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BUZZ City Parks moves to Lakeshore City Parks and Recreation offices are now officially located in the newly restored historic administration building in Lakeshore Park, located at 6410 S. Northshore Drive.

The department has been split between locations at E. Fifth Avenue and the City County Building downtown.

Additionally, the department recently opened an online registration and reservations system, that can be accessed at registration.knoxvilletn.gov. Through the website, residents can register and pay for leagues, camps and classes or make reservations for park space and building rentals.

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May 18, 2016

STEM grad prepares for maritime career with solo sail

Bob Thomas is running for mayor Bob Thomas, radio guy and at-large county commissioner, kicked off his campaign for Knox County mayor last week with a baloney-cutting at Powell Auction. He followed Mayor Tim Burchett’s path (Burchett also launched his campaign there), but two years ahead of the election.

Turnout was huge, and it was great to see old friends.

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Justin Douthat sails on Mobile Bay during a 1,400-mile solo trip from Knoxville. Photo submitted

By Wendy Smith A hobby that began on a tiny Sunfish sailboat at Concord Yacht Club has already inspired L&N STEM Academy graduate Justin Douthat to sail solo from Knoxville to the Florida coast, and his nautical adventures have just begun.

The West Knoxville resident graduated in December, but will accept his diploma this week. In the fall, he’ll begin a bachelor’s degree

Wendy Smith recalls her grandfather, the late A.K. Bissell, longtime mayor of Oak Ridge. “My parents’ Oak Ridge home will soon be put on the market, and it’s been a bittersweet trip down memory lane for me, my brother and my father as we’ve sorted through every drawer, closet and file folder.�

Read Wendy Smith on page A-4

Derby Day The formal dining room at Sherrill Hills Resort Lifestyle Community was filled with seniors wearing their finest duds and fanciest hats as they gathered for “Derby Day,â€? a horseracing event featuring all the excitement of the Kentucky Derby ‌ but none of the mud. “Derby Day is a big deal at Sherrill Hills,â€? said lifestyle director Ashley Dixon.

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will represent the U.S. in the 2016 William I. Koch Sea Scout Cup in Long Beach, Calif., in July. He also participated in Bearden High School’s sailing club, and founded a sailing club at L&N STEM Academy after he transferred there.

Douthat purchased several sailboards and sailboats with proceeds from his pressure washing and mowing businesses, but his parents, Derrick and Lori

Douthat, helped him purchase a 1976 Pearson 26 two years ago. After graduation, he planned to sail the boat to Chattanooga and back, but opted to sail on to the coast in order to sell it.

He came up with the plan just two weeks before departing at the end of February. That gave him enough time to make repairs to To page A-3

Read Sandra Clark on page A-5

City starts alley upgrades, restrooms

Remembering Pop

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at Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, Mich., that will enable him to operate commercial ships of unlimited tonnage on the Great Lakes and oceans as a merchant marine officer.

His interest was spurred by a sail camp he attended while in the sixth grade. He later joined Sea Scouts, a branch of Boy Scouts of America. He is a member of a team that is one of several that

Read Nancy Anderson on page A-6

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Two downtown projects – construction of public restrooms in the Market Square Garage and drainage improvements in Strong Alley – are getting underway this week, according to a city advisory.

The $373,000 five-stall restroom facility will be built in the street-level northwest corner of the garage. The restrooms – which will include a roof, graffiti-resistant paint, topiary screens and LED-lit glass panels that will glow at night – will be easily accessible, adjacent to the garage attendant booth.

Southern Constructors Inc. was awarded the competitively-bid contract, and the restrooms are expected to be open in August.

By Betty Bean The Andrew Johnson building on Gay Street isn’t the only iconic, county-owned structure Knox County is looking to sell. Last week, Mayor Tim Burchett told the Shopper News that he intends to put the former Sears store at 1000 N. Central on the block before he leaves office in September 2018. “That’s part of the long-range plan,� he said. “And it’s in keeping with my philosophy of putting government property back on the tax rolls.�

Sears, Roebuck & Co. started construction on the new department store on the south end of Happy Holler in 1946 on a 3.9-acre

sent of the owners of the buildings. “These are two new amenities that will be very popular,� said Rick Emmett, the city’s downtown coordinator. “The cobblestones and drainage improvements will make Strong Alley smooth and dry, so it’ll be safer for pedestrians. And, of course, people will be very happy to have attractive and comfortable restrooms. There are so many family-friendly events and festivals on Market Square, this was definitely needed.�

There are more downtown improvements to come: Two stretches of West Jackson Avenue – a section between World’s Fair Park and Gay Street, and another sec-

tion east of Gay Street through the center of the Old City – will be streetscaped, starting this summer and wrapping up in 2017. The work will include building new curbs and sidewalks, planting trees and continuing to bury utility lines, but the projects also will include significant subterranean utility upgrades.

Replacement of a section of damaged sidewalk running between Henley Street and the city-owned parking lot on West Jackson is nearing completion.

Replacement of another section of damaged sidewalk near The Daniel, a redevelopment project that includes lofts and retail space, is expected to begin May 31.

Old Sears building targeted for sale

Meanwhile, improvements to Strong Alley – which runs behind Gay Street and Market Square, between Union Avenue and Wall Avenue – include the replacement of the drainage system within the alley and connecting adjacent building roof drains to the new drainage system. In addition, the alley will be resurfaced, and a 3-foot-wide $40,000 cobblestone walkway will be laid in the center of the alley.

Adams and Sons, the project contractor, is expected to finish the upgrades by mid-summer.

Strong Alley is an increasingly popular walking path because of its large colorful murals, painted by regional artists with the con-

parcel in the Dameron Addition that consisted of 21 residential lots. The sprawling, Streamline Moderne/Art DECO store opened in 1948 and operated until the mid-1980s, when Sears, Roebuck & Co. sold it to the East Towne Mall Company for $800,395.92.

Knox County bought it in February 1988, during the administration of County Executive Dwight Kessel. The purchase was controversial, in part because residents of surrounding neighborhoods – already riled because the neighborhood had been chosen as the site of a solid waste incinerator – feared that the county intended to use the former depart-

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ment store as an intake center for the jail. Others were suspicious because the sellers’ identity was shielded by a trust agreement for an investors group that acquired the property for $850,000 in 1987.

Fears died down over the years as county government converted the building to more benign uses, including the purchasing department, a satellite sheriff’s office, a clothing depot, an office of veterans’ affairs and storage space for county archives.

Burchett said he intends to take advantage of the hot market for Downtown North redevelopment, and that no employees will lose jobs when these services are

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relocated. “The time is right – the ‘Holler’ is hopping, and some people tell me (the old Sears building) may be even more valuable than the AJ Building.�

As a historical note, although Dwight Kessel isn’t generally credited as a preservationist, his administration presided over the restoration of the historic Knox County Courthouse, the acquisition of the former Andrew Johnson Hotel and the purchase of the old Sears building.

(Hat tip to Register of Deeds office manager Richie Beeler for his research on old Sears building history.)

A-2 • MAY 18, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news

NEWS FROM RATHER & KITTRELL

Does your estate plan leave a legacy or a burden?

By Chad Starliper The death of entertainment icon Prince has been met with blanketed news coverage. His legacy as a performer is obvious. There are other pieces of his legacy, however, that may not turn out so pretty.

According to multiple reports he may have died without a will, known as dying “intestate.�

When this happens, the intestacy laws of the state one resides in determine how most of the individually-owned assets are distributed. Prince appears to have inadvertently forgone the ability to determine where his fortune will end up or how it will be used when it gets there.

Of course, without strategic tax planning the largest single beneďŹ ciary may be Uncle Sam. What comes next we can all picture; there are likely to be people coming out of the woodwork claiming some share of this fortune. Regardless of whether they have legitimate claims, it will probably tangle up the estate and his “entourageâ€? in untold legal and administrative actions that could go on for years.

The issues reach beyond the ďŹ nancial. By dying without a will (a bare minimum for someone like him) this scenario also runs a high risk of fracturing relationships among his surviving circle that may not have otherwise occurred. If Prince had another 24 hours to revisit the potential fallout, one wonders what he might have put in place.

The fallout is where this should hit home with all of us, regardless of the size of our estate. Most of the concepts of estate planning are not about us per se but the people we leave behind. If done with intention it can be a chance to leave a legacy of values and provision rather than a burden.

My family has spent the better part of three years experiencing

this ďŹ rsthand. I lost my father in 2013 and my mother in 2015.

I am an only child so it pretty much fell on me. I can empathize more than ever how the loss or incapacity of a loved one is consuming by itself.

Then there is the additional weight of handling the ďŹ nancial and legal affairs that overlap – precisely when we are most overwhelmed and have the least margin in our lives to deal with it. Like many, I already had a lot on my plate with a wife and three young children – plus my “regularâ€? job. Right smack in the middle of this I was having some health issues of my own.

Fortunately, my parents worked with their estate attorney to have a complete estate plan in place long before. I am so grateful for that, and cannot fathom how I would have handled this otherwise.

This “planâ€? included the necessary contingencies so that at the death or incapacity of either or both, I would be able to pick up the baton and execute things fairly seamlessly. We had discussed the plan together and I had copies of all the legal and ďŹ nancial documents. It still took some work, but we were prepared and knew what to do.

Unfortunately the opposite scenario is too common: “Where do I start? Who do I call? Where are these documents? What does this mean?� These are the predicaments that desperately need to be avoided. If given the chance see this, most would do things differently if they realized how much stress they placed on their loved ones left behind to pick up the pieces.

The good news is we can all make a choice today to do it well. Ask yourself if you want to leave a legacy or a burden.

Understandably, even with the best of intentions it is easy to put it off for another day – so get-

ting started is often the biggest hurdle. To kick things into gear it is best to keep it simple.

Chad Starliper with his dad, Stephen

A good place to start is basic organization. Create an inventory of assets, insurance policies and location of important documents. Have a list of beneďŹ ciary designations for retirement accounts and life insurance policies, which are critical to integrate with the overall estate plan. Important: do not be the only person who has this information.

Next, just start talking about it with your family (or whoever will be a part of it). Treat it as a legacy brainstorming session. It does not have to be perfect, just paint the picture.

Third, in our professional experience, most people would be best served by engaging with competent counsel who specializes in this area. It is possible to take the DIY route, but professionals are helpful for at least two reasons. First, because they do this all the time they can help walk you through the process and make it much easier. Second, and perhaps more importantly, they can help you sidestep the big mistakes – what you don’t know you don’t know. Some of the most

Chad and Wendy Starliper with Chad’s mother, Knoxville Realtor Judi Starliper, and the kids: Mason, Carter and Presley

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because the blueprint is already in place.

Unlike Prince, you have the time to determine how you want things to play out. Plan to leave a legacy, not a burden.

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BEARDEN Shopper news • MAY 18, 2016 • A-3

Jewelry maker Robin Haley casts replicas of ancient artifacts in pure gold and silver. Photos by Carol Z. Shane

The Scanlan clan gathers to celebrate mom Margaret’s spectacular “Poppy Project� at Bennett Galleries. Shown are Greg and Jennifer Dunn, Kelsie Anderson, Margaret and Tom Scanlan. Young Will Dunn, stands in front.

Poppies, pendants

â– Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: cwkch.com.

and more at Bennett Galleries

By Carol Z. Shane “In Flanders field the poppies blow between the crosses row on row.� Canadian physician and Lt. Col. John McCrae wrote the famous poem in 1915, moved by the battlefield death of a friend during World War I. For 25 years, artist Margaret Scanlan has been growing and painting those same “Flanders poppies� – officially, Papaver rhoeas – and this month her work, along with the jewelry of Robin Haley, is featured at Bennett Galleries.

Scanlan and her husband Tom grow the bright red beauties in their organic garden, she says, planting them in October for spring blooms and saving seeds from year to year.

And when she’s not growing them, she’s painting them. “Art’s always been a part of our family,� says Scanlan’s

daughter Jennifer Dunn.

About 10 years ago, Scanlan started photographing the flora.

Though she’s been with Bennett since 1988 and has had “about 10� shows there, “this is the first time I’ve shown any photographs. The centers of these poppies are often overlooked because they are so small. These are their true colors. Cross-pollination has resulted through the years, in the spectacular variations from poppy to poppy.�

The photos are indeed fantasy-like. Observing the array of vivid colors and textures, it’s difficult to remember that, except for enlargement, they are not altered in any way.

Jewelry maker Robin Haley is a California transplant currently living in Nashville.

Haley has been crafting

her unique pieces “for 35 years – my whole life,� she says. She received a degree in fashion design from Los Angeles’ Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and first experienced mainstream success when her fashion jewelry line was picked up by Nordstrom. Affordable and festive, it contains all natural gemstones. “I don’t do plastic,� she says.

But it’s her fine jewelry that really captures the eye and the imagination.

Years ago, Haley arrived at an antiques show and was disappointed to discover that it was a presentation of Civil War artifacts – not her prime area of interest. She left. But “something told me to go back.� At the show, she met and befriended a collector of ancient coins and artifacts. Over the years she has cultivated a network of such collectors.

Haley makes replicas of the artifacts in pure gold and silver. She does some cleanup and repair of the original item, but “anything cool broken I leave; if it’s asymmetrical I’m fine with that. I don’t want to make it perfect.� The pieces retain the centuriesold wear of the artifacts; some religious talismans have been rubbed thin from constant handling. “The artifacts are the foundation of my business,� says Haley, who at the time of this interview was preparing for a meeting with Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. “The Poppy Project� and “Robin Haley Mother’s Day Jewelry Trunk Show� are on view at Bennett Galleries, 5308 Kingston Pike, through May 28. Info: 865-584-6791 or bennettgalleries.com.

