By DEREK HODGESStaff Writer

SEVIERVILLE — Certainly plenty of people’s hearts have skipped a beat as they signed on the dotted line at a loan closing after reading the full amount they’ll pay back with interest. Fortunately, Citizens National Bank keeps an executive on staff who trained to be a cardiologist if that skip should expand to cover a few beats.

Laseena Patterson, who serves as an assistant vice president and executive banking officer, actu-ally holds a pre-med degree from

the University of Tennessee. It’s a long road that brought her to the banker’s desk.

“When I was a kid I wanted to be a veterinarian,” Patterson says. “By the time I got to col-lege, I wanted to be a cardiolo-gist like my dad.”

That led to the major that brought her into courses like biochemistry, pharmacology and organic chemistry, and those in turn led her to rethink some things.

“A few classes were really horrible,” Patterson says with a laugh. “When I graduated, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go on to med school or do some-

thing else. I was supposed to apply to grad school within a year but I just couldn’t decide. I think I had just gotten tired of school.”

As she was working to make up her mind, providence stepped in, taking the form of a tempo-rary job with Citizens National Bank (CNB).

“I got a job offer from CNB to work here while I made up my mind,” Patterson explains. “That was five years ago. I guess I didn’t really make up my mind, but I did decide I want to stay at the bank. I love it.”

By SHANNON McCAFFREYAssociated Press Writer

ATLANTA — If you thought state budgets were in bad shape last year, just wait: 2010 promises to be brutal for lawmakers — many facing re-election — as they scramble to find enough money to keep their states running with-out raising taxes.

Tax collections continue to sputter. Federal stim-ulus dollars are about to dry up. Rainy day funds have been tapped. And demand for services — like Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment benefits — is soaring.

As lawmakers head back to state capitols this month, budget woes range “from bad to ridiculously bad,” said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poors in New York. “There are some states, those hit particularly hard by the recession, that I don’t think can cut spending enough. They’re running out of things to cut.”

Typically, the worst bud-get years for states are the two years after a recession ends. Across the nation, budgets are already lean after several rounds on the chopping block. And unless lawmakers increase taxes or fees — unpopular moves in an election year — most will need to cut even more as they grapple with the steepest decline of tax receipts on record. Services ranging from higher education to pro-grams for the elderly could be in jeopardy.

The crunch could also mean new tolls to fund road projects, more pris-oners being released early to trim corrections bud-gets, and the end of welfare programs that don’t bring federal matching dollars.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities offers a bleak forecast: State bud-get shortfalls are likely to reach a whopping $180 billion for the coming fis-cal year, double the size of Texas’ annual budget.

“It’s going to be the toughest year yet,” said Raymond Scheppach, director of the National Governors Association, who predicts funding could evaporate for higher edu-cation, the arts and eco-nomic development. “The states haven’t hit bottom.”

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By ADAM SCHRECKAssociated Press Writer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai is set to open the world’s tallest building amid tight secu-rity today, celebrating the tower as a bold feat on the world stage despite the city state’s shaky finan-cial footing.

But the final height of the Burj Dubai — Arabic for Dubai Tower — remained a closely guard-ed secret on the eve of its opening. At a reported height of 2,684 feet, it long ago vanquished its nearest rival, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan.

The Burj’s record-seek-ing developers didn’t stop there.

The building boasts the

most stories and high-est occupied floor of any building in the world, and ranks as the world’s tall-est structure, beating out a television mast in North Dakota. Its observation deck — on floor 124 — also sets a record.

“We weren’t sure how high we could go,” said Bill Baker, the building’s structural engineer, who is in Dubai for the inau-guration. “It was kind of an exploration. ... A learning experience”

Baker, of Chicago-based

architecture and engi-neering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, said early designs for the Burj had it edging out the world’s previous record-holder, the Taipei 101, by

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Jeff Farrell/The Mountain PressNina Manning looks through some of the clothes at the Cove Clothes Closet. The program, an outreach of the women’s Sunday school class at Richardson Cove Baptist Church, collects donated clothes and gives them to people in need.

Richardson Cove’s covenantBaptist church’s women’s Sunday school reaches out to needy

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RICHARDSON COVE — A new ministry through Richardson Cove Baptist Church is offering free clothes for people who need them.

Cove Clothes Closet is an out-reach of the women’s Sunday school class for the church. They’ve got clothes for men, women and children, along with bedding and other items.

“We just take whatever people donate to us,” said Nina Manning, who was supervising it Saturday.

The closet is open from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. every Saturday at the old Richardson Cove Baptist Church location at 3238 Pittman Center Road. The church has relo-cated a few miles away, allowing them to use the old building for the weekly events.

They started in August, taking donations from church members and others in the community and giving them to people who came by and had a need.

The response has been strong. “It’s exceeded our expectations,” Manning said.

People who want to bring by more clothes can come by on

Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., or they can call Manning at 453-4526 to make an appointment to drop them off.

For the most part, they give out clothes at the appointed hours, but Manning said she has opened on other days to help out in an emergency.

There’s no applications to fill out, although they ask people to sign in, given an address and write down how many people they’re try-ing to find clothes for.

Anyone can come in to look for clothes, she said. “That’s why we’re doing it, is to help people out.”

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MAYNARDVILLE — The two-hour drive is done, but Hannah and Jack Hurst leave the Honda’s engine running.

Hannah’s prayers have brought them here. Now there’s little to do but turn up the car’s heat, get some sleep and wait for morning — and a set of glass and metal doors to open.

Still, Hannah doesn’t complain. The 26-year-old mother of three has waited “pretty much as long as I can remember” to escape the pain throbbing through her jaws. Jack lost his road construction job a year ago and health insur-ance is out of the question. If the answer to Hannah’s misery lays behind those doors, what’s 10 hours more?

Out in the dark, the Hursts have plenty of company. Even before 10 p.m. on this Friday in late fall, nearly 50 cars ring the lot. By 6 a.m. Saturday, more than 400 men and women stand tightlipped and bleary-eyed under the Big Dipper.

By day’s end, as long as they keep tempers in check and sleep from their eyes, they will win the privilege of care from a dentist or a doctor.

In a country convulsed over health care, the scene is alarming. But it is always the same, Stan Brock says. For 17 years, Brock has piloted a nonprofit called Remote Area Medical, offering free health care to the uninsured, the under-insured and the desperate.

Brock has seen so many crowds like the one outside Union County High School he chides himself for los-ing track of whether this is RAM’s 578th expedition or its 587th. Yet in every crowd, there are hundreds of Hannah Hursts, each a unique testament to the nation’s ragged pursuit of health care answers.

Over the next two days, RAM’s volunteers will examine, extract and pre-scribe hundreds of solu-tions for individual aches and afflictions. They will, in the few moments left, attempt to convince patients they’ll probably never see again of the vir-tues of healthier living and continuous care. They

will try to answer Hannah Hurst’s prayers.

Lawmakers debating reform could almost cer-tainly learn something here in the trenches.

But the most striking les-son might also be the most daunting: To fix health care inequities, expanding insurance alone may not be enough.

———“Good morning folks,”

Brock booms in an accent crisp with authority. “We’re going to get started on time.”

It is precisely 6 a.m. and Brock has just pushed open the high school’s doors, questions ready.

“Who’s here to see a dentist?”

More than half raise their hands. Who needs an eye doctor? Almost as many. Who needs a medical doc-tor? Scattered hands go up, but Brock expects that, too.

“Really, they all need to see a doctor,” he says. “They just don’t want to lose their place on line.”

Ronnie and Debbie Erwin have driven 2 1/2 hours from Johnson City. Insurance from her job covers his care for spinal stenosis. But the prescrip-tions caused his teeth to disintegrate and infec-tion followed. Insurance doesn’t cover that.

“My doctor said you’ve got to do something or it’s going to kill you,” Ronnie says.

Melissa Hayes, a home health aide from nearby Luttrell, has waited since 11:30 p.m. with her daugh-ters, aged 5, 7 and 10. Her

oldest, Brittney Prince, can’t see the board at school, but the family can’t afford glasses.

Joe Mason is anxious about a broken molar, but if there’s time, he’s think-ing about seeing a doc-tor, too. The idea, though, leaves him uncertain.

“How do you go in there and talk to a doctor? I probably haven’t been to one in 20 years,” says Mason, 31.

“I mean, what are you supposed to say to one?”

———“Who’s got No. 1?”The day’s first patients

are waved in to “triage” — the school cafeteria. Decide which need is today’s prior-ity, volunteers urge. There won’t be enough time or doctors to deal with them all.

“Dental?” Go to the gym.

“General medical?” In the classrooms down the hall.

It’s just 45 minutes from RAM’s base in Knoxville to Maynardville, the center of a county of 19,000 set amid corduroy ridges. But the volunteers’ arrival is the product of a long and

convoluted journey.It began in the Amazon.

Brock, a British boarding school dropout, landed there more than 50 years ago and turned himself into a South American cowboy. He left in the 1960s to wrestle anacon-das and rope giraffes on a popular U.S. television show, “Wild Kingdom.”

But in 1985, settled in Knoxville, he began organizing medical relief flights back to the region. Seven years later, he got a call. The only hospital in Hancock County, Tenn., had closed and the sole dentist had moved away.

“We literally loaded a couple of 400-pound dental chairs that we bor-rowed into the back of a pickup truck and we went up there with a couple of dentists,” Brock says. “It wasn’t long before another county called and on and on and on and on.”

Hundreds of expeditions later, Americans have become the group’s main mission.

For all their planning, RAM’s people never know entirely what to expect. Neither do their patients.

Although the Hursts got to Maynardville early, they lost their place in line when police cleared the parking lot because of shots from nearby woods. It turned out to be just some teenag-ers hunting.

By the time the couple reaches the gym, dentists clustered around 38 por-table dental chairs fill the Union County Patriot’s home court. Patients pack the bleachers.

Finally, Hannah Hurst is called to a chair and explains why she’s come.

In pregnancy, her moth-er suffered from a calcium deficiency. Hannah’s baby teeth decayed fast. It was even worse with her per-manent teeth and disease filled her gums, swollen with abscesses. Insurance either wasn’t enough or dental wasn’t covered. Four years ago, Hannah saved enough to reach a dentist’s chair, when her phone rang. Her aunt, hos-pitalized with cancer, had taken a turn for the worse. She rushed out, even though a spring breeze can

trigger pain that knocks her to her knees.

Back home in Campbell County, worshippers at Sled Creek Holiness Community Church have prayed, even fasted, to help Hannah heal.

Today Hannah is ready to embrace the answer.

Please, she asks, pull them all out.

———It’s calmer in the class-

rooms reserved for medical doctors, but the patients’ stories are at least as tell-ing.

“I went to college. I’m a graduate. I just never thought I’d ever be here,” Earleen Black says.

Until losing her job eight months ago, Black was a radiology technolo-gist. She’s embarrassed to ask for help. But bursitis has attacked her hip like a baseball bat. She’s relieved when a doctor administers a shot without charge, but mystified there was almost no wait.

The truth is, many are here only because their blood pressure registered too high to undergo the dentist’s drill.

Daniel Drake’s blood pressure came in at an eye-popping 200/120. He chalks it up to an energy drink and leaves happy when a pill brings it down enough to get his tooth

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Lessons of a weekend of free health care

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People wait in the hall for eye exams during a Remote Area Medical clinic held at Union County High School in Maynardville in November. Remote Area Medical is a nonprofit organization, whose volunteers offer free health care to the uninsured, the underinsured and the desperate.

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fixed. But Dr. Alan Weder, a Michigan researcher vol-unteering for the weekend, shakes his head.

“If that’s the way he’s walking around, his risk of having a heart attack or a stroke in the next five years is probably 20 to 30 percent,” Weder says. “And that’s for want of 30 cents in medicine.”

Comprehensive insur-ance could resolve the patient cost dilemma, Weder says. But the prob-lems go beyond that.

Weder notices many patients who say they can’t afford basic prescriptions — now carried by discounters for as little as $4 a month — have cigarettes in their shirt pockets that cost more than the pills.

When Kevin D’Angelo, a dentist from upstate New York who’s volunteered at more than 20 RAM expe-ditions, asks patients what they drink, the most com-mon answer is Mountain Dew, often five or six cans a day. The only way to get teeth as bad as some he sees, D’Angelo says, is almost never to have brushed at all.

