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Garry Menendez, UT associate professor of plant science and a licensed landscape architect, has retired from UT. Menendez is shown here with “just a wee bit of banana pudding” from his retirement lunch prepared by Brad Collett, James Newburn and others. Menendez left with these words: “Thank you all! It’s been a glorious ride!”
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The Dykes Family from Knoxville will appear on Family Feud at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, on FOX 43. That’s Dr. Kathy Dykes Sims on the right, HR director for the Change Center.
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Gabe Blake and Cynthia Finch won the 2022 John J. Duncan Sr. Award for Senior Advocacy, sponsored by the Knoxville-Knox County CAC Office on Aging. The winners are shown here with state Sen. Becky Duncan Massey, daughter of the late U.S. representative. (Photo by Larsen Jay)
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Chris Cunningham got this crowd shot at last Saturday’s Beaver Creek Flotilla. Official count was 420 paddlers.
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Kim Frazier (left) and Rhonda Lee (right) pose with Laura Bailey and Larsen Jay at the Beaver Creek Flotilla. Frazier and Lee are Republican nominees for Knox County Commission.
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State Rep. Gloria Johnson and attorney Sarah Malia at Saturday’s rally for women’s reproductive choice.
North Notes
- Halls Business & Professional Association will hear from Mark Field, senior VP of the Knoxville Chamber, at noon today (05/17) at Beaver Brook Country Club.
- The Powell’s Station History Society will meet from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, at the Powell Lions Club building. Denise Riggs will discuss her uncle, Charles Nix, who was killed in action in Korea. He was a 1951 PHS graduate.
- Mt. Harmony Baptist Church, 819 Raccoon Valley Road, Heiskell, is sponsoring a Craft & Rummage Sale on Friday-Saturday, June 3-4, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vendors are welcomed for $10 per day. Info: 865-309-0098.
- Powell Calendar: 4th of July Lions Club Parade, line up at Powell Middle School; step off at 11 a.m. 4th of July Picnic in the Park (Powell Station Park on Emory), noon to 3 p.m. Monday, July 4. Powell Station Celebration and Travis Wegener Memorial Car Show, 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, Powell High School.