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Miracle Maker Kids who complete the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at West High School might be better equipped to compete in a global economy than any other graduating seniors in Knox County. But what is IB?
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Coffee Break When a deal to buy a boat in Florida in the 1980s fell through, Hal Denton was relieved. Now Hal considers his boat as one of his most prized possessions and admits he and his wife love to be out on the boat no matter what the weather.
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Meet Hal Denton on page A-2
Virtual school, but real money Last year, Tennessee taxpayers sent $7 million to Union County for the Tennessee Virtual Academy. The education for just over 1,000 students in grades K-8 may be virtual, but those dollars are real. And this year the enrollment could double. Who thinks this is a good idea?
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Read Betty Bean’s story on A-4
Bijou bordello Did you know the Bijou Theatre used to be a brothel? Well, I didn’t either. Knew it used to show X-rated movies, back in the ’60s and early ’70s, when that part of downtown Knoxville did its best Times Square impression.
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Index Coffee Break A2 Sherri Gardner Howell A3 Government/Politics A4 Marvin West/Lynn Hutton A5 Malcolm Shell A6 Faith A7 Kids A8 Miracle Makers A9 Business A11 Calendar A12 Health/Lifestyles Sect B
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August 27, 2012
Training in Turkey:
Rotary project tackles cancer By Sherri Gardner Howell The mission statement for a project recently completed by the Rotary Club of Farragut could well elicit a sarcastic, “Oh, really? It would be a mistake and a missed opportunity to be impressed to not dig deeper. The 3-H Breast Cancer Awareness project’s stated mission is this, taken from official reports to Rotary International: “This project will improve breast cancer awareness among healthcare providers and women aged 18+ in the medically underserved areas of the greater Izmir provincial area of Turkey. Physician-led, neighborhood seminars will focus on breast cancer education and training in breast selfexamination and early detection. Women aged 40+ will be referred to physicians for clinical breast examination and to begin periodic screening mammography. Program success will be tracked over time by a series of surveys and healthcare patient registry data. As a key partner, the Turkish Ministry of Health will sustain this project’s momentum, fundamentally changing healthcare for generations of women.” While many in the Farragut club have been involved in some way, leading the charge for the program have been Jim O’Brien and Bruce Williamson, along with Jim and Patty Daugherty and the late Carol LaRue, a member of the Maryville club and a past Rotary district governor. ■
The beginning
The relationship with Turkey and Farragut started in 2001 with a program of the Rotary Foundation for a group study exchange. “A team of five people, four non-Rotarians and one Rotarian team leader, traveled to Turkey for five weeks, living in the homes with Turkish families, traveling and gaining an understanding of the people and culture in order to promote world peace and understanding,” said O’Brien. “That project wasn’t a large undertaking as Rotary projects go, but ended up laying the foundation for the 3-H grant and a partnership between the Izmir Rotary club in Turkey and the Farragut Rotary to increase awareness of breast cancer.” There were other joint projects between 2001 and 2008 as relationships were formed and work done back-and-forth. The 3-H grant – Health, Hunger and Humanity – is one of the largest grants offered
Rotary Club of Farragut president Bruce Williamson took this photo of Turkish farmers stopping for midday tea in Cirpli while their wives were meeting with members of Rotary and the Turkey Ministry of Health medical trainers to learn about breast cancer. by the Rotary Foundation, and the process to receive one is arduous. From the formation of the idea and proposal with then district governor Carol LaRue in 2007-2008 to the final application submission in 2009, there were reams of paperwork, data and research, both locally and with Turkey. “One of the requirements for a 3-H grant is that the project has to sustainable,” said Williamson. “That is where the relationships and knowledge built during the previous years came into play. Jim and Patty Daugherty did the first 3-H proposal application that was due end of March, 2008. Then we had to wait to see if the idea would even be chosen for the go-ahead to proceed with the formal application process.” Once accepted for the formal application to proceed, the details had to be nailed down. “We had to have a detailed, operational and executable program,” said Williamson. “Jim and I went to Turkey for 10 days in June of 2008 and worked with our Turkish counterparts. From that, we came back with a rough draft. The original proposal was to include the whole Turkish district, but we had to scale that back to the Izmir providence because that was where we were able to get a commitment from the state-appointed Minister of Health.
We knew one of the key parts for success in promoting early detection would have to include someone from the governmental side.” ■
Push-back from locals
Breast cancer prevention is not a high priority in the health initiatives in Turkey. “Given that it is a Muslim country, males are primarily the ones making the decisions,” said O’Brien. “When the proposal for breast cancer education and outreach was first put forward with the providences, some of the state-appointed ministers saw it as a potential threat to funding they wanted for other projects they saw as more important. So we got some push-back. The deputy director in Izmir was willing to put his name on the proposal, agreeing that they would continue the project after the money from Rotary was spent.” In Turkey, Avian flu is the top priority nationally, with prenatal and postnatal health coming in second and third. Health care for women was on the national priority list, but was pretty far down, said Williamson. “Breast cancer didn’t even make the priority list. And, Turkey had relatively poor data to even say what the incident of breast cancer was.” The project was accepted, one of five or six that year out of an initial screening of more than 60 propos-
als. The grant became effective July 1, 2009, and the three-year program began. Offering a 10-to-1 matching grant, the original funding was for $297,000, which was scaled back to $193,000 when only the largest province (Izmir) was included. Farragut Rotary and surrounding clubs in the district spent $19,000 on the project over the past three years. In the Turkish health care system, each province has a community center and a local health center or clinic. “There may be a doctor there or one who travels to different clinics. They always have a nurse and a nurse midwife. Midwives play a major role in the health care system, so educating them was a big part of the project,” explained O’Brien. ■
Training women
The original plan was to have women come to the community centers, schools and universities as the primary centers to be trained and educated on self-examination and breast cancer in general. The doctors were sent to a Ministry of Health training center so they could be gathered in central locations. “After the first year, we found that there was a large population of working-age women who were not able to come in the daytime. We asked the Ministry of Health if To page A-3
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Suzanne Foree Neal Ingles has long been a fi xture in Farragut Towne Square, even after it moved a few hundred yards to the west of its original location into new digs. What it left behind was a big empty space. Soon after, several smaller businesses in the center also closed their doors. It’s lonely on the other end of the vast parking lot. The only businesses remaining open include Restaurant Linderhof, Dollar General and Goin’ Postal, which moved in after Ingles left the center. Spake Realty in Asheville, N.C., is handling leasing for the former Ingles space of 21,000 square feet and five other spaces. Other smaller spaces ranging from 1,200 to 5,600 square feet are also up for grabs.
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Farragut Towne Square anchor Ingles grocery and several smaller spaces sit empty after the grocery moved a few yards down the pike into a new, larger building. Photo by S.F. Neal Farragut Town Administrator David Smoak said it’s not always easy to fill those old spaces. “I’m not sure they know what they want to do there,” he said of any redevelopment plans. “For the time being there are different leases for
tenants there and I don’t know of any long-term plans.” “Empties” isn’t something happening only in Farragut. Smoak said cities all over the country are experiencing the same problem and he’s thankful Farragut
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has been lucky enough to see an increase, rather than a drop, in tax revenue. “You will see a lifecycle situation,” he said of older shopping centers. Ingles, just like Kroger, moved into new bigger buildings just a stone’s throw from the old buildings. “Now it’s a matter of reusing the facilities and they’re not small,” Smoak said. “It does take a little bit of time to find the right person to go in there and be successful.” John Spake did not respond to multiple attempts to contact him by email and phone.