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S.O.R. Losers It was good enough for Charles Dickens and Alexandre Dumas, so we think Shopper News parents, grandparents and certainly children will like it, too. Today the Shopper News introduces a 14-week serial story, “S.O.R. Losers.�

The serial story – made famous by “The Pickwick Papers� and “The Three Musketeers� – is a complete book that is published one segment at a time. “S.O.R. Losers,� the story of a misfit sports team, is written

by Newberry Award Winner Avi and illustrated by Timothy Bush. The first chapter begins today and will be followed by 13 more chapters, bringing the story to its conclusion on July 6. Each segment can be read in five to six minutes.

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Cedar Bluff Middle School student Madi Morris and her guest from Muroran, Japan Photo by Amy Melendy

By Sara Barrett This summer, a handful of lucky Cedar Bluff Middle School students will travel to Muroran, Japan, on special invitation from the city’s mayor, Takeshi Aoyama.

In the last 25 years, only one other delegation from CBMS has visited Muroran, a small city on Japan’s northernmost island.

The relationship between Knoxville and Muroran began in 1988 after Knoxville’s then-mayor Victor Ashe facilitated the partnership on behalf of Sister Cities International. It became official in 1991.

Since then, a dozen students from Muroran visit CBMS each October in honor of the sister city relationship.

According to its website, Sister Cities International is a nonprofit established in 1956 by the Eisenhower administration. Its mission is to “promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and

Ed and Bob coming to Karns Ed and Bob’s Night Out is coming to Karns. Everyone is invited.

Knox County at-large commissioners Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas will be at We’re Cookin’ at 7664 Oak Ridge Highway from 5-7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19, to meet the people of the Karns community and listen to their concerns.

Victor and Joan Ashe have just returned from Cuba.

Victor writes ... “(we) joined a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation. “Also on the trip was another Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills.�

By Betty Bean Two years out from the 2018 county elections, there’s half a gaggle of candidates thinking about running for mayor.

Don’t look for County Commissioner Bob Thomas to run for re-election to his at-large commission seat in 2018, even though he’ll be finishing his first term. He’ll be too busy running for mayor.

Thomas is making plans to succeed Tim Burchett, who is termlimited. He’s tearing a page from Burchett’s campaign book and will be the guest-of-honor at an old-timey baloney-cutting May 11.

That’ll be on a Wednesday, starting at 11:30 at Powell Auction & Realty – the venue where Burchett kicked off his campaign for county mayor. “We’re expecting 1,500,� Thomas said. “The Chillbillies are playing and we’ll have R.C. Colas and Moon Pies. It’ll be a big party.�

Thomas has had a long career in radio broadcasting, once owned a hockey team and has written

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the sister city connection.

Bridges says the invitation was a complete surprise, and she wasn’t sure if it would be feasible to go. CBMS students would need to fund their own way and go through an application process. “We are a diverse school, but this is first-hand experience,� says Bridges of the opportunity to travel abroad.

Bridges visited Muroran last summer and met with members of the Knoxville Club, a group of Muroran residents who have visited Knoxville and welcome Knoxvillians with open arms.

While there, she also visited a former delegate she hosted when her daughter was at CBMS. Her daughter is now a sophomore in high school. “Our goal is to develop global citizens who are not only wellversed in their own country and To page A-3

Prospects ponder race for county mayor

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In addition to touring Knoxville, Japanese delegates are honored at CBMS with a school-wide assembly where the delegates themselves are welcomed to perform. “Eighth grade classes also host the students for a day of learning and cultural exchange,� says MeAimee Bridges Amy Melendy lendy. “This way we can involve a greater number of students with cooperation – one individual, one the exchange.� “These relationships continue community at a time.�

SCI has matched 570 commu- beyond the five-day stay,� says nities with more than 2,300 part- Bridges. She shares the story of a nerships in 150 countries around previous Japanese delegate who was accepted into UT after graduthe world.

A group of CBMS students and ating high school. Her former host their families host the delegates family from CBMS helped her each year and show them around move into her dorm.

This past October, Mayor AoyaKnoxville during their five-day stay.

CBMS school counselor Aimee ma accompanied the delegation to Bridges and social studies teacher Knoxville for a day was so moved Amy Melendy say the experience by the experience that he invited is life-changing and unforgettable a group of Cedar Bluff students for the host students and their to visit Muroran this summer in honor of the 25th anniversary of families.

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TV shows. He stays in close touch with his son, Jake, a TV actor who lives in Los Angeles. He says he’s anxious to take on the challenge of promoting Knox County as a tourism destination and has big plans to move forward without a tax increase.

Knox County Republican Party chair Buddy Burkhardt is also running wide open. He’s got a Facebook page, “Buddy for Knox Coun-

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On Dec. 12, he asked, “Ready for your Buddy for Mayor Apparel and Yard Signs? Coming SOON!!!�

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iff’s Office – “Today, I’m wiring up water controls in the jail. Tomorrow it’ll be computers. I’m an electronics person.�

Has he run for office before? “Lord, no. I’m still debating how sound I am for even thinking about this. “I’ve been involved in Knox County politics for a little while, but I’ve been anonymous for a lot of years, intentionally. I’ve worked on a lot of campaigns, helped as many people as I could. Mayor Burchett is term-limited, so this is a good time for me to give it my best shot. In eight more years, I’ll be too old.�

Another county commissioner, Brad Anders, is also mulling a run for mayor. Anders, a former commission chair, is a lieutenant and a crisis negotiator in the Knoxville Police Department whose name used to come up as a candidate for sheriff, as well.

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Go, Lauren, go!

When Cassandra Jones gave birth to her now five-year-old daughter Lauren, she wondered if her child would be able to play like “normal� children.

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Lauren Jones in her specially modified ride-on car

Lauren was born with spina bifida, cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus. Doctors told Jones her daughter would be little more than a vegetable ... if she lived.

Jones fired those doctors and today, Lauren plays with a motorized ride-on car like any other child. Go Baby Go-Rocky Top modifies the cars for children with disabilities.

Jones said the car was customized to utilize Lauren’s abilities by adding a new bottom with pivoting front wheels, a five-point positioning harness to hold her securely in place, and

easy press buttons replacing the steering wheel and pedals.

She says, “That car sparked something in Lauren that seemed to make her want to grow beyond her limitations.

Small children learn through doing and play. When your abilities are limited ‌ you miss out on the chance to thrive. Go Baby Go-Rocky Top changed that for Lauren by breaking those limitations early on when the developmental aspect is most important. “Within the first three times of her test driving and playing, I saw a huge change in her interest level. She was more intentional with her movements. She realized she could make things happen by using her hands! She isn’t stuck on a blanket watching other kids having fun anymore. “Now she can go go-go too.â€?

And how! Jones said Lauren doesn’t qualify for a motorized chair, but Go Baby Go-Rocky Top is working on giving her indoor mobility by pairing her special needs car seat with a Segway.

Info: gobabygo-rockytop.com

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“That one (sheriff) is not as prominent in the conversation as it once was,�

Anders said. “At this point, I haven’t ruled either one of them out, and I don’t know exactly what the drop-dead decision date is.�

Anders has served as a commissioner since 2008 and has been with KPD for 24 years, and said he has professional and family decisions to make before he can think about running for mayor. “A lot of things would have to click in the right way for that to happen,� Anders said.

Former state Rep. Ryan Haynes is also believed to be a potential candidate.

Haynes, who resigned from the General Assembly to become state Republican Party chair, pooh-poohs that notion. When pressed he offered this statement:

“I’ll say this. I’m flattered my name has been mentioned, but I have a job to do, and it’s way premature to start a new campaign season when the current one isn’t even over. The last thing we need is individual interests dividing up our communities.�

And, finally, there’s Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond, who could not be reached for comment. Court clerks are not subject to term limits, and Hammond, a former county commissioner who was elected clerk in 2014, is considered an unlikely mayoral contender.

All the candidates listed are Republicans. Democratic Party chair Cameron Brooks says so far no Democrats have expressed interest in the office.

Visitor from Japan – Karns Club meets 10 a.m. each second Wednesday, Karns Community Center, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Charlene Asbury, 691-8792.

COMMUNITY NOTES â– Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15 p.m. each first Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Info: cwkch.com. â– District 6 Democrats meet 6:15 p.m. each fourth Tuesday at the Karns Library, 7516 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: Mike Knapp, 696-8038, or Janice Spoone, 771-5920.

Pete Capell experiments with pairing Lauren Jones’ special needs car seat with a Segway to give her indoor mobility.

History award nominations sought

■Family Community Education – Crestwood Club meets 10 a.m. each fourth Thursday, Grace Lutheran Church, 9076 Middlebrook Pike. Info: Ruby Freels, 690-8164.

The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Excellence in the field of history. The annual awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the preservation, promotion, programming and interpretation of the region’s history. The postmark deadline for award applications is April 8.

Info/nomination form: 215-8824; eastTNhistory. org; East Tennessee Historical Society, PO Box 1629, Knoxville, TN 37901.

â– Family Community Education

â– Karns Lions Club meets 6:30 p.m. each first and third Monday, Karns Community Center, 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: karnslionsclub.com. â– Northwest Knox Business and Professional Association meets each third Thursday, Karns Community Center, 7708 Oak Ridge Highway. Meetings are 6 p.m. March, June, September, December and noon the remaining months.

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June 12. Several fundraisers are being held to help defray costs including a GoFundMe account, sushi-making classes for the community, a school dance and a chocolate sale.

Melendy says delegates will be expected to present something about American culture to the Japanese students in Muroran, and they will also prepare a presentation for host families of next year’s Japanese delegation, to share what they learned. “This makes the trip a true exchange,� she says.

To make a donation, email Amy Melendy at amy. melendy@knoxschools.org or Aimee Bridges at aimee. bridges@knoxschools.org.

culture, but to be open to learning and experiencing cultures different from their own,â€? says Melendy. “That is why we participate each year with the Muroran delegation visit. As we are becoming a more diverse population within our community, we also need to be aware of the diversity of the world.â€? “There are so many advantages for students who go on this trip,â€? adds Bridges. “Global education, global understanding. ‌ They will know there is something outside of their world. It will be life changing and character building.â€?

The cost for each student to travel is about $3,500, with a payment deadline of

â– Karns Republican Club meets 7 p.m. each first Tuesday at Karns Middle School library.

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Honors weekend for Tennessee track

Track and field Volunteers from the golden era of Chuck Rohe and Stan Huntsman will honor 50 years of Ed Murphey Award winners Friday at a country club reception and dinner.

On Saturday, the University of Tennessee track program will recognize a lifetime of contributions by Terry Hull Crawford, former champion runner and women’s coach at UT, Texas and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. She evolved into coaching coaches for USA Track and Field.

Terry, many track alumni and guests will be treated to a reunion dinner in a showplace segment of Neyland Stadium. Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan will discuss current Volunteers.

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The Murphey Award does not struggle with such chaos. It is presented each year for the outstanding Marvin performance by a Volunteer.

West It originated in 1965 as a gift from the legendary Ed Murphey.

What a story he was. nessee to third place at the In the mid-1950s, Murrecent NCAA indoor cham- phey played trumpet in pionships. Women ran sev- the Pride of the Southland band. He was manager for enth.

Alas, there will be no the basketball team, reserious running, jumping sponsible for clean practice or throwing at Tom Black uniforms and dry towels.

Track this weekend. It is He asked coach John bogged down in a rehabili- Sines, also the track coach, tation project that was sup- if it would be OK to go out posed to have been finished for track. months ago. Critics say big Sines’ response was hisbuildings have been built toric: “OK Murph, just don’t faster. Optimists say, if all get in anybody’s way.�

He didn’t. He ran the eventually goes well, there will be a home track meet or fastest mile ever on the cinthree next spring. der track around Shields-

Trust hard to come by during school threats The parents who attended Karen Carson’s meeting at Farragut High School were calm, but when they spoke, the tension of dealing with four separate school threats was evident.

