November 14, 2016 www.knoxfocus.com Now offering onlinePAGE A1 auction services Fountain City Auction for all of your auction needs (865)604-3468 fountaincityauction.com FREE Take One! November 14, 2016 The Mynatt Beer sales near churches resolution delayed Family By Mike Steely [email protected] there wasn’t enough time to respond Jack Wallace Three before the measure was passed on speaks against generations of What seemed to be a foregone first reading two weeks ago. One coun- eliminating the conclusion to drop the current 300 cilman noted that articles in local distance be- local referees feet required between churches and newspapers, and specially The Knox- tween city beer beer retailers saw some church oppo- ville Focus, came out one day prior to retailers and By Ken Lay sition Tuesday night. The Knoxville Tuesday’s meeting. local churches. City Council heard Jack Wallace and “Three hundred feet isn’t enough,” The decision Gene Mynatt has passed Carlos Harmon of Oakwood Baptist said Jack Wallace, a deacon at Oak- was postponed his family business down to and Doug Stauffer of Antioch Baptist wood, urging the council not only to two weeks. two generations. Well, sort of. speak against the measure. reject dropping any distance between Photo by Mike Mynatt has been a longtime Opponents of the measure said Continued on page 2 Steely. official for scholastic sports in the Knoxville Area and he now works on a football crew with his son Shane, a one-time bas- Sign ordinance to ketball star with Christenber- ry Middle School and football player for Fulton High. change for hospitals, And a third-generation Mynatt, Jared, has put on the entertainment stripes for Friday night football games in recent years. Jared, 24, is Gene’s grandson and districts By Mike Steely Shane’s nephew. [email protected] Grieve said that Pavlis Gene, who began officiating called him about the idea basketball games in 1981, has A move to alter the city’s and said that tweaks of always had a love for sports. year-old sign ordinance to the ordinance “are going “I started in 1981 and I start- allow signs at hospitals to take place.” Pavlis said ed doing basketball games,” for emergency care was the look at creation of said Gene, who worked for Bell strongly opposed Tues- the entertainment over- Telephone Company and AT & day night but the council lay sign ordinance “won’t T before retiring and dedicat- voted to send the idea to take three years, I prom- ing his professional life to offi- the planning commission ise that.” The current over- ciating. “I always enjoyed bas- to come up with a pro- all sign ordinance, champi- ketball.” posal. oned by Grieve, took that Gene started as a basket- Planning Commission long before adoption. ball referee and later moved staff Dan Kelly said the In other business the to football and softball. He’ll MPC was busy but would council voted to change turn 70 in March and hopes do as instructed but major the name of the Sharps to work through the 2017-18 opposition came from Ridge Memorial Park school year. Joyce Feld, President of to “Sharps Ridge Veter- “I’ll probably get out next Scenic Knoxville. PHOTO BY MIKE STEELY. ans Memorial Park” on year,” he said. “I’ll miss it. “You are going to open requests from Council- I enjoy it because it keeps Knoxville honored the service of its U.S. military veterans with a focus on a big can of worms if you men Mark Campen and me young. I’ve made a lot of Marines with the City’s 91st annual Veterans Day Parade on November 11. open this back up,” she Marshall Stair. The Veter- friends with coaches and the said to the council regard- ans Heritage Site Foun- other officials.” ing tweaking the current Wreaths Across America in dation, who have adopt- Gene’s love of sports was ordinance. ed the park and are pro- passed down to Shane, who The council also asked after his playing days with the Knoxville needs your help the MPC to look at creat- moting several changes Falcons, put on stripes on By Mike Steely on the internet. ing a sign ordinance for there, were present for Friday nights. [email protected] He began getting requests for “entertainment overlays” the vote. Like Gene, Shane has served Veterans Day was last week but wreaths from several states but he in certain parts of the city, The council also voted, as a referee in football and there’s another event coming to could only send seven wreathes to such as Happy Hollar and on first reading, to adjust basketball. He’s still a softball honor veterans and you can