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By Wendy SmithJune Loy Whitaker moved

to a 130-acre farm on Sinking Creek in 1935, when she was just 19 months old. She was the youngest of “Doc” Garfield Loy’s and Zola Loy’s 11 children, and the family moved to West Knox County after their Union County farm was condemned by TVA for Norris Lake.

June and her husband, Bob, still live in a waterfront home that Bob built on the property. Five other family members, including their son, Michael, have homes on the former farm.

It appears that June’s property will once again be condemned by forces beyond her control. Unless the Whitakers and their neighbors are successful at the Jan. 22 meet-ing of the Board of Zoning Appeals, John Huber will build nine three and four-story apartment build-ings a stone’s throw from the cou-ple’s home.

This is the third time that wa-ter, or a waterfront development, has threatened the Loy family

property. After leaving one farm to escape a TVA lake, the family learned that another lake would soon encroach upon their land, and they began to anticipate the rising waters of Fort Loudoun Lake as construction of the Fort Loudoun Dam began in 1940.

When they received word that the fl ood gates had closed in Au-gust of 1943, June and her sister ran down the hill to watch for the water. As it turned out, it took two weeks for the lake to reach their property.

The farm was so remote that the Loys didn’t have electricity until June was a Farragut High School student. Most of their needs were met by the farm, where they grew vegetables and raised cattle, hogs and chickens. To avoid driving to Bearden for items like sugar and coffee, June sometimes walked east on the railroad tracks to a small market at Ebenezer Cross-ing, where Pip’s Iron Works is now located.

It still seemed remote when Mi-chael was growing up.

“Dad always called it ‘40 and plumb.’ It was 40 miles out, and plumb in the middle of nowhere,” he says.

After graduating from UT with a degree in mechanical engineer-ing, Michael moved to Kingsport. But he came home when he had a job opportunity in Oak Ridge.

“He said, ‘There are things more precious than money. Every-thing I love is here,’” June recalls.

He still loves the natural beauty of the property. Deer graze regu-larly in the fi elds, and great blue herons lurk in the shallow waters of the cove. June points out the is-land where the majestic birds nest together.

But the family is realistic. They knew the property across the water would eventually be de-veloped. They’re not opposed to development, Michael says, and not necessarily opposed to apart-ments. But they are opposed to the number of units that has been ap-proved by MPC and Knox County Commission.

June doesn’t want to see tall

buildings when she looks out her window and is concerned about light pollution.

Michael thinks that too many acres were included in the calcu-lation that determined how many units could be built on the site. If property protected by the Hilltop and Ridge Protection Plan was excluded, far fewer units could be built, he says.

He is also concerned that a con-servation easement that Huber says will protect nearby home-owners isn’t yet on paper.

“How will they protect it dur-ing construction if no one knows where it is?”

While several commissioners visited the Westland Cove devel-opment site from Emory Church Road, Amy Broyles was the only one who visited the Whitaker property, which is accessible from George Williams Road. June in-vited them all.

No matter what happens across the water, the family plans to stick around.

“We’re not leaving,” says June.

Bob and June Whitaker stand at the edge of the

property that has been in June’s family since

1935. John Huber has received county approval

to build nine apartment buildings with 348

units immediately across the water from the

Whitaker’s West Knox home. Photo by Wendy Smith

By Sandra Clark Is Shopper-News at war with

Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero? Absolutely not, despite what you might read occasionally on Page 4.

Rogero has tackled tough is-sues such as the city’s under-funded pension liability. She has not called for a grape or lettuce boycott or done any other dread-ful thing her campaign opponents implied when they whispered “She scares me to death.”

And last week Rogero rolled out a draft plan to address homeless-ness. She’s posted the plan online and is calling for public input.

See http://www.cityofknoxville.org/development/homelessnessp-landraft2014.pdf. Comments will be accepted for 45 days.

According to the city’s press re-lease, the draft is the work product of a mayoral-appointed Round-table that included the executive leadership of agencies, ministries and organizations that provide services, shelter and housing for the homeless.

“Homelessness is a complicated issue, and effective responses re-quire collaboration among many different partners,” Rogero said. “This plan is not a solution to any single problem. It is a framework that we will use to coordinate ef-forts to address both short-term and long-term challenges for peo-

ple experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.”

Thankfully, Rogero is not talk-ing about a 10-year plan to end homelessness. That idea raised and then dashed hopes with un-pleasant opposition from various neighborhoods where new hous-ing might be developed.

