8 March 2007 - General Meeting - Dr. Mark Windham Speaker - Dr. Windham spoke on care for lawn trees and his work on Dogwood trees at the University. KPD Officer Mayes gave an update on the local crime. He also told us about a driving school that he would like young people to attend.

8 Feb. 2007 - General Meeting - KPD Officer Sgt. Tom Fox gave an update on local police events. Paul Pinkston gave a presentation on the County Council voting for the new replacements on the council. He also introduced Tim Green the new council menber to replace Mr. Clark. Jorn Blair (West Knox Reality) gave a presentation on the rezoning request for the property at the Chapman Highway and Stone Road intersection ( East side). The property is to be rezoned "office" although the owner said he wanted the City Council to change it to planned commercial. There were objections to that from the members. The item was to have been voted on by City Council 13 Feb. 2007. It was postponed by request of the owner for four weeks.

11 Jan. 2007- General Meeting - KPD Officers Lt. Bob Woolridge,Sgt Fox and our South Knoxville patrol officer Johm Mayes gave a short update  on crime in the area. Good news - almost none. Dr. Robert Hatcher of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Tennssee gave at talk on "East Tennessee Geology and how it affects our Everyday Lives. Lots of interesting slides of problems caused by developers not doing their homeword concerning the geology of the site they were building on. Joe Harrison gave a short final report on the "Maple Gardens" project. The builder decided to not contnue with the project due to the geology of the site. His geological report as been placed into the public record and will be useful if there is another builder that wants to develop the Maples property. It points out that it is unstable and anyone that buys a house built there will be required by law to be informed that further sinkholes could develop at any time. Joe Houlquist described a new rezoning request that we may want to be concerned with. Its at Chapman and Stone Road. Harrison will meet with Houlquit, Dave Gartner (president of the Lake Forest Neighborhood Association) and the builder on Monday 22 Jan. 2007 to look at the site.

9 Nov. 2006 - General Meeting - Jan Stefan gave a presentation on the landscaping planned for the Welcome Sign at Colonial and Easton. Paul Pinkston presented CVNA with a $500 check from the County to be used to pay for the landscaping project. A vote on moving the picnic dates to May and Sept. passed. A brief report on the compromise committee progress with Jordan Mollenhour was given.

14 Sept. 2006 - General Meeting - The speaker was Roy Miller of Mooreland Heights School. He discussed events at the school including a new "Arts Grant".  KPD officers Willis and George gave a brief review of the "Crime Situation" in Colonial Village. Very little crime to report - 3 breakins of cars. New Officers were introduced.  A general discussion of the latest events concerning the development of "Maple Gardens" followed.

10 Aug 2006 - General Meeting - A vote was taken and passed unamiously to aid the community in opposition to the zoning request of Mollenhour Investment Group re the "Maples" property.

13 July 2006 - General Meeting - The meeting was scheduled as an open discussion. However a local developer (Jordan Moullenhour) ask to present his plans for a development Colonial Village. Notice was given of the change and the meeting turnout was large ( more than 80 people attended). Mr. Moullenhour presented some preliminary discussion of his plans to develop a 14 acre plot bounded by Magazine Rd., Cilla, Sarvis and Maple Loop.  This plot has not been developed because there are three "sinkholes" on the property. Mr. Moull enhour discussed the effect of the "sinkholes" on the number of houses or condos that could be placed on the property.  There will be another meeting hosted by Mr Moullenhour at the Ijams Nature Center on 3 Aug. 2006. As of 19 Aug. 2006 there had been no anouncement of the time the meeting would be held.

The board of CVNA strongly recommends that all interested parties attend this meeting. The nature of the development will be made know at that time - the engineering details are being worked out by Mr. Moullenhour's group prior to the meeting.

Also it was announced that the annual drive to collect material for Moorland Height School was in progress. Material that are used by the students and teachers are needed. Bring them to the Aug. meeting and they will the taken to the school.

17 June 2006 - Picnic at Garry Underwood park. You should have been there! The turnout was low but being the Saturday before Fathers Day as good as could be expected.

