Halls/Fountain City Shopper-News 021115

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Where’s Jim?

February 11, 2015

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Dancing the night away

Looking for Dr. Jim Tumblin’s history feature?

Find him in Section B of Shopper-News. This week, he delves into the story of former Knoxville Mayor Martin J. Condon, who presided over the construction of the old Market Square City Hall and some of Knoxville’s first sewers.

After serving his first term, he chose not to seek re-election.

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See his story on page B-2

NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ

Fort Sumter Cemetery notes

Fort Sumter Community Cemetery is accepting bids for the 2015 mowing season.

Forms may be picked up at the cemetery office, 4828 Salem Church Road, after Feb. 20.

Bids must be turned in to the cemetery office by March 6.

Info: 660-6949.

■ The community is invited to the Fort Sumter Community Cemetery annual meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the cemetery office building, 4828 Salem Church Road. An update on cemetery developments and improvements will be provided. Volunteers are needed to help with the future of the cemetery. Info: 6606949.

Bill Gray, Judy Jones, Millie Norris and Ed Norris break out some impromptu footwork to the bluegrass music of The Dave Hall Band.

By Ruth White The Halls Crossroads Women’s League knows how to throw a shindig. That was evident Friday evening as the community came out in record numbers for the group’s annual Chili Chowdown.

In addition to tables lined with more varieties of chili than could be imagined, the Dave Hall Band provided bluegrass music, baked goods were sold and a good time was had by all.

Maddox moves to Corryton School

Aaron Maddox is the interim principal at Corryton Elementary School, replacing Jamie Snyder, who will become dean of academics for the new Emerald Academy charter school.

Maddox joined Knox County Schools in 1995 as a teacher at Fountain City Elementary School and also served as teacher at Copper Ridge.

He entered administration in 2009 when he was appointed as an assistant principal at Cedar Bluff Elementary School and has served as an assistant principal at Dogwood Elementary since 2012.

Maddox holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Tennessee, a master’s in education from UT and an education specialist degree in administration and supervision from LMU.

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Halls High student Tori Branam (center, pictured with band members R.C. Jett and Gordon Jett) was invited to sing a couple of songs with The Dave Lola Berney Berry holds a photo of Hall Band during the Chili Chowdown. Branam sang “Coat of Many Colors,” herself in a Halls High basketball uniform from 1956. sounding very much like a young Dolly Parton.

Another snag for greenway connector

By Sandra Clark Work is progressing on the county project to extend a combination sidewalk/greenway from Clayton Park to Halls Elementary School, but a new snag may delay completion past the six months predicted by Mayor Tim Burchett.

Knox County Engineering and Public Works is installing sidewalks on Norris Free-

way (flagged, but not started) and Andersonville Pike (concrete poured). The county will build an asphalt trail along the utility easement between the Walmart development and the businesses that face Emory Road including the offices of Halls Family Physicians and the St. Mary’s senior housing.

That’s the area where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must inspect and sign off on the

plans, according to Doug Bataille, senior director of Parks and Recreation.

“The mitigation work is done and everything looks good,” Bataille said, speaking of the work done by Walmart developers TTC Halls. Knox County will take title to the land with restrictions to preserve the wetlands.

The county will be responsible for maintenance.

Love, love me do

By Sherri Gardner Howell

I have bad news for greeting card companies, restaurants and florists. When it comes to filling hearts with love on Valentine’s Day, you have some heavy competition that you will never beat.

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My sweet husband, who groans like all men when February rolls around, has presented me with some very lovely cards, beautiful flowers and delicious dinners for Valentine’s Days through the years. Nothing can compare, however, to the Popsicle sticks picture frame with crayon red hearts on all sides and a second-grade photo of our younger son grinning from ear to ear. The scrawled “I love you Mommy” on the back completes the heart-tug.

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Ron Rector dances with his granddaughter, Alethia Stooksbury, during the chili chowdown at the Halls Senior Center. Photos by Ruth White

when he was 5 with a teacher-assisted poem on the back: “Here’s my hand on Valentine’s Day; Hold me close as I grow and play.” Even now, in the midst of trying to declutter, I can’t part with the schoolmade Valentine’s Day cards.

I have been away from elementary schools so long that I don’t even know what’s “allowed” anymore as far as giving Valentines to classmates. I remember my own Valentine’s Days at school, however. Who knew so much could be read into the size and sentiment on silly “tear on the dotted line” Valentines? Yes, class lists were sent home with proper admonishments for every child to provide a card for every other child and that no additional “gifts” could be brought to school, unless there was one for everyone.

And, yes, we followed all the

rules in my small town in the 1960s. But that doesn’t mean each chipper “Barbie says: You’re the grooviest” or Yogi Bear’s “I can’t BEAR to be without you” we received wasn’t analyzed, dissected and conclusions drawn.

I knew Greg Hart loved me after Valentine’s Day in fourth grade.

Greg and I both bought The Beatles Valentine’s pack to pass out in our classroom that year. We both gave each other the same card: the largest one in the pack with all FOUR Beatles on it and the sentiment: “Love, Love Me Do. Happy Valentine’s Day.” I knew it was true love. I, personally, had spent almost an hour deciding between that card and the “All You Need Is Love” smaller card for Greg. It was destiny.

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Unfortunately for adult men and women today, all this competition from elementary school crushes and children’s handprints doesn’t take the pressure off for Valentine’s Day. We all love to be loved, and we love to be reminded that we are loved. The point, of course, is to look inside the heart of whoever it is you love. You’ll find the right “gift” in whatever brings that smile to his or her face.

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Serving with faith and courage Shannondale Presbyterian Church is hosting an exhibit honoring U.S. military chaplains from World War II to the present. The exhibit is called “Faith and Courage” and recognizes the contributions of a special group of veterans whose story is rarely told.

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The exhibit includes photographs from services, historical and current com-

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munion kits, medals, a field organ and displays outlining the courage and selfless acts of chaplains in wartime.

The exhibit was developed and designed by Tom Walker, a former exhibit designer for the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. Walker has graciously loaned the exhibit to the church for display through the month of February.

Hours are Sundays noon to 3 p.m.; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday; and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Shannondale Presbyterian is at 4600 Tazewell Pike. The exhibit is free to the public.

A U.S. Army Estey field organ is carried and played by chaplain assistants. The seat for the organ is a gas can.

Milan Cook dances with her father, Jeremy, at the Father/Daughter Dance at the Boys and Girls Club of Halls/Powell. Photos by R. White

One display shows the field communion kit used by Army chaplain Paul Obrien during World War II.

Carson Cross and her dad, Creighton, pose for portraits at the dance.

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A-4 • FEBRUARY 11, 2015 • HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

Tennessee fame is forever To the new guys who signed up to be Volunteers: Welcome and be advised that Tennessee football is forever – unless you fail miserably, embarrass us something awful or just plain quit.

Tennessee fans never forget. Your obituary will mention that you are an old Vol and whether you made all-SEC. Proof positive: The recent Shopper column about what happens when the cheering stops just missed matching the record for the most email comments in one week.

Readers generally approved but seven told me, with different tones, that I had overlooked Jim Haslam and his many gas stations.

Not so. Too obvious. Big Jim is the ultimate success story and a very, very generous supporter of the university.

Five wondered why attorney Tim Priest wasn’t mentioned. Similar logic.

He is in the spotlight at least 12 Saturdays a year as Vol Network analyst. Good match. Honest without be-

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ing harsh. I’m a fan.

One reader caused this follow-up column.

She thought I should have told you about Alan Cockrell, former quarterback, baseball all-American and new assistant hitting coach for the New York Yankees. She and I agree the Yankees are/were big time. Trying to instruct Alex Rodriguez is certain to make news.

Cockrell is a baseball lifer but he had his football moments. He was the first Vol freshman to start a game at quarterback, Colorado State, 1981. Two weeks later, he suffered a bad knee injury. It was thought he might be finished.

He made it back and threw two touchdown

passes in the dramatic 1982 upset of Alabama (Mike Terry interception game). I remember a 40-somethingyard scoring run against LSU in ’83. Alan was a costar in the Citrus Bowl win over Maryland and Boomer Esiason.

Ah yes, now you remember. That was Cockrell’s last football game. Thereafter, he concentrated on baseball, won distinction as a slugging outfielder, was MVP in the SEC tournament and first-round draft choice of the San Francisco Giants, one pick ahead of Mark McGuire.

The theme of his pro career was never give up. He played and played in nine minor league seasons before the Colorado Rockies finally provided the proverbial September cup of coffee in 1996. He was 33.

Alan appeared in nine games, one as an outfielder, eight as pinch hitter. He had a double off Tom Glavine and one other hit, two runs batted in, four strikeouts.

That was that.

Technically, Cockrell was near flawless with the bat.

He had leadership skills. He had the patience to teach.

He stayed in baseball as a scout, coach and manager in the Rockies’ farm system.

He helped the big club for a few minutes in 2002 and came back as hitting coach in 2007, the World Series season. Ask Todd Helton how much Cockrell did.

Colorado led the National League in batting, on-base percentage and total hits.

Too soon the Rockies regressed and Alan was unemployed – for a few days.

Seattle wanted him. After that, he worked for the Arizona Diamondbacks as minor league hitting coordinator.

His period of obscurity is finished. Fifty-two New York reporters, bloggers and sports-talk types will ask about growing up in Joplin, Mo., about five seasons with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox and about being on the Vols’ all-century baseball team.

Tennessee quarterback?

Really? Do you know Peyton Manning?

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

God hates health insurance There certainly are, like Republican supermajorities and June Griffin. In her prayer, Griffin let God know that the same health insurance he provided Moses and the 12 tribes of Israel – none – was good enough for poor folks in Tennessee.

On the brighter side, the Knox County Health Department is warning of the dangers of chikungunya: “With many residents making plans for spring and summer vacations and mission trips to the Caribbean, ... be aware of chikungunya.”

Chikungunya is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitos. It causes fever, joint pain, headaches, rashes and assorted miseries and lasts about a week.

Why have you never heard of chikungunya?

First, you probably can’t afford a Caribbean vacation. Second, there’s a much more dangerous viral infection making the rounds in the states: measles.

Unlike chikungunya, measles is transmitted by an infected person, and the number of infected is growing thanks to the unforgivable lunacy of the anti-vaccination crowd.

Unvaccinated children in Disneyland in December were exposed to a much greater health threat.

If I were sending bulletins, I’d make sure I impressed parents with the absolute necessity of having children vaccinated on schedule.

Let’s level the playing field

one family of the half-dozen involved A-E students had ready access to the Internet.

“I had to print out all the forms, send them home for the parents to sign, and take them with me the morning of the competition,” she said. “Then I had to explain why I was bringing paper forms instead of completing the process online.”

The groundskeepers – the people who created the game and drew up the rules – threw up unnecessary barriers for some would-be players because of the assumptions they made about the lives and resources of the people they expected to go out for the team.

Expectation is also a major factor in warping the playing field. When the UT philosophy department created its Ethics Bowl compe-

It’s official: God hates insurance, especially health insurance for poor people.

We have the “Reverend” June Griffin to thank for revealing His Truth. Her prayer to open the special session of the state Senate scratched seven Republican committee members right where they itch, and Gov. Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal went down 7-4.

Here are seven names to remember next election (or when your medical bills force you into bankruptcy): Frank Niceley, Mike Bell, Janice Bowling, Rusty Crowe, Todd Gardenhire, Brian Kelsey and Kerry Roberts.

Newly-elected Sen. Richard Briggs, Sen. Becky Massey and Sen. Ed Jack-

The playing field still is not level.

The gates to the stadium have been opened to everyone, but the field is tilted, uneven. Home-field advantage is more than a myth.

Some teams always have to kick into the wind.

Recently the ShopperNews reported on Robotics Team 5744, the first group of Austin-East students to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition, an international program that challenges talented high schoolers to solve high-tech science and engineering problems.

The A-E team came to the first stage of the contest both scared and eager. Under the leadership of their

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son were the Republicans who backed the governor.

Democratic Sen. Jeff Yarbro also voted for the proposal.

There may be people walking around more demented than June Griffin, but the vast majority of them are medicated. That doesn’t bother Sen. Niceley, who invited Griffin to pray.

Griffin is a “watchdog of democracy,” Niceley said.

“There are things that happen in this country that scare everybody.”

