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By DEREK HODGESStaff Writer
PIGEON FORGE — Sevier County Humane Society volunteers are offering shoppers at Belz Outlet Mall the opportu-nity to save themselves the hassles of perturb-ing paper, tricky tape and unruly ribbon, while at the same time helping home-less and mistreated ani-mals this holiday season.
The group is operating a gift wrapping booth this year in the center of the Belz Outlet Mall in Pigeon Forge. The first day for the effort was Saturday, with future dates Dec. 19-24, and organizers say it was a success.
“We’re very pleased with how it’s gone,” Humane Society Board Chairwoman Sally Worden said. “These wonderful ladies are vol-unteering to help us raise money for the shelter’s operations. This is a very ingenious way to raise some dollars.”
Those “wonderful ladies” are Mary Gaut and Bonnie Ward, who came up with the idea of running the booth and do the actual
By DEREK HODGESStaff Writer
SEVIERVILLE — Local students take heart – weather forecasts for Sevier County suggest the area may have a colder- and wetter-than-normal winter. Whether that will equal out to more snow and, thus, more days out of school, remains to be seen.
The National Weather Service has issued its forecast for the three-month period starting today and running through the end of February. That outlook gives a 75 percent chance to the county seeing average or below average temperatures, while the shot is about even for the area getting some extra precipitation.
Broken out individually, there is a 41 percent chance local temperatures will be below the normal average of 38 degrees for the three-month period and a 34 percent chance the average will fall between 38 and 41 degrees. There is only a 25 percent chance the number will be above average.
This winter is the only time in the next year for which the National Weather Service offers such a high prob-
From Submitted Report
SEVIERVILLE — Because of an increasing supply of H1N1 vaccine, the Sevier County Health Department is able now to offer the vaccine to the general public with no restrictions on who can receive the shots.
Appointments will be accepted for Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at the Health Department. To make an appointment, call 453-1032.
The type of H1N1 flu vaccine available is the flu shot, and it will be pro-vided at no charge.
During October and November when the H1N1 vaccine supply was limit-ed, priority was placed on administering the vaccine to those in high-risk cat-
By DEREK HODGESStaff Writer
NATIONAL PARK — With the major route over the mountains and through the woods to North Carolina closed this holiday sea-son, it seems some folks have opted to take a scenic trip through Great Smoky Mountains National Park as they head east.
That’s caused some problems
and extensive delays, but park and Tennessee Department of Transportation officials say they’re doing their best to control the situation.
All lanes of Interstate 40 are closed just inside the North Carolina border because of a rock slide, and the official detour takes eastbound motorists up Interstate 81 and back down Interstate 26 to Interstate 40. However, facing an
extra 53 miles and about an hour longer travel time, it seems many drivers are looking at U.S. 441, known commonly as Newfound Gap Road, through the national park as a shortcut.
That certainly didn’t prove to be the case over the holiday weekend, though, as cars backed up all the way into Pigeon Forge. Park spokes-man Bob Miller said rangers were overwhelmed by the traffic.
“We were absolutely slammed,” Miller said. “Fortunately, there were no serious incidents, but traffic was really heavy. Obviously some of that is related to the detour. We’re seeing cars coming through the park towing U-haul trailers. People who are moving don’t generally take the scenic route. There’s not much we can
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Northview/Kodak firefighters and Sevier County Rescue Squad members work to extricate the female driver of a Chevy Avalanche involved in a roll-over accident on Highway 139 on Monday afternoon. Rescuers had to remove the doors and roof to free the woman, who was trapped on the driver side floorboard. The woman’s injuries did not appear to be life-threat-ening, and she was transported by ambulance. Lifestar was not available to fly due to weather conditions.
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Predictions are for a colder and wetter winter than last year.
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Donations come in as Santa Fund under wayThe Santa Fund, a drive to ensure
a happy and fulfilling Christmas season for both seniors and chil-dren, has kicked off.
The drive will benefit senior citizens who signed up through Douglas Cherokee Economic Authority, and children who reg-istered through the Boys & Girls Club of the Smoky Mountains.
The drive is coordinated by Jana Thomasson, publisher of The Mountain Press.
D o n a t i o n s received so far:
■ $5,000: Citizens National Bank
■ $25: In mem-ory of Leah Avril by Jeff Saas
Contributions can be made by:
■ Mail to The Mountain Press, P.O. Box 4810, Sevierville 37864
■ In person at our offices,
Riverbend Drive across from TRW in Sevierville, weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
All contributions will be acknowledged in The Mountain Press, unless the donor wishes to remain anonymous. Donations also can be made in memory or honor of other people.
The deadline for donations is Dec. 18. Call 428-0756, ext. 217, with questions.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Using search dogs and going door to door, hundreds of police intensified the hunt Monday for the man wanted in the coffeehouse killings of four officers after a SWAT team came up empty-handed in a raid on a house where he was thought to be holed up.
The realization that the suspect had not been cornered after all fur-ther rattled people in the Seattle area, many of them unnerved by the thought of a mentally unstable kill-er in their midst.
Police canvassed the neighborhood around the Seattle house and fanned out across the city, look-ing for any sign of Maurice Clemmons, 37. Authorities
posted a $125,000 reward for information leading to his arrest in the Sunday morning shooting ram-page.
The manhunt came as authorities in two states took heat for the fact that Clemmons was allowed to walk the streets despite a teenage crime spree in Arkansas that landed him a 95-year prison sentence. He was released in 2000 after then-Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence.
“This guy should have never been on the street,” said Brian D. Wurts, pres-ident of the police union in Lakewood, where all four slain officers worked. “Our elected officials need to find out why these peo-
ple are out.”Police said they are
not sure what prompted Clemmons to assassinate the officers as they worked on their laptop computers at the beginning of their shifts. He was described as increasingly erratic in the past few months and had been arrested recently on charges of assaulting a police officer.
Sheriff’s spokes-man Ed Troyer told the Tacoma News-Tribune that Clemmons “made comments the night before to people that he was going to shoot police and watch the news.”
Authorities said the gunman singled out the officers and spared employees and other
customers at the coffee shop in a suburb about 35 miles south of Seattle. He then fled, but not before he was apparently shot in the torso by one of the dying officers.
Police later learned he may have been holed up at the house in Seattle. After an all-night siege in which they tried to get him out using loudspeakers, explo-
sions and a robot sent into the house, a SWAT team stormed the place and dis-covered he was not there. Police would not say who lived at the house or whether it was someone Clemmons knew.
It was not clear whether he slipped past police, left before they arrived, or was never in the house at all, but Seattle police spokes-
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Food and gifts are being sought by Christmas Baskets for Christ, a non-profit ministry serving local families.
Christmas Baskets for Christlooks for food, gifts donations
Submitted reports
Christmas Baskets for Christ is a nonprofit minis-try providing food and gifts each Christmas to Sevier County families.
All of the proceeds collected will go to serve local families.
Volunteers will distribute collection boxes to all Tennessee State Bank branches in Sevier County. All food and gift donations received will be distributed to families whose names have been received from local schools and churches.
An account has been set up at all Tennessee State Bank locations for donations.
For more information call 428-9223. All collection boxes will be picked up on Dec. 18.
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Two Sevierville men have been charged with the bur-glary of a rental cabin.
Sheriff Ron Seals said the cabin, l o c a t e d on Little B r a n c h Road in the P i t t m a n C e n t e r c o m m u -nity, was burglarized S u n d a y night. Flat screen TVs with GPS t r a c k i n g d e v i c e s were sto-len.
The sher-iff’s office responded to a location in Murrell Meadows Apartments off Newport Highway and located the TVs in a car in the parking lot of the apartments.
David Wells, 21, of 750 Indian Ridge Way, and Chad J. Parker, 21, of 160 Murrell Meadows Drive, both Sevierville adressess, were charged with aggra-vated burglary in connec-tion with the incident.
Wells had been released from jail 10 days ear-lier after serving time on weapon charges and other charges. Wells and Parker both posted $50,000 bond and were released. A Jan. 6 hear-ing date has been set in General Sessions Court.
Anyone with information on the pair is asked to call the Criminal Investigation Division at 428-1899.
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The type of flour used in Barbara Stevens Weeks’ Chicken Pie was listed incorrectly in the 2009 issue of Reader Recipes. The correct recipe is as follows.
Chicken PieBarbara Stevens Weeks, Sevierville
3 c. shredded chicken (rotisserie, any kind)2 c. chicken broth1 (10 oz.) can condensed cream of chick-en soup1 c. self-rising flour (corrected)1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper
1 c. buttermilk, well shaken1/2 c. unsalted butter, melted
Heat oven to 425°. In a 2-quart casse-role sprayed with cooking spray, evenly spread out chicken. In a medium sauce-pan, whisk together the broth and soup. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Pour over chicken (do not stir). In a medium bowl, combine flour and pepper; stir in buttermilk and butter. Pour over chicken (do not stir). Smooth top.
Bake pie uncovered until brown and bubbly, about 45 minutes.
Options: Add frozen peas or use left-over turkey.
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ELF Mini Golf Tournament scheduled for Dec. 8From Submitted Reports
SEVIERVILLE — The second annual ELF Mini Golf Tournament is set for Dec. 8 at Ripley’s Old MacDonald’s Mini Golf in Sevierville.
The event, which is a joint project of the Sevierville and Gatlinburg Chambers of Commerce, will raise
funds to be used for dual enroll-ment scholarships at high schools in Sevier County. A small por-tion of the proceeds will also be used as an “emergency fund” that can cover anything from textbooks lost in a house fire to scholarship application fees and club dues for good students in need of monetary assistance.
The ELF Mini Golf Tournament
offers both businesses and school groups the opportunity to partici-pate with two different tee times. Businesses can enter a team of four for only $200 and have a 10 a.m. tee time. Students and teach-ers can form teams of four for $100 and participate during the 4 p.m. tee time.
All teams are encouraged to dress for the holidays in fun
costumes. Prizes will be awarded for best
dressed team, best individual score, best team score and highest team score. Refreshments will be provided during the event.
To enter a team, call the Gatlinburg Chamber at 436-4178. Hole sponsorships and combina-tion sponsorship/team entry pack-ages are still available.
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Editor’s Note: The com-munity calendar is printed as space permits. Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered. They are listed by date. To place an item phone 428-0748, ext. 214, or e-mail to [email protected]. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.
Tuesday, Dec. 1Blood Drives
Medic blood drives 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gatlinburg-Pittman High School; and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in library of Pigeon Forge High School.
SCHS chili supperChili supper at Sevier
County High School cafete-ria starting at 5 p.m. and during basketball games. $5, includes dessert and drink. All proceeds go to basketball program.
Alzheimer’s Support Alzheimer’s Support
group meets 6-7 p.m. at MountainBrook Village, 700 Markhill Drive, Sevierville. 428-2445.
GatekeepersGatekeepers men’s Bible
study, 6:30 p.m. 1328 Old Newport Highway, Sevierville. 908-0591.
Pool ClosingSevierville Community
Center Pool to close at 3:30 p.m. for swim meet.
NARFENational Association
Retired Federal Employees meets at 6 p.m., Holiday Inn Pigeon Forge. 453-4174.
Optimist ClubNorthview Optimist Club
meets 7 p.m.. Speaker Russ Partington, scoutmas-ter of Troop 582.
Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Gum
Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.
n 10-2 and 4-7, First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.
Kindness CountsKindness counts meets 7
p.m. at Sevierville IHOP. April Stone, 654-2684.
Toys For TotsToys for Tots sign-ups 1-5
p.m. Belz Mall (old KB Toy Store). Picture ID, proof of residency, birth certificate or social security card for each child. 429-9002 or e-mail [email protected]
Bite of Sevier CountyAnnual Bite of Sevier
County and auction to benefit Toys for Tots. 5:30-9 p.m. First United Methodist Sevierville.
Wednesday, Dec. 2Sevierville Story Time
Preschool story time
10:30 a.m., Sevier County Main Library. 453-3532.
Thursday, Dec. 3Democrats
Sevier County Democrats meet 7 p.m., third floor of courthouse. Visit sevi-erdemocrats.com or call 617-2145.
