Thursday, April 1, 2010

The Mountain Press■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 91 ■ April 1, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 50 Cents

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SCHS boys go for 7th titleMountain Press relays today at Seymour

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Index

The Mountain Press is committed to accuracy. Please report factual errors by calling 428-0748 Ext. 214.

Corrections

Weather

TodayMostlySunny

High: 79°

TonightMostlyClear

Low: 44°

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5Laughter’s no joke to scientistsResearchers still trying to discover the science of laughing

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Wilda Gibson, 81Matthew WorleyGrace Clabo, 92Ina Moore, 90Claude Ivey, 62Elmer Floyd, 86Wayne Ogle, 58George Lyon, 86

Obituaries

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5Moscow police on high alertNew suicide blast kills 12 in Russia

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By JeFF FarreLLStaff writer

If there was a trans-action involving the Belle Island property Wednesday, it wasn’t recorded with Register of Deeds Sherry Robertson Huskey.

Documents from bank-ruptcy proceedings for the Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum show that the bank currently in pos-session of the commer-cial and entertainment facility is set to sell it.

“Regions Bank now owns Belle Island Village and has entered into an agreement to sell the project to Tennessee Investment Partners,” according to documents filed in a California bankruptcy court for the

Submitted Report

SEVIERVILLE — The Sevierville Public Works Department announces that repair work is under way on Ridge Road near Candy Tuft Drive, to repair underground water damage that occurred in February.

Ridge Road between Park Road and Candy Tuft Drive is currently closed to through traffic.

According to Public Works Director Bryon Fortner, the contrac-tor is currently driving piles into the road bed to create an underground retaining wall; 38 piles will be used. When that task is completed, some additional work will be completed before the road is reopened.

It is also possible the road will be reopened on a temporary basis for one day before being closed for the final repairs.

Ridge Roadrepairs begin

Staff

An Army officer watches from atop the space needle as paratroopers drop into Gatlinburg to help a city that reportedly is blocked off because rockslides in all directions. The paratroopers are bringing in supplies to starving, desperate residents and tourists. Read more about this situation on Page A11.

Paratroopers over Gatlinburg

By DereK HoDgeSStaff Writer

NATIONAL PARK — With some unique cel-ebrations planned, offi-cials with Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced Wednesday work to rehabilitate roads in Cades Cove is ahead of schedule and the popular area should reopen almost a full month earlier than expected.

Though initial projec-tions and the contract awarded for the effort called for a May 21 end date, park spokesman Bob Miller said things have progressed much faster than expected.

“We are really pleased to be able to get the Loop Road open earlier than planned, despite a much harder than average winter,” Superintendent Dale Ditmanson said. “We know how much our visitors look forward to including Cades Cove on the itinerary, and we

are also sensitive to the impact that the closure has had on the tourism-driven economies in our gateway communities.”

Ditmanson credited “capable management and aggressive efforts by the contractor,” for cre-ating the earlier projec-tion. Additionally, finan-cial incentives built into the contract for early completion certainly

helped push construc-tion firm APAC-Atlantic, Ditmanson said.

The project, which Miller called “long-over-due,” includes a com-plete overhaul of the Cades Cove Loop Road, the 11-mile stretch that covers the entire his-toric valley. Traveled by millions of visitors each year and worn by three decades of Smoky

Mountain weather, the asphalt had become pit-ted and considerably worn.

Thanks to an infusion of federal stimulus dollars, the work got underway just a few weeks ago. It will also include the repaving of existing parking areas and construction of new ones to allow visitors to

Loop Road to reopen month earlyCelebrations eventsplanned for 2 days

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced Wednesday the popular Cades Cove area will reopen in late April.

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By JeFF FarreLLStaff writer

SEVIERVILLE — A plane crash at Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport caused serious damage to the aircraft, but left the three local people on the plane unhurt.

The Beechcraft Baron six-passenger plane apparently overshot the runway, said airport manager Don Baker. Pilot Dwight Burnett and his passengers were all local residents, but none were injured, Baker said.

“We just had a minor accident up here; a plane went off the runway,” Baker said.

While there were no injuries, the plane lost an engine and part of a wing on impact.

Burnett had gone up for a flight during clear weather and was returning when the crash happened. Officials said he had 39 years of pilot experience.

Derek Hodges/The Mountain Press

A portion of one wing of a six-passenger Beechcraft Baron sits in a grassy median in front of the wrecked craft between the twin airstrips late Wednesday. No one was injured.

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Three unhurtin plane crash

“They were just out flying around and came back in and I don’t know 100 per-cent what happened,” Baker said.

The Federal Aviation Administration is required to investigate. Sevierville police were called to secure the scene.

The airport remained open.“We can still operate. It’s off the run-

way far enough that planes can land and take off safely,” Baker said.

Staff writer Derek Hodges contrib-uted to this story.

The Mountain Press ◆ Thursday, April 1, 2010

It’s been a while since my last Trainer’s Corner article. I have been very blessed, to say the least, but that tends to also lead to being very busy as well.

I have opened a new facility, launched a new martial arts promotion and started new projects. Having been very busy with everything has allowed me to step away from the computer a bit and observe things differently.

I really do try to see the positive in anything to do with health and fitness and the industry. My thought is that anything is better than nothing.

This is not always true. Observing the new prod-ucts popping up over the last year is my motivation to get back to consistently writing this article. The things I see on television have got to be taken as an insult to a person’s intel-ligence.

I was recently having dinner at a local restau-rant when I looked up at a television and saw a group of women shaking a stick around like they were being electrocuted. Of course this product is “scientifically proven,” so it must work, right?

You can say what you want in an advertisement as long as the disclaimer at the bottom says that the results are not typical. That’s why you see it on everything that seems to good to be true.

I have realized that there is just too much garbage out there to make any significant difference in the fitness industry. Nobody wants to hear the truth. It’s unfortunately that simple. Would you ever watch a 30-minute infomercial

saying exercise 3-5 times a week with healthy nutri-tional habits? Oh, and you also have to find time to fit it in your day.

Not so tempting, right? Well, neither is a garage full of gimmick products you never use and a cabinet full of half-empty diet pill bottles. Not to mention the wasted money and mental setbacks.

It never benefits you to take back roads to get where you need to be. You will be lost every time. Just stay on the main road and you are guaranteed to get where you need to be. It’s just going to take a little

more time but will be worth it.

Now is a great time to start making new changes in your life. Spring is one of the best times of the year to get moving, eating healthier and setting some personal goals. It’s really not as hard as you imagine. You just have to get going now.

I mean now, not next Monday or the Monday after that. Start today and you will soon find the hap-piness no one else can provide you. The feeling of being proud of yourself.

Until next time, thanks for reading the Trainer’s Corner, and if you have any questions regarding health and fitness call or e-mail me anytime.

— Gene Click is the owner of Fit Factory, 3814 Boyds Creek Highway, Sevierville, TN, 37876. E-mail to www.fitfactorysevierville.com or call (865) 742-3713.

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GATLINBURG — Jonah C. Pullium and Kristian A. Maples have been named Beta Scholars by the National Beta Club.

Maples will receive a $1,000 scholarship, and Pullium, a top-five final-ist, will receive a scholar-ship of $4,000.

The two seniors at Gatlinburg-Pittman High School competed against more than 1,000 candi-dates nationwide. There were 217 scholarship recipients chosen.

Maples plans to attend the University of Tennessee, and Pullium is still considering uni-versities.

Both were recom-mended for the award by local Beta Club sponsor Diane Ward and princi-pal Curtis Henry.

“These outstanding young persons represent the true spirit of National Beta, having excelled not only academically, but in leadership and service to school and community as well,” said Ken Cline, executive director of the National Beta Club.

Kristian is the daughter of Jim and Janet Maples of Gatlinburg. Her grand-parents are Margaret Lee of Gatlinburg and the late Robert Lee, and Andy and Ella Mae Lane of Kodak.

Jonah is the son of Jeff and Carol Pullium of Gatlinburg. His grand-parents are Rush Pullium, New York City, Ramona Fuqua of Marble, N.C., and Mickie Whitaker of Jackson, Tenn., and the late Jim Whitaker.

Donald Bohanan, long-time guidance counselor at Gatlinburg-Pittman, said, “It’s exciting after all these years to see that G-P students can still

compete on the national level.”

A complete list of all the scholarship winner-sis available at www.betaclub.org.

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munity calendar is printed as space permits. Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered. They are listed by date. To place an item phone 428-0748, ext. 214, or e-mail to [email protected]. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.

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Mattox CemeteryAnnual Mattox Cemetery

meeting 7 p.m., Wears Valley Fire Department off Wears Valley Road. 453-3095 or 453-2558.

Polar Bear PlungeUnited Way Polar Bear

Plunge, 5 p.m., Pigeon Forge Community Center. $25 minimum fee. Participants receive T-shirt. Registration 4:30-5. 429-7373.

Democratic PartySevier County Democratic

Party meets 7 p.m. at courthouse.

First PresbyterianMaundy Thursday service

7 p.m., First Presbyterian Sevierville. Traditional Communion. 453-2971.

Hot Meals Smoky Mountain Area

Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:15-6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church in Sevierville and Kodak United Methodist Church in Kodak.

Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-

en’s Bible study:n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon

Forgen 2 p.m. Blue Mountain

Mist B&B, Pullen Road n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville

UMC, Conference Room

TOPSTOPS weight loss chap-

ter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville. 755-9517 or 429-3150.

Legion Post 202American Legion Post

202, by post office in Gatlinburg, meeting and pot luck supper, 6:30 p.m. 599-1187 or 266-3194.

Gatlinburg Garden ClubGatlinburg Garden

Club meets 1 p.m. at Community Center. Program: “Medicinal Herbs and Wildflowers of the Smokies” presented by ranger Samantha Ray.

Seymour UMCMaundy Thursday service

7 p.m. Seymour UMC, Chapman Highway, at Simmons Road. 573-9711.

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Kodak Story TimePreschool story time and

egg hunt, 11 a.m., Kodak Library. 933-0078.

Church of NazareneGood Friday service 6

p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road next to Dunn’s Market.

Holy Ghost RevivalHoly Ghost revival today

through April 4 with Evangelist Priscilla Gambill, Gateway Lighthouse Church of God, 102 Red Bud Lane, Sevierville. 428-5242.

Seymour UMC

Good Friday service 7 p.m. Seymour UMC, Chapman Highway, at Simmons Road. 573-9711.

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Radio ClassSevier County Emergency

Radio Services techni-cian class, 9:30-3:30, EOC building. Testing to follow. E-mail to [email protected] or call 314-0899.

Easter Egg Huntsn Gatlinburg Community

Police Programs, noon at Mynatt Park. Bring basket. 430-1319 to report how many will attend.

n Roaring Fork Baptist Church, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 680-5268 or 654-2671.

n Henderson Chapel Baptist Church in Pigeon Forge, 2-4 p.m., featuring magician Dewayne Laflin.

n Optimist Park, Kodak, 1 p.m. for ages 11 and under.

n Seymour, 2-5 p.m. at Seymour Heights Christian Church on Boyds Creek Highway. Volunteers and candy donations, 573-9711.

Bradley’s ChapelBradley’s Chapel Baptist

Church singing 7 p.m. Guest singers, Everette

Ball, Mary Proffitt and Andrew Whaley.

Gun Carry ClassCarry permit class 8 a.m.

to 4 p.m., Sevier Indoor Range. 774-6111 to regis-ter.

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Sunday Night AliveGatlinburg First UMC,

6 p.m., fellowship of contemporary music and worship followed by a hot meal. 436-4691

Easter Services n Boyds Creek Baptist,

7:30 a.m., Boyds Creek Cemetery

n Henderson Chapel Baptist Church in Pigeon Forge, 7 a.m., followed by breakfast

n Mountain View Baptist Church, 7 a.m., 1406 Walt Price Road

n Middle Creek UMC, 7 a.m., Middle Creek Cemetery, 368-0545

n Gospel Light Baptist Church, 720 Eastgate Road; Rick Hurst will preach 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

n Kodak Community Baptist Living, 10 a.m., 591-7981

n Sevier County Church of God, 6:15 a.m., 428-6794

n Abundant Life Christian Church family worship ser-vice 10 a.m., Sevierville Civic Center; breakfast at 10. www.abundantlife.cc.

n Church of the Way, Miracle Theater, 10:30 a.m., Wayne Cook pastor

Community CenterSevierville Community

Center closed for Easter.

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Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace

Women’s Bible study 1 p.m. Gatlinburg Inn. 436-0313.

Photo SocietyLeConte Photographic

Society meets 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Sevierville. Program by Harold Jerrell. LeContePhotographic.Com.

Retired CitizensRetired Citizens of the

Smokies meets 1 p.m., Gatlinburg Community Center. Program by mem-ber Don Buehler from his “Country Day” series. 436-3010.

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Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from the intake reports at the Sevier County Jail. All people listed within this report are pre-sumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

◆ Michelle Cheri Agnor, 42, of 103 Mills Park in Gatlinburg, was charged March 29 with theft of prop-erty. She was released on $500 bond.

◆ Dean Edward Chase, 43, of 1629 East Parkway #4 in Gatlinburg, was charged March 29 with driving on a suspended license, financial responsibility law and speed-ing. He was released on $1,500 bond.

◆ Louis Gustabo Garcia, 34, of 3029 Jess Wilson Road #3 in Pigeon Forge, was charged March 30 with violation of probation and a circuit court warrant. He was being held.

◆ Howard Erwin Helton, 28, of 1027 Indian Gap Road in Sevierville, was charged March 29 with aggravated burglary. He was being held in lieu of $7,500 bond.

