Volunteer Spirit at Its Finest Ed About That Opportunity,” by Tasha Mahurin Noted Kilgore
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August 19, 2013 www.knoxfocus.com FREEPAGE A1 Take One! Visit www.knoxfocus.com to access August 19, 2013 New prep FOCUS season opens TOUCHDOWN Weekly Poll* with changes Knox County Readies For Football Season Do you support on and off the or oppose the field extension of James By Steve Williams White South Knox Parkway from A new high school football season kicks off for most Moody Ave, where local teams this week . in it currently ends, more ways than one. From new classification to John Sevier alignments to new uniforms, Highway? there are many changes among the teams and their SUPPORT 78.57% programs. So what’s new? OPPOSE 21.43% “We have a lot going on Survey conducted that is new at Powell this August 15, 2013. year,” pointed out new Pan- * Focus Weekly Polls are conducted thers head coach Tobi Kilg- by an independent, professional polling ore, who will send his squad company. against Fulton, the defending Class 4A state champion, in a Thursday night attraction PART-TIME at Powell that will be tele- SALES POSITION vised on MyVLT starting at 7 o’clock. AVAILABLE. “We have five new coach- PHOTO BY DAN ANDREWS. FLEXIBLE es: Jason Grove, Chris Steger, Halls High quarterback Colby Jones runs into the open field against Bearden in last week’s KOC Jamboree at Brent Hughes, Dustin Mynatt HOURS. GREAT Neyland Stadium. The Bulldogs used a goal-line stand to beat the Red Devils 7-0 in the evening’s second game. and Cassen Jackson-Garri- OPPORTUNITY. See Section C for additional Jamboree coverage. son. We are replacing 15 686-9970 starters from last year’s team and 32 starters over the last two seasons, so there will be a lot of new faces playing for Powell this year. “We are also making the jump to 6A in the playoffs, which we are very excit- Volunteer spirit at its finest ed about that opportunity,” By Tasha Mahurin noted Kilgore. [email protected] Off the field, a new char- acter education program “One of the pillars of our has been implemented at ‘Vol for Life’ program is the Powell, according to Kilg- goal of becoming champi- ore, that teaches players ons in the community as life skills through character well as in the classroom education curriculum. It is and on the field.” said called PAL (Pride in Academ- University of Tennessee ics and Life). There is also a head football coach Butch tutoring component to that Jones. program that ensures we Proving that the vol- get each one of the players unteer spirit extends far the academic attention they beyond the gridiron, Univer- deserve, added Kilgore. sity of Tennessee football “I am very excited to begin players spent every Sat- my first year at Powell High urday during the months School,” said Kilgore. “There of June and July working has been a lot of change that on a Habitat for Humani- has happened in the program ty house for Drocella Mug- over the last several months, orewera and Jean Dama- but the pride and tradition of scene Nkurunziza- Rwan- this great program has not dan refugees who now live been altered. We will contin- in Knoxville. ue to represent the Paw in Drocella initially came PHOTO BY DAN ANDREWS. everything we do and I look to East Tennessee without forward to molding the young her husband and five Members of the Vols football team handed over the keys to a new home last Thursday after working with Habitat men of Powell High School children. Drocella worked for Humanity to build it. into successful members of hard to establish a life in Olga Kayumba; daughter -which is a celebration that philosophies of the Uni- In addition to Habitat society one day.” Knoxville in hopes that her Svetlana Nkurunziza; and would not have been pos- versity of Tennessee foot- for Humanity, the Boys Elsewhere, there will be family would eventually son Patrick Nkurunziza, sible in the apartment they ball program. During the and Girls Clubs of the a new look this season at be able to join her. She are all enrolled in college, previously rented. 