Toys For TotsToys for Tots sign-ups 5-9
p.m. Belz Mall (old KB Toy Store). Picture ID, proof of residency, birth certificate or social security card for each child. 429-9002 or e-mail [email protected]
Hot Meals Smoky Mountain Area
Rescue Ministries pro-vides hot meals 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Sevierville.
TOPSTOPS weight loss chap-
ter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville. 755-9517 or 429-3150.
Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-
en’s Bible study:n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon
Forgen 2 p.m. Blue Mountain
Mist B&B, Pullen Road, Sevierville
n 6:30 p.m. Seymour UMC, Chapman Highway, back entrance
n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, Conference Room, Sevierville
Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Gum
Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.
n 10-2 and 4-7, First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.
Right To LifeRight to Life meets at
6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1610 Pullen Road, Sevierville. Potluck din-ner to follow. 908-1968 or 908-2689. Directions, 809-0713.
Baseball BoostersSevier County High
Baseball Boosters pan-cake supper 5-7 p.m. at Flapjack’s in Sevierville. Adults $5, children 10 and under, $3.50. Tickets avail-able at door or by calling 776-3728.
Miracle CrusadeTrinity Full Gospel Church
on Thomas Cross Road hosts “A Miracle Crusade” at 7 p.m. through Saturday featuring music and the Rev. Robert Shaffer, Thursday; the Rev. Barbra Lay, Friday; Bishop Curtis Manning, Saturday. 453-8889.
Friday, Dec. 4Angel Food
Angel Food orders:n 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Gum
Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd.,
Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.n 10-2 and 4-7, First
Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.
n 5 to 6 p.m., Glades Lebanon Baptist Church, 820 E. Highlands Drive, Gatlinburg. 659-3443
n 3 to 6 p.m. River Of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796.
JOY Club0
Kodak Story TimePreschool story time 11
a.m. at Kodak Library. 933-0078.
Craft FairHoliday Craft Fair
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday, MountainBrook Village, 700 Markhill Drive, Sevierville.
Cancer Support Group
Smoky Mountain Cancer Support Group annual Christmas luncheon, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Damon’s. 428-5834 or 654-9280.
Turkey ShootTurkey Shoot 2 p.m.,
weather permitting, behind Catons Chapel Fire Department, 3109 Pittman Center Road.
Editor’s Note: The follow-ing information was taken from the intake reports at the Sevier County Jail. All people listed within this report are presumed inno-cent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
◆ Tina Marie Closson, 48, of 2567 Jessie Road, Sevierville, was charged Nov, 29 with violation of probation and was being held.
◆ Andrew John Compton, 22, of Knoxville was chaged Nov. 28 with theft and was releasedon bond.
◆ Michael W. Everidge, 28, of Covington, Ky., was charged Nov. 29 with DUI and traffic violations and was released on $2,500 bond.
◆ Alex Perez Gutierrez, 24, of 3029 Jess Wilson Road No. 1, Pigeon Forge, was charged Nov. 29 with driv-ing on a suspended license, speeding and violation of the financial responsibility law and was released on bond.
◆ Katy Hernandez, 23, of 466 Burden Hill Road, Sevierville, was charged Nov. 29 with speeding, driv-ing without a license and violation of the financial responsbility law and was released.
◆ Nelson Omar Herrera-Diaz, 21, of 830 Golden Circle Drive, Pigeon Forge, was charged Nov. 30 with DUI and driving without a license and was being held.
◆ Sidney Gene Huskey, 47, of 453 Bob Hollow Road, Sevierville, was arrested
Nov. 29 on a criminal sum-mons for violation of proba-tion and was released.
◆ Anthony D. Jenkins, 21, of 4053 Camp Hollow Road, Sevierville, was arrested Nov. 28 for violation of pro-bation, second offense, and was being held.
◆ Eric Shane Jenkins, 37, of Dandridge was charged Nov. 27 with DUI and was released.
◆ Jonathan Antwuan Lindsey, 26, of 390 E. Parkway No. 109, Gatlinburg, was charged Nov. 27 with domestic violence assault and was being held.
◆ Lindsay Alan Martin, 31, of Knoxville was charged Nov. 28 with sale of oxycodone and possession/sale/delivery of marijuana and was being held on $60,000 bond.
◆ Michael Anthony O’Conner, 33, of 211 River
Bottom Drive, Sevierville, was arrested Nov. 29 for vio-lation of probation and was being held.
◆ Brandy Denise Ogle, 23, of 770 Driftwood Circle, Sevierville, was arrested Nov. 29 on a capias mis-demeanor charge and was being held.
◆ Ruben Guerrero Olguin, 50, of 651 Hawk Hollow Road, Sevierville, was charged Nov. 29 with domes-tic violence assault and was being held.
◆ Chad Jeremy Parker, 21, of 160 Murrel Meadows Drive No. 16, Sevierville, was charged Nov. 30 with aggra-vated burglary and child abuse/neglect and was released on $15,000 bond.
◆ Satish Narsinh Patel, 46, of 423 Forks of the River, Sevierville, was charged Nov. 27 with DUI and was released.
◆ Lela Gail Baker Shultz, 54, of 179 Ingle Hollow Road, Sevierville, was charged Nov. 30 with domestic violence assault and was being held.
◆ David Edward Wells, 21, of 750 Indian Ridge Way, Sevierville, was charged Nov. 30 with aggravated burglary and was released on $50,000 bond.
◆ Ismael M. Zorita, 34, of 3105 Clintwood Way No. 42, Pigeon Forge, was charged Nov. 28 with speeding, driving without a license and violation of the financial responsibility law and was released on bond.
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SEVIERVILLE — Wel l ington Place Sevierville, a senior liv-ing, assisted living and Alzheimer’s/dementia facility, will recognize its new executive director, Evelyn Haney, and sales and marketing manager, Sherry Woten, by hosting a public chocolate social from 3-5 p.m. Thursday.
In addition to meeting new staff members, visi-tors will also be able to take a tour of the facil-ity.
In addition to vari-ous chocolate treats and beverages, there will be entertainment by per-formers from The Miracle Theatre.
Wellington Place Sevierville is located at 1020 Middle Creek Road.
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w r a p p i n g . G a u t explained the two con-ceived the effort as they themselves pondered the wrapping task ahead of them as they lugged their Christmas finds through the mall one day.
“I guess we just came in shopping and said, ‘They need to have a gift wrapping booth here,’” Gaut said.
“They don’t even have a store that sells wrap-ping paper anymore,” Ward agreed.
So, the women, who do things through-out the year to support charities assisting ani-mals and the elderly, approached the Humane Society about starting up a booth. That idea became a gift wrapping operation set up next to Santa Claus’ station in
the mall, offering every-thing from the paper to the bows for just a small contribution.
“They’re asking for a $2 donation, but peo-ple are welcome to give more,” Worden said.
All the money contrib-uted will help keep the society’s animal shelter on Gnatty Branch Road operating and doing so safely. Though that seems like a given, it hasn’t always been the case and to some extent isn’t even now.
With the demands of providing care for the huge number of animals the group is caring for every day, there hasn’t been much money left over for building main-tenance. That has led to some pretty serious problems at the shelter that compromise the safety and well-being of the staff there and the animals.
“We’ve got some real
issues,” Worden said. “We’ve got plumbing issues, electrical issues, water leaks. We’re not so worried about the appearance, but we do need it to be functional and safe.”
Fortunately, the soci-ety was recently given some sizable contribu-tions by the folks at Fee-Hedrick Family Entertainment and that money is being used to do some work on the facility. Additionally, efforts such as the one Gaut and Ward are run-ning will go a long way to making sure animals in need in Sevier County can get help, Worden said.
The group has its annu-al Champagne Auction coming up Saturday at the Sevierville Civic Center. Tickets are avail-able for $5 by calling the shelter at 453-7000 and can also be purchased at the door.
do about it because we don’t have the resources to put extra people out there.”
During a holiday week-end, Newfound Gap Road is already pretty crowded as vacationers and locals alike make their way into the park. However, this past weekend’s volume was even greater than for a normal Thanksgiving and that has park officials concerned about what the coming months might hold.
“One thing that is going to have to happen is that we’re going to have to sort of bone up on our com-munications,” Miller said. “We have to close the road fairly often in the winter because of snow. The last time we had a situation like this in 1997 — it was between July 4 and Labor Day— so we didn’t have to worry about that.”
Though Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and park officials are work-ing to discourage folks using the winding, crowd-ed mountain road, folks are still finding it thanks to GPS devices and maps that make it appear to be a shortcut, Miller said. Additionally, the North Carolina Department of Transportation Web site actually shows the route on its map of the Interstate 40 detours, though it shows the Interstate 81/Interstate 26 connection as the official detour.
With winter coming on, Miller and TDOT spokes-man Travis Brickey said the two agencies may try to find a way to keep motor-ists posted on the status of Newfound Gap Road.
“We can certainly work with the park service if they need our assistance,” Brickey said. “No one has contacted us about that yet, but we have a really good working relationship with them.”
TDOT has put up light-ed message boards let-ting eastbound motorists know about the closure and directing them to take Interstate 81, Brickey said. Beyond that, there isn’t much the agency can do to discourage the use of Newfound Gap Road as a detour.
Though both Miller and Brickey contemplated using those same boards
to alert folks to conditions through the park, it seems that won’t be possible.
“They only have a cer-tain amount of space they can use for those messag-es, so adding another line might not even be pos-sible,” Miller said. “They can control those remote-ly, but they don’t always have staff there and we may need to update it in the middle of the night or something. It just doesn’t seem feasible.”
For now, the best advice Brickey can offer is that folks don’t take Newfound Gap Road, which is already off-limits to commercial traffic, as a detour.
“It just stands to reason that folks would be looking for an alternate route than going through the detour, but that really is the best way to go,” Brickey said.
Still, knowing that some will likely ignore that advice, Miller said motor-ists can call the park’s road conditions hotline at 436-1200 to get the latest conditions on the moun-tain.
Beyond just causing headaches for motorists trying for a shortcut who get to the park bound-ary and find Newfound Gap Road gated-off, the Interstate 40 closure is also forcing park officials to revamp their advice for alternate routes when they close the road.
“Our usual snow route is I-40, so we’re going to have to figure out other routes to send people,” Miller said. “Some of them probably aren’t going to be pretty. I mean, the detour route is I-26 and that’s a long way around.”
North Carolina trans-portation officials haven’t set an official timeline for the effort of removing the tons of rock that poured onto the interstate in mid-October, though estimates have suggested two lanes could be open within three months.
Workers started last week on work to stabi-lize the hillside above the slide, blasting out part of that area on Thanksgiving. Though it seems contradictory, the contractors must actually create further slides by blowing up portions of the moun-tain to ensure the area is secure and won’t soon slide again.
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Rebecca Ann Mahon Rebecca Ann Mahon, 57, of Sevierville, died Tuesday, Nov. 24,
2009. Survivors: husband, Gary Williams; daughters and sons-in-law,
Elizabeth Thomas, Jessica Tweed and husband Steven; two grand-children; and special friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Atchley Funeral Home, 118 East Main Street, Sevierville, Tennessee, 37862.
Family and friends will meet 1 p.m. Wednesday at Eden Cemetery for graveside service and interment.
Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.
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Mary Gaut, left, and Bonnie Ward perform an original wrap on a pres-ent from Belz Outlet Mall as part of a fundraiser effort for the Sevier County Humane Society. The pair will continue their work Dec. 19-24.
egories. There are no restrictions now on who can get the shot.
The Sevier County Health Department will hold more H1N1 clinics in the weeks to come. Additional infor-mation is on the Tennessee Department of Health Web site at http://health.state.tn.us/H1N1.htm.
For more information about the H1N1 or seasonal flu vaccines, call the Health Department at 453-1032 or contact the Tennessee Flu Information Line at 877-252-3432. Information is also available at www.tn.gov/health or www.flu.gov.
NASHVILLE (AP) — Market Center Management Co. on Monday announced plans to build and operate a $250 million Nashville Medical Trade Center on the site of the city’s existing convention center that offi-cials say could create 2,700 jobs.
The company plans to build a 12-story structure on top of the largely underground facility that would become available if the Metro Council approves the construction of a new $585 million conven-tion center just blocks away. A vote is expected in the com-ing weeks.
Dallas-based Market Center Management is a sub-sidiary of real estate invest-ment firm Crow Holdings.
