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Sept. 8 pancake breakfast benefits Children’s Museum

Posted at 3:34 pm September 5, 2012
By Kay Brookshire Leave a Comment

Children's Museum Pancake Breakfast

At right, Pat Imperato, Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge board president, welcomes her grandchildren, Mia and Luke Pappano, to an earlier pancake breakfast benefiting the museum. (Submitted photo)

The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge will host a pancake breakfast from 8-10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at Applebee’s, 1213 Oak Ridge Turnpike.

The public is invited to come feast on pancakes in support of the Children’s Museum. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available at the front desk of the museum, 461 W. Outer Dr., or at the Applebee’s door on Sept. 8. Children’s Museum board members, staff, and members of Knoxville Area Model Railroaders will serve pancakes.

Children of all ages enjoy learning through play indoors and out at the Children’s Museum. Inside the museum, children may explore how children lived in historic Appalachia, wander through a rain forest, delight in a child-sized playhouse, create a puppet play, experience water play in Waterworks, or see model trains travel through miniature landscapes.

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Filed Under: Community Tagged With: Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, pancake breakfast

Small fire in MMC emergency department quickly extinguished

Posted at 1:17 pm September 5, 2012
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Methodist Medical Center Mattress Fire

The Oak Ridge police and fire departments respond to a small mattress fire on Wednesday morning in the Methodist Medical Center emergency department.

Note: This story was updated at 1:30 p.m.

A patient with a lighter who was experiencing a medical emergency started a foam mattress on fire at Methodist Medical Center on Wednesday morning, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.

In a statement, the hospital said the small 10:15 a.m. fire in its emergency department was quickly extinguished.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: emergency department, fire, hospital, Methodist Medical Center

Stove fire Tuesday damages Jasper Lane home

Posted at 1:03 pm September 5, 2012
By John Huotari 2 Comments

Jasper Lane Fire

The Oak Ridge Fire Department responds to a Tuesday evening stove fire at a Jasper Lane home. (Photos by Tom Scott)

A Tuesday evening stove fire caused an estimated $50,000 worth of damage to a Jasper Lane home, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.

The stove was turned off when the accidental blaze started at about 7:35 p.m. Tuesday, Kerley said.

No humans were hurt, but a family cat died, he said.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: fire, Jasper Lane, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley

Car crashes into Keeping Room early Monday

Posted at 1:12 am September 5, 2012
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Car in Keeping Room

Oak Ridge firefighters respond to a car that crashed into the former Keeping Room on Rutgers Avenue early Monday morning. (Photo by Tom Scott)

Oak Ridge firefighters responded to a car that crashed into the former Keeping Room on Rutgers Avenue at about 4:45 a.m. Monday.

On Tuesday, the Oak Ridge Police Department said an accident report is not available yet, but one should be ready later this week, possibly on Saturday.

More information will be added as it becomes available.

Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: accident, car, Keeping Room

B&W Y-12 notifies WSI Oak Ridge of possible contract termination

Posted at 12:51 am September 5, 2012
By John Huotari 3 Comments

WSI Oak Ridge could lose its security contract at the Y-12 National Security Complex if it doesn’t take action to address recent security concerns, B&W Y-12 announced Tuesday.

WSI received a notice of a potential contract termination “for default” on Aug. 31, two days after an unspecified Aug. 29 “on-site personnel incident” that allegedly involved a WSI staff member. However, B&W Y-12 didn’t provide more details in a press release it sent out Tuesday.

“At no time during the personnel incident was there risk to the Y-12 employees, community, or to the special nuclear materials,” the release said.

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Filed Under: U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 Security Breach Tagged With: B&W Y-12, Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, National Nuclear Security Administration, show cause notice, U.S. Department of Energy Inspector General, WSI Oak Ridge, Y-12 National Security Complex

Hearing date delayed for sword stabbing suspect

Posted at 7:52 pm September 4, 2012
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The hearing date for an Oak Ridge man accused of stabbing another man with a sword has been postponed until Oct. 4, attorney Marty Cizek said.

Cizek said a psychiatric evaluation that was ordered on July 24 for Jeffrey John Smith, 30, is not complete. Smith had been scheduled to have an Aug. 28 hearing in General Sessions Court in Oak Ridge.