11 May 2006 - General Meeting - Speakers were Lt. WoodBridge & Officer Ivester of the KPD. We were given a "crime snapshot" for the area. Colonial Village had a few minor breakins (cars having CD player stolen etc.).  Lt. WoodBridge strongly requested that if you see any suspicious activity that you call the police at the non-emergency number 215-4010.  This same number can be used ot report barking dogs as well as loose or mistreated animals. They want to be informed and will investigate.  He also gave us the number of the "non-response" phoneline - 215-7268. This line is to be used to report things like a lost drivers license or to make a police report for insurance reasons.

13 April 2006 - General Meeting - Speakers were the candidates for County Commission Seat 9B: David Kiger, Martin Pleasant and Paul Pinkston. Also candidates for the school board: Robert Bratton (incumbent), John McLain (who has been on the board as a member and as chair) and Steve McGill (writein).

9 March 2006 - General Meeting - Speaker Dave Hill Chief Operating Officer City of Knoxville. Mr. Hill gave a presentation on the South Knoxville Waterfront Devlopment plans. He had slides of the proposed roads for the site and the plans to make the waterfront accessable by foot traffic.

Jan Setffans gave a presentation on the South Knoxville Senior Center. The plans are complete and the bits for construction are in the works. Next year late summer or fall the center is planned to be open.

 9 Feb. 2006 - General Meeting - Speaker Tom Salter (Keep Knoxville Beautiful). Lecture on the new proposed "Bottle Bill". The web site for the proposed law is "www.tnbottlebill.org". Mr Salter had a great deal of information on the effects of this kind of law in other states.

 12 Jan. 2006 - General Meeting - Speaker Joseph Hultquist City Council Member for our district. He brought us up to date on the South Knoxville Waterfront Project and other things going on in South Knoxville. The third public  meeting for the Waterfront Project is on 2 Feb 2006. At the Kerbela Temple.

10 Nov. 2005 - General Meeting - Speaker George Aubuchon form the "Codes" division of the city goverment. He had lots of good information about how the codes are actually enforced. Also he bought booklets with information about services - leaf & garbage pickup etc. The ByLaws were voted on and passed. The new Bylaws are on this website.

13 Oct. 2005 - Cookout. Thanks to Diana Johnson & Kelvin for their grill work!

8 Sept.  2005 -The general meeting was held to discuss the rewrite of the Bylaws. The new Bylaws were passed out and a few changes were requested. The had to do with - the number of signatures needed for  check writing, the makeup of the Association board (a clarification) and who is eligelable for membership( the working of the sentence).  Mooreland Heights School parents association (Kathy Nance) announced that the association was sponsoring a boxtop collection effort to support the school. It seems that it is possible to collect hundreds of dollars for the school by this effort.  An email is being sent to all people on the "list serve" with the details. The entrance sign progress was reported - the survey is finished, that allows us to get the sign permit. Dan Setffens arranged for General Shale to donate the concret blocks needed for the sign. A cleanup of the area where the sign will be build is scheduled for September 24. The brush needs to be cut, and maybe, the foundation dug for the sign.

11 Aug.   2005 - Speaker at the meeting was Joseph Hultquist City Council Member for our district. He gave a presentation on the the development plan for South Knoxville. The detail of the current work being done on the waterfront development. The presentation covered the various planners that have proposals for the area and the selection process for selecting one to develop the final plans. Details of the types of development were discussed - such as a walkway along the waterfront and access to it by the public. He also mentioned the "South Knoxville Foundation" a subsidiary of the East Tennessee foundation and the current funding goals, they have $65.000 of a $100,000 goal.

Moreland Heights School had a representative(Kathy Nance)  at the meeting to receive the school supplies that the Association collected for this school year.

14 July 2005 - Speaker was a "no show" - supposed to be Codes Enforcement. Kelvin Francis had meet with the mayor and codes. There are several houses in the neighborhood that need some clean up. At least one has been cleaned up as a result of a "visit" from the codes people. The general discussion was about the new stores going into South Knoxville. There are currently a Home Depot , a   Lowes, a Dollar General Market and the First Tennessee Call Center scheduled to open or start operation within the next year or eighteen months.School starts 11 Aug. 2005. Bring your donations for the Mooreland Heights School to the Aug. meeting.