The best we can do is mitigate the factors such as foreclosure that push people into the streets. We should move along the able-bodied residents of public housing to open up resources for short-term housing for the newly home-less. Public housing should not be permanent and even generational.

And any plan must consider the homeowners and businesses in the areas most impacted by the

Rogero tackles homelessness, treeshomeless. It must involve groups such as Compassion Coalition, which works to connect church members with people in need.

The whole community must work short-term while looking long-term. Is Madeline Rogero our very best leader to tackle this com-plex problem? Absolutely. Can you name one better suited?

The city will conduct a public input session 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the Cansler Family YMCA, 616 Jessamine Street. A city council workshop on the pro-posed plan will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the main assembly room of the City County Building.

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Sad times on Sinking CreekLooking backWendy Smith has captured

many wonderful stories, and today she shares her best from 2013. She writes:

Nothing is as satisfying to me as a good story, and Bearden is brimming with them. When I look back at the places I’ve been and the folks I met this year, it’s tough to choose a favorite story.

But listening to each of these stories transported me, for one reason or another, to a special place. Bear with me while I reminisce.

➤ Read Wendy’s Wrap on A-3

On tearing down Gibbs Hall

Marvin West goes way back with UT’s Gibbs Hall. He writes:

Down goes Gibbs Hall, well, soon. The old athletic dorm and Stokely Center will be mere memories as Tennessee clears the way for progress – parking garage, new dorm and three practice fi elds for football.

➤ Read Marvin’s tale on A-5

The Doc is inCarol Zinavage scored an

interview with band leader and trumpeter Doc Severinsen at his home in Blount County. She writes:

The paint crew that’s working up-

stairs doesn’t know who he is.“He’s the nice guy who hired

us to paint,” they say with grins and shrugs. They agree to Google him when they get home.

Anyone who grew up watch-ing The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson instantly rec-ognizes the iconic bandleader.

➤ Find Carol’s Corner on A-6

First Tennessee to mark 150 years

First Tennessee Bank’s promise is to be the best at serving our customers, one op-portunity at a time. The bank was founded in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was presi-dent, and employees have been practicing that promise ever since – even if it wasn’t written down. No fi nancial institution could endure for a century and a half without dedicated employees earning the trust of generations of customers.

➤ Read Pam Fansler on A-10

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By Betsy PickleHiking or walking can be

fun, but to get in touch with the ground you’re covering, you really need to trek.

TREK South does just that.

“It started as a conversa-tion between me and two of my neighbors,” says Debbie Sharp, recalling the group’s October 2011 genesis. “We were just talking about how South Knoxville has so many amazing little gems – like Fort Dickerson, Ijams Nature Center, I.C. King Park – that we had not ex-plored.

“We said, let’s get a group together to start exploring these beautiful places.”

They came up with TREK South – Traverse Ride Ex-plore Knoxville South – and even envisioned TREKs springing up in other parts of town.

“We just haven’t expand-ed yet,” Sharp says.

In the two-plus years the group has been going on monthly hikes, it has visited Fort Dickerson, the Wil-liam Hastie Natural Area, Marie Myers Park, Ijams Nature Center and I.C. King Park, among others. “We do have fun,” says Sharp. “It’s a wonderful group.”

Sharp shares credit with cofounder Joanna Henning, now on hiatus, and current co-leader Terrin Kanoa, for the success. They average

Exploring South Knox’s ‘little gems’

Candoro celebrates 90th Justin and Katie Martin, Ryan and Elene Cazana, and Clay and Buff y McDonald are ready for fun at Candoro.

Victor and Joan Ashe, Lin Christenberry and Bob Gilbertson enjoy themselves at the Candorodinner. Photos by Betsy Pickle

The New Year’s Eve din-ner at Candoro Marble brought out the glamorous spirit in attendees, with many playing up the eve-ning’s 1920s theme in their glitzy attire.

Candoro supporters and others helped celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Candoro Marble Building through the event, which aimed to raise funds to cov-er the cost of restoring the building’s windows.

Holly Hambright of Hol-ly’s Eventful Dining catered the elegant dinner. Swing band Devan Jones & the Up-town Stomp provided dance music. April Burt designed the décor.

– Betsy Pickle

10-15 hikers but have had as many as 25. Most hikes are on the third Sunday of the month.

The next one is 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at Fort Dickerson, starting at the Augusta entrance. There is no fee, and everyone is wel-come.

