORDED IN BOOK 373, PAGE 742, IN THE REG- PLAT BOOK 2, PAGE 166, IN THE REGISTER`S OFISTER`S OFFICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNES- FICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JANSEE.
THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HEREIN DE- NUTH M. HIGGINS BY DEED FROM MARTHA A.
SCRIBES PROPERTY IS THE SAME AS IN THE LANGLEY, SINGLE, DATED 12/20/02 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1272, PAGE 563 IN THE REGISDEED TO PRIOR TITLE.
SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN MISC. TER`S OFFICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
BOOK 85, PAGE 678, IN THE REGISTER`S OFFICE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS AS SET OUT IN DEED
BOOK 118, PAGE 372, IN THE SAID REGISTER`S
OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO RON- OFFICE.
NIE ROE BY DEED FROM BETTY ROE AND FILED SUBJECT TO ANY APPLICABLE GOVERNMENTAL
FOR RECORD ON FEBRUARY 17, 2004 IN BOOK ORDINANCES OR SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS IN
1408, PAGE 846, OR INSTRUMENT NO. N/A, REG- EFFECT THEREON.
ISTER`S OFFICE FOR HAMILTON COUNTY, TEN- M/P 65L-A-9.00
GR
NESSEE.
COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1021 29TH STREET ST,
Tax ID: 167J-G-006/073C-E-010.00
Current Owner(s) of Property: JONATHAN TODD CLEVELAND, 37323
Tax ID: 651a9
CORDELL AND KEVIN MICHAEL CORDELL
The street address of the above described property Current Owner(s) of Property: JANNUTH M FARMER
is believed to be 3460 TIMBER HILL DRIVE SOUTH- AND BILLY SEAN FARMER
EAST, CLEVELAND, TN 37323, but such address is The street address of the above described property
not part of the legal description of the property is believed to be 1021 29TH STREET SE, CLEVEsold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, LAND, TN 37323, but such address is not part of
the legal description referenced herein shall con- the legal description of the property sold herein
and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal detrol.
SALE IS SUBJECT TO OCCUPANT(S) RIGHTS IN scription referenced herein shall control.
SALE IS SUBJECT TO OCCUPANT(S) RIGHTS IN
POSSESSION.
THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO ADJOURN THE DAY POSSESSION.
OF THE SALE TO ANOTHER DAY, TIME AND PLACE THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO ADJOURN THE DAY
CERTAIN WITHOUT FURTHER PUBLICATION, UPON OF THE SALE TO ANOTHER DAY, TIME AND PLACE
ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE TIME AND PLACE FOR CERTAIN WITHOUT FURTHER PUBLICATION, UPON
THE
SALE
SET
FORTH
ABOVE.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE TIME AND PLACE FOR
SALE
SET
FORTH
ABOVE.
THE
TRUSTEE/SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE RESERVES THE THE
RIGHT TO RESCIND THE SALE. IF THE SALE IS TRUSTEE/SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE RESERVES THE
SET ASIDE FOR ANY REASON, THE PURCHASER AT RIGHT TO RESCIND THE SALE. IF THE SALE IS
THE SALE SHALL BE ENTITLED ONLY TO A RE- SET ASIDE FOR ANY REASON, THE PURCHASER AT
TURN OF THE DEPOSIT PAID. THE PURCHASER THE SALE SHALL BE ENTITLED ONLY TO A RESHALL HAVE NO FURTHER RECOURSE AGAINST TURN OF THE DEPOSIT PAID. THE PURCHASER
SHALL HAVE NO FURTHER RECOURSE AGAINST
THE GRANTOR, THE GRANTEE, OR THE TRUSTEE.
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: JPMORGAN CHASE THE GRANTOR, THE GRANTEE, OR THE TRUSTEE.
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: None
BANK NA JUNIOR LIEN
THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND
ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE.
THAT PURPOSE.
If applicable, the notice requirements of T.C.A. If applicable, the notice requirements of T.C.A.
35-5-117 have been met.
All right of equity of redemption, statutory and oth- All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said erwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said
Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good,
but the undersigned will sell and convey only as but the undersigned will sell and convey only as
Substitute Trustee.
Substitute Trustee.
If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State
of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State
of Tennessee Department of Labor or Workforce De- of Tennessee Department of Labor or Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the ad- velopment are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is vertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is
being given to them and the Sale will be subject to being given to them and the Sale will be subject to
the applicable governmental entities’ right to re- the applicable governmental entities’ right to redeem the property as required by 26 U.S.C. 7425 deem the property as required by 26 U.S.C. 7425
and T.C.A. §67-1-1433.
and T.C.A. §67-1-1433.
This property is being sold with the express reser- This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by vation that the sale is subject to confirmation by
the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at
any time. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the any time. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the
Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a re- Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have turn of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have
no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the
Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.
MWZM File No. 15-000435-670
MWZM File No. 14-002187-670
JASON S. MANGRUM, J.P. SELLERS, LORI LIANE JASON S. MANGRUM, J.P. SELLERS, LORI LIANE
LONG, Substitute Trustee(s)
PREMIER BUILDING, SUITE 404
5217 MARYLAND WAY
5217 MARYLAND WAY
BRENTWOOD, TN 37027
BRENTWOOD, TN 37027
PHONE: (615) 238-3630
PHONE: (615) 238-3630
EMAIL: [email protected]
April 19, 26; May 3, 2015
April 26; May 3, 10, 2015
both nations.
Carnell’s great-grandfather,
Francis George Carnell, was so
eager he had to lie about his
age. That was a common ploy
for teenagers of the day. But
Francis was 55 — and too old to
enlist. He had already fought in
wars in South Africa for the
British. After being promoted to
lance corporal in training, he
landed at what is now known as
Anzac cove among the early
waves of soldiers.
On April 25, 1915, they were
rowed in at dawn to narrow
beaches with scant cover only to
encounter rugged hills and
scorching fire by well concealed
Turkish defenders.
John Carnell knows little
about what happened next,
except that somehow his ancestor, despite his age, made it up
the beach to fight in one of the
iconic battles of the campaign.
The fight for the Turkish position of “Lone Pine” — launched
by Australian battalions — cost
heavy losses on both sides. On
Saturday, Australians will commemorate that battle following a
dawn service at Anzac Cove,
near a memorial with the names
of dead soldiers, including. F.G.
Carnell.
On Aug. 7, Francis George
Carnell was wounded and evacuated to a hospital ship. He
died on Aug. 10, according to
John Carnell, and was buried
at sea. He left behind a wife and
one son, who had thirteen children.
That same summer, Mehmet
Emin Ersoz — Kenan’s father —
was also gravely injured. The
father talked little of the war,
and Kenan thinks it was
because he wanted to spare the
children his suffering.
But there was no hiding it.
“We could see the ugly side of
war on my father’s body,” he
said. “His feet were full of
wounds. There were callused
pieces between his flesh and
bones.”
His father carried shrapnel in
his head until he died in 1970.
Kenan was told his father was
wounded “when the grapes on
the peninsula were ripe” —
placing it in August or early
September.
Mehmet Emin Ersoz was
proud to keep his bayonet closeby until death. But he regretted
having to carry the enemy’s
metal with him, too.
“That was the one thing that
saddened him most,” Kenan
Ersoz said.
Ersoz said nothing good came
from the battles except Turkey’s
defense: “War, as it has long
been, consists of blood, gunpowder, pain, tears.”
John Carnell sees a more positive message — one that comes
from the onetime enemy.
On Australian flags embroidered with his ancestor’s
records, there’s also a quote
from Ataturk that pays tribute
to the fallen from Australia and
New Zealand:
“You are now lying in the soil
of a friendly country. Therefore
rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and
the Mehmets to us,” the eulogy
reads. “They have become our
sons as well.”
LEGAL PUBLICATION
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on May 28, 2015 on or
about 11:00AM local time, at the Bradley County
Courthouse, Cleveland, Tennessee, conducted by
the Substitute Trustee as identified and set forth
herein below, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed
by JOEL LYNN CROSS AND KIMBERLY JEAN
CROSS, to MORRIS, SCHNEIDER, PRIOR LLC, Trustee, on June 29, 2001, at Record Book 1126, Page
994 in the real property records of Bradley County
Register's Office, Tennessee.
Owner of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee
for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2001-C,
Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2001-C
The following real estate located in Bradley County,
Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder
subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:
LOCATED IN THE THIRD CIVIL DISTRICT OF
BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, TO-WIT:
LOT THIRTY-SEVEN (37), PEACH ORCHARD HILL
ACRES, AS SHOWN BY PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT
BOOK 4, PAGE 99, REGISTER`S OFFICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
FOR PRIOR TITLE SEE WARRANTY DEED FROM
JOHN E. GLOVER AND WIFE, MURIEL G. PALMER
GLOVER F/K/A MURIEL G. PALMER TO JOEL LYNN
CROSS AND WIFE, KIMBERLY JEAN CROSS AS RECORDED JUNE 28, 1988 IN DEED BOOK 314, PAGE
544, REGISTER`S OFFICE OF BRADLEY COUNTY,
TENNESSEE.
Tax ID: 051I-B-002.00-000
Current Owner(s) of Property: JOEL LYNN CROSS
AND KIMBERLY JEAN CROSS
The street address of the above described property
is believed to be 313 PEACHTREE CIRCLE, CLEVELAND, TN 37323, 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 referenced herein shall control.
SALE IS SUBJECT TO OCCUPANT(S) RIGHTS IN
POSSESSION.
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.
THE
TRUSTEE/SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO RESCIND THE SALE. IF THE SALE IS
SET ASIDE FOR ANY REASON, THE PURCHASER AT
THE SALE SHALL BE ENTITLED ONLY TO A RETURN OF THE DEPOSIT PAID. THE PURCHASER
SHALL HAVE NO FURTHER RECOURSE AGAINST
THE GRANTOR, THE GRANTEE, OR THE TRUSTEE.
OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: None
THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND
ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE.
If applicable, the notice requirements of T.C.A.
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.
If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State
of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State
of Tennessee Department of Labor or Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is
being given to them and the Sale will be subject to
the applicable governmental entities’ right to redeem the property as required by 26 U.S.C. 7425
and T.C.A. §67-1-1433.
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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the
Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have
no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the
MWZM File No. 14-005246-670
JASON S. MANGRUM, J.P. SELLERS, LORI LIANE
5217 MARYLAND WAY
BRENTWOOD, TN 37027
PHONE: (615) 238-3630
April 26, 2015; May 3, 10, 2015
‘SAIGON
HAS FALLEN’
A reporter’s view
of Vietnam War’s end
“The city was holding its breath. We had always feared
that the Vietnamese would mob us if we ever tried to
leave. But they realized on that last day that we were
their last hope. If they turned against us, there was no
way out of the country.”
— former CIA analyst Frank Snepp
(EDITOR’S NOTE — More than
two decades of war in Vietnam,
first involving the French and then
the Americans, ended with the last
days of April 1975. Peter Arnett,
who won a Pulitzer Prize for his
coverage of combat for The
Associated Press and later gained
fame as a CNN correspondent, has
written a new memoir, “Saigon
Has Fallen,” about his dozen-plus
years reporting on Vietnam. Arnett
has recounted this period before
but approaches it with a fresh perspective for the 40th anniversary
of the war’s end. The book is published by RosettaBooks in partnership with The Associated Press
(www.ap.org/books). This is an
edited excerpt, focused on the
war’s final throes.)
—Artillery explosions sound a
fearsome 4 a.m. wake-up call, but
I’m already awake. The attackers
waiting at the gates of a vanquished Saigon have been warning they would act, and now with
each thump of the Soviet-made
130mm guns, sound waves rustle
the curtains of my open seventh
floor hotel window. As I reach for
my water glass, it trembles, and
me with it. The last full day of the
Vietnam War is beginning.
Street lights shine below as I
look out toward Tan Son Nhut airport, once described as the
busiest in the world when
America was waging war here.
Now it is burning from one end to
the other, the flames brilliantly
lighting up the sky.
There will be two more hours of
darkness, but this seems like a
new dawn rising, an appropriate
description, I think later, of the
intentions of those wreaking
havoc on the airport this morning,
April 29, 1975. The commanders
of North Vietnam’s military juggernaut, pressing for victory after
a 50-day rout of their South
Vietnamese opponents, are pushing open the gates of the capital.
They will force a new dawn on
South Vietnam, America’s once
favored ally, as it loses its 20-year
struggle to remain an independent, pro-western state.
After watching the destruction
of the airport, I phone the
Associated Press office a few
blocks away, and my colleague Ed
White answers. He and George
Esper, the bureau chief, have
been up all night working the telex
communications link with our
New York headquarters.
White tells me the American
embassy confirms major damage
at the airport with the runways
probably unusable. American
planners have been intending to
airlift out of the country several
thousand
more
vulnerable
Vietnamese allies today, but what
can they do now?
Soon afterward, from an
upstairs hotel balcony as daylight
approaches I can clearly see thick
black smoke hanging over the airport like a funeral shroud. I’m
joined by a few news colleagues,
all of us knowing we are watching
momentous history unfold right
before our eyes.
As the sky brightens we see a
Vietnamese air force transport
plane, a de Havilland Caribou,
rise sharply above the airport.
Suddenly, it seems to break in
half, bursting into flames and
falling in pieces to the ground.
Stricken silent by this horrifying
spectacle, we see a second aircraft
following the same path and suffering the same fate, like the first
undoubtedly a victim of ground
fire. It seems there’ll be no escape
for anyone from the airport today.
At the American Embassy,
Ambassador Graham Martin is in
disbelief, committed as he is to
evacuating as many vulnerable
Vietnamese as possible before the
communists arrive. He insists on
personally checking the airport
tarmac. After the war, Martin
would tell me, “It didn’t make
sense to me that we couldn’t
physically come in with transport
planes. I wanted to check it for
myself, to make my own judgment. It would have made a difference. We could have gotten five or
ten thousand more people out. “
Reaching the airport, Martin
finds a usable runway amidst the
still-burning buildings, but little
security. He worries about a repeat
of the earlier airport panics in
Danang and Nhatrang that had
hundreds of desperate people fighting with soldiers and police to get
on departing rescue aircraft. He
tells me, “I decided it was not worth
the risk. I picked up the phone and
I told Secretary (of State Henry)
Kissinger to inform the president
that we have go to Option Four
immediately, to the helicopter airlift
for the remaining Americans, and
as many Vietnamese as we can
take.” But Martin’s urgent instruction is lost somewhere down the
line. The airlift does not begin for
several hours.
