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Good Afternoon
Kaelyn Bishop
Elizabethton
Community Matters
Friday, January 29, 2010 • Volume 80 - No. 24
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3 seriously injured
in head-on collision
BY ROBERT SORRELL
STAR STAFF
rsorrell@starhq.com
Photo by Eveleigh Stewart
then flipped onto a guardrail upside down. The bed
Three
people
were
seriously
injured
in
a
head-on
collision
along
Highway
19E near Tiger Creek
of the truck broke off and went down a hill.
Road
on
Thursday
afternoon.
Two
WINGS
Air
Rescue
helicopters
were
dispatched
to the scene.
McMahaan allegedly told emergency personnel
Police say alcohol was a factor in the wreck.
Three people were seriously injured in a head- that a second person was in his truck. Several indion collision about 1 p.m. Thursday on Highway viduals combed the area, but did not find another
person. Officers believe there was only one person
19E near Roan Mountain.
The two-vehicle accident occurred on Highway in the vehicle.
The second vehicle, a 2001 Honda Civic, was
19E near its intersection with Tiger Creek Road. According to Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Greg driven by Paul Martin, Connersville, Ind. Martin’s
Marlowe, a red pickup truck was traveling south wife, Kathleen, was riding in the front passenger’s
when he crossed the center line and struck a green seat. “The passenger side of the vehicle suffered the
Honda Civic. The Civic was traveling north from most damage,” Marlowe said. “All of the people in
the accident were pinned and had to be extracted.”
Roan Mountain to Elizabethton, Marlowe said.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
as much as 12 inches. Light snow is expected
Two WINGS Air Rescue helicopters were disThe pickup truck was driven by Jeffrey McMaAs much as a foot of snow could fall on North- to begin falling around 3 p.m. today and come
haan, 37, Roan Mountain. Marlowe said alcohol patched to a nearby landing zone set up at Highway
east Tennessee tonight and Saturday, according down more heavily tonight and early Saturday.
appeared to be a factor in the accident and charges 19E and Simerly Creek Road. Kathleen Martin was
to the National Weather Service. A winter storm On Saturday, the snowstorm should move out,
are pending against McMahaan. He was the only n See COLLISION, 14A
warning has been issued by the NWS beginning according to the weather service.
individual in the pickup truck, which hit the car,
Today will be calm before the storm, howat 3 p.m. today and continuing through 4 p.m.
ever,
temperatures are expected to remain cold.
Saturday.
Seven to nine inches are forecast for the Eliz- The sun will return Sunday with a high of 31.
abethton area, while higher elevations may get n See SNOW, 14A
but I never forgot that beautiful
Sunday, my lovely wife, Ann,
girl back home. After the war I
and I will have been married 64
came back to Elizabethton and
years, and I might add that they
my number one objective was
have been wonderful years filled
to win her heart and eventually
with many happy memories.
marry her, and that I did!
Truly, I married an angel.
BY ROBERT SORRELL
Board Chairman John Pierce
Pierce was placed on adminisWe were married in a small STAR STAFF
We went to Elizabethton High
trative leave on Jan. 19, after alle- said details of the allegations
and simple ceremony at the rsorrell@starhq.com
School together. She was in the
gations were brought of a hostile have not been released, in order
home of Rev. Clarence Carder.
band and I played football. When
Carter County Emergency work environment. A five-mem- to protect all parties. The alleFor our honeymoon we planned Communications has begun a ber grievance committee met gations were related to a hostile
I first saw Ann, I fell in love with
to visit some friends in Norfolk, search for a new director, follow- Jan. 19 to begin an investigation work environment. The grievher. I thought she was the most
Va. We spent our wedding night ing the retirement of Walt Pierce. into the allegations. Elizabethton ance committee has been inbeautiful girl I’d ever seen. A lot
at a Bristol hotel, and I jokingly Pierce’s attorney Stacey Street Police Chief Matt Bailey reported vestigating to determine if any
of other fellows felt that way, too,
Frank and Ann Robinson
tell people it took us three days submitted the retirement papers that a second grievance has been criminal activity has occurred.
as she was very popular and had
lots of boyfriends. Of course, I ing as hard as I was to win her to get out of there. Of course, it to the attorney for Carter County filed against Pierce since a griev“I only learned about Walt’s
didn’t.
was jealous, but there was little heart.
Emergency Communications on ance committee “work session”
n See DIRECTOR, 14A
My education was interrupted
I could do as there were some
meeting on Jan. 22.
Thursday.
n See MARRIAGE, 14
fellows out there who were work- by World War II. I went off to war,
SNOW and lots of it forecast
for much of area tonight
64 years of marriage on January 31
911 director submits retirement papers
Obituaries ...................4A
Editorials .................5A
Sports........................ 1B
Stock ...................... 11A
Classified ................ 12A
Weather ................. 14A
Obituaries
Harold D. Arnold
Elizabethton
Berniece M. Howell
Elizabethton
Margie L. Cash
Johnson City
Miriam H. Kennedy
Elizabethton
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Heavy snow, ice
bury southern
Plains, cut power
Wreck at Broad and Sycamore
Police are unable to determine the cause of an accident that occurred Wednesday evening at the intersection of Broad Street and
Sycamore Street in Elizabethton. According to officers, a Dodge Caravan was traveling east on Broad Street when it struck a Chevrolet
Avalanche traveling north on Sycamore Street. The Dodge was driven by Sonny Jones, 62, 140 Bear Hollow Road, Elizabethton. The
Chevrolet was driven by Natasha Vannoy, 22, 616 Locust St., Elizabethton. No injuries were reported.
Tenn. Senate rejects Bredesen’s menu labeling veto
NASHVILLE (AP) — The
Senate on Thursday voted to
override Democratic Gov. Phil
Bredesen’s veto of a bill to limit
who can establish requirements
for calorie counts to be posted
on restaurant menus.
The Senate voted 24-7 to reject the veto on the bill to limit
menu labeling authority to local elected government bodies
— and not to unelected ones
like health boards.
Senate Republican Caucus
Chairwoman Diane Black of
Gallatin said the measure was
in response to a decision in
Nashville last year to require
menu labeling in restaurant
chains.
“I don’t think any of us are
against nutritional information being placed on menus for
consumers,” Black said. But
“an unelected regulatory agency should not have the power to
impose these mandates.”
Bredesen vetoed the bill in
July, citing Tennessee’s obe-
sity rate that ranks among the
highest in the nation.
“Anything that stalls progress toward getting healthier
is something the governor opposes, which is why he vetoed
the bill,” said Bredesen spokeswoman Lydia Lenker. “That
said, this isn’t something he’s
going to spend time fighting.”
It takes a majority vote in
both chambers of the General
Assembly to override a veto.
Republican Rep. Susan Lynn
of Mt. Juliet, the main sponsor
of the House version of the bill,
said she hopes to bring the veto
override up for a vote in the
lower chamber next week.
Lynn said she opposes the
concept of menu labeling, “but
I do feel that if it is done, it is
something that is better to be
done at the state level so that
there is uniformity.”
All seven Senate votes
against the override came from
Democrats, including Sen.
Doug Jackson of Dickson, who
was pleased with the Senate
vote.
“What the health board never cared about is that it costs
our guys money to find out how
many calories are in things,
and it costs them money to put
signs up,” Haskell said.
said county boards are granted
their authority by elected officials.
“Now you’re saying: ‘Elected officials, we don’t like the
structure you’ve created,’ and
yet we’re trying to tell the voters this is all about empowering elected officials,” he said.
Jackson said elected officials
are free to reject anything on
behalf of their boards or agencies.
Senate Minority Leader Jim
Kyle, D-Memphis, said his vote
against the bill was “about respecting elected, local officials
making a decision in their
community.”
“I find it amazing that those
who have railed at the federal
government about pre-empting
state government would come
and support pre-empting local government,” Kyle said.
“That’s what this does.”
Dan Haskell, a lobbyist for
the Tennessee Hospitality Association, said his organization
Hampton robbery
suspects in
federal custody
FROM STAFF REPORTS
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A storm that toppled power lines, shut down
major highways and buried parts of the southern Plains in heavy ice and
snow began moving into the South early today, leaving tens of thousands
of people in the dark — possibly for several more days.
Winter storm warnings were in effect from New Mexico to North Carolina after about 13 inches of snow fell Thursday in the northern Texas
Panhandle, where Interstate 40 was closed from the Texas-Oklahoma line
to New Mexico.
Heavy ice brought down electrical lines and trees limbs, leaving nearly
142,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma without power early today,
according to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.
“In some places, as far you can see there are hundreds of utility poles
on the ground,” said Andrea Chancellor, spokeswoman for Public Service
Company of Oklahoma. She said it could be five days before electricity is
restored to all customers.
More than two dozen flights were canceled this morning at Oklahoma
City’s main airport.
The snow, sleet and freezing rain were expected to crawl east through
today. In Arkansas, as much as 10 inches of snow could fall near the Missouri border, northern parts of central Tennessee could see up to 8 inches
and western North Carolina could get hit with a foot of snow, according to
the National Weather Service.
More snow also was expected in Oklahoma, where dozens of shelters
were opened for those who needed a warm place to stay, including First
United Methodist Church in Hobart, about 120 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. Pastor Kyle Clark said downed trees and utility poles littered
the slick roadways and most of the town of about 4,000 residents had no
electricity.
“We’ve got gas heat and we are illuminating the place with candles,”
Clark said late Thursday.
Further southwest in Altus, home to about 7,000 residences and businesses, power was out except at the hospital and other emergency operations with generators, said emergency management director Lloyd Colston.
More than 100 flights were canceled at Will Rogers World Airport in
Oklahoma City on Thursday due to concerns about ice buildup on planes,
and more than two dozen flights were canceled this morning, according
to the airport’s Web site. Flights were also canceled in Tulsa and in Texas
out of Lubbock, Amarillo and Wichita Falls, officials said.
The Texas Department of Transportation closed I-40 from the New
Mexico state line to the Texas-Oklahoma border and a few other major
roadways late Thursday after the region was buried in more than a foot
of snow.
Downed power lines and icy, dangerous road conditions also temporarily closed a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 44 southwest of Oklahoma City
and parts of I-40 in far western Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico.
National Weather Service meteorologist Patrick Burke said another
wave of precipitation would move up through Texas and into Oklahoma
overnight, bringing colder air and additional chances for snow in areas
already hit.
Up to 8 inches of snow in counties northwest of Lubbock was possible.
Three individuals charged in
the armed robbery of the Hampton Pharmacy in 2009 are in federal custody.
On Thursday, the cases against
the three individuals were dismissed in Carter County Criminal
Court, and the individuals were
taken into custody by federal officials. The circuit clerk’s office
reported that the suspects will now
go to trial on federal charges.
Allen Scott Hicks, Stephanie
Ann Hicks and Kenny Allen Johnson were arrested and charged
with aggravated robbery and
criminal conspiracy in the May
20, 2009, robbery of the Hampton
Pharmacy on Highway 321.
According to the sheriff’s department, while employees of the
pharmacy were locking the doors,
an individual overpowered an employee to enter the business. A gun
was brandished and the suspects
demanded drugs. Johnson was
NASHVILLE — Speaker of
apprehended a short time later,
the
House Kent Williams (Carter
while Allen and Stephanie Hicks
were arrested and charged a few County Republican-Elizabethton)
announced today that Carter
months later.
County Schools and Elizabethton City Schools will be receiving
grant money to improve safety in
their school systems.
The Safe Schools Act of 1998
provided for the availability of
state dollars to enhance the safety
of Tennessee schools, which the
Tennessee General Assembly has
approved to allow these school
systems to enhance their safety
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“I believe the funds granted to
our school systems are essential to
the safety of our students, teachers and visitors and will improve
communication between school
officials and emergency services
during critical moments,” said
Speaker Williams. “This will help
ensure that our students are protected and have direct access to
emergency services if they are ever
needed.”
Carter County Schools were
granted $37,300 to support the
school resource officers program.
This grant will provide about
25 percent of the cost of school
resource officers for five high
schools and one middle school in
Carter County.
Elizabethton City Schools were
granted $6,000 to be utilized to
purchase or update and install
communications equipment. This
includes providing radios to school
staff with safety-sensitive positions
and enables the district to be on
the same communications system
as local first responders.
The state funds granted to
these school systems will be beneficial in helping keep the students
of Carter County and Elizabethton
in a safe learning environment
and prepared for any potential
threatening situations.
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Senate permits gov’t. to borrow an additional $1.9T
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Democrats in the U.S.
Senate muscled through legislation Thursday that would allow the government to go $1.9
trillion deeper in debt.
Democratic leaders were
able to prevail on the politically volatile 60-39 vote only
because Republican Sen.-elect
Scott Brown of Massachusetts
has yet to be seated. Republicans had insisted on a 60-vote,
supermajority threshold to pass
the measure. An earlier test vote
succeeded on a 60-40 vote.
The measure would put the
government on track for a national debt of $14.3 trillion, or
about $45,000 for every American, and it served as a vivid
reminder of the United States’
dire fiscal straits.
The massive increase in
the debt limit would allow the
Democrats to avoid another
vote until after the congressional elections in November.
New estimates released by the
Congressional Budget Office on
Tuesday showed that the United
States could run a deficit this
year to match last year’s record
$1.4 trillion shortfall.
To win the votes of moderate
Democrats, President Barack
Obama promised to appoint a
special task force to come up
with a plan for dealing with the
spiraling debt.
To get the support of more
conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats in a House of Representatives vote next week, the
measure includes tough new
“pay-as-you-go” budget rules
to make it harder to run up the
deficit with new tax cuts or federal benefit programs. Senate
Democrats had been reluctant
to approve the new deficit curbs
but relented and approved them
by a 60-40 vote.
Several Republicans who
had earlier voted for the new
rules, which would make it
more difficult to extend some
tax cuts permanently when
they expire at the end of this
year, switched their positions
and opposed it.
They include John McCain
of Arizona, who is facing a primary battle with former Rep.
J.D. Hayworth, who is winning
support from conservative activists.
The current $12.4 trillion
debt ceiling is expected to be
reached in mid-February.
Congress never has allowed
the United States to default on
its obligations, which would roil
markets and probably cause the
government to lose its AAA credit
rating.
“We have gone to the restaurant, we have eaten the
meal. Now the only question is
whether the government will ...
pay the bill,” said Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus,
a Democrat.
Democrats and Republicans
alike share responsibility for
running up the debt, but it fell
upon Democrats to pass the
measure since they control the
government. It makes no difference that Republicans routinely
backed increases in the debt
when former President George
W. Bush was in office.
Republicans blame recent
generous spending bills enacted
by the Democratic-controlled
Congress for driving up the
debt. Those measures, however,
are just one relatively small part
of the problem. The far bigger
element is a sharp drop-off in
tax revenues because of the recession and the economy’s slow
recovery, as well as higher costs,
since more people are taking
unemployment benefits and
government-issued food stamps
to help the poor with meals in
tough times.
“Why $1.9 trillion?” said Republican Sen. Judd Gregg. “So
that Congress doesn’t have to
face up to the debt ceiling until after the next election. We
ought to face up to it before the
next election because the people
in this country have a right to
know whether or not this Congress is going to do something
about controlling ... the debt.”
Shivering Southerners
stunned by Jan. heat bills
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South’s unusual cold snap is
showing up in customers’ heating bills, with monthly charges up
an average of 50 percent and requests for payment assistance on
the rise.
“My income has gone down because of the economy, too, so it’s
just been kind of hard,” said Janet Pearce, a 49-year-old waitress
from West Columbia.
Pearce was apprehensive this week when she asked the South
Carolina Electric and Gas billing office for more time to pay her
bill, which was double her typical $80. The company allowed her
to spread the payments over the next few months.
“It was real simple,” she said of the process. “I was real surprised.”
SCE&G, South Carolina’s largest private utility, has seen a 50
percent increase in people seeking help with bills in recent weeks,
spokesman Eric Boomhower said. And the number of calls related
to bills is up 20 percent from last year.
“Now we’re seeing more and more folks who maybe have never
faced that type of a situation before,” Boomhower said. “And they
don’t even know where to start. ... We want them to know that
we’ve got folks here ready to talk to them.”
Utilities offer a variety of payment assistance programs, including one that averages a year’s worth of bills and lets a customer pay a set monthly amount, to avoid spikes from weather
extremes.
“Customers tell us they haven’t done anything differently,”
said Paige Sheehan, spokeswoman for Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke
Energy. “So they don’t understand why their bill is so much higher.”
Utility spokesmen said the sustained cold forced customers’
heaters to work overtime just to maintain their usual household
temperature. On average, Sheehan said, Duke’s all-electric customers in the Carolinas saw a 50 percent increase in their most
recent bills from the previous month.
The two-week nationwide cold snap was especially hard on
Southerners, ill-equipped to deal with the frigid weather.
Some parts of Alabama reported 10 straight days of subfreezing
temperatures and an average of 24.8 degrees — the coldest start
to a year on record there. In South Florida, usually around 68
degrees in January, the National Weather Service reported a record
low of 36 degrees at the Miami airport, beating an 82-year-old
record of 37 degrees.
Even before the cold snap, more people were seeking help.
“Hard winter or not, we’re in the middle in an economic climate that has created hardships on many families,” said John
Ballengee, chairman of the United Way of Central West Virginia.
He said assistance programs have been “a godsend at this point,
just to help people through a difficult time.”
In December, 6,375 people received more than $2.28 million
in help with energy bills through South Carolina’s Office of Economic Opportunity. That was up from 4,792 people who got more
than $1.48 million in December 2008, according to Bertie McKie,
manager of South Carolina’s community services and energy assistance programs.
The money from the federal government and utilities is distributed by community organizations. Funding for the program in
South Carolina increased to $47 million last year from an average
of $13 million in previous years.
“The allocation jumped so much last year because of weather
conditions and because of the number of people that had lost
jobs and all the other things going on with the economy,” McKie
said.
Disability center closing upsets families
Fed chief Ben Bernanke
wins 2nd term in close vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke won confirmation
for a second term Thursday, but only by the closest vote ever for the crucial post and after withering criticism from lawmakers for bailing out Wall
Street while other Americans suffered in recession.
The Senate confirmed Bernanke for a new fouryear term by a 70-30 vote, a seemingly solid majority but 14 votes worse than the closest previous vote
for a Fed chairman.
President Barack Obama hailed the Senate’s action and praised Bernanke’s “wisdom and steady
leadership.”
The battle over Bernanke’s confirmation has
been a test of central bank independence, a crucial
element if the Fed is to carry out unpopular but
economically essential policies. Its decisions on interest rates can have immense consequences, from
the success or failure of the largest companies to
the typical home-buyer’s ability to get an affordable loan to the price of cereal at the grocery or gas
at the corner station.
Created by Congress in 1913 after a series of bank
panics, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, supposedly outside politics, but its chairman is
typically assailed by lawmakers and others when
the economy falls and jobless ranks lengthen.
“Bernanke fiddled while our markets burned,”
huffed Richard Shelby, of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, during
Thursday’s debate. “Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve played a key role in setting the stage for the
financial crisis.”
Shelby and other opponents blame Bernanke for
failing to spot problems leading up to the crisis, for
lax bank regulation and for not cracking down on
dubious home mortgage practices. All those missteps contributed to the recession, they contend.
Supporters see it far differently, crediting him
with preventing the Great Recession from turning
into the second Great Depression.
“The chairmanship of Ben Bernanke has in no
small measure made it possible for this nation to
avoid a catastrophe,” said Senate Banking Committee Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.
Supportive Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer
worried that the bitter fight over the nomination
would send “the message that the Federal Reserve
and its monetary policy decisions are under the
thumb of Congress. Businesses will be faced with
the prospect that the Fed might not be able to do
what’s necessary for the economy because of pressure from Congress.”
The vote on his confirmation came at nearly the
last possible moment — Bernanke’s current term
expires Sunday.
The closest previous final confirmation vote for
a Fed chairman was 84-16 for Paul Volcker’s second
term in 1983 following another severe recession.
In the final vote, 11 Democrats and an independent joined 18 Republicans against Bernanke.
After Thursday’s vote, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said, “The Senate did the right thing.
Chairman Bernanke will continue to play a vitally
important role in guiding the nation’s economy.”
First appointed by President George W. Bush and
then re-nominated by President Barack Obama,
Bernanke found himself without a broad partisan
constituency in the Senate.
“Although the Fed can print money, it can’t
print political capital,” said Karen Shaw Petrou,
managing partner at Federal Financial Analytics, a
consulting firm that advises financial institutions.
Bernanke’s role in bailing out Wall Street has
angered many Americans, who are still struggling
under double-digit unemployment, stagnant paychecks, cracked nest eggs and record home foreclosures. In an election year in which the economy’s
health is still precarious, senators were hearing
those complaints loud and clear.
“A vote for Ben Bernanke is a vote for bailouts,”
said Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., a longtime critic.
Bernanke has especially upset lawmakers with
his support of a $182 billion rescue of insurance
giant American International Group Inc. Hefty bonuses to AIG executives and billions in payments
to AIG’s Wall Street partners added to the outrage.
Criticism mounted as unemployment rocketed to
n See BERNANKE, 4A
NASHVILLE (AP) — Budgetcutting Tennessee officials plan
to close the oldest state-run,
long-term care facility for the
mentally disabled, but advocates claim in federal court that
the state has failed to show the
residents will be safely placed in
other care centers.
Closing the Clover Bottom
Development Center that opened
in 1923 would save about $36
million a year in state and federal dollars. Residents could
be moved to another state-run
facility in East Tennessee or to
private facilities.
Among about 100 residents,
57-year-old Teresa Burkett is
blind, mentally disabled and
has severe medical ailments.
Her sister, Lynne, told The
Tennessean in a story Thursday
that without the kind of help
Clover Bottom provides, Teresa
would not survive.
Advocates who filed suit
against the state over poor conditions at Clover Bottom and
similar facilities in the mid-
Happy 40th Anniversary
Dennis & Dorothy
Whitson (Cooper)
1990s are back in court. They
do not oppose closing Clover
Bottom, but they say the state
hasn’t shown that residents will
be safely placed in other centers
by the June 30 deadline.
The state is proceeding under the assumption that it will
close, said Missy Marshall, a
spokeswoman for the state Division of Intellectual Disabilities
Services.
“We’re not going to do anything to jeopardize the health or
safety of any of the individuals
that live there,” Marshall said.
“Nobody’s being forced to do
anything. Families and conservators have choices.”
Gov. Phil Bredesen’s proposed budget to be presented
to lawmakers Monday includes
$50 million to build eight small,
state-run facilities around Tennessee, state Finance Commissioner Dave Goetz said. The new
homes would provide beds for
32 people.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF CARTER COUNTY
The 2009 Carter County Property Taxes will become delinquent on March 2,
2010. Penalty and interest fees will be added on March 2, 2010. In order to
avoid penalty and interest fees, payments may be made as follows:
- Payments may be made in person on or before
March 1, 2010.
- Mail payments will be accepted by the Trustee’s Office,
if postmarked by March 1, 2010.
- Drop Box is located outside the Trustee’s Office for payment.
Check or Money Orders only.
All prior taxes must be paid before 2009 taxes can be accepted.
All unpaid 2008 Carter County Property Taxes will be certified into Chancery
Court on April 1, 2010, where additional penalties and interest as well as Court
Cost will be added. The property may also be subject to a Title Opinion at a
cost of $200.00. To avoid these charges, payments for these taxes may be
made as follows:
- Payments may be made in person on or before March 31, 2010.
- Mail payments will be accepted by the Trustee’s Office,
if postmarked by March 31, 2010.
The Office of Trustee will be open Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 4:30
p.m. The office will be closed Monday, February 15, 2010 in Observance of
President’s Day.
The following offices will be open on Saturday, February 27, 2010 from 8:00
until Noon for your convenience:
Carter County Trustee (423) 542-1811
Carter County Assessor of Property (423) 542-1806
Carter County Register of Deeds (423) 542-1830
Carter County Clerk and Master (423) 542-1812
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NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO QUALIFY UNDER THE TAX RELIEF
PROGRAM: You must Pay your taxes on or before April 5, 2010, in order
to qualify for the Tax Relief Consideration for the 2009 Tax Year.
This 24th day of January, 2010
Randal Lewis, Trustee
Police
Beats
• Douglas Lish White, 43, 111 Maple St., Johnson City, was arrested
Wednesday by Carter County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Thomas Smith
on a warrant charging him with failure to appear. He is scheduled to
appear in General Sessions Court on Jan. 29.
• Benjamin D. Hensley, 26, 125 Brown Road, Elizabethton, was
arrested Wednesday by CCSD Dep. Billy Harrell on a warrant charging
him with failure to appear. He is scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court on Feb. 16.
• Brodie Lee Kabbeko, 23, 2560 Plymouth Road, No. 305, Johnson
City, was arrested Wednesday by CCSD Dep. Travis Ludlow on a warrant charging him with violation of probation.
• Theodore O’Neal, 54, Gallatin Pike, Madison, Tenn., was arrested
Wednesday by CCSD Dep. Mike Townsend on a warrant charging him
with violation of probation.
• Billy Jack Ritter, 34, 923B Pine Ridge Circle, Elizabethton, was
arrested Thursday by CCSD Lt. Patrick S. Johnson on a warrant charging him with assault under domestic violence. He is scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court on Feb. 16.
• Cletis Holtsclaw, 45, 277 Bill Nave Loop, Elizabethton, was arrested Thursday by CCSD Sgt. Kenny Cornett on a warrant charging
him with violation of probation. He is scheduled to appear in General
Sessions Court on Feb. 16.
• Lersa Diane Hodge, 47, 102 Heather Lane, Elizabethton, was arrested Wednesday by CCSD Sgt. Kenny Cornett on a warrant charging
her with failure to appear. She is scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court on Feb. 16.
• Ernie Todd Lindstrom, 34, 1716 Highway 91, Elizabethton, was
arrested Sunday by CCSD Sgt. Kenny Cornett on a warrant charging
him with assault. He is scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court
on Feb. 16.
• Richard Dale Grindstaff, 43, 128 Fiddlers Branch Road, Hampton, was arrested Wednesday by CCSD Dep. Matthew P. Lunceford on a
warrant charging him with violation of probation.
JC officers arrest Thomas Carriger
on drug charges, public intoxication
Officers of the Johnson
City Police Department early
Thursday arrested Thomas F.
Carriger, 50, 2274 Dave Buck
Road, Johnson City, for possession of Schedule II drugs with
intent to resale; possession of
Schedule III drugs with intent
to resale; and public intoxication.
Carriger was arrested when
officers were investigating a
complaint of suspicious persons at Watauga Road and Roweland Drive when they came in
contact with him. Carriger had
in his possession Schedule II
and Schedule III narcotics and
$5,200 dollars. He was taken to
the Washington County Detention Center on a $21,000 bond
pending an arraignment later
Thursday in Washington County General Sessions Court.
Hampton High School faculty
and administration invites all
parents of current students to attend the Parent-Teacher Conference on Monday, Feb. 1, from 5
to 7 p.m.
Should school be closed due
to the weather, the conference
will be held on Monday, Feb. 8,
from 5 to 7 p.m.
Report cards were sent home
with students on Friday, Jan. 22,
and calls were sent to the numbers submitted on students’ enrollment cards to inform parents.
Any parent who did not receive
the message is asked to call the
school or make additions or corrections at the Parent-Teacher
Conference.
HHS Parent Teacher Conferences
scheduled Monday evening
Alcoa pastor accused
of threatening son at church
ALCOA (AP) — The son of
a well-known Alcoa pastor has
taken out an order of protection
against his father, claiming he
was threatened with a gun during an argument at a church
over his lack of church attendance.
The order of protection
was filed by 32-year-old Michael Louis Colquitt against
60-year-old Joe Colquitt, pastor
of St. John Missionary Baptist
Church.
The younger man told police
his father pulled out a handgun
when they met at the church to
discuss church attendance. He
told officers his father pointed
the gun at him and threatened
to kill him, his wife and family.
Joe Colquitt declined to comment when contacted by The
Daily Times of Maryville.
A Feb. 4 hearing was set in
Blount County General Sessions
Court.
Obituaries
of Johnson City Medical Center, Sycamore Shoals Hospital
and Johnson City Medical Center Hospice for all the care and
compassion shown to Boogie
and the rest of the family during
his illness. Condolences may be
sent to the family electronically
by visiting www.tetrickfuneralhome.com and signing the
guestbook or by fax to (423)
542-9499.
Tetrick Funeral Home, ElizaHarold D. Arnold bethton, is serving the Arnold
Harold Dean “Boogie” Ar- family. Obituary Line: (423)
nold, 48, 122 Edgewater Road, 543-4917. Office: (423) 542Elizabethton, went home to be 2232.
with the Lord on Sunday, January 24, 2010, at his mother’s
residence, after courageously
fighting several illnesses.
Mr. Arnold was the son of
Dorothy Parlier Arnold, with
whom he made his home, and
the late Harold Arnold. He was
born in Carter County.
In addition to his father, he
was preceded in death by his
grandparents, Lucille Taylor,
Robert Earl Parlier and Tom and
Mary Arnold, and a very special
Margie L. Cash
friend, George Grindstaff.
Mrs.
Margie L. Cash, 169
Mr. Arnold was of the Baptist
Max
Jett
Road, Johnson City,
faith. He was a NASCAR fan and
went
home
to be with her Lord,
loved to deer hunt.
Survivors, in addition to his Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at
mother, include two sons, Mi- Life Care Center of Elizabethton
chael Arnold, Johnson City, and following an extended illness.
A native of Carter County, she
Dustin Arnold, Gray; a brother,
Tony Arnold, of the home; and was the daughter of the late Sam
a sister, Tammy Carver, Eliza- and Cordie Freeman Holder.
Mrs. Cash retired from Dosbethton. Several aunts, uncles,
siers
in Johnson City. She was of
nieces, nephews and cousins
and a lot of special friends also the Baptist faith.
In addition to her parents,
survive.
she
was preceded in death by her
A memorial service for Mr.
husband,
Alan Dean Cash, three
Arnold will be conducted at
8 p.m. Saturday, January 30, sisters and a brother.
Survivors include two sisters,
in the Chapel of Peace of TetGladys
Holder, of the home, and
rick Funeral Home with Pastor
Imogene
Hughes of Watauga.
Louie O’Bourke officiating. The
family will receive friends in the Several nieces and nephews also
funeral chapel from 6 to 8 p.m. survive.
Graveside services for Mrs.
Saturday, prior to the service.
Cash
will be conducted at 2 p.m.
The family would like to express
a special thank you to the staffs Friday, January 29, at Happy Val-
ley Memorial Park with Mr. Shelton Lewis officiating. Music will
be under the direction of Linda
Lyons. Active pallbearers will be
nephews and great-nephews.
