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BAR ASSOCIATION UTC FOOTBALL Celebrating There’s no Law Day place like home Find Public Notices Tennessee AG Herbert Local high school legend inside & online: Slatery was on hand for fi nally getting to play for www.HamiltonCountyHerald.com the annual celebration. Mocs. How it happpened. P2, 3, 13 P5 Volume 104 | No. 19 Single Copy 50¢ CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE May 12 – 18, 2017 What was going on in Chattanooga in 1967? Saturday, May 13 Pledges totaling $323,000 in local money for construc- tion of a new $3.5 million facility for Orange Grove Center were announced during the fi rst reports for fund-raising committees. Th e goal of the committee is $700,000, which will be the local share of the total cost of the new building. Th e remaining portion will be provided through state and federal grants. Alfred Smith was elected mayor of Signal Mountain in Saturday’s election. Th e four commissioners elected are James C. Ballard, C.A. “Chic” Th omas, A. Calvin Baird and Neal C. Bennett. Sunday, May 14 Straight from the source: Th e 1967 Moccasin, the yearbook of the University of Chattanooga, has been dedicated to Mrs. Margaret Market marks Buhrman, assistant comp- troller, it was announced. WRCB-TV Channel 3 will build an ultra-modern 17th year television studio repre- By David Laprad passersby a free taste. Photographs by Alex McMahan senting an investment of It’s a temptation few people Lannie Hart, left, with Daylillies talks with friends at The Chattanooga Market more than $500,000 on a t’s Sunday morning, resist. After sampling one of recently. Facing the camera from left are Ashley Miller, Mike Morgan, Jamice Morgan and Brittny Morgan. At right, some of Daylillies’ salsas. two-acre tract on String- and the air outside the the juicy treats, picked two days er’s Ridge at the Whitehall Chattanooga Market is earlier in Blue Ridge, Georgia, exit of Interstate Highway fi lled with the intoxicat- many shoppers open their will pass the Mercier Orchards ucts available from one booth ing smell of fresh straw- booth as they make their way to the next vary – a booth that See 50 YEARS, page xx wallets or purses and make a berries. Near the entrance to purchase. One woman says into the Pavilion, where about sells hand-blended herbal teas the First Tennessee Pavilion, she’s going to make strawberry 240 vendors are selling not just is neighbor to a tent lined with INSIDE IMercier Orchards has placed pies; another is looking forward strawberries but also meats, pop culture artwork – every dozens of buckets fi lled with desserts, health and beauty item sold within the open- ■ FINANCIAL FOCUS P12 to a fresh smoothie as she se- the sweet, heart-shaped fruits lects a quart piled high with the products, crafts, clothing, art- air Pavilion has two things in ■ REAL ESTATE P15 on a table under a canopy, fragrant produce. work and more. See MARKET, page 12 where a young man is off ering Around 25,000 shoppers Although the kinds of prod- O ering a 17’x12’ 1089 Bailey Ave. Conference Room that can Chattanooga accommodate 10 people and a 30’x30’ Conference Center Just a few blocks from downtown, The Bailey that can easily accommodate Suites off ers meeting spaces at the right price 25 people. as well as renovated offi ce suites. (423) 486-9079 [email protected] www.theBaileySuites.com 2 | May 12 – 18, 2017 Hamilton County Herald www.hamiltoncountyherald.com News and notes from the Chattanooga Bar Association Bar Association Th e Chattanooga Bar Association’s Law Day Celebration was held at the Reed House May 3. phs by Photogra Alex McMahan Bill Colvin, CBA board president; Lynda Minks Hood, CBA executive director; David F. Ross, Ph.D, Liberty Bell Award recipient; Herbert H. Slatery III, Tennessee attorney general; and Jim Haley. The inaugural class of Young Lawyers Di- vision Fellows includes Alicia Oliver, Wade Hinton, the Hon. Christie Sell and the Hon. W. Jeffrey Hollingsworth. Stevie Phillips CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION CHATTANOOGA Bill Hannah, Rett Hixson, Scott Shaw, Mark Hackett, Maury Nicely, John Harrison and Tim Mickel. The Hon. Tom Greenholtz, Nora McCarthy, Art Grisham, Bob Lockaby, Arnold Stulce and the Hon. Clarence Shattuck. Bill Aiken and Mike Kuebler. Executive Committee John C. Harrison Board of Governors Ex-Officio Member TREASURER William G. Colvin Barret S. Albritton