NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ Marvin West Stroll down memory lane with a look back at Tennessee bowl games. ➤ Read it on page 5 IN THIS ISSUE Business Tickets for the annual Union County Chamber banquet are on sale now. This year’s theme is “Driving Business Forward.” Also learn about Home Edge Learning Center and see honorees from Commercial Bank. ➤ Read it on page 2 7049 Maynardville Pike 37918 (865) 922-4136 NEWS [email protected]Sandra Clark Libby Morgan | Bonnie Peters ADVERTISING SALES [email protected]Shannon Carey Jim Brannon | Tony Cranmore Patty Fecco | Wendy O’Dell POSTAL CUSTOMER VOL. 10 NO. 1 January 7, 2015 www.ShopperNewsNow.com | www.facebook.com/ShopperNewsNow Now accepting NEW patients! No appointments necessary 992-2221 Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5pm Saturday by appointment CARING MEDICAL CENTER 149 Durham Drive Maynardville, TN 37807 Trinity Funeral Home, LLC 228 Main Street, P.O. 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Our 4-H kids, with some input from TDOT, are working on a map that will be a tear-off sheet showing Union County’s best motorcycle rides. It’s not a big expense, and it will show people where to get gas, snacks and something to eat.” Recreation: Expect the coun- ty to build a splash pad at Wilson Park. Williams wants it up front and visible from Hwy. 33. He also wants more color in the park to enhance the “knock-out roses” already there. Expect to see day- lilies and more dogwoods. Next year the county will expand on the Christmas lights and add a veter- ans’ wall. Rescue Squad campaign Union County Rescue Squad will hold its annual door-to- door picture fundraiser start- ing Monday, Jan. 12. Properly- identified representatives will visit homes, and donors can re- ceive a free 8x10 family portrait to be taken at a later date at the squad office on Main Street. UC Rescue Squad would like to say “thank you for your con- tinued support!” Mike’s vision By Sandra Clark Paulette Volunteer Fire Depart- ment has mailed invoices for 2015, according to Fire Chief Daniel Rice. “The billing went out in mid- December,” Rice said. “Residents have until Jan. 31 to pay or start a payment plan.” Subscription service is a flat $75 ($6.25/month) for residents and $150 for businesses within the Paulette service zone. Rice says the revenue enables the fire department to keep equipment upgraded, pay for supplies and ob- tain training for volunteers. There is no paid staff at Pau- lette including Rice. If residents have questions or did not receive a bill, call 865-745-9876. Paulette operates two fire halls: Station 61 and the Hickory Valley Station. Both are staffed 24/7. Subscribers will have no ad- ditional charge if the fire depart- ment is used during the year. Un- der state law, those who choose not to subscribe will be billed for services. Following discussion last fall, the board of directors voted to cap those bills at $5,000 for residences and $10,000 for busi- nesses. Rice said those caps will apply for 30 days after billing. “Then we turn collections over to a third party and additional fees may be added.” Paulette VFD sends bills, caps charges Xxxxxxxx Union County mayor talks about what’s ahead Williams wants to dress up Maynardville’s Main Street and decorate it for the holidays. Tourism: The county’ wine trail and farms will give people another reason to visit, he said. A small motel would enable the county to host sports and fishing tournaments and provide a place for visitors to stay longer. Business: Highway improve- ments recently announced for Luttrell will help the residents; Mayor Mike Williams wants to “dress up” the entrances to the county, es- pecially the corner going into Sharps Chapel. He envisions some split rail and stone with signage with a uni- fied design. improvements underway on Hwy. 33 will create a direct, four-lane access to I-75 and Knoxville. Problems with piers have de- layed construction of the new 33 Bridge, but work will move quick- ly now that new piers are in place. Williams is open to keeping the old bridge as a backup, but worries about liability and upkeep. Ronnie Mincey Everybody’s favorite skinny kid is back with a tale about trying to trick Chip Brown and how it backfired. ➤ Read it on page 4 Faith Ruth White writes: “Christ- mas is a time when people give to others and spread love and cheer to friends, family and those who may not have a fam- ily of their own. “Members of CrossPoint Church have partnered with Northgate Terrace in North Knoxville for many years. “Elder Jerry King preaches a church service at the facility several Sundays a month, and for the past two years members have provided gift bags for residents in need.” ➤ Read it on page 6 Christmas at Willow Ridge Santa Claus and Elvis dropped by the Willow Ridge Center Christmas party – Elvis playing and Santa gifting. The gifts were provided by the Center’s “Angel Tree,” in which residents are adopted by employees, churches, families and others. ➤ Read it on page 3 33 Bridge is coming along with the new structure at right and the current bridge at left. Photos by Libby Morgan To page 3
Transcript
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
Marvin WestStroll down memory lane
with a look back at Tennessee bowl games.