Family and friends who would
like to attend the graveside service
are asked to meet at the cemetery
at 1:50 p.m. Friday. To those who
desire, memorials in lieu of flowers may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, Northeast Tennessee Chapter, 207 North Boone
Street, Suite 1500, Johnson City,
TN 37604. Online condolences
may be sent to the family and
viewed by visiting our Web site at
www.hathawaypercy.com.
Arrangements for the Howell
family have been entrusted to
Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.
and Jenny Dishner and Mickey
and Heather Malone, all of
Bluff City; a grandson, Brandon
Jones; a granddaughter, Brandy
Smiley; a great-granddaughter,
Breanna Smiley; two stepgranddaughters, McKenzie and
Chloe; a sister, Louise Koontz,
Piney Flats; and four brothers, James, D.F., Roy and Earl
“Bud” Maines, all of Bluff City.
Several nieces and nephews also
survive.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Howell will be conducted at 7 p.m.
Sunday, January 31, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev.
Jerry Shaffer and the Rev. Barry
Shepherd officiating. Graveside
services and interment will be at
1 p.m. Monday, February 1, in
the Sunrise Cemetery, Bluff City.
Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 12:15 p.m. Monday,
will be Tim Jones, Todd Maines,
Rocky Maines, Rico Maines,
Johnny Maines, Roy Rumley,
Doug Maines and Bob Koontz.
The family will receive friends
from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the
funeral home. Friends may also
call at the residence of a son and
daughter-in-law, Donnie and
Jenny Dishner, 629 Woods Road,
Berniece M. Howell Bluff City. Family and friends will
Berniece Maines Howell, assemble at the funeral home at
71, 200 N. East Street, Village 12:15 p.m. Monday to go to the
East Apartments, Elizabethton, cemetery. Condolences to the
passed away Thursday, January Howell family may be e-mailed to
28, 2010, at Johnson City Medi- mfc@chartertn.net.
cal Center.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in
A native of Sullivan County, charge of arrangements.
she was a daughter of the late
Ferd and Leota Cureton Maines.
Miriam H. Kennedy
Mrs. Howell was a graduate
Miriam
H. Kennedy, 85, of Pine
of Bluff City High School and
Ridge
Care
and Rehab Center,
was retired from the Alemite
Corporation, Johnson City, as Elizabethton, formerly of Aviation
a Line Supervisor. She was a Drive, died Thursday, January 28,
member of Walnut Grove Bap- 2010, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital.
tist Church.
Funeral arrangements are inSurvivors include a daughter
complete
and will be announced
and son-in-law, Diane and Steve
later
by
Tetrick
Funeral Home,
Lamb, Church Hill; two sons
Elizabethton.
and daughters-in-law, Donnie
‘Catcher in the Rye’ author J.D. Salinger dies at age 91
NEW YORK (AP) — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth
hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked
and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author’s son said in a statement from Salinger’s literary representative.
He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote
house in Cornish, N.H.
“The Catcher in the Rye,” with its immortal teenage protagonist,
the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of
anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence.
The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made “Catcher” a featured selection, advised that for “anyone who has ever brought up a son” the
novel will be “a source of wonder and delight — and concern.”
Enraged by all the “phonies” who make “me so depressed I go
crazy,” Holden soon became American literature’s most famous antihero since Huckleberry Finn. The novel’s sales are astonishing —
more than 60 million copies worldwide — and its impact incalculable. Decades after publication, the book remains a defining expression
of that most American of dreams — to never grow up.
Salinger was writing for adults, but teenagers from all over identified with the novel’s themes of alienation, innocence and fantasy, not
to mention the luck of having the last word. “Catcher” presents the
world as an ever-so-unfair struggle between the goodness of young
people and the corruption of elders, a message that only intensified
with the oncoming generation gap.
Salinger’s other books don’t equal the influence or sales of “Catcher,” but they are still read, again and again, with great affection and
intensity. Critics, at least briefly, rated Salinger as a more accomplished and daring short story writer than John Cheever.
“The Catcher in the Rye” became both required and restricted reading, periodically banned by a school board or challenged by parents
worried by its frank language and the irresistible chip on Holden’s
shoulder.
Salinger also wrote the novellas “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters” and “Seymour — An Introduction,” both featuring the neurotic, fictional Glass family which appeared in much of his work.
His last published story, “Hapworth 16, 1928,” ran in The New
Yorker in 1965. By then he was increasingly viewed like a precocious
child whose manner had soured from cute to insufferable. “Salinger
was the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school,” Norman Mailer
once commented.
Jerome David Salinger was born Jan. 1, 1919, in New York City.
His father was a wealthy importer of cheeses and meat and the family
lived for years on Park Avenue.
Like Holden, Salinger was an indifferent student with a history of
trouble in various schools. He was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy at age 15, where he wrote at night by flashlight beneath the covers and eventually earned his only diploma. In 1940, he published his
first fiction, “The Young Folks,” in Story magazine.
He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, carrying a typewriter with
him most of the time, writing “whenever I can find the time and an
unoccupied foxhole,” he told a friend.
By 1952, he had migrated to Cornish. Three years later, he married
Claire Douglas, with whom he had two children, Peggy and Matthew,
before their 1967 divorce. (Salinger was also briefly married in the
1940s to a woman named Sylvia; little else is known about her).
Salinger became famous for not wanting to be famous. In 1982,
he sued a man who allegedly tried to sell a fictitious interview with
the author to a national magazine. The impostor agreed to desist and
Salinger dropped the suit.
Five years later, another Salinger legal action resulted in an important decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court refused
to allow publication of an unauthorized biography, by Ian Hamilton, that quoted from the author’s unpublished letters. Salinger had
copyrighted the letters when he learned about Hamilton’s book, which
came out in a revised edition in 1988.
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Bernanke advocates argue that the Fed
chairman is being blamed for the failure of
institutions over which the Fed had no authority. What’s more, they say the countermeasures he took to intervene were exactly what
Congress created the agency to do.
“Much of the anger directed at the Fed and
the uncertainty regarding Bernanke’s reconfirmation is terribly unfortunate — both because
of the impact it might have on the central bank
going forward, and also because much of the
scorn is undeserved,” said John Dearie, a former officer of the New York Fed now serving as
executive vice president of the Financial Services Forum, an industry group.
The Federal Reserve acts as the “lender of
last resort” to banks when they can’t get money
elsewhere. That’s important for the nation’s financial and economic stability.
Bernanke’s confirmation comes as Congress
is writing an overhaul of financial regulations
aimed at avoiding another financial crisis. The
chairman has had to defend the Fed against
efforts to diminish its authority.
A House bill would remove its power to oversee consumer protections and would subject it
to a sweeping congressional audit. A Senate bill
seeks to create a separate consumer entity as
well, and would create a single banking regulator that would also strip the Fed of its supervision of bank holding companies.
Bernanke has admitted making mistakes
— including underestimating the threat of a
booming housing market that eventually went
bust and the resulting fallout to the economy.
But he insists he has the tools, the know-how
and the political backbone to safely steer the
recovery from the worst recession since the
1930s. The biggest challenge facing Bernanke
this year: deciding when and how to reverse
course and boost interest rates to sop up the
unprecedented money pumped out during the
crisis. That’s important to prevent an outbreak
of inflation.
A scholar of the Great Depression, Bernanke, 56, spent most of his professional career
in academia, including 17 years teaching
economics at Princeton University. He came
to Washington to take a job at the Federal
Reserve, working with then-Chairman Alan
Greenspan. Bush selected him to be his top
economist. After that, he was sent to run the
Fed starting in 2006.
Editorial
Memo to Chairman Mike Steele: GOP will win
Pessimism is no more attractive in a
party leader than it is in a high school
cheerleader. And, in the case of Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, it is
unwarranted as well. Despite his prediction, on Fox News, that GOP congressional control will not come “this year,” the
Republican Party has a very, very good
chance of taking control of both houses of
Congress in 2010.
We are in the midst of a political tsunami. To judge that the water will only
ascend 100 feet or 200 or 300 is entirely
speculative. Generally, once these things
start, they go farther than anyone would
have though likely. Only rarely do they fall
short.
And Obama’s determination to march
ahead with his full socialist agenda, including the imposition of a health care
system a majority doesn’t want, can only
strengthen the winds and the tide that is
approaching. The 60-vote Democratic
Senate majority is empowering such arrogance and disdain for the democratic
process that it is easy to see how it will
trigger an equal and opposite reaction in
the 2010 elections.
The tsunami of 2010 is qualitatively
different from the other slaughters of in- more are likely to follow. Among open
cumbents that took place in 1994 or 1974 seats, Republicans will probably lose two
or 1964. In those years, one party over- and the Democrats six, reducing their
stepped its bounds and the other exploited margin to 35.
Then there are 28 Democrats who
their rival’s vulnerability. They were classic instances of the voters correcting for might lose who come from districts won
the excessive liberalism, conservatism or by John McCain. Seventeen are very vulnerable, and 11 others somewhat less so.
dishonesty of the incumbent regime.
But 2010 is different. It is not only that But even these 11 longtime incumbents
may find that their constituents
Obama is too liberal or that the
cannot be bought by earmarks
Democrats have given us unemor deluded into voting for what
ployment that won’t end, a deficit
they are told is a “conservative”
that won’t shrink, a new-found
Democrat.
vulnerability to terrorism after
Eight Democrats — six of the
seven safe years and a health care
freshmen — come from districts
system a majority abhors.
McCain narrowly lost and they
2010 will be a unique year beDick
cause voters have seen the myth of Morris narrowly won. And 11 others —
three of them freshmen — are
the moderate Democrat exposed.
only slightly less vulnerable.
There is no longer any such aniRepublicans need to defeat 35 of these
mal. No moderate or conservative voter
can rest on the assumption that his con- 47 Democrats to take control. Not a task
gressman or his senator will stand firm for that is at all beyond reach.
In the Senate, the Republicans will
his values in the face of party pressure. The
sweep of 2010 will be due as much to this easily hold all their open seats except
intellectual insight as to any other cause, for Ohio, Missouri and New Hampshire.
and this will make it even more powerful. Since Missouri went for McCain, count
In the House, party switches have al- it likely to send Roy Blunt to the Senready won the Republicans one seat, and ate — and since Ohio is the quintessen-
tial swing state, it is hard to see how it
does not go Republican, as well. In New
Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte, the Republican,
looks to be ahead, although the state is too
Democratic to regard her as safe.
Democrats look to lose at least five
seats: Delaware, Arkansas, Nevada, North
Dakota and Colorado. But, in a tsunami,
Republicans would likely pick up Illinois
and Pennsylvania (with or without a Arlen
Specter retirement or a loss in the primary), too. Four to go.
Despite Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal’s appeal and his
state’s liberalism, the Chris Dodd seat cannot be considered safe in this kind of year.
Nor can Barbara Boxer take victory over
Carly Fiorina for granted, either.
For the remaining two seats, the Republicans need strong candidates in Indiana, Washington state, Oregon and Wisconsin, and against Kirsten Gillibrand in
New York.
A strong candidate can be born or
made. Even a relatively weak newcomer
can gather strength from the kind of tsunami working its way toward Washington.
The irresistible numbers of a GOP landslide make all of these seats winnable.
Opinion
Money in politics
just got a lot worse
If you are among those who believe American corporations and labor
unions don’t have enough influence on federal elections today, then you
must be ecstatic over last week’s 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on
the nation’s campaign finance laws.
While there may be some problems with the way we elect our representatives, a shortage of corporate and labor money isn’t one of them.
The court’s misguided 183-page ruling did two things:
—It overturned a 63-year-old law that prohibited corporations and labor unions from spending money from their general treasuries to support
or oppose candidates for federal office.
—And it struck down language that prohibited the airing of these ads
within 30 days of a primary election and 60 days of a general election.
The court let stand provisions banning direct contributions to candidates and requiring individuals and organizations to disclose the names
of contributors.
What makes this ill-conceived ruling even harder to swallow is that
the court wasn’t even asked to go there. At issue in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was whether a lower court had erred when it
blocked the nonprofit corporation from airing a DVD critical of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton within 30 days of a presidential primary.
Rather than ruling on that single provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — more commonly known as the McCainFeingold Act — the court’s majority dismantled key provisions of campaign finance law that have stood since the Taft-Hartley Act imposed a
ban on all donations to federal candidates from corporations, unions
and interstate banks in 1947.
For the majority, the ruling hinged on whether campaign spending
was a form of free speech. Ultimately, Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony
Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas decided
the answer to that question was yes.
We don’t share that sentiment. We do not believe our Founding
Fathers had corporations or unions doling out millions of dollars to
influence federal elections in mind when they were crafting the First
Amendment.
Rather, we wholeheartedly agree with Justice John Paul Stevens, who
wrote in his dissenting opinion that the court’s ruling “threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.”
What happens next is anyone’s guess. While there is some talk of imposing some legislative restrictions on the ruling, that would seem difficult
given that the highest court in the land has determined that corporations
and unions can spend pretty much whatever they want, whenever they
want, in advocating for or against federal candidates.
In the meantime, all we can do is brace for an escalation of new money
into the midterm election campaigns — and make sure our Web favorites
include reputable fact-checking sites such as FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.
com. We’re going to need them.
—Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph
Readers Forum
Reader shares thoughts on Black History Month
Editor:
President Obama acknowledged tremendous
progress toward racial equality. During February’s
Black History Month the media should recognize
Christianity’s role in this tremendous progress
in racial relations. Large Christians churches
have increased their membership of all races.
Christians do most adoptions, including crossrace adoptions as seen in the movie, “The Blind
Side.”
Liberals said racism could be ended by education. However, racism isn’t due to ignorance, it’s
due to sin. Dr. Martin Luther King said racism was
at its foundation a moral issue and had to be confronted as such by the churches and people of faith.
Few people know Dr. King was a Baptist preacher
because the media rarely gives Christianity any
credit.
Sin is international. Without the influence of
Christianity, India has the greatest racism in the
world. (Generally the lighter-skinned Indians belong to the higher caste). Sin can only be overcome
by knowing Jesus and His amazing grace. Christians focus on grace not race. In Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, black nor white. We are all one
but we don’t lose our identity in Jesus, we find it.
Liberals support unconstitutional affirmative
action and hate crimes laws that emphasize black
victimhood is wrong. Teddy Roosevelt said, “a poor
person’s enemy is the leader, whether philanthropist or politician, who tries to teach him that he is a
victim of conspiracy and injustice, when in reality
he is merely working out his fate with blood and
sweat as the immense majority of men who are
worthy of the name always have done and always
will do.” Those who label themselves as victims
are more likely to victimize others. According to
the Bible, no godly person can be a permanent
victim. Although Joseph was made a slave and put
in prison God used it for good. Booker T. Washington said God brought good out of the evil of
slavery in this country.
God doesn’t separate people by race but only
by believers and nonbelievers. Most Americans
consider themselves good people but God doesn’t.
God sees nonbelievers as evil people calling Him
a liar and most Americans as only believing in
and worshiping themselves. The easiest and most
natural thing for anyone to do is to justify oneself
and put oneself first. Self-worship underlies many
aspects of pro-choice thought. God calls America
to repent from its stubborn unbelief and ignorant
self-worship or face judgment. As C.S. Lewis said,
“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long
run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and
decay. But look for Jesus and you will find Him, and
with Him everything else thrown in.”
Regardless of race when we look in the mirror
we see our greatest enemy, unless we reach the
highest goal of all Christians. Then, when we look
we see unspeakable beauty and love and know our
greatest enemy has been defeated. We see the face
of Jesus!
Daniel D. Nave
Elizabethton
Urge cousin
to face his
need for Christ
Dear Rev. Graham: My
cousin always claimed to be an
agnostic — a person who doesn’t
know if God is real. Last month, he
had a heart attack, and although
he’s getting better, I know he
could have died. Do you think God
is giving him a second chance? —
Mrs. B. McK.
Dear Mrs.
B. McK.: Yes,
I believe God is
giving him a
second chance
— and I pray
he won’t ignore
it or laugh it off.
Billy
God
loves your
Graham
cousin and wants
him to discover
MY
ANSWER the joy that can
only come from
knowing God
and being in His presence forever.
The Bible says that God “is patient
with you, not wanting anyone to
perish, but everyone to come to
repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
Situations like this should remind us that life is short, and we
never know how long we’ll have
on this earth. Your cousin didn’t
plan on having a heart attack; he
probably thought he’d go on living for many years. Perhaps he is
like the rich man in one of Jesus’
parables who said to himself, “You
have plenty of good things laid up
for many years. Take life easy;
eat, drink and be merry” (Luke
12:19). But God called him a
fool, and that very night he died
and entered eternity — without
God and without hope. That can
happen to us.
Pray for your cousin, that he
may realize the seriousness of
what’s happened to him, and turn
in faith to Christ. Ask God also to
give you an opportunity to share
your concern with him and urge
him to face his need to put his
trust and faith in Christ.
Make sure also of your own relationship with God. God loves you
(just as He loves your cousin), and
the most important decision you
will ever make is your decision to
give your life to Jesus Christ.
————
(Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1
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APOSTOLIC
Church Directory
NEW HOPE CHURCH OF JESUS, INC.
1186 Old Bristol Hwy., Elizabethton
Pastor Phone - 772-4560
Pastors: Jonny & Sandra Ollis
Services Sun. - 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m.
FAITH APOSTOLIC CHURCH
800 N. Roan St. Elizabethton, TN 37643
Pastor David Lang - Phone 423-474-6464
Sunday 10 a.m. & 6 p.m. - Thursday 7 p.m.
Assembly of God
Happy Valley
Credit Union
Not for profit 210 East “C” St.
Not for charity Elizabethton
But for service
542-6078
SUNDAY BUFFET
11 AM - 10 PM
101 Hudson Drive
Elizabethton, TN
542-6800
ELIZABETHTON ASSEMBLY
1200 19-E Bypass
Phone 543-4901
www.elizabethtonassembly.org
Ricky Jones, Pastor
CHURCH OF GOD
FIRST CHURCH OF GOD
(General Offices Anderson, IN)
609 N. Lynn Avenue
S.S. 10 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m.
Sun. Evening 6 p.m. - Wed. 6 p.m.
Pastor Bob Shupe
ROAN MOUNTAIN CHURCH OF GOD
106 Smith Road, Roan Mountain
SS: 10:00 - Worship: 11:00 a.m. & Wed. 7 p.m.
Ivan Sanders, Pastor - 423-772-4528
ROAN STREET CHURCH OF GOD
113 N. Roan Street
S.S. 10 a.m. -Worship 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Wed. Evening 7 p.m.
Rev. Kenneth Bewley - 543-5336
FREEWILL Baptist
EAST SIDE FWB
704 Siam Road, Eliz.- 543-3454
Rev. Justin Deaton, Pastor
Auto Sales
543-8603
1441 Hwy. 19-E • Elizabethton, TN
State Farm Insurance
Ken Wandell, CLU, ChFC
1982 West Elk Avenue
Elizabethton, TN 37643
Bus.: 423-543-3031
www.kenwandell.com
LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR,
STATE FARM IS THERE
It’s Reassuring
To Know We
Take Over All
Responsibilities
HATHAWAY-PERCY
FUNERAL HOME
Dial 543-5544
EXPERT JEWELRY REPAIR
CUSTOM WORK
426 Railroad St. • Elizabethton, TN
423-542-5600
Jack L. Holly, DDS. PC
Family
Dentistry
417 Hudson Drive
Elizabethton
423-543-4141
KEENBURG FREEWILL BAPTIST
Keenburg Road
WATAUGA VALLEY FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH
Hwy. 91, Stoney Creek
(Just above Unaka High School)
Bill Greer, Pastor
MOORE’S CHAPEL FREE WILL BAPTIST
101 Jim Deal Road - Hwy. 91 - Elizabethton
Pastor CLARENCE PHILLIPS
423-474-2079 Church - 423-213-8075 Mobile
Sun. School - 10 a.m. - Morning Service - 11 a.m.
Evening Service - 6:30 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST
OAK STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Corner of Oak St. and State Line Road
Elizabethton, TN - 542-4022
Traditional Worship 10 a.m.
11:15 a.m. Small Group Bible Study
12 p.m. Non-Traditional Worship
Sunday 6 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m. Prayer Meeting
www.oakstreetbaptist.net
DOE RIVER BAPTIST CHURCH
113 Avon St., Off Hwy. 19E
Elizabethton - 543-2408
Sun. School - 10 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m.
Nationally Advertised Furniture & Appliances
519 Elk Avenue
Downtown Elizabethton
423-542-4177
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LYNN VALLEY
1367 Broad St. - Dennis Wilson, Pastor
Sun. Worship - 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 6 p.m.
Wor. & Missions - Wed. 7 p.m. - Phone: 543-6171
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
1215 Broad St. Ext., 542-9188
“A Church With A Missionary Heart”
Pastor: Jim Murray
PLEASANT BEACH
108 Pleasant Beach Road
Elizabethton 543-1700
Pastor: Bobby G. Stout
HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH
309 East F. Street - 543-3303 / 360-7569
“An Old Fashioned, Separated, Fundamental,
Soulwinning Church.”
Pastor - Dale Greenwell -Home 538-6022
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH
458 West Doe Ave. - Eliz.,TN
S.S. 10 a.m. - Morning Service 11 a.m.
Sun. Evening 6:30 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m.
“ A Church Thats Changing Lives
One Family At A Time”
Pastor Bobby Burrow - 423-474-2808
VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH
Hwy. 19E - Box 100 Roan Mountain 37687
Pastor Jerry Honeycutt
SS 10 a.m. - Preaching 11am - Sun. Night 6 p.m.
Wed. night 7 p.m. - 423-772-3848
FISH SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
3128 Hwy. 321, Hampton - 423-772-4562
Pastor Stevie Guinn
S. S. - 10 a.m. - Sun. Worship - 11 a.m.
Sun. Evening - 7 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m.
Christian
UPPER SHELL CREEK
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
228 Perkins Hollow Road
Roan Mountain, TN 37687
Sun. Morning - 10 am - 12 pm
Sun. Evening - 7 pm - 8 pm - Wed. 7-8 pm
Pastor: Bedford Motley - 423-772-4133
OAK GROVE CHRISTIAN
Powder Branch/Jim Elliott Rd
S. S. - 10:00 a.m. Church - 11 a.m.
Dr. Robert Shannon, Pastor
RANGE COMMUNITY
175 Hart Rd. Elizabethton, TN. 37643
Sunday 9:30 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Sun. School 10:30 & Bible Study Wed. 7 p.m.
For more info. 542-3938
PINECREST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
124 Woodland Drive
Johnson City, TN 37601 (423) 926-5121
C. Randall Carrier Minister
SS: 10:15 Worship: 11:00
Evening: 6:00 Wed.: 7:00
SIMS HILL CHRISTIAN
206 Sims Hill Road Elizabethton, TN
S. S. - 10:00 a.m. Preaching - 11 a.m.
Children’s Church - 11:00 a.m.
Sun. - 6:00 p.m. - Wed. - 7:00 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
212 E. F. St. - Elizabethton- 543-1931
S.S. 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:45 a.m.
2nd Service - 8:45 a.m - Contemporary & Casual
Evening Prayer Service 6p.m.
Wed. Fellowship Meal 5:30 p.m.
Wed Worship - Service 6:30 p.m.
Website: fbcelizabethton.com
BORDERVIEW
1338 Bristol Hwy. Eliz. 542-6685
S.S. 10 a.m.; Morn. Worship 10:45am
Sun. Even. 6 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.
Kirk Langston-Minister
Eddie and Penny Milam, Children’s Ministry
EAST SIDE BAPTIST CHURCH
1509 Siam Road, Elizabethton - 542-5921
S.S. 9:50 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Wednesday Service at 7:00 p.m.
GAP CREEK CHRISTIAN CHURCH
1840 Gap Creek Rd (Hwy. 362)
Sun. Worship: 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. - S. S. 10 a.m.
Wed. 7 p.m. - Ken Kehrer, Minister
BILTMORE BAPTIST CHURCH
1181 Bristol Hwy. Eliz. 543-6192
Sun. School 10 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m. - Wed. 7 p.m.
Bill Davis - Pastor
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
513 Hattie Avenue - 542-5651
Brent Nidiffer, Minister
Morning Worship 9:45 a.m.
B.S. 11:00 a.m., Evening Worship 6:00pm
Wednesday 7:00 p.m.
IMMANUEL BAPTIST
205 Hunter Ave. - 543-5633
Pastor Tim Tapp
S.S. 9:45 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Wed. 7 p.m. - Awana 6:45 p.m.
www.immanuel.baptist@earthlink.net
“We Care About You”
Since 1936
GRACE
1114 Broad St., Eliz. 542-5551
Worship:10:30 a.m. 7:00 p.m.
Pastor Chris R. Hughes - graceelizabethton.com
SINKING CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
2313 Eliz, Hwy. J.C. - 423-928-3222
Rev. Reece Harris, Pastor - S. S.- 9:45 a.m.
Sun. Evening 6:00 P.M. -Wed. Evening 7 p.m.
“The Oldest Church in Tennessee”
CALDWELL SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
1509 Blue Springs Road - Phone 474-3316
Sunday School 10 a.m. - Worship 10:55 a.m.
Discipleship - 6p.m. - Evening Worship 7 p.m.
Wed. Bible Study & Prayer Meeting 7p.m.
HUNTER MEMORIAL BAPTIST
599 Hwy. 91 - 543-8949
Pastor, Doug Hartley
HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH
130 Keenburg Road
S.S. 10 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Wed. 6:30 p.m. - Bible Study
Jim “Butch” Stout, Pastor - Phone 647-3590
CEDAR GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
353 Cedar Grove Road
1 Mile off Milligan Highway
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.
Fellowship Meal Last Sunday Each Month
Children’s Activities Provided During
All Services
Rev. William E. McDaniel, Pastor
913-9263 - www.cedargrovebaptist.net
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VALLEY FORGE
114 VFCC Rd. (South on 19E)
Sunday Worship 10 a.m. S.S 11 a.m.
Sunday Evening 6p.m. Wed 7p.m.
542-4856 - vfcc114@aol.com
David Siebenaler, Minister
BIG SPRING CHURCH OF CHRIST
1106 Gap Creek Road- Elizabethton
Morning Worship - 10 am - S.S. 11 am
Evening Worship 6 pm - Wednesday 6:30 pm
Jordan Kellicut - Minister
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CENTERVIEW CHURCH OF CHRIST
376 Coal Chute Rd. Elizabethton
- 543-1872
STONEY CREEK CHURCH OF CHRIST
1162 Hwy. 91, Elizabethton - 474-2622
The Home of Tri-Cities School of Preaching
and Christian Development
ELIZABETHTON CHURCH OF CHRIST
137 East C. Street - 542-5131
Minister Robert Ellis
ROAN MOUNTAIN CHURCH OF CHRIST
Beside Tetrick Funeral Home, Roan Mtn.
Church of the Nazarene
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
200 W. I St. Eliz. - 542-5152
Rev. Kenley Knight, Pastor
S.S. 9:45 a.m. - Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.
Evening Service 6:00 p.m. - Midweek 7:00 p.m.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
100 East F St. Elizabethton - 543-2711
Sunday School 9:30 - Worship 10:45 a.m.
www.memorialpresbyterianpca.org
Rev. Dwight Basham, Senior Pastor
“Reaching and Nurturing Families for Jesus Christ”
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.)
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
119 West F. Street, Eliz.,TN 423-543-7737
www.fpcelizabethton.org
Sunday School 9:45, Worship 11:00 a.m.
Rev. John Shuck, johnashuck@embarqmail.com
“A Progressive Christian Community”
CATHOLIC
ST. ELIZABETH
510 West C Street
Daily Mass Mon. & Thurs. 10:00 a.m.
Wed.- 6:30 p.m. - Sat. Mass - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Mass. - 9 a.m. - Phone 543-3412
Episcopal
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL
815 North Second St., Eliz.
Fellowship & Coffee Time 10:30 a.m.
Children’s S. S. / Holy Communion 11:15 a.m.
For More Information Call 543-3081
Adult Bible Study 10:00 a.m.
Nursery Available - Eucharist/Healing Service
Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST
325 East E St. Eliz. 543-3505
Worship: Sunday 9:55 a.m.
Fellowship: 11:-11:15 a.m. - SS 11:15-Noon
Bible Study: Wed. 7 p.m.
Pastor: Rev. Lauri Jo Cranford
WATAUGA POINT UNITED METHODIST
Gap Creek Road/G Street
“A Small Town Church With A Big Vision”
Sunday School 10 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m.
Nursery Available - Rev. Jared Wood
HUNTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
722 Hwy. 91, Elizabethton - 543-2436
Sun. School 10 a.m. - Worship 11 a.m.
Sun. Bible Study - 6 p.m. - Rev. Roger Mathes
EAST SIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
1400 Siam Rd. John H. Smith Minister
Morn. Worship-10 a.m. S.S.-11:15a.m.
Even. 6 p.m. Wed. 7 p.m. Call 543-5344
LUTHERAN
HAPPY VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
204 Happy Valley Road - 833-1002
Sun. School - 10 a.m. - Church Services 11 a.m.
Sun. Evening - 7 p.m. - Wed. Night - 7 p.m.
300 West Elk Ave.
big john’s
closeouts
FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING NEEDS
corner of elk & lynn
Phone (423) 542-3117
Fax (423) 542-2848
CLINE-HOLDER
ELECTRIC SUPPLY, INC.
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
Milwaukee Tools • Cutler-Hammer
• Nutone • Acme Transformers •
ITE • Hoffman • Hubbell • Thomas
• Klein Tools • Wiremold
543-4444
STATE FARM
INSURANCE COMPANIES
HOME OFFICES: BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS
GENE SAMS, Agent
1000 W “G” Street
423-542-2168 • Fax (423) 542-2160
Richard D.
Sammons, CPA
204 Rogosin Dr.
Elizabethton, TN
METHODIST
WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN
1307 West G St., Eliz. - 542-4532
S.S. 10 a.m., Sun. Worship 10:45 a.m.,
Sun. Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
EAST RIVER PARK CHRISTIAN CHURCH
1207 Broad Street, Eliz. - 542-8783
Sunday Worship-10:45 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m. www.erpcc.org
Wednesday Bible Study - 7 p.m.
Youth Groups - Sun. 6 p.m., Wed. 7 p.m.
508 Princeton Road, Suite 104
Johnson City, TN • 928-0168
Bethel Church
646 Gap Creek Road- 423-543-4419
VALLEY FORGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
3974 Hwy 19-E - Phone: 423-543-2446
Rev. Don Jones
- A Church With Your Family In MindWeb site: www.valleyforgeumc.org
LOWER SHELL CREEK
Hwy 19 E, Roan Mountain
Sunday: S.S. 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.,
Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.
Gerald Holly, Minister - 542-6359
Adult and pediatric as well as male and female
urology services are available
Inter-Denominational
SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
1610 Southside Road Elizabethton
S.S - 10:00 a.m. - Morn. Worship 10:45 a.m.