Option Four is code for
Operation
Frequent
Wind,
planned as a large-scale evacuation of people to American Navy
ships off the coast. Most of the
passengers for the final helicopter
lifts have been chosen in advance,
alerted to keep listening to Armed
Forces Radio for a signal. Thirteen
helicopter pickup points have
been selected around Saigon,
using the small UH-1 Huey ships
for the tops of tall buildings and
the much bigger CH-53 Sea
Knights for the American Defense
Department compound at the airport and the embassy grounds.
Those waiting to depart include
the large contingent of international journalists covering the
story. During the past week some
have considered the possibility of
remaining behind and seeing
what transpires, but their home
offices expect them to leave with
the last Americans because of the
uncertainty of the future. I know
that Esper wants to stay. He’s
been here too long to miss the
final moments of his most important story. Me too, and I message
AP president Wes Gallagher,
explaining that because I was
AP Photo
In thIs Oct. 12, 1965, file photo, Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett stands beside the burned-out wreckage of an A1
Skyraider near Bien Hoa, Vietnam, north of Saigon. More than two
bitter decades of war in Vietnam ended with the last days of April
1975.
AP Photo
In thIs APrIl 29, 1975, file photo, South Vietnamese civilians try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. embassy in Saigon, trying to reach
evacuation helicopters as the last Americans departed from Vietnam.
here at the war’s beginnings it’s
worth the risk to document the
final hours. With us is Matt
Franjola, an AP reporter in the
region for several years. Esper
sends a message to his boss,
“Request you please reconsider...”
Gallagher does. The three of us
will stay.
As I drive through the city, I see
crowds gathering at intersections
and arguing. Several million people are now estimated to be living
in Saigon, many of them recent
refugees from the countryside.
Not everyone wants to leave, but
several hundred thousand believe
their lives have been compromised
in the eyes of the communists by
their association with America
and its policies, and are desperate
to get out. I drive by Saigon’s port
and see small ships crowded with
people setting off down the river.
The former CIA analyst Frank
Snepp remembered that time in
an interview with me after the
war: “The city was holding its
breath. We had always feared that
the Vietnamese would mob us if
we ever tried to leave. But they
realized on that last day that we
were their last hope. If they
turned against us, there was no
way out of the country.”
No one is killed in the shameful
melees that are to follow, but the
mad scrambles to go anywhere
but Vietnam remain today an
ignominious coda to the already
bleak history of America’s last
years in Vietnam. The main crisis
See SAIGON, Page 58
LEGAL PUBLICATION
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
STATE OF TENNESSEE, BRADLEY COUNTY
WHEREAS, James D Gray executed a Deed of Trust
to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
as nominee for Walker Jackson Mortgage Corporation, Lender and David A Harris, Trustee(s), which
was dated March 25, 2009 and recorded on April 1,
2009 in Book 1898, Page 378-387, Bradley County,
Tennessee Register of Deeds.
WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debt(s) and obligation(s) thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the current
holder of said Deed of Trust, U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely
as Trustee of SW REMIC Trust 2014-1 without recourse, (the “Holder”), appointed the undersigned,
Brock & Scott, PLLC, as Substitute Trustee, by an
instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Bradley County, Tennessee, with all
the rights, powers and privileges of the original
Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; and
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the
entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the
Holder, and that as agent for the undersigned,
Brock & Scott, PLLC, Substitute Trustee, by virtue
of the power and authority vested in it, will on May
5, 2015, at 12:00PM at the usual and customary location at the Bradley County Courthouse, Cleveland, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to
the highest and best bidder for cash, the following
described property situated in Bradley County, Tennessee, to wit:
Certain real property situate in 4th Civil District of
Bradley County, Tennessee, and described as follows, to-wit:
Being Lots 218 and 219, South Gate Subdivision, as
shown by plat of record in Plat Book 2, Page 62,
Register's Office of Bradley County, Tennessee, to
which record reference is hereby made for a more
particular description thereof.
Being all of the same property conveyed to James
D. Gray by Warranty Deed from Hank W. Wilson, unmarried, dated March 8, 2006 and filed of record in
Book 1622, Page 271, Register's Office for Bradley
County, Tennessee.
Parcel ID Number: 065K C 016.00
Address/Description: 2806 Blackburn Road Southeast, Cleveland, TN 37323.
Current Owner(s): James D. Gray.
Other Interested Party(ies): N/A
The sale of the property described above shall be
subject to all matters shown on any recorded plat;
any and all liens against said property for unpaid
property taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that may be applicable; any
prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority
created by a fixture filing; a deed of trust; and any
matter than an accurate survey of the premises
might disclose; and
All right and equity of redemption, statutory or
otherwise, homestead, and dower 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.
This office is attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Brock & Scott, PLLC, Substitute Trustee
c/o Tennessee Foreclosure Department
277 Mallory Station Road
Suite 115
Franklin, TN 37067
PH: 615-550-7697 FX: 615-550-8484
File No.: 15-05245 FC01
April 12, 19, 26, 2015
LEGAL PUBLICATION
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
STATE OF TENNESSEE, BRADLEY COUNTY
WHEREAS, Mark A. Weber and Kelly A. Weber executed a Deed of Trust to Bank of Cleveland, Lender
and David S. Humberd, Trustee(s), which was dated
November 20, 2009 and recorded on December 1,
2009 in Book 1945, Page 288, Bradley County, Tennessee Register of Deeds.
WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debt(s) and obligation(s) thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the current
holder of said Deed of Trust, U.S. Bank National Association, (the “Holder”), appointed the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, as Substitute Trustee,
by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds of Bradley County, Tennessee,
with all the rights, powers and privileges of the
original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; and
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the
entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the
Holder, and that as agent for the undersigned,
Brock & Scott, PLLC, Substitute Trustee, by virtue
of the power and authority vested in it, will on May
5, 2015, at 12:00PM at the usual and customary location at the Bradley County Courthouse, Cleveland, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to
the highest and best bidder for cash, the following
described property situated in Bradley County, Tennessee, to wit:
Located in The Second Civil District of Bradley
County, Tennessee:
A portion of Lot Three (3), Woodmore Estates, as
shown by plat of record in Plat Book 3, Page 252, in
the Register's Office of Bradley County, Tennessee.
Said portion of Lot Three (3) is more particularly
described as:
Beginning on an iron pin set in the Southeasternmost line of Sipes Road at the Northwesternmost
corner of Lot Three (3) and the Southwesternmost
corner of Lot Two (2), Woodmore Estates Subdivision; and run thence with the common dividing line
between Lots Two (2) and Three (3), South 66 degrees 58 minutes West, 457 feet, to an existing iron
pin; thence South 23 degrees 01 minutes West,
190.60 feet to an iron pin corner; thence North 66
degrees 58 minutes West 461.88 feet to an iron pin
set in the Southeasternmost line of Sipes Road; and
run thence with said line of said road, North 24 degrees 29 minutes East 190.66 feet to the beginning.
Being a part of the same real estate conveyed to
Donald R. Miller and wife, Karen A. Miller by Warranty Deed form Daniel W. Leviner by Attorney in
Fact, Wanda K. Keviner, dated February 28, 1996
and recorded in Book 375, Page 113, in the said
Register's Office.
Subject to restrictions as set out in instrument recorded in Misc. Book 87, Page 381, in the Register's
Office of Bradley County, Tennessee.
Subject to Fifteen (15) foot Utility Easement, as
shown or as specified on said recorded plat.
Subject to five (5) foot Drainage/Utility Easement
on interior lot line, as shown or as specified on said
recorded plat
Subject to One Hundred (100) foot Building Setback
Lines, as shown or as specified on said recorded
Plat.
Subject to any governmental zoning and subdivision ordinances in effect thereon.
Parcel ID Number: 048 098.01
Address/Description: 557 Sipes Road Southwest,
Cleveland, TN 37311.
Current Owner(s): Mark A. Weber.
Other Interested Party(ies): N/A
The sale of the property described above shall be
subject to all matters shown on any recorded plat;
any and all liens against said property for unpaid
property taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that may be applicable; any
prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority
created by a fixture filing; a deed of trust; and any
matter than an accurate survey of the premises
might disclose; and
All right and equity of redemption, statutory or
otherwise, homestead, and dower 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.
This office is attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Brock & Scott, PLLC, Substitute Trustee
c/o Tennessee Foreclosure Department
277 Mallory Station Road
Suite 115
Franklin, TN 37067
PH: 615-550-7697 FX: 615-550-8484
File No.: 14-25266 FC01
April 12, 19, 26, 2015
AP Photo
AP Photo
In thIs APrIl 29, 1975, file photo, a helicopter lifts off from the U.S. embassy in Saigon, Vietnam,
In thIs Aug. 19, 1965, file photo, made by Peter Arnett, a U.S. Marine who was wounded in the
head as he fought against the Viet Cong from inside an amphibious tank, is led to an evacuation heli- during the evacuation of authorized personnel and civilians. More than two bitter decades of war in
copter landing zone at Van Tuong, Vietnam. More than two bitter decades of war in Vietnam ended with Vietnam ended with the last days of April 1975.
the last days of April 1975. Today, 40 years later, Arnett has written a new memoir, “Saigon Has Fallen,”
on the roof of the embassy.
detailing his experience covering the war for The Associated Press.
“I decided it was not worth the risk. I picked up the phone and I told Secretary (of
State Henry) Kissinger to inform the president that we have go to Option Four
immediately, to the helicopter airlift for the remaining Americans, and as many
Vietnamese as we can take.”
— Ambassador Graham Martin
AP Photo
In thIs APrIl 30, 1975 photo, the last three staffers in The Associated Press’ Saigon bureau,
reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two
North Vietnamese soldiers and a member of the Viet Cong on the day the government of South Vietnam
surrendered. One of the soldiers is showing Esper the route of his final advance into the city. More than
two bitter decades of war in Vietnam ended with the last days of April 1975. Today, 40 years later, Arnett
has written a new memoir, “Saigon Has Fallen,” detailing his experience covering the war for The AP.
Saigon
From Page 57
unfolds in and around the U.S.
Embassy, a six-story building
with a concrete lattice facade that
serves to keep the building cool
and deflect incoming missiles.
When the helicopters start
emerging from the leaden afternoon skies to pick up the chosen
few, a stampede begins. By late
afternoon an estimated 10,000
desperate Vietnamese have
advanced on the embassy, shoving to get close to the iron gates
and the high walls, and when they
do get there, endeavoring to claw
themselves over. The U.S. Marine
security force strives to get control, only to meet with shouted
protests and insults.
That evening, I write a story for
the AP that begins: “Ten years ago
I watched the first U.S. Marines
arrive to help Vietnam. They were
greeted on the beaches by pretty
Vietnamese girls in white silken
robes who draped flower garlands
about their necks. A decade has
passed, and on Tuesday I watched
the U.S. Marines shepherding
Americans out of South Vietnam.
“They were the same clean-cut
looking young men of a decade
ago. But the Vietnamese were different. Those who didn’t have a
place for them on the last helicopters - and there were thousands
left behind - hooted, booed and
scuffled with the Marines trying to
secure the landing zones. Some
Vietnamese threw themselves over
walls and wire fences, only to be
thrown back by Marines.
“Bloodshed was avoided seemingly only by good luck and bad
aim on the part of some angry
Vietnamese who shot at a few
departing buses and helicopters.”
There are mixed signals and
questionable
decisions.
By
evening, there is a growing awareness that some of the 13 designated pickup points have not been
visited by any helicopters, leaving
some of the most vulnerable
Vietnamese, many of them CIA
workers, to the mercy of the arriving communists.
Snepp is inside the embassy
that night, and tells me later,
“Americans have been criticized
that day in Saigon for their sins of
omission, but the heroes that day
were the embassy officers who
pursued their way through the
crowds and risked their lives to
get their friends on those helicopters. If the Americans salvage anything of their honor from the last
day of the war it is due to the
young men who did the legwork
during the evacuation while the
ambassador and his aides sat
back in the embassy trying to figure out what went wrong.”
The monsoon is coming to
Saigon, arriving along with the
North Vietnamese who from the
beginning of this offensive have
been in a race against the weather. They know the heavy tanks
and artillery pieces they use to
support their overwhelming conventional attacks can easily bog
down in the mud. From the slippery roof of the Eden Building
where the AP office is located, I
watch through the rainy mist as
the dark shapes of helicopters
come and go.
At 2 the following morning,
April 30, the U.S. embassy needs
to destroy all its communications
equipment in preparation for final
departure.
Martin refuses to leave until all
the people he feels responsible for
are evacuated. Around 5 a.m., a
young helicopter crewman comes
into his office and hands him a
note scrawled on the back of a
pad. Martin tells me later: “I will
never forget it... The message
says, ‘The president of the United
States directs that Ambassador
Martin come out on this helicopter.’”
Around 7:30 a.m., another helicopter, a Sea Knight, swoops low
over John F. Kennedy Square
(soon to be renamed) and settles
Through binoculars I see a group
of Marines running to the open
doors of the big ship. It zooms
across the city on its way to its
carrier offshore. I eventually learn
the Marines were part of a security group commanded by Maj.
James Kean, and were temporarily forgotten in the confusion of the
evacuation.
Eventually, the sounds of the
helicopters are replaced by
human voices. Hearing angry
shouting, I spot a dozen people in
the middle of Lam Son Square
arguing over possession of a kingsized bed. The looting of America’s
abandoned buildings has begun.
Franjola and I walk up toward
the American Embassy. We see a
few bodies on the streets, maybe
thieves killed by angry citizens, or
the thieves’ victims. We see a
crowd outside the embassy in a
mood opposite the anger of the
previous day. They are laughing,
comparing looted stuff they’ve
dragged out. Inside, smiling locals
are trying to smash open a heavy
safe with a sledgehammer.
