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StMlNEL I knosnnvsjOQin OPED Tuesday Septemlier 14 2010 B3 Booker bridge an avenue to memories Angel was a sweet and gentle soul giris-only tea parties at a miniature table On Feb 28 2008 the state oflfennessee dedicated toe SummkHiU Drive bridge in my hcncc The spcnsore in the Legislature were Sen Tim Burchett and Repi Joe Armstrong Whetherldeservedtoat the tahle and a tiny dish in front ofherf which she nibbled tiny morsels of cheese and crackers like fee other girls So last Friday after the strongest painkiller had begun to failI went to the store airi bought Angeh favorite foods and let her have them without reservation Her appetite wasn't what it once was but she went at the little cups of Frosty Paws (a frozen dog treat) wife the enthusiasm of puppyhood As we made preparations I was filled wife regrets because it is my nature to seconds 'Hie only thing certain in this physical universe is change Nothing lasts forever not nations people or dogs All come and go in their own time Last Tbesday my wife Cheryl andl took our German shepherd Angel on her last car ride on fee way toend her suffering Offee three shepherds we've had she traveled best and enjoyed it most Long trbs or short she loved riding Cheryl andlhad made the decision on the Friday before Labor Day which made for a long sleepless weekend Angeft joints had beoome increasingly painful she was barely able to get up and down fee stairs and she had an everworsening skin condition that caused her misery Ifmoney or good medical care could have helped Angel would still be with us But nothing worked Not that she let butter crackers The drugstore was in the Medical Arts Building where my fomily pfayaaanDnNapierAHendenonhad his practice Arrytunelpaidhimavisit his question was the hdl is wrong wife you now?" Whenlretumed from fee Army in May 19S7East Vine was even more emting than 1 had known ittobe There sat fee EDA Rest afew doors finomfee Gem Across Central on West Vine was the WarfcerkCIubil was neither an Elk noraworken but college students were welcomed andlpartoak in fedrhospibality And who could forget the Moon Glow Cafe that stood at fee comer ofVine and Patton Street? They served the workft best and thickest bakigna sandwiches with all the trimmings One could sec some big name entertainers dining there after they had doneashow somewhere Ilook back in amazement at all fee various businesses feat were jammed into feat three-or feurblodt area where the Robert Booker Bridge now stands AH of feem are now gone but "Little as -one ofourkxal newspapers difobedit in fee 1940s was as ciose as one could gettofee real place For more than 67 yearsl walked and drove on feat street asayounsster and an old man and never dreamed feat one day it would bear my name his truly an honor to have my name associated wims kngifl had kept her skinny and svelte? Hadldoneeverythinglcouldforher when she became ill? Such questions are selfdefeating Mazier our first German shepherd had a grand appetite and full figure and died from cancer when she was almost 13 years old Greta went into kidney failure at 7 still slim and youthful though she ate fee same diet as Mime and lata AngeL In the end we can only do what we think is best Angel came to us as a stray and wasavahied member of our fee fanner East Vine Avenue feat crossed the bridge played an incredible role in my growing upi It was the heart of fee black business community before urban renewal destroyed There were stores and shops of every kind Three large churches were there East Vine Avenue Christian CBentleyX East Vine Avenue Methodist CLennon-Seney) and East Vine Avenue Presbyterian (TmarsreTlL They are now in other lnratinrig There were at least two gasoline service stations and the atys only Mack motel Several taritahoompames and eating establishments didagood business there There were grocery stares dry cleaners pool halls and more Readiest memories offee street date backtol94LwhenIwas6yearsokLMy grandmother lihed horror movies and often tookme to the GemTheatre near fee comer ofVine and Central to see tton We always walked about nine bkxis from Georgia Street to Jackson Avenue to Patton Street to Ndson Avenue where it ran into Vine behind fee Carnegie Library We made feoretrpsiintilfeeGemwasstrudtby lightning and burned in 1942 It reopened several months later AsalD-yearoldloftenfoundmyway there alone on Saturdays to see the R-western of the dayThree blocks away was fee Crnie Colored Library feat ofioed various activitiestoenoourage school out more to receive the gnkien bookmarks and fee other goodies thelibrarians offered as incentives Asahighschoolstudentlfoundthe rtmcnlate milkshakes at the Carter-Roberts Drugstore on fee 200 block ofVinetobe the most ddidous in town especially if they were sipped while eating Lance peanut tstaira she dkhrt whimper In fact she always triedtohide her injuries Tbwaids fee end vriien we knew a serious fall was inevitable Cheryl andl considered movingtofee basement so Angel would not have stairs to navigate It wouldn't have wodoed though because she hitfed changes and resisted them mightily Her routine was sacred and a routine became a tradition after the second time When Cheryl and our youngest grandchild Sydney Ann had one of their community ofhardwoddng citizens fobertl Boater who writes this column for theNewsSenUneisatreelanoewrtterandfonner 1 ewcuUvedrBctaraflheBeckCUltural Exchange Center He may be reached at wife dignity and love