get the states. In 2007 Wreaths Across Cumberland Avenue. the city’s compensation umpire and he is also a former involved. On December 17 wreaths America, a non-profit organization Councilman Nick Pavlis plan for employees and baseball umpire. will be placed on graves at Knox was formed with the slogan “Remem- called the sign ordinance postponed a decision on “You build some great rela- County’s three veteran cemeteries. ber, Honor, Teach.” a “living and breathing an agreement to lease tionships,” Shane said. “It’s Wreaths Across America is offering Two years ago the campaign placed document” and said it is the old city hall. They also great to work with Dad. a free wreath for every two wreaths over 700,000 wreaths at 1,000 loca- now reasonable to look voted to rezone a proper- “Dad’s never one to correct that are sponsored. tions including Pearl Harbor, Bunker at creating such districts ty on Texas Avenue from you on the field but after the Ronnie Collins, President of the Hill, Valley Forge and the site of the considering potential for residential to Office. The game, he may pull you aside Alice Bell Spring Hill Neighborhood September 11 Memorial. Knoxville. He also said building is the former Boil- and say ‘Hey, you might’ve Association, reminded everyone of In 2015 County Mayor Tim Bur- that two or three taverns ermaker’s Building and called that play a little dif- the effort earlier this month. chett took up the tribute and, that would not be an entertain- the change was support- ferently. Working with Dad “I first heard about it two years ago year, about $36,000 was raised ment district. ed by the Lonsdale United has really helped me and it’s and have contributed and helped and 1,900 local graves were so hon- Vice Mayor Duane for Change organization. helped Jared.” lay wreaths. As a veteran it is just a ored. Jared has been officiat- small way of giving back,” Collins told The three Knox County cemeteries ing for six seasons and he’ll The Focus. “I’m just trying to make are the National Cemetery on Tyson receive the profession’s high- sure all three cemeteries get com- Street, the Old East Tennessee State est high school honor. He’s pletely covered.” Veterans Cemetery on Lions View been tapped to work at the The national effort goes back many Pike and the new East Tennessee Blue Cross Bowl, in one of Ten- years to Morrill Worchester, owner of State Veterans Cemetery on Gover- nessee’s High School State the Worchester Wreath Company of nor John Sevier Highway. Championship football games. Harrington, Maine. A childhood trip “It’s so important to always honor Shane worked the Blue Cross to Washington, D. C., included a visit our veterans and to not forget those Bowl in 2006. to Arlington National Cemetery. In who have served and are now gone,” “I’m really looking forward to 1992 Worchester’s company had a said Mayor Burchett. “There’s a spe- that, I’m excited,” Jared said. lot of leftover wreaths and decided cial feeling families get when they “I don’t know which game I’ll to place them in an older section of drive past one of our veteran cem- PHOTO BY MIKE STEELY get. We’ll find that out once it’s the Arlington graveyard. He did so for eteries in Knox County and see a Members of the Veterans Heritage Site Foundation several years and, in 2005, a photo wreath of live greenery placed on cheered as the city council voted to add “Veterans” to Continued on page 3 of the wreath effort there circulated Continued on page 4 the name of the Sharps Ridge Memorial Park. Spotlit on Disleksia PAGE A2 The Knoxville Focus November 14, 2016 THE CHALK BOARD Bits of News About Local Education Board of Education to Shannondale weekend in Nashville. Team Head Coach Frank Nauss. part of the change.” meet today Ms. Deathridge was first elect- “As part of the team’s communi- Elementary to hold The Knox County Board of Edu- ed to the Knox County school ty service project we wanted to Student Athletes Sign Shopping Bazaar cation will hold its mid-month board in September 2010, and help another community in their Letters of Intent Local vendors and shops in work session at 5 p.m. on Monday, served as vice-chair in 2013. desire to make a change for the Nov. 14, in the boardroom on the She was re-elected to the school better. Our kids believe that all of Fulton High School’s KeKe Fountain City will be participat- first floor of the Andrew Johnson board in 2014. Knoxville is better when we help McKinney signed her National ing in the Shannondale Shopping Building (912 S.