They voiced concerns about who was in charge during a crisis − the school or the sheriff’s office? They questioned whether kids should be locked down in classrooms if there was potentially a bomb in the building. One was upset about not being able to help a child who got sick while on lockdown in the football stadium.

Mostly, they were frustrated over a lack of trustworthy communication.

What kind of threats were being made, and how were students being kept safe?

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While the safety of students is the highest priority, there’s a delicate balance between enough and too much information, explained District 5 school board member Carson. Too little info frustrates parents; too much inspires copycats.

It’s a legitimate concern. Threats at Farragut Intermediate, Hardin Valley Academy and Hardin Valley Elementary schools followed the Farragut High threats.

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Chief of Security Gus Paidousis explained why communicating during a crisis is a challenge. The only thing worse than no information is bad information, and when things are constantly changing, it’s difficult to provide accurate information, he said. Too much information could also allow someone who intends harm to anticipate strategy and do more damage.

Carson asked parents not to call the school during a crisis, but to trust that staff are doing everything they can to protect kids. Superintendent Jim McIntyre said schools need to communicate with parents, but after that, parents need to trust that the best decisions are being made.

Watkins Field. He set a Southeastern Conference record in cross-country.

He won the SEC mile three consecutive years. He won all-America recognition. “Ed Murphey was a champion when champions were few at Tennessee,� said the late Tom Siler.

You may have heard of some who received Murphey Awards: Richmond Flowers, Willie Gault, Lawrence Johnson, Justin Gatlin, Aries Merritt and Justin Hunter.

Terry Hull Crawford has a national prize named for her – the Terry Crawford Women’s Program of the Year Award.

Terry goes back to the late 1960s, the beginning of women’s sports at UT. Charlie Durham bought a

That’s a tall order for parents. Those of us with teenage children remember the shock of Columbine.

We were horrified by the murders at Virginia Tech, and we grieved with the parents of the innocents killed at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Local incidents like shootings at Central High School and Inskip Elementary School have also impacted us.

We know, rationally, that these are rare events. But all of us have imagined hearing the news that there’s been an incident at our child’s school.

It’s easy to imagine a student plotting to cancel classes for a day or two by writing a threatening mes-

newspaper ad announcing that the Knoxville Track Club was forming a women’s team. About 50 girls and women, ages 10 to 20, responded. Terry, 17, out of Greeneville High School, was in the group.

She became a three-time Volunteer all-American, winning the national 220 and 440 in 1969 and the 880 in 1970. She competed in the World University Games and Pan-American Games and twice got close to Olympic teams.

Terry came back as coach of women’s track. Her 1981 team won the national championship, first in any women’s sport at Tennessee. Among her other distinctions was the recruitment of sprinter and jumper Holly Warlick from Bearden High. Holly also wanted to try basketball. The rest is history.

sage on the wall. But, as Carson said, every threat has to be treated as if it’s real, which calls for lockdowns, bomb squads and bomb-sniffing dogs. Those things can make any parent less than rational, less able to trust.

Parents are not the only ones affected. Farragut High School junior Viktoria Ohstrom spoke up at the meeting to say that she

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Farragut junior Viktoria Ohstrom speaks as principal Stephanie Thompson, left, looks on.

There came a time when Texas offered Terry a better coaching opportunity (more money). Tennessee athletic director Bob Woodruff listened as Terry explained.

He could have countered.

He didn’t.

Terry went to Austin.

Her Longhorns won five NCAA championships and 18 Southwest Conference titles. Her 1986 team was the only triple winner in history – indoors, outdoors and in cross-country.

Terry reappeared at the World and Pan-Am games as coach of U.S. teams. She was America’s coach at the 1988 Olympics. She won enough meets and produced enough all-Americans to coach 17 years at Cal PolySan Luis Obispo.

The track world and I see her as a national treasure.

didn’t know what was happening during last week’s threat, and it seemed like teachers didn’t know, either. “That’s what scares people. Not the threats.�

Communication is important, but the only thing that parents and students really want to hear is that the crisis is over and all is well. Until that’s the message, it will be hard to trust.

We’ve seen too much.

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Revered Ag teacher blooms in new garden Two years ago, life looked grim for Mike Blankenship.

Betty Bean At a time when he was facing serious family illnesses, he was notified that his agricultural program at North Knox Career Technical Education Center in Halls was being disbanded because of declining enrollment. His students were distraught.

“2014 was a very tumultuous time. My son passed away, then my dad p a s s e d away three m o n t h s later. Two deaths in the family – plus the spiraling down Blankenship process at work. Anytime you’re RIFed, it’s tough.”

But his students, particularly rising seniors Ryan Cox and James Dunn, decided to fight for their Future Farmers of America club and their teacher. When CTE supervisor Don Lawson found a spot for Blankenship at the Career Magnet Academy in East Knox County, their efforts spurred him to allow Blankenship to spend part

Career Magnet Academy FFA members at their first state convention this spring: (front) Paul Stiles, Lauren Williams, Brittany Read, Darby Swanson; (back) Josh Rutherford, Tylor Gann and Tobias DuBose.

of the school day at North Knox, so Cox, Dunn and their classmates could finish their agriculture studies and continue to participate in FFA. It involved a lot of driving, but Blankenship says the commute was a snap compared to his first 12 years of teaching when he made a 50-mile round trip to and from his home in Gibbs to Doyle High School (he has been a teacher with Knox County Schools for 37 years).

This year, he’s at CMA full-time, and has found a

niche in the school’s Sustainable Pathway, where 13 students – most from north and east Knox County – enrolled in the program. One has moved, so he’s down to 12, still twice the number he was teaching at the Halls campus. He is proud that 11 of them will be headed “upstairs” next year to take college-level classes (CMA is housed on the ground floor of the Strawberry Plains Pike branch of Pellissippi State), and he’s proud of the brand-new FFA Chapter TNO337 he’s established there.

His teaching day starts with an agricultural science class, and he’s added an agricultural business and finance class in the second term and hopes to expand into business finance.

“Our pathway is a little different from any other program in the county. This is all so new, like building a plane – you look out and we’re working on this wing.

We’re always in transition.

No two days are alike.”

Blankenship is also teaching college and career readiness to ninth-graders, beginning the process of preparing them for the future. He is proud that his students will be able to enroll in dual-credit (college level) courses that will put them far along the path to college degrees.

But one thing he misses is having a greenhouse like the one he built on the Halls campus, where he maintained an annual Christmas tradition of raising and selling poinsettias.

“Oh, I miss it. But we’re working on that. It’s still in the talking stage, but we’ve ID’d potential locations.”

Overall, Blankenship is grateful for the new challenge and optimistic about the future.

“I am not an ax grinder,” he said. “Whatever is put in front of me, I’ll do my best to reach young people. I’m still standing.”

government

Mayor Tim Burchett with Jackie Booker Griffin at Jackie’s Dream.

Burchett boosts Jackie’s Dream Café The place was packed, but no one was complaining when Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and his people came to lunch at Jackie’s Dream.

Jackie’s Dream Café opened March 6, 2015, at 2223 McCalla Avenue. It was a life dream for owner Jackie Booker Griffin.

“I come from a family that cooks,” she writes on her website. “It’s what my mother, grandmother and uncles taught me.

“We made our own jelly, chow-chow, pickles. My grandfather had chickens

We’re cooking!

Ashes, McIntyre (not that one) tour Cuba Three weeks ago, my wife Joan and I, along with my sister-in-law Kathy Ashe from Atlanta, joined a Yale Alumni Tour of Cuba for 10 days. It was fascinating. As Joan says, it was a trip not a vacation.

Also on the trip was another Knoxvillian, Dr. Anne McIntyre, who is a retired UT professor of psychology and lives in Sequoyah Hills.

We flew into Santiago from Miami on the eastern end of the island not far from Guantanamo Bay where the United States has a military facility. For the next six days we journeyed across the island and ultimately arrived in Havana two days after President Obama’s visit.

While the people were friendly and genuinely seem to want an improved relationship with the U.S., the economy and lifestyle were clearly third world. Cuba is longer than Tennessee (about 700 miles) and the eastern end has been neglected by various regimes.

Deferred maintenance is the order of the day as many historic buildings were collapsing or close to it. Carts were pulled by oxen or horses including carts used as taxis to transport people.

The District 6 Democratic Party is always angling to get pictures into the Shopper. There are the frequent trash pick-ups, the various parades, the frequent guest speakers. But the March meeting takes the prize.

Seems county commission candidate Donna Lucas was guest speaker. Janice Spoone said some members arrived early to find a fire truck at the Karns Middle School, smoke everywhere and their library meeting place closed.

Mike Knapp rushed to “We’re Cooking” to arrange a meeting space while Spoone and the school librarian found paper, markers and tape to post notices of the meeting change. The smoke was from a new heating/ air system and all is well.

“You would have loved the excitement,” wrote Spoone. “Other than the fact that I probably smelled like smoke, we had a good group for the Lucas campaign meeting.”

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The cars are in large part holdovers from the 1950s which have been continually restored due to the embargo and lack of new vehicles being imported. On the other hand, the bus we rode in was brand new as were most buses for tourists. Internet service was spotty at best and expensive for Cubans ($2 an hour).

Hotels outside Havana were clean but basic in their service. Parts of Havana itself were modern and current and other parts were collapsing. The drive we took from Ernest Hemingway’s home outside Havana to the central part of the city passed several highly impoverished areas.

Havana itself has an incredible old city which exceeds San Juan in Puerto Rico in size but has been neglected since the Castro revolution.

While President Obama made overturns to the Cuban people, he had not been gone more than one day be-

Dr. Anne McIntyre, former Mayor Victor Ashe and Joan Ashe at the Ernest Hemingway house in Havana on a recent trip to Cuba with Yale Alumni Travel. Both Victor Ashe and McIntyre are Yale graduates and live in Knoxville.

fore his remarks were blasted by Fidel Castro who stills lives and appears from time to time in well-planned venues. But it was Fidel’s brother, Raul, the current president, who hosted Obama.

It was also clear that change is coming to Cuba, but at a very measured pace.

In terms of infrastructure and advancing into this century for their economic well-being the country is 30 years behind. In terms of democratic processes, it’s not there in any meaningful way.

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is hosting a dinner talk on Molsey Blount, wife of Gov. William Blount, by Dr. Nancy McEntee at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at Holly’s Gourmet Market.

Tickets, $60 each, can be reserved at 865-525-2375.

Proceeds go to Blount Mansion.

Not a lot is known about her, but like many wives, she was very influential after she moved here in 1792.

This year, which is the 225th birthday year of the Knoxville, is also the 90th anniversary of the Blount Mansion Association which

so we had fresh eggs. We hardly ever went to the store. We made everything from scratch, and I continue to do it that way. Everything is peeled, cut and chopped here. We eliminate cans whenever we can. I had fresh green beans and corn all summer long.”

Since taking office, Burchett has used the occasional Dutch-treat lunch with the mayor to showcase locally owned restaurants.

This one is known for its soul food and hot chicken.

Hours and menu are online at jackiesdream.com

saved this historic house from being turned into a parking lot in 1926.

Dr. McEntee has written a book titled “Molsey Blount: Colonial First Lady of Tennessee.”

■ Groundbreak ing for the new $160 million State Museum in Nashville is today with Gov. Haslam and author Jon Meacham leading the ceremony.

The new facility is needed, but its design has been roundly criticized by several architects. The firm employed is from Minnesota with little knowledge of Tennessee as several

Tennessee firms, including Knoxville’s McCarty Holsaple, were rejected.

The Nashville Scene has described it as “a dumb box of a porch with no time or place and mute to the expressive powers of architecture.” The Museum Commission on which I serve had no role in the design of the building. The final say was made at a higher level.

