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tooth The Knoxville News-Sentinel Wednesday March 23 1994 NewsSentinel South Group wants attention paid to Seymour field By Kevin Cowan Ncws-Seatind staff writer baseball field Kitts explained There are provisions for two more baseball fields and a football field to occupy the remainder of the 15 acres The Seymour Community Citizens Association is not financially able to bring these plans to fruition Kathy Hobbs president of the community group said Sevier County allocates $2000 for the park annually Other funding comes from park fees and organization dues It costs $425 a month to cut the grass at the park and the grass is mowed nine months a year Hobbs said Besides the new ball fields Hobbs would like to see new playground equipment and walkways at the park Handicapped accessibility to the concession stand and restrooms also are on wish list thousand dollars cover it" Hobbs said Seymour Optmist Club president TenvN Oration said been approached by anybody We have no problem working with them but now funds are tied up with the Bower Field project love to sit down and listen to them" Some members of the Seymour Community Citizens Association believe the Seymour Optimist Club which devotes time and money to Bower Field in Knox County should be helping to develop Seymour Park in Sevier County (Seymour) Optimist Club is not doing Seymour said Seymour Community Citizens Association member David KMta not against them helping Bower Field but they should help home base first" For more than 30 years the Seymour Optimist Club has been a fixture at Bower Field In 1958 the late Ben Bower donated the land for the Chapman Highway ballfleld to the Seymour Optimist Club For years the club has strived to make improvements to the park Recently the organization mailed letters to Seymour residents explaining the work taking place at Bower Field The Seymour Optimist Club is constructing a new ballfleld which is scheduled to be ready by May This would make five fields at Bower Field The letter disturbed Kitts "We have a lot of land not being he said Seven and a half acres of Seymour Park contain three soccer fields and a French a Seymour Optimist Club member said would like to see the two organizations work together It could benefit Seymour Wow a lot of tabs! Donor of marble bench asks park vandal Seviervtie Primary School students Karla Graham Katf Williams and Isaiah Kemp from left string aluminum tabe from beverage cans When the school ooMects one mWon tabs hail donate theracydhig money to the Boys and Girls dubs of SovtorvMo Oaehe awn Letter keeping tabs on you Sevier Primary students leam to count while helping others Editor The News-Sen tineb Approximately one month ago I took great delight in helping to design and seek out a quality craftsman to fashion a beautiful marble bench as a gift to Island Home Park The mayor was gracious in his remarks when he accepted the bench and said it was a gift for many people for a long time Now has defaced it by taking great pains to scratch his name in the smooth surface of the bench The writer in me always wonders Was it because has never been associated By Bridget Cornell NewaSeatind correspondent with something beautiful? Or was it just the age old impulse of names and races are seen in public Or was it the vandalism was part of your personality Whatever the reason please think before you again mutilate something that is a thing of beauty and was yours to enjoy anyway Chloe Chitwood Island Home resident Girls Chibs of Sevierville wanted the kids to be able to see what a million of something actually looked said first grade teacher Brooke Brad "We came up with the coke tab idea because we thought it would be a good idea if the project could help someone as well as be educational" Boys and Girls Chibs are dear to all of our hearts because they help so many of our own Elrod said "The two clubs meet in our gym and they could fan the students have collected about 20000 tabs Elrod got the idea for the project from teachers at Alcoa Elementary School she said It took those students two years to collect one million tabs hoping we can beat their Elrod said a small group so we need an the help we can Parents and others in the community who would like to donate their sodapop can tabs can bring them by classroom pr the school's office really use the extra Originally the teachers had planned on donating the can taha to the East Tennessee chapter of the Kidney Foundation but they found out recently that the Kidney Foundation does not accept can tabs we can do something for the Kidney Foundation some other time but since there was such a mixup with the coke tabs and til we've decided to donate the funds to something closer to Elrod said Since starting the project last Students at Sevierville Primary School are learning to count while helping the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sevierville at the same time The students are collecting sodapop can tabs Their goal is to save me million can tabs before May 1995 After they've reached their goal the students plan on recycling the tabs to give the money to the Boys and South The Knoxville News-Sentinel Whom to cal to report newK editor Assistant 521-1 Road Suzanne Foret Neal Reporter 521-1860 Donna Craze Copyeditor 521-1867 Ed Marcum Reporter 521-1863 Kevin Cowan Reporter 521-1862 Editorial assistant 521-1792 Where to osnd nowas apparently been found is hist what we said was -in there so not like there were surprises that we couldn't have foreseen" David Montgomery a foreman with Crowder confirmed that weather was a factor in slowing work on the project had a kit of problems with the weather keeping us down held us up a lot We had a harder time getting the holes in' the ground than what we anticipated for the he said SSmLa a Mansi iiaicner a project engineer with the Federal Highway Administration said a delay with a subcontractor was another factor in slowing work on Community News The KnoxvfOe News-Sentinei PO Bax 59038 Knoxville Term 37950-9038 he said Hatcher said he believes the reason why the subcontractor's crew was late getting to the project was because it was working on a different project Miller said the contractor has been notified that if the work tail finished by May 20 the construction company will have to restore the road to its previous condition and continue the work after Nov 1 Montgomery said the crew will start to reconstruct foe road for summer traffic about two weeks before May 20 He said when the crew starts back on the project after Nov 1 it should be completed in a couple of months should be done by around he said they have to do that (traffic) be any worse off in summer than it has been in previous years but it wont be any better either unfortunately" Miller said ratio than we probably had two weeks However Miller added that still evident that no matter how much improvement there is (in speeding up work) not going to finish by their original completion He said weather conditions equipment problems and drilling into bedrock for the pilings contributed to slowing down work on the project had some unusually cold weather and their completion date was modified from March 31 to April 25 to allow for bad weather within the terms of the con tract been going Slow is drilling these holes into this bedrock" he said we let the contract we had gone in there and we did test borings We specified in the contract that when you go in here this is what going to find It win be this kind of rock this dense and you need to bid that accordingly' And DeedHne for submitting news Kerns Continued from page 81 Co of Spartanburg SCL was awarded a $16-million contract by the Federal Highway Administration last June The contract called for work on the project to be finished by March 31 but since has been extended Miller said problem that encountered is that been going a lot slower than the contractor believed it said Miller He added that the company is now at a point where it has completed 32 percent of the work in 94 percent of the time period are almost out of time and there is still lots of work said Miller I understand that been doing a lot better been my observation that work is proceeding a lot faster 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