While some of those wait-ing speak glowingly of their regular physicians, others recount the difficulty of get-ting in to see a doctor or a dentist in rural areas where providers and openings for people without insurance are in short supply.

There’s only so much a weekend’s barrage of free care can solve.

RAM, says Bruce Behringer, an expert on Appalachia’s public health needs at East Tennessee State University, “is a symp-tom of the problems in the health care system, not a solution.”

———Hannah Hurst is back for

Day 2.Yesterday, RAM’s den-

tists pulled 16 of her teeth. In the gym, Trey Parker, a University of Louisville den-tal student, welcomes her return. But before reaching for his tools, Parker honors Hannah’s request, linking hands with Jack and two other volunteers.

“Lord,” Parker says, “let Hannah have the strength

to bear through getting all her teeth pulled; that she can hold up; that her jaw will be made whole and that she can live a happier life being a mother. In the name of Jesus Christ.”

“Amen.”Today is a bit of a gift. By 9

a.m., just 260 patients have come through the door. RAM’s volunteers may get to everybody. But patients still fill the bleachers and line a hallway, a case study in needs health care reform may not answer.

Take Hannah Hurst’s teeth. Proposals by Congressional Democrats, while they would greatly expand traditional medi-cal coverage, won’t cover dental care, except for chil-dren.

It’s no better for vision care, not covered for adults under either the House or Senate bills.

Changing the economics, though, is just the start.

“There’s a culture that sort of surrounds the prob-lem,” Brock says.

All the high blood pres-sure readings aren’t a coin-cidence. Heart disease, hypertension and diabe-tes are serious problems throughout Appalachia. That is the result of smok-ing, lack of exercise, unhealthy diets and obe-

sity, as well as relationships with the health care system, Behringer says.

It can be hard reaching a doctor in thinly populated counties with few roads and mountains. Many people don’t see a doctor regularly and many doc-tors are unable to build the continuous relationships with patients to help ensure care.

The challenges are all too real to Eddie Graham, the local school health coordi-nator, who lobbied RAM to come to Maynardville. He recounts trying to fos-ter health in an area where some families send children to class sick and tell them to go see the school nurse. Kids arrive at elementary schools carrying chewing tobacco.

Making health care affordable only partly solves problems like these, he says.

“It’s changing beliefs,” Graham says. “It’s educat-ing people about what is health.”

———When the numbers are

totaled, Expedition No. 587 into America’s health care jungle will be recorded as followed:

Over 1 1/2 days, 701 patients have come through RAM’s doors.

Its dentists have extract-ed 852 teeth and filled 234 others; 345 pairs of eyes have been tested; 87 people have been examined by a medical doctor.

If RAM was going to send out a bill, it would total $138,370.

Does that make it a solu-tion to a crisis or a symp-tom? The answer may lie beyond the bottom line.

When Brittney Prince goes back to school Monday, she’ll be wearing her first pair of eyeglasses.

“Momma,” she says, gaz-ing outside, “the grass is not fuzzy any more.”

And when Hannah Hurst — her toothless mouth stuffed with gauze — is helped from the chair, she hugs her caregivers. At church, raising money for dentures may have to wait until spring. But, at last, her prayers have been heard.

“There is no other answer for it but God and it just makes me so much more thankful,” she says. “It truly is my testimony now. You keep praying, you keep asking, and your answer will be there soon-er or later.”

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SEYMOUR — Chip’s Car Care, a Seymour-based company that provides auto repair services, has been identified as a “Favorite Place” based on Google users’ interaction with local business listings.

The business has received a window decal with a unique QR code that can be scanned with a phone to read reviews and more.

According to Google, “Favorite Places represent less than 1 percent of the 28 million U.S. businesses. We believe that our standards for selecting businesses are as selective or more selective than other compa-nies which have run similar initiatives.”

“The fact that we’ve been searched out by so many individuals is consistent with our growth rate here in Seymour,” said Chip Stewart, owner of Chip’s Car Care as well as Chip’s Transmissions in Sevierville.

Businesses selected to be a “Favorite Place” were determined based on the popularity of a business’ Local Business Center listing, as determined by how many times Google users looked for more informa-tion about a business, requested driving directions and more. Leading businesses received a decal to post in a window.

Technology access centeropen for donations in Knox

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KNOXVILLE — Persons who recently upgraded their computer system and want to know where to drop off their old computer have a place that will take it and can use it.

The East Tennessee Technology Access Center will accept Pentium IV computers or newer. All comput-ers must be in good working condition. Hard drives will be wiped clean before distribution.

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about 33 feet (10 meters). The Taiwan tower rises 1,667 feet (508 meters).

The Burj’s developer, Emaar Properties, kept pushing the design higher even after con-struction began, eventually putting it about 984 feet (300 meters) taller than its nearest competitor, Baker said. He is keeping quiet about the exact height.

Dubai’s ruler will open the tapering metal-and-glass spire with a fireworks display Monday evening.

Security is expected to be tight. Local newspapers quot-ed Maj. Gen. Mohammed Eid al-Mansouri, head of the pro-tective security and emergency unit for Dubai Police, saying more than 1,000 security per-sonnel, including plainclothes police and sharpshooters, will be deployed to secure the site for the opening.

Work on the Burj Dubai began in 2004 and continued rapidly. At times, new floors were being added almost every three days, reflecting Dubai’s raging push to reshape itself over a few years from a small-time desert outpost into a cos-

mopolitan urban giant packed with skyscrapers.

By January 2007, thou-sands of laborers, many of them brought in on tempo-rary contracts from India, had completed 100 stories.

The finished product con-tains more than 160 floors. That is over 50 stories more than Chicago’s Willis Tower, the tallest record-holder in the U.S. formerly known as the Sears Tower.

At their peak, some apart-ments in the Burj were sell-ing for more than $1,900 per square foot, though they now can go for less than half that, said Heather Wipperman Amiji, chief executive of Dubai real estate consultancy Investment Boutique.

Besides luxury apartments and offices, the Burj will be home to a hotel designed by Giorgio Armani.

It’s also the centerpiece of a 500-acre development that officials hope will become a new central residential and commercial district in this sprawling and often discon-nected city. It is flanked by dozens of smaller but brand-new skyscrapers and the Middle East’s largest shop-ping mall.

That layout — as the core

of a lower-rise skyline — lets the Burj stand out prominent-ly against the horizon. It is visible across dozens of miles of rolling sand dunes outside Dubai. From the air, the spire appears as an almost solitary, slender needle reaching high into the sky.

The Burj’s opening comes at a tough time for Dubai’s economy. Property prices in newer parts of the sheikdom have collapsed by nearly half over the past year.

The city-state turned to its richer neighbor Abu Dhabi for a series of bailouts totaling

$25 billion in 2009 to help cover debts amassed by a net-work of state-linked compa-nies. Burj developer Emaar is itself partly owned by the government, but is not among the companies known to have received emergency cash.

Emaar has said the entire Downtown Burj Dubai development, which includes the tower, will cost $20 billion to build. Sales of properties around the Burj are meant to help pay for the tower itself, which ana-lysts say is unlikely to be profitable on its own.

Patterson’s financial career started behind a teller’s window. Little did the folks making change at the bank’s in-store locations at local grocery retailers know the person helping them might have been the most overquali-fied teller in the county.

From there, Patterson, who lives in Dandridge with fiancé Kris White, worked her way up through the ranks at CNB, landing for the time being at assistant vice president. From there, she handles loans to some of the bank’s biggest clients, including a number of local developers.

Even for a person who received at least partial training in dealing with

open heart surgery, over-seeing the millions of dol-lars Patterson helps move from the bank’s coffers into local development can be nerve-wracking.

“I do get nervous about it sometimes,” she says. “You don’t want to be blamed if things don’t go the way people planned or they make some decisions that go bad.”

Still, Patterson, the aspiring veterinarian and cardiologist, says she’s thankful for the temporary job that became a career.

“I like being involved in the community and feeling like I can make a difference with what I do,” she says. “I think I’ll stay here.”

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who runs an adult day care center in suburban Atlanta, saw her state aid cut in half in 2009. The Cambridge House Enrichment Center once offered state-sub-sidized care to 10 low-in-come clients with disabili-ties such as Alzheimer’s. It’s now down to three, and Neureiter fears the funding could dry up altogether this year.

“It’s heartbreaking because I foresee, in the coming year, it’s going to get even worse for services for the elderly,” she said.

States had already closed a $146 billion gap when they put together their budgets for the current fis-cal year. They were short by about 20 percent, with 36 states now reporting an additional shortfall of $28.2 billion for the fis-cal year that ends in June, according to data compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.

That’s because state tax collections lagged behind even projections revised downward to be more pes-simistic.

Forty-three states and the District of Columbia have already slashed spending on popular services, includ-ing education, health care and services to the elderly and disabled.

With cuts reaching into classrooms and hitting the neediest residents, elect-ed officials will be under increasing pressure to find more revenue. But in a number of fiscally conser-vative states, leaders have pledged not to raise taxes, leaving them few options.

In Oregon, voters go to the polls Jan. 26 to decide whether to uphold tax increases the Legislature imposed on corporations and higher-income resi-dents.

Scott Moore, of the pro-tax group Vote Yes for Oregon, said the $727 mil-lion tax increase package will protect schools and critical services while keep-ing the burden off mid-dle-class families. But Pat McCormick of Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes argues the tax increases will cost the state private sector jobs and keep it in reces-sion.

Lawmakers in other states will be watching to see what happens, said Corina Eckl, fiscal policy director for the National Conference of

State Legislatures.“It really could be a bell-

wether for public toler-ance,” she said.

One possible rescue could come in the form of more stimulus money from Washington, but the pros-pects are uncertain. States last year were able to tap President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package to soften the blow of budget cuts, mainly in education and health care, and some of that money is still left.

Politics are also at play. Twenty-two governorships are open in 2010, meaning incumbents on their way out the door could try to hand off the budget misery to their successors. Some are already signaling the pain ahead.

In Washington state, Gov. Christine Gregoire has said she will propose a tax increase package to help close a $2.6 billion state budget deficit. In California, the new House speaker has said a mix of taxes and spending cuts will be need-ed fill another massive $21 billion budget deficit.

In New Jersey, incom-ing Gov. Chris Christie has promised not to raise taxes his first year in office despite a $9 billion short-fall. He’s looking at budget cuts of up to 25 percent in state agencies.

And in Idaho, Republicans are pushing to cut individual and cor-porate taxes by more than one-third over the next decade, saying it would breathe life into the state’s sputtering economy.

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away January 1, 2010 at Summers Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after a short bout with can-cer. Born December 5, 1944, in Hinton, he was the son of the late Della Faye and Oliver Carl Smith.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Noah and Carl Lee Smith.

He is survived by his loving wife of 46 years, Mary Rachel Smith of Oakvale; five daughters, Regina (Allen) Weeks of Oakvale, Karen (Rodney) Bixler of Sevierville, TN, Melissa Riddle of Winston-Salem, NC, Crystal (Robert) Benson of White Plains, TN, and Debbie Smith of Princeton; two sons, Teddy (Rita) Smith of Kodak, TN, and Freddie (Trish) Smith of Shawsville, VA; three brothers, Arthur (Betty) Smith of Princeton, George (Lou) Smith and Lewis Smith, brother of Sevierville, TN; one sister, Annabelle Liilly Kirby of Union; 14 grandchildren, eight step-grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and his extended fam-ily at Summers Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

In keeping with his wishes, his body will be cremated. A memorial service will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Monday, January 4, 2010, at the G.E. Davis Chapel of Fredeking Funeral Service in Oakvale with Pastor Tony Miller officiating. The Smith family is being served by Fredeking Funeral Service in Oakvale.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at fredekingfs@frontiernet.net

Maxine A. LazzaraMaxine A. Lazzara, 77 of Sevierville, died Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. She is survived by her children, Jonnie & Gary D’Andrea of

Knoxville, Toni Lee Lazzara of Phenix City, Al. Dr. Frank Russell & Myongyo Lazzara Jr. of Augusta, Ga. and Cathy Ann Elder of Sevierville; brother, Bill & Judy Woodruff of Sanford, Fla.; sister, Ora Lea Humburg of Sevierville; nine grandchildren; two great grand-daughters; sister-in-law, Nancy Lazzara of Easton, Pa. and brother-in-law, Sal Lazzara of Easton, Pa.; several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and great nieces and nephews and many friends.