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UT Farmers Market offers unique setting, vendors

By Wendy Smith Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero rang the bell to open the seventh season of the UT Farmers Market last week.

Urban agriculture is important to the city, and to her personally, she said. She learned beekeeping 12 years ago at UT and continues the hobby.

The UT Farmers Market stands out because of its location − the UT Gardens. “It’s easy to park and shop in one of the most beautiful places in Knoxville,� says market manager Beth Stanford.

Over 20 vendors are participating in this year’s market, which is 4-7 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Vendors include local farmers and artisans as well as UT groups. Proceeds from All Vol Cheese go back into the undergraduate food science and technology program, and a UT Garden booth sells plants and produce to raise funds for the Kitchen Garden. The weekly event also offers children’s activities and prepared foods.

Grow More, Give More, a service project of the UT Institute of Agriculture, collects any leftover produce from the farmers market to donate to the Society of St. Andrew. Info: GMGM@tennessee.edu

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COMMUNITY NOTES

Mayor Madeline Rogero opens the 2016 UT Farmers Market.

â– Family Community Education-Bearden Club meets 10 a.m. each third Tuesday, Central Baptist-Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Info: Shannon Remington, 927-3316. â– Family Community Education-Crestwood Club meets 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday, Grace Lutheran Church, 9076 Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby Freels, 690-8164. â– Fourth District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each fourth Tuesday, Bearden Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: Chris Foell, 691-8933 or foellmc@aol. com; Rosina Guerra, rosinag@ earthlink.net or 588-5250. â– Historic Sutherland Heights Neighborhood Association.

Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773,

â– Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. each second Monday, Lyons View Community Center, 114 Sprankle Ave. Info: Mary Brewster, 454-2390. â– Third District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each third Thursday, Cedar Bluff Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: Liz Key, 201-5310 or lizkey1@gmail. com; Isaac Johnson, 310-7745 or ijohnso2@gmail.com. â– Toastmasters Club 802 meets 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday, Central Baptist Annex, 6310 Deane Hill Drive. Info: 802. toastmastersclubs.org. â– West Hills Community Association. Info: Ashley Williams, 313-0282. â– West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each first and third Monday, 8529 Kingston Pike.

Info: knoxvillewestknoxlions club.org. â– West Knox Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each second Monday at Red Lobster on Kingston Pike.

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the boat and plan his route down the Tennessee River to the 234-mile man-made Tombigbee Waterway.

He packed a month’s worth of food, a mountain bike, a dinghy with a back-up motor, and a trove of technology, including a computer, phone, GPS and autopilot. He listed the boat on Craigslist before embarking.

The beginning of the trip was daunting. Douthat had never been beyond Fort Loudoun Lake or navigated before, and the five-knot current he experienced on the Tennessee River was so strong that he couldn’t go upriver, even with a motor.

It was also cold. He was almost to Chattanooga when he sailed through sleet wearing two ski caps and multiple toboggans. He stayed warm at night in a zero-degreerated sleeping bag.

Passing through the first few locks was ‘kind of terrifying,’ he admits. He went

through a total of 18 locks on the trip.

Other adventures included cutting loose an anchor to outrun a storm, sailing between tow boats in narrow commercial waterways and waking at 4 a.m. in a swampy cove filled with mosquitos and alligators in order to beat a storm to the coast.

But sunrises were beautiful, and the highlight of the trip was sailing into Mobile Bay. He met interesting people along the way, including two in Pensacola who let him borrow their boats to sail in the Gulf of Mexico.

He sold his boat to the first person who looked at it, and the new owner agreed to let Douthat keep the boat for a week and a half so he could explore the coast.

The fun outweighed the hardship, and Douthat is eager for more adventure on the water. ‘Doing stuff like that makes me want to do it more.’

UT Garden intern Chloe Reeves sells produce grown in the Kitchen Garden. Photo by Wendy Smith

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A-4 • MAY 18, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news

Friends of Walter The Walter Chadwick story goes on and on and actually gets better with age. With just a little help, it could be a movie.

The former Tennessee tailback celebrated his 70th birthday in Decatur, Ga., surrounded by “Friends of Walter,� a side story almost as good as the main event.

Chadwick did not receive a great stack of gifts.

He doesn’t need more dust collectors. He did get what he wanted, a cluster of orange and white balloons for the annual launch. Walter always thinks his two will make it to the moon.

And why not? Walter keeps defying unbelievable odds just to be part of the party.

The Walter Chadwick story almost ended on a

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drippy spring afternoon 45 years ago. He was making deliveries for his mom’s gift shop. He stopped at a traffic light. A Wells Fargo truck hustling in the opposite direction slid across the center line and smashed into his VW Beetle. “They gave me the last rites,� Chadwick is fond of saying, “but I fooled ’em!�

Barely.

His body was broken and he suffered irreparable brain damage. He survived in intensive care for 15 days

and was in a coma for most of four months. He spent two years in rehab. His marriage dissolved. He lost touch with his two young sons.

He lost almost everything but, somehow, maintained his faith, a sense of humor and a few precious memories of football. The fun part was 1965-67. He started for Doug Dickey’s Volunteers.

Walter’s favorite play (and one of mine) happened his senior season versus Alabama. It looked like a power sweep. Linebacker and halfback came roaring up. Tight end Austin Denney slipped behind them.

Walter didn’t deliver a perfect spiral. He shot-putted the ball for a touchdown.

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Remembering Pop My parents’ Oak Ridge home will soon be put on the market, and it’s been a bittersweet trip down memory lane for me, my brother and my father as we’ve sorted through every drawer, closet and file folder.

Some things should’ve stayed hidden from the world, like my sixth-grade photos and at least one disappointing report card.

But I also found treasures, like numerous new spaper clippings devoted to my grandfather, longMayor Bissell time Oak Ridge Mayor Alvin Keith Bissell.

To me, he was Pop, hus-

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band of Nana, a.k.a. Mama, Mema or Helen Bissell, depending on who was talking to her. They lived in a muchremodeled “C� cemesto house on Meadow Road, where we celebrated numerous holidays. I was always assigned to the kid table, so I missed the really good conversations.

At the time, I wouldn’t have been interested in Pop’s numerous accomplishments, like his organization of the effort to incorporate Oak Ridge in 1959. I wouldn’t have cared that he

was active in the Tennessee Municipal League, a chair of the East Tennessee Development District, or a charter member of the Melton Hill Regional Industrial Development Association.

I don’t recall knowing that he played a leading role in the extension of Pellissippi Parkway in an effort to provide a quicker route to McGhee Tyson Airport.

This is all fascinating to me now, but it’s the little anecdotes that bring the fuzzy images of my grandfather, who passed away in 1994, back into focus. After Pop was recruited to work for Tennessee Eastman on a mysterious project in 1943, the family was assigned to a “D� house on Tennessee Avenue, where there “wasn’t a gravel,� he told The Oak

liberately prickly question about passing form, Chad said, “It counted six!�

Chadwick was drafted by Green Bay. He had another tryout with Atlanta. He played one season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

He was a high school coach for two weeks preceding the crash.

Former Vol Elliott Gammage became Walter’s first best friend during rehabilitation. Former Vol Steve Kiner was next to help when Gammage moved back to Tennessee. “Walter had a townhouse and was trying to hang in there,� said Kiner. “It was heartbreaking. He wasn’t doing his physical therapy.

He needed a job with some dignity. I had to do something.�

Kiner, with advanced degrees in clinical psychology and counseling, was prominent with Emory

Healthcare. Eventually, a rehab nursing director realized Walter might help her patients. He became inspiration coach. He greeted everybody with a twisted smile and “Hey, Slick.�

Patients who had not talked for weeks responded.

Some laughed.

The decades have not been easy for Walter Chadwick. The time came when there were no more jobs.

He even had to give up his bicycle and joyous treasure hunts for aluminum cans along roadways.

It may have been Kiner’s idea to assemble “Friends of Walter.�

A UT grad in the Atlanta area, Ellen Morrison, her husband Philip, Marilyn Elrod, Jim Lawson and Frank Weldon became the core support group. Through the years, many others, former Vols and former coach Bill Battle, have helped.

Ellen has arranged or provided many outings.

Walter and a luncheon group meet each week. Walter asks the blessing. “It is beyond amazing,� said Kiner. “Walter is like a magnet and Tennessee people never forget. Ellen Morrison is an angel in disguise.�

Old Vols awarded Ellen an honorary letter. Butch Jones put Walter’s name on the UT running backs meeting room. Alan Owen, UT grad, friend of Walter for 15 years, sent a keepsake directly from the recent Super Bowl, a Peyton Manning photo. Of course it is on Walter’s wall.

Great group, friends of Walter, kind, encouraging, generous people. “Oh no,� said Kiner. “It’s the other way around. We get more than we give.�

Ridger. Dust and trucks were flying on the road, which left my grandmother in tears.

To get Nana away from the hubbub, Pop drove up an unpaved Michigan Avenue, where foundations were being laid and a school was under construction. My mother, Jane Wright, and her four siblings all eventually walked to that school − Cedar Hill School.

I was aware that Pop knew everybody, not just in Oak Ridge, but across the state.

He shared memories of political notables in a 1987 edition of Tennessee Town & City, a publication of the Tennessee Municipal League. He had a knack for imitation, so I could hear him mimicking his friend, two-term Gov. Frank Clement, telling a story about riding in a “boat-ah� on Old Hickory Lake with his wife, Cille.

His political activities

connected him with national figures as well. A 1994 article in the Courier News of Clinton conveyed Pop’s story of Sen. John F. Kennedy visiting Oak Ridge in 1959 − the year before he was elected president. Pop was master of ceremonies at a dinner with at least 100 guests, and he referred to each one by name before introducing Kennedy, who said he’d never witnessed such a ready recollection of names.

Along with the newspaper clippings, I found Pop’s and Nana’s Christmas cards from Al and Tipper Gore and Bill and Hillary Clinton, and tickets to Jimmy Carter’s inauguration party. I’d seen these mementos before without ever truly appreciating them.

If I could go back to those holiday gatherings at Meadow Road, you can be sure I’d fight for a seat at the adult table.

Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address is westwest6@netzero.com

GOSSIP AND LIES ■Best shots from the Bob Thomas event: ■Tom Spangler says Sammy Sawyer (aka Barney) is supporting him for sheriff because Barney knows Spanky will give him two bullets. “I’m afraid he’ll lose that one.� ■Bobby Waggoner says he wants to run again because he got 9,000 votes in 2014.

■Richard Bean said former Judge Gail Jarvis retained her name when she remarried. “But I think he changed his name to Jarvis.� ■Rick Carnes said the baloney was great. “Must have come from city hogs.� ■City hogs? “Yes,� said Rick. “They walk everywhere so they’re lean!

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BEARDEN Shopper news • MAY 18, 2016 • A-5

Bob Thomas has plan to win

Bob Thomas, radio guy and at-large county commissioner, kicked off his campaign for Knox County mayor last week with a baloney-cutting at Powell Auction. He followed Mayor Tim Burchett’s path (Burchett also launched his campaign there), but two years ahead of the election.

Turnout was huge, and it was great to see old friends.

Thomas was smooth. He thanked friend Ed Brantley, Howard and Barbara Phillips, Kenny Phillips, Richard Bean, the Chillbillies, Phil Leadbetter and Sammy “Barney Fife� Sawyer.

He said Burchett has set a standard for all future mayors. “He is stingy with the taxpayers’ money and we love him for it. As he has said many times – no shenanigans! He expects everyone to pull his or her weight.

He believes that the government is the servant of the people of Knox County. “These are the same values I believe in and that I will strive to uphold. ‌ I would like to thank Mayor Burchett for making Knox County strong. ‌ “I believe that Knox County will be the fastest growing county in Tennessee over the next 10 years and we need to make sure this time of great opportunity is managed properly.â€?

Bob and his wife, Kim,

Circuit Court Judge Bill Ailor greets Bob Thomas.

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have three children: son Chad and wife Mindy have three kids; daughter Brooke and husband Logan Brummitt have two kids; and son Jake is a student and actor living in California.

Bob’s mom, Nelle Thomas, and sister Barbara and brother Jerry attended the kickoff.

Tom Spangler, chief deputy under former Sheriff Tim Hutchison, is running for sheriff in 2018, and he’s already making the rounds.

Bobby Waggoner, a primary candidate in 2014, also said he’s planning a race.

Lee Tramel is representing Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.� Jones at both political and civic events as the heir apparent.

Some questioned Bob Thomas’ decision to start his campaign in 2016, but why not? As an at-large commissioner, he already represents the entire county. And now he’s got a head start on potential opponents.

If others announce, they’ll find themselves running against Bob. And the baloney-cutting party at Powell Auction has already occurred.

Scenes from the campaign kickoff Sammy “Barney Fife�

Sawyer greets Tom Spangler, candidate for sheriff, as Chuck Cavalaris looks on.

Posing for a picture are Kim Thomas, Gail Jarvis and Bob Thomas.

Sidewalk issue won’t go away The fate of the muchpublicized effort for a new sidewalk in West Hills along Sheffield from Wesley Road over to Vanosdale is not good for this year’s city budget as both Mayor Rogero and Vice Mayor Duane Grieve (who represents West Hills) are not supporting its inclusion in the budget.

This is a case where term limits work against the voters who no longer have a voice in the political future of Grieve or Rogero. They leave office respectively in 2017 and 2019.

Both say there are higher needs for other sidewalks.