➤ Read it on page 5
IN THIS ISSUE
BusinessTickets for the annual Union
County Chamber banquet are on sale now. This year’s theme is “Driving Business Forward.”
Also learn about Home Edge Learning Center and see honorees from Commercial Bank.
Trinity Funeral Hometreats you like family because we really care.
Compassion, Kindness, Professionalism ... from our family to yours.
2
May 2015 be a year of favor & blessing!
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
UNION PAWN“WE BUY GOLD”
Union Square3749 Maynardville Hwy
745-1040www.unionpawn.weebly.com
Union County’s Original Licensed Gold Brokeryy ggg
BUY • SELL • TRADE
By Libby MorganTourism can drive Union
County’s economy if people work together to promote the county’s assets, says Mayor Mike Williams
“Big Ridge State Park, Norris Lake, Chuck Swan, fi shing, camp-ing, watersports, hunting, hiking – there are counties that would love to have these attributes.”
The key is promotion: “We can really make a name for ourselves with tourism, with all the things we have going for us, our natural resources and our heritage (music, Thunder Road): things that are nowhere else.
“It’s all about promoting our county in a positive way. Our 4-H kids, with some input from TDOT, are working on a map that will be a tear-off sheet showing Union County’s best motorcycle rides. It’s not a big expense, and it will show people where to get gas, snacks and something to eat.”
Recreation: Expect the coun-ty to build a splash pad at Wilson Park. Williams wants it up front and visible from Hwy. 33. He also wants more color in the park to enhance the “knock-out roses” already there. Expect to see day-lilies and more dogwoods. Next year the county will expand on the Christmas lights and add a veter-ans’ wall.
Rescue Squad campaign
Union County Rescue Squad will hold its annual door-to-door picture fundraiser start-ing Monday, Jan. 12. Properly-identifi ed representatives will visit homes, and donors can re-ceive a free 8x10 family portrait to be taken at a later date at the squad offi ce on Main Street.
UC Rescue Squad would like to say “thank you for your con-tinued support!”
Mike’s vision
By Sandra ClarkPaulette Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment has mailed invoices for 2015, according to Fire Chief Daniel Rice.
“The billing went out in mid-December,” Rice said. “Residents have until Jan. 31 to pay or start a payment plan.”
Subscription service is a fl at
$75 ($6.25/month) for residents and $150 for businesses within the Paulette service zone. Rice says the revenue enables the fi re department to keep equipment upgraded, pay for supplies and ob-tain training for volunteers.
There is no paid staff at Pau-lette including Rice. If residents have questions or did not receive
a bill, call 865-745-9876.Paulette operates two fi re
halls: Station 61 and the Hickory Valley Station. Both are staffed 24/7.
Subscribers will have no ad-ditional charge if the fi re depart-ment is used during the year. Un-der state law, those who choose not to subscribe will be billed for
services. Following discussion last fall, the board of directors voted to cap those bills at $5,000 for residences and $10,000 for busi-nesses.
Rice said those caps will apply for 30 days after billing. “Then we turn collections over to a third party and additional fees may be added.”
Paulette VFD sends bills, caps charges
Xxxxxxxx
Union County mayor talks about what’s ahead
Williams wants to dress up Maynardville’s Main Street and decorate it for the holidays.
Tourism: The county’ wine trail and farms will give people another reason to visit, he said.
A small motel would enable the county to host sports and fi shing tournaments and provide a place for visitors to stay longer.
Business: Highway improve-ments recently announced for Luttrell will help the residents;
Mayor Mike Williams wants to “dress
up” the entrances to the county, es-
pecially the corner going into Sharps
Chapel. He envisions some split rail
and stone with signage with a uni-
fi ed design.
improvements underway on Hwy. 33 will create a direct, four-lane access to I-75 and Knoxville.
Problems with piers have de-layed construction of the new 33 Bridge, but work will move quick-ly now that new piers are in place. Williams is open to keeping the old bridge as a backup, but worries about liability and upkeep.
Ronnie MinceyEverybody’s favorite skinny
kid is back with a tale about trying to trick Chip Brown and how it backfi red.
➤ Read it on page 4
FaithRuth White writes: “Christ-
mas is a time when people give to others and spread love and cheer to friends, family and those who may not have a fam-ily of their own.
“Members of CrossPoint Church have partnered with Northgate Terrace in North Knoxville for many years.
“Elder Jerry King preaches a church service at the facility several Sundays a month, and for the past two years members have provided gift bags for residents in need.”
