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KNOX • ANDERSON • JEFFERSON • CAMPBELL • CUMBERLAND CLAIBORNE COCKE • GRAINGER • HAMBLEN • BLOUNT • LOUDON • MONROE • MORGAN • ROANE • SCOTT • SEVIER • UNION Ledger FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 In with the new-ish Mayor Kincannon hopes to keep city on ‘same general trajectory’ as Rogero administration Story by Joe Morris begins on page 2 Photo by Adam Taylor Gash |The Ledger Community Calendar ............................5 More inside: Public Notices .........................6-13, 20-29 Find Public Notices Career Corner ..........................................3 Newsmakers ..........................................15 inside & online: Personal Finance ....................................3 Crossword...............................................19 www.TNLedger.com News Briefs ..............................................4 Behind the Wheel .................................32 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville DECEMBER 20-26, 2019 hen Knoxville and has studied and taught abroad, most mayor- recently in Slovenia. Not one to squander elect Indya educational opportunities in her backyard, Kincannon she also has spent time at the University with Indya is sworn in of Tennessee, taking teacher licensure Saturday, she’ll courses. Kincannon beW looking for both continuation and Now, after a public and professional Q change. career that has both inside and outside at’s just how she likes it. elements, she prepares to become the Knoxville She was elected to the Knox County face of local government for Knoxville. & Board of Education in 2004, two years It’s a job that requires listening to, and mayor-elect after moving to the city. She went on acting with, often-polarized camps, and A to serve 10 years as a member, three of Kincannon says she’s more than ready for those as chair. During that time, she and the challenge. Interview by Joe Morris husband Ben Barton were putting two Catching up with her after her weekly daughters through Knoxville’s public reading stint with children at Beaumont school system. Magnet Academy, she talked about Also around that time, she began walking the ne line of being a change Mayoral Inauguration working with a children’s reading agent and also supporting the programs Indya Kincannon will be sworn in Saturday, Dec. 21, 10:30 a.m., program – a volunteer position she and platforms that her constituents want at the Bijou Theatre downtown. The event is free and open to the continues to this day and says will be a continued. public. part of her mayoral calendar. ● Why is sticking with your volun- at experience elevated her local teer work, in this case the children’s political pro le, and in 2015 she joined reading program, important to you? Photo by Adam Taylor Gash |The Ledger Mayor Madeline Rogero’s o ce as special programs manager. In that role, she “I’ve been doing this since I rst was administered more than $1 million in elected to the school board, and I hope community agency grants to more than to always be involved. It’s the best part 65 local nonpro ts. of my week. e kids are really eager On the educational front, Kincannon to have me there – they read to me holds a master’s degree in public a airs as much as I read with them, so it’s and urban and regional planning from a chance to encourage them in their Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson educational growth School of Public and International A airs, KINCANNON >> PAGE 17 DECEMBER 20-26, 2019 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville Page 3 Good choices now, better choices later Don’t wait for company training Recognize your money biases, What we can all make them work for you learn from techies e way our brains I received a text from a friend a few work can cost us a lot years ago stating: “I spent some time today of money. 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