Even. 7:00pm, Wed. 7:00pm 542-2234
HOPWOOD MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN
Milligan College, TN - 926-1194
First Service 8:30 a.m. - S. S. - 10:00 a.m.
Sun. Second Worship - 11:00 a.m.
Sun. Evening Worship - 6 p.m.
Dr. David Jones
Dr. Bill N. Boswell
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH
234 West F. Street - Phone: 543-1132
Rev. Erwin Lueker, Vacancy Pastor
Sun. 10:30 a.m. - Bible Study 9:30 a.m.
543-5951
Smokey Mountain
Medical Equipment
1518 West “G” Street
Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643
423-547-0060
Fax: 423-547-0064
We Help You
Make Those Final
Moments A Memory
To Cherish
TETRICK
Funeral Home
Phone 542-2232
John W.
Wagner
Jennings L.
Wagner
Linda
Shouse
PENTECOSTAL
ELIZABETHTON FULL GOSPEL CHURCH
2006 Forsythe Rd. - Elizabethton - (423)547-2884
S.S. 10 am - Worship 11 am & 6 pm - Tues. 7 pm
L.C. Tester, Pastor - Everyone Welcome!
NON - Denominational
WORD PREVAILS
Holy Spirit Guide
304 Mary St. - Elizabethton - 423-612-3334
Sun. 10 a.m. - Wed. 6 p.m.
Pastor George Gross
Healing Service - Last Sunday Each Month
CROSSPOINTE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
206 Parkway Blvd. - Elizabethton
S.S. - 9:45 a.m. - Worship -10:45 a.m.
Evening 6 p.m. - Wed. 6:30 p.m.
Rev. Harold Mains - Senior Pastor • 542-2017
Rev. Chuck Babb - Assoc. Pastor • 543-7292
604 E. Elk Avenue • Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643
543-5522
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Church Calendar
First Presbyterian
The theme for Sunday’s
morning service at First Presbyterian Church is “The Trouble
with Sermons,” based on Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Luke 4:2130. A news release states, “The
Jeremiah reading is about the
call of the prophet who does not
want to be a prophet. He is called
to speak the truth. It is a truth
that is not received well. After
Jesus delivers His first sermon,
the good folks try to throw Him
off a cliff. Every unjust regime is
frightened of the artist. Jeremiah
and Jesus were both artists. They
used creative images and stories
and they stayed with these images even at great personal cost.
They trusted in these images and
expressed them. Because they
persisted, they were a blessing to
others.” The Rev. John Shuck is
the pastor.
the Sunrise Circle will meet at
the home of Virginia Laws at
10:30 a.m., the Volunteer Circle will meet at the church at
2 p.m., the Ann Jett Circle will
meet at 7 p.m. at Sandy Deyton’s
home, and the Esther Circle will
meet at 7 p.m. (contact chairman for location). The men will
hold their monthly breakfast at
8 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6, in
the fellowship hall. For more information, call 542-5651 or visit
www.fcc37643.com.
to UKA Rumpas, Papaua New
Guinea, on Sunday, Jan. 31, at
11 a.m. The youth will present a
drama, “Thief on the Cross,” at
the 6 p.m. service. The Rev. Bill
Greg Miller
Greer is the pastor. For more in- By
Star Staff
formation, call 926-3577.
gmiller@starhq.com
Unity Church
JOHNSON CITY — The Rev.
Alden Studebaker will conduct
the service at Unity Church of
the Tri-Cities, 703 S. Roan St.,
on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 11 a.m.
Adult Sunday School and You
(for teens) begins at 10 a.m. Kids
Moores Chapel
Moores Chapel Free Will Bap- Sunday service will start at 11:30
tist Church will observe “Youth a.m. “A Course in Miracles”
Sunday” on Jan. 31. Travis meets on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.,
Smithdeal will preach at 11 a.m. Fridays at 10 a.m., and Sundays
The juniors and teens will be in at 2 p.m. For more information,
call 975-9159, or e-mail unity@
charge of teaching the Sunday
unity1.org.
school classes and the special
music. Sunday’s evening serUpper Gap Creek
vices will begin at 6 p.m., when
Upper Gap Creek Free Will
“Church Talent Night” will be Baptist Church, 1380 Dry Creek
held. The Rev. Clarence Phillips Road, will celebrate “Friend and
First Christian
First Christian Church, 513 is the pastor. For more informa- Family Day” on Sunday, Jan. 31,
Hattie Ave., will meet Sunday, tion or transportation, call 725- at 10 a.m. Special music will
Jan. 31, at 9:45 a.m. Minister 2023 or 474-2026.
be provided by the Upper Gap
Brent Nidiffer will preach on
Creek Trio at 11 a.m. Lunch will
the topic, “Do You Want to be
Union Bapt.
be served in the fellowship hall
Healed?” his third sermon from
Union Baptist Church, 1411 following the morning services.
his new series titled, “Questions Highway 321, Hampton, will Evening services will not be conJesus Asked,” based on John 5:2- host Royal Journey in concert on ducted. The Rev. Perry Markland
9. The Ladies Bible Study meets Sunday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m. The is the pastor.
at 10 a.m. Monday. Tuesday’s Rev. Danny Bright is the pastor.
prayer service begins at 10 a.m.
Island Road
Wednesday’s 7 p.m. service is
Watauga Valley
BLOUNTVILLE — Island
followed by choir practice. The
Watauga Valley Free Will Road Evangelical Methodist
Grace Circle will meet Wednes- Baptist Church, Highway 91, Church, Island Road, will host
day, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Win- Stoney Creek, will host Lyle the Harvey Family in concert on
some Classroom. On Thursday, and Becky Reefey, missionaries Sunday, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m.
Jimmy Preachers to minister
at First Baptist Church
By Greg Miller
Star Staff
gmiller@starhq.com
Jimmy Preachers will be the
special guest at First Baptist
Church in Elizabethton on Jan.
31.
Preachers will be at the
church on Sunday afternoon to
“work with our praise team and
praise band ... working on the
why’s and how’s of worship,”
said Tim Smith, the church’s associate pastor of music and worship. “Then we’ll do a rehearsal
together so that he can lead the
worship renewal service on that
evening at 7 p.m. He will not be
‘preaching’ per se, but will share
many thoughts and scriptures relating to worship as the leader of
the service that night.”
Preachers and the church’s
praise team, consisting of brass,
percussion, guitars, keyboards
and vocalists, will lead the service. “A guest at this service
would have the opportunity to
give their praise and thanks
to God through contemporary
songs such as ‘Revelation Song,’
‘Amazing Grace My Chains are
Gone,’ ‘Blessed be the Name’
and much, much more!” Smith
said. “Plus, they’ll be encouraged in their faith to live a life
of worship ... that everything
they do can be an act of worship
and praise. It will be a time of
fun, learning, joy and fellowship
with others who believe that living a life centered on Almighty
God is the only way to live!”
The focus of the service is
“Worship Renewal,” according
to Smith. Preachers, Smith says,
will be “sharing ideas both on a
theological as well as practical
basis ... the why and the how.
Our youth praise team will also
be attending the workshop that
he will be giving on that Sunday afternoon. Jimmy currently
works with his local private
Christian high school and leads
their youth praise team.”
Smith and Preachers met
when they were students at the
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Ky., more
than 20 years ago. “We’ve been
friends ever since,” Smith said.
“His first ministry position was a
Jimmy Preachers
small church in Jay, Fla., where I
went to lead the music for a week
of revival services for him. While
there, I met a young lady in his
singles group who eventually
became my wife. He even married us. He’s been a great friend
and prayer partner for all of my
ministry.”
Preachers, Smith says, has
been his partner in ministry.
“Even though we have served
different churches and have
never served together, we have
always held each other up with
prayers, ideas and dreams,”
Smith said. “We’ve supported
each other in the difficult challenges of ministry as well as the
wonderful successes. Jimmy has
two daughters ... one that was
born while we were at seminary
together. She is currently a music student at Mobile College
and was recently engaged to a
young man who is going into
the music ministry ... a testimony to the family life that she had
growing up. Jimmy is married to
a wonderful lady named Debbie.
Debbie is a school teacher and is
the perfect balance for Jimmy’s
high energy personality. I don’t
know what I would have done
without the ability to pick up
the phone and call Jimmy from
time to time. He is a lifelong
friend.”
Preachers, Smith says, is “one
of the most energetic people you
will ever want to meet! He loves
the Lord and has a great passion for worship! He has always
challenged me with his combination of energy and fun mixed
with his ability to stay focused
and organized. Everyone loves
Brother Jimmy!”
Preachers has more than 20
years experience in the ministry.
“He has been serving churches as
a worship leader and music minister for over 20 years,” Smith
said. “He has also preached and
served as a youth pastor.”
“This service is about worship,” Preachers said. “We will
worship God together as we see
how to worship God with our lives
as a lifestyle. It should be a very
exciting time as the praise teams
and band from First Baptist worship and lead others in a time of
worshipping God together. We
will reinforce with biblical guidance the principle that God is the
object of our worship and we are
the participants in the act of worship, both corporately and in our
everyday lives.”
Preachers currently serves as
the minister of music and worship at Concord Baptist Church
in Granite Falls, N.C. “I am responsible for coordinating and
planning the worship experiences of the church, and for giving
direction to the music ministries
of the church,” he said. “I am
also responsible for equipping
those with musical talents to do
the work of the ministry in our
church and to our community,
and disciplining them deeper
in their faith in Christ. Music
should be either introducing
non-believers to Jesus Christ as
Messiah, or leading believers to a
deeper walk in their faith.”
Preachers graduated from
Mobile College (now the University of Mobile) in Mobile, Ala.,
with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Church Music, and from The
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Ky., with
a Master’s degree in Church Music. Both degrees have an emphasis in voice with minors in
Piano.
Preacher’s wife, Debbie, is
in her ninth year teaching first
grade at Hickory Christian Academy in Hickory, N.C. She has a
Bachelor of Science degree in
Psychology from the University
of Mobile.
The couple have two daughters: Lindsay, a junior at the
University of Mobile, majoring
in Early Childhood Education;
and Melody, a senior at Hickory
Christian Academy.
The Rev. Ken Bewley, pastor of
the Roan Street Church of God, is
celebrating 25 years as the congregation’s minister.
A special service to commemorate the milestone will be held
at the church on Sunday, Jan. 31,
at 11 a.m. A covered-dish lunch
will be shared at the conclusion
of the service. Bewley’s son, the
Rev. Jody Bewley, will preach.
“Being at the same church
for 25 years is almost unheard
of in the church world of today,”
said Jody Bewley. “It is a wonderful testimony of a pastor’s
faithfulness to the church and
the church’s faithfulness to the
pastor.”
Jody Bewley observes, “It takes
a man of great integrity and
compassion to spend so much
time devoted to others’ spiritual
well being. I can honestly say
that what you see in the pulpit is
what you see in his home.”
Jody Bewley says his mother,
Judy Bewley, has stood by his
dad in his ministry. “We must
not forget that he has also had a
good godly woman stand beside
him and help him through all of
those years,” he said.
Ken Bewley credits reaching
the milestone to “God and great
people.”
Bewley previously pastored
two other churches. “Judy and I
started at the Church of God at
Bean Station, where we served
for three years,” he said. “From
there, we were called to Mt. Vale
Church of God near Jefferson
City, where we served two years.
I left the pastorate and accepted
a position as maintenance supervisor for the Church of God State
Headquarters in Chattanooga.”
He was attending Signal Mountain Church of God at the time.
“As an ordained bishop in the
church, God did not see fit for me
to continue working in something He did not call me into,”
Bewley said.
“Circumstances came about
that caused the overseer to offer
me a pastorate,” Bewley stated. “As he named the possible
churches for me, nothing clicked
until the name Elizabethton
Church of God was mentioned.”
Bewley continued, “I have
told several people that immediately it seemed as if God turned a
light on in my spirit and I knew
Photo Contributed
The Rev. Ken Bewley is celebrating his 25th year as the pastor
of the Roan Street Church of God. Bewley is pictured with his
wife, Judy.
this was the place I was supposed
to be. I accepted and discovered
that God sent me to the greatest
group of people and the best city
possible. My family and I have
been blessed ever since we arrived.”
Several milestones have been
recorded during Bewley’s tenure as the church’s pastor. “We
paid off a debt on some property
the church had previously purchased, bought more property
and built a parking lot, bought
another property and built a fellowship hall and put an addition
on our church that doubled our
square footage and completely
remodeled the sanctuary and the
outside of the church,” he said.
Bewley added, “I must say
that none of this could have been
possible had it not been for God
and the great people He gave me
to shepherd. It is absolutely nothing I have done, for I am just a
tool in the hand of the Master
builder.”
Bewley explains his conversion to Christ and his call into
the ministry. “My family has
been involved in the church for
all of my life,” he remarked.
“My grandfather was a charter member of the Russellville
Church of God near Morristown.
He was church clerk there for 30
years. My dad was a pastor in the
Church of God, as well as my
brother. Needless to say, many
prayers were said for me.
“Dad was pastoring in Jellico, where I met and married
the love of my life. We moved to
Morristown where I worked. The
Holy Spirit began to deal with me
until I could not sleep at night.
One weekend my wife, Judy, and
I went home for the weekend and
just so happened dad’s church
was in revival. We went to church
Sunday morning, and when
the altar call was given my wife
asked me to go to the altar. We
did and God saved us.”
Growing up in a parsonage,
Bewley experienced the trials of
a pastor and his family. “I told
my dad one time that I would dig
ditches with a pick and shovel
before I would preach,” he said.
“But shortly after getting saved,
I felt the call of God to become
more than just a person to sit on
the pew. I had a dream and saw
myself standing before a congregation preaching the Word. This
was a recurring dream or vision
that stayed with me for months.
I finally accepted the call to ministry and have never regretted it,
for God has been faithful.”
Looking to the future, Bewley
says he would love for the Roan
Street Church of God, as well as
every church in America, to experience a revival. “Not a revival
of meetings or church membership, but a revival where people
are saved and their lives are
changed by the Holy Spirit,” he
remarked. “America will never
be changed until our souls are
changed.”
Bewley says his wife has been
a great asset to him in the ministry. “Although she will tell you
she was not called to be a preacher, she has been a wonderful
wife, mother and the best helpmate I could ever dream of,” he
said. “She started our children’s
church here when we first came.
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Religion
Elizabethton Church of
Christ sets marriage seminar
Elizabethton Church of Christ
will host a “Making Marriage
More Meaningful” workshop for
couples of all ages today from
7-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 30,
from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
The workshop will cover
many facets of married life, with
an emphasis on communication
and the need to “stay in touch.”
With the institution of marriage
suffering so greatly in our society, our marriages need to be
strengthened in every way possible, a news release states.
Today’s class is “Living life together makes life together worth
living.”
Saturday’s classes include:
“How can I possibly live with
the one I can’t possibly live without?”
“I hate to say the problem is
you, but I hate worse to say it’s
me.”
“How to be good partners and
still be great parents.”
“All I know about the birds
and bees is I got pecked and
stung.”
“If you want to catch a bass,
don’t put stinkbait on your
You can’t teach an old weather dog new tricks
Fourcaster.
Fourcaster was a weather fore“Let’s see,” said NewsChief
casting canine who was hired to
Rays
PitBull Billy. “You have been the
present the weather forecast for a
chief weather dog at this station for
brand new fictional TV station in
of
Light
about five years, and you have an
America’s heartland.
Fourcaster loved his job because, in addition to being paid a
very handsome salary (for dogs, of
course), he received bonuses of food
for every forecast which he gave in
an accurate and timely manner.
If a promised day of warmth
and sunshine came through,
Fourcaster received a huge ham
bone. An accurately predicted
rainstorm resulted in two tasty
doggie treats. If a 100 percent
chance of rain proved to be correct, Fourcaster received three
chicken bones, while if a predicted
30 percent chance of rain resulted
Photo Contributed in liquid precipitation, he collectEddy and Jeanny Gilpin will conduct a “Making Marriage More ed one chicken bone.
Meaningful” workshop at the Elizabethton Church of Christ today
One day, after collecting all of
from 7-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 30, from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
the information he needed for the
Middle School in Salem and is following day’s forecast, Fourcasthook.” (for men)
“Don’t let the knot become a working toward her doctorate at er predicted a balmy 70-degree
January day. Most of the other caVirginia Tech.
noose.” (for women)
For planning purposes, preEddy and Jeanny Gilpin, who
have been happily married since registration would be appreci1982, will lead the workshop. ated.
Heartlands Fellowship will
Mr. Roby Ellis is the church’s
Eddy Gilpin serves as the local
host
a free eight-week “Pathevangelist and one of the elders minister.
For more information, ways to Health” class, beginning
of the West Side Church of Christ,
call 542-5131 or visit the Web Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 5:45 p.m.
Salem, Va.
Biblical principles of a healthy
www.elizabethtonchurJeanny Gilpin is an educa- site,
lifestyle
will be discussed. A nutor and teaches at Andrew Lewis chofchrist.org.
tritionist will teach what foods
by Greg Miller
nines employed in various departments at the TV station thought
that Fourcaster didn’t know what
he was talking about.
“You definitely won’t be getting
that huge ham bone bonus tomorrow,” said SportsGirl CollieSarah.
“Were you half asleep while you
were preparing that weather forecast? It was 22 degrees and snowing
yesterday. It’s 42 degrees today, and
tomorrow is just a few short hours
away.”
NewsChief PitBull Billy agreed
with SportsGirl CollieSarah. “It’s
never 70 degrees in January in this
part of the country,” he said. “You
may be putting your job on the line
with this prediction.”
“How often am I wrong?” asked
amazing accuracy record.”
“Then may I offer a suggestion?” asked Fourcaster. “If I’m
wrong, I’ll never forecast another
70-degree day in January as long as
I work here. And if I’m right, how
about giving all of the canines that
work here a dog-gone hambone
party? But you’ll have to provide
extra hambones in case we want to
invite our friends from some of the
other area stations.”
“What will we do with the extra
hambones if all of them aren’t eaten?” asked NewsChief PitBull Billy.
“We have a policy of not wasting
any food here at the station. There
are too many animals and humans around the world starving to
death.”
“When it comes to extra food,
the perfect solution is always doggie bags,’” grinned Fourcaster.
Heartland Fellowship sets ‘Pathways to Health’ class
nourish the body and what you
can do to live in optimal health.
Each week, the class will feature times of exercise, education,
prayer and encouragement. Participants are encouraged to dress
appropriately for exercise.
The class is open to men,
women and teenagers.
The church is located just off
Minton Hollow Road. The Rev.
Marvin Slagle is the pastor.
For more information, call
391-0415 or 543-7770.
‘Getting Authentic with the Bible’ seminar set Watauga Association sets Disaster Relief Training
Get the Bible off the Shelf and into
Your Hands,” “The Grid,” and the
comedic book, “Hoosieritis.”
He received his B.A. degree
in religion (magna cum laude)
from Western Michigan University in 1980.
Studebaker was ordained as a
Unity minister in 1984, and has
JOHNSON CITY — The Rev.
Alden Studebaker will present
a “Getting Authentic with the
Bible” seminar at Unity Church
of the Tri-Cities, 703 S. Roan St.,
on Sunday, Jan. 31, from 1-3:30
p.m.
Studebaker is the author of
“Wisdom for a Lifetime — How to
served ministries in California,
Texas and Washington.
A free will offering will be
received. For more information,
call 975-9159 or visit www.unitytricities.com.
For more information about
Studebaker, visit www.aldenstudebaker.com.
Make or Break?
BY PASTOR BRUCE HENDRICH
He heard about the crisis on his way to work
one morning. His first thought was, “They
brought it on themselves! If they had done what
they should have done in the first place, it never
would have turned out that way.”
She heard about the tragedy later that morning. Her heart was touched, but she reasoned she
couldn’t do anything about it. After all, she had
her own problems to deal with.
Yet another person heard about the calamity
that afternoon. He was gripped with the human
agony and was pierced with grief. He stopped
what he was doing and began to pray. As he
poured his heart out to God, the thought came
to him, “You need to do something about this.”
In response to the inner voice, he decided he
would give money so somebody could help meet
the needs.
Yet, this man couldn’t get the picture of untold suffering out of his mind. Once again a still,
small voice spoke to him, “Get more involved
in helping with this need.” So, he set his priorities aside and began to meet the needs directly,
personally. Though he got dirty, though his
schedule was set back, though he had to make
numerous sacrifices, financial and otherwise, he
began to make a difference. As he returned to his
normal routine, he left the door open to make
even more personal sacrifices if the needs warranted them.
Does this story sound familiar? It should. It’s
patterned after the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10! One crisis, three responses. The
majority of the “observers” (2 of 3) did nothing to help the fellow traveler who was obviously
hurting. Thankfully, one observer did do something to meet the needs of this stranger in pain.
The story of the Good Samaritan is so relevant
today! Surely we are surrounded by hurting people. Pain stretches from Carter County to Haiti
to Afghanistan to Africa. Suffering radiates from
hospitals to support groups to nursing homes
to food pantries to funeral homes to homeless
shelters. Maybe we have been greatly blessed of
God so we will minister to many of these hurting
people!
While we have often been tempted to think we
don’t have much, or enough, to make a difference with so many great needs, we forget the Father of compassion is on our side! I believe God
wants to partner with us in showing compassion
and becoming our source of unlimited resources
to help meet the unlimited needs all around us!
Which observer in this story represents you
and me? We all hear of catastrophes on a regular
basis. From suffering that comes to a few people
we know to catastrophes that affect countless
people we don’t know, do we get involved in their
time of need? If we do, what level of sacrifice do
we routinely make to help alleviate their suffering?
What do tragedies teach us about ourselves?
A compassionate person realizes, “Except for the
grace of God, that hurting person could be me.”
And following Christ’s lead, he treats others the
way he would want to be treated.
What kind of crisis will move us from apathy
to action? What will it take for us to go beyond
seeing needs to sacrificing to meet them?
I can’t help but wonder if the way we respond
to tragedies will either make us or break us...
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First Christian Church, Elizabethton, will host the Carter
County Christian Women’s Fellowship Executive Committee on
Monday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m.
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tive in the ladies ministries,
children’s church, Bible school,
Sunday school and anything
else that needed doing. She has
been instrumental in my ministry, and I am so glad God saw fit
to bring us together.”
Jody Bewley and his wife, Angie McGuire Bewley, have two
children, Leanna and Conner.
Ken and Judy Bewley’s
daughter, Missy Birdsong, and
her husband, Curtis, have one
son, Elijah. The Birdsongs live
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where Missy works in the children’s church ministry.
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“We are just thankful to God
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have grown to love not only
our congregation, but the city
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Bewley has an AS degree in
Environmental Health from
Walter’s State College in Morristown, a graduate in Biblical
Studies from the Church of God
Continuing Education Program,
and an MA degree in Pastoral
Counseling and Biblical Studies
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has changed. “We certainly have
to be more politically sensitive
and culturally relevant today
than 25 years ago,” he said.
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A nursery will be provided.
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DEAR ABBY: My 31-year-old
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what we thought was his deathbed, I told Joey I would give him
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through. He wanted a very expensive sports car.
Well, my son
pulled through,
but has other
physical challenges. My husband and I are
sending
him
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until he starts
receiving money
from Social Security. It’s the best
we can do right now. The problem is, Joey keeps hounding me
about the sports car. I cannot afford this gift. We have offered to
have his current vehicle reconditioned or give him my year-old
car with its very low mileage.
I do not want this to become
an issue with my son. I have told
him his heart condition is the
priority and to let everything else
fall into place. It’s eating me alive
that I can’t give my son what I
promised. On the other hand, his
request is unreasonable. Please
help. — JOEY’S MOM IN LAS
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DEAR MOM: Unless you
put a stop to it now, this
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your son. Surely he is in
touch enough with reality
that he knows your financial situation — and if he
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While you’re at it, explain
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DEAR ABBY: My 21-year-old
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for several months. When she was
here recently I asked her to clean
out some of the stuff from under
her bed and in her closet. She
proceeded to throw out her year-
books, photos from high school
dances — even old journals!
It seems she had an unpleasant experience with Aaron when
a roommate mentioned an old
friend of hers — a boy, but not
a boyfriend. Aaron became very
“hurt” by the conversation. So
now Crystal wants no reminders
of her past — especially regarding other boys.
Is this normal? I don’t know
what to do. I wonder whether
they need counseling before
they marry, but I don’t want to
interfere. My daughter becomes
angry with me over little things.
She even ignored us when we
asked her to come celebrate her
brother’s birthday. She just wants
to be with her true love; nobody
else seems to matter. — A WORRIED MOM
DEAR MOM: Your idea
of premarital counseling is
an excellent one. Aaron appears to be extremely insecure, and your daughter is
so in love she can’t see the
handwriting on the wall.
When you invited her to celebrate her brother’s birthday, did you also include
her fiance? If so, and she
still didn’t want to come,
Aaron may be trying to distance her from the family.
Assuming that Crystal intends to be married in your
church, have a talk with
your clergyperson about
this. If there is a problem
looming on the horizon,
premarital counseling may
bring it out — and help
them to deal with it before
it gets out of hand.
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Financial aid help night rescheduled for Feb. 4
Elizabethton and Carter County high school seniors and their parents are invited to a financial aid help night hosted by Milligan College on Thursday, Feb. 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Milligan’s Gregory
Center for the Liberal Arts.
The event was originally scheduled for Jan. 7, but was canceled due
to weather conditions and school closings.
Jason Seay, director of outreach for the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation, will conduct a financial aid presentation from 6 to
7 p.m. Financial planning experts as well as other financial aid vendors will be available to answer questions before and after the presentation concerning student loans, grants, scholarships and other types
of student financial aid.
The college financial aid day is not college-specific. It’s intended
for all seniors interested in attending a two- or four-year public or
private college or university.
“There are so many opportunities available to help students finance
Honor Roll
Valley Forge Elementary honor roll students named
Bud Hazelwood, Principal of
Valley Forge Elementary School,
has released the honor roll for
the second nine weeks grading
period.
SECOND GRADE
Superior — Cole Hubbard,
Delanie Hyder, Carlee Sullins,
Nico Ashley, Owen Carr, Kaiser
Gouge, Raven Proffitt, Brianna
Ward, Riley Antrim, Kammie
Carden, Abbigail Perry, Heather
Yates.
First — Alaishia Miears,
Bethany Patterson, Keara Setzer,
Troy Austin, Brianna Barnett,
Jordan Isaacs, Kyla Bush, Justus
Bush, Dalton Rouse, Destiny Tester, Devon Bush, Olivia Cox, Ashley Fox, Josh Stout.
Second — Macy Ashley, Dillon Booher, Miranda Clemons,
Carson Stresseman, Alexis Cordell, Taylor Cox, Malachi Markland.
THIRD GRADE
Superior — Malana Griffey,
Bethany Oliver, Neyland Sluder,
Caitlin Stephens, Bryanna Disoso, Jacob Forbes, George Fredericks, Summer Hopson, Susan
Lutz, Devin Riddle, Caley Blevins,
Stephanie East, Emma Swiney,
Josh Ray.
First — Jacob Garrison,
Blake Gentry, Zackary Oliver,
Johnathan Guinn, Jagger Mathes,
Cheyenne Ragle, Konstance Williams.
Second — Kristen Creasey,
Isaiah Vines, Eli Whitehead,
Courtney Williams, Skyler Cole,
Hailey McFetridge, Dakota Potter,
Cody Sigman, Noah Cox, Skyler Oliver, Noah Norris, William
Roark, Hallie Sexton.
FOURTH GRADE
Superior — Rory Antrim,
Adrienne Smith, McKenzie Storie,
Laken Barnett, Daniel Matheson,
Robert Pierce, Jason Russell.
First — Jessica Royse, Mandi
Markland.
Second — Austin Brewer,
Chance Ashley, Maggie Brummitt, Heather Greer, Hope Jackson, Alyssa Johnson, Cherokee
Miller, Alisha Watson.
FIFTH GRADE
Superior — Darryl Hitechew,
ETSU’s Quillen
College of Medicine
will host medical
summer camp
JOHNSON CITY — High
school students already eyeing
a career in medicine and the
health sciences can get an early
glimpse of the field by attending
the Medical Summer Camp hosted by East Tennessee State University’s James H. Quillen College
of Medicine.
The camp will be held June 2025, and will include job shadowing, information on the various
fields of medicine, field trips and
lectures. Participants will reside
on campus.
Tuition for the summer program is $175, which includes
room, meals, all entertainment
and transportation.
Space is limited. For more information, contact Carolyn Sliger,
rural programs coordinator for
ETSU’s Department of Family
Medicine, at (800) 833-1186 or
439-6737 or via e-mail at sliger@
Several Elizabethton students were awarded degrees from Milligan etsu.edu. Interested persons may
College during its commencement ceremony held Friday, Dec. 11. also apply online at www.etsu.
These students include:
edu/fammed. The deadline for
John Bailey, a bachelor of science degree in business administra- applications is March 15.
tion; Christa Britt, a bachelor of science degree in business administration; Cristy Lewis, a master of education degree, and Tammy Mark- Republican Women
land, a master of education degree.
Milligan announces local graduates
Courtney Cox added to Dean’s List
a college education,” said Diane Keasling, coordinator of financial aid
at Milligan College. “This evening is designed to take the guesswork
out of the financial aid process and to give high school seniors and
their parents the chance to ask a lot of questions and take home a lot
of information.”
Financial aid counselors will answer questions related to the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the primary form used
to determine a student’s need; merit-based scholarships from college
and other organizations (including the Tennessee Lottery Scholarship); need-based aid from federal, state and college resources; federal
educational loan programs; campus work study; how to communicate
special circumstances to college financial aid offices; and more.
Refreshments will be provided. The financial aid night is free of
charge; however, reservations are required by Feb. 3. To register for the
event please contact your high school guidance counselor, or for more
information, call Diane Keasling at 461-8968.
Hunter Jones, D.J. Oliver.
First — Dakota Pierce.
Second — Austin Boling,
Haleigh Mercer, Lindsay Sluder,
Keionna Teague, Dalton Blair,
Kalie Estep, Sarah Walser.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Madison Fox, Konstance Williams, Troy Austin, Owen Carr,
Neyland Sluder, Courtney Williams, Blake Gentry, Alyssa Johnson, Robert Pierce, Jaason Russell, Rory Antrim, Jessica Royse,
Adrienne Smith, Bryanna Disoso,
Jagger Mathes, Makayla Pilkey,
Cheyenne Ragle, Bethany Patterson, Austin Boling, Renya Austin, Amber Reece, Lindsey Sluder,
Dalton Blair, Kalie Estep, D.J.
Oliver.
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Chili’s has mastered casual dining since 1975
For casual but tasty dining,
few chain establishments deliver
as well as Chili’s, which has locations throughout the region in
cities such as Johnson City, Bristol and Kingsport.
On a recent Saturday evening,
I found myself with a friend looking for a place to relax and have
a laidback meal. To suit our
mood, Chili’s provided the perfect
answer.