➤ Read it on page 6
Christmas at Willow Ridge
Santa Claus and Elvis dropped by the Willow Ridge Center Christmas party – Elvis playing and Santa gifting.
The gifts were provided by the Center’s “Angel Tree,” in which residents are adopted by employees, churches, families and others.
➤ Read it on page 3
33 Bridge is coming along with the new structure at right and the current
bridge at left. Photos by Libby Morgan
To page 3
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Home Edge Learn-ing Center, 1705 Maynardville Hwy., is offering six free classes on computers starting Jan. 15 and meeting each fi rst and third Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. Space is limited. Register at 865-291-1488 or [email protected]/.
Chamber banquet By Libby Morgan
Tickets for the annual Union County Chamber banquet are on sale now. This year’s theme is “Driv-ing Business Forward.”
Banquet committee chair Mayme Taylor says, “There will be some short presen-tations, but this year’s ban-quet is going to be fun, with music, dancing and a live auction.”
The banquet is planned for Friday, Feb. 6, from 6-8 p.m. and will again be held at Rutherford Memorial Church in Corryton.
Tickets are $40, with Sil-ver Sponsorships, $150 (four tickets) and Gold Sponsor-ships, $300 (eight tickets).
Auction items are needed and will be previewed at Union County Arts until the day before the banquet. Contact the Chamber offi ce to donate an auction item or to reserve tickets.
Union County Chamber is a nonprofi t organization dedicated to economic de-velopment and improving the quality of life in Union County.
The Chamber works with businesses, government and other community entities with a common interest in the betterment of the county.
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to 12th grade.Owners Todd and Laura
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over 10,000 new titles. Todd says there is something for every age.
Home school families may exchange gently used curriculum for store credit. Todd and Laura have home schooled their three chil-dren for 13 years.
“We would love to share our experience and offer suggestions on how to be-gin,” for parents who are considering home school-ing, said Todd.
Deborah Scott has also joined Home Edge Learning Center and comes with over 20 years of retail home-school experience. She can offer great guidance on the many different curriculum options that are available today.
“The education of our children is the most impor-tant responsibility we have as parents,” Todd said. “Our mothers are bot h retired public school teachers and we have seen fi rst-hand the value of a life-long invest-ment in education.
“Whether our children are in public school, private school or homeschooled, ul-timately the responsibility
for their success in life lieswith us. We hope to help en-courage those around us bysharing what we know andlearning from others.”
Whether you homeschool,are in need of some extra-curricular resources, or havea student that needs a little“catching up,” they can help.Tutoring is also available.Home Edge Learning Centeris located at 1705 Maynard-ville Hwy about a mile northof Paulette ElementarySchool and is open Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. andSaturday 10 to 5.
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Christmas at Willow RidgeSanta Claus and Elvis dropped by the Willow Ridge Center Christmas party and added to the
festivities. Elvis performed to a packed house and each resident received a gift from Santa. The
gifts were provided by the Center’s “Angel Tree,” where the residents are adopted by employ-
ees, churches, families and other community members. Pictured are Mattie Coppock, Elvis,
Alaska “Ted” Hansard, Santa and Linda Clinton. Photo submitted
Seniors celebrateChristmas
in styleJoyce Kitts sits on Santa’s lap.
Kitty Donovan at the party
Clarence Robbins and Helen Foster tear up the dance fl oor at the recent Christmas party at the
Union County Senior Citizen Center in Maynardville. Photos submitted
Mike’s vision From page 1
He wants better Inter-net service, but can’t force companies to install cables. Broadband will come with population growth, he says.
Paulette is the best area for a new industrial park, taking advantage of the new road and the proximity to Knoxville.
Sharps Chapel has more opportunity for de-velopment with its lake-front property and scen-ery. Farms there are going stronger than ever, and Union County Arts is a huge draw for visitors.
County fi nances: The centralized fi nance offi ce, headed by Ann Dyer, has brought the schools, high-way and sheriff’s depart-ments under a consistent purchasing and payroll pro-gram.
“Every penny runs through our county fi nance offi ce, with only fi ve people on staff. We have reduced the number of county em-ployees, upped the accuracy and saved a lot of money. A recent state audit had no fi ndings – nothing was mis-placed and all funds were properly recorded.”
Youth: We’ve got great kids and we need to provide more for them to do. Chan-tay Collins (at the library)
Joan Ray, volunteer Pete Oehlberg and Melanie Dykes
is a jewel, doing all the things she does with youth. The city of Maynardville is working toward a recreation center.
“The only way for our county to get better in the long run is for our best young people to stay, or to come back out of college and live here.”