On a pile of wet documents and
broken furniture on the back lawn
we find the bronze plaque
engraved with the names of the
five American servicemen who
died in the attack on the building
in the opening hours of the Tet
Offensive in 1968. Together, we
carry it back to the AP office.
Esper insists on manning the
office, just as he has done for
most of the previous 10 years. He
is listening to Saigon Radio in the
monitoring room with our interpreter who soon shouts,
“Surrender, it’s surrender!”
President Duong Van Minh is
announcing complete capitulation; it’s now official. Esper rushes
to message New York.
Esper is looking gaunt, his eyes
See FALL, Page 59
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In thIs APrIl 10, 1965, file photo, made by Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett, newlylanded U.S. Marines make their way through the sands of Red Beach at Da Nang, Vietnam on their way
to reinforce the air base as South Vietnamese Rangers battled guerrillas about three miles south of the
beach. Arnett has written a new memoir, “Saigon Has Fallen,” detailing his experience covering the war
for The AP.
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Diet Pepsi dropping aspartame
because of customer concerns
NEW YORK (AP) — PepsiCo
says it’s dropping aspartame
from Diet Pepsi in response to
customer feedback and replacing
it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly known
as Splenda.
The decision to swap sweeteners comes as Americans keep
turning away from popular diet
sodas. Rival Coca-Cola said this
week that sales volume for Diet
Coke, which also uses aspartame, fell 5 percent in North
America in the first three months
of the year.
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola said
in a statement that it has no
plans to change the sweetener in
Diet Coke, which is the country’s
top-selling diet cola.
The
Food
and
Drug
Administration says aspartame,
known by the brand names Equal
and NutraSweet, is “one of the
“In 13 years of covering the Vietnam War I never
most exhaustively studied subdreamed it would end as it did at noon today. I thought it
stances in the human food supmight end with a political deal like in Laos. Even an
ply, with more than 100 studies
Armageddon-type battle with the city left in ruins. But a
supporting its safety.”
total surrender followed a short two hours later with a
More recently, a government
cordial meeting in the AP office in Saigon with an armed
advisory committee for the U.S.
and battle-garbed North Vietnamese officer with his aide
Department of Agriculture’s
- and over a warm Coke and stale pound cake at that?
dietary guidelines said aspartame
appears to be safe in the amounts
That is how the Vietnam War ended for me today.”
consumed by Americans. But it
— Peter Arnett
added that there is still uncertainty about whether the sweetener increases risk for some
AP Photo blood cancers in men.
In thIs 1963 fIle photo, Associated Press correspondent Peter Arnett stands with gear that he carExecutives at Coke and Pepsi
ries out in field while covering the Vietnamese army. More than two bitter decades of war in Vietnam blame the declines on percepended with the last days of April 1975. Today, 40 years later, Arnett has written a new memoir, “Saigon tions that the sweetener isn’t
Has Fallen,” detailing his experience covering the war for The AP.
safe.
John Sicher, publisher of
industry tracker Beverage Digest,
noted that attitudes about aspartame can be very negative. Using
an online tool called Topsy that
measures Twitter sentiment on a
scale of 0 to 100, he noted
“aspartame” got a 22 ranking,
below a 38 ranking for
“Congress.”
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THURSDAY MAY 21ST 6:00 P.M.
Nice Brick Home & Three Building Lots
232 Moore Circle & Lot 19, 20, & 21,
Moore Circle Cleveland, TN.
Located in Bellefounte Heights Subdivision
NO
BUYERS
FEE
SOLD SEPARATE OR AS WHOLE
***NO BUYERS FEE***
Directions: From Cleveland, TN. Go North on Hwy 11, Go Past City Limits & Golf Course,
Turn Right on Moore Circle, Watch for Auction Signs ALL Properties
Selling From 232 Moore Circle
Nice Brick Home
1584+/-Sq. Ft
232 Moore Circle Cleveland, TN. 37312
SALE
ONE
This home features: 1584+/- Sq.Ft, 3
Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, Hardwood Floors,
Fireplace, City Water, Partial Basement, 28x31
Detached Garage with Meter & Concrete
Floors, This Home Is Surrounded by Mature
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Lot #19 .36+/-Acre Moore Circle
Lot #20 .37+/- Acre Moore Circle
Lot #21 .37+/-Acre Moore Circle
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SALE
TWO
Fall
By comparison, “love” had a
ranking of 96 and “Christmas”
had a ranking of 88.
The negative attitudes about
aspartame don’t seem to extend
to sucralose. Sparkling Ice, a
zero-calorie drink created in the
1990s, is sweetened with
sucralose and has been enjoying
strong growth in recent years.
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Mike Graves
From Page 58
burning with exhaustion. He hasn’t left the office in days, and now
he decides to take a walk around
outside. Within a few minutes he
is back, pale and disturbed. Esper
explains that while strolling
across Lam Son Square he was
approached by a distraught
Vietnamese police lieutenant
colonel in full uniform, a man he
later identifies as Nguyen Van
Long, who mutters to him, “It’s
finished.” The officer then walks
away about 10 feet, makes a
sharp about face, salutes a nearby
statue
commemorating
Vietnamese infantrymen, and
raises a .45-caliber pistol. He
blows his brains out. For a second, George thought he was to be
the target. He writes the story with
shaky hands.
Franjola has been doing the
rounds. He returns and says he
was nearly side-swiped by a jeep
careening through the streets. It is
packed with laughing, shouting
young men in black pajamas and
waving Russian rifles. I rush
downstairs to Tu Do, the main
street. I hear the roar of heavy
engines and look toward the old
French cathedral where a convoy
of Russian Molotova trucks is
approaching. Each is loaded with
young North Vietnamese soldiers
in battle garb, their green pith helmets tilted back as they peer in
wonder at the tall buildings they
are passing, probably the first
they have ever seen. A few local
Vietnamese are standing near me.
They are staring, speechless. I see
a large Communist flag unfurl
from a room at the nearby
Caravelle Hotel.
I notice a group of South
Vietnamese soldiers running
down a side street, kicking off
their uniforms, tossing their
weapons into shop doorways. I
run back to the AP office, my
heart beating wildly as I scramble
up the narrow stairways. In the
hallway there are a dozen
Vietnamese neighbors who clutch
at my clothing and implore me to
save them. I push into the office
and look across to Esper.
“George,” I shout, “Saigon has
fallen. Call New York.”
I check my watch. It’s 11:43
a.m. I type up a news bulletin
about what I’ve just seen and
hand it our Vietnamese telex
operator, Tammy. He reads it and
rises from his chair in alarm. He’s
looking at the door. I push him
down and order him to send my
bulletin. He does, then bolts out of
the office, and we never see him
again.
Around noon, Franjola and I
walk the city streets. Russian
tanks are arriving in greater numbers now. Local people are spilling
onto the sidewalks, their fears of
catastrophe gone. I walk through
the open gates of the defense ministry
building.
A
South
Vietnamese officer is in consultation
with
several
North
Vietnamese. He turns to me and
says, “No pictures,” and I continue
shooting. After all, there are new
sheriffs in town, and they don’t
seem to mind.
I meet the Australian cameraman Neil Davis who is walking
from the presidential palace. He’d
watched North Vietnamese tanks
crash through the palace gates.
He says President Minh has been
arrested and taken away. I return
to the office, and soon afterward
one of our stringer photographers
walks in with a North Vietnamese
officer and his aide, who are amiable, talkative and appreciative of
the snacks we offer them.
Later that afternoon Esper suggests that with international communications still up, I write my
reflections of the final day. I start
punching a telex tape and it winds
to the floor as I write. I feed the
tape into the transmitter and it
chugs its way through the
machine. I write:
“In 13 years of covering the
Vietnam War I never dreamed it
would end as it did at noon today.
I thought it might end with a political deal like in Laos. Even an
Armageddon-type battle with the
city left in ruins. But a total surrender followed a short two hours later
with a cordial meeting in the AP
office in Saigon with an armed and
battle-garbed North Vietnamese
officer with his aide - and over a
warm Coke and stale pound cake
at that? That is how the Vietnam
War ended for me today.”
The tape stops running. I
punch a few keys but the machine
just coughs a couple of times. I try
the key again, no response. The
AP wire from Saigon to New York
is down - and out. The new
authorities have pulled the plug.
I call out to Esper, “That’s it,
George. It’s over.”
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ADDED. Funds are accepted in the form of a Cashier’ s, Personal or Business check Payable to Crye-Leike
Realtors. Closings shall take place no later than 30 days after the auction.Title X: Under Title X the purchaser
of a single family residence built before 1978 has a maximum of 10 days to inspect the property for the
presence of lead base paint. The period of inspection is 10 days prior to the auction. Disclaimer: All property
sells AS IS, WHERE IS, with no warranties either written or implied. Square Footage per tax records. THIS
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believed to be correct, but is not guaranteed. Any announcements made the day of the sale by the auctioneer
take precedence over any other statements either written or oral.
TWO PUBLIC AUCTIONS
THURSDAY APRIL 30th 5:30 P.M.
501 INMAN STREET &
140 OAK STREET CLEVELAND TN.
**TWO COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES**
**TWO GREAT INVESTMENT PROPERTIES**
*ZONED COMMERCIAL* *GREAT LOCATION*
Directions: South on Keith Street, Left on Inman Street, Property on Right,
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501 Inman Street
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*** 3 APARTMENTS UPSTAIRS***
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125 +/- Acres • Tracts or As a Whole • Mostly Wooded
Property of Mrs. Johnathan Y. Smith
Sims & Sims Harris Roads • Hwy 58 North Area
Ooltewah-Harrison, Hamilton County, Tennessee
SAL
TWOE
Online Only Bid Begins May 1st • Bid Ends May 14th
Location: From Hwy 153 & Hwy 58 N (Chattanooga, TN), follow Hwy 58 N., north 12.7 miles to Sims Rd (at
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property! See Auction Signs!!
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Beautiful wooded tracts ranging from 5 to 28 acres
X
Rolling hills with excellent building sites – former strawberry farm – good interior farm road system for
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X
Frontage on Sims & Sims Harris Roads – public water available
X
Pine and Hardwood Timber – small cleared areas
X
Divided into 9 tracts, offered in combination of tracts or as a whole using “Ultimate Choice” bidding system
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Area of farms, homes and quiet country setting
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* Corner Lot
* High Traffic Area
* Public Water & Sewer
* Pole Sign
* Display Window
* Delivery Door
* Three Apartments Upstairs
140 Oak Street
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Commercial Building
* Road Frontage
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* Two Ground Level Doors
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423-618-9505
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information included herein was derived from sources believed to be correct, but is not guaranteed. Any
announcements made the day of the sale by the auctioneer take precedence over ,any other statements
either written or oral.
Tips for parents considering
helping their child buy a home
AP Photo
This is A JAN. 23, 1936 file photo of the then King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, center, bites
his lip, as he and his brothers, the then Duke of York later King George VI, left, Duke of Gloucester, foreground right, and The Duke of Kent 3rd left, walk behind the coffin of King George V, during his funeral
in London. King George VI the father of the queen, George VI — born Albert — became the unexpected
king when his elder brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 after a reign that lasted just 11 months.
Edward, often portrayed as a raffish playboy, had abandoned the throne to marry his mistress, the
divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson.
New royal baby: Destined
to be a ‘spare to the heir’?
LONDON (AP) — When Prince
William and Kate announced
they were expecting their first
child in 2012, the appetite for
royal baby news seemed insatiable.
Three years on, interest surrounding the young royals’ second child — a younger brother
or sister to George — is notably
more subdued. Part of it may be
that the novelty of seeing “Kate
and Wills” as parents has worn
off. But it’s also inevitable given
the royal succession rule, in
which the throne always passes
to the eldest child. Second-born
royals in the line of succession
rarely have to worry about one
day becoming king or queen —
they are known half-jokingly as
the “spares to the heir.”
It’s a position that brings far
less responsibility, but also
fewer privileges than those
enjoyed by the heir apparent. It’s
also one that attracts relentless
public scrutiny.
While eldest children have
their destinies carved out from
birth, many royal “spares” have
struggled to find meaningful
public roles.
“It’s always been a rather
unenviable situation. There are
often shades of jealousy, evident
in the current queen and her
sister,” said Joe Little, managing
editor at Britain’s Majesty magazine, referring to Princess
Margaret and Queen Elizabeth
II.
Not all younger royal children
spend their lives waiting in the
wings, heading charities and
cutting ribbons. Elizabeth’s
grandfather, George V, inherited
the throne in 1910 after his
elder brother died of pneumonia.
George VI, another second son,
became king after his brother
abdicated in 1936.
—PRINCE HARRY (born 1984)
The second son of Prince
Charles and Diana, Harry is
often seen as the mischievous
one, the fun-loving counterpart
to the more staid — some say
dull — William.
Harry came of age under full
public scrutiny, and through the
years he has sparked some
scandalous headlines. He admitted to smoking cannabis and
drinking in his teenage years,
and in 2004 he was photographed scuffling with a photographer outside a London
nightclub.
A couple of incidents were
particularly embarrassing for
the royals: When the prince was
photographed wearing a Nazithemed costume to a fancy dress
party, prompting the headline
“Harry the Nazi,” and more
recently when he was pictured
partying naked in Las Vegas.
Like many other royals, Harry
chose a military career and has
served in Afghanistan. That will
likely continue to be his main
role as he gets bumped further
down the line of succession. The
new royal baby will see Harry
relegated to fifth in line.
—PRINCE ANDREW
(born 1960)
Andrew, the queen’s second
son and Charles’ younger brother, gets more press than fellow
siblings Anne and Edward — but
for all the wrong reasons.
The prince enjoyed a successful naval career as a helicopter
pilot and served in the Falklands
War, yet that record has been
overshadowed in recent years by
headlines about his friendship
with several controversial figures, notably U.S. financier
Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex
AP Photo
This is A JuNe 21, 2006 file photo of Britain’s Prince Charles,
right with his brother, Prince Andrew the Duke of York, as they arrive
in the paddock on the second day of the annual Royal Ascot horse
race meeting, Ascot, England. Prince Andrew, the queen’s second
son and Charles’ younger brother, gets more press than fellow siblings Anne and Edward — but for all the wrong reasons.
offender. Andrew stepped down
from his role as a trade envoy in
2011 as questions mounted, and
this year he had to publicly deny
claims that he had sex with an
underage woman.