According to the Chili’s Web
site, the chain got its start as a
fun Dallas burger joint with a
loyalty to happy hour and blue
jeans. The restaurant chain was
founded by Larry Lavine in 1975.
Lavine sold the company in 1983
to restaurant executive Norman
E. Brinker, formerly of the Pillsbury restaurant group. Chili’s
now has locations in all 50 states
as well as 28 international locations.
The chain has over 1,400 casual dining restaurants, mostly
located in the United States
and Canada. Chili’s is currently
owned by Brinker International,
which also owns On the Border
Mexican Grill & Cantina, Maggiano’s Little Italy and Romano’s
Macaroni Grill.
The menu at Chili’s reflects
its origins from over 30 years ago
when the first location opened
for business in a converted postal
station on Greenville Avenue in
Dallas, Texas. Founder Lavine
focused on creating an informal
full-service dining restaurant
with a menu featuring different
types of hamburgers. By the early
1980s, there were 22 more Chili’s
locations in the region, all featuring similar Southwest decor.
According to the Web site, legend has it that Lavine founded
the first Chili’s Hamburger Grill
and Bar after attending a chili
cookoff in the arid, remote town
of Teralingua, Texas.
Today, several specialty burgers retain a place on the restaurant’s menu, which has expanded to include steaks, ribs, fajitas,
tacos, dinner salads and much
more.
Chili’s also offers a good assortment of mouth-watering appetizers. Not surprisingly given
its casual dining emphasis, these
meal-starters are top-notch.
Once we were seated at a booth
on our recent Saturday visit, the
first thing we did was to scan the
appetizer selections. Among the
items that attracted our attention
were Southwestern Eggrolls, Hot
Spinach and Artichoke Dip, Crispy
Onion String and Jalapeño Stack,
Loaded Nachos, Texas Cheese
Fries, Boneless Buffalo Wings and
Big Mouth Bites, which are miniburgers, or sliders.
We decided to share a sampling of several of these items
by ordering the Triple Dipper,
which lets diners pick three of
vegetables and loaded mashed
potatoes. Other sides on the
menu include Mashed Potatoes
with Black Pepper Gravy, Black
Beans, Rice, Sweet Corn on the
Cob, Homestyle Fries, Spicy Cole
Slaw and Cinnamon Apples.
My dining companion’s half
rack of ribs were prepared with
their favorite appetizers for a bacon, American cheese and sau- Chili’s new Shiner Bock® BBQ
combination platter. We selected téed onions for a vibrant, mouth- Sauce, which features Shiner
Bock beer, which has been brewed
the Boneless Buffalo Wings, Big watering taste.
in Shiner, Texas, since 1909.
The
eggrolls
are
created
usMouth Bites and Southwestern
I enjoyed the Monterey Chicking a crispy flour tortilla that is
Eggrolls.
In the interest of full disclo- filled with smoked chicken, black en, which was a succulent chicksure, these appetizers are not for beans, corn, jalapeño jack cheese, en breast topped with a tangyanyone looking for a healthy red peppers and spinach. They sweet barbecue sauce, cheese and
snack or trying to shed pounds. had a nicely crunchy texture with crumbles of applewood smoked
They certainly tasted fantastic, a well-seasoned, flavorful filling. bacon. I also enjoyed the shrimp,
After polishing off these ap- which tasted good from the seahowever.
petizers,
we turned back to the soning or garlic and lime, alThe three meal-starters were
accompanied by three differ- menu to select our entrees. though they were left on the grill
ent dipping sauces: Avocado Among the items I considered slightly too long.
The comfortable dining area
Ranch, Jalapeño Ranch and Blue were the Classic Bacon Burger,
at
Chili’s
is adjacent to a spacious
Chicken
Fajitas,
Grilled
Salmon,
Cheese.
bar,
and
both
areas can get quite
The blue cheese dipping sauce Margarita Grilled Chicken and
was intended and indeed went Cajun Pasta. When I decided on noisy, but not to a level that conbest with the tangy Boneless Buf- my main course, I again chose versation ever became difficult.
falo Wings, which disappeared the combination offer, choosing We enjoyed listening to a variety
quite quickly. As for the other two a customized combination plat- of alternative pop tunes as we ate
sauces, the Avocado Ranch was ter featuring Spicy Garlic & Lime our meals.
Our server also did a good job
meant to accompany the egg- Grilled Shrimp and Monterey
tending
to our needs, including
Chicken.
rolls and the more zesty Jalapeño
refreshing
drinks and answering
My dining companion also
Ranch was intended for the Big
chose to customize a combina- questions about menu items.
Mouth Bites.
So, after such a big meal, we
The platter also featured two tion meal, pairing a half rack
didn’t
feel like tackling indiof
Baby
Back
Ribs
with
Grilled
Big Mouth Bites. These mini
vidual
desserts.
Instead, we chose
burgers, or sliders, were served Salmon with Garlic and Herbs.
These combination dinners to split a slice of cheesecake. This
on mini sesame seed buns and
topped with applewood smoked were accompanied by seasonal ample dessert featured a light,
creamy cheesecake served on a
graham cracker crust and topped
with strawberry sauce. We found
the cheesecake quite luscious
and one of the best cheesecakes
we have sampled in quite some
time.
Other dessert options include Chocolate Chip Paradise
Pie, Brownie Sundae and Molten Chocolate Cake, which also
comes in a white chocolate version.
So, for casual dining featuring some delicious food, consider
a trip to Chili’s. An extra incentive is that a trip to Chili’s can
feed the entire family without too
much damage to the budget.
••••••
AT A GLANCE: Chili’s, 3040
Franklin Terrace, Johnson
City. 283-4229. MondayThursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.;
Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to
midnight; and Sunday, 11
a.m.-10 p.m. Entrees range
from $7.89-$16.29. Credit
cards accepted. Carryout
available. Full service bar
available.
‘Alice in Wonderland’ opens Feb. 4 at Barter Theater’s Main Stage
ABINGDON, Va. — Join the
White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, the
Caterpillar, Mad Hatter and the
certifiably crazy Queen of Hearts
when Alice and Barter audiences
go down the rabbit hole in “Alice
in Wonderland” beginning Feb.
4. Attend the show on or before
Feb. 14, just in time for Valentine’s Day, and receive a special
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feature some tremendous stagecraft and special effects that will
make the audience a part of the
adventure. Cheri Prough DeVol,
Resident Set Designer and set
designer for this show, is also
working on special items to be
placed in the lobby so as soon
as audiences walk in, they feel
transported to another place.”
“This production will pay
tribute to the improvisational
origins of Carroll’s story,” Rose
remarked. Carroll first told the
story of Alice to three little girls
on a boat trip for an afternoon
picnic. It was invented on the
spot when the girls begged for a
story; it was really never told with
the idea of writing it down.
“Alice in Wonderland” provided ample opportunities for
the costume shop and properties
department to demonstrate their
creativity and skills. To bring the
diverse and exciting world of Alice to life, puppets (of all shapes
and sizes) will be used extensively. A team of two designers,
Krista Guffey Poisson and Ryan
Fisher, and three collaborators,
Kelly Jenkins, Chase Molden and
Adrienne Webber, came together
to make the 22 puppets in the
production.
Throughout the story, Alice’s
size changes considerably —
from 3 inches in height to taller
than a tree. In order to represent this on stage, whenever Alice grows or shrinks, a larger or
smaller puppet version of Alice is
Bonnie
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ELIZABETHTON • 115 S. SYCAMORE ST.
543-1933
www.thebonniekate.com
AvATAr (PG-13)
Fri - Sun: 12:00, 3:30, 7:00
Tue & Thur. - 12:00, 3:30, 7:00
The Blind Side (PG-13)
Fri. & Sat. - 1:00, 4:00, 7:00
Sun. - 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 • Tue & Thur. - 1:00, 4:00, 7:00
Adults $6 • Children 11 & Younger, Senior Citizens,
College Students, Matinees Before 6:00 - $4
introduced. Some other unique
and imaginative puppets include
the Dodo, the Cheshire Cat, the
Dormouse, the Lory, and perhaps
the most interesting: the Caterpillar. Kelly Jenkins, puppet collaborator said, “The caterpillar
has been the most fun for me.
At nine feet tall, the challenging
part of this puppet has been the
mechanical movement of the
arms. Because the actor is expected to walk, kneel, and crawl
on all fours, the controls had to
be adjusted to fight gravity in
multiple directions.”
“This was some of the most
imaginative work I have done,”
Poisson said. “For the crab, we
took a frying pan to make the
body shape. One never knows
what might come in useful.”
Jenkins comments, “Elements
like the rigging and harnesses,
along with control rods, are not
hidden. The director wanted to
feature these things instead. Woven into this concept is the audience’s ability to see the actors
work with the puppets.”
Barter’s Resident Acting
Company will be featured in
this production. Rebecca Reinhardt returns to Barter to play
Alice, and company members
Tricia Matthews, Dan Folino,
Sean Campos, Ezra Colón, Ben
Mackel, David McCall, Danny
Vaccaro and Rick McVey all
play multiple characters in the
crazy world of Wonderland. Newcomer Kelly Klein makes her
Barter debut as the Dormouse.
Youth discounts are available for
children 17 and under, and discounts are available for groups
of 15 or more. PassBooks are also
available through April 1.
To reserve your tickets, visit
www.bartertheatre.com or call
(276) 628-3991.
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Community Calendar
FRIDAY, JAN. 29
• Roan Mountain Lodge #566 F&AM will have Master Mason’s degrees beginning at 5 p.m., and will break for meal.
• David O’Roark and the Southern Countrymen Band will perform
at the Outdoorsman’s Building, 4535 Highway 11W, Kingsport, from
7:30-10:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $1 for children. For more
information, call 913-3205.
• The Green Pastures Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at
8 p.m. in the Conference Room at Crossroads, 413 East Elk Ave., Elizabethton.
SATURDAY, JAN. 30
• A country breakfast will be held at Dashiell Lodge No. 238, Elizabethton, from 7-10 a.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children
under 12. Carryout will be available. The public is invited.
• A Security Guard Training Class will be held at the B&K Community Center on the Old Bristol Highway in Elizabethton beginning at
8 a.m. Ken Potter, State Certified Instructor, will be teaching the class.
The class will cover unarmed, armed, renewal, baton, chemical spray
and handcuffing. You may take all or any one of the courses. For more
information or to enroll, call 543-6048.
• Rhythm Brewers will perform at David Thompson Produce, Highway 107, Jonesborough, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. For more information, call
213-0676.
SUNDAY, JAN. 31
• The Green Pastures Group of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at
8 p.m. in the Conference Room at Crossroads, 413 E. Elk Ave., Elizabethton.
MONDAY, FEB. 1
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly, or TOPS, will meet at First Baptist
Church, 212 East F St., Elizabethton, on Mondays with weighing in from
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call
975-6540 or 542-4476.
• Back on Track, a community fellowship for women, will meet at
7 p.m. at the Bonnie Kate Theater in downtown Elizabethton. Come,
join in a time of fellowship, worship and hear an inspirational message
given by Ronda Paulson. Jamie Schaff and Beth Stevens will lead music.
Join others to learn about following Jesus in a busy world.
TUESDAY, FEB. 2
• The Watauga Post No. 49 American Legion and the Ladies Auxiliary will have their regular monthly meetings at the Post Home on
Watauga Avenue. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with business meetings
to follow. All Legion and Auxiliary members are urged to attend.
• AARP Elizabethton Chapter No. 1434 will meet at 2 p.m. downstairs in the First United Methodist Church. The guest speaker will be
Julie Moseley with Healing Journeys. She is a licensed acupuncturist
with six years of experience and will speak about the benefits of acupuncture. The church is located at 325 E. E St., Elizabethton. Everyone
is welcome.
• Unaka Piecemakers Quilt Club will meet at 9:30 a.m. at Grace
United Methodist Church, 103 Rock Creek Road, Erwin. After a short
business meeting, guest speaker Cath Evans will present information
about the upcoming Red Bud Festival and Quilting Workshop to be held
in April in Barbourville, Ky. Work will continue on lap quilts being made
for local nursing homes as well as a new project of small quilts for the
Unicoi County Sheriff’s Department to provide to traumatized children.
Newcomers and beginners are most welcome. For more information,
call Trish Harris at 743-9458 or Lavinia Sala at 791-2283.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3
• The Carter County Republican Women will meet at noon in the
Winford Floyd Center of First Freewill Baptist Church, Second Street,
Elizabethton. All members and any woman interested in joining are
encouraged to attend. Membership fees are now due.
THURSDAY, FEB. 4
• The Community Information Center will be hosting the Volunteer
Income Tax Assistance Program at the Elizabethton Public Library from
6 to 8 p.m.
Steelmakers predict gradual recovery
DENVER (AP) — Steelmakers are seeing the first blush of a
recovery with more orders from
manufacturers of autos, appliances and similar products. Yet,
the battered industry’s full recovery has been stalled largely by a
sluggish construction market.
United States Steel Corp. and
Nucor Corp. on Tuesday indicated
they believe the steel market will
gradually improve this year as the
economy rebounds but warned
that demand in commercial construction remained weak.
The forecast came as the two
manufacturing giants released
fourth-quarter earnings reports
showing an industry still struggling from the ill-effects of the
recession that left key markets
reeling — autos, construction,
industrial equipment and consumer products.
Both companies reported improved demand for some products
but each said sales declined at
least 50 percent for the year. Spot
prices rose, but so did raw materials costs.
“While we are becoming more
optimistic, primarily due to improvements we are starting to see
in the manufacturing sector, we
remain cautious in our outlook
for end-user demand,” U.S. Steel
Chairman and CEO John P. Surma said in a statement.
Signs of an improving economy have been surfacing in recent
weeks across several sectors.
Manufacturers have been
busier as customers restock inventories. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group
of purchasing executives, has
reported five straight months of
improved manufacturing activity.
Economists believe industrial production is likely to keep expanding in coming months.
Automakers, for example, are
hoping for a better 2010 after
many reported improved sales last
month.
While overall U.S. sales of cars
and light trucks declined 21 percent to 10.4 million in December,
Hyundai reported an 8 percent
yearly gain, Kia had an annual
gain of nearly 10 percent. And
auto dealerships saw a typical post-
Christmas rush as buyers sought
year-end bargains. Analysts expect
sales to rise to 11.5 million to 12
million this year.
In addition, Americans’ confidence in the economy improved
in January for the third straight
month, according to a survey released Tuesday.
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index increased
to 55.9 in January, the highest in
more than a year. That compares
with 53.6 in December.
Economists watch confidence
numbers closely because consumer spending accounts for about 70
percent of U.S. economic activity.
It takes a reading of 90 to indicate
an economy on solid footing and
100 or more to indicate growth.
The U.S. construction market
remains the weak spot.
“The nonresidential construction market is not projected to
have a significant upturn here in
the first half of the year,” said Dan
DiMicco, chief executive of Nucor.
In the fourth quarter, U.S.
Steel, which is based in Pittsburgh,
reported a net loss of $267 million,
or $1.86 per share, compared with
earnings of $290 million, or $2.50
per share, during the same period
last year.
Revenue declined 26 percent to
$3.35 billion from $4.5 billion.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson
Reuters had predicted a loss of
$1.43 a share on revenue of $3.1
billion.
The company cautioned that
these signs of improvement won’t
be fully reflected in first-quarter
operating results, which should
show a loss “in line” with the
fourth quarter.
U.S. Steel had a 2009 loss of
$1.4 billion, or $10.42 a share,
compared with net income of $2.1
billion, or $17.96 a share in 2008.
Revenue fell 54 percent to $11.05
billion.
Nucor, which is based in
Charlotte, N.C., reported a fourthquarter profit of $58.9 million, or
18 cents per share. The company
earned $105.9 million, or 34 cents
per share, in the year-ago quarter.
Revenue tumbled 29 percent to
$2.94 billion.
The results topped analysts’
the analysts’ estimates thanks to
higher steel prices.
Shares of U.S. Steel fell $6.62,
or 11.8 percent, to close at $49.61,
and Nucor finished down 57 cents
at $43.56.
On Monday, AK Steel Holding Corp., based in West Chester,
Ohio, credited increased demand,
particularly from automotive customers, for better-than-expected
fourth-quarter profit.
It predicted that stronger pricing will help the company drive
growth in 2010 but warned that
the first quarter will likely be the
lowest shipment quarter of the
year.
AK Steel Holdings’ shares lost 4
cents to close at $21.23.
forecasts for profit of 7 cents a
share on revenue of $1.58 billion.
Although Nucor did not release
detailed first-quarter guidance, it
said it expected a 5 percent increase in steel mill shipments,
higher sales prices and higher
scrap costs.
For the full year, the company
posted a loss of $293.6 million, or
94 cents per share, compared with
earnings of $1.83 billion, or $5.98
per share, in 2008. Revenue fell 53
percent to $11.19 billion.
KeyBanc analyst Mark L. Parr,
who follows the industry, noted
that U.S. Steel missed analysts’
estimates on higher costs and
lower-than-expected increases in
prices. Nucor, meanwhile, beat
Home Depot to lay off 1,000
NEW YORK (AP) — Home Depot Inc., the largest U.S. home-improvement retailer, said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 staffers as it cuts
three pilot programs and cuts some support positions.
An internal memo sent to staffers by CEO Frank Blake said about
900 of the cuts stem from consolidating some support functions in its
human resources, finance and other divisions.
The rest come from the company closing a small-format pilot store
in Wilson, N.C.; a temporary hurricane recovery outlet in Waveland,
Miss.; and a clearance outlet in Austell, Ga. Blake said in the memo
there were no plans to close any full-size Home Depot stores.
The cuts are less than 1 percent of Home Depot’s more than
300,000 workers.
Home Depot spokesman Ron Defeo said as part of the restructuring the company will create 200 jobs in Atlanta, where most human
resources administration will be handled, although there will still be
a field human resources team.
Home Depot, based in Atlanta, and other home-improvement retailers have faced sales declines from the long-standing construction
slowdown and consumers holding back on do-it-yourself projects
amid worry over jobs and home values. Although the U.S. housing
market is stabilizing after a nearly three-year decline, home prices
remain far below their peak.
Home Depot’s profit is about even with last year for the first nine
months of the fiscal year, a period that ended Nov. 1, while revenue is
down about 9 percent.
“This is not a case of the company cutting expenses in reaction to
broader economic pressures or our business performance,” Blake said
in the memo. “We are making prudent structural changes where it
makes business sense to consolidate some functions.”
Defeo said employees were notified of the cuts Tuesday and will
receive a minimum severance of 60 days pay from their last day
worked.
The pilot stores will close over the next six to eight weeks as merchandise is cleared out.
BMO Capital Markets analyst Wayne Hood said as Home Depot’s
business model evolves, “you expect to look for ways to become more
efficient,” he said. “If you’re opening fewer stores, can you streamline
real estate and construction functions? Absolutely.”
Shares rose 11 cents to $27.73.
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Member New York Stock Exchange, Inc and Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Financial Advisor
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6,956.99 -78.62
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Last
EKodak
5.92
MauiLnd 2.94
Solutia
14.01
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AMD
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Altria
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ApldMatl
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CSX
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GenElec
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HonwllIntl
HuntBnk
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6.8
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4.8
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2.7
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2.5
1.8
...
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...
1.2
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...
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...
3.2
2.6
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...
...
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2.5
...
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3.8
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3.3
3.0
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1.4
1.4
1.5
1.2
3.2
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... 12.61
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... 15.37
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... 19.51
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n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt =
Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or
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at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
Financial Advisor
10,760
Dow Jones industrials
Close: 10,120.46
Change: -115.70 (-1.1%)
10,400
10,040
11,000
10 DAYS
10,500
10,000
9,500
9,000
A
52-Week
High
Low
10,729.89
4,265.61
408.57
7,471.31
1,908.81
2,326.28
1,150.45
755.91
11,941.95
649.15
6,469.95
2,134.21
288.66
4,181.75
1,234.81
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666.79
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342.59
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Amex Market Value
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Wilshire 5000
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%Chg
YTD
%Chg
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%Chg
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3,940.25
380.62
6,956.99
1,800.96
2,179.00
1,084.53
712.44
11,264.29
607.93
-115.70
-94.14
-4.83
-78.62
-19.80
-42.41
-12.97
-9.44
-135.16
-10.45
-1.13
-2.33
-1.25
-1.12
-1.09
-1.91
-1.18
-1.31
-1.19
-1.69
-2.95
-3.89
-4.37
-3.17
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-2.74
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+24.19
+29.77
+.45
+31.24
+28.12
+44.51
+28.33
+39.10
+32.22
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Total Assets
Name
Obj ($Mlns)
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Oppenheimer DiscoverA m
SG
723
PIMCO TotRetIs
CI 115,919
Putnam GrowIncA m
LV
4,879
Putnam VoyagerA m
LG
3,171
Vanguard Wndsr
LV
8,128
J
NAV
15.21
25.20
24.09
56.12
62.29
42.33
10.94
11.76
19.28
11.72
Total Return/Rank
4-wk 12-mo
5-year
-2.2 +26.6/B
+2.8/B
-3.9 +27.0/C
+1.7/B
-3.3 +21.5/D
+0.4/C
-4.2 +27.9/D
+4.5/A
-3.8 +38.9/A
-0.7/E
-5.4 +23.4/E
+1.4/C
+1.6 +14.1/C
+7.1/A
-2.6 +33.3/A
-1.8/E
-3.4 +59.5/A
+4.3/A
-2.7 +36.8/A
-0.4/D
Pct Min Init
Load
Invt
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
NL
2,500
NL
2,500
5.75
1,000
NL 5,000,000
5.75
500
5.75
500
NL
3,000
CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -Foreign
Large Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs.
others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
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 August 30, 2004, by Joseph D. Holsclaw, an unmarried
man and Vera L. Holsclaw, unmarried to Leonard E. Van Eaton, Trustee, as same appears of record in
the Register's Office of Carter
County, Tennessee, under Deed
T781, Page 449, ("Deed of Trust");
and
WHEREAS, the beneficial interest
of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to Bayview
Loan Servicing, LLC; and
WHEREAS, 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 Carter County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers
and privileges of the original Trustee
named in said Deed of Trust; and
NOW, 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, February 23, 2010, commencing at at the Main entrance or
hallway of the Carter County Courthouse, Elizabethton, Tennessee,
proceed to sell at public outcry to
the highest and best bidder for
cash, the following described property situated in Carter County, Tennessee, to wit:
LOCATED IN THE 14TH CIVIL DISTRICT OF CARTER COUNTY,
TENNESSEE, TO-WIT:
BEGINNING AT AN IRON ROD,
SAID ROD BEING A SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF JEWEL CHAMBERS PROPERTY ON THE
NORTHERLY SIDE OF THE SIMS
HILL ROAD, THENCE WITH THE
NORTHERLY SIDE OF SAID
ROAD FOUR COURSES: (1)
SOUTH 66 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST - 48.47
FEET TO A POINT, (2) AROUND A
CURVE TO THE LEFT DELTA ANGLE 60 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 19
SECONDS LEFT, A RADIUS OF
150.79 FEET, ARC LENGTH
158.18 FEET TO A POINT, (3)
SOUTH 06 DEGREES 43 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST - 6.43
FEET TO A POINT; (4) AROUND A
CURVE TO THE LEFT (DELTA ANGLE 02 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 05
SECONDS LEFT, RADIUS 309.65
FEET, ARC LENGTH 13.43 FEET)
TO AN IRON ROD, SAID IRON
ROD BEGIN AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERLY SIDE
OF A 12-FOOT RIGHT-OF-WAY
AND THE WESTERLY SIDE OF
THE SIMS HILL ROAD, THENCE
WITH THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF
NORTHERLY SIDE OF SAID
RIGHT-OF-WAY
THREE
COURSES: (1) NORTH 64 DEGREES 56 MINUTES 01 SECOND
WEST - 42.32 FEET TO A POINT;
(2) AROUND A CURVE TO THE
LEFT (DELTA ANGLE 27 DEGREES 56 MINUTES 52 SECONDS LEFT, RADIUS 281.37
FEET, ARC LENGTH 137.25 FEET)
TO A POINT; (3) SOUTH 87 DEGREES 56 MINUTES 14 SECONDS WEST - 31.17 FEET TO AN
IRON ROD, CORNER TO BARRY
GOUGE ON THE NORTHERLY
SIDE OF SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY;
THENCE WITH GOUGE NORTH
10 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 38
SECONDS WEST - 106.05 FEET
TO AN IRON ROD, CORNER TO
BARRY GOUGE ON JEWEL
CHAMBERS LINES; THENCE
WITH CHAMBERS NORTH 88 DEGREES 18 MINUTES 34 SECONDS EAST - 360.95 FEET TO
THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
THIERE IS ALSO CONVEYED TO
12-FT.
NONEXCLUSIVE
RIGHT-OF-WAY EASEMENT LOCATED ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PROPERTY, ALL AS
SHOWN ON SURVEY OF D.H.
HAMPTON HEREIN REFERRED
TO.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY
CONVEYED TO JOSEPH D.
HOLSCLAW, UNMARRIED, AND
MOTHER, VERA L. HOLSCLAW,
UNMARRIED, AS TENANTS IN
COMMON WITH THE RIGHT OF
SURVIVORSHIP, DATED AUGUST
2, 2006 FROM KENNETH GOUGE
AND WIFE, BEATRICE GOUGE OF
RECORD IN BOOK 505, PAGE 473
IN THE REGISTER'S OFFICE FOR
CARTER COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
THIS CONVEYANCE IS EXPRESSLY MADE SUBJECT TO
ANY AND ALL RESTRICTIONS
AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN
FORMER DEEDS AND BINDING
ON SAID PROPERTY.
Tax ID # 57, 112.01
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 238 Sims
Hill Road, Elizabethton, Tennessee
37643
CURRENT OWNER(S): Joseph D.
Holsclaw, an unmarried man and
Vera L. Holsclaw, unmarried
The 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/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, 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.
The Callins Law Firm, LLC, Substitute Trustee
c/o Dionna Squires
The Callins Law Firm.,
101 Marietta Street, Suite 1030
Atlanta, GA. 30303
(404) 681-5826
File No.: FT10.03.002
THIS LAW FIRM IS ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
01/29, 02/05, 02/12
TRUSTEE’S NOTICE
OF SALE
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF
AUTHORITY vested in the undersigned Trustee, and in execution of
that certain Deed of Trust made by
SHANNA SLEMP, dated the 8th
day of August, 2007, and recorded
in Trust Book 808, Page 860, at the
Register’s Office for Carter County,
Tennessee, default having been
made in the payment of indebtedness thereby secured, the undersigned Trustee, at the request of the
holder of said Note, Carter Finance
& Thrift Corp., of Elizabethton, will
offer for sale at public auction at the
front door of the Courthouse in Carter County, Tennessee, on the 8th
day of February, 2010, at 11:30
a.m.(ET), the following described
parcel of land and improvements:
SITUATE in the Sixth (6th) Civil District of Carter County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described as follows, to-wit:
“BEING a portion (25 foot x 150
foot strip adjacent to Lot 42) of Lot
41, all of Lot 42, and a portion (as
described in Deed Book 235, Page
279) of Lot 43, in Block C of the
W.J. Latimer and Barkley Subdivision as shown by a plat of record in
the Register’s Office for Carter
County, Tennessee.”
BEING the same property conveyed
to Shanna Slemp by Warranty Deed
of record in Deed Book 509, Page
63, Register’s Office for Carter
County, Tennessee.
Address: 111 Kathy Street, Johnson
City, Tennessee 37601
TERMS OF SALE: CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
will be required. The entire amount
of the successful bid must be paid in
full, in cash within thirty (30) days
after sale. Purchaser shall pay all
recording fees, examination of title
settlement fees, and all costs of
conveyance, including preparation
of a Trustee’s Deed. The Trustee
shall apply the proceeds of the sale
in accordance with the provisions
set forth in the referenced Deed of
Trust.
The sale is subject to conditions, restrictions, rights-of-way easements
and reservations contained in the
Deeds and other documents forming the chain of title to this property.
Any improvements on subject property will be sold in “as is’’ condition
without warranty of any kind.
Sale is made in bar of all homestead, dower, and curtsy, and in bar
of the right of equity of redemption
and the statutory right of redemption, all of which are expressly
waived in the Deed of Trust.
It will be the responsibility of the
successful bidder to obtain possession of the property at his expense.
The successful bidder shall be responsible for any damage, vandalism, theft, destruction, etc., of the
property occurring subsequent to
the date of sale.
This sale is subject to prior liens,
judgments or unpaid taxes, if any.
This sale is further subject to valid
filed or unfiled (if any) mechanic’s
and materialmen’s liens. There are
no representations made by the
Trustee as to the validity or enforceability of any memorandum of
mechanic’s or materialmen’s liens
or any suit to enforce same.
The Trustee reserves the right:
1. To waive the deposit requirement;
2. To extend the period of time
within which the Purchaser is to
make full settlement;
3. To withdraw the property from
sale at any time prior to the termination of bidding;
4. To keep the bidding open for any
length of time;
5. To reject all bids;
6. To postpone or set over the date
of sale as hereinafter set forth; and,
7. Should the highest bidder fail to
comply with the terms of the bid at
public sale, then the Trustee shall
have the option of accepting the
second (2nd) highest bid, or the
next highest bid with which the
buyer is able to comply.
In the event the Trustee deems it
best for any reason at the time of
sale to postpone or continue this
sale from time to time, such notice
or postponement or setting over will
be in a manner deemed reasonable
by the Trustee.
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
Every lien or claimed lien of the
United States with respect to which
the provisions of 26 U.S.C. Section
7425(b) require notice to be given to
the United States in order for the
sale of land thus advertised not to
be subject to such lien or claim of
the United States and every lien or
claim of the State of Tennessee with
respect to which the provisions of
Tennessee Code Annotated Section
67-1-1433(b)(1)require notice to be
given to the State of Tennessee in
order for the sale of the land as advertised not to be subject to such
lien or claim of lien of the State of
Tennessee has been given to the
United States or the State of Tennessee, respectively.
sale to postpone or continue this
sale from time to time, such notice
or postponement or setting over will
by in a manner deemed reasonable
by the Trustee.
LEGAL NOTICE
In the event there is a lien or a claim
of lien by the United States or the
State of Tennessee, the land herein
advertised will be subject to the right
of the United States or the State of
Tennessee to redeem the land as
provided for in 26 U.S.C. Section
7425(b) or Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-1-1433(c)(1), respectively .
Listing of known Interested Parties:
First Tennessee Bank National Association.