What they do not say is that this special list is prepared by city bureaucrats who use an inflexible system that is often flawed. Rogero and Grieve seem unwilling to review or revise this list.

For example, one sidewalk ahead of Sheffield (which Grieve cites) is the already existing sidewalk along Kingston Pike from Concord Street to Western Plaza (where this writer lives) as a higher need with a $2 million cost.

This is a flimsy excuse for inaction since that sidewalk has been there over 55 years and does not need to

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be rebuilt, let alone for $2 million plus. Kingston Pike residents are not seeking a new sidewalk.

The West Hills residents are educated, intelligent and determined citizens. Council member George Wallace has helped himself with these residents by sending the mayor a letter urging consideration of it. Former Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis has said he favors money to design it. Rogero was asked by letter in October 2015 to back the sidewalk, but she never personally answered the letter.

Grieve upset some constituents when he commended council member Nick Della Volpe by email for his comments critical of the Sheffield sidewalk campaign in a reply to state Rep. Martin Daniel’s email of support. Grieve had not intended for his email to become public, but it did.

My guess is that this will

go into the City Council elections next year when one or more candidates to replace Grieve make sidewalks and Sheffield Drive in particular his/her issue. That candidate may also outline a plan for a serious citywide effort to build sidewalks, a need not supported adequately in the mayor’s budget.

The city really does not have a meaningful plan to resolve the requests for 135 miles of sidewalks. At the low rate the city is funding new sidewalks, it would be 75 years before this list was turned into reality. A future mayoral candidate, who is serious, may advocate creating a sidewalk building program similar to the road paving program this writer started in 1988 after voters approved a sales tax hike.

Now some 42 or more miles a year are repaved annually (divided equally among the six council districts so all parts of Knoxville are treated alike).

Every mayor following me has continued this program and even increased it from time to time. Sidewalks are urgently needed across the city at a time when many

neighborhoods feel more funding goes to downtown Knoxville and the questionable Cumberland Avenue construction, which has more than a year to go. ■Knox County Commission is likely to have at least two women serving after the Aug. 4 election. Amy Broyles, the commission’s only female, will be replaced by a woman as both candidates for her seat are female. The Democratic candidate for the Sam McKenzie seat is Evelyn Gill.

That district tilts toward the Democrats although those precincts that are largely African American voted for Rick Staples over Gill in the March primary.

Gill carried the precincts that were mostly white and also supporting Bernie Sanders for president by a large margin. The Republican candidate, Michael Covington, has yet to demonstrate he can win over Democrats in this campaign.

Democrat Marleen Davis is running a credible race against Hugh Nystrom in District 4, but she is running in an overwhelmingly GOP district and Nystrom is a very popular candidate

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The three new members include a former City Council member, Charlie Thomas, along with Gayle Bustin and Pat Phillips. They must be approved by the state Local Government Planning Commission in Nashville, which is almost automatic.

They will serve the remaining time in the normal fouryear term had they been appointed in July 2015, which is now three years and one month. Thomas is a strong advocate of greenways.

Rogero has declined to explain why it took her 11 months to name these three persons to MPC. This column mentioned it on three occasions including three weeks ago. â– This column erred when it stated UT-K Provost Susan Martin had a fiveyear term. She is an at-will employee. Her resignation as provost takes effect Aug. 1, and she will return to teaching as a professor of classics on Jan. 1, 2017, after a sabbatical. â– Over 100 individuals have now applied to replace Margie Nichols as vice chancellor for communications at UTK.

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SENIOR NOTES â– Beyond Bingo, presented by Shopper News, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Wednesday or Thursday, June 1-2, Sherrill Hills, 271 Moss Grove Blvd.

Free lunch and speakers on relevant senior issues. Door prizes. Info: 342-6084. â– Cumberland Estates Recreation Center 4529 Silver Hill Drive 588-3442 Offerings include: Senior Walkers, 10:30 a.m., Monday-Friday. â– Frank R. Strang Senior Center: 109 Lovell Heights Road 670-6693 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Offerings include: card games; exercise programs; dance classes; watercolor classes; Tai Chi; blood pressure checks; Mahjong; senior-friendly computer classes. Private one-on-one computer classes available; cost: $10.

Register for: AAA Safe Driver course, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Thursday-Friday, May 26-27; $10 each session. ■John T. O’Connor Senior Center 611 Winona St. 523-1135 knoxseniors.org/oconnor. html Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Offerings include: Card games, billiards, senior fitness, computer classes, bingo, blood pressure checks 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Monday-Friday. Senior Job Fair, Wednesday, May 25; info: Kayleen Weaver, 524-2786.

Register for: Silver Stage Players’ Dinner Theatre and Matinee: “51 Shades of Gray,� 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 19, and 1 p.m. Friday, May 20; tickets: $15.

Resident Millie Warren gives a kiss to Domino, the saddle horse.

Residents Pat Dehmlow, Lou McCosh, Pego Dempster; (back) Geraldine Watson, Millie Warren and Melba Hutcherson are all smiles in their Derby Day hats.

‌ And it’s Greased Lightening by a nose!

By Nancy Anderson The formal dining room at Sherrill Hills Resort Lifestyle Community was filled with seniors wearing their finest duds and fanciest hats as they gathered for “Derby Day,â€? a horseracing event featuring all the excitement of the Kentucky Derby ‌ but none of the mud. “Derby Day is a big deal at Sherrill Hills,â€? said lifestyle director Ashley Dixon. “We’ve got door prizes and trophies, six exciting races including a Daily Double, Trifecta and a feature ‘Run for the Roses’ race. “A local band, Sunday Drive, is going to play for us during happy hour and we also have a special guest.

Domino, a saddle horse belonging to one of our residents, will be on the patio for photo ops. “This is our third year, and it’s bigger than ever. It’s just a fun, fun day for everyone all the way around, but I especially like the fancy hats and smiling faces.�

Few would argue that

Sandi Simpson, senior living consultant, resident Geraldine Watson and Cassie Smith, co-manager, advance toy race horses down the track during Derby Day at Sherrill Hills Resort Lifestyle Community. Photos by Co-manager Dal Smith wears bright pink racing silks as master of ceremonies.

Mona O’Connor and Don Olson share a dance during Happy Hour.

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Derby Day at Sherrill Hills is certainly a clever event.

Residents chose a number from one to six that corresponds to a toy horse, which also has a name such as “Enchanted� or “Greased Lightening.� The toy horses advance the number of spaces down the track indicated by the spin of a wheel.

With six races and 12 chances to win, everyone was a winner; but the top 10 winningest residents were treated to a gourmet Winner’s Circle steak and champagne dinner.

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Joe Ferrari and his daughter Ania twirl to the music during the annual FatherDaughter Spring Dance at All Saints Catholic Church. Photos by Nancy Anderson

cross currents Lynn Pitts lpitts48@yahoo.com

Time travel They rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “Here we are.�

(Numbers 14:40 NRSV)

Isabelle Ndiaye suffers a wardrobe malfunction doing the “Hokey Pokey,� but daddy Dave comes to the rescue.

Celebrating an everlasting bond

By Nancy Anderson

Lilly Edmonds seems to prefer swinging to dancing with her father, Mark.

The first man in many girls’ life is her father, and more than 50 fathers and daughters attended the annual Father-Daughter Spring Dance at All Saints Catholic Church to celebrate that everlasting bond.

It was a swirl of lights, balloons, party dresses, cookies and smiles as fathers and daughters spent a special evening together dancing the “Hokey Pokey� and “Whip/Nae Nae.� “I never miss an opportunity to

It was a pilgrimage of sorts for us. My brother and I have at least two ancestors who fought in the American Revolution at the Battle of King’s Mountain. We wanted to stand on that hallowed ground and breathe in the air of history.

The mountain itself is sort of a surprise. It is a 60foot peak that is freakishly steep, jutting up starkly from the gentle farmlands below.

As we walked the trail, I kept trying to imagine these now-quiet woodlands filled with musket-fire, barked orders, cries of pain and shouts of encouragement. I could picture the redcoats, sure of themselves in their spiffy uniforms, going up against the buckskin-clad mountaineer riflemen.

Historian Bart McDowell describes the scene: “The battle began about 3 p.m. Major Ferguson attacked with bayonet charges and volleys from the British muskets. The mountain men just stepped behind trees and took deadly aim with their long rifles.�

Ferguson’s body rests in King’s Mountain near a giant poplar that may have survived the same battle.

Every loyalist in the fight was killed, wounded, or captured – about 1,000. The patriots lost only 28 killed.

Cornwallis was startled by his defeat at the hands of these un-trained American back-woodsmen. And the over-mountain men got more than vengeance. They bought America time. The patriots rebuilt their army, hoping they would have enough time to save the South.

I have stood at Arlington, looking out over rows and rows of white gravestones. I have walked the battlefields at Gettysburg (the only place I ever saw a real ghost). And I have knelt on the ground at Normandy.

King’s Mountain stands among them, as hallowed ground.

take my girl out on a date,� said Joe Ferrari. “These moments go by so fast and I just want to be a strong role model for her. “How I treat her now is what she is going to look for when she’s older, and I want to make sure she sets her sights high. “I want to make nights like Special services this a lasting memory for her. We ■Westside Unitarian Univernever miss the Father-Daughter salist Church, 616 Fretz Road, dance, maybe we should make it holds meditation services 6:30 a goal to never miss one in the fup.m. each second and fourth Wednesday. Includes quiet ture too, because she will always reflection, simple music and be my little girl.�

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Youth programs â– Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, hosts Morning Breakfast and Afternoon Hang Out for youth each Tuesday. Breakfast and Bible study, 7:20 a.m.; Hang Out Time, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Info: 6901060 or beaverridgeumc.org.

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A-8 • MAY 18, 2016 • BEARDEN Shopper news ers Katie Browning, Morgan Langenberg and Lily Shaw helped out with lessons in butter churning. They participated last year as fourth graders and say they think every student in Knox County should experience Laura Ingalls Wilder Day at least once. They unanimously agree that this year’s fourth graders will probably enjoy the square dancing and horse riding most.

Barbara Chandler has been volSpecial guest Barbara Chandler, fifth graders Katie Browning, Morgan Langenberg and Lily Shaw and special guest Lynn Chandler prepare supplies for butter churning with the fourth unteering to teach butter churning at graders. the event for the last 13 years, but that’s just a small portion of what she teaches the students. Chandler grew up in old Concord, of Plum Creek” and demonstrated a and her family lost its house

By Sara Barrett A.L. Lotts Elementary School’s Lau- number of square dances in front of a when TVA flooded the valley. ra Ingalls Wilder Day was held May 6 standing-room-only crowd.

“But good things come Afterward, students and their famifor its fourth graders. Each year, the celebration serves as a rite of passage, lies participated in several craft dem- from bad situations,” says with third graders waiting their turn in onstrations including butter churning, Chandler, and that’s a lesanticipation and fifth graders helping quilting and wood carving. Horse and son she hopes to pass along.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Day wagon rides were given around the out with festivities.

Fourth-grade classes performed front circle and Little House games is the creation of fourth prairie-themed songs in the gymnasi- were played in the outdoor classroom. grade teacher Kathy AlexClassmates and current fifth grad- ander. um, presented the play “On the Banks

Little school on the prairie

A.L. Lotts Elementary School students Andres Cardenas, Nolan Fortenberry, (second row) Dakota Guyette, Kenna McKaig, Lalitha Tadikonda, (third row) McKinley Davis, Ryan Manley, Jordan Sluder, (back row) Shiva Chilukuri and Skyler Rogers sing “Old Dan Tucker” during Laura Ingalls Wilder Day.

S.O.R. Losers

Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

CHAPTER SEVEN: Story So Far: It is official: the new soccer team has the worst start in the schools sport history. Is there any way this team can get better?

If the story of what happened to our team was in the movies, on television, or a YouTube video, this is the point at which I think things are supposed to look up. You know, the team starts to fight back. Opposing teams wouldn’t score all those points—because of us. Maybe one of us would drop dead from trying so hard, and then the rest of us would vow to win in his honor, and would, crying for joy that our best’s friend’s death was worth a plastic trophy with big ears.

The problem was, our team was not in the movies, television, or that series of romance books called “Vampire Vamps of Victoria Vocational,” which all the girls were reading. This was real.

For example . . .

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The facts of life chair, backwards, that means he’s my pal and we’re going to talk man-to-man. And I wasn’t even a man.

This time he straddled my chair and looked around at all the slogans, pictures, and bits and pieces I had picked up and stuck to the wall. I stayed where I was, on my bed.

“How’s it going?” he asked.

“Okay.” My nose was still in the book.

“Got a minute?”

“Sure.” I lowered the book, not knowing what was coming, except I could tell it was going to be heavy lifting.

He said, “How’s school?”

“Okay.”

“You really like it, don’t you?”

“Most of it.”

“When I went, I hated it.”

“Sorry.”

“Really hated it . . .”

“Well, I like it,” I said. Then I suddenly had this wild notion that we were going to talk about sex! Trying not to show it, I got interested. I mean, we were overdue.

“Ed . . . ,” he said. “How’s that soccer team you’re on?”

“The what?”

“The soccer team.”

“Okay,” I said, not only feeling disappointed but wondering how he knew about the team. I hadn’t mentioned it.

“I didn’t know you were on it, much less captain of the team. That’s quite an honor.

How come you never told us any of this?”

I shrugged. “It’s no big deal. I’m required to play. And Mr. Lester picked me for captain. Not the guys. Just the way he picked me to play goalie. I’m taller than the other guys.”

“Better?”

“Taller. Saltz is better.”

“Beefy.”

“All muscle,” I said loyally.