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Project GRAD director, Tanisha Fitzgerald-Baker, they came to the University of Tennessee College of Engineering, where they got a crash course in putting together a fundamental robot from a kit. In a grueling 11hour day, they worked out how to assemble and wire it, and one young man sat down with the programming manual and learned to make it obey. Other high school teams with more

experience were generous consultants. Sometime in February, Team 5744 faces its next step – making their robot do the chores the contest requires. They are working on it.

But there’s always a back story, the part that doesn’t make the paper. In this case it was the bureaucracy needed to get the A-E team into the contest.

When Fitzgerald-Baker began to put together the A-E application, she was welcomed by the state FIRST coordinator and administrators in the College of Engineering. But the application process had unexpected barriers: Parents of participating students were required to go online. Only

Rogero’s wound is self-inflicted The controversy over radio purchases for E-911 continues, and much of the political fallout for Mayor Rogero was self-inflicted.

She was the person who decided not to attend E-911 board meetings and not to instruct her proxy on how to vote. No one made her do it.

In fact, Bill Haslam, as mayor, attended several E-911 board meetings.

The need for a special board meeting would not exist had Rogero been present and prepared to vote on Jan. 21. It could not come at a worse time for her as she is seeking her second and final mayoral term in September. Skipping every E-911 meeting does not look good.

Her mea culpa excuse for not attending was that the meetings were technical and logistical. Does that mean she might not understand the discussion or be bored? Wow! Is she really serious? She could easily take qualified staff with her to assist, as she does at biweekly City Council meetings where she presides.

She says her police and fire chiefs did nothing wrong, but it is their silence on the radio bids, along with everyone else’s, that has triggered the mayoral demand for a special meeting. One assumes they will vote with her when the next meeting is held.

She criticizes the inadequate website for the 911 board (www.knox911.org) and the absence of bylaws as if this is a new discovery. Had she paid attention to 911 over the past three years she would have already known about it and could have solved the matter long before now.

Rogero would be much better off acknowledging error on never attending 911 and pledging to do better. Voters accept apologies.

911 employees would also welcome a visit from her.

Don Howell, the 911 attorney for 20 years, says the chair can call a special meeting. He is one of the few attorneys who has not tition in 2009, David Goff, the librarian who sponsors the A-E team, quietly admits that there was a lack of respect for the team from the East Knoxville school.

“When we won third place in 2011, everyone was shocked,” he said. Not so much now, for the team went on to win first place in the 2012 and 2013 bowls and came in second in 2014.

In fact, for the first time since they began to participate, the A-E team failed to place in the top three finish-

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raised his rate for services for a public body, being paid $2,000 a month in 1995 and the same in 2015.

■ KAT: Mayor Rogero is apparently irked that Mayor Tim Burchett endorsed Hubert Smith (a Rogero appointee to the Knox Area Transit) to be chair of KAT in a recent vote. Jim Richards, manager of Mast General Store, was actually elected.

Rogero apparently called Burchett to berate him for sending a letter supporting the Smith candidacy, which had the backing of former Mayor Dan Brown who also serves on the board. She also criticized County Clerk Foster Arnett for endorsing Smith.

Interesting that Rogero has time to call Burchett and Arnett over a minor endorsement letter but has not had time to attend other meetings. County Commissioner Amy Broyles, a Democrat, also wrote KAT backing Smith, along with city council member Mark Campen.

Normally KAT board meetings are quick and quiet. A contested vote for chair is most unusual, especially with endorsement letters from public officials.

■ MPC: The special MPC director search committee is nearing a decision. The committee meets behind closed doors at the direction of Bill Lyons, deputy mayor to Rogero.

But the decision is down to three persons who are now being vetted.

A recommendation is a few weeks off. Burchett and Rogero will have to approve it for it to become effective. The MPC board has no voice in the choice as the new director will not report to them but to the two mayors, which makes for an unclear and potentially unworkable line of author ity. ers in the 2015 competition recently.

“Our team knew they did well. We were shocked not to place,” Goff said. “The students deserve the credit.

They worked hard and expected to win.”

Downpage in the same issue of the Shopper-News was another story about an uneven playing field – the contest to keep all students in school and out of the juvenile justice system.

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Mancini hits the ground listening On the Knoxville leg of her statewide listening tour, Mary Mancini arrived early, stayed late, answered questions and refused to be deterred from Mary Mancini her mission as the new chair of Tennessee’s Democratic Party: Elect Democrats.

Strengthen the Democratic Party brand. Damage the Republican brand, something she said the opposition is making it easy to do.

“Chip, chip, chip, chip, chip away,” she said, rais-

Betty Bean ing the issue of Chattanooga state Sen. Todd Gardenhire’s getting caught telling a whopper when he claimed he doesn’t get state-subsidized medical insurance (Gardenhire was one of five Republican members of the state Senate’s Health Committee who voted to kill Gov. Bill Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal.)

Mancini is a known quantity in Nashville, where she owned a Nashville record store and punk

rock venue, had a radio talk show, spent 10 years as an Internet provider and was executive director of Tennessee Citizen Action, but not so much across the state, so last week, she hit the road for a statewide tour that, if her Knoxville stop is typical of the others, is as much “get to know me” as “listening.”

“Mary’s kind of datadriven and goal-oriented,” said former state Rep. Gloria Johnson, who lost her seat by 183 votes and was also a candidate for state chair until she withdrew to clear the way for Mancini, about whom she is enthusiastic. “She’s really current on all that stuff and will

utilize those tools to make good things happen.”

Randy Neal, Knoxville’s most prominent progressive blogger, describes her as smart, high energy and charismatic.

“Mary did outstanding work as executive director at Tennessee Citizen Action, where she was the go-to person on voting rights and campaign finance. … Her challenge now will be fundraising and recruiting. I don’t know how wired in she is with the old-school Democrats and money people in Nashville, but maybe a fresh new approach is what the party needs.

“I hope she can get Tennessee Democrats back on

government the right path and lead us out of the wilderness. She seems up to the task.”

Organizers tagged the headcount at 125. Mancini pronounced it her biggest crowd of the tour. Representatives of the civil rights community, labor groups, Young Democrats, College Democrats and party leaders from surrounding counties were present.

The Rev. Harold Middlebrook offered the observation that “We have a Democratic pulpit and a Republican pew.” Tax reform activists John and Nancy Stewart acknowledged that amending the state constitution to outlaw an income tax last year has driven a

stake through the heart of their efforts.

“That’s 38 years of work down the tubes,” John Stewart said, lamenting the difficulty of communicating the advantages of a system that is not dependent on sales-tax revenue “We need to simplify what we say.”

When a labor union representative pushed her to take a stand against the Trans Pacific Partnership (called “NAFTA on Steroids” by opponents), Mancini didn’t let him down easy: “I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s anything I can do to stop it. My priority is the state. My job is to elect Democrats in Tennessee.”

The new BZA – no politics allowed The Knox County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) has come a long way since private citizens took it over from Knox County Commissioners.

The BZA is the last place to appeal a zoning before going to court. Until 2009, county commissioners appointed themselves to the nine-member board.

A 2008 state law barring commissioners from serving on boards or commissions appointed by commissioners forced all but two board members, Scott Moore and William Daniels, to step down. Daniels had finished his term as an interim commissioner and Moore had been ousted from commission for perjury.

Some were concerned that the commission would appoint developers and real estate agents to the board, says former BZA chair John Schoonmaker, who was recently appointed Fifth Dis-

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trict county commissioner.

But that didn’t happen.

Schoonmaker, who was president of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners at the time, was encouraged to apply for the post by then-Commissioner Craig Leuthold. He thought Schoonmaker’s expertise would benefit the BZA. Schoonmaker was appointed, along with other community leaders and professional experts from each district: Daniel Brown, Markus Chady, Jean Teague, Larry York, Les Spitzer and Carson Dailey. Daniels became the chair.

Politics plays no role in the decisions of the citizen

board, Schoonmaker says.

Their decisions are based solely on county ordinances.

There is no time limit on cases. One case lasted four hours, Schoonmaker said.

BZA board members recognized that developers and builders had a tendency to overlook rules, like setback requirements, and ask for forgiveness later. They changed the fee structure: $200 if construction had not begun; $400 if it had.

In one case, a builder who ignored a setback requirement had to move a house that was already undeway.

While experts, like architects, are helpful, common sense is the most valuable attribute for board members, Schoonmaker says.

Petitioners seek variances for things they can’t control, like property lines that were established before surveying was an exact science.

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Schoonmaker says he’s proud that board members don’t make decisions before they’ve heard a case. Sometimes, a Schoonmaker case seems simple on paper, but when it’s presented, it calls for a different outcome.

His biggest disappointment is the Metropolitan Planning Commission’s lack of action on the discrepancy between the city’s and the county’s minimum size for parking spaces. The county’s minimum size is 200 square feet, and the city’s is 162 square feet. Business owners in the county regularly appear before the BZA, and pay a $200 fee, to receive a variance that allows

them to have the same size parking spaces as businesses in the city.

BZA asked County Commission to request that MPC change the county code in January 2012, and there has been no action, he says.

Playing field In a recent workshop by the NAACP and the Children’s Defense Fund, presenters used federal figures from Knox County Schools to show that African-American students are suspended from school almost three times more often than their white fellow students. If disability is factored in, about one in 10 white students will be suspended, while around one in four black students will be sent home.

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But his time spent with the BZA was overwhelmingly positive, he says.

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From page 4 nal justice system.

The assumptions our institutions make about the lives and resources of our students are the factors that warp the playing surface, that skew even those honest attempts to level the field so that everyone gets a fair chance to succeed.

The groundskeepers – schools and courts, governments and charities – must make sure that their own expectations do not tilt the field so that people of color and people with disabilities have no possibility of succeeding.

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Tud Etherton was friend to all

By Sandra Clark The first time I heard of Jerry Cheung was when Tud Etherton stopped by to say, “You really should try this Chinese r e s t au r a nt Tud Etherton …”

Tud and Shirley were

super customers and became friends with Jerry and Salina Cheung – even to the point of Tud bringing Jerry and his erhu to the DP Club’s summer watermeloncutting.

There’s no sound like “Rocky Top” on an erhu.

Jerry was an honorary pallbearer and speaker at Tud’s funeral last week.

Tud died Jan. 31 at age 78. The men in his fam-

ily wore overalls to receive friends at Salem Baptist Church.

One-of-a-kind, Tud was a friend to all who worked at making his friends become friends of each other.

Survivors include wife, Shirley; son and daughterin-law, Randy and Colleen; son, Kenny; daughter, Kimberley Fitzpatrick; grandchildren; and a host of friends.

Saying thanks for scouting leadership

By Nancy Anderson The evening was to be all about Tom Becker. Still, it came as no surprise that Becker had some other thoughts on where the spotlight should go.

Becker was to be honored on Sunday, Feb. 8, at Beaver Ridge United Methodist

Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church Pastor Darryll Rasnake takes a moment to speak with Tom Becker during a reception on Feb. 8 to honor Becker for his 50 years of service to the Boy Scouts.

Church for his dedication to the Boy Scouts of America.

Scouting Sunday is an annual event at Beaver Ridge that is designed to recognize boys and leaders from Cub Scouts to Eagle Scouts for the time and efforts they give to scouting. This year’s celebration was intended to honor Becker, who has more than 50 years of scouting leadership and service under his belt.

Becker did the paperwork necessary for three of his fellow leaders – Tim Brown, Brian Damiano and Larry Rose – to receive the Cross and Flame Award and insisted they receive the medallions and recognition during the morning service of Scout Sunday. The Cross and Flame Award is presented by the United Methodist Church to adult leaders in scouting who have given exceptional service in youth programing and development.

“You can talk for an hour and still barely touch on all the things Tom Becker has done for us,” says Damiano.

“He’s an amazing man who has made a huge impact on all of us. We intended for today to be about Tom. He’s been involved in this church on all levels for many years.

He’s chairman of the trustees, sings in the choir, is on pretty much every committee and has been on every mission trip that I know of.

Basically, if anything needs done, he’s there to help.”

Becker was appreciative, says pastor Darryll Rasnake, but wanted to recognize the other scout leaders for their service by giving them the Cross and Flame Award on his special day.

“Tom is the one who said we needed to do this for these three men. He said it was important and had already done all the work and gotten the medallions.

These guys are good men, an asset to the church and solid leaders,” says Rasnake.

“They’re the next generation.”

Beaver Ridge UMC has nearly 70 boys invovled in scouting.

The men of the Charles “Tud” Etherton family honored him by wearing overalls to the receiving of friends at Salem Baptist Church. Pictured are Corey Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kenny Etherton, Randy Etherton, Waylon Etherton, Jason King and Jaxton King (in front).