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Thanksgiving killer captured

By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press Writer

MIAMI — A secretive motel guest in the Florida Keys checked in under a fake name, paid in cash, stock-piled canned food and insist-ed on cleaning his own room. He even covered his car — all an attempt, authorities said, to elude police after he was accused of gunning down four relatives at Thanksgiving dinner.

But Paul Merhige’s cover was blown when the motel owners recognized him in a preview for the televi-sion show “America’s Most Wanted” on Saturday night.

Melinda Pfaff told The Associated Press on Sunday that she and her husband, Paul, rarely saw Merhige during his four-week stay at their Edgewater Lodge on Long Key. He had checked in

Dec. 2, a few days after the shoot-ings, using the name “John Baca” and a false address.

H i s request for privacy didn’t seem odd on an island chain known for its eccentric residents, she said.

“He said he would wash all his own sheets and towels. He said I didn’t need to go in there,” she said. “That’s hap-pened before.”

Merhige was booked early Sunday at the Palm Beach County jail without bond on four charges of murder. He was accused of gunning down his twin sisters, a 79-year-old aunt and a 6-year-old cousin at a home where 16 relatives had gathered for the holiday in Jupiter, an affluent com-munity about 90 miles north of Miami.

Merhige’s arrest late Saturday ended a month-

long manhunt that included billboards and flyers with his image. Police at one point thought he may have fled to Michigan, where he had been treated by a psychiatrist.

Melinda Pfaff, 53, said none of the flyers or bill-boards made it to the Keys.

“People know nobody’s going to look for them down here,” she said.

The Palm Beach Post reported that Merhige remained silent at his first court appearance Sunday. He was appointed a public defender, and an arraign-ment is set for Feb. 1.

An after-hours recording at the Palm Beach County public defender’s office would not accept a telephone message.

Merhige appeared to be planning a long stay at the small, oceanfront motel. He had stocked his room with snacks and bottled water, and paid in advance in cash. On Dec. 21, he extended his stay well into the new year.

But her husband became worried when he realized Friday that he hadn’t seen the guest for several days.

“He opened the door and my husband said, ’Are you OK? I haven’t seen you,”’ Melinda Pfaff said. “The room looked neat, not disar-rayed or anything. He said he was fine and he was enjoying his rest.”

Paul Pfaff was watching television Saturday night when he saw the “America’s Most Wanted” preview and realized Merhige was his guest. Melinda Pfaff then double checked the show’s Web site, which also had sur-veillance video.

“I had seen the way he walked, the way he shifted his eyes, the smile. It wasn’t just a picture recognition — it was, yes, I see that it is him,” she said.

The couple called the tip line, and U.S. Marshals and local deputies soon busted the sliding door glass to his motel room, authorities said.

Merhige

Tip from TV show leads to arrest

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The stock market faces a big test as 2010 trading gets under way: whether its performance will be lifted by the phenomenon known as the January effect, or squelched by uncertainty about the economy.

The January effect is the buying blip that often occurs with the start of a new tax year. Investors who sold stock before the end of the old year to claim a tax loss reinvest that money when trading begins again.

Market historians and many investors are fasci-nated by the January effect because it often sets the tone for the rest of the year. In 2009, stocks were up at the start of January; although they were at 12-year lows two months later, they ended the year having had their best per-formance since 2003.

“If the first five trading days of January are up, the end of January will usually be up and the correlated end of the year is usually up,” says Ray Harrison, Principal of Harrison Financial Group in Citrus Heights, Calif. “I say, usu-ally, but I believe we’re headed that way.”

The economy, however, could trip up a January effect. The coming week brings some critical eco-nomic reports including the Labor Department’s employment report for December.

The government’s news last month that employ-ers cut just 11,000 jobs in November, far fewer than the market anticipated, has lifted expectations for the report due out Friday.

Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters are fore-casting on average that 23,000 jobs were lost. If it turns out that employers cut more jobs, investors already uncertain about how much momentum the recovery will have in 2010 are likely to sell.

But a surprisingly strong report could have an equal-ly chilling effect on stocks. The concern in the market is that a healthier econo-my will lead the Federal Reserve to pull back its stimulus measures, and investors aren’t sure of the economy’s ability to flour-ish on its own.

The January effect could also be threatened by fourth-quarter earnings. Investors have already been pricing in strong earnings reports, especially since the results are being compared against compa-nies’ terrible results from the final three months of 2008. But if the reports aren’t strong enough, if companies are still show-ing weak revenue growth

or if their outlooks for the future fall short of expec-tations, January could be a troubling month in the market.

“Earnings are critical. That’s the ultimate ground-ing that the financial mar-kets have,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago. “If something is off, the market may have a small pullback.”

Still, if the January effect holds, there will be plenty of gains to be had, espe-cially if small cap stocks, as expected, outperform big and midcap stocks. Typically, mutual fund managers and other insti-tutional investors, who sell off the shares of riskier small companies to make their end-of-year balance sheets look better, then buy them back early in the new year.

“It’s competitive among money market managers,” Harrison said. “They want to outpace their peers, and they will invest early and more in the market.”

Since 1950, there have been only five times when the January effect turned out to be a poor indica-tor of the rest of the year, according to the “Stock Trader’s Almanac,” a book that tracks market trends.

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Get ready for a very frigid weekThe Associated Press

As children prepared to go back to school and those who had been on vacation for the holidays to return to work, forecasters Sunday predicted a week-long stretch of frigid weather and a snowstorm for both Kentucky and Tennessee.

“Everybody’s going to be shiver-ing from this one, all the way down to Florida,” said Nashville, Tenn., meteorolgist Sam Herron with the National Weather Service. “This is a widespread pattern across the whole eastern United States. It’s the whole

eastern half of the country (that) is in the icebox.”

The weather service also said a snowstorm is likely to arrive Wednesday night into Thursday, affecting most of Kentucky and Tennessee, with anywhere from 1 to 4 inches accumulation expected.

Forecasters said the plummeting temperatures were caused by an Arctic high pressure system keeping temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below normal.

Highs each day this week were expected to stay in the 20s to near 30, with zero, single-digit or teen

wind-chill temperatures. Nightime wind-chills could drop even lower, especially later in the week.

The latest forecasts for both states show subfreezing temperatures are expected to last through the week and into next weekend.

In Kentucky, 2007 marked the last time there was a stretch of at least six days when highs were below freezing, the weather service said in its Web site.

In Tennessee, Herron said the last time the state experienced a string of subfreezing temperatures was in 2000 with five days.

January effect may set markets’ tone for 2010

Obama adviser: No smoking gun in airline bomb plot

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies did not miss a “smoking gun” that could have prevented an alleged attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.

White House aide John Brennan cited “lapses” and errors in the sharing of intelligence and clues about the Nigerian man accused in the foiled attempt.

“There is no smoking gun,” Brennan said. “There was no single piece of intelligence that said, ’this guy is going to get on a plane.”’

Brennan is leading a White House review of the incident. Obama has said there was a systemic failure to prevent the attack, which he said was instigated by an affiliate in Yemen of the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Obama ordered a thorough look at the shortcomings that permitted the plot, which failed not because of U.S. actions but because the would-be attacker failed to set off a deadly detonation. The president has summoned homeland secu-rity officials to meet with him in the White House Situation Room on Tuesday.

Brennan cited “a number of streams of information” — the 23-year-old suspect’s name was known to intelligence officials, his father had passed along his concern about the son’s increasing radicalization — and “little snippets” from intelligence channels. “But there was nothing that brought it all together.”

“In this one instance, the system didn’t work. There were some human errors. There were some lapses. We need to strengthen it. But day in and day out, the successes are there.”

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab apparently assembled an explosive device, including 80 grams of Pentrite, or PETN, in the aircraft toilet of a Detroit-bound Northwest flight, then planned to detonate it with a syringe of chemicals. Passengers and crew subdued the suspect when he tried to set off the explosion. He succeeded only in starting a fire on himself.

“What we need to do as an intelligence community, as a government, is be able to bring those disparate bits and piec-es of information together so we prevent Mr. Abdulmutallab from getting on the plane.”

Brennan didn’t say whether anyone is in line to be fired because of the oversights. He stood by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, although he acknowledged she has “taken some hits” for saying that the airline security sys-tem had worked. It didn’t, and she clarified her remarks to show she meant that the system worked only after the attack was foiled, Brennan said.

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James Cameron’s science-fiction epic “Avatar” had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domes-tically, shooting past $1 bil-lion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.

No. 1 for the third-straight weekend, 20th Century Fox’s “Avatar” raised its domestic total to $352.1 million after just 17 days. The film added $133 million overseas to lift its inter-national haul to $670 million, for a worldwide gross of $1.02 billion.

“Avatar” opened two weekends earlier with $77 million, a strong start but far below dozens of other blockbusters that debuted as high as $158 million. But business for other block-busters usually tumbles in following weekends, while “Avatar” revenues barely dropped over the busy Christmas and New Year’s weekends.

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this chapter is over.”— Jim Sitton, the father of the 6-year-old victim makayla Sitton, after the alleged killer of his daughter was arrest-ed after someone called in a tip after seeing “America’s

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Sevier County Right to Life will gather in its annual memoriam for a march to remember the 60 million unborn babies who have been killed in abortion on Sunday.

This will be a solemn march beginning at the Pigeon Forge Community Center at 1:45 p.m. Participants will walk silently to the Parkway and up the Parkway to the Country Tonite Theater, approxi-mately one mile.

At the theater the group will go inside and begin a very special program in celebration of the sanctity of life. The program will begin at 2:45 p.m. with a prayer afterward. The program will end at approximately 4:15 p.m.

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An Austin Peay State University student will attempt to break the record for the longest continuous time playing a video game.

David Scherer, a 19-year-old student, started playing Grand Theft Auto on Sunday and plans to continue play-ing for 72 hours.

WSMV-TV reports that the current Guinness record for longest continuous play of the game belongs to a man in India who played for 40 hours and 21 minutes.

Scherer is raising dona-tions for his swim team, the Fort Campbell Swimming Eagles, to build an indoor pool facility.

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Today is Monday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2010. There are 361 days left in the year.

■ Locally a year ago:Some local business-

es have actually seen an increase in business even though others are closing due to the poor economy. A used books store, Hooked On Books; educational supplies store, The Teacher’s Pet; and Sevierville’s Beehive Wholesale Factory Store have all done well. Many small business own-ers think U.S. economic recovery will take at least 12 months.

■ today’s highlight:In 2007, Nancy Pelosi

was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.

■ on this date:In 1951, during the

Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recap-tured the city of Seoul.

■ ten years ago: Former presiden-

tial rival Elizabeth Dole endorsed fellow Republican George W. Bush. Israel and the Palestinians agreed on an Israeli troop pullback from 5 percent of the West Bank.

■ five years ago: The governor of the

Baghdad region (Ali al-Haidari), known for cooperating closely with American troops, was assassinated along with six bodyguards as he drove to work.

■ thought for today: “You will never be

happy if you continue to search for what hap-piness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus (1913-1960).

GREENEVILLE (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is considering an exchange of Cherokee National Forest land in Unicoi County to acquire more of the prop-erty known as Rocky Fork.

Forest Service offi-cials say an environmen-tal analysis of the federal land is planned for this year, according to The Greeneville Sun.

In December 2008, the Forest Service acquired about 2,200 acres of the original 10,000-acre Rocky Fork tract — now in pri-vate hands — with The

Conservation Fund acquir-ing the bigger amount.

The following year, the Forest Service acquired another 1,280 acres from The Conservation Fund. It’s now interested in addi-tional portions of the tract: Martin Creek and Little Mountain.

Roughly two-thirds of Rocky Fork is in Unicoi County and the rest is in Greene County. It forms a self-contained drainage area, or watershed, that is almost totally undevel-oped. The tract contains pristine trout streams

and is home to numer-ous native species.

For the Forest Service, one of the first steps of a proposed land exchange is public involvement.

In February 2009, three public information forums were held and a public com-ment period was opened. Responses from that period led the Forest Service to begin an analysis of the two tracts in the proposal.

“This analysis will deter-mine if there are any spe-cial circumstances that would impact the proposed exchange,” said Terry

Bowerman, Nolichucky/Unaka District Ranger. “The analysis will involve a number of resource spe-cialists and will be ongoing throughout 2010.”