G.H. BOWERS,
Trustee
1/15, 1/22, 1/29
TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE
UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF
AUTHORITY vested in the undersigned Trustee, and in execution
that certain Deed of Trust made by
MARY BULLA ELLIS, dated the
29th day of December, 2006, and
recorded in Trust Book 791, Page
787, at the Register’s Office for Carter County, Tennessee, default having been made in the payment of indebtedness thereby secured, the
undersigned Trustee, at the request
of the holder of said Note, Carter Finance & Thrift Corp., of Elizabethton, will offer for sale at public
auction at the front door of the
Courthouse in Carter County, Tennessee, on the 8th day of February,
2010, at 11:00 a.m.(ET), the following described parcel of land and improvements:
SITUATE in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Carter County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described as follows:
“BEING all of Lot 18 & Lot 19, Section 1 of WHITE ROCK VILLAGE
SUBDIVISION as shown by map or
plat of said Subdivision of record in
Plat Cabinet A, Slide 310, in the
Register’s Office for Carter County,
Tennessee, to which reference is
here made for a full and complete
description of said lot.”
BEING the same property conveyed
to Mary Bulla Ellis by Warranty
Deed dated September 8, 1997,
from Harriet Elsie Paduch (Widow),
of record in Deed Book No. 433,
Page 193, register’s Office for Carter County, Tennessee.
Address:
111 Beecham Lane,
Johnson City, Tennessee 37604
TERMS OF SALE: CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
will be required. The entire amount
of the successful bid must be paid in
full, in cash within thirty (30) days
after sale. Purchaser shall pay all
recording fees, examination of title
settlement fees, and all costs of
conveyance, including preparation
of a Trustee’s Deed. The Trustee
shall apply the proceeds of the sale
in accordance with the provisions
set forth in the referenced Deed of
Trust.
The sale is subject to conditions, restrictions, rights-of-way easements
and reservations contained in the
Deeds and other documents forming the chain of title to this property.
Any improvements on subject property will be sold in “as is” condition
without warranty of any kind.
Sale is made in bar of all homestead, dower, and curtsy, and in bar
of the right of equity of redemption
and the statutory right of redemption, all of which are expressly
waived in the Deed of Trust.
It will be the responsibility of the
successful bidder to obtain possession of the property at his expense.
The successful bidder shall be responsible for any damage, vandalism, theft, destruction, etc., of the
property occurring subsequent to
the date of sale.
This sale is subject to prior liens,
judgments or unpaid taxes, if any.
This sale is further subject to valid
filed or unfiled (if any) mechanic’s
and materialmen’s liens. There are
no representations made by the
Trustee as to the validity or enforceability of any memorandum of
mechanic’s or materialmen’s liens
or of any suit to enforce same.
The Trustee reserves the right:
1. To waive the deposit requirement;
2. To extend the period of time
within which the Purchaser is to
make full settlement;
3. To withdraw the property from
sale at any time prior to the termination of the bidding;
4. To keep the bidding open for any
length of time;
5. To reject all bids;
6. To postpone or set over the date
of sale as hereinafter set forth; and,
7. Should the highest bidder fail to
comply with the terms of the bid at
public sale, then the Trustee shall
have the option of accepting the
second (2nd) highest bid, or the
next highest bid with which the
buyer is able to comply.
In the event the Trustee deems it
best for any reason at the time of
Every lien or claimed lien of the
United States with respect to which
the provisions of 26 U.S.C. Section
7425(b) require notice to be given to
the United States in order for the
sale of land thus advertised not to
be subject to such lien or claim of
the United States and every lien or
claim of the State of Tennessee with
respect to which the provisions of
Tennessee Code Annotated Section
67-1-1433(b)(1) require notice to be
given to the State of Tennessee in
order for the sale of the land as advertised not to be subject to such
lien or claim of lien of the State of
Tennessee has been given to the
United States or the State of Tennessee, respectively.
In the event there is a lien or a claim
of lien by the United States or the
State of Tennessee, the land herein
advertised will be subject to the right
of the United States or the State of
Tennessee to redeem the land as
provided for in 26 U.S.C. Section
7425(b) or Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-1-1433(c)(1), respectively.
Listing of known Interested Parties:
Christy Burgin, Randy Burgin, Marsha Riddle, and Carter Finance &
Thrift Corp.
R.T. SMITH, Trustee
1/15, 1/22, 1/29
FIRST UTILITY DISTRICT OF C. C.
101 SCOTT LANE (423)474-2154
ELIZABETHTON, TN 37643
The First Utility District of Carter
County will be having a special call
meeting on Tuesday, February 2,
2010 at 4:00 PM to have a budget
workshop and adopt a travel policy
here at the utility office.
01/29, 01/31
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
WHEREAS, default has occurred in
the performance of the covenants,
terms, and conditions of a Deed of
Trust Note dated February 26,
2002, and the Deed of Trust of even
date securing the same, recorded
March 8, 2002, at Book T615, Page
141 in Office of the Register of
Deeds for Carter County, Tennessee, executed by Bradley K. Gouge
and Angela D. Gouge, conveying
certain property therein described to
Lender's Title & Escrow, L.L.C. as
Trustee for Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc., as a
separate corporation acting solely
as nominee for New Freedom Mortgage Corporation and New Freedom Mortgage Corporation's successors and assigns; and the undersigned, Shellie Wallace of Wilson &
Associates, P.L.L.C., having been
appointed Successor Trustee.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is
hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and
payable; and that an agent of Shellie Wallace of Wilson & Associates,
P.L.L.C., as Successor Trustee, by
virtue of the power, duty, and
authority vested in and imposed
upon said Successor Trustee will,
on February 19, 2010 on or about
2:15 P.M., at the Carter County
Courthouse, Elizabethton, Tennessee, offer for sale certain property hereinafter described to the
highest bidder FOR CASH, free
from the statutory right of redemption, homestead, dower, and all
other exemptions which are expressly waived in the Deed of Trust,
said property being real estate situated in Carter County, Tennessee,
and being more particularly described as follows:
SITUATE IN THE 7TH CIVIL DISTRICT OF CARTER COUNTY,
TENNESSEE AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BIENG ALL OF LOT 19 IN
BLOCK 3 OF LILLY ADDITION TO
ELIZABETHTON,
TENNESSEE,
AS SHOWN ON PLAT MAP RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 73,
PAGE 108 IN THE REGISTER'S
OFFICE FOR CARTER COUNTY,
TENNESSEE.
ALSO KNOWN AS:
1015 1/2
Walker Street, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643
This sale is subject to all matters
shown on any applicable recorded
plat; any unpaid taxes; any restrictive covenants, easements, or setback lines that may be applicable;
any statutory rights of redemption of
any governmental agency, state or
federal; any prior liens or encumbrances as well as any priority created by a fixture filing; and to any
matter that an accurate survey of
the premises might disclose. In addition, the following parties may
claim an interest in the above-referenced property:
Bradley K.
Gouge; Angela D. Gouge; Gault
Financial LLC assignee of Chase
Manhattan Bank
The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Successor Trustee's option at any time.
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. W&A No. 817-123131
DATED January 15, 2010.
The Elizabethton City Council will
be meeting in a Workshop session at 12:00 Noon on Friday,
February 5, 2010 at City Hall, 136
S. Sycamore St. regarding purchasing money for Water, Sewer
and Electric Capital Projects.
Larry Clark, City Clerk
1/29
(Melissa Hall Avon Indep. Sales Rep.)
BUSY optometrist office looking
for experienced staff person.
Good working environment.
Send resume to: P.O. Box 571
C/O Elizabethton Star, P.O. Box
1960, Elizabethton, TN 37644.
WAREHOUSE worker must lift
50 lbs. Clean driving record.
Fax resume to 423-542-6294
ELIZABETHTON STAR
15 SERVICES
OFFERED
Newspaper tubes are the Property
of the Elizabethton STAR and are
used for the delivery of our product.
Any unauthorized use of Elizabethton STAR newspaper tubes for
distribution of any material will result
in a minimum $300 charge to the responsible party.
ELIZABETHTON STAR
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NON-RESIDENT NOTICE
IN THE CHANCERY COURT
AT ELIZABETHTON,
FOR CARTER COUNTY
TENNESSEE
CHICAGO TITLE INSURANCE
COMPANY AND WILIMGTON
FINANCE, a division of
AIG Federal Savings Bank
PLAINTIFFS
-VSRICKY PARLIER AND
JOHNNY JOE PARSONS, JR.
Defendants
CAUSE NO. 27466
In this cause, it appearing from the
Plaintiff’s bill, which is sworn to, that
the Defendant, Ricky Parlier, address is unknown, it is ordered by
me that publication be made for four
successive weeks, as required by
law, in the Elizabethton Star, a
newspaper published in Elizabethton, Tennessee in said County,
notifying said defendant to appear
before our said Chancery Court, at
the Courthouse, 801 East Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, within thirty (30)
days after this notice has been published for four successive weeks in
said newspaper, and make defense
to said Complaint, or the allegations thereof will be taken for confessed and this cause set for hearing ex parte as to Ricky Parlier.
This 27th day of January, 2010
MELISSA MORELAND
CLERK and MASTER
01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19
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CARTER County, Tennessee is
now accepting bids for the items
listed below. All bids must be submitted in writing and meet all specifications on or before February 19,
2010 at 11AM at the Carter County
Finance Office, Room 203, 801 East
Elk Avenue, Courthouse, Elizabethton, TN 37643. Carter County
reserves the right to reject any and
all bids, maintains the right to negotiate after bid, and waive any informalities. All bids must be received
by the date indicated above, and
should be mailed to:
Jerome Kitchens
Finance Department-Bid
801 East Elk Avenue
(423)547-4005
Faxed bids are not acceptable. Further details/specifications are available on request.
Items for bid:
66 Passenger & 29 Passenger
School Buses
QUALITY
NEWSPRINT
COMMERCIAL
WEB PRINTING
Is available for organizations
such as churches, schools,
civic groups, companies retails
businesses or other institution
who need to print newsletters or
periodicals.
WILSON & ASSOCIATES, P.L.L.C.,
Successor Trustee
By: Shellie Wallace
VA No. LH-0202060495018
The Elizabethton
Star
FOR SALE INFORMATION, VISIT
WWW.MYFIR.COM
and WWW.REALTYTRAC.COM
1/22, 1/29, 2/5
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Contact
Delaney Scalf
(423)542-4151
Elizabethton, TN
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GENERAL
VALENTINE Special for Summer
Tyme Tans, 434 Railroad Street.
January 21st through Sunday
31st. Turbo bed special. Months
unlimited $35. Regular bed $20.
(423)542-5699
*Attic Insulation blown-in, energy
savings guaranteed. All fiberglass,
Free estimates, 423-389-2559,
423-542-3963 leave message.
Cricket Tree Service. Topping,
trimming, stump removal. Best
Price in town with insurance.
Free estimates. 423-647-7773.
EAST TENNESSEE INSULATION
$1,500.00 TAX CREDIT
Blown in *Batts *Basement Walls
*Crawl space *Water pipe covers
*Caulk *Seal doors * Windows
Office (423)474-4277
ELIZABETHTON:Construction,
Trackhoe, backhoe, frontloader,
landcleared, site work septic systems, dirt, shale for sale.
(423)547-0408, 895-0499.
JLJ HOME IMPROVEMENT,
remodeling, room additions &
vinyl siding. Licensed &
Insured. 423-543-2101.
KY CONSTRUCTION All types of
excavation and demolition. Dirt
and shale for sale. Specializing in
finish grade work. Keith Younce
(423)-341-7782 or (423)543-2816.
Sonnyside Landscaping
Grading, seeding and lawncare;
small engine repair; mowers,
outboard motors and dirt bikes,
etc. (423)543-6503.
Will care for your loved ones.
Weekend work. Experience,
references upon request.
423-217-0485.
20 ARTICLES
FOR SALE
!$249 KING and $135 FULL
Luxury Pillow Top mattress sets.
Both new, still in plastic.
423-218-4134
$150 QUEEN Pillow top mattress
set, brand new, still in plastic.
Retail $600. (423)218-4134
COUCH chocolate brown naugahyde, 7.5 ft. long, almost new, great
condition, very comfortable. $175,
802-655-6201 leave message.
GOING to auction! Steel Arch
Buildings Selling for Balance
Owed. Few buildings left: 16x24,
20x26 and 25x34. Call before
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23 YARD
SALES
MOVING SALE!!! Saturday and
Sunday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Appliances, dining table w/ 4
chairs, large sofa, white reg. size
bed frame, white 4 drawer wicker
chest, wooden 5 drawer chest,
Country Fair musical figurines,
NASCAR, gas grill, treadmill, air
compressor, much more. 207
Mountain view Drive, Hampton.
One block from Citizen’s Bank.
26 COAL-OIL-WOOD
FOR SALE
FIREWOOD $55 per truck load
in Elizabethton, $60 per truck
load everywhere else,
split and dumped. Cash only.
(423) 213-5312.
29 TOWNHOUSES
CONDOS FOR SALE/RENT
2 BEDROOMS, 1.5 bath Townhouse. washer, dryer hookup,
appliances, dishwasher, deck,
$475 month, deposit.
423-483-4875.
CHARMING Condo on Max Jett
Road, 2 bedrooms, no pets,
(423)512-1507
30 ROOMS
FOR RENT
Budget Inn
$140 + tax (single) Weekly
$500 + tax monthly
all utilities included
423-743-9181.
NICE ROOM FOR RENT, lights,
water, garbage furnished
$375. month plus deposit.
(423)773-7510
31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
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31 APARTMENT
FOR RENT
42 HOUSES
FOR SALE
1 Bedroom, referigerator and
range, no pets, close to
Elizabethton. $250 month plus
deposit. Call (423)542-0090
New construction, unique design
open beam interior,
2 bedroom, 2 bath, plumbed for
3rd bed and bath in basement,
private lot with small creek at
back of property, front & back
porches & decks, concrete
driveway. $135,000.
423-543-2816 or 423-341-7782.
2 bedroom, 1 bath, W/D
hook-up. West C St. Located
behind Ingles. Section 8
$375.mth.,$350.dep
(423)542-6133.
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, chalet
CH&A, Hampton area, no pets,
$400 month plus deposit,
(423)502-4215
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
AVAILABLE. EFF’S - 1&2
BEDROOM APARTMENTS. ALL
UTILITIES PAID WITH SOME
RENT STARTS AT $315 MONTH,
$200 DEPOSIT. CALL
423-542-8493 OR 423-956-0068
BEFORE 5 PM.
NICE 1 bedroom apartment with
water. Washer, dryer hook-up.
First floor. $335. month, $300.
deposit. (423)542-2918
VARIETY of 1 bedroom and 2
bedroom apartments available.
Rent: $250 month & up. Call
Manager. 423-547-2871.
56 BOATS W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
119 Watauga Valley
Church Road
2 Bedroom, CH&A, Elizabethton,
no pets, washer and dryer con.,
$500 month plus deposit.
(423)542-0090.
month FREE!
ASSORTMENT of rentals:
Farm, brick, frame, pets, rent to
owns, furnished and unfurnished.
282-6486.
C21 Whitehead Realty, 543-4663,
1789 Campbell Rd., Mtn. City, 3
bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage,
$750 month, 876 Heaton Creek, 3
bedroom, 2 bath, Roan Mountain,
$550 month. Penny 647-1111.
2000 MAZDA 626 LX, 4 door,
$4,000. 4 cylinder, see at
196 Burton Frances Road,
Johnson City 423-926-3549
1st Time Buyers Special
$250 Deposit Land/Home.
Hurry, only 3 left.
423-282-0343.
2 bedroom, 1 bath,
Roan Mountain. $350 month,
deposit. 423-772-0199.
$194,900
1492 Broad Street, Elizabethton
3BR/3BA attached garage
plus large detached garage.
Large level lot
across from Watauga River.
MAIN STREET REALTY
423-542-4630
Move in ready! Nice 2 bedroom 1
bath located just outside Elizabethton City Limits. Some hardwood floors, carpet, and vinyl.
Eat-in kitchen and large mud room.
Neutral colors throughout. Newer
heat pump and new windows. Detached garage with separate entrance workshop all on a level
yard. Seller offering $2,500 towards closing costs. Great for first
time home buyers! $85,000. MLS#
281521.
3 bedroom, 2 bath, newly
remodeled Clayton Mobile Home,
Gap Creek area. $500. month,
$500. deposit. (423)895-0008,
895-0005
Ready to Move In!
3 Bedroom, 2 bath
Special financing available.
Limited Time! 423-952-0859
Renters Wanted, Owner financing, new doublewide on 1/2 acre.
423-282-0343.
42 HOUSES
FOR SALE
119 Ridgecrest Drive, Central
Split Foyer, 3 bedroom, 2 bath,
1500 sq. ft., new roof, newer heat
pump, closed in garage, private
deadend
street.
$95,000
423-543-5892.
J&L MOTORS
198 HWY. 91
423-542-2664
2003 SATURN ION
Stock #LB6007
Pre-Owned
2007 CHRYSLER 300
STOCK # 6750
Pre-owned
Chrome wheels, V6, loaded,
69,000K, $10,900.
LEWIS USED CARS
226 W. ELK AVENUE
423-542-9306
STOCK #0690
Pre-Owned
V6, automatic, 4x4, third row seat,
extra nice, $6,995.
LEWIS USED CARS
226 W. ELK AVENUE
423-542-9306
$253,000
145 Woody Grove Rd,
Elizabethton
3BR/2.5BA 9.80 acres a
complete 30'x80'wood working
shop/garage and rental.
1998 FORD WINDSTAR
Stock #LB5626
Pre-Owned
7 passenger van, 3.0 engine, automatic, AM-FM-CD, power windows, locks, alloy wheels, 109K.
MAKE AN OFFER!
157 Bear Hollow Road
$105,000
Raised range surrounded by privacy. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath with a
step down den and very large eat
J&L MOTORS
198 HIGHWAY 91
423-542-2664
$5,995.
J&L MOTORS
198 HWY. 91
423-542-2664
64 4X4 W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
2003 JEEP LIBERTY LIMITED
Stock #0639
Pre-Owned
4X4, V6, automatic, loaded, sunroof, alloy wheels. $7,995.
LEWIS USED CARS
226 W. ELK AVENUE
423-542-9306
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
2000 CHEVY LUMINA
Stock #LB7015
Pre-Owned
4 door, V6, automatic, power windows, locks, drives out good,
$3,495.
161 JUDGE BEN ALLEN, ELIZ.
MAIN STREET REALTY
423-542-4630
103K, 4.0 engine, automatic
transmission, alloy wheels,
power windows, locks, mirrors,
AM-FM-CD. Good condition,
in kitchen.
MAIN STREET REALTY
423-542-4630
$89,000
105 Ruby Ave, Elizabethton
2BR/1BA great location,
refurbished hard wood
floors,large yard
with storage shed.
J&L MOTORS
198 HWY. 91
423-542-2664
1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Stock #LB1789
MAIN STREET REALTY
423-542-4630
$60,000
419 Division Street,
Elizabethton
SHORT SALE!!! 2BR 1BA in a
great neighborhood on the
west side. Home is being sold
AS-IS
4 door, 4 cylinder, automatic,
leather, alloy wheels, AM-FM-CD,
power windows, locks. Excellent
condition, $5,995
2003 FORD RANGER XLT
Pre-Owned
Stk. #8632
Alloy wheels, extended cab, black,
two tone, red and black interior.
Lots of chrome, 5-speed, 4x4,
cruise, tilt, PM, PW, PL, AM/FM,
CD, cassette, air.
MAGIC RIDE AUTO SALES
423-542-2500
Call Michelle
Patton @
ERA Golden
Key Real
Estate
423-483-4357
BRICK
HOME
ON 6.2
ACRES FORMAL LIVING/DINNING. 5/6 BEDROOMS, 3
BATHS, STORAGE GALORE,
DEN W/FIREPLACE. COVERED
PATIO
W/FIREPLACE & HOT
TUB. THREE CAR GARAGE.
SHED & BARN. $350,000.
SHERREE
HOLT
@
CENTURY 21
423.213.9635
J&L MOTORS
198 HWY. 91
423-542-2664
1999 DODGE DURANGO SLT
Pre-Owned
Stk. # 3796
4x4, alloy wheels, silver, third row
seats, tilt, cruise, AM/FM, cassette,
CD, air, rear H/A, gray, leather interior. Power everything.
423-542-2500
Pre-Owned
Stock #MB243
2006 FORD F150 FX4
4x4, 5.4L V-8, automatic, leather,
chrome, running boards. Extra
Clean.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
1441 HWY. 19E
(423)543-8603
65 TRUCKS & SEMI’S
PRE-OWNED
STK. #MB249
2005 Mazda 6 GT
2.3L, 4 cylinder, automatic,
leather, sunroof, loaded, extra
clean. Local one owner.
MEREDITH BROTHERS
1441 HWY. 19E
(423)543-8603
2 bedroom, Hampton. No pets.
Garbage pick-up. furnished.
$300. month, $285. deposit.
423-725-2164
3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath,
private lot, appliances furnished.
Close to Unaka Elementary.
$400. month, deposit.
(423)512-9048.
2002 SUZUKI XL7
Stock #LB 1812
Pre-Owned
4 cylinder, automatic, power locks,
windows, mirrors, alloy wheels,
gas saver. $3,495.
136 Ruby Ave.
Elizabethton, TN
2 bedroom, appliances
furnished, iwasher, dryer, &
water. No pets. $350 + deposit.
(423)543-2389.
2 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS, 16x80
back deck, front porch,
appliances furnished, private lot
with lake front view. $450 month,
$450 deposit, (423)725-2363
2000 MERCURY
MYSTIQUE
60 AUTOS W/PHOTO
SUCCESS STORY
33 MOBILE HOME
FOR RENT
2001 ISUZU RODEO
Pre-Owned
STK #4428
White, alloy wheels, V-6, LSE,
anti-theft system, tan leather interior. Power everything. AM/FM, CD,
tilt, cruise, sunroof, 4x4.
(423)542-2500
THE BONE YARD we buy cars.
Free pick-up. (423)791-1384
(423)542-4995 ask for Al. 1986
JAGUAR $2500.
House in city limits. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, appliances, W/D
hook-up, deck and large yard.
Non-smoker, no pets. $500
month. Security deposit and references required. (423)773-4573
or (423)542-2348.
3 bedroom, 2 bath, convenient
location, CH&A, no pets, $650.
month plus deposit,
STOCK #9182
Pre-Owned
Duel power doors, alloy wheels, sto
and go seats, loaded, like new.
$7,995.
LEWIS USED CARS
226 W. ELK AVENUE
423-542-9306
59 AUTOS
FOR SALE
1984 Dodge Charger. Trade for
Harley Davidson Motorcycle or
pop-up camper. (423)543-5971.
3 bedroom house for rent, 1 bath,
nice lot, Stoney Creek, $675.
month, $600. security deposit.
Call about moving speical!
Call NETRP & Sales.
(423)547-2871.
3 bedroom brick,
West Side District,
$695 month. Drive by
836 Parkway Blvd.
828-635-0606
for appointment. Ask about 1
2007 DODGE GRAND
CARAVAN SPORT SXT
83 CORRECT CRAFT 20’ bowrider 350, Lakeshore Marina,
$6,395 or trade for pontoon
boat. 423-768-0680.
Tachelle
Peters
MAIN STREET REALTY
423-542-4630
32 HOUSES
FOR RENT
2 bedroom, 1 bath brick ranch
home, Sulphur Springs area. .
New appliances, completely
remodeled, full size basement,
W/D hookup, fireplace, quiet
neighborhood, large fenced-in
backyard, hardwood floors, tile
bathroom, kitchen, heat pump,
5 miles to Gray, 10 miles to
Jonesborough, available
February 1st. $800 mth.,
$400 dep. 423-477-4039,
423-791-3616.
64 4X4 W/PHOTO
FOR SALE
OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE
1200 sq. ft. 1421 West G Street,
$400 month
(423)725-3811 or 676-8546
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
$128,900
510 Parkway Blvd, Elizabethton
3BR/1.5BA One level ranch with
low maintenance in ground salt
system pool.
West side schools.
60 AUTOS W/PHOTO
C21 Whitehead Realty, 543-4663.
1500 sq. ft., office space, 202 Hwy.
321, $675, Penny 647-1111.
AIRPORT Apt. 2 bedroom, 1 bath,
baseboard heat, window air,
$400 rent-$425 rent, water
included. $300 deposit.
Call about moving special!
Call N.E.T.R.P. and Sales
(423)547-2871
MILL RACE: 2 bedroom, no pets,
$450-$500 month., $400 deposit
Credit check, references.
423-543-2632, 213-1550
51 COMMERCIAL
SALE/LEASE
Over 3200 sq. ft. of living space,
4 bedroom, 2 bath, finished
basement, in ground salt system pool, all situated on just under an acre lot.
2 bedroom, no pets. $450 month,
$300 deposit. 423-543-8161.
715 W H Street, 1 bedroom,
appliances, water and trash
pickup furnished.
$325.mth, $200.dep.
Section 8 Approved
(423) 773-6122
43 HOUSES
W/PHOTO
2000 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR
Stock #5549
Pre-Owned
4X4, leather, chrome wheels, sunroof, third row seat, all extras,
$6,995.
LEWIS USED CARS
226 W. ELK AVENUE
423-542-9306
1995 Dodge Ram 1500
Pre-Owned
Stk. # 4606
Black, silver, chrome wheels, extended cab, power everything,
cruise and tilt, AM/FM, cassette,
gray interior, bedliner, side guard.
(423)542-2500
RESULTS
121 Lafayette Cir.
Elizabethton, TN
Colonial Acres-priced below tax
appraisal!! Over 3,000 finished sq
feet plus 1576 in the unfinished
basement with 2 car garage. This
home offers 4 bedrooms, 3 and
1/2 baths. Formal living with gas
log fireplace. Formal dining area,
large kitchen with island, almost
new stainless steel appliances,
and a corner breakfast nook. Large
den also located on the main level
for easy entertaining. The master
bedroom is 16x20 and has a large
walk-in closet and private bath with
jacuzzi tub. Large deck with
mountain views. Priced to sell at
$219,900. MLS# 285408.
Michelle Patton
@
ERA Golden
Key Real
Estate
423-483-4357
602 North Main
Historical beauty with modern conveniences, all on an acre lot in the
city. Original built-ins, 4 decorative
fireplaces, original hardwood
floors,
almost
a
complete
wrap-around porch with three entrances from inside.
RAINBOW REALTY
(423)547-2800
47 WANTED
TO BUY
CASH FOR GOLD
Broad St. Gold Shop
829 Broad Street
Elizabethton, TN
Across Street from Food City
(423)429-5509
No Mailing,
We Pay Cash On The Spot
FAST CASH, top dollar for your
junk car. Free and speedy
pick-up, call 423-791-3968,
(423)928-0200.
2003 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE RS
Pre-Owned
Stk. #2773
4 cylinder, automatic, alloy wheels,
red, PL, AM/FM, CD, gray interior.
423-542-2500
NOTICE TO FURNISHERS
OF LABOR AND MATERIALS TO:
Tennessee Guardrail, Inc.
PROJECT NO.: 98016-4187-04,
98016-4188-04
CONTRACT NO.: CNG262
COUNTY: Carter
The Tennessee Department of Transportation is about to make final settlement with
the contractor for construction of the above
numbered project. All persons wishing to
file claims pursuant to Section 54-5-122,
T.C.A. must file same with the Director of
Construction, Tennessee Department of
Transportation, Suite 700 James K. Polk
Bldg., Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0326,
on or before 03/05/10.
952-0226 - Office • 543-4063 - Home
676-4063 - Mobile
FEATURED PROPERTY
FRED GOODWIN
CAROL GOODWIN
410 EAST H STREET • $181,900
Gorgeous 3 bedroom home in great location offering 2 large remodeled
bathrooms, formal living room with cozy fireplace, formal dining room,
large kitchen that opens to great screened-in porch, parking at rear of
home, newer windows and roof. Lots of storage. Great home in excellent condition. Call Carol for appointment to view 676-4063
Judge: Prayer before N.C.
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The agency’s board includes Chief Bailey, Carter
County Sheriff Chris Mathes, Carter County Rescue
Squad Director Terry Arnold, Elizabethton Housing
Development Agency Director Kelly Geagley, County Mayor Johnny Holder, Emergency Management
Agency Director Ernest Jackson and others.
John Pierce said the minutes for the Jan. 19
meeting should be available at the county clerk’s
office and the 911 office next week.
The board’s next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 9
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ELIZABETHTON
ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT
Interested in TVA Electric Heat Pump Financing?
CALL: 542-1101
Social Security system would
not lose any revenue under the
plan, which officials described
Thursday ahead of Obama’s
Baltimore visit.
Obama first promoted the
idea of a tax credit for adding
workers late last year. But House
Democrats omitted it from a
jobs bill they passed in December because of doubts about how
to make the credit work.
Administration aides say
the revised proposal will be
less susceptible to abuse from
employers trying to game the
system. Companies that fire
workers and then quickly replace them would not qualify
for the tax breaks, officials
said.
Wage increases for highincome employees also would
not qualify. No one pays Social Security payroll taxes on
income above $106,800, so
any pay increases above that
level would trigger no reimbursement to the employer.
Despite the House’s recent
rejection of a similar plan, the
idea of tax credits for job creation has caught on among
Senate Democrats. They plan
to include such a credit in a
scaled-down jobs bill to be
voted on in February.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently analyzed several proposals to create
jobs and improve the economy
and concluded that a payroll
tax credit for firms that increase payroll would be among
the most effective. However, the
analysis cautioned that it could
be difficult to administer.
retirement on the news last night and no one from
the board has contacted me; however, we will discuss the search for a new director at our next meeting,” John Pierce said. “I am going to contact the
state board and inform them of the situation. I need
to learn about the legalities of advertising for a new
director.”
Walt Pierce has been director of Carter County
911 since 1997, leading a current staff of about 25
employees. Prior to that, he was employed for 17
years at the Johnson City Police Department.
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Obama retools tax credit
to companies creating jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is taking
another swing at offering tax
credits to companies that hire
new workers, a plan that drew
a cool reception from Congress
last month despite the nation’s
high unemployment rate.
With polls showing that jobs
are Americans’ top priority,
Obama cited the retooled plan
in his State of the Union address, and he is to detail it today
when he visits a small business
and speaks to Republicans in
the House of Representatives
meeting in Baltimore.
His proposal would give
companies a $5,000 tax credit
for each net new worker they
hire in 2010. Businesses that
increase wages or hours for
their existing workers in 2010
would be reimbursed for the
extra Social Security payroll
taxes they would pay.
No company could reap
more than $500,000 from the
combined benefits, one of several features meant to tailor
the program more to small
businesses than to large corporations. Startup companies
could receive half that amount.
Existing companies could not
close down and then reopen
under a new name and receive
any benefits, White House officials said.
The program, which needs
congressional approval, would
end Dec. 31 and would cost an
estimated $33 billion. Administration officials proposed funding it with money repaid to the
government from the 2008-09
bank bailout program. The
State, a religious liberty watchdog group based in
Washington, D.C., that helped with the case.