I hope the governor takes another look at this design after the ground is broken so that like our State Capitol it is seen as an iconic building 50 to 100 years from now.

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SENIOR NOTES â– Karns Senior Center 8042 Oak Ridge Highway 951-2653 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Spring has burst onto the scene with a dazzling array of color. For the past two weeks breath-taking blooms in purple, pink and white have covered the trees, have brought smiles to even the dourest of curmudgeons.

Flowering pears, redbuds and cherry blossoms let us know that those dogwood buds are closely behind.

Soon the Dogwood Trails and Festival will begin, with multiple venues and varied events to visit.

And yet, something is missing...

I remember the Dogwood Festivals from simpler times, as a festival celebrating our East Tennessee heritage on Market Square. The bluegrass competition, with fiddlers and banjo players, along with steel guitars and washboard players and mandolins, jamming in the door-

Offerings include: card games; dance classes; exercise programs; mahjong; art classes; farkle dice games; dominoes; a computer lab; billiards room; outdoor grill and kitchen area.

Register for: Wildlife photographer Larry Perry presentation, 1 p.m. Thursday, April 7. Hamburger and Hotdog Cookout, noon Tuesday, April 12; bring side dish. Spring Tidings potluck, noon Tuesday, April 26; bring a healthy covered dish to share.

Diabetic Education: Sweet Spot Grocery Guide, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, April 26. â– Frank R. Strang Senior Center 109 Lovell Heights Road 670-6693 knoxcounty.org/seniors Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Offerings include: card games; exercise programs; dance classes; watercolor classes; Tai Chi; blood pressure checks; Mahjong; senior-friendly computer classes; “Senior Services� resource wall.

Authors talk books Clayton Brewer, published poet, and Sam Venable, local author and columnist, swap books when Venable visits residents at Morning Pointe Senior Living and Alzheimer’s Memory Care of Powell.

Venable has written several books – mostly comedies. Brewer holds Venable’s book titled “Warning! This Book Contains Nuttiness: A Look at the Bizarre World in Which We Live.� Venable holds Brewer’s book of poems called “Pathways Ahead.�

Register for: Lunch and learn: Skin care, Aging, Cosmetic Injectables and more, noon Wednesday, April 13; RSVP by Friday, April 8. Veterans Office visit, 11 a.m., Thursday, April 14; registration: 215-5645. â– CAC Office on Aging 2247 Western Ave. 524-2786 knoxooa@knoxseniors. org â– Knox County Senior Services City County Building 400 Main St., Suite 615 215-4044 Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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ways around the square until they got their turn on the center stage.

Can you picture your neighbor doing a bit of dosee-do-ing? Or gawking at craftsmen like Jesse Butcher and women from Tellico Plains, weaving soaked oak slats into butt baskets and such, while Alex Stewart and his grandson were riving cedar staves with draw knives, on raw wood snugged by that foot-driven work bench, into butter churns and pidgins right before your eyes?

There were gals in gingham dresses plucking feath-

ers from nervous geese while smiling seamstresses stitched quilts and coverlets ready for stuffing.

Not to mention the drifting smells of warm stack cakes layered with applesauce and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Yum! Hey, what about that blacksmith shaping hot iron with a hammer and anvil?

Or them ol’ knife swappers and whittlers in the corner?

A little nostalgia is a good thing. And, while you are at it, Knoxville, why not bring some of that genuine heritage back to the Dogwood Festival? “Down through the corn leading down through the river, Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun.

She took all the love that a poor boy could give her, And left me to die like a fox on the run...�

Pellissippi State schedules choral concert, design showcase Pellissippi State Community College will hold its final musical performance of the year Thursday, April 28.

The Spring Choral Concert will feature musical performances by the college’s students in Concert Chorale and Variations Ensemble.

The free concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the Clayton Performing Arts Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

The concert is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which brings to the community cultural activities ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures and the fine arts.

The work of Pellissippi State students in the Communication Graphics Technology program will be on display at the CGT Student Design Showcase April 18May 1.

A reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, April 21, giving community members the opportunity to meet students and discuss their design work. The free exhibit and reception will be held in the Bagwell Center for Media and Art, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Info: www.pstcc.edu/arts or call 865-694-6400.

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faith Let them see what they’ve done!

Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

(Matthew 27: 55 NRSV)

At the Lonsdale worksite are Spanish translator Benatto Lazo, Cindy Zimbrich, Colbi Young, Mike Wright, Tina Brogdon; (back) John Tapp, Todd Stewart, Mike Brogdon and Brody Young.

Making a difference one block at a time

By Nancy Anderson Pastor Todd Stewart and Mike Brogdon, Lonsdale community ministry leader, led a team of 40 members of Grace Baptist Church on April 2 for their monthly mission to make a difference in the Lonsdale community.

The Adopt-A-Block team meets the first Saturday of each month, visiting 150-200 homes to give small gifts and offering prayer or minor house repairs. “We usually have a small practical gift to offer, like 9-volt batteries for their smoke alarms or light bulbs. If they’re elderly or unable, we’ll replace it for them. If they need minor repairs and own their home, we’ll make a note

of that and refer it on to The Crew, a ministry of folks at the church who will come out to do those repairs.�

Stewart said they don’t perform the repairs as acts of charity. “We are not a system that just gives things away. We ask them if they have a friend or family member who can help us with the work or if they can help purchase materials. We’re about empowering people for life transformation so they can accomplish the things they want and the things God wants.�

There are big things on the horizon for the Adopt-A-Block program.

A Lonsdale house was donated to the church, and the city of Knoxville has a building they’re willing to rent

for $1 a year.

Stewart hopes to start a medical clinic in the front part of the building and possibly conduct English as second language and job skills training in the back.

The house will be renovated and offered for rent with the funds going toward the purchase and renovation of another house in the area. “We’d like to help provide them a beautiful, safe place to live – some place they can be proud to call home where the rent is fi xed and affordable.

There seems to be a gap between programs like Habitat for Humanity and other housing programs. We’d like to fill that gap with safety and security,�

Stewart said.

A new orchestra in the Scruffy City

By Carol Z. Shane Knoxville is bursting with Rhythm ‘n’ Blooms this weekend, and music and art of all types abound.

One fairly “new kid on the block� is the Scruffy City Orchestra, Knoxville’s first and only community orchestra. They’ll be presenting their very first con-

FAITH NOTES Meetings/classes â– Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave., will host Grief Care, a weekly grief support group for people grieving the death of a loved one, 6-7:30 p.m. Mondays through May 16. Info: 522-9804 or sequoyahchurch.org.

Music/ performances ■Heska Amuna Synagogue, 3811 Kingston Pike, will host “Freedom Song,� a transformative musical that interweaves a Passover Seder with personal stories of addiction, 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14.

The cast is made up of actual addicts who have broken off the shackles of drugs, alcohol, gambling and other destructive behaviors. Suggested donation: $5.

Special services â– Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road, holds meditation services 6:30 p.m. each second

and fourth Wednesday.

Includes quiet reflection, simple music and readings.

Info: westsideuuc.org.

Vendors/ consignors wanted ■Central Baptist ChurchBearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive, is seeking consignors for its children’s consignment sale, to be held Friday-Saturday, April 15-16. Fee: $10, nonrefundable. Proceeds go to West Hills Elementary School Back Pack Program. Registration: cbcbearden.org/events.

Info: cbbclothingsale@gmail. com or 588-0586.

Youth programs â– Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway, is accepting registration for its Summer Weekday Programs for PDO (children 1 year old and walking) and for TNT (elementary school-aged children). Also accepting registration for Fall Preschool and Fall PDO. Forms available in the preschool office. Info: 531-2052.

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cert, “Old Friends, New Faces,� this Friday.

The orchestra will be led by two local conductors, Ace Edewards and Matt Wilkinson, who’ve been on board from the beginning.

Wilkinson, a cellist, veteran of the Knox County “Strings in the Schools� program and currently director of the Maryville High School Orchestra, says, “A group of community members that played in the Maryville community orchestra while I was the conductor contacted me about starting a Knoxville community orchestra, and after a night at Central Flats and Taps we formed the Scruffy City Orchestra and

board. The idea is creating an atmosphere for amateur musicians to have a place to perform quality classical music.�

Edewards, a singer and conductor with a distinguished international pedigree, moved here last year to be with his wife, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra violinist Ruth Bacon (the two recently celebrated their first anniversary.) He conducted the highly successful production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors� at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, and in the past few months has taken on conducting projects in South Carolina, Arizona and Mexico. “There seemed to be a

Yes, Easter is past, but I am convinced that Easter is like Christmas: it is never “over.�

I am still processing something I wrote last week: “Isn’t it odd that not one of that blood-thirsty crowd bothered to stand at the foot of the cross and actually witness the agony of their victim?�

The 11 disciples who remained (Judas committed suicide after his betrayal of Jesus) were in hiding, fearful of the Jewish leaders. Simon Peter – who had declared his allegiance to Jesus, promising to die with him, if need be – hid, cowering behind closed doors.

However, the women who followed Jesus were at the foot of the cross.

The Gospels give differing accounts of which women, exactly, but Mary, the mother of James and Joseph (who was arguably also the mother of Jesus), Mary Magdalene, Salome, the un-named mother of the sons of Ze-

need for a community orchestra in Knoxville,� says Edewards. “We put out the word to everyone we knew, and we had quite a few people show up on the first night.

Little by little we’ve filled out the ranks. Everyone is a music-loving amateur.�

The program includes the well-known, well-loved first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, a stately selection from Sir Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations� and a medley from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera.�

Anyone who is inter-

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bedee, and Mary, the wife of Clopas are mentioned.

It is fair to point out that women counted for nothing in that culture, so they were no threat to the Roman soldiers who were carrying out the execution. Women were of no consequence in the eyes of the soldiers.

Still, I am reminded of what Jacqueline Kennedy said after the assassination of her husband.

When they were finally aboard Air Force One, flying to Washington, someone gently suggested to Mrs. Kennedy that she change out of the bloodspattered pink suit she was still wearing. “No,� she said emphatically. “Let them see what they’ve done!�

ested in playing on future rehearsals and concerts is urged to contact the SCO. “All are welcome� says Edewards. “Having a lot of people wanting to play is a good problem to have, and we will certainly do our best to give all who are willing an opportunity to participate.�

The Scruffy City Orchestra’s spring concert, “Old Friends, New Faces,� will be presented at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, April 8, at First Baptist Church, 510 W. Main St. in Knoxville. General admission is $5 at the door, and credit/debit cards are accepted.

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‘Millie’ takes the stage at CAK

SPORTS NOTES ■ Registration open for the Challenger Baseball season.

Cost: $15. Season begins Monday, April 11. All games Lakeshore Park, 6410 S. Northshore Drive. Registration form: http://bit.ly/1Vrgcr2.

SCHOOL NOTES ■ West Hills Elementary participates in the following programs to help raise money for the school: General Mills “BoxTops for Education,” Campbell’s “Labels for Education,” and linking Food City ValuCards, Kroger Plus Cards and Target Red Cards to the school for points. Info: 539-7850.

S.O.R. Losers

Written by Avi and Illustrated by Timothy Bush

CHAPTER ONE:

done two things. Since none of us knew soccer rules, Mr. Lester read them to us.

Then we ran around in circles while he read the rules again, to himself. He didn’t know them either.

Second practice? We tried kicking the ball. Wasn’t easy.

“Gentlemen,” pleaded Mr. Lester. “We have our first game tomorrow. Doesn’t anyone know something about Kelly?”

No one said a word. The truth was going to hurt, and no one wanted to hurt Mr. Lester. He was a nice guy.

“We have to play tomorrow,” he said, as if we didn’t know. We knew it too well.

It was my special buddy, Saltz, who let it out. “Mr. Lester, Kelly no longer goes to

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both hope to continue acting or performing in some fashion during college.

As for the upcoming performance, they promise lots of “fast-paced, highenergy fun stuff” with a few light-hearted, cheesy moments tucked in here and there.