Rex Boner, vice president and southeast representa-tive for The Conservation Fund, said the proposed acquisition has received “widespread support.”

“We’re pleased to see our land exchange pro-posal being considered as part of a comprehensive approach to conserve the Rocky Fork property,” Boner said.

Land swap proposed for Rocky Fork

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There have always been forces out there that have vied to bring down the United States of America. We have been told about most of them through the years, even continuing until today. As I was growing up it was the Russians. I remember participating in air-raid drills by hiding under our school desks with our arms over our heads — that’ll stop the bomb from hurting you.

Most public buildings including schools, had supplies in the far deep base-ments like food stuffs, blankets and shortwave radios. I sup-pose, as a kid, I was somewhat afraid, but to tell you the truth, I looked at it like a campout. Getting to sleep away from home and eating different foods was somehow appealing — kind of an indoor-outdoor adventure. We never got to experience the real thing though — the Russians never did attack.

When I got older and was able to decipher things for myself, I con-cluded that the Russians never were planning to attack. It was all a lie; a made up story to frighten us and make us dependent on the government so we would look to them for our salvation.

When I got old enough to have to register for the draft, right out of high school, I was told that the Communists would conquer the world in a domino effect that would eventually reach the U.S. They never had planes or bombs so I didn’t have to hide under any desk. Apparently though, the Vietnamese were crafty characters in their sandals and pajamas.

Of course many people also believed this story and enlisted to go stop Communism; dying in a South Vietnam jungle for this cause — some 56,000 or so — good men and women. Today, of course, Vietnam is a tourist paradise with trade going on between the U.S. and our former “enemy.” Someone get me a scorecard.

Today, of course, we fight “terror-ism.” I’ve discussed this before in previous articles. At least that is the new name of the latest “cause” that is trying to take over America. Last week, they planted some poor guy on an airplane from Nigeria as a fall guy to be the latest “terrorist” to show the public that they are all out there to get us. It seems that each generation must have it’s own boggie-man to scare us so we can wage another war for greedy bankers to reap huge profits.

After awhile this nonsense gets old, and expensive — expensive not only in lost revenue, but more importantly, in lost lives to another scheme by the powers that be. They act as if the lives of Americans are nothing more than fodder to be used to further their money-making and power grabbing plots.

Today we have people in power who owe no real allegiance to America. I’m talking about the big names who you would know if I started naming them. They belong to both political parties, as if that mattered. There have always been men who were in a position to make private fortunes out of cooperat-ing with both sides in a war. This cur-rent war on terrorism is no different.

These people, (bankers, politicians and private contractors) are not con-cerned about right or wrong, but profit and loss. They may hold citizenship in this country or another, but patriotism is beyond their comprehension. They dominate the political and financial world of today. Governments control the legalized use of force and use it, not for protecting the country, but to intimidate and seize from others who cannot properly defend themselves.

True patriotism is for the common man. We understand what it is and how to exhibit it. Unfortunately, we have been fed the lie of perpetual war that we never seem to quite get a vic-tory from. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. In case you haven’t noticed, there is no country on the earth that is invading us, but still we fight on as if there were. Someone is doing a fantastic job of convincing us to the contrary.

— Dan M. Smith is a Cincinnati native and Gatlinburg resident. He is the author of the forthcoming book “So Far from Forfar.” His son is serving in the Air Force. E-mail to dan0729@yahoo.com

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It seems the question on everyone’s minds these days is, “What do we call this year?” It’s not oh-ten like it was oh-nine, but just saying, “10,” doesn’t seem enough. ...

Dollywood closed for the season on Saturday. It will not reopen until Saturday, March 27. ...

Don’t be surprised if the 2009 Tennessee Smokies manager is the man calling the shots for the Chicago Cubs in 2011. It certainly appears Hall-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg is on

the fast track to manage in the big leagues, very possibly the Cubs. Sandberg, 50, has managed for four seasons in the minors for the Cubs, leading the Smokies to the Southern League finals this year, and was promoted at the end of the season to Triple A in Iowa. Current Cubs skipper Lou Piniella has one year left on his contract and has been tight-lipped about whether he plans to come back after that. ...

A bumper sticker spotted on a car bear-ing an Indiana tag on Veterans Boulevard in Sevierville: “Eve Got Framed.” ...

The Muse notes that two and most spec-tacular panoramic views visitors get of the

Smokies coming off I-40 onto Highway 66 — the first one at roughly Christmas Collectibles and the second at Huffaker Road. ...

Perhaps the Grinch was behind it – Pigeon Forge Public Works Director Mark Miller reports a few staffers in his department had to come in for four hours on Christmas day to fix a water line break. Leaders expressed their gratitude for the sacrifice during the City Commission’s meeting Dec. 28. ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesman Bob Miller mentioned that thousands of trees were down in the park Christmas Eve/Christmas morning due to strong winds. ...

One thing you can count on: Tennessee men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl will do the right thing.

Unless you’ve just awakened from a long winter’s nap, you probably know four members of the Vols basketball team were arrested on weapons, drugs and alcohol charges following a traf-fic stop last week. One, senior forward Tyler Smith, is one of the best players on the team. The other three, sopho-more guard Cameron Tatum, junior center Brian Williams and junior point guard Melvin Goins, were the top play-ers off the bench.

For some coaches, a decision about the futures of the four, especially when one has NBA talent such as Smith, might be to let them play until the matter is resolved in court, sacrific-ing integrity for the sake of the team’s record. We do not believe that will be the case with Pearl who, in his first four seasons at the Tennessee helm, has led the team to four NCAA tourna-ment berths, a 31-win season and three 20-plus-win seasons.

Going into Wednesday night’s game with Charlotte, followed by a Sunday home game against top-ranked Kansas,

the 14th-ranked Vols were 10-2 and seemingly poised for another great sea-son. Two wins may have propelled the Vols into the Top Ten heading into the Southeastern Conference schedule.

Pearl has already indefinitely sus-pended the players indefinitely and has hinted that dismissal is a possi-bility — we’d say probability — once he gets all the facts from the police, presumably this week. The 50-year-old coach says he does not know with all certainty to whom the marijuana and guns belonged. This fact remains: These arrests were not based on cir-cumstantial evidence. The players were pulled over for speeding and, when the cops smelled a strong odor of recently smoked pot, searched the car. In bas-ketball parlance, this is a slam dunk.

Smith returned for his senior sea-son to hone his game after it was determined he probably not be a first-round pick. Even if he did sharpen his skills to that degree, his NBA dreams have taken a serious blow with Commissioner David Stern being vigilant about the league cleaning up a thug image (read: the two Washington Wizards players who allegedly drew

guns on each other last week over a gambling debt).

Unfortunately, this is not the first incident of this school year to sully the university’s image. Three football players — one of whom was eventually cleared — were arrested after attempt-ing an armed robbery in the middle of the season. Once coach Lance Kiffin ascertained the facts, two were van-quished.

Now Pearl waits. He has already apologized to the school, the fans, even women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, for the embarrassment. Barring some unfathomable piece of evidence turning up, it is likely the coach’s decision will come quickly and decisively. “I’ve got very little tolerance for that in our program,” Pearl was quoted as saying. “I have a history with a number of starters who are no longer here.”

This does mean all is lost for the season. Four starters remain and it appeared the Vols had a long bench this winter. Others will have to step up. Regardless of wins and losses, how-ever, the integrity of the program will remain intact.

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Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin speaks during the Chick-fil-A Bowl coaches luncheon Dec. 17 in Atlanta.

‘Just getting started ...’Vols’ Kiffin excited about future after 7-5 debut

By BETH RUCKERAP Sports Writer

KNOXVILLE — Lane Kiffin’s first season as Tennessee coach didn’t quite end the way he’d like. Still he feels that the Volunteers are on their way to bigger things.

Look at the turnaround the Vols offense has made, he says. Or the way players improved dramatically. Or how Tennessee came closer to beating No. 1 Alabama than any other team.

“I know there’s a ton of excitement about what we’re doing, and we’re just getting started,” Kiffin said.

The 34-year-old coach stirred up plenty of that excitement this season with his own brash com-ments but proved he could prepare his team to com-pete in one of the toughest

conferences in the country. Now Kiffin has to show he can take it a step fur-ther by making a run for a Southeastern Conference championship.

But first he’s got to replace a coach and a few top players.

The Vols finished their season 7-5 with a 37-14 loss to No. 12 Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Thursday. They struggled to run the ball, protect quarterback Jonathan Crompton or stop Hokies running back Ryan Williams.

Tennessee played that game without a coach in charge of running backs or special teams after assis-tant coach Eddie Gran left earlier in December to become an assistant at Florida State.

Rumors swirled in the week before the bowl game that Kiffin, who already replaced one assistant who left, had hired Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant Rich Bisaccia to fill the special teams position. But Kiffin said he wanted to wait until after the season was finished to make any more

coaching moves.The Vols are losing a

number of top notch play-ers, including All-American safety Eric Berry, who has said he will enter the NFL draft as a junior. Berry, the Jim Thorpe Award winner as the nation’s top defen-sive back, is projected as an early first-round pick.

“I really just wanted to make sure there was no stone unturned,” Berry said of the decision. “I sat down with coach Kiffin and talked about it and talked about it with my family and talked with some of my close teammates and friends about the whole situation.”

Tennessee is also losing some seniors who could find themselves being drafted come April. Players like tailback Montario

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys had their way with the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Their reward: the NFC East title and the challenge of trying to do it again.

Romo threw a pair of early touchdown passes and the defense took over from there, sending Dallas to a 24-0 victory over Philadelphia on Sunday and setting up a rematch at their new palace next weekend.

The Cowboys (11-5) have quickly become a team nobody wants to face this postseason. This was their third straight impressive win and their most complete performance of the entire season.

The shutout also made for a major milestone in the club’s storied history: First-ever back-to-back blank-ings. Only twice in the previous 49 seasons had they even had two shutouts the entire season. The amazing part about this one is that Philadelphia (11-5) came in having won six straight, averaging 31.2 points in that span.

The Eagles had two of their three lowest-scoring games of the season against Dallas while getting swept for the first time since 2005. Coach Andy Reid bet-ter get to work soon because his club is headed back to Cowboys Stadium for a first-round playoff game Saturday or Sunday.

Donovan McNabb was 20 of 36 for 223 yards, and Philadelphia finished with 228 total yards.The Cowboys had 291 yards at halftime on their way to gaining 474.

Romo was 24 of 34 for 311 yards, with the two touchdowns and an interception. He also capped the most productive season of his career and in franchise history, setting club records for attempts, completions and yards passing. The Cowboys also set a record for single-season yards.

A crowd of 100,621 packed Cowboys Stadium hop-ing the home team would pay back Philadelphia for a 44-6 loss in last season’s finale that kept Dallas out of the playoffs and led to all sorts of offseason changes. The past few weeks have proved they truly are a dif-ferent bunch.

That couldn’t be said a few weeks ago, when Dallas opened December with its first back-to-back losses of the season. But this surge since then is a reputation-changer as the Cowboys erased a nine-game losing streak in finales and secured their first winning record after Thanksgiving since 1996, which also was the last time they won a playoff game.

Texans 34, Patriots 27HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie Arian Foster scored two touch-

downs, Bernard Pollard recovered a fumble for a touchdown and had a key interception as the Texans rallied to beat the New England Patriots 34-27 on Sunday.

The victory gives Houston (9-7) its first win-ning record and keeps its slim playoff hopes alive. The Texans are primarily competing with Denver, Baltimore and the New York Jets for a wild-card spot. They needed two of those teams to lose to make the first postseason appearance in the eight-year history of the franchise.

The Texans trailed by 14 points in the fourth quarter before ending the game with three unanswered touch-downs. Foster scored the go-ahead TD on a 3-yard run with about 2 minutes remaining.

That score was set up by Pollard’s interception and 15-yard return four plays earlier. Tom Brady was hit by Mario Williams as he released the ball.

Brady played most of the game despite New England (10-6) having already clinched its playoff spot. League receptions leader Wes Welker started with Brady, but was carted off the field with a left knee injury in the first quarter.

Steelers 30, Dolphins 24MIAMI (AP) — A swarming Steelers defense sent

two Miami quarterbacks to the sideline, including Pat

Mount Cody wants to take Alabama to the summitBy BETH HARRISAP Sports Writer

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Terrence Cody’s unyielding presence works best on the football field.