11 June 2005 

Cookout - good time had by all.

12 May 2005

General Meeting - KPD reports several breakins at local businesses along Chapman Highway, no apparent pattern in what was taken. Open Discussion: Jan Seffains reports that the Senior Citizens Center site has been selected - across from Wigels on Old Marryville Pike. Construction is to start in the fall. The lot at the corner of Easton and Colonial Rd. has been sold to Brenda Douglas, she is planning to start a garden center there.

14 April 2005

The speaker for the meeting was Roy Miller Pricipal of Mooreland Heights Elementary School.

KPD officer Dan Padeh briefed us on the months activity. Two fires in "not solved" status.

Joe Hultquist - James White Parkway Plan going to Nashville 25 Apr. Will start Chapman Highway Planning group next. So far no action on Fort Higley. Some statements about the South Knoxville Development plan that has just been published. Check the city web site for more information and a copy of the plan.

Roy Miller gave a presentation on the activities of the Mooreland Heights School. Their scores on the value added test are all "A". He thanked up for the donation of school supplies last fall. He told us about the plans for the Centennial Celebration that the school will have on the 13th of May at 10AM. There are speakers scheduled from the local area. Presentations by the students and tours of the school building. Mr Miller was presented with a $100 check by the Association for the Centennial.

 10 Mar. 2005

The speaker for the meeting was Dr. Mark T. Windham from UT. He is an expert in dogwoods. His talk was very interesting and informative. He gave out booklets with information about dogwoods, ask someone to share their copy with you.

Philis Tonkin of KPD gave us the update on the local "crime". There have been a few problems in South Knoxville but not too many in out area.

10 Feb. 2005

The meeting was a general disscussion session. Sandy Ammons presented the recommendations of the James White Parkway Task - "build the by pass, extend it to John Sevier  and leave out the interchange at Red Bud". TDOT will start a new planning of the route of the parkway. Sandy also give us an update on the proposed sign for the Colonial Village entrance at Colonial Rd. There was a disscusion of  two zoning requests - one for 300 Beech Wood drive, Sean Gill - a home office for his business the other at 6006 Adelia Dr - Joe W. Touchton for another home office. Both have been passed by MPC and are on appeal to the city council.

13 Jan. 2005

The speaker was the new police chief  Sterling Owens IV. See the article in the South Knoxille paper.

11 Nov. 2004

The meeting had a speaker from the Senior Citizens Awareness Network scheduled. The speaker was unable to appear. The meeting held a general discussion of problems and happnings in the neighborhood.

The subjects ranged from ducks & dogs to the leaf pickup. A letter was sent to residents near Butterfly Lake about feeding the ducks. The population of fowl is getting a little too large, residents are urged NOT to feed the ducks.

The Asssociation has received formal legal documents giving permission to place a Colonial Village entrance sign at the intersection of Colonial Road and Easton by the owner of the same property occupied by Butterfly Lake. The legal formality was needed to be eligible for grant funds from the city.  Plans are being made to find th money and get the sign designed. More news on the sign at the Jan. meeting.

14 Oct. 2004

We had a cookout at the church - weather a little cold and some rain. Moderate turnout with lots of food.

9 Sept. 2004

The speaker for the meeting was Roy Miller principal of Mooreland Heights School and a Title 1 administrator for the local "No child Left Behind" federal program Ms. Bert Lanauze.  Mr Miller told us about the activities at Mooreland Heights and gave a Power Point presentation about the relative ranking of the school with others in Knox county. He was presented with the school supplies that we had collected for the new school year.

12 Aug. 2004

The speaker for the meeting was General Richard Bowling , national commander of the Civil Air Patrol.

The South Knoxville police stopped by and gave up an update on their activities. They ask that people use caution on Colonial Drive, some ducks have been run over.