“Thoroughly Modern Millie” will be presented 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 14-16, with an added 2:30 p.m. matinee on Saturday.

Tickets will be available at the door. Info: 690-4721 ext. 191 or visit https:// w w w.c a k w a r r ior s .c om/ arts/musical-theatre.

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The new team at South Orange River Middle School

“Where’s Kelly?” Mr. Lester’s face was pale. “How can we practice without Kelly?

Doesn’t anyone know where he is? It’s twothirty.”

Mr. Lester was our history teacher. I thought he was going to cry. For myself, I felt like laughing, laughing hysterically.

There were 11 of us standing behind the South Orange River Middle School, near the playing field, feeling silly in brand-new red shorts and yellow T-shirts with “S.O.R.” on our backs. If any dogcatchers had come around, they would have swooped us up for a bunch of stray mutts. On the field, kids were running, tossing, kicking, all that stuff.

During two practice sessions we had

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“Singing is a whole other way to connect to people.

It’s exhilarating. I can’t describe it,” says Josh Current, a junior at Christian Academy of Knoxville.

“And on stage, you get to be someone completely different,” adds Jane Ann Foncea, a senior.

The talented duo has lead roles in CAK’s upcoming performance of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”

Josh plays Jimmy Smith to Jane Ann’s Millie. This isn’t the first time they’ve shared the stage; they were king and queen in last year’s “Cinderella.” They admit the chemistry from their friendship helps their characters’ chemistry on stage.

“And there’s just something about dancing on stage with your dear friends,” adds Jane Ann. Both performers have been in theater since at least middle school, and they

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our school. His father’s job was transferred somewhere. Kelly tagged along.” I don’t think we’d had our new uniforms on for more than 30 minutes, but Saltz, a natural slob, looked like he’d slept in his for 20 years.

And he, like the rest of us, was only 12.

“No longer in school?” said Mr. Lester, who had actually volunteered to be our coach.

“But what about our first game?”

“He wanted to be with his family,” said someone.

I think it was Eliscue.

The coach sighed. He was a history teacher, and we were not what they write history about. If our school had a worse collection of athletes than the 11 of us, they were on display in the museum mummy section.

But there we were Hays, Porter, Dorman, Lifsom, Saltz, Radosh, Root, Barish, Eliscue, Fenwick, and me, Sitrow. In a school that was famous, positively famous, for its teams and all-stars, we were not considered typical. Walk in the front door and the first thing you’d see was a wall of trophies – all for sports. It was as if we were a sports club.

Not a school.

“Doesn’t he understand you can’t play soccer without a goaltender? He should have told me.” Mr. Lester said that the way he might explain the sinking of the Titanic.

“His father probably got the job because Kelly didn’t want to play,” said Dorman.

When Mr. Lester got red in the face from frustration, he looked like an overripe tomato. His round face puffed and the few bits of topside hair were like old, dead leaves. It was clear he already regretted being coach just as much as we regretted the thought of playing.

For example, me. I was so bad I was designated as the only sub. I didn’t expect to play at all. But then, none of us expected to play. The point was, our school had a requirement that you had to play at least one team sport each year. We had slipped through the first year. None of us had played. None of us wanted to. But once they caught on, they invented a team just for us.

“Let’s go back to the locker room,” suggested Mr. Lester.

Glad to skip practice, we followed him.

Luckily, the locker room was empty. Everyone else was either playing or practicing.

I sat on a bench next to Saltz. “Let’s hear it for Kelly,” he whispered.

“Maybe they’ll call the whole thing off,” I thought out loud.

He shrugged. Saltz and I had been pals since kindergarten. So I knew what he’d rather be doing: writing poetry.

“How many do we have here?” asked Mr. Lester.

“Two,” said Root. He was our math genius.

“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lester, “this is not a joke. Please line up.”

Our cleats clicking like bad pennies on the cement floor, we went up against the wall, all 11 of us. Porter was on one side of me, Saltz on the other.

“Maybe we’ll get shot,” said Porter.

“Only if we’re lucky,” said Fenwick.

“Gentlemen, quiet please,” said Mr. Lester. He stood there looking miserable. You could tell he didn’t like what he saw. But then, considering what we saw in the future, starting the next day, we didn’t like it either.

“Gentlemen,” he said softly. When Mr. Lester shouted, his voice got softer.

“Gentlemen, you know why you’re here.”

No one said a word.

Seventhgrade boys don’t make good farewell speeches, not in front of execution squads.

“Do you?” he asked. My guess is that he was wondering himself.

“It’s good for us,” Lifsom said, as if describing someone’s need for a head transplant.

“South Orange River Middle School has a fine sports tradition,” continued Mr. Lester. “‘Everybody plays, everybody wins.’ That’s our motto. And you, gentlemen, have been here a full year without being on any team.”

“That’s because we’ve got better things to do,” said Barish.

Mr. Lester’s face turned purple. But he went on, even softer. You had to strain to hear. “That’s exactly the point. You are all – each one – nice, smart boys. You, however, have avoided sports. Too much desk work.”

“Nanotechnology,” slipped in Hays. “The big future.”

Mr. Lester’s face made the ultimate transformation. He turned deathly white and spoke as though from the grave. “S.O.R. believes in the whole person. We’ve created this team for your good. From now on, you’re going to play. Sport is a major part of American life. Starting tomorrow, we’ve got a season to play. Six games. Let’s do it with honor.”

“What about ability?” asked Radosh.

Mr. Lester passed over that with a sigh.

“We need a goaltender.” I saw his eyes travel up and down the line. To my horror, they landed on me.

“Ed,” he said to me, the way a kindly pirate might ask the next victim to walk the plank. “You’re the tallest. You’ll be goaltender.”

“Me?” I said, pointing to my narrow, weak and unformed chest. I couldn’t believe it.

“Yes, you.”

“Sir,” I said in a panic, “I never played goalie before. I never played soccer before.

I never played anything before.”

“Neither have your teammates. But we are going to give it our best, aren’t we? We’ll gain pride by trying. Game tomorrow. You all have permission to be out of your afternoon classes. Be ready, here, tomorrow at one-thirty for the bus. In uniform. We don’t want to be late. It makes for a poor start.”

And that’s how I became goalie for the South Orange River Middle School Special Seventh-Grade Soccer Team. I happened to be tallest.

Talk about talent.

On second thought, I’d better not. Not when you see what happened.

To be continued next week

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

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Hardin Valley Academy sophomores Mikaela Chavis, Leora Boyd and Sophia LaSorsa place third in the C-SPAN regional competition. Photo by S. Barrett

Pictured are (front) Tiger-Rock students Ari Church (gold medal), Gavin Ralston (gold medal and titlist winner), Myles Burgin (gold medal), Nazar Gluschenko (gold medal and titlist winner), Brayden Allin (gold medal), Bosung Choi (gold medal and titlist winner), Lillian Van Brunt (gold medal winner), Yevdokiya Gluschenko, Radek Molchan (gold medal and titlist winner, current World Champion); (back) instructor Joshua Hazelip and students Olivia Henderson (gold medal), Brycen Hazelip (gold medal), Gus Burgin (gold medal and titlist winner), Michael Bowling (gold medal and titlist winner), Amilian Clemes (gold medal) and Ragan Oliver (gold medal). Not pictured is current World Champion, gold medal and titlist winner Kaitie Kurdziel. Photo submitted

Tiger-Rock to compete at world tourney More than 50 competitors represented Tiger-Rock Martial Arts at the national tournament in Chattanooga, and eight of those competitors will move on to the Master’s Invitation at the World Tournament in Baton Rouge July 22-23. “To receive a Master’s Invitation for an opportunity to compete to be a

world champion, you must meet the strict Tiger-Rock taekwondo standards, says Tiger-Rock owner and instructor Josh Hazelip. “You must win a gold medal in forms or sparring at either a sanctioned regional or national tournament, must be a titlist and must receive a Master’s invitation.

KINDERGARTEN ROUND-UP IS APRIL 12 Kindergarten Round-up for the 2016-2017 school year will be held in all Knox County elementary schools Tuesday, April 12.

To enter kindergarten, children should be 5 years old by Aug. 15. To enroll their children in kindergarten during round-up, parents need to bring the child’s birth certificate, proof of upto-date immunizations and health/physical examination, and proof of residency within the school zone. ■Amherst – 3-5 p.m. Info: 560-7001 ■Ball Camp – 3-6 p.m. Info: 539-7888 ■Hardin Valley – 3-6 p.m. Info: 470-2088 ■Karns – 3-6 p.m. Info: 539-7767 (W) or 539-7772 (E)

“While the world tournament draws entrants from all over the world, only a few are allowed to compete for the title of World Champion and must beat out all other titlists with Master’s Invitations.�

Tiger-Rock Martial Arts is located at 9111B Executive Park Drive. Info: www.WestKnoxTigerRock.com.

Family Fun Night at Karns High School Karns High School will host a Family Fun Night for all ages 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the school.

Activities will include crafts and games sponsored by various KHS clubs and sports teams. Admission is free, but donations of school supplies and travel toiletries will be accepted for the Karns Closet for students in need. Info: karnsleadership@gmail.com.

HEALTH NOTES ■Free Health Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 16, Tennova Inpatient Hospice, 7447 Andersonville Pike. Presented by South College School of Pharmacy’s Student Society of Health Systems Pharmacists and students from the Physician Assistant and Nursing programs.

Trio’s video places third with C-SPAN C-SPAN held its annual StudentCam Documentary Contest, and a trio of girls from Hardin Valley Academy were surprised to find out their entry took third place.

This year’s theme asked entrants what they feel is the most important topic that the presidential candidates should address.

Sophomores Leora Boyd, Mikaela Chavis and Sophia LaSorsa say they immediately chose racial injustice not only because it is so prevalent in today’s media and society, but because they see signs of racial injustice in their own community.

The students lined up local professionals and community leaders to interview on camera. They planned to show both sides of the issue but say they were surprised at which side of the issue some of their interviewees took. “We didn’t expect our video to win,� says Leora.

They were afraid technical issues would detract from

the subject matter. “I think C-SPAN looks more at the content than the quality of the video,� adds Sophia.

The girls won $750 to split and $150 for the school to purchase technology needs. “The competition was a good thing, but it was very, very, very time consuming,� says Mikaela. “These two lived at my house until it was done.�

They worked on the film from August to December and received an in-class grade on their work as well.

C-SPAN received more than 2800 entries from 45 states, Washington D.C., the Virgin Islands, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates, and the team from HVA was among the 150 winners.

HVA students Megan Cox, Bryce Stiles, Abigail Williams, Ryan Hart, Tarver Nicely, Seth Maxwell, Simon Jolly, Drew Freshour and Jake Brown received Honorable Mention for their entries.

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Call for artists â– Knoxville Photo 2016 Exhibition: juried exhibition of photographic works to be held June 3-24 in the main gallery of the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. Entries must be original works completed within the last two years. Entry deadline: Sunday, April 17. Info/application: knoxalliance.com/photo.html. â– Request for Proposals: permanent work of art to be located on the west wall of the underground section of The Emporium Center. Open to all artists. Deadline for applications: 5 p.m. Monday, May 2. Application: knoxalliance.com/underground.html. Info: 523-7543 or lz@ knoxalliance.com.

REUNION NOTES

Ella Stiles plants a pansy at the ECO Garden at Knoxville Botanical Gardens.

Adeline Sellers and Zoe Hull weed a garden bed at the ECO Garden.

Garden visits the gardens

â– Halls High classes of 2005 and 2006 combined reunion, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, Knoxville Hilton. Tickets: Eventbrite.com. â– Knoxville High School Alumni Association will host the Classes of 19101951, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 30, Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike.

