Opioid use is common among workers injured at work. A new study focuses on low-back injuries, which are common claims in workers’ compensation and exhibit a higher use of opioids—including the longer-term prescriptions on which we focus—than most other injuries. In addition, evidence-based treatment guidelines recommend against long-term use of opioids for most of these cases, suggesting that some prescriptions may be excessive.

Declaring it's a new day in UT Athletics, Sterling Henton electrified the Union County Business & Professional Prayer Breakfast with his energy, his optimism, and his voice. After BPA President Martin Shafer introduced Sterl the Pearl as he was known in his New Jersey high school and into his college career at the University of Tennessee, Sterling explained that he really never intended to go to college in the South. In 1987, he was focused on leading his high school to a state championship in three different sports. Alabama called, he refused. Florida called, he refused.

Mayor Jason Bailey opened the second Project Planning Meeting on Thursday, April 26th and summarized the County Union idea. This suggestion would consolidate much of the county services into the current Horace Maynard Middle School Building. Most of the properties that are currently rented for various county departments and some state or federal programs would also move to the middle school. The plan would save the county the cost of the rent.

I have noticed that boneless, skinless chicken breasts have been on sale lately. I won't buy them with the skin still attached and bones on the underside. That is all waste as I see it. Yes, they are cheaper per pound that way, but when you subtract the skin and bones they are not.

What is now known as the Tater Valley Nursey started out as a family farm 100 years ago. Located at 509 Tater Valley Rd in Luttrell, TN, the Tater Valley Nursey offers geraniums in several colors, hanging baskets, ferns and a wide variety of vegetable plants.
Dale and Debbie Corum opened their greenhouse in 1996 on their family farm where they also have Angus cattle and a flock of chickens. Dale built 2 greenhouses and later added 2 more for a total of 10,000 sq. ft. of heated growing space with automatic waterers.

A mom is an exceptional human being. She is defined as a woman in relation to a child, but to be a mother is distinctively more than a mere relationship. A mother is the person a family relies on to make plans, hold things together, know where all the things are and to be the rock. And a true mother lives to fulfill these needs to her deepest effort.

I got up and stumbled toward the coffee pot. Lying on the kitchen table was a sweet Mother’s Day card and two bags of my favorite chocolate. Tim has done that since I was carrying Sara. He had to work that day, so he left my goodies on the table while I was still asleep.

I guess that made him my Santa because I squealed like a little kid on Christmas morning and tore into one of the bags. I drank some hot coffee and savored my chocolate. I had no idea that would be the best part of my whole day.

I thank you God for blessing me with Sara my daughter.
You knew her when you were separating the Earth from the water.

The laughing smile on her face,
Is a reflection of Your loving grace.

When I hear the wonderful sound of her happy laughter,
I thank you God for the blessing of being her mother.

It is a blessing to be able to hold her in my arms,
Where she is protected from the world’s harms.

I wish that I could make all the bad things go away.
So, I pray to God to protect her along life’s way.

Mincey’s Musings
Year Two, Week Sixteen

In an article published in the Knoxville News Sentinel on April 26, 2019, writer Brittany Crocker reported the Loudon County Courthouse fire, noting in the title to her article that “Fire Once Leveled Another Historic East Tennessee Courthouse, Taking Everything With It”.

Galatians 1:6
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:”

I started to title this article “Where is your focus?”. However, after reflecting about what the Apostle Paul was communicating to the people which lived in the country of Galatia nearly 2,000-years ago, it became apparent that it was not a where question! If we believe Jesus “saved us”, then it must be a question about who is your focus on and not where is your focus. All the Gospel is a question of who and the answer to any who question about the Truth is always Jesus! Let me explain.