He looked at me, his eyes gone shifty, so I knew some phony questions were working their way up. Sure enough, he asked, “How’s, uh, the team, you know, coming along?”

“Wonderful,” I said, picking up my book so he knew I had more important things to do.

“Really?”

“If you know the answers, how come you’re asking?”

“You never told me one way or the other.”

“Someone did.”

“Well, that’s . . . true.” He was silent for a moment. “I . . . uh . . . gather you’ve not . . . won . . . anything.”

“Nope.”

“Close?”

“Not by light-years, and each light-year is about six trillion miles.”

“Ed . . .”

“Dad,” I said, “you wouldn’t be asking me this way if you didn’t know the answers.

What’s on your mind? I’d like to read this.”

“I just thought . . . you know . . . I’m concerned about your team. Not just me, Ed. A

bunch of bright guys like you. It’s . . . your attitude,” he blurted out. “You and the rest of the guys.”

“How do you know?”

“I had a call from Mr. Tillman, the school counselor.”

“You’re kidding!”

“I did. He’s worried about you and the rest of the boys on the team.”

“How come?”

“I just told you, your attitude.”

“Because we get beaten?”

“Because you don’t seem to care.”

“What are we supposed to do?

Cry? Sulk? Put our fists through the lockers? Take drugs? Go see Mr. Tillman and tell him we hate our fathers? Dad, we didn’t want to be on a team. We had to be. We stink. So what?”

He shook his head. “That’s being a quitter.”

“How can you accuse me of quitting when I didn’t want to join? If a guy breaks out of a torture chamber, is he a quitter? I mean, I do want to quit. We all do.”

“Ed!” “I don’t want to talk about it.”

After a few moments, he said, “A few of the dads were talking about this at the parents’ meeting last night. We’re going to hold some extra practices. Mr. Lester is all for it.”

I threw my book down in disgust. “You’re kidding!”

“Mean it.”

“When?”

“Saturday mornings.”

“No way.”

“Yes.” “Saturday I’m supposed to work with Lucy on our project.”

“Who’s Lucy?”

“A friend!” I said fiercely.

He stood up. “Nine-thirty, fella. Havelock Field. You’re team captain. You’ve got to set an example.” He walked out of my room.

I called Saltz. “Guess what?” I said.

He said, “Havelock Field. Nine-thirty.

Saturday. I’m strongest. Biggest. I have to set an example.”

“I don’t believe it.”

“No one asked you what you believe.”

“What else did your folks say?”

“That we were a disgrace.”

“Ye gods . . .”

“You going?” he asked.

“Don’t have much choice.”

“See ya,” he said.

“Right,” and I hung up the phone. I was beginning to feel like a cancer under attack.

After a moment, I called Lucy.

“Lucy? This is Ed. I can’t work on our project Saturday morning.”

“Why?” “Soccer team. I’ve got to practice being a hero.”

“I can understand,” she said, which made it worse. I was hoping she was beyond understanding.

(To be continued.)

Text copyright © 2012 Avi. Illustrations copyright © 2012 Timothy Bush. Reprinted by permission of Breakfast Serials, Inc., www.breakfastserials.com. No part of this publication may be reproduced, displayed, used or distributed without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

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BEARDEN Shopper news • MAY 18, 2016 • A-9

Scoping out careers with Bearden Elementary School Bearden Elementary School featured a slew of local professionals and their work vehicles May 6 in the parking lot. The Careers on Wheels event, part of College and Career Month, helped students see how their school work will impact their futures.

Sara Barrett

Artwork by Parker DuBon Photo submitted

Students met folks responsible for fi xing power lines, fighting house fires and mowing the medians around Knox County. They also toured the insides of vehicles used daily to get those jobs done.

Students learned, too, that not all work vehicles are related to fires, utilities or law enforcement.

UT College of Veterinary Medicine stopped by with Blossom the fainting goat, plus a whole lot of visual specimens including a bladder stone the size of a small boulder that was removed from a horse’s body.

The idea behind Careers on Wheels is to allow students to ask questions of folks who studied, for instance, math or reading in elementary school to see

DuBon places second with aviation art

DuBon Tahlia Bryan’s kindergarten class asks KUB lineman Michael Love what it’s like to go up in the air in the bucket of his truck. how that knowledge is applied in the real world.

BES principal Susan Dunlap said when each professional arrives at the school the day of Careers on Wheels, they are asked to stress to the students how the academics they learned in school benefits their careers.

UT College of Veterinary Medicine student Ellen Camp, Dr. Karen McCormick and student Kit Warren show students an enterolith, or bladder stone, from a horse. Photos by S. Barrett

Webb’s Crane ceremony During Webb School of Knoxville’s Lower School Crane Ceremony, kindergartners present each senior with a string of colorful origami cranes as a symbol of peace, hope, love and good health, and to remind the graduates about the community at Webb.

Seniors were also invited to wear T-shirts from the colleges they will attend in the fall. Pictured is kindergartner Oliver DeAlejandro presenting senior Andrew Craig with a string of paper cranes. Photo submitted

CALL FOR ARTISTS ■Submissions for “The Word,� an art competition that asks artists to look deeply into the meaning and use of words throughout history and in our daily lives, are being accepted by Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N. Broadway. Entries will be accepted 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28. Info: Jessica Gregory, 556-8676; BroadwayStudiosAndGallery. com; BroadwayStudiosAnd Gallery@gmail.com. ■The Tennessee Arts Commission is accepting application for its Arts Build Communities (ABC) grants until 4:30 p.m. (CST) Friday, July 1.

The grants will be distributed throughout all arts disciplines as recognized by the Tennessee Arts Commission,

By Sara Barrett Sequoyah Elementary School third grader Parker DuBon won second place at the state level of the International Aviation Art Contest.

This year’s theme, Air Sports in Harmony with Nature, encourages artists to create artwork showing a perspective of nature from the air.

Parker’s entry will move on to the national and possibly international level. He will receive $50 and so will the art department at SES. “The beauty of the earth

including dance, music, opera/musical theatre, theatre, visual arts, design arts, crafts, photography, media arts, literature, interdisciplinary and folk arts. Info: Suzanne Cada, 523-7543 or sc@knox alliance.com.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS â– STAR (Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding) needs volunteers to assist special needs children and adults with therapeutic horseback riding lessons. Lesson Vol Training is 1:30-5:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 28. Junior Vol Training (ages 10-12) is 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1. Horse experience not required. Info: Brittany, 9884711 or rideatstar.org.

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SES fourth grader Cindy Zhong placed third and will receive $25, and the SES art department will receive $25 in her honor.

State winners were invited to attend a ceremony at the Lebanon Municipal Airport May 14.

â– CAC is seeking volunteer drivers for its Volunteer Assisted Transportation program.

Volunteers will utilize agencyowned hybrid sedans while accompanying seniors or persons with disabilities to appointments, shopping and other errands. Training provided. Info: Nancy, 673-5001 or nancy.welch@cactrans.org.

SCHOOL NOTES ■West Hills Elementary participates in the following programs to help raise money for the school: General Mills “BoxTops for Education,�

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CJGT plays tourney

Boys 9-11 Division: Winners and players in the boys 9-11 division are: Sebastian Costales, Knoxville, third place; Courtland Gray, Seymour; Bronson Herald, Loudon, second place; Jack Bentz, Coalfield, fourth place; Alex Barton, Lenoir City, first place; Bryce Harmon, Knoxville, fifth place.

The Champions Junior Golf Tour (CJGT) conducts single-day 9-hole and 18hole tournaments in Greater Knoxville/East Tennessee and recently played a tournament at The Country Club in Morristown. These tournaments allow junior golfers an opportunity to play in

a competitive environment from age appropriate yardages while advancing their skills and receiving recognition for their talents and efforts. Membership is open to both boys and girls of all skill levels between the ages of 5 and 15. Info: championsjrgolf.com.

Boys 12-15 Division: Winners and players in the boys1215 division are: Ben Johnston, Knoxville, third place; Ian Neff, Heiskell, tied fifth place; Walker St. Peter, Powell; Reece Britt, Maryville, fourth place; Matthew Peevy, Knoxville, first place; Joshua Lay, Maryville, tied fifth place; Jackson Hughey, Lenoir City, second place; Kaleb Wilson, Knoxville. Photos submitted

Tumblin’s new book will highlight

Fountain City Day

By Sandra Clark When folks gather in Fountain City Park on Memorial Day, Dr. J.C. “Jim” Tumblin will be in his customary spot at the Fountain City Town Hall table. And this year he will be selling his newest book, “Fountain City: People Who Made a Difference.”

He should have included a chapter on himself.

Tumblin (who writes a monthly column for Shopper News) has documented Fountain City’s history in two previous books. He says: “If the history of a community is written in the lives of its people, and it is, then Fountain City has a very rich history and many worthy role models for meeting the challenges of its future.”

Tumblin has been writing this book online for some time, but as writer Lynn Pitts quoted him from a 2002 News Sentinel interview: “It is a work in progress. It won’t feel right until I actu-

ally have it in print. I know the Internet is so popular now, but a book has a feel, a smell, a presence.”

The search for a publisher was intense. Tumblin landed with Celtic Cat. Whittling the honorees to 50 was impossible. He landed with 56. And those names will be revealed May 30 at the park.

We know he started with John Adair, who established Adair’s Fort in 1788, just two years after James

White’s Fort was born.

Another will be Col. J.C. Woodward, who liquated his holdings in Kentucky and purchased 431 acres in North Knox County including the Fountain Head Hotel and Resort. He launched the Fountain Head Land Co. which sold lots and created the landmark lake and park.

He will talk about Judge John W. Green, who fought to maintain the park and lake for public use, leading to a state Supreme Court decision in 1926.

The final section deals with the World War II era, mentioning local heroes. Women come into play with mentions of long-time principal Hassie K. Gresham and writer Lucy Curtis Templeton.

After its release at the Memorial Day event, the book will be available for $25 at the Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave.; Kenneth Page’s Fountain City Pharmacy, 5034 N. Broadway; and Pratt’s Country Store, 3100 Tazewell Pike.

School employees given royal treatment by Farragut church

By Carolyn Evans Just as schools are winding down for the year, First Baptist Concord is stepping up to give those in the educational field some special treatment. On May 15, the church’s Serve the Server team provided a food truck picnic on the church campus for more than 250 school system employees.

Corn hole, a life-sized Jenga, bubble soccer competition and a D.J. turned the event into a real festival. Participants even got to walk a red carpet from the parking lot to the reception tent.

Volunteers were busy the week before stuffing gift bags that included coupons for free merchandise from local businesses. Church volunteers stocked coolers with soft drinks and set up chairs for the event, which was also held last year.

Approximately 50 volunteers were on hand on Sunday to make sure everybody had a good time.

“We wanted to honor all those in the local schools who work tirelessly to serve the children in the Knoxville community,” says Rose Edwards, one of six Serve the Server team members. “One of the things that’s amazing to see is the team itself with their skills and abilities. We all have our unique strengths. It’s a great team to be part of. When we pull these strengths together, we get to reach out

to people who never get thanked. The smiles, the excitement, the way we can make them feel special is so rewarding to me.”

Andrew Osakue, director of community ministry, came up with the idea of serving the server. The first official event was held in November and drew 300 people as the church honored Farragut-area workers.

“The inspiration was directly inspired by the word of God and the members of First Baptist Concord,” he says. “Two scriptures that embody our purpose are ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ and ‘Honor those who labor hard among you.’ To love and serve those who sacrifice themselves for our community is a blessed privilege and honor. When we give our best to our servers, they are more empowered to give their best to the ones they serve. Therefore, we have a great responsibility and opportunity.”

“It is such a joy to be a part of a church that cares so deeply about the people in our community,” says volunteer Therese Anne Matthews. “I love how our staff desires to extravagantly pour themselves into others’ lives – caring for them, serving them, praying with and for them – and inspires us to do the same. It has increased my awareness of all of the people who so tirelessly serve.”

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BEARDEN Shopper news • MAY 18, 2016 • A-11

Bringing the Scots home Dan Greaser helms prestigious festival

By Carolyn Evans As the caber is tossed and the bagpipes wail, Dan Greaser will smile. The former corporate executive will be decked out in one of his favorite outfits: a green and blue plaid Weir clan kilt.

Greaser, a Fox Den resident, is the president of the Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival & Games and has been busy for nearly a year organizing the threeday event. With a budget of close to $100,000, the event is a big one – and important to a host of people.

More than 100 athletes, 250 pipe and drum players, seven modern Celtic bands, 40 vendors, 35 clans, a bunch of sheep, a few dogs, some ducks and 200 volunteers will make up the 35th annual event, held for the sixth year at Maryville College.

And that doesn’t include the long-haired coo (Scottish cow) or the thousands of visitors expected to attend the event.

Originally founded in 1981 as the Gatlinburg Scottish Festival and Games, it is one of the oldest Scottish

tition, followed with one event after the other. The Ceilidh Under The Stars concert that evening will feature a host of musicians.

The fun continues on Sunday with a half marathon, 5K and a Scottish kirk (church) service. The day continues until 3:30 p.m., repeating many of Saturday’s activities.

Greaser and his wife, Shirley (who’ll be wearing a McGregor clan kilt), have lived all over the world, including spending eight years in Europe and six in Singapore. They have traveled to Scotland a couple of times to hunt down their family origins. It was after he retired that Dan Greaser was drafted to be the next Games president several Fox Den resident Dan Greaser years ago and under his shows off his kilt at a meeting leadership the event has of the Association of Scottish steadily grown.

