TOURISM Destination Knoxville Free! Knoxville used to be a stopover for tourists Please on their way to the mountains. No more. take one. Chase Malone | The Ledger P2 October 3 – 9, 2014 Vol. 40 | Issue 40 KNOXVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville The power of information. LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • SUMNER • CHEATHAM • RUTHERFORD WILSON ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY • KNOX • ANDERSON •BLOUNT •SEVIER | FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE VS. FLORIDA Finally time to stomp the chomp? Vols favored to to end 9-year losing skid against Gators Story by Dave Link begins on page 2 AP le Photo/Mark Humphrey Tennessee kicker James Wilhoit boots the game-winning, 50-yard eld goal with six seconds remaining in No. 13 Tennessee’s 30- 28 win against 11th-ranked Florida in 2004 at Neyland Stadium. Tennessee has not defeated Florida since, but is a slight favorite to end the losing streakthis week. Crossword ........................................ 6 More inside: Community Calendar .............................6–7 Find Public Notices Career Corner ..........................................3 Newsmakers ..................................... 7 inside & online: News Briefs ..............................................4 Public Notices ............................. 10–14 www.TNLedger.com Guerrilla Marketings .............................5 Tennessee Titans football ........................9 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville OCTOBER 3 – 9, 2014 Last UT win in series came on Wilhoit’s 2004 kick Rising Vols look to end skid vs. declining Gators Much has happened Pat Dooley, longtime columnist for the since University of Gainesville Sun, wrote during the open Tennessee placekicker date: “Now, the negativity is at a fever James Wilhoit booted pitch.” a 50-yard eld goal “A victory in Knoxville wouldn’t Link with seven seconds necessarily right the ship, but it would on UT remaining and the No. stop it from taking on water,” he wrote. By DAVE LINK 13-ranked Vols beat “Florida has only played three games, No. 11 Florida 30-28 but it’s the last 16 games that have at Neyland Stadium. Muschamp’s pants on re.” Remember that night? Ouch. It was Sept. 18, 2004. e game was Of course, UT fans aren’t worried televised by CBS, prime time, and the about Muschamp, and they are sick of the record crowd of 109,061 was in a fourth Gator Chomp. Nine years is a long time quarter frenzy. to take losing to Florida. Florida trailed 28-21 when UT’s Eric UT coach Butch Jones knows about Ainge threw a 17-yard touchdown pass the losing streak, but dismisses it as to Jayson Swain with 4:17 left. Wilhoit insigni cant for his team. missed the potential tying PAT kick, but “I can’t speak of the past,” Jones says. the Vols’ defense held and gave UT’s “All I know is the present, and Team 118 kicker a chance for redemption with the (at UT) controls that this week, so the winning eld goal. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey great thing is, most of our football team Seems like so, so long ago for UT fans. Tennessee kicker James Wilhoit (25) celebrates after kicking the game-winning, 50-yard eld goal hasn’t even been here for those games. Since then, Florida has won nine against Florida in Knoxville in 2004. I can’t comment on what’s gone on in consecutive games against the Vols, 13, and the next week were blown out the Fourth-year coach Will Muschamp the past. All I know is we have to control and the series has faded from national second half of a 42-21 loss at Alabama. is feeling the heat from Gator Nation, what we can control.” and even SEC prominence. Yet there is Florida had an open date last Saturday, its venom going back to the 2012 Sugar Jones has UT fans believing again, plenty riding on Saturday’s noon game at while UT lost at Georgia, 35-32. Bowl when the Gators lost to Louisville. despite two consecutive road losses. e Neyland, both for Tennessee and Florida. It wasn’t the best of timing for a bye Florida went 4-8 last season and come to Vols’ 34-10 loss at No. 4 Oklahoma e Vols (2-2, 0-1 SEC) certainly see week for the Gators, whose fans were Neyland Stadium this week having lost 10 on Sept. 13 was predictable, being a vulnerable team in Florida (2-1, 1-1). seething over the loss to the Tide and its of their last 16 games. the rst road game of the season for a e Gators needed three overtimes to beat 645 o ensive yards, the most ever allowed How bad are football times in youthful team. e competitive loss at Kentucky, 36-30, at e Swamp on Sept. by a Florida defense. Gainesville? LINK >> PAGE 9 Downtown tourism nally nds its stride By Sam Stockard | Correspondent When Kim Trent moved to Knoxville Knoxville in 1990, she could stand along Gay Street Tourism on a Sunday and be the only soul in sight. INTRODUCTION Today, she’s a face in the crowd. “ ere are so many people downtown on any given night that it’s amazing,” at the city’s newfound notoriety. says Trent, executive director of Knox ‘A great draw in itself’ Heritage, a historic preservation group e city was featured recently in a that was a catalyst for revitalization. New York Daily News article, “Knoxville Knoxville could always depend on exudes Southern graciousness and makes University of Tennessee football games a perfect weekend getaway,” that focused to bring some 100,000 fans to the city on attractions such as the boutique Oliver six or seven times a year. en there was Hotel and the eclectic collection of stores residual tourism from the Great Smoky and restaurants at Happy Holler. Mountains, the nation’s most popular “People contend that downtown national park with some 9 million visitors Knoxville is the biggest tourist attraction annually. in the city,” Trent says. “It’s become a But downtown Knoxville was largely great draw in itself.” forgotten, and many of its historic From the Tennessee eatre to the buildings crumbling, even though it was Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, the home of the 1982 World’s Fair and Knoxville Museum of Art and Urban Chase Malone | The Ledger still sports the landmark Sunsphere and Wilderness, all of which are relatively new Historic Gay Street, anchored by the renovated Tennessee Theatre, features shops and restaurants. World’s Fair Park. or revitalized, Knoxville o ers something e same suburban ight that a ected for everyone in the family, says Erin Donovan, a former television reporter Donovan points out. most large cities in the 1970s was hard Donovan, executive director of Visit whose o ce not only pushes Knoxville How it started to overcome and slow in taking shape. Knoxville, the Convention and Visitors tourism but participates in it as well Knox Heritage formed some 40 But today, thanks to public, nonpro t Bureau. through a free concert daily through radio and private ventures – and a lot of blood, With 3.13 million visitors to Knox years ago in response to ight from station WDVX in its Visitors Center. downtown Knoxville into the suburbs sweat and tears – downtown Knoxville is a County in 2012, 5.8 percent of the state’s Movies on Market Square, which has destination for tourists and local residents 54 million tourists, at $289 per visitor, and the ensuing competition with retail gone through its own rebirth, Tuesday developments that followed as part of a who ood restaurants, shops, hotels and the county tallied $904 million economic and ursday concerts, Jazz on the cultural spots. impact for group tourism. national trend. Square and any number of Visit Knoxville e going was slow as the group “We’re an overnight success that took “You can come here and make a initiatives give families a reason to come 20 years,” says Trent, laughing somewhat day out of it or a week out of it,” says downtown for inexpensive activities, TOURISM >> PAGE 8 OCTOBER 3 – 9, 2014 www.TNLedger.com/Knoxville LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor all valuable e return of Free tools available to King Dollar help with your job search e market’s game ball in the third quarter goes to the U.S. dollar. is week, I had allows employees to anonymously report e U.S. dollar rose 7 percent, the pleasure of their salary data, and then shares that boosted by the comparative interviewing Mike data with you. In the past, you had to hawkishness of the U.S. Fed. e Steinerd from Indeed. know someone and have an in to get The currency has now advanced for 11 com. Indeed is this sort of important information. 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