Andrew, who is divorced from
Sarah Ferguson — known as
Fergie — has also long been criticized for his opulent, globe-trotting lifestyle, and his romantic
links to a number of models and
starlets have attracted unwelcome nicknames like “Randy
Andy.”
Andrew will become sixth in
line to the throne with the baby’s
birth.
—PRINCESS MARGARET
(1930 -2002)
Four years younger than the
queen, Margaret was Elizabeth’s
only sister. With her film-star
looks and vivacious personality,
Margaret lived a glamorous and
sometimes controversial life,
and many remember her best for
her turbulent romances.
The princess’s relationship
with divorced pilot Peter
Townsend was frowned upon by
Winston Churchill and the
Church of England, among others. In 1955, aged 25, she
declared she had decided
against marrying him, “conscious of my duty to the
Commonwealth.”
Margaret later married photographer Antony ArmstrongJones, a supposed “commoner,”
and the couple became the heart
of a fashionable set in the
Swinging London scene of the
‘60s and ‘70s. The princess was
often snapped dancing late into
the night, threw famous parties
in the Caribbean and mixed with
pop stars like Mick Jagger.
Before the couple divorced,
Margaret met Roddy Llewellyn,
17 years her junior, sparking a
relationship that prompted huge
media coverage.
Margaret’s health declined in
her 60s, after a lifetime of alcohol and cigarettes. She died in
2002, aged 71.
—KING GEORGE VI
(1895-1952)
The father of the queen,
George VI — born Albert —
became the unexpected king
when his elder brother, Edward
VIII, abdicated in 1936 after a
reign that lasted just 11 months.
Edward, often portrayed as a
raffish playboy, had abandoned
the throne to marry his mistress, the divorced American
socialite Wallis Simpson.
A shy man with a stammer,
George had to restore public
faith in the monarchy and be the
symbolic leader of a country at
war with Germany. The Oscar-
AP Photo
This is AN APril 9, 2005 file
photo of Britain’s Prince William
and Prince Harry, left, after the
civil wedding ceremony of their
father Britain’s Prince Charles
and his wife Camilla, the
Duchess of Cornwall, at the
Guildhall in Windsor, England.
Prince Harry the second son of
Prince Charles and Diana, is
often seen as the mischievous
one, the fun-loving counterpart to
the more staid — some say dull
— William.
winning film “The King’s
Speech,” which dramatized the
story of how he overcame his initial struggles as monarch,
reignited interest in his often
overlooked life.
Rising prices and a dearth of
homes for sale in many markets
have made it harder for many
looking to buy their first home.
One of the biggest obstacles
many are facing is saving up for
a down payment, particularly in
hotter markets where competition for the more affordable
homes can quickly drive up
prices and put pressure on buyers to bring more cash up front.
That trend is prompting many
parents to step in, some opening
their wallets, others welcoming
their adult children to live with
them again temporarily while
they save money or pay down
debt.
Some 13 percent of parents
with children between the ages of
20 to 38 helped their child buy a
home in the last five years,
according to a survey conducted
by GfK Custom Research North
America for lender loanDepot.
Of those, 65 percent contributed the down payment and
24 percent assisted with closing
costs. The survey, which was
conducted in February, included
responses from 1,000 parents
and has a margin of error of 3
percent.
Whether it’s a cash gift or
another form of aid, it pays for
parents to consider how to best
aid their children without placing
their own financial well-being at
risk.
Here are some factors parents
should weigh when helping their
children buy a home:
ASSESS YOUR FINANCES
Parents may be tempted to
pitch in financially to help get
their children into their first
home, but they shouldn’t do so
before going over their own
finances and ensuring they can
they can afford to live without the
funds.
This is particularly important
if the parents are close to retirement, when they will have to live
on their assets, savings and
investments.
“Do not in any case put your
retirement security at risk just to
get your child into a home,” said
Elizabeth Grahsl, a private
banker at Prosperity Bank in
Dallas. “He or she will have plenty of chances to own real estate,
but you probably don’t have time
to catch up if your retirement is
derailed.”
An accountant or financial
adviser can help figure out
whether you can afford to make a
sizeable contribution to your
children’s homeownership fund.
Another option is to use an
online retirement calculator to
estimate the impact that any big
withdrawals would have on your
retirement savings.
Try this one from Bankrate:
http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/retirementplan-calculator.aspx
GO WITH CASH
If you decide to kick in some
money toward your child’s down
payment or other costs, it’s best
to go with discretionary cash, say
from a savings account. That’s
because it’s likely not earning
much in the way of interest, so
you’re not losing much in potential gains on the money.
Avoid withdrawing funds from
individual retirement accounts,
or IRAs.
Generally, the IRS will tack on
a 10 percent tax for anyone who
withdraws funds from their IRA if
they’re under 59 ½ years old.
Still, there are exceptions,
including one allowing parents to
withdraw up to $10,000 toward
the first-home purchase of their
child.
Even so, you’ll have to pay
taxes on that $10,000 at your
normal income-tax rate. So if
your child needs $10,000, you’ll
end up paying more to cover the
portion lost to taxes.
MAKE IT A GIFT
Some parents may decide they
can’t afford to give their children
a large sum of money, instead
preferring to do it as a loan. But
that can have an impact on the
borrower’s ability to qualify for a
mortgage.
Mortgage lenders generally
allow borrowers to use funds
received as a gift from a relative
to cover their down payment,
closing costs or to add to their
savings.
But if the money is being borrowed, the homebuyer is
required to disclose that loan to
the bank, which could alter their
evaluation of the borrower’s
debt-to-income ratio. That’s a
calculus banks use to help determine the borrower’s ability to pay
back a mortgage.
If the funds are given as a gift,
they don’t count as debts that
have to be repaid.
“When you apply for a loan
they want to know how much
money you have,” said Erika
Safran, a certified financial planner with Safran Wealth Advisors
in New York. “If you’re receiving
gift, that person is going to have
to write a letter saying that they
don’t expect it back.”
CONSIDER ALTERNATIVES
Parents can help give their
children a financial leg up on
their home purchase, but there
are other ways to do so beyond
just giving them cash.
Local charities sometimes offer
first-time buyers incentives to
save by offering matching contributions. That’s also a good
approach for parents to take,
say, by offering to match their
children’s savings toward a down
payment.
Another option is to make sure
their children are exploring
down-payment assistance programs run by state and local
housing authorities.
These programs can be found
in all states and provide an average down-payment assistance of
$11,565, according to an analysis of 2,290 such programs by
real estate data firm RealtyTrac.
Most of the programs essentially lend the borrowers the
money for the down payment,
collecting on the loan when the
home is sold, said Rob Chrane,
CEO and founder of Down
Payment Resource, which tracks
the programs.
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IIn
n A S
Special
p e c i a l Way
Way
Mom (mom’s name if desired), you are the
greatest! We love you! Happy Mother’s Day.
Your name(s).
Mother, you are very special. Thanks for all you
do. Your name(s).
It’s as easy as 1-2-3
1) Write your special message below.
2) Count the words in your message (minimum 12
words). Multiply by 25¢ per word.
3) Enclose check, money order, Visa, Discover,
American Express or Mastercard number. All messages
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Phone: (423) 472-5041
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0. WEBSITE DIRECTORY
19. Estate Sales
30. Help Wanted - full Time
CLEVELAND DAILY Banner
(423)472-5041
[email protected]
LOOKINg TO DOWNSIZE/ Liquidate your estate?? Provenance Estate
Sales
free
consultation.
423-331-0787.
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29. Help Wanted - Part-time
AIR CONDITIONINg Technician
Previous experience required. Pay
based on experience. Paid Holidays
& Sign on bonus. Ken Manis Heating
& Air. Please call (706)695-2901.
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY seeking drug free laborers in the Ocoee,
TN
area.
Call
Ward
at
931-510-4428. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
CLASS A CDL and Heavy Hauler
positions available. Tanker and Hazmat endorsements a plus. Competitive salary with weekly direct deposit
option.
Call
423-745-0028
or
423-649-0072 or fax 423-745-1941.
CNA FULL time, all shifts, starting
pay $10.50 plus, depending on experience. great pay and benefits.
Apply at Bradley Healthcare &
Rehab Center, 2910 Peerless Road,
Cleveland.
HEAlTH & Safety manager
Jackson Furniture Industries, located in Cleveland, TN, is currently
seeking candidates for the position
of Health & Safety manager. This
position will provide technical
safety and health support to production and corporate personnel,
develop corporate safety and
health programs and objectives
and coordinate safety training programs, monitor safety and health
regulations and provide technical
support to plant and corporate personnel to ensure compliance with
Federal and State safety and
health regulations.
Safety manager Job Duties:
• Manage Worker’s Compensation
Process
• Provide technical safety and
health support and information
to production and corporate
personnel.
• Written safety and health
programs and policies.
• Identify company safety training
needs and develop and
coordinate safety training
programs.
• Develop annual company safety
and health goals.
• Participate in new product/
process reviews including
process hazard analyses,
Operator Training, etc.
• Support corporate/ plant
engineering to implement
engineering controls to
minimize safety and
occupational health hazards.
• Support plant personnel in
selection of appropriate personal
protective equipment.
• Maintain corporate safety library
(e.g. videos, regulations,
reference manuals).
• Promote safety and health
awareness through internal
company memoranda,
newsletters, and specific
training programs.
Skills/ Qualifications: The ideal
candidate for this position will be
someone who knows how to:
• Motivate. Motivate. Motivate!
• Adjust, adapt, conquer, and
overcome.
• Act, instead of react.
Other skills and qualifications include: Coaching, Managing Processes,
Process
Improvement,
Tracking Budget Expenses, Production Planning, Controls and Instrumentation, Strategic Planning,
Dealing with Complexity, Financial
Planning and Strategy, Manufacturing.
Experience Requirements: Experience within a per- piece manufacturing environment a plus, but not
necessary. We are looking for candidates with experience of 10 +
years or more.
Educational Requirements:
A Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Business Management, Organizational Management, or related fields is preferred
but not required.
Travel: 10 %
Please send resumes to:
[email protected]
A gREAT Opportunity
with a growing Company
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before 3pm the afternoon the error
appears. The CLEVELAND DAILY
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for errors after the first corrected insertion. The Publisher reserves the
right to revise or reject, at his option,
any advertisement he deems objectionable either in subject or phraseology or which he may deem detrimental to his business. Deadline for
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your money back! Beware of scholarship “guarantees.” Before you pay
for a search service, get the refund
policy in writing. Call the Federal
Trade
Commission
at
1-877-FTC-HELP to learn how to
avoid scholarship scams. A message from Cleveland Daily Banner
and the FTC. Or visit our Web site at
www.ftc.gov
5. lost And found
LOST YOUR pet? Check daily at the
Cleveland Animal Shelter, 360 Hill
Street.
7. Personals
AL-ANON OFFERS help for families
of alcoholics. For meeting information call 423-284-1612.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE support
group for abuse victims. Meets Mondays. Call 479-9339, extension 15 or
25 for location.
IF YOU want to drink that's your
business…If you want to quit, call Alcoholics Anonymous. Call 499-6003.
9. Pets And Supplies
DOg OBEDIENCE CLASSES begin
May 28th. Buddy Cummings, Instructor. Over 40 years experience.
For information: 423-472–1827.
14. Want To Buy
I BUY OR SELL For you. Furniture/
antiques, households. Licensed auctioneer36
years.
Doug,
423-468-0577.
If you are searching for a product
or service AND do not want to use
loads of time searching everywhere,
WHY NOT Advertise your need under the heading: 014 WANT TO
BUY in THE CLEVELAND DAILY
BANNER!!
15. Yard Sales
CALL ME BEfORE YOU DOWNSIZE or have an estate sale. I will
buy all or part. Used furniture, collectibles, antiques. 423-240-8205.
MOVINg SALE Friday/ Saturday
3907 Sycamore Drive 8am-? Furniture, tables, chairs, beds, luggage,
decor, miscellaneous.
SELL IT TODAY!! THE CLASSIFIED
WAY. CALL 472-5041.
18. Articles for Sale
BABYLOCK TIARA II Longam 16
inch quilting machine. Never used
except to test out. Sold with electronic variable speed bobbin winder,
Tru Stitch stitch regulator, quilting table with table extension and quilting
table overlay thread antennae, bobbins, needles & other accessories.
Includes original boxes. $5,400.
YOWZA- Captiva Elliptical. Not only
an elliptical, but targets core area.
Can go to web site:
http://www.yowzafitness.com
and
look up Captiva to see how it works.
$1,000. 423-584-6473
CENTRAl BOIlER E-Classic OUTDOOR FURNACES. Heat your entire home and hot water. EPA Qualified. Call today about limited time,
money- saving offers! Alternative
Heat Solutions 423-744-4547.
ELECTRIC BLOWER- vacuums &
blows. 2 tables: one 4", one 6'. 1/2
canopy bed, box springs & mattress.
Make offer 423-472-3701.
LOSE 30 lbs. in 30 days! Medical
doctors say the only way to lose
weight is to eat less and exercise
more.
Learn
how
to
avoid
weight-loss scams. Call the Federal
Trade
Commission
at
1-877-FTC-HELP. A message from
Cleveland Daily Banner and the
FTC. Or visit our Web site at
www.ftc.gov
PAllETS!!!
fREE WHIlE THEY lAST!
AUTOMOTIVE DEALERSHIP has
an opening for a part time cashier/
receptionist. Mandatory hours are:
Monday- Friday 3pm-7pm and Saturday 8am-6pm. Additional hours
may be necessary on some weekdays. Applicant must have cashiering, filing and good phone skills.
Must be able to start immediately.
Please contact Belinda at Larry Hill
Ford 423-472-5454 to fill out application
or
email
resume
to:
[email protected].
BUSY
INTERVENTIONAL
pain
management office seeking parttime medical assistant. Experience
preferred. Please fax resume to
423-339-2242.