Personal: Williams has regained his physical strength since heart surgery last year, and his spirit is healing after the loss of his mother last December.
A diehard fan of late NASCAR star Dale Earn-
hardt, Williams drives his trademark “3” vehicles and surrounds himself with Earnhardt mementos in homage to the man who Williams says he admires because of his character off the racetrack.
“I’m very appreciative that I was raised in a county like this. Everything good that ever happened in my life is a direct result of the people in this county having an infl uence on me.
“I love it here. We need to be a little bit more aggres-sive, and good things will come.”
4 • JANUARY 7, 2015 • UNION COUNTY Shopper news opinionRonnie Mincey
TEACHER TIME
Bonnie Peters
This concludes the se-ries pertaining to Civil War skirmishes in and around Walker’s Ford.
I hope you have enjoyed reading about what really happened in our county during that time.
All accounts in this series are excerpts from the dia-ries of Brigadier-General O. B. Willcox, Colonel F. W. Graham and Colonel Hor-ace Capron.
This documentation is contained in War of the Re-
The Civil War in Union County: Beyond Walker’s Ford - Part IX
bellion, Offi cial Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 31, Part I.
Report of Col. Horace
Capron, 14th Illinois Cavalry, to Lieut. R. P. Finney, Acting Assis-tant Adjutant-General.
Headquarters 14th Illi-nois Cavalry, in camp near Clinch River, Tenn., Dec. 4, 1863.
Sir: I would respectfully report that on the morning of the second instant, (we were) ordered to move down the right bank of Clinch Riv-er to the forks of the road, fi ve miles from Walker’s Ford.
I moved my command, the 14th Illinois Cavalry, down the river two miles until I came to a ford and road leading to Maynard-ville, intersecting the main road from Maynardville to Walker’s Ford, in the rear of the enemy, at that time engaging the remainder of your brigade.
Hesitating to proceed farther, I halted my regi-ment and awaited your or-ders, sending scouting par-ties on the Maynardville and river roads.
I had hardly received
your orders to hold the Maynardville road and river crossing before our advance on the Maynardville road was attacked by the rebels two miles from the main body.
My regiment was then posted at the river crossing.
I immediately sent the Third Battalion to re-en-force the advance, which, after advancing one-half mile, engaged the enemy, our forces taking position in the center of the road running through a narrow gorge, the rebel cavalry ad-vancing in column down the road and charging our cen-ter, but were repulsed.
The rebels then moved a column on our right and charged our right and cen-ter, and were again repulsed at both points.
They then deployed skir-mishers on both our fl anks on the hills and again charged our right.
The remainder of my reg-iment having been placed in position, the Third Battal-ion was ordered to the rear
Either 18 or 20 credits (memory fails me here) were required for students to graduate from high school in Tennessee in 1983.
The Horace Maynard High School schedule operated on a six-period day, meaning that a student who took and passed six classes each year would graduate with twenty-four credits.
Some students took six classes the fi rst three years and only had to complete American history and English the senior year. Such motivated students could take those classes the fi rst two periods and leave early to work jobs, while students otherwise motivated could take those classes later in the day and sleep in every morning.
‘Wrote’ and ‘quote’ in study hall
Personally, not having access to transportation to allow me either to come late or leave early (and not anticipating such during my high school career), I took the route most students chose: one period of study hall each year.
The quality of study hall varied depending on the time of day, location and which “fortunate” teacher supervised.
I was assigned to large study halls with Peggy Cosby and Max Branum (cafeteria) and a small fi rst-period study hall with Laura DeMarotta (her classroom). But by far the most memorable was a large fourth-period study hall during sophomore year with W. A. Hartsell in the auditorium.
The auditorium was the worst possible location to study. There was heat in the early fall and late spring, air conditioning in the late fall and early winter, dim lighting and hard wooden seats.
Needless to say, such an environment led students to create diversions for entertainment.
There was an eighth
grade girl in this hall, and my friend Randy Gaut and I decided to have some fun at Chip Brown’s expense. We crafted a love letter to this girl (supposedly from Chip) in which Chip professed his fondness and interest in getting to know her better. I must say I put my all into this letter to get the best out of this practical joke on “The Chipster,” partially in return for him squirting me with ketchup years earlier during seventh grade lunch.
The joke turned out to be on me. Little did I know that Gaut and Brown had prearranged this scenario, and that at the last minute Randy was to address the letter to this girl from “Yours truly, Ronnie Mincey.”
“Dallas” was the populartelevision show at the time,and J. R. Ewing himselfnever pulled a slicker oildeal. I had to squirm a littleto get out of that one.