Tom Becker, seated, is joined by three leaders of the scouting community who earned the Cross and Flame Award, presented at a special reception given for Becker on Feb. 8. From left are Tim Brown, Brian Damiano with son Anthony and Larry Rose. Photos by Nancy Anderson

Cub Scouts Wyatt Emery and Gage McGhee congratulate honoree Tom Becker.

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Big peace The completed outdoor classroom

Construction continues at (and in front of) Christ UMC.

Photos submitted

Building faith at Christ UMC

By Cindy Taylor Passing by the new sign at Christ United Methodist Church, you may see a message that says “Faith Building in progress – Construction for Christ.” The first time I saw it, I mistakenly thought it was referring to the widening of Maynardville Highway and its effect on church property.

While the road construction is clearly visible, even more is going on behind the church – and inside the hearts of its members.

A new education wing is underway behind the original church building to house additional classrooms and a choir room. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of summer, and additional parking to accommodate the growing congregation is also on the agenda.

Church members donated supplies last November to Halls High School’s woodworking class for a picnic table and pergola for the CDC outdoor classroom at the school. Both are complete, and the picnic table is

wheelchair accessible.

Music plays a huge part in the ministry of the church.

Mark Beckley has joined the staff as the new church organist. A new children’s choir has been formed, and the line-dancing ministry continues to grow as dancers take their performing talents to local assisted-living centers.

More than 50 attended Resurrection in Gatlinburg, an event sponsored by the Holston Conference. Christ UMC’s youth will team up with Project Crossroads in July for this year’s mission trip.

The church will celebrate Shrove Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Feb. 17 with a feast of pancakes and bacon. An Ash Wednesday service will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18.

A midweek healing service is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

March 4, and a midweek Communion service will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 11 during Lent. The Spring Fling dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 25, and Easter Sunday sunrise service will

Christ UMC youth member Braden Large, keynote speaker the Rev. Reggie Dabbs and youth member Brock Rogers at the “Resurrection” conference

be April 5 at Mays Chapel Cemetery with breakfast at Christ UMC. “We are excited about our new addition, the growing traditional and contemporary services, our community-wide Helping Hands Ministry, children and youth ministries and vi-

FAITH NOTES Community services

■ Cross Roads Presbyterian, 4329 E. Emory Road, hosts the Halls Welfare Ministry food pantry 6-8 p.m. each second Tuesday and 9-11 a.m. each fourth Saturday.

■ Dante Church of God, 410 Dante School Road, will distribute Boxes of Blessings (food) 9-11 a.m. or until boxes are gone, Saturday, Feb. 14.

One box per household. Info: 689-4829.

■ Glenwood Baptist Church, 7212 Central Avenue Pike, is accepting appointments for the John 5 Food Pantry. Info: 938-2611. Your call will be returned.

Classes/meetings

■ First Comforter Church, 5516 Old Tazewell Pike, hosts MAPS (Mothers At Prayer Service) noon each Friday. Info: Edna Hensley, 771-7788.

■ Knoxville Day Aglow Lighthouse weekly Bible study, 9:30-11:30 a.m. beginning Thursday, Feb. 12, New Covenant Fellowship Church, 6828 Central Avenue Pike. Topic: “Game Changers” by Graham Cooke; instructor: Jeannine Courtney. Info: Diane Shelby, 687-3687.

Look! On the mountains the feet of one who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace!

(Nahum 1: 15 NRSV) Deep peace of the running wave to you.

Deep peace of the flowing air to you.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

Deep peace of the shining stars to you.

Deep peace of the gentle night to you …

Deep peace of Christ to you.

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brant music,” said associate pastor Charla Sherbakoff.

“We invite everyone to come and see the many ways God is at work!”

Christ UMC is at 7535 Maynardville Pike. To view the full calendar, go to www. christumcknox.com. Info: 922-2890.

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■ Black Oak Ridge Baptist Church WMU, 6404 Old Maynardville Pike, is holding a spaghetti supper/cake walk fundraiser 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. Supper: $5.

■ Son-Light Baptist Church,

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We had reached the portion of our worship service when prayer concerns are offered for those who are sick or troubled, for those who are traveling, for those who are searching, seeking.

And then, one woman offered a two-word prayer request that electrified me: She said, quietly, “Big peace.”

I confess that I didn’t hear anything else for quite a while.

“Big peace.” I kept turning that over in my mind.

The questions began to tumble: What did big peace mean to her? What might it mean to us, our community, our country, our world?

What would “big peace” look like?

Is big peace possible?

What would it take? Are we capable of it? How do we start? What can I do to create “big peace?”

Then it occurred to me that we have started. This

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woman – this visionary woman – knows that our prayers are too small. She has skipped all the specific, immediate needs that we frequently pray for; she has gone cosmic. She is praying for big peace and asking us to join her in that supplication.

Then the scarier questions reared their ugly heads: What will deep peace mean to me? What will I have to change? What will that deep peace require of me? Wow! Blessings on a woman who prays for big peace, who thinks in global, universal, cosmic terms.

Cirrhosis of the giver

By Steve Higginbotham It’s a dangerous world out there. We read of one epidemic after another, from AIDS to SARS, from tuberculosis to the flu. To say the least, we need to take precautions. However, let me warn you of one more epidemic whose beginning literally dates back to the beginning.

This malady has plagued Christians for generations.

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Interestingly enough, this strange affliction does not immobilize people when reaching for their wallet or purse at the shopping mall or sporting event.

I don’t know if this illness has an official name yet, but some are calling it “cirrhosis of the giver.” Be careful you don’t catch it!

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Celebrating kindness never gets old, especially at Brickey-McCloud. Dressed as seniors are Alexis Mercer, Jaidyn McNeely, teacher Larry Israel, Treyson Derry, Israel Turner; (back) Claire Campbell and McKinley Holbert. Photo by R. White

Brickey-McCloud students Mikaylah Rudd and Lucy Merryman dress up for “Peace, Love and Kindness” day to celebrate the Great Kindness Challenge. Photo submitted

Senior cheerleader Hope Lay is recognized for her four years of dedication and spirit to the Halls High athletic department. Photos by R. White

Kindness never gets old

By Ruth White Over 500,000 students across the country recently took part in the Great Kindness Challenge, devoting a week to performing as many acts of kindness as possible.

Brickey-McCloud accepted the challenge to prove that bullying is weak and kindness is strong.

The purpose of the event was to give schools the power to increase empathy, tolerance and compassion for all students from kindergarten through high school.

Brickey-McCloud students celebrated kind-

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ness with special dress-up days all week, including pajama day (dreaming of kindness), sports day (kindness is strength), and crazy hair day (crazy for kindness).

More than 1,000 Brickey students also traced their hands to participate with Kids of Peace to break the Guinness World Book of Records for the most “kindhearted” hands collection.

Halls senior athletes honored

Girls basketball seniors Daniela Jones, Katelyn Cantrell and Daniele Beeler are recognized for their dedication to the HHS basketball team.

Halls High boys basketball team senior members gather for one final regular season home game. Pictured are Levi McGhee, Braxton Moore, Brent Berry, Colby Jones, Parker Keith, Ethan Gardner, Spencer Allen and Blake Lawson.

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Halls, Gibbs athletes make college commitments Athletes from across the country signed their names on the dotted line and made commitments to play sports at the collegiate level next season.

At Halls High, seniors Jared White and Jakob W o o d s signed to play football at East Tennessee State Un iver sit y and Lindsey Wilson College, respectively.

White Jared, who played tight end for Halls, selected ETSU because he felt that the school will give him the opportunity to receive an excellent education and to pursue his dreams of playing Di-

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vision 1 football. After two visits to the campus, Jared knew that Johnson City was where he wanted to spend his next four years.

“Playing football for Coach Overton gave me opportunities to not only see playing time, but to be mentored by a great coach who cares about the development of players both on and off the field. He helped me a great deal with the recruiting process.”

Attending the sign-

ing with Jared were his parents, Mike and Kelli White, his sister, Katie, coach J.D. Overton and many friends.

Jakob has played middle linebacker at Halls High for four years and is looking forward to playing at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Ky., next year.

He selected LWC because of Woods the welcoming campus atmosphere and the strong football program.

He plans to study business.

While at Halls, Jakob learned a lot from his coach and teammates, most importantly about

having a positive attitude in every aspect of life. He will miss his friends the most when he leaves for Kentucky. “Everyone I know goes here.”

Watching Jakob sign were his parents, Tony Woods and Tessa Thomas, his brother Hutson Woods and his aunt, Karen Woods.

Gibbs High was proud to announce the signing of two seniors on National Signing Day: Hunter Lane and Brendan Wilson.

Hunter will attend Austin Peay, where he plans to study in the pre-veterinarian field, in the fall. He selected AP because of positive experiences with the coaches and a good connection with the other recruits.

While playing under coach Brad Conley at Gibbs,

Hunter learned that hard work equals success. Conley called Hunter a “tremendous kid who is a hard worker and has developed into a great leader.”

Lane Attending the signing were his mom, Barbara Lane, his brother, Oliver, grandmother Linda Lane, cousin Michael Duffy and many friends and teammates. Dad Chris Lane was unable to attend but prior to the event wished his son the best on his big day.

Brendan Wilson will travel to Columbia, Ky., to attend Lindsey Wilson College in the fall.

He transferred to Gibbs as a sophomore and played cornerback and slot back for

the Eagles. Coach Conley called Brendan a “unique young man, a great athlete with excellent ballhandling skills.” One of the most impor ta nt things he l e a r n e d Wilson while at Gibbs was the importance of being part of a brotherhood, a family no matter what.

Selecting LWC was an easy choice for Wilson, who liked the smaller campus and the opportunity to play at the next level. While at Lindsey Wilson, he plans to study sports medicine.

Attending the signing were his parents, Marcus and Tobi Wilson, his sisters Tamia, Loryn and Mickaela Wilson and a crowd of friends and teammates.

Members of the Halls High swim team include: (front) Brendan Goulde, Dylan Fish, Isabell Loy; (middle) Tucker Hardin (holding trophy), Lilia Whittington; (back) coach Bryan Goldberg, Tyler Ledgerwood, Logan Smith, Quinn Smith, Nicholas Wilson, Charli Boles, coach Kara Seaman. Not Challenger cheerleaders recently performed during halftime at a Halls High basketball game. pictured are Kristen Cannon, Christin McCallister, Natalie Martin and Lauren Brady. Photo submitted The group cheers for the Challengers basketball league on Tuesday nights at Sharon Baptist Church, and the girls were thrilled to perform for the crowd at Halls. Pictured are: (front) Annie Miller, Alli Woods, Faith Kitts, Morgan Holbert, coach Kalie Mengeling, Lydia Williams; (second row) Hannah Cooper, Briley Fraker, Olivia Kitts, Madison Ray, Jaiden Mathes, Savanna Stooksbury; (back) Kennedi Holbert, Hailey Basta and Ashley Arnold. Photo submitted

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Halls swim team places second at KISL championship

The Halls High swim team came in second place for Division 2 at the KnoxArea Interscholastic Swim League (KISL) championship meet on Jan. 31. Fortytwo teams participated in a fierce competition, and 10 members of the 14-strong Red Devils team reached the finals.

Logan Smith and Charlie Boles placed in the finals for all four of their events. Results from the meet include: fourth place, 200 Medley Relay: Isabell Loy, Charli Boles, Christin McCallister and Kristin Cannon; 200

yard Freestyle: Kristin Cannon, 14th, Logan Smith, 13th and Tucker Hardin, 14th; 200 Individual Medley: Charli Boles, fifth; 100 yard Butterfly: Logan Smith, 10th, Tyler Ledgerwood, 12th; 200 yard Freestyle Relay: Tucker Hardin, Tyler Ledgerwood, Nick Wilson and Logan Smith placed ninth; 100 Yard Back Stroke: Isabel Loy, 16th, Quinn Smith, 7th; 100 yard Breast Stroke: Charli Boles, second; 400 yard Free Relay, girls: Kristin Cannon, Christin McCallister, Lilia Whittington and Charli

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Harry (Colin Firth) shows Eggsy (Taron Egerton) how to dress for the spy biz.

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Romance – or something – is in the air Has the controversy fizzled out, or will “Fifty Shades of Grey” reignite the blaze it set off when it debuted in book form? We’ll know more this weekend, when the R-rated sex fantasy arrives in theaters.