The Honorable Pamela PRESIDENT Honorable Christie M. Sheri Fox Fleenor Sell Marc Harwell JUDICIAL REPRESENTATIVE Lee Davis PAST PRESIDENT PRESIDENT-ELECT George G. Hixson Jeffrey W. Maddux Steven M. Jacoway Jimmy Rodgers SECRETARY Linda Minks Hood Brittany T. Faith EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR YLD REPRESENTATIVE Chattanooga Bar Association | The Pioneer Building | Suite 420 | 801 Broad Street | Chattanooga, TN 37402 | 423-756-3222 | Fax: 423-265-6602 |www.chattanoogabar.org www.hamiltoncountyherald.com Hamilton County Herald May 12 – 18, 2017 | 3 Chambliss expands estate planning, elder law practices Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel is Security Disability and Supplemental Kapperman works with Cham- expanding its estate planning and tax Security Income. bliss clients to draft estate planning practices with the addition of two at- Harrison is licensed in Alabama, documents and assist in the admin- torneys: Peter Harrison and Cameron Connecticut, Georgia and Tennessee. istration of estates. He is a Chatta- Kapperman. He holds an L.L.M. in taxation from nooga native who returned to join Both attorneys practice in the es- Georgetown University Law Center, Chambliss after graduating from the tate planning area. Harrison puts ex- where he also received his Certifi cate University of Tennessee College of tra eff ort toward counseling clients in in Estate Planning. Law in 2016. elder law and special needs planning, Harrison graduated from Mercer Kapperman previously graduated while the majority of Kapperman’s University Walter F. George School from Berry College and Chattanooga Harrison Kapperman work is in estate administration. of Law and received his Bachelor of School for the Arts & Sciences. He Harrison relocated to Chattanooga gift taxes, estate taxes, retirement Arts degree in economics from the has been admitted to practice in Ten- last fall after building his estate plan- benefi ts planning, special needs plan- University of the South. He serves on nessee and the Tennessee Supreme ning practice for several years in Con- ning and qualifying for governmental the board for the Chattanooga Estate Court. necticut. He assists Chambliss clients medical benefi ts like Medicaid, Social Planning Council and presents at Source: Chambliss with wills, powers of attorney, trusts, events and radio shows. Law Day celebration (continued) Bill Aiken CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION CHATTANOOGA Chandler Lawson and Mary DeCamp. Jay Morgan The Hon. 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Bill Dunn, who ar- but refuse to approve his – CHATTANOOGA – fi nish line. gued for the more conservative request earlier in the session to David Laprad Alliteration is probably approach of private funding. spend $2.5 million to help these Editor [email protected] better suited for poetry. But in Th e unshrinkable Casada, types of babies, who will have a case of what could be con- Sam Stockard meanwhile, contended the “major cognitive problems.” Dianna Chambers sidered poetic justice, at least [email protected] Carter House project would Absolutely shocking, since Display Advertising [email protected] for some, this literary device do more for Middle Tennessee money already is in the budget 615-254-5522 – goofi ness maybe – is suitable Instead of leaving Nashville than funding Honor Air Flight. for this statewide problem. Julia Warren for legislative action requiring a with a whimper, they forged “It’s our job to spend money Verbal jabs apparently wore Foreclosures, Public Notices score card to keep up with the a partnership of sorts with to grow the economy, create out the beleaguered Republi- [email protected] characters and a bit of history jobs and grow wealth,” he said. cans, requiring an hour break 901-521-1196 super-minority House Demo- to put it all together. crats, reinforcing the adage of Republican love that Th ursday afternoon, after Donna Gosnell Discord on the House fl oor 19th century journalist Charles which the body came back Circulation, Online Subscriptions In one of the lighter mo- as members tried to wrap up Dudley Warner, who said, “Pol- together and approved – with customerservice@ ments of the session, McCor- hamiltoncountyherald.com work on Gov. Bill Haslam’s $37 itics makes strange bedfellows.” hardly a word – a $300 mil- mick and Rep. 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