In later years, anotheryoung lady became infatuatedwith “Casanova Chip” andwrote him a legitimatelyaddressed letter. Chip sharedthis letter with Randy andme. Unfortunately, this girlwas somewhat illiteratein use of proper Englishgrammar, and her letter goesdown in my memory as amost entertaining missive.She wrote, and I quote, “Youare the fi rst boy I never reallyloved.”
Next week I will discussstudy hall experiences ofanother friend.
and re-form, which they did, the rebels advancing on our rear line, attacking the whole line with skirmishers.
Two companies were sent to the hills to dislodge their sharpshooters, who were annoying our lines, and a rapid and heavy fi ring was continued through our whole lines.
At 1 p.m., the Third Bat-talion, with howitzers, were withdrawn to the left bank of the river, the First and Second Battalions still fi ghting the rebels, but compelled to gradually fall back, overpowered by supe-rior numbers and fl anked by sharpshooters.
The Third Battalion was immediately deployed on the left bank of the river, and the howitzer battery placed in position.
At this moment our po-sition became critical, as their sharpshooters oc-cupied the heights in good range of our position, but were fortunately held in check by our howitzers until the fi re of the rebels gradu-
ally slackened and our am-munition nearly exhausted,the main part of my regi-ment was withdrawn toyour command at Walker’sFord, leaving two compa-nies with the small amountof ammunition necessaryto hold the ford, which theydid until relieved by a regi-ment of infantry.
The whole commandfought with coolness andbravery, and our loss musthave been much greater hadnot the natural position ofthe ground been greatlyadvantageous to us – 24offi cers and 300 men, withthe following casualties:wounded, seven; missing,11.
The engagement com-menced at 10 a.m., continu-ing until 3 p.m. From infor-mation obtained of prison-ers, the force attacking uswas General Jones’ cavalrydivision, consisting of twobrigades.
I would also report thecapture of 18 prisoners onthe second and third in-stant.
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Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Lunch: Johnnies’ famous hot tamales and chili plus soup bar. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.
VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynard-ville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.
SATURDAY, JAN. 10Presentation of Harold’s Tours available in
2015 from, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Halls Senior Center,
Crippen Road. Presentation by Harold Cox. Bring a covered dish. All welcome.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Faye Wooden, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.
Taoist Tai Chi Society open house, 11 a.m.-noon, Knoxville Tai Chi Center, 1205 N. Central Ave. Features demonstrations and a free lesson. Info: 546-9222 or www.taoist.org.
Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.
Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Janet McCracken. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 16-FEB. 1“Huckleberry Finn” presented by Knoxville
Children’s Theatre. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays. Info: 208-3677 or knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com or [email protected].
SATURDAY, JAN. 17A Night of Improv, 7-8:30 p.m., Nita Buell-Black
Auditorium, Powell High School, 2136 West Emory Road. Presented by the Powell Playhouse. Tickets: $10, ages 5 and under free. Featuring a special Powell Play-house performance. Ticket info: 947-7428, 256-7428.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Brianna Hanson, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.
Saturday Stories and Songs: Faye Wooden, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 West Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.
Thunder Road Gospel Jubilee, 7 p.m., 1388 Main St., Maynardville. All gospel singers welcome. Info: Joe, 201-5748.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 17-18Sets class, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Appalachian Arts Craft
Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris. Instructor: Anderson Bailey. Part of the Featured Tennessee Artist Workshop series. Registration deadline: Saturday, Jan. 10. Info: 494-9854 or www.appalachianarts.net.
National signing day, season opener, Florida and Alabama games and bowl time are the peaks of my football year.
1. Butch Jones and his people came up big enough in recruiting.
2. The Volunteers played well against Utah State.
3. They allowed Florida to get away with one and found a quarterback so-lution while losing to the Crimson Tide.
4. That made the Gator Bowl pivotal in whether this was, at last, an OK cam-paign or another net loss.
Battling in big bowls
Bowl time can be beautiful
and competing for national championships is signifi -cant. The size of coaches’ bo-nuses provides a yardstick.
The 25 or 30 other bowls are supposed to be fun for fans, rewards for players and fi llers for TV time slots. Can you believe ESPN owns some of the bowls?
Bottom line: It is better
to be in any bowl than home for the holidays. Yes, even Shreveport and the Yankee Stadium refrigerator.
Marvelous bowl memo-ries through the years.
I missed the 1939 Orange Bowl but George Cafego told me about it. He clob-bered an Oklahoma star on the opening play and set the tone for a knockdown and drag-out afternoon. There were 221 yards in penalties. Of course Tennessee won.
I missed the 1940 Rose Bowl. So did Cafego. He had a bum knee. Knoxville’s Clarence Brown, prominent Hollywood movie director,
hosted the team in a lavish Christmas party. George said the ornaments (girls) were beautiful.