The 6-foot-5, 354-pound All-American nose guard specializes in clogging up the middle, drawing double teams and generally being a disruptive force on the interior of Alabama’s defensive line.

Away from the game, his girth is a mixed blessing. He uses it to help dimin-utive folks like coach Nick Saban.

“You do a lot more things that short people can’t do. I help coach on and off the bus,” a smiling Cody said. “You intimidate a lot of people. I get a lot of attention when I go out.”

Big isn’t always best, though. His weight scared off teams recruiting him out of junior college in Mississippi. At Alabama, strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran roused Cody for 6 a.m. cardio sessions in an effort to slim him down.

And using the airplane restroom on the way to California for the BCS cham-pionship game against No. 2 Texas was a hassle.

“I got in there, but it took a while

because it’s not that big of a door,” Cody said. “When I got in there, I was like, ’This is it?”’

That’s been about the only letdown for Cody since deciding to skip the NFL draft and return for his senior season to help Alabama move into contention for its first national title since 1992.

“I wake up every morning and pinch myself to see if this is real,” he said. “Most of us are still in shock we’re playing for the national championship.”

Thursday’s game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena will cap Cody’s college career, something that didn’t seem probable growing up in Fort Myers, Fla. He played just two years of high school football because of poor grades. At the same time, he was helping his mother care for his seven younger siblings while running with the wrong crowd.

He returned for his senior season and dominated, with Miami and South Florida offering scholarships. But Cody’s grades weren’t good enough to qualify, so he went off to junior college in Mississippi for two years.

That’s where his weight, which topped 400 pounds and earned him the nick-

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Alabama defensive lineman Terrence Cody, left, and defensive back Javier Arenas listen to a question during a news conference Sunday in Newport Beach, Calif., ahead of their BCS Championship college football game against Texas on Thursday.

Lewis mulls another yearCLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns running back Jamal Lewis hasn’t ruled out returning to football, even though he is still suffering from headaches and blurred vision as a result of a concussion from earlier this season.The former University of Tennessee

standout says he must first receive clearance from doctors before con-templating a return. There is no timeline for when he could — or even would — be cleared.Lewis’ season ended Dec. 2 when he was placed on injured reserve with post-concussion symptoms, but Lewis revealed Sunday that he actually sus-

tained the concussion in the season opener against Minnesota and tried to play through it.He said halfway through the season this would be his last, but he doesn’t want an injury to end his career. He has rushed for 10,067 yards and has one year left on his contract with the Browns.

“I know there’s a ton of excitement about what we’re doing, and we’re just getting started.”

— Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin

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Hardesty, defensive tackle Dan Williams and offen-sive tackle Chris Scott impressed NFL scouts dur-ing the 2009 season.

Several quarterbacks will compete in the offsea-son to replace Crompton, who after a difficult junior season and slow start to 2009, finished as one of the most productive quar-terbacks in the SEC with 27 touchdowns.

Crompton and compa-ny helped to put together strong wins over teams like Georgia, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Kentucky and nearly pulled off major upsets at Florida and Alabama.

Still, the Vols lost at home to UCLA, were blown out by Mississippi and had a few off-the-field embar-rassments too.

Freshmen Nu’Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards were dismissed after they and freshman Janzen Jackson were

arrested in an alleged armed robbery at a Knoxville convenience store. Jackson was allowed to return to the team after charges against him were dropped.

Tennessee also con-firmed in December that the NCAA is looking into the activities of members of the university’s Orange Pride student ambassa-dor program as possible recruiting violations.

The university reported six minor NCAA viola-tions in Kiffin’s first year

for his efforts in recruiting. Violations involved staging a mock news conference for prospects and men-tioning recruits by name both on the radio and on his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Kiffin has joked that his biggest challenge in his first season as a col-lege coach was follow-ing all the rules. Still, he knows all the attention helped pay off in recruit-ing, where he signed a top 10 class for 2009 just weeks after being hired

and is building a 2010 signing class that ranks in the top 20.

“I said it before, I don’t regret anything that I did,” he said. “I thought that it was important to get us out

there and we couldn’t have a long-term plan and wait around and say we didn’t sign many guys because we didn’t have much time.

“We don’t believe in excuses like that.”

name “Mount Cody,” turned off recruiters. He slimmed down, though, and got offers from Miami, Mississippi State and Ole Miss. Soon Saban was con-tacting him, too.

“I thought he would’ve been bigger. He was like a midget,” Cody said, refer-ring to his first impres-sion of Saban. “He told me, ’We need a body like yours to play in the middle. We think you can stop the run.’ That really motivated me.”

Cody anchors a defen-sive line that comes into the BCS game allowing just 77.9 rushing yards per game, second best in the nation. He’s recorded 25 tackles and six tackles for loss on the Crimson Tide’s total defense, also No. 2 in the country.

“If you watch film or you see statistically he doesn’t have a lot of tack-les, but he does so much more for this defense,” All-American linebacker Rolando McClain said. “He holds up offensive linemen so that I can run around and I can make all those or Cory (Reamer) can make all those plays.”

Cody blocked two field

goals to preserve a 12-10 win over Tennessee in the Tide’s closest game of the season, keeping Alabama undefeated en route to a 13-0 season.

“On the second one, I got a good jump on the snap, stuck my arm up and closed my eyes,” he said, pointing to the spot on his left arm where the ball briefly left a red mark.

Weight may be the

only flaw affecting Cody’s future in the NFL, where he’s regarded as a top prospect. He dropped 10 pounds during Cochran’s preseason conditioning program that involved starting the day with 30 minutes of cardio before classes.

“It was hard,” he said. “Any other big guy with me probably would’ve quit. It wasn’t certain things I was

eating. I was eating at the wrong times. I wasn’t eat-ing in the morning. I was eating a lot at night.”

Temptation at the table awaited Sunday night when the Tide was set to chow down at Lawry’s in Beverl

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Redskins likely to fire Zorn todayASHBURN, Va. (AP) —

The Washington Redskins plan to fire coach Jim Zorn on Monday, an official within the NFL told The Associated Press.

The Redskins planned to make the move on the day after the end of a dis-appointing regular sea-son. Washington struggled early despite a weak sched-ule and was 4-11 going into Sunday’s finale against the San Diego Chargers.

The official spoke to the AP on Sunday on condi-tion of anonymity because no formal announcement has been made.

Zorn’s dismissal has been expected for months. The front office stripped

him of his play-calling duties in late October, and owner Dan Snyder has interviewed assistant coach Jerry Gray for the job, according to the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors minority hiring in the NFL.

Gray’s interview was an effort to comply with the Rooney Rule, which requires that teams con-sider a minority candidate for the head coaching posi-tion. With the Rooney Rule satisfied, the Redskins are free to act quickly to hire a replacement for Zorn. Former Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan is considered the favorite.

Zorn’s replacement will

be Washington’s seventh coach since Snyder bought the team in 1999. Playing a substantial part in the decision will be Bruce Allen, who was hired as the general manager last month.

Zorn started 6-2 as a rookie head coach last sea-son, but the team strug-gled over the second half and finished 8-8. This year’s team has been hurt by numerous injuries, a lack of depth and tons of off-the-field distractions, but also by an inability of Zorn’s West Coast offense to consistently find the end zone.

The Redskins failed to score more than 17 points

in their first eight games, prompting the front office to bring longtime NFL assistant coach Sherm Lewis out of retirement as an offensive consultant and play-caller.

Zorn wasn’t even on Snyder’s list of candidates when Joe Gibbs retired at the end of the 2007 sea-son. Zorn become a last-minute option when other contenders either showed no interest, dropped out or were deemed unsat-isfactory. Snyder ini-tially hired Zorn to be the offensive coordina-tor, then promoted him to head coach two weeks later after an extensive interview.

White with a scary head injury, and the reigning Super Bowl champions averted a late collapse.

The Dolphins (7-9), who won the AFC East in 2008, were eliminated with 2 minutes left in the game when Houston beat New England. Houston’s win hurt the Steelers’ chanc-es. To make the postseason, Pittsburgh (9-7) needed losses or ties by the Ravens, Broncos and Jets in late games Sunday.

Ben Roethlisberger threw three touchdown passes, but the stadium grew silent when White was carted off the field with a head injury following a helmet-to-helmet collision with cornerback Ike Taylor.

White moved his arms and legs before leaving the field after an eight-minute delay. A team spokesman said White “seems to be OK in terms of movement,” but is being exam-ined at the hospital.

Vikings 44, Giants 7MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brett Favre passed for 316 yards

and four touchdowns without a turnover in less than three quarters against the barely there Giants (8-8).

Controlling the game from the very first drive against a Giants team sitting five players who started at least four games this season, the NFC North champion Vikings (12-4) cruised into the locker room to start watching the Philadelphia-Dallas game with an eye on their seed for the NFC playoffs.

They needed an Eagles loss to finish second behind sputtering New Orleans and get a first-round bye, and throughout the second half the crowd broke into “Let’s go Cowboys!” chants.

Favre and coach Brad Childress appeared determined to regain this team’s confidence after a December slump, with the Vikings attempting 35 passes and running only 22 times during the first three quarters.

Sidney Rice caught six passes for 112 yards and two scores, and tight end Visanthe Shiancoe had seven recep-tions for 94 yards and a touchdown, all in the first half. Adrian Peterson scored his 18th touchdown.

Bills 30, Colts 7ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Despite near whiteout

conditions in the first half, Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three touchdown passes for Buffalo (6-10), including a 41-yarder to Terrell Owens. Fred Jackson had 212 yards rushing,

the seventh-highest rushing total in team history, to reach 1,000 yards for the first time in his career, and also scored on an 11-yard catch.

And give Mother Nature credit for providing a snow-globe effect to create a picturesque backdrop to what was a meaningless game for both teams.

The Colts (14-2) rested numerous starters, then benched many more, including Manning, in the second quarter. They have a two-week break before opening the playoffs as the AFC’s top-seeded team. Starting defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis were among numerous regu-lars who didn’t play.

Panthers 23, Saints 10CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Saints backups gave with an

ugly performance that sends the No. 1 seed in the NFC to the postseason on a three-game losing streak.

Jonathan Stewart rushed for 125 yards and a touchdown and the Panthers finished their disappointing season 8-8, winning their final three. This one came over the lifeless Saints (13-3), who rested many starters, including quarter-back Drew Brees, who broke the NFL record for completion percentage in a season.

Browns 23, Jaguars 17CLEVELAND (AP) — Jerome Harrison rushed for 127

yards and a touchdown and Josh Cribbs ran for a TD, giv-ing Cleveland its first four-game winning streak since 1994. That pushed coach Eric Mangini into an uncertain offsea-son with momentum to fight for his job.

Mangini soon after his arrival.Falcons 20, Buccaneers 10TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Matt Ryan threw for 223 yards and

two touchdowns, helping the Falcons finish with consecu-tive winning records for the first time in franchise history.

49ers 28, Rams 6ST. LOUIS (AP) — Vernon Davis tied the NFL record for

touchdown receptions for a tight end with his 13th of the season, helping the 49ers finish strong and the lowly Rams clinch the No. 1 overall draft pick.

Frank Gore added 107 yards rushing on 23 carries and two late TDs for the 49ers (8-8), who pulled away after a desultory first half in which they mustered only 52 yards and trailed 3-0.

San Francisco ended a string of six consecutive losing seasons and ended a six-game road losing streak while the Rams (1-15) wrapped up their first winless home schedule since going 0-6 in 1959 and only the third in franchise his-tory.

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Tennessee Titans’ Chris Johnson celebrates his touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.

Johnson gets 2,000as Titans top Seattle

SEATTLE (AP) — Chris Johnson became the sixth player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a sea-son, then scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 1-yard run with 4:33 remaining to send the Tennessee Titans to a 17-13 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the sea-son finale Sunday.

Johnson ran 36 times — three short of Earl Campbell’s franchise record set in 1981 against Seattle — for 134 yards and both of the touchdowns for the Titans (8-8).

Justin Forsett ran 10 times for 74 yards for the Seahawks (5-11). Matt Hasselbeck was 15 for 30 with a touchdown, but he threw an interception at the Titans 27 on fourth down with 1:19 remaining. It was his 10th turnover in his last three games.

