http://www.blounttoday.com/news/lifestyles/chatroom/?partner=RSSblounttoday.com Stories: Chatroomen-uslifestyles/chatroomhttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/oct/05/jon-young-chat-room/?partner=RSSJon Young knew what he wanted to do early in life. Young is assistant principal at Eagleton Middle School. His dad, Rick Young, is a teacher at William Blount High School. “When I was growing up, he was also a youth football coach with the Fairview Raiders and that got me into wanting to be a coach and teacher. My brother, Justin Young, is head baseball coach at William Blount High School. Education just kind of runs through us,” he says. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:41:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19224-734415lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNJon Young is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comjon-young-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19224-734415Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/sep/28/regina-tindell-jennings-chat-room/?partner=RSSLive life to the fullest with no regrets and be fully committed to whatever you are doing. That’s the attitude Regina Jennings carried with her when she enlisted in the Air National Guard in 1987, and that is the mindset she has as she became president of the Kiwanis Club of Maryville on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Jennings said she always had a desire to serve her country, and she finally got to the point where she didn’t want to ignore that desire anymore. “My theory is that you live life to the fullest every day,” said Jennings. “I don’t want to live in regret. I didn’t want to be 48 and have regrets that I didn’t serve my country, so I joined,” she says. “Fred Forster swore me in, and I’ll never forget it.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:23:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19200-734408lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNRegina Tindell Jennings is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comregina-tindell-jennings-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19200-734408Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/sep/21/john-titlow-chat-room/?partner=RSSSinging has always been a part of John Titlow’s life. Growing up in Blount County, he sang in church. It wasn’t until he started singing karaoke at 21 that he sang anywhere other than a house of worship. “We would go to Prince’s Deli in Knoxville and eventually other karaoke places. The first song I ever sang was ‘Folsom Prison.’ It was the only song I felt I could do.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:35:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19176-734401lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNJohn Titlow is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comjohn-titlow-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19176-734401Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/sep/14/raina-kant-chat-room/?partner=RSSRaina Kant marked something off her bucket list Monday evening. She sat with her son, Kamryn, and watched a harvest moon rise over the Atlantic in Charleston. “The harvest moon rising over the ocean is beautiful. Kamryn and I went out to dinner, got 20 pounds of shrimp, watched the moon rise and now we’re watching TV,” she said by phone Monday evening. “He goes to school at the College of Charleston, and I try to take any time I can get with him.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:18:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19145-734394lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNRaina Kant is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comraina-kant-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19145-734394Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/sep/07/steve-shields-chat-room/?partner=RSSIt has been said earning a college degree can lead to a better career. For Steve Shields, there’s a good chance it saved his life. Shields, son of the longtime Maryville Mayor the late Stanley “Skeeter” Shields, graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1967. He was going through the draft process with orders that would ultimately put him fighting in Vietnam. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:30:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19122-734387lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNSteve Shields is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comsteve-shields-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19122-734387Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/aug/31/col-tommy-cauthen-chat-room/?partner=RSSTommy Cauthen never wanted to be a military pilot, and he made sure his dad knew it. The Jefferson County High School graduate’s dad flew at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base from 1958 to 1983, but it just wasn’t something the younger Cauthen thought about doing for a career. “When I was 20 and started thinking about what I was doing with my life, Dad came to me and said, ‘They’re taking applications for pilot training at the base if you’re interested.’ I shut him down. I said, ‘Dad, I do not want to be in the military.’ This was in about 1980.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:13:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19096-734380lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNCol. Tommy Cauthen is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comcol-tommy-cauthen-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19096-734380Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/aug/24/sharon-anglim-chat-room/?partner=RSSSharon and Wayne Anglim met underground. They weren’t counter-culture types running from the law. They worked in the same underground facility while in the Air Force. “We met in the Air Force. He was cute as a button. We worked at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Neb.,” she says. “There is an underground command post, and we worked underground running the computer system that supported the command post. We met in 1979 and married in 1985.