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VOL. 8 NO. 20

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Johnson on glide path to re-election

If anyone is on a glide path to easy re-election it seems to be state Rep. Gloria Johnson, who squeaked out a 299-vote win 18 months ago to win a seat in the House of Representatives. It was a district Mitt Romney carried by 1,100 votes, but several Romney voters pushed the button for Johnson, who has become one of the most popular legislators among Democrats and least popular among Republicans (who control the House by a 71 to 28 margin.)

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Coffee Break You see Angela Batey’s name in the newspaper a lot, especially around the holidays when she’s conducting one choral ensemble or another.

She directs UT’s Chamber Singers, and for nearly 16 years, she also has been the director of music at Farragut Presbyterian Church.

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Cookie sales reflect economy You can figure how the economy’s doing by counting customers in the cookie aisle.

That’s the gospel according to Steven C. Smith, president/ CEO of Food City, who said, “Unemployed or underutilized people don’t go down the snack aisle or the cookie aisle.”

And although the economy is coming back, there are slightly fewer people working today than in 2007, Smith said.

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after taking quizzes made class time more efficient, she said.

The computers allow students to be more productive in general, but receiving and completing assignments online requires more initiative than a traditional classroom setting, where teachers do more hand-holding. Some students have been resistant to the new learning style, but Harmon thinks the extra responsibility will pay off down the road.

“When they get to college, no one will be there reminding them to turn in their work.”

While some teachers were initially fearful about incorporating the computers into their classrooms, they are now on board. When asked if the devices were worth the extra work, teachers have whole-heartedly responded yes, Harmon said.

More training for teachers is the first priority in fine-tuning one-to-one computing at Bearden.

The computers have many tools for teachers, but learning how to use them takes time, she said.

Teaching students how to make positive choices in the classroom is another priority. Staying focused is always a challenge, but computers have been a major distraction, she said.

Student achievement will also move to the forefront of Bearden’s Bearden High School junior Alex Brandan turns in her MacBook Pro after the agenda next fall. Harmon thinks school’s first year of one-to-one computing. She’ll get the same computer academic progress this year was back in the fall. Photo by Wendy Smith likely on target with last year, but improvement is always the goal. for the world by putting machines in es more interesting. He found the She looks forward to seeing how their hands,” Harmon said. computer to be most helpful for re- much progress students make from the end of this academic year to the Students say that the computers search and taking notes. help them to get more work done.

Junior Ellie Barnett also used next. That will allow the school to Bumpas said the devices changed her computer for taking notes. Be- see if computers positively impact the pace of learning and kept class- ing able to get grades immediately student achievement.

Did it compute?

Lessons learned from MacBooks distribution at Bearden

By Wendy Smith Bearden High School students waited in a line that snaked through the library last week to turn in MacBook Pros they received last fall. But the line moved quickly as Rachel Harmon collected the devices while a team of students placed each computer in an assigned bin.

Underclassmen will have their computers returned to them next fall after being re-imaged, or reset, with updated software. While waiting in line, junior Andrew Bumpas admitted that he’ll miss his computer over the summer.

Almost 2,000 Bearden students received computers after the school was chosen as one of 11 Knox County schools to pilot one-to-one computing. After eight months, Harmon, Bearden’s TPaCK (Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge) coach, reported that only two computers were missing.

About 10 percent of the devices had technical problems.

The first year of having computers in the classroom had its challenges, but fi xing the problems and moving forward is the goal.

“Regardless of whether people like or dislike computers, the reality is that computers are a daily part of the workforce and the college environment. We’re preparing students

Pond Gap offers ‘edible curriculum’

By Wendy Smith A community garden at Pond Gap Elementary School, 1401 Hollywood Drive, will yield more than veggies. It will provide the opportunity for students to learn how to grow a lot of food in a little space.

The 2,000-square-foot garden caught the attention of neighbors before it was dedicated last week. Passersby have honked and stopped to chat, says AmeriCorps Vista volunteer Matt Callo. He is the project manager for the garden − the first community garden to be planted on Knox County Schools property.

The result of a partnership between Pellissippi State Community College’s Service Learning Program, the University of Tennessee University-Assisted Community School and Knox County Schools, it truly is a community garden.

A host of local partners and contributors, as well as approximately 100 Pond Gap students, have brought the garden to life.

Callo called the learning opportunity an “edible curriculum.”

While students will work and learn in the garden during the school day, it will also be a resource for the community. Families that donate two hours of work per week will receive a box of produce each Friday, and gardening classes will be available as part of the University-Assisted Community School.

Knox County Schools Nutrition Executive Director Jon Dickl says the garden has already yielded 100 pounds of lettuce and radishes, which were incorporated into the

cafeteria offerings at Pond Gap and seven other schools. When he arrived in Knoxville four years ago, serving local produce in schools was just a concept. Now, it’s a reality. It’s part of a national trend, he says.

“We’ve seen a real transformation in the way Americans are choosing to eat.”

There has also been a transformation in the way college students are learning, and the PSCC Edible Schoolyard Project is just one example. Annie Gray coordinates PSCC’s service-learning program, which has “taken off like wildfire” since it began two years ago, she says.

Service learning is a way to incorporate real-world, experiential learning into a college class. Professors who offer service learning allow students to use what they learn through volunteer work in classroom assignments, Gray says. The program started with just two professors. Now 34 offer service learning.

Students regularly knock on her door to ask for help with getting involved in the community.

Research has shown that students who are civically engaged are more focused and more likely to stay in school, says Gray.

The program has had an $814,000 impact on the community, based on students receiving $22.14 per volunteer hour, since it began.

In addition to getting their hands dirty in the garden, Pellissippi students have become teachers themselves. Microbiology students have taught young-

Pond Gap Elementary School 2nd-graders Shekina Drata and Haley Barnhart plant eggplant during the dedication of the school’s community garden last week. Photo by Wendy Smith sters things they can use to grow their own gardens, such as how to compost.

Mayor Madeline Rogero told the Pond Gap students who attended the garden dedication that food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. She under-

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Pond Gap’s community garden is a replicable model, and such gardens make us more sustainable as a city, the mayor says.

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BEARDEN Shopper news • MAY 19, 2014 • A-3 hours to volunteer. But I truly loved the time I spent there, and I’ll always appreciate the teachers and administrators who had such a positive influence on my kids.

The very long list would include Ms. Sisco, the school librarian.

How many students learned to love reading because of her enthusiasm? Or learned the “Fifty Nifty United States” through her singing on the morning announcements?

It would include Ms. Gazaway, the first teacher to really challenge my son. He might deny it, but he benefited from all that homework.

Then there’s Ms. Jackson, who retired after teaching my girls in kindergarten. She was even willing to request Laurel after I neglected to register her for school (something only an exhausted parent of three would do.)

It’s not just the people I’ll remember. It’s the countless hours I Members of the Knoxville Chapter of Dining for Women celebrate the group’s first anniversary at the Sequoyah Hills spent in the gym watching plays, home of Stephanie Levy. recorder concerts and spelling bees. Or the afternoons I spent walking around the track for Eagle Strut or helping on Fun Day. It’s the Valentine’s boxes, science experiments and reading logs we worked on at home and the many, many parties I attended over the years.

As I walked down the hall at It’s hard to believe it’s over.

Blue Grass Elementary School toBless you, elementary-school day, I tried to take it all in − the teachers and staff. You give our smell of the place (a mixture of children wings, along with many school cafeteria and sweaty 5thhappy memories. graders), the creak of the wooden ■ West Knox properties floors, the constant hum of children’s voices. So little has changed abound on Fragile 15 since I walked my firstborn to his Knox Heritage announced its kindergarten classroom in 1999. annual Fragile 15 list last week.

The list is a way of getting the community to rally around endangered properties, Executive Director Kim Trent said.

Wendy Several Bearden properties are Smith regulars on the list. Development has intensified in the Fort Sanders neighborhood in recent years, Trent says. Three properties Yep, I’ve had a student at Blue owned by Fort Sanders Regional Grass every year for 15 years. I’m Medical Center on 18th Street and sure there are parents who can top Highland Avenue are boarded and that, but not many.

The biggest change is the locked Family Pride general manager Rick Dover speaks during the announcement deteriorating, and three Victofront door. I know it makes some of Knox Heritage’s annual Fragile 15 list. Family Pride is in the process of rian houses on White Avenue are parents sleep better at night, but restoring Oakwood School, which was on the list for eight years, as an assist- threatened by the University of Tennessee’s possible expansion.

I always liked just strolling in. It ed-living facility. Photo by Wendy Smith Knox Heritage is discussing almade me feel welcome. ternatives that would benefit both As my third child progressed through the school, I had fewer

Goodbye to Blue Grass

the neighborhood and the university, Trent said.

New owners of the Pickle Mansion at 1633 Clinch Ave. have stabilized the property. “We can’t wait to take that off the list and give it a Fantastic 15 award.”

The list of endangered properties on the UT campus is shorter this year because much of last year’s list was knocked down, she said. Melrose and Estabrook halls are on this year’s list.

On a positive note, UT has formed a committee to study options for the Eugenia Williams house, 4848 Lyons View Pike.

Knox Heritage has encouraged the university to consider selling the house.

The H.E. Christenberry House, 3222 Kingston Pike, remains on the list in spite of a developer’s promise to save the house while condominiums are built behind it. While Knox Heritage supports the preservation of the 1925 home, development of the property could endanger the future of the historic neighborhood, Trent said.

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Dining for Women celebrates anniversary

The Knoxville chapter of Dining for Women is one year old, and women all over the world have benefited from its work.

It’s not hard work. Women gather once a month for a potluck dinner and learn about a foundation that helps women. At the end of the evening, they make a donation to the foundation − typically what they would have spent on dinner out.

In its first year, the group donated over $3,500. Last week’s anniversary dinner yielded the largest donation to date − $750 that will benefit Bangladesh’s Hope Foundation, which helps women suffering from obstetrical fistula.

Stephanie Levy started the local chapter after participating in Ithaca, N.Y. While she is impressed with the generosity of the Knoxville chapter, the real impact comes from funds being pooled with those from hundreds of chapters across the U.S., she says.

In 2013, the organization gave grants totaling almost $700,000.

For more information about the Knoxville chapter of Dining for Women: stephanie@cestlevy.com

Good vibrations

at Vestival

By Betsy Pickle The 14th edition of Vestival was full of music and art – just the way it was supposed to be.

While the May 10 festival got off to a soggy start (like last year), the sun came out and turned the day bright and beautiful.

Music filled the air in every direction, thanks to performers of all ages and genres.

Youngsters were thrilled to watch the members of Dragonfly Aerial Arts defy gravity.

Food booths and trucks sent delectable aromas across the grounds of Candoro Marble.

Plants, crafts and knickknacks

were offered for sale at numerous booths. It looked as though an equal number of booths were promoting various causes.

The South Knoxville Alliance had business on its mind, while the South of the River Democrats, the Green Party, Jobs With Justice and others were advancing political points of view, all with a friendly attitude.

Tents offered protection from the rain and sun, along with chairs for folks to sit and eat while watching performers on the main stage.

It was a perfect, laidback spring day that showed off some of South Knox’s finest.

RB Morris is joined onstage by Greg Horne, left, and Daniel Kimbro, right.

Photos by Betsy Pickle

Oona Morris models an impressive balloon headdress while listening to her father (RB Morris) perform at Vestival.