◆ Larry Lee Hurst, 37, of 240 Riverwalk Drive apt. 112 in Sevierville, was charged March 29 with violation of probation. He was being held.

◆ Allison Marie Kelly, 28, of 3707 N. Bryan Way in Kodak, was charged March 30 with a misdemeanor warrant from general sessions court and theft. She was being held in lieu of $3,500 bond.

◆ Michael Eugene Kelly, 30, of Huntsville, Tenn., was charged March 29 with a second count of violation of probation and a circuit court warrant. He was being held in lieu of $2,500 bond.

◆ David Shane Loveday, 21, of Knoxville, was charged March 29 with a misdemean-or warrant from general sessions court. He was being held.

◆ Marilyn Miracle Millwood, 21, of Dandridge, was charged March 30 with viola-tion of probation. She was being held in lieu of $2,500

bond.◆ Barbara Marie Osteen,

29, of Knoxville, was charged March 29 with theft of prop-erty. She was released on $3,000 bond.

◆ Elise Elmira Parker, 47, of 240 Riverpark Apt. 1112 in Sevierville, was charged march 29 with driving while revoked and financial respon-sibility law. She was being held in lieu of $1,500 bond.

◆ Walter Noel Rivera, 31, of 1025 Brien Circle in Gatlinburg, was charged March 29 with child abuse: neglect. He was being held in lieu of $3,500 bond.

u Angela Porter Smith, 37, of 1175 Elvin Branch Road in Sevierville, was charged march 39 with aggravated domestic assault. She was being held in lieu of $5,000 bond.

◆ Heather Marie Tatum, 22, of 1749 Ed Huff Circle in Sevierville, was charged March 29 with theft of prop-erty worth $500 to $1,000. She was released on $1,000 bond.

◆ Victor Pierce Fore, 55, of

340 E. Dumplin Valley Road in Kodak, was charged March 30 with DUI. He was released on $2,500 bond.

◆ Jason Haggard, 34, of 1132 Johnson Road in Seymour, was charged March 30 with worthless checks. He was released.

◆ Walter Alan Hawley, 41, of 982 Eslinger Court in Kodak, was charged March 30 with a misdemeanor war-rant from general sessions court. He was being held.

u Cody Lynn Hensley, 24, of Blaine, Tenn., was charged March 30 with theft of prop-erty worth $500 to $1,000. He was released on $1,000 bond.

◆ Tiffany Nicole Parton, 26, of 1981 Douglas Dam Road in Sevierville, was charged March 30 with a misdemean-or warrant from general sessions court, possession of methamphetamine and unlawful drug paraphernalia use and activities. She was being held.

◆ Claudia Lynne Pharoah, 49, of 451 W. Mill Creek Road in Pigeon Forge, was charged

March 30 with harass-ment: phone call. She was released.

◆ Jennifer Ann Pratt, 33, of 1051 Thorngrove Pike in Kodak, was charged March 31 with evading arrest, resist-ing arrest, unlawful drug paraphernalia use and activi-ties, unlawful possession of a weapon, aggravated assault and violation of probation. She was being held in lieu of $10,000 bond.

◆ Justin Owen Roe, 20, of 235 Ski Mountain Road in Garlanding, was charged March 30 with violation of probation. He was being held.

◆ Eric Henry Shoenholz, 49, of Dandridge, was charged March 30 with worthless check $1,000 to $10,000. He was released on $2,500 bond.

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GATLINBURG — Christ in the Smokies Museum and Gardens has a new scene added to the tour.

In the scene, Christ heals a blind man in a depiction of the story of Bartimaeus found in Luke 18:35-43. The new scene depicts the moment Bartimaeus receives his sight and shows astonishment on his face as Christ reaches toward him.

A 12-foot archway frames the scene, which was designed and executed by art director Mark Pedro, with sound and lights by Cam Caton, technical consultant for the museum.

Christ in the Smokies Museum features 12 scenes and over 100 life-sized biblical figures.

Another new addition is a collection of Biblical coins and precious gems. In the coin collection are widow’s mites, the tribute coin, and the shekel of tyre (which is the type of coin that would have been part of Judas’ money bag). There are over 60 coins in the collection.

The gems are mentioned in the Bible accounts of Moses and Aaron, specifically the construction of the sacred vestments of the high priest. Many of the coins came from Jerusalem during a recent trip to the Holy Land by owner Charlie Moore.

A donation of canned food items for Sevier County Food Ministries is good for free admission for locals and those in the tourism industry.

New scene addedat Christ in Smokies

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A scene depicting Jesus healing a blind man is now part of the display at Christ in the Smokies in Gatlinburg.

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SEVIERVILLE — The Sevierville Police Department will offer several free child safety services at Kroger, 702 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Highway 66), from 3 to 5 p.m. today.

The following services will be available:

n Child fingerprint-ing: Officers will fin-gerprint children of all ages and provide par-ents with a kit that can include the fingerprints, DNA, photograph, den-tal records and other personal information. Law enforcement offi-cials recommend that parents keep this type of information on hand, so that it can be used in the event a child is lost or abducted. For divorced parents, we recommend that each parent keep this information.

n Child car safety seat checks: Certified offi-cers will be available to perform inspections of the seats, demonstrate proper installation tech-niques and offer general

assistance.n Free gun locks: As

part of the national Project ChildSafe pro-gram, free cable-style gun locking devices will be available. The pur-pose of Project ChildSafe is to promote safe fire-arms handling and stor-age practices.

n Stranger Danger: Over 750,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Stranger Danger program seeks to edu-cate children and par-ents about strangers, how they may attempt to abduct a child and what to do if an attempt-ed abduction or abuse occurs.

For additional infor-mation on any of these services, contact Sgt. Rebecca Cowan, 868-1866.

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The Tennessee Department of Transportation will suspend all interstate construction work this Easter weekend.

TDOT crews and contractors will stop all road con-struction work which requires lane closures from 6 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Monday.

“Many families get together during the Easter holiday, and we want to minimize travel interruptions for motor-

ists in Tennessee,” said TDOT Commissioner Gerald Nicely. “Suspending lane closures will provide maxi-mum roadway capacity to the many people traveling in Tennessee this holiday weekend.”

Motorists will still encounter some long-term lane clo-sures on construction projects and at several rockslides. Some workers may be on site in construction zones, and reduced speed limits will still be in effect.

Slower speeds are necessary in work zones due to the temporary layout of the roadway.

TDOT suspends road construction for Easter

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Elmer Lee Floyd Elmer Lee Floyd, 86 of

Sevierville, died Monday, March 29, 2010. He was a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army. He saw combat in the European Theater dur-ing World War II. Elmer was born in the Roaring Fork area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and retired from the National Park Service.

Survivors: children, Melinda Joyce Bartlett and husband Glenn, Anthony Lee Floyd and wife Fay, Janice Clay, Nelson Gregory Floyd; six grandchil-dren; five great-grandchildren; brother, James Floyd and wife Grace; sisters, Mary Bunch, Delsa Harrison; nieces and nephews.

Memorial donations may be made to World Vision International, P.O. Box 9716, Federal Way, WA 98063-9716, phone 1-888-511-6443.

The family will receive friends noon-2 p.m. Thursday with funeral service to follow at 2 p.m. in the East Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home. The Rev. Melvin Carr will officiate. Interment will follow in Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens.

n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

Wayne E. Ogle Wayne E. Ogle, 58 of

Sevierville, died Monday, March 29, 2010.

Survivors: wife, Betty Ogle; daughters, Jodie Prouty and husband Ray, Gidget Fields, Alisha Reagan; sons, Quinton and Trevor Elswick Ogle; six grandchildren; mother, Velma Ogle; father, Elmer Ogle; brother, Stanley Ogle and wife Kathy; sisters, Mary Ingle and husband Charles, Shirley Courtney and husband Cary; special friend, Greg Hatfield.

Funeral service 10 a.m. Thursday in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Pastor Larry Freeman officiat-ing. Interment will follow in Boyds Creek Cemetery.


George J. LyonGeorge J. Lyon, 86 of

Sevierville, died Monday, March 29, 2010. He served in the Army during WWII as an Amphibious Duck Driver. He fought in the Battle of the

Bulge. He retired from the Georgia Forest Commission which he served for 36 years. He is now in heaven with his daughter Ladrene Edwards.

Survivors: wife of 63 years, Betty K. Lyon; children, Andrea and Dudley Freeman, Timothy and Ginger Lyon, Stephanie and Kev in Fritchman, and Mike Edwards; g r a n d c h i l d r e n , David and Pam Edwards, Chach and Amy Edwards, David and Melissa Atkins, Sheir and Mike Rice, Richard and Sarah Hasty, Heather and Edwin Antillon, Gregory and Drake Lyon, Jennifer and Ricky Childs, Caleb and Christy Cook, Nathan and Olivia Cook, Noel Cook, and Cole Fritchman; step-grandchildren, Lucas and Angela Freeman, and Isaac Freeman; 21 great-grandchildren.

Graveside service 1 p.m. Thursday in Atchley’s Seymour Memory Gardens with Bro. John Troutman officiating. The family will receive friends noon-12:45 p.m. Thursday at Atchley Funeral Home Seymour. 122 Peacock Court, Seymour.


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Notice of Public Meeting

Douglas-Nolichucky Land Management Plan

TVA will hold an open house to receive public comments on the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Douglas-Nolichucky Land Management Plan. The Land Plan will guide the use of TVA-managed lands on Douglas and Nolichucky reservoirs. TVA develops reservoir-specific land management plans to provide clear direction on how it intends to manage public lands and to facilitate decision-making on their use.

The open house will be held on Tuesday, April 6, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Newport-Cocke Chamber of Commerce, 433-B Prospect Avenue, Newport, Tennessee. The public will be able to review the DEIS alternatives developed by TVA staff with public input. Maps will also be available showing the current land uses and potential uses according to each alternative.

TVA encourages the public to provide comments on the proposed alternatives. To view the DEIS and detailed maps, go to www.tva.com/environment/reports/dnlp/. Comments may be submitted on the website or by calling 800-882-5263.

Comments must be received by April 26, 2010. Any comments received, including names and addresses, become part of the administrative record and are available for public inspection. Members of the public with special needs may call the person listed below at least five days before the meeting.

Dana VaughnTVA Watershed Team Representative423-585-2128

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In Memoriam

Wilda Lee Loposser Gibson

Wilda Lee Loposser Gibson, age 81, passed away Sunday, March 28, 2010, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was born July 5, 1928, to the late Ben and Gertie Galyon Loposser. She was a graduate of Harrison Chilhowee Baptist Academy.

She was survived by her husband of 62 years, Daniel Gibson; sons, Dean and wife Chris, Dan and wife Shirley; daughter, Brenda Gibson, all of Indiana; sisters and brothers-in-law, Sylvia and Dallas McCroskey of Sevierville, Lytha and Raymond Reeve, Eula and Kenneth Flynn, Marquetta and Gerald Hurst, and Shirley Haggard, all of Seymour.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Tennessee Chapter, 421 Great Circle Road, Suite 104, Nashville, Tennessee 37228.

Funeral services 1 p.m. Friday April 2, 2010, at Covington Memorial Funeral Home in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Current projections call for the pile driving to be completed this week and road resurfac-ing to be finished on Tuesday. If that schedule holds, Ridge Road would be reopened to through-traffic late Tuesday night, and then closed the morning of April 7 to allow for

a storm water pipe to be placed across Ridge Road on the south side of Candy Tuft Drive.

This work would require the closure of Ridge Road on the south side of Candy Tuft Drive; the current closure is on the north side.

Ridge Road is scheduled to reopen to all traffic on April 8. The projected cost of the repairs is approxi-mately $100,000.

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In Memoriam

Matthew David Anthony Worley

Matthew David Anthony Worley was born at 12:59 a.m. Sunday, March 29, 2010. He was still-born.

He leaves behind mother, Codi Dawn Rayfield; father, Brian Eugene Worley; siblings, Joshua Denton Slade Rayfield, Savanna Rose McCoy, Kylie Rae Worley, Ira Dona Hope Worley and Jordan Cliffton Pedigo.

A graveside service will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 1, 2010, for family and friends at Waldens Creek United Methodist Church.

We love you and you will always be in our prayers.

In Memoriam

Grace L. ClaboGrace L. Clabo, age 92 of Sevierville, passed

away Wednesday, March 31, 2010. She was preceded in death by her husband

Orville G. Clabo, daughter and son-in-law Bernice and Don McMahan, daughter-in-law Bertha Clabo and ten brothers and sisters.

Survivors: daughter and son-in-law, Edna and Dale Hedrick; son and daughter-in-law, Connie H. and Reba Clabo; grandchildren and spouses, Carol and Jim Strohl, Aileen and Ricky Beeler, Ted and Norva McMahan, Russell and Connie Clabo, Kathy and Curt Price, Lisa and John Silver, Mack and Lisa Clabo; great-grandchildren, Katie, Troy and Will Beeler, Zack McMahan, Nicholas and Nathan Clabo, Miranda Morrison, Aaron Price, Leizle and Stephanie Clabo; great-great-grandchild, Kaiden Morrison; many nieces and nephews.

Funeral service 10 a.m. Friday in Atchley’s Smoky Mountain Chapel, Pigeon Forge. Elder Shirley Henry will officiate. Interment will follow in Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Thursday at Atchley’s Smoky Mountain Chapel, 220 Emert Street, Pigeon Forge, TN.


In Memoriam

Ina Lee MooreIna Lee Moore, age 90 of Sevierville passed away

Monday, March 29, 2010. She was of the Baptist faith and was pre-

ceded in death by her husband James R. Moore, daughter Viola Ailey, mother Daisy Webb, sister Stella Kaiser, brother Clarence Manning.