$250M medical mart to be built in Nashville
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and con-gressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans have sworn to block.
Debate is expected to last for weeks over the leg-islation, which includes a first-time requirement for most Americans to carry insurance and a mandate for insurers to cover any paying customer regard-less of medical history or condition.
“We must avoid the temptation to drown in dis-tractions and distortions,” Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid said in the first moments of the first speech, a jab at Republicans that was reciprocated minutes later.
“Well, I don’t know what’s more preposterous: say-ing that this plan ’saves Medicare’ or thinking that people will actually believe you,” Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said of Reid’s oft-made statement.
At a cost of nearly $1 trillion, the legislation is designed to extend health care to millions of American who lack it, abolish insur-ance industry practices such as denying coverage based on pre-existing con-ditions and cut back on the rise of health care spending overall.
Despite its huge price tag, the Congressional Budget
Office has estimated the 2,074-page bill would reduce federal deficits by $130 bil-lion over the next decade. In all, CBO said 31 million uninsured individuals would receive insurance if the bill were enacted, many of them assisted by federal subsidies. As much as 94 percent of the eligible population would
wind up covered. The leg-islation would be paid for through a combination of cuts in projected Medicare payments to hospitals and other providers, a payroll tax on the wealthy and taxes on drug makers, medical device manufacturers, owners of high-cost insurance and oth-ers.
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ability for colder-than-normal temperatures. That forecast is the result of expectations the Pacific Ocean phenomenon of El Niño will have an impact on the area this year.
El Niño is an occurrence of warmer-than-normal water temperatures in the northern Pacific Ocean caused by shifting tidal pat-terns. Though it impacts weather patterns across the U.S. throughout the year, its greatest effects are often felt during the winter months.
It often results in wet-ter- and cooler-than-nor-mal conditions for the American Southeast, as it has this year. It also brings warmer temperatures for the west, as well as lower-than-normal precipitation to the northwest.
Though a mild El Niño year, the area has cer-
tainly seen some of the effects of the phenomenon. National Weather Service H y d r o m e t e o r o l o g i c a l Technician Greg Cole said East Tennessee has had 54.12 inches of rain so far this year. That’s more than 10 inches above the normal of 43.73 and more than 15 above where the total stood at this point last year.
“We’ve definitely seen the rain be above normal so far,” Cole said.
Unfortunately, the fed-eral agency’s Morristown office doesn’t keep a run-ning yearly indicator of
how far off normal tem-peratures the area have been for 2009. However, preliminary data on the weather service’s Web site does suggest that the local mercury has been sitting below normal, includ-ing topping the 90-degree mark fewer times than in an average year.
The outlook for the com-ing days seems to bear out the forecast for cooler temperatures and higher precipitation. The National Weather Service data sug-gests the mercury will hover around the mid-50s
for highs and mid-30s for lows until Thursday, when a cold front is expected to move through. Rain is in the forecast through Friday, with even a slight chance for snow Thursday night into Friday as the temperature dips to 27 degrees.
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Saturday Dec. 5th, 2009at the Sevierville Civic Center
Preview at 1:00p.m. andAuction at 2:00p.m.
Sevier County Humane Society
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Join us for an afternoon of food & fun!
Tickets are a $5.00 donation & availableby calling the shelter 453-7000and will be available at the door.
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Annual Ruby Fox Bite of Sevier County and Auction Benefiting
Toys for Tots
The event will be held Dec 1 at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Sevierville from 5:30 till 9:00. Come sample some of the areas great restaurants and bid on items donated by area businesses. All proceeds go to benefit Toys for Tots. Our restaurant sponsors include:
Calhoun’sFuddruckers
Johnny Carino’s Blue Moose
KinkakuQuaker Steak & Lube
Mayfield’sApplebeesMcClarensChic-fil-a
Texas RoadhouseDamons
Presented by the Marine Corps League Det 1206.
HELP BRING A SMILE TO A CHILD THIS CHRISTMAS
$25.00per ticket
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Obama plan: 30,000-35,000 more troopsWASHINGTON (AP) —
After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expan-sion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines who will be in place by Christmas.
Obama has said that he prefers “not to hand off anything to the next pres-ident” and that his strat-egy will “put us on a path toward ending the war.” But he doesn’t plan to give any more exact timetable
than that Tuesday night.The president will end
his 92-day review of the war with a nation-ally broadcast address in which he will lay out his revamped strategy from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He spent part of Monday briefing foreign allies in a series of private meetings and phone calls.
Before Obama’s call to Britain’s Gordon Brown, the prime minister announced that 500 more U.K. troops would arrive in southern Afghanistan next month — making a British total of about 10,000 in the coun-try. And French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose
nation has more than 3,000 in Afghanistan, said French troops would stay “as long as necessary” to stabilize the country.
Obama’s war escalation includes sending 30,000 to 35,000 more American forces into Afghanistan in a graduated deployment over the next year, on top of the 71,000 already there. There also will be a fresh focus on training Afghan forces to take over the fight and allow the Americans to leave.
He also will deliver a deeper explanation of why he believes the U.S. must continue to fight more than eight years after the war was started follow-ing the Sept. 11 attacks by
al-Qaida terrorists based in Afghanistan. He will emphasize that Afghan security forces need more time, more schooling and more U.S. combat backup to be up to the job on their own, and he will make tougher demands on the governments of Pakistan as well as Afghanistan.
“This is not an open-end-ed commitment,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. “We are there to partner with the Afghans, to train the Afghan national security forces, the army and the police so that they can provide security for their country and wage a battle against an unpopular insurgency.”
Senate opens emotional partisan health debate
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■ Chelsea ClintonNEW YORK (AP) —
Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill C l i n t o n a n d Secretary of State H i l l a r y R o d h a m C l i n t o n , h a s b e c o m e engaged to her long-time boy-friend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.
The couple sent an e-mail to friends Friday announcing the news. They said they were looking at a possible wedding next summer. Matt McKenna, a spokesman for the for-mer president, confirmed the engagement Monday.
Mezvinsky is a son of former Pennsylvania Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky.
“I’ve got a real problem about expanding this war where the rest of the world is sitting around and saying, ‘Isn’t it a nice thing that
the taxpayers of the United States and the U.S. military are doing the work that the rest of the
world should be doing?’” — Sen. bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, in a
statement after the leading Senate Democrat on military matters said that President barack obama’s anticipated
plan for significantly expanding u.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how those reinforcements will
help increase the size of the Afghan security forces.
“This epitomizes the fundamental problem that we face with Iran. We have stated over and
again that we recognize Iran’s right to a civil-ian nuclear program, but they must restore international confidence in their intentions. Instead of engaging with us Iran chooses to
provoke and dissemble.” — british Foreign Secretary David miliband in a state-ment after iran approved plans to build 10 industrial
scale uranium enrichment facilities.
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Yule log eventset for Saturday
An annual yule log burning will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Town Hall.
This free event offers information about and a demonstration of the mountain tradition of yule log burning.
There will be food, caroling and Santa Claus.
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Christ in Smokieshas free admission
Christ in the Smokies will offer free admission during November and December.
Local residents are asked to bring non-perishable food items or a near new coat for the Sevier County Food Ministries.
Christ in the Smokies is located on River Road and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For information call 436-5155 or visit www.christinthesmokies.com.
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Cades Cove roadwork scheduled
The 11-mile Cades Cove Loop Road will be closed to all vehicu-lar traffic today and partially closed on Wednesday.
Forestry technicians will treat hemlock woolly adelgid-infested hemlock trees with oil sprayed from large truck-mounted units.
To check the status of the road closure, visi-tors can call 436-1200.
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Landry to belunch speaker
The Gatlinburg Garden Club will have its annual Christmas luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Mills Auditorium.
Bill Landry, former host and co-producer of “The Heartland Series,” will be the speaker.
Music will feature Norma Millener at the piano.
The club’s Landscape Design Excellence Award, given each year to a business, will be presented.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by calling 436-7036.
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Clingmans DomeRoad to be closed
Clingmans Dome Road will be closing for the season today, along with other selected facilities as the park transitions to its annual winter operating sched-ule.
When the Clingmans Dome Road opens next spring, visitors will notice a several changes and improvements to the road, parking area and restrooms.
For additional infor-mation visit www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvis-it/temproadclose.htm.
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Holiday programplanned at college
Walters State Community College presents “Welcome to the Holidays,” at 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Friday in the Conner-Short building. This concert features a blend of contemporary music, including Elvis’ version of “Frosty the Snowman” and Tina Turner’s take on “Jingle Bells.
Tickets are $10. Reservations may be made by contacting Jeri Haun at 774-5817.
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2009. There are 30 days left in the year.
■ Locally a year ago:He just graduated his
training and assumed his first post, but Justin Caldwell has already dis-patched bell-ringing volun-teers, sent angels out into the county and provided Thanksgiving food to hun-dreds. He’s done all that as capably as an Army lieuten-ant, a Salvation Army lieu-tenant, that is. The recent-ly-commissioned Caldwell is the new commander of the non-profit organiza-tion’s Sevierville Corps.
■ today’s highlight:On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa
Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a yearlong boycott of the buses by blacks.
■ on this date:In 1824, the presiden-
tial election was turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.)
■ ten years ago: President Bill Clinton
addressed a World Trade Organization confer-ence in Seattle, where he defended his administra-tion’s policies in the face of sometimes violent street demonstrations. An inter-national team of scientists announced it had mapped virtually an entire human chromosome.
■ Five years ago: Tom Brokaw signed off
for the last time as principal anchor of the “NBC Nightly News”; he was succeeded by Brian Williams.
■ thought for today: “An educated man should
know everything about something, and something about everything.” — Dame C.V. Wedgwood, English historian (1910-1997).
NASHVILLE (AP) — A federal judge refused Monday to stop the execu-tion of a man sentenced for a triple murder during a Nashville robbery.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Echols heard arguments in the case of 53-year-old Cecil C. Johnson Jr., who was sentenced to death in 1981 and is set to be executed by lethal injec-tion early Wednesday.
Echols wrote in a ruling later that he lacks jurisdic-tion to halt the execution.
Johnson’s attorneys argued that evidence was
withheld in the case and that the amount of time he’s spent on death row waiting for his case to be reviewed has amounted to “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Lead attorney Jim Thomas said “feelings of uncertainty” have affected Johnson psychologically.
But prosecutor Jennifer Smith said it was “a last minute tactic.”
“I’m sure every inmate (on death row) ... is trau-matized by that particular state,” Smith said.
Echols acknowledged that Johnson’s case has
been in the judicial system a long time and that such cases have a tendency to undermine the confidence of the public in the courts.
“I have not seen one this long,” the judge said from the bench. “But when someone’s life is at stake, you don’t want to give up hope.”
In his ruling, Echols ordered filings in the case transferred to 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
Johnson is accused of walking into Bob Bell’s Nashville convenience store
July 5, 1980, near closing time and fatally shooting the shop owner’s son, Bobby Bell, and two men sitting in a taxi — Charles House, 35, and James Moore, 41, the driver. The elder Bell and another man in the market were wounded.
Johnson, who was a kitchen worker at Vanderbilt Hospital, was after two days when his father turned him in.
Johnson was con-victed six months later, with the elder Bell iden-tifying Johnson during the trial.
Judge refuses to stop Johnson execution
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7 Opinion Tues.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about thankfulness. Many people do not know this about me, but I used to be a libertar-ian.
Like many teenagers, I was converted to a form of libertarianism by Ayn Rand. I was saved from that fate, not by God (that happened, but much later) but by a curious thing: gratitude.
I remember the exact moment I left libertarianism behind me: I was standing on the floor of the Davenport com-mon room at Yale College engag-ing in a Party of the Right debate -- about a topic I’ve forgotten. And I sud-denly realized what I really wanted to proclaim: Freedom may well be a right, but the most important thing about free-dom is that it is a good.
What’s the difference? Rights are what you are owed. Goods have to be made. Freedom is a gift. We didn’t make it by ourselves for ourselves. We have to be grateful for it.
We owe the simple debt of thankful-ness to those who came before -- who suffered, celebrated, fought and died to create the society we now enjoy. That’s history. And we owe it to those who cre-ated our freedom to pass on the gift.