New Year’s Day was less enjoyable. The Vols hadn’t permitted a point all season but Southern Cal scored 14.
The 1951 Cotton Bowl, Tennessee 20, Texas 14, was a classic. Hank Lauricella made the unforgettable 75-yard run.
Hank described the pre-game setting: “We were in the locker room and the Texas band was playing ‘The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You.’
“The General (Robert R. Neyland) was talking and
we had a hard time hearing. He spoke up a little louder, ‘When this game is over, they’ll be playing ‘The Ten-nessee Waltz.’”
The 1971 Sugar Bowl was a personal treat. New Or-leans went overboard with pregame fl attery of Air Force brass and the undefeated Falcons. Tennessee was inci-dental in all festivities.
Then came the kickoff. The Vols dominated the game. Bobby Scott riddled the defense. Don McLeary scored two touchdowns in the fi rst nine minutes. The quarter score was 24-0 be-fore Air Force realized there was a problem.
Bill Battle, youngest coach in the country, was rewarded with a new fi ve-
year contract. You know how that turned out.
The 1981 Garden State Bowl in the semi-privacy of East Rutherford, N.J., was forgettable (well, Willie Gault did return a kickoff 87 yards).
The 1986 return to New Orleans was a forever favor-ite. The underdog SugarVols stunned Miami, 35-7, in one of Tennessee’s all-time great performances. Vols sacked Hurricane quarterback Vin-ny Testeverde seven times for 84 yards in losses. They intercepted three passes. This was the Ken Dona-hue defense. Daryl Dickey emerged as MVP.
There was unbridled ju-bilation on Bourbon Street. Ah yes, those were the days. Marvin West invites reader reaction. His
Years ago, when you went to Grandma’s house for Sun-day dinner, you didn’t fi nd a skillet full of chicken breasts or chicken thighs. You found a chicken, period.
It was cut up into the usu-al pieces, of course, but only the pieces that came with that one chicken. And you saw pieces that you may not see that often anymore.
I remember my Mom and Dad sharing carefully-divided halves of the heart, liver and gizzard, while my brother and I would pretend to cover our eyes and not even look at those delicacies.
There was a certain peck-ing order, so to speak, that determined just who got which part. It defi nitely wasn’t random. The visit-ing preacher or other com-pany always got fi rst choice, which was usually a big piece of the white meat (and if not them, then Grandpa or big brother).
Those lower on the totem pole had to wait on the bet-ter stuff till somehow they worked their way up, or else wait for the next church pot-luck for an opportunity to grab a choice piece (or two) from the bountiful table.
Dr. Bob Collier
The chicken: A most important bird
That’s all changed now. We go to the store and buy only the pieces we want, al-most never a whole chicken. One of the wonders of the chicken is how quickly they mature and how rapidly varieties can be bred for desirable characteristics: for meat, for eggs, for suit-ability to thrive in different climates, and so on.
Meat chickens, for exam-ple, can be ready for market in only 6 or 7 weeks, and can be designed to make more white or dark meat to suit.
A 2014 article in the jour-nal “Science” concerning the search for the ancestral wild chicken quotes a biolo-gist from Georgia Southern University as saying that the chicken is “the most impor-tant bird in the world.”
They’ve been domesti-cated for thousands of years and are a major food source
for literally billions of peo-ple all around the globe.
In the U.S. we’re produc-ing something like 90 bil-lion eggs per year, and some 40 billion pounds of chicken meat per year. That’s a lot of chicken! We export around 7 billion pounds, or about 18 percent of the total. And as for that whole chicken versus many parts thing: almost all chickens are sold as parts these days, rather than as whole birds; people are eating everything from Buffalo wings to chicken-foot soup, from breasts to thighs to nuggets.
The October issue of “Na-tional Geographic” had an informative 2-page spread about the destination of all our chicken parts. It turns out that we Americans pre-fer blander food than other folks, and so we export very few breast quarters. But we sell hundreds of thousands if not millions of tons of oth-er chicken parts overseas: wings and feet (yes, feet) to China, legs to Russia, feath-ers to Indonesia, and innards (to become pet food and fer-tilizer) to South Africa. Good eats here at home, money-making trade abroad.
Did you ever wonder where chickens originally came from? They weren’t always just here, scratching around in the side yard. It’s a complex story that the sci-entists haven’t fully nailed down as yet, but the broad brushstrokes are that our domestic chickens were de-rived from an original wild species called the red jungle fowl from Southeast Asia. Their range was from 5000 feet in the Himalayas down through Malaysia into Indo-nesia, and they are believed to have been domesticated somewhere between 4000 and 8000 years ago.