Survivors: sons, Jim Moore, Bob Moore, and Ron Moore; son-in-law, David Ailey; grand-children, Steve Whaley, Andrea Doust, Karen Moore, Daryl Moore, Doug Moore, Leanne Moore; great-grandchildren, Jessica Whaley, Andrew Doust, Daniel Doust; brother, Bill Webb; sister-in-law, Luella Manning; special relative, Bud Kaiser.

Family and friends will meet 2 p.m. Friday at Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens for grave-side service and interment. Rev. Danny Murr will officiate. The family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.


In Memoriam

Claude Lonzo IveyClaude Lonzo Ivey, age 62 of Newport, passed away

March 31, 2010. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was preceded in death by his parents Roy and

Dallas Ivey, and daughter Jamie Ellison. He is survived by his daughters Lisa

Humphrey and husband Robert of Sevierville, and Heather Ivey of Newport; sister, Mary Sue Parton, of Pigeon Forge; grandchildren, Tyler and Whitney Humphrey of Sevierville.

Funeral services will be held 7 p.m., Friday, April 2, 2010, in Manes Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Bill Stephens officiating, Burial will be in the Mountain Home National Cemetery, Johnson City, Tennessee, at 1 p.m. Monday, April 5, 2010.

Family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. prior to the services on Friday.

Family and friends may sign online at www.manes-funeralhome.com.

Manes Funeral Home is in charge.

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■ LL Cool JATLANTA — Rapper

LL Cool J appears to be upset with Sarah Palin and Fox News for using footage of a 2008 inter-view in its pro-m o t i o n for the f o r m e r A l a s k a g o v e r -n o r ’ s t e l e v i -sion spe-cial.

“ F o x lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresent-ing to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin’s Show. WOW!” the musi-cian Tweeted on Tuesday night.

“It’s going to be very important for Medicare beneficiaries to understand

that on the whole, this is not the disas-ter some people have painted it to be. It is a bit of a mixed bag, but I think on balance it is going to put the program in a better position, over a long period

of time.”— health economist marilyn moon, a former medicare

trustee, on the new health care reform law

“I think we’re all done. If the federal government doesn’t give us disaster

money, I don’t think we can ever come back from this. You’re talking millions and millions of dollars in these busi-

nesses. Now I know how the people in New Orleans felt.”

— Angelo Padula Jr., whose auto restoration shop in west warwick, r.i., stood in 10 feet of water from the

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Election panelto meet today

The Sevier County Election Commission will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at the Voting Machine Warehouse, 1145 Dolly Parton Parkway.

The panel will certify the qualifying petitions for the Aug. 5 state primaries and select election officials for the May 4 primaries.

For questions call 453-6985.

■ Seymour

Collision closesChapman Highway

A wreck on Chapman Highway closed the road for about an hour dur-ing rush hour Wednesday morning.

Tennessee Highway Patrolman Howard Greenlee said a truck pulled out from Wye Road onto the Highway in front of another truck heading from Seymour toward Sevierville.

The identifies of the drivers were not available Wednesday afternoon; Greenlee said the driver of the truck coming from Wye Road suffered serious inju-ries and could face charges for failure to yield.

Lifestar medevac helicop-ter was called to carry the occupants to The University of Tennessee Medical Center.

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Kiwanis pancakeevent set today

The annual Sevierville Kiwanis Club Pancake Day will be from 4-7:30 p.m. today at Flapjacks on the Parkway.

Tickets are $5 and avail-able at the door.

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Right To Lifedeadline today

Sevier County Right To Life announces its fifth annual oratory contest, open to all high school stu-dents in Sevier County.

Speeches must be pro-life on one of four topics: abor-tion, stem cell research, infanticide, or euthanasia. Speeches must be a mini-mum of five minutes and a maximum of seven.

The deadline to register is today. The contest will take place on April 15.

For applications or more information call Terry Aparicio at 654-7685.

■ PigeoN Forge

Louise Mandrellheadlines benefit

Cherish the Child will host Louise Mandrell in a benefit concert at 7 p.m. today at Country Tonite Theater.

There are a limited num-ber of VIP seats available for $50 that include a meet-and-greet with Mandrell after the event. All other seats are reserved and can be purchased for $25 by calling the Country Tonite box office at 453-2193.

Cherish the Child is the foundation that sup-ports Smoky Mountain Children’s Home. The ben-efit also will include Aaron Wilburn, a regular with Bill Gaither and Joe Jenkins.

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Earth Day eventsset at Mynatt Park

The Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s third annual Earth Day Festival, spon-sored by Hilton Garden Inn and NOC’s Great Outpost, will be from 3-7 p.m. April 20 at Mynatt Park.

The free features crafts, informational booths, chil-dren’s activities, food ven-dors, live music and a disc golf display. Organizations can contact Erin Moran at the Gatlinburg Chamber, 436-4178, to have a booth.

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Today is Thursday, April 1, the 91st day of 2010. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fools’ Day.

■ Locally a year ago:The new Sevier County

Solid Waste revamped state-of-the-art waste recy-cling facility, which cost $10.5 million to complete, was covered by insurance money from the 2007 fire, and will be up an running by May 1. The capacity of the new facility will be 375 tons per day up from 225 tons the old plant could handle.

■ today’s highlight:On April 1, 1960, the

first true weather sat-ellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral. (TIROS stood for “Television Infrared Observation Satellite.”)

■ on this date:In 1945, American forc-

es launched the amphibi-ous invasion of Okinawa during World War II.

In 1984, recording star Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father, Marvin Gay (cq) Sr. in Los Angeles, the day before his 45th birthday. (The elder Gay pleaded guilty to vol-untary manslaughter, and received probation.)

■ ten years ago: President Bill Clinton,

speaking at a fund-raiser for his wife’s Senate cam-paign, accused New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of enlisting a “right-wing venom machine” against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

■ thought for today: “Our wisdom comes

from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.” — Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French actor-writer-director (1885-1957).

NASHVILLE (AP) — A Democratic senator opposed to a measure that would require abor-tion clinics in Tennessee to post anti-coercion signs said Wednesday the legislation is intimi-dating.

Sen. Beverly Marrero of Memphis was one of two senators who voted against the measure that the Senate approved 29-2. Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, was the other dissenting vote.

Any type of coercion to have an abortion is prohibited under current

law. But sponsors said some women may not know that and the sign simply spells out what’s in the law.

The legislation would require clinics to con-spicuously post signs that would read in part: “It is against the law for anyone, regardless of the person’s relationship to you, to coerce you into having or to force you to have an abortion.”

Facilities that don’t comply could be fined as much as $2,500.

“They have ridiculous civil penalties that they

put on this that are just absolutely for no other purpose but to intimi-date people that are try-ing to help people that are in the process of try-ing to have an abortion,” Marrero said.

“They’re not trying to put up signs for people being forced to have vasectomies or other medical procedures. To the best of my knowledge, it is still the law of this land that you can legally have an abortion.”

Senate sponsor Jack Johnson, a Franklin Republican, said recent

statistics show 64 per-cent of women who receive abortions “were coerced into having that abortion.”

Linda Norfleet of Hermitage was among about 100 anti-abortion supporters in the balcony of the Senate chamber during Wednesday’s vote and called it historic.

“The measure ... repre-sents a huge step forward on behalf of the safety of young women and their personal decisions, as well as safety for the life of their unborn child,” she said.

Abortion anti-coercion signs OK’d

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7 Opinion Thurs.

Much government interference with our peaceful pursuits is based on junk science and junk economics. Politicians know a lot of stuff that isn’t so. So do reporters.

Let me count some of the ways. Congress now

spends your money on a host of intrusive new programs designed to make America “energy inde-pendent.” President Obama recently announced $8 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power plants.

I smiled when I heard. Finally, even Democrats woke up to the benefits of nuclear power. But Cato Institute energy analyst Jerry Taylor set me straight:

“If nuclear power made economic sense, we wouldn’t need to subsidize it.”

Affordable nuclear power, says Taylor, is a Republican fantasy. Promoting it makes no more sense than Nancy Pelosi’s pro-motion of wind and solar power. “Take a Republican speech about nuclear power, cross out the phrase ‘nuclear,’ and put in ‘solar’ — you’ve got a Democratic speech about energy.”

All these “alternative” fuels are economi-cally impractical. Natural gas is practical. And plentiful.

I thought the only reason that nuclear didn’t pay for itself is the burden of exces-sive regulations and objections from silly environmentalists. Apply for permission to build a plant, and their cumbersome law-suits impose ruinously expensive delays.

Again, Taylor set me straight. He says the nuclear industry itself is comfortable with today’s level of regulation. The big problem today is not environmental rules, but simply the huge cost. The same high costs, he says, are found in countries that have long been friendly to nuclear power.

He also notes that when the Department of Energy proposed offering to guaran-tee 80 percent of the cost of new nuclear plants, the big investment banks told the department that even 80 percent loan guarantees wouldn’t be enough. They needed 100 percent guarantees, or they wouldn’t make the loans.

“To me that’s a market verdict that you’re supposed to respect. ... We need to leave these (matters) to markets. And in the marketplace, investors will not spend a single red dime on nuclear power because it’s too expensive. ... It’s not Jane Fonda or Greenpeace that killed nuclear power. It’s Wall Street investment banks who’ve looked at the bottom line.”

He’s convinced me. Then he moved on to more Republican candy: the claim that drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska would dramatically lower oil prices and move us toward energy “indepen-dence.”

Taylor says such drilling would do nei-ther. Yes, it would create wealth. New offshore fields might produce a million barrels of oil per day. While that would be good, the benefits are oversold. “We consume 15 million barrels of oil a day. We produce 5. We’d go to 6.” Nice, but no game-changer.

Of course, subsidizing wind and solar makes even less sense. Taylor calls them 12th-century technologies. They require lots of land to produce forms of energy that are hard to store and hard to move, and are too variable throughout the year. Even if we covered most of America with wind farms, there’s no guarantee that they’d pro-duce energy when we need it.

Other junk science abounds: banning plastic shopping bags, as 10 cities have done, is pointless. Plastic bags take up a tiny fraction of landfills. When supermar-kets are stopped from handing plastic out, people looking to dispose garbage buy more big, black plastic bags.

Banning incandescent bulbs, as Congress has done starting in 2012, is also pointless. The ban will have only the tiniest effect on America’s energy use. In addition, fluo-rescent bulbs often use as much power as incandescent bulbs because people leave them on longer.

People are ignorant enough about sci-ence that it’s easy for politicians to scare them into supporting absurd regulations. I recently went to Times Square and asked if people would sign a petition demanding a ban on “dihydrogen monoxide,” a color-less, odorless chemical that kills thousands. Most everyone signed.

They were embarrassed when they real-ized that dihydrogen monoxide is ... H2O. They eagerly endorsed a ban on water.

— John Stossel hosts a show on the Fox Business Channel and is the author of “Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel — Why Everything You Know is Wrong.” (C)2009 JFS Productions Inc.

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editorial board:◆ Jana Thomasson, Publisher◆ Stan Voit, Editor◆ Bob Mayes, Managing Editor◆ Gail Crutchfield, Community News Editor

State legislators:◆ rep. richard montgomery

1-800-449-8366 Ext. 1-5981; 207 War Memorial Bldg., Nashville TN [email protected]

◆ rep. Joe mccord1-800-449-8366 Ext. 1-5481; 207 War Memorial Bldg., Nashville TN [email protected]

◆ Sen. doug overbey1-800-449-8366 Ext. 10981; 320 War Memorial Bldg., Nashville TN [email protected]

federal legislators:◆ u.S. Sen. bob corker

(202) 224-3344; 185 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., B40A, Washington, D.C. 20510

◆ u.S. Sen. lamar alexander(202) 224-4944; S/H 302, Washington, D.C. 20510

◆ u.S. rep. Phil roe(202) 225-6356; 419 Cannon House Office, Washington, D.C. 20515

◆ u.S. rep. John J. duncan Jr.(202) 225-5435; 2267 Rayburn Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20515

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establish-ment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacably to assemble and to petition

the government for a redress of grievances.”—united States constitution, amendment one

County’s Scripture, prayer practicesare distressing to many in communityEditor:

The religious freedom we enjoy today as a result of the foresight of our founding fathers was unprecedented at the time of its conception and continues to serve this nation well. The fact that religious free-dom was a founding principle is beyond dispute; it is enshrined in the documents that serve as the bedrock of our liberty.

This remarkable fact, that we are free to believe (or not believe) whatever we choose without the fear of repression, discrimination or violence as the consequence of our beliefs, is something that should never be taken for granted. This is especially true considering the thousands of years in which injustice and violence were visited upon believer and non-believer alike by the agents of dogmatically absolut-ist governments of all stripes, be they Stalinists or Taliban clerics.

Indeed, we need only look to places like Iran and North Korea to remind ourselves that in many parts of the world the heinous prac-tices of religious persecution continue to this day.

That said, the religious freedoms we enjoy today are a two-way street. Our founding fathers, in order to ensure that the religious per-secution that had for centuries stymied peace, freedom and justice throughout Europe, would never gain a toe-hold on our continent, placed within our Constitution a clear directive. Governments should never endorse or uphold any specific religious doctrine or belief and be forever free from religious influence.

This separation between the authority of religion and the authority of government has been as crucial to the prosperity of both institu-tions in this nation as our religious freedom. This is why the practices of the Sevier County Commission, in displaying biblical Scripture and reciting the Lord’s Prayer during its meetings, is distressing to many in our county.