“They wanted me to bring Games and Festivals in Alexsome of my organization andria, Va. Photo submitted experience and contacts to Festivals in the country. The bear in helping the tranevent starts on Friday eve- sition of the games from ning with a $100-a-plate Gatlinburg to Maryville gala. Then gates open on College,” he says.

He loves the educationSaturday at 8 a.m. with a pipes and drums compe- al aspect of the event and

At the 2015 Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival & Games, the Greaser family poses for a photo. From left are Dan Greaser, Shirley Greaser, Leigh Sterling and Dawn and Steve Zilles. Photo submitted emphasis on Scottish and Scots-Irish culture and heritage in this area. “Coming to the games at Maryville College is a lot cheaper than flying to Scotland. You can learn something new about your family every time. I respect the past more since getting involved. I understand more about who I am and who my family was.”

His focus on genealogy shifted from Germany to Scotland when he began to

Legacy Parks works across county

By Sandra Clark

May 17 was a big day for Legacy Parks Foundation and South K nox v ille as officials were scheduled to officially open the trail that connects the SouthDoyle MidCarol Evans dle School c a mp u s with the Urban Wilderness

trail system.

“Don’t worry about being perfect,” Carol Evans, executive director, said last week.

Her efforts in South Knoxville have caught the eye of a group in Powell that’s attempting to create opportunities for outdoor activities.

“In South Knoxville, we’ve taken undevelopable, remnant land and created a 100-acre park with 50 miles of trail for biking and hiking.” The trail system is not for horses or motorized ve-

hicles, she said.

“The snowball happened there, and you’ll see it happen here.”

Evans refuted some myths about greenways.

“Crime is greater at West Town Mall than on any greenway … because trails are used randomly so it’s hard to plan a crime.”

Quarry land makes good parks, she said. Legacy Parks Foundation worked with just five major land owners to create the Urban

Wilderness and “we’ve had no complaints since 2012.”

Respect is key. “Be very respectful of your neighbors.”

Evans said Legacy Parks Foundation doesn’t “push in,” but is happy to be invited in by community groups.

In Bearden, Legacy Parks is serving as the fiscal agent for those raising funds to build out Everly Brothers Park.

In Powell, Dr. Bob Collier has put a conservation easement on 12 acres adjacent to

discover state leaders in his family tree, including Samuel Weir, who fought at the battle of King’s Mountain during the Revolutionary War. “The Scots and the ScotsIrish have a strong penchant for education,” Greaser says. “Up until the Civil War there were more colleges started by the Presbyterians than any other religious group. That’s why Maryville College was started. Also

Blount College, which became the University of Tennessee, and also Tusculum College.”

Personal knowledge can also grow from learning about your roots, says Greaser. “The people as described in “Born Fighting” were very ardent in their belief and also very stubborn. I come by my stubborn streak honestly,” he says.

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Beaver Creek and the Powell Branch Library. He’s asked Legacy Parks to help him develop it as a preserve for quiet activities and bird watching, and he plans to transfer title to the group when the improvements are made.

Evans is working with a kayak group in Karns to create put-in and take-out points on Beaver Creek.

She said her first project, some 10 years ago, was to raise $80,000 to build a skate park on city-owned land in Fountain City, where she lives.

The next project, when

former County Executive Tommy Schumpert was board chair, was to raise money in the Halls community to purchase 12 acres for Clayton Park. “We ended up with $625,000,” she said.

Evans said the South Knox project dedicated May 17 represents the culmination of years of work and collaboration between Legacy Parks Foundation, local neighborhoods in South Knoxville, Knox County Schools, city and county governments and the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

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Regas Square links downtown to Northside boom

By Betty Bean Conversion Properties Inc. president Joe Petre got raked over the coals last month when he went to C o u n t y Commission asking for tax increment f inancing (also known Joe Petre as a TIF) for his newest downtown redevelopment project, but after he ran the gauntlet of questions about why his company needs a tax break to make Regas Square happen, he walked out of the room with what he asked for – a $5-plus million TIF to help build a $33 million, mixedused development on what used to be the parking lot of Regas Restaurant on Gay Street and Magnolia.

Petre’s most persuasive selling point for his project, which will add 101 new residents, a couple of restaurants plus several retail stores, is that it will create a vital link between the struggling north end of Gay Street and the booming North Broadway/North Central Street corridor. He points to David Dewhirst/

This rendering shows the proposed Regas Square. The old Regas Restaurant is the building at left, hidden by tree.

Ashley Capps’ new venue, the Mill and Mine, in a former warehouse on West Depot and to The Mews, which Jeffrey Nash is developing on the former site of Marie Owen’s Olde Towne Tavern on Magnolia and Ogden Street as proof of the northward march of the downtown boom. “This was the missing link between downtown and Downtown North,� said Petre, the Realtor who sold the Southern Railway Depot, which became the first new

venue in the neighborhood. “Bit by bit, we have started to build community. I hate to say this is the next big thing, but there is strong movement north, and we intend to be very involved in that. You go where people want to be, where they want to eat and shop and live.

The neighborhoods along Broadway and Central are very strong and vibrant, and, frankly, we’re running out of cool old building stock, so you have to follow the path of where the build-

ings are.�

When Petre speaks to citizen’s groups, he carries with him a stack of written definitions of TIFs and their close cousins, Payments In Lieu Of Taxes (PILOTS).

TIFs, he explains, direct a portion of the tax revenue generated by a redevelopment project’s economic growth to repay the government loan, and allow downtown developers to cope with the extraordinary costs of construction in the vertical urban envi-

Global finals come to Knoxville

By Carol Z. Shane Knoxville will be a global destination when the Ford Motor Company presents Destination Imagination Global Finals 2016 at UT and surrounding venues.

A nonprofit dedicated to hands-on education in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics,

and through social entrepreneurship challenges, DI’s mission is “to teach students the creative process and empower them with the skills needed to succeed in an ever-changing world.�

Beginning on May 25, over 17,000 people, including over 8,000 of the world’s best and brightest

ronment. Regas Square will have 20 years to pay off its TIF, and as the value of the property grows, so will local government’s share of tax revenue. If the project fails, the developer is still on the hook to repay the loan.

A PILOT freezes property taxes for an agreed time period.

These incentives have traditionally been used to redevelop blighted properties, and developers have been required to pass the

“but for� test – i.e. show that they couldn’t swing the project but for the boost provided by the tax break. “What’s often left out of the TIF discussion is the extreme high cost of these projects and the risk associated with them. I assure you that without the TIF we could not do this project, and I hope the city and county will continue to move forward with these solutions, because they really have worked,� Petre said.

from 10 a.m. until noon, the nation Imagination� event public is invited to take part at the World’s Fair Park Amin the first ever “Try Desti- phitheater.

grade-school students, will gather for “the world’s largest celebration of creativity.� More than 1,400 teams from 45 U.S. states and 14 countries will showcase their solutions to specific technical, scientific, musical and improvisational challenges.

On Saturday, May 28,

ABRA opens west location ABRA staff members James ONeill, Tammy Clark, Kayla Williams; (back) LaDonna Hembree, Nate McPherson and Shane Graham pause during an open house/ribbon cutting held at the 10446 Lexington Dr. location May 12. “We are ABRA collision repair and we’re ready to serve Knoxville here at our new west location. We do it right the first time, and on time,� said Clark, general manager. Photo by Nancy Anderson

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BEARDEN Shopper news â&#x20AC;˘ MAY 18, 2016 â&#x20AC;˘ A-13

Road trip to Maynardville:

Music, arts, plants, wine and kids

By Libby Morgan If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever wanted an excuse to take a short, scenic trip just north of Knox County, Saturday, June 4, is a great day to head that way.

Art on Main: Next door to the Union County courthouse in Maynardville is the sixth annual Art on Main Festival from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., with two national champion musicians, teenage thumb picker Parker Hastings and mountain dulcimer player Sarah Morgan, on the main stage.

Chet Atkins will be honored with a special tribute prior to Hastingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance. Hastings has played with several of Atkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; friends and band members.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a musician of any ability, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re welcome to join in the Union County tradition of pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and grinninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the porch and under the shade trees with friendly folks.

On the grounds are glassblowing, metal art, corn shuck doll making, wood art and painting demonstrations, plus handmade and handcrafted goods, food, live plants and more for sale.

Kids will have fun with train rides, face painting

Teenage thumb picking national champ Parker Hastings at the Country Music Hall of Fame earlier this year. Photo by Karen Skidmore Smith â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Moments Framed in Time

and free art projects. Daylilies will be given away by Oakes Daylilies while they last. Admission is free.

Healthy Kids Day: From 9 a.m.-1 p.m., a mile south of the courthouse at the Maynardville Public Library, the Union County UT

ty. When you travel to the farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; territory, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to snatch up produce picked hours (or minutes) before you put it in your car. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see signs to the market at Wilson Park next door to the high school on Highway 33. The market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon, and on June 4, special events are added.

The Winery at Seven Springs Farm: Three miles up the road from Art on Main, a special party is planned after the festival at the combination farm store/ tasting room/patio at Seven Springs Farm to Table. The farm produces award-winning wines, grass-fed Angus beef, fruits, berries and vegetables. Swamp Ghost, a band from Union County, will wrap up the festival entertainment and head up to The Winery to play from 5-7 p.m.

Extension Office will hold the annual Healthy Kids Day, with a ton of free activities, games and prizes.

Union County Farmers Market: The farmers markets in the city may never see the best fresh food grown in Union Coun-

BIZ NOTES â&#x2013; Joshalyn Hundley has joined First Tennessee as vice president and community development manager for Knox and Blount counties and the Tri-Cities in East Tennessee. A native Knoxvillian, Hundley holds a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in business organization management from Tennessee Wesleyan College and a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in planning from UT-Knoxville. She serves on the board of United Way of Greater Knoxville and is a UT-Knoxville Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Associate. â&#x2013; Mike Clonce has been hired as senior vice president of lending/chief lending officer at UT Federal Credit Union. A graduate of

ETSU, Clonce has more than 30 years of experience in upper level management and lending with financial institutions.

Most recently, he was chief credit officer at American Trust Bank of East Tennessee. â&#x2013; Steve Catlett has been elected to UT Federal Credit Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors.

All nine members of the board are volunteers who are dedicated to maintaining the safety and soundness of UT Federal Credit Union. Catlett is associate vice chancellor of development at UT- Knoxville and serves on the leadership team in the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. He is a graduate of The University

of Tennessee. â&#x2013; Cheryl Hill has been appointed to the Emerging Leaders in Maternal and Child Health Training Institute. She is one of only eight nutrition professionals in the nation selected to be part of this 12-month program. She is manager for the Healthy Weight Program for the Knox County Health Department. Hill earned a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Nutrition and a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Public Health from UT-Knoxville.

She is a registered dietitian and a licensed dietitian nutritionist with more than 10 years of experience in public health.

the rotary guy Tom King tking535@gmail.com

Fun, speakers and Elkmont workday Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good week to mention a laundry list of news going on with our some of our seven Rotary clubs. So letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get rolling with this News & Notes roundup. â&#x2013; Game Show Night is Friday: A quick reminder about the Rotary Club of Beardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fundraiser on Friday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Bearden Banquet Hall. It is an opportunity for companies to recognize and celebrate their employees. Tables for 10 sell for $1,300 and only six tables remain available. If your company wants to buy a table, call Richard Bettis at 865-228-1523. â&#x2013; Mayor Madeline Rogero will speak to Knoxville Breakfast Rotary at 7 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, at Gettysvue Country Club. To reserve a spot, call Greg Maciolek at 675-5901 (Ext. 230). â&#x2013; Gov. Bill Haslam will speak at the noon Tuesday, May 31, meeting of the Rotary Club of Knoxville at The Marriott. The meeting is open to all Rotarians and their guests. The Marriott ballroom has a seating capacity of 300, so please RSVP to the club office at kxrotary@ bellsouth.net or on its Facebook page. Lunch is

$11, payable in cash or check at the door. â&#x2013; North Knoxville Rotary had a unique meeting on May 5. The club met at the WDVX Blue Plate Special free lunchtime music program at the Knoxville Visitors Center at noon.

They enjoyed music from the group Three Star Revival. The free shows run Monday through Saturday. Harbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza & Deli catered the gathering and six pizzas and a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of salad were left over but taken to the Cerebral Palsy Home after the meeting. â&#x2013; Work at Elkmont begins June 4: There are two changes to report about the Rotary Club of Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workday to help restore the amphitheater at the Elkmont Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Work Day will be on Saturday, June 4, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a change from the earlier starting time of 9 a.m. Also, president Sandy Martin says that the work will continue through lunch and asks that you bring your own sack lunch and the club will provide drinks and snacks for a picnic at Elkmont, not at Metcalf Bottoms.

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Music and Mabel Spending Sunday with Rheta Sunday morning, cup of Joe, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, just like before.

she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you just gotta write about your dog. After all, men do it all the time.â&#x20AC;?

Her new book is a memoir, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming,â&#x20AC;? but seen through the eyes of her precious pups. Some here.

Some gone.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet Mabel (pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybelleâ&#x20AC;?). She was the first dog buried over the bridge at her home in Mississippi. She calls it Fishtrap Hollow. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet Lucinda, named after singer Lucinda Williams.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of Rhetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other passions, music. We talked about Tom T. Hall and John Prine and Jimmy Buffettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;A1A.â&#x20AC;? And James McMurtry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and you get the idea. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a playwright now, too, having co-written â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hiram,â&#x20AC;? about 10-year-old Hank Williams, about who and what influenced him.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than Broadway, some say.