Red jungle fowl look and act a lot like present-day fi ghting chickens. They are smallish, fast, wily and ag-gressive. They have reddish bodies, golden-red neck feathers, and shiny black tail feathers. There are few pure-blooded red jungle fowl left in the world, due mainly to domestication and inter-breeding by many civiliza-tions over the centuries, and that has the biologists wor-ried that the original species will soon be lost forever.
Some attempts were made back in the 1960s to collect
Asian red jungle fowl and propagate them in the U.S. As a result, there are some purebred birds scattered around in aviaries and labs in this country, and some are still hiding out there in various places in the wild. In Vietnam, for example, it is illegal to trap them, but the practice continues, and the birds bring premium prices as fi ghting chickens.
In the unlikely event that you’re suddenly seized with the desire to actu-ally see a wild, free-range red jungle fowl not too far from here, let me tell you about Fitzgerald, Georgia. It seems that in the 1960s, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources re-leased some 10,000 jungle fowl all over the state to be used as game birds, hunted like quail or pheasants. The project failed spectacularly, but there was one batch of birds released down along the Ocmulgee River that had more determination. They didn’t care for their riverside site, so they moved along west for a few miles to the inviting town of Fitzger-ald, a peaceful place found-ed in 1895. There they took
up residence, with the even-tual acceptance and sup-port of most of the humans dwelling there. And today, there are several hundred of the birds, scratching in gardens, eating grasshop-pers in churchyards, and ambling across streets.
They used to have an an-nual rattlesnake roundup in Fitzgerald, but the jungle fowl got to be such a phe-nomenon that they changed over to the Fitzgerald Wild Chicken Festival. Its motto: “We’re strutting our stuff.” There is a big Friday night street dance, followed the next day by the 5K run, the pinewood derby race, and the ever-popular chicken crowing contest.
The festival is scheduled for March 20 and 21 this year. Fitzgerald is just a cou-ple of hours south of Atlan-ta. You may want to make your reservations early. Or, you could just stay around here and go out to your fa-vorite place for some wings or nuggets.
Whether as fi ghting chickens, tourist draw, or major food source – chick-ens are important birds to us all.
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Whether you’re feeling great or dealing with a long-standing pain issue, you should start 2015 with a visit to a chiropractor. If you’re feeling great, you can help maintain that feeling throughout the year by going for regular chiropractic tune-ups through the year. And if you’re dealing with a chronic issue like lower back pain, a di-agnosis and a plan of treatment prescribed by a doctor of chiropractic is precisely what you need to improve the outlook for the coming year.
The guiding principle of chiropractic is that a prop-erly functioning body is capable of healing many of its
Chiropractic OutlookBy Dr. Darrell Johnson, DC
Start the year right
By Ruth WhiteChristmas is a time when
people give to others and spread love and cheer to friends, family and those who may not have a family of their own.
Members of CrossPoint Church have partnered with Northgate Terrace in North Knoxville for many years. Elder Jerry King preaches a church service at the facility several Sundays a month, and for the past two years members have provided gift bags for residents in need.
This year, thanks to the generosity of members and several in the community, the church was able to pro-vide for residents and share a little bit of Christmas cheer.
CrossPoint Church is at 2000 Loves Creek Road, at Spring Place Presbyterian Church.
Members of CrossPoint Church Hadley Curry,
Sami Bates and Baleigh Bates unload gift bags to be delivered to residents
at Northgate Terrace. Photo by R. White
Spreading love and cheer
New York police offi cers are gunned down in their squad car; riots and protests continue over the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri; Christmas lights cause fi res that kill whole families; mud slides destroy entire towns in California.
I think – sarcastically, bitterly – “Happy Holidays!” even while acknowledging the sad reality that “the dark is doubly dark” this year.
Oddly enough, I remem-ber Rodney King, who, during the 1992 L.A. riots, implored, “Why can’t we all just get along?”
I agree with the idea from Cloth for the Cradle, quoted above: “We need a star.”
I step outside before bed-time, or in the morning, before dawn, to look at the stars. I do that because they are bright, shining; they are distant, infi nite; they
Doubly dark
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And the Word became fl esh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory,
the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.
(John 1: 14 NRSV)
To Bethlehem, to Bosnia,L.A. and Central Park;To where a star is needed,Since the dark is doubly dark;To where our lives require the LordTo set on them his mark.
(“God Bless Us and Disturb Us,” from Cloth for the Cradle)
are mysterious, beautiful. I look for my friends Orion and Cassiopeia, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. That pretty much covers my knowledge of the stars, but it is enough for me, as long as I can count on their showing up where they belong.