Johnson, the second-year dynamo, ran right, cut back inside and jumped over a teammate for a 4-yard gain early in the fourth quarter. Game officials tossed the ball to the Titans’ sideline as Johnson joined Eric Dickerson, Jamal Lewis, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis and O.J. Simpson in the 2,000-yard club.

Otherwise, there was little acknowledgment of Johnson’s second major milestone of the day, which came on his 32nd carry and while Seattle’s Colin Cole was helped off with an injury.

Moments earlier, a holding penalty negated what would have been a far flashier way for Johnson to reach the milestone: a 62-yard touchdown romp that would have given him a chance at the all-time rushing record.

“We were going for the big record,” Johnson said on the field immediately after the game — and before he posed for pictures with his linemen at midfield. “They called the long one back, and that kind of hurt.”

Tennessee’s linemen raised their arms skyward behind the play and Johnson was set to break into a celebration dance in the back of the end zone — before they all realized referee Ed Hochuli had thrown a pen-alty flag near the line of scrimmage.

Had Hochuli not called holding on fullback Ahmard Hall’s lead block, Johnson would have had 182 of the 234 yards he needed to break Dickerson’s record of 2,105 yards rushing set in 1984.

Johnson simply put his hands on his hips and jogged to the sideline for a two-play breather, resigned to set-tling for the 2,000-yard plateau — and the NFL record for yards from scrimmage in a season. He set that in the first half.

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Notice is Hereby Given that on the 18 day of DEC 2009 Let-ters Testamentary, of Administration, in re-spect to the Estate of BARBARA JEAN KEL-LEY deceased, were issued to the under-signed by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Tennessee.

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.

This 18 day of De-cember, 2009.

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RICK deceased, were issued to the under-signed by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Tennessee.

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.

This 14 day of De-cember, 2009.

(Signed)Brenda HamrickAdministrator

Estate ofIVAN HUGHHAMRICK

By:Brian K. RobertsAttorney

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

12/29/0901/04/10

LEGALS

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Estate ofIVAN HUGHHAMRICK

Late of Sevier County,

Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 14 day of DEC 2009 Let-ters Testamentary, of Administration, in re-spect to the Estate of IVAN HUGH HAM-

cember, 2009.

(Signed)James R. ChildressAdministrator

Estate ofFRANCES RUTHCHILDRESS

By:noneAttorney

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

12/29/0901/04/10

LEGALS

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Estate ofFRANCES RUTH

CHILDRESSLate of Sevier

County,Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 16 day of DEC 2009 Let-ters Testamentary, of Administration, in re-spect to the Estate of FRANCES RUTH CHILDRESS 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.

This 16 day of De-

LEGALS

LER deceased, were issued to the under-signed by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Tennessee.

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.

This 15 day of De-cember, 2009.

(Signed)Donna HicksAdministratrix

Estate ofRUBY AILEEN BEELER

By:noneAttorney

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

12/29/0901/04/10

LEGALS

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Estate ofRUBY AILEEN

BEELERLate of Sevier

County,Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 15 day of DEC 2009 Let-ters Testamentary, of Administration, in re-spect to the Estate of RUBY AILEEN BEE-

of the opening thereof.

At a non-mandatory prebid conference will be held at the adminis-trative office of the Sevierville Housing Authority, 500 Leo Sharp Road, Sevier-ville, Tennessee, for the purpose of answer-ing questions bidders may have and to con-sider any suggestions they may wish to make concerning the project. A walk-through of the projet(s) will be held by the Owner following the prebid conference on January 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

SEVIERVILLE HOUSING

AUTHORITYMr. Ronald Franklin,

Executive Director

12-30, 01-04

LEGALS

Authority, 500 Leo Sharp Road, Sevier-ville, TN 37862. A de-posit of $200.00 is re-quired for one set of Contract Documents for contractors bidding Labor Only. Material suppliers shall not be required to provide a bid deposit. All bid de-posit checks or drafts shall be made payable to Sevierville Housing Authority. Require-ments for bid deposit refunds can be found in the expanded Ad-vertisement for Bids bound within the Proj-ect Manual.

All bidders must be licensed Contractors as required by the Contractors /licensing Act of 1994 (TCA 62-6-119) with all bid sub-mittals conforming to the State of Tennes-see requirements. All bidders shall provide evidence of a license in the appropriate clas-sification before a bid can be considered. Reference is made to the Instructions to Bid-ders for Contracts con-tained in the Project Manual for further bid-ding information.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive any infor-malities in the bidding. No bidders may with-draw his bid within 60 days after the actual date of the actual date

LEGALS

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID

Sealed bids for La-bor or Material ONLYto replace HVAC Units at Developments TN063-002 & TN063-005 will be received by the Sevierville Housing Authority, 500 Leo Sharp Road, Sevier-ville, Tennessee 37862 on January 20, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. and then at said office of the Exec-utive Director publicly opened and read aloud. Prior to the opening of the enve-lope, the names of all contractors listed shall be read aloud and in-corporated into the bid.

The contract Docu-ments may be exam-ined at the following lo-cations:

Barge Cauthen & Associates, Inc.9047 Executive

Park Drive, Suite 221

Knoxville, Tennes-see37923

Sevierville Housing Authority

500 Leo Sharp RoadSevierville, Tennes-

see 3862

Prospective bidders may obtain copies of the Contract Docu-ments at the office of Sevierville Housing

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that by authority of a Credit Line Deed of Trust (Deed of Trust) executed by Eric R. Kelch and wife, Leslie J. Kelch, to Dwight B. Grizzell, Trustee, dated May 12, 2006, and recorded in Book 2534, Page 312 in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to secure the indebtedness due from Eric P. Kelch and Leslie J. Kelch to Mountain National Bank, which has become due and payable by virtue of default in the Deed of Trust on the property hereinafter described; and Mountain National Bank, the true and lawful owner and holder of said indebtedness, having exercised its option to declare the indebtedness due and payable and having made demand for foreclosure pursuant to the Deed of Trust; I, the undersigned, acting under the authority of the Deed of Trust, by virtue of appointment as substitute trustee, in Book 3460 Page 55 in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, will be at the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse, 125 Court Avenue, Sevierville, Tennessee on the 19th day of January, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. to sell to the highest bidder for cash in bar of all rights waived by said Deed of Trust, the following described property to-wit

Which is believed to have a street address of 990 Autumn Ridge Way Sevierville, TN 37876

SITUATED in the First (1st) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being LLot 8 of Autumn Ridge Estates as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 34, Page 147, in the Sevier County, Tennessee, Register�s Office to which reference is hereby made for particular description.BEING a part of the same property conveyed to Eric R. Kelch, et ux, by deeds of record in Book 1462, Page 642; Book 1462, Page 644; and Book 1615, Page 442, in the Register�s Office to which reference is hereby made for further title.LESS AND EXCEPT any portion of the above-described property previously conveyed to Mountain National Bank by Trustee�s Deed from Sykes & Wynn, PLLC, Trustee, dated August 13, 2009, and of record in Book 3403, Page 305, Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of such adjournment on the day and at the time and place of sale as set forth above.A-1 Block & Brick, LLC and Aggregates USA, LLC f/d/b/a Rinker Materials South Central, Inc. may assert an interest in the above-described property by virtue of recorded judgment liens and said entities have been notified of this sale.The above-described property will be sold subject to unpaid taxes, prior deeds of trust, all easements and restrictions, the rights of tenants in possession of said premises, if any, prior claims, or matters of record.The proceeds of the sale will be applied first to discharge the costs and charges of executing this trust, including attorney�s fees; next, to all indebtedness remaining unpaid and secured thereby, including all indebtedness owing to Mountain National Bank, by the grantors; and next, the balance, if any, shall be paid to those legally entitled thereto.This 22nd day of December, 2009.

THOMAS H. DICKENSONSubstitute Trustee

Hodges, Doughty & CarsonP. O. Box 869

Knoxville, Tennessee 37901(865) 292-2307

December 28, 2009 and January 4 and 11, 2010

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

Sale at public auction will be on January 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Juan C. Pupo and wife, Elisa G. Pupo to Douglas S. Yates, Trustee, on September 4, 2003 at Book Volume 1785, Page 128conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register�s Office.Owner of Debt: CitiMortgage, Inc.The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:Described property located in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, within the corporate limits of the City of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to wit:Lot 3, Section 2 of the Ski Road Properties, as the same appears on a plat of record in Map Book 7, Page 30, in the said Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which a specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description.SUBJECT TO right-of-way easement described in Miscellaneous Book 10, Page 161, in the said Register�s Office.

Street Address:919 Ski Mountain RoadGatlinburg, TN 37738

Current Owner(s) of Property: Juan Carlos PupoThe street address of the above described property is believed to be 919 Ski Mountain Road, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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

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Fax 901-767-8890File No. 09-022817

December 21, 28, 2009 and January 4, 2010

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698 MOBILE HOMERENTALS

Studio condo on Pkwy,furn, util inc, wifi,cbl, indr pool $200/wk 540-397- 4977

Pigeon Forge behindRuby Tuesday 2br2ba Immaculate.No pets. $700 mth.1st. last & sec. Call865-712-8333.

Gatlinburg Beautiful2BR 2BA Furnish-ed Condo withFireplace, Over-looks stocked troutstream and hasheated pool. Walkto downtown Gat-linburg, includeswater, cable, Flatscreen TV. Imme-diate occupancy,Minimum 1 Yearlease $875 mth.865-771-9600

697 CONDORENTALS

RIVERWALK1BR/1BA TO 2BR/2BA$545.00 to $695.00865-429-2962

Mountain View Town-home apartmentfor rent 2BR1.5BA. Newly re-modeled with hard-wood flooring &new carpet. Locat-ed in Gatlinburg.1st mth rent & se-curity deposit re-quired. For moreinformation call8 6 5 - 8 6 8 - 0 4 4 9Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:30pm or 865-356-3015 afterhours & weekends

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696 APARTMENTSFOR RENT

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incl. water & sewer.865-908-6789

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696 APARTMENTSFOR RENT

DOWNTOWN SEVIERVILLE

428 Park Rd. CHEAP- $100 weekly Includes All Utilities.

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near trolley stop

Weekly RentalsIncludes

Family Inns WestPigeon Forge •86 5-45 3-4905

Phone, Color TV,Wkly HousekeepingMicr./Frig. Available

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693 ROOMS FORRENT

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Private Motel RoomGreat for 1 person!1 bed, full size frig.

microwave, cable TV$120 weekly$50 deposit

436-7745 Gatlinburg

693 ROOMS FORRENT

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610 DUPLEX FORRENT

For Sale A-1 pre-owned dryers,

washers, ranges & refrigerators

All with warranty. Cagles Furniture and Appliances

453-0727

NEW YEARS SPECIAL2 new recliners

$398Cagles Furniture &

Appliances2364B Pittman Center Rd.

453-0727

589 FURNITURE

Firewood for sale. All hardwood. $45 rick. 865-977-8903

556 FIREWOOD

500MERCHANDISE

10X10 or 10X20SELF STORAGEConvenient Location!

411 South, left onRobert Henderson Rd.,

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429-2962

356 STORAGEBUILDINGS

Laurel Crest, A Blue-green Resort, Seeking Full-Time Front Desk Super-visor. Weekends a must. Please apply in person at: Laurel Crest Resort, 2628 Laurel Crest Lane, Pigeon Forge, TN.

238 HOTEL/MOTEL

Are you ready to join an EXCITING TEAM in 2010 that is going to REVO-LUTIONIZE long term care? If so, S i g n a t u r eHealthCARE is the place for you!! We are currently re-cruiting for pas-sionate and experi-enced LPNs/RNs and RN Leader-ship positions. We also have open-ings as an Activity Assistant, as well as in Medical Re-cords (LPN ideally with RHIT experi-ence) at our skilled nursing facility we own and operate in Pigeon Forge, TN.

Interested candidates can apply in-per-son at our Pigeon Forge Care and Rehab skilled nurs-ing facility, which is located at 415 Cole Drive, Pigeon Forge, TN or you can contact Cara Solitario at 888-364-8013 or please submit your resume and salary h i s to ry / requ i re -ments to csolitar-i o @ s i g n a t u r e -healthcarellc.com or via fax to 561-364-8016.

Thank you for your in-terest in positions with Signature HealthCARE!!

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237 HEALTHCARE

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236 GENERAL

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Local cabin company taking applications for Reservationist, Assistant Manager, and Cleaners. Ap-ply in person at: 333 Ski Mtn. Rd. Gatlinburg.