Info: Wayne, 696-9858; Sara, 588-6098. â– Sultana Descendants Reunion, 7-9 p.m. Friday,

By Shannon Carey Students in Garden Montessori School’s lower elementary class took a field trip to the ECO Garden at Knoxville Botanical Gardens for the Every Child Outdoors program.

Students went on a nature scavenger hunt through the gardens, exploring the bamboo grove and dogwood trail.

Volunteers led the children in gardening crafts and planting, fertilizing and watering pansies, carrots and lettuce. The students were encouraged to return to the garden to see their crops’ progress and even to harvest some to take home.

Additional crops will be donated to Knoxville Area Rescue Ministries and a local food pantry.

Info: knoxgarden.org

April 22, Mount Olive Baptist Church, 2500 Maryville Pike.

Includes speakers and music.

Public welcome. Banquet, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 23, Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike. Cost: $22.

Info: Norman, shawclan4@ bellsouth.net. â– Woodhill School reunion, 6 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Pleasant Gap Fellowship building. Info: Betty Efflery, 982-0174, or Phyllis Summers, 922-2884.

History award nominations sought The East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS) invites nominations from across East Tennessee for Awards of Excellence in the field of history. The annual awards recognize individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the preservation, promotion, programming and interpretation of the region’s history. The postmark deadline for award applications is April 8.

Info/nomination form: 215-8824; eastTNhistory. org; East Tennessee Historical Society, PO Box 1629, Knoxville, TN 37901.

UT NOTES

Addison Gideon (center) watches as Yuma Livesay and Daniel Carey play a nutrition board game at the ECO Garden at Knoxville Botanical Gardens. Photos by S. Carey

■Admissions Director Kari Alldredge has been named associate provost for enrollment management, having served as the interim associate provost since Kari Alldredge June 1, 2015, following Richard Bayer’s retirement. ■New inductees into the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences’ Educators

Hall of Honor Class of 2016 are: David Madden, a UT graduate, novelist and Civil War historian; Bill McKee, a UT graduate and vice president for academic affairs at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn.; David Northington, a UT professor of piano; Elinor “Pat�

Payne, a UT graduate and music educator; Tom Rakes, a UT graduate and former chancellor of UT Martin; and Marianne Woodside, professor emeritus of counselor education at UT Knoxville.

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Dorry Floyd tends to an azalea bush near her porch as residents along Farragut’s Dogwood Trail get ready for opening day on April 15

Fox Den Drive, one of the main thoroughfares for the Dogwood Arts Festival’s Dogwood Trail in Farragut, is ready with dogwood trees in full bloom. Photos by Nancy Anderson

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By Sherri Gardner Howell The Dogwood Arts Festival will kick off the 2016 season on Friday, April 15, with a gala Dogwood Luncheon at Holston Hills Country Club, which is on this year’s featured trail. The Farragut Dogwood Trail also opens that day and will welcome visitors through May 1.

Farragut’s 7.9 miles of featured streets and neighborhoods is part of the 60 miles of trails that stretch all across Knox County. The Farragut trail showcases 487 homes throughout Fox Den, Country Manor and Village Green subdivisions.

Residents and guests are invited to enjoy the trail with a walk, bicycle ride or drive, following the dogwoods and pink arrows along the trail.

The Farragut trail officially begins at the entrance to Fox Den subdivision on Fox Den Drive and ends just off Old Colony Parkway and Campbell Station Road.

Featured gardens and camera spots for 2016 on the Farragut trail include: Home of Mark and Lisa Caldwell, 11617 Georgetown Drive in Village Green – camera spot only Founders Park at Camp-

Tulips add color along a walkway on Fox Den Drive.

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bell Station, 405 N. Campbell Station Road – public garden; daylight hours Farragut Town Hall’s Memorial Plaza, 11408 Municipal Center Drive – daylight

hours Home of Michael and Mary Bates, 513 Altamira Drive – featuring woodland and perennial garden with many mature white and

pink dogwoods, azaleas and rhododendron.

This is the 56th year for the Dogwood Arts Festival.

For a calendar of events: www.dogwoodarts.com

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Reading and Rotary: a powerful combo It’s a powerful combination of forces that Theresa Carl is a part of these days.

She is the president of the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation that works Theresa Carl hand-inhand with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and with Imagination Library’s local affiliate programs in all of Tennessee’s 95 counties.

One of the other forces involved in this major literacy project are Rotarians in Knoxville, around the state, and even nationally in many states. In fact, when it comes to Theresa Carl, Rotary is for sure part of this.

She stays busy with her other job as the president of the Rotary Club of Nashville. On March 29 she was

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in Knoxville as the speaker for the Rotary Club of Knoxville’s noon meeting at the Marriott Hotel.

The Foundation’s mission is simple: To prepare children in Tennessee for lifelong learning through reading. “This partnership between the Foundation and Imagination Library is a dynamic public-private partnership unlike any other in the United States today,� she said. “This is all about allowing each of our children to have an educational journey that is successful. They are three to four times more likely to stay in school if they can read from an early age.�

Each of the 95 affili-

ate programs enrolls children between the ages of birth to 5 years old to receive books at no cost each month – or 12 books a year for five years. The affiliates and the Foundation provide the money for the program.

Imagination Library manages the selection, the pricing and the distribution of the books and they are distributed from here in Knoxville. The cost of each book, including delivery, is $2.15, she explained. “Why do we do it?� Carl said. “It’s about the development of the brain. By the age of 3, 80 percent of the brain is formed and by age 5 it’s 90 percent, so we have to start reading early to our children.�

There is a “Welcome Baby Initiative� and a “Child Poverty Initiative� to reach those children born to parents who are struggling and to reach the children in foster care. There is a “Birth-

ing Hospital Initiative� to gift each child born a copy of “The Little Engine That Could� prior to discharge. “Early literacy matters for our children and now we have to start engaging our parents to start reading to their children,� she said. “It makes a huge, huge difference.�

Info: GovernorsFoundation.org or 1-877-992-6657 Newsy notes: Two clubs have a pair of very interesting and well-known speakers coming up. Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. James McIntyre, who recently resigned, will speak at Bearden Rotary at noon, Friday April 29, at Buddy’s Banquet Hall‌.On Tuesday, May 31, the Rotary Club of Knoxville will hear from Gov. Bill Haslam at its noon meeting at the Marriott.

Tom King is a retired newspaper editor, a Rotarian for 28 years and past president of the Rotary Club of Farragut. He can be reached at tking535@gmail.com

Grand opening for PT Solutions Members of the Farragut West Knox Chamber gathered at the new location of PT Solutions Physical Therapy of Farragut, 11135 Kingston Pike, for a grand opening ribbon-cutting March 29. Physical therapist and clinic director Enid Tate said PT Solutions specializes in the treatment of pain while increasing strength and function through manual physical therapy, therapeutic exercise and trigger point release. “Recent research shows that therapeutic exercise and manual therapy give the most benefit. We’re so excited to offer these services and to be part of the Farragut community,� said Tate. Photo by Nancy Anderson

Focus on retail could benefit town

By Wendy Smith E-commerce is growing, but the majority of consumers still prefer shopping in brick and mortar establishments, says Lacy Beasley of Retail Strategies. Then, they like to go out to lunch.

Retail Strategies was hired to market the town of Farragut to prospective retailers in 2014. The company “plays matchmaker� by making connections between municipalities and national retailers, she told developers during a meeting hosted last week by the Economic Development Committee (EDC).

She spoke at noon to the Farragut Rotary Club.

A focus on retail leads to higher sales tax revenues

and more v ibrant c om mu n ities, she said. Rooftops no longer follow manufacturing jobs.

Now, peoLacy Beasley ple choose where to live based on assets in the community.

One in four jobs in America is now retail-based, and many of those are high-paying jobs.

Even small retail development can be a big win.

A fast-food restaurant can generate $1-$2 million dollars per year, or $27,000 is sales tax revenue, she said.

The millennial generation, which Retail Strategies defines as those born between 1982 and 2004, is driving the market, and millennials like to shop online for mid-priced items, like books and office supplies. But they don’t like to wait for merchandise, so they also shop in stores.

Retail outlets for health products, technology and sporting goods are thriving.

Baby boomers are very focused on pets, so pet supply retail is growing. Millennials don’t want their parents’ stuff, so furniture retail is booming.

A 40 percent expansion in restaurants, primarily in fast casual and quick

ragut contact for the compaChanges to zoning disny is Tiffany Kilpatrick. She tricts reflect an effort to service (fast food) is also can be contacted at tiffany@ implement the 2012 Comnoteworthy. retailstrategies.com prehensive Land Use Plan.

Farragut has the demoCommunity Develop- Amendments to the comgraphics that retailers crave ment Director Mark Shipley munity service district (S− high home values, low un- gave an update on changes 1) allow for low-impact elemployment and consum- in the planning department. derly care development, and ers that are more interested About 15 projects have been town planners are in the in quality than price point, reviewed this year using the early stages of developing Beasley said. town’s Architectural Design a Mixed Use Neighborhood Retail Strategies will help Standards, adopted just commercial zoning district. market Farragut during RE- over a year ago. The stan- Town property was rezoned Con 2016, a global conven- dards were applied during to Town Center District for tion for the shopping center improvements to West End the first time last year, and industry held in Las Vegas Center, and have gotten pos- Shipley hopes that project in May. Town staff and local itive feedback, he said. will move forward this year. business leaders typically attend the convention.

The town has a threeyear contract with Retail Strategies with the op- ■Thursday, April 7, 8-9:30 a.m., networking: Kids 1st Advocacy Center, 887 US-70, Lenoir City. tion to renew for two more one-year terms at a cost of ■Thursday, April 14, 5-6:30 p.m., networking: Casual Pint – North$25,000 per year. The Farshore, Thunderhead Road.

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Gibbs’ team heads UT construction project

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By Sandra Clark Union County resident and school board member Marty Gibbs is directing a major new construction project at the University of Tennessee.

The Mossman Building is scheduled to Marty Gibbs open for fall semester 2018, and Rentenbach Constructors Inc., where Gibbs is vice president and general manager, is the contractor.

Designed by McCarty Holsaple McCarty Architects Inc., the futuristic building will house flexible laboratory space, a vivarium and general purpose classrooms for UT departments of microbiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, psychology and nutrition.

Ground-breaking was Oct. 29 at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. The facility is named for the late Ken and Blaire Mossman, who met when they were students in 1968 and stayed connected to UT throughout their lives. The couple also endowed a professor in microbiology, a position currently held by Steven Wilhelm.

Ken Mossman’s younger brother, Michael, also a UT graduate, attended the ground-breaking. He said, “At the heart of things they were good people who were interested in education, in-

First floor of 228-person auditorium Architect’s rendering of the 6-story Mossman Building now under construction at UT.

Labs and graduate student work area (architect’s rendering) Photos provided by University of Tennessee

terested in paying things forward.�

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said having state-of-the-art facilities is critical to recruiting and retaining the best faculty and students. “We’ve grown our research awards and expenditures and raised our national profile, particularly in science and engineering. We’ve

made great strides in recruiting more students into STEM majors,� Cheek said.

Dave Irvin, associate vice chancellor for facilities services, recently updated UT supporters on the campus improvements underway: ■The Mossman Building – seven floors (six occupied levels plus a mechanical penthouse); 220,935 square

who oversees a staff of seven.

Oak Ridge. Its headquarters office is now located at 9539 Kingston Pike in the Franklin Square area. This headquarters building, previously a law office, was purchased

by Crye in January 2016 for $1.05 million. Its leased office

feet; total project cost: $102 million â– The Student Union with a portion open and completion expected in 2018 â– The first two buildings in the West End residence hall development are rising on 20th Street and are set to open this fall â– New residence hall and

BIZ NOTES â– Danielle Hemsley recently joined Johnson Architecture Inc. as director of business development.