That is patriotism: the debt that we the living owe to the honored dead, which we can pay only by caring for future gen-erations yet unborn.
In 1863, a magazine editor wrote to President Lincoln urging that he make Thanksgiving a “National and fixed Union Festival.” Thanksgiving, originally a New England custom, “now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution.”
And so President Lincoln proclaimed, “The year that is drawing toward its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, oth-ers have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they can-not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.”
In the midst of the ravages of the Civil War, a war “of unequaled magnitude and severity,” President Lincoln paused to notice that “peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been main-tained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of mili-tary conflict.”
How much worse it could have been! “No human counsel hath devised nor
hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while deal-ing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”
President Lincoln then urged Americans in every state, and those in foreign lands, and even those on the high seas “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
And so this week we eat turkey and stuffing and watch football with our families.
But President Lincoln urged more from us: Take care for the orphans, the widows, the mourners and all the victims of war, “with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” And he asked us all to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquil-lity and Union.”
The ultimate in gratitude is gratitude for the mystery of existence itself, for this whole world we did not make, and for the miracle that is our own existence, unasked for, unnecessary, glorious and easy to overlook in our travails and dis-appointment and ennui and anger and ceaseless strivings.
So this turkey day, I hope you noticed your blessings, did penance for your sins in good works to others, and were grate-ful to God for all the good that you enjoy.
— Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, is known for her conservative social policy analysis of social trends and conditions.
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establish-ment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacably to assemble and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.”—united States constitution, amendment one
Maybe tax on war would keep usout of unjust military actionsEditor:
It would be a unique idea for the govern-ment to pay for anything. It is refreshing to hear that someone has the nerve politically to suggest we raise taxes to pay for something.
The following paragraph is copied from an article on the Internet:
“House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey opposes any increase in the 68,000-member U.S. force in Afghanistan. But now that a surge appears inevitable, he and some other top Democrats are demand-ing a new tax to cover the expense of the war. Various estimates put the annual cost at $500,000 to $1 million per soldier. ‘If we don’t pay for it, the cost of the Afghan war will wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy,’ the Wisconsin Democrat told ABC News. Obey, who came into office in 1969, said that’s what happened during the Vietnam War. If the war is to be fought, ‘it’s only fair that everyone share the burden,’
said a joint statement from Obey, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha.”
We should have been paying for things when the debt began to grow during Reagan’s administration and continued to grow during the two Bush administrations. We would not have a $12 trillion national debt, resulting interest obligations, and we would be in a stronger position. That was the era of tax cuts with increased spending. We are still in it — it gets folks elected.
It takes taxes to pay and the people would object about taxes early on rather than after the fact. Likely, we would not be over-spend-ing and entering these wars if taxes were raised immediately.
I am not condemning or condoning the war efforts, as I do not know enough about the situation to say whether we should be there. We should not be there without more support from the rest of the world.
However, there is an argument for stop-ping those plotting against us and doing it on
their own turf. Maybe even an argument for stopping fanatical governments as resulted in WW2. We tried to stay out of that until almost too late.
I hope President Obama makes the correct decision about Iraq and Afghanistan. At least he seems to be analyzing the situation and accepting input from others rather than hav-ing a preconceived agenda as I suspect was the case when Iraq started under Bush.
I have enough hindsight to see correct decisions are not always made. Vietnam was a waste of time, effort, money and lives. We lost, left, and our world did not end. I can also see that the rest of the world (our allies) do not seem concerned about terrorism, based on the amount of support they provide to fight it or fight the development of weapons of mass destruction.
I believe that was the reason given for the Iraq Invasion.
I doubt we can afford to continue this war effort forever. We are broke now.
Paul MedleySevierville
The Constitution doesn’t specifically mention a right to privacy. It’s prob-ably a good thing. Had the framers of that document started listing what was private and what was not, we’d have been in legal entanglements for over 200 years.
We all claim such a right and want our privacy, but always on our terms. That’s doable, unless you are a public figure such as Tiger Woods.
Next to Muhammad Ali, Woods may be the most recognizable athlete in the world. He’s certainly the richest. And he’s generally a good person, who gives a lot to charity and behaves the way you’d want a person of his fame and following to have.
Until lately, that is. Woods is living in a fantasy world if
he thinks he can demand and receive privacy after his latest escapade. He is quick to denounce rumors and report-ing about what might have happened
when he had his car accident outside his Florida home Saturday morning, but to say nothing about what actually happened and then insist on keeping the matter private and in the family is wishful thinking. A man as smart and savvy as Woods knows that cannot be achieved.
There are simply too many unan-swered questions about what hap-pened and what caused it. Coupled with reports he has a girlfriend on the side only fuels the frenzy over the whole thing and the public’s desire for the truth and lots of details. His refusal to meet with police to give an account-ing — he is within his right to do that — only keeps the story alive and makes people think Woods has something to hide.
He probably does. It seems unlikely he committed a crime, but nobody leaves the house at 2 in the morning, rams into a fire hydrant and tree, loses
consciousness and winds up in the hospital unless something bizarre and out of the norm occurred inside that house.
Woods can demand privacy, but he won’t get it. He has been successful so far at keeping a lot of details about his private life outside of public scrutiny. When he isn’t playing golf, he keeps out of the spotlight. He has literally walled himself off from the world. However, the weekend incident cannot be controlled so well.
Woods is so rich he can afford to lose endorsements and prize money over this. But he values his good name and reputation. Maintaining that in the face of his reaction to the wreck is not so easy.
Woods is entitled to a measure of privacy, but not always on his own terms. This is one of those times when the public, not Tiger Woods himself, will set the terms.
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The terms of privacyThis is one time Tiger Woods can’t demand and expect to be left alone
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In this Jan. 1, 2006 photo, Fiesta Bowl executive John Junker, left, presents Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis, right, with the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award. Weis was fired on Monday.
By TOM COYNEAP Sports Writer
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about out-scheming opponents. He leaves one of college foot-ball’s most prestigious pro-grams without even match-ing the record of the two men who were fired before him.
Athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced the decision to fire Weis on Monday.
“For many of you who may have thought that was a foregone conclusion, I would say to you that the deci-sion was harder than you might have thought, prin-cipally because of the man it involved,” Swarbrick said during a news conference on campus.
Swarbrick said there was a huge gulf between the coach’s brash image and per-sonal style. But he still rec-ommended to the Rev. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s pres-ident, on Sunday night that Weis be let go with six years left on his contract. Weis fin-ishes with a 35-27 record in five seasons, among the worst of any Fighting Irish coach.
“He will go on to have great success. He’ll add some Super Bowl rings to the ones he already has as a successful coordinator in the NFL and we will miss him,” Swarbrick said. “But for us it’s time to move forward. It’s time to move forward because it is critical to this program and to its place in the university and college football that we compete at the highest level. That we compete for nation-al championships.”
By COBEY HITCHCOCKSports Writer
GREENEVILLE — The Pigeon Forge Tigers basketball squad bounced back from their first loss of the season with a 58-52 win Saturday over North Greene in the Greene County Thanksgiving Tournament at South Green High School.
After falling 55-46 against Hampton in the tournament semi-final contest on Friday, Pigeon Forge (3-1) pulled out the six-point victory Saturday on the back of senior Ben Cave’s 15 points. Senior Ryan Crowe and junior Aaron Justus both added 12 points, and senior Justin Carter was the other double-digit Tiger with 11 ticks. Junior Caleb Ownby added eight points in the win.
But despite an 80-foot miracle buzzer-beating shot by Justus in Pigeon Forge’s first-round 58-55 win over West Greene, and a 28-point fourth-quarter explosion in the loss against Hampton, Pigeon Forge coach Jonathan Shultz said the Tigers still have a lot of improving to do to compete in their tough district.
“We struggled shooting the ball some (in Greeneville),” said Shultz. “We’re a lot better shoot-ing team than what we showed up there.
“We played well enough defen-sively to win the whole tourna-ment, but we just turned the ball over too much and didn’t hit enough shots to get it done. We’ve still got to improve offen-sively to be able to compete in our district.”
Pigeon Forge will get its chance at district rivals soon enough. The Tigers host District 3-AA foe Austin-East tonight, with girls’ tip-off at 6:30 p.m. and boys to follow at 8 p.m.
The Tigers then host non-conference county rival Sevier County on Thursday before three straight district match-ups beginning next Tuesday at Carter, next Friday at home against Gatlinburg-Pittman and then Tuesday, Dec. 15, against visiting Gibbs.
“So we’ve got a tough stretch of games coming up,” said Shultz.
Shultz noted that Justus’ mir-acle shot was caught on tape, and the school is submitting the footage to ESPN’s SportsCenter on the hopes that it will be aired to a national audience.
Tigers top Huskies 58-52
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G-P junior Stephanie Taylor grabs a rebound against Hancock County on Monday night in the Lady Highlanders’ season-opening victory over the Lady Indians.
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By COBEY HITCHCOCKSports Writer
GATLINBURG — The Gatlinburg-Pittman Lady Highlanders got their basketball season off to a good start Monday night with a 59-47 win over the visiting Hancock County Lady Indians.
“I thought we controlled the pace of the game pretty good,” said G-P coach Mike Rader. “We were going full blast on offense until the last two or three minutes, when we slowed it down.”
The Lady Highlanders opened up a double-digit lead early in the fourth quarter, but when Hancock’s Carla McDaniel hit a trey with 3:48 in the game, G-P’s edge had suddenly shrunk to 51-45.
But G-P freshman Karsen Sims answered with a nice drive to the basket for a deuce, and senior Leah Bryan followed with a field goal and a pair of charity shots to stave off the Lady Indians’ dreams of a comeback.
G-P junior Beka Owens led the Highlander effort with 14 points, including two shots from downtown.
Junior Makenna Lewis provided a huge spark off the bench with 11 points, and junior Morgan Dodgen was the other Lady Highlander in double digits with 10 ticks.
In her first varsity start, Sims turned in a nice effort with six points in the win.
Bryan had eight points, junior Lacee Tinker had five, junior Stephanie Taylor had three and junior Macy Shults had two.
G-P next plays at TKA tonight at 6:30 p.m. tonight, followed by boys’ action at 8 p.m.
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Beka Owens, pictured here in a stock photo from last season, led the Lady Highlanders in scoring against Hancock County with 14 points including two 3-pointers.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Tiger Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. He said he would not compete again until next year.
Woods said in a state-ment on his Web site that his injuries prevented him from playing in the Chevron World Challenge. He was scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday for the tournament, which he hosts annually for a small, invited, field.
“I am extremely disap-pointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,” Woods said. “I am certain it will be an out-standing event and I’m very sorry that I can’t be there.”
His decision to withdraw comes after a car crash left him with cuts and bruises when his SUV hit a fire hydrant and a tree early Friday outside his home in a gated Florida golf community. Woods was treated and released at a hospital after the accident, and has not been seen in public since.
By skipping the tourna-ment, Woods will escape having to face TV cameras and a horde of media seek-ing more details about the smashup.
Woods released a state-ment Sunday saying the accident was his fault, but he did not address any of the questions still swirling around it. He asked that it remain “a private mat-ter,” but with the Florida Highway Patrol still inves-tigating and the media in full pursuit, Woods may not get his way.
Woods even faced ques-tions from fans leaving comments on his own Web site. Most voiced support for the golfer, but some said he should address the questions about his own actions and those of his wife, Elin Nordegren, before and after the acci-dent.
Woods hasn’t answered questions from Florida troopers, either, turning
them down three days in a row. Meanwhile, the tabloid-fueled rumors continue to swirl around perhaps the richest and most-recognizeable ath-letes in the world.
Four cars were parked in Woods’ driveway Monday, but no lights appeard to be on inside. A new fire hydrant had already replaced the one that Woods plowed into. A dirt hole and an orange barricade remained in the old hydrant’s place.
Woods, who both hosts and plays in the Chevron World Challenge, was there last year even though he couldn’t play because he was recovering from knee surgery. His absence this year will be the first since the tournament — which has only an 18-player field — began in 1999.
Though he cited inju-ries from the accident in withdrawing from the tournament, Woods didn’t specifically say what those injuries included. A neighbor who called 911 after Woods ran over the hydrant and into a tree said he was unconscious and laying outside his SUV. His wife told Windermere police she used a golf club to smash the back win-dows to help him out.
