Fountain City Cell Tower

Fountain City is fighting a Branch cell tower, much as we did.  They have created an on-line petition against their tower, which they have asked us to sign, if we wish.   Here is their note:

“Would you and the Lakemoor Hills group be willing to sign and share our petition for T-Mobile to stop building cell towers in residential neighborhoods? http://tiny.cc/stoptmobile ”

It’s easy to participate, if you wish.

As you drive through the neighborhood, please appreciate the hard work of the Knox County Inmate Services, their fine deputy, Mike Dowell and the many volunteers who helped make it happen. Between July 29-31, multiple sites of chainsawed  logs and removal of huge brush piles were completed by 9-10 inmates and their deputy. The County Inmate Services provided truck, trailer, fuel, equipment, water and this team of hard-working individuals. They worked from 8:30 each morning, stopping only for lunch, finishing around 4:15 on Friday.

Many Thanks go to:

Mr. Ivan Harmon, who made it possible to schedule this service for our neighborhood.

Deputy Mike Dowell, who worked side by side with the inmates or “his boys”, not asking them to work any more than he did himself.

Randy Kerns, Chair of the Project and Jim Gray, Associate Chair, who secured the services, mapped out the many sites and roads for work, secured an off-site location for proper disposal of debris and followed the project through to completion.

Cindy Klassen, Ann Graf, Geri Mulligan, Linda Haynes and Sharon Gerkin, who contributed food, time and talents to each day’s lunch.

Dick Graf, Homeowner’s President, for meeting at lunch each day with the team of workers.

Lake Hills Presbyterian Church for allowing us to use their facilities during the time for lunch.

Now we are asking you to show your appreciation in two distinct ways:

First, we ask you to give a DONATION to the Homeowner’s Association to help defray the cost of this project. It would  cost thousands of dollars by a commercial company to have completed the same tasks. It benefits all the neighbors who live here since the natural beauty will be displayed rather than piles of debris.

Second, we are asking EVERYONE, please, do NOT cut brush or wood to pile on a vacant lot along our roads. The Beautification Committee is committed to keeping our roadways litter and brush-free, with everyone’s help.

Thank you,

Sharon W. Gerkin, Beautification Committee Chair

Fountain City’s neighborhood is fighting the same battle against a Branch cell tower that we did.  They have asked any of us who would be at the August MPC meeting to wear one of their “Protect Knox Neighborhood” hats at the meeting (they will be available there – see Carrera Romanini or Kelly Ellenburg) if we could.

They also sent along this link to show they are getting press, too.  http://wate.com/2015/07/22/fountain-city-neighbors-unite-to-fight-cell-tower-plan/

Knoxville Neighborhood Advisory – Vol. 8, No. 26 – Tuesday July 28, 2015

PDF Version: http://bit.ly/NeighborhoodNewsletterVol8No26

1. Lindbergh Forest Forms a New Neighborhood Association
2. Edgewood Park Elects Pallesen as President
3. Neighborhood Directory Updated: Please Check Your Listing
4. Testify on Blighted Properties at Meeting This Week
5. Neighborhood and Government Calendar

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All residents of Lakemoor Hills,

The meeting that had been scheduled at the church at 7 PM on Tuesday, July 28 is cancelled. Since the projected cell tower in our neighborhood has been cancelled, we decided to cancel the meeting. We are so grateful for the efforts made by so many to reject this planned cell tower. Thank you! No meeting Tuesday night!

Charlie Mulligan on behalf of Dick Graf

The Beautification Committee funded and installed Doggie Poop Stations throughout the neighborhood in the past few years.  One is at Circle Lake Park, one in the Bluff Point median strip, two adjacent to the trail at Lake Hills Church and one is at Maloney Road Park by the trailhead.

If you forget your plastic bag to pick up after  your pet, please avail yourself of one of the bags in the poop stations and clean up what your pet has left behind.  You wouldn’t want to find a big surprise in your yard when you are mowing that someone else’s dog deposited.

Just as they ask us to do  in the Smokies, please don’t leave a trace.

Thank you for your help to keep our neighborhood beautiful!

Knoxville Neighborhood Advisory – Vol. 8, No. 25 – Tuesday July 21, 2015

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1. City to Hold Public Meeting on Old South High
2. Session on Cell Phone Towers Open to the Public
3. Lonsdale Homecoming Set for Next Weekend
4. City Seeks Public Comment on Police Department
5. Knoxville’s 311 Call Center Takes on Regional 211
6. Are you 50 or over? Make Sure Your Car “Fits” You!
7. Neighborhood and Government Calendar

Published by the City of Knoxville’s Office of Neighborhoods to report news important to Knoxville’s residential neighborhoods. News & calendar deadline: 5 p.m. Mondays.

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Knoxville Neighborhood Advisory – Vol. 8, No. 24 – Tuesday July 14, 2015

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1. Linda Hill to Perform at Edgewood Park Event

2. Dedication Set for Everly Brothers Park
3. City Council to Consider Urban Agriculture on Second Reading
4. City Council Okays Lower Sign Heights
5. MPC Backs Office Zoning on Gibbs Drive
6. City Names Foster as Director, Council Appoints New Recorder
7. Sign of the Times: Church Hosts “Active Shooter” Seminar
8. On Thursday, Learn about Solar Energy, LED Lighting
9. Neighborhood and Government Calendar

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I want to sincerely thank all who posted signs, made phone calls, fretted and fumed in an effort to prevent a scar on this beautiful neighborhood we call home. Let us never take for granted what we have on the “quiet side of the river”. This effort should inspire all of us to commit to be vigilant for anything that would negatively impact our niche of the world. And may we wish a similar result for our friends in Fountain City and Bluegrass.

Forrest Orr