IF YOU are an enthusiastic, organized and creative team player then
this could be the job for you. Candidate will plan and perform story time
and other programs at our library on
a part time basis for children birth12 years of age. Qualifications: Prior
children's programming, theater and/
or teaching experience, ability to
work independently and responsibly,
strong verbal and written communication skills, college degree with
concentration in childhood development, children's literature, or related
studies. Approximately 27 work
hours per week, with increased summer hours. Mail resume to: Cleveland Bradley County Public Library,
795 Church Street NE, Cleveland,
TN 37311
NEED SOMEONE experienced in
landscaping & irrigation. Must be dependable and have drivers license.
423-472-5399.
PART TIME evening cleaning positions available for the Cleveland
area. Please call 423-472-9344 for
interview.
PART- TIME dishwasher needed.
9am-2pm Saturday & Sunday- Must
be clean, neat, dependable and drug
free. Apply in person to Huddle
House, Ocoee.
POSITION ANNOUNCEmENT
Electro- mechanical/
mechatronics Instructor
The Tennessee College of Applied
Technology is accepting applications for the several parttime
Electro- Mechanical/ Mechatronics
Instructor positions. These positions will be teaching in the high
schools that will cover McMinn,
Meigs, and Polk Counties.
minimum qualifications
• A high school diploma or its
equivalent.
• Must have experience and
knowledge to be able to teach
Principles of Manufacturing,
Digital Media, Mechatronics I,
Mechatronics II, Advanced
Manufacturing.
• Have experience in hydraulic,
pneumatic systems to include
pumps, cylinders, valves,
controls, etc. Experience in
welding and machining
processes.
• Be willing to work toward a
Tennessee Department of
Education Occupational License
Skills
• Must possess the communication
skills necessary to be an effective
teacher
• Must show evidence of good
character, organizational skills,
and mature attitude
General Responsibilities:
As a Electro- Mechanical/ Mechatronics Instructor you will be training and supervising high school
students as entry level technicians
in a high- tech manufacturing setting. Problem solving and critical
thinking skills will be an important
aspect of each course. Training will
involve both classroom and laboratory learning. Teaching and supervision of high school students in
classroom and lab setting; evaluate and advise students; maintain
records; participate in the development of the program.
These Advanced Manufacturing
Courses will stand as dual credit/
dual enrollment courses between
local high schools and post- secondary institutions.
Be willing to work toward a Tennessee Department of Education
Occupational License
Salary:
In accordance with The Tennessee
College of Applied Technology
guidelines. State of Tennessee
higher education benefits package.
Application Date:
Applications and resumes will be
accepted until all positions are
filled.
TCAT Athens Employment Application is available on our website:
www.tcatathens.edu
Please mail/ email the following:
resume, completed TCATA application:
Tennessee College of
Applied Technology
Attn: Kim Davis
PO Box 848
Athens, TN 37303
423-744-2814 – office
423-744-2817 – fax
[email protected]
A A/ E E O
The Tennessee College of Applied
Technology does not discriminate
on the basis of race, color, national
origin, sex, disability or age in its
programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding
the non-discriminations policies:
Kim Davis–
[email protected]
423-744-2814
Bookkeeper
gROWINg management company
in Cleveland has an immediate
opening for an energetic individual
to handle A/ P & A/ R bookkeeping. Ideal candidate will possess a
minimum of 2 + years in an accounting or bookkeeping role.
Skills needed are accounts payable, Excel, clerical, bank reconciliations, filing and other general
administrative roles. Experience
with Quickbooks is preferred. good
phone skills are a must along with
the ability to multi- task. Position is
full- time. great working environment in a growing dynamic company. For consideration, please
email your resume to:
[email protected]
or fax (423)478-8072.
COOkEvIllE REGIONAl
medical Center
Seeking
full- Time Intensive Care Nurses
Cookeville Regional Medical Center is seeking to hire full- time
nurses with Medical/ Surgical Intensive Care experience.
Education: graduate of a school
of professional nursing. Current
Multi-state or Tennessee license
required for employment.
Experience: Management of patients with intra- aortic balloon
pumps, intracranial pressure monitors, diabetic ketoacidosis, acute
myocardial infarction, COPD and
multiple intravenous medications.
Must have knowledge of hemodynamic parameters and be able to
manage patients on ventilators.
Apply on-line
www.crmchealth.org
E. O. E.
DRIVERS: CDL-A 1 year experience, earn $1,200 + per week. guaranteed home time. Excellent benefits and bonuses. 100 % No- Touch,
70 % D & H 855-842-8498
EARN THOUSAND$ from home. Be
careful of work-at-home schemes.
Hidden costs can add up, and requirements may be unrealistic.
Learn how to avoid work-at-home
scams. Call the Federal Trade Commission. 1-877-FTC-HELP. A message from Cleveland Daily Banner
and the FTC. Or visit our Web site at
www.ftc.gov
FUEL MART, TOM'S : Third/ second
Shift, verifiable references. Apply
any Fuel Mart.
FULL TIME help needed. Champion
Cleaners on North Lee Highway. Apply in person.
fUll- TImE Accounting Clerk:
Cleveland Firm seeking experienced candidate to perform data
entry, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general office
duties. The successful candidate
will require minimal supervision
while functioning in a dynamic office environment. Must be willing to
provide support and assistance in
all areas. Must be able to work
Monday- Friday 8am- 5pm. Salary
will be dependent upon experience.
Benefits include paid vacation, insurance, and retirement.
Qualifications:
• Associate's Degree or equivalent
work experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Multi Task/Detail Oriented
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
Send resumes to: #710-P, c/o
Cleveland Daily Banner, P.O. Box
3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600
NEED TO BUY, SELL, TRADE OR
RENT? USE CLASSIFIED ADS.
THEY WORK! CLEVELAND DAILY
BANNER, 472-5041.
Due to increases in business
Swing Transport is now hiring
Drivers for its Cleveland Tennessee operation.
Benefits include:
• Competitive pay
• Health, Life, Dental and Vision
Plan
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• 401k/ Profit Sharing Plan
• No Touch Freight
• No Haz- Mat
Drivers: We operate primarily in
Tennessee, Alabama, georgia,
Kentucky and North Carolina and
occasionally Virginia. Two years
tractor- trailer experience required.
Must be DOT qualified and have a
Safe Driving record.
Please call 1-800-849-5381
Academy of
Allied Health
Careers,
Chattanooga,TN
A successful Medical
Biller & Coder can earn
more than $50,000 per
year and the job market
is outstanding!
We can help you become certified
in as little as 10 weeks for
thousands less than other schools!
Call us for more information!
Our courses range between
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Great Pay, Benefits, Weekly home time & More
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Apply: www.titantransferinc.com
PART TIME HELP WANTED
Mail Room/Circulation Dept.
Fast Paced Work. Varying Hours/Days
(Includes Saturday Nights)
Must Be Able To Lift 50 lbs.
Must Be 18 Years or Older
Apply In Person 9am-4pm Monday-Friday
No Phone Calls, Please
1505 25th St. NW
EOE
30. Help Wanted - Full Time
40. general services offered
Hiring Housekeepers and
Laundry. Apply within, Hampton
inn, 4355 Frontage road.
EHM is seeking a full time maintenance technician for their Cleveland
& Chattanooga, TN locations. Duties
include daily repair and upkeep of
the property, turn of vacant units,
work on an on-call basis, and be familiar with OsHA standards. Must
have previous experience in apartment maintenance setting including
painting, carpentry, plumbing, electrical and HVAC and must have a
valid driver’s license. Benefits include health & life insurance and
PTO. Hourly rate based on experience level. Email Resume to [email protected].
FRAMERs/ HANgERs and Dry
Wall Finishers needed. 5 Years experience a must. Must pass drug
test and have own tools. Company
benefits and good pay. Call
423-322-7003 or 423-322-7002.
DiETARY AiDEs, great pay and
benefits. Apply at Bradley Healthcare & Rehab Center, 2910 Peerless
Road, Cleveland.
DOVE
HEALiNgAcupuncture
423-458-4076. sinus, migraines, sciatic, digestion issues, face lifts,
stress relief.
TOP CuT Lawn Care- Professional
service, Affordable Prices. Credit
Cards Accepted. 423-593-9634
WE COVER all aspects of home
projects delivering first class services and rates. We offer a wide
range of home repairs from structural improvement, painting, to home
exterior. We offer free estimates and
are proudly serving all surrounding
counties. 423-333-4366.
HospiTALiTY opporTuniTies
Life Care Center of Collegedale
DieTArY AiDe
Full- time positions available. Must
have a familiarity with clinical diets.
Culinary and/ or food services experience preferred.
Cook
Full- time position available. Culinary and/ or food services experience preferred.
LAunDrY AiDe
Full- time position available. Laundry experience preferred.
High school diploma or equivalent
required. Long- term care experience preferred. We offer great pay
and benefits in a team- oriented
environment.
Cathleen Ordonez
423-396-2182/ 423-396-3420 Fax
9210 Apison Pike
Collegedale, TN 37315
[email protected]
LifeCareCareers.com
E O E/ M/ F /V /D– 58360
CLEVELAND READY MIXED
CONCRETE CO., INC.
Is hiring ready mix concrete
truck drivers with a
minimum class B.
Good starting pay.
Apply in person
1601 6TH STREET
HVAC iNsTALLERs. Two years experienced preferred. (423)479-6363
iMMEDiATE OPENiNg for a Veterinary Assistant in a veterinarian hospital. some weekend work required.
Veterinary or Medical experience required. send resume to:#707-P, c/o
Cleveland Daily Banner, P.O. Box
3600, Cleveland, TN 37320-3600
iNsiDE sALEs Applicants NEEDED
for Medical Equipment Company
seeking Professional sales Representatives to call patients & medical
facilities. Base pay plus commission.
Please fax resume to: 423-478-3160
or apply in person at: 1510 stuart
Road, suite 109 in Cleveland or call
423-478-7433.
KAYLiNE, iNC is looking for EXPERiENCED people to fill positions in the upholstery department,
frame shop and filling (foam) department. Please apply in person
at KAYLiNE, iNC. 606 18th street
sE Cleveland TN.
MAinTenAnCe TeCHniCiAn
Basic knowledge of HVAC, Electrical, and plumbing and at least 2
years experience required. Experience in a hospital/ long term care
setting is preferred but not required.
Please apply at
www.standiferplace.org
NO PHONE CALLs
MEDiCAL AssisTANT Needed: A
well established Cleveland Office
looking for experienced individual in
the following areas: Phlebotomy, injections, and EKg’s and the ability
to work in a fast paced, pleasant environment. Please submit resume to:
[email protected]
CITY OF CLEVELAND
TEMPORARY SUMMER EMPLOYMENT
The City of Cleveland is accepting applications for
temporary summer employment. Full and/or part-time
positions available may include:
public service
worker, concession worker, recreation center general
labor, lifeguard, pool operations, grounds and facilities
maintenance.
Interested applicants should submit an employment
application to the City Human Resources Office,
Municipal Building Annex, 160 2nd Street NE,
Cleveland, TN 37311. For more information you may
call the City Human Resources Office at 423-5593313.
The City of Cleveland is an equal opportunity
employer.
EXTREME MAiNTENANCE Home/
Mobile Home Commercial, residential, Painting (interior/ exterior).
Decks, plumbing, electrical, roofing,
siding, all work! 30 years experience.
Free
estimates.
423-331-7045.
NEEDED EXPERiENCED Air Conditioner installer. Hourly or subcontractor. Call Ken Manis Heating & Air
Conditioning at 706-695-2901 experience required.
NOW HiRiNg Care givers or CNAs
in the Cleveland area. $9 hour, insurance benefits after 90 days. Apply online at www.fhcsllc.com or call
Brandy at 423-744-4674.
NOW HiRiNg: Desk Clerk 1 year
computer experience preferred. Apply in person at Douglas inn &
suites, 2600 Westside Drive. NO
phone calls.
oWner operATors Express
Courier is contracting Cargo Van
Owner Operators for daily MondayFriday routes and route overflow.
Must own dependable full size cargo
van, have clean driving record, and
no
criminal
record.
Call
(423)510-0271 x4013.
sOuTHEAsTERN
CONTAiNER
has Full time seasonal forklift/ production positions available immediately. Nights and weekends required. 12 hour shifts. Forklift experience preferred. Apply in person
at 555 industrial Drive sW, Cleveland. No Phone Calls.
sTAFF NuRsE (RN/ LPN) 2nd shift
(3pm-11pm) Monday- Friday. (Every
weekend off) great pay and benefits. Apply at Bradley Healthcare &
Rehab Center, 2910 Peerless Road,
Cleveland.
HeALTHCAre opporTuniTies
Life Care Center of Athens
nurse- rn/ Lpn
Full- time and parttime positions
available for 3pm-11pm shift. PRN
position available. Must be a Tennessee- licensed nurse.
CerTiFieD nursing
AssisTAnT
Full- time, parttime and PRN positions available for all shifts. Must
be a Tennessee- certified nursing
assistant.
Housekeeping/
LAunDrY AiDe
Part- time position available.
Housekeeping/ laundry experience
preferred. High school diploma or
equivalent required.
Long- term care experience preferred. We offer great pay and
benefits to full- time associates in a
team- oriented environment.
Nursing:
[email protected]
or [email protected]
Housekeeping/ Laundry Aide:
[email protected]
423-745-8181/ 423-745-9257 Fax
1234 Frye st.
Athens, TN 37303
[email protected]
LifeCareCareers.com
E O E/ M/ F/ V/ D– 58386
gREgORY's CARPENTRY- Kitchens, bathrooms, flooring- hardwood,
laminate, tile; metal roofing. We do it
right or it is free! 423-933-5485.
HOusEKEEPER AVAiLABLE, Excellent work and References. Call
between 10am-8pm. 423-716-7108.
KEiTH's TREE sERViCE: Trimming, topping, removal. senior Citizen/ Military discount. Major credit
cards accepted. 423-499-0134.
MOTHER's DAY gift idea: How
about a photo session for a family
portrait at a local location of your
choice?
g. E. Norkus Photography
[email protected]
423-464-5015
R & J Complete Lawn Care:
423-469-5753 or 423-472-0442.