General Bowling spoke about Homeland Security and the activities of the Civil Air Patrol . His advice on homeland security was to not be too alarmed even though Oak Ridge is a "prime target". Keep some food staples and a supply of water on hand and  lookout for odd activity. The Civil Air Patrol is doing now the same sort of  things they were founded to do in the 1940s, in addition they provide emergency services, have a Cadet teaching program and an Aerospace Education program.

Reports on the status of Butterfly Lake project, the James White parkway and the Greenway project were given. \

A litter pickup day was suggested for selected roads, the details were sorted out at the board meeting Tuesday. The roads to be picked up are: Colonial Rd., Moore Rd., Magazine Rd, West Ford Valley and Neubert Spring Rd. The cleanup volunteers will meet at the church at 9AM Saturday Sept. 11th. for a pickup lasting till noon. The rain date will be Sept. 18th.

8 July 2004

The speaker for the general meeting was Jamie Haygood, she couldn't make due to a "schedule conflict".

Two candidates for county commissioner gave a presentation of their views, Pam Maroney Trainor and Martin Pleasant.

Two local policemen gave a short talk on the staffing for theSouth Knoxville area and the city in general.

The Mooreland Heights School is requesting that the association donate supplies, like last year. The school supplies needed are;

      Loose-Leaf Notebook paper

     Composition books (70ct) (Wide Ruled)

     Glue sticks

     #2 pencils

     Crayola markers

     Fiskar student size scissors

     Back packs

     Pencil boxes

     2-pocket, 3 prong folders

     Kleenex tissue

     Ziploc Baggies (Sandwich & Gallon size)

Please bring your donation to the General Meeting on the 12th of Aug. 2004

Election of  board member was held, the following members were elected.

Pres.   Kelvin Francis

Vice Pres. Joseph Harrison

Sect. Carol Cook

Asst. Sect Julie Welker

Treas. Paula Gumpman

Asst. Treas. Diana Johnson

Orange District - Jan Steffen

Green District - Glen Barns

Blue District - John Bevis

Red District - Sandy Ammons

Purple District - Gerry Larkin

10 June 2004

CNVA held a picnic at Garry Underwood Park. Thanks to Joe Hultquist a telephone autodialer was used to notify the neighborhood. The turnout was excelent many new folks who will be familiar with the organization. There were several members of the City Councel in attendance: Joe Hultquist, Steve Hall and Cris Woodhull. Also there were two candicates running in the August elections: Jim Bletner - State Representitive (to replace J. Haygood, and Pan Maroney Trainor who is running for county commissioner in opposition to Paul Pinkston.

13 May 2004

Scheduled speaker Donna Ogle Fire Inspection for the Knoxville Fire Department gave a talk on common causes of home fires and cautions to be observed. She strongly recomends Smoke Detectors and gave instructions for their mounting in the home. Smoke Detectors may be obtained from the Fire Department and they will come to your home and install them, for more information call Donna at 215-2846.

Because of reports of a "peeping Tom" in the East Lake Forest area and a group of men who were going through the neighborhood posing as city employees while looking for lawn objects to steal , three policemen came to the meeting. Sgt. Shana Williams address the meeting and ask for details about the activities of the group of men and any information on the problem in East Lake Forest. If you have any information you should call Sgt. Williams at 215-7179 or email her at "srwilliams@cityofknoxville.org".

Sandy Ammons gave the meeting a talk on her activites on the "James White Parkway Task Force". The group is to prepare input for TDOT about the extension to James Whiteparkway. They are also looking into changes that can be make to Chapman Highway.

Paul Pinkston (county council) attended the meeting an gave out a survey for input on the proposed "wheel tax" and its uses. Mr Pinkston is replacing his brother for the remainder of the former councilman's term and is running for his seat at the next election. He told us to expect "explosive" growth near the new WallMart complex. He gave us his phone number (577-8761) and ask to be called if anybody had a problem he could help solve

Nominations for new officers was held ; Vice President, Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary were open. Joseph Harrison was nominated Vice President, Diane Johnson  was nominated Assistant Treasurer and Carol Cook as Assistant Secretary.

