ROGERS COLUMN UT SPORTS Lamar says he’ll Recruiting for miss friendships ability, leadership Free! Retiring senator says public Vols coach says he wants would be surprised to see just to stock team with proven Please how civil Senate really is. leaders, recruits accordingly. P3 P20 take one. December 28, 2018 – January 3, 2019 Vol. 44 | Issue 52 KNOXVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville The power of information. KNOX • ANDERSON • JEFFERSON • CAMPBELL • CUMBERLAND CLAIBORNE COCKE • GRAINGER • HAMBLEN • BLOUNT • LOUDON • MONROE • MORGAN • ROANE • SCOTT • SEVIER • UNION Ledger FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 Ha r t’s second wind a win for Park Former TV exec goes back to roots to lead Friends of the Smokies Story by Nancy Henderson begins on page 2 Adam Taylor Gash | The Ledger Jim Hart, President and CEO of Friends of the Smokies, works with the GSMNP Park Service to provide funding for various projects including trail maintenance and efforts to combat HWA. Community Calendar ............................5 More inside: Public Notices ........................6-15, 22–34 Find Public Notices Career Corner ..........................................3 Newsmakers ..........................................17 inside & online: News Briefs ..............................................4 Crossword...............................................21 www.TNLedger.com Personal Finance ....................................5 Behind the Wheel .................................36 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville DECEMBER 28, 2018 – JANUARY 3, 2019 Hart finds dream job after retiring from his other dream job Photographs by Adam Taylor Gash | The Ledger “There are over 11 million visitors (to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) every year, and while people are loving the park and love to be in it, it also puts some wear and tear on the park,” Friends of the Smokies President and CEO Jim Hart says. “So, the needs go on, and there are not enough federal funds to do everything that needs to be done.” Above, The stone step-work on the trail to Andrew’s Bald is just one example of where Friends of the Smokies funding is put to use. FOTS post fi ts perfectly with his life, love and experience By Nancy Henderson | Correspondent protect it.” fter an elementary school Despite the strong call of the wild, eld trip sponsored by Hart majored in economics and social Friends of the Smokies, one science at Davidson College with an East Tennessee third-grader eye toward running a business. For the told her teacher, “ is has next 35 years, he worked in radio and been the best day of my life.” television broadcasting, starting in sales A“A lot of the kids have never been in the and marketing. Smokies even though they live less than an “I came out of the womb with a hour away from it,” says Jim Hart, FOTS microphone, I think. … But I had no president and CEO. “ e discovery is desire to be on camera,” says Hart, overwhelming to some kids, and there’s who crafted his own brand of low-key, just so much wide-open space.” down-to-earth salesmanship occasionally e little girl’s response is “enough pay punctuated by a quick-witted one-liner. right there … to keep you happy,” says “I’m a little bit quiet about things, but the Hart, 76, referring to the work that goes way I sell works for me. I’m not a hail- into Parks as Classrooms, a kindergarten- fellow-well-met backslapper.” to-middle school program designed to It didn’t take long for Hart to move into management. In the 1970s, he help students develop an appreciation for shing, hiking and camping with his hiked at Cades Cove or Alum Cave Blu s, the Great Smoky Mountains National worked as vice president and general uncle and dad. Four or ve Sundays a or scaled one of the ve trails leading to manager at a TV station in Winston- Park. It is one of several major initiatives year, the family drove to a mountain inn Mount Le Conte. overseen by the Friends group, founded Salem, North Carolina. After that, he after church for a family-style lunch of “We just took advantage of having this assumed the same role at the NBC in 1993 to preserve and protect the park country ham, gravy and grits. in our back yard,” Hart recalls. “I could by raising funds and public awareness and station in Cincinnati and at WBIR-TV, Afterward, they piled back in the car have ended up being a bookworm or a Multimedia’s NBC a liate in Knoxville. providing volunteers for various projects. and headed to the top of Newfound Gap mathematician, but I was in uenced by Hart’s passion for nature is probably During his 13 years with WBIR, he on the Tennessee-North