She was influenced by Hank, but also by Raymond Chandler, Philip Marloweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s similes. Goodies such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was as empty of life as a scarecrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pockets.â&#x20AC;? She can quote them like Olivier quoted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Othello.â&#x20AC;?

But the writing bug bit her early. Newspapers be-

Jake Mabe Except it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not reading a newspaper. Rhetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here, in the flesh, enjoying brunch at Cafe 4, in high definition, you might say, anything but normal.

She was here to sign copies of her new memoir, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge,â&#x20AC;? at Union Avenue Books downtown. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a labor of love.

Years ago, when she got her first newspaper job, her editor said no to any dog stories. It was too much like the old society page for the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first woman reporter.

So she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. She wrote about people. Smooth as satin. Was a finalist for the Pulitzer? Wrote the authorized biography of cartoonist Charles Schulz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Columizedâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as Sam Venable says â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for King Features Syndicate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But every now and then,â&#x20AC;?

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came her life, a job she said was once likened to â&#x20AC;&#x153;taking a glass-bottom boat through a sewer.â&#x20AC;? But you do it â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause it becomes a way of life. And a piece of her dies when yet another paper folds forever.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loved dogs since reading â&#x20AC;&#x153;Old Yeller.â&#x20AC;? Most of hers of late have been strays, left on the side of the road like yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trash, surely a sin, sure as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re born. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve dogs,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but they love us anyhow.â&#x20AC;?

From them, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learned much. Some are smarter than some people she knows. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry. Rheta didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t name names.

But she did say this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They communicate quietly through their eyes, like most humans should.â&#x20AC;?

She laughed at the idea of the writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s block, of waiting on â&#x20AC;&#x153;the writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s muse.â&#x20AC;? Said later sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d talked to someone recently and asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you get your dog?â&#x20AC;?

The answer? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a story there.â&#x20AC;?

There always is, if you look, and Rheta tells â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em better than most. If you like dogs, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love this book.

If you like to read wellherded words, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love this book. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like dogs, you just might after reading this book.

After the last copy had been signed, Rheta headed back to the Hollow, to rest a day or two before the next stop on the book tour.

Saying goodbye Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farragut patrons take memory lane stroll

By Sherri Gardner Howell They came to say goodbye and to remember all the good times. Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farragut closed its door on Sunday, saying goodbye to a community of patrons, some who had been coming to the restaurant since doors opened in 1992.

When owner Randy Burleson opened Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Courthouse CafĂŠ at 102 S. Campbell Station Road, it was the second locallyowned restaurant in the town of Farragut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sam & Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was first,â&#x20AC;? says Burleson, who now owns eight Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plus Stefanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza, Crown & Goose, Bistro By the Tracks, Sunspot and two Barleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tap House restaurants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of loyal customers who have been a part of our history here for 24 years. We hope they will continue to be Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customers.â&#x20AC;?

Some patron conversations the last weekend did center on, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where are we going to go?â&#x20AC;?, but mostly it was reminiscing with friends, family and favorite servers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure where we will go to get our Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fix,â&#x20AC;? said long-time patron Leslee Rook. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going to find out where some of these precious servers and

Rheta Grimsley Johnson chats with fans at Union Avenue Books before signing her latest memoir, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge.â&#x20AC;?

And I hobbled back to Halls, happy as hell after spending a Sunday with Rheta, in person instead of in print. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dogs Buried Over the Bridgeâ&#x20AC;? is available at Union Avenue Books, online, and wherever fine books are sold. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s published by John F. Blair.

Longtime Shopper News reporter Jake Mabe is on medical leave recovering from nerve damage. He hopes to return soon and can be reached at JakeMabe1@ aol.com

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P.J. Hahn, who is such a favorite manager at Aubreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farragut that a group of fans put his likeness on the back of an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unsanctionedâ&#x20AC;?

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George Lambert and his friend Brent Beals described the closing as a loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A long time ago, Randy opened this place. He was probably scared to death that it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it, but he kept working at it and perfecting the plan and expanding to other places,â&#x20AC;? said Lambert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He did it the right way and learned a lot of that right way here in Farragut.

He created a village gathering place here. We are sad we are losing our village.â&#x20AC;?

Burleson, who was at the restaurant with his wife, Melissa, for the last day, had the most memories of all, going back to the decision to open in Farragut, sleeping in booths so he could be onsite early in the morning, legions of free dinners for teachers, sports teams and community groups and company Christmas parties when the whole company worked at one restaurant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been good,â&#x20AC;? said Burleson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always hard to say goodbye, which is why we hope everyone will find a new home at one of our other locations.â&#x20AC;?

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HEALTH & LIFESTYLES NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Know where to go Forty-one-year-old stroke survivor is thankful her husband chose Fort Sanders Regional Ask Stephanie Blackstock how she spells her last name, and you might see her tap out each letter on her fingers. Like most of us, Blackstock learned to spell her name when she was a small child, but there are a few things she’s had to relearn this year.

“It’s kind of like being back in kindergarten,” she jokes, which is an especially amusing comment when you consider that Blackstock is an elementary school teacher.

It’s obvious she has the intelligence of a college graduate, and the ability of a full grown adult. She is merely recovering from a stroke.

Thanks to modern medicine at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, many stroke patients like Blackstock are able to return to fully functioning lives and careers.

A positive attitude and support from family, friends and coworkers have helped Blackstock through the uncertain days immediately following her stroke, but she will tell you the real reason she’s able to walk and talk and live life to the fullest is that she was treated at the right hospital.

Blackstock remembers staring out at the world from inside a body that was rendered helpless one Sunday morning in January.

She had fallen out of bed, having lost all mobility on her right side. She couldn’t speak.

Blackstock’s husband, a paramedic, believed his wife was having a stroke, and told emergency first responders where he thought she needed to go. They agreed.

“They took me to Fort Sanders because it’s a Comprehensive Stroke Center,” Blackstock says. “Justin knew where to take me, and that’s why I’m here today.”

Dr. Keith Woodward, a neurointerventional radiologist at Fort Sanders Regional, performed a thrombectomy, which is removal of a blood clot that is blocking blood flow to the brain. The clot sat atop 65 percent of her brain, and the damage could have been much worse if more time had lapsed between the stroke and the treatment.

“One of the most important things for people to understand is that time saves your brain. The longer you wait to get treatment for a stroke, the harder it is to regain all of your abilities. The tools in our arsenal to treat stroke lessen as time passes, so get to a comprehensive center as quickly as possible, “ says Dr. Woodward.

When she came out of surgery, she remembers being asked what her name was. She gave the right answer. She was able to identify her husband, and one of their friends who was at the hospital.

“On Sunday I had several people come in, I knew some names, I didn’t know others,” Blackstock says. By Tuesday, she was ready to be released, and went home to Gibbs.

Seeing this 41-year-old mom at her kids’ soccer games, you’d never guess she’s a

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Because of the excellent care received at Fort Sanders Regional, just one month out from Stephanie’s stroke, the Blackstocks are able to enjoy a family soccer game in the park.

family, and she’s grateful for her treatment at Fort Sanders Regional.

“Everyone was great, and Dr. Woodward is phenomenal,” Blackstock says. “I can speak now, I’m reading, I’m doing math and, yes, it’s taking me a little bit of time, but I’m doing it.”

Because Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center offers outpatient therapy at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, the transition from stroke treatment to stroke recovery has been seamless. Twice a week, she undergoes intense sessions to improve her cognitive skills and be the well-spoken teacher her school depends on.

“That’s the plan – to be out of speech therapy before school starts back,” she says.

While Blackstock obviously wouldn’t have chosen to have a stroke, the experience has caused her to focus on what’s important, and treasure each moment with her family. She credits Dr. Woodward and the stroke survivor. The only lingering effects Fort Sanders team with giving her a chance are some speech difficulties, and she’s un- at a life that is more meaningful than ever.

“If I had gone somewhere else, I don’t dergoing therapy to get those corrected.

The frustration is a very small price to know where I would be right now,” Blackpay for the life she’s able to live enjoying her stock says. “It’s all been a blessing.”

The first Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center in East Tennessee When it comes to treating strokes, no other hospital in the Knoxville offers a more advanced level of care than Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

Fort Sanders was the first in the Knoxville area to earn an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification by The Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care programs in the United States.

This “gold-seal” advanced certification means that Fort Sanders is recognized as having the most advanced and effective treatments available for stroke today. Certification through The Joint Commission involves extensive training for the staff, documentation of effectiveness, and inspection of the hospital by The Joint Commission.

Part of certification is having a team of “neurohospitalists” on staff. These physicians treat only stroke and neurological cases in the hospital, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Instead of waiting for a doctor to have time from his or her private practice, Fort Sanders has neurologists on hand.

“It makes access to specialized neurologists easier,” said Dr. James Hora, one of the neurohospitalists at Fort Sanders.

“We have 24/7 coverage, and this provides rapid access to a neurologist for acute neurologic problems.”

Dr. Arthur Moore was hired in July 2014 as medical director for the center.

“With our Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Certification, we offer the highest level of care for all patients. Whether they’re able to have surgery or not, we’re there to give their bodies the best chance

to heal and recover,” he explained.

Some stroke patients can be treated with minimally invasive surgical options. Using brain angioplasty, stents and aneurysm surgery, Fort Sanders surgeons can remove tiny clots, stop brain bleeds and insert tiny stents to hold open delicate arteries.

“Using a catheter, we thread a tiny wire into the artery in the groin, and up to the brain,” explained Keith Woodward, M.D., a neuro-interventional radiologist at Fort Sanders. “Then we can use a special device to pull the clot out, or sometimes we can inject it with medicine and dissolve it while we’re in there.”

Most stroke patients need follow-up care after the initial event, and patients at Fort Sanders have access to the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center, an award winning rehabilitation center. About one-third of the Patricia Rehabilitation Neal Center’s patients are stroke patients, according to the center’s medical director, Mary E. Dillon, M.D. “Our specialists begin determining as soon as possible what level of care the patient will need,” said Dillon. “Patients have access to rehab services from the time they arrive in the emergency department, throughout their care here, and through all the post-acute levels of care.”

Having everything – speedy emergency care, advanced surgical techniques and the best in rehabilitation – makes Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center the smart choice for stroke care.

“We’re equipped to handle all stroke cases, from the most complex to the least,” said Dillon. “Our patients don’t have to go anywhere else to find help.”

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HONDA GOLDWING 2004 Red, 66k mi.

Many extras. Call for details. Exc. cond. $11,250. (865)603-5470.

HONDA GOLDWING 2013 Audio Comfort, less than 11K mi, ext warr & service manual incl. $18,300. (865) 771-7554.

Kawasaki Vulcan Nomad 1700 2009.

Great Cond., Kept in Garage, Bike is black & has 11,500 mi. All scheduled services done. Incl 2 Helmets. $6500. Call 865-805-9409

FAST $$ CASH $$ 4 JUNK AUTOS

Antiques 1960 FULL BED SET - Great Cond: American of Martinsville Mid Century Modern full head & foot bd bed, triple dresr w/mirror, 5 drwr chest. Unique black & gray finish.

Apprsd $2000. Asking $750 Text or call (865)789-8448 Going Out of Business after 27 years.

Booth 88 at Dutch Valley Antique Mall 2401 Dutch Valley Dr. 37918.

Appliances

North ESTATE SALE- May 20th, 8am-4pm, May 21st, 8am-2pm. Yamaha piano, 63 piece Noritake china. 515 West Copeland Rd. (865) 315-3398

GOOD AS NEW APPLIANCES 90 Day Warranty

865-851-9053

Farmer’s Mkt/ Trading Post

Apartments - Furnished

Musical MINI YAMAHA ORGAN - mini Yamaha organ; 2 keyboards, 8 pedals. Excellent condition. $300.00 (865)690-9299

Apartments - Unfurn.

NEW PORK PIE 5 PC. DRUMSET dw double kick pedals, Gibraltar stands with Zildjan AHT cymbals: ride cymbal, two crash, & splash cymbal.

Beautiful burgundy drumset. $1000 (865)640-6617.

DESK RETURN & HUTCH - 4 black stacking client chairs; three 4 drawer filing cabinets’ 2 drawer filing cab., 3 drawer lateral filing cab., executive chair, bookcase. Only 2 yrs. old. Exc. cond. $1000/b.o.

(865)470-4262

Sporting Goods LIKE NEW BRUNSWICK POOL TABLE & all access. 2 pool chairs. Custom made cover. Email: misc42day@gmail.com for pics & info. $1200. 865-966-9439

Tickets/Events

1,2,3 BR $355 - $460/mo.

GREAT VALUE RIVERSIDE MANOR ALCOA HWY 970-2267 *Pools, Laundries, Appl. *5 min. to UT & airport www.riversidemanorapts.com BEST DEAL OUT WEST! 1BR from $375. 2BR $550-$695.

No pets. Parking @ front door.

(865)470-8686 BROADWAY TOWERS 62 AND OLDER Or Physically Mobility Impaired 1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site.

Immediate housing if qualified.

Section 8-202.

865-524-4092 for appt.

TDD 1-800-927-9275

UT PKING PASS - G10T. $1200.

Call (704) 575-6516

MORNINGSIDE GARDENS

Wanted MR. BASEBALL buying Sports Cards, I come to you, 203-557-0856, cell, 203-767-2407.

2001 E. Magnolia Ave. WHIRLPOOL DUET GAS DRYER, UNUSED, 2015 model, add on base, white, $550. (865)458-6554.

Real Estate Rentals

Financial

1 BR Apt Now Available ELDERLY OR DISABLED COMPLEX A/C, Heat, Water & Electric Incl, OnSite Laundry, Computer Center & Resident Services Great location! On the Bus Line!