8 April 2004

Kathy Martin director of the South Knoxville Library branch gave a talk about the activities of the library. She also informed us that she had been transferred  another library.  Freda Williams is the new director.  There is some indication of a plan to change the operation of the South Knoxville branch. This could have a serious inpact on the community, we will track this and keep you informed.

We have received permission from the owners of "Butterfly Lake" to do some landscaping on the property and erect a Colonial Village Entrance sign there.

11 March2004

The scheduled speaker did not show, an emergency. Bob Santore of the "Knox Tree Board" gave a talk on his groups efforts to plant trees at various sites in South Knoxville and the progress of the plantings of bulbs in the median of the James White Expressway.

There was a discussion if the proposal the link Garry Underwood park to other parks in the area using a "greenway" that is the old right of way of the railroad that once passed through Colonial village. There were some objections by people who's property is close to the proposed trail.

12 Feb. 2004

Speakers: New City Council Members - Becker,Baley,Roddy and Woodhull

The forum was an open question and answer session. The subjects discussed were: The closing of the Henley Street bridge and the effect on South Knoxville. Traffic Calming and how to get information of its use and availability for our neighborhood. The request (last year) for more stop signs and the lack of response by the city, we got only four of the signs requested.

Also at the meeting was Jamie Haygood and Joe Hultquist. Haygood was there to announce her candidacy for the state legislature seat of Ben Ashley.

8 Jan. 2004

Speaker: Dave Hill MPC - Mr. Hill discussed the Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) that is part of the MCP. The TPO is a 15 member board (8 city & 7 county) that allocates Federal money to various projects in the city and county.  They are also beginning work on plans for Chapman Highway and the review of the proposed James White Parkway Extension. Both of these projects are to receive input from the local community. Mr. Hill is expecting that the local neighborhood associations and others will have a representative in the meetings to give input to the final plans. The James White Parkway report is due next year for TDOT review, currently the Parkway Extension is on hold.

13 Nov. 2003

Speaker: Larry Frank - New Director of Knox Library. Mr. Frank told us something about his life history and the ideas that he would like to implement as the new director of the library system.

Moorland Heights School ask those people attending the meeting with direct contact with the school to fill out a survey. The results will be used for administrative purposes.

Police Officer Ryan Flores gave a short presentation on the crime statistics for South Knoxville. There was no serious crime during the past month.

9 Oct. 2003 - Cookout - hamburgers etc. Lots of fun.

11 Sept 2003

Speakers: Shane Rhyan gave a talk on the History of Knoxville. He gave us much information about using the local musem for historical research. Joe Baley Candidate for Seat A gave a short talk on his views.

14 Aug. 2003

Speakers: Marilyn Roddy - Candidate for "At Large Seat C" & Robbie R. McGowan - Principal of  Mooreland Heights Elementary School.

Ms Roddy gave a presentation of  her views as a candidate for the "At Large" seat.

Ms McGowan gave a presentation of her work at Mooreland Heights and requested that any one willing to help the school could do so by; donating books (suitable for K - 5 grades) or money to purchase books,or help with the grounds at the school. The school budget does not cover sufficient grounds maintenance.

Volunteers are also neede for the reading program and other class support functions. Ms McGowan may be contacted at: (865) 579-2105 or by email at:mcgowanr@k12tn.net

10 July 2003

Speaker- Cris Woodhull - Candidate for "At Large Seat B"

Mr. Woodhull discussed his activities in the community and described himself as a conscensus builder. He answered questions from members on subjects concerning TDOT and development to downtown.

John Bevis gave an update on the additional stop signs requested, we ask for 21 and got 4. Reason was no history of accidents at the other intersections. We are getting more street lights than we as for, when is another issue.

The association was ask to offer questions for the mayors forum to be held at Ijams Nature Center on the 18th of August. Several questions were offered and will be given the the forum organization.

Next month's speaker will be from the Mooreland Heights School.

If you would like to read the board minutes for 17 July click on this link.

