by design | Jun 27, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
Who: Knox County Health Department (KCHD), Walgreens and Helen Ross McNabb Center What: Free, confidential HIV testing in observation of National HIV Testing Day When: Thursday, June 27 and Friday, June 28 from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 29 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m....
by design | Jun 26, 2013 | Dan Andrews, News, The Daily Focus
Country singer Jake Owen took time out of his busy schedule to make a difference in the lives of people living with Williams Syndrome. This was accomplished with the assistance of The Academy of Country Music Lifting Lives program and the Vanderbilt Kennedy...
by design | Jun 24, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
Kroger will present a $32,000 check to the Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee at the one-year anniversary celebration of store #684, to be held Thursday, June 27. All monies being donated were raised as part of the grocer’s “Bringing Hope to the Table”...
by design | Jun 24, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
KUB will smoke-test the sewers in the downtown area on Tuesday morning, June 25, weather permitting. “The smoke is not dangerous,” said Kendall Stiles, KUB’s manager of Customer Support, “but we want to let customers know what is going on so they will not be alarmed....
by design | Jun 24, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson A song by Kathy Mattea resonates with me this week because I’m “home alone.” Mattea described the lifelong relationship of Claire and Edwin, whose byline was, “Where’ve you been? I’m just not myself when you’re away.” This September Becky and I...
by Mark Nagi | Jun 24, 2013 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman On a beautiful late spring weekend, around 125 kids showed up at Grace Christian Academy for the Eric Berry D1 Iron Sharpens Iron Football Camp. For Berry, a former Tennessee Vols All-American, camps like this one are a look into the future for when his...
by design | Jun 24, 2013 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore When I was eight years old a classmate of mine talked me into going to Woolworth’s 5 & 10 cent store “just to look around.” We came to the comic book section and she quickly stuck a thick book in a purse she had. Then she told me to get one too. I...
by Joe Rector | Jun 24, 2013 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector joerector@comcast.net I’ve tried to write this piece a couple of times but found it almost impossible. The key is to put it on paper without sounding preachy or religiously stilted. So, here goes another attempt. The main characters in books, TV, and...
by design | Jun 24, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
Last week I heard someone complain that our state legislators just don’t understand the Supremacy Clause. If that statement is true, I am sure they are not the only ones so I thought it might be worth briefly discussing the Supremacy Clause in this column. The...
by design | Jun 24, 2013 | News, The Daily Focus
KUB and its contractor will close a short section of Fern Street to through traffic between Martin Luther King Avenue and Selma Avenue weekdays from 7 a.m. through 5 p.m. beginning Monday, June 24, and lasting through Friday, July 12, as work is completed on the sewer...