2012-13 academic year, Tennessee Valley, East West, which opens at Karns learned to speak English, and Jean, is a student at Head Coach Butch Jones, Tennessee football play- Tennessee Children’s Friday night. and to drive a car. Relying the University of Tennes- a number of Vol players, ers completed a total of Hospital, Special “We signed a 5-year con- on her faith, she also see. and Jean Damascene 1,322 hours of communi- Olympics, numerous local tract with Under Armour and found a church and a job Drocella is thankful for Nkurunziza and Drocella ty service. elementary, middle, and Athletic House, so we’ll be in at Goodwill. the new home, which was Mugorewera’s took part “When you examine the high schools, Read Across all new uniforms this year,” Now reunited with her sponsored in-part by the in a dedication ceremony amount of volunteer hours America, and Knox Area e-mailed West Coach Scott husband and children, Haslam Family Founda- at the newly completed the team has performed, Rescue Missions have all Cummings. “A little more Drocella and Jean are now tion. This Thanksgiving, house last week. it shows the caliber of the benefitted from the Vols flash for the Rebels this year enthusiastic future hom- the family plans to host According to program young men we have here community service efforts than we are used to.” eowners. Their five chil- more than twenty guests leaders, making a posi- at Tennessee to lead our this year. At Catholic, Athletic dren, nieces Yvette Kay- in their home “with much tive difference in the com- program’s rise to the top,” umba, Arlette Mugeni, and fun, dance, and songs” munity is one of the core Jones added. Continue on page 4 PAGE A2 The Knoxville Focus August 19, 2013 Focus on the Law FOCUS Deadlines Weekly Poll “Habitual pro- tree planted on typically you have 30 days from the date of the injury. crastinators will the fence line for to file a written answer to If the injury was to your real Do you support or oppose the readily testify to a decade and you the allegations contained or personal property (like all the lost oppor- are finally fed up. in the complaint. If you fail your automobile) , you have extension of James White South tunities, missed You might go to to answer within 30 days, three years to file suit for deadlines, failed see an attorney a judgment could be taken that damage. You must sue Knox Parkway from Moody Ave, relationships and about filing a law- against you for whatever for slander six months after where it currently ends, to John even monetary suit to make the the plaintiff has asked for the slanderous words are losses incurred By Sharon neighbor cut his in the complaint. Respond- uttered but you have seven Frankenberg, Sevier Highway? just because of Attorney at Law or her tree. This ing to a lawsuit should years after the death of the one nasty habit attorney might never be put off because decedent to bring an action Support 78.57% of putting things have to give you the result will probably be against the personal rep- off until it is often too late.” the bad news that it may be unwelcome. In the same resentative of an estate. Stephen Richards, Over- too late to get the solution way, there are deadlines The time frames of these Oppose 21.43% coming Procrastination. you seek. This is because to file appeals. If you have deadlines are vastly dif- Victor Kiam once said, the court may decide that applied for Social Security ferent and logic does not By Age Support Oppose Total “Procrastination is oppor- you have known of this disability benefits and been factor into predicting how 18-29 75.00% 25.00% 4 tunity’s natural assassin.” problem for many years, turned down, you have 60 long you have to act. You 30-49 72.73% 27.27% 44 Procrastination is a law- and have acquiesced to days to appeal that deci- must consult the Tennes- yer’s enemy and it may be the situation by not doing sion. If you do not appeal see Code Annotated to be 50-65 71.78% 28.22% 163 your enemy too. something about it in the within 60 days you might sure of what your deadline 65+ 84.06% 15.94% 251 One important legal last ten years. Of course, lose your right to appeal. to sue is. Total 78.57% (363) 21.43% (99) 462 concept that may cause if there were facts that Deadlines to file a law- You should always con- trouble for you is laches excused or justified the suit vary greatly depending tact an attorney to get By Precinct (rhymes with “matches.”) delay, the court might grant upon the subject matter of advice and assistance with SK Com. Ctr. 72.22% 27.78% 54 Laches is a maxim (princi- you the relief you seek but it the suit. These are called your unique situation. You Dogwood 82.35% 17.65% 51 ple) of equity which states is much more difficult than “Statutes of Limitation” should call sooner than that “equity aids the vigi- if you had acted promptly. and every cause of action later so that you don’t miss SK Optimist 69.23% 30.77% 39 lant, not those who slumber Of course, literal dead- must have one.