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VOL. 6 NO. 34
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August 20, 2012
Karns grads celebrate 10-year reunion
She has confiscated 14 guns, nine loaded, and has been shot once. Professor Autumn Cyprés has seen it all. You don’t have to tell her about being a principal.
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Fool’s gold A coach who might know says the Tennessee switch t0 a 3-4 base defense is fool’s gold. It is not magic. It may or may not pressure quarterbacks, disrupt offenses, nail runners for losses, lead to multiple turnovers and dictate the flow of games. The coach, in perfect step with fan forums and call-in radio shows, asked to remain anonymous.
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See Marvin West on page A-5
Meet Bill Bill Bolinger is known as the “Karns Mayor.” He says, “They just joke around calling me that. I’m not really a mayor. It may be because we have lived here so long and everybody knows me.”
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See Coffee Break on page A-2
Welcome back School is back in session and Theresa Edwards has made the rounds to meet new faculty and staff at area schools. She has some snapshots and brief bios inside.
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See Theresa’s story on page A-3
Anders for chair? Knox County Commissioner Brad Anders usually votes with the Chamber, the school board, the Sheriff’s Office and developers. From Karns, he’s considered “a county guy.” But can he beat Tony Norman for the top job?
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See Sandra’s column on page A-4
Index Coffee Break A2 Theresa Edwards A3 Government/Politics A4 Marvin West/Lynn Hutton A5 Community A6 Faith A7 Miracle Maker A9 Kids A10 Business A13 Calendar A14 Health/Lifestyles Sect B
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Raising glasses in a toast are Karns High 2002 classmates: (front) Megan Mueller South, Amber Ralston Gaskins, Meggie Cruze Staykov, class president Allison Clark Ambrose; (back) David Walker, Nathan Butler and James Parnell. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
By Theresa Edwards Karns High School 2002 classmates celebrated their 10-year reunion at Calhoun’s on the River on Aug. 11 with a buffet style dinner, music, games, laughter and a lot of “catching up.” A trivia contest to help classmates learn a little more about each other was won by James
Harnell with Zach Helton coming in second. Class president Allison Clark Ambrose coordinated the event, with the help of Megan Mueller South, Amber Ralston Gaskins and Meggie Cruze Staykov. About 50 classmates were preregistered. Decorations included blue and yellow balloons and tables with
memorabilia on display. The May 2002 Karns Courier congratulated a list of graduates. KHS cheerleading outfits, jackets and graduation caps brought back memories. “It’s a lot of fun seeing everyone,” said South, who helped with name badges at the welcoming table.
of directors how she feels about their tree cutting policies. Last week she spoke to the board about the devastation wreaked by the agency’s aggressive policy, which mandates clear-cutting swaths up to 200 feet wide along high voltage easements. “I read recently that we begin to die when we fail to stand up for what matters,” she said. “Viewed on those terms, I felt good about going. Whether they heard me or not, who knows?” Sherwood and a neighbor, Jerome Pinn, filed suit against TVA in April after contractors came through Westminster Place subdivision and started marking more than 120 trees along the West Knox resident Donna Sherwood talks with Gayle utility right of way for Cherry of Nashville about the effects of TVA’s beefed-up removal. She had moved to Westminster Place from tree clearing policies. Photo by Betty Bean States View subdivision six years ago after developers started cutting down trees and said the looming threat of losing her trees has caused her to move into a rental home. Now, she says she has had to move again. “We’re living in Plantation Springs now Donna Sherwood feels because we just don’t know By Betty Bean She’s not certain her good about standing up what’s going to happen,” message got through, but and telling the TVA board she said. “They’re going
Tim-berrrr Complaints about TVA’s tree cutting go statewide
take two trees from every household and our afternoon shade will be gone. Almost anybody who’s anywhere close to that line will lose any shade they ever had. They’re even taking out saplings that were planted to replace mature trees that were at least 50 years old. This is going to happen all over TVA’s seven state area.” As of last week, Sherwood and Pinn had been joined by nine more plaintiffs, and that number could grow in the coming weeks, based on the number of people from across the state who turned out for last week’s meeting. Many of them have been in contact with tree advocate Larry Silverstein, who has battled TVA and the Knoxville Utilities Board clear-cutting policies for years. Gayle and Ben Cherry, who lost a swimming pool and a bedroom to a mudslide after TVA clearcut a hillside above their home in Nashville’s Forest Hills subdivision, also spoke to the board. “They clear-cut in 2009, and the 2010 floods were made so much worse by the tire tracks of the heavy machinery going
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Sarah Bolinger Brooks, who was KHS cheerleading squad captain and is now a nurse at Children’s Hospital, receives a kiss from husband Matt Brooks, who owns Nixon’s Deli.
up the hill. It ruined our neighborhood,” Gayle Cherry said. Dr. Roger Jackson, a retired Nashville physician who lives in the Green Hills area, urged the board to abandon clearcutting and return to the less-draconian policy of selective tree management in urban areas. “Two Realtors told me my house has decreased in value $50,000 in the last two weeks,” he said, mentioning a tiny sapling TVA contractors marked for removal because there were power lines some 80 feet above it. When he tried to persuade them to leave it there, his pleas were ignored, he said. “They told me it’s cheaper to cut it now rather than wait until it’s grown…. That little tree in 100 years couldn’t have damaged the power line.” He challenged the board members to examine their roles in a policy that is damaging ratepayers’ property values. “This is not coming from FERC (the Federal Energy Regulation Commission). This is coming from this boardroom. You people are issuing the marching orders.”
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