Close to Shopping!

Rent Based on Income, Some Restrictions Apply Call 865-523-4133. TODAY for more information

Farm Buildings

VULCAN 2003 1500 CLASSIC, 38,000 miles Very Nice Clean Bike. Garage kept.

Just had brakes, oil changed, and Carburetor Cleaned. (865)558-7730.

865-216-5052 865-856-8106

Merchandise

Lots/Acreage for Sale

WALBROOK STUDIOS 865-251-3607 $145 weekly. Discount avail. Util, TV, Ph, Refrig, Basic Cable. No Lease.

Office Furniture/Equip.

Landscaping/Lawn Service

2006 ClubCar golf cart. New batteries Nov 2015. $3400 or best offer. Ph. 865-964-8092. (865)964-8092.

NEW PR RC ENGINEERING- 4” mufflers for Harley Davidson. Great sound, improves performance. $265. Also windshield for Suzuki Burgman scooter, $50. (865)805-8038.

Vehicles Wanted

Merchandise - Misc.

KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT Complete Treatment System Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (618)351-7570

(865)288-0556

Golf Carts

Sport Utility Vehicles

RESPIRONICS Remstar Cpap machine w/new mask. $135. (865)680-3717.

1990 up, any size OK 865-384-5643

BARNS - SHEDS GARAGES - CARPORTS PATIO COVERS BUILT ON YOUR PROPERTY FREE ESTIMATES!

Off Road Vehicles

Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330

Building Materials 6’ CUSTOM OAK BATH VANITY - 35” tall, cabinet only, 6 yrs. old, dual sink, $325. (865)458-6554.

SOLAR PANELS (2) - 4’x6’x8” with pump & holding tank. $300.

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Consolidation Loans

FIRST SUN FINANCE

We make loans up to $1000. We do credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call today, 30 minute approvals.

See manager for details.

865-687-3228

SENIOR OR DISABLED HIGH RISE FACILITY 1 BR APTS. All util paid.

Income Based Oak Ridge 865-482-6098

Cemetery Lots Farm Equipment

Recreation

1975 FORD 3000 TRACTOR 1 owner.

PS, diesel, 8 pcs. of equip., 18’ trailer, $8000/b.o. (865)922-8694; 865-556-8694

Boats/Motors/Marine 14’ alum flat bottom Jon Boat w/trailer, 6 HP Merc., great cond, $2,000.

(865)244-4610.

1995 Lowe 1900 deck boat, 90 HP Evinrude motor, w/trailer. Very good cond. $6500. (865)660-1924.

2006 FISHER 1710, 50HP Mercury, low hrs. Fisher trlr. Lowrance 337C, exc. cond. $6800. (423)912-6990.

LAKEFLITE 15 FT. tri-hull glass boat w/2 chairs, 2 live wells, Holtzclaw trailer w/2 new 12” wheels & tires, new 25 Johnson Elect. Start, depth finder, trolling motor, new battery. $4800.00. (865)475-2668.

MAXUM 25’ CRUISER 1995, 5.7L, 230 HP Merc Cruiser V8 eng. kept on Watts Bar Lake on lift in boat house.

No trailer avail. Less than 150 hrs. total use. Immaculate, must see. $12,950. (865)376-5167.

MERCURY OUTBOARD PROPELLORS, Solas Titan stainless steel 3 blade, 13 1/4 inch x 19 pitch. $350 firm.

Also Mercury alum. 3 blade, 13 inch x 19 pitch, $150. Call (865)223-9123.

Farm Products

LOADED STARTING @ $9,999 WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!

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Livestock & Supplies BLACK BULLS & BLACK HEIFERS Call (865)856-3947

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WANT TO BUY STANDING TIMBER, Hardwood & Pine & Land Clearing.

865-982-2606 & 865-382-7529.

Jobs Pets

2003 WINNEBAGO JOURNEY DL 34’ Diesel Pusher, 69,000 miles, Freightliner chassis, air ride suspension, Allison transmission, 330 Caterpillar engine, 7500 Onan generator, trailer hitch, backup camera, 2 slides, many extras. Asking $41,000. email: gilbo75321@gmail.com Call: (865)556-5972 (865)556-5972.

2013 Jayco J Flight camper, 36’, 2 slides, elec awning, all wood inside, queen bed, 2 bunk beds, exc cond, 1 owner, $25,000 obo. 865-567-4402 2013 MONTANA 5TH WHL, 3 slideouts including resort lot, Gatlinburg.

Reduced to $61,000 or best offer.

Pristine condition.

Call (865)964-8092.

Collectibles

BUYING OLD US COINS

90% silver, halves, quarters & dimes, old silver dollars, proof sets, silver & gold eagles, krands & maple leafs, class rings, wedding bands, anything 10, 14, & 18k gold old currency before 1928 WEST SIDE COINS & COLLECTIBLES 7004 KINGSTON PK CALL 584-8070

DEALER

Mechanic On Duty Full Service Center Parts & Accessories I-75, EXIT 134 Just Behind Shoney’s

Campers & RV’s 1999 DUTCHMAN RV Class C, 1 slide, Ford E-450 Triton, gas, 10 cyl., slps 7, exc. cond. $22,900. (865)458-5766.

HIGHLAND - Memorial Garden, 2 lots w/crypts & 1 opening & closing. Reasonable offer. 637-3629 (865)637-3629

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ECLIPICAL EXERCISE BIKE - eclipical exercise bike made by Kettler. $250.00 Excellent condition (865)690-9299

Furniture

Homes Unfurnished North DRASTICALLY REDUCED. Beautiful 4 BR in Teaques Grove, close to I-75 & Emory Rd. Nearly 1/2 acre, subd. pool, too many features to list. Powell A+ schools. byowner.com MLS 957738. Call Danielle 954-547-2747. $267,500. OPEN SUNDAY APRIL 24, 1-3PM. 1417 Wineberry Rd., Powell, TN 37849

South FOR SALE BY OWNER - $164,900 – 7 year old house and 5.4 acres at 4222 Daniel Road, Knoxville. House has 3 bedrooms 2 baths, total of 1,513 square feet upstairs on a full, unfinished basement. New roof, new interior paint, new water heater and new filter on well pump. Owner will finance with $8,250 down. Call Bill at 877-488-5060 ext 323.

FURNITURE - ESTATE SALE. Smithfield SD. Pieces for Every Room.

Like New. Call (865) 675-1959

Condos-Unfurn

Household Goods

Convenience - Walk to Turkey Creek 2 master BRs, 2 full BAs, 1876 SF, nghbrd pool & walking trails, $189,900. (865) 566-4119

N.W. 5851 Lucile Lane. 3 BR, 2 full BA, lrg den, LR, DR, Kit., carport, detach gar, $1,000 mo + $1,000 sec dep.

(865) 898-4857 Near W Town Mall, compl remod 3 BR, 1.5 BA rancher w/detach. gar., outside storage, fenced yard, $1200 mo + sec dep. No pets. 865-556-2779 POWELL CLAXTON. 3 BR, 2 BA, no pets, private, convenient, $700 mo + 1st, last, DD. 865-748-3644 S.W. Area. 3 BR, 1 BA country home, priv., $800 mo + dep. & refs.

(865)717-9493

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn FTN CITY 2 BR, lrg LR, stv, refrig, DW, W/D conn., 5831 Eldridge off 5600 Broadway, Cr. Ck. No pets. $550. 865-209-3203

Real Estate Commercial

MOVING SALE - Everything Must go. BR dressers, Full sz bed, futons, bookcases, TVs, sofa, coffee & end tbls, lamps, couch & loveseat, hall seat, roll top desk, kit. tbl w/4 chrs, stereo equip., knick knacks, DVDs, TVs, 8 trk tapes, computer printers, fishing poles & tackle boxes, pots, pans, dishes, Dept. 56 houses. Call (423)298-4241 10a-6p

DRASTICALLY REDUCED. 2 BR, 2 BA + sunroom, 2 car gar., all appls incl W&D, close to I-75 & Emory Rd. $124,900. 7120 Allison Way, Knoxville, TN 37918. Call 954-547-2747, ask for Kevin

NORTH 17,000 SF bldg on 2.25 acres, needs repair. Ideal for entertainment center, church or apts. $225,000.

865-544-1717; 865-740-0990.

BLOODHOUND PUPPIES, Beautiful!

Track-n-trail, train by Fall. AKC reg. $500. (865)368-5941

Lawn & Garden

Lake Property

Offices/Warehouses/Rent

DOBERMAN PUPS AKC - 10 wks, huge.

Shots. Wormed. Fem., fawn & red, Paper trained. $600. (865)428-6981

2013 SNAPPER - riding lawn mower, 28” cut, like new, $900.

Call (865)856-8455

DOUGLAS LAKE - Lake View. 3BR, 2BA, sunroom, cvr’d deck & util room.

Statewide Realty, 865-919-4141.

DOWNTOWN OFFICE SUITE WITH PARKING - 119 W. Summit Hill Drive, Downtown prime 1st fl 4500 sq. ft. office space w/parking. Easy I-40 access. (865)637-8400

Driver/Transport DRIVERS: CDL-A -TEAM Drivers! $5K BONUS! Top Pay & Benefits with TN Based Carrier!

Get Home Every Weekend! Medical after 60 days; Paid Holidays after 90.

Safe, late-model equipment. FREE Retirement. Hazmat Required! Call Today! 888-543-6480

Exercise Equipment

Real Estate Sales

Dogs BASSETT HOUNDS AKC - Lemon & tris. $500 & up. Vet ck. Contact 865-6220726 or 865-622-0615

ENGLISH BULL DOG PUPPIES - AKC, 3 M, 2 F, $2500. www.BetterBulls.com; 865-254-5420 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS AKC, West German bldlns,3 M, 3 F, vet ck’d. health guar. $700. 865-322-6251.

42” cut Snapper rider, $275. More parts available. (865)922-6408 JOHN DEERE G110 auto., 54” cut, 1 owner, $895. (865)724-7335 POULAN RIDING MOWER , 42” cut, 14.5 HP, new belt, $500. (865)680-3717

Townhouse/Villas-Unfurn

Farms & Acreage 11.98 WOODED ACRES in Louisville for sale by owner. $197,000.

Call 865-604-0145

Commercial Property /Sale

OFFICE SPACE, very high traffic & great location, 1650 SF, 5 offices, reception area & 3 bathrms, 3200 Tazewill Pk 37918. $950 mo. (865) 281-2522 ext 105.

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Shopper news • MAY 18, 2016 • B-3

SUMMER CAMPS ■ McClung Museum summer camps: Archaeokids: Exploring Ancient Art & Archaeology, 1-4 p.m. July 11-15, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 9-11 (rising fourth, fifth and sixth graders). Cost: $110; $99 members. Info/registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

Dig It! Fun with Fossils, 1-4 p.m. June 20-24, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 9-11 (rising fourth, fifth and sixth graders). Cost: $110; $99 members. Info/ registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

Dino Explorers, 9-11 a.m. June 7-9, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 4-5. Cost: $35; $30 members. Info/ registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

Jurassic Kids Camp, 9-11 a.m. June 14-15, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 2-3 with caregiver. Cost: $25, caregiver free; $20 members. Info/registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

Little Artists Camp, 9-11 a.m. July 13-14, 1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 2-3 with caregiver. Cost: $25, caregiver free; $20 members. Info/registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

Little Masters Camp, 9-11 a.m. June 21-23,

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THROUGH FRIDAY, SEPT. 16 Online registration open for the Marine Mud Run, to be held Saturday, Sept. 17. Individual waves, 8 a.m.; team waves, 11:30 a.m. Course: 3 miles of offroad running, which entails some obstacles, hills and mud pits. Registration deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, or until total registrants reaches 3150. Info/registration: knoxmud.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 Books Sandwiched In: “Sisters in law: how Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world,” noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Info: 215-8801.

Naked Blue (Jen and Scott Smith), along with Jason Harrod, will perform, 7 p.m. “Mind Yer P’s & Q’s,” The Renaissance Center, 12744 Kingston Pike #104.

Info: mindyerpsandqs.com.

“Pinterest/Instagram/Twitter for Seniors,” 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30.

Registration and payment deadline: Wednesday, May 18. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register, in person at the Town Hall, 218-3375.

THURSDAY, MAY 19 Planetarium presentations: “Decoding the Stars: Spirituals and the Underground Railroad,” 1:30 and 4:30 p.m., The Muse Knoxville, Info: themuseknoxville.org.

Shakespeare for Kids, 3 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 470-7033.

Variety Thursday: featuring Scruffy City Syncopaters, 7-9 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square.

Free music performances each Thursday. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info: Knoxvilletn.gov/concerts.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 19-22 “Snow White and Rose Red,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Info/tickets: knoxvillechildrenstheatre. com; info@childrenstheatreknoxville.com; 208-3677.

FRIDAY, MAY 20 Alive After Five: Soulfinger, 6-8:30 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive. Admission: general, $10; museum members and students, $5. Info: knoxart.org.

Clarence Brown Theatre Gala, 7-11 p.m., Jackson Terminal, 205 W. Jackson Ave. Paula Pell, UT alumna, Emmy Award winner and former “Saturday Night Live” writer, will be awarded the CBT Artistic Achievement Award. Info: Amanda Middleton, amiddle5@utk.edu or 974-5654; clarencebrowntheatre.com/gala.