“Sure on this shin-ing night,” Knoxville poet James Agee wrote, “kind-ness must watch for me this side the ground.” I learned his words by singing them, and I carry them in my heart, just as I carry the starlight, because, well, in the dark, we all need a star.
own problems. The spinal cord, which carries signals back and forth from the brain, runs through the spine. Therefore, keeping the individual bones of the spine – the vertebrae – properly aligned is critical to the smooth fl ow of those signals.
Misaligned vertebrae can impact nerves and cause ailments from headaches to back pain and more.
A spinal adjustment, one of the hallmarks of chi-ropractic treatment, is a procedure you should treat yourself to at the start of the New Year. Your chiro-practor can also help you come up with a regimen of diet and exercise that will help keep you fi ring on all cylinders.
While you’re at it, resolve to make appointments with your dentist, physician and any other health care professional you should be visiting regularly.
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4-H fun for the holidays
The Smoky Mountain 4-H Club recently spread some holiday cheer to folks in the community who are less able to be out and about. On Dec. 15, the group went caroling to several homes in Sharps Chapel. Another group caroled in the Luttrell area. It was a treat to hear the tender music of the 4-H’ers and volunteers.
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4-H: ■ Jan. 6: 4-H Honor Club Meeting at UT Extension (fi rst Tuesday each
month)
■ Jan. 8 & 22: 4-H Shooting Sports (second and fourth Thursdays of
the month)
■ Jan. 12: Smoky Mountain 4-H Club Meeting, 1 p.m. at Revival Vi-
sion Church (second Monday each month)
■ Jan. 14: 4-H Animal Lovers Club for 6-8 graders taught by Beth
Bergeron at UT Extension, 3-5 p.m. (second Wed each month)
■ Jan. 21: Tenn. 4-H State Hog Show in Murfreesboro
■ Jan. 24: Regional Horse Bowl & Hippology at UT Knoxville
■ Jan. 29: County Public Speaking Contest at Maynardville Elementary
Family & Community Programs: ■ Jan. 9: Senior Nutrition Program taught by Becca Hughes at Union
County Senior Center 10:30 a.m.
■ Jan. 24: Food Safety for Moms to Be by Becca Hughes at UC Health
Department
■ Jan. 28: Basic Healthy Cooking Class ($5) by Becca Hughes at UT
Extension
Other: ■ Jan. 20: National Wild Turkey Foundation board meeting at
Hardee’s, 7 p.m.
The FCE Silver Stitchers brought handmade pillows as Christmas gifts to the residents of Willow Ridge in Maynardville. Shown
here are Edith Kitts, Willow Ridge activities director Glenda Mills, Connie Buckner, Patsy McKenzie, Wanza Corum, Sue Seymour
and Gwen Johnson.
4-H carolers included Richard and Donna Kadron; Josh-
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Mary, Jim and Bill Morgan; Bethany Long; Debby Mor-
What’s new in Tennessee tourismThere are lots of new
things to see and do in Ten-nessee in 2015. Tennessee’s tourism industry is continu-ing to expand with grand openings, milestone anni-versaries and expansions throughout the state.
A few of the events in East Tennessee include:
■ Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event continues with “Re-construction Tennessee,” which will take place April 30-May 1 in Knoxville and surrounding historic sites. The event has been named an ABA Top 100 event for 2015.
■ Dollywood will cel-ebrate its 30th anniversary. Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort, a new 60-acre, 307-room resort property, is set
to open in the summer. ■ Expansions at the Is-
land in Pigeon Forge include the Margaritaville Restau-rant, the Margaritaville Island Hotel, Paula Deen’s Family Kitchen and the Rip-ken Baseball Experience for youth baseball tourna-ments.
■ The Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge will exhibit the only Bible saved from RMS Titanic. The only lifejacket that can be tied to an actual Titanic passenger, Madeleine Astor, will be on display in 2016.
■ The Birthplace of Country Music Museum is now open in Bristol. An af-fi liate of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum is dedicated to telling the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions.
■ The Chattanooga Choo Choo will complete an $8 million renovation and res-toration in the spring that includes a comedy club, 500-capacity music/enter-tainment venue, retail space and two new restaurants with outdoor patio seating.
■ Rocky Top Sports World Complex recently opened in Gatlinburg.
■ Seven Islands State Birding Park is now open in Kodak. The diverse natural landscape of aquatic and grassland habitats makes this a premier birding des-tination with more than 180 species of birds sighted. The park encompasses 416 acres along the French Broad Riv-er and features eight miles of natural trails, rolling hills and views of the Smoky
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