REPLACE/ REMODEL your roof
with Best Roofing! Warranty certification. Certified Tennessee Roofer/
Bonded
423-595-1798.
bestroofing.biz
interested qualified applicants:
• Welders– 6 months Mig &/ or
Tig welding experience (no
robotic welding)
• Assemblers- previous
experience in a manufacturing/
production environment preferred
• Available to work over time/
weekends
• 1st shift or 2nd shift
• stable work history & secondary
training a plus
• Ability to pass a drug screen,
physical & background check
Maxwell industries, LLC offers
new employees:
• No temporary placement agency
• 90 day probationary period
• Compensation is based on
experience
• Wages typically begin at $11 per
hour for assembly & $12 per hour
for welders.
• second shift $0.50 per hour shift
premium
• Regular raises until top out is
reached
• Benefit package; including health
insurance, vision, dental & life
insurance, available after 90 day
probationary period
• Additional benefits after 1 year
please apply in person at:
Maxwell industries
203 Hicks street
Athens, Tn 37303
For directions, please call
423-746-4344.
Applications may be completed
Monday through Friday,
8:30am to 4:30pm.
Maxwell industries, LLC
supports a drug- free workplace
and is an
Equal Opportunity Employer.
CLEVELAND STATE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The College seeks to ensure an environment that is supportive of diversity and therefore, is
committed to diversity in its workforce. The College welcomes applications from candidates who:
• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to the community college
philosophy.
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Identifies student retention and student learning as top priorities, employing innovative
teaching strategies and active learning and advising approaches.
• Have familiarity with and use of multiple instructional strategies and approaches that
recognize the diversity of student learning styles and needs, including learning
communities, and distributed learning delivery systems.
• Apply the use of assessment techniques as the basis for improving student learning,
instructional methodology, curricula, and student advising.
• Use of technology to support learning, communication, and personal productivity.
• Are flexible in class schedule and delivery of instruction.
• Are able to combine primary teaching and advising responsibilities with college
initiatives, community partnerships and grant-seeking initiatives.
• Are able to work cooperatively with other members of the College community.
• Have a strong subject matter expertise and commitment to lifelong professional
development.
• Continuously improve curriculum, instructional delivery and maintain currency in the
discipline.
• Participate in professional development activities on- and off-campus.
FALL 2015
9 MONTH FACULTY POSITION
To ensure full consideration, applicants must submit a completed online application including a
letter of intent addressing the above criteria and a statement (not to exceed 300 words) describing
the role of community colleges in higher education, current resume, three letters of
recommendation, and transcripts of all degrees by May 15, 2015.
SOCIOLOGY INSTRUCTOR –
Master’s degree and a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in Sociology
required. Ability to teach (and/or willingness to learn to teach) distance learning
technology and compressed courses using current and emerging technology.
Please visit this website for minimum qualifications, job announcement, salary information
and online application https://jobs.tbr.edu
Cleveland State Community College is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Sections 504/ADA employer.
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*Criminal Justice, AAS
*Computer Networking, AAS
*Cosmetology
Day or Night Courses
Financial Aid
For Those That Qualify
423-305-7781
2 Chattanooga Locations
Eastgate 5600 Brainerd Rd
Hixson 248 Northgate
Mall Drive
www.chattanoogacollege.edu
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SEWING MACHINE
OPERATORS
33. Business opportunities
WeLDers & AsseMBLers
Medical, Dental & Technical Careers
invesTigATe BeFore
You invesT!
Always a good policy, especially for
business opportunities and franchise. Call TN Division of consumer
Affairs at (800) 342-8385 or the Federal Trade Commission at (877)
FTC-HELP for free information. Or
visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov
• Highly skilled, walking foot and
welt experience required.
• Experienced fabric and fiber cutter
CONTACT JOHN 478-5555
PROCEss MEDiCAL claims from
home? Chances are you won’t make
any money. Find out how to spot a
medical billing scam. Call the Federal Trade Commission,
1-877-FTC-HELP.
A message from
Cleveland Daily Banner and the
Federal Trade Commission. Or visit
our Web site at www.ftc.gov
34. Money To Lend
* FiRsT loan free *
$200- $1000
see manager for details.
423-476-5770
NEED CA$H fast but can’t get a
loan? Don’t pay for the promise of a
loan. Call the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP to learn
how to spot advance-fee loan
scams. A message from Cleveland
Daily Banner and the FTC. Or visit
our Web site at www.ftc.gov
38. Barber/Beauty salons
BOOTHs FOR rent Design 1000.
423-478-1155, 423-479-2291, or
423-596-9940.
greAT sTYLisTs Wanted
great Clips is seeking great Licensed stylists in our busy Clevland
locations! Earn more $ per hour with
the BEsT pay plan in the industry!
Vacation/ holiday pay, health benefits, management opportunities, advanced live training. Call Debbie at
423-504-8625 noW for a confidential interview.
HAiR sTYLisTs booth rental available at Changes salon. Also looking
for part time Lash Technician. Leave
voice mail 423-255-2108.
NAiL TECH needed, pedi chair furnished, Design 1000. 423-478-1155,
423-479-2291, or 423-596-9940.
* AAA House PAiNTiNg: interiorExterior, Pressure Washing, FREE
estimates,
References.
423-284-9652.
A & J's Painting & Remodeling and
Roofing, Reasonable rates. Free estimates 423-277-6441.
BOBCAT FOR Rent or Hire with
trencher or brush cutter, mini excavator with thumb, tractor loader with
boxscrape
or
bushhog.
423-478-2724.
BOX TRAiLERs, 40' goose neck
trailer, dump trailer, towable grill for
rent. 423-478-2724.
CuRTis CRisP is back doing odd
jobs, porches, garages, decks.
423-595-0651
neeD neW ouTDoor
CusHion Covers MADe?
CALL ToDAY!
Quality Workmanship
Timely service
Custom made:
• Bedding • Drapes • Curtains
• slip Covers • Home Decor
ALTerATions &
Minor repAirs
423-665-3354
What you’re looking for...
Hamilton Medical Center, a 282-bed regional acute-care
hospital that offers major medical, surgical and diagnostic
services, including accredited stroke and chest pain centers,
has been serving the health care needs of northwest Georgia
communities since 1921. If patient centered care and customer
satisfaction is what drives you, we encourage you to apply
EOE M/F/D/V Drug-Free Workplace
with us today.
RN, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Full Time; 7am-7pm Weekdays; 7am-7pm Weekends Only
7pm-7am Weeknights; 7pm-7am Weekends Only
PRN shifts available
Sign-On Bonus Available for Experienced RNs Only!
RN, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Full Time; 7pm-7am Weeknights and PRN shifts available
RN, Surgery
Full Time; 6:45am-5:15pm Weekdays with CALL
11:00am-7:00pm Weekdays with CALL
RN, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Full Time; 7pm-7am Weeknights and PRN shifts available
In addition to a robust array of traditional benefits such as healthcare,
dental care and retirement, Hamilton offers a wide range of other
benefits to attract, support and reward the skilled associates that
help Hamilton remain a premier health care organization. For
inquiries, please call Human Resources at 706.272.6145. For
information on additional career opportunities or to apply online,
visit us at www.hamiltonhealth.com
DANNY's TREE sERViCE: Camping wood. Tree removal. senior discount,
Military
Discount.
423-244-6676.
EOE M/F/D/V Drug-Free Workplace
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45. Vacation Rentals
46. Storage Space For Rent
46. Storage Space For Rent
49. Apartments For Rent
56. Houses For Sale
72. Cars For Sale
2 RIVERS CAMPING: RV Park,
Cabin Rentals, directly on the river
at junction of Hiwassee and Ocoee
Rivers. 423-338-7208.
CALFEE'S MINI Warehouse for rent:
Georgetown Pike, Spring Place
Road and Highway 64. Call
476–2777.
JUNK CARS, wrecked cars, trucks,
vans, SUVs. Cash paid, free pick up.
423-650-6450.
SELL IT TODAY!! THE CLASSIFIED
WAY. CALL 472-5041.
NORTH CLEVELAND apartment for
rent: 1 bedroom, 1 bath, stove, refrigerator, water/ sewer furnished.
No pets, central heat/ air, washer/
dryer connections, references required, $400 monthly, $200 deposit,
423-244-1616.
tHDA PROGRAM
BEAR PAW COTTAGES- 2, 3 bedrooms, $75- $85. Mountains, fireplace, serenity. 423-476–8480.
TEMPSAFE STORAGE
Climate Controlled
& Outside Units
Downtown Location
& Georgetown Road
614-4111
Answer to
Sudoku Puzzle
on Page 51
APARTMENTS &
HOMES FOR RENT
47. Business Property For
Rent
$750- $995: Office and storage
space combined, 20x 35 storage,
perfect for contractors, plumbers,
etc.
$850: 1,770 square foot commercial
property, formerly leased as restaurant and an office. Good location.
Call Dennis, PROVISION REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC. 423-240-0231.
LARGE SPACE- Star Vue Square
7,000 square feet, $4,000 monthly.
Owner/ Agent 423-987-9232.
423-476-5518
48. Office Space For Rent
Online Rental Payment Available
ASK ABOUT SELECT “SPECIALS”
www.bender-realty.com
or come by office
425 25th Street
600 SqUARE feet, multiple office,
$350 monthly, very convenient,
423-991-4984.
AVAilABle DOwntOwn 2,400
square foot, Offices, prime location,
parking. Contact Jones Properties
423-472-4000 or visit our website at
www.jonesproperties.biz.
NORTH KEITH Street: First month
free rent with acceptable application
and paid deposit. Owner/ Agent
STONY
BROOKS
REALTY
423-479-4514.
OFFiCe/ RetAil Space Available,
short and long term lease. Several
locations, priced from $300 up. Call
Jones Properties 423-472-4000 or
visit our website at:
www.jonesproperties.biz.
NOW HIRING ALL SHIFTS
• Supervisors
• Production Operators
• Mechanics
• Stand-Up Forklift Operators
• Assembly Line Workers
49. Apartments For Rent
$1,800: 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath fully
furnished, utilities paid. Contact
visit our website at www.jonesproperties.biz.
APPLY IN PERSON AT:
3312 Keith Street NW - Cleveland, TN 37312
***Must pass all pre-employment testing***
Visit our website for additional details
www.globalpersonnelsol.com
$700: NICE, 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath
townhouse, black appliances.
$550: Nice 2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath
townhouse, hardwood floors.
$375: 1 Bedroom, 1 bath includes
water, new tile floors.
PROVISION REAL ESTATE &
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC.
423-693-0301
NOW HIRING!
Would you like to have a job that changes lives?
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is
subject to the Federal Fair Housing
Act of 1968 and the Tennessee Human Rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference,
limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin, handicap/ disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination."
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the law. Our
readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal Housing Opportunity, M/F.
A company that’s been improving the quality of life for the
intellectually disabled in our community for 39 years is
now hiring for the following positions:
DIRECT CARE STAFF AND LPN’S/RN’S
PAY FOR DIRECT CARE
STARTING AT $8.50 PER HOUR
Applications may picked up at our Main Office at
764 Old Chattanooga Pike, Cleveland, Tennessee 37311
1 BEDROOM, 3 blocks from Lee
University, 700 square feet, water included, one year lease. Harle Avenue. $500 monthly. 423-650-9813.
No calls after 10pm.
Background check, valid driver’s license
and drug screen required. EOE
1513 BLOUNT Avenue SW #1, 1
bedroom, 1 bath, $410 monthly,
$410 deposit.
625A Beech Circle, 2 bedrooms, 1
bath, $525 monthly, $525 deposit.
887 Georgia Circle NW, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, has garage, $625
monthly, $625 deposit.
681/ 683 Gale Drive NE, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, $550 monthly,
$550 deposit.
Burris Properties 423-478-3050.
PACKAGING POSITIONS - FULL TIME
Lonza (formerly Arch Chemicals) in Charleston, TN is now
accepting applications for full time Packaging positions. Major
responsibilities include operating packaging equipment, filling
drums, pails and bottles as well as documentation of production
data; fork truck operation, loading and unloading trucks,
processing returned product, housekeeping and other duties as
assigned; Must be willing to work a 12-hour rotating shift.
2 BEDROOM behind Ace Hardware
on Peerless Road. Ground level,
walk to shopping. Stove, refrigerator,
water furnished. For information, call
between 9am-6pm. No pets/ smoking. 423-479-5570.
BlYtHewOOD- SteePleCHASe
APARtMentS- 1 Bedroom with
utilities furnished ($369- $559); 2
Bedroom ($429- $599). Appliances
furnished; duplexes. 423-472–7788.
High school education or GED required. Minimum of 6 months
packaging or light industrial work experience preferred. Fork truck
skills a plus.
CLEVELAND SUMMIT Apartments
Rent is based on income for persons
62 or older, handicapped or disabled. We have immediate openings. Equal Housing Opportunity 44
Inman Street 479-3005
Starts $11.64 per hour with a generous benefit package including
12 paid holidays, 15 days paid vacation days, 6 paid sick days,
401K, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, etc. After 90 days
with satisfactory performance, pay progresses to $11.89 per hour
and $12.42 after one year.
DUPLEx FOR rent, north Cleveland,
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, stove, refrigerator furnished, central heat/ air,
washer/ dryer connections. No pets,
references required, $460 monthly,
$200 deposit. 423-244-1616.
All candidates must apply in person at either the Cleveland
(423-790-5552) or Athens (423-252-5055) Tennessee Career
Center no later than Friday, May 8, 2015. A Key Train
assessment will be provided at the Career Center.
ExTRA NICE, large, 3 bedroom, 2.5
bath townhouse with garage, $995
monthly, 3526 Walnut Grove Lane
NE, PROVISION REAL ESTATE
and PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
LLC Call 423-693-0301.
Candidates must also apply online by May 8 at http://
www.lonza.com/ (Careers/Available Jobs/US Opportunities &
search for the Key Word “Charleston”).
LARGE 1 Bedroom apartment located on Ocoee, 1 block from Lee.