The Knoxville native brings her broad professional experience in Hemsley architecture, interior design and construction to the firm to identify new opportunities and bolster client relationships. â– Wallace & Wallace Inc., a property management firm, is joining the Coldwell Banker global network. It will remain in its current location at 813 S. Northshore Drive and become the sixth area office of Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, Realtors. The office broker is Katie McHargue,

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â– Crye-Leike has opened an East Tennessee regional headquarters in Knoxville.

CEO Harold E. Crye said he intends to grow Crye-Leike by adding two to three more branches in Farragut and

space at 731 Campbell Station Road in Farragut is now closed.

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see empty and full spaces in real time. â– Facilities Services gets a new home on the site of an old industrial complex at 2000 Sutherland Avenue at Concord Street. Irvin said a part of the building is structurally reinforced with its own power, which will allow Facilities Services to stay operational during the most severe weather conditions.

Work continues at Tom Black Track; the old smokestack at the UT Steam Plant was removed over the December break, marking a visible milestone in the campus’s switch from coal to natural gas; and the former Sophronia Strong Hall continues its transformation into a large and modern science class and laboratory facility. Set to open in 2017, it will house anthropology and earth and planetary sciences departments and will provide laboratory and instruction space for the general biology and chemistry departments.

With all the work underway at UT, it’s great to see a Union County guy in the middle of the mix.

Design Center gets new directors East Tennessee Community Design Center has added five new directors.

Each will serve a three-year term: Lucinda M. Albiston, attorney; Bill Bruce, CRJAIBI Group; Scott Busby, AIA, Smee + Busby Architects; Mary Kathryn Durr, Gregarious Media; and Georgiana Vines, political columnist.

Board officers elected for 2016 include: Jan Evridge, president; Rick Blackburn, first vice president; Nathan Honeycutt, AIA, second

vice president; Katharine Pearson Criss, treasurer; Sheryl Ely, secretary; and Mary Wells Holbrook, past president. Jason Young, AIA, UT Knoxville College of Architecture & Design, is an ex-officio director. “The Design Center has served East Tennessee for many years, through the work of strong, committed volunteers. Our new directors are great examples of this ‘volunteer spirit’ at work,� said Evridge.

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Hips to Hoops

Dad’s still in the game after MS leads to hip surgery Kendrick Tate picks up a basketball, slowly dribbles his way to the far side of the court just beyond the three-point circle. In one smooth, arching flick of the wrist, the ball strips the net. Whoosh!

What’s better than a threepointer with your 9-year-old son watching? Not much.

“He’s the best shooter I know,” a grinning Preston McLeskey says of his Dad. “Good answer,” his father responds with a smile.

They have the court all to themselves this afternoon as Tate, a 41-year-old single father of three, teaches his son the fundamentals of a game he so loved not that many years ago at Austin-East High School. Tate’s youthful appearance and broad smile belies the agony he was in just months earlier before he had both hips replaced at Parkwest Medical Center by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Hal Cates.

“Oh, I love Dr. Cates,” Tate says without hesitation. “I’ll be forever grateful.

He’s just a good man, and I’m not just saying that to build him up.

But when you are going to have a serious proceDr. Hal Cates dure done, you want somebody you can trust and somebody who is going to be honest with you. And he was that from Day One. He just had that comforting effect, so I was not nervous about the surgery. I felt like I was in good hands. So I prayed and prayed about it, and I was just at peace with him. I mean, if you can convince me to have both of my hips replaced at the same time, you have done something. So I have to give him his kudos. I’ll be forever grateful for that man.”

“The bottom line on Mr. Tate was that he was a young man with a severe loss of motion in his hips due to his multiple sclerosis,” said

With his new hips, Kendrick Tate is able to play basketball with his son again.

Dr. Cates. “It was difficult for him to walk, to go up steps, to turn, to do any type of daily living activity with his son. It’s unusual for patients to get bilateral hip replacements done simultaneously, but if the patient is healthy enough like he was, it’s actually easier to get them both done at the same time.”

The surgery, Tate says, was “life-changing,” permitting him to still enjoy the teaching sessions with his son Preston and spending time with daughters Larah, 16, and Kyla, 10.

He himself had hoped to play college ball, but life has a habit of unfolding in unexpected ways. “I realized that basketball was not going to be my avenue as far as making a lifestyle,” he said. “I was good but I wasn’t that good.”

Instead, Tate found his calling as a probation officer and director of the Community Service program of the Knox County Juvenile Court. “I enjoy it,” he says. “I like working with kids. That was my calling. That’s why I’m not in the NBA. That’s what He [God] in-

structed so that’s where I am.”

But his life took another turn about six years ago when he began experiencing numbness in his hands and arms. “I knew something was going on, but I shrugged it off for a long time,” he said. “But I knew ultimately I had to go see what it was.”

The neurologist’s diagnosis – multiple sclerosis (MS), an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body – left Tate stunned.

“It was a shock because I had been relatively healthy, and this meant I couldn’t play basketball so that was a killer,” he said. “So hearing that news and not knowing what exactly MS was all about – I was thinking, ‘Is it like cancer?’ – I didn’t know.”

Fortunately, his MS had been caught early, perhaps as soon as three months after its onset. “They

did some tests and found lesions on my brain and spinal cord,” he said. “They put me on steroids for about a month and said that would deteriorate the lesions.”

The steroids did just that, but not without cost. A couple months later, while playing a game of pickup basketball, he felt some “slippage” in his hips and noticed he couldn’t slide his feet laterally, as in doing defensive drills.

“At first, I thought it was the MS, that it was moving rapidly and it was taking its course,” said Tate.

“I couldn’t figure it out. Then, I thought maybe I had just played too long that day. But I knew something wasn’t right so I went back to my doctor.”

That’s when he learned that the steroids had caused both hip joints to deteriorate. Fearful of surgery, he procrastinated. “I was thinking ‘I’ll deal with this until I’m 70,’ not grasping the realization of the situation,” he said.

“During that whole time, my hips were deteriorating. It went from me doing a casual sprint to not being able to run at all. My hips pretty much folded. I couldn’t spread my legs apart. We’re talking just a minor separation. I could not lift my legs up. Anything to do with the legs, I could not do. At one point, it hurt to walk. Out of a pain scale of 1 to 10, it was like a 15. That’s how bad it was.”

Finally, Tate sought out Dr. Cates. “I just trusted him from Day One,” he said. “We just had that rapport. He was like, ‘You want to stop hurting? You need to have the surgery. It’s that plain and simple.’ After talking with him, I got that reassurance. I was tired of hurting. I had gone from being in good shape to being like a 75-year-old man. That just wasn’t working. I got tired. I wanted to stop hurting.”

On April 8, 2015, Kendrick Tate was rolled into an operating room at Parkwest Medical Center. When he emerged, he had two new hips and a new outlook on life.

“Now I’m flying and bouncing around. Now, I walk just to be walking. I’m back to being my old self,” said Tate. “Before, you could see the grief, the strain, the stress, the pain on my face, but now it’s like total happiness. To me, it’s a new lease on life. I’m going to enjoy these hips for the rest of my life. I’m going to get my usage out of them.”

As for his MS, Tate says it’s under control with medication. “To be honest, I can’t tell I have it anymore,” he said. “Since they put me on medication, it doesn’t hinder me and I still work out and I can still play basketball – maybe not as well as I want to, but I can still play. And that’s enough for me.”

That includes, of course, working with Preston on “just the fundamentals, just learning the game, why you are out there, and understanding what you are doing and why you are doing it as opposed to just being on the court,” he says.

“It makes it much more fun when you know what you are doing.”

No wonder Tate’s son calls him a “fun teacher.”

“He tries to tell me how to dribble with two basketballs and also tries to teach me how to do dribble between my legs or behind my back,” Preston said.

Dad has learned some lessons, too.

“If you are thinking about hip replacement surgery, and know you need to have it and you’re having a lot of pain that’s affecting your daily living, go have it done,” he said. “Things you would normally do you won’t do. I wouldn’t go to basketball games, I wouldn’t go to football games, because it was hard for me to climb the bleachers. It’s life-changing.

Get your life back because nobody should be forced to live in pain.”

What is multiple sclerosis (MS)?

Thought to be an autoimmune disorder, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. It can be relatively benign, disabling or devastating. Some individuals with MS may be mildly affected, while others may lose their ability to see clearly, write, speak, or walk when communication between the brain and other parts of the body becomes disrupted.

Patients with MS lose myelin, a fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers, causing scar tissue (also called sclerosis, plaquesor lesions) in multiple areas with MS. When damaged in this way, the nerves are unable to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain.

The exact cause of MS is unknown, although genetics, environmental factors and viruses are possible culprits. Because there is no definitive test available to diagnose multiple sclerosis, a probable MS diagnoses can be made by following a careful process to uncover symptoms consistent with MS while ruling out other causes and diseases.

Trouble is, however, that MS symptoms vary widely from patient to patient. They may be mild or severe, of long duration or short. They may appear in various combinations, depending on the area of the nervous system affected. About 50 percent of all people with MS experience cognitive impairments related to their disease. The effects of these impairments may be mild, often detectable only after comprehensive testing, and may include difficulty with concentration, attention, memory and/or poor judgment.

Specific treatment for MS will be determined by your doctor based on: ■ Your age, overall health and medical history ■ Extent of the disease ■ Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures or therapies ■ Expectations for the course of the disease ■ Your opinion or preference

Treatments for the conditions associated with MS may include: ■ Medication ■ Clinical trials ■ Assistive technology ■ Rehabilitation activities There is no cure yet for MS. However, there are strategies to modify the disease course, treat exacerbations, manage symptoms and improve function and mobility.

ORTHOPEDIC EXCELLENCE Patients who undergo elective orthopedic surgeries at high-volume, regional hospitals have better surgical outcomes and experience fewer complications than those who undergo those surgeries at local hospitals.* Ask how many joint replacement surgeries your surgeon does and trust your care to the experienced orthopedic surgeons at Parkwest.

TreatedWell.com | 374-PARK Source: Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City) in an analysis of more than 974,000 orthopedic patients. HSS is nationally ranked in orthopedics by U.S.News & World Report and is a multi-year recipient of the HealthGrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award.

Parkwest’s top orthopedic surgeons each average hundreds of orthopedic surgeries per year.

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Boats/Motors/Marine Transportation Automobiles for Sale BUICK LACROSSE - 2011. exc. cond.

V6, leather, 30K miles, $11,500.

Call 423-295-5393.

CHRYSLER CIRRUS - 1998. LXI, AT, 4 dr.,V6 leather seats, loaded. $2495.

(865)308-2743.

LINCOLN TOWN CAR - 2007. Pristine condition. 69,000 mi., $12,500.

(865)654-9990.

Sports and Imports BMW Z3 - 1998, 5 spd., mah. trim, garage kept, mint cond., 39K miles, $19,000. Call (865)573-3549.

HONDA ACCORD - 2015. Honda Accord EXL Hybrid 2015. 8K mi., fully loaded, 50 MPG, like new, $17,900. Call 423-295-5393. (423)337-0224.

Mini Cooper S 2006, manual trans., 1 owner, gar. kept, all serv. records, like new, 112K mi, loaded, $7400 firm. No trades. Serious inquiries only. (865) 719-0761.

NISSAN ALTIMA SV - 2014. 20k mi, sunroof, loaded, alloys, $13,800.

(865)660-9191.

TOYOTA CAMRY - 2000. AT, loaded, exc. in and out, $3200, 865-397-7918 or 865-898-8825. (865)397-7918.

Toyota Camry 2012, excellent car, 4 cyl, 2.5 eng, 25,320 mi, white, non smoking, $15,000. (865) 659-8282.

TOYOTA MR2 - 1989.

5 spd. trans, white, project car.

Morristown (256)520-7837.

4 Wheel Drive FORD EXPLORER SPORT 2015.

Top of the Line, DVD, Headrest, 10K mi., $35,900. (423)295-5393.