“We usually start at 1 o’clock and try to make sure people get back by 3,” says Sharp. “We know people are busy.”

During the summer months, TREK South tries to schedule hikes on Satur-day mornings. “I can hike in this temperature any time, but when it gets to be 95 degrees, I get grumpy,” says Sharp. “We try to plan the hikes in the summertime to be earlier in the morn-ing, but then there’s a lot of times people don’t want to get up that early.

“When it gets too hot to do a hike sometimes, we had thought that exploring some of the neat little shops in South Knoxville would be fun – maybe do two or three and then eat at a restaurant in South Knoxville that’s only in South Knoxville. We haven’t done it yet, but that’s defi nitely on the agenda.”

One of Sharp’s original goals was “to create commu-nity. I love hiking, walking in my neighborhood,” says the South Woodlawn resi-dent. “People just talk more

freely when you’re walking, hiking. And you get to know your neighbors better.”

They’ve also gotten to

know and appreciate mem-bers of the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club, who maintain the trails in the

Urban Wilderness. “We run into so many great people out there,” says Sharp.

For more info, visit TREK

South on Facebook or email Sharp at dspuravida@ya-hoo.com.

Dogwood Arts issues call for landscape designers, interior decorators

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Wendy Smith

Nothing is as satisfying to me as a good story, and Bearden is brimming with them. When I look back at the places I’ve been and the folks I met this year, it’s tough to choose a favorite story.

Bearden’s best of

2013

But listening to each of these stories transported me, for one reason or another, to a special place. Bear with me while I reminisce.

■ The picture inthe windowI’ll confess that Eileen

and Ernie Gill are friends of mine. We attend the Laurel Church of Christ together. But their story is so wildly romantic that it begged to be told to a wider audience.

In Ohio in the late 1940s, Eileen walked by a photog-raphy studio on her way to school each day. She and her cousin would gaze at a photo of a dashing young man displayed in the win-dow, and she often won-dered what he did.

On Christmas Day in 1952, she was engaged to someone else. But when a family friend dropped by with his son, a soldier re-cently returned from Korea, she was smitten.

After extricating them-selves from other relation-ships, Eileen and Ernie were engaged. The night she received a ring, they exchanged photos. She was surprised to receive a copy of the picture from the pho-tography studio. The Gills celebrated their 60th anni-versary in February.

“I still think he’s the best-looking man I ever saw,” Eileen says.

■ Growing up at LakeshoreBedford, Larry, Ava and

Carolyn Peterson grew up surrounded by friends that seemed like family and acres of play space. Their front yard had a swing set and a plastic pontoon boat they used as a swimming pool, and they were sur-rounded by adults who dot-ed on them.

It was a wonderful child-hood, says Ava, now Ava Randolph. She didn’t know that growing up at Eastern State Hospital, which later became Lakeshore Men-tal Health Institute, was a unique experience.

“I didn’t know these people weren’t normal,” she says.

Their father, Dr. Bedford Peterson, was superinten-dent at Eastern State from 1939 to 1964, except for a short stint in the Navy. In those days, the superinten-dent was required to live in what was called the Center Building, which became known as the Administra-tion Building.

Ava later became a nurse at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute. She determined her future career at age 5 because she liked the crisp, white uniforms and playing nurse to the patients.

Fortunately, her former

Bedford Peterson took this picture of what is now called the Lakeshore Administration Building in the early 1950s. Photo sub-mitted

The photo of Earnest Gill that captured the attention of his future wife, Eileen. Photo submit-ted

home will be preserved if a proposed master plan for Lakeshore Park is approved and funded.

■ The women of St. GeorgeKoulourakia. Loukou-

mades. Galaktoboureko. If you think they’re diffi cult to pronounce, imagine bak-ing enough of these Greek pastries to satisfy 20,000 Greek Fest attendees.

I was fortunate enough to spend time with mem-bers of the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church Philoptochos Society, the group responsible for bak-ing these yummy pastries. That morning stands out in my mind because the wom-en were delightful, and I left with a box of treats in my hand.

his hands. The Roush familymoved to Knoxville from In-diana in 1964, when Rex was9. He was enrolled at Beau-mont Elementary School,which served all of the city’sspecial needs students.

Jean became room moth-er, and she loved the ca-maraderie of the students.After those students gradu-ated from public school,they had nothing to do, soshe started a craft work-shop in the basement ofher church, Sequoyah HillsPresbyterian.

She knew these youngpeople were capable ofworking in an assemblyline. It took time for themto learn their jobs, she says,but once they did, it was im-portant to them to do well.