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236 GENERAL

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Found Huskey dog in Kodak area. 933-4850

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Attorney

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

12/29/0901/04/10

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NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Estate ofMOLLY LILLIAN

SHULARLate of Sevier

County,Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 17 day of DEC 2009 Let-ters Testamentary, of Administration, in re-spect to the Estate of MOLLY LILLIAN SHU-LAR deceased, were issued to the under-signed by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Tennessee.

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.

This 17 day of De-cember, 2009.

(Signed)Monica J. FranklinAdministrator

Estate ofMOLLY LILLIANSHULAR

By:Monica J.Franklin

PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to Default Provision Chapter 717 Public Act of Tennes-see the contents of leased space unit(s) # 21, 36 and 52 will be disposed of to satisfy the owner’s lien. Dyna-mite Mini Storage.

01/01/1001/04/10

cember, 2009.

(Signed)Melissa BallewAdministrator

Estate ofDANIEL JACK REAGAN

By:noneAttorney

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

12/29/0901/04/10

LEGALS

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Estate ofDANIEL JACK

REAGANLate of Sevier

County,Tennessee

Notice is Hereby Given that on the 10 day of DEC 2009 Let-ters Testamentary, of Administration, in re-spect to the Estate of DANIEL JACK REA-GAN deceased, were issued to the under-signed by the County Court Clerk of Sevier County, Tennessee.

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.

This 10 day of De-

LARGE deceased, were issued to the un-dersigned 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.

This 21 day of De-cember, 2009.

(Signed)Penny AlexanderExec utrix

Estate ofJOHNNY SCOTTLARGE

By:Richard T.WallaceAttorney

By: Joe Keener County Clerk

12/29/0901/04/10

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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

TENNESSEE, SEVIER COUNTYDEFAULT having been made in the terms, conditions and payments provided in certain Deed of Trust executed by Daniel Houston Howell and Wendi Kay Parker and Mary E. Howell to Robert M. Wilson, Trustee dated June 9, 2006 in the amount of $168,000.00, and recorded in the Register�s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee in Deed Book 2555, Page 607, (“Deed of Trust”); and, the beneficial interest of said Deed of Trust having been last transferred to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as trustee of MASTR 2007-01 by assignment; and, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as trustee of MASTR 2007-01, as the current owner and holder of said Deed of Trust (the “Owner and Holder”), has appointed as Substitute Trustee the undersigned, Patrick A. Taggart, Laura A. Grifka, Sidney A. Gelernter, or J. Michael Dugan, any of whom may act, by instrument filed for record in the Register�sOffice of Sevier County, Tennessee with all the rights, powers and privileges of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust; therefore,NOTICE is hereby given that the entire amount of said indebtedness has been declared due and payable as provided in said Deed of Trust by the Owner and Holder, and the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, or a duly appointed attorneys or agents, by virtue of the power and authority vested by the Appointment of Substitute Trustee, will on Thursday, January 21, 2010 commencing at 12:00 PM at the front steps of the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee; sell to the highest bidder for cash, immediately at the close of sale, the following property to-wit:Land in Sevier County, Tennessee, being all of Lot No. 63, on the Plan of River Vista, Phase II, as shown on plat of record in Large Map Book 5, Page 157, in the Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description.Being the same property conveyed to Daniel Houston Howell and Wendi Kay Parker and Mary E. Howell, as joint tenants by Deed of record in Book 2170, Page 728 recorded 2/8/2005, Registers Office for Sevier County, Tennessee. Map & Parcel No.: 16IA63

PROPERTY ADDRESS:1975 River Vista Circle

Sevierville, Tennessee 37876

CURRENT OWNER(S): Daniel Houston Howell and Wendi Kay Parker and Mary E. HowellSUBORDINATE LIENHOLDERS: America`s Servicing Company OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: N/A All right and equity of redemption, statutory or otherwise, homestead, and dower are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, however, the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The sale will be held subject to any unpaid taxes, assessments, rights-of-way, easements, protective covenants or restrictions, liens, and other superior matters of record which may affect said property; as well as any prior liens or encumbrances as well as priority created by a fixture filing; and/or any matter that an accurate survey of the premises might disclose.If the U.S. Department of Treasury/IRS, the State of Tennessee Department of Revenue, or the State of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development are listed as Interested Parties in the advertisement, then the Notice of this foreclosure is being given to them and the sale will be subject to the applicable governmental entities` right to redeem the property, as required by 26 U.S.C ß 7425 and T.C.A. ß 67-1-1433.The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Deed of Trust.Substitute Trustee reserves the right to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Patrick A. Taggart, Laura A. Grifka,Sidney A. Gelernter, or J. Michael Dugan

McCurdy & Candler, L.L.C.(404) 373-1612

www.mccurdycandler.comFile No. 09-17145 /CONV

December 228, 2009 and January 4 and 11, 2010

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

Sale at public auction will be on January 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Richard David Hubbs, a single man to First American Title Insurance Co. of NY, Trustee, on January 26, 2007 at Book Volume 2727, Page 312conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register�s Office.Owner of Debt: Southstar III, LLCThe following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:Described property located in the Eleventh (11th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, in the City of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to wit:Lot 31, Block M, Section 4, Tyrolea Subdivision, as shown on plat of record in Map Book 13, Page 38, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which plat specific reference is hereby made for a more particularly description, and being more particularly described as follows:BEGINNING at an existing iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and Lot 8, said rod being along the Western edge of a cul-de-sac in the 50 foot right-of-way for “Heiden Court”; thence from the point of beginning, and leaving the line of said cul-de-sac, and with the line of the said Lot 8, South 66 degrees 14 minutes 00 seconds East, passing through the common corner of the subject property and the said Lot 8 and Lot 23, 168.39 feet to a new iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and Lot 23 and Lot 3; thence leaving the line of the said Lot 23, and with the line of said Lot 30, South 70 degrees 25 minutes 35 seconds West, 132.04 feet to an existing iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and the said Lot 30 and Lot 34, South 62 degrees 06 minutes 33 seconds West 108.29 feet to an existing iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and the said Lot 34 and the subject Lot 32; thence North 08 degrees 25 minutes 21 seconds East 141.35 feet to a new iron rod at the common corner of the subject property and the subject Lot 32, said rod being along the of the southern edge of said cul-de-sac; thence leaving the line of said Lot 32, and with the line of the said cul-de-sac, and curving in a concave posture, with an arc of 55.01 feet and a radius of 40.0 feet, North 63 degrees 09 minutes 19 seconds East, 50.78 feet to the point of beginning.LESS AND EXCEPT the following property being conveyed to the City of Gatlinburg:BEGINNING on an iron pin in the margin of a 40 foot cul-de-sac in Zurich Court, a corner to Lots 30 and 34, Block M, Section 4 of Tyrolea Subdivision; thence with the arc of the cul-de-sac and Lot 30 and a curve to the right having a radius of 40 feet, a distance of 66.14 feet to an iron pin, a corner to Lots 29 and 30; thence with a curve to the left having a radius of 68.55 feet, a distance of 44.68 feet to a point; thence North 25 degrees 53 minutes West 24.93 feet to the point of beginning.

Street Address:904 Heiden Court

Gatlinburg, TN 37738

Current Owner(s) of Property: Richard David Hubbs, a single manThe street address of the above described property is believed to be 904 Heiden Court, Gatlinburg, TN 37738, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION.All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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

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

Fax 901-767-8890File No. 08-001138

January 4, 11 and 18, 2010

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE

Sale at public auction will be on January 11, 2010 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, at the front door, Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Tennessee pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Herbert V. Eland and Charlene L. Eland, His Wife to Knox Title, Trustee, on August 30, 2001 at Book 1295, Page 108conducted by Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee, all of record in the Sevier County Register�s Office.Owner of Debt: Financial Freedom Acquisitions LLC.The following real estate located in Sevier County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record:Described property located in the Thirteenth (13th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Lot 26, of Whispering Pines Subdivision, as shown by map of record in Map Cabinet 9, Slide 53 (Map Book 24, Page 105), in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which map specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said property.

Street Address:1617 Aaron Way

1617 Aaron Way (per Deed of Trust) Sevierville, TN 37876

Current Owner(s) of Property: Heirs of Herbert ElandOther interested parties: The Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentThe street address of the above described property is believed to be 1617 Aaron Way, 1617 Aaron Way (per Deed of Trust), Sevierville, TN 37876, 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.SALE IS SUBJECT TO ONE YEAR RIGHT OF REDEMPTION HELD BY SECRETARY OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT BY REASON OF THE DEED OF TRUST OF RECORD AT BOOK 1295, PAGE 117 IN THE REGISTER�SOFFICE OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE.All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee.The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above.If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder, at their highest bid, will be deemed the successful bidder.This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time.This office is a debt collector. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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

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

Fax 901-767-8890File No. 09-022575

December 21, 28, 2009 and January 4, 2010

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that by authority of a Deed of Trust executed by Lazara P. Fuentes and Gerald J. Fuentes, Husband and Wife, to Dwight B. Grizzell, Trustee, dated July 9, 2007, and recorded in Book 2864, Page 603 in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to secure the indebtedness due from Lazara P. Fuentes and Gerald J. Fuentes to Mountain National Bank, which has become due and payable by virtue of default in the Deed of Trust on the property hereinafter described; and Mountain National Bank, the true and lawful owner and holder of said indebtedness, having exercised its option to declare the indebtedness due and payable and having made demand for foreclosure pursuant to the Deed of Trust; I, the undersigned, acting under the authority of the Deed of Trust, by virtue of appointment as substitute trustee, recorded in Book 3412 Page 777 in the Register�sOffice for Sevier County, Tennessee, will be at the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse, 125 Court Avenue, Sevierville, Tennessee on the 12th day of January, 2010, at 11:30 a.m. to sell to the highest bidder for cash in bar of all rights waived by said Deed of Trust, the following described property to-wit (which is believed to have a street address of 2845 Whisper Creek Lane, Sevierville, TN 37862):SITUATE in the Sixteenth (16th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee and being all of LOT 14 of FOX CROSSING SUBDIVISION, PHASE II, as the same appears in plat map of record in Map Book 36, Page 228 in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description.SUBJECT to restrictions, conditions, easements, map notations, and all other issues of record in Book 2181, Page 219 and as amended in Book 2446, Page 48, both in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.SUBJECT to restrictions, conditions, easements, map notations, and all other issues as shown on the map of record in Map Book 36, Page 228, in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.BEING the same property conveyed to Gerald Fuentes and wife, Lazara Fuentes, by deed from Porter Fox and wife, Billie Fox, dated April 13, 2006 of record in Book 2508, Page 546 in the Register�s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee.Lazara P. Fuentes and Lazara Fuentes are one and the same person.Gerald J. Fuentes and Gerald Fuentes are one and the same person.

Which has the address of: 2845 Whisper Creek Lane

Sevierville, TN 37862

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of such adjournment on the day and at the time and place of sale as set forth above.The above-described property will be sold subject to unpaid taxes, prior deeds of trust, all easements and restrictions, the rights of tenants in possession of said premises, if any, prior claims, or matters of record.The proceeds of the sale will be applied first to discharge the costs and charges of executing this trust, including attorney�s fees; next, to all indebtedness remaining unpaid and secured thereby, including all indebtedness owing to Mountain National Bank, by the grantors; and next, the balance, if any, shall be paid to those legally entitled thereto.

This 15th day of December, 2009.

THOMAS H. DICKENSONSubstitute Trustee

Hodges, Doughty & CarsonP. O. Box 869

Knoxville, Tennessee 37901(865) 292-2307

December 21, 28, 2009 and January 4, 2010

4 office rentals + largegarage. S. BlvdWay $249,000.933-6544

722 BUSINESSBUILDINGS

Log Cabins on Hwy321 S. for leaseBusiness and orbusiness livingquarters. CallCheryl 865-368-8640.

721 COMMERCIALPROPERTY

Great Pigeon Forge location. 3bd, 1ba home w/FP. $850 monthly + deposit. 1 yr lease. 385-9530

710 HOMES FORSALE

HUD PUBLISHER’S NOTICEAll real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, family status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination. State laws forbid discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777, The Toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

Sevierville Doublewide 2BR $500 mth + deposit. No pets. Ref. 933-6544

RENTAL 3BR/1BA- Kodak, nice older home. 1600 sq. ft. Screened front po rch /de tached garage-workshop. Very private. Lo-cated 2 miles from new Food City. $700 plus dep. Call Phillip @ 865-712-1978.