Woods’ only public comment has been via two statements released on his Web site, one saying the accident was his fault alone and the second say-ing he was withdrawing from the tournament.
“This is a private mat-ter and I want to keep it that way,” Woods said. “Although I understand there is curiosity, the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me are irresponsible. ...
“I appreciate all the concern and well wishes that we have received,” the statement concluded. “But, I would also ask for some understanding that my family and I deserve some privacy no matter how intrusive some people can be.”
Woods withdraws from own tourney
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR cham-pion Jimmie Johnson on Monday awarded nearly $1 million in education grants to school districts in California, North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Johnson, who wrapped up his record fourth con-secutive Cup champion-ship in the Nov. 22 sea-son finale, received more than 80 applications from schools in districts both he and his wife, Chandra, attended, as well as the greater Charlotte area, where they live.
The grants from the Jimmie Johnson Foundation totaled $922,000. The awards included $347,000 toward science and technology needs, $357,000 for out-door classrooms, play-grounds and athletic facilities and $27,000 for accelerated reading pro-grams.
The Johnsons awarded the California grants at a special ceremony at Crest Elementary, in El Cajon, Calif., a school the driv-er attended. That school received $45,900 to create hands-on activities in sci-ence, technology, health and fitness, the arts, and after school programs.
His other two alma mat-ers also received grants. Greenfield Middle School was awarded $31,572 for a lunch area and equipment,
while Granite Hills High School received $31,155 to assist with stadium reno-vations.
“It was amazing to review the proposals and read firsthand about the press-ing needs of our schools,” Chandra Johnson said.
“The funding requests were so diverse. I am par-ticularly excited about the projects in Oklahoma as this is our first opportunity to give back in my home-town.”
In Oklahoma, Muskogee High School received $30,000 for up-to-date science technology equip-ment, and an additional $9,900 to create a foreign language lab.
Nine schools in the greater Charlotte area received funding, includ-ing $65,000 to Smithfield Elementary for a new playground, and $62,061 for two science labs at Ashley Park Elementary.
In all, 26 schools across the three states received
a grant.“This is what the
foundation is all about, being able to give back to communities in need,” Johnson said. “I look for-ward to visiting some of the schools next year to see the completed proj-ects.”
NASCAR champ donates almost $1 million
Jimmie Johnson
By DAVE CAMPBELLAP Sports Writer
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Brett Favre has been throw-ing the ball for the Minnesota Vikings much more than he thought he would.
Another surprising development? Coach Brad Childress is encouraging it.
When Childress and the Vikings finally persuaded Favre to sign with them, many fans and analysts skeptically predicted inju-ries and interceptions — and butting heads. How was the cautious coach with a pref-erence for flat-line emotions and making the safe throw going to fit with Favre, one of the all-time great free-stylers?
Well, perceptions are often exaggerated. And peo-ple change.
Favre didn’t have firsthand experience with the before version of Childress, but he echoed the sentiment of his teammates after the coach’s contract was extended that Childress has become more willing to listen to input
from his players.“Guys go up, ’Hey, I can
beat him on a post. We can run over here,”’ Favre said. “He’s open to that. I think as a head coach the give-and-take has to be there, espe-cially with a veteran team like we have here.”
Favre has a lot of free-dom to read the defense at the line of scrimmage and change the play from a run to a pass, or vice versa, and he’s called a lot of audibles. Tight end Visanthe Shiancoe joked Favre does that about “63.7354 percent” of the time.
He’s also not shy about lobbying for an aggressive approach when he comes to the sideline between series and shares with Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell what he’s seen. During one recent game, Favre reminded Childress how open wide receiver Sidney Rice was, and the coach told his 40-year-old quarterback that he tells him that all time.
“Right. Now you’re start-
ing to believe me,” Favre fired back.
Childress wouldn’t have pursued Favre so persistent-ly this summer if he didn’t believe the NFL’s all-time leading passer would thrive — assuming he was healthy — in this West Coast offense he knows so well. Nor would he have wanted Favre on the team if he didn’t feel his per-sonality would mesh with his or in the locker room.
Even Childress, though, couldn’t have envisioned having this much faith in Favre’s surgically repaired
right arm. In the first half of Minnesota’s win on Sunday over Chicago, the Bears were consistently blitzing defensive backs and stack-ing the line to leave man-to-man coverage on the outside against the wide receivers.
“Hey, Bev, throw it again. That’s a first down: Throw it again. Keep throwing it,” Childress recounted his advice to Bevell before not-ing his conservative prefer-ence for play calling: “That’s almost heresy. I can’t believe that’s coming out of my mouth on the sideline.”
Faith in Favre: Vikes are airing it out
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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre throws against the Chicago Bears in an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 29, in Minneapolis.
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South W L T Pct PF PAx-Indianapolis 11 0 0 1.000 304 184Jacksonville 6 5 0 .545 202 255Tennessee 5 6 0 .455 229 289houston 5 6 0 .455 259 243
North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 8 3 0 .727 231 174Baltimore 6 5 0 .545 257 188pittsburgh 6 5 0 .545 248 204Cleveland 1 10 0 .091 122 279
West W L T Pct PF PAsan diego 8 3 0 .727 312 219denver 7 4 0 .636 196 189Kansas City 3 8 0 .273 183 282oakland 3 8 0 .273 115 258NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PAdallas 8 3 0 .727 255 182philadelphia 7 4 0 .636 293 228N.Y. giants 6 5 0 .545 272 261Washington 3 8 0 .273 170 205
South W L T Pct PF PANew orleans 10 0 0 1.000 369 204atlanta 6 5 0 .545 272 245Carolina 4 7 0 .364 199 256tampa Bay 1 10 0 .091 181 314
North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 10 1 0 .909 342 203green Bay 7 4 0 .636 296 215Chicago 4 7 0 .364 216 261detroit 2 9 0 .182 193 335
West W L T Pct PF PAarizona 7 4 0 .636 267 217san Francisco 5 6 0 .455 228 213seattle 4 7 0 .364 223 250st. louis 1 10 0 .091 130 297
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Thursday’s Gamesgreen Bay 34, detroit 12dallas 24, oakland 7denver 26, N.Y. giants 6Sunday’s GamesBuffalo 31, Miami 14N.Y. Jets 17, Carolina 6seattle 27, st. louis 17atlanta 20, tampa Bay 17Indianapolis 35, houston 27Cincinnati 16, Cleveland 7philadelphia 27, Washington 24san diego 43, Kansas City 14san Francisco 20, Jacksonville 3Tennessee 20, Arizona 17Minnesota 36, Chicago 10Baltimore 20, pittsburgh 17, otMonday’s GameNew England at New orleans, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 3N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 8:20 p.m.Sunday, Dec. 6st. louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.oakland at pittsburgh, 1 p.m.denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m.philadelphia at atlanta, 1 p.m.detroit at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.New England at Miami, 1 p.m.New orleans at Washington, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.san diego at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m.dallas at N.Y. giants, 4:15 p.m.san Francisco at seattle, 4:15 p.m.Minnesota at arizona, 8:20 p.m.Monday, Dec. 7Baltimore at green Bay, 8:30 p.m.
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East Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PAFlorida 8 0 221 96 12 0 438 118georgia 4 4 234 252 7 5 332 317Tennessee 4 4 199 175 7 5 367 252Kentucky 3 5 180 222 7 5 326 274s.Carolina 3 5 144 195 7 5 261 245vanderbilt 0 8 71 191 2 10 196 280
West Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PAalabama 8 0 208 85 12 0 380 130lsU 5 3 178 150 9 3 306 192Miss. 4 4 180 176 8 4 363 223arkansas 3 5 234 233 7 5 448 309auburn 3 5 200 219 7 5 395 323Miss. st 3 5 180 235 5 7 307 321
———Friday’s Gamesalabama 26, auburn 21Saturday’s Gamessouth Carolina 34, Clemson 17
This Week’s Top 25 Fared1. Kansas (5-0) beat oakland, Mich. 89-59; beat tennessee tech 112-75.2. Michigan state (5-1) lost to Florida 77-74; beat Massachusetts 106-68.3. texas (5-0) beat Iowa 85-60; beat pittsburgh 78-62; beat rice 77-59.4. villanova (6-0) beat la salle 81-63.5. Kentucky (6-0) beat Cleveland state 73-49; beat stanford 71-65, ot.6. purdue (5-0) beat No. 9 tennessee 73-72; beat Central Michigan 64-38.7. duke (6-0) beat arizona state 64-53; beat No. 13 Connecticut 68-59.8. West virginia (5-0) beat the Citadel 69-50; beat long Beach state 85-62; beat texas a&M 73-66; beat portland 84-66.9. Tennessee (5-1) lost to No. 6 Purdue 73-72; beat College of Charleston 86-69.10. syracuse (6-0) beat Cornell 88-73; beat Columbia 85-60.11. North Carolina (6-1) beat gardner-Webb 93-72; beat Nevada 80-73.12. Butler (4-2) lost to No. 22 Minnesota 82-73; beat UCla 69-67; lost to No. 19 Clemson 70-69.13. Connecticut (4-1) beat lsU 81-55; lost to No. 7 duke 68-59.14. Washington (5-0) beat Montana 63-59.15. Michigan (3-2) beat Creighton 83-76; lost to Marquette 79-65; lost to alabama 68-66.16. louisville (4-1) beat appalachian state 80-53; lost to UNlv 76-61.17. ohio state (5-1) beat lipscomb 84-64; beat st. Francis, pa. 110-47.18. georgetown (4-0) beat lafayette 97-64.19. Clemson (6-1) beat Winthrop 102-66; lost to texas a&M 69-60; beat long Beach state 87-79; beat No. 12 Butler 70-69.20. Illinois (4-2) beat Wofford 78-64; lost to Utah 60-58; lost to Bradley 72-68.21. Maryland (4-2) beat Chaminade 79-51; lost to Cincinnati 69-57; lost to Wisconsin 78-69.22. Minnesota (4-2) beat No. 12 Butler 82-73; lost to portland 61-56; lost texas a&M 66-65.23. Notre dame (6-1) beat Kennesaw state 80-62; lost to Northwestern 72-58. beat saint louis 64-52.24. vanderbilt (4-1) lost to Cincinnati 67-58; beat Chaminade 68-41; beat arizona 84-72.25. oklahoma (3-3) lost to san diego 76-64; lost to houston 100-93. beat Nicholls state 81-60.
Top 25 FaredSunday1. Kansas (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. alcorn state, Wednesday.2. Michigan state (5-1) did not play. Next: at No. 11 North Carolina, tuesday.
3. texas (5-0) beat rice 77-59. Next: vs. southern Cal, thursday.4. villanova (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. drexel, Wednesday.5. Kentucky (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. North Carolina asheville, Monday.6. purdue (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. Wake Forest, tuesday.7. duke (6-0) did not play. Next: at Wisconsin, Wednesday.8. West virginia (5-0) beat portland 84-66. Next: vs. duquesne, Wednesday, dec. 9.9. Tennessee (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. ETSU, Wednesday.10. syracuse (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. Colgate, Monday.11. North Carolina (6-1) beat Nevada 80-73. Next: vs. No. 2 Michigan state, tuesday.12. Butler (4-2) lost to No. 19 Clemson 70-69. Next: at Ball state, Wednesday.13. Connecticut (4-1) did not play. Next: vs. Boston University, Wednesday.14. Washington (5-0) beat Montana 63-59. Next: at texas tech, thursday.15. Michigan (3-2) lost alabama 68-66. Next: vs. Boston College, Wednesday.16. louisville (4-1) did not play. Next: vs. stetson, Wednesday.17. ohio state (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. Florida state, Wednesday.18. georgetown (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. Mount st. Mary’s, Md., Monday.19. Clemson (6-1) beat No. 12 Butler 70-69. Next: vs. No. 20 Illinois, Wednesday.20. Illinois (4-2) did not play. Next: at No. 19 Clemson, Wednesday.21. Maryland (4-2) did not play. Next: at Indiana, tuesday.22. Minnesota (4-2) lost to texas a&M 66-65. Next: at Miami, Wednesday.23. Notre dame (6-1) did not play. Next: vs. Idaho state, tuesday.24. vanderbilt (4-1) did not play. Next: vs. Missouri, Wednesday.25. oklahoma (3-3) did not play. Next: vs. arkansas, Wednesday.