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government Gloria Johnson: Glide path to reelection If anyone is on a glide path to easy re-election it seems to be state Rep. Gloria Johnson, who squeaked out a 299-vote win 18 months ago to win a seat in the House of Representatives. It was a district Mitt Romney carried by 1,100 votes, but several Romney voters pushed the button for Johnson, who has become one of the most popular legislators among Democrats and least popular among Republicans (who control the House by a 71 to 28 margin.)

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The district is located mostly inside the city of Knoxville, stretching from Alice Bell to Sequoyah to South Knox County.

Johnson has an uncanny sense of public relations and has made herself the poster child for those who dislike Common Core, Knox Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre and the current GOP leadership.

Team Rogero is strongly behind Johnson with its political operatives.

In 2012, she made headlines and gave TV interviews against the closure of Belle Morris School as a voting precinct. She received huge publicity while her GOP opponent remained silent.

This established her as a public-relations pro. As for Belle Morris, it is still not a voting place.

Johnson has been criticized for not voting at all on some legislation, such as the constitutional amendment to ban a state income tax that will be on the ballot this November. She hosted a fund-raising event May 10 in Knoxville for Nashvillian Brandon Puttbrese, who is opposing incumbent state Sen. Thelma Harper, one of only two African-American Democratic women in the state Senate. Puttbrese is white. Harper has served since 1990.

■ The two Republicans who seek to replace her have not laid a glove on her to date while they are fighting each other. They are Jason Emert and Eddie Smith.

Emert recently emailed this writer that, “It is unfortunate that (Smith) was terminated from his position at Sevier Heights (Baptist

Church) for cause.”

When asked, Smith denied it and secured a statement from the senior pastor, Dr. Hollie Miller, that said, “Eddie Smith served at Sevier Heights Baptist Church for over 13 years and was ALWAYS one of the most faithful and effective staff members I’ve ever known. Eddie resigned his position simply because God placed a desire in his heart to make a positive difference in the government of Tennessee. The report that Eddie Smith was fired from Sevier Heights is a lie of the ugliest sort.”

Score one for Smith in his battle with Emert in the August GOP primary.

He faces a much tougher contest with Johnson in November. Johnson could stumble, but don’t count on it.

■ Republican Martin Daniel, who is opposing Rep. Steve Hall in the August GOP primary, is making the Rogero tax hike an issue on his campaign Facebook page. “Just remember those automatic pay raises for city employees that the City Council left intact. ...”

In fairness to Hall, he has opposed tax hikes, but it is telling that Daniel feels it helps him in a Republican legislative primary to go after Rogero and her spending policies. Daniel is running in a west and northwest Knox district. He feels Hall will only say “me too” on opposing Rogero and taxes.

Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett is holding the line on any tax increase, as is Gov. Bill Haslam.

■ Attending the April 24 fund-raiser for Chief Justice Gary Wade’s campaign to win retention on the Supreme Court at the Pete and Cindi DeBusk home was a who’s who of Republican leaders with a few Democrats.

■ Wade is a Democrat with strong Republican ties.

Jim Haslam II, father of Gov. Haslam, U.S. Rep. Jimmy and Lynn Duncan, former UT coach Phil Fulmer, former Gov. Don and Martha Sundquist, former Rep. Bill Jenkins, state Sen. Doug Overbey, along with Democratic judges Harold Wimberly and Daryl Fansler, were there.

■ The state Supreme Court will choose the next state attorney general in September for an eight-year term. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey wants a Republican to be chosen.

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Catching up with the ‘real’ governor Ever hear of Arthur Copeland?

You will.

He’s about to become the poster boy of Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey’s campaign to unseat three Tennessee Supreme Court justices who are up for a “retention” election (supreme court justices are not elected outright, but the voters are given the opportunity to say whether they should get another eight-year term).

Chief Justice Gary Wade, plus justices Sharon Lee and Cornelia Clark all received high marks from the panels empowered to evaluate them, with Wade and Lee receiving perfect scores and Clark getting one “no” vote.

If there’s a Democrat Republicans like, it’s Wade, a respected Sevier County lawyer who managed to get himself elected mayor of Sevierville six times despite that county’s bedrock GOP leanings. He’s a personal friend of (and former coowner of the Smokies baseball team with) Gov. Bill Haslam and was appointed to the state Court of Criminal Appeals by Gov. Ned McWherter in 1988 and elevated to the state Supreme

Betty Bean Court by Gov. Phil Bredesen in 2006.

(He was also Dolly Parton’s first boyfriend, as per DP herself during an appearance on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” in the mid-’80s, during which she mentioned tomfoolery in the back of a pickup truck at the Midway Drive-In Theater, which doesn’t have a thing to do with jurisprudence but sure couldn’t hurt him any.)

But back to Arthur Copeland: Think Willie Horton, the one-man crime wave who, while serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, somehow got eligible for Massachusetts’ prison furlough program and committed rape, armed robbery and assault while enjoying his short-lived freedom, thus becoming the only issue anybody remembers from the 1988 presidential election campaign when Democrat Michael Dukakis

took on George H.W. Bush.

Bush’s man Lee Atwater orchestrated a barrage of attack ads featured scarylooking-black-man mug shots.

Copeland’s got scarylooking-black-man mug shots, too, from when he was convicted of a 1998 contract killing in Maryville and sentenced to death.

Death penalty conviction appeals cases are mandatory (the high court must decide whether the crime was “proportionate” to the penalty), but meanwhile, Copeland’s alleged accomplice’s lawyer Herb Moncier unearthed proof that the state had withheld evidence that its only eyewitness had named a different shooter when first questioned.

In 2007, the high court addressed the “proportionality” issue (ruling that the death penalty was warranted), but by the time it got back to Blount County the case was bollixed beyond repair by Moncier’s discovery of the withheld evidence.

A special prosecutor came in and cut a deal with Copeland for a seconddegree murder plea and a 14-year sentence. He was

released in 2011 and rearrested in 2013 for the alleged rape of his girlfriend.

This charge was dismissed three months later in Knox County.

Meanwhile, Ramsey, who likes it when people call him the “real” governor, is running around the state presenting his case against the sitting justices, which not only fits perfectly with the state GOP’s “Red to the Roots” campaign to rid Tennessee of Democratic officeholders but serves as bait to entice big-money 501 (c) (4) “social welfare” organizations like the Koch brothers’ “Americans for Prosperity” into Tennessee, where they have heretofore declined to spread the wealth on the “why buy the cow if the milk is free” principle.

It also gives Ramsey an opportunity to screw with a friend of the guy who’s where Ramsey thinks he ought to be – conveniently dismissing the inconvenient fact he got only 22 percent of the primary vote and finished a distant third when he ran for governor.

Free advice for Gary Wade: Call Dolly. Ramsey’ll die of envy.

A little budget dissection Knox County’s PCBE de- reational projects. But let’s justment before we make comparisons. Net of the rived from the proposed net wrap up with a quick peek education outlay, the county budget is $1,086. Doing the at the general funds. budget is $281.2 million. math for the city yields a The general fund is where Knoxville’s net budget PCBE of $1,561, or 44 per- the action is. For Knox is $284.4 million. A $3 cent per resident greater County, the general fund million difference in bud- budgeted expenditure. budget is $164.3 million.

With such a disparity to The city tops that at $200.5 gets that, combined with schools, tops out at rough- account for there should be million, notably including ly $1 billion will set off few service expenses borne by $56.3 million for police proalarms. As always, there’s the city that don’t burden tection compared to $77.5 county residents, and there million for the county. But more to the story.

“PCBE” is not the latest are, such as firefighting. the sheriff’s budget includes The Knoxville Fire 1,009 patrol and jailer chemical scare associated proposed slots versus 516 in the city.

Larry with hormone-enhanced Department’s beef production or your re- budget comes in at Cost per officer is roughly Van Guilder cycled plastic water bottle. $39,976,440. Subtracting $32,000 more in the city.

It’s my acronym for “Per that from the city’s net bud- (No rank-and-file police ofCapita Budget Expenditure,” get of $284.4 million lowers ficer is overpaid, however.) and because I’m writing this Knoxville’s PCBE to $1,342, The general fund budgets column I invented it. still exceeding the county’s cover salary and benefits for According to U.S. Cen- comparable expenditure by 1,719 full-time employees Proposed budgets for sus Bureau estimates, 24 percent. in Knox County and 1,377 Knox County and the city of The divergent philoso- in the city. Per employee 441,132 (mostly) good folks Knoxville were introduced called Knox County home phies of Mayor Rogero and that breaks out to about a few weeks ago. Townies in 2012. The city’s estimat- Mayor Burchett come into $164,000 in the county and have long moaned about ed population for the same play of course, with more or $207,000 in the city. “double taxation,” taking year was 182,200, leaving less emphasis and costs for Are some folks overa hit from city and county 258,932 county residents green initiatives, economic paid? Underpaid? Read the property-tax assessments. more or less happily “sin- development, infrastruc- budgets. After all, it’s your Let’s see what some simple gle taxed.” ture, and cultural and rec- money. arithmetic tells us about the respective budgets.

The county budget for the upcoming fiscal year is a shade over $709 million.

■ Halls Republican Club will hear from candidates Stacey Campfield and Martin Daniel at 7 p.m.

This figure is net of interMonday, May 19, at the Boys and Girls Club of Halls/Powell, 1819 Dry Gap Pike. Campfield is seeking fund transfers. reelection to the state Senate from District 7. Daniel is seeking the Republican nomination for state The general purpose House District 18 (currently held by Rep. Steve Hall). Snacks and fellowship start at 6 p.m. schools budget comprises a ■ Knox County Democratic Women’s Club, established in 1928, meets each second Tuesday at 6 little more than 60 percent p.m. at Shoney’s on Western Avenue. New members are always welcome. Info: 742-8234. of the total, roughly $428 ■ Democrats from Districts 3 and 4 will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, at the Bearden Branch Limillion. The city’s budget brary. Speakers will include U.S. Senate candidate Terry Adams, judicial candidate George Underdoes not include schools, wood, and Sylvia Woods, candidate for reelection to the Democratic state executive committee. so we need to make an adIf you live in Knox County outside the corporate limits of Knoxville and are given to carping about taxes and the cost of county government, you should count your blessings. You could be residing within the city’s boundaries, where you’d probably find more to complain about.

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Kicks to remember, kicks to forget Tennessee is selling a Tennessee, trailing Alakicking camp, June 6, pro- bama by 11-10 in 1966, fessional instruction, $90. drove 67 yards in the closAll hopefuls invited. ing minutes. Instead of positioning the football in the middle of the field for what should have been an easy field goal, the Vols tried a touchdown, running Marvin for a third-down sweep to the West Alabama 3. Sixteen seconds remained.

Gary Wright, from Heflin, Ala., trotted in to kick I have decided against from the right hash mark. participating, but the Tough angle, but Wright had thought did stir memories. made it a thousand times in Kickers and kicks are sig- his mind, always to beat his nificant in Volunteer lore. home-state school.

There are Tennessee kicks Center Bob Johnson and to remember and, alas, holder Dewey Warren did kicks that went wide but their jobs flawlessly. Wright won’t go away. kicked on cue and grimaced

as the ball drifted. The referee signaled wide right.

“It was just a chip shot,” said Wright years later. “I should have kicked it right through. As it was, I thought the ball went straight over the right upright. It became a judgment call.”

Warren thought the kick was good and got in the referee’s face. Assistant coach Vince Gibson landed facedown on the ground, beating the grass with his fists.