Regardless of its true intentions, by continuing and defending these practices it would appear the County Commission is endorsing one particular set of religious ideas. This perceived endorsement of doc-trine creates the impression among non-adherents that they are less than full members of the county’s political community, and engenders in them the worry that the constitutional promise of equal status in the eyes of the state, regardless of race, creed, sex or religion, may, in this county, be an empty one.

Again, even if this is only a matter of perception among those in this county who do not share the beliefs of the commission, the very fact that this perception exists should give any considerate person pause. The citizens of this county can and should come together soon to resolve this issue in a manner that is civil and mutually satisfactory. Above all we must maintain a tone of respect and friendship as we lis-ten to and fully consider one another’s arguments and concerns.

We are, after all, still neighbors, and as neighbors we face many daunting challenges, including a county unemployment rate close to 15 percent. One thing we can all agree upon is that we do not need the distraction and expense of unnecessary litigation.

Benjamin ZankGatlinburg

The news that Cades Code Loop Road will open weeks earlier than planned is a moment to celebrate for Sevier and Blount counties. Almost everyone agreed the road needed to be upgraded, but the report that it would be closed for a projected three months while the work was going on was dis-tressing to the many businesses that consider the road a draw for visitors, as well as those who love to visit the Cove.

Park Superintendent Dale Ditmanson announced Wednesday that the loop should reopen April 24, about a month earlier than expected. Ditmanson cred-its the efforts of the contractor, APAC-Atlantic Inc., Harrison Division, and the cooperation of the Federal Highway Administration, along with financial incentives built into the contract for the early completion.

In other words, private business

made this happen earlier. It’s amazing what can be accomplished when the business that makes America great is turned loose to solve problems and put people to work.

The park is planning a field day April 24 when only bicycles and walkers will be permitted on the road until noon. On April 25 the park and the Friends of the Smokies are planning a one-time-only “Cades Cove Loop Lope,” which will offer pre-registered runners a choice of the full 11-mile loop or a 3.5-mile course.

This is a unique effort, since the park has usually declined requests for foot or bike races in the Cove because it is such a popular draw for visitors. However, this is a special occasion, deserving of an unprecedented event such as those planned that weekend.

The park usually limits the Loop Road to bicycles and pedestrians until

10 a.m. each Saturday and Wednesday from May through September. Because park officials expect a lot of people to attend this reopening event, they are expanding the parking area and lim-iting access to the Cove beyond the Townsend Wye to those coming to bike or walk until noon on the 24th.

In addition to the road improve-ments, visitors to the Cove will also be able to view improvements to the store and bicycle rental facilities, which have taken place over the past several months. The road, with a smooth sur-face now, has more pull-offs so vehicles whose occupants are gawking at wildlife don’t block other motorists trying to get around the loop.

The early opening and planned events are all very exciting. Thanks to the contractor and to others who made completion of this project ahead of time so important and so doable.

Junk scienceand economicsfuel meddling

The early showCompletion of Cades Cove road ahead of schedule is great news

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The Gatlinburg-Pittman Highlanders and Pigeon Forge Tigers football pro-grams both held their annual spring weightlifting meets on Wednesday afternoon.Above, current G-P sophomore Hunter Meier easily gets up 200 pounds on his first bench-press attempt. Left, current Pigeon Forge sophomore Michael Lombrana powers up 450 pounds in the squats challenge.Results from both meets will appear in a future edition of The Mountain Press.

Gettin’ stronger ...PREP TRACK PREP ROUNDUP

Mountain Press relays today at Seymour

By COBEY HITCHCOCKSports Writer

SEYMOUR — The Mountain Press Relays, which brings together the four county track programs for a big meet each year, opens at 11 a.m. this morning at the Seymour High School track.

The seventh-annual event has been dominated by the Sevier County High School Smoky Bears boys’ track team since its inception. The Purple-and-White boys have won all six previous meets.

The Bearettes have also led the pack as of late and will try for their third consecu-tive county championship title today.

Standing in the way of another SCHS sweep are the squads of Gatlinburg-Pittman Highlanders, Pigeon Forge Tigers along with this year’s hosts, the Seymour Eagles.

The Seymour girls’ squad fin-ished second to the Bearettes last year by a 113-82 margin, while the G-P boys’ team fin-ished a distant second to the Bears by a 148-53 margin.

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County teams win some, lose some

By COBEY HITCHCOCKSports Writer

Seymour baseball at Cocke County:

NEWPORT — The Seymour Eagles hardballers clipped the Cocke County Fighting Cocks 4-3 in a battle Tuesday night in Newport.

The Eagles (8-4) hung a 24-1 hurting on the Roosters in Seymour on Monday night, but it was a totally different kind of game at CCHS.

“They were ready to play, we were a little flat and that’s base-ball,” said Seymour coach Scott Norman. “Cocke County was fired up, and they were ready to play. We were lucky to get out of there with a win.

“It was a hard-fought victo-ry for us. What a difference 24 hours makes.”

Seymour’s Keegan Newport picked up the win with six innings of work, allowing two runs on six hits with six strike outs.

Brandon Timmerman picked up his third save of the year by closing out the seventh.

Next up for Seymour is a 7 p.m. game tonight at Smokies Park against county rival Pigeon Forge Tigers (9-1).

SCHS soccer at Morristown West:

MORRISTOWN — The Sevier County High School Smoky Bears soccer team traveled to Morristown West on Tuesday night and fell flat with a 5-2 loss against the homestanding Trojans.

“I was very disappointed in my preparation for the game,” said SCHS coach Bryan Atchley. “I don’t think I had the guys ready for the game.

“We did a lot of things very uncharacteristic of our team. We played hard, but we were just outworked. We’ll get back to work now.”

West started both halves strong with two quick scores to open both periods of play.

SCHS senior Thomas Garreau scored in the closing seconds of the first half on a penalty kick that cut it to 2-1 at intermission.

SCHS sophomore Erick Flores cut it to 4-1 at the midway point of the second half with a direct kick from 30 yards out.

Next up for Sevier County (5-2) is a 10 a.m. in-school match at county rival Pigeon Forge Tigers (6-0).

Pigeon Forge tennis teams sweep one, split one:

The Pigeon Forge Lady Tigers tennis team has won two matches this week, while the Orange-and-Black boys split a pair of con-tests.

Monday at William Blount, the PF ladies (2-1) took a 6-3 win at William Blount. On Tuesday, they made it two straight wins with an 8-1 win at Union County.

The PF boys (2-1) dropped their Monday match at William Blount by a 6-3 final but bounced back Tuesday at Union, also with an 8-1 win.

In girls’ action, Sunni McCallister, Holly Woods and Olivia Frost won individual matches against William Blount. On Tuesday, the girls swept individual matches at Union, including wins by Rachel Turner, Cierra Castro, Michelle Kelly, McCallister, Woods and Frost.

In boys’ action, Ben Cave, Evan Huskey and Alex Delozier won individual matches against William Blount. On Tuesday, five PF boys won individual matches at Union, including Tyler Helton, Brandon Rutledge, Cave, Huskey and Delozier.

Pigeon Forge next hosts William Blount 4 p.m. today.

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SPORTS TODAY

Prep BaseballRegular season■ Gatlinburg-Pittman hosts TKA■ Seymour vs. Pigeon Forge at Smokies Park, 7 p.m.■ Sevier County vs. Heritage at Oak Ridge

Prep SoccerRegular season■ Gatlinburg-Pittman hosts Pigeon Forge■ Seymour hosts TKA■ Sevier County at Morristown West■ Pigeon Forge hosts Waynesville

Prep SoftballRegular season■ Seymour hosts Sevier County■ Pigeon Forge hosts Gatlinburg-Pittman

Prep TennisRegular season■ Seymour at Heritage

Prep Track Regular season■ 7th-annual The Mountain Press Relays at Seymour, 11 a.m., includes teams from Gatlinburg-Pittman, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County and Seymour

Due to rainouts/cancellations,

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DOGFIGHTING

Dogfighting investigations spike in PhillyBy PATRICK WALTERS

Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA — When humane officers responded to a North Philadelphia row home in February, they found pit bulls chained to spikes driven into the ground in the backyard. They seized treadmills, steroids and “break sticks” used to separate fighting dogs at the jaws.

They also arrested a man who had long been on their radar as a suspected dogfighter. This time, officers were able to get enough information to nab him thanks to an increase in tips.

One major reason? Since the Philadelphia Eagles brought con-victed dogfighter Michael Vick to town, more people are aware that the illegal sport is also a crime.

“It has really brought this to light,” said George Bengal, director of law enforcement for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “People are definitely more aware or attuned to this type of activity.”

The number of dogfighting inves-tigations in Philadelphia has jumped over the past year, a spike attrib-uted to increased public awareness since Vick joined the Eagles, a new SPCA hot line to report dogfight-ing, stepped-up enforcement and — some activists say — new animal abusers drawn to the illegal sport.

In 2009, the SPCA investi-gated 903 cases of alleged animal fighting in Pennsylvania, most of them involving dogfighting in Philadelphia, Bengal said. That’s more than three times the number of cases in 2008, when there were 245 investigations.

Dogfighting investigations had been on the rise before the Eagles signed Vick in August, but not as dramatically as last year. In Philadelphia, Bengal said, there were 85 dogfighting complaints in 2004, 109 in 2005, 111 in 2006 and 157 in 2007.

The number exploded last year amid the publicity from Vick’s sign-ing, he said. The former Atlanta Falcons star — once the highest paid

player in football — was convict-ed in August 2007 for operat ing a dogfight-ing ring. He served 18 months in federal prison.

“By hiring Michael Vick, the Eagles brought clear attention to a very awful thing that’s done to ani-mals,” said Tom Hickey Sr., founder of the Pennsylvania advocacy group DogPAC. “But also by hiring him, they also said it’s OK to do this kind of stuff.”

The SPCA recently launched a statewide hot line for animal cruelty that has generated most of the com-plaints, Bengal said. The SPCA also has educated people about what to look out for in spotting dogfighting operations: heavy chains, thick col-lars lying around, barrels instead of doghouses, or places where dogs are separated where they can’t run loose together.

Reporting is up about 25 percent from previous years, Bengal said, and the SPCA has devoted more officers to investigate animal fight-ing. But he said there also has been an increase in actual dogfighting.

“This is a fad out here now,” he said.

Nationally, states and law enforce-ment agencies have been cracking down on dogfighting since the Vick case, said John Goodwin, man-ager of animal fighting issues for the Humane Society of the United States. In the 2008 and 2009 leg-islative sessions, he said, 27 state laws were passed cracking down on animal fighting.

He also said the number of law enforcement actions related to ani-mal fighting roughly doubled from pre-Vick in 2006 to after his convic-tion in 2008 — which he attributed to greater awareness and motiva-tion on the part of law enforce-ment agencies, not an increase in dogfighting.

Goodwin said he thinks dogfight-

ing has subsided nationally since the Vick case surfaced.

When humane officers go on raids in Philadelphia, they typically find a mixture of repeat offenders in their 30s and 40s — who may have been getting away with it for years — and those just getting into the sport in their teens or early 20s.

Officers can tell if a dogfighting operation is new or old by the paper-work they find. Established opera-tions like the one raided last month have papers dating back years, showing training records with rank-ings of the animals. Well-equipped dogfighting rings often include spe-cial sticks used to break apart fight-ing dogs, along with treadmills and elliptical machines to exercise the canines.

Newer, smaller operations some-times just have areas where dogs fight in a yard and teens train them to bite an old tire.

But Humane Officer Wayne Smith said he thinks many dogfighters look down on Vick because he got caught. Smith said rap music and other cultural influences continue to glorify dogfighting.

“It’s almost like a cool thing, like turning your hat backward and hanging your pants low,” Smith said.

The Eagles faced public outrage from some fans when they signed Vick. Dozens protested outside the team’s practice facility for his first few days of practice and at the team’s home opener in September, but the furor faded quickly.

The quarterback called his offens-es “a horrible mistake” and has spent time working with the Humane Society of the United States, speak-ing to school and community groups about the mistakes he made getting involved in dogfighting.

Pamela Browner White, an Eagles spokeswoman, said she thinks Vick has helped increase awareness in the horrible sport.

“We’re glad to see that reporting numbers are up in the Philadelphia area,” she said. “Dogfighting is a huge problem. It was a huge prob-lem before Michael, it’s still a huge problem.”

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County youth golf teams splitPIGEON FORGE — On Thursday, March 25, the

Pigeon Forge Middle School golf team and the Pi Beta Phi Golf team split a match in boys’ and girls’ links action at Gatlinburg Country Club. The Pigeon Forge boys defeated the Pi Phi team 114-180. Leading rounds in the five-hole match for Pigeon Forge were Tyler Watts with a 26, Tyler Bohanan with a 27, Ryan Evans with a 29 and Nathaniel Burke with a 32. For the Pi Phi boys, Curtis Green led scoring with a 36, Chris Horne had a 46, Isaac Blankenship had a 48 and Bennett Lapides had a 50. In girls’ rounds, Pi Phi bested the Lady Tigers 39-49 in three rounds of play. Leading the way for Pi Phi were Mason Green with a 17 and Brandy McWhorter with a 22. For the Lady Tigers, Hali Combs shot 22 while Taylor King recorded 24.

