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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015
HWWW trophy presented to Knoxville Catholic ■
ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com
Among Steve Matthews’ accomplishments after two seasons as Knoxville Catholic High School varsity football head coach is a stellar regular season record. Farragutpress How the West Was Won trophy presented by 3 Minute Magic Carwash was earned by Matthews’ Irish with nine regular season wins (9-1 record), three better than runner-up Hardin Valley Academy. The trophy was presented to Matthews during the Catholic 2014 Football Awards Banquet — which also honored band, dance team and cheerleaders — in the school’s gym Sunday evening, Jan. 11. “It was a clear runaway,” Jim Rooney, owner/operator of 3 Minute Magic Carwash and contest sponsor the past six seasons, said. “It’s super impressive, two years in a row, back to back. Shows excellence in coaching and athletics and dedication to team.” Though Rooney was unable to
attend the ceremony, Julie Gunter, farragutpress advertising representative, presented the award to Matthews. “We want to thank Jim Rooney and 3 Minute Magic Carwash for their continued sponsorship of this award,” Gunter said. In a brief speech, Gunter addressed Matthews, the entire KCHS coaching staff, team and parents along with Catholic boosters, teachers and administrators. “We would like to present the farragutpress How the West Was Won trophy, sponsored by 3 Minute Magic Carwash, on behalf of its owner, Jim Rooney. The farragutpress would like to congratulate the Fighting Irish of Knoxville Catholic on an outstanding season,” Gunter said. “For the second year in a row the Fighting Irish have won the farragutpress How the West Was Won contest for the best regular season record. “This contest pits the best records of the three West Knox County [public] high schools and See HWWW on Page 2A
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Steve Matthews, Knoxville Catholic varsity football head coach, accepts the farragutpress How the West Was Won trophy presented by 3 Minute Magic Carwash. Julie Gunter, farragutpress advertising representative, presents the award during the 2014 Catholic Football Awards Banquet in the school’s gym Sunday evening, Jan. 11.
Continental plans apartments ■
ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com
A Wisconsin-based properties company is looking to build a two story, 236-unit “gated and fenced Class-A market rate multi-family apartment unit” in the town of Farragut. At an estimated cost of “over $30 million” according to its director of development, Continental 333 Fund LLC, which is owned by Continental Properties Company, Inc. of metropolitan Milwaukee, is seeking to have 19.7 acres of property along Smith Road rezoned, near the office of farragutpress. Peterson Road would be extended north at its intersection with Kingston Pike to serve as the project’s main entrance-exit point should it receive Town approval. If that happens in a timely fashion, “We would break ground in the fall of this year and the first buildings would open in the
second quarter of 2016,” John Minihan, director of development for Continental, said among a handful of his colleagues while answering a number of questions from roughly 35 concerned residents, from Baldwin Park and Waverly Court, living near the proposed complex. This gathering took place in Town Hall Community Room Wednesday evening, Jan. 7. Questions included, “How does this proposed plan support the town of Farragut’s long-term Land Use Plan as shown on their website?” “When we looked at Knoxville, we looked at markets where there was a need for multi-family [housing],” Minihan said. “And the Comp Plan supported multifamily. And if you look at the long-term Comp Plan in the town of Farragut, this site has medium density residential on it.” See PLAN on Page 2A
This illustration shows the site of where Continental Properties Company, Inc. plans to construct 236 apartments between Farragut Church of Christ and Waverly Court along Smith Road. The tree-lined property only would be accessed via an extension of Peterson Road north between Click Funeral Home and farragutpress — the site of the annual Red, White& Blues event.
Adm. Farragut collector donates to FHS ■
ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com
A New Year’s Eve delivery of rare memorabilia, donated by a top collector of Adm. James David Glasgow Farragut memorabilia nationwide, had Farragut High School principal Stephanie Thompson and assistant principal Kim Gray quite excited. Adding to the excitement for Thompson and Gray in the early afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 31,
was the unknown: what was coming? “Oh my, it’s like Christmas,” Thompson said among shouts of joy from the administrators when Paul DeHaan of Kalamazoo, Mich., announced that a 7-by-10foot “vinyl banner” reproduced painting of Adm. Farragut aboard the U.S.S. Hartford, “blown up” from the actual 16by-20 inch painting, “Is coming here.” “Oh, I’m so excited,” Gray said,
adding the vinyl banner likely would be placed on a second story wall in the Commons above the main office entrance. DeHaan and wife, Pat DeHaan — saying they’ve specialized in collecting Adm. Farragut memorabilia “since 1993” — proceeded to unveil “16 to 18” rare Adm. Farragut memorabilia they donated to FHS. Saying it’s the couple’s biggest donation ever to a school — owning close to 300 Adm.
Farragut items at one time — Paul DeHaan placed the donated items’ total value at “a little over $2,000.” Memorabilia also includes actual photographs of the Admiral, two life-size cutouts of actual photos in uniform, a 1936 3-cent stamp honoring the Admiral, his actual signature on a document, various 19th century advertising using his image plus a handful of paintings. It all will find a home in the
Commons, inside a roughly 10by-20-foot glass encased area of shelving behind the administrators and teachers lunch tables, Thompson said. “I’m telling you, I cannot believe this,” Gray said. “… How blessed are we that Paul has been kind enough and generous enough to give us these wonderful artifacts. There’s no others like them. It’s going to build a See FHS on Page 4A
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