Wright went to the sidelines where the big rolled-up tarpaulins were parked.

“I wished I could crawl inside one and stay until the next week. I cried a lot.

That’s the worst thing I’ve ever been through. I wore

my roommate’s monogrammed sweater so people would think I was somebody else.”

Two years later, Tennessee lost the Orange Bowl to Oklahoma, 26-24. Karl Kremser thought the Vols should have won. His 44yard field-goal attempt in the closing moments also drifted right.

This was a snapshot of the fine line between victory and defeat, the awful difference in agony and ecstasy.

Kremser felt he had let down those who had fought so hard to get so close. He was certain his heart was broken. At 4 in the morning, he was still in a remote corner of the hotel lobby, face in

Getting ready for school Since our retirement several years ago, I have to admit that I have become rather lazy when it comes to getting up in the morning.

But I am usually awake when the school bus passes our home around 7 a.m., and it reminds me how early parents and children must get up to get ready for school.

In reflecting on those “good old days,” I often consider how times have changed since the 1950s in rural Farragut. And I doubt that many school kids today would understand the challenges we had to deal with in a rural community.

First, most households today have central heat and air that can be adjusted by simply touching a thermostat, so getting the house warm before taking a bath is easy. But in rural Far-

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ragut, most homes were heated with coal. And on cold mornings we had to fill the coal hamper, which was outside the house. That was usually a chore done by the school kids.

Likewise, I am sure most homes in our area today have indoor baths with clean, hot water, but taking a bath before school in our household was a challenge.

We were fortunate to have had an indoor bathroom, but a utility district was a decade away.

However, we were more

fortunate than most in that we had dug a well, and everything was great as long as there were no long periods of rain. After periods of rain, the water was often muddy. Many families without wells had to heat water on the stove to take a bath.

It was always a treat to visit my brothers and sisters in Knoxville and enjoy a hot shower with clean water.

I am not sure how students today eat breakfast, but breakfast at our home was a family-participation event.

My mother always cooked a full breakfast every morning – country ham, sausage or bacon along with eggs and hot homemade biscuits. And the family enjoyed breakfast together.

My father always helped with the cooking, and his specialty was making gravy

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Indeed, the Cracker Barrel could have taken a lesson from him in making gravy.

We ate breakfast early because that gave me time to wash the dishes.

A few days ago, I had occasion to meet a couple of my friends at the local McDonald’s to discuss a business matter over breakfast.

McDonald’s is located almost adjacent to the present-day Farragut High School, and I was amazed at the number of young students who were enjoying breakfast there.

I asked a couple of them if they ever ate breakfast at home. One said: “Yeah, we have Pop-Tarts sometimes.”

That is not surprising since the societal environment has changed so much over the past 50 to 60 years.

his hands, stomach in knots, real tears in his red eyes.

Do not miss kicks and sit in a corner, face in hands, stomach in knots. Go to kicking camp.

Ah yes, a kick to remember … Jacksonville, 1957 Gator Bowl. Tennessee beat Texas A&M, 3-0, on Sammy Burklow’s fourth-quarter field goal. It was a pretty little thing of 17 yards, just enough to spoil Paul “Bear” Bryant’s final appearance with the Aggies.

All that evening was happy hour for the Tennessee family. Eventually, those gathered in Gen. Robert R. Neyland’s hotel suite persuaded him to demonstrate the winning kick. The game ball just happened to be at the athletic director’s fingertips.

Neyland gave the ball a swift kick and smashed the

dresser mirror. Oh my, that made quite a mess.

More normal festivities resumed, and after two more glasses of iced tea with lemon, kicking technique came up for more discussion. Scrappy Moore, Chattanooga coach, stepped up to prove a point. His kick broke a window.

Weeks later, the bill for damages landed on the general’s desk. He paged Gus Manning, then business manager, and asked in no uncertain terms who had torn up a room in Jacksonville.

“General, that was the famous kicking exhibition,” said Manning, trying to keep a straight face.

“Oh that,” said Neyland.

“Well, don’t just stand there, pay the bill.”

Today it’s common for both parents to work, and that doesn’t leave much time to prepare breakfast. My mother never worked outside of the home, so cooking breakfast was not something she was rushed to do.

Also, fast-food restaurants that served breakfast such as Hardee’s or McDonald’s were still years in the future, so eating breakfast out before school was not an option even if we could have afforded to do so.

And finally, the unpardonable sin was missing the school bus. That meant a two-mile walk to school and the hope that someone would pick me up.

As I look back on it now, I think the challenges we faced in getting ready for school, and particularly the many chores we had to do before and after school, created a sense of responsibility and helped develop a positive work ethic.

Almost all the kids in

Old Concord grew up to be successful citizens who had careers in a variety of fields. And I am sure we never felt economically disadvantaged, even though by today’s standards we probably would fit that category.

It was just the way things were, and since all families in the Village lived under similar conditions, the thought of being poor never came to mind.

And even those kids who never had the opportunity to go to college were, through drive and ambition, gainfully employed, and several excelled.

For example, one became the general manager of a large Home Depot after starting as a sales associate.

Others became successful building contractors and small business owners.

Did the challenges faced in growing up in a small, rural community contribute to their success? I tend to think that it did.

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God, misquoted I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, “I have dreamed, I have dreamed!� How long? Will the hearts of the prophets ever turn back – those who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart? They plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, just as their ancestors forgot my name for Baal. Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully. See, therefore, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their own tongues and say, “Says the Lord.�

(Jeremiah 23: 25-28a, 31 NRSV)

Christos Papakastos dances with Maria Siopsis, leader of the St. George Greek Orthodox Church dancers, during a workshop held last week at the church.

Greek dance expert visits St. George

By Wendy Smith The moves may be different, but traditional dance is alive and well in Greece, says Christos Papakastos.

The expert in dance, music, folklore and anthropology teaches at the University of Athens. He taught a dance workshop at St. George Greek Orthodox Church last week as part of a whirlwind tour of the U.S. St. George dancers were joined by members of the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers at the workshop.

Christos Papakastos, a professor at the University of Athens, demonstrates regional musical differences. Photos by Wendy Smith

During a break, Papakastos demonstrated his expertise with musical instruments and discussed how traditional dance and music varies from country to country.

Time signatures and scales differ with region, he said.

Dancing continues to play an important role in Greek culture. Some dances are related to a particular season, like one that is performed this time of year to bring rain.

Youth between the ages of 12 and 14 adorn themselves with leaves and dance from villa to villa while observers

douse them with water.

Another celebrates the coming together of people from all nationalities who consider Greece their home – like a Greek homecoming. That happens in mid-August, he said.

While young people still dance, it’s a small part of their lives, and the moves are different. His son is learning to dance, but it’s hard to teach your own kid, he says. The teen has joined a friend’s dance group, rather than his father’s. “My life now is much more easy,� Papakastos laughs.

Voice for the Voiceless co-coordinators Heather Dyer, Amy Bryant and Rachael Robbins are thrilled to be surrounded by pink and blue duffel bags filled with items for Knox County’s foster children. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Filling needs, giving voice

By Sherri Gardner Howell At Grace Baptist Church and Grace Christian Academy, a cry for help went out for members and students to be a “Voice for the Voiceless.� The response was overwhelming.

Through the church’s Charis (Greek word for “grace�) program, the needs of children in foster care were examined, with volunteers learning that children of all ages often enter the foster-care system in emergency situations, bringing

nothing from home. A duffel bag with age-appropriate clothing and personal items for each child is a serious need for the foster-care system.

Taking on the challenge were co-coordinators Heather Dyer, Amy Bryant, Shannon Ray and Rachael Robbins. Pink and blue duffel bags with the Charis logo were ordered, lists of needed items were distributed and four Sundays in May were set aside to collect the items and fill the bags. The

May 4, of the drive. A new goal of 350 was set, and the students at Grace Academy got involved. With still one Sunday to go, the second group set a goal of supply- goal was exceeded, and a ing 200 bags to children in new goal of 700 – the numfoster care. ber of children currently in “Some kids come into foster care in Knox County – custody with nothing more than the clothes on their backs,� said Bryant. “Some come with a few belongings thrown into a trash bag. We want to give them a duffel bag filled with some personal and comfort items of their own, something that will give them hope and dignity.�

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It is a fearsome thing to wander into Jeremiah.

This fierce prophet did not pull punches; he did not hesitate to call ’em like he saw ’em. And he saw the failings of his own colleagues. One wonders if he included himself in “the prophets� who had not spoken God’s own word.

Called “the weeping prophet,� Jeremiah was just a boy (by his own description) when God called him to prophesy. His objections to God were overruled. God insisted Jeremiah was to be God’s own voice. Jeremiah obeyed but carried the burden of God’s word with fear and trembling and great sadness.

God had harsh things to say through Jeremiah. God berated the other prophets, who had freelanced, saying what they thought about the shape of the world in general, and the Children of Israel in particular, rather than accurately conveying God’s own message.

God had opinions that needed to be voiced, and God was insistent that those opinions were more than that: They were God’s will.

God was impatient with prophets who “lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or appoint them ‌ .â€? God accused them of “using their own tongues ‌â€? and then declaring, “Thus says the Lord.â€?

Ouch! It is enough to make anyone who dares to say “Thus says the Lord� think twice about it.

It also calls us – all of us who call on the name of the Lord – to take care with how we speak of God, and how we speak for God. It is a holy thing to say, “Thus says the Lord,� and one must do so with prayer and humility, not to mention accuracy!

God, through Jeremiah, accused the false prophets of leading God’s people astray by their lies and carelessness, when God had not sent them. Jeremiah pointed out that such false prophets are, therefore, of no use to God’s people. In fact, they are a liability!

We, as Christians, are called to pray and study and listen and think! We are called to live according to God’s will to the best of our understanding and ability. We are called to be the people of God. It takes integrity. It requires honesty, with ourselves, with others and with God. It requires obedience to the will of God. It requires humility, to recognize when we fail. It requires perseverance, for the long haul.

Most of all, it requires that we do it for the right reason: because we want to live a life that will please and glorify the Lord.

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Capstone Projects build leadership

Students presenting their Capstone Projects are Aaron Waldrupe, Jacquie Downey, Grant Bruer, Heather Grubbs and Chris Patti.

Three join CAK staff Christian Academy of Knoxville is pleased to announce the addition of three excellent educators to its team of faculty, staff and administration.

Elementary School Principal Kelly Kennedy Kelly Kennedy will start as principal of CAK’s elementary school July 1.

“I so thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Kelly through the search process. Kelly is a committed believer and an outstanding educator,” Neu said.

Kennedy, originally from Birmingham, Ala., has spent the last six years at the Episcopal Collegiate School in Little Rock, Ark., where she is the founding Head of the Lower School.

“I was a part of the building process and opening of the school, so that definitely makes it very difficult to leave here,” Kennedy said.

“At the same time, I’m fully aware that there are good things and positive aspects of change. I’m a firm believer in personal and professional growth and development.

There’s something to be said about someone new coming in, picking up and continuing the great things already hap-

pening while fostering further forward momentum. I think that’s going to happen here (at Episcopal) and I’m hopeful that will happen at CAK.” Kennedy received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education and special education from Baylor University and her masters in educational technology from Texas A&M. “I do feel like I have a strong educational background particularly in curriculum development and elementary education,” Kennedy said. “I’ve also done a lot of work around integrating 21st century skills into an elementary division of a school.”