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TodayAUTO RACING2 a.m.spEED — Formula one, prac-tice for Malaysian Grand prix, at Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaGOLF4 p.m.tGC — pGA tour, Houston open, first round, at Humble, texas5 p.m.EspN2 — LpGA, Kraft Nabisco Championship, first round, at rancho Mirage, Calif.MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL1 p.m.EspN — preseason, Minnesota vs. Boston, at Fort Myers, Fla.MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 p.m.EspN — NIt, championship, Dayton vs. North Carolina at New York9 p.m.EspN — Exhibition, slam Dunk & 3-point Championships, at Indianapolis (same-day tape)NBA BASKETBALL8:15 p.m.tNt — orlando at Dallas10:30 p.m.tNt — portland at DenverSOCCER9 p.m.EspN2 — MLs, real salt Lake at Houston11 p.m.EspN2 — CD Chivas UsA at Los AngelesTENNIS1 p.m.FsN — Atp/WtA tour, sony Ericsson open, women’s semi-final and men’s quarterfinal, at Miami9 p.m.FsN — Atp/WtA tour, sony Ericsson open, women’s semifinal, at Miami

MLB HArDBALL

Spring Training GlanceAMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Pcttampa Bay 19 7 .731Cleveland 16 8 .667Detroit 16 10 .615Minnesota 15 12 .556Kansas City 13 11 .542Boston 14 14 .500toronto 11 12 .478New York 12 15 .444oakland 11 14 .440Los Angeles 9 14 .391seattle 10 16 .385Chicago 9 15 .375Baltimore 10 17 .370texas 9 16 .360

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. — Pigeon Forge had two middle school AAU state champions at the state AAU tournament held the weekend of March 20, at Stone Memorial High School in Crossville, and one champion at the high school level.

In the junior division 75-pound Matthew Kieta, who is a sixth grader at Pigeon Forge Middle School, won the state title in a very exciting come-from-behind match. Late in the third period Kieta reversed his

opponent and put him in a near pin to win 5-2 for his first ever AAU state title. He has been wrestling for three years at Pigeon Forge. He is the son of Casey and Maria Kieta.

In the middle school divi-sion Trent Watson also had a very exciting finals match. Watson had pinned all of his other opponents in the first rounds. In the finals match verses Tucker Russo of Soddy Daisy, Watson was leading 2-0 at the end of the second period. During

the third period he was able to take Tucker down and pin him for the title. This is Watson’s first year at Pigeon Forge as his family has moved here from Indiana. He has been wrestling since he was 5-years-old. He’s now in the 7th grade at Pigeon Forge Middle. He is the son of Kevin and Julia Watson.

In the high school division Nate Croley finished first in the 135-pound weight class. Nate is a freshman at PFHS and has been wrestling for four years. This was his first

state championship. He is the son of Stacey and Bellissa Croley.

The others in the high school division were Brett Stelzer who took second at 215 and Caleb Poole who was fourth at 103.

Other state qualifiers were Hunter Davidson in the junior division, Sam Swaney and Sean Underwood in the middle school division, and Trevor Reed in the high school division.

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YOUTH WRESTLING

PF youth wrestlers earn state titles

Photo submitted

Several PF youth wrestlers placed at the AAU Spring Nationals this past weekend in Kingsport. Top wres-tlers from 15 states gathered for the meet, and All-American sta-tus was granted to PF’s Trenton Watson (1st) and Eli Etherton (2nd). Front row, from left are Matthew Kieta, Watson and Sam Swaney. Back row, from left are C.J. Dyer, Etherton, Garrett Foreman and Landon Camp.

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pctsan Francisco 20 10 .667Atlanta 17 9 .654Chicago 16 9 .640san Diego 17 10 .630Colorado 15 12 .556st. Louis 14 12 .538New York 14 13 .519Houston 13 13 .500Milwaukee 13 13 .500philadelphia 12 12 .500Florida 13 14 .481Los Angeles 11 12 .478Arizona 12 15 .444Cincinnati 9 15 .375Washington 9 18 .333pittsburgh 7 18 .280NOTE: split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

———Tuesday’s GamesFlorida 9, Washington 5tampa Bay 9, Boston 9, tieMinnesota 4, pittsburgh 1Detroit 10, Baltimore 9Atlanta 9, N.Y. Yankees (ss) 6Houston 5, philadelphia 2st. Louis 9, N.Y. Mets 4san Diego 7, Cincinnati 5Chicago Cubs 5, san Francisco 3Chicago White sox 2, oakland 0texas 4, Arizona 2L.A. Angels 1, Milwaukee 1, tie, 10 inningsColorado 3, L.A. Dodgers 1N.Y. Yankees (ss) 5, toronto 3Kansas City 7, Cleveland 2 Wednesday’s GamesWashington 9, st. Louis 6Boston 14, Baltimore 6Atlanta 10, Houston 5tampa Bay 10, Minnesota (ss) 3Detroit 8, pittsburgh 5Minnesota (ss) 4, N.Y. Yankees 2toronto 5, philadelphia 2N.Y. Mets 6, Florida 3Kansas City vs san Diego at peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (ss) vs Milwaukee at phoenix, 4:05 p.m.seattle vs texas at surprise, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs oakland at phoenix, 4:05 p.m.Chicago White sox vs Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.san Francisco vs L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs Chicago Cubs (ss) at Mesa, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.Arizona vs Colorado at tucson, Ariz., 4:10 p.m.Cincinnati vs L.A. Dodgers at Las vegas, Nev., 10:05 p.m. Thursday’s Games

Florida vs st. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Washington vs N.Y. Mets at port st. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.pittsburgh vs philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Minnesota vs Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Atlanta vs Detroit (ss) at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Baltimore vs tampa Bay at port Charlotte, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Detroit (ss) vs Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees vs toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Arizona (ss) vs Kansas City at surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Cleveland vs L.A. Angels at tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Chicago White sox vs seattle at peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.Colorado vs Chicago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

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Gatlinburg Bowling CenterLeague results through tuesday.Tuesday Night Men’s LeagueHigh game/series:robert treadway, 223/612

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Conference GlanceEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 58 16 .784 —x-orlando 52 22 .703 6x-Atlanta 47 26 .644 10 1/2y-Boston 47 26 .644 10 1/2Milwaukee 41 32 .562 16 1/2Miami 40 34 .541 18Charlotte 38 35 .521 19 1/2toronto 36 37 .493 21 1/2Chicago 35 39 .473 23Indiana 28 47 .373 30 1/2New York 26 47 .356 31 1/2philadelphia 26 48 .351 32Detroit 23 50 .315 34 1/2Washington 21 52 .288 36 1/2New Jersey 10 64 .135 48WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-L.A. Lakers 54 20 .730 —x-Dallas 49 25 .662 5x-Utah 49 26 .653 5 1/2x-phoenix 48 26 .649 6x-Denver 48 27 .640 6 1/2oklahoma City 45 28 .616 8 1/2portland 45 29 .608 9san Antonio 44 29 .603 9 1/2Memphis 38 35 .521 15 1/2Houston 37 36 .507 16 1/2New orleans 35 40 .467 19 1/2L.A. Clippers 27 47 .365 27sacramento 24 51 .320 30 1/2Golden state 21 52 .288 32 1/2Minnesota 14 60 .189 40

x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division

———Tuesday’s GamesIndiana 102, sacramento 95oklahoma City 111, philadelphia 93phoenix 111, Chicago 105Milwaukee 107, L.A. Clippers 89Houston 98, Washington 94Wednesday’s GamesL.A. Lakers at Atlanta, 7 p.m.philadelphia at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at toronto, 7 p.m.oklahoma City at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Miami at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.phoenix at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at Memphis, 8 p.m.sacramento at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Washington at New orleans, 8 p.m.Houston at san Antonio, 8:30 p.m.New York at portland, 10 p.m.Golden state at Utah, 10 p.m.Thursday’s Gamesorlando at Dallas, 8 p.m.portland at Denver, 10:30 p.m.Friday’s GamesMilwaukee at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Miami at Indiana, 7 p.m.Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m.Houston at Boston, 7:30 p.m.New orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.phoenix at Detroit, 8 p.m.Atlanta at Cleveland, 8 p.m.orlando at san Antonio, 8:30 p.m.New York at Golden state, 10:30 p.m.Utah at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

PF youth boys’ mini-basketball campPIGEON FORGE — Pigeon Forge High School

basketball coach Jonathan Shultz will be conducting a three-day boys’ mini-basketball camp for youth Monday through Wednesday, April 5 through 7, at the high school. Boys grades three through five will go from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Boys grades six through eight will go from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost for the camp is $35 for three days or $25 for two days. Space will be limited to 10-12 players in each age group. For more information, or to register, call coach Shultz at 789-2431.

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Site: Lebanon, Tenn.Schedule: Friday, prac-tice; Saturday, qualify-ing; race, 4 p.m. (ESPN, 3:30-7 p.m.).Track: Nashville Superspeedway (oval, 1.333 miles).Race distance: 300 miles, 225 laps.Last year: Joey Logano raced to the second of his five 2009 series vic-tories, holding off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch. Logano led a race-high 95 laps.Last race: Justin Allgaier raced to his first NASCAR vic-tory, beating Penske Racing teammate Brad Keselowski on May 20 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Allgaier and Keselowski gave Penske Racing its first 1-2 Nationwide finish.Fast facts: Carl Edwards leads the season stand-ings with 670 points, followed by Keselowski (644), Allgaier (639), Busch (594) and Kevin Harvick (569). ... Edwards has a series-high three victories at the track, winning in June 2006 and sweeping the 2007 races. ... Busch won the June race last year at the track.Next race: Bashas’ Supermarkets 200, April 9, Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Ariz.On the Net: http://www.nascar.com

———CAMPING WORLD

TRUCKSNashville 200

Site: Lebanon, Tenn.Schedule: Friday, prac-tice; qualifying; race, 8 p.m. (Speed, 7:30-10:30 p.m.).Track: Nashville Superspeedway (oval, 1.333 miles).Race distance: 200 miles, 150 laps.Last year: Ron Hornaday Jr. raced to his record fifth straight series victory in the August event, hold-ing off Brian Scott in a green-white-checker finish. Hornaday won six 2009 races for Kevin Harvick Inc. en route to his record fourth series title.Last week: Kevin Harvick raced to his fourth straight series victory, pulling away from teammate Hornaday on a restart with 19 laps to go at Martinsville Speedway. Harvick has won six of his last 10 Trucks starts.Fast facts: Harvick is making his third series start of the season. Fellow Sprint Cup drivers Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski also are racing. ... The 51-year-old Hornaday has a series-record 45 victories. ... Daytona winner Timothy Peters leads the series stand-ings with 501 points. Aric Almirola is second with 442. ... The series will return to Nashville

in August, the first time the track has had two races in a season.Next race: O’Reilly Auto Parts 250. May 2, Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kan.On the Net: http://www.nascar.com

———SPRINT CUP

Next race: Subway Fresh Fit 600, April 10, Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Ariz.Last week: Denny Hamlin won the rain-delayed race at Martinsville Speedway on Monday, giving up the lead to take four tires, then rallying from ninth in a pair of two-lap sprints. Hamlin passed Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and leader Jeff Gordon following the final restart for his third career victory at the track. Joey Logano, Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, was second.On the Net: http://www.nascar.com

———FORMULA ONE

Malaysian Grand PrixSite: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Schedule: Friday, prac-tice (Speed, 2-3:30 a.m.); Saturday, prac-tice, qualifying (Speed, 4-5:30 a.m.); Sunday, race, 4 a.m. (Speed, 3:30-6 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.).Track: Sepang International Circuit (road course, 3.44

miles).Race distance: 192.88 miles, 56 laps.Last year: Jenson Button won the rain-shortened race for Brawn GP, the second of his six vic-tories in the first seven races of the season. Button went on to win his first world champi-onship. Nick Heidfeld was second for BMW Sauber.Last week: Button won the Australian Grand Prix for McLaren, sur-viving a first-corner collision and success-fully gambling on tire strategy. The first driver prepared to change from intermediate tires to slicks on a drying track, Button drove the final 52 laps on soft tires for his second straight vic-tory at the track.Fast facts: Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is driv-ing for Ross Brawn-led Mercedes GP follow-ing a three-year retire-ment. The 41-year-old German star was sixth in the season-opening race in Bahrain and 10th last week in Melbourne. He has a record 91 victories, three at Sepang International. ... Ferrari’s Alonso Ferrari, the Bahrain winner, leads the season stand-ings with 37 points. Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa is second with 33, followed by Button with 31. ... Lotus, backed by the Malaysian government and a con-

sortium of business-men, returned to F1 this season after a 16-year absence. It won 79 races and seven constructors’ titles between 1958 and 1994.Next race: Chinese Grand Prix, April 18, Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai.On the Net: http://www.formula1.com

———IZOD INDYCAR

Next race: Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, April 11, Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Ala.Last week: Will Power won the rain-delayed Honda Grand Prix in St. Petersburg, Fla., to sweep the first two races of the season. Barely seven months after breaking his back in a crash, the Penske Racing star held off Justin Wilson to become the first driver to win the first two events of the season since Sam Hornish in 2001.On the Net: http://www.indycar.com

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NHRA FULL THROTTLE

Next event: O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals, April 9-11, Houston Raceway Park, Baytown, Texas.Last week: John Force won the rain-delayed NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Concord, N.C., for his second Funny Car victory of the season and record 128th overall win. The 60-year-old Force beat daughter Ashley Force Hood, Ron Capps and Matt Hagan in the final in the NHRA’s first four-wide event. Cory McClenathan (Top Fuel), Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won.On the Net: http://www.nhra.com

———OTHER RACES

U.S. AUTO RACING CLUB: Sprint Car, Coca-Cola Sprint Classic, Friday-Saturday, Eldora Speedway, Rossburg, Ohio. On the Net: http://www.usacracing.com

Thursday, April 1, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press Local ◆ A11

11 Thursday

April 1 Stories

By LOIS LANEStaff Writer

The Sevier County School System has canceled summer vacation for all county schools due to the excessive number of snow days used earlier this year.