CABIN ON CREEK. 2br1.5ba.$650/mo. 1st, last, dam. 660-8828 or 428-6802

Beautiful 3BR log home, private wooded mountain type setting, fir-place, jaccuzi, cen-tral H/A, water fur-nished. $850 + dep. 933-5894 or 382-7781

3BR/3BA Log Home. 12 mo. lease w/ref-erences. $350 dep. Shown by appt. on 1/9 & 1/10. 615-969-8470.

3BR 2BA log home $800 mth 1st & security required. Close to Interstate 40 & 5 mins from Newport. 423-299-8310

3BR 1.5BA Newly ren-ovated. Sevierville. Garage. $950 mth + dep. 654-0222.

NICE, CLEAN IN KODAK3 BD / 2 BA

4 MILES FROM EXIT 407

$700/MONTH & DEPOSIT. NO PETS.

865-712-5238, 865-705-9096

New Homes for Rent.

3BR/2BA starting at $700 - $850 & $1000

per month. No pets.

865-850-3874

3BR 2BA in Red BudSubdivision.

Appliances included. $750 & up +

deposit.428-5212

699 HOME RENTALS

Mobile in Wears Val-ley, single or cou-ple, $125 week plus $400 deposit (865) 679-4270

3BR/2BA rent to own. Seymour. $595/mo No pets. 865-765-7929.

3BR Trailer on private lot $495 + $495 damage deposit. No pets. 765-8038.

698 MOBILE HOMERENTALS

3BR Double wide for rent. Off Boyds Creek Rd. in The Stables. Call after 3 p.m. 865-405-5692.

2BR near Walmart. $400 a mth & $200 dep. No Pets. 654-1117 or 453-7252

698 MOBILE HOMERENTALS

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2BR 2BA mobile home Central H/A Water & sewer furn. on Hwy 66 near Swaggertys Saus-age. 933-5509 or 755-2402

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Dear Annie: My wife decided to offer our young teenage daughter a trip to Japan because a friend of ours moved there last summer. Our daughter would stay for a week with this friend. My wife agrees with me that the decision was impulsive, but we both know it offers an oppor-tunity for our daughter to enjoy a great experi-ence. This friend is only in her 20s, but both she and my daughter are very responsible indi-viduals.

My concern is with the potential dangers of a young girl traveling alone internationally. I have done some research and understand we can have an airline represen-tative escort her through customs to meet our friend. But this is where my trust begins to waver. There’s too much of the unknown to make me comfortable. How would the airlines handle the trip when there are plane changes? If something were to happen, whom could my daughter turn to who is trustworthy?

I realize I may be a little overprotective, but in this case there are good reasons. Maybe I’ve read too much about human trafficking, but it worries me that someone may spot my daughter as a vulnerable target. What is the real risk? How can we best ensure her safety? -- Protective Father

Dear Dad: Call the airline about their policy regarding unaccompa-nied minors who must change planes. Find out whether they provide an escort, and if not, she should ask a flight atten-dant before leaving the aircraft which gate she is headed for and how to get there. Tell her to

watch her luggage when she gets on and off the plane, and to be alert when using airport bath-rooms. If she has to wait at the airport, she should stand near other women, preferably those with young families. Make sure she has a cell phone that will work in Japan and is programmed with your friend’s number and local emergency numbers. Most impor-tantly, she should carry herself with confidence and pay close attention to her surroundings. Chances are your daugh-ter will be fine, but it never hurts to take pre-cautions.

Dear Annie: Three years ago, my husband and I met “Elaine.” She is now 78 years old and is starting to irritate me by making racist remarks against foreigners. For some reason she hates these people, although I’m sure she doesn’t know any of them personally. She also doesn’t seem to care who is listening.

At times Elaine is great to be with and quite funny when she’s not insulting people. I’d like to keep her as a friend, but I want her to stop making bigoted remarks. Any suggestions? -- Canada

Dear Canada: Has Elaine always expressed these opinions aloud, or is this a recent develop-ment? Lack of inhibition can be a sign of early dementia, and sudden changes in mental capac-ity can be symptomatic of a small stroke. If she’s

simply a bigot, you need to let her know you don’t want to hear these com-ments. Bigots and racists think they can get away with spreading their vile opinions because so few people will stand up to them. Don’t be one of them.

Dear Annie: Please tell “J.D. in Connecticut” she is fortunate to have received condolences after her sister’s death, even via e-mail.

My 37-year-old son died suddenly six months ago, and some of my family members have not sent condolences in any form. These are people who were brought up with monogrammed stationery specifically for these purposes. I did, however, receive a touching handwritten note from my husband’s new chiropractor, who had never met me. That’s class.

People claim they don’t know what to say. I tell them the worst thing is to say nothing. That gives the message that your loss doesn’t matter. For relatives to do that is inexcusable. -- Patty in North Carolina

Dear Patty: Our deepest condolences. Please know your letter will educate others.

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Editor’s Note: The com-munity calendar is printed as space permits. Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered. They are listed by date. To place an item phone 428-0748, ext. 214, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress.com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.

Monday, Jan. 4Prayer In Action

Prayer In Action meets 6 p.m. Pigeon Forge UMC for a time of prayer for the United States and its government. Nondenominational.

GateKeepers GateKeepers men’s com-

munity Bible study, 6:30 p.m., 2445 Scenic Mt. Drive, Sevierville. (865) 310-7831.

Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-

en’s Bible study:n 10 a.m. Seymour

Heights Christian Church (enter last door on right), Chapman and Boyds Highway

n 1 p.m., Gatlinburg Inn

Photographic SocietyLeConte Photographic

Society club competi-tion 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Sevierville. Judy Cravy to present pro-gram on architectural pho-tography in area. leconte-photographic.com.

Seymour Story TimePreschool story time 11

a.m. at Seymour Library. 573-0728.

Medic Blood DriveMedic blood drive, 10

a.m. to 6 p.m., Food City Gatlinburg.

Retired CitizensRetired Citizens of the

Smokies meets at 1 p.m. at Gatlinburg Community Center. Program on Porters Creek and spring wildflow-ers by Kenny Jones. 436-3010.

Tuesday, Jan. 5NARFE

National Association Retired Federal Employees meets at 6 p.m., Holiday Inn Pigeon Forge. 453-

4174. GatekeepersGatekeepers men’s Bible

study, 6:30 p.m. 1328 Old Newport Highway, Sevierville. 908-0591.

Video ContestSevier County Right To

Life video contest open to high school students in Sevier County. Entries due today. 654-7685 or e-mail to sevcrtl@bellsouth.net.

Kindness CountsKindness Counts meets 7

p.m. at Sevierville IHOP. 654-2684.

Pokemon League Sevierville Pokemon

Trading Card Game League meets noon to 2 p.m. in community room at Sevier County Library on Court Avenue. 310-5140.

Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and

4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

Wednesday, Jan. 6Sevierville Story Time

Preschool story time 10:30 a.m., Sevier County Main Library. 453-3532.

Blood DriveMedic blood drive, 11

a.m. to 5 p.m., Evergreen Presbyterian Church, 1103 Dolly Parton Parkway, Sevierville.

Middle Creek UMCMiddle Creek United

Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge, beginning Wednesday worship ser-vices, 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. Rev. Steve Pross, 216-2066.

Thursday, Jan. 7 Democrats

Sevier County Democrats meet 7 p.m., third floor of courthouse. Visit sevi-erdemocrats.com or call 617-2145.

Gatlinburg Gardeners Gatlinburg Garden Club

will meet at 1 p.m. at Community Center. Club will present “Tea Time Tidbits” by Kappy Lapides,

Black Bear Tea Co. Meeting canceled if weather closes schools.

Hot Meals Smoky Mountain Area

Rescue Ministries pro-vides hot meals 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Sevierville.

TOPSTOPS weight loss chap-

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

Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-

en’s Bible study:n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon

Forgen 2 p.m. Blue Mountain

Mist B&B, Pullen Roadn 6:30 p.m. Seymour

UMC, Chapman Highway, back entrance

n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, conference room

Blood Drivesn Gatlinburg First Baptist

Church, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.n Sevier Farmers Co-op, 8

a.m. to 4 p.m.

Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and

4-7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

Friday, Jan. 8Angel Food

Angel Food orders:n 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Gum

Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.

n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

n 3 to 6 p.m. River Of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796.

Kodak Story TimePreschool story time 11

a.m. at Kodak Library. 933-0078.

Blood DriveMedic blood drive at

Sevierville Post Office, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Boyds Creek Revival

Boyds Creek Church of God winter revival 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Bishop G.R. Hill from Cleveland to speak.

Lions Club RummageSevierville Lions Club

indoor charity rummage sale 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and Saturday, 122 Bruce Street, downtown Sevierville. 453-2025.

Saturday, Jan. 9Angel Food

Angel Food orders:n 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Gum

Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.

n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

n 10 a.m to 2 p.m. River Of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796.

Cove Clothes ClosetCove Clothes Closet, 3238

Pittman Center Road at Old Richardson Cove Church, open 9-3 Saturdays only. Free clothing. 453-4526.

Sunday, Jan. 10Boyds Creek Revival

Boyds Creek Church of God winter revival 11:30 a.m. Bishop G.R. Hill from Cleveland to speak.

Commemorative MarchSevier County Right to

Life invites residents and visitors to their memorial march leaving the Pigeon Forge Community Center at 1:45 p.m. and walk silently to Country Tonite Theater. Celebration of the Sanctity of Life program begins 2:45 p.m. in the theater.

Monday, Jan. 11GateKeepers

GateKeepers men’s com-munity Bible study, 6:30 p.m., 2445 Scenic Mt. Drive, Sevierville. (865) 310-7831.

Women’s Bible StudyGarlands of Grace wom-

en’s Bible study:n 10 a.m. Seymour

Heights Christian Church (enter last door on right), Chapman and Boyds Highway

n 1 p.m., Gatlinburg Inn

Cancer Support GroupSmoky Mountain Cancer

Support Group meets at Senior Center. Supper 6 p.m. program 6:45 by Barbara Edwards on stress. 428-5834 or 654-9280.

DAR DAR Spencer Clack

Chapter meets 7 p.m., Sevier County Library. Program on history of silver by Carrie Murphy.

Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 2 to 5 p.m. Gum Stand

Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.

n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

n 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., River Of Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796.

Gymnasium Closing Sevierville Community

Center gym closing Jan. 11-13th for maintenance. To reopen for regularly scheduled activities at 6 a.m. Jan. 14. 453-5441.

Tuesday, Jan. 12S.I.T.

Seniors In Touch (S.I.T.) meets 6 to 7:30 p.m. at MountainBrook Village, 700 Markhill Drive, Sevierville. 428-2445.

Alzheimer’s SupportAlzheimer’s Support

group at MountainBrook Village meets from 5-6 p.m. Program by Bobby Fields of Alzheimer’s Association. 428-2445, ext. 107.

GatekeepersGatekeepers men’s Bible

study, 6:30 p.m. 1328 Old Newport Highway, Sevierville. 908-0591.

Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gum

Stand Baptist Church, 3031

Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.

n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

Wednesday, Jan. 13Garden Club

Sevierville Garden Club will meet at noon at Sevier Senior Center. Lunch served. Tom Leonard, manager of Sevier Solid Waste Inc., to speak on recycling. Board meeting at 11.

Angel FoodAngel Food Ordersn 5 to 6:30 p.m., River Of

Life Outreach, 110 Simmons Road, Seymour. 679-6796.

Middle Creek UMCMiddle Creek United

Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge, worship services 6:30 p.m. Rev. Steve Pross, 216-2066.

Thursday, Jan. 14 Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study:

n 9 a.m., Pigeon Forge UMCn 2 p.m., Blue Mountain

Mist B&B, Pullen Road, Sevierville

n 6:30 p.m., Seymour UMC, Chapman Highway, back entrance

n 6:30 p.m., Sevierville UMC, Conference Room

Hot Meals Smoky Mountain Area

Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Sevierville.

TOPSTOPS weight loss chapter

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

Angel FoodAngel Food orders:n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gum

Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd., Pigeon Forge. 429-2508.

n 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m., First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 908-1245.

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