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Hometown Heroes: Random Acts of Flowers brings encouragement to individuals in healthcare facilities with recycled flower arrangements For each of us, we can all name a time we felt alone and forgotten, especially in our most vulnerable…
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Hometown Heroes:Why Knoxville teacher Ernie Roberts spends so much time volunteering Ernie Roberts’s list of community involvement reads like a roster of Knoxville’s nonprofits: He’s taken Key Club members from Bearden High School to…
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Music for everyone - that is the heart of Knoxville’s Joy of Music school. Its mission is “to provide quality music education for financially disadvantaged, at-risk youth”, a goal it has passionately pursued for more than 20 years. Sitting…
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New Hope Children's Advocacy Center Celebrates a Milestone Anniversary It’s not often you meet someone who wishes to work themselves out of a job, but that is the wish of many who work at Blount County’s New Hope Children’s Advocacy…
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It seems like everybody has a Dolly story. While visiting with a friend the other evening, the conversation turned to one of the few topics you can start a conversation about with ease anywhere in East Tennessee: Dolly Parton. It turns out…
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Coming from a Lake Wobegon culture of Wisconsin farm families, where bailing hay, cutting timber, and loading trucks was the norm, the idea of “working out” was a foreign concept. The saying, “if you have to ‘work out,’ you aren’t working…
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