“I know this is not a popular decision,” a spokesman said Tuesday. “But I have to do what I feel is best for our children’s education. These kids hardly saw the inside of a school dur-ing the months of January and

February.”Summer break was originally

scheduled to begin on June 2. Many parents have expressed

their dismay, complaining that they had summer vacation trips planned for months.

“Our tickets to Disney World are non-refundable,” said Fanny Butts, mother of two elementary school children. “My husband and I had already gotten a week off from work.”

Other parents were thrilled with the announcement and

support Parton’s decision wholeheartedly.

“I have long said that Sevier County needed to switch to year-round school,” said Ima Doozie, who has six children in kindergarten through high school. “I think the more they are in school, the better.”

Teachers have had mixed reactions — some are pleased that they will have more time to educate what they call “impres-sionable, potentially brilliant young minds” — while others

feel upset and blindsided by Parton’s decision.

“Teachers really need that time off during the summer,” said one source who wished to remain anonymous. “Without summer break, we’re likely to go crazy!”

Around-the-clock counsel-ing will be made available to the schools’ faculty and staff to deal with the transition.

Additional school resource officers will be stationed at each of the schools to better

handle possible student revolts.In the meantime, one student

said she is trying to persuade her parents to move the family to Florida.

“It never snows there!” explained 11-year-old Sunny Skye. “I won’t have to worry about too much school being canceled during the year and missing my week at the beach — and I’ll be much closer, so I can go more often. I’m over living near the mountains, any-way.”

School vacation canceled due to snow days

By HOWIE GIGGUMStaff Writer

GATLINBURG — City and state officials have called in paratroopers from the 101st Airborne to deliver supplies and rescue those who were stranded after simulta-neous rockslides cut off every road into and out of Gatlinburg.

The soldiers jumped out of transport planes with parachutes on their backs and rations strapped to their chests, while others used heli-copters to airlift some of the city’s most influ-ential residents out of town.

“It’s like we suddenly have this island in the middle of the moun-tains and we’ve got to figure out who gets off the island and in what order,” city spokeswom-an Ima Gedhout said by phone. “I suggested we draw straws, but some of the other City Hall employees wanted to play ‘Survivor.’ We’ve set up a committee to study the issue and we expect to have a report ready by early next year.”

When asked if he thought the predicament

might affect his sales, one business owner crashed to his knees in the middle of an eerily empty street and wept openly. His concern was shared by city leaders.

“The main problem is we’ve got state employ-ees at the interstate welcome centers telling people Gatlinburg is closed for business and that’s simply not true,” Gedhout said. “That’s simply not true. The Little Pigeon River is still passable for those who can paddle a kayak upstream and we have an emergency agree-ment with some of the helicopter businesses in Sevierville to ferry people in.”

Shortly after the slides hit, it seems crisis mode set in throughout the city. Looters were seen sitting sadly atop tele-visions they had just stolen from hotels after realizing they had no way to get their prizes home. Some desperate folks, ignoring the fact there was still plenty of food at local restaurants, attempted to storm Ripley’s Aquarium in search of fish to fry.

“We’ve been holding

off a bunch of Floridians with deep sea fishing equipment since dusk,” reported a security guard.

Geotechnicians are blaming recent heavy rains and a series of odd occurrences for creating the slides. For instance, a herd of cattle being led to pasture on Birds Creek Road prompted the hill-side to give way near the entrance to Camp Smoky. Meanwhile, a

troop of Boy Scouts doing morning calisthen-ics at a Smokies trail-head apparently shook a portion of the mountain loose there, causing it to tumble onto Newfound Gap Road.

Tourists headed to Gatlinburg this week said they were disap-pointed to find them-selves stuck on the Spur. Several of them attempt-ed to continue driving, only to hit a boulder,

back up, then try again. Others attempted to merge into the opposite lane, aneuvering in the foot or two between cars to make traffic move again.

“It seems like the people here could have expected this and built a road to Gatlinburg that doesn’t go through the mountains,” Armpit, Ky., resident Glenn O’Reilly said as his right-turn sig-nal blinked incessantly.

“Maybe you could build a bridge over the moun-tains or a tunnel under-neath them.”

O’Reilly demanded to know why local officials didn’t put a warning on the city’s Web site.

“It seems like they should have announced that a series of unex-plainable phenomena might block every road into Gatlinburg. Like I said, surely they expect-ed this,” O’Reilly said.

Supplies flownin to stranded’Burg residents

Photo by Randy Savage for The Mountain Press

A U.S. Army officer directs the operations of members of the 101st Airborne as they parachute into Gatlinburg yesterday to bring supplies into the area. The city was cut off from the outside world entirely by a series of freak rockslides.

By SKIP N. STONE Staff Writer

PIGEON FORGE — Ahoy, mateys: Other world-famous ships may soon be sailing into Sevier County.

With the long-awaited grand-opening of the Titanic Museum, a New York-based company is seriously considering a number of sites and con-sidering a number of possible attractions using historic ships.

“The Belle Island site would certainly be a pos-sibility, as well as property in Gatlinburg and near Smokies Stadium,” said the official, who asked to remain anonymous. “Sevier County managed to keep its head above water during the recession and we see this as an area that is ripe to continue to grow.”

A strong possibility would be a Christopher Columbus-themed attraction that would feature full-scale models of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.

“Although they are different kinds of sea-faring vessels, they are, nonetheless, still sea-faring vessels, and we would not want to do anything to take away from the Titanic folks,” the official said. “We would look at it as a win-win situation for both companies. “There’s a lot of interest in Columbus.”

The Columbus ships are not the only possibility being studied.

Replicas of the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia may be brought here. Although they would not be as big as the originals, they would be seaworthy. There would be re-enactments of the famed Civil War battle off Hampton Roads, Va.

“We’d like to see any other museum that would have that kind of capability,” the official said.

A final possibility would be a full-scale replica of the steamboat Clermont, better known to America as “Fulton’s Folly.”

“We don’t think any other explanation for that project is needed,” he said.

Columbus ships may set sail here By SNOOP DeDOUX

Entertainment Guy

Dolly Parton is stepping into the realm of reality TV.

The Dixie darling is combining all she loves about reality television into one new show: “Can You Survive Dolly?”

Combining “Name That Tune” with “Survivor” and “American Idol,” Parton will pit singers against each other, with the week’s winners and losers deter-mined by a point system and viewer support.

“I just love watching those old games shows and those new reality TV shows,” Parton said. “I thought, ‘Well, why not combine all my favorites and see if I can’t make something of it?’”

Contestants will be asked to submit videos which can be viewed online, with

visitors to the site voting on their favor-ites. Special voting kiosks will be set up at Dollywood.

Their votes will determine who will advance to the televised competition that will be filmed at Dollywood in between the park’s normal shows, adding a bit of a challenge for the performers.

“I can’t be holding up shows like ‘Sha-Kon-O-Hey!’ and those acrobats and drummers for this,” Parton quipped. “Them girls and boys are going to have to sing and sing fast.”

Before the singing competition, the contestants will have to play rounds of “Name that Tune.” That will determine both the song they sing and in which order they perform. Their order will be determined by the time in which they identified the song. To add a special twist, they’ll never know if being the

quickest puts you on stage first or last. “I sure hope they know those songs or

can learn the words real quick,” Parton said.

The “Survivor” part of the contest will give the contestants a chance to earn extra points. The group will head out to one of the more adventurous rides or attractions. How long they are able to stay on the ride or complete a course will determine points.

“We’ll see how long some of them can stay on the Dizzy Disk without tossing their cookies or who can be the first to complete all three sections of Adventure Mountain,” Parton said.

Performances will be judged by Parton and two new guest judges every week.

“Boy, I can’t wait for all this to start and see just who can survive me,” Parton said with her well-known giggle.

Dolly creating reality TV show

By RAUL DOOKJournalist

NATIONAL PARK — Park lovers can rest easy. With just one day left to save the park’s bear population, officials called in expert Hack Bower and his team from the Counter idiot-Tourist Unit (CTU), and he appears to have saved the bears.

“The tourists were making their final move,” Ranger Hugh Morris said. “We’d been reluctant to call in the resources of CTU until we abso-lutely had to. We think Mr. Bower does his best work under pressure.

“Not many people know this, but the coyotes almost overran the park a

few years ago before we called in CTU to save the day.”

Not many details could be learned. This much is clear:

n CTU agents cordoned off the park.

n The cordon failed miserably.“That really wasn’t our fault,” CTU

spokesman Ima Morahn said. “I mean, we had a mole on the team. Who could have seen it coming? We were betrayed by an actual mole.

“I mean, who could see it coming? A mole in CTU. Betraying us. I blame our background checks.”

Bower could be heard mutter-ing that there were no background checks, and if they’d listened to his

personal tech advisor, Clo E., he could have been done in time to enjoy a picnic in Cades Cove.

Doctors appeared to be perform-ing an emergency heart transplant on Bower, who was still talking and randomly shooting stray tourists in the leg.

Apparently he was able to resolve the issue by shooting rubber bullets into the legs of tourists who tried to send toddlers to “pose for pictures with the cute bears.”

He reminded the tourists to stay away from large wild animals that could eat them.

“I think we have a handle on the situation here now,” Bower said.

Threat to park bears put down

The Mountain Press ◆ Thursday, April 1, 2010A12 ◆ World

LONDON (AP) — When it comes to predicting earth-quakes, toads — warts and all — may be an asset.

British researchers said Wednesday that they observed a mass exodus of toads from a breeding site in Italy five days before a major tremor struck, sug-gesting the amphibians may be able to sense environ-mental changes, impercep-tible to humans, that fore-tell a coming quake.

Since ancient times, anecdotes and folklore have linked unusual ani-mal behavior to cataclysmic events like earthquakes, but hard evidence has been scarce. A new study by researchers from the Open University is one of the first to document animal behav-ior before, during and after an earthquake.

The scientists were study-ing the common toad — bufo bufo — at a breeding colony in central Italy when they noticed a sharp decline in the number of animals at the site. Days later, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit, killing hundreds of people and badly damaging the town of L’Aquila.

Researcher Rachel Grant said the findings suggested “that toads are able to detect pre-seismic cues such as the release of gases and charged particles, and use these as a form of earthquake early warning system.”

Initially puzzled by the toads’ disappearance in the middle of the breeding sea-son, the scientists tracked

the population in the days that followed. They found that 96 percent of males — who vastly outnumber females at breeding spots — abandoned the site, 46 miles from the quake’s epi-center, five days before it

struck on April 6, 2009.The number of toads at

the site fell to zero three days before the quake, according to the study, published in the Zoological Society of London’s Journal of Zoology.

“A day after the earth-quake, they all started com-ing back,” said Grant, the report’s lead author. “The numbers were still lower than normal and remained low until after the last after-shock.”

12 Thursday

All persons, residentand non-resident, hav-ing claims, matured orunmatured, against herEstate are required tofile the same in tripli-cate with the Clerk ofthe above namedCourt within fourmonths from the dateof the first publication(or of the posting, asthe case may be) ofthis notice, otherwisetheir claim will be for-ever barred.

All persons indebtedto the above Estatemust come forwardand make proper set-tlement with the under-signed at once.

This 25 day ofMarch, 2010.

(Signed)Kimberly L. TrenthamTracy G. HoustonCo-Administrators

Estate ofTROY “ROY”SIZEMORE

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

By: M. Sue WhiteJim HickmanAttorney

04-01-1004-08-10

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Estate ofTROY “ROY”SIZEMORE

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Notice is Hereby Given that on the 25 day of MARCH 2010,Letters Testa-mentary, of Adminis-tration, in respect to the Estate of TROY“ROY” SIZEMORE de-ceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Ten-nessee.

This 25 day of March, 2010.

(Signed)Charlotte J. SamsAdministrator

Estate ofSTEVE EDWARDSAMS


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04-01-1004-08-10

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Estate ofSTEVE EDWARD

SAMS


Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 25 day of MARCH 2010,Letters Testa-mentary, of Adminis-tration, in respect to the Estate of STEVE EDWARD SAMS de-ceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Ten-nessee.

All persons, resident and non-resident, hav-ing claims, matured or unmatured, against her Estate are required to file the same in tripli-cate with the Clerk of the above named Court within four months from the date of the first publication (or of the posting, as the case may be) of this notice, otherwise their claim will be for-ever barred.

All persons indebted to the above Estate must come forward and make proper set-tlement with the under-signed at once.

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ROLLINS


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Notice is Hereby Given that on the 23 day of MARCH 2010,Letters Testa-mentary, of Adminis-tration, in respect to the Estate of ALICE REBA ROLLINS de-ceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Ten-nessee.


(Signed)Douglas YatesAdministrator C.T.A.

Estate ofCHRISTA ANNKEARNEY


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Estate ofCHRISTA ANN KEARNEY


Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 25 day of MARCH 2010,Letters Testa-mentary, of Adminis-tration, in respect to the Estate of CHRISTAANN KEARNEY de-ceased, were issued to the undersigned by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Ten-nessee.



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Estate ofBRIAN KEARNEY


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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Two suicide bombers target-ed authorities in southern Russia on Wednesday, killing 12 people, including nine police officers. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the blasts may have been organized by the same militants who attacked the Moscow subway.

The attacks Wednesday came after the powerful former president had vowed to “drag out of the sewer” the terrorists who plotted Monday’s twin subway bombings, which killed 39 people and injured scores of com-muters during rush hour.

Wednesday’s blasts struck in Dagestan, one of the provinces in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus that have been destabilized by near-daily

bombings and other raids by Islamic militants.

“I don’t rule out that this is one and the same gang,” Putin said at a televised Cabinet meeting. President Dmitry Medvedev later called the attacks “links of the same chain.”

No one has claimed responsibility for either of the attacks.