It’s interesting that “Fifty Shades” is being marketed as a Valentine’s Day movie but actually debuts on Friday the 13th. The film stars Dakota Johnson – daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith – as literature student Anastasia Steele, who goes to interview wealthy, handsome Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and winds up falling for him.

The attraction is mutual, but naïve Anastasia may not be able to keep up with Christian’s nontraditional proclivities or his controlling nature.

Neither of the stars has an extensive list of credits, so they don’t carry much baggage with them onto the screen (so much for hiding their nakedness!). Johnson appeared in “The Social Network” and “21 Jump Street.” Dornan was in “Marie Antoinette” but probably was seen by more people during his stint as the sheriff on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time.”

Betsy Pickle The cast includes Luke Grimes, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden and Callum Keith Rennie. Sam TaylorJohnson directed.

On the surface, “Kingsman: The Secret Service” doesn’t seem to be targeting the libido like “Grey,” but it does star Colin Firth as an extremely well-dressed spy.

(And isn’t it odd that he and his “Pride and Prejudice” leading lady, Jennifer Ehle, both have new films out this week?)

Harry Hart (Firth) works for an independent spy agency and has just taken a rough but promising street kid (Taron Egerton) under his wing when an evil genius starts making some scary moves. The Force is strong with this film: “Star Wars” alums Samuel L. Jackson and Mark Hamill both costar. Michael Caine, Mark Strong and Jack Davenport are also in the film directed

by Matthew Vaughn (“XMen: First Class”).

“Still Alice,” which stars Julianne Moore in an

Oscar-nominated performance, looks at early-onset Alzheimer’s from the sufferer’s perspective.

Moore plays a linguistics professor who feels the pain of the dread disease probably more than most. Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth co-stars.

Also scheduled to open locally this week are “Mommy” and “Mr. Turner.”

Canadian film “Mommy” is about a widowed mother who struggles to keep life on an even keel when her teenage son – who’s prone to violent outbursts – returns to live with her after being institutionalized.

The film has won and been nominated for several festival and critics’ prizes.

Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon and Suzanne Clement star for director Xavier Dolan.

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Mike Leigh (“Secrets & Lies”) directed the film.

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This is true at any age, but Moore digs deep into the “Still Alice” focuses on frustration and fear of the horror and tragedy the experience, usof early-onset Aling her eyes, her zheimer’s disease. face and her Julianne Moore body language brilliantly to express captures the what Alstruggles of ice is going a woman through. who realThis isn’t izes perhaps escapist more than enter tainmost people ment, but all that is it’s a form of she is losing relief for those as the process who’ve been marches on. touched by the Alice Howland disease – a story is a highly regarded Alice (Julianne Moore) grapples with that’s relatable, a perlinguistics professor losing her memories in “Still Alice.” formance that is true at Columbia Univerto life. sity in New York. She The film shows how has a strong marriage with John (Alec Baldwin) and has reared her family reacts to the crisis; some behavthree children who are now out on their ior is sadly predictable and some sweetly own: Anna (Kate Bosworth), Lydia (Kristen surprising.

The writing-directing team of Richard Stewart) and Tom (Hunter Parrish).

Winding up her regular jog one day, Al- Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, who ice is disconcerted when she realizes she adapted the novel by Lisa Genova, steers doesn’t know where she is. Little details clear of manipulation, letting the naturalbegin to elude her, and she talks to her doc- ism of the situation hit poignant notes.

And, always, there’s Moore, creating a tor about the problem. When she finds out she may have early-onset Alzheimer’s, John ball of confusion so believable, so powerful that “Still Alice” will stick with you long afpromises to see her through the travails.

Alice’s deterioration is pretty fast, and ter you leave the theater.

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Bass-baritone Ryan Kuster enjoys a break in “Carmen” rehe hearsals at the Knoxville Opera Company. Photo by Carol Shane

FRIDAY ■ “Carmen” presented by the Knoxville Opera, 8 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444; Knoxville Opera Box Office, 524-0795. Info: www. knoxvilleopera.com.

Bass-baritone Ryan Kuster thinks that most people can relate to George Bizet’s opera “Carmen,” which is being performed by the Knoxville Opera Company this weekend.

■ Mandy Barnett in concert, 8 p.m., Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre, Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444.

■ Winter Jam 2015 Tour Spectacular, 7:30 p.m., ThompsonBoling Arena, 1600 Phillip Fulmer Way. Tickets: $10 at the door. Info: http://2015.jamtour.com/shows/knoxville-tn.

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“For one thing, people will recognize the music.

Most people know a lot more of ‘Carmen’ than they think they do. And the story is compelling. There’s no real hero. It’s very human – there’s not a clear moment where you say, ‘Oh, this is the person that I root for.’”

Kuster is intrigued by the shades of gray in the characters he plays and prefers to paint even the bad boys as flawed humans rather than villainous archetypes.

“There’s a little bit of bad in the best of us,” he says, “and a little bit of good in the worst of us. It’s not black and white.”

His favorite role so far is Don Giovanni, the title character in Mozart’s opera based on the legendary fictional character Don Juan, who just can’t keep away from the women. The notorious libertine eventually has to pay the piper; he’s dragged down to hell by the ghost of the man he murdered. “Why does he do the things he does?” Kuster muses. “What is he trying to silence or compensate for?”

The handsome singer – he’s been featured on http://barihunks.blogspot. com, a website dedicated to

■ Pack of Wolves in concert with special guest Drew Sterchi & Blues Tribe, 8 p.m., Open Chord Brewhouse & Stage, 8502 Kingston Pike. Cost: $10. Benefits The Love Kitchen. Info: www.openchordmusic.com.

SUNDAY ■ “Carmen” presented by the Knoxville Opera, 2:30 p.m., Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Tickets: KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444; Knoxville Opera Box Office, 524-0795. Info: www. knoxvilleopera.com.

■ Jacob Whitesides in concert, 7:30 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Tickets: $22 advance, $25 day of show, $126.50 VIP. Info/tickets: http://www.knoxbijou.com.

There’s just something about a man in a cape. Audrey Babcock in the title role and Ryan Kuster as Escamillo the bullfighter strike a fiery pose in Knoxville Opera’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” Photo by Megan Clute Photography gelotti in Puccini’s “Tosca” with the Orlando Philharmonic in Florida.

Originally from Illinois, operatic beefcake – is look- eryone does. The same was linger in memory long after ing forward to performing true in Bizet’s time, appar- the audience leaves the the- Kuster now says, “I live out the part of bullfighter Esca- ently to his immense frus- ater: “Toreador, en garde! of my suitcases. I’ve done that since 2013.” millo this weekend. It’s his tration.

Toreador! Toreador!”

The singer thinks that fourth time as the dashing “Bizet wrote ‘Votre Toast’ Kuster’s background inmatador. He enjoys singing as a joke,” says Kuster. “He cludes a prestigious Adler there are significant simithe role and is having fun in was upset when it became Fellowship with the San larities between his bullrehearsals, though “having the crowd favorite.”

Francisco Opera.

He’s fighter and Carmen, the to dredge up all that energy Indeed, according to much in demand these free-living temptress.

“In terms of the way they time after time is exhaust- the website www.classical- days, having most recently ing!” notes.com, the composer performed as a soloist in live their lives, they’re wellUnderstandably so. wrote the aria “to stroke his Handel’s “Messiah” with matched. It’s one day at a Kuster belts out what is ar- star’s ego.” He considered the Milwaukee Symphony time for each of them.”

But if you know the stoguably the most famous aria the last-minute composition Orchestra. Other fall 2014 in “Carmen” and one of the very much beneath him, re- appearances included “Don ry, you know that Carmen most famous in all opera: ferring to it as “filth.”

Giovanni” at Memphis Op- and the matador are mere“Votre Toast,” also known Yet it’s guaranteed to set era and “Carmen” at Opera ly “ships that pass in the as “The Toreador Song.” toes tapping, and strains of Grand Rapids in Michigan. night,” whereas her main You know the tune. Ev- the chorus will undoubtedly Next up is the role of An- squeeze, tenor Don José, is

so obsessed with Carmen that – well, no spoilers here.

You’ll just have to go, see and hear how it all turns out.

The Knoxville Opera Company will present George Bizet’s “Carmen,” sung in French with English supertitles, at 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 13, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Tennessee Theatre. Each performance will be preceded by an opera preview hosted by KOC Maestro Brian Salesky. For tickets and info, call 524-0795 or visit www.knoxvilleopera. com.

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Northshore Brasserie, 9430 S. Northshore Drive, serves French cuisine the way the French do it. The food is upscale, imaginative and creatively put together (again, sorry about the mussels), but the atmosphere is relaxed. If you mistakenly think of French food as “frou-frou,” leave that

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Brasserie owners encourage the neighborhood appeal of the restaurant, and the bar is a lively place after working hours. It’s a gathering place – for lunch, dinner and in the bar.

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The bouillabaisse at Northshore Brasserie is a mix of seafood, sweet potatoes and risotto. Photo by Mystery Diner

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Elmcroft hosts Halls B&P breakfast Flapjacks district manager Wendell Cox chats with Marcy McMillan from Elmcroft during the Halls Business and Professional Association breakfast. The group meets each first Thursday at various businesses for a light breakfast and networking. Cox said Flapjack’s on Emory Road will open in February. The March meeting will be hosted by Tennova Health and Fitness from 7:30-9 a.m. Community members are welcome to attend and to meet area business owners. Photo by R. White

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Corbin brings Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to Halls Rob Corbin, a certified brown belt and representing Victor Huber Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, has begun teaching classes inside Fit-N-Fast workout facility in Halls. Corbin has eight years’ experience and offers gi and no gi training in a family-friendly environment. Classes are currently offered 12-1 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Monday through Friday with plans to expand class times. Fit-N-Fast is located at 6974 Maynardville Highway near Ace Hardware. Info: 919-7105.

BIZ NOTES ■ South College has received accreditation for its School of Pharmacy. The inaugural class of 32 student pharmacists graduated last December, which was a prerequisite for acquiring full accreditation. There are currently 230

students in the program with another class being admitted to begin classes in June 2015.

■ Robert Threlkeld has received the 2014 Knoxville Area Association of Realtors MLS Gold Award of Excellence, which recognizes him as a top three percent agent in the greater Knoxville area.

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real estate and lending markets began 2015 with enc ou raging news as numbers outperformed January 2014 Sherry Witt in virtually every category. On the heels of a strong December, property sales experienced their usual decline in January; however, the total number of transfers recorded bested last January’s number by 39.

For the month that ended on Friday, Jan. 30, there were 583 property sales in

Knox County, compared to 544 during the first month of 2014.

The aggregate value of property transferred also came in some $4 million ahead of last January’s pace. About $146 million worth of real estate was bought and sold in Knox County. Mortgage lending reflected a similar improvement over last year’s figures, as approximately $227 million was loaned against property. That was a modest increase from January 2014, when just under $203 million was loaned in mortgages and refinancing.

The most notable property sale of the month was the Brakebill Nursing Home

facility at 5837 Lyons View Pike, which was purchased for $10.75 million. On the lending side, the largest mortgage recorded during January was a construction Deed of Trust in the amount of $14.4 million secured by a 20-acre tract on Cherokee Trail. Close behind was a loan for $13.9 million financing property known as Parkside Plaza at 11400 Parkside Drive.

While it may not yet be said that real estate markets have made a full recovery, it is significant to note that last month produced the largest January totals for property sales in Knox County since 2007.

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Cookies with the Pinnacle logo were a hit at the opening.

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By Sandra Clark

Wendy’s new look includes a spacious dining room with a fireplace and big screen TV.

Photos by S. Clark

Remodeled Wendy’s has reopened

By Sandra Clark Wendy’s on Clinton Highway has reopened the dining area after extensive remodeling. Store manager Will Chanaberry said the dining area is “more inviting” and the restaurant offers free Wi-Fi. One corner even has four Chanaberry workstations where diners

can plug in their computers while eating and working.

Another corner is designed for those w a t c h ing the big

game or the morning news with a wall-mounted television and a cozy electric fireplace.

A futuristic soft drink machine has three times the choices at most restaurants with one downspout and selections made by touching a computer screen. “Each flavor has its own tube,” said

Chanaberry, but the tubes are clustered inside the machine, making for a cleaner look.

Chanaberry said the store employs about 40 people. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. seven days a week. The restaurant is at 6650 Clinton Highway.