Kennedy describes herself as a warm and caring person and hopes to quickly get to know all of CAK’s elementary students and families.

“If you know children well, you can serve them well,” she said. “One of the things I believe in strongly is working to ensure that every decision is centered around what is best for the child.”

As Kennedy prepares to pack up and relocate to Knoxville in the next few months, she did admit to some nerves about the initial transition.

“There’s always a little fear with the unkown and change,” Kennedy said, “as it’s a late time of year to be making a

Elementary School Principal Kelly Kennedy with husband, Mike.

Five seniors presented their Capstone Projects this month in front of the entire high school. The Capstone Project is a two-year project in which students explore their passions and put them to work to make a local or global impact.

“We highlighted five, but we very easily could have done more,” said Jamie Petrik, CAK Leadership Coordinator. “The effort that these students put into their projects this year was phenomenal. It was not just about a presentation, but about the

glory of God. We have many gifts here at CAK and praise God for everything these students did and will continue to do through their capstones.”

The five student presenters were Aaron Waldrupe, Jacquie Downey, Grant Bruer, Heather Grubbs and Chris Patti.

Waldrupe’s project focused on his passion for music, composing part of a symphony and putting together a concert of six pieces. Downey wrote a novel as she participated in a two-week writing workshop at Duke University.

Bruer programmed a video game. Grubbs organized and coached a cheerleading squad of 14 special needs girls, The Lemon Sharks. Patti climbed Mount Rainier in Washington to raise funds for a friend in need.

“This is really designed to find what God has gifted you with so you can learn more about it and use it,” Waldrupe said. “This was very enjoyable for me because I was able to explore what it means to be a composer and what music means to me.”

leadership decision on the part of both schools. I’ve prayed a lot about whether or not this is where I needed to be going at this time and felt strongly that God was telling me yes, this is where I need to be.”

ities and the people (at CAK).”

While at Whitefield, East worked with Neu and while at Savannah Country Day School, East got to know CAK Assistant Head of School Donald Snider, who was at a rival school.

“I absolutely look forward to working with them again,” East said. “Mr. Neu and I had a great working relationship and even though Donald and I were at rival schools, we worked together and it was very genuine.

So I’m excited about that.”

East has visited a few times and is well aware of the athletic program at CAK. “It’s a highly competitive program that represents the school in the way that you want it to,” East said. “I wouldn’t say my goal is to take it to the next level, because I think it’s already at the next level. I’m a builder; I want to be someone who will be there to help the coaches to continue to climb.”

East mentioned that his philosophy is to work closely with coaches and to look at five facets of each program: students, facilities, budget, schedule and coaching staff.

Through that analysis, the goals are: To better serve the

Lord, to improve, to have fun and to try to win championships.

“I’m someone who loves to be at school events,” East said. “These are our students.

I want to watch them in the musical, on the playing field and at choir. That’s why I love what I get to do, and I’m overwhelmed that I actually get to do it.”

East will move to Knoxville with his wife of 37 years, Jeanne. They have three children, Emily (30), Jack (24) and Thomas (20).

Athletic Director John East

Athletic Director John East John East will start as CAK’s new athletic director June 1.

“We are very blessed to be welcoming John East to our team at CAK,” said Head of School Bob Neu. “He is one of the most Godly people I know, and he brings a lot to the table both professionally and personally.”

East comes to CAK from The Walker School in Marietta, Ga., where he served as Assistant Athletic Director and Head Football Coach for the past two years. Prior to his time at The Walker School, East served as Director of Athletics at Whitefield Academy (2004-2011), The Lovett School (1995-2004), Savannah Country Day School (1993-1995) and Metairie Park Country Day (1980-1993).

“It’s really God’s blessing,” East said of the move to CAK. “I had no idea this would happen, but we feel the Lord leading us and we are very excited.

I’ve been at a lot of different schools, and I very much like the size of the school, the facil-

Caitlin Hollifield Caitlin Hollifield has been hired as the new head coach of the girls basketball program.

She will also serve as Assistant Athletic Director and will teach a couple of science classes in CAK’s high school.

“We are very excited to welcome Caitlin Hollifield to the CAK community,” Neu said. “Her commitment to excellence in everything she does is very impressive. She is committed to the Lord and developing deep relationships with her students and players.”

Signing Day at CAK CAK senior Maggie Piety signs to play soccer and softball for Berry.

2014 Summer Camps CAK offers a variety of academic and athletic summer camps.

Chem Camp June 2-6

Cooking Camp June 9-12

Sewing Camp July 7-11

Baseball Camp June 2-5

Film Camp June 16-19

Tennis Camp July 14-16/21-24

Create in Me Art June 9-12

Wrestling Camp June 16-19

Elementary Art June 9-13

Football Camp June 16-19

Warrior Sports Camp July 21-25

Softball Camp June 9-12

Basketball Camp June 24-26

For details and registration information, visit www.cakwarriors.com/camps.

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Knoxville Youth Athlet- ■ Volunteers ics Program will host its with horses annual summer track and The Shangri-La Therafield event Tuesday, June 3, through Saturday, June 28, peutic Academy of Riding at more than 23 schools in (STAR), in Lenoir City just Anderson, Blount, Hamblen, over the Loudon County line Knox, McMinn and Sevier from Farragut, will host its Summer Junior Vol Training counties.

Students ages 5-18 can for kids ages 10-12 5-7 p.m. participate. Practices will be Wednesday, May 28, and held 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays Lesson Vol Training 1:30and Thursdays with track 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 31.

STAR helps children meets Saturdays June 7, 14, 21 and 28. Events will include and adults of all ages from the 50-meter dash, discus throughout East Tennessee throw, relays, distance events who have physical, mental Destination Imagination team members are Anuya Jain, Emery Kirby, Eva Coens, (back) Evan and high jump. There will and neurological disabilities.

Participants may ride a horse also be events for parents.

Kilburn, Madison Fox, Joshua Stevens and Daisy Tisue. Photos by S. Barrett Register online through at STAR to help loosen tight Tuesday, June 3, or at any muscles, or help groom a practice location. Cost is horse to improve self-esteem.

Volunteers are needed $40 (maximum is $105 per family) and includes a free to assist participants with a Tyler Carpenter concentrates T-shirt. Info: 385-6237 or wide array of activities. You while competing in field day Who knew so much inUT. The leadership pro- http://knoxvilleyouthath- do not have to have experi- at A.L. Lotts Elementary. In spiration could come from gram was so successful a letics.org/programs/sum- ence with horses to volun- this activity, teams raced to fill one abstract painting of a college course will start mer-developmental-track- teer. Info: Melissa, 988-4711 a bucket with water so a ball or www.rideatstar.org. would roll out. guy with a horse? this fall at UT to teach it to and-field.

12 other students who will teach at six local elementary schools.

“It’s so unreal to see it Sara come to life,” said WaxBarrett stein, who volunteered at Pond Gap Elementary. “It’s something I never imagBearden Elementary ined would happen. It’s so School students, of course. exciting to know I made a The school’s Destination “The Rider” by Mark Riley Photo difference.” submitted Imagination team won this Waxstein graduated year’s state competition “storytelling voice” for from UT this month with with a project inspired by some time. a double major in child and Mark Riley’s painting “The Students read aloud for family studies and psyRider.” family and friends. Guests chology. She will spend the For the category Laugh were encouraged to listen next two years working in Art Loud, teams had to to as many individual read- Memphis schools through create a story based on ers as possible after hear- Teach for America. artwork from another ing their own child read.

“If nothing else, I wanted country. The students at This helps the students to be a consistent positive BES chose to use Riley’s become more comfortable influence in the life of those art. They were required to speaking in public. kids,” Waxstein said of her make three large comic“It’s just a good way time at Pond Gap. “I want Teaching intern Kelly Char and teaching assistant Margie Johannigmeier visit with “chef” Kollin strip panels and a “caption for them to show off their students to know you can Williams after listening to him read the book “Animal Friends” at A.L. Lotts’ Readers’ Café. contraption” in which they reading skills,” said Johns. make a difference even if revealed an explanation The annual event is also a you don’t think you can.” for the panels without us- combined celebration of ing their hands.

Father’s Day and Mother’s ■ Myhre to This may all sound com- Day, and parents receive a swim at UT plicated to an outsider, but potted plant made by the Webb School of Knoxthe members of the team student. ville senior John Myhre got so excited explaining it has committed to swim for to me in the hallway they the University of Tennescaused a traffic jam of othsee. er students who stopped to As a member of Webb’s listen.

400and 200-yard freeThe team is eligible style relay teams, Myhre to compete at the global helped his finals this week at the teammates University of Tennessee place secbut opted out because of ond and family plans for Memorial third reDay weekend. Info: www. s p e c t i v edestinationimagination.org. ly at the Ten ne s ■ Readers’ Café at see InterA.L. Lotts scholastic John Myhre Kindergartners in S w i m m i ng Katherine Waxstein visits teacher Angie Johns’ class Pond Gap student Samari Ty- Coaches State Swimming served up quite a selection and Diving Championler. Photo submitted last week during Readers’ ship, bringing the team to Café, held in the cafeteria fourth place overall. at A.L. Lotts Elementary.

“John is passionate ■ Waxstein leaves Each student wore a about the sport of swimher mark personalized chef hat ming, and his dedication made from a recycled groKatherine Waxstein has paid off,” says Webb cery bag and entered the created a curriculum to head swimming coach “café” with their book on help 5th-graders learn Lizzie Fleming. “I’m excita silver platter. Johns said leadership skills and over- ed to see what he does over they had been practicing come behavioral problems the next four years.”

Laney Gossage assists “mad scientist” Al Hazari with an experiment during Science Night at Northreading their book in their while she was a junior at Myhre’s brother, Ben, shore Elementary. Photos by S. Barrett

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By Bonny C. Millard The aroma of baking goods and simmering soup greets customers as they enter Just Ripe, a food store in downtown Knoxville that offers local and regional products as well as in-house treats such as biscuits, scones, vegetable tarts and quiche.

The store, which recently celebrated its three-year anniversary, caters to those who are looking for locallygrown and produced food products. Co-owner Charlotte Tolley describes it as a healthy convenience store for those who work and live in the downtown area and others who make downtown Knoxville a destination.

Prior to opening Just Ripe in the Daylight Building on Union Avenue, the downtown area didn’t have a convenient, ongoing option for buying fresh foods or other needed food items, she says. Tolley’s and coowner Kristen Faerber’s relationship with the Market Square Farmers’ Market made the store a natural fit.

Tolley, who is a founder and long-time director of the market, and Faerber have both volunteered their time to make the farmers’ market a success. They also had a cart where they sold

Just Ripe co-owner Charlotte Tolley puts fresh kale in the cooler.

Just Ripe co-owner Charlotte Tolley, left, and new employee Lauren Claiborne prepare an order for a customer. Photos by Bonny Millard baked goods, salads, quiches and other seasonal items.

They decided to open a storefront and wanted to showcase products that are available locally and regionally, Tolley says. The grocery store carries pantry ba-

The Oreo matrix You can figure how the economy’s doing by counting customers in the cookie aisle. That’s the gospel according to Steven C. Smith, president/CEO of Food City, who said, “Unemployed or underutilized people don’t go down the snack aisle or the cookie aisle.”

And although the economy is coming back, there are slightly fewer people working today than in 2007, Smith said.

Food City hosted lunch for media types last week in Sevierville. Speaking without notes, Smith gave a sharp analysis of the economy and the ways government interferes.

