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VOL. 51 NO. 14
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April 2, 2012
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Home Edition Special Section Find tips for home protection, home decoration, home repair and more in “My Place.”
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When the King came to town Forty years ago, on April 8, 1972, a king named Elvis Presley came to town as the headliner for the Dogwood Arts Festival. Jake Mabe looks back.
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NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Prayer breakfast
Max van Tilburg holds a tree branch while Elijah Soon cuts it at the site of the future Clayton Park. The Halls High students helped county commissioner R. Larry Smith (inset above with Elijah) and Max’s dad, Johan, burn brush on a Saturday morning following a storm, while Max’s grandfather, Carl Tindell, dug postholes near the park’s entrance along Norris Freeway. Carl says he kept hitting rock. Photos by Jake Mabe
WBIR-TV news anchor Robin Wilhoit will be the keynote speaker at the annual Halls B&P Prayer Breakfast 7:30 a.m. on Good Friday (April Robin Wilhoit 6), at the Beaver Dam Baptist Church fellowship hall. Tickets are $10 and are available at The UPS Store in Halls and at the ShopperNews office.
Halls band car show is Saturday The Halls High School band will hold its 11th annual Halls Crossroads Car Show on Saturday, April 7, in the Food City parking lot. Registration is 9 a.m. to noon and judging starts at noon. Greylan James will sing. The Easter Bunny and a Tennessee Titans cheerleader will be special guests. Awards will be presented at 4 p.m. Preregistration is $20 and day-of-show registration is $25. Open to all vehicles. Info/registration forms: www. hallsband.org/carshow.
Index Community Jake Mabe Government/Politics Marvin West Jake Mabe’s feature Faith Schools Business Health/Lifestyles
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This sign appeared at the former Hi Life Wonderland 2, a drug paraphernalia “head shop” that was raided and closed down in February by the Knoxville Police Department for selling synthetic marijuana. By Friday, after inquiries from Shopper-News, the sign was gone. Photo by Shannon Carey
Newsom scholarship winners honored Head shop owners won’t return By Betty Bean
Last week, a sign propped up in front of a head shop raided by the Knoxville Police Department for selling synthetic marijuana raised questions about whether the Hi Life Wonderland 2 will be reopening under a new name. Big Pete’s. Coming Soon. We have to change our name.” One of four such shops padlocked by the KPD’s Organized Crime Unit after a two-month undercover operation, the Hi Life Wonderland 2, 5814 N. Broadway, was shut down under the city’s public nuisance ordinance. The prospect that it would reopen under a new name was cause for alarm among community members who noticed the sign. Prosecutor Eric Counts said his office reached an agreement with the Hi Life Wonderland 2 and its landlord, Ft. Sanders GP. “In exchange for us not going fur-
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ther with criminal actions against them, Hi Life Wonderland 2 agreed to be permanently enjoined from doing business,” he said. Counts said there is no evidence that Ft. Sanders GP was aware of its tenant’s activities, but his office will not be amused if a head shop reopens there, whatever it’s called. “My agreement with Ft. Sanders GP was if the Hi Life Wonderland 2 agrees to a permanent injunction and if they were to immediately evict Hi Life Wonderland 2, Ft. Sanders GP can obviously lease it back out. But our agreement is that they are not to have a smoke shop. They are not to be a head shop. This time around, if we find that this is going on again, I would have a legitimate reason to then question the Ft. Sanders GP. One time is a mistake. Two times, I start seeing a pattern.” Attorney T. Scott Jones, who rep-
Halls Community Park kicked off the fifth annual Chris Newsom Memorial baseball tournament and the Newsom family was on hand to present scholarships to two Halls High seniors. Pictured are Hugh Newsom, recipient Caroline White, Mary Newsom and recipient Grant Painter. Winners were selected based on academics, community service, involvement with Halls Park and good character. Photo by Ruth White
resents Hi Life Wonderland 2 owner Nicky N. Wyrick of Baton Rouge, La., did not respond to a request for comment. The former Hi Life Wonderland 2 is of particular interest to authorities because of its location at the intersection of Broadway and Jacksboro Pike, just blocks from Central High School and a mile from Halls High. Counts also said Wyrick isn’t getting back the bongs, water pipes and other drug paraphernalia confiscated in the February raid. “All that’s ours right now,” Counts said. “Until there’s a further order of the court, we’ve agreed that
everything we took out of the business becomes our property. What we do want is a business that’s not destructive to the community. The High Life Wonderland 2 head shop is gone. Everybody knows what those things are really used for, and there should not be a head shop around Central High School.” Attorney Matthew Grossman, who represents Ft. Sanders GP, checked with his client and reported that despite the sign, his client is complying with the court order. “That tenant will not be returning,” he said. And on Friday, the sign was gone.
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