JEEP WRANGLER - 1997. Sahara. 72k mi., 4 wheel dr. No accidents, no rust. Very good shape. Green / green. Super nice vehicle. $3200.

Call or text me 914-315-4292.

Sport Utility Vehicles Chevy Tahoe 2003, 4WD, tow pkg, leather, Bose sound, all maint. records, 119K 1-driver mi., exc cond, $8450. 865-539-1145; 865-765-1123 Mitsubishi Montero Sport 2002 SUV $2994 firm. 168K. A/C blows cold.

Brand new fuel pump, alt & batt.

Detailing clean. (865) 694-1494

Trucks CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 2004.

60,600 miles, 2nd owner, exc. shape. $12,000 obo. (423)663-2722.

Vans HONDA ODYSSEY - 2014. Honda Odyssey 2014 Touring, like new, fully loaded, leather, DVD, 31K mi, $26,900. (423)295-5393.

Classic Cars I WOULD LIKE TO BUY a 1970 or 1971 Mercedes 280SL, or a 1961 - 1975 Jaguar XKE, or a Porsche 911, 912 or a 1970s or 1980’s Ferrari. I am willing to buy running or not running. Any Condition. I’m a local guy living in Grainger county. If you have one or know of one please call Call (865)621-4012.

STREET ROD NATIONALS SOUTH May 6, 7, 8

3000 street rods, muscle cars & classics CHILHOWEE PARK Manufacturers exhibits, arts & crafts, vintage parts swap meet & much more.

2014 Hustler Pontoon Trailer, 22-24’, exc cond., $1,000. (865)803-2408.

COBALT 220 1997, boat & trailer, exc. cond. Shown by appt. $16,900 or will consider an offer. (423)745-3013.

SEA RAY SUNDECK 240 2006 - 250 hrs., 26’, 5.0L V8 260HP, gas Mercruiser, black w/tan int., blk. cover, blk bimini, boat lift optional, slip in Concord Marina. $33,000. (865)803-7979.

SEARAY Sedan Bridge 31’, 2 state rms, twin 5.7 Mercruisers, Westerbeke gen., heat & AC, $25,000. 865-690-9090

Campers & RV’s 2004 DAMON LX-400 ESCAPER. 400 Hp Cummins diesel pusher. Only 42K miles. Excel cond. 2 slides. 2 A/C units. 2 baths w/tub. Upgraded flat screen TV’s. Satellite. Dishwasher.

W/D. New microwave/conv oven.

Kept under cover. Priced to sell at $75,000. 865-567-4542.

Vehicles Wanted

FAST $$ CASH $$ 4 JUNK AUTOS 865-216-5052 865-856-8106

Recreation

WANTED TO BUY STANDING SAW TIMBER 865-719-1623

Driver/Transport DRIVERS: CDL-A - Drivers: CDL – A 1 yr. exp., Earn $1,250 + per week, Great Weekend Hometime, Excellent Benefits & Bonuses, 100% No Touch/70% D & H 888-406-9046

DRIVERS: CDL-A - Drivers: CO & O/ Op’s: Earn great money Running Dedicated! Great Hometime and Benefits. Monthly Bonuses. Drive Newer Equipment! 855-582-2265

(817)462-0798 erlkj@gmail.com

2005 Hitch Hiker 29.5’, 3 slides, frpl, 2 flat screen TVs, many access. $17,000 obo. (931) 267-6562.

Services Offered

2006 27’ SUNSET Creek Camper, 12’ slide out w/qn. bed, new awning & camper cover, $10,500, (865)933-6114.

Cleaning Services

2013 JAYCO ULTRA LITE travel trailer, 26-foot, fiberglass, two entry doors, one slide, queen murphy bed, bunk beds, lots of extras! $18,900. Call or text for pictures and/or additional information.

Call (865)771-0691.

COLEMAN STONEY CREEK 12’ pop up camper, Exc cond/in gar. Sleep 9.

Screen rm + extras. 865-690-5965 or gdagnan@utk.edu.

FOREST RIVER LEXINGTON GTS 2008 Class B+ 31.5’, Ford E450 V10, Only 15K mi., 12’ slide out, sleeps 6, Onan Gen., satellite ready, exc. cond. $43,000 neg. 865-368-5260.

FOUR WINDS RV 2006 - 29’, 2 slides, 36k mi, ext. warr. Very clean. Exc. cond. $29,900. (865)657-9402.

MONTANA HIGH COUNTRY 2013 5th wheel, 3 slideouts, in pristine condition. Includes a beautiful deeded lot Gatlinburg. 865-964-8092. $65,000 or best offer. (865)964-8092.

REDUCED. 32’ JAYCO EAGLE Pull behind, bought new 2011, used 4 times, must see, selling due to health $17,000. (865) 696-5153

AFFORDABLE, EXPERIENCED

Reliable residential cleaning.

Call Kathy at (865)363-4388 .

General Services

ADVANTAGE REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICE JIMMY THE PROFESSIONAL HANDYMAN!!

Can fix, repair or install anything around the house! Appliances, ceramic tile, decks, drywall, fencing, electrical, garage doors, hardwoods, irrigation, crawlspace moisture, mold & odor control, landscape, masonry, painting, plumbing.

Any Remodeling Needs you wish to have done or completed!

EMERGENCY SERVICE 24/7 Retired Vet. looking to keep busy.

Call (865)281-8080

Motorcycles/Mopeds 2004 HARLEY-DAVIDSON HERITAGE SOFTAIL CLASSIC $8500- SILVERONE OWNER; LIKE NEW! 19,115 MILES. KURYAKYN LEDS, VANCE & HINES PIPES, LIFT, CHROMED OUT! TEXT 865-660-5993 OR EMAIL AT PETEHICMAN@HOTMAIL.COM. Harley Davidson 2007 Custom Deluxe black & silver, exc cond, numerous add-ons, $10,900. 865-679-8334

Landscaping/Lawn Service

DREAM GARDENS

Beautiful & affordable garden designs! Professional installation, exciting outdoor lighting, bed remodeling, topnotch weeding, pruning & mulching. dreamgardens.us Call (865)680-2076

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Ultra Classic, FLHTCU 1 owner, show rm cond.

Gar. kept. Black pearl. 10,400 mi.

Highly accessorized. 103 CI, fully serviced. Factory security syst. $16,400. Serious inquiries only. Can send pictures (865)274-0007.

HONDA VALKYRIE TOURER 2003, 1520cc. Very low 9600 mileage for this well regarded motorcycle.

No rust or dings, good tread and recently serviced by Honda techs.

2nd set of pipes w/original tips.

Priced at $7,250.00. Phone 865 397 8445 - leave msg if no answer.

(865)256-8099.

KAWASAKI VULCAN 750, 2005 - Looks & runs like new. Little over 7000 mi. $3800/b.o. (865)690-4228.

Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 2007, like new, only 5420 mi, many extras + all stock equip., $6,000. (865)360-7838.

Off Road Vehicles

Garage Sales

NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE - Barrington S/d. Off W. Emory Rd. Sat, April 9th 8am-2pm. Several families participating.

Farmer’s Mkt/ Trading Post Farm Buildings

BARNS - SHEDS GARAGES - CARPORTS PATIO COVERS Millen Garage Builders 865-679-5330 Farm Equipment 763 BOBCAT SKID LOADER, runs strong, good tires, nice machine! $10,900. (865)475-1182.

Save some of your hard-earned money without sacrificing speed or quality.

GOAD MOTORSPORTS East Tennessee’s largest

CFMOTO DEALER

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

Call 423-449-8433 www.goadmotorsports.com

Boats/Motors/Marine

Personal Watercraft

2002 LUND Pro v 1800, Honda 130, to many features to list. Very nice boat. Asking $16,500, Call with questions, 865-773-6708.

2012 GTXS 155 SEA DOO exc. cond. garage kept, Less than 10 hours, Call 423-258-4641 $12.000 obo.

NEW HOLLAND 1411 Mower Conditioner. 10’ cut. Good cond. $10,500.

(865)922-6075

Farm Products

AT YOUR SITE LOGS TO LUMBER USING A WOOD MIZER PORTABLE SAW MILL

865-986-4264 Logs2Lumber.com

FANNON FENCING We build all types of Farm Fencing and Pole Barn. *WOOD & VINYL PLANK *BARBED WIRE *HI-TENSILE ELECTRIC *WOVEN WIRE, *PRIVACY FENCING, ETC.

(423)200-6600

Dogs AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPS Toy / Mini, champion bloodline.

(865) 322-5545. www.dollsanddogs.com Chia Poo puppies, adorable, tails docked & dew claws removed, will be small. F $200. 423-271-5129 Dachshunds Mini, AKC, M&F, Various colors. Long hair. $500-$700. 865266-0237 DOBERMAN PUPS, AKC, Sire XL natl & intl champ - 125 lbs. Great protection, good with kids. $875. Credit cards accepted. 615-740-7909 ENGLISH BULLDOG /OLD ENGISH BULLDOG puppies, females, shots & wormed, $300 each. (423) 271-5129 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS AKC, West German bldlns,3 M, 3 F, vet ck’d. health guar. $700. 865-322-6251.

GOLDENDOODLE - precious puppies, great temperament, no shedding or doggie odor, 1st shots & wormed, $875. (865)466-4380 GOLDENDOODLES F1 & F1B pups, CKC reg, UTD on shots, health guar. $700.

(423)488-5337.

HAVENESE PUPS AKC, home raised, health guar. 262-993-0460. noahslittleark.com LABRADOODLES F1 PUPPIES CKC reg.

UTD on shots, health guar. $700 Call (423)488-5337 Labrador Retriever pups, 9 wks, yellow, block head, parents on prem. $450 w/papers. (423)244-6676

PUPPY NURSERY Many different breeds Maltese, Yorkies, Malti-Poos, Poodles, Yorki-Poos, Shih-Poos, Shih Tzu, $175/up. shots & wormed.

We do layaways. Health guar.

Go to Facebook, Judys Puppy Nursery Updates.

423-566-3647 SHIH TZU puppies, AKC, beautiful colors, Females $600; Males $500.

Taking deposits. 423-775-4016 YORKSHIRE TERRIERS CKC - 1 male, 1 teacup fem. Black & tan. $600-$800.

(865)201-1390

Merchandise

GOOD AS NEW APPLIANCES 865-851-9053

2001 E. Magnolia Ave. Cemetery Lots 2 BURIAL LOTS, West, Berry Highland Memorial, Christus Garden section.

Both for $6500 obo. (954)740-9120.

2 CEMETERY PLOTS, Highland Memorial, Sutherland Ave. Veterns Garden sec., $5000 obo. (865)933-1793.

2 LOTS & 1 open & close at Highland Memorial Cemetery. $7500.

(865)933-1700 2 lots together in Oak Ridge Memorial Gardens in Garden of Devotion. $2,000 each obo. (865) 255-7947 TWO LOTS SECTION 18 LOT 285 SPACES 1,2. - Berry Hghlnd Mem Kingstn pke. 2 side by side lts for 7000 firm sec 18 lt 285 spc 1,2 (423)323-2999

LITTLE RASCALS - Porcelain doll set in boxes, exc. cond. 5 dolls, 1 dog, 1 plate, Hamilton collection, cost over $700, will sell for $200. (865)981-8846

Furniture ALL LEATHER LOVESEAT & CHAIR W/ OTTOMAN - Beautiful dark chocolate Thomasville made. For details call. $1290 CASH ONLY (865)250-1130 LIFT RECLINER Burgundy, good cond. $275.

Call (423)502-3416.

