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The President's Corner New Year, New Beginnings
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By Tomica Miller
Although the exact start of a new year is an arbitrary decision (March was once the month in which the new year started.), it is good to once a year reflect on what has gone before and what is yet to come. The year 2002 saw Old North Knoxville banding together to clean up a section of 1st Creek and to host a very successful recent Holiday Home Tour - featuring 11 homes and drawing close to 1,400 visitors. The past year also saw Old North working with other neighborhoods to lobby the state legislature to keep a bad amendment from becoming law and lobby the local city council to enact an H-1 Overlay protecting the J. Allen Smith house in west Knoxville. Two thousand three looks like another year full of challenges and promises. One of the brighter things to happen this year will be Old North Knoxville celebrating its 15th Annual Victorian Holiday Home Tour - that's 15 continuous years of opening our historic homes and welcoming visitors into our lives and neighborhood. Organized and executed by volunteers, Old North's home tour certainly has to be one of the longest running yearly home tours in Knoxville, if not East Tennessee. It's - dare I say - historic. This year will also be the 5th anniversary of the neighborhood holiday decorating contest. Just like the tour, this gets better each year, with the number of friendly competitors growing and gift certificates awarded to the winners. And though it might not be as well known as the tour or as "flashy" as the exterior holiday decorations, 2003 is also the 25th anniversary of the neighborhood association. Through tough times and good times, lean times and wondrous ones,
Old North Knoxville, Inc., has been here, working to build the best neighborhood in Knoxville, and like the home tour, the work is done by dedicated volunteers whose names you might not know but whose deeds influence our lives. Return to newsletter table of contents
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