Field Trip

You haven’t truly “done the Knoxville Zoo” until you’ve attended with a group of Kindergarteners. Only then will you discover the hilarity of a rhinoceros peeing or learn that butterflies don’t like snort noises and camels poop four whole times during the camel ride.

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Taters from the Hoosegow

Inmates at the Sullivan County Jail began planting their annual vegetable garden on Wednesday. The one and a half acre garden will supply the jail cafeteria with fresh produce later this summer.
Sullivan County’s inmate garden could save jail officials $8,400 this year, or about a quarter of the facility’s monthly food bill.
More here.

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W.H. Warner Celebrates 50 Years

According to the Rogersville Review, William Homer Warner — better known as W.H. or “Dub” Warner — was honored for his 50 years of service as a volunteer firefighter Saturday at the Bulls Gap Community Center.
Tennessee State Senator Micheal Williams attended the event and read an official Senate proclamation, “Throughout his long and remarkable life, [...]

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Shelter Seeks Info on Starving Dogs

I found this photo in the Citizen Tribune and it nearly made me sick.
The dog in the photo at the right is now named  “Heavenly.”
According to Rocky Farr of the Grainger County Humane Society, she weighed a mere 27 pounds when she walked up on a local woman’s Avondale Hollow property last Thursday.
The following day, [...]

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