RECLINING SOFA & LOVESEAT - in great cond. Light camel. $550 for both. 865-983-1680; 865-548-0842

Hunt/Fish Supplies SAGE flyrods, lengths 8’6” thru 9’0”, line wts 5 thru 9, total 6 rods, $325 each. Ray (865) 389-4495

Lawn & Garden John Deere riding mower LT155, 3 Honda tillers, 2 Stihl weedeaters, 75 big tall tomato baskets, (50) 5’ metal stakes, 1 lrg stand up freezer, 75 gal. of paint, (1) 40’ ladder. Billy Goat comm. slit seeder. (865) 705-8886

Style

Call 922-4136 or 218-WEST for advertising info

Lots/Acreage for Sale

SCAG COMMERCIAL MOWERS SCAG 61” Turf Tiger, 35HP, exc. cond. $7500. SCAG HYDRO Walk Behind, 52” Cut, 21HP elec. start, $3700.

SCAG HYDRO 36” Walk Behind, 15HP, $2500. Call (865)691-5296.

BEAUTIFUL WOODED LOTS 18 MIN. W OF KNOXVILLE. 3 to 50 acres. $6000 per acre and up. (408)829-7398

KILL BED BUGS & THEIR EGGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug Killers/KIT Complete Treatment System Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com (618)351-7570 TAXIDERMY RED FOX, mounted, very nice, $125.

Call (865)981-8846.

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

Apartments - Unfurn.

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

Beautiful burgundy drumset. $1200 obo. (865)640-6617.

Tickets/Events BATTLE AT BRISTOL TRANSFERS Roundtrip bus transfers to Bristol Motor Speedway 9/10/16 - UT vs VT - $85. Hotel/ticket packages available. ActionJacksonSportsTours. com (888)346-7226

Tools OAK wood boards, diff. sizes; Delta dust collector vac system; Craftsman router table; Delta band saw; Delta planer w/work table. (865) 382-9617

Wanted I BUY DIABETIC TEST STRIPS! - OneTouch, Freestyle Lite, AccuChek, and more! Must not be expired or opened. Call Daniel today for Local Pickup: (865)383-1020

1 BR APARTMENT TALIWA GARDEN South (off Chapman Hwy) Ground level, new carpet $495 577-1687

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

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

No pets. Parking @ front door.

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

Immediate housing if qualified.

Section 8-202.

865-524-4092 for appt.

TDD 1-800-927-9275

SENIOR OR DISABLED HIGH RISE FACILITY Announcements

1 BR APTS. Oak Ridge, TN 865-482-6098

Adoptions OUTDOOR, LOVING, ENERGETIC, MARRIED COUPLE Wishing to create our family through adoption.

We would love to hear from you.

1-800-691-6309 or text (516)-308-2849 website-lizandtomadopt.com

Misc. Announcements REWARD FOR INFO OR RETURN - of lg. concrete HORSE HEAD taken from my yard. (865)603-5413

Real Estate Sales West FARRAGUT. 2 stry, 3-4 BR, 2.5 BA, 3 car gar., prof. landscaping w/irrigation, fncd bkyard, great family nghbrd. comm. pool, $299,000. 865-388-2387 OPEN HOUSE SUN. 2-5 12605 Comblain Rd, Fox Run Subd., 3375 SF, master on main, 4 BR, 3.5 BA. $459,700. (865)226-9805 ROCKY HILL 3BR, 1 1/2 BA, hrdwds, encl. gar., lg. dwnsts den w/wood stv, cul-de-sac, $121K, (865)573-5206

Homes Unfurnished 2 BR, 1 BA brick, Knox Co. area.. new cent H&A, private lot, 1st & last mo. rent $750 + $300 DD. Full sz bsmt, Cr. ck. Refs req. (865) 208-6286.

Cedar Bluff/Middlebrook. 4 BR, 3 BA, 2 story, 2400 SF, newly remodeled, 2 car gar., nice area. Fenced yard. $1100 mo. (865) 257-3338 NORTHEAST, 2 BR, 1BA, laun. room, Large yard, caport, deck, small porch, $450 mo. + DD, no pets, good ref. Call (865)661-3997.

Condos Unfurnished 2 BR, 2 BA CONDO - North Knox, $800/ mo. + security dep., 1st mo. rent, credit ck. No Pets. No Smoking.

(865)556-5691

SEQUOYAH SQUARE 3636 Taliluna Ave., Sequoyah Hills, 1BR condo, appx. 750 SF, great nghbrhd., close to downtown & UT, $750 mo., 1 yr. lse. 865-607-1747.

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn LINCOLN PARK AREA. NORTH. 1 BR effic., W/D conn, No pets or smoking. $400 + dep. (865)922-2325

Lake Property UNBELIEVABLE DEAL! Louisville side main channel, deep water, lake front, 3BR, 2BA, 2100 SF w/dual boat slip & hugh party deck above, needs a few updates, Paid 470K in 2007, asking $420,000. Will not last. Call (865)300-5262.

Collectibles

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

Pets

Appliances

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Super glide Custom FXDC exc. cond. 6500 mi., gar. kept, $7400. 865-268-9431.

VW Beetle 1979, Conv., very orig., bumblebee yellow, beautiful, 75K mi, $12,500. (865) 257-3338.

WANTED 1946-75 Chevy Conve.; 194675 GM Conv.; 1970-76 Chevy or GM 2 dr.; 1967-73 Camaro. Any condition.

Fast cash. (330) 722-5835.

Farm Products Jobs

Manufactured Homes EXCELLENT SHAPE 16x80 3 BR, 2 BA, set up in local park. Only $12,995.

Call Chris 865-207-8825

Real Estate Commercial Wanted to Buy IMMEDIATE ACQUISITION Apartments, commercial income producing Offices READY; INVESTORS seeking 1031 exchange or purchase of income producing real estate, contact AKP properties.

David Alley OA 865-389-7361

I BUY OLDER MOBILE HOMES 1990 up, any size OK 865-384-5643

For Sale By Owner

$121,900 8 year old house and 44 acres at 1245 Snake Hollow Road, Sneedville.

House has 3 bedrooms 2 baths, total of 1,056 square feet. New hardwood laminate floors in living area, new interior paint, and a new wood burning stove. Owner will finance with $6,100 down. Call Bill at 877-488-5060 ext 323 LOUDON, STOCKTON VALLEY RD., 3BR, 2BA Rancher, w/part. finished bsmnt, formal LR & DR, lg. kit, w/ dining area, lg. fam. rm., detached gar. w/shop, huge bldg. 24x24 w/dbl. gar. doors, $240,000. (301)752-3568 .

Lots/Acreage for Sale AVAIL. 15+ ACRES (3) 5 acre tracts, sold together or sep. MPC approved, all util. Halls area. (865)922-7952.

Commercial RE Lease 672 SF, remodeled, office space or small retail. Off Broadway near I-640. Special incentive for long term lease. $550 mo. (865)696-9555

Offices/Warehouses/Rent 4000 SF Office/Warehouse with dock & drive in, prime location Middlebrook Pk. $3,000 mo.

2000 SF Office/Warehouse drive in bay, Papermill, $1,300 mo.

865-544-1717; 865-740-0990

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traffic offenders and teaches how to reduce risk while driving. Cost: $40 members/$50 nonmembers. Must preregister. Info/registration: Kate, 862-9254, or Stephanie, 862-9252.

The Dismembered Tennesseans, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., First Farragut Book Fest for Children, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Baptist Church of Seymour, 11621 Chapman Highway, Founders Park, located next to the Farragut Branch Seymour. Registration: Diane Lewis, 982-1887. Info: Library on Campbell Station Road. Free event includes: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822. a storybook character parade, art activities, face painting, cookie decorating, the Ruff Reading Program, two performances by the Bright Star Touring Theatre and more. Info/schedule: townoffarragut.org/bookfest.

Kitten and cat adoption fair, noon-6 p.m., West Alive After Five: SoulfulSounds Revue, 6-8:30 Town PetSmart adoption center, 214 Morrell Road. p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Sponsored by Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

Drive. Admission: general, $10; museum members and Info: www.feralfelinefriends.org. students, $5. Info: knoxart.org.

Knoxville Alzheimer’s Tennessee WALK, 9 Jay Clark & the Tennessee Tree Beavers, 8 a.m., UT Gardens. Performing will be Knoxville native p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $12, some Emily Ann Roberts, recently seen on NBC’s “The Voice.� discounts available. Info/tickets: www.jubileearts.org.

Info/registration: AlzTennessee.org/KnoxWalk2016.

Reception for new Knoxville Watercolor Maya Festival, 1-4 p.m., UT McClung Museum, Society exhibit, 6:30-8 p.m., Fountain City Art 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free and open to the public.

Center, 213 Hotel Ave. Exhibit on display through May 4. “Music of Led Zeppelin,� 8 p.m., Civic Info: 357-2787.

Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr. Ave. Part of Scruffy City Orchestra inaugural concert, 7:30 the KSO News Sentinel Pops Series. Info/tickets: p.m., First Baptist Church of Knoxville, 510 W Main knoxvillesymphony.com.

St. Program: “Old Friends, New Faces.� Admission: Northside Kiwanis Pancake Jamboree and $5 at the door. Debit and credit cards accepted. Info: Bake Sale, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saint John’s Lutheran facebook.com/scruffycityorchestra.

Church, Broadway at Emory Place. All proceeds support the club’s community service activities. Tickets available at the door: $12 for a family of four; $5 for individuals.

Info: Bill Larson, 693-8845.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Dancing Spider Friends of the Library Used Book Sale, 10 Yoga, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross a.m.-5 p.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Park Drive. For ages 3-9. Info: 470-7033.

Station Road. Info: 777-1750.

Talahi Plant Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Lakeshore Park, Gatlinburg Wine Fest Weekend. Includes at the corner of Northshore Drive and Lyons View Pike.

Gatlinburg Wine Tour, 5 p.m. Friday, Courtyard by Marriott; and Wine Fest, 1-6 p.m. Saturday, Arrowmont Presented by the Knoxville Garden Club and the Garden School of Arts and Crafts. Tickets: $20 each event or $35 Study Club. Theme: “Let it Grow.� Free admission. Info: on Facebook. for combo ticket. Tickets/registration: Gatlinburg.com/ Winefest.

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 15 Selected works by artist Kay List on exhibit, Envision Art Gallery, 4050 Sutherland Ave. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Friday. Info: kaylistart.com; envisionartgallery.com; 438-4154.

THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 17 “Annie, Jr.,� Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 1 and 5 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays.

Info: 208-3677; knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com; info@ childrenstheatreknoxville.com.

MONDAYS THROUGH APRIL 25

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 8-9

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Jazz Lunch at the Square Room featuring “Mike Baggetta plays Patsy Cline,â€? noon-1 p.m., 4 Market Square. Admission: $15 includes CafĂŠ 4 lunch buffet. Info/tickets: knoxjazz.org or CafĂŠ 4.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 8-10 “Hands On Gatlinburg� Arts & Crafts Weekend.

Includes more than 40 classes/workshops in more than 15 studios throughout the Arts & Crafts Community.

Info/tickets: Gatlinburg.com/Events.

Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival, various venues in downtown Knoxville. Info/schedule: rhythmnbloomsfest.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 The Author’s Guild of Tennessee (AGT) meeting, 11:30 a.m. Bearden Branch Library, 100 Golfclub Road. Open to the public. Info: authorsguildoftn.org.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Rose Klix, noon, Halls Senior Center, 4405 Crippen Road.

Participants receive complimentary poetry book from Klix. Info: 922-0416. “How to Use Facebook for Seniors� class, 1-3 p.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Presented by Social Media 4 Seniors. Cost: $30.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9 AAA Driver Improvement Course, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., AAA office, 715 W. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. Eight-hour course helps reduce points for

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SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Sing Out Knoxville, a folk singing circle open to everyone, will meet 7-9 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike.

Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or call 546-5643.

MONDAY, APRIL 11 AARP Driver Safety class, 7:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m., South Knoxville Senior Center, 6729 Martel Lane. Info/ registration: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

All Over the Page: “The Truth According to Us,�

6:30 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Facilitated by Travis Tidwell, school librarian for Sevier County Schools. Info: 215-8750.

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