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:55:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19068-734373lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNSharon Anglim is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comsharon-anglim-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19068-734373Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/aug/17/vicky-mcmurray-chat-room/?partner=RSSVicky McMurray, manager at the Carpenters Middle School cafeteria, “Cougar Café,” says she’s firm on her priorities. Her family and her church -- Unity Christian -- come first. She also has a reason to brag about her extended family, her “girls:” the staff at the Cougar Café. McMurray recently won awards at the Tennessee School Food Association conference in Gatlinburg, and she says it’s all thanks to the folks on her staff. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:05:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19036-734366lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNVicky McMurray is in Chat Roomblounttoday.comvicky-mcmurray-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19036-734366Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/aug/10/dr-james-shamiyeh-chat-room/?partner=RSSIt all started with a Post It note. Dr. James Shamiyeh was rotating through a family medicine clinic in Covington, Tenn., when he met the woman who would become his wife. He was a third-year medical student, and Laura was getting her masters in nutrition. She was rotating through a family medicine clinic in Covington. “We were set up to meet by one of the nurses,” he says. “I met her, and one of the nurses came up later and asked what I thought. I said she was really cute. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:21:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19008-734359lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNDr. James Shamiyeh is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comdr-james-shamiyeh-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-19008-734359Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/aug/03/billy-l-gribble-chat-room/?partner=RSSBilly Gribble can’t help but laugh when he thinks about how he and his wife, Laura, met. It wasn’t pretty. “I met her on a blind date. She didn’t like me, and I didn’t like her. Neither one of us clicked with each other at all. We didn’t say two or three sentences to each other. I was thinking she was a snob, and she was thinking I was stuck in the ‘90s, looking like Jerry Seinfeld with my tapered leg blue jeans and my shirt tucked in,” he says. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:18:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18984-734352lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNBilly L. Gribble is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.combilly-l-gribble-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18984-734352Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jul/27/robbie-bennett-chat-room/?partner=RSSRobbie Bennett will understand if his daughter, Portlyn, and son, Easton, make a mistake in any sport they choose to play. His own first practice as a child, in a prelude to a sport he would come to love, didn’t go well. “I grew up in Maryville and went to Alcoa High School, grades kindergarten through 12,” says the new athletic director, assistant principal and continuing head baseball coach at Heritage High School. “I loved baseball from the time I can remember. I loved watching it on TV, was a big Braves fan. My older brother, Richie, and I would get out in the yard and play.” Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:56:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18956-734345lifestyles/chatroomStaff WriterMaryville, TNRobbie Bennett is in the Chat Roomblounttoday.comrobbie-bennett-chat-roomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18956-734345Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jul/20/shaun-omalley-chatroom/?partner=RSSWhen Shaun O’Malley saw the ad for a position as executive director of the Downtown Maryville Association, he knew it was something he wanted to do. “I was interested and intrigued. I moved to Maryville when I was 7. I enjoy the community and what downtown has to offer. I want to make a difference in downtown.” The 2007 Maryville College graduate. who also works part time at the school as a resident director, said several aspects of the executive director’s position interested him. “I know a lot of the job is communicating and working with local businesses and individuals to collaborate with one another. Fundraising is also a big part of it, as well as event planning,” he said. “I love planning events. The job just seemed like a perfect fit.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:50:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18927-734338lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNShaun O’Malley is in the Chatroomblounttoday.comshaun-omalley-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18927-734338Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jul/13/michael-l-colquitt-chatroom/?partner=RSSThe first time Michael Colquitt met his wife, he found himself in a bit of a quandary. “When I first met Cristen in college, I was gone on her. I told one of my new buddies how much I adored this fine woman I had met, and how it was love at first sight and how I was going to get her and marry her. I went on and on about her,” Colquitt says. “He asked me her name, and I told him. He said, ‘Hey, brotha, that’s my girlfriend.’ I was speechless.’” Colquitt waited, and when the pair broke up, he made his move. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:19:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18904-734331lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNMichael L. Colquitt is in the Chatroomblounttoday.commichael-l-colquitt-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18904-734331Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jul/06/hoy-grimm-chatroom/?partner=RSSHoy Grimm had a hunch he might have a future in the investment business the night before his first interview for a job in finance. He answered an ad for a position in the investment department with First Tennessee Bank. “This is so corny, but when I learned the interview was with a bank investment department, my wife rented ‘Wall Street’ and I watched a young Charlie Sheen’s computer tell him that May 6 was his boss’s birthday. That’s my birthday so I took that as a sign the interview would go well. Sure enough, it did,” he said. “God blessed my life. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:26:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18883-734324lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNHoy Grimm is in the Chatroomblounttoday.comhoy-grimm-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18883-734324Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jun/29/andrea-carpenter-chatroom/?partner=RSSIt is no surprise Andrea Carpenter has spent 21 years showing people how to save money. Carpenter knew early she wouldn’t have a career convincing folks to borrow money. “I was a management major and sign language and business minor and started working retail for the credit department. I ended up convincing more people not to take credit,” she says. “I realized I needed to help people with their finances because I tried to talk people out of loans. I knew then that giving loans was not my line of work.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:24:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18858-734317lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNAndrea Carpenter is in the Chatroomblounttoday.comandrea-carpenter-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18858-734317Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jun/22/jeremy-pearson-chatroom/?partner=RSSJeremy Pearson is assistant planner for the City of Alcoa. He’s also the incoming president for Keep Blount Beautiful. But the title he loves the most is “Dad.” Pearson and his wife, Regina, have a 6-month-old son named McCray. Jeremy said that becoming a father changed everything. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:13:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18833-734310lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNJeremy Pearson is in the Chatroomblounttoday.comjeremy-pearson-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18833-734310Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jun/15/andrea-may-chatroom/?partner=RSSThe first year Andrea May went to the Bonnaroo Music Festival, she stayed in a tent. Seven years and seven festivals later, she stayed in an RV and had guest passes. “I have a group of friends who always go to Bonnaroo, and we have fun. As I’ve gone now for seven years, I’ve gotten wiser,” she says. “The first year, I was in tent and took some Crispix. It was not well-planned. Now we take an RV and run a generator at night to have air conditioning. This year we had guest passes and artist’s credentials.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:37:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18807-734303lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNAndrea May is in the Chatroomblounttoday.comandrea-may-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18807-734303Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/jun/08/pam-wolf-chatroom/?partner=RSSPam grew up in Cincinnati where she earned her bachelor’s degree. She and her first husband moved to the Knoxville area in 1985 when he was one of the original partners with Whittle Communications. She earned her Master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Tennessee. She was divorced in 1988. In 1995, Pam became a mom. “I adopted Anna as a single parent in 1995. I really wanted to be a parent,” she says. “I really wanted a child in my life. I hadn’t met anybody, and I thought, ‘I’m going to do this.’” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:00:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18776-734296lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNPam Wolf is in the Chatroomblounttoday.compam-wolf-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18776-734296Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/may/25/john-d-cannon-chatroom/?partner=RSSWhen John Cannon returned from serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Maryville had three red lights, two more than when he left. The Veterans Bridge on Washington Street was new and drive-in theaters were growing in popularity. But what stands out the most in Cannon’s mind is how veterans were treated here and around the country. “People respected soldiers back then. When I went to church, several people invited me to go eat with them. You could put on the weight if you ate with all them,” he said. “About anywhere you went in the U.S., it was the same way if you were in uniform. We’d go through Detroit, and they’d let you go to ballgame free and buy you dinner.” colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 25 May 2011 21:03:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18718-734282lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNJohn D. Cannon is in the Chatroomblounttoday.comjohn-d-cannon-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18718-734282Change0Usablehttp://www.blounttoday.com/news/2011/may/18/mike-england-chatroom/?partner=RSSIf the law would let him and he had all the money he needed, Mike England’s dream home would be where most tourists in Blount County visit. “I always said if I could buy any piece of property, it would Cades Cove, and I would put my house in the middle of it,” he says. England, owner and manager of Whitt’s Barbecue in Alcoa, says he has always liked barbecue, especially Whitt’s Barbecue. “I’ve loved barbecue since I was old enough to know what it was,” he says. colemanl@blounttoday.com (Lance Coleman)Wed, 18 May 2011 18:23:00 -0000urn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18693-734275lifestyles/chatroomLance ColemanMaryville, TNMike England is in the Chatroomblounttoday.commike-england-chatroomurn:publicid:www.blounttoday.com:news-Story-18693-734275Change0Usable