Sexton touts CP Center

By Bonny C. Millard Bob Sexton, executive director of the Cerebral Palsy Center, has seen many positive changes in services for people with disabilities during his 39 years, including increased opportunities for employment.

Sexton, who started as executive director when he was 26 years old, spoke to the Rotary Club of Knoxville recently about the center and what he’s learned over the years. “(The participants) were thought of as individuals who did not have ability and did not have a way to make their own way,” he said. “I’m talking about people with significant disabilities, but

what I’ve learned over a period of time is that we all vastly underestimated people with disabilities.”

In the 1960s and ’70s, services involved careta kBob Sexton ing because people didn’t think that individuals with disabilities could take care of themselves.

“They have slowly evolved into services that help people to help themselves and to make their own way,” he said. “I just think that’s a tremendous,

positive change in the way things happen today for people with disabilities.”

Sexton learned early in his career to listen to the people he served rather than assuming what they needed or wanted. He discovered that people with disabilities are like everybody else in that they want to have value and make a difference.

Sexton and his staff started meeting with employers in the 1980s about providing work opportunities. The center now has individuals working with 48 different companies.

“Each of them has a job that fits them in a company in our community,” he said.

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Pinnacle Financial Services has opened its newest branch on Emory Road near Brickey-McCloud School to serve the Halls and Powell communities. Jeremy Cook is the branch manager.

CEO Terry Turner and bank officers Robert McCabe Jr., Mike DiStefano and Missy Wallen also attended last week’s opening celebration.

Cook said his is Pinnacle’s fifth office in Knoxville.

Founded in 2000 in Nashville, Pinnacle entered the Knoxville market in 2007 and already is ranked in the top five banks locally. Both Turner and McCabe worked in Knoxville banking before moving to Nashville.

McCabe joked that a branch located near Dry Gap Pike is in “the DMZ between Powell and Halls.”

Turner said Pinnacle’s growth is driven by its business model – to hire top local bankers when entering a market. An example is the recent addition of Jeremy Cook Missy Wallen, formerly the local head of BB&T. Local vendors including Rosa’s Catering and Powell Florist were used at the event. And although parking is limited, courtesy vans transported guests from Brickey-McCloud’s parking lot.

“You could have been anywhere in the world tonight,” Cook said, “and you chose to be here with us.

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Stephen Crawford operates the edger at Ohio Valley Veneer.

disease is entirely exterminated, and then further milled for a myriad of uses.

“About 40 to 45 percent of the lumber we process is exported. This walnut is in demand all over the world,” says VanHoy. Ed Robbins started Ohio Valley Veneer in 1990, and he says his company doesn’t focus on veneer at all anymore.

The operation has acquired other millworksrelated businesses over the years and has real estate holdings in several countries.

VanHoy has worked with Robbins for about 30 years, and when Robbins asked him to go to Tennessee and run the new mill in Maynardville, VanHoy said, “Why not?”

Both men were born into families with generations of loggers and sawyers.

Robbins hasn’t spent much time in Union County, but says he is looking forward to discovering Norris Lake.

“I keep hearing how nice it is. I’m going there next time I’m down,” he says.

VanHoy says he hopes the new 33 Bridge will be finished soon. When OVV brings logs from Sharps Chapel or Claiborne Countransported out of the area ty, they have to take the long before the bark and cambi- way around, crossing the um have been removed.

Clinch on 25E out of New At the Maynardville Tazewell. mill, the logs go through Note: Once a walnut several large machines tree is infected with TCD, and are eventually reduced it will die, according to the to one-inch thick boards. Tennessee Department of Then they’re loaded up to Agriculture. Ag experts be carried to the main OVV recommend removing any plant in Piketon, Ohio, dead or dying walnut trees about 90 miles due east of on your property and burnCincinnati. ing or burying the wood as Within 72 hours of ar- soon as possible to reduce rival in Ohio, the wood is the chance of other trees befirst steamed to ensure the ing infected.

Ohio Valley Veneer is humming

By Libby Morgan Ohio Valley Veneer (OVV) is boosting the agrarian economy of Union County.

The company is buying walnut logs from all over the region and employing people at a rate that figures, in its seventh month of operation, to be a quarter of a million dollars annually.

Mill manager Walt VanHoy, a sawyer all his life, is settling in at his new Maynardville digs and appreciates the friendliness

of the locals.

“People around here act like people ought to act.

They wave, they ask you if you need help, they strike up a conversation just to be nice. It reminds me of the way things were where I grew up: in the country in Ohio way back when,” says VanHoy. “We had some startup pains at first, but I’ve got good people here who want to work. They’re making solid paychecks and sup-

porting their families. Nice walnut logs are brought here by local loggers and trucked in by our buyers every day.

Things are running great.”

OVV buys walnut logs exclusively, and hundreds of logs are stacked on the lot on Highway 33 in Maynardville across from Union Discount Pharmacy.

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■ “Back Pain: A Different Approach to Prevention and Recovery Based on the Alexander Technique,” noon-2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, Knoxville Healing Center, 313 N. Forest Park Blvd. Led

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Preregistration required. Info/ to register: 387-7600.

■ “Diagnostic Scanning: What, When, Why?” noon-1:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 12, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Speaker: Scott Warwick, dosimetrist, Provision Radiation Therapy.

Light meal provided. Info/ RSVP: 546-4661.

■ Emotional Health and WellBeing During and After Cancer, 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Speaker: Debra Sullivan, PhD, CSC program director. Light meal provided. Info/RSVP: 546-4661.

■ Exploring Music for Health, 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructor: Sara Matayoshi, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Violinist. No experience needed. Info/to register: 546-4661.

■ Healing Through Art: Tis the Season of Love, 1-3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, Cancer Support Community, 2230 Sutherland Ave. Instructor: Cheri Pollack.

Info/RSVP: 546-4661.

■ HeartWise, 7:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 21, UT Medical Center’s Heart Lung Vascular Institute, 1924 Alcoa Highway .Features health screenings and health education talks related to heart, lung and vascular disease. Healthy breakfast cooking demonstration 9-10 a.m. requires preregistration. To schedule a screening or register for cooking demonstration: 305-6970.

Info: www.utmedicalcenter. org.

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■ “Living with Diabetes: Putting the Pieces Together,” 2-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Topics include treatment options, blood sugar monitoring, stress management and more. Info: 689-2681.

■ Tai Chi for Health is offered at Tennova Health & Fitness Center, 3-4 p.m. or 5-6 p.m.

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It’s love-all at tennis park dedication

By Sherri Gardner Howell A look at former Knoxville Mayor Kyle C. Testerman’s life offers many opportunities for honors and tributes. A member of Knoxville City Council from 1969 to 1971, he was elected mayor in 1972, serving one term, then returning as mayor from 1984 to 1988. Testerman is credited with being a visionary who saw the need for downtown revitalization and was behind the 1987 Downtown Plan that led to the City County Building, TVA Towers, renovation of Market Square and the beautification of Gay Street.

Considered a businessfocused mayor, Testerman, in his second term, also tackled the stabilization of the city’s finances, which had seen a decline in the bond rating following debt from the 1982 World’s Fair.

A recent honor, however, encompasses not only what Testerman did for the city, but his love of tennis. The dedication and naming of the tennis courts at Tyson Park as the Kyle C. Testerman Tennis Complex on Feb. 2 was a fitting tribute, says daughter Janet Testerman Creswell. “When we told dad, he was very honored,â€? says Creswell. “His involvement in developing the facility and his love of tennis span not only his political career, but his entire life. As we talked about it, he told me that he was very proud of the fact that Tyson Park and ‌ the tennis complex there ‌ brought all segments of the town together. It’s a place where diverse populations come together to enjoy the sport and park.â€?

Knox County Clerk Foster Arnett, a great and longtime family friend, says Creswell, was the guiding force behind the dedication. “We had talked about it as a family, but Foster really got behind it and took it on, getting it in front of the right committees and the mayor,�

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Looking dapper after the dedication of tennis courts named in his honor, former Knoxville Mayor Kyle C. Testerman talks with guests and dignitaries at the ceremony on Feb. 2. Photos submitted

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero congratulates former Mayor Kyle Testerman. says Creswell. “It turned out to be a great day and a very fitting honor for dad.�

Testerman grew up in the Lake Avenue area of Knoxville, was on the 1951 Knoxville High School state championship basketball team his junior year, then graduated from McCallie School in Chattanooga.

He originally went to the University of Tennessee on a basketball scholarship but switched to tennis. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a law degree from UT. Creswell says the family was touched and excited to see so many longtime friends come to congratulate Testerman at the dedication. “The whole family was there – my mom (Janet Testerman

Crossley), sister (Muffett Testerman Buckner) and her family, brother (Ben Testerman) and his family, my family and all the grandchildren. Dad was so happy to see longtime tennis friends and all the living city councilmen who served with him. It was a good cross-section of people from different areas of his life and a really great day.�

Dignitaries included Mayor Madeline Rogero, Arnett and the former council members who served with Testerman: Ed Shouse, L.B. Steele, Larry Cox, Jean Teague and Jack Sharp.

Sequoyah Hills resident Pamela Schoenewaldt’s novels put readers in a different time and place, and, sometimes, in achingly difficult circumstances.

But the journey is so compelling that the reader is happy to go there.

Her first two novels, “When We Were Strangers� and “Swimming in the Moon,� received critical praise and awards, and her third, “Under the Same Pamela Schoenewaldt Photos Blue Sky,� will be released submitted in May. After living in such inspiring locales as New York City, San Francisco found a welcoming writing and Naples, Italy, Schoe- community here. Withnewaldt wrote all three out its generous help, she in Knoxville − a place she couldn’t have finished her knew nothing about when first novel, she says. she arrived in 2000.

She pays it forward by The New Jersey na- participating in numerous tive worked as a freelance seminars and workshops. writer in San Francisco Teaching comes naturally before she moved to Na- to her. She taught at the ples in 1990 “for a man.� University of Maryland, Her projects included European Division, in speeches, documentaries Italy, and at the Univerand scripts, and most re- sity of Tennessee. She was quired extensive research. also Writer in Residence at The work taught her to re- UT Library from 2001 to search quickly, which set 2003. her up well to be a historiReading fiction begins cal novelist, she says. with the “willing suspenOne of her primary sion of disbelief,� she says. activities in Naples was A typographical error, putlearning Italian.

Her ting information in solely teacher’s beautiful villa, for educational benefit or and her musings about getting a fact wrong can how difficult it would be make readers unwilling to to clean, were the initial continue, she says. inspiration for “Swimming “Why would they trust in the Moon,� the story of a you after that?� mother and daughter who “Under the Same Blue are servants in a villa be- Sky� is the story of Hazel fore beginning a new life in Renner, the daughter of Cleveland.

German shopkeepers in Schoenewaldt’s “man,� Pittsburgh. She is on the Maurizio Conti, became cusp of adulthood as WWI her husband, and his work breaks out. as a physicist brought the As the war escalates, couple to Knoxville. She isolating her community

and family, Hazel escapes to teach in a country schoolhouse. But she can’t e s c ap e the traumas of war or her mysterious talent for healing. She understands that to move forward, she must first understand her past.

As the world rages, she travels to a remarkable castle in New Jersey and post-war Germany to solve the mystery of her mother, and ultimately, of herself.

While Schoenewaldt’s in familiar territory with the historical aspect of the book, it veers into a genre that she’s not tried before − magical realism. That means a magical element, in this case, the supernatural ability to heal, is part of a story that’s otherwise realistic.

The official book launch of “Under the Same Blue Sky� is 7 p.m. Thursday, May 7, at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Shoenewaldt will teach a dialogue workshop at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St., from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 28. The event is sponsored by the Knoxville Writers’ Guild. To register: www. knoxvillewritersguild.org In addition to her instructional activities, Schoenewaldt speaks to local book clubs and makes a point to answer all mail from readers.

For more information about her books and upcoming events: www. pamelaschoenewaldt.com.

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Drew Schultz with wife Nice (pronounced Neecee), who entertains as a Paula Deen impersonator at Chocolatefest

By Cindy Taylor Just when you thought holiday eating had passed and it was safe to go back on a diet, along came Chocolatefest 2015. But no one attending seemed to care. Vendors and shoppers looking to perk up a dreary time of year while supporting a good cause focused on delicious desserts instead of calories.

The second annual event

to benefit Ronald McDonald House was again held at the Knoxville Expo Center.

Due to last year’s enormous turnout, 2015 vendors and entertainers switched from the banquet facility area to the exhibit hall, where they had twice as much space.

