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The Mountain Press ◆ Thursday, April 22, 2010
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Ceremony Friday for crime victims
District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn will hold a ceremony Friday in honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The ceremony will be on the third floor of the Sevier County Courthouse at 11 a.m. and will honor and remember all people whose lives have been touched by violent crime. Dunn will be the keynote speaker and he encourages the participation of anyone who wishes to speak. He asks that people bring photos to the ceremony. For more information, call 429-7021, ext. 113. n
SEYMOUR
Community expo scheduled May 8
A free community expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 8 at the Seymour High School cafeteria. Canned food and nonperishable items will be collected at the door to benefit Christians Reaching Out Serving Seymour (CROSS). There will be information, business giveaways, career information for students and more. Several area business representatives will be available to provide information. n
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Book-signing to aid Safe Harbor
A presentation and book-signing with Bill Bass and Arthur M. (Milo) Bohanan is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Friday at the courthouse, third floor annex. The event will benefit Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Bass, of “body farm’ fame, has written several books, including his latest, “The Bone Thief,” which will be available for purchase. Forensics expert Bohanan is president and founding board member of Safe Harbor. For more information contact Safe Harbor at 774-1777. n
SEVIER COUNTY
Reunion class seeking students
The Reunion Committee of Sevier County High School Class of 1960 is looking for these students: William Breeden, Harry A. Gibbs, Cecil Ann Haynes and Robert Rayfield. Anyone with information on these classmates is asked to contact Flora Ketner, 453-3688; Vivian Reagan 453-5789; or Carolyn Williams, 3633472. n
SEVIERVILLE
Ceremony Friday for crime victims
District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn will hold a ceremony Friday in honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The ceremony will be on the third floor of the Sevier County Courthouse at 11 a.m. and will honor and remember all people whose lives have been touched by violent crime. Dunn will be the keynote speaker and he encourages the participation of anyone who wishes to speak. He asks that people bring photos to the ceremony. For more information, call 429-7021, ext. 113.
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Bristol Palin testifies in e-mail case KNOXVILLE (AP) — Sarah Palin’s daughter testified Wednesday against a former college student charged with breaking into her mother’s e-mail account, saying she got anonymous phone calls and hundred of text messages after her cell phone number was posted online. “There was one that really scared me,” Bristol Palin testified in federal court. She said she was concerned when a bunch of boys called, claiming they were at her front door and needed to be let in. “We live in the middle of
nowhere in Alaska ... in the middle of the woods,” Palin said. Palin said her number was included with a photo she snapped of her brother Trigg taking his first bite of solid food and e-mailed to her parents while they were away during the 2008 presidential campaign. David Kernell, a 22-yearold former economics major, is accused of invading Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account after she was picked as the Republican vice presidential candidate. It was reported that she used private e-mail for some government busi-
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ness while governor of Alaska. Authorities say Kernell correctly guessed answers to personal security questions based on published facts about Palin, reset the password to “popcorn,” then made screenshots of contents of her account and posted some of the information on public websites. Kernell has not been accused of the harassing calls, e-mails and text messages that Bristol Palin and a former aide described to jurors. His attorney claims the e-mail intrusion was just a prank.
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— President Barack Obama, on selecting a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
“The only priority that we consider is safety. We were trying to assess the safe operating levels for aircraft engines with ash. It’s important to realize that we’ve never experienced in Europe something like this before. We needed the four days of test flights, the empirical data, to put this together and to understand the levels of ash that engines can absorb.” — Eamonn Brennan, chief executive of Irish Aviation Authority, on the Icelandic volcano that disrupted that airlines across Europe
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This day in history Today is Thursday, April 22, the 112th day of 2010. There are 253 days left in the year. n Locally a year ago:
Golden Globe nominee David Keith will lead the 34th annual Fourth of July Midnight Parade in Gatlinburg in honor of the Park’s 75th anniversary. Kieth will re-enact President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic 1940 motorcade ride through town on the way to dedicate the Park.
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“But I will say that I want somebody who is going to be interpreting our Constitution in a way that takes into account individual rights, and that includes women’s rights. And that’s going to be something that’s very important to me, because I think part of what our core constitutional values promote is the notion that individuals are protected in their privacy and their bodily integrity. And women are not exempt from that.”
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On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first “Earth Day.”
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Primary Pollutant: Particles Mountains: Moderate Valley: Moderate Cautionary Health Message: Unusually sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy exertion.
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Bristol Palin testified in the second day of the felony trial that she had to turn her phone over to investigators and went without phone service for weeks because her grandparents’ Wasilla home had no land line and couldn’t sign a new cell phone contract as a 17-year-old. She said her cell phone number “wouldn’t have been posted if it hadn’t been hacked into.” “There were threatening messages and there were harassing messages and there were all sorts of messages,” she testified.
Due to an early deadline the evening lottery results have been omitted.
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In 1994, Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81. n Ten years ago:
In a dramatic predawn raid, armed immigration agents seized Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ home in Miami; Elian was reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. n Five years ago:
Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom outside Washington, D.C. to conspiring with the September 11th hijackers to kill Americans. n Thought for today:
“Life is one long process of getting tired.” — Samuel Butler, British author (1835-1902).
Celebrities in the news n Kate Gosselin
LOS ANGELES — Kate Gosselin, one of the most talked-about contestants in the history of “Dancing With the Stars,” was kicked off the show Tuesday n i g h t a f t e r weeks of drama and notso-great perforGosselin mances that riled up fans. Say what you will about Gosselin’s dancing — which often looked more like walking and which the judges described as “catatonic,” “odd” and “hard to watch” at various points of the competition — she boosted the show’s ratings and kept trying despite overwhelming criticism.