The commission argued that its policy of inviting outside clergy to deliver the pre-meeting invocations meant that it was staying neutral with regard
to prayers. But the ACLU and Americans United said
that any opening prayer must be nonsectarian for
the government to be truly neutral.
Blackmon applauded the ruling in a release issued Thursday by the ACLU.
“This court order preserves freedom of conscience for people of all different beliefs, whether
they are in the majority or the minority, by requiring our government to remain neutral in matters of
religion,” Blackmon said.
A spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund,
which represented the board, did not immediately
return a message seeking comment. But Walter
Marshall, a Forsyth County commissioner since
1997, said he agreed with Beaty’s ruling.
“I support the judge’s decision,” Marshall said.
“The issue really wasn’t prayer. It was a case of democracy versus theocracy.”
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Using prayer
to open a North Carolina county board of commissioners meeting violates the First Amendment, a
federal judge ruled Thursday, adopting recommendations made earlier by a magistrate judge.
“The Supreme Court has also emphasized that
such legislative prayers must not advance a particular faith or belief, because to do so would have
the effect of affiliating the Government with that
particular faith or belief in violation of the Establishment Clause,” U.S. District Judge James A. Beaty
Jr. wrote.
His five-page decision requires the Forsyth
County board of commissioners to stop its premeeting prayers.
The American Civil Liberties Union of North
Carolina in March 2007 filed a lawsuit on behalf
of two Forsyth County residents who said many of
the commission’s meetings opened with Christianthemed prayers.
Janet Joyner and Constance Lynn Blackmon
also are members of the Winston-Salem Chapter
of Americans United for Separation of Church and
Some tax experts say it is
hard to prevent abuse by companies that artificially increase
their payrolls. But White House
officials said they believed regulators would detect such attempts in the great majority of
cases.
Some analysts, however, said
safeguards against abuse could
make the credit too cumbersome for small businesses to
use. “If it’s big enough to be
effective, then it’s big enough
for businesses to try to game
it,” said Ben Harris, a senior
research associate at the Brookings Institution, a Washington
think tank.
Congress enacted a similar
tax credit in the 1970s and few
small businesses took advantage, the CBO report said.
Republicans generally embrace almost any tax cut proposal. But Obama might receive a lukewarm reception for
his proposal today.
“From a policy perspective,
it’s very difficult to make it
work,” said Republican House
Minority Leader John Boehner.
Republican Rep. Mike Pence
said he understands why a tax
break for adding jobs would
be popular. But, he said, businesses won’t hire new employees until there is increased demand for their products.
“These targeted tax cuts,
while individually appealing,
are no substitute for the kind of
broad-based tax relief that will
release the entrepreneurial energy of the American people,”
said Pence, chairman of the
House Republican Conference.
“This is a big storm. It shares
some characteristics with the
December storm that walloped
the mountains,” a NWS spokesman at Morristown said. “Lots
of moisture is heading this way
from the Gulf Coast on the wings
of a strong low-pressure system,
which will collide today with
cold air sweeping down from the
north. And like the December 18
storm, a dramatic upward shearing of winds in the atmosphere
will create the potential for lots of
snow,” the NWS said.
Measures to take include:
— Have extra blankets on hand.
— Ensure all household
members have winter clothing
ready.
— Prepare a 3-day supply of
necessary items (e.g. food, water,
medications) in case you are unable to leave your home.
— Have at least one phone
in the house that doesn’t require
electricity to operate. Cordless
phones or phones with built-in
answering machines won’t work
without electricity.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol
and local law enforcement agencies are advising motorists to stay
off the roadways tonight and Saturday unless it is an emergency.
City and county as well as state
road crews will be out cleaning
roadways both tonight and Saturday.
with the Bristol newspaper, which
eventually became a chain and
acquired the Elizabethton STAR.
I became publisher of this newspaper in 1955, and now she and I
own the paper. Through the years
we have had wonderful, loving
people who have worked with
and for us.
From the beginning of my
newspaper career to today, Ann
has been at my side and has
shared in my success. Many times
she has been a sounding board
for me. She has helped me make
decisions. Every day she has been
there to make our home a happy
place, and a wonderful place to
come to at the end of the day.
We have enjoyed a lifetime
of happiness, but we have our
share of heartaches, too. We lost
a daughter, Brenda Lee, at the
age of three months due to an
undiagnosed heart problem, and
in 2004, we lost our son, Charlie,
to a heart attack at the age of 48.
Our love for each other sustained
us through both of those losses.
My wife is one of the most giving persons I know. She delights
in giving gifts and in making
people happy. She literally lights
up a room when she walks into it
with her beautiful smile.
After being married 64 years,
I can truthfully say that we have
never had a real fight. Like all
couples we have had disagreements, but we have disagreed in
a friendly way without getting
mad at each other. I cannot remember a single night that we
went to bed mad at each other.
A good marriage does not
come easy. It takes commitment.
It takes marrying the right person. It takes communication,
and it involves a lot of give and
take. It’s not a 50-50 proposition
as some think. It takes 100 percent on the part of both husband
and wife. I also think a sense of
humor is a good thing to have if
you are married.
Again, I married an angel
and I thank the Lord every day
for my wife. I’m the luckiest
man alive!
Marriage
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I went on to complete my education on the GI Bill at Milligan
College, and Ann worked for her
father at Childress Feed Store in
Elizabethton. My father was a
guard at the local rayon plant.
Ann and I were blessed to have
loving Christian mothers, and
looking back I think they had a
great influence on how we raised
our family. I was raised in the
Methodist church, where we were
sprinkled instead of baptized. Ann
was raised in the Baptist church,
and of course Baptists believe in
being immersed, which I was
fascinated by. We thought it was
important that we attend church
together, so I was baptized into
the Baptist faith. We now are
members of Elizabethton First
Baptist Church.
Ann has always been very supportive and any success that I’ve
had is because of her. I started
working as a printer’s devil at
the Elizabethton STAR for $25
a week. In 1949 a new newspaper was started in Bristol, and I
wanted more experience in the
newspaper industry. I took a job
Collision
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taken by WINGS to the Johnson City Medical Center, while the other two individuals were taken by
Carter County Rescue Squad ambulances to JCMC.
According to Marlowe, Kathleen Martin suffered two broken arms and two broken legs. She
was immediately taken into critical emergency
surgery. Paul Martin was listed in serious condition
and McMahaan was listed in critical condition on
Thursday evening.
From 1 to 2 p.m., both lanes of Highway 19E
were closed while a landing zone was set up and
emergency personnel attempted to clear a lane at
the accident scene. The accident was finally cleared
around 5 p.m. as the THP critical incident response
team investigated the accident.
The Hampton-Valley Forge and Roan Mountain
volunteer fire departments and the Carter County
Sheriff’s Department were also on scene.
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Jr. Bucs Elizabethton boys stronger than Steele
sweep
Unaka
BY IVAN SANDERS
SPORTS EDITOR
isanders@starhq.com
By Tim Chambers
STAR STAFF
tchambers@starhq.com
Playing inside of Unaka’s
gymnasium for opposing teams
has been a nightmare in seasons
past, but this year it’s been like a
bad dream for the Rangers.
Poor shot selection over the final three minutes proved costly in
a 61-51 University High win.
The Rangers shot 0-for-10
from behind the three point line
in the fourth quarter and misfired on six attempts after pulling
within four.
Coach Jon Minton summed up
the loss.
“If you play good defense you
can overcome bad shooting but
tonight we appeared to be a step
slower on the defensive end,” said
Minton. “We got more points in
the paint tonight that we did from
the perimeter and that was part of
our focus but it just didn’t seem
like their was a lot of resistance
on our part regardless of what defense we were in.”
The first quarter was like a
shootout at the O.K. Coral with
both teams hot in the early going.
University High jumped on top
5-0 but the Rangers fought back
to take the lead behind the play
of Josh Peterson and Drew Chambers.
Unaka’s only lead of the game
was 7-4 after four points in the
paint by Chambers and a Peterson
three at the 5:37 mark.
The Junior Bucs had little
trouble solving Unaka’s press getting several good looks off some
3-on-1 opportunities.
Five UH players scored four
points or more in the first frame
helping them build a 22-14 advantage.
Peterson’s 40-footer at the
buzzer sliced the deficit to 22-17
after one.
The Rangers hung close for
a long time during the second
stanza but fell behind by nine at
intermission.
A three-ball from Danny Bales
kept them within four but Jonathan Evans would end the frame
with four points putting UH in
front 36-27 at the half.
Unaka tried to hang close during the third quarter but seven
points from Darnell Jones and six
more from Evans would prevent
them from making up ground.
Chambers kept the Rangers
within striking distance scoring
eight in the frame but they trailed
51-40 heading into the final
frame.
Just when fans thought it was
over the Rangers would rally to
make it a game.
Four quick points by Chambers in the paint got it down to
eight yet the UH cushion would
deflate even more.
Franky Covarrubias slithered
his way down the lane for two baskets pulling Unaka closer at 53-49
with three minutes remaining.
The Rangers wouldn’t score
again until the 47-second mark
while the Bucs knocked down
some key free throws during the
final minute.
Chambers topped the Rangers
with 19 points and 10 rebounds
with five coming off the offensive
end.
Peterson had a double-double,
13 points and 12 boards. Justin
Nave and Matheson provided five
n See RANGERS, 2B
The Elizabethton Cyclones have never claimed to be Superman,
but on Thursday night during Homecoming 2010 the Cyclones proved
they were at least stronger than ‘Steele’.
As in Mountain City’s Jason Steele, not iron steel.
Steele single-handedly put on one of the best-scoring quarters of
the season in the fourth quarter, making string music to the tune of
20 points in the stanza alone.
It just wouldn’t be enough, though, as the Cyclones built a 16-point
advantage after three quarters and held off the furious fourth quarter
rally to snare a 52-47 Three Rivers Conference victory.
“I told the guys we would have to do two things to win this game,”
stated Cyclone head coach Marty Street. “We were going to have to
play physical, and we had to do something with Steele.
“We were able to take care of him for three quarters, but he got
away from us in the fourth quarter. We knew he had shot the three
some but didn’t know he would shoot it as well as he did. He was their
comeback.”
After one quarter both teams had battled to a 10-10 tie, and the
Cyclones put on the defensive halter and held the Longhorns to only
five in the second stanza while Elizabethton rang up 12 points to take
a 22-15 advantage to the locker room.
Kyle Wash had the hot hand in the first half hitting for nine points
to lead the Cyclones. Ryan Thomas contributed four and C.J. Boling
dropped in a long three in the half.
Chantz DeMoss, Aaron Miller, and Lucas Birchfield each added two
points apiece to the Cyclones ledger.
Steele carried the Longhorns during the first 16 minutes to the
tune of seven points. A field goal each was recorded by Eric Cullop,
Cody Greer, Wade Tugman, and Sammy Hampton.
Senior Julia McAmis was crowned the 2010 Homecoming Queen
during halftime festivities, and the Cyclones seemed to feed off the
emotions of the night as they came back out for the third quarter and
held Johnson County to only four points while adding 13 of their own
to build the 16-point advantage heading into the final period.
That’s when Steele began putting on a show for those left inside
A.L. Treadway Gymnasium.
Hitting eight field goals, including two treys, and two free throws,
Steele single-handedly cut the 16-point lead down to 46-40 with 2:14
left to play.
This time, the Cyclones dug down deep and began to reinforce the
defense to fend off the late rally and hold on to record their second
conference win of the season.
Daniel Bowers hit some key free throws down the stretch as did
Wash to ensure the win.
Bowers and Wash each recorded eight for the second half with
Thomas and DeMoss contributing six each. Justin Wandell contributed with a deuce.
Photo by Hannah Bader
Aside from Steele’s 20 point outburst, Tugman added four in the
Elizabethton’s Chantz DeMoss (24) goes hard to the basket over a Johnson County defender. half while Cullop and Hampton nailed a three-ball. Tugman collected
DeMoss had eight points and 10 rebounds in the Cyclones homecoming victory over the Longhorns
by the score of 52-47.
n See CYCLONES, 2B
Second half surge leads Warrior boys, girls
By Wes Holtsclaw
Star Staff
wholtsclaw@starhq.com
Defense was the key for the Happy Valley
boys team in its victory according to head
coach Charlie Bayless.
“Our press got them,” said Bayless. “We
KINGSPORT — Happy Valley caught
got
after them and scored a bunch real quick.
Sullivan North off guard in the third quarter
It threw them off.”
and it paid off.
North led by five after the first quarter, but
Entering the second half with a one-point
lead, the Warriors used a 14-0 run at the top weren’t able to hold the Warriors (3-5, 4-8)
of the frame and held off the Raiders with a off during a second quarter run.
It only got worse as the tribe stepped up its
50-36 conference road win.
In girls’ action, a strong second half car- pressure as the second half got underway.
Matt Stanley and Jake Davis opened
ried the Lady Warriors to a 57-34 win over
things
up with consecutive buckets, then
North.
Christian Cammu scored four consecutive
points to make it a 10-point game.
A Stanley trey and Davis bucket built the
lead to 15 and capped the run at 14-0 before
the Raiders’ first bucket of the half.
Happy Valley led by as much as 16 before
North started chipping away in the fourth
quarter.
Mark Salyers and William White got the
home team within seven, but Stanley delivered multiple buckets in the closing minutes
to ice the cake for Happy Valley.
Stanley finished with a game-high 17
points, 14 of which came in the second half.
“That’s the best Matt’s played,” said Bayless. “He played great for us.”
Jake Hodge added eight points and a solid
defensive game for the Warriors, who also
received seven points apiece from Jake Davis
and Kyle Birchfield.
“He always plays good on defense all the
time,” said Bayless of Hodge.
Salyers led North with 16 points, while
White added 10.
n See WARRIORS, 7B
NG girls sink Hampton
By Rick Sheek
STAR STAFF
rsheek@starhq.com
Hampton’s girls were bumped from the Watauga Valley Conference basketball unbeaten ranks on
Thursday night.
After a blazing start, the Lady Bulldogs were
knocked off by North Greene 44-43 in a battle of
the league’s top teams at Van Huss-White Gymnasium.
“Once again, our own mental mistakes did us
in down the stretch,” Hampton coach Leon Tolley
said. “We are our own worst enemy right now.”
The Huskies’ Mariah Britton sank the back end
of a one-and-one with 2.5 seconds remaining. A
pair of efficient passes got the ball down to Megan
Dugger, who misfired a 15-footer off the front of the
rim at the buzzer.
“All the credit goes to North Greene,” Tolley
said. “They out-hustled us down the stretch, and
deserved to win a whole lot more than we did.”
Hampton (12-7, 4-1) surged to an early 11-0
advantage.
Chelsey Weddle scored eight that first period, but
not before North Greene (11-9, 5-0) closed the gap
to 15-10.
The Bulldogs managed just six points in the sec-
ond quarter and the Huskies moved ahead 22-21
at the break. After North Greene had increased that
advantage to three, Maci Lewis lifted Hampton back
ahead 25-24 early in the third.
A Lewis 3-pointer saw the Bulldogs lead 32-29.
Weddle scored off a steal and completed the threepoint play to make it 35-31 in the final minute of
the quarter.
Dakota White’s put-back at the horn pulled
North Greene within 35-34. Haley Vaughn opened
the fourth with a 3-pointer to propel the Huskies
ahead 37-35.
Lewis knotted the score and Hampton pulled to a
41-37 advantage after buckets from Megan Dugger
and Dorothy Dugger.
With 1:50 left to play, Dorothy Dugger gave the
Bulldogs a 43-40 cushion. Britton answered with a
3-pointer to tie it with 1:20 to go.
Hampton committed two turnovers in the final
1:02, setting the stage of the closing seconds.
Weddle totaled 15 points, seven rebounds and
six steals.
Lewis added 11 points and five boards, while Megan Dugger had eight points, seven rebounds, two
blocks and two steals.
n See HAMPTON, 7B
Photo by Brandon Hicks
Hampton’s Billy Berry drives in the paint during the Bulldogs’
win over North Greene.
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Lady Cyclones make beef stew out of Lady Longhorns
BY IVAN SANDERS
SPORTS EDITOR
isanders@starhq.com
Team after team has faced
the meat-grinding defense of
the Elizabethton Lady Cyclones
only to get scorched and on
Thursday night Elizabethton
turned up the oven a notch
higher to cook the Johnson
County Lady Longhorns in
Three Rivers Conference play
by a score of 85-25.
The Cyclones have held
their opponents to a 29-point
scoring output over the last 12
games while knocking on the
door of 100 points on at least
four different occasions as of
late.
Thursday night, the Lady
Cyclones had their sights dialed in from long-range and
buried 13 treys to help build
the spread.
Elizabethton has hit 23
three-balls in their last two
games which helps to make life
miserable for opposing teams
that not only have to deal with
the defensive pressure but the
offensive juggernaut as well.
“We honestly try to let them
know we have confidence in
the shooting the ball,” stated
Lady Cyclone coach Len Dugger. “We take as much time
explaining to them to take
shots instead of worrying about
missing them.
“They always have the okay
from me to take those shots in
the right situations because it
only helps to make them better
shooters. As hard as they play,
how could I say something
about them taking those shots.
“They just play with so
much heart and compassion
that I would buy a ticket to
watch them play. They are just
so unselfish.”
Elizabethton pretty much
had the game in the bag at
halftime leading 48-15. They
would turn around and outscore Johnson County 37-10 in
the second 16 minutes of play.
Jasmine Jefferson set the
tone in the first half hitting for
10 points. Chelsea Bowling hit
three treys on her way to nine
points while Kristen Powell
added two treys and a field goal
for eight in the half.
Cara Bowling had her usual
hustling game adding seven
points with one trey with Casey
Jones coming off the bench to
hit for five, including a threeball of her own.
Lindsey Norris added four,
Erin Kiser connected on a trey,
and Haley Thacker added a
deuce.
Mandy Hill had the hot hand
in the first half for Johnson
County with seven points while
teammates Lindsey Campbell
(4), Amber Sexton (2), Andrea
Eller (1) and Chevy Leonard
(1) closed out the Lady Longhorns tally in the first half.
The Lady Cyclones would
have eight players hit the scoring column in the second half
of play led by Powell’s eight
points, including two more
treys. Powell has 10 three’s in
her last two contest.
Jefferson added five points,
including a bank-shot three
six led the Lady Longhorns.
The Lady Cyclones are slated
to play CAK Saturday at 4 p.m.
weather permitting.
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Elizabethton, 85-25
ELIZABETHTON (85)
Powell 16, Ca. Bowling 7, Kiser 6, Jefferson 15, Jones 5, Norris 8, Ch. Bowling 12, Thacker 2, DeMoss 5, Roberts
4, Colbaugh 5.
JOHNSON COUNTY (25)
Royson 4, Hill 7, Campbell 6, Eller 3,
Sexton 2, Leonard 3.
EHS 25 23 21 16—85
JCHS 11 4 8 2—25
3-pt Goals: JC 1 (Hill); EHS 13 (Powell-4, Ca. Bowling, Kiser-2, Jefferson,
Jones, Ch. Bowling-4).
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Girls
Junior Varsity
Elizabethton 62
Johnson Co. 10
The Elizabethton junior
varsity girls continued to roll
as they racked up win number
14 against three losses with a
62-10 hammering of Johnson
County.
Elizabethton built a 32-6
advantage at the break and
cruised in the second half by
outscoring the visitors 30-4.
Morgan Depew led three
Lady Cyclones in double figures with 12 followed by Reazyn DeMoss with 11 and Savannah Madgett’s 10.
Alicia Colbaugh and WhitLady Cyclone Morgan Depew (20) passes the ball upcourt in front of Lindsey Campbell (13) of
ney
Roberts buried eight points
Johnson County in Elizabethton’s 85-25 win over the Lady Longhorns.
apiece while Casey Jones folball, as did Reazyn DeMoss and Longhorns with four while from the outside,” said a smil- lowed with six.
Alicia Colbaugh also pumping Campbell, Eller, and Leonard ing Jefferson after the contest
Other Lady Cyclone scorers
reflecting on her three-ball.
in five each in the second half. added a field goal apiece.
were Haley Thacker (3), Katie
“Maybe I should take more. Pless (2), and Courtney Evans
Powell had game-high scorNorris and Whitney Roberts
chipped in four points each ing honors with 16 followed We have just been playing fo- (2).
with Erin Kiser and Chelsea closely by Jefferson with 15. cused and together as a team,
Chevy Leonard had seven
and I just do my best to play points to pace the Lady LongBowling each adding treys for Chelsea Bowling added 12.
“It felt good because off hard and do what I can.”
three points apiece.
horns. Kelly Jennings added two
Hill’s seven and Campbell’s and Kristen Roark one point.
Rebecca Royson led the Lady course I usually don’t shoot
Rangers
Cyclones
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apiece. Austin Clawson came off
the bench to grab five rebounds.
Evans and Jones led the Junior Bucs with 20 and 15 points
respectively.
Coach Josh Penley said it was
important to leave Unaka with a
win.
“We knew this was going to
be a tough game and it’s always
hard to win here,” said Penley.
“Unaka is the type of team you
better not take for granted.
“The shot Evans hit when they
cut it to four was probably the
biggest shot of them game.”
Girls
University High 66
Unaka 61
For the second time this season the Junior Bucs dropped Unaka in a 66-61 victory.
Both team fought hard in the
early going as the lead changed
hands four times before a 15-15
tie closed the frame.
Back-to-back treys from
Chesnie Cox and Danielle Jones
tied the scored at 12-12 after the
Rangers had fallen behind by
six.
Esther Reynolds had a strong
quarter scoring eight points for
the Junior Bucs.
“This was our third game in
three nights so fatigue may have
played a factor,” said Unaka head
coach Wes Wright. “We missed a
ton of free throws and they did
some good stuff offensively.
“We had our chances but we
didn’t take advantage of some opportunities that were given to us.
I’m sure we’ll meet up later on
down the road.”
The game remained close with
UH holding a 30-28 halftime advantage.
UH finally found some breathing room by outscoring Unaka
23-17 in the third quarter.
Most of the damage was done
by Melinda Blair and Rebekah
Leonard who scored seven points
apiece.
It appeared as if UH had the
game well in hand leading 57-46
with 6:01 remaining.
Natalie Johnson ignited a 17-4
run by sinking a three to start the
rally.
Tayler Nidiffer had a couple
a field goal.
Steele finished the game
with a game-high 27. Tugman
checked out with six while Cullop (5), Hampton (5), Greer (2),
and Freeman (2) made up the
Longhorns 47-point total.
Wash paced the Cyclones with
17 on the night. Thomas tallied
10, Bowers and DeMoss eight
each, and Boling three.
Miller, Birchfield, and Wandell each finished with two points
apiee.
DeMoss hit double-digits in rebounding with 10 for the Cyclones
while Thomas and Boling ripped
down six each and Wash five.
Steele had 10 rebounds to give
him a double-double with Cullop
reeling in four boards.
“It was basically the same kind
of scenario we had the last game
we played at Johnson County
when Elizabethton was down and
had to battle back,” stated Longhorn coach Austin Atwood. “When
you have to fight back from a big
deficit the outcome usually isn’t
going to be that good.
“For us, our defense leads to
our offense, and unfortunately
we just didn’t play that well defensively. Marty’s team played
harder and smarter than we did
tonight.”
It was a sweet win for Street
and his ball team as the Cyclones
finally managed to do something
they have talked about all season:
finish the game.
“We have talked about closing out the ball game and finishing the game,” stated Street. “We
have been doing things right, but
just couldn’t get a shot to fall
when we needed to or get a rebound when we needed one.
“We were only one rebound
or one steal away. We said when
we got the shots to fall or got that
rebound we would turn it around
and win one.”
Street also felt like getting a
game like this might help his
team gain confidence come tournament time.
“The biggest thing we have
lacked was confidence,” continued Street. “Getting a little confidence before tournament time
will certainly go a long way.”
Photo by Brandon Hicks
Unaka’s Drew Chambers drops two of his 19 points against
University High.
of knifing baskets down the lane
while Raven Wilson came off the
bench to provide some strong
play inside.
Cox tied the game at 61-61
with .45 seconds remaining by
swishing a runner but UH would
retake the lead on moments later.
Melinda Blair threw a Magic
Johnson like bounce pass to Leonard for a backdoor lay-up putting
them in front to stay.
Laura Patton would swish a
pair of late free throws to secure
the win.
Nidiffer topped the Lady Rangers with 19 while Cox added 13 to
the cause. Johnson had a good
game with eight points and five
assist. Raven Wilson hit 7of-8 free
throws and pulled down eight rebounds in only her third game as
a Lady Ranger.
Leonard scored a game high
21 for UH Reynolds and Melinda
Blair added 12 and 10 points respectively.
Junior Varsity
Boys
Unaka, 54-53
Tyler Matheson fired in 16
points as Unaka held off UH in the
JV contest. Austin Clawson added
11 points and eight rebounds.
Weston Colbaugh and Travis Sommers chipped in with five
each.
Nick Oliver led the Junior Bucs
with 13.
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Boys
University High 61-51
UNIVERSITY HIGH (61)
Jones 15, Oliver 3, Crowe 8, Collins 6,
Brown 6, Hopson 3, Evans 20
UNAKA (51)
J. Nave 5, Bales 3, Matheson 5, Covarrubias 4, Peterson 13, Clawson 2, Sommers 0, Naylor 0, Chambers 19
University High 22 14 15 10- 61
Unaka
17 10 13 11- 51
3-point goals- UH 3 (Brown, Oliver,
Jones) Unaka 3 (Nave, Peterson, Bales)
Girls
University High 66-61
UNIVERSITY HIGH (66)
Burke 5, Mel. Blair 10, Shelton 6, Leonard
21, Reynolds 12, Patton 8, Meg. Blair 4
UNAKA (61)
Jones 6, Nidiffer 19, Espinoza 3, Cox
13, Johnson 8, K. Wilson 1, Lawson 4,
R. Wilson 7
University High
15 15 23 13- 66
Unaka
15 13 17 16- 61
3-point goals- UH 4 (Leonard, Blair,
Burke) Unaka 5 (Nidiffer, Cox, Johnson,
Espinoza, Jones)
Ryan Thomas (12) of Elizabethton soars over top of Johnson
County’s Mikey Freeman (35) in the Cyclones 52-47 win
Thursday night during homecoming festivities.
The Cyclones are scheduled to
return to the hardwood Saturday
with junior varsity games beginning at 1 p.m. weather permitting against CAK.
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went on to hand the visitors a 6453 defeat.
Elijah Redd blistered the
nets for a game-high 17 points,
including three treys to pace
the Cyclones. Wes Montgomery
Elizabethton, 52-47
tickled the twine for nine points
ELIZABETHTON (52)
while Josh Saults and Nikolai
Cullop 5, Greer 2, Steele 27, Tugman 6,
Freeman 2, Hampton 5.
Simpson pumped in eight points
JOHNSON COUNTY (47)
apiece.
Bowers 8, Thomas 10, Boling 3, Wash
17, DeMoss 8, Miller 2, Birchfield 2,
Aaron Miller collected seven
Wandell 2.
points for Elizabethton and JusEHS
10 12 13 17—52
JCHS
10 5 4 28—47
tin Wandell chipped in with six.
3-pt Goals: JC 4 (Cullop, Steele-2,
Other Cyclones scoring were Alex
Hampton); EHS 3 (Bowers, Boling,
Wash).
Baughman (4), Will Robinson
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(3), and Corey Walker (2).
Boys Junior Varsity
Jimmy Arnold was one of three
Elizabethton 64
Longhorns in double figures with
Johnson Co. 53
14 to lead his team. Chase Cline
After falling behind 11-6 after added 13 with Carlton Tugman
the first quarter, the Elizabethton tossing in 10 points.
Dusty Stout and Jason Swift
Junior Varsity boys rebounded
each
contributed eight points
with 26 points in the second
stanza to the Longhorns 15 and each.
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BASKETBall
NBA Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct GB
Boston
29 14 .674 —
Toronto
25 22 .532
6
New York
18 27 .400 12
Philadelphia
15 30 .333 15
New Jersey
4
40 .09125 1/2
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct GB
Atlanta
29 15 .659 —
Orlando
30 16 .652 —
Miami
23 22 .5116 1/2
Charlotte
22 22 .500
7
Washington
14 30 .318 15
Central Division
W
L
Pct GB
Cleveland
36 11 .766 —
Chicago
22 22 .50012 1/2
Milwaukee
19 25 .43215 1/2
Indiana
16 30 .34819 1/2
Detroit
15 29 .34119 1/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct GB
Dallas
30 15 .667 —
San Antonio
26 18 .5913 1/2
Memphis
25 19 .5684 1/2
New Orleans 25 20 .556
5
Houston
24 21 .533
6
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct GB
Denver
31 14 .689 —
Utah
27 18 .600
4
Portland
27 20 .574
5
Oklahoma City 24 21 .533
7
Minnesota
9
38 .191 23
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct GB
L.A. Lakers
35 11 .761 —
Phoenix
26 21 .5539 1/2
L.A. Clippers
20 25 .44414 1/2
Sacramento
16 28 .364 18
Golden State 13 31 .295 21
———
Wednesday’s Games
L.A. Lakers 118, Indiana 96
Cleveland 109, Minnesota 95
Toronto 111, Miami 103
Memphis 99, Detroit 93
New Jersey 103, L.A. Clippers 87
Milwaukee 91, Philadelphia 88
Chicago 96, Oklahoma City 86
Denver 97, Houston 92
San Antonio 105, Atlanta 90
Utah 106, Portland 95
New Orleans 123, Golden State 110
Thursday’s Games
Toronto 106, New York 104
Orlando 96, Boston 94
Dallas at Phoenix, late
Friday’s Games
Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Boston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Chicago at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Denver at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Miami at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Washington at New Jersey, 8 p.m.
Portland at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
Memphis at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m.
Charlotte at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Atlanta at Orlando, 7 p.m.
New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.
New York at Washington, 8 p.m.
Miami at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.
Portland at Dallas, 9 p.m.
Charlotte at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
PORTS
NBA Capsules
Magic 96, Celtics 94
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Rashard Lewis
made the go-ahead layup with 1.3 seconds remaining, and the Orlando Magic
overcame a 16-point deficit to beat the
Boston Celtics on Thursday night.
Lewis took the ball after a broken play
and sprinted down the baseline past
Kevin Garnett for an uncontested layup.
Rasheed Wallace missed 3-pointer at
the buzzer, giving the Magic their second
victory in three games against the Celtics
this season.
Orlando’s Dwight Howard overcome
early foul trouble to score 11 of his 19
points in the fourth quarter. He also had
10 rebounds. Ray Allen had 20 points for
Boston.
Raptors 106, Knicks 104
NEW YORK (AP) — All-Star Chris Bosh
had 27 points and 15 rebounds, Hedo
Turkoglu set season highs with 26 points
and 11 rebounds in Toronto’s fourth
straight victory.