The subway bombings in Moscow were first suicide attacks in the Russian capital in six years and shocked a country that had grown accustomed to having such violence confined to its restive southern cor-ner. They followed a warning from an Islamic militant leader that the militants would bring their struggle to the heart of Russia.

Moscow police have been on high

alert since the subway attacks, beef-ing up roadblocks on highways lead-ing into the city. The agency’s chief said Wednesday that thousands of officers have been sent to patrol the subway, check on migrants from southern provinces and inspect ware-houses that could hold arms caches.

Families and friends mourned subway victims at funerals around Moscow on Wednesday, sobbing especially for young people like Maxim Mareyev, a 20-year-old stu-dent.

In Wednesday’s attack, a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives when police tried to stop the car in the town of Kizlyar near Dagestan’s bor-der with Chechnya, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said.

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Grigory Khoshchenko the uncle of Maxim Mareyev, a 20-year-old university student who was killed in Monday’s suicide bomb-ings in Moscow, reacts on the coffin during his funeral in the town of Chekhov near Moscow on Wednesday.

Study: Toads may be earthquake forecasters

New suicide blast kills 12 in Russia

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 July 24, 2006, by George Doddridge to Larry A. Weissman, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Book 2584, Page 719, (“Deed of Trust”); and WHEREAS, Suntrust Mortgage Inc., the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder”), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Registers Office of Sevier 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, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Thursday, April 15, 2010, commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the Main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Situate in the Sixteenth (16th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being all of LOT 90 OF BLUFF MOUNTAIN ACRES, SECTION SIX, PHASE TWO, as the same appears in plat map of record in Large Map Book 3, page 88, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. SUBJECT to the restrictions, conditions, easements, map notations and all other issues of record in Book 1192, Page 193 and Large Map Book 3, Page 88, both in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. SUBJECT to shared Well Agreement in Book 2215, Page 768, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Being all of the property conveyed to George A. Doddridge, single from A. Franklin Johnston and wife, Patricia Diane Johnston, by General Warranty Deed dated July 24, 2006, of record in Volume Book 2584, Page 717, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.

PROPERTY ADDRESS:1714 Bear View RoadSevierville, TN 37862

CURRENT OWNER(S): George Doddridge 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/AOTHER 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. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc.Substitute Trustee c/o rxk

Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc.1587 Northeast Expressway

Atlanta, GA 30329(770) 234-9181

File No.: 221.1006152TN

March 18, 25 & April 1, 2010


Sale at public auction will be on AApril 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM EasternStandard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville,Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Jeremy L. Bohananand Chasidy Bohanan, to Lenders Title & Escrow, Trustee, on November16, 2007 at Book 2963, Page 561 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLPSubstitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Registers Office.Owner of Debt: BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide HomeLoans Servicing LPThe following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be soldto the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens andencumbrances of record:Described property located in the Fourteenth (14th) Civil District of SevierCounty, Tennessee to wit: Lot 29, of Keenland Farms, as seen on Plat ofrecord at Large Map Book 4, Page 35, in the Registers Office for SevierCounty, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is here by made for amore particular description of said property. THERE MAY BE AMANUFACTURED HOME LOCATED UPON THE ABOVE-DESCRIBEDPROPERTY WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE PERMANENTLY AFFIXEDTO SAID PROPERTY. IN THE EVENT IT IS DETERMINED THAT THEMANUFACTURED HOME IS NOT PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO THEPROPERTY, IT SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THEPURCHASER TO UNDERTAKE ANY AND ALL LEGAL STEPSNECESSARY TO OBTAIN TITLE TO SAID MANUFACTURED HOME.

Street Address:2505 Bay Meadows Way

Sevierville, TN 37876

Current Owner(s) of Property: Jeremy L. Bohanan and Wife ChasidyBohananOther interested parties: Keenland Farms HOA The street address of the above described property is believed to be 2505Bay Meadows Way, Sevierville, TN 37876, but such address is not part ofthe legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of anydiscrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.SALE IS SUBJECT TO HOMEOWNERS� ASSOCIATION LIENHELD BY KEENLAND FARMS, OF RECORD AT BOOK 3373,PAGE 53, IN THE REGISTERS OFFICE OF SEVIER COUNTY,TENNESSEE.All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homesteadare expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to begood, 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 thetime and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours ofthe sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed thesuccessful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale issubject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may berescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and anyinformation obtained will be used for that purpose.

Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute TrusteeLaw Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP

6055 Primacy Parkway, Suite 410Memphis, TN 38119Phone 901-767-5566

Fax 901-767-8890

File No. 09-016434

March 25, April 1 & 8, 2010


Sale at public auction will be on AApril 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM EasternStandard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville,Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Polly Halverson, AKAEvelyn Azilee Halverson, to Millard S. Rubenstein, Trustee, on June 22,2006 at Book Volume 2568, Page 223 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch,LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County RegistersOffice.Owner of Debt: Financial Freedom Acquisition LLCThe following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will besold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens andencumbrances of record:Described property located in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of SevierCounty, Tennessee, and being within the corporate limits of the City ofGatlinburg, Tennessee, to wit:Lot Numbers 127, 128 and 129 of Holston Assembly AssociationGrounds, as the same appear on a plat of record in Map Book 1, at Page15, in the Sevier County, Tennessee, Registers Office, to which referenceis hereby made for an exact legal description. LESS AND EXCEPT atriangular strip of ground on the northwest corner of Lot Number 127,being 15 feet wide on Wesley Road and running back to a point 53 feetfrom said road.

Street Address:829 Wesley Drive

Gatlinburg, TN 37738

Current Owner(s) of Property: Heirs of Evelyn Azilee Halverson, whoacquired title as Polly Halverson The street address of the above described property is believed to be 829Wesley Drive, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of thelegal description of the property sold herein and in the event of anydiscrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homesteadare expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to begood, 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 thetime and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours ofthe sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed thesuccessful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale issubject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may berescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and anyinformation obtained will be used for that purpose.



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Sale at public auction will be on AApril 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Debra L. Butenko, A Married Woman, to Larry N. Westbrook, Esq., Trustee, on March 3, 2004 at Book Volume 1925, Page 118 conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register’sOffice.Owner of Debt: PHH Mortgage CorporationThe following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:Described property located in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:Tract One: Described property located in the Tenth (10th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, being bounded on the North by Reagan Springs Road, on the East by Mayo and on the South and West by the remaining property of Loveday, more particularly described as follows:Beginning in the Northeast corner of the property hereinafter described at an iron pin a common corner to Mayo at the right-of-way of Reagan Springs Road, said point of beginning being located 750 feet, more or less, from the point of intersection of Reagan Springs Road with Dupont Road; thence from said point of beginning and with the line of Mayo, South 30 degrees 48 minutes 24 seconds West (crossing a branch) 343.74 feet to an iron pin a common corner to Loveday; thence leaving the line of Mayo and with the line of Loveday, North 29 degrees 32 minutes 26 seconds West, 120.04 feet to an iron pin; thence North 40 degrees 53 minutes 59 seconds East (crossing a branch) 295.59 feet to an iron pin at the right-of-way of Reagan Springs Road; thence leaving the line of Loveday and with the road right-of-way South 51 degrees 57 minutes 14 seconds East 52.94 feet to the point of beginning.Tract Two: Described property located in the Tenth (10th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, being bounded on the North by Reagan Springs Road, on the East by a 20 foot right of way, on the South by Valentine and on the West by the remaining property, more particularly described as follows:Beginning in the Northernmost corner of the property hereinafter described at an iron pin a common corner to Loveday at the right of way of Reagan Springs Road, said point of beginning being further located 750 feet, more or less, from the point of intersection of Reagan Springs Road with Dupont Road; thence from said point of beginning and with the right of way of Reagan Springs Road, South 53 degrees 01 minutes 13 seconds East, 147.92 feet to an iron pin at the point of intersections of Reagan Springs Road with a 20m foot right of way; thence leaving the road with of way and with approximate Western boundary of a 20 foot right of way, South 00 degrees 41 minutes 08 seconds West, (crossing a branch) 100.21 feet to an iron pin; thence South 19 degrees 34 minutes 45 seconds West, 155.44 feet to an iron pin at a twin 8-inch walnut a common corner to Valentine; thence leaving the edge of the right of way and with the line of Valentine, North 76 degrees 38 minutes 55 seconds West 203.89 feet to an iron pin; thence South 81 degrees 04 minutes 15 seconds West, 43.07 feet to an iron pin at a 15 inch walnut a common corner to Loveday; thence leaving the line of Valentine and with the remaining property of Loveday, North 30 degrees 48 minutes 24 seconds East, (crossing a branch) 343.74 feet to the point of beginning.THERE MAY BE A MANUFACTURED HOME LOCATED UPON THE ABOVE- DESCRIBED PROPERTY WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO SAID PROPERTY.IN THE EVENT IT IS DETERMINED THAT THE MANUFACTURED HOME IS NOT PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO THE PROPERTY, IT SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PURCHASER TO UNDERTAKE ANY AND ALL LEGAL STEPS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN TITLE TO SAID MANUFACTURED HOME.Street Address: 733 Reagan Springs Road, Seymour, TN 37865Current Owner(s) of Property: Debra L. Butenko, a married womanOther interested parties: Arrow Financial Services LLC c/o Buffaloe & AssociatesThe street address of the above described property is believed to be 733 Reagan Springs Road, Seymour, TN 37865, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.



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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 March 23, 2007, by Daniel Richards, Daniel Fernandez, Sandra Richards and Madeline Fernandez to Accurate Title Services, Inc., Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Book 2786, Page 215, (“Deed of Trust”); andWHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP F/KA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP; andWHEREAS, BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP F/KA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder”), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; andNOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Thursday, April 29, 2010, commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the Main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:Situated in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being all of Site No. 97 of Black Bear Falls, Phase II, a Planned Unit Development as identified on the Site Plan thereof of record in Book LM7, Page 50, Register’s Office, Sevier County, Tennessee. See also Site Plans of record in Book LM3, Page 44; LM4, Page 58, LM4, Page 97; LM5, Page 4; and LM6, Page 31. Pursuant to Article VIII, Section 1 of the Master Deed referred to below, Grantor attaches hereto an “as built” survey of the Site and Unit prepared by Michael K. Suttles, RLS# 1452, dated January 23, 2007, which is marked Exhibit “A” and incorporated by reference herein. Said Site is conveyed together with the Unit and all other improvements located thereon, an undivided interest in and to the Common Areas, the right of the joint use of the easements, rights of way, parking areas and other appurtenances thereto, all as shown on the above mentioned Site Plan and as set forth in the Master Deed of Black Bear Falls of record in Book 1183, Page 126, in said Register’s Office, and all subsequent amendments thereto. Subject to all of the covenants, conditions, restrictions, easements and other matters set forth in the aforementioned Site Plans and Master Deed, and all subsequent amendments thereto. Being the same property conveyed to Daniel Fernandez, married and Daniel Richards, married, by deed from Smoky Top Constructions, LLC, a Tennessee Limited Liability Company, dated March 23, 2007, recorded in Book 2786, Page 212, in said Register’sOffice.

PROPERTY ADDRESS:932 High Mountain Way 97

Gatlinburg, TN 37738

CURRENT OWNER(S):Daniel Richards and Daniel Fernandez

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/AOTHER 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.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trusteec/o Amy Gonzalez


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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 March 24, 2004, by Rodney C Cadden Jr and Mary Lee Cadden to Wesley D. Turner, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Register’sOffice of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Book 1949, Page 566, (“Deed of Trust”); andWHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-R4; andWHEREAS, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-R4, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder”), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; andNOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Thursday, April 29, 2010, commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the Main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit Being the property located at: 331 Howard Drive, Seymour, TN 37865, Sevier County, Tennessee.

Tract 1: Situate, lying and being in the Ninth (9th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being All of Lots 160 and 161 of Seymour Heights Subdivision, as shown on a map of record in Map Book 5, at Page 44, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with and subject to The Terms, Conditions and Restrictive Covenants, and any and all other notes and matters of record in Misc. Book 7, Page 234; ROW Book 3, at Page 380 (possibly affecting the subject property); ROW Book 3, at Page 292; Misc Book 7, at Page 485, and in the aforementioned Plat of record in Map Book 5, at Page 44 (but omitting any covenants, condition, or restriction, if any, based upon race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, unless and only to the extent that the covenant, condition, or restriction either is exempt under Title 42 et seq. of the United States Code, or relates to handicap, but does not discriminate against handicapped persons), as all of the foregoing may from time to time be amended, modified, or corrected, and as all are of record in the said Register’s Office. Also subject to any and all applicable restrictions, easements, boundary line agreements, and building set-back lines, as are shown in the records of the said Register’s Office, and as any and all of the foregoing may from time to time be modified, corrected, or amended.

