PAGE APB The Knoxville Focus April 6, 2020 April 6, 2020 www.knoxfocus.com PAGE A1 Visit www.knoxfocus.com The Knoxvillele to access OCUS FREETake One! www.knoxfocus.com F April 6, 2020 Phone: 865-686-9970 | PO Box 18377, Knoxville, TN 37928 | Located at 4109 Central Avenue Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee 37912 Knox County Parks and Rec helps distribute meals for kids Schools: Emergency Meal, School Packet Distribution While Knox County Schools is closed through April 24, 2020, out of concern over COVID-19, the district will be provid- ing breakfast and lunch to any child 18 and under at no charge. Beginning on Monday, April 6, KCS will be moving to a two-day (Monday/Wednes- day) meal distribution schedule. The dis- trict will provide two days’ worth of meals to be distributed on Monday and three days’ worth of meals on Wednesday. Although Monday, April 13, is a sched- uled district holiday, meal distribution will be held as usual. Meal distribution will occur from 10 a.m. - noon. Breakfast and lunch will be distrib- uted at the same time. PHOTO BY MIKE STEELY. The meals will be available at one of 38 At Inskip Recreation Center Wednesday, the Knoxville Parks and Recreation Department manned the table to distribute food to designated emergency feeding sites via school-aged children through the efforts of Daniel Alexander, Chandler Fielding and Georgia Leonard. Knox County Schools, drive-thru or walk-up for children to con- Parks and Recreation, CAC and other agencies are making sure anyone under 18 has food during the coronavirus emergency. There sume at home. There is no dine-in option. are now 38 locations in Knox County where parents may pick up breakfast and lunch for their children. Children must be present to receive meals; however, families may pick up at any distribution site regardless of enroll- ment. Additionally, no proof of income is Questions arise required. Extra meals cannot be provided if additional children are not present. over funds to Meals will be distributed at the follow- ing locations: renovate TVA • Across All Boundaries Church (No school packets): 2821 E. Magnolia Ave., East Tower Knoxville, TN 37914 • Austin-East High School: 2800 Martin By Mike Steely Senior Writer Luther King Jr. Ave., Knoxville, TN 37914 [email protected] • Bearden Middle School: 1000 Francis Road, Knoxville, TN 37909 It took a while last week for the Knox • Bearden High School: 8352 Kingston County Commission to approve agree- Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919 ments to fund the renovations of the TVA • Beaumont Magnet Academy: 1211 East Tower and the Summer Place as sev- Beaumont Ave., Knoxville, TN 37921 eral members had serious questions. • Belle Morris Elementary School: 2308 The commission’s shortened agenda Washington Pike, Knoxville, TN 37917 dealt with a variety of resolutions includ- • Carter High School: 210 N. Carter ing a vote to close part of Solway Ferry School Road, Strawberry Plains, TN 37871 Road so the local church, Solway Baptist, • Cedar Bluff Elementary: 705 N. Cedar could install a monument to military vet- Bluff Road, Knoxville, TN 37923 erans. Also approved was a consent cal- • Central High School: 5321 Jacksboro endar covering school board requests, Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918 several storm water projects, contracting • Cumberland Estates Recreation with Cedar Bluff Towing, Chestnut Street Center (No school packets): 4529 Silver- Transport and Sutherland Avenue Wreck- hill Dr, Knoxville, TN 37921 er Services for towing, and postponing • Dogwood Elementary School: 705 the McBee Ferry Landing transfer from Tipton Ave., Knoxville, TN 37920 Legacy Parks. • East Knox Elementary School: 9315 Also postponed until their April meet- Rutledge Pike, Mascot, TN 37806 ing was the lease agreement with the • Ed Cothren Pool at Malcolm-Martin Knoxville Jewish Alliance for a marker for Paullette Williams delivers roses to Oakwood Senior Living on behalf of 911 Park (No school packets): 1737 Reynolds Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds to be Knox Decontamination. Photo courtesy of Williams. St, Knoxville, TN 37921 placed at the corner of Market Street and • Farragut High: 11237 Kingston Pike, Clinch Avenue. Knoxville, TN 37934 The commission passed the code • Fulton High School: 2509 N. Broad- change to permit special judges to receive 911 Knox Decon Services way, Knoxville, TN 37917 $300 per half day when they sit in for • Gibbs High School: 7628 Tazewell absent judges. Pike, Corryton, TN 37721 All of the zoning change requests were delivers flowers to elderly • Green Magnet Academy: 801 Lula By Mike Steely postponed until the commission meets Senior Writer into homes and businesses to clean Powell Dr., Knoxville, TN 37915 in May. [email protected] up after unthinkable incidents. That • Gresham Middle School: 500 Gresh- The discussion about funding the TVA includes trauma, accidents, crime am Road, Knoxville, TN 37918 East Tower improvements and the acqui- “It has been bothering us,” said Paul- scenes, hoarding, distressed property, • Halls High School: 4321 E. Emory sition of the Summer Place Complex there lette Thomas speaking for herself and vehicle clean up, infestations, biohaz- Road, Knoxville, TN 37938 was prompted by several questions from son, Daniel. The two own a business ards, etc., and that can include coro- • Hardin Valley Middle: 2280 Steele Commissioner Charles Busler. He asked you hope you’ll never need but, during navirus. The company is proud of its Road, Knoxville, TN 37932 that the two matters be removed from the the coronavirus outbreak, recognized professional staff. • Inskip Elementary School: 4701 High consent calendar and discussed. a need that they could fill. “We do that so a family can come School Road, Knoxville, TN 37912 Busler said the COVID-19 virus could They own and operate 911 Knox- back and live in the home. 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PAGE A2 The Knoxville Focus April 6, 2020 Is it Illegal to Send Pension Board Suit ForCash many years in the Mail?offense you were of my life I was found guilty of fortunate enough committing. I We Need To Continue To Talk to be mailed tell you, breaking delayed through April By Mike Steely small amounts any federal law Senior Writer to the Uniformed of money from is a terrible idea, [email protected] Officer’s Pension Plan. my relatives for they do not mess In other action the my birthday. I around with pun- When the Knox County pension board heard was apprecia- By Jedidiah ishing people. Retirement and Pension concerns about the tive and thank- McKeehan So, yes, you Board met on Zoom investments it has ful, regardless of attorneyknoxville@ can send cash last week Attorney made and how the the amount. gmail.com through the mail. John Owings reported coronavirus pandemic However, I had You can send the Etters vs. Knox is hurting the market. a discussion any amount of County lawsuit won’t Bob Cross, in the with a friend recently who cash you want through the be heard until June. “Report of the Actuary” claimed that sending cash mail, but the United States Owings said that all said, “We banked through the mail was ille- Postal Service will insure court activity has been some of the gains over gal. I was surprised and mailed cash only up to an suspended under an the past five years.” had never heard of this. amount of $50,000.00. order by the Tennessee Michael Welz, the Had my grandma broken One of the main reasons Supreme Court and Attorney John Owings addresses the Knox County Re- board’s investment I don’t know of anyone some federal law by mail- that lawyers exist is to there will be “no contact tirement and Pension Board about the Etters vs. Knox advisor, cautioned who isn’t eager to return to ing me $10.00 on my make sure things happen through April 30th.” County lawsuit which in limbo until the courts reopen. that the market is in his/her former life, yet life birthday? Had everyone’s how they are supposed The said that all “face (Image from Zoom meeting) after the coronavirus may “extreme volatility and grandma broken a federal to happen. So, I would to face” court activity likely be very different. feels very different” law by doing this? Was my be remiss to pass up the has been cancelled. It will be mighty interest- during the significant grandma going to end up opportunity to tell you that “We will not be having about the Etters vs. overpaying sheriff ing to see just what kind of downturn in the in prison? sending any appreciable any hearings, absent of Knox County lawsuit department retirees by conversations our nation will economy. He said the After doing some amount of cash through any emergency hearings filed in September. including their vacation be having in the wake of the market “is in transition” research on this topic I was the mail is a terrible idea.