Very nice with hardwood floors, central heat/ air, $650 monthly includes
all utilities. No pets/ smoking.
423-595-2891.
If offered a position, the applicant must successfully complete a
background check as well as a pre-employment physical including
a drug screen.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
M/F/Disability/Protected Veterans
LUxURY TOWNHOME: 1 bedroom,
1 bath, $545 monthly, $300 deposit.
423-595-1943
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Let’s go find the Perfect Home for you.
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Affiliate Broker, Buyers Specialist
• Direct: 423-715-2105 • Office: 423-473-9545 • 4627 North Lee Hwy. • Cleveland, TN 37312
Direct: 423.715.2105
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
[email protected]
WEEKLY RENT- INCLUDES ALL
UTILITIES! 1 bedroom with central
heat/ air! Off Georgetown Road.
$150 weekly. NO DEPOSIT! Call
423-476-6113.
50. Mobile Homes For Rent
$495: 3 Bedroom, 1 bath, new paint,
vinyl floors, includes water. PROVISION REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT, LLC 423-693-0301.
COLLEGETOWN
MOBILE
ESTATES: Two bedrooms nice and
clean. 472–6555.
SPRING PLACE Mobile Home Park:
2 bedroom, 2 bath, laminate hardwood floors through out, central
heat/ air, $475 monthly plus security
deposit. References required. NO
PETS! 423-284-4050.
52. Sleeping Rooms
$129 PLUS tax weekly special, 1
person with ad, HBO/ ESPN.
423-728–4551.
53. Houses For Rent
$2,000: 4- 5 Bedroom, 3 bath home
located on large farm. Close to
Charleston. Contact Jones Properties 423-472-4000 or visit our website at www.jonesproperties.biz.
$2,500: FULLY Furnished, utilities
paid, 4 bedroom, 1 bath, with fireplace and screened porch and deck.
Access to Hiwassee River. Contact
visit our website at www.jonesproperties.biz.
$795: NICE 3 bedroom, 1 bath, laminate floors, new appliances, unfinished basement. Single garage.
$895: Nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath, wood
floors, double carport.
PROVISION REAL ESTATE &
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC
423-693-0301.
$850: NEWER, 3 bedroom, 2 bath,
vaulted ceilings, includes washer/
dryer, new carpet/ paint, SE Cleveland. PROVISION REAL ESTATE &
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC.
423-693-0301.
PURCHASe YOUR HOMe witH
"nO"
DOwn PAYMent
CAll MY Cell
423-593-1508
HeRB lACY
AFFiliAte BROKeR
CentURY 21
1st CHOiCe ReAltORS
2075 OCOee St
CleVelAnD, tn 37311
[email protected]
478-2332
It’s A Great Day At
CHEROKEE HILLS...
THREE REMODELED homes: 3
Bedrooms, 2- 2.5 baths, decks,
basements, garages, fenced yard,
city or county. Lease with option to
buy.
Owner/
agent,
STONY
BROOKS REALTY 423-479-4514.
WILL BUY houses for cash. Call
423-790-2131 between 9am and
7pm, Monday through Saturday.
57. Farms & Acreage For Sale
15 ACRES, off Old Parksville Road,
$79,000. Must sell! 423-472-4437.
20 ACRES of cleared land with a
beautiful view of a mountain, near
Hiwassee bridge on Highway 58.
Will subdivide. Call 423-339-2233.
59. Mobile Homes For Sale
JUSt liKe new!
Double wide
home with acreage. $500 deposit.
Owner financing available. Call
339-0076.
KiSS YOUR lAnDlORD GOODBYe! A deed is all you need to get
your new home. For information call
339-0076.
61. Commercial Property For
Sale
FOR SALE
Chambliss
423-476-6113.
or Lease
Avenue
2415
Call
Family Housing For Everyone!
Cherokee Hills
Apartments
Call Today! (423) 559-0800
2020 Bates Pike
2 Bedroom $545
3 Bedroom $595
4 Bedroom $645
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
LOOKING FOR
AN AFFORDABLE
PLACE TO LIVE
Are You 62 Years or Older?
62. Boats & Marine equipment
1988 SEARAY SEVILLE 20 foot,
blue/ white, with Cuddy Cabin. MCM
Model: 4.3 hp: 175. Boat has been
winterized. Has been kept inside.
Looks new, low hours on engine, in/
outboard, on Shorelander Trailer
with new tires, $6,000. May call
423-618-4130 or 423-432-6596.
71. trailers For Sale
2001 UTILITY Reefer Trailer 53'
102" inside, air ride, 11r 24.5 tires,
aluminum outside wheels, new
brakes and cam bushings, carrier
unit well maintained, runs great, will
cool to -10 degrees, 423-336-2017.
72. Cars For Sale
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: All real estate advertised in this newspaper is
subject to the Federal Fair Housing
Act of 1968 and the Tennessee Human Rights Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference,
limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin, handicap/ disability or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination."
This newspaper will not knowingly
accept any advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the law. Our
readers are informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on an equal opportunity basis. Equal Housing Opportunity, M/F.
2, 3, and 4 Bedroom Apartments
with 2 full baths, fully equipped
kitchen, washer/dryer hook-ups,
lots of closet space, swimming
pool, picnic area and playground.
LLOYD'S USED CARS
5526 Waterlevel Highway
Cleveland 423-476-5681
Don't pay high for your next car! Financing available or cash talks! Warranties, history reports: 2005 Chevy
Trailblazer, 2004 Chevy Trailblazer
4x 4, 2004 Chevy Blazer 4x 4, 2007
Pontiac Torrent SUV, 2004 Jeep
Grand Cherokee.
• Conveniently Located
• Activities Provided
• Utilities Included in Rent
North Cleveland
Towers
Call (423) 479-9639
1200 Magnolia Ave. NE • Cleveland, TN 37311
Accepting
Applications For
1 Bedroom Apartments
$500.00 Per Month*
*Income Restrictions Apply
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
North Cleveland Towers does not discriminate on the basis of
handicapped status in the admission or access to, or treatment or
employment in its federally assisted programs and activities.
MOVE
IN!
2&3 Bedroom Apartments
2 Full Baths
W/D Connections
EQUAL HOUSING
1130 LANG Street NE, 2 bedrooms,
1 bath, $455 monthly, $455 deposit.
Burris Properties 423-478-3050.
3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, finished garage, tile/ 3.5 miles from Target,
$850 monthly, 423-618-0616.
OPPORTUNITY
FOREST
GROVE
APARTMENTS
WHCF
FARM HOUSE with wrap around
porch, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, walk in
closets, 2 car garage, all sitting on 3
beautiful acres, $1,500 monthly, 20
minutes
from
Chattanooga.
423-802-4307.
2350 Blackburn Rd. SE
Cleveland, TN 37311
RICEVILLE FARMHOUSE
3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, Garden $725
monthly 423-290-1900.
479-7362
TWO HOMES: Three bedrooms, two
baths, city or county schools, $1,150
monthly. Owner/ Agent STONY
BROOKS REALTY 423-479-4514.
56. Houses For Sale
3 BEDROOM, 3 BATH, Upper River
Road, Charleston. 1.50 acres.
$139,900.
423-336-3046/
423-618-7157.
Need to sell your home, land or other property?
Receive a cash offer in 48 hours!
BENTON PIKE NE Cleveland, TN 2
bedroom, 1 bath, cozy pantry, electric oven, refrigerator/ freezer, laundry room, ceiling fans, ceramic tile,
laminate flooring, freshly painted, recently remodeled, updated heating/
cooling. Low taxes. Move- in condition.
$50,000
Please
call
423-315-7000.
LOCATION
2300 Ocoee Street, $257,500
1105 Greenwood Trail, $144,500
8970 Hiwassee/ Hwy 11, $109,000
BENDER REALTY 423-472-2173
Helen Riden 423-284-3131
OPEN HOUSE: Sunday 1pm-4pm.
3440 Dockery. Newly remodeled, 4
bedroom,
2
bath,
$139,900.
352-427-2394.
No Real Estate Fees
Avoid Foreclosure
Close in 5-7 Days Sell Inherited Property
423.299.5311
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Our Mission Statement:
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Contact any of these Members For More
Information On Any of Today’s Open Houses.
OPEN
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181 Meadow
Wood
Circle NE
$394,500
This is an Entertainer’s Fantasy come true... All on one level. This marvelous 3
bedroom, 4.5 bath manor is move-in ready. With approx. 3,990 sq. ft. of
open floorplan make this an entertaining paradise. Sparkling gourmet
kitchen. 20x38 in-ground sports pool. All bedrooms have separate baths.
Screened porch/covered patio over looks pool and private backyard.
Basement offers double rec room, bath and workshop. For taste of good
old-fashioned Southern hospitality...Come See Today! MLS #20151793.
Directions: North I-75 to Exit #20. Turn right APD #40 to Highway #64 Exit. Turn
right Highway #64. Turn left Minnis Road. Turn right Benton Pike. Turn right
Old Parksville Road. Turn left Hickory Crest Drive. Bear left Meadow Wood
Circle. Home on left.
Philomena Davis
423-596-1618
3670 West View $289,900
Awesome Ranch; full bsmnt; 4 bdrm; 3 bath, 3092 sf; Arched door ways,
14 ft. ceiling, Open Floor plan, new paint; new carpet in bdrms. Gas log
fire place, Split bedroom, kitchen with Corian counter top; stainless steel
appliances. 784 sf finished basement with den, office and bath. Over
1000 sf in bsmt w/garage door. Well established neighborhood, close to
all the conveniences. MLS #20151938.
Directions: From North Ocoee St, Turn right on Blytheferry Road. Right on
westview Drive. Home will be on the left. See signs.
2930 West Lake Drive NW $129,900
Totally remodeled one level Ranch; 3 bdrms, 2 baths, 2 car attached
garage. New Hdwd floors throughout, New Vinyl floors in Kitchen and
Bathroom. All new energy saving windows, New paint, new heat pump,
new garage door, copper plumbing, newer metal roof, fenced back
yard.
Great
Location!
See
all
the
pictures
at
www.jimandphilomena.com Call me to see this home! MLS #20151971.
Directions: West on Georgetown Road, Turn left on Candies Lane. Right
on Holiday Drive, left on West Lake Drive. Go all the way to the end of
the street and turn right. The home is on the right.
3220 Huntingdon
Trace
$241,900
Larry and
Judy Allen
A must see! This custom built home with an open concept and high vaulted
ceilings describe this gorgeous Craftsman. This split bedroom concept features
a large master suite with a walk in closet on the main level. The kitchen features
custom cabinets with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. There
is plenty of room to grow a family in the large upstairs bedroom with it’s own full
bath as well as extra bonus space. A large walk in closet is an added bonus
upstairs. A full unfinished basement is ready to be finished. MLS #20152056.
Directions: From North Ocoee take a right on Blythe Ferry to Right on Fulbright
to right into Huntingdon Springs. Second home on the left.
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
3810 Keith St. NW
TN 37312
Mark Gravelle, Branch Manager Cleveland
423-790-7355
TN# 113148 NMLS# 641498
For A Private Showing or More Info Call
1009 KEITH STREET
423-476-3205
Real Estate Professionals
Each Office Independently Owned and Operated
2700 Executive Park, Suite #2
Cleveland, Tennessee 37312
476-7300
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
12611 Witt Springs Road $184,000
You must see this beautiful, immaculately maintained brick ranch home with 3
spacious Bedrooms, 3 Baths with over 2400 sq. ft. on 1.6 acres! Gorgeous
hardwood floors, bright sunroom, open kitchen, updated kitchen with granite
counters, extra room off owner’s suite could be nursery or office, storm shelter,
full basement, decks and gazebo. This home is centrally located to Cleveland,
Chattanooga, and Charleston.
DIRECTIONS: From Cleveland take Hwy 60/Georgetown Rd. through
Georgetown to Left on Witt Springs Rd.
NATURE LOVERS RETREAT…is yours here in this Beautifully landscaped 3
Bedroom, 3.5 Bath, 2 story stone and vinyl siding home in English Oaks. It
features an open plan, 1st Floor owners’ suite, hardwood and ceramic tile
floors, bonus room, office, 3 car garage, unique outdoor living spaces with
native plants and perennials, mature and flowering trees, 2 level deck
stainless steel kitchen and laundry appliances. MLS #20151989.
Directions: East on Benton Pike to right on Old Parksville Road to left on
Hickory crest to right on Meadow Wood Circle to home on left.
OPEN
HOUSE
3316
Lakewood
Drive NW
$310,000
Jannis Sams
423-503-2945
The Right Neighborhood at the Right Price…This 2 1/2 story traditional sits in
a cul-de-sac and offers mature landscaping, fenced yard, outdoor kitchen
& fire-pit, large deck, and is brick construction. You’ll love being in this
neighborhood with good schools, playgrounds, basketball court, stocked
ponds & parks. You’ll appreciate the detail in this home with the vaulted
ceilings, hardwood floors, keeping room off the kitchen, & bonus room. MLS
#20151901.
Directions: West on Georgetown, (Hwy 60), Go under I-75, 1st Left on
Candies Lane, Left on Freewill, Right into Lakewood, Last house on the
Right.
2892
Mountain
Brandy Sams
Hosting Agent Pointe Drive
423-505-4627
NW $474,900
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
Demetra
Toomey
506-2406
Open House
Today 2-4
1124 Highway 163 E $150,000
Fully updated 4 BR rancher on one level. Hardwood flooring
throughout home. New vinyl windows and gutters. HVAC and
roof 7 years old. Move in ready. Great location minutes from
Wacker and Amazon. MLS 20151362
DIRECTIONS: North on Hwy 11, turn right onto Hwy 163 @ red
light. Travel 2 miles and home is on the right.
Enjoy Your Success….in this unique 2 story in Mountain Pointe. This custom
home is built like a fortress. Owner built it as if he would live there forever
with poured walls, Anderson windows, and all brick. You’ll love the 18’
ceilings, hardwood floors, wood burning fireplace, and granite countertops. Plenty of space with 6 bedrooms & 3 1/2 baths. Full unfinished
basement is heated & cooled making it great for game room, exercise
room, or climate controlled storage. Sitting on almost an acre, you’ll have a
large fenced yard with grapevines, fruit trees, & garden spot. MLS
#20152004.
