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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013
‘Prayer event’ for men slated for Aug. 24
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DAN BARILE editor@farragutpress.com
Are you ready to stand up, be courageous and say, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord?” That is what members of Courageous Men’s Ministry out of First Baptist Concord in Farragut said they are hoping enough fathers, sons, brothers and grandfathers would be willing to do during a very special call to prayer, worship and praise for the men of God in the Farragut area titled “RESTORATION: A Prayer Event for Men”
Saturday, Aug. 24, at ThompsonBoling Arena. David Sallas, executive director of Courageous Men’s Ministry, said, “The act of ‘restoration’ is the process or action taken to return an object back to its original condition or design function. For the man of God, we believe that the design of the relationships he has with his God, his wife, his children and his community are explained and detailed in God’s word. “As men of God, we are burdened by the present state of the church, the disintegration of the family and the moral collapse of
our country. We are convinced that the solution for the crisis that exists will not be solved by any political agent. The only option is for the men of God to turn back to Him and again perform the responsibility God has given them as the spiritual leader of the home and the ‘caretakers’ of the standard of a godly man for this generation and the next generation to follow.” The idea for the gathering had its genesis at First Baptist Concord. “It was born at church,” Sallas said, “Our pastor challenged us, ‘what are you going to do now,
what are you going to do?’ … One Saturday morning, sitting in my living room with my wife, we were talking and I said, ‘Why don’t we get men together to pray for our wives’ and all of a sudden, the next thing you know, we had talked it through, we had a plan, God just blessed it, I called a friend of mine and he got all fired up for it and the next thing I know I’m standing down at Thompson-Boling Arena signing a contract.” Sallas added that the first year about 5,000 attended and hoped to see that number increase to 10,000 this year.
“We’d like to sell them all,” he said noting Thompson-Boling Arena seats 18,000, “but that would be up to God.” This year’s keynote speaker is former Clemson University head football coach Tommy Bowden, and guest speaker is Kenny Luck, men’s pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $10 for adults and $5 for youth 18 and under by going to: www.knoxvillerestoration .com/event-registration/ Tickets also can be purchased the day of See PRAYER on Page 3A
Rural/Metro ‘business as usual’ despite corporate bankruptcy Computer system, new roof for Campbell Station location, more Farragut manpower among planned upgrades
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Rural/Metro Ambulance service will not be adversely affected by the company recently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to Rob Webb, Rural/Metro of Tennessee division manager.
Town hosts ‘International Residential Code’ session
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ROBBY O’DANIEL rodaniel@farragutpress.com
An information session on 2012 International Residential Code will take place at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 21, at Farragut Town Hall. Elliott Sievers, building inspector for the town of Farragut, will lead the session. The session will look at changes from the 2006 to 2012 International Residential Code,
he said. “It’s geared more for the contractors, but it is open to the public,” he said. “... They’re familiar with what the 2006 codes had, and they’ll learn [what] the code changes from 2006 to 2012 on selected items will be. You can’t obviously go over the entire code — it’s a twoand-a-half-inch thick book — but we’re hitting the highlights of some changes, some of the significant changes.”
He said the International Residential Code is “the building code that is basically geared toward one- and two-family dwellings, which the Town has adopted.” Among other things, the session will go over energy code changes, Sievers said. “They are requiring some testing,” he said. “One is called a duct blaster test, and that is See SESSION on Page 2A
Walking students factor in school zone placement
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ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com
The frequency at which kindergarten-through-high school students must cross a road or highway near their school: one key toward warranting installation of school speed reduction zones and warning lights along any of the Town’s three schools off Kingston Pike. “Is it something we’d consider if it were just one or two students, probably not. If there
were quite a few we’d certainly have to take a serious look at it,” said Darryl Smith, Town engineer, about Kingston Pike adjacent schools Farragut High, Concord Christian and Primrose School of Farragut (toddler through kindergarten). “The reason we don’t have the flashers on Kingston Pike, really, it’s not warranted,” he added. “School flashers like that are usually only put in along the route that fronts the school, like at [Farragut] Primary School”
fronting Campbell Station Road. Federal Highway Administration guidelines allow such zones for FPS and for FHS’s western entrance/exit at Campbell Station. “If the entrance is directly on the route, that’s usually the only place the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices really looks at installing signals,” said Smith, who added he has the authority to decide whether or See ZONES on Page 3A
ALAN SLOAN asloan@farragutpress.com
Rural/Metro Corporation has entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, yet it’s spending well more than $1 million beyond Knox County requirements to upgrade dispatch technology with “a state-of-the-art Cadillac” system. And there’s enough extra money, apparently, for R/M Fire Department’s Campbell Station hall in Farragut. “We’re planning on putting a new roof on this year,” which also would include “doing some cosmetic stuff to it. … And we have a goal of bringing more [manpower] into those Farragut stations.” This according to Rob Webb, Rural/Metro of Tennessee division manager, who emphasized “it’s business as usual at Rural/Metro. We had one of the best compliance response days that we’ve ever had [Monday, Aug. 5]. The ambulances are staffed, ready to go, out in the community. “Our fire trucks are staffed ready to go,” Webb added. “Everything is normal here.” “There’s not been any staff cutbacks at all,” Webb said, adding there had been “two new hires” of emergency personnel Tuesday, Aug. 6. While county requirements necessitate Rural/Metro install “over a $1 million” Computer Aided Dispatch system, “We’re actually putting in a $3 million CAD system,” Webb said. “We’re putting in the state-of-the-art Cadillac … for police, fire, rescue, ambulance, all emergency services.” However, “It will be many
months before it is finished,” Webb added. “This has been a three-year process in design alone.” CAD’s advantages include much quicker ambulance and fire response times because “there will actually be a screen pop up in front of the paramedics, and they’ll be able to look at where they’re at, then it will route them,” Webb said. “This routing will be close to 100 percent accurate.” CAD would “plot driveways; it will plot like a bridge that is too low for the ambulances to go under … it will route them around that,” Webb added. Also recently upgraded with R/M Ambulance despite bankruptcy is “Life Pack 15; what that is is a 12-lead EKG system similar to what your cardiologist would use in a doctor’s office,” Webb said. “We can actually transmit that from the scene to any hospital in the region.” As for seeking increased revenue through possible fire subscription rate increases, which are contracted on a per household basis, “We don’t have a rate increase scheduled at all,” Webb said. Meanwhile, since ambulance charges are set every three years contractually with the county, “That’s still two years away,” Webb said. “The ambulance subscription is $59 a year. … to or from a hospital.” Giving its state-of-the-art improvements yet maintaining current customer costs, Webb said R/M’s need to increase revenues could be improved by “a full-time marketing staff that See RURAL on Page 3A
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