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He sounded, for a minute, like a fellow who is running for office.

“Median income has declined in nine of the last 13 years,” he said, leaving grocers “chasing fewer dollars.”

Smith said Food City has captured 52 percent of the market against traditional food stores. But that drops to 26 percent when you add big-box stores and others.

sics such as spices and items that might be needed to complete a meal, and a dry goods area features regional jams, pickles and sauces.

With fresh kale salads, buttermilk biscuits, homemade pimento cheese, Food City started in 1955 with Steve’s dad, the late Jack Smith, and one Piggly Wiggly store. The chain now has 107 stores, 77 pharmacies, 81 fuel centers, 13,000 associates and annual sales of $2.2 billion.

“Thirteen percent of our company is owned by 8,000 of our employees through an ESOP,” he said.

Food City serves 2.5 million customers in 980,000 households, he said. “We’re No. 1 or No. 2 in every market.”

Political challenges include the requirement that the company offer health insurance to associates working 30 hours or more per week. That’s a challenge for businesses that must staff for peak shopping times.

Cutbacks in SNAP (sup-

roasted vegetable tarts and seasonal quiche, the store has a variety of choices for take-out lunch or breakfast.

The Dixie Biscuit, a buttermilk biscuit made from scratch and stuffed with the pimento cheese, Applegate

Steven C. Smith, president/ CEO of Food City plemental nutritional assistance program, formerly known as food stamps) have

bacon and house-made pepper jelly, is a popular item, she says.

Faerber bakes the inhouse items using organic butter and other local, fresh ingredients. She also makes seasonal jams.

Tolley says vegetable and fruit juice drinks are made to order but are based on what the store can get locally and seasonally. Apples and kale are available most of the time. The most popular juice is Lemonade Green, which is made of kale, celery, apple and ginger. The store is not far from the Lindsay Young Downtown YMCA, and people visit Just Ripe for a healthy drink af-

ter working out, Tolley says.

A cooler holds organic fruits and vegetables such as limes, lemons, carrots, kale, mixed green salads, asparagus and fresh dates.

The store also offers a selection of cheeses and other dairy products from area farms such as Sweetwater Valley Farm and milk from Cruze Farm. Just Ripe offers locally-roasted coffee from Three Bears Coffee Company. The coffee can be purchased by the cup or by the pound.

In addition to purchasing items from the menu, Just Ripe offers a pick-up catering service. Info: justripeknoxville.com.

hurt grocery sales.

“One in five kids lives in poverty,” he said. “The poverty rate was 14.2 percent when we declared war (on it) in 1964. It’s 15 percent today.”

Until this year, the Tennessee Legislature has forbidden wine sales in grocery stores, and the stores still must get petitions signed and a positive referendum before such sales can become effective in July 2016 (and then only in counties that now have package li-

quor or beer sales), he said.

Finally, families lose income when the breadwinner drops from a $20-per-hour manufacturing job that goes offshore, for instance, to take a $14-per-hour job in the service sector.

These “underutilized” workers can still “pay the mortgage and feed their family,” but you don’t see them shopping in the cookie aisle.

We’re calling that economic indicator The Oreo Matrix.

News from The Knoxville Area Urban League

Knox transplant connected to local career

By Phyllis Nichols Chris Qualls had bachelor’s and ma ster ’s degrees in sports management when he moved from New Orleans to Knoxville in 2012, but Nichols he didn’t have a job.

“It was hard to be in a new town without connections and find a job that would allow me to provide for myself,” Qualls said. “I made a friend who had attended the same college as me in Louisiana, and she recommended the Urban League.”

At the Urban League, Qualls worked with Jackie Robinson, one of the nonprofit organization’s workforce counselors.

Together, Qualls and Robinson found the perfect op-

portunity for Qualls. Today, he is employed as a merchandiser and account developer with Coca-Cola.

Qualls took advantage of training courses at the Urban League that helped him secure the job.

The courses provide specific skills needed in the workforce.

“The first activity I did at the Urban League was the customer-service training and interview-skills practice,” Qualls said. “Without that training and Jackie Robinson’s help, I wouldn’t have gotten the job.

“It was a gift from God that I was able to work with the Urban League. They treated me like family and were always honest with me about what I could accomplish.”

The Knoxville Area Urban League believes willing adults in Knoxville should have a job that allows them to earn a decent wage and pro-

vide a reasonable standard of living for themselves and their family.

Qualls encourages anyone seeking new skills or a new career to call the Urban League. The organization provides training with computer programs, employment readiness, counseling and job placement, customer service, internships and apprenticeships.

To see how the Urban League can help you, call 524-5511.

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A country-filled experience excites Rotary student

By Bonny C. Millard An enthusiastic Jette Wenzl, a high school exchange student from Germany, shared her adventures of the past year in Knoxville and beyond with the Rotary Club of Farragut, which sponsored her trip.

Wenzl, who participated in the Rotary Youth Exchange, fully immersed herself in local and national culture from country music and cowboy boots to University of Tennessee football to Orlando’s Disney World, New York’s treasures and Asheville’s Biltmore Estate.

The exchange student from Uelzen, about an hour from Hamburg, spent the year as a student at Webb School and stayed with three different Webb families.

After arriving last July, Wenzl said she immediately discovered some of the seasonal activities of East Tennessee. Her first family, Dawn and Terry Moore, took her boating, skiing and tubing, which she had never done before. Wenzl laughed, and said, “I still have scars on my elbows.” They also introduced her to the beaches of North Carolina.

“And then I experienced Knoxville’s greatest – UT football,” she said.

The atmosphere in the stadium was great, and she enjoyed watching the game, although she admitted that she still doesn’t understand many of the rules.

She explored the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and then stopped in Nashville for visit to the famed

Jette Wenzl, a Rotary Youth Exchange student from Germany, spoke to the Rotary Club of Farragut about her adventures this past year. The club sponsored Wenzl’s trip. From left are Caroline Biggs, Wenzl, Abby Roesch and Emily Biggs. Wenzl calls the three friends her “American sisters.” Photo by Bonny C. Millard Bluebird Café where she saw country singer Junior Brown. Wenzl said she’d never listened to music like that before, and her friends

back home would have been astonished.

“Even though I don’t like country music, I know I will miss it so much,” she said.

Throughout her visit this past year, she has been able to participant in her host families’ celebrations at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and other gatherings. In December, she moved in with the Cate and Jim Biggs family.

During the Christmas holidays, she traveled to New York City where she visited the Rockefeller Center and discovered her love for musicals when she saw “Matilda” on Broadway.

The final family she is living with is Andrea and Jeff Roesch. They took her to Disney World in Florida where she had her picture made with Mickey and Minnie Mouse and got to explore Harry Potter’s Hogwarts castle.

Her trip to Biltmore Estate, an “American version

of a castle,” was meaningful because her father is an architect in Germany and is in charge of German castles and gardens in the northern part of the country.

Before she heads home in July, the 16-year-old will take a western trip and visit Yellowstone National Park and San Francisco along the way. She thanked the Rotary Club for sponsoring her, particularly Rotarians Bill Nichols and Nancy Welch, saying all helped make her year such a success.

“It was an amazing time.

The best year of my life…so far,” she added, generating laughter from the crowd.

Members of her surrogate families and Webb School Multicultural Coordinator Elizabeth Gregor were on hand to hear Wenzl’s presentation.

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Life-saving heroes Rotary Club of Farragut welcomed and honored two heroes at the May 7 meeting when the club awarded the 2014 Service Above Self honors to Seymour Volunteer firefighter Chris Grabanow, left, and Tennessee State Trooper John Pedigo. Both men had selfless acts of heroism that resulted in saving lives.

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The Concord Christian School Class of 2014 includes (front) Emily Conner, Ayla LeCoultre, Heather Beal, Trysten Kienzl, Audreylee Hall, Brooke Stowell, Peyton Wakham; (back) Tristan Hightower, Tyler Goldberg, Jane Francis Nowell, Holden Hensley and Jessica Mitchum.

Congratulations, Class of 2014!

Concord Christian School will celebrate Commencement at 7 p.m. Friday, May 23, in the First Baptist Concord Worship Center. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our graduating seniors, and we welcome friends and family to campus for this exciting event.

“We are proud of our second graduating class. They have risen to the challenges of academic excellence and spiritual maturity. We are excited to see God’s will come to fruition in each life,” said high school principal Amanda Lane.

The 12 students in the class of 2014 represent the second CCS graduating class. As they prepare to receive their diplomas and celebrate their time as students at CCS, seniors took time to share memories and offer advice to future high school students.

Jessica Mitchum, one of three students when have

attended since kindergarten, stated “Some of my fondest memories were from the school trips like Jamaica in 9th grade, Nicaragua in 11th grade and New York City in 12th grade. I have made memories that will last forever!”

When asked what advice she would give to future CCS high school students, Heather Beal challenged them with, “Life is a thousand times better when you step out of your comfort zone and allow God to work through you.”

CCS graduates are poised to do even more incredible things in the future. The graduates will be attending a variety of universities including: the University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Honors Program, Lee University, Maryville College, North Greenville University, Roanoke College, University of TN at Chattanooga, and Pellissippi State Community College. Their majors range

from bio-chemistry and political science to exercise science, sports management, education, psychology, business and communications. The seniors have been offered $1.4 million in scholarships.

Concord Christian School is thrilled to announce that William Stokely III, chair of the Stokely Company, will be the 2014 Commencement Speaker.

Stokely, a graduate of UT and former member of the UT football team, has held a variety of positions including president of his family’s Indiana-based food processing company, StokelyVan Camp, Inc. Stokely’s strong legacy of volunteer service to UT and the community continues with his active role serving on many boards as well as civic and cultural organizations.

It’s an exciting time for the CCS Class of 2014. Regardless of where their journeys take them next, they’ll always be CCS Lions!

Headmaster Ruston Pierce spends the night in a tent on the roof to encourage fundraising.

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Headmaster Pierce helps raise funds Headmaster Ruston Pierce recently spent the night up on the roof of Concord Christian School. This was on the heels of having his head shaved by a 4th grader and weathering a dousing of green slime, all in the name of fun.

Students at CCS sold cookies and cheesecake to earn the right to slime school staff. Fourth grader C.J. Newton had the highest sales and gave Pierce a new, cooler haircut with some barber shears. Finally, Pierce promised to spend the night on the roof if the school met a sales goal. The students were thrilled to learn their results, and Pierce climbed up on the roof to enjoy a warm night in Farragut under the stars.

“It was a great opportunity to inject fun into the school week,” Pierce said. “I would do it a hundred times more if it energized and supported our students.”

Student C.J. Newton shaves headmaster Ruston Pierce’s head with assistance from elementary principal Leigh Ledet.

SUMMER ACTIVITIES AT CONCORD Concord Christian School Sports Camps Concord Christian School students Trysten Kienzl and Jessica Mitchum receive recognition for their works featured in the Dogwood Arts Festival Student Art Exhibition.

Seniors receive special recognition The Student Art Exhibition of the Dogwood Arts Festival each year highlights the works of the most gifted art students from Knoxville K-12 schools. Two CCS seniors, Jessica Mitchum and Trysten Kienzl, were given special recognition for their skills and had their works featured in the Dogwood Arts Festival Student Art show.

CCS Art Teacher, Mrs. Becky Fraser stated, “I am very proud of Jessica and Trysten for getting accepted into the Dogwood Art Show.

Edgar Degas said “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” These two talented students’ works help the observers dream about other places.”