Jarrett Jack made one of two free throws
in the final seconds and drew a charging
call on Al Harrington on New York’s final
possession. David Lee had 29 points and
18 rebounds for New York, 3-7 in its last
10 games.
Top 25 Fared
Thursday
1. Kentucky (19-1) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 21 Vanderbilt, Saturday.
2. Kansas (19-1) did not play. Next: at
No. 11 Kansas State, Saturday.
3. Villanova (19-1) did not play. Next: vs.
Seton Hall, Tuesday.
4. Syracuse (20-1) did not play. Next: at
DePaul, Saturday.
5. Michigan State (18-3) did not play.
Next: vs. Northwestern, Saturday.
6. Texas (18-2) did not play. Next: vs.
No. 24 Baylor, Saturday.
7. Georgetown (15-4) did not play. Next:
vs. No. 8 Duke, Saturday.
8. Duke (17-3) did not play. Next: at No.
7 Georgetown, Saturday.
9. West Virginia (15-3) did not play. Next:
vs. Louisville, Saturday.
10. Purdue (17-3) beat No. 16 Wisconsin
60-57. Next: vs. Penn State, Sunday.
11. Kansas State (17-3) did not play.
Next: vs. No. 2 Kansas, Saturday.
12. BYU (20-2) did not play. Next: vs.
Utah, Saturday.
13. Gonzaga (16-3) at Santa Clara. Next:
at San Francisco, Saturday.
14. Tennessee (15-4) did not play. Next:
vs. Florida, Sunday.
15. Temple (17-4) did not play. Next: vs.
La Salle, Saturday.
16. Wisconsin (16-5) lost to No. 10 Purdue 60-57. Next: vs. No. 5 Michigan
State, Tuesday.
17. Pittsburgh (16-4) beat St. John’s 6353. Next: at South Florida, Sunday.
18. Mississippi (16-4) beat Auburn 8474. Next: vs. Arkansas, Saturday.
19. Connecticut (13-7) did not play. Next:
vs. Marquette, Saturday.
20. Ohio State (15-6) did not play. Next:
vs. Minnesota, Sunday.
21. Vanderbilt (16-3) did not play. Next:
at No. 1 Kentucky, Saturday.
22. Georgia Tech (15-5) beat Wake Forest 79-58. Next: vs. Kentucky State, Saturday.
23. New Mexico (19-3) did not play. Next:
at TCU, Saturday.
24. Baylor (15-4) did not play. Next: at
No. 6 Texas, Saturday.
25. UAB (18-2) did not play. Next: vs.
UTEP, Saturday.
hockey
NHL Glance
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GFGA
New Jersey 52 34 16 2 70 139115
Pittsburgh 55 33 21 1 67 173156
Philadelphia 52 26 23 3 55 158148
N.Y. Rangers54 24 23 7 55 138150
N.Y. Islanders5423 23 8 54 142168
Northeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GFGA
Buffalo
52 31 14 7 69 147126
Ottawa
55 30 21 4 64 154155
Montreal
55 25 25 5 55 141149
Boston
51 23 20 8 54 127131
Toronto
54 17 27 10 44 142187
Southeast Division
GP W L OT Pts GFGA
Washington 53 35 12 6 76 207146
Atlanta
53 24 21 8 56 162170
Florida
53 23 21 9 55 146154
Tampa Bay 52 22 20 10 54 135157
Carolina
53 18 28 7 43 141174
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GFGA
Chicago
53 36 13 4 76 174122
Nashville 52 29 20 3 61 145145
Detroit
53 25 19 9 59 137143
St. Louis
53 23 22 8 54 139149
Columbus 56 21 26 9 51 146186
Northwest Division
GP W L OT Pts GFGA
Vancouver 53 33 18 2 68 173129
Colorado 52 30 16 6 66 153137
Calgary
54 26 20 8 60 137141
Minnesota 54 27 23 4 58 151158
Edmonton 51 16 29 6 38 135176
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GFGA
San Jose 53 35 10 8 78 179128
Phoenix
54 31 18 5 67 147141
Los Angeles53 31 19 3 65 160147
Dallas
53 23 19 11 57 152171
Anaheim
54 24 23 7 55 150171
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
overtime loss.
Wednesday’s Games
Buffalo 2, New Jersey 1, SO
Dallas 4, Calgary 3, SO
Carolina 5, N.Y. Rangers 1
Washington 5, Anaheim 1
Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 0
Minnesota 5, Detroit 2
Vancouver 3, St. Louis 2
Thursday’s Games
Phoenix 3, Calgary 2, SO
Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 3
Ottawa 4, Pittsburgh 1
Carolina 4, N.Y. Islanders 1
Los Angeles 4, Columbus 1
Minnesota 1, Colorado 0
St. Louis at Edmonton, late
Chicago at San Jose, late
Today’s Games
Toronto at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Florida at Washington, 7 p.m.
Boston at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
Anaheim at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Nashville at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.
Colorado at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.
Montreal at Ottawa, 2 p.m.
Los Angeles at Boston, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Columbus at St. Louis, 8 p.m.
Atlanta at Nashville, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.
Edmonton at Calgary, 10 p.m.
Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
FootBall
Pro Bowl Results
2009 — NFC 30, AFC 21
2008 — NFC 42, AFC 30
2007 — AFC 31, AFC 28
2006 — NFC 23, AFC 17
2005 — AFC 38, NFC 27
2004 — NFC 55, AFC 52
2003 — AFC 45, NFC 20
2002 — AFC 38, NFC 30
2001 — AFC 38, NFC 17
2000 — NFC 51, AFC 31
1999 — AFC 23, NFC 10
1998 — AFC 29, NFC 24
1997 — AFC 26, NFC 23, OT
1996 — NFC 20, AFC 13
1995 — AFC 41, NFC 13
1994 — NFC 17, AFC 3
1993 — AFC 23, NFC 20, OT
1992 — NFC 21, AFC 15
1991 — AFC 23, NFC 21
1990 — NFC 27, AFC 21
1989 — NFC 34, AFC 3
1988 — AFC 15, NFC 6
1987 — AFC 10, NFC 6
1986 — NFC 28, AFC 24
1985 — AFC 22, NFC 14
1984 — NFC 45, AFC 3
1983 — NFC 20, AFC 19
1982 — AFC 16, NFC 13
1981 — NFC 21, AFC 7
1980 — NFC 37, AFC 27
1979 — NFC 13, AFC 7
1978 — NFC 14, AFC 13
1977 — AFC 24, NFC 14
1976 — NFC 23, AFC 20
1975 — NFC 17, AFC 10
1974 — AFC 15, NFC 13
1973 — AFC 33, NFC 28
1972 — AFC 26, NFC 13
1971 — NFC 27, AFC 6
Pro Bowl MVPs
Most Outstanding Player Award-winners
since the Pro Bowl began in 1971 (in
1971 and 72, an outstanding back and
an outstanding lineman were chosen):
2009 — Larry Fitzgerald, WR, Arizona
2008 — Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota
2007 — Carson Palmer, QB, Cincinnati
2006 — Derrick Brooks, LB, Tampa Bay
2005 — Peyton Manning, QB, Indianapolis
2004 — Marc Bulger, QB, St. Louis
2003 — Ricky Williams, RB, Miami
2002 — Rich Gannon, QB, Oakland
2001 — Rich Gannon, QB, Oakland
2000 — Randy Moss, WR, Minnesota
1999 — Keyshawn Johnson, WR, New
Today’s Scoreboard
BASKETBall
Prep Boys Glance
Three Rivers Conference
Conf
Overall
W L
W L
Unicoi County
6 0
19 3
Sullivan East
6 0
17 3
Johnson County 3 3
12 8
Happy Valley
2 5
3 8
Sullivan North
1 5
6 12
Elizabethton
1 6
7 9
Watauga Valley Conference
Conf
Overall
W L
W L
Cloudland
3 1
13 5
Hampton
3 0
11 5
North Greene
2 2
8 7
University High
2 2
9 7
Unaka
0 5
3 14
Prep Girls Glance
Three Rivers Conference
Conf
Overall
W L
W L
Elizabethton
7 0
18 1
Unicoi County
5 1
15 5
Sullivan East
4 2
8 10
Happy Valley
2 5
6 12
Sullivan North
1 4
7 8
Johnson County 0 6
0 11
Watauga Valley Conference
Conf
Overall
W L
W L
North Greene
4 0
10 9
Hampton
4 0
12 6
Cloudland
2 2
12 8
University High
1 3
7 11
Unaka
0 5
5 10
calendars
Cal Ripken / Babe Ruth Baseball and Softball
Elizabethton National Cal Ripken / Babe Ruth Baseball and Softball League will hold
signups for the 2010 seasons Thursday, Jan. 28 from 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday,
Feb. 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the league office at Lions Park across from the
Elizabethton Golf Course.
Registration fee is $50 per player and $40 for siblings.
Applications are also being accepted for managers, coaches, volunteers, and sponsorships during these times.
The age groups are as follows: Coach Pitch Coed for seven and eight-year olds,
boys baseball and girls softball for ages 9-12, 13-15, and 16-18.
Players must bring birth certificates to register. For further information, call Chris
Craig at 423-612-4188.
Children living in Elizabethton, Johnson City, Carter, Johnson, and Unicoi counties
are eligible to play in this league.
Corn Hole Tournament
Church Hill Middle School softball team is sponsoring a corn hole tournament on
Feb. 13. The event will be held in the Church Hill Middle School gym. The school is
located at 208 Oak Street, Church Hill 37642.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the first, second, and third place teams. The entry fee
for each two-person team is $20.
Event registration begins at 9 a.m. and pool play will begin at 10 a.m. Teams will
participate in a round-robin format, with each team guaranteed at least four games.
Pool play will be seeded by blind-draw.
The top two teams from each pool will then advance to a double-elimination tournament. Contact Keith Russell at 423-367-2704 for more information or to pre-register.
SMSC Basketball Tournaments
—Roundball Rumble- Jan. 29-31, 2010. All games held at the Smoky Mountain
Sports Complex in Elizabethton. Open to BOYS and GIRLS basketball teams in
the 9u up to 17u age divisions. Entry fee is $100. - Register via our website www.
smokysports.com or call 213-7156.
Handgun Safety/Permit Class
The Carter County Hunting and FIshing Association is now offering two handgun
classes. The Handgun Permit Class is for those who wish to pursue a Tennessee
Handgun Carry Permit and a Handgun Safety class for those who wish to have a
weapon for home defense.
Both classes are held at the same time at the Carter County Courthouse on Monday and Tuesday Feb. 8-9, 2010. Range qualifying will be Feb. 10-14 as participants schedule and weather permits.
CCHFA will provide target pistols and ammunition for the qualifying so there is no
need to own a handgun prior to taking the class. Please bring pen and paper to
class for taking notes.
Cost is $50 for the Handgun Permit Class and $5 for the Safety Class. For information or to register, please call Jason Richards at (423) 512-1237 or email
jasonwithcchfa@live.com with “Handgun Permit” in the subject line. CCHFA is a
non-profit organization.
To have your event such as sports signups, meetings, or tournaments
placed in the new Star Sports Scoreboard — email the event information to Ivan Sanders, Sports Editor, at isanders@starhq.com or
bring the information by our office during normal business hours
Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please include a name and
contact information if more information is needed.
York Jets, and Ty Law, CB, New England
1998 — Warren Moon, QB, Seattle
1997 — Mark Brunell, QB, Jacksonville
1996 — Jerry Rice, WR, San Francisco
1995 — Marshall Faulk, RB, Indianapolis
1994 — Andre Rison, WR, Atlanta
1993 — Steve Tasker, WR, Buffalo
1992 — Michael Irvin, WR, Dallas
1991 — Jim Kelly, QB, Buffalo
1990 — Jerry Gray, CB, Los Angeles
Rams
1989 — Randall Cunningham, QB, Philadelphia
1988 — Bruce Smith, DE, Buffalo
1987 — Reggie White, DE, Philadelphia
1986 — Phil Simms, QB, New York Giants
1985 — Mark Gastineau, DE, New York
Jets
1984 — Joe Theismann, QB, Washington
1983 — Dan Fouts, QB, San Diego, and
John Jefferson, WR, Green Bay
1982 — Lee Roy Selmon, DE, Tampa
Bay, and Kellen Winslow, TE, San Diego
1981 — Ed Murray, PK, Detroit
1980 — Chuck Muncie, RB, New Orleans
1979 — Ahmad Rashad, WR, Minnesota
1978 — Walter Payton, RB, Chicago
1977 — Mel Blount, DB, Pittsburgh
1976 — Billy “White Shoes” Johnson,
WR, Houston
1975 — James Harris, QB, Los Angeles
1974 — Garo Yepremian, PK, Miami
1973 — O.J Simpson, RB, Buffalo
1972 — Back-Jan Stenerud, PK, Kansas
City; Lineman-Willie Lanier, LB, Kansas
City
1971 — Back-Mel Renfro, WR, Dallas;
Lineman-Fred Carr, LB, Green Bay
Super Bowl Linescores
2009
At Tampa, Fla.—70,774
Pittsburgh
3 14 3 7 — 27
Arizona
0 7 0 16— 23
Winning coach—Mike Tomlin
Most Valuable Player—Santonio Holmes
———
2008
At Glendale, Ariz.—71,101
N.Y. Giants
3 0 0 14— 17
New England
0 7 0 7 — 14
Winning coach—Tom Coughlin
Most Valuable Player—Eli Manning
———
2007
At Miami—74,512
Indianapolis
6 10 6 7 — 29
Chicago
14 0 3 0 — 17
Winning coach—Tony Dungy
Most Valuable Player—Peyton Manning
———
2006
At Detroit—68,206
Seattle
3 0 7 0 — 10
Pittsburgh
0 7 7 7 — 21
Winning coach—Bill Cowher
Most Valuable Player—Hines Ward
———
2005
At Jacksonville, Fla.—78,125
New England
0 7 7 10— 24
Philadelphia
0 7 7 7 — 21
Winning coach—Bill Belichick
Most Valuable Player—Deion Branch
———
2004
At Houston—71,525
Carolina
0 10 0 19— 29
New England
0 14 0 18— 32
Most Valuable Player—Tom Brady
———
2003
At San Diego—67,603
Oakland
3 0 6 12— 21
Tampa Bay
3 171414— 48
Winning coach—Jon Gruden
Most Valuable Player—Dexter Jackson
———
2002
At New Orleans—72,922
St. Louis
3 0 0 14— 17
New England
0 14 3 3 — 20
Most Valuable Player—Tom Brady
———
2001
Baltimore
7 3 1410— 34
N.Y. Giants
0 0 7 0 — 7
Winning coach—Brian Billick
Most Valuable Player—Ray Lewis
———
2000
At Atlanta—72,625
St. Louis
3 6 7 7 — 23
Tennessee
0 0 6 10— 16
Winning coach—Dick Vermeil
Most Valuable Player—Kurt Warner
———
1999
At Miami—74,803
Denver
7 10 0 17— 34
Atlanta
3 3 0 13— 19
Winning coach—Mike Shanahan
Most Valuable Player—John Elway
———
1998
Green Bay
7 7 3 7 — 24
Denver
7 10 7 7 — 31
Winning coach—Mike Shanahan
Most Valuable Player—Terrell Davis
———
1997
New England
14 0 7 0 — 21
Green Bay
10 17 8 0 — 35
Winning coach—Mike Holmgren
Most Valuable Player—Desmond Howard
———
1996
At Tempe, Ariz.—76,347
Dallas
10 3 7 7 — 27
Pittsburgh
0 7 0 10— 17
Winning coach—Barry Switzer
Most Valuable Player—Larry Brown
———
1995
At Miami—74,107
San Diego
7 3 8 8 — 26
San Francisco 14 1414 7 — 49
Winning coach—George Seifert
Most Valuable Player—Steve Young
———
1994
At Atlanta—72,817
Dallas
6 0 1410— 30
Buffalo
3 10 0 0 — 13
Winning coach—Jimmy Johnson
Most Valuable Player—Emmitt Smith
———
1993
At Pasadena, Calif.—98,374
Buffalo
7 3 7 0 — 17
Dallas
14 14 3 21— 52
Winning coach—Jimmy Johnson
Most Valuable Player—Troy Aikman
———
1992
At Minneapolis—63,130
Washington
0 1714 6 — 37
Buffalo
0 0 1014— 24
Winning Coach—Joe Gibbs
Most Valuable Player—Mark Rypien
———
1991
Buffalo
3 9 0 7 — 19
N.Y. Giants
3 7 7 3 — 20
Winning Coach—Bill Parcells
Most Valuable Player—Ottis Anderson
———
1990
San Francisco 13 141414— 55
Denver
3 0 7 0 — 10
Winning Coach—George Seifert
Most Valuable Player—Joe Montana
———
1989
At Miami—75,129
Cincinnati
0 3 10 3 — 16
San Francisco 3 0 3 14— 20
Winning Coach—Bill Walsh
Most Valuable Player—Jerry Rice
———
1988
Washington
0 35 0 7 — 42
Denver
10 0 0 0 — 10
Winning Coach—Joe Gibbs
Most Valuable Player—Doug Williams
———
1987
Denver
10 0 0 10— 20
N.Y. Giants
7 2 1713— 39
Winning Coach—Bill Parcells
Most Valuable Player—Phil Simms
———
1986
Chicago
13 1021 2 — 46
New England
3 0 0 7 — 10
Winning Coach—Mike Ditka
Most Valuable Player—Richard Dent
———
1985
At Palo Alto, Calif.—84,059
Miami
10 6 0 0 — 16
San Francisco 7 2110 0 — 38
———
1984
Washington
0 3 6 0 — 9
L.A. Raiders
7 1414 3 — 38
Winning Coach—Tom Flores
Most Valuable Player—Marcus Allen
———
1983
Miami
7 10 0 0 — 17
Washington
0 10 3 14— 27
WinningCoach—Joe Gibbs
Most Valuable Player—John Riggins
———
1982
At Pontiac, Mich.—81,270
San Francisco 7 13 6 0 — 26
Cincinnati
0 0 7 14— 21
———
1981
Oakland
14 0 10 3 — 27
Philadelphia
0 3 0 7 — 10
Winning Coach—Tom Flores
Most Valuable Player—Jim Plunkett
———
1980
L.A. Rams
7 6 6 0 — 19
Pittsburgh
3 7 7 14— 31
Winning Coach—Chuck Noll
Most Valuable Player—Terry Bradshaw
———
1979
At Miami—79,484
Pittsburgh
7 14 0 14— 35
Dallas
7 7 3 14— 31
Most Valuable Player—Terry Bradshaw
———
1978
Dallas
10 3 7 7 — 27
Denver
0 0 10 0 — 10
Winning Coach—Tom Landry
Co-Most Valuable Players—Harvey Martin, Randy White
———
1977
Oakland
0 16 3 13— 32
Minnesota
0 0 7 7 — 14
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Winning Coach—John Madden
Most Valuable Player—Fred Biletnikoff
———
1976
At Miami—80,187
Dallas
7 3 0 7 — 17
Pittsburgh
7 0 0 14— 21
Most Valuable Player—Lynn Swann
———
1975
Pittsburgh
0 2 7 7 — 16
Minnesota
0 0 0 6 — 6
Most Valuable Player—Franco Harris
———
1974
At Houston—71,882
Minnesota
0 0 0 7 — 7
Miami
14 3 7 0 — 24
Winning Coach—Don Shula
Most Valuable Player—Larry Csonka
———
1973
At Los Angeles—90,182
Miami
7 7 0 0 — 14
Washington
0 0 0 7 — 7
Winning Coach—Don Shula
Most Valuable Player—Jake Scott
———
1972
Dallas
3 7 7 7 — 24
Miami
0 3 0 0 — 3
Winning Coach—Tom Landry
Most Valuable Player—Roger Staubach
———
1971
At Miami—79,204
Baltimore
0 6 0 10— 16
Dallas
3 10 0 0 — 13
Winning Coach—Don McCafferty
Most Valuable Player—Chuck Howley,
Dallas
———
1970
Minnesota
0 0 7 0 — 7
Kansas City
3 13 7 0 — 23
Winning Coach—Hank Stram
Most Valuable Player—Len Dawson
———
1969
At Miami—75,377
N.Y. Jets
0 7 6 3 — 16
Baltimore
0 0 0 7 — 7
Winning Coach—Weeb Ewbank
Most Valuable Player—Joe Namath
———
1968
At Miami—75,546
Green Bay
3 1310 7 — 33
Oakland
0 7 0 7 — 14
Winning Coach—Vince Lombardi
Most Valuable Player—Bart Starr
———
1967
At Los Angeles—61,946
Kansas City
0 10 0 0 — 10
Green Bay
7 7 14 7 — 35
Winning coach—Vince Lombardi
Most Valuable Player—Bart Starr
SPortlight
This Day In Sports
January 29
1950 — In an Associated Press poll of
sports writers and broadcasters, Jack
Dempsey is voted the greatest fighter
of the past 50 years. Dempsey received
251 votes to 104 for Joe Louis.
1958 — The St. Louis Cardinals give
Stan Musial a contract for $100,000,
making him the highest paid player in the
National League.
1963 — Eleven players and six officials
are elected to the Pro Football Hall of
Fame. Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Bronco
Nagurski, Sammy Baugh, Dutch Clark,
Johnny McNally, Ernie Nevers, Mel
Hein, Pete Henry, Cal Hubbard and Don
Hutson are the players. The six officials
are Bert Bell, Joe Carr, George Halas,
Curly Lambeau, Tim Mara and George
Preston.
1971 — Hal Greer of Philadelphia becomes the sixth player in NBA history to
score 20,000 points as the 76ers lose to
Milwaukee 142-118.
1985 — Edmonton’s Jari Kurri scores his
100th point in the 39th game of the season with a goal in a 4-2 victory over the
Calgary Flames.
1985 — Bryan Trottier of the New York
Islanders scores his 1,000th point with a
goal in a 4-4 tie with the Minnesota North
Stars.
1988 — Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson
breaks his own world indoor best in the
50-yard dash at the Toronto Sun Challenge. Johnson crosses in 5.15 seconds
to better the mark of 5.20 he set two
weeks earlier.
1994 — Julio Cesar Chavez suffers his
first loss in 91 fights when Frankie Randall knocks him down in the 11th round
and wins the WBC super lightweight
championship on a split decision.
1997 — Brian Himmler rolls two perfect
games to take the lead after the first two
rounds of qualifying at the PBA’s Columbia 300 Open.
2000 — Utah’s Karl Malone becomes
the third player in NBA history to score
30,000 points when he makes a layup
with 8:53 left in the third quarter of a 9694 loss to Minnesota.
2004 — Minnesota has its NHL record
for most consecutive overtime games
without a victory or defeat snapped at 15
with a 3-2 loss to Montreal.
SPORTSCAST
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BOXING
10 p.m. — (ESPN2) Super middleweights, Jesse Brinkley (34-5-0) vs.
Curtis Stevens (21-2-0), at Reno, Nev.
EXTREME SPORTS
Noon — (ESPN2) Winter X Games, at
Aspen, Colo.
7 p.m. — (ESPN) Winter X Games, at
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1 a.m. — (ESPN2) Winter X Games, at
Aspen, Colo. (delayed tape)
GOLF
3 p.m. — (GOLF) PGA Tour, Farmers
Insurance Open, second round, at La
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TENNIS
3 p.m. — (ESPN2) Australian Open,
men’s semifinal, at Melbourne, Australia (same-day tape)
3:30 a.m. — (ESPN2) Australian Open,
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The spoiler soon
to be implemented is causing a little concern at teams
like Hendrick
and Stewart
Haas, where
they seemingly
had the wings
mastered.
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turns 1-4
The Ford Mustang and Dodge
Challenger will hit the track in the
Nationwide Series later this year.
Chevy and Toyota will tag their entries with the same names, Impala
and Camry, used in the Sprint Cup
Series. Chevy says it doesn’t want to
compromise the “classic lines” of
the Camaro by adapting it to
NASCAR standards. Toyota says it
doesn’t have a pony car to sell.
NASCAR This Week’s Monte
Dutton gives his take: “It will be interesting to see how the fans take to
having Mustangs and Challengers.
NASCAR needs to make the sport
more appealing to young fans, and
the Nationwide Series is a great
place for that.”
David Ragan may have to break out of his laid-back style for a successful racing season in 2010. The 24-year-old from Unadilla, Ga., is
following in his father’s footsteps. Ken Ragan ran in the Cup series from 1982 to 1990.
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The 1981 Busch Clash (the
precursor of the Budweiser
Shootout) featured only seven
drivers, but, man, they were good
ones. The field consisted of Darrell Waltrip, Benny Parsons, Buddy
Baker, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison and Donnie
Allison, and the order above reflected the finishing order. Waltrip
earned $71,500 for edging Parsons by 3/10ths of a second.
� Who’s hot:
Impending rule
changes have
teams like
Roush Fenway
and RCR hoping
it will give them
a boost.
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’81 Clash was the
race of just seven
NASCAR is now sanctioning
“online racing.” On Feb. 9, online
racing competition begins with
the first event of the inaugural
18-race, 39-week NASCAR iRacing Drivers World Championship.
This series will feature the 50
top-rated drivers currently racing
in iRacing’s Pro Series and will
include Dale Earnhardt Jr., who
recently clinched entry into the
series. Some races will be carried over the Internet at iRacing.com. Though entry in the top
series is limited, iRacing will
host five NASCAR amateur series through the iRacing.com online service. The company was
founded in 2004 by Dave Kaemmer and John Henry. Kaemmer
was co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, developers of awardwinning racing simulations including NASCAR Racing 2003
Season and Grand Prix Legends.
July 3
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COMING SOON
Sprint Cup Series: Daytona 500
Pole Qualifying, Feb. 6; Gatorade
Duel, Feb. 11; Daytona 500, Feb.
14.
Nationwide Series: Camping
World 300, Daytona, Feb. 13
Camping World Truck Series:
NextEra Energy Resources 250,
Daytona, Feb. 12.
DAYTONA DATA
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leader in Shootout victories with six
(1980, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993,
‘95). The only drivers who ever won
back-to-back Shootouts are the late
Neil Bonnett (1983-84), Schrader
(1989-90) and Tony Stewart (200102). The last five winners are Harvick (2009), Earnhardt Jr. (2008),
Stewart (2007), Hamlin (2006) and
Johnson (2005).
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Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, Greg
Biffle, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ryan
Newman, Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards, Brian Vickers, John Andretti, Geoff Bodine, Jeff Burton, Kyle
Busch, Derrike Cope, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bill Elliott, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Bobby
Labonte, Terry Labonte, Joey
Logano, Sterling Marlin, Jamie
McMurray, Ken Schrader and
Michael Waltrip.
History: The first of two annual
NASCAR all-star races began as the
Busch Clash in 1979 and was won
by Buddy Baker in an Oldsmobile.
The other all-star race (variously
known as The Winston, Winston Select, Nextel All-Star Challenge and
Sprint All-Star Race over the years)
wasn’t added until 1985. The late
Dale Earnhardt is the all-time
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Race: Budweiser Shootout
Where: Daytona (Beach, Fla.)
International Speedway (2.5 mi.),
75 laps/187.5 miles.
When: Saturday, Feb. 6.
Last year’s winner: Kevin Harvick,
Chevrolet.
Qualifying: Lineup determined by
blind draw on Feb. 5.
Eligibility: Each driver must have
competed during the past two seasons. Field consists of: (1.) drivers who made the 2009 Chase for
the Sprint Cup; (2.) past Sprint
(Nextel and Winston) Cup champions; (3.) past Budweiser Shootout
winners; (4.) past Daytona 500
and Coke Zero (Pepsi) 400 winners; and (5.) 2009 Raybestos
Rookie of the Year.
The field: Jimmie Johnson, Mark
Martin, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch,
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Bump drafting is cool again.
That was the central message
when NASCAR officials announced a rule change for Daytona. Officials won’t have to
make those judgment calls in
the Daytona 500.
� NASCAR officials considered
lifting the ban on “driving below
the yellow line” but backed off
when most drivers felt it necessary.
� Some think the restoration of a
spoiler, replacing the wing, on
the backs of Sprint Cup cars
might just change the competitive balance. They will likely be
implemented in March.
� First sign that something was
afoot: when NASCAR unveiled a
new Nationwide Series design
with a spoiler on its back. Somehow, many of us missed that
hint, or disregarded it.
� Joey Logano
won’t have to
worry about the
so-called sophomore jinx. His
rookie season
wasn’t spectacular, but he
showed modest
LOGANO
improvement as
the year went
on. He’ll probably perform a little
better this year. Logano is on
track but not ahead of schedule.
� The two drivers most likely to
bounce back from subpar years
are Carl Edwards and Matt
Kenseth.
� Martin Truex Jr.’s performance will
either catapult Michael Waltrip Racing or reveal the reason for Waltrip’s struggles behind the wheel.
� Wondering why the ARCA 200,
Daytona 500 front-row qualifying
and Budweiser Shootout are
crowded into one day? It’s all on
Saturday, Feb. 6, because … the
Super Bowl is on Sunday, Feb. 7.
� Another big question: Will a
bum knee stall Denny Hamlin’s
championship hopes?
� How Danica Patrick fares in the
ARCA race will play some role in
whether Dale Earnhardt Jr. and
Kelley Earnhardt decide to enter
her in the Nationwide Series
race a week later.
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If you have a question or comment, write: NASCAR This Week, c/o The Gaston Gazette, P.O. Box 1538, Gastonia, NC 28053 or send an e-mail to mdutton@gastongazette.com
Room To Grow
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
If driving styles matched personalities, David Ragan couldn’t possibly be
erratic.
The second-generation driver — father Ken drove in major NASCAR
races from 1982 to 1990 — fell from
13th in 2008 Sprint Cup points to 27th
in 2009. The driver some predicted
might make the Chase, by moving up
only one position, instead fell 14 spots.
Ragan, still just 24 years old, can’t
understand it either.
No one in NASCAR seems more
calm and unflappable than Ragan, who
is from Unadilla, Ga.
“I spent a lot of nights wondering
what’s going on,” he said. “I guess it’s
just that Southern man, or Southern
guy, in me. Maybe it’s my granddad
rubbing off on me.
“A quick story: I was with him one
day and we ran out of gas. I asked,
‘What are we going to do? Are we going to get some gas?’ It was 15 years
ago. We didn’t have a cell phone then.
“He said, ‘Nah, I’m going to take a
nap. Somebody will come by in a little
while.’ He never worried about much.”
In one sense, though, the laid-back
style is just a front.
“There were times when I was sick to
my stomach, so much that I couldn’t eat
supper,” he said. “We just couldn’t run
any better than 25th, and I remember
when we’d come to the race track in
2008, and I’d make more mistakes than
I should have, and we’d run 12th. It was
frustrating, but I’m a man, and I can admit it when I do things wrong. (Owner)
Jack Roush is a man, and he can admit
it when things are not right on the performance side, and by being honest, we
can work together and fix it.”