Tract 2: Situate lying and being in the Ninth (9th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being All of Lots 162 and 163 of Seymour Heights Subdivision, as shown on a plat map of record in Map Book 5, at Page 44 in the Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with and subject to the Terms, Conditions, and Restrictive Covenants, and any and all other notes and matters of record in Misc. Book 7, at Page 234; ROW Book 3, at Page 380, (possibly affecting the subject property); ROW Book 3, at Page 292; Misc. Book 7, at Page 485, and in the aforestated Plat of record in Map Book 5, at Page 44 (nut omitting any covenant, condition or restriction, if any, based upon race, color, religion, sex, handicap familiar stratus or national origin, unless and only to the extent that the covenant, condition,or restriction either is exempt under Title 42 et seq. of the United State Code, or related to handicap, but does not discriminate against handicapped persons) as all of the foregoing may from time to time be amended, modified or corrected and as all are of record in the said Register’s Office. Also subject to any and all applicable restrictions, easements, boundary line agreement, and building setback lines, as are shown in the records of the said Register’s Office, and as any and all of the foregoing may from time to time be modified, corrected or amended.Being all of that same property conveyed to Joseph M.Neher and wife, Stella B. Neher, by General Warranty Deed of Bobby Webb and wife, Johnnie Webb, dated the 29th day of October, 1981, and of record in Warranty Deed Book 309, at Page 500, in the said Register’s Office. Being the same property conveyed to Rodney C. Cadden, Jr. and wife, Mary Lee Cadden by deed from Joseph M. Neher and wife, Stella B. Neher dated 6/15/2001 filed for record on 6/20/2001 in Book 1252, Page 496, Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 331 Howard DriveSeymour, TN 37865

CURRENT OWNER(S):Rodney C Cadden Jr and Mary Lee Cadden

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: MBNA America (Delaware), NAOTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/AAll right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT.� ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc.Substitute Trusteec/o Amy Gonzalez


Atlanta, GA 30329(770) 234-9181 (ext. )

File No.: 226.1007122TN

Web Site: www.jflegal.com

April 1, 8 & 15, 2010


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 October 27, 2006, by Robert R Rippeon and Doreen Creamer Bruder to Larry A. Weissman, Trustee, as same appears of record in the Registers Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, under Book No. 2652, Page 791, (“Deed of Trust”); andWHEREAS, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust was last transferred and assigned to SunTrust Mortgage, Inc; and WHEREAS, SunTrust Mortgage, Inc, the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, (the “Owner and Holder”), appointed the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by instrument filed for record in the Registers Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; andNOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the entire indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and that the undersigned, Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc., Substitute Trustee, or his duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested in him, will on Thursday, April 8, 2010, commencing at 2:00 PM at the steps of the Main entrance of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee, proceed to sell at public outcry to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described property situated in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit:Situated in the Fifth (5th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, within the City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and being all of Unit 227 of that certain condominium known as Riverstone Resort Condominium being designated and described as recorded in Large Map Book 7, Page 106 in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, and more particularly described in that certain Master Deed for RiverStone Resort Condominium of record in Book 2578, Page 357 in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which reference is here made for a more particular description.† The land upon which the buildings are situated is described in Exhibit “A” of the Master deed, the units are designated in attached exhibits and parking and storage spaces are designated on Exhibit “C” of the Master Deed.† The condominium unit is conveyed subject to and together with the rights and privileges, restrictive covenants and conditions set out in the Master Deed for Riverstone Resort Condominium of record in Book 2578, Page 357 in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.† The developer and every owner, occupant, and any other person or entity at any time having, taking or acquiring any right, title, claim or leasehold interest in and to any unit or any part of the property and premises dealt with and/or described herein shall be bound by and shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the Master Deed for Riverstone resort Condominium, the Bylaws of the Riverstone Resort HOA, Inc. and the Club at RiverStone Rules and Regulations, and such other rules and regulations as may from time to time be promulgated under the terms of the Master Deed, as such ma or might be amended or modified.† The Master Deed for Riverstone Resort Condominiums, the Bylaws, and all such rules and regulations shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time any interest or estate in the Unit, as though recited and stipulated at length herein; and shall be deemed to be incorporated into this instrument evidencing ownership.† The g6rantee accepts and ratifies the provisions of the Master Deed, the Bylaws, the Club Rules and Regulations (and any other Rules and Regulations adopted under the Bylaws) and agrees to comply with all the terms and provisions thereof.† Being the same property conveyed to Robert R. Rippeon, a 1/2 undivided interest and Doreen Creamer Bruder, a 1/2 undivided interest by deed from 212 Dollywood Lane, LLC dated October 27, 2006 and recorded in Book 2652, Page 789, in the registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Which has the address of: 212 Dollywood Lane Unit 227, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

PROPERTY ADDRESS: `212 Dollywood Lane, Unit 227

Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

CURRENT OWNER(S):† Robert R Rippeon and Doreen Creamer Bruder 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: SunTrust Mortgage Inc. 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. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc.,Substitute Trustee c/o IMR


Atlanta, GA 30329(770) 234-9181

File No.:1115.1005617TN

March 18, 25 & April 1, 2010

Substitute Trustee’s Notice of Sale

WHEREAS, NNayer Fard delivered to TT. Mike Estes, Trustee, a certain Deed of Trust dated JJune 24, 2008, found of record in BBook 3130, page 109, Register�s Office for SSevier County, Tennessee, to secure a certain indebtedness fully described therein; and WHEREAS, the owner and holder of the secured indebtedness and the beneficial interest under the Deed of Trust is FFarm Credit Services of Mid-America, FLCAWHEREAS, on JJanuary 29, 2010, the holder of the note securing the indebtedness, FFarm Credit Services of Mid-America, FLCA executed an Appointment of Substitute Trustee, nominating and appointing AA. KEITH LIVINGSTON as Substitute Trustee, instead of the said TT. Mike Estes, same being found of record in BBook 3486, page 579, Register�s Office for SSevier County, Tennessee;WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of said indebtedness and the same has become due and payable, and the owner and holder of said indebtedness has instructed the said Trustee to foreclose said Deed of Trust and to advertise and sell the property herein described upon the terms and conditions set forth in said Deed of Trust; andNOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that I will, on the 9th day of April, 2010, at 10:01 a.m., prevailing standard time, at the Courthouse door in SSevier County, Tennessee, sell at public auction, for cash, to the highest bidder, and in bar of the equitable and statutory rights of redemption, and subject to any and all taxes and any and all assessments, any and all prior encumbrances, if any, the following described real estate as set forth in said Deed of Trust, to-wit:

Situate in the 2nd Civil District of SSevier County, Tennessee, without the corporate limits of and municipality and being more particularly described as follows:Being dnated as Lot 17, 21 and 22 (a/k/a 22R), Treehouse Cabins And Resort Subdivision, as shown on the plat of same of record in SSlide Large Map Book 5, Slide 190, in the Register�s Office for SSevier County, Tennessee, to which plat specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said lot.Subject to a ì50 ft. joint use access easementî on Lot 17 as shown on recorded plat.This property is subject to all applicable easements, permissive use agreements and restrictions of record in the Register�s Office. Also conveyed are all rights in easements and permissive use agreements of record.Being the same property conveyed to NNayer Fard, by deed from Sharooz M. Fard and wife, Loudes Fard, dated June 24, 2008, recorded July 2, 2008, in DDeed Book 3130, page 107, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.The proceeds derived from the sale of said property will be applied toward payment of the indebtedness, including interest and attorney�sfees secured by said Deed of Trust, and the balance, if any, to be paid to the parties legally entitled.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.Dated this 3rd day of March, 2010.

A. KEITH LIVINGSTONSubstitute Trustee

114 South Main St., Greeneville, TN 37743

The address of the subject property is believed to be:

2620 Treehouse Lane (Lots 17, 21 & 22 (a/k/a 22R), Treehouse

Cabins Resort Subdivision, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. In case of

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697 CONDORENTALS

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Dear Annie: My husband and I adopted a boy from a reputable adoption home 26 years ago. At the time, we were given only a few details about the birth parents.

Several months ago, I found out who the birth mother is and where she lives. If I contact her and she wants to get in touch, should I share this information with my son? The mother was only 17 when she gave him up. I know now that my child has siblings. Should I keep this infor-mation to myself forever? -- Desperate To Know What To Do

Dear Desperate: Has your son ever expressed an interest in searching for his birth parents? He is an adult now, and this decision should be his. Tell him you can help him locate his birth mother if he wants to do so. There may be medical history that would prove useful, and if his biological fami-ly agrees, a meeting could be a good thing. Adoptees often find this emotion-ally beneficial.

Dear Annie: I am a 52-year-old widow. My husband died seven years ago, and I had not dated anyone until I met “Jim” at the health club.

We discovered we had a lot in common, and as time went on, we began to develop strong feel-ings for each other. I felt my life come back to me. After five months, Jim moved in with my teenage son and me. He makes us both happy.

The problem is, my two older boys do not feel I should have another man in my life. I told them Jim has also felt the emptiness of a loss and understands. I also said

I will always love their father, but I want a life, too.

Unfortunately, my sons have made it hard for me to see my grand-children. We are not a close family anymore, and I am heartbroken. What do I do? Should I please my sons or myself? Am I a bad mother for choosing a man over my grown sons? -- Mom in the Middle

Dear Mom: We see two different problems here. Your sons are being selfish to withhold the grandchildren because you refuse to remain alone for the rest of your life. However, having Jim move in with you and a teenager after five months is too much too soon.

We know you have been lonely, but you are rushing this relationship. It is premature to cohab-it, and you should explain to Jim that you are hav-ing second thoughts about the arrangement and would like to take things more slowly. He should move out. This will also allow your older sons to get to know him before he is shoved in their faces. By all means, continue to see him, but please give yourself more time before taking the next step.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Lost in Hawaii,” who was concerned that her ex-husband was too lenient with their 14-year-old daughter who lived with

him. My ex gave himself

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My biggest regret is that I didn’t fight harder to get custody. I hope she will bounce back, but the situation has gone downhill, and I realize what she needed most was guidance and disci-pline, not guilt-induced permissiveness. -- Didn’t Stand Up for My Daughter

Dear Didn’t: You can’t turn back the clock, but it is never too late to build a better relation-ship with your daughter so you can be the source of support she needs.

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By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — So a scientist walks into a shop-ping mall to watch people laugh.

There’s no punchline. Laughter is a serious sci-entific subject, one that researchers are still trying to figure out.

Laughing is primal, our first way of communicat-ing. Apes laugh. So do dogs and rats. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches you how to laugh. You just do. And often you laugh involuntarily, in a specific rhythm and in cer-tain spots in conversation.

You may laugh at a prank on April Fools’ Day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke, said Baltimore neu-roscientist Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for decades. Laughter is mostly about social responses rath-er than reaction to a joke.

“Laughter above all else is a social thing,” Provine said. “The requirement for laugh-ter is another person.”

Over the years, Provine, a professor with the University

of Maryland Baltimore County, has boiled laughter down to its basics.

“All language groups laugh ‘ha-ha-ha’ basically the same way,” he said. “Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. ... There’s a pattern generator in our brain that produces this sound.”

Each “ha” is about one-15th of a second, repeated every fifth of a second, he said. Laugh faster or slow-er than that and it sounds

more like panting or some-thing else.

Deaf people laugh without hearing, and people on cell phones laugh without see-ing, illustrating that laughter isn’t dependent on a single sense but on social interac-tions, said Provine, author of the book “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.”

“It’s joy, it’s positive engagement with life,” said Jaak Panksepp, a Bowling Green University psychol-ogy professor. “It’s deeply social.”

And it’s not just a people thing either. Chimps tickle each other and even laugh when another chimp pre-tends to tickle them.

“That’s my candi-date for the most ancient joke,” Provine said. “It’s a feigned tickle. That’s primal humor.”

Panksepp studies rats that laugh when he tickles them. Sound silly? It’s on YouTube and in scientific journals, a funny pairing of proofs when you think about.

It turns out rats love to be tickled. They return again and again to the hands of researchers tickling them, Panksepp’s video shows.

By studying rats, Panksepp and other scien-tists can figure out what’s going on in the brain dur-ing laughter. And it holds promise for human ills.

Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor Jeffrey Burgdorf has found that laughter in rats produces an insulin-like growth factor chemical that acts as an antidepressant and anxiety-reducer. He thinks the same thing prob-ably happens in humans, too.

Laughter’s no joke to scientists

Associated Press

Mary Beth Kennedy, left, and Cheryl Oliver give each other a high five during a Laughter Yoga class at Tanglewood Park in Norton Shores, Mich., in January.

N aT I O N / w O R l d B R I E f SObama approves off-shore drilling

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing a ban on oil drill-ing off most U.S. shores, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced an expansive new policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.

Speaking at Andrews air base outside Washington, Obama said, “This is not a decision that I’ve made lightly.” He addressed the expected outcry from disappointed envi-ronmentalists by saying he had studied the issue for more than a year and concluded it was the right call given the nation’s voracious thirst for energy and the need to pro-duce jobs and keep American businesses competitive.

Eastern floods scatter residents CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Flooding across the Northeast

forced hundreds of residents from their homes by Wednesday, knocked out sewage plants, and snarled traf-fic on major East Coast routes as roads transformed into a soaked labyrinth of detours and closures.

As three days of record-breaking rains tapered to a driz-zle, forecasters warned the worst of widespread flooding from Maine to New York was still ahead as rivers were yet to crest — for the second time in a month.

In Rhode Island, a coastal state enduring the most severe damage, residents were experiencing the worst flooding in more than 100 years. Stretches of Interstate 95, the main route linking Boston to New York, were closed and could remain shut for days.

Navy plane crashes in Arabian SeaMANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A U.S. Navy aircraft crashed

assigned to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf region on Wednesday and one of the four crew mem-bers is still missing, the military said in a statement.

Three of the four crew members have been recovered and search and rescue efforts for the fourth one are under way, the U.S. Navy’s statement said. It called the crash a “mishap.”

The E-2C Hawkeye, which is primarily used to detect incoming aircraft with its 24-foot diameter radar, crashed in the North Arabian Sea after the it “experienced mechan-ical malfunctions.”

Man jumps fence — into prisonCLEVELAND (AP) — Police say a motorist fleeing offi-

cers in Cleveland abandoned his car and jumped a fence — landing in what turned out to be a prison yard.

Garfield Heights police say the chase started in that suburb early Monday over a traffic violation and reached speeds of 90 mph.

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