Women’s Top 25 FaredSunday1. Connecticut (5-0) vs. Clemson. Next: vs. vermont, thursday.2. stanford (5-0) vs. gonzaga. Next: vs. No. 15 depaul, sunday, dec. 13.3. ohio state (8-0) beat No. 22 California 83-71. Next: at No. 10 duke, thursday.4. North Carolina (5-0) beat Charleston southern 76-67. Next: at No. 25 Michigan state, thursday.5. Notre dame (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. Eastern Michigan, Wednesday.6. Tennessee (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. George Washington, Tuesday.7. lsU (5-0) did not play. Next: at louisiana tech,
NCAA Division II Football Playoff Glance
First RoundSaturday, Nov. 14
West alabama 24, albany state, ga. 22Edinboro 31, East stroudsburg 16California, pa. 42, Fayetteville state 13abilene Christian 24, Midwestern state 21Nebraska-Kearney 35, saginaw valley 20hillsdale 27, Minnesota state-Mankato 24, otarkansas tech 41, UNC pembroke 13tarleton state 57, texas a&M-Kingsville 56, 2ot
Second RoundSaturday, Nov. 21
West liberty 84, Edinboro 63California, pa. 26, shippensburg 21Minnesota-duluth 42, Nebraska-Kearney 7grand valley state 44, hillsdale 27North alabama 41, arkansas tech 28Northwest Missouri state 35, abilene Christian 10Carson-Newman 59, West Alabama 41Central Washington 27, tarleton state 6
QuarterfinalsSaturday, Nov. 28
California, pa. 57, West liberty 35grand valley state 24, Minnesota-duluth 10Carson-Newman 24, North Alabama 21Northwest Missouri state 21, Central Washington 20
SemifinalsSaturday, Dec. 5
Grand Valley State (12-1) vs. Carson-Newman (11-2), 3:30 p.m.California, pa. (11-3) vs. Northwest Missouri state (12-1), 8:30 p.m.
ChampionshipSaturday, Dec. 12
At Braly Municipal StadiumFlorence, Ala.
semifinal winners, 1 p.m.
WoMEN’s hoops
tuesday.8. Baylor (6-1) beat lamar 87-65. Next: vs. louisiana tech, saturday.9. Xavier (5-0) did not play. Next: vs. Middle tennessee state, thursday.10. duke (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 3 ohio state, thursday.11. texas a&M (3-0) did not play. Next: vs. stephen F. austin, Wednesday.12. Florida state (6-0) beat Missouri 73-66. Next: at Indiana, thursday.13. texas (4-2) did not play. Next: vs. oral roberts, tuesday.14. georgia (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. UaB, tuesday.15. depaul (5-1) did not play. Next: at Wisconsin-green Bay, Wednesday.15. virginia (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. purdue, thursday.17. arizona state (4-1) did not play. Next: vs. Idaho state, Friday.18. Kansas (3-2) did not play. Next: vs. UCla, thursday.19. Mississippi state (4-3) did not play. Next: vs. southern Mississippi, Wednesday.20. oklahoma (4-2) did not play. Next: vs. texas-arlington, thursday.21. vanderbilt (6-0) did not play. Next: at Wright state, Wednesday.22. California (3-2) lost to No. 3 ohio state 83-71. Next: vs. Colorado state, saturday.23. san diego state (3-3) did not play. Next: at UC riverside, Friday.24. pittsburgh (5-0) did not play. Next: at Youngstown state, Wednesday.25. Michigan state (4-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 4 North Carolina, thursday.
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Sevierville Bowling Centerhigh scores through tuesday, Nov. 24Women’s games:sharon McFalls 202, sherry Bevins 195, stephanie lanier 194, Beverly hill 192, toni alexander 191, stacy henderson 190, pam galyon 189, Jean Maples 187, Zenadia rodriquez 181, Wilma McConville 181Women’s series:sharon McFalls 538, stacy henderson 525, Beverly hill 517, sherry Bevins 507, stephanie lanier 505, tammy Finamore 498, pam galyon 496, Wilma McConville 486, Janet McMahan 481, Margaret Meadows 476Men’s games:Charlie McFalls sr 257, tim Bevins 255, Jerry Caughorn 247, rodney lee 246, Chuck swope 246, Jim garst 244, oliver large 243, greg hatfield 238, Jim pubillones 237, rufus asher 237, aaron Beckett 237Men’s series:tim Bevins 729, greg hatfield 687, rufus asher 682, Chris smith 657, rodney lee 644, Jerry Caughorn 635, oliver large 633, aaron Beckett 632, Cody Ferguson 630, danny smith 630Youth GamesGirls: payton rochester 96, Emily havlin 94, piper sutton 87, Chesnie Bohanan 73, ashley havlin 73, taylor reagan 68, Mikayla andrews 62, sidney loveday 56Boys: dalen dockery 165, Cade dudley 151, Byron Johnson 142, Cory lee 135, Cody ansrews 107, Issac havlin 102, devin Quinones 82, Brayden Bohanan 80, Evean stuberYouth SeriesGirls: payton rochester 239, piper sutton 238, Emily havlin 232, ashely havlin 192, Chesnie Bohanan 188, Mikayla ansrews 179, taylor reagan 165, sidney loveday 147Boys: dalen dockery 423, Byron Johnson 347, Cory lee 332, Cade dudley 328, Issac havlin 284, Cody andrews 271, devin Quinones 206, Brayden Bohanan 205, Evan stuber 127
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on December 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Patricia D. Moore a/k/a Patricia D. Williams and David Williams, not stated to Kyle Walters, Trustee, on September 7, 2005 at Book Volume 2338, Page 808 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register�s Office.Owner of Debt: Household Financial Center Inc.The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:Described property located in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, more particularly described as follows:Tract Number 4 of Middle Ridge Subdivision:Beginning at an iron pin in the southern edge of a 50 foot right-of-way where Tract Numbers 4 and 5 intersect; thence with the common line of Tract Numbers 4 and 5, South 55 degrees 09 minutes 20 seconds West 249.08 feet to an iron pin where Tract Numbers 4, 5 and 6 intersect; thence with the common line of Tract Numbers 4 and 6, North 82 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds west 112.28 feet to an iron pin where Tract Numbers 3, 4 and 6 intersect; thence with the common line of Tract Numbers 3 and 4, North 47 degrees 29 minutes 30 seconds East 335.39 feet to an iron pin on the southern edge of a 50 foot right-of-way; thence with said right-of-way, South 34 degrees 50 minutes 40 seconds East 120.00 feet to the point of beginning.
Street Address:1133 Middle Ridge Road Sevierville, TN 37862
Current Owner(s) of Property: Patricia D. MooreOther interested parties: Capital One Bank The street address of the above described property is believed to be 1133 Middle Ridge Road, Sevierville, TN 37862, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute TrusteeLaw Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP
6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410Memphis, TN 38119Phone 901-767-5566
Fax 901-767-8890File No. 09-022347
November 24, December 1 and 8, 2009
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
Sale at public auction will be on December 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Marsha A. Coburn and Husband, Geoffrey A. Coburn to Infinity Title, LLC, Trustee, on August 7, 2006 at Book Volume 2606, Page 228 , re-recorded on October 18, 2006 in Book Volume 2645, Page 1; conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register�s Office.Owner of Debt: CitiGroup Global Markets Realty Inc.The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:Described property located in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee.Lot 15 of Dogwood Gardens Subdivision, more particularly described as follows:Beginning at an iron pin in the line of Lot 4 of said subdivision and being located 32 feet Southwest from an iron pin in the edge of Dogwood Drive, said point being the Northeastern most point of Lot 15; thence from said point of beginning, South 39 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds West 208.61 feet to an iron pin; thence North 67 degrees 39 minutes 05 seconds West 104.89 feet to an iron pin in the line of Lot 16; thence with the line of Lot 16, North 26 degrees 51 minutes 30 seconds East 178.01 feet to an iron pin in the center of said un-named street; thence leaving the line of Lot 16 and with the center of said unnamed street, South 75 degrees 40 minutes 31 seconds East 154.80 feet to the point of beginning.Together with the joint use of a 16 foot easement crossing Lot 16 in said subdivision extending from the West boundary line of Lot 16 through the Southern half of said lot to the Western boundary line of the above described property, said joint use of said right of way is also reserved for the owners of Lot 16, their heirs and assigns.
Street Address:454 Troy Drive
Sevierville, TN 37863
Current Owner(s) of Property: Marsha A. Coburn and husband, Geoffrey A. CoburnThe street address of the above described property is believed to be 454 Troy Drive, Sevierville, TN 37863, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute TrusteeLaw Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP
6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410Memphis, TN 38119Phone 901-767-5566
Fax 901-767-8890File No. 09-022709
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
WHEREAS, on the 30th day of May, 2008, by Deed of Trust recorded in Deed Book. 3100, at Page 514, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, Jacqueline K. Boyer, a single person, did convey in trust to the Trustee named in said Deed of Trust, the hereinafter described real estate to secure the payment of a Note in the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000.00), and other obligations; said debts and obligations being more particularly described in said Note and Trust Deed; andWHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of said indebtedness; the same being now past due and the entire amount thereof having been declared due and payable in full by the holder in in accordance with the terms of said note and Deed of Trust.NOW, THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of the authority vested in me and having been requested to do so by the holder and owner of the indebtedness, I will on December 15, 2009, at 11:00 o�clock a.m., offer for sale, and sell at the front door of the County Courthouse in Sevier, Tennessee, to the last, highest and best bidder for cash in hand, the following described real estate, to-wit:Situated in the Sixteenth (16th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being Tract B as the same appears on a plat of ìSubdivision of Unnumbered Tract-Hidden Mountain View Subdivisionî dated October 4, 1982, prepared by Hassel T. Wolfe, RLS and being more particularly described as follows:Beginning at the Northwest corner of the hereinabove described property, being the Southeast corner of Lot 73 and the Southwest corner of Lot 72 of Hidden Mountain View Subdivision(Map Book 11, Page 86); thence with the line of Lot 72 of said subdivision, South 87 deg. 50 min. 20 sec. East 100.17 feet to an iron pin, corner to Lot 71; thence with Lot 71, South 87 deg. 40 min. 40 sec. East 34.72 feet to an iron pin, corner to Tract C; thence with the line of Tract C, South 7 deg. 30 min. 40 sec. East 220 feet to an iron pin, corner to Tract E; thence with the line of Tract E, North 86 deg. 27 min. 40 sec. West 12.58 feet to an iron pin in the center of a 20 foot easement, corner to Tract D; thence with the line of Tract D in the center of said 20 foot easement, North 24 deg. 22 min. 40 sec. West 105.51 feet to an iron pin at the intersection of a 20 foot easement; thence continuing with the line of Tract D and with the center of the intersecting 20 foot easement, North 89 deg. 43 min. West 46.73 foot to a point; thence continuing with the center of said easement , North 83 deg. 53 min. 20 sec. West 30 feet to a point; thence South 83 deg. 59 min. 40 sec. West 20.72 feet to a point, corner to Tract A; thence leaving the easement and with the line of Tract A, North 4 deg. 41 min. 20 sec. West 89.8 feet to a point in the center of a 20 foot wide driveway; thence continuing North 4 deg. 41 min. 20 sec. West 19.02 feet to a point in the center of a 20 foot easement; thence continuing North 4 deg. 41 min. 20 sec. West 16.76 feet to the point of Beginning. Containing 0.45 acres according to survey by Hassel T. Wolfe, RLS.Subject to restrictions of record in WD Book 316, Page 219, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.Together with and subject to ingress and egress easements and well rights more particularly described at Inst. Book 3100, Page 511, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.Being the same property conveyed to Jacqueline K. Boyer, by General Warranty Deed from Billy Matthews and wife, Marie Matthews, dated May 30, 2008, of record at Inst. Book 3100, Page 511, in the Register�sOffice for Sevier County, Tennessee.Sevier County Tax Records show the above described property to be located at 1642 Walt Price Road, Sevierville, TN 37876, but said address is not part of the legal description of the property to be sold hereunder. Sevier County TAX MAP: 082I, GROUP: D, PARCEL: 016.03.Said sale will be free from the statutory right and equity of redemption, homestead, dower and all other exemptions; the same having been waived in said Deed of Trust. Said property will be sold subject to all unpaid real estate taxes, and any and all other prior liens, encumbrances, rights of way, easements, restrictions, mortgages and other matters of record having priority over the Deed of Trust, if any, and conveyed by the Trustee by standard Special Warranty Deed.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of sale to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with the law upon announcement of such adjournment on the day and at the time and place of sale set forth above.This is an attempt to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Interested Parties:Jacqueline K. Boyer1642 Walt Price Rd Sevierville, TN 37876
This Notice shall be published in The Mountain Press on the 24th day of November, 2009, the 1st day of December, 2009; and, the 8th day of December, 2009.This _19___ day of November, 2009.