■ May 27 – 29 Volleyball ■ June 23 – 25 Football ■ July 7 – 10 Boys Basketball ■ July 14 – 17 Girls Basketball ■ July 21 – 22 Cheer ■ July 21 – 24 Soccer Info: ConcordChristianSports.com

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Second opinion gives Tellico man right treatment About three years ago, Kim Frasch of Tellico, now 65, had pain in both of his calves. Over time, it moved upward and became more intense.

“As it got worse, it went into my thighs and glutes. And finally I began to lean to the left as an involuntary effort to gain some relief,” Frasch said. “My wife was worried I couldn’t stand up straight. I had sharp, stabbing pains in my legs, and standing was intolerable. I could only walk for a short period of time.”

Frasch had spinal stenosis, a fairly common condition in which the spinal canal narrows. The bones of the vertebrae compress the spine and surrounding nerves, typically in the lower back.

This creates pain, numbness and weakness in the legs and feet.

Spinal stenosis typically comes on slowly and gets worse over time, most often affecting people over the age of 50.

“Apparently, I had it for years. This is a very slow process,” said Frasch. “They said I’d had it for years and years, but it just never manifested itself.”

Frasch is a business consultant in the medical field, so he did plenty of Internet research about the condition to find an area physician who could help him.

Frasch consulted one surgeon, but didn’t quite feel comfortable. He then went for a second opinion to Dr. Patrick Bolt of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. He liked what he experienced.

“The people are upbeat and work well together there,” Frasch said. “I have visited practices and other health care entities all over the country. I can walk into a business and tell if it is working well or needs better management. It’s one thing to entrust your care to the surgeon, but

niques, making four smaller incisions instead of one larger one.

As soon as he woke up, Mr. Frasch said he immediately felt relief.

“I came out of surgery after five hours, and they said, ‘Would you like to get up?’

And I said, ‘You bet.’ I got up and walked, and I was literally freely stepping, no leg pain whatsoever, tears of joy running down my face!”

Frasch said he was home in two days and has walked every day since then for therapy. “Today I’m wearing my brace, and yes, I do have site pain, but it’s not such that I need to take any medication for it.”

Frasch said he would recommend Dr. Bolt, Fort Sanders and their support staff to anyone facing back surgery.

“You’ve got to do the work, but if you do it, your results can be stellar. I gave my caregivers five stars,” Frasch said of Fort Sanders. “When I pushed my button Kim Frasch of Tellico suffered spinal stenosis before finding relief from his pain thanks to a proand needed something, I got it, from the cedure by Dr. Patrick Bolt at Fort Sanders Regional Medica l Center. day I arrived right through discharge.”

“This is what we’re striving for in his staff has to be happy and supportive. vertebrae, and then fused the two togeth- health care in this country, and I can’t say I’m very happy to say Dr. Bolt was the er using a bone graft and screws. Dr. Bolt enough good about Dr. Bolt’s team. I was did all that with minimally invasive tech- cared for properly. I got my life back.” right choice.”

At first, Dr. Bolt recommended the first-line treatments of physical therapy and steroid injections on Mr. Frasch, but those gave little relief from the pain. At that point, Dr. Bolt recommended the only permanent solution – surgery to widen and stabilize the spinal canal.

Frasch underwent corrective spine surgery at Fort Sanders Regional on ■ Stop smoking. Not only is the nicotine bad for your spine, but if you March 11. have back surgery, smoking also makes it more difficult to recover.

During the procedure, Dr. Bolt removed arthritis and bone spurs from in■ Maintain a healthy weight. side Mr. Frasch’s fourth and fifth lumbar

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When is back surgery right for you?

Spinal stenosis is one of the most common causes of severe back and leg pain, and also one of the most effectively treated conditions with surgery.

Stenosis means “narrowing,” and it’s when the bones of the spinal column narrow from arthritis, bone spurs or other diseases.

The bones then press on the spinal column or surrounding nerves, causing pain.

“This is probably one of the most common surgeries that I do; it’s a very common problem. Stenosis manifests itself as back and leg pain that gets worse with walking.

It’s relieved by sitting,” explained Dr. Patrick Bolt, an orthopedic surgeon at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

While medication and physical therapy can ease the symptoms of stenosis and instability, the only permanent fix is surgery to widen the spinal canal space and stabilize misaligned vertebrae together.

While most people don’t relish the idea of spinal surgery, Dr. Bolt said modern, minimally invasive techniques offer the chance for an otherwise healthy patient to be up and walking again quickly.

Minimally invasive surgery involves several small incisions instead of one larger one, with computer-assisted imaging and microscopes used during surgery.

The incisions are so small that most otherwise healthy patients can go home in about three days, Bolt said. What’s more, the pain of recovering from surgery is typically less than the pain of spinal stenosis.

“I think the public has a negative view

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Dr. Patrick Bolt of spinal surgery, but much of that is from techniques that were used in the past,” said Bolt.

“Today there are many conditions that surgery can be very beneficial for, such as spinal stenosis. Minimally invasive techniques can accomplish the goal with smaller incisions and a quicker recovery for the patient. You can have a great outcome.”

For more information about spinal procedures at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, call 865-673-FORT (3678).

Once a month, a group of senior adults gathers at the Frank R. Strang Senior Center in West Knoxville to learn information about a variety of health and lifestyle topics called “Covenant Presents.”

Covenant Health includes ten hospitals, employs thousands of medical professionals and is affiliated with more than 1,300 of the region’s elite physicians of many different specialties. The program connects medical professionals with local seniors to present health and lifestyle topics of inter est to the group. It costs $5 to attend, is open to the public, and lunch is provided.

On Wednesday, May 28, Dr. Paul Yau, orthopedic surgeon at the Hip Fracture Center at Fort Sanders Regional, will talk about hip fractures. The Hip Fracture Center incorporates “best practice” guidelines and has a team of experts to get patients back on their feet.

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tunate to be able to go to some really neat places: Paris and London are probably at the top of the list. Most recently, I attended the Summer Olympics in London. I’d love to go to the Middle East; that’s problematic at this point. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I would travel.

What is one word others often use to describe you and why?

Dynamo, because I am full of energy.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

I would be a little taller!

What is your passion?

Music – no question. And teaching – the most noble profession.

Angela Batey

With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?

Johann Sebastian Bach

You see Angela Batey’s name in the newspaper a lot, especially around the holidays when she’s conducting one choral ensemble or another.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Since 1995, Batey has been at the University of Tennessee, where she is one of the associate deans in the College of Arts and Sciences; director of choral activities, administrating the entire choral program; and associate head of the School of Music, overseeing the school’s graduate program.

She directs UT’s Chamber Singers – she’s taking them to London and Canterbury next summer. And she’s in charge of the graduate choral conducting program.

For nearly 16 years, she also has been the director of music at Farragut Presbyterian Church. She oversees the entire music ministry and directs the Chancel Choir and hand-bell choir, as well as the seasonal Farragut Singers and occasional instrumental ensembles.

Just reading about all she does will wear out the average human, but she acts as though it’s no big deal.

“The clue to it is just being organized,” says Batey. “I’m extremely organized. I always have been. That’s how I’m able to do that. I work very much in advance. I’ve already planned Christmas music for the end of this year.”

Batey made time to talk at the end of a long day that included driving back from Louisville, where she was an adjudicator for Kentucky’s high school choral festival. Oh yeah, that’s something else she does for about six weeks each spring – travel to various festivals to serve as judge.

“It’s really interesting,” she says, “and I love hearing the choirs.”

Batey somehow will make room in her schedule for the 2014-15 UTK Leadership Class.

About the only thing she doesn’t have time to do is read for pleasure; her reading tends to be for work. She squeezes a little bit into her summers, when she doesn’t teach full time. She’s a huge Harry Potter fan and says she’s “guilty” of re-reading the entire series in a week on occasion. She also enjoys historical fiction.

Batey grew up during the time before home computers, when families had sets of the World Book encyclopedia to help the kids with homework.

“I would frequently be guilty of going to look something up and while on the way to finding my subject get distracted and start reading about something else,” she says.

Other than your parents, who has had the biggest influence on your life and why?

Batey was brought up in “a very small town” in Alabama and was raised in a Southern Baptist church. During her undergraduate years, she started working in church music ministries, beginning with a Presbyterian church. By the time she finished graduate school, she had also worked in Methodist, Episcopal and Baptist churches, developing a “wide ecumenical portfolio.”

While doing her doctoral studies in North Carolina she was at a Presbyterian church and “began to soak in the theology, which matched my personal convictions.”

Chief among those is accepting people as they are. “I was raised in the civil–rights era, and my parents raised me to be color blind,” she says. “That was very different from what was around me. I was raised that you treat people the same way regardless of color, creed or conviction. That’s what I firmly believe.”

Sit back and have a Coffee Break as you get to know Angela Batey.

What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie?

I’m not much of a television watcher, but I do love this line from “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”: “Ah, music! A magic beyond all we do here!”

My aforementioned grandmother, Rubye Hamric, who passed away in 2012. I come from three generations of educators. She, and my parents, raised me to believe I could be and do anything.

I still can’t quite get the hang of …

Excel spreadsheet formulas!

What is the best present you ever received in a box?

A puppy!

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?

You can do anything you set your mind to doing!

What is your social media of choice?

Facebook. I love how it allows you to make connections with friends from your past you would have never found otherwise.

What is the worst job you have ever had?

I am really lucky in that I have been fortunate to have wonderful jobs throughout my career. My first one was a part-time summer job as a book binder repairer in a nonair-conditioned building.

What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon and why?

I do love Roadrunner and how he always outsmarts Wile E. Coyote!

What are you guilty of?

Being too intense!

What irritates you?

What is your favorite material possession?

People who do not follow through on commitments.

I don’t get hung up on material possessions, but I am extremely sentimental. There is a little book my grandmother had that is very special to me. In it, she wrote about her life; things and people that were important to her.

Farragut Presbyterian Church on Jamestowne Boulevard behind Fresh Market

What are you reading currently?

What is your greatest fear?

I am studying the score to Mozart’s Krönungsmesse (Mass No. 15 in C major, KV 317). The English translation is Coronation Mass. I’m considering doing that next spring with the students.

What are the top three things on your bucket list?

I’ve always enjoyed traveling, and I’ve been really for-

What’s one place in Farragut everyone should visit?

Being submerged.

If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?

Fly to Paris.

It can be your neighbor, club leader, bridge partner, boss, teacher – anyone you think would be interesting to Shopper News readers. Email suggestions to Betsy Pickle, betsypickle@yahoo.com. Include contact information if you can.

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Diabetes Management Series, 6:30 p.m., Knox County Health Department auditorium, 140 Dameron Ave. Free five-part series; open to the public. To register: 215-5170.

THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 8 Registration open for AMSE Science Explorer Camp for rising 5th-, 6th- and 7th-graders. Two sessions: June 9-13, June 16-20. Info/to register: http:// amse.org/visitors/summer-camps/.

THROUGH SUNDAY, JULY 27 Leonardo Silaghi: 3 Paintings exhibit, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park. Presenting sponsor is Emerson Process Management. Info: Angela Thomas, 934-2034, or www.knoxart.org.

Imagination Library presents the Penguin Players, 11 a.m., South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Presentation: “One Cool Friend” by Toni Buzzeo. Info: 573-1772.

