HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM YOUR OLD NORTH NEWS

It is at this time of the year that we take the time to reflect on the past year and give thanks for all the good and happy times and look forward to the coming year and the inevitable surprises and changes it will bring.

This past year has been an exciting and good year for us in Old North Knoxville, despite some frustrations with outside forces (see editorial elsewhere in this letter). We have bid farewell to valued and treasured neighbors and welcomed new addtions to the neighborhood. This is one of the things that keeps our neighborhood alive and vibrant, the loss of some and the infusion of new into our group.

During the year we ran a successful ice cream social for the second straight year, started a new tradition with a great spaghetti dinner, saw 240 Oklahoma go from a house about to be demolished to the beginning of a new life thanks to Knox Heritage. We saw other neighborhoods in the "string of pearls" around Knoxville go through tremendous trials and tribulations like Ft. Sanders and some have great triumphs like Fourth and Gill getting an H1 overlay. We ended the year as always with our annual (the eleventh this year) Victorian Home Tour which again this year was a great success (see other stories in this letter). During this year we had the support and hard work of the Old North Knoxville, Inc. Board working to insure that we adhered to our mission statement to "preserve, promote and protect the Old North Knoxville Neighborhood."

We now look forward to the coming year with anticipation. With the addition of new people actively working on your board, we are looking forward to continuing those successful activities like the tour, ice cream social and spaghetti supper while we are also ready to tackle new projects such as the long range project of protecting the edges of our neighborhood with a Conservation District.

And Old North News will be there this new year continuing its long tradition of bringing you the breaking news and information of our neighborhood no matter how old it is!

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