Douglas S. Yates, TrusteeDouglas S. Yates
117 Joy St.Sevierville, TN 37862
(865) 453-1201
November 24, December 1 and 8, 2009
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
By virtue of the authority vested in me as Substitute Trustee, as contained in Deed of Trust from Steve Ogle and Leigh Ann Ogle to Mark Creech, Trustee, dated January 16, 2008, of record in Instrument Book 2998, Page 614, Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, for which Wm. Stanton Massa, III has been appointed as Substitute Trustee, to which Deed of Trust reference is here made, NNotice is hereby given that the property described below will be sold by me at the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash on December 18, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. to effect satisfaction of principal, interest, attorney�s fees, costs, expenses and other lawful charges due on a promissory note dated January 16, 2008, from Steve Ogle and Leigh Ann Ogle to Lowland Credit Union, and secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION:
SITUATE, LYING and BEING in the THIRD Civil District of SEVIER County, Tennessee, to wit:TO FIND THE POINT OF BEGINNING begin at a point that is a common corner to property owned by Matthew Misback, Rodger Steele and Hubert Eledge, said point being in a Northeast corner of a 30 foot right of way as shown by plat dated February 26, 1987, entitled Hubert Eledge; thence along the line that is a common line between Misback and Eledge South 84 deg. 19 min. 48 sec. East 290.01 feet to a point; thence leaving the common line of Misback South 11 Deg. 00 min 39 sec. East 413.11 feet to a point in a center line of an unnamed road 30 feet in width and 15 feet lying in the Southernmost boundary of the property herein conveyed which point is the POINT OF BEGINNING. THENCE FROM THE POINT OF BEGINNING South 81 deg. 27 min. 13 sec. West 137.01 feet to a point; thence South 60 deg. 49 min. 10 sec. West 44.57 feet, both preceding calls being in the center line of the unnamed road referred to hereinabove; thence leaving the center line North 7 deg. 49 min. 46 sec. West 277.76 feet to a point; thence North 82 deg. 24 min 28 sec. East 166.40 feet to a point; thence South 11 deg. 00 min. 39 sec. East 218.11 feet to a point in the center line of the unnamed road which is the point of BEGINNING. This property contains 0.8755, acres more or less.BEING the same property conveyed to Steve Ogle by deed of Kathy D. McCarter, a single person, dated February 15, 1991, and recorded in Deed Book 451, page 195, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Leigh Ann Ogle joins in this instrument for the purpose of conveying any interest, right or title she may have in the above-described real estate by virtue of her marriage to Steve Ogle.THIS conveyance is SUBJECT TO a 30-foot right of way on the southern boundary of the subject property as reserved in Deed Book 451, page 195, in said Register�s Office.THIS CONVEYANCE is made SUBJECT to all applicable easements, rights of way, setback lines and restrictions of record in said Register�sOffice.
The street address of theproperty is believed to be
320 Kandy WaySevierville, Tennessee 37864
but said address is not part of the legal description, and if a discrepancy exists, the legal description shall control. Tax ID No. 041 – 041.22.THIS DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN PREPARED SOLELY FROM INFORMATION FURNISHED TO THE PREPARER, WHO MAKES NO REPRESENTATION WHATSOEVER OTHER THAN IT HAS BEEN ACCURATELY TRANSCRIBED FROM INFORMATION PROVIDED.Said Deed of Trust recites title as unencumbered, except as noted therein, but sale will be made as Trustee only, without covenants of seisin or warranties of title and will be made subject to any unpaid taxes and assessments and all valid restrictions, liens, covenants, easements, or title defects, if any, of record on said property. The sale may be free from equity of redemption, right of redemption, homestead, dower, and other rights or exemptions, if applicable pursuant to provisions in said Deed of Trust. The property is being sold in ìAS ISî condition. It shall be the responsibility of the successful bidder to obtain possession of the property at his expense. There are no representations by the Trustee as to the validity or enforceability of any mechanic�s liens or other liens, or of any suits to enforce same. In the event successful bidder defaults or otherwise fails to purchase the property, the Trustee and beneficiary reserve the right to award sale to the next highest bidder at their sole option. The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. Junior lienholders have been mailed a copy of this Notice. Other interested parties include: none known.This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.Dated this .
Wm. Stanton Massa, IIIAttorney at Law
P.O. Box 1515Morristown, TN 37816-1515
PH# (423) 317-8555
November 24, December 1 and 8, 2009
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
TENNESSEE, SEVIER COUNTYDEFAULT having been made in the terms, conditions and payments provided in certain Deed of Trust executed by Charles Edward Dayton and Wendy Worley Dayton to Arnold M. Weiss, Trustee dated September 28, 2006 in the amount of $111,600.00, and recorded in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee in Deed Book 2631, Page 609, (“Deed of Trust”); and, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust having been last transferred to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. by assignment; and, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust (the “Owner and Holder”), has appointed as Substitute Trustee the undersigned, Patrick A. Taggart, Laura A. Grifka, Sidney A. Gelernter, or J. Michael Dugan, any of whom may act, by instrument filed for record in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; therefore,NOTICE is hereby given that the entire amount of said indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, or a duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested by the Appointment of Substitute Trustee, will on Thursday, December 10, 2009 commencing at 12:00 PM at the front steps of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee; sell to the highest bidder for cash, immediately at the close of sale, the following property to-wit:Situate in the Second (2nd) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and in the City of Gatlinburg, and being all of Unit 14 of Morning Mist Resort, a Planned Unit Development, as the same appears in the plat map of record in Large Map Book 3, at Page 190, in the Sevier County, Tennessee Register of Deed Office, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description; together with the undivided interests in and to the common elements and limited common elements as set forth in the Master Deed for Morning Mist Resort of record in Warranty Deed Book 615, at Page 206, in said Registers Office. Said property is improved with a planned unit development.Subject to easements, restrictions, reservations, setbacks, notations of record in Warranty Deed Book 615, at Page 206, Map Book 27, at Page 268; Large Map Book 1, at Page 155; and Large Map Book 3, at Page 190 in the said Registers Office.Subject to right-of-way of record in ROW Book 12, at Page 552, in the said Registers Office.Being the same property conveyed to Charles E. Dayton and wife, Wendy W. Dayton by deed of Danny Louis Armand, married, of record in Book 2631, at Page 607 in the said Registers Office. Map & Parcel No.: 117LH 00100P014
PROPERTY ADDRESS:616 Morning Mist Way
Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738
CURRENT OWNER(S): Charles E. Dayton and Wendy W. DaytonSUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: N/A OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, however, the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The sale will be held subject to any unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-of-way, easements, protective covenants or restrictions, liens, and other superior matters of record which may affect said property; as well as any prior liens or encumbrances as well as priority created by a fixture filing; and/or any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities` right to redeem the property, as required by 26 U.S.C ß 7425 and T.C.A. ß 67-1-1433.The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Deed of Trust.Substitute Trustee reserves the right to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
Patrick A. Taggart, Laura A. Grifka, Sidney A. Gelernter, or J. Michael Dugan
McCurdy & Candler, L.L.C.(404) 373-1612
www.mccurdycandler.comFile No. 09-25625 /FHLMC
November 17, 24 and December 1, 2009
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
Jack W. Maples and Mary F. Maples (the Borrowers) conveyed to Jeffrey J. Wall, as Trustee, real property in Sevier County, Tennessee by Deed of Trust, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents and Fixture Filing dated as of November 30, 2005, recorded on November 30, 2005 in Book 2405, page 125 in the Registerís Office of Sevier County, Tennessee (the Deed of Trust) to secure payment and performance of the debt and obligations described in the Deed of Trust.First Tennessee Bank National Association (the Bank) is the owner and holder of the debt and obligations secured by and the beneficiary of the Deed of Trust.The Bank, as such owner, holder and beneficiary, appointed Richard B. Gossett as Substitute Trustee by instrument recorded in Book 3452, page 473 in said Registerís Office.Default has been made in the payment of the debt secured by the Deed of Trust. The Bank, as owner of the debt secured by the Deed of Trust, has declared the entire balance due and payable and has instructed the Substitute Trustee to foreclose the Deed of Trust in accordance with its terms.NOW, THEREFORE, the Substitute Trustee, on TTuesday, December 15, 2009, commencing at 12:00 noon at the main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevier County, Tennessee, will offer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash the property therein conveyed, designated as
1152 Tranquility Hills Way Cosby, Tennessee 37722
2772 East Walnut Grove Road Sevierville, Tennessee 37876
and 2942 Kathy DriveKodak, Tennessee 37764
and described as follows: TRACT ONE: Situated in the First (1st) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being Lot 18 of Tranquility Hills Subdivision as the same appears on a plat of record in Map Book 28, page 50 and Map Book 28, page 124 in the Sevier County Register�s Office, to which reference is here made for a more particular description. SUBJECT to a 16-foot right of way of record in Map Book 28, page 124 in said Register�s Office. BEING THE SAME property conveyed to Jack Maples and wife, Mary Maples, by Warranty Deed recorded in Book 2264, page 291 in said Register�s Office.TRACT TWO: Situated in the Third (3rd) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an old metal post in the northwesterly edge of the right of way of East Walnut Grove Road, a corner to McCormack (Warranty Deed Book 555, page 379); thence leaving the edge of said right of way and with the line of McCormack, North 23 degrees 19 minutes 44 seconds West 249.38 feet to a 17-inch hickory in the line of property now or formerly belonging to James Stanley King, Sr.; thence leaving the line of McCormack and with the line of King, North 75 degrees 32 minutes 25 seconds East 97.16 feet to a dead white oak; thence North 76 degrees 22 minutes 55 seconds East 161.62 feet to a post; thence South 16 degrees 50 minutes 47 seconds Eat 64.82 feet to an iron pin; and thence South 05 degrees 45 minutes 51 seconds East 54.21 feet to a 27-inch white oak at the northwesterly edge of the right of way of East Walnut Grove Road; thence leaving the line of King and with the edge of said right of way, South 45 degrees 12 minutes 42 seconds West 248.88 feet to the post at the point of beginning, containing 1.03 acre, according to the survey of Jim Ellison, RLS No. 1683, dated October 2, 1998. TOGETHER WITH a field line easement as shown on survey of Jim Ellison, RLS No. 1683, dated October 2, 1998, and as reserved and described in deed to Tracy McCormack of record in Book 555, page 379 in the Sevier County Register�s Office, and as set out in deed to Louise M. Hancock of record in Book 569, page 233 in said Register�s Office. BEING THE SAME property conveyed to Jack W. Maples and Mary F. Maples by General Warranty Deed recorded in Book 1561, page 148 in said Register�sOffice.TRACT THREE: Situated in the Eighth (8th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being all of Lot 7A2 of a resubdivision of Tract 7A of the Earnest Holbert Farm as described by deed of record in Warranty Deed Book 554, page 29 in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, to which deed specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an existing iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and property now or formerly owned by Clabo (Warranty Deed Book 612, page 126), said rod being along the eastern edge of the 50-foot right of way for Kathy Drive; thence from the point of beginning and leaving the line of said Clabo and with the line of the said drive, South 06 degrees 41 minutes 37 seconds West 33.44 feet to a point at the common corner of the subject property and the said Clabo, said point being approximately in the center of said drive; thence leaving the line of the said Clabo, and with the line of the said drive, North 58 degrees 42 minutes 00 seconds West, 254.77 feet to a point; thence curving in a convex posture, with an arc of 130.92 feet, a radius of 125.00 feet, and a tangent of 72.18 feet, North 28 degrees 41 minutes 39 seconds West, 125.02 feet to a point at the common corner of the subject property and property now or formerly owned by Shaof (Warranty Deed Book 551, page 793), said point being approximately in the center of the said drive; thence North 88 degrees 23 minutes 19 seconds East, 25.04 feet to an existing iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and the said Shaof, said rod being along the eastern edge of the said drive; thence leaving the line of the said drive and with the line of the said Shaof, North 88 degrees 23 minutes 19 seconds East, 282.24 feet to an existing iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and the said Shaof and the said Clabo; thence leaving the line of the said Shaof and with the line of the said Clabo, South 06 degrees 41 minutes 59 seconds West, 218.95 feet to the point of beginning, containing an estimated 1.10 acre, more or less, as all of the foregoing is strictly according to a survey of Jim C. Ellis, RLS No. 1683, dated May 17, 1999, styled “Job #051899A”. BEING THE SAME property conveyed to Jack W. Maples and wife, Mary F. Maples, by General Warranty Deed recorded in Book D661, page 149 and by Quitclaim Deed recorded in Book 2535, page 160 in said Register�s Office.The sale will be in bar of all rights and equities of redemption, statutory and otherwise, homestead, dower and all other rights or exemptions of every kind, all of which are expressly waived in the Deed of Trust, but subject to the following: (a) unpaid taxes against the property; (b) recorded easements, restrictions, conditions, covenants, rights-of-way or subdivision plats affecting the property; (c) dedication of roads affecting the property and applicable governmental zoning and subdivision ordinances and regulations, (d) prior or superior liens, judgments, deeds of trust or other interests of record; and (e) matters that an accurate survey of the property might disclose.Notice has been given pursuant to the provisions of 26 U.S.C. ß 7425(c) and Reg. ß 301.7425-1, and T.C.A. ßß 50-7-404(i)(2)(B) and 67-1-1433(b)(2) and Rule 1320-2-1-.35, if applicable.The Property Is To Be Sold Without Covenants Or Warranties, Whether Express Or Implied, Including Without Limitation, Warranties Of Merchantability Or Fitness For A Particular Use Or Purpose.The following items recorded in said Registerís Office, may be adversely affected by the foreclosure sale: (1) Judgment in favor of Frank E. Lowe recorded in Book 3205, page 635; (2) Judgment in favor of BankEast recorded in Book 3358, page 493; and (3) Judgment in favor of American General Financial Services recorded in Book 3396, page 758.Substitute Trustee, at his sole discretion, at the time and place appointed above for the sale, to accomplish the most advantageous sale and consequent discharge of his trust obligation under the circumstances, reserves the right to do any or all of the following:1. Postpone the sale of all or any portion of the property by public announcement at such time and place of sale, and from time to time thereafter postpone such sale by public announcement at the time fixed by the preceding postponement or subsequently noticed sale, and, without further notice, make such sale at the time and place fixed by the last postponement, or, in his discretion, give a new notice of sale.2. Appoint an agent to sell the property in accordance with the power of sale contained in the Deed of Trust or to take other actions that the Substitute Trustee may take.3. Sell the property in any other manner or manners as may accomplish the most advantageous sale and consequent discharge of his trust obligation under the circumstances.The failure of the high bidder to close this sale shall be cause for rejection of the bid, and if the bid is rejected, the Substitute Trustee shall have the option of making the sale to the next highest bidder who is capable and willing to comply with the terms thereof. The proceeds of the sale will be applied as provided in the Deed of Trust and applicable law .