Ragan knows he has to regain his
form this year.
“It’s pretty simple,” he said. “We’ve
got to win races in 2010.
“We’ve got to be competitive from
the short tracks to the mile-and-a-half
tracks to the (restrictor-plate) tracks,
so I’m pretty excited about going to
Daytona here in a few weeks. … We’re
ready to go.”
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Dear NASCAR This Week,
… I feel I have to express how I
feel. I have watched NASCAR for
many years. I enjoyed it, but the last
few years I have not because I believe, in some way, Jimmie (Johnson)
and Chad (Knaus) are cheating. I
know they are smart, and Chad has
been caught more than once.
I think NASCAR should triplecheck Jimmie’s car. If they don’t, it’s
because they are enjoying the ratings
of a fourth (straight) championship.
There has to be something going on
with a team when three others are
struggling to stay ahead.
I don’t know how many others are
dissatisfied this year, but the stands
reflect a lot. …
Mary James
Princeton, Ind.
It’s hard to say three other teams
are struggling when two of them, Mark
Martin’s and Jeff Gordon’s, finished
second and third in last year’s standings. We’re pretty sure NASCAR officials pay close attention to the No. 48.
Time to wait and see about the new 2010 rules
By Monte Dutton
NASCAR This Week
■
Wings will be replaced by
Cut to the Chase — For the
spoilers on the rears of the car, first time ever, Matt Kenseth
All eyes await the effect of but it won’t occur until March. failed to make last season’s Chase
for the Sprint Cup. He doesn’t exnew NASCAR rules on the rac■
pect to experience that again.
ing that commences at Daytona
“For me, last year was our
International Speedway on Feb.
Oops — One of the contenders first with Drew (Blickensder6 with the Budweiser Shootout.
Thanks to new, less-restrictive for the 2010 Sprint Cup champi- fer, his crew chief) and it was
plates, horsepower and throttle onship, Denny Hamlin, suffered his first year doing the Cup
response should be up. The a knee injury on Jan. 22 playing deal and us working together,
abandonment of judgment calls a pickup basketball game.
except on the Nationwide (SeHamlin tore the anterior ries) side a little bit,” said
related to bump drafting should
increase the excitement and cruciate ligament in his left Kenseth. “I feel like there is
likelihood of crashes. At present, knee. It’s too close to the sea- maybe a little bit of stability
many have opinions, but no one son for surgery, so Hamlin there and some things we
really knows what will happen. plans to wait until season’s learned through the year.
Brad Keselowski won a end. A Joe Gibbs Racing
“I think we’ve made a lot of
“plate race” last year, at Tal- spokesman said the injury upgrades on our cars from last
ladega, and his crew chief, Jay won’t have an effect on Ham- year, but the bottom line is
lin’s ability to compete.
Guy, applauded the changes.
we’ve got to do it on the race
“I planted my foot to make a track. We’ve got to have better
“I don’t think we’ll see a big
change in speed,” he said. move toward the basket, and results. … We’ve got to get
“NASCAR has given us bigger my knee just shot directly out back into championship form.”
end plates on the rear wing, to the left,” Hamlin was quoted
which create more drag, and I as saying.
■
On Dec. 16, Hamlin had surthink the horsepower gain will
compensate for that. Yes, it gery on his right knee to reSnippets — The Camping
will be more horsepower on the pair the meniscus. That injury World Truck Series will return to
dyno, but the speed on the race also occurred in a basketball Darlington (S.C.) Raceway on
accident.
track will stay the same.”
Aug. 14. … That series’ 2008
John Clark / NASCAR This Week
Denny Hamlin, seen at right with Carl Edwards, suffered a left knee injury
playing a pickup basketball game last week. Hamlin will wait until after the
season to get surgery.The Gibbs driver had surgery on his right knee on Dec.
16 after another hoops injury.
champion, Johnny Benson, has an
18-race deal with Team Gill. Benson will share the No. 95 Ford
with rookie Lance Fenton, who is
scheduled to run seven races.
… Michael Waltrip competed
recently in a 24-hour en-
durance race in Dubai. “Went
up on the 137th floor of the
Burg of Dubai and looked
around the city,” Waltrip said.
“Went to the ski slope in the
mall. It made Las Vegas look
like Gastonia.”
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up as anyone could imagine, spoil the party, to put some mis- Bourbon Street.
yet but obviously we’re going to
all of Nawlins — heck, pretty ery into the Miami Mardi Gras
The Saints were one of five enjoy this. Now we’ve got to finmuch any place in Bayou Coun- for those Saints and their fans. teams never to get this far; the ish it in Miami.”
try — will be wishing the worst Nobody is better equipped to do Lions, Jaguars, Browns and TexCan they? If history is an inon their native son.
so.
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Sorry, Peyton, the Saints take
Manning once was criticized ers. Clearly, now, the Aints are Buccaneers had an even uglier
precedence in their quest for a for failing to win big games, dead, and a franchise that had resume and they won it all seven
first NFL championship.
and his career playoff record is no home in 2005 after Hurricane years ago, beating one of the preManning, whose father Ar- just 9-8. He’s won six of the last Katrina ravaged New Orleans has mier franchises, the Raiders.
chie was the first Saints super- eight, though, and led the Colts become one of the most successWe know the Saints will atstar, understands.
to the championship three years ful clubs in the nation’s most tack on offense, and getting in
“It’s certainly an exciting ago, in the rain in Miami. Indy popular sport.
a shootout with the Colts is not
opportunity for our team to be is 16-2 this time around, and it
And while Indy has become as such a bad idea; New Orleans led
going back to the Super Bowl might have been a perfect 18-0 if much a football town as a bas- the league with 510 points. The
down in Miami, and I’m very the Colts hadn’t pulled Manning ketball haven thanks to Manning Saints, who forced 39 turnovers,
happy for the New Orleans Saints and other starters in the final two and his minions, it’s difficult to must be proactive on defense to
and, of course, the entire city of games of the regular season.
find any city as infatuated with match the aggressiveness with
New Orleans,” Peyton Manning
Manning set an NFL record for — or as dependent on — its which the Colts have performed
says. “My parents live there, my 300-yard playoff games with his team as Nawlins is now.
recently — just as Indy did in
older brother Cooper lives there. seventh in last week’s AFC chamTimes have been hard for its Super Bowl run after the 2006
Eli and I have both participated pionship win over the Jets. He has the city, which still is in recov- season.
in philanthropic organizations 22 TD passes, five this year, and ery mode from Katrina. Nothing
If Manning gets free rein,
down in New Orleans, whether averages 284 yards through the has provided quite the boost that he’s likely to have the answer
it’s Katrina relief or just various air in the postseason.
the Saints’ ascendancy has given for all those “Who Dats?” they’re
charities. So New Orleans is a
Against two of the league’s New Orleanians.
proudly screaming in the French
huge part of my life, as well as stingiest defenses — Indy beat
Indeed, a city steeped in a Quarter.
Eli’s life. My dad’s been a part the Ravens before the Jets — culture all its own shares a very
It might even be a Big Easy
of the Saints organization for Manning was masterful.
fundamental trait with the rest of for him.
5 N.Y. Jets 24
Former Vol Helton gets help with Jason Giambi
DENVER (AP) — Todd Helton’s wish for the upcoming
season is to make it through the
grind with a little bit more left in
his tank come October. Jason Giambi’s return to Denver should
help him accomplish that goal.
Giambi’s $1.75 million, oneyear contact with the Colorado
Rockies was finalized Thursday.
a deal that allows Giambi to spell
Helton at first base and serve as a
pinch hitter.
“Last year was probably the
first year I really felt tired at the
end of the season,” Helton said
recently. “I’d like to have something left at the end of the season
so I can maybe hit a home run. ...
Some of this is my fault. I’ll take
care of myself a little bit better and
work a little bit harder so I can be
ready at the end of the year.”
Giambi’s presence should
make that a whole lot easier.
He hit .292 with two homers
and 11 RBIs in 19 games for the
Rockies last September, when he
had two game-winning hits and
helped Colorado win the NL wild
card.
He was a huge hit in the clubhouse, mentoring young players
and veterans.
General manager Dan O’Dowd
said he gained a fuller appreciation for Giambi’s clubhouse contributions during meetings with
his staff, manager Jim Tracy and
his coaches last week.
“It became very clear to me
how much of an integral part he
was in leadership and accountability and the standards of what
we’re trying to become here,”
O’Dowd said. “I think that was
probably first and foremost in the
decision to bring him back.
“And then, two, we think he
can be a very, very productive
player in the role that he will
be used in, which is to complement Todd and to get a lot of
big hits for us when called upon
to do that,” O’Dowd said. “And
then with interleague play, we’re
adding a legitimate bat into the
middle of our lineup.”
wrestling
EHS records five wins over CDHS
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Elizabethton Cyclone wrestling team continues to show steady
improvement against the Chuckey-Doak Black Knights as they grappled their way to five victories.
In the 112-pound weight class, Dalton Callahan earned a pin over
his opponent. Nick Maylar followed with a tough exhibition-match
win in the 125-pound class.
Andrew Richardson had to go the full three rounds but managed to
pull out a grueling third-round decision in the 135-pound division.
Brandon Taylor picked up another pin in the 145-pound class
against his Black Knight opponent.
Finally, Michael Clark wrestling in the 152-pound division rang up
the fifth and final win for Elizabethton with another pin that came in
the third period against his Chuckey-Doak opponent.
women’s hoops
Lady Vols rebound
with win over Auburn
KNOXVILLE (AP) — A huge
grin spread across Shekinna
Stricklen’s face as soon as her
third 3-point basket of the night
swished cleanly though the net.
Fifth-ranked Tennessee already
had enough points to beat Auburn,
but the shot meant something
else. The Lady Volunteer guards
were back from a long slump.
“Aw, man it felt so good,”
Stricklen said after Tennessee beat
Auburn 85-56 Thursday night.
“When we hit shots, we were
all just smiling. We felt like the
guards haven’t had a good game
like this in a long time.”
Angie Bjorklund led the way
with 20 points for Tennessee and
Stricklen finished with 17. The
Lady Vols’ posts contributed to the
offensive outpouring, too, with
Glory Johnson scoring 15 and
grabbing 13 rebounds, and Alyssia
Brewer adding 11 points.
Tennessee (18-2, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) entered the
game averaging 75 points overall but only 64.8 points in league
play.
Bjorklund entered the game
leading the team with 14.8 points
per contest, but her production
was down to an average 8.8 points
in the past four games. Stricklen’s
had dropped to 7.3 per game from
her season average of 12.7 in the
past three games.
Coach Pat Summitt said it’s
still a learning process with the
young team, her first without a
single senior.
“Our perimeter game is getting better,” Summitt said. “If you
look at the stats, they see that they
need to get in the gym. Otherwise,
don’t expect minutes. Everyone
has to be invested. I think they got
the message.”
A 3-pointer by the Bjorklund
capped a 14-2 run that gave Tennessee a 22-14 lead with 11:05 in
the first half, and the Lady Vols did
not trail again. Bjorklund hit 6 of
12 from behind the arc.
Even Johnson, known more
for driving the paint and working
the backboards, contributed from
outside, getting her first career
3-pointer on a desperation shot
with 2 seconds left on the shot
clock. She scrambled for a loose
ball and shoveled it into the air
while falling backward.
“It was lucky. No skill involved,” Summitt said, rolling her
eyes.
The Tigers (11-10, 2-6) are
even younger than the Lady Vols,
returning just one starter from
the team that last season got an
unprecedented back-to-back wins
over Tennessee.
The lone returning player, Alli
Smalley, was the only Tigers player
that didn’t appear to struggle, and
she led the team with 21 points.
“We know we are young,”
Smalley said. “We know that each
night in the SEC is going to be a
Hampton
n Continued from 1B
Dorothy Dugger scored six
and made three steals. Hampton
was 5 of 7 at the line.
North Greene was 11 of 21 on
free throws and controlled the
glass 41-33. White and Laiken
Morrow hit 11 points each.
White also hauled in 19 rebounds. Morrow grabbed eight,
while Britton totaled eight points
and six boards.
“Disappointing performance,
but it is becoming a pattern for
us,” Tolley said. “We are going
to play together, or lose individually. Certainly not any team basketball going on right now.”
———
North Greene, 44-43
NORTH GREENE (44)
White 11, Britton 8, Vaughn 5, Taylor 2,
Miller 6, Morrow 11, McAmis 1, Ricker 0.
HAMPTON (43)
Lewis 11, Weddle 15, M. Dugger 8, Stout
3, P. Dugger 0, D. Dugger 6, Guinn 0,
McQueen 0, Marvel 0, Martin 0, Bradley 0.
North Greene
10 12 12 10 – 44
Hampton 15 6 14 8 – 43
3-point goals—North Greene 3 (Britton
2, Vaughn 1), Hampton 2 (Lewis, Stout).
Rebounds—North Greene 41 (White 19),
Hampton 33 (Weddle 7, M. Dugger 7).
Hampton (boys) 51
North Greene 32
The Bulldogs raced to a 20-3
lead in the first quarter and were
never challenged.
“We got off to an awful good
start,” Hampton coach Jerry
White said. “I don’t guess we shot
the ball that well all year, starting the game like that.”
Nathanael Hughes and Dylan
Ward paced the Bulldogs (12-5,
4-0) with 14 and 13 points, respectively. Each nailed two threepointers.
Dylan Hill hit 10 points and
blocked three shots. Those three
juniors each grabbed five boards
before taking early seats.
“In all fairness, North Greene
had some players out, though,”
White said. “That hurt them.”
Hampton was up 25-10 after one period and 31-10 at the
break. It was 44-16 heading in
the fourth quarter.
Tyler Trusler came off the
bench to lead the Bulldogs on
the glass with eight rebounds.
Hampton dominated the boards
40-24.
Scoring five points apiece were
Trusler and Wesley Murray.
Hampton was 5 of 8 at the
foul line.
The Huskies (8-8, 2-3) got 10
points and nine rebounds from
Garrett Harbin. North Greene was
7 of 13 on free throws.
“We come out and we took
good shots, and made most of
them early,” White said. “We got
a big lead there early.”
———
Hampton, 51-32
NORTH GREENE (32)
Tucker 3, Harmon 5, Harbin 10, Lady 6,
Weems 1, Starnes 4, Britton 0, Compton
3.
HAMPTON (51)
Hughes 14, Ward 13, Hill 10, Jones 2,
Andrews 0, Trusler 5, Lyons 0, Berry 0,
Campbell 0, Olvera 2, Murray 5, Taylor
0.
North Greene
6 4 6 14 – 32
Hampton 25 6 13 7 – 51
3-point goals—North Greene 3 (Lady
2, Compton 1), Hampton 5 (Hughes 2,
Ward 2, Murray 1). Rebounds—North
Greene 24 (Harbin 9), Hampton 40 (Trusler 8).
JUNIOR VARSITY
Girls
Hampton 53
North Greene 42
Dorothy Dugger fired in 22
points to fuel the victory.
Danielle Guinn and Emily Holtsclaw added seven points
apiece. Samantha Tolley pulled
down seven rebounds, Katie Eu-
litt totaled six points and seven
boards.
The Lady Bulldogs (11-5) led
17-11 after one period, 21-20 at
the break and 41-26 heading in
the final quarter.
Boys
Hampton 34
North Greene 27
Tyler Trusler’s 11 points and
seven rebounds paced the Bulldogs (2-9) to their second win of
the season.
Hampton also got 10 points
and six boards from Joe Campbell.
Wesley Murray tossed in seven
and Johnny Fields scored six.
North Greene was up 7-6
heading in the second quarter,
when the Bulldogs streaked to an
18-11 halftime advantage. It was
27-17 after three periods.
tough game because every team
in the SEC is good. It was certainly
tough to get off shots against the
Tennessee defense, especially with
them switching out on everything.”
Despite being bested by Tennessee in nearly every statistical
category, Auburn still got off to
the better start. The Tigers hit the
first five points of the game and
grabbed a 12-8 lead before the
Lady Vols launched their scoring
run.
Auburn’s main threat in the
paint, KeKe Carrier, helped disrupt
the Lady Vols early despite being
hampered by a hamstring injury
suffered a week ago. Carrier didn’t
last long, quickly committing two
fouls and spending much of the
first half on the bench.
“You just keep working hard,”
Auburn coach Nell Fortner said.
“They have to not lose their belief
in what we’re doing and just continue to compete. I thought our
effort was good tonight. I thought
we worked hard tonight. We just
didn’t have enough.”
Warriors
n Continued from 1B
———
Happy Valley, 50-36
HAPPY VALLEY (50)
Davis 7, Hodge 8, Birchfield 7, Phillps 2,
Fleenor 5, Stanley 17, Cammu 4
SULLIVAN NORTH (36)
Minnick 4, Gilliam 2, Mark Salyers 16,
PRice 2, William White 10, Shelton 2
Happy Valley
6 13 17 14 — 50
Sullivan North
11 7 7 11 — 36
3-point goals: SN (Salyers, White).
GIRLS
Happy Valley, 57-34
Kaycey Williams and the Lady
Raiders gave Happy Valley all it
could handle in the first half.
The final two quarters were a
different story.
“We worked the ball a little
better and got better looks,” said
Happy Valley coach Ben Godsey.
“We just played better. It’s a good
win for us.””
Williams had 12 of her gamehigh 15 points in the first half as
she kept Sullivan North within two
points at the break.
The Lady Warriors (7-11) had
seven different players score during
a 17-6 third quarter run, led by Brittany Henson who had two buckets.
Randa Blankenship had five
points and Henson added four
points in the fourth as the Lady
Warriors continued their dominance with a 15-5 frame to seal the
23-point win.
“The first half North came out
and, give them credit, they took it
to us and played aggressive,” said
Godsey. “We didn’t do a good job
of guarding them at all in the first
half. The Williams kid, we couldn’t
get her stopped in the first and second quarter.
“The second half the difference
was we held her down to one basket in the third quarter and one free
throw in the fourth quarter. We did
a better job against her and just
picked up our intensity on defense.
I’m pleased with our second half.”
Happy Valley had four players
score in the double figures led by
Henson’s team-high 13.
Chelsea Hoilman and Blankenship scored 11 apiece, while Olivia
Eaton added 10.
Autumn Hughes added a complete game with six points with
six rebounds, five assists and three
steals.
Overall, the Lady Warriors combined for 14 steals and two blocks
with 32 total rebounds.
Happy Valley has two additions
to the schedule this week. The varsity teams visit Unaka on Monday
with games at Daniel Boone on
Wednesday.
———
Happy Valley, 57-34
HAPPY VALLEY (57)
Hughes 6, Blankenship 11, Perry 5, Hoilman 11, Eaton 10, Ollis 1, Henson 13
SULLIVAN NORTH (34)
Cook 4, K Williams 15, Cain 5, Jumpter 1,
Lee 3, Hood 6
Happy Valley
13 12 17 15 — 57
Sullivan North
11 12 6 5 — 34
3-point goals: HV (Hughes).
Pro Bowl serves as Super Bowl warmup in Miami
MIAMI (AP) — For 86 of the
NFL’s best players, the season is
ending where they wanted: in
Miami.
Their timing’s off, though.
With a new venue and new
slot on the league calendar, the
Pro Bowl will be played Sunday
as a preliminary to next week’s
Super Bowl on the same field.
It definitely feels like a warmup act.
“There’s a bittersweet taste,”
said quarterback Tony Romo, a
late addition to the NFC roster
after his Dallas Cowboys came
up two wins shy of a Super Bowl
berth. “You’re always hoping to
play in the big game.”
The NFL is trying to transform the Pro Bowl into a bigger
game by playing it before the
Super Bowl for the first time.
In a one-year experiment, the
league also moved the game
from Honolulu, its home since
1980.
The results: increased media
coverage and the best attendance
in 51 years, with a sellout crowd
of more than 70,000 expected.
The changes haven’t helped
participation, though. Seven
Colts and seven Saints are missing because they’re preparing
for the Super Bowl, a drawback
to playing the Pro Bowl first.
Defections by players citing
injuries were high, as usual.
More than a dozen pulled out,
leaving the all-star teams with
only some stars.
“That has been historic,”
said Frank Supovitz, the NFL’s
senior vice president for events.
“That’s nothing new.”
And that’s not what the
league sought to fix by changing the date and site of the
game, Supovitz said.
“The changes were meant
to look at two things: Whether
we could create more excitement with the Pro Bowl being
the first event of Super Bowl
week, and whether it would
have an impact on TV ratings,”
he said.
Ticket sales show the excitement level is up, Supovitz
said. And he’s optimistic about
the television audience for the
game.
“It’s being shown on a
weekend when there’s usually
no football and interest in the
NFL is at its highest,” he said.
Those tuning in will see established stars such as Ray Lewis, Antonio Gates and DeMarcus
Ware, as well as first-time Pro
Bowlers such as DeAngelo Williams, Clay Matthews and Matt
Schaub. The TV audience they
attract will help the NFL decide
where and when to play future
Pro Bowls.
The game will return to
Honolulu in 2011 and 2012,
but the league hasn’t decided
whether to hold those games
before or after the Super Bowl.
The Pro Bowl site for 2013 and
beyond hasn’t been determined.
Players had mixed reactions to this year’s changes.
Many said they preferred the old
schedule so those in the Super
Bowl could also be available for
the Pro Bowl.
“I’d rather have it after the
Super Bowl,” 49ers linebacker
Patrick Willis said. “I truly believe next year we’re going to be
in the Super Bowl, and I want to
play in the Pro Bowl too.”
But Romo said he could see
the appeal of putting the Pro
Bowl first.
“There’s something to be said
for playing the game during the
season,” he said. “I think more
people are interested.”
By moving the game to the
Super Bowl site, the NFL created a bigger spotlight for the
Pro Bowl. There are 1,076 credentialed media members this
week, compared with 334 in Honolulu a year ago.
That’s good for the league,
and maybe not so good for the
all-stars.
“There’s a lot more media
here, that’s for sure,” said eighttime Pro Bowl center Kevin
Mawae, addressing a throng of
reporters after an AFC practice.
“It’s not as relaxed here. There’s
a little more hustle and bustle
here than there would be at the
resort where we stay in Hawaii.”
Still, practices this week were
pretty laid back. AFC offensive
linemen ran pass patterns.
Browns kick returner Joshua
Cribbs took a wildcat snap.
Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson
threw a pass on an end-around.
Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco practiced punting and kicking and said he may boot one in
the game.
The primary goal seemed to
be having a few laughs, which
at the end of a long season was
understandable. For players who
came up short of the Super Bowl,
the Pro Bowl can be a consolation prize worth accepting.
Running back Adrian Peterson decided not to play, then
changed his mind two days after his Vikings lost in the NFC
championship game.
“I was beating myself up, and
then I realized that really wasn’t
the right route to go,” Peterson
said. “I’m here, and I’m going
to enjoy myself.”
Goodell: Pro Bowl date
switch already ‘a success’
LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) — Other than a nosebleed, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell likes just about everything so far regarding this
one-year test of having the Pro Bowl played one week before the Super
Bowl.
“What we’re seeing is a lot more attention on the Pro Bowl than
we’ve ever had before,” Goodell said. “And that in and of itself is a success.”
Goodell arrived Thursday in South Florida — the Pro Bowl will be
played there on Sunday, followed one week later by the Super Bowl —
and immediately went to work alongside some members of the NFL
Players Association. But on this day, there was no talk about labor issues
or an uncapped season.
Helped considerably by more than 200 volunteers, they built a playground at a school not far from downtown Fort Lauderdale, one of three
stops by Pro Bowl players Thursday in what the NFL said was the largest
community program in league history.
“When kids like this see us giving back and caring enough to help
them build their playground, they’ll remember it for a lifetime,” said
Tennessee’s Kevin Mawae, the NFLPA president. “For me it’s nice, being
the president, having to answer the questions about what-ifs, I can come
out here and be part of the community. Right now, the rest of it, that is
the most unimportant thing in the world to me.”
In six hours, the playground was built, even with constant stops by
the NFL players for photos with anyone who asked.
Mawae spent part of his day filling wheelbarrows with a shovel. The
Jets’ D’Brickashaw Ferguson, his shorts and shoes splattered with concrete — a job he said he was fired from earlier in the day — took a
paintbrush and applied stain to some newly built picnic tables. Eagles
quarterback Donovan McNabb, surrounded by kids half his size, led
them in painting a mural on the school’s exterior wall.
“I painted my room once,” Ferguson said. “It took me a couple tries.
This is very challenging. It’s a rough day right now.”
And the commissioner, he pushed mulch around the playground
with a rake, then somehow got a nosebleed for his efforts. “I think the
benefit is a couple things,” Goodell said. “First off, it shows how great
our players are, what they do off the field here. So many people see them
on the field and all the great contributions they make on the field, but
these guys are great men and they do some great things in their communities. And number two, I think it shows how much the NFL cares
about its communities.”
The Pro Bowl has traditionally been held the week following the
Super Bowl. Sunday’s game marks the first time in three decades the
Pro Bowl is being played somewhere other than Honolulu, where it will
return for 2011 and 2012.
No decision has been made on whether it will be played before or
after the Super Bowl in those years.
“We knew that not having the Super Bowl players was something that
was going to be a negative to doing this,” Goodell said. “But everyone
felt that there was a real chance to put this Pro Bowl on a higher platform and be a positive thing. We did that and I think it has worked for
us. Super Bowl players will be on the biggest stage of all a week later.”
Patrick to run at least
12-race NASCAR schedule
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — IndyCar star Danica Patrick will
compete in at least 12 NASCAR races this season and could make her
debut in the season opener.
JR Motorsports announced Patrick’s schedule Thursday. Her first
race, though, is still uncertain. Patrick is waiting to decide whether to
race in the Nationwide Series opener at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 13.
The team says it will decide after Patrick makes her stock car debut
in the Feb. 6 ARCA race at Daytona. If she feels comfortable, she could
race the following week in NASCAR’s second-tier series. It would be a
daunting NASCAR start considering more than a dozen Sprint Cup
regulars, including team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr., drive in that one.
“Like I’ve said before, we just want to be smart and calculative
about this process,” Patrick said. “The tracks we’ve selected not only
complement the IndyCar schedule, but will give me quality seat time
at a variety of facilities.”
If Patrick doesn’t drive the Nationwide race at Daytona, she will
make her debut the following week in Fontana, Calif.
Her remaining schedule includes Las Vegas (Feb. 20), a fourmonth hiatus to focus on the IndyCar Series and her return to NASCAR at New Hampshire (June 26).
She also will race in Chicago (July 9), Michigan (Aug. 14), Dover,
Del. (Sept. 25), Fontana (Oct. 9), Charlotte (Oct. 15), Madison, Ill.
(Oct. 23), Texas (Nov. 6), Phoenix (Nov. 13), and Homestead, Fla.
(Nov. 20).
File Photo
Peyton Manning leads Indianapolis into its second Super Bowl in four years.
Colts struggle to explain Manning’s mind
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Peyton Manning
can play mind games all day.
In the battle of brains that gets played out
on a football field, the Indianapolis Colts’
quarterback usually comes out on top.
His relentless thirst for knowledge, his
passion to know opponents better than they
know themselves and his uncanny ability to
recall crucial details in split seconds have
many NFL observers wondering how, exactly, does Manning’s mind work?
“It’s quite confusing,” Colts receiver
Reggie Wayne jokingly said this week. “It’s
something that whenever his mind starts to
go, I’m trying to get as far away from him
as I possibly can. Just tell me the end result,
that’s all I need to know.”
If only it were that easy for the four-time
league MVP.
Though Manning has been labeled everything from the smartest quarterback in
league history to the most creative, he’s going to his second Super Bowl in Miami for
one reason: Nothing is left to chance.
His normal work week consists of spending countless hours breaking down film at
home or in the team complex, taking notes
about anything that could give him an edge.
He spends extra time working with young
receivers Austin Collie, a rookie, and Pierre
Garcon, now in his second year, teaching
them how to study properly.
That’s only the start.
On game day, Manning spends time on
the sideline studying photographs, refining
routes, discussing protections and countering the adjustments defenses make to confuse him.
Sometimes Manning needs time to figure things out. When he does, it’s a game-
changer.
Just ask the New York Jets, who kept the
Colts’ offense in check for much of the first
half of Sunday’s AFC championship game.
Then after a brief discussion with Garcon,
Manning altered a few things and the Colts
responded with TDs on three of their next
four possessions. Final score: Indy 30, New
York 17.
Garcon caught 11 passes for 151 yards,
both career-highs, and one TD — the score
that put Indianapolis ahead for good.
Manning insists he doesn’t know it all.
“I don’t know if I ever figure them out,
I’ll say that,” he said. “They (defenses) can
change anytime, I’m always aware of that.
You have to prepare for the unexpected. The
main thing you want to do is try to be good
at what you’re doing.”
There’s no question Manning has become the master of preparation.
Though most players refer to opponents
or teammates by jersey numbers, Manning
remembers seemingly everything. He routinely calls players by first or last name, or
both. He recalls other NFL teams his opponents played for, their previous head-tohead matches, mistakes he’s made against
those guys, which colleges they attended and
even, occasionally, a player’s high school
information — without ever glancing at a
media guide or TelePrompTer.
It’s a gift.
“He has the ability to remember almost
everything he sees and hears,” coach Jim
Caldwell said. “He not only can take that
information in, but he can also regurgitate
it, and not only that, he can utilize it. The
other level is being able to apply it when you
need it, and he can do all of those things
and he can do those things in the heat of
the battle, under pressure, with the game
on the line. That’s what makes him so very
unusual.”
If Manning can do all that in a game,
imagine what he can do with two weeks to
study the Saints (15-3).
He has faced his father’s old team four
times since Indianapolis made him the No.
1 draft pick in 1998, with a 2-2 record. In
the three games he’s played against New Orleans since his rookie season, Manning is 56
of 83 for 864 yards with 10 TDs, six in the
2003 game, and one interception. Manning
hasn’t lost to the Saints in a season that the
Colts posted a winning record and now he
has two weeks to sift through their schemes.
“An extra weekend is not good,” Wayne
said. “If we were going into this game saying we were going to get our game plan done
this week and not add anything else after, it
wouldn’t be possible. I can guarantee you
we’ll come in on Sunday and we’ll have an
addition to our game plan. ... It’s been that
way for nine years for me. It’s never finalized.”
Clearly, Manning embraces a battle of
the wits.
And if the Super Bowl becomes a mind
game, well, the Colts like their chances.
“What’s the saying, ’A good chess player
can see 10 moves ahead?’ I think that’s exactly what it is,” linebacker Gary Brackett
said. “It’s like ’If we do this, they’re going to
do this. If they do this, I’m going to do this.’
Thinking that step ahead and being already
on to the next one when they break up a
pass. He and Reggie are great at that. Reggie just throws up the hand, Peyton knows
exactly where to go.”

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