Carolina line my environment. People in my family created the homespun “Heartland” genetic, he says. Growing up in Knoxville, and on to Clingmans Dome, the highest appreciate the creation as it is, and he joined the Boy Scouts and often went point in the Smokies. Other times, they that whole park, and want to see it and FOTS >> PAGE 18 DECEMBER 28, 2018 – JANUARY 3, 2019 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville Page 3 Senate can be ‘disgustingly civil’ Legit? Right fi t? Lamar says he’ll miss his Do homework friends from both parties before accepting It’s not normally big to do something good for the state and news when a 78-year-old the country, and going to bed every night work-at-home job man decides to retire – at thinking maybe I have.” Finding a work-from-home age 80. I suspect most Tennesseans say they or remote job can seem to be an Yet Sen. Lamar believe that, on balance, Alexander has impossible proposition. Alexander created a succeeded more often than not. It’s like nding a unicorn. You’ve urry of chatter recently “I’ll also miss the relationships,” he said. heard they exist, but you’ve never when he announced his Most people on the outside, he went on, My Take actually seen one. decision not to run for a are under the mistaken impression that Career By JOE Many people ask about nding jobs fourth term in 2020. senators are at each other’s throats. Corner ROGERS you can do from home. Whether you “I’ve had my turn,” “ e fact is we’re disgustingly civil to By ANGELA Ledger have children, would like freedom to Alexander said in an interview with e one another,” he acknowledged. “I have COPELAND relocate or just prefer peace and quiet, New York Times. “Everything comes to many good friendships on both sides of working from home sounds ideal. an end sometime, and it is good to know the aisle,” he added, with many of those The power of Many companies that create virtual positions or when that should be.” friends having visited the Alexander information. departments often do so for nancial reasons. For most working sti s, that end comes home. Published weekly by It might be cheaper to allow employees to work long before 78, or 80. ank goodness. What he will not miss is the Westview Newspaper, LLC remotely. But the United States Senate, unpredictable schedule that is the nature If a job requires travel, it might not make sense to force sometimes called the most exclusive club of a legislative body. Or at least, of this 222 Second Ave. N. Suite 101 the employee to live in the same city as the corporation. in America, is not like most jobs. e legislative body in these times. Nashville, TN 37201 (615) 254-5522 In other cases, allowing a remote assignment increases average age of members at the start of the “Here I am on the Saturday before FAX: (615) 254-5525 the chances a company will have access to the best current Congress was 61.8 years, Christmas when the Senate has Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m employees. “among the oldest in U.S. already given the president what e Survey of Income and Program Participation history,” the Congressional he asked for on the border President & Chairman Peter Schutt reported a 45 percent increase in employees working from Research Service con rms. wall, and he won’t sign it,” Publisher & CEO home at least one day per week between 1997 and 2010. e ve oldest are he said. Eric Barnes However, it appears that a large portion of those people Dianne Feinstein of I didn’t pursue that Associate Publisher & Executive Editor are self-employed. California and Chuck topic. It’s always my Lyle Graves If you want to work from home but don’t want to start Grassley of Iowa, both aim, when possible, [email protected] Planning Editor your own business, where should you begin? 85; Orrin Hatch of for this column to be a Cindy Smith e rst thing to remember is to proceed with caution. Utah (who’s about to Trump-free zone. Nor am [email protected] ere are a startling number of remote jobs available exit), Richard Shelby of I interested in speculating Contributors Hollie Deese online that are, simply put, scams. And, unfortunately, a Alabama and Jim Inhofe of about a successor, other Tim Ghianni number of legitimate remote opportunities are not listed as Oklahoma, all 84. Feinstein than this: It will be a Sam Stockard Linda Bryant such online. is a Democrat; the rest are Republican. Jeannie Naujeck Often, it’s not until you’re in the interview that you Republicans. It’s also probably a Tom Wood Offi ce Manager learn the hiring manager is open to you working from Hatch will have been there Here I am on the mistake that I used the Donna Gosnell home.