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Happenings in and around Old North Knoxville
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October Creek Cleanup a Success Twelve shopping carts, 30 bags of trash, one manhole cover, one tire, and a News Sentinel newspaper dispenser were among the items tugged, pulled, carried, and roped out of First Creek on October 16th. Twenty-five members of Americorp and 5 residents of Old North Knoxville and 1 from Fourth and Gill worked for a few hours on a cool Saturday morning, focusing on the section of First Creek from Broadway to Grainger Avenue in this the 6th cleanup of the creek and First Creek Greenway. The Americorp volunteers came from across the state of Tennessee. They were in town for a statewide conference, and as part of the conference, the several hundred members in attendance were divided among 9 creek cleanup sites. The Knoxville branch of Americorp is the only one in the state to focus on creek cleanup and ONK was fortunate to get them to send some of their volunteers our way, otherwise much less work would have been accomplished by the small but dedicated local group. Thank you to Americorp for the volunteers who ranged from students to teachers, from youthful in body to youthful in spirit. Thank you, too, to Robert Marlino, Catherine Suddarth, Jerry Rivers, Beth and David Booker from ONK, and to Chris from Fourth and Gill. The cleanups are having a positive effect on the First Creek Greenway. While there is still plenty of trash that shows up, there is also a reduction in some of the types of materials found. For example, only one tire was recovered this time. In the past, 6 or more tires have been pulled out of the creek. With a shopping center on the other side of Broadway, just upstream from the greenway, there will probably always be shopping carts, but most of the ones pulled out this time looked like recent dumps into the creek and not ones that had been there to the point of rusting, which has been the case in the past. Another cleanup is planned for the spring. Volunteers Needed Want to have a good time? Want to help your neighbors during this Holiday Season? How about volunteering to help out with 16th Annual Holiday Home Tour, this Dec. 4th and 5th? Volunteers are needed to staff the ticket booth, be guides on the trolleys, or work in the homes of those who have volunteered to open their homes to a 1,000 people or more who will be enjoying the home tour. Volunteers get a pre-tour tour of all the homes and a party before the tour as way of saying thank you. To volunteer, contact Stephen Henderson at 865-525-5057 or .
2004 ONK Ornament -Only $12.00 Get a piece of Old North Knoxville history for yourself or those on your Christmas shopping list. For the second year, Old North Knoxville has available an ornament for only $12.00 a piece. The home featured this year is ONK's own bed and breakfast, the Brimer House Inn, at the corner of West Glenwood and Armstrong. Etched in either gold or silver, only a limited edition of this ornament has been made. To buy your special ornament, contact Tomica Miller at 521-7884 or . There are even a few of last year's ornaments available, also $12.00 each. ONK Board, Officers Elected At the October 28th meeting, in addition to the potluck, there was the election of new board members to Old North Knoxville, Inc. And from those board members elected and those already on the board, the officers for the next year were elected. Elected to board for terms ending in 2007 were Penny Baxter, Beth Booker, Dodi Payne, Robert Marlino, James Pierce, and Tom Brechko. Elected to a term ending in 2006 was Bob Lavoie, and elected to terms ending in 2005 were Kim Davis and Cathy Shuck. Officer elected were: president, Tomica Miller; 1st vice president, Stephen Henderson; 2nd vice president, Andy Anderson; secretary, Catherine Suddarth; and treasurer, Tom Brechko. Catherine Suddarth has also taken on the position of president of the Neighborhood Watch association, taking over for
Stephen Henderson. All elections take effect immediately. Congratulations to all the board members and officers elected. Thank you for serving Old North Knoxville and being willing to work to make it a better place to live.
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