The hall was filled with beautiful sights and delicious smells. Vendors stood ready to distribute more than 1,500 samples to

Chocolatefest 2015

Siblings Rachel and Sam Cox perform at Chocolatefest.

a sold-out show attended by more than 2,000, many of whom had bought tickets just to get samples. Others came to shop the confectionfilled booths and variety of exhibitors in the Main Street Shopping Area and to enjoy the entertainment.

One highlight of the stage show was Paula Deen impersonator Nice Schultz.

“This is my very first appearance,” she said. “I

was so nervous.”

She hid her jitters well.

Schultz wowed the audience with her Deen-like drawl and friendly, comedic demeanor, along with her cooking demonstration, while husband Drew played her straight man.

If you missed Schultz’s performance you can follow her at www.ilooklikepaula. com.

Many Knoxville business

owners attended in support of Chocolatefest. Sharon Morton, Jubilee Banquet Facility owner, waited in the long line for an opportunity to encourage friends who were baking and selling at the festival.

“We’re friends with everyone here,” she said.

“We do a lot with Visit Knoxville and other groups, so we are happy to come out and support the event.”

Jennifer Johnsey, owner of Imagination Forest in Powell, co-sponsored the event with Sugarbakers, WBIRTV and B97.5.

Awards were given to Kim’s Kandies for most creative confection, Rosa’s Catering for best-tasting sample, Sugarbakers for best taste and appearance as well as for judges’ favorite, The Chocolate Ladies for friendliest booth and for best overall, and to The Grande Event Center for most delicious display. Volunteers from Visit Knoxville helped out at booths and served in the VIP area.

“We appreciate East Tennessee’s support of Chocolatefest,” said Johnsey. “We learn more each year about how to better serve the community and the charitable organization we have selected. We had an amazing turnout again this year with wonderful vendors and shoppers. We will be able to make a nice donation to Ronald McDonald House, and we can’t wait until Chocolatefest 2016!”

250 apartments proposed for Emory Road

By Sandra Clark Metropolitan Planning Commission will consider rezoning land on Emory Road near Central Avenue Pike for 250 apartments.

MPC meets at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 12, and its

staff is recommending approval.

The 14.6-acre tract is currently zoned for planned commercial and mixed use.

It contains a house and vacant land which extends to Beaver Creek.

The applicant is TDK Construction Company, represented by attorney Arthur Seymour Jr. Knox County Commissioner Charles Busler said the applicant is willing to grant an easement to allow

construction of a greenway along the creek and has promised to build a ramp for canoe access.

The site is less than one mile from the I-75 interchange at Emory Road and is 2/10 of a mile from the Powell Branch Library.

MPC staff is recommending up to 19 dwelling units per acre for the buildable portion of the property, result-

ing in 250 units.

“Planned residential is a preferable zone for this site because it allows clustering of units in the less-constrained portions of the site and requires development plan approval by MPC prior to construction,” the recommendation reads.

Planners estimated 66 public and private school kids, ages 5-18, and 2,175

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Retired Knoxville attorney makes case for early detection It was a freak accident – Fred Thomforde of Knoxville had just hooked the ball to the left and down a hill. Upset over the shot, he hopped into his golf cart and sped toward the ball.

But when he pressed the brakes, the cart began sliding on the wet grass. “Like some kind of fool, I stuck my foot out to stop it, and boom! Hit a bump, went up in the air and came down with my groin on the handle,� Thomforde recounted.

While it hurt and caused some bruising, the 70-year-old retired attorney didn’t think much about it until later that evening when blood in his urine prompted him to seek medical attention, a decision that not only would change his life, but save it as well.

For it was that visit to his primary care doctor, Dr. Michael Passarello, in 2008 that got him a referral to Dr. Edward Tieng, a urologist at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center – a decision that ultimately led to Tieng’s early detection of prostate cancer.

Dr. Tieng determined Thomforde’s golf cart injury was not serious but, because of the blood in the urine and because Thomforde had been a smoker, the doctor moved cautiously. He ordered a test to determine the amount of prostatespeciďŹ c antigen (PSA) in Thomforde’s blood. That test came back

Fred Thomforde is grateful for Dr. Edward Tieng and the staff at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. He said of the individualized treatment he received after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, “Early detection made all the difference.�

with a PSA score of .8 nanograms per milliliter – well within the normal range. “I think the ‘danger zone’ is something like 2 and above,�

Thomforde said of the PSA score. “I never got into the danger zone, but early in 2010, Dr. Tieng said, ‘They are still normal, but these levels are rising.’ He wanted to check it again in three months.�

Three months later, the PSA lev-

el was still within the normal range, but Thomforde was asked to return yet again. “I’m still in the normal range,� he said. “I started out at .8 but now I’m at 1.8. So we had a long talk.�

It was during that “talk� that Dr. Tieng recommended Thomforde undergo a biopsy, a procedure in which 12 core samples were removed from the prostate gland by a needle. The biopsied tissue

was then sent to a laboratory and “graded� by a pathologist who assigned it a Gleason score, a scoring system of 2 to 10 used to describe the cells’ appearance. A score of 2 to 4 indicates the cells appear normal, 5 to 7 indicates intermediate risk of prostate cancer and 8 to 10 indicates an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Thomforde’s Gleason score was 7. “I guess everybody reacts differently when they hear ‘you have cancer,’ but for me, it came like a blow to the soul,� said Thomforde, who previously had undergone surgery and radiation treatment for a form of cancer called sarcoma a year and a half earlier. “I may have been more mentally prepared for this than a lot of people. I don’t think you ever get completely prepared for the news that you have cancer but I had at least been through it.�

To determine whether Thomforde’s prostate cancer had spread, Dr. Tieng ordered CT and bone scans. When the imaging indicated that his cancer was contained to the prostate, Dr. Tieng presented Thomforde with his options. “By this time, I had a good relationship with Dr. Tieng and had complete conďŹ dence in him – he’s a very likable person but very professional,â€? said Thomforde. “He explained to me the various options – there’s radiation treatment, hormone treatments and so forth – and

I ďŹ nally said to him, ‘I will defer to your judgment on this’ and he said, ‘If I were you in your particular condition and health, I would recommend surgery.’ I didn’t even think about it. I just said, ‘Let’s do it.’ â€?

In an almost 3-hour minimally invasive procedure, Dr. Tieng used Fort Sanders’ da VinciÂŽ robot to remove Thomforde’s cancerous prostate gland. The pathologist later conďŹ rmed that Thomforde was cancer-free. “I was a little uncomfortable the ďŹ rst couple of days or so, and there was a little leakage for a few months but even that wasn’t all that serious. When you consider what the risk was, it was pretty minor,â€? said Thomforde. “My body had returned to normal within about three months or so.â€? “My hospital experience was excellent, my recovery was excellent: Nurses, technicians, lab people, the doctors, the whole experience to me was ďŹ rst rate,â€? said Thomforde. “My PSA never got into the ‘danger zone’ per se but Dr. Tieng made a judgment based on his personal history with me. Rather than just keep going with the PSA, he went with the biopsy and it caught the cancer while it was conďŹ ned to the prostate. Early detection made all the difference.â€?

For more information about Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, please visit fsregional.com.

Speed kills: PSA velocity aids in early detection Riding a bike, getting a digital rectal exam, certain medications and age are among the things that can cause it to rise.

Herbal mixtures, obesity, aspirin and cholesterol-lowering drugs can cause it to fall.

It can yield false-negative or false-positive results, making your day or ruining it.

It’s the Prostate-SpeciďŹ c Antigen test, a tool for measuring the level of a protein produced by the prostate gland. The higher the level, the more likely is a man’s chance of prostate cancer.

Since its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 1986, it has been the standard for prostate cancer screening. Now, however, it is under scrutiny by some advisory groups which recommend against it because of questions surrounding its accuracy.

PSA levels of 4.0 nanograms per milliliter and lower are considered by most doctors as “normal� and any levels above that would merit a biopsy. Recent studies, however, have shown that some men with levels below 4.0 have cancer and men with higher levels do not have cancer. “There is now so much controversy regarding using PSA as a value and I tell my patients outright, especially nowadays, that it’s not the best test,� said Dr. Edward Tieng, urologist at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. “There are a fair number of patients

who will have a normal PSA but their prostate nodules feel like cancer. That’s why you can’t just base prostate screening on the PSA levels alone.�

Tieng says, instead, he uses the PSA test in conjunction with a host of other tools, including the digital rectal exam which, he says, a lot of men prefer not to have but tells his patients, “you don’t die of embarrassment, but you can die from cancer.�

An equally important factor, says Dr. Tieng, is PSA “velocity,� which is not a separate test but rather a measure of how quickly the PSA is rising over time, a potential indicator of a cancer’s aggressiveness.

PSA velocity is the measurement that prompted Tieng to recommend a biopsy to patient Fred Thomforde although his PSA level was still considered normal. “If the PSA level rises more than .75 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) over a 12- to 18-month period, to me, that is considered abnormal and I am a little more aggressive in making sure there is not something causing that rise in PSA,� said Dr. Tieng.

Other types of PSA tests used by Dr. Tieng are the age-adjusted test and the percentfree test. The age-adjusted test takes into account that PSA levels are normally higher in older men even when they have no cancer.

The percent-free PSA looks at the amount

of protein that circulates free vs. attached to blood proteins. Men with prostate cancer have a lower percentage of free PSA. Sometimes, doctors use a PSA density test to measure the size of the prostate using a transrectal ultrasound because levels run higher in men with larger prostate glands.

It is not considered as useful as the percentfree PSA test, however.

Because prostate cancer is typically slowgrowing, Dr. Tieng says a patient’s age and other health issues are also taken into consideration when diagnosing and treating.

Also, those with a family history of prostate cancer and African-Americans have a slightly higher risk. “Prostate cancer takes about 10 to 15 years to grow to the point that it may actually kill a patient if not treated at all,â€? said Dr. Tieng. “That’s why I tell folks, the ones that are most likely to beneďŹ t from early detection and more aggressive therapy are the ones who expect to live another 10 to 15 years.â€?

Once cancer is suspected and a biopsy conďŹ rms the diagnosis and imaging shows the extent of the cancer, Dr. Tieng says the patient will have a choice to make. One published report says most of the 217,000 men diagnosed in the United States with prostate cancer each year are in their mid-60s or older and have a low risk of dying from the disease

if they defer treatment. But, the report continued, more than 90 percent with low-risk cancer, including 80 percent of those 75 and older, opt for treatment. “There are tons of options out there, they all work and they all have side effects,â€? said Dr. Tieng. “A lot is dependent on the patient in terms on what they want to do when they weigh out the risks and the beneďŹ ts. In my practice, I feel with surgery, you get your side effects early on but it gets better over time. With radiation, you do well initially before the effects of radiation catch up with you. If you compare both groups 10 years out, the side effect proďŹ les are pretty similar in terms of incontinence and erectile dysfunction.â€?

Dr. Tieng believes that radical prostatectomy – whether performed in the traditional “openâ€? procedure or with the daVinci robot which is less bloody and offers the surgeon a better visualization – is often the better solution. “Surgery is a good option, but it’s deďŹ nitely not for everybody,â€? he said. “It’s the most invasive option, but my advice toward surgery versus other treatments is you know exactly what your found pathology is because studies have shown that the biopsy specimens don’t always correlate with the actual cancer. You may have more or you may have less.â€?

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Martin J. Condon (1858-1940) HISTORY AND MYSTERIES | Dr. Jim Tumblin Martin J. Condon was born on Oct. 29, 1858, near Rogersville in Hawkins County, where his father was building a section of the Rogersville and Jefferson Railway. Martin was the youngest of the seven sons of John and Bridget Gray Condon, natives of County Clare, Ireland. John Condon was a Civil War veteran and successful contractor who had the distinction of erecting the large stone piers for the old Gay Street Bridge.

Two of Martin’s brothers in the politically active family, Michael J. (1846-1900) and Stephen P. Condon (18551926), were city aldermen in the 1880s.

Martin Condon attended local schools and the University of Tennessee but graduated from Georgetown College in Washington. He soon returned to Knoxville to become a clerk at Condon Brothers Wholesale Grocers on Gay Street, a business owned by his two older brothers.

On Jan. 22, 1882, Martin J. Condon married Margaret McMillan, daughter of prominent businessman Alexander McMillan and Margaret Alexander McMillan, who was the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Ebenezer Alexander and a lineal descendant of James White, Knoxville’s founder.

