Archive for: February, 2004

S’ville Fire Marshal

Fire Marshal Tommy White of the Sevierville Fire Department was named president of the Tennessee Fire Safety Inspectors Association (TFSIA) on Thursday, February 19.TFSIA is a professional organization of fire marshals and inspectors from across...

 

Understanding child development

Understanding child development

Children are constantly growing and changing. Every day new skills, new tasks and new personality traits are developing. A child goes through several developmental stages, each distinctive and important to the child’s growth to adulthood. Children...

 

One million for women’s health

One million for women’s health

Paul Summers, the Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, recently announced a grant award of $1,122,834 for a Statewide Tennessee Women’s Health Initiative.  The three-year grant will be administered through the National Consortium...

 

Low-fat eating out

Low-fat eating out

Just because you are watching the amount of fat in your diet, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a meal out in a restaurant. It’s possible to make healthy eating choices when dining out if you choose restaurants carefully, and select restaurants...

 

Fifteen years and going strong

Fifteen years and going strong

It’s been fifteen years since Cheryl Thompson opened her jewelry business, “Something Precious Fine Jewelry” with her now late husband Ruble, located in south Knoxville just a stone’s throw away from Seymour and Sevier County in the...

 

Financial Focus: Taxes on the sale of a home

For most of us, our home represents our largest asset. Over time, the management of this asset can make a big difference in our overall financial outlook. One of the largest planning opportunities home ownership brings is the favorable tax treatment...

 

Rape Aggression Defense class

The Sevierville Police Department has scheduled a Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class for women on March 2, 9 and 16, 2004, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. each night, at the Sevierville Civic Center. The class is free of charge and is open to all...

 

CROSS pays off debt

A local organization dedicated to helping Seymour residents has paid off a big debt, and a big relief. CROSS, a church-supported ministry serving needy families throughout Seymour, now involving 15 local churches, is a 100% volunteer organization...

 

No. 1 UCLA downs No. 12 Lady Vols

No. 1 UCLA downs No. 12 Lady Vols

UCLA senior All-American Keira Goerl, the Most Valuable Player of the 2003 Women’s College World Series, fired a two-hit shutout with a season-high 11 strikeouts as the Bruins halted Tennessee’s winning streak at nine games with a 3-0 decision...

 

UT off to best start in school history

UT  off to best start in school history

Inclement weather on Sunday morning forced the cancellation of the Lady Vol softball team’s game against Notre Dame to wrap up the Palm Springs Classic. No. 12 Tennessee improved its mark to 13-2 overall with a 2-1 showing in the tournament,...

 

Hurricanes blow out third game to take series over Vols

Hurricanes blow out third game to take series  over Vols

Tennessee managed to split the first two games of their series in Miami this weekend, but eight errors on Sunday doomed UT’s chance of taking the series from the third-ranked Hurricanes. Jim Burt drove in three runs with a double and a triple...

 

Lady Vol fans win Fourth Annual Obleed Orange Competition

Lady Vol fans won their fourth consecutive Bleed Orange Competition against Vanderbilt Commodore fans last week with 978 pints of blood donations for Medic Regional Blood Center. Volunteer fans beat Vandy fans by 445 pints. Vandy donated 533...

 

Regional Information

The Regional Tournament sites for the next round of play have already been set. Pigeon Forge will not change venues as Morristown-West High School will also be the site of the Region 1-AA Tournament. West is currently hosting the District 2...

 

Racin’ Round

Two things have caught my attention this week, and I suppose that both are related in a distant sort of way. First has to do with the statements of the Formula One owners that concern NASCAR racing. The owners have decided that NASCAR is a phenomenon...

 

Kenseth and Kahne make it a photo finish at Rockingham

Kenseth and Kahne make it a photo finish at Rockingham

Matt Kenseth had something to prove, both to himself and to the race fans as the NEXTEL Cup series took to the track at North Carolina Motor Speedway Sunday. Ryan Newman again proved he was king of qualifiers, putting his Alltel sponsored Dodge...

 

New speed in an old shop

If you drive around Sevier County, you can barely go a mile without seeing an older style car, or one of the new smaller import customs that adorn our streets. The phenomenon of custom automobiles is certainly not a new one, but technology changes...

 

Sevier County marriage licenses

Eric Ray Ballard and Karen Melissa Stroup Engel of Sevierville, TN. Christopher Ray Bryant and Anna Marie Wiseman of Kodak, TN. Evelin Alexander Carrillo and Angela Lynn Parton Ogle of Pigeon Forge, TN. James Ray Disney and Alma Faye Lane Bryan...

 

Community Calendar

Bible Fellowship in Seymour is hosting a party for VBS Directors in the East TN area. This party will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2004 at Bible Fellowship Church from 9 a.m. to Noon. Group Publishing coordinates this event, and a VBS Specialist...

 

Obituaries

Earl L. Delius, age 76, of Seymour, who for the last several years courageously battled many personal illnesses and set the most valiant unselfish example by the love and care he so lovingly gave to his wife Mildred before her death. The example...

 

Sevier County property transfers

John F. Hewitt and Joyce Hewitt, grantors, to Stephen M. Bean and Lisa H. Bean, grantees, for subdivision Olde Gatlinburg Place, lot 302, district 11, for $ 83,000.00. Thomas Henry Starnes and Janice Dill Starnes, grantors, to Willis Roland...