TUESDAY, MAY 20 UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meeting, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

Oak Ridge NARFE Chapter 1476 meeting, noon, Double Tree Hotel on Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge. Guest speaker: Buddy Brown, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), Knoxville resident and one of only 12 pilots in the world to have flown both of the greatest spy planes ever built, the U-2 and stealth SR-71 Blackbird. Luncheon cost: $14; reservations required: 938-4532 or 482-4625.

Imagination Library presents the Penguin Players, 3 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golf Club Road. Presentation: “One Cool Friend” by Toni Buzzeo. Info: 588-8813.

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Thursday, May 22, 2014 BMA MEETING • 7:00 PM

I. Silent Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Roll Call II. Approval of Agenda III. Mayor’s Report A. Community Health Council Update IV. Citizens Forum V. Approval of Minutes A. May 8, 2014 VI. Ordinance A. Public Hearing & Second Reading 1. Ordinance 14-04, ordinance to amend Ordinance 86-16, Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Farragut and amending Ordinance 03-10, updating the computer generated Zoning Map 2. Ordinance 14-05, Ordinance to amend the text of the Farragut Municipal Code, Title 8 Alcoholic Beverages, Chapter 2 Beer B. First Reading 1. Ordinance 14-06, FY2015 Annual Budget VII. Business Items A. Approval of Resolution R-2014-05, FY2015 Fee Schedule VIII. Town Administrator's Report IX. Attorney’s Report

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Imagination Library presents the Penguin Players, 10 a.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. Presentation: “One Cool Friend” by Toni Buzzeo. Info: 525-1541.

SATURDAY, MAY 31

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 23-25 Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee Quilt Show and Competition, Cooper Athletic Center, Maryville College campus. Times: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday. Admission: $5; multiday pass: $8. Info: www.smokymtnquilters.com.

Poets Darren Jackson and Arthur Smith will read, 3 p.m., Historic Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike.

Part of Poets for Preservation spring poetry series.

Refreshments served. Guests invited to look around the newly restored mansion after the readings.

Cades Cove tour with Bill Landry, 9 a.m., departing from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Tickets: $50 per person; includes light snacks and a cold beverage. Reservations required: 448-8838.

Harvey Broome Group outing: Take-a-Hike, Biodiversity Tour (Pine Forest) Rabbit Creek Trail, GSMNP. 5.4 mile hike from Abrams Creek to Campsite 16 and back. Rated easy. Preregister with Mac Post, 806-0980 or mpost3116@aol.com (email preferred).

TUESDAY, MAY 27 Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 2 p.m., Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Info: 573-0436.

Computer Workshops: Excel, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word 2007 Basics” or equivalent skills. To register: 215-8700.

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$225,000 Renovated Office Building on Bearden Hill Steven K. Maddox & Assoc/ Keller Williams

141 Lawn-Garden Equip. 190 Boats Motors

ENGLISH Bulldogs, AKC pups, 9 wks., exc. quality. $1800.

Eva, 423-519-6430. ***Web ID# 408403***

4 LOTS FOR SALE, ENGLISH BULLDOGS. Woodlawn CemeCh. Bldln. AKC Reg. tery. Section Y, Lot 2 litters. Asst. colors.

297. $3500/ea obo.

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539-2001 or 773-7701 $1500.

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THURSDAY, MAY 29

“South Knoxville Senior Center Parking Lot Sale,” 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Spots/tables available: $10 each.

Info/to register: 573-5843.

HUSKY 2 BR, 2 BA, lg LR, lg SIBERIAN Pups, 4 white, 3 blk & kit., 10x6 porch, vinyl wht, All fem.

AKC. siding, C H/A, appls. $500 ea. 865-805-3091 $23,000. 865-258-5687 ***Web ID# 408613***

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Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Guest speaker: Appalachian writer Tamara Baxter will discuss her book “Rock Big and Sing Loud.”

All-inclusive lunch, $12. RSVP by Monday, May 26: 983-3740.

Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 10:30 a.m. Murphy Branch Library, 2247 Western Ave., LT Ross Bldg. Info: 521-7812.

Amazingly Awesome Science with Dr. Al Hazari, 3 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

FRIDAY, MAY 23

UPDATED 2 STORY w/pool & waterfall.

Private patio. Desirable neighborhood.

Kensington Subd., 1525 Cranston Dr., 37922, Multi cosmetic & energy effic. upgrades. CA$H for your House! Great Pyrenees/St. Totally renovated Bernard puppies, 8 Offer in 24 Hours gourmet kitchen, 2 lg. Cash 865-365-8888 wks, family raised, pantries. Mstr. suite $150. 865-585-4819 HVBuysHouses.com w/2 walk-in custom ***Web ID# 408415*** closets, new mstr.

Mini Schnauzers, AKC, bath w/granite & new Apts - Unfurnished 71 3 M, 1 F, ready May cabinetry.

17. Groomed, vet ckd.

Hrdwd floors & BR/BA $375 ea. with $100 dep. on main, carpet & mstr. KARNS AREA, 2BR, stove, refrig., DW, to hold. 865-257-2955 up. Prof. maintained disp., 1 1/2 & 2.5 BA, landscaping. $639,900. no pets. $700 & $800. Min. Schnauzers, APR MLS #877631. Agents reg., 6 wks, M&F, 1st 865-691-8822; 660-3584.

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Knox County Hardin Valley 112 Acres $4.5M

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28

“Beginning Canning and Food Preservation,” 3:30 p.m., Farragut Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Speaker: Heather Kyle from UT Extension. Free and open to the public.

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LOST Gold Nugget Cross @ VA Clinic Prkng lot. Reward. 233-2773

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AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964.

SATURDAY, MAY 24

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Computer Workshops: Internet and Email Basics, 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. To register: 215-8700.

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6 PIECES double metal truss, 5 1/2" W x 26" H, 45' long. Call for more info. on both, 865-803-3633.

NEW Metal Building, 50' W x 120' L. compl. w/roof ends & sides, all bolts & hrdware, never erected, 6,000 sq ft. 865803-3633

SUNDAY, JUNE 1 Homecoming, 11 a.m., New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 7115 Tipton Lane off East Beaver Creek Drive. Featured singers: Michael and Delilah Kitts.

Everyone invited.

MONDAY, JUNE 2 AARP Driver Safety class, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 584-9964.

Pilot Golf Classic presented by EWI, Gettysvue Polo, Golf and Country Club. Check-in, 7:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.; tee times, 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Cost $750 per foursome. To register: Sheri Lockett, 246-6112 or slockett@ bertelkamp.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 UT Hospice Adult Grief Support Group meeting, 5-6:30 p.m., UT Hospice office, 2270 Sutherland Ave. A light supper is served. Info/reservation: Brenda Fletcher, 544-6277.

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CRAFTSMAN 42", 2000 Searay 18' bow BMW K1200LT 2002, $475. Tiller, rear rider, 135 HP Mercruiser, 18,155 miles. tyne, $300. Phone low hrs, loaded w/many $7500.

865-922-6408 extras. Mint cond.

865-309-0456 $8900. 865-257-3627 HARLEY 2005 Low LAWN MOWER, self Rider, 7,325 act. mi, propel, $170 cash. 2003 Tracker Marine HD chrome, Limby Calls only 865-230LP (Blind Duck) alum. guard, Vance & Hines 7811. outboard boat, 17'9", pipes, new tires, & 60 HP 4 stroke EFI more. $12,500. 865Mercury motor, Shop Tools-Engines 194 Trailstar boat trailer, 705-7984 $3,900. 865-982-7917 HARLEY SOFTAIL 10" comm'l grade Delta BASS TRACKER 17 1991, 26K act mi, table saw, extra exc shape, $7500 obo. ft, 40 HP Mariner, blades & wood pcs.

865-475-2158; 388-2892 '93, garage kept, $350. 865-582-6306 lake ready. $3200.

HONDA GOLDWING 865-258-3758 1985, $3500 obo or TV/Electronics 197 FISHER 170 HAWK, partial trade. Call 865-463-2274 17' Deep-V Aluminum SONY Bravia LCD twin console, convert. digital color TV, 32". top, custm. side curtains, Honda Grom 125 2014, new, 300 mi, too small, cockpit enclosure, Solid wood TV stand $3,000. w/1 shelf, lt oak, both mooring cover, troll 865-774-9791 $300. Exc. cond. 865- motor, 2 fish finders, 75 Merc 2 stroke, matching Motorcycle Clothing 693-6416; 865-228-3851 trailer, 1 owner, garg. sz. XL, winter weight kept, purchased in & Summer weight; Misc. Items 203 2002, burgundy & tan, most never worn. 865$10,000, White Pine, 233-2545; 865-250-5531 865-674-2134 CAR TOW DOLLY 2014, all cars/pu Starcraft Fishmaster, NEW PRICE, CAN-AM Swivels, tilts, never 14'6", 25 HP Merc. SPYDER ST 2013, less used, new ret. $2750. 1st mtr. Good croppie than 20 mi, $20,400 dealer $1050 cash. 8642756478 boat. $3000. 865-524-1977 price 2014. Reduced to $17,000 or reas. b.o.

EXERCISE BIKE, SUNDANCE B18 2009, 865-233-2545; 250-5531 NordicTrack GX40, Yamaha 75 HP, 4 cy- SUZUKI 1994 1400 Intruder, new cond. $200. Call cle. Trolling mtr, 865-314-9586.

20k mi, gar. kept, galvanized. trailer, beaut. extra chrome, $12,500. 865-719-1181.

GENERATOR bags & more. $2500.

BIG 8500 watt, 2014, 865-521-4179; 924-6382 Honda elec. start.

YAMAHA SCOOTER Batt. & wheel kit incl.

Zumba 2005, rebuilt, Never used. 1st $1850 perfect, street legal. cash. (New retail $4995. $1500 obo. 931-788-1068.

Wholesale $3750).

864-275-6478 XPRESS 2006 17 ft, ATV’s 238a trlr, 60 HP, 4 Household Furn. 204 alum. stroke Yamaha.

KAWASAKI 300, $7800. 865-288-7778 4-WHEELER, Bed, Pillow top mattress $2000; Good Cond. Call set. Never used. for Pictures 865-740-7146 $165. Can deliver. Campers 235 404-587-0806 2004 24' Travel Trailer, Utility Trailers 255 MOVING SALE, new tires, battery, floral sofa, wing queen bed, perf. cond.

UTILITY TRAILERS back chair, casual $6999. 865-908-2689 All Sizes Available chair, 4-swivel bar stls., compt. desk, 865-986-5626 sewing mach cab., smokeymountaintrailers.com BUY CAMPERS & stereo & record WE Travel Trailers, 5th plyr cab., 865-938-7809 Wheels, PopUps Vans 256 & Motor Homes.

MOVING SALE. Wood WILL PAY CASH file cabinet, sleeper 423-504-8036 sofa & loveseat, cabinet sewing machine, 3 COLEMAN SANTA swivel bar stools, FE 2001, sleeps 6, computer desk w/hutch, Very good cond.

Broyhill harvest table $3000. 865-546-3825 CHRYS 2001 Red w/6 chairs, coffee table Handicap Van. Fully & end table, round NEW & PRE-OWNED equip, less 60K mi. Top of dinette table, floor the line. $15K. 865-898-7276 lamp, sev. pcs. coll.

INVENTORY SALE print, original & 2014 MODEL SALE HONDA, ODYSSEY, framed art. Call for Check Us Out At 2004, local, good details, 865-603-1348; Northgaterv.com cond. well equip.