After he served on the City Charter Committee, the school board and several other boards, Condon earned the moniker “IrishAmerican statesman.” He was eventually chosen as

the Democratic candidate fered the presidency of the for the office of mayor in a American Tobacco Co. He heated closed-door meeting accepted and moved to and defeated Republican New York City. It was there candidate Wyman Clark in that Condon came to know a surprising landslide: intimately the group of 2,229 to 1,304. financiers generAt barely 30 ally credited with years of age, developing the Martin Conlarge tobacco don had won dynasties. He in every survived the ward of the Dukes, the city to beCobbs, the come the Hills and first Demothe Ryans to crat and the become the youngest ever last of the oldto win the school tooffice, servbacco milMartin J. Condon (1858ing from lionaires.

1940). Elected Knoxville 1888 to The Conmayor in a landslide, 1890. Durdons’ SpanCondon presided over ing this ish Renaisthe construction of the boom time sance-style old Market Square City he was able residence Hall and some of the city’s to oversee in New York first sewers. Courtesy of the several civic was situUniversity of Tennessee Special Collections improveated on five ments, inand onecluding half acres the Market in Pelham Street City Hall and some Manor in upscale Westchesof the city’s first sewers. Af- ter County. ter his term was complete, The mansion featured Mayor Condon chose not to first and second floors with seek re-election but to pur- numerous bedrooms, baths, sue his business interests and closets. There were also elsewhere. eight servants’ rooms with He moved to Nashville two baths on a separate and became a co-founder wing. of the Bruton-Condon Snuff The third floor contained Co. The company proved a spacious private chapel in successful and was soon which Mass was held for the sold to the Atlantic Snuff family and staff on a regular Co., with Condon remaining basis. There were numerous in Nashville as district man- porches and terraces. The ager. Later the ASC was sold grounds contained a stable to the American Snuff Co. with four stalls, space for His next big step came six automobiles and some in 1902 when he was of- harness rooms.

In 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Trust Busting” campaign targeted big oil, banks and railroads.

The American Tobacco Co. was charged with Sherman Anti-Trust violations also, and by 1912, the Supreme Court ruled that ATC’s monopoly must be divided into three private companies.

Condon chose the American Snuff Co. and moved to Memphis, the location of most of its production and warehouses, with a factory branch in Clarksville. He would remain with the company for 38 years. His other business interests included the Carnegie Trust Co. and the Tate Springs Hotel and Resort. Although he traveled extensively, often to Cuba, his preferred vacation destination for over 50 years was his Tate Springs resort in East Tennessee, where he enjoyed the “Epson waters” and the golf.

He actually created two vast fortunes because, after creating his first fortune, he was adjudged bankrupt in August 1912. As a director of the Carnegie Trust Co. he made the mistake of

The Pelham Manor estate. Located only 10 miles from Manhattan, this Spanish Renaissance mansion befit Martin J. Condon’s status as one of America’s last tobacco barons. Photograph courtesy

of Blake Bell, Esq. of the Westchester County Historical Society

endorsing notes held by a bank that failed, plunging him into bankruptcy. At the time, he owned the Pelham Manor mansion in which his equity was $220,000, another home in Nashville with $15,000 equity, an automobile and a $91,000 brokerage account due him from Moore & Schley Holding Co. In August 1912, the U.S. District Court in New York approved the bankruptcy with debts of approximately $5,000,000, less his acknowledged assets.

He boldly predicted that he would make a financial comeback. His prediction was confirmed in the April 1934 report of the Securities and Exchange Commission showing Mr. Condon’s earnings for the previous year to be $65,000, one of the highest salaries in

this country just as it was emerging from the Great Depression.

Having been a member of the Knoxville Reds baseball team as a young man, he had always loved sports.

His less intense business life in Memphis enabled him to return to duck hunting and play more golf, and he became “the Dean of Tennessee Golf,” winning numerous trophies and medals.

Martin J. Condon died of pneumonia in Memphis on Feb. 24, 1940, at the age of 82. Services were held in the Church of the Immaculate Conception there, and he was interred in Calvary Cemetery in Memphis. His wife of 52 years had preceded him on Jun. 23, 1933.

They were survived by their two children, Martin Jr. and Mary.

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THROUGH SATURDAY, FEB. 28 “Buy One, Get One Free” admission tickets available for Knoxville Zoo. Tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket window during regular zoo hours.

Info: 637-5331, ext. 300 or knoxvillezoo.org.

THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27 Call for local authors of children’s books for “Farragut Book Fest for Children” to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Founders Park at Campbell Station. $25 fee includes tent, table, two chairs and lunch at the event; authors will supply their books, decorations and signage. No fee: bring own set-up materials, which must include a tent fitting a 10’x10’ space. Info/to register: www.townoffarragut.org/ register and click the Programs tab; Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive; 966-7057.

THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 10

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492 ACRES on the Cumberland Plateau, formerly a dairy farm. has own natural gas, 2 houses, 2 silos, barns & sheds, Apprx.

225 acres cleared.

423-718-2411 MORGAN CO. 202 Acre farm, fenced, 3 acre pond, farm house, flagstone rock quarry, gas well. $400,000. 865-456-2268

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INTERNATIONAL 5100 Grain Grill, 12'W, dbl disk openers, press wheels, good cond. $4000. 865-922-6075

JOB FAIR

305 Emory Road Powell, TN Thursday Feb 12, 2015 10am - 4pm

SHIFT MANAGERS Are you the type of person who thrives in a fun & fast-paced environment? If yes, then you'll love working at Hardee's. We offer: competitive salary, benefits, training, & opportunity for advancement! Prior to attending the Job Fair, please complete an online application at: www.hardees.com/jobs EOE

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LOTS, Highland Memorial, value $2200 BOXER PUPS, AKC reg., fawn & white each. Sell $1500 each. w/black mask. $350.

10% discount with 865-573-2567; 388-3360. cash. 865-414-4615 Greenwood Cemetery. CHIHUAHUA PUPS, CKC Reg., 8 wks, 2 lots side by side.

1st shot, vac., POP, near entrance $3200. $400. 865-771-9012 865-256-7922 ***Web ID# 519251***

Apts - Unfurnished 71 SENIOR or DISABLED HIGH RISE FACILITY 1 BR APTS. Oak Ridge, TN 865-482-6098

DACHSHUNDS, MINI, M&F, reg., LH & SH rare dapples, vacs, $550-$750. 865-216-5770 ***Web ID# 520256*** GOLDEN DOODLE Puppies, F1 B,exc. breeding.

Parents on prem. Vet ckd.

Dep. taken. 423-733-9252 Great Pyrenees, AKC, spectacular pups, badger markings, 3F, $450-$550. 865-216-5770 ***Web ID# 520247*** Pembrooke Welsh Corgis, AKC Reg. puppies. parents on prem. Vet ckd.

Dep. taken. 423-733-9252

John Deere 110 Disk, 12'W, new blades, cylinder, spike tooth harrow. Good cond. $3500. 865-922-6075 KUBOTA TRACTOR and loader, model M105, 105HP, 4WD, only 870 hrs., $32,000. 865-456-2268.

THURSDAY, FEB. 12 AAA Safe Driving for Mature Operators, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., John T. O’Connor Senior Center, 611 Winona St. Cost: $10. Info/to register: Kate, 862-9254, or Don, 862-9250.

55 Alive Seniors meeting, noon, First Lutheran Church meeting room, 1207 N. Broadway. Cost of hot luncheon: $8. Speaker: Chris Pluger, a Lutheran Bible Translator and Missionary. Topic: His life in Petauker, Zambia. Public invited; reservations required. Info/reservations: 524-0366.

The Heiskell Community Seniors program, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Heiskell Community Center, 9420 Heiskell Road. Speaker: R. Larry Smith. Topic: History of UT men’s basketball. “Chocolatefest” entries must be at the center by 10:30 a.m. Bring a dessert and a friend. Info: Janice White, 548-0326.

Read About It, Talk About It: “Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery,” 1 p.m., Halls Branch Library, 4518 E. Emory Road. Info: 922-2552.

Say It Loud! documentary,, 6:30 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

VFW meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans are invited. Info: 278-3784.

FRIDAY, FEB. 13

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Powell Branch Library, 330 W. Emory Road. Info: 947-6210.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Robin Milhollan, 11 a.m., Fountain City Branch Library, 5300 Stanton Road. Info: 689-2681.

CHAIR LIFT, used, Malti-Poos, Poodles, exc. cond. $1500.

Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Phone 865-208-8767 Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed. We do layaways. Health guar. Sporting Goods 223 Div. of Animal Welfare State of TN Houses - Unfurnished 74 Heavy Canvas golf Dept. of Health. travel bag cover, 423-566-3647 FARRAGUT new, $60. 865-306-4263 GUEST HOUSE Yorkie & Poms, 6 wks Beautiful spacious old, CKC, shots & Garage Sales 225 1200 SF lg BR, walk in wormed, $300-$450. closet, pool, quiet, all 931-319-0000 util. furn. incl cable, BOY SCOUT TROOP no smoke or pets.

YORKIES AKC, Ch. lns, 13 NEEDS DONARefs req'd. $595 mo. quality Male & Female.

TIONS for their an$200 dep. 865-661-2691 nual yard sale fundHealth Guaranteed. raiser on Sat. Apr 865-591-7220 Powell / Claxton 3 BR, 18, 9a-3p. To donate 2 BA, priv., conv., safe items, pls contact area, no smoke / pets.

Scoutmaster Dave 145 $700/mo. 865-748-3644. Free Pets Ringley at 656-9626 or Ringleydave@ gmail.com or call ADOPT! Manf’d Homes - Sale 85 Looking Candy at 377-3908. for an addition to the family?

I BUY OLDER Visit Young-Williams MOBILE HOMES. Boats Motors 232 Animal Center, the 1990 up, any size OK. official shelter for 865-384-5643 Knoxville & 14 FT aluminum boat Knox County. w/trailer, 25 HP Mercury motor Trucking Opportunities 106 Call 215-6599 $1600. 865-966-2527 or visit ***Web ID# 521020***

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1941 FARMALL A, $2600, 1947 Farmall H $2800. Both great shape. 865-475-1182 2 RED limousin heifers polled, reg. open, 19 mos., Top bldlns., $2200 ea. 865-693-4221.

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Campers

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23' Travel Trailer Camper. Great cond. Full bath/kit. $8,900. 865-805-5117 COACHMAN 2004 Travel Trailer, sleeps 6, exc. cond. $8635. 865-966-2527 ***Web ID# 521019***

FORD ECONOLINE 250 1995 Cargo, high mi. looks & drives like new. $3100. 865-660-4547.

HONDA ODYSSEY Touring Elite 2014, fully loaded, 5K mi., $29,500. 423-295-5393

Trucks

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FORD F250 Super Duty XLT 2001 ext. cab, white, 7.3 power stroke diesel, like new, 5th whl. hitch, AT, 2 tailgates, low mi., $12,000. 423-312-8256.

GMC SIERRA 1984, V8, AT, air, low miles, new Michelins, new int., LB, Very nice, $5000. 865-643-7103.

4 Wheel Drive 258 CHEVY SILVERADO 1989, 4x4, 75k mi.

Good cond. $4500.

Call 865-428-3163

TUESDAY, FEB. 17 Crochet Mania, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: Candee Fultz, cdfultz10@comcast.net.

Honor Guard meeting, 7 p.m., 140 Veteran St., Maynardville. All veterans invited. Info: 256-5415.

Mardi Gras cooking class, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Avanti Savoia, 7610 Maynardville Pike. Cost: $50. Info/to register: 922-9916 or www.avantisavoia.com.

Computer Workshop: Word Basics, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills.

Info/to register: 525-5431.

THURSDAY, FEB. 19 Burlington Game Night, 5:30-8 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. Info: 525-5431.

FRIDAY, FEB. 20 Chili Fundraiser hosted by the Union County Little League, 5:30-8 p.m., Maynardville Elementary School.

Cost: $5 for bowl of chili, drink and cookie. Silent auction. Info: Union County Little League Facebook page.

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BMW CONVERTIBLE 325i 1990, good cond. $2000.

Call 865-428-3163

2015 MODEL SALE

Motor Homes

Crochet Class, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace. com/profile/monicaschmidt.

Luttrell Seniors luncheon, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the community center off Tazewell Pike. Everyone welcome. Box lunches will be provided.

Open house for prospective families, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Freedom Christian Academy, 4615 Asheville Highway.