“They had great qualitycontrol,” she laughs.

She takes little credit forher contribution to what isnow Sunshine Industries.Instead, she points to thework of other volunteersand organizations, like theAkima Club. She still looksback on the early days of theworkshop with fondness.

“I loved every minute ofit. It took me awhile to ad-just to being around normalpeople.”

Sperry Kotsianas, Mary Kampas, Rose Captain, Judy Coloco-tronis, Marika Peroulas, Eleni Caracostas and Helen Kotsianasprepare pasta fl ora for this year’s Greek Fest. Photo by Wendy Smith

Jean Roush with the Christ-mas card she designed in 1972 for Sunshine Workshop employees to sell door-to-door. Photo submitted

■ The beginning of Sunshine WorkshopJean Roush didn’t know

there was anything wrong with her son, Rex, until a checkup at age 2. In spite of his healthy appearance, Rex’s brain would not de-velop normally.

When Rex, the second of the Roush’s four children, entered school, Jean recog-nized that he was good with

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During my visit, the women assembled 20 pans of pasta fl ora, a shortcake-type pastry topped with preserves and decorated with latticework. This was the 34th Greek Fest, but some of society members have sold pastries for 50 years, Wheeler says.

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City planting 600 treesOn a more pleasant topic,

Rogero has separated ur-ban forestry programs from horticulture operations, making each its own divi-sion within the Public Ser-vice Department.

The reorganization il-lustrates the priority placed on fully planning and devel-oping all of the city’s green spaces, and it also comes as contract crews are conduct-ing the winter plantings of

600 trees.Kasey Krouse, urban for-

ester, is overseeing a com-prehensive inventory of the city’s trees that will be used to plan which trees should best be planted where to ensure a healthy, diverse ur-ban forest.

Neighborhoods with few-er trees, or a narrow range of species, are prioritized for new plantings.

Parkridge is getting trees between the side-walks and roads on Wash-ington, Jefferson and Fifth avenues.

Council member Fin-

barr Saunders designated $2,420 from the Communi-ty Improvement (202) Fund to increase the Parkridge plantings by 20 trees.

Last spring, Vice May-or Nick Pavlis designated $361.47 from the 202 Fund to add trees along Chapman Highway.

Council members Mark Campen and Saunders to-gether designated $900 from the 202 Fund to sup-port Arbor Day educational workshops and to plant trees at Christenberry and Lonsdale elementary schools.

Knox County Schools opens transfer window Knox County Schools is now accepting requests from

parents for their children to be transferred to magnet schools and for general transfers for the 2014-2015 school year. The transfer window will be open through 4 p.m. Feb. 18. Transfer applications are available at choice.knox-schools.org, at magnet school locations, and the Trans-fers and Enrollment Offi ce at the Knox County Schools Central Offi ce, 912 S. Gay St. After the Feb. 18 closing, the window for both magnet and general transfers will open again May 1-July 1, 2014.Info: choice.knoxschools.org or 594-1502.

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missioner Larry Martin attended the Dec. 21 recep-tion for council member and former Mayor Daniel Brown at Broker Hall on Martin Luther King Blvd.

The board will then go to six members if Sansom and Haskew depart but still have a quorum to transact business. A new chair would be elected, too.

The departure of Mc-Bride cannot be blamed on Republicans in the U.S. Senate but totally on the White House. The seat is vacant due to White House inaction.

The seat became open in May 2013. McBride was chair of the TVA audit committee and a member of the external affairs committee. He wanted very much to be reap-pointed.

McBride disappointed several supporters for his low key and quiet approach to several high profi le issues such as CEO Johnson’s $5.9 million salary for nine months, closed TVA committee meetings and silence on the 2-year dress code for board meetings which triggered a federal First Amendment lawsuit. The charge was he had been co-opted by Johnson and top staff.

The President has mentioned the possibil-ity of selling TVA, and the agency has declined to comment on whether it can be sold without congressional action which seems strange given TVA has a huge legal staff available to comment on hundreds of other issues.

Their spokespersons said the senators would have to answer that ques-tion.

■ Longtime UT Law professor Carl Pierce is retiring this summer. He started in 1972 at the UT College of Law. He was director of the Howard Baker Public Policy Center for several years follow-ing Alan Lowe’s departure to head up the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas. He has done many interviews with for-mer Sen. and Ambassador Howard Baker.

■ There was a large crowd Dec. 29 at the service at Canaan