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Filed Under: Police and Fire Tagged With: Jeffrey John Smith, Marty Cizek, Michael Showalter, stabbing, sword

Frank makes personnel change, Beauchamp laid off

Posted at 4:33 pm September 4, 2012
By John Huotari 11 Comments

In her first high-profile personnel change, new Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Anderson County Grants Coordinator Alan Beauchamp has been laid off due to an office restructuring.

“I was forced to do that to have assistants in the office,” said Frank, who was elected Aug. 2 and officially took office at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 1.

Frank said there were no longer be one full-time grants coordinator. Instead, Richard Burroughs, her chief campaign volunteer, will serve as both grants coordinator and chief of staff.

More information will be added later.

Filed Under: Government Tagged With: Alan Beauchamp, Anderson County, Terry Frank

Seeking delay, Y-12 protesters have Friday hearing in federal court

Posted at 12:38 pm September 4, 2012
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A Friday hearing has been scheduled for the three protesters accused of sneaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex on July 28 and spray-painting slogans and splashing human blood on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, where bomb-grade uranium is stored.

The three protesters—Greg Boertje-Obed, Megan Rice, and Michael R. Walli—have asked Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley to delay their Oct. 10 trial in U.S. District Court in Knoxville.

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Filed Under: U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 Security Breach Tagged With: Chris Irwin, Francis L. Lloyd Jr., Greg Boertje-Obed, Jeffrey E. Theodore, Megan Rice, Melissa M. Kirby, Michael R. Walli, U.S. District Court, Y-12 National Security Complex

Developer could request tax incentives at Alexander Inn

Posted at 11:03 am September 4, 2012
By John Huotari 4 Comments

An unnamed business could request tax incentives to redevelop the historic but run-down Alexander Inn, city officials said Friday.

The Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board could hear a few brief summary of the proposal during a meeting this afternoon, although few details are publicly available. The potential owner or developer could request tax increment financing, or TIF, which uses new property tax revenues generated at a site to pay for improvements.

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Filed Under: Business, Government, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Alexander Inn, Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board, tax incentives, tax increment financing, TIF, U.S. Department of Energy

Y-12 Construction hits one million hour mark without lost-time injury

Posted at 6:00 am September 4, 2012
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Y-12 Construction Safety Milestone

Jim Haynes, deputy general manager of projects at Y-12 National Security Complex, congratulates construction workers during a celebration luncheon Thursday. (Photo submitted by B&W Y-12)

B&W Y-12 announced last week that its direct-hire construction team has worked one million hours without a lost-time injury.

A press release said some 285 people—including building trade crafts, non-manual staff, and escorts—worked without a lost-time accident during the 633-day period. The construction team’s last lost workday was in September 2010.

Senior leaders from the National Nuclear Security Administration Production Office, or NPO, and B&W Y‑12 congratulated the workers during a celebration Thursday.

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Filed Under: U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: B&W Y-12, Jim Haynes, Knoxville Building and Construction Trades Council, Y-12 Direct-Hire Construction

First Safety Fest starts Sept. 11 at New Hope Center

Posted at 5:00 am September 4, 2012
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The first Oak Ridge Safety Fest will be held Sept. 11-14 at the New Hope Center and other venues.

The purpose of Safety Fest is to offer free training to promote safety and good health at work and home, a press release said. It is sponsored by the Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership.

At least 30 courses, all taught by experienced volunteer trainers, will be offered for free to anyone who registers at www.safetyfest-oakridge.org, the release said.

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Filed Under: Business Tagged With: New Hope Center, Oak Ridge Business Safety Partnership, Safety Fest

ADFAC celebrates new home for expectant mother

Posted at 3:31 pm September 3, 2012
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Carly Gilbert ADFAC Home

Officials and volunteers celebrate the Thursday opening of an ADFAC home for Oak Ridge resident Carly Gilbert, second from right. From left are ADFAC board president Tom Marshall, Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan, a Tennessee Housing Development Agency representative, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason, and ADFAC Executive Director Annie Cachiero.

She’s been living with her parents in west Oak Ridge, but child care worker Carly Gilbert will soon have a home of her own.

The 25-year-old expects to move into a home on Robertsville Road within about a week. She has a 30-year-mortgage on the home, built with the help of Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties and volunteers from UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

“I’m a little overwhelmed but very happy,” said Gilbert, a teacher for Anderson County Early Head Start in Oliver Springs. “I’ve never owned a home.”

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Filed Under: Community Tagged With: Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties, Carly Gilbert, home, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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