12 June Meeting 2003

Speakers - Dean Shipley - James White Parkway Task Force & Liz Farr - SKARD (South Knoxvillians Advocating Reaonable Development)

Mr Shipley gave a short talk on the history of the task force project.

Ms. Farr gave the viewpoint of the SKARD group against the parkway. She also had several suggestions about alternatives to the parkway.

Carol Cook ( a board member) is now editing a News Letter for the association. This is the first on-line part of the news letter (once we have the bugs worked out in exchanging documenents between computers the full issue will be available. This is only a portion of the news letter handed out at the general meeting.

 Board Member Spotlight 

John A. Brown was born in Nashville, Tennessee and attended Hume-Fogg High School and David Lipscomb College.  He is a World War II veteran and served in the Army Signal Corps in Australia, New Guinea, Philippines and Japan.  He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.  He was employed for 39 years with Allis-Chalmers and Siemens Energy and Automation and was a registered Professional Engineer in Tennessee.  He moved to Knoxville in November, 1952 and has always lived in South Knoxville.  He served as President of Anderson Elementary P.T.A. as well as Young High P.T.A.  He is a life member and past President of the Technical Society of Knoxville and also the Knoxville Chapter of Professional Engineers of Tennessee.  He is a life member and past Chairman of the East Tennessee section on IEEE.  He was a member of Town Hall South and is the incoming President of Mended Hearts.  He served as an elder at the Laurel Church of Christ for 34 years.  He is married to Addelee Slayden Brown.  They have three married daughters and five grandchildren.

John represents the RED district in our Association.

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Paula Gumpman is a Special Education teacher with Knox County Schools.  She lived in South Knoxville as a renter for four years and liked the area so well that she bought a home here.  Paula says, “I love this side of town and would choose to live no where else!”

Paula is the Assistant Treasurer for the Colonial Village Neighborhood Association.

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 Crime Report

   Area Crime -

There were 2 reported car burglaries in April

There were no reported residential burglaries

Future Events

August 18  2003- participation with other neighborhood associations in the scheduled Mayoral Candidates Forum.

Newsletter Items

If you have items for future newsletters, please call Carol Cook at 573-6321.  

Board Members & Officers

The following is a list of elected officers, board members and their phone numbers who you should contact regarding concerns and ideas to help improve our neighborhood.

John Bevis, President                                 573-1041 (h) 573-5710 (w)

Kelvin Francis, Vice Pres.                         573-5112 (h)  996-7134 (w)

Gary Woody, Secretary                                                    573-4937 (h)

Carol Cook, Asst. Secretary                                             573-6321(h)

Sandy Ammons, Treasurer                      573-5412 (h)   539-7850 (w)

Paula Gumpman, Asst. Treas.                  577-1423 (h), 594-5035 (w)

John Brown, Red District                                                 573-1563 (h)

Greg Taylor, Red District                          609-6844 (h), 755-2542 (w)

Tim Berry, Green District                                                 556-7745 (h)

Carol Cook, Green District                                              573-6321 (h)

Richard & Judy Hickman, Purple District                      577-3705 (h)

Brian Mischley, Orange District               573-9901 (h),  966-2000(w)

Joe Harrison, Orange District                                          577-0022 (h)

Terry Caruthers, Yellow District               579-5702 (h)  688-2454(w)

Sharon Webb, Yellow District                                         577-9997 (h)

Tracie Hellwinckle, Blue District                                     579-6768 (h)

Donna Maxwell, Blue District                     748-0682 (h) 577-9941(w)

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 10 April Meeting 2003

Speaker - Mayoral Candidate Bill Haslam
  

Overview of Neighborhood Cleanup
    Sharon Webb - Lots of folks picked up a lot of trash. A total of 78 bags (30 Gal. size) were picked up and Guy Davis provided a place for Dumpsters to hold the bags for pickup. Guy works for the local company that provides trash removal for the city. See photos.

Carol Cook -  published out first newsletter, sections included Association History, News & Events, Neighborhood Clean Up, Spotlight on Board Members and Future Plans.

 South Knoxville "Plan" - there really is a plan for South Knoxville, read the plan.