Directions: West on Georgetown, (Hwy 60), Go under I-75, 1st Left on
Candies Lane, Straight on Old Freewill, Left into Mountain Pointe, Home on
the Right.
OPEN
HOUSE
5695
Frontage
Road NW
$276,900
Taylar Taylor
Hosting Agent
423-650-2029
Simply Gorgeous...at last a home as individual as you are. Courtyard
setting craftsman design. Great open floorplan with hardwood tile flooring.
Approx. 2358 sq.ft. with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths plus finished bonus room. Built
with entertainment in mind. Gourmet kitchen with stainless appliances. All
the luxuries a family could desire. This one will not last. 100% Financing
Available. MLS #20150784.
Directions: North I-75 to Exit #27. Turn left Paul Huff Parkway. Turn right
Frontage Road. Home on Left.
OPEN
HOUSE
Chuck
Jones
618-3701
Open House
Today 2-4
186 Meadow
Wood
Circle NE
$290,000
OPEN
HOUSE
Mary
Norton
715-4581
Open House
Today 2-4
OPEN
HOUSE
OPEN HOUSE 2-4 P.M.
Heath
Davis
618-5857
Philomena Davis
423-596-1618
Max Phillips
423-596-7173
121 Pope Road $399,900
Picturesque and peaceful property on 9+ private acres offering complete serenity,
spring-fed creek, and spectacular mountain view. The park-like setting also offers a
garden area with orchard and abundant wildlife. House has wraparound front porch
and screened back porch. The large workshop/garage has an unfinished bonus
apartment with its own bath. Includes woodshed and storage building for outdoor
storage. Minutes from Cherokee National Forest, excellent fly-fishing, and worldclass whitewater rafting. MLS #: 20145426
DIRECTIONS: 64 E to Lt on Hwy 411 N, Rt on Grove just past Polk Co Health
Department, Lt on Oak Grove, Lt on Pope, home on the Rt.
Chip Phillips
Hosting Agent
423-715-2105
5667
Frontage
Road NW
$269,500
Only for those who love....This new craftsman style 1 1/2 story with 3
bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. Open floor plan for entertaining in style and
elegance. Boast a grand fireplace in great room and prepare meals in
well-equipped kitchen with high end appliances. Granite counter tops,
hardwood/tile flooring makes living stress free. Outdoor fireplace perfect
for all things. 100% FINANCING AVAILABLE. MLS #20146074.
Directions: North I-75 to Exit #27. Turn left Paul Huff Parkway. Turn right
Frontage Road. Home on left.
OPEN
HOUSE
Suzanne
Akins
650-9222
Featured
Home
145 Central Avenue $135,000
Adorable 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with unfinished basement.
Qualifies for Rural Development (with zero down payment) and
sits on 1.4 acres. Features include cathedral ceiling, fireplace,
hardwood floors and open floor plan. Call Suzanne for more
details. MLS#: 20150263
Suzanne
Akins
650-9222
Featured
Home
135 Central Avenue $173,500
One level living. Like new and ready to move in. You will be impressed
with the hardwood floors throughout. 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, vaulted
ceiling, open floor plan, covered porch and deck on 2.26 acres. Home
qualifies for Rural Development (with zero down payment). Call
Suzanne for more details. MLS#: 20151109
191
Courtland Daniel Keener
Crest Drive Hosting Agent
SW $179,900 423-310-5706
Craftsman Charmer... Unbelievable 1.5 story with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
and built with low utilities in mind. This energy efficient home offers Low E
windows, 9’ ceilings, hardwood & tile flooring and much more! Sunny
gourmet kitchen comes with all appliances. Entertain on the breathtaking
covered deck and deck that has utilities, swing and fire-pit. If that isn’t
enough, there are two front porches to choose from. Plenty of space with
the garage/storage/workshop. Located just five minutes from everywhere!
This is one magnificent home with a great price tag. It’s sure to move fast.
MLS #20151375.
Directions: North I-75 to Exit #20. Turn right APD #40. Turn left Westland Drive.
Turn left Grandview Drive to “The Orchard” Courtland Crest Drive. Home
on left.
CONTACT ANY OF THESE RIVER COUNTIES ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® MEMBERS
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ANY OF TODAY’S OPEN HOUSES
OPEN HOUSE 2-4 P.M.
RIVER COUNTIES
ASSOCIATION
of REALTORS®
258
Farmway Dr
$189,900
Hosted
by
Stuart
Williams
“REALTORS® Serving People”
This is it! Curb appeal will win you over with a view that goes
on forever, from this distinctive 3Br, 2Ba home in Farmingdale
Sbdv. Open floor plan, hardwood throughout, partially fenced,
basement with additional bedroom and family room. Could be
a separate living quarters. A gorgeous manicured lawn to die
for with a sprinkler system. Sit on your large deck with
spectacular views. A cheerful home with long windows, freshly
Listing Agent
painted. A must see. MLS #20151749.
Directions: South on Dalton Pike, right into Farmingdale Marcia Botts
400-1042
Subdivision, right on Farmway Dr.
OPEN HOUSE TODAY 2-4
2719
Southern
Court
NW
$229,900
• 3BR/2 BA
• Conveniently
Located In
The Magnolia’s
• Craftsman Style Open Concept Construction
• Hardwood Floors, Solid Surface Countertops, Large Bedrooms And A Bonus Room
Directions: From Intersection of Georgetown and Candies Lane, go west on
Candies, cross Freewill onto old Freewill. Turn right into The Magnolia’s. Follow signs,
home in cul-de-sac.
MICHELLE
MOATS
478-3115
Serving Bradley, Bledsoe, McMinn,
Meigs, Polk & Rhea Counties
For A Private Showing or More Info Call
Our Mission Statement:
1009 KEITH STREET
423-476-3205
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
650 25th St. N.W. • Suite 300
Cleveland, TN 37312
Hosting Agent:
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
150 Alberta Peach
Street SE
$229,000
“Enhancing, promoting, and
protecting the private property
rights in our communities, and the
business interests of our
REALTOR® members.”
Tina Elrod-Ledford
423-421-4625
(423) 303-1200
Each Keller Williams office is independently owned & operated
115 Brittsville Shores Rd.,
Georgetown, TN $227,000
ROOM TO LIVE &
WORK! This home
has a lot to offer
with 3 BR/2 BA,
hardwood floors,
spacious kitchen,
split BR plan & a
large sunroom.
Applicances all stay
including stacked
washer/dryer. The
56’x23’ garage is a
dream for any guy
with a workshop,
1/2 BA & RV garage/hookup. All this in a waterfront community with dock, boat ramp &
tennis courts. MLS#20151795.
DIRECTIONS: Georgetown Rd. (Hwy 60) to right on Eureka Rd., left on Lower River Rd.,
right on Brittsville Shores, home is on the corner, see signs.
3BR,3BA house with 2628SF.
Basement has Gr. Room, Off.
and Full Bath. Stainless Steel
appliances remain along with
W/D. Granite Countertops in
Kitchen and Formal Dining
Area. Owners Suite has Dbl.
Sinks and Lg. Walk in Closet.
Oversized Garage and Fenced Back Yard. MLS: 20151801
DIRECTIONS: Highway 64 E. R. on Lyles Rd. R. on Georgia Bell Circle, R. on
Alberta Peach St. Home on Right.
Joy Akins
MLO ID # 500782 SVP, Loan Originator
P.O. Box 4730 • Cleveland, TN 37320
Phone: 423-303-1729
Fax: 423-476-0060
[email protected]
Kelly Calhoun
People’s
Home Equity
Mortgage Specialist
TN NMLS# 165099
GA license # 35935
GA Residential Licensee
NMLS 63371
6650 E Brainerd RD
Chattanooga, TN 37421
(P) 423-591-9801 Ext 1807
(F) 423-591-9820
(C) 423-593-3648
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
Apply online at
www.chattmortgage/kellycalhoun
“Want Opportunity To Knock?... Talk To Doc!”
650 25th St. N.W.
Suite 300
Cleveland, TN 37312
(423) 303-1200
Each Keller Williams office is
independently owned & operated
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
650 25th St. N.W. • Suite 300
Cleveland, TN 37312
(423) 303-1200
Each Keller Williams office is independently owned & operated
Listing Agent
Doc Carbaugh
618-9774
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
Listing Agent
Dottie
Sneed
618-0393
OPEN 2-4 PM AND FEATURED HOUSES
OPEN
HOUSE
BUYER’S AGENT
OPEN
HOUSE
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584-5219
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650-2595
LINDA PRINCE
303-8038
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139 COVINGTON DRIVE $199,900
304 THOMAS ROAD $249,000
2065 JORDAN AVENUE NW $289,900
Ranch style home with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 car garage, all on
main level. Then on lower level, enjoy another family room and full
bath with basement garage and lots of work and storage space. MLS
#20151216.
Directions: From 25th and Keith, north on Keith (Hwy, 11), right on
Stuart Road, left on Urbane, left into Weatherford Place, right on
Covington. Home on the left.
Beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath home. Less than 6 years old. Amazing
mountain views and sunrise. See-through fireplace. Upstairs has bedrooms,
full bath and huge bonus room. Rocking chair front porch, access to river.
Less than 10 minutes from Parksville Lake, water rafting and much more.
Come by to see all this. Seller offering one year warranty. MLS #20151331.
Directions: APD 40 to Hwy. 64, 411 ramp, left on Hwy. 411, left on Thomas
Road. Home is on the right.
Looking for a home in Downtown Cleveland Historic District? Your search stops
here. Built in 2012 with high ceilings and custom trim throughout. Lots of custom
cabinets in kitchen. Both dining area and sitting room/office off master bedroom
have entrance to the large screened porch. Master bath with jetted tub and large
tile shower. Guest bedroom with bath and walk-in closet. Bonus room with half
bath upstairs. Walking distance to Lee University, downtown and the Greenway.
Owner/Agent. MLS #20151939.
Directions: Ocoee & 20th, go west on 20th Street, right (north) on Jordan, 3rd
house on the left.
OPEN
HOUSE
OPEN
HOUSE
OPEN
HOUSE
TROY GOINS
715-4017
Ca
BUYERS AGENT
PAT SOSEBEE
284-5051
BILLIE STEVENS
762-8908
165 RYMER ROAD $349,900
3356 CUMBERLAND HILLS DRIVE $385,000
350 BLUEBERRY HILL ROAD $399,900
First time offered, this custom home features 2,500 sq. ft., all on one
level. Split bedroom plan, large and spacious rooms, open living
concept. Large kitchen, hardwood, tile and some carpet. Soaring trey
ceilings, lots of crown molding, level lot and located one block off N.
Ocoee in Edgewood. MLS #20151897.
Directions: From 25th and N. Ocoee, go north on Ocoee, turn left on
Rymer Road, just past church. Home on the left.
You will be amazed! Over 4,800 sq. ft. located in
Cumberland Hills. 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, grand open living
space with wonderful kitchen, keeping area, great room,
fireplace, extra storage and work spaces. MLS #20151677.
Directions: From 25th and Keith, west on 25th, left on
Candies Lane, left on Freewill Road, right into Cumberland
Hills, home on the left corner.
One day special reduced to $399,900. 5 bedroom, 4 1/2
baths, extra large dining room, great room overlooking
pool, office, great storage. MLS #20143789.
Directions: From Ocoee and 25th Street, north on
Ocoee, left on Blueberry Hill, last house on the right.
OPEN
HOUSE
OPEN
HOUSE
JIM METZGER
385-0585
FEATURED
HOME
FRAN BIBLE
618-7490
PAM BECKTOLD
364-0551
3098 MOUNTAIN POINTE DRIVE $469,500
1750 TENNESSEE NURSERY ROAD $239,500
199 MCCLARY DRIVE $169,900
Recently reduced $10,000! This wonderful home in
Mountain Pointe Subdivision boasts 2 owner’s suites on
main. lots of custom trim, granite countertops and a large 3
bay garage. Come take a look! MLS #20141690.
Directions: Georgetown and Candies Lane, left on Candies
Lane, cross over Freewill, left into Mountain Pointe, house
will be on your right.
Fabulous workshop area is included in this 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home
with beautiful fenced in backyard. Includes an additional office area plus
great unfinished room for bonus or storage area. Screened porch is
approximately 14’x39’ and includes the hot tub! Come see for yourself.
MLS #20150874.
Directions: West on 25th Street. Left onto Georgetown and immediate
right onto Mt. Vernon (Valley Hills). Stay straight and home is on the left,
across the street from Laurel Valley sign.
JUST A STONE’S THROW from the Hiwassee River, this log
siding home on ONE ACRE is affordable! 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath
features dining room and living room with laminate flooring,
kitchen with custom cabinets, split bedroom design, garage
with breezeway, ramp and attached equipment garage, dog
lot and rocking chair front porch! MLS #20143708.
FEATURED
HOME
FEATURED
HOME
BRENDA RICHARDSON
650-1701
1598 BENJAMIN CIRCLE NW $194,900
Immaculate! Ranch style home, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
walk-in closet in master suite, laundry on main.
Partially finished basement with gas fireplace.
Screened porch, 2 car garage on main level, single car
area in basement. MLS #20151253.
ROBERT BRADNEY
619-0621
2251 LAUREL HILLS DRIVE NW $289,900
Looks can be deceptive! You won’t believe how
spacious this home really is! 4 bedrooms, 3.5
baths, 2 full kitchens, 2 great rooms, private
setting in NW city. MLS #20144331.
ROBERT BRADNEY
619-0621
1023 KILE LAKE ROAD $450,000
Once in a lifetime home. The seller has set the stage for this
custom home that has so much to offer. With over 5,500 sq.
ft. of living space, this fantastic home features open living,
gourmet kitchen, owner’s suite with top ensuite bath, 3+
more bedrooms/den/office space on 1.67 acres with
additional acreage that can be purchased. Call today for a
private showing. MLS #20151679.
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MARCH 2015
EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY
JIM METZGER
FEATURED
HOME
TOP SELLING AGENT
MARCH 2015
(423) 472-2173
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