Richard B. Gossett 633 Chestnut Street, Suite 1800,Chattanooga, Tennessee 37450
(423) 756-2010
November 24, December 1 and 8, 2009
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
WHEREAS, default having been made in the payment of the debts and obligations secured to be paid by that certain Deed of Trust executed on January 12, 2006, by Mountain Top Resorts, LLC to Gregory D. Shanks, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Instrument 06002611, (“Deed of Trust”); andWHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC; andWHEREAS, Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder”), appointed the undersigned, The Callins Law Firm, LLC, as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; andNOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, The Callins Law Firm, LLC, Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Tuesday, December 29, 2009, commencing at 112:00 PMat the Main entrance or hallway of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:
TRACT ONE:
Situated in district fifteen (15) of sevier county, Tennessee, and being all of lot 49, section 2, of windfall estates, as the same appears on the map dated march 3, 1982, prepared by Ronnie l. sims, rls, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN ON THE SOUTHWESTERN EDGE OF A 50-FOOT RIGHT OF WAY, SAID IRON PIN BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF LOT 48 AND THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF LOT 49; THENCE FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING AND WITH THE COMMON LINE OF LOT 48, SOUTH 55 DEG. 10 MIN. 28 SEC. WEST, 338.09 FEET TO AN IRON PIN, A COMMON CORNER OF LOTS 47, 48, AND 49; THENCE LEAVING LOT 48 AND WITH THE LINE OF LOT 47, SOUTH 23 DEG. 29 MIN. 01 SEC. EAST, 195.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIN IN THE LINE OF BONANZA SUBDIVISION; THENCE LEAVING LOT 47 AND WITH THE LINE OF BONANZA SUBDIVISION, NORTH 65 DEG. 18 MIN. 05 SEC. EAST, 498.80 FEET TO AN IRON PIN ON THE SOUTHWESTERN EDGE OF A 50-FOOT RIGHT OF WAY; THENCE LEAVING BONANZA SUBDIVISION AND WITH THE SOUTHWESTERN EDGE OF SAID RIGHT OF WAY, NORTH 42 DEG. 07 MIN. 00 SEC. WEST, 75.86 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE WITH A CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH R = 166.48, T = 31.75, FOR AN ARC DISTANCE OF 53.32 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 64 DEG. 34 MIN. 33 SEC. WEST, 176.82 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 2.2889 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. RESERVED IS A 1-FOOT STRIP OF LAND ON THE EXTERIOR BOUNDARY OF THE LINES ADJOINING BONANZA SUBDIVISION. Also conveyed is the right to use the roads, easements, and right of way of windfall estates for the purpose of ingress and egress, as described in an easement agreement dated may 26, 1982, of record in misc. book 83, page 372, in the registerís office for sevier county, Tennessee, and is for the purpose of ingress and egress to douglas lake.
Tract two:
Situated in district fifteen (15) of sevier county, Tennessee, and being all of lots 59 and 60 of windfall estates subdivision, and being more particularly described as follows:Lot 59: beginning at an iron pin on the north right of way line of a 50-foot right of way being located approximately 250 feet west of its intersection with flat creek road; thence with the north right of way of said 50-foot right of way, south 86 deg. 20 min. 23 sec. west, 125 feet to an iron pin, corner to lot 60; thence with the line of lot 60, north 03 deg. 39 min. 37 sec. east, 200 feet to the point f beginning, and containing 0.5739 acres, more or less, according to the survey of Ronnie l. sims.LOT 60: BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN ON THE NORTH EDGE OF A 50-FOOT RIGHT OF WAY BEING APPROXIMATELY 375 FEET WEST OR ITS INTERSECTION WITH FLAT CREEK ROAD, CORNER TO LOT 59; THENCE WITH THE NORTH RIGHT WAY LINE, SOUTH 86 DEG. 20 MIN. 23 SEC. WEST, 125 FEET TO AN IRON PIN, CORNER TO LOT 61; THENCE NORTH 03 DEG. 39 MIN. 37 SEC. WEST, 200 FEET TO AN IRON PIN, CORNER TO LOT 59; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF LOT 59, SOUTH 3 DEG. 39 MIN. 37 SEC. EAST, 200 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 0.5739 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY OF RONNIE L. SIMS.BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO MOUNTAIN TOP RESORTS, LLC, BY FIRST TENNESSEE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION BY DEED DATED 12TH DAY OF JANURAY, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2441, PAGE 800 AND BOOK 2441, PAGE 797; IN THE REGISTERÍS OFFICE FOR SEVIER COUNTY, TENNESSEE.THIS CONVEYANCE IS MADE SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE RESTRICTIONS, BUILDING SET-BACK LINES ALL EXISTING EASEMENTS AND RESERVATIONS, AND TO ALL CONDITIONS SHOWN ON THE MAP PREPARED BY RONNIE L. SIMS, RLS, DATED MARCH 3, 1982.Tax ID # 029-015.12
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2713 & 2788 Windfall Estates Drive Sevierville, Tennessee 37876
CURRENT OWNER(S): Mountain Top Resorts, LLCThe sale of the above-described property shall be subject to all matters shown on any recorded plan; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements or set-back lines that may be applicable; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.SUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: N/AOTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/AAll right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the tTHIS LAW FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.me and place for the sale set forth above.
The Callins Law Firm, LLC, Substitute Trusteec/o Dionna Squires
The Callins Law Firm.,101 Marietta Street, Suite 1030Atlanta, GA. 30303
(404) 681-5826File No.: FT09.03.033
December 1, 8 and 15, 2009
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Dear Annie: My hus-band and I have been married 14 years and have four children. My mother-in-law always pit-ted his two sisters against each other to try to make them jealous and garner more attention for her-self.
My husband wasn’t part of that, but there was always tension. Our son was born with multiple disabilities and passed away last year at the age of 10. My hus-band’s parents were not caring, loving or support-ive. His mother refused to ride in the family car at the funeral because we didn’t also have space for her daughters. She said they needed her.
She has been so cold over the years and nar-cissistic as a parent that it has been heartbreak-ing. My father-in-law just stands by. Due to her actions at our son’s funeral, my husband decided to cut off all con-tact. I wrote her a letter regarding our feelings and how hurt we were. We said they could have a relationship with our other children, but they have chosen not to. They are, however, quite close to their daughters’ chil-dren.
Our adopted daughter is now 4 and has never met her paternal grand-parents. My mother, the only grandparent she knew, passed away eight months ago. When my daughter is older, how do I tell her about my hus-band’s parents? I grew up without an involved father and felt abandoned and unloved. I don’t want her to feel the same way. -- Hurt and Ashamed in Indiana
Dear Indiana: Many children grow up per-fectly fine without grand-parents, and some, like yours, might even be bet-
ter off. If your daughter asks, tell her you aren’t in touch with Daddy’s parents. When she is older, she may want more detail, and you can say that some grandparents aren’t able to be as close as you might like and it’s simply the way they are. If you don’t turn it into a tragedy, neither will she. Meanwhile, we hope you will find some grandpar-ent substitutes for your children -- perhaps a great-aunt or uncle, a neighbor or a friend’s parents.
Dear Annie: I recent-ly retired after 32 years and now realize how different my husband is from me. He seems con-trolling and obnoxious, and nothing I do is ever good enough. We have started bickering about petty things. He goes around cussing at me and makes remarks like, “Nobody can be as stupid as you and still be alive.”
I am sick and tired of walking on eggshells, and he refuses to have a con-versation with me. I feel alienated and lonely and am contemplating leav-ing. He does all the work around the house, pays all the bills and hates his job. I have sufficient income, but won’t have any insurance to take care of my medical prob-lems. What should I do? -- Tired and Lonely
Dear Tired: Retirement can bring out the problems in a mar-riage that a full-time job often obscures. Your hus-band sounds miserable, and he’s taking it out on you. Since retiring, you
have nowhere to escape. It might help to get involved in organizations that keep you active and busy, especially in the evening. Counseling can also help you get a handle on the situation and work on your decisions.
Dear Annie: This is for “Grateful but Worried Dad,” the divorced father whose young daughter becomes upset upon his departure.
As a stepmother, I saw this situation occur many times with my husband. A simple idea occurred to me: Ask Mom to pick up the child, rather than having Dad drop the child off after visits. This puts the child’s focus on greeting the arriving parent, rather than a pro-tracted farewell with the departing one.
If the child’s feel-ings are truly at heart, it would seem to me that “pick ups” by the “receiving” parent would be more standard. -- Reflective Stepmom
Dear Stepmom: That’s a sensible and caring solution when possible, although there often are times when picking up a child can be too inconvenient or complicated. But we hope divorced parents will keep this in mind.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, IL 60611. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox, and read fea-tures by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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