865-603-7366 or call 865-681-3030 $4,900 865-363-9018

CAMPERS WANTED

International 424 Farm Tractor, 3 pt. hitch, live pwr, good tires, Exercise Equipment 208 farm ready. Gd. cond. $3500. 865-258-3758 VPX 2000 vibrating exercise machine, John Deere 4 row in "As Seen on TV" planter $1000. New Stores. Perfect cond.

Idea 2 row corn $550 obo. New $900. picker $1800. Heston 865-274-2565 hay baler $1,000.

Heston mower $1800. 865-573-7588 Collectibles 213

Building Materials 188

Cades Cove tour with Bill Landry, 9 a.m., departing from the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Tickets: $50 per person; includes light snacks and a cold beverage. Reservations required: 448-8838.

Harvey Broome Group outing: Wildlife Float, Rankin Wildlife Management Area, Douglas Lake. 3-5 miles of flatwater paddling. Bring or rent boat. Preregister with Ron Shrieves: 922-3518; ronaldshrieves@ comcast.net (email preferred).

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Comm Trucks Buses 259 CHEV. Refrigerated Truck.

2004 C65 Diesel, 16' Bed, Full Opening Rear Doors, Thermo-king Unit Model MD11SR, $12,000. Refrigerated truck bed, 10', full opening rear doors, $3500. 865-986-8005

Antiques Classics 260 Chev Camaro 1989 Iroc Z, restored to showrm cond, 5.7, 700R4, t- ^ tops, low mi & much more. $13,000 Flooring 330 obo. 865-406-3388 CERAMIC TILE inCHEVY IMPALA 1958, stallation.

Floors/ 283 AT, too many walls/ repairs. 33 new parts to mention. yrs exp, exc work!

Call for details.

John 938-3328 $35,000/b.o. 423-626-7311 COBRA REPLICA 1964, 351 Windsor, 5 Guttering 333 sp, Jag rear, many extras. Exc. cond. HAROLD'S GUTTER $30,000. 931-707-8510 SERVICE. Will clean or 931-335-7032. front & back $20 & up.

Quality work, guaranteed. Call 288-0556.

Sport Utility

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CADILAC, SRX 2004, AWD, Blk/tan, sunroof; Premium package. $5,800; 865-679-2305

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Res. Lawns $25. Brn hdwd mulch $30/yd installed. Dyed mulch BMW 330ci 2001, 85K $45/yd installed. mi, black/tan, Brush removal/ books/records, $9500 cleanup. obo. 865-300-2537 865-250-9405 ***Web ID# 407246***

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INFINITI G20 2001, lthr, all pwr, sunrf, Painting / Wallpaper 344 auto climate control, $3750 nego. 865-250-8079 Powell's Painting & Remodeling - ResiTOYOTA SOLARA SLE, dential & Commercial.

2004, 65k mi.

Free Estimates. 865Loaded. Nav, SR, 771-0609 new tires, AT, V6, gar. kept. Immac. car. $11,995/b.o. Jim Tree Service 357 865-660-0688.

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CHEVY SONIC 1 LT, 2013, AT, 4 dr., 4 cyl., turbo, remote start, all pwr, 2600 mi, $10,600. 865-522-4133

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Chrysl. SEBRING 2001, 1 ownr, 135K mi, loaded, sunrf, lthr int, custom whls, $4100 obo. Gary 865-604-3740

CHEVY COLORADO '07, extd. cab, 4cl, 5spd, cruise, AC, $7,600; 865-705-7362

FORD CROWN Victoria 2004, excellent car.

Too much to list. $5400. 865-933-6802

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2005 M-1321 Sea Breeze 33' motr hm, 27,544 mil., 2 slides, 5500 generator. $38,500. 865-982-7917

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GMC SIERRA SLE crew cab 2008, 37K mi., Michelins, Immac! $21,500. 865-382-0365. ***Web ID# 405247***

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Parkwest Senior Leaders pose with the 2014 Leanne Baker Professional Nurse Award winners. Shock was recognized for Leadership, while Price accepted the award for Clinical Practice. L to R: Lynn Cagle, Parkwest CNO; Wendy Shock, Capacity Flow manager; Crystal Price, Educator; and Rick Lassiter, Parkwest CAO.

Stephanie O’Dell was presented with the Susan Foster Professional Development Award. O’Dell is pictured above with the Foster family. L to R: Carl Foster, husband; Solomon Foster, grandson; Stephanie O’Dell, Susan Foster Award winner; Lauren Foster, daughter; Alison Foster, daughter with granddaughter Izzy in front.

Dr. Jesse Doers (far left) and Amanda Underwood, Critical Care manager (far right), presented the Janet Heffern Awards to CCU nurses Sara Dunham (left) and Regena Hughes (right). Dunham was given the New Graduate award, while Hughes earned the Clinical Coach award.

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‘Nursing Excellence’ honored during National Nurses Week

Not all Clinical Excellence winners were in attendance, but those who were included, from left: Jeanette Converse, Endoscopy; Vicki Haidri, PACU; Shannon Pearson, Surgery; Roslyn Robinson, Senior Behavioral Health; Kellye Stone, CCU; Tristyn Schnelle, Case Management; Margaret Chambers, Infection Prevention; Lisa Greene, Float Pool; Seth Chaffins, Cath Lab; Karen Adkison, Utilization Management/Peninsula; Glenda Thomas, 4R; Lisa McGhee, Imaging; Debby Brenneman, PAT; Dana Stakely, ASU; Renee Satterfield, CTSU; and Cheryl Lewelling, 2M. west since 2009, was nominated by Michelle Dennis, Clinical Educator. In the nomination form, Dennis wrote of Price, “On a daily basis, Crystal assists staff, providing updates on processes important to the safety of the patient. She always goes above and beyond to make herself available to assist with staff education, working various shifts to ensure that her fellow nurses are aware of process improvements.” Price was presented with the award for Clinical Practice.

The May 8 awards reception in Parkwest’s Boulevard Bistro not only recognized Baker Award recipients, but also excellence throughout the nursing staff of Parkwest and Peninsula.

Dr. Jesse Doers of Stat Care Medical Group joined Amanda Underwood, Parkwest’s critical care nurse manager, to present the Janet Heffern Critical Care Scholarships. Established in 2011 by Stat Care Medical Group in honor of the long-time Parkwest critical care nurse who

passed away with cancer, the award annually recognizes new graduates and clinical coaches. “(Janet) had a motto: that she was a ‘life-long learner,’ ” said Underwood. “That is so important in our Critical Care environment. You have to have someone who wants to teach and is always willing to learn.”

This year, the Janet Heffern New Graduate award was presented to Sara Dunham and the Clinical Coach award went to Regena Hughes.

The Susan Foster Professional Development Award honors “Sue” Foster, a dedicated and respected registered nurse who served her profession in a variety of areas at Parkwest for more than 20 years. In recognition of her professionalism, clinical ability, mentoring and excellent customer service, the award is specifically designed to honor someone in pursuit of a nursing degree.

Foster’s husband, Carl; daughters, Lauren and Alison; and grandchildren, Solomon and Izzy, attended

the award ceremony and took photos with this year’s Susan Foster Award winner, Stephanie O’Dell, RN in Parkwest’s Cath Lab. In 2000, Parkwest’s medical staff established a Clinical Excellence Award Scholarship to provide financial assistance for one nurse from each unit during National Nurses Week to use for educational funding.

Since its inception, this award has been given to more than 280 nurses who have been able to attend national conferences in their specialty area. They then share their acquired knowledge with their peers to further cultivate best practices.

The winners of this year’s Clini-

Wayne Heatherly 10-Foot Award Volunteer Appreciation Week Parkwest volunteers contributed more than 40,000 total hours in 2013. That translates to a whopping $914,293 value of hours volunteered! Each year, Parkwest recognizes its volunteers’ selfless dedication to serving visitors and patients at the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon. If you or someone you know is interested in becoming a Parkwest Volunteer, contact Becky Boyd, Volunteer Services manager, at 373-1556. Morning volunteers are especially needed at this time.

This honor is given annually to one employee who daily demonstrates the Standards and Behaviors of Parkwest Medical Center. The award commemorates a hallmark of former Parkwest CAO Wayne Heatherly’s administration in that no employee should be within 10 feet of another employee, patient, visitor or volunteer without acknowledging this person in a pleasant manner. This year, the recognition went to Margaret Chambers, a well-known and loved charter employee.

cal Excellence Awards are: Myron Abeyta, Track 2/Peninsula; Karen Adkison, Utilization Management/ Peninsula; Kayce Baker, CSU; Debby Brenneman, PAT; Seth Chaffins, Cath Lab; Margaret Chambers, Infection Prevention; Jeanette Converse, Endoscopy; Natale Garrett, Child & Adolescent Unit/Peninsula; Jessica Godfrey, 4M; Lisa Greene, Float Pool; Vicki Haidri, PACU; Robin Hicks, 5R; Lynette Keeton, Childbirth Center; Cheryl Lewelling, 2M; Barbara Luedeka, Track 2/Peninsula; Kassie Mahaffey, 3M; Lisa McGhee, Imaging; Kelly Nelson, ED; Meagan Payne, Women’s Unit/Peninsula; Shannon Pearson, Surgery; Roslyn Robinson, Senior Behavioral Health; Renee Satterfield, CTSU; Tristyn Schnelle, Case Management; Dana Stakely, ASU; Kellye Stone, CCU; Glenda Thomas, 4R; and Rhonda Valentine, Child & Adolescent Unit/Peninsula.

“I’m absolutely honored to work alongside this amazing group of nurses every day,” said Cagle. “It takes dedication and a lot of patience to do this job, yet they do it day in and day out because they believe in providing the best care for our patients.

We will never be able to thank our nurses enough, but we hope that this recognition ceremony is rewarding and lets them know that we appreciate all they do for our community, our hospital, our physicians and, most importantly, our patients.”

Doctors Day In March, Parkwest and Peninsula honored all of their talented physicians with a complimentary lunch in honor of National Doctors Day. Thank you to our committed physicians for serving our patients and our communities. (L to R) Drs. Jeff Robinson, Sommer Williams and Jennifer Mosley pose for a photo at Parkwest’s Doctors’ Day lunch.

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On May 8, Parkwest held its Nurses Week reception to recognize nurses who go above and beyond in their mission to provide excellent care to each patient. This annual celebration is held in honor of National Nurses Week, an observation supported by the American Nurses Association to coincide with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. This year, National Nurses Week was May 6-12.

Wendy Shock, Capacity Flow manager at Parkwest, and Crystal Price, Educator at Parkwest, were named winners of the 2014 Leanne Baker Professional Nurse Award, the most prestigious honor given to nurses of Parkwest and Peninsula Hospital. The award has two distinctions, one for Leadership and one for Clinical Practice.

“Leanne Baker epitomized what a professional nurse looked like,” said Lynn Cagle, Chief Nursing Officer at Parkwest, speaking of the award’s namesake. “Her compassion for the patient, professional demeanor and steady leadership truly set the standard to which we hold all our nurses.

That’s why it was such an honor to recognize these two deserving individuals who embody the spirit of this award.”

Shock, a registered nurse since 1998, was nominated by Darrell Brackett, Director of Patient Care – Emergency department. In the nomination form, Brackett wrote of Shock, “She is committed to delivering excellent customer service and always does what is right for those we serve. She is also a problem-solver, assessing obstacles and offering solutions that positively affect patients, peers and physicians.” Shock was recognized for Leadership.

Price, a BSN and educator at Park-