She adored our grandchildren and even when she was no longer able to play very much still hovered over Sydney when she spent the -night Angel was so shy it was hard to believe howfrjghtenmg fee could become when strangerscametoonearherfenceand her family without permission At fee veterinarian's office she would hide behind my legs like alitde child For 20 yean there's beenaGerman shepherd at my feet as Ie sat at the keyboard Angel was fee lastIfeinklt will be strange not tohave at least one big dog sprawled in the floor hindering foot traffic or waking us tobe let out but saying goodbyenurtstoomuch Goodbye Mbs Angd We truss you DavMHunterwhowritesthiscoiumnforthe News Sentinel Is a freelance writer and former Knox County sheriffs deputy You may write him at ROl Box 1124 PowdTN 378491 Kse-mal address is davidhunter333comcastneL DHBERT Scott Adams BURN AS THE MARKETING MANAGER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MY JOB IS TO USE THESE TWO WORDS A LOT MARKETING THROUGH 60CIAL MEDIA IS LIKE HERDING CATS AND JUST TO MAKE IT INTERESTING MANY OF THE CATS ARE DRUNK AND STUPID I AM TOTALLY DEFRIENDING THAT WITCH ing agreements wife retailers at one time "but it didn't PBS SCOTS VW fromBl torofjaguar from B1 two sets of call letters: WKOP in Knoxville and Teresa James General Manager of ETPtv According toKllen the identity of the nonprofit year with sales up more than 22 percent gotalot of workto do across a number of facets of our business" Browning told reporters atapress conference announcing his promotion in Washington Volkswagen which also sells cars under the Audi Bentley and Lamborghini brands sold about 3QOJOOO vehicles in fee US last yean It aims to sell 1 million by 2018 with 200000 coming from its Audi luxury brand A key test for Volkswagen comesmOctobei when it releases a redesigned Jetta sedan in the US It cut toe price of its best-selling US car by SL73S The 2011 version will now cost about $16000 It also made fee car larger tiian its predecessor hoping to more closely tailor the car to American tastes Volkswagen once operated an assembly plant in New Stanton Pa but closed it in 1988 amid sluggish sales Brown saic "Wedonlt presently market merchandise ofFcam- pus his a conversation our folks have had some time back and I think a conversation we will have in the future" Carson-Newman like Maryville College and Tbs-cuhim College still sells fee highest volume of school-related merchandise in college bookstores and from bookstore websites idig belie i marketing agreement will pay lasting dividends even as T-shirts fade with time "These kinds of tactics will have legs that last for years just one more touch even when been in the washer and dryer 100 timeRnhemiii- Ken UtUe is a freelance contributorto the News Sentinel be part of the community when folks can find items that are meaningfultothem in the Another small private school feat markets ns merchandise off campus is Tha-culum College Greene County The college which has an enrollment of about 2200 students has a licensing agreement with WalmarL The retailing giant paid the school a fee fir use of the Thscuhim College logo on shirts caps and other nems and sells the merchandise in its Green-eville store "Students would be the number one market with the alumni being Tbscuhim College spokeswoman Suzanne Richey said "Having our ahumn and students wear the apparel and the logo is a conversation starter Word of mouth is Richey said can say Ttiscu-him College I never heard and it's an opportunity for them to explain what happens here For us a good Carson-Newman College in Jetierson City had market Jacoby who left in June to run Volvo The new CEO wants to improve several areas of Volkswagen US business including customer satisfaction its dealer network and used car operations He noted the company has never surpassed its 1970 sales record of 577000 vehicles At feat time quirky cars like fee Beetle and the Microbus were a hit with American buyers helping it capture an almost 6 percent market share VW is the third largest au-tomakerintheworidbehind Tbyota Motor Com and GM but it commands less than 3 percent of the US market However it has outpaced the broader industry so for this fromBl as well" she said Retailers like Walgreens have long marketedprod-ucts from large universities like UT Walgreens spokesman Vivika Vergara said tv natinminHg chain also is committed to assisting schools like Maryville College "The decision to cany merchandise supporting local schools wasn't sparked by marketing agreements Our store managers are always looking for ways to serve the needs of the Vergara said Hie Maryville store manager and staff recently participated in an orientation event on campus to highlight Walgreens and its services Vergara said "Then we noticed more students coming into our local stores We didn't carry any Maryville College merchandise but thought it would be a good idea to offer some items like T-shirts and she said "Ift just another way we can Attention Guaranteed Investors Call Now for Some of the Highest Fixed Rates in the Nationl station had been The goal is to clarify the wide range affiliation and mission Killen said having two different names was com-plicated for a single organization "Many people know ns as many things Some think of us as ETPtv others as channel 2 or channel IS and still others at WKOP or WETP" said James According to a press release from the station East Tennessee PBS is 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