SATURDAY, MAY 21 Annual croquet tournament, 10:30 a.m., UT RecSports Field Complex across from Dead End BBQ on Sutherland Ave. Hosted by the Knoxville Opera Guild. Participation open to the public; no experience necessary. Tickets: $100. Info/tickets: knoxvilleopera. com.

Art Extravaganza in the Gap, 6-9 p.m., Festival Park, 521 Colwyn Ave., Cumberland Gap. Evening of art, music, food and wine tasting fundraiser for The Harrogate Book Station’s Children’s Program and for the programs of C.G. Artists Co-op. Tickets: $25. Info: cumberlandgapartistscoop.com.

Children’s Festival of Reading, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., World’s Fair Park on the Festival Lawn and Amphitheater. Kick off celebration for the Knox County Public

1327 Circle Park Drive. For ages 4-5. Cost: $35; $30 members. Info/registration: mcclungmuseum.utk.edu or 974-2144.

■ The Muse Knoxville summer camps: Awesome Oceans, 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, July 25-29, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 9-13. Cost: $105/ $95 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Awesome Oceans, 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, July 25-29, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $105/ $95 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Cooking up Science, 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, June 20-24, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Explorers of the World, 9 a.m.-noon MondayFriday, July 25-29, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville. org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Make it Move, 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, June 6-10, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Library’s summer reading programs. Free admission.

Featuring: world-class authors, illustrators, storytellers, musicians and more. Info: knoxlib.org.

Dancing for the Horses, 6 p.m., Bridgewater Place, 205 Bridgewater Road. Fundraising event hosted

by Horse Haven of Tennessee and modeled after “Dancing with the Stars.” Info/tickets: HorseHavenTn.org/ Dancing4Horses.

Heritage Center Gala and Auction, 5 p.m., grounds of the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend. Theme: “Bright Past, Brighter Future.”

Includes: silent and live auctions; dinner catered by Rothchild Catering. Tickets: $125. Info/reservations: 448-0044; gsmheritagecenter.org.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Rain barrel workshop, 10 a.m.-noon, Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Sponsored by the Water Quality Forum. Cost: $40 per barrel. Preregistration required. Info/registration: Kellie, kcaughor@ utk.edu or 974-2151.

Rummage sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Alice Bell Baptist Church, 3305 Alice Bell Road. Info: 522-0137.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 21-22 Repticon, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Kerbela Shriners building, 315 Mimosa

Ave. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 for children 5-12, children under 5 free. Info/VIP and advance tickets: repticon. com/knoxville.html.

Tennessee Medieval Faire, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 550 Fiske Road, Harriman. Tickets: $16.96, ages 13 and up; $8.95, ages 5-12; free ages 4 and under. Info/schedule: TMFaire.com.

STEAM 101, 1-4 p.m., Monday-Friday, June 6-10, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

STEAM Sprouts, 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, June 6-10 or Aug. 15-19, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 3-4. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

STEAM Sprouts Stories, 9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m.

Monday-Friday, July 18-22, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 5-6. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Think. Play. Create., 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, June 20-24, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 5-6. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Think. Play. Create., 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday, June 20-24, 516 N. Beaman St. For ages 7-8. Cost: $85/ $75 members. Info/registration: themuseknoxville.org/ content/summer-camps-2016 or 594-1494.

Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 5217812.

TUESDAYS, MAY 24-JUNE 28 Pilates classes, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $60. Registration/payment deadline: Monday, May 23. Info/registration: townoffarragut.org/register; in person at the Town Hall; 218-3375.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 Knoxville Writers’ Group meeting, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Naples Italian Restaurant, 5500 Kingston Pike.

Guest speaker: Dawn Coppock. All-inclusive lunch, $12.

RSVP by Monday, May 23. Info/RSVP 983-3740.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 11 a.m., Karns Branch Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 470-8663.

“Prayers the Devil Answers” lecture and book signing by Sharyn McCrumb, 7 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Light reception, 6:30.

Program is free and open to the public. Info: 215-8824 or EastTNHistory.org.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, MAY 25-26 AARP Driver Safety class, noon-4 p.m., O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Info/registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

THURSDAY, MAY 26

Knoshville Jewish Food Festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Arnstein Jewish Community Center (AJCC), 6800 Deane Hill Drive. Admission free; minimum food purchase, $10. Also featuring: Israeli dancing, music and an art gallery. An AJCC pool open house, 1-5 p.m.; pool use is free to the community. All invited.

Outdoor pool opening, 1-6 p.m., West Side Y, 400 N. Winston Road. Info: 690-9622.

Tea & Tattle with guest Nina Martyris, 3 p.m., Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Ave. Tickets: $40.

Info/tickets: mabryhazen.com/tea or 522-8661.

“Celebrate Summer: Container Gardens for Season-Long Cheer,” 3:15-4:30 p.m., Humana Guidance Center, 4438 Western Ave. Presented by Master Gardner Lynn Carlson. Free and open to the public.

Info: 329-8892.

Sharpie Tie-Dye workshop, 10-11:15 a.m., Sequoyah Branch Library, 1140 Southgate Road. For elementary age kids and older. Bring a light-colored Tshirt or bandanna. Info: 525-1541.

Sugar High!, 8-9:30 p.m., Sugar Mama’s, 135 S. Gay St. Free stand-up comedy showcase featuring Nashville’s Bryce Damuth.

Variety Thursday: featuring The Young Fables, 7-9 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square. Free music performances each Thursday. Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info: Knoxvilletn.gov/concerts.

MONDAY, MAY 23

FRIDAY, MAY 27

The Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp Golf Tournament to raise money for Helen Ross McNabb Center, Holston Hills Country Club. Registration, 7 a.m.; shotgun start, 8:30. Volunteers and sponsors welcome.

Info/registration: mcnabbcenter.org.

Computer Workshop: Excel, 2-4:15 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Word Basics” or equivalent skills. Info/registration: 215- 8700.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 4 p.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 588-8813.

QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30 p.m., The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free weekly comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other performance styles. Donations accepted.

Shakespeare for Kids, 11 a.m., Howard Pinkston Branch Library, 7732 Martin Mill Pike. Presented by the Tennessee Stage Company; featuring “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “King Lear.” Info: 573-0436.

West Knox Book Club: “Animal Wise,” 10 a.m., Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Info: 5888813.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 10:30 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 470-7033.

SUNDAY, MAY 22

TUESDAY, MAY 24 “Celebrate Summer: Container Gardens for Season-Long Cheer,” 11 a.m., Karns Senior Center, 8042 Oak Ridge Highway. Presented by Master Gardner Lynn Carlson. Free and open to the public. Info: 9512653.

Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv troop, 8 p.m., Scruffy City Hall, 32 Market Square. Free admission.

“Jazz Tuesday,” 8-10 p.m., Bill Lyons Pavilion, Market Square. Free music performances each Tuesday.

Bring chairs or blankets to sit on. Info/schedule: www. facebook.com/CityofKnoxvilleSpecialEvents.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 10:30 a.m., South Knoxville Branch Library, 4500 Chapman Highway. Presented by the Dollywood Penguin Players. Info: 573-1772.

“Old Bear and His Cub,” 2:30 p.m., Murphy Branch Library, 2247 Western Ave., LT Ross Bldg.

SATURDAY, MAY 28 Family Search in Detail, 1-3 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St.. Info/registration: 215-8809.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road.

Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org.

Knoxville Track Club EXPO 10K and 5K, 8 a.m., 100 Block of Gay Street. All pre- and post-race activities will be held in Jackson Terminal. Info/registration: ktc. org or Kristy Altman, knoxvilletrackclub@gmail.com.

Local author Dewaine Speaks will talk and sign books, 2-4 p.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

“Rugby Roots” music and performing arts festival, noon-6 p.m., Historic Rugby Victorian village. Featuring British and Appalachian music, dancing and storytelling. Tickets: daytime performances, $12; evening concert only, $8; combined ticket, $17. Tickets available in advance or onsite. Info/tickets: historicrugby.org.

SATURDAY-MONDAY, MAY 28-30 Tennessee Medieval Faire, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 550 Fiske Road, Harriman. Tickets: $16.96, ages 13 and up; $8.95, ages 5-12; free ages 4 and under. Info/schedule: TMFaire.com.

MONDAY, MAY 30 QED Experimental Comedy Lab, 7:30-9:30 p.m., The Pilot Light, 106 E. Jackson Ave. Free weekly comedy show blending stand-up, improv, sketch and other performance styles. Donations accepted.

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Rick Lassiter, Parkwest CAO, with the 2016 Leanne Baker Professional Nurse Award winners. Ann Watlington (left) was recognized for Clinical Practice, while George Leone (right) accepted the award for Clinical Leadership.

Jessica Bales (second from left) was presented with the Susan Foster Professional Development Award and is pictured here with Susan Foster’s family.

Dr. Jesse Doers (middle) presented the Janet Heffern Awards to CCU nurses Tania Crockett (left) and Danielle Shrum (right). Shrum was given the New Graduate award, while Crockett earned the Clinical Coach award.

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Nursing Excellence honored during National Nurses Week On May 5, ParkNot all Clinical Excellence winners were in attendance, but those west held its Nurses who were included (from front left ) Tricia Baker, Peninsula Track Week reception to 1; Gail Willocks, Peninsula Outpatient; Beth Schultz, PACU; Jodi recognize nurses Counts, Imaging; Kristi Wells, CTSU; Rhonda Kidder, Emergency Dewho go above and bepartment; Gale Kibler, CSU; Tanya Coburn, 4R; Mandy Collins, Senior yond in their mission Behavioral; Stacy Moore, Case Management; Therese Mynatt, Float to provide excellent Pool/House Supervisor; Trish Grubb, 2M; Paige Sowder, ASU; Jaclyn care to each patient.

Chittum, 3M; Julie Butler, CCU; Brenda McPherson, Quality; Malissa This annual celebraMocsari, Childbirth Center; and Keith Ackermann, Cath Lab. tion 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.

George Leone, RN, Parkwest Cath Lab, and Ann Watlington, RN, 3 Montvue, were named winners of the 2016 Leanne Baker Professional Nurse Award, the most prestigious honor given to compassion which ensures that recipients, but also excellence nurses of Parkwest and Peninsula her patients are treated well. Ann throughout the nursing staff of Hospital. The award has two dis- is an inspiration to her fellow Parkwest and Peninsula. Dr. Jesse tinctions, one for Clinical Leader- nurses and I am proud to call her Doers of Stat Care Medical Group ship and one for Clinical Practice. a colleague and friend.” presented the Janet Heffern Criti“Leanne Baker epitomized Leone works in the Parkwest cal Care Scholarships. what a professional nurse looked Cath Lab. When asked about LeEstablished in 2011 by Stat Care like,” said Lynn Cagle, Chief Nurs- one’s character and work ethic, his Medical Group in honor of the ing Officer at Parkwest, speaking manager Warren Grand states, “It long-time Parkwest Critical Care of the award’s namesake. “Her is evident through George’s be- nurse who passed away due to compassion for the patient, pro- havior that nursing is his “calling cancer, the award annually recogfessional demeanor and steady in life.” He is the first to volun- nizes new graduates and clinical leadership truly set the standard teer to help with patient care, in- coaches. Janet Heffern took pride to which we hold all our nurses. side and outside his department. in being a life-long learner. Since That’s why it was such an honor George takes ownership in the constant learning is so important to recognize these two deserving organization and is looked upon in the Critical Care environment, individuals who embody the spirit by his peers and physicians as a her award recognizes nurses with of this award.” leader throughout the health care that same belief. This year, the JaWatlington, who has worked community. He is a mentor to new net Heffern New Graduate award at Parkwest since 2008, was rec- and old employees and leads by was presented to Danielle Shrum ognized for Clinical Practice. Her example as he proactively assists and the Clinical Coach award manager Kevin Fincher stated, others. George embraces hard went to Tania Crockett.

“Ann embodies all of the char- work, quality care and excellent The Susan Foster Professional acteristics that one looks for in customer service.”

Development Award honors Sue a Registered Nurse. She has the The May 5 awards reception Foster, a dedicated and respected perfect balance of technical ex- in Parkwest’s Boulevard Bistro registered nurse who served her pertise, clinical knowledge and not only recognized Baker Award 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.

This year’s Susan Foster Award winner was Critical Care Certified Nursing Assistant Jessica Bales.

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 300 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 Clinical Excellence Awards are: Keith Ackermann, Cath Lab; Jennifer Adcox,

Surgery; Julie Butler, Critical Care Unit; Jaclyn Chittum, 3 Montvue; Tanya Coburn, 4 Riverstone; Mandy Collins, Behavioral Health; Jodi Counts, Imaging; Trish Grubb, 2 Montvue; Gale Kibler, CSU; Rhonda Kidder, Emergency; Karen Maneval, 5 Riverstone; Brenda McPherson, Quality; Malissa Mocsari, Childbirth Center; Stacy Moore, Case Management; Therese Mynatt, Float Pool; Beth Schultz, PreTesting; Paige Sowder, ASU; Misty Webb, 4 Montvue; Kristi Wells, CTSU; and Stephanie White, Endoscopy. Peninsula’s winners are Tricia Baker, Track 1; Michelle Beeler, Child & Adolescent; Stacy Schroth, Child & Adolescent; Scott Ferguson, Women’s Unit; Kevin O’Reilly, House Supervisors; Jessica Offerman, Utilization Management; and Gail Willocks, Outpatient Services.

“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.”

Wayne Heatherly 10-Foot Award 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 Jason Seal, a staff member in the Imaging Department.

Volunteer Appreciation Week Parkwest volunteers contributed more than 36,399 total hours in 2015. That translates to a whopping $840,000 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.

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