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Air Cond / Heating 301

INFINITI 2014 G37X, 25k mi, black, exc. cond. $32,000. 812679-8598 JAGUAR S Type 2001, 108,900 mi, good cond, new tires, V8, $4300. 865-689-1017 ***Web ID# 518874***

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JAGUAR XF 2009, 420 HP Super Charged, 115K mi, black on black, good cond., $15,000. 865-705-4171

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Free Estimates. 865771-0609

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Stump Grinding Topping /Trimming Take Downs Hazardous trees We have Bucket Trucks.

Bobcat Climbers Dump Truck Service 22 years experience References provided

SCION tC 2015, bought in Nov. at RWT, 900 mi, red, spoiler, panoramic roof, new cond, $20,500. 865-659-1191 Toyota Camry 1998, black, loaded incl sunrf, new Michelins, exc cond. $2995. 865397-7918; 898-8825

Alterations/Sewing 303

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'98 GRAND MARQUIS Runs great. $950 cash. 688-4241 CHEVY MALIBU 2006, low mi., needs front clip, $1200.

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Call 688-4803 or 660-9645.

VW Super Beetle Convertible 1979, sea blue paint, new top, brand new rebuilt eng. w/less than 50 mi.

Exc. cond. ^ $19,000. 812-679-8598

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’05 Lincoln Navigator Ultimate, 4x4, Loaded, 24KSAVE $$$ SPECIALS OF THE WEEK! '14 Chrysler$33,150 Town & Country, S Model, stow & go, 1 owner, extra clean! R1636 .......$24,955 miles..................

'14 Lincoln MKZ, 1-owner, new body style, full factory warranty! B2672 ............................$24,777 ’06 Ford Escape 4x4, 15K miles..................................................................

'14 Ford Transit Connect XLT, wagon, all pwr, low miles, factory warranty! R1687 ... $23,888 $17,436 '14 Ford Fiesta SE, 38 MPG!!! 4-door, like new! R1675 ........................................$12,995 Price includes $399 dock fee. Plus tax, tag & title WAC. Dealer retains all rebates. Restrictions may apply. See dealer for details.

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Firewood

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FIREWOOD OAK,MIXED HDWDS 556-4774

Flooring

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CERAMIC TILE installation.

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BREEDEN'S TREE SERVICE

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339 Stump Removal

FRED'S LAWN CARE Mowing, weed-eating & blowing.

LOW RATES! Also minor mower repairs.

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HONEST & DEPENDABLE! Small ALL TYPES roofing, guaranteed to fix jobs welcome. Exany leak. Special p'd in carpentry, coating for metal drywall, painting, roofs, slate, chimplumbing. Reasonney repair. Sr. Citiable, refs avail. Call zen Discount. Call Dick at 947-1445.

455-5042 or 688-9142.

CARPENTRY, PLUMBING, painting, siding.

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GOLDEN RULE LAWN SERVICE Lawn Mowing, Trimming, Blowing FREE Estimates Mitch 689-6021

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Licensed General Contractor Restoration, remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, sunrooms, garages, etc.

Residential & commercial, free estimates.

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MINI COOPER 2011 Club, silver w/blk top & blk lthr int, sunrf, 6 spd, exc cond, like new, 49K mi, $14,500 bo. 423-312-8256

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Excavating/Grading 326

RAM 2500 Longhorn crew cab, 2014, loaded, new Jan. 2015. Low mi, make offer. 865-548-0684

CHEV. 2500 2007, Allison AT, 2 wh. dr.

Duomax diesel. 4 new tires. Extra clean. $8500. 865-308-2743

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MGB 1971, nice driver, BMW 328xi 2011, 2 dr, FORD MUSTANG lots new & restored. exc. cond. AWD. 9k CONV. 1994, 165K Reas. offer accepted. mi. $15,500. Phone mi, $1800 obo. Call 865-414-3460 423-295-5393.

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Farmer’s Market 150

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2000 Pace Arrow Vision CADILLAC ESCALADE 36', 2 slides, twin air & SUV 2000, 4x4, chamheat, W&D, ref w/ice pagne ext., tan int., maker, all opt. 23K mi, Bose syts., leather, WANT TO BUY $35,000. 865-850-9613 Michelins, running Standing Timber, hardboards, 140k mi., alwood & pine. 5 acres or CAR TOW DOLLY ways garaged, nonmore. 865-382-7529 2015, all cars/pu smoker mint cond.

Swivels, tilts, never $7500. 865-335-5727 used, new ret. $2750. 1st Lawn-Garden Equip. 190 $1050 cash. 864-275-6478 Ford Explorer 2000, 6 cyl 5 spd, 2 dr Sport, Dolly, Stehl, JOHN DEERE X475, Tow new tires & brakes, $800.

Generator 2005 model, 192 hrs, $2500. 865-936-6715 Honda EU2000, 48" deck, $6495. 865$800. 865-368-2814 FORD EXPLORER 599-0516.

2006 Eddie Bauer, 4WD, 4.0, white w/tan int., 3rd row seat, Shop Tools-Engines 194 Motorcycles 238 lthr loaded. Almost new Harley Davidson 1999 tires, 102K mi, super GENERATOR clean, must see!

Dyna Wideglide, BIG 8500 watt, 2015, $9,000. 865-661-3295. exc. cond. $4995. 865Honda elec. start.

947-8098; 865-227-7075 Batt. & wheel kit incl.

GMC ENVOY XL 2003, Never used. New retail 1 owner, EXC. cond. $4995. Wholesale 170K mi., 238a loaded, $3750. 1st $1850 cash. ATV’s $4700 obo. 865-458-6127.

864-275-6478 POLARIS 1000XP GMC TERRAIN 2014 2015 Sportsman SLE, 2.4L, 22/32 Exc. Cond., Music Instruments 198 4-Wheeler mpg, 4k mi, $19,500.

Power steer, auto, 865-660-9191 winch, box, 4 yr.

Fender Tele 5 way warr., $9800. 603-7043. INFINITY FX-35 2003 switch S Duncan P/U, luxury crossover, great tones w/case sport model, MUST $500/bo. 865-406-7678 Auto Accessories 254 SELL, WON'T LAST LONG! 1 owner, exc. cond., new Tech floor Misc. Items 203 Weather tires, rare liquid mats in front & rear copper color, prearea for 2014 Acura mium sound, 153K MDX. $70. 865-306-4263 mi, $7900. 423-884-2071 $900 ***Web ID# 517077*** Phone 865-266-3211 Utility Trailers 255 Mercury Mountaineer 87k mi, good Household Furn. 204 5x8 UTILITY trailer, 2004, condition, $6500. tilt bed, Call 865-428-3163 $300.

Rattan couch, loveseat Call 865-233-3352 & matching table with cushions. $150. Call Domestic 265 865-483-5825 Vans 256

Apts - Furnished 72 PUPPY NURSERY Medical Supplies 219 different breeds WALBROOK STUDIOS Many BRUNO POWER Maltese, Yorkies,

DRIVERS CDL-ASolos, CO & O/Ops: New Openings!

Round-trip Dedicated Lane from Gray Court, SC to Warren, MI. Home 2days/wk!

Great Bonus Programs! 855200-3671

“Remembering Red,” A Tribute to Red Skelton featuring Brian Hoffman, 4 p.m., Historic Grove Theater, 123 Randolph Road, Oak Ridge. Tickets: www.

KnoxvilleTickets.com, 656-4444, 877-995-9961 or at the door. Special Group rates: 288-0672.

118 Farmer’s Market 150 Campers

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Burlington LEGO Club, 2 p.m., Burlington Branch Library, 4614 Asheville Highway. For grades 1-5. Info: 525-5431.

SATURDAY, FEB. 14

Online registration open for Race to benefit the Corryton Community Food Pantry, to be held Saturday, June 20. Event is part of “The Run and See Tennessee Grand Prix Series.” To register: https:// runnerreg.us/corryton8mile. Info: corryton8miler@ yahoo.com; ron.fuller@totalracesolutions.com; or Joyce Harrell, 705-7684.

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SUNDAY, FEB. 15

Valentine dinner fundraiser, 6 p.m., the Old Southern Terminal, 306 W. Depot St. Hosted by the Grace Christian Academy baseball team. Music: The Lore Family. Speaker: Tim Lovelace. Dinner served

by The Foundry. Tickets: $125. Info/tickets: coach Mitchell Turner, mturner@gcarams.org; Dave Dunaway, dhdunaway@aol.com; staff of Legal Properties Inc., 524-3670; Grace Christian Academy baseball team, 5914 Beaver Ridge Road, Knoxville TN, 37939; 691-3427.

Tickets available for Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival, on stages set exclusively along downtown Knoxville’s historic Jackson Avenue. Features firsttimers, chart-climbers and highly lauded acts from varied musical backgrounds. Info/tickets: www. rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

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B-4 â&#x20AC;˘ FEBRUARY 11, 2015 â&#x20AC;˘ HALLS/FOUNTAIN CITY Shopper news

Dillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Furniture 6805 Maynardville Hwy., Knoxville, TN

READ EVERY WORD

Statement from the Management DRIVE UP TO 100-200 of Dillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Furniture MILES & STILL SAVE!

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We say to you in all sincerity, forget everything you ever knew about salesâ&#x20AC;Ś this is it, a wall-towall total liquidation that includes every single piece of furniture and bedding! Buy by the piece or carload. Bulk bids welcome!

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the story... After 3 decades, an East TN furniture retailer has closed their doors. Dillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Furniture has purchased remaining inventory at a fraction of its original cost. We are passing the savings on to you!

Bring Your Trucks & Trailers

Our Delivery Crews will be unable to handle a sale of this magnitudeâ&#x20AC;Ś Please make arrangements to pick up your purchases â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if this is not possible, we will arrange delivery at an extra charge! Everything sold on first come, first serve basis! Bring your trucks & trailers!

WAS

1 ONLY FLOOR MODELS

$999 $ 39 $399 $ 79 $379 $299 $148 $999 $899 $399

Sofa/Loveseat.......................$588 both pcs Floor Lamp (as is).................$ 10 Curio Cabinet........................$175 Area Rugs..............................$ 22 Wood Bench..........................$ 75 Wood Top Table/4 Chairs......$188 Bookcases.............................$ 98 4-Pc Bedroom Suite..............$588 Lift Recliner...........................$646 Sofa........................................$175

EVERYTHING GOES! Be early for choice bargains!

E-Z Credit Terms, FREE lay-a-way!

NOW

WAS $ 69 $399 $299 $ 89 $899 $168 $ 98 $499 $798

ONE-OF-A-KIND NOW DOORBUSTERS Plant Stand...........................$ 25 Loveseat ...............................$148 Chair......................................$ 99 End Table...............................$ 33 Reclining Loveseat...............$399 Wood 4-Drawer Chest..........$128 Headboard.............................$ 25 Dresser & Hutch....................$197 Sleeper Sofa..........................$598

WALL-to-WALL $500,000 Furniture & Mattress SELL OFF! ACT NOW! TIME IS SHORT! BUYING MUST BE FAST! Use your TAX REFUND!!

Layaway NOW! ORTHOPEDIC QUEEN MATTRESS SETS

ROCKER RECLINERS

ASSORTED COFFEE TABLE & 2 END TABLES all 3 pieces

OAK TABLE & 4 CHAIRS

WOOD BUNK BEDS

TWIN BUNK BED

starting at

MATTRESSES

$250 $188 $175 $373 $148 $88 ALL GOODS TO BE SOLD ON THE SPOT

each

MATTRESSES & FOUNDATIONS

Twin ea pc...........................$58 Full ea pc.............................$68 Queen ea pc.........................$88 King Set...............................$388 Bonus Bed Frames..............$29 Memory Foam Queen Set............................$478

$298

N Neal Drive

Fountain Valley

HALLS CROSSROADS

Dillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Furniture

Maynardville Hwy.

FURNITURE

FREE LAY-A-WAY!

$1098 Emory Road

I-75

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5-PIECE PUB TABLE BAR STOOLS

Oak Dressers........$298 Oak Headboard.......$45 Oak Coffee Table.....$25 Asst. Pictures..........$10/up Wood DayBed..........$175 Memory Foam Pillows....................$25 Sheet Sets...............$18

each

SITE OF FORMER MYNATTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 12 Months Same As Cash! w.a.c.

LEATHER SECTIONAL W/CHAISE

6805 Maynardville Hwy (Halls Crossroads)

865.922.7557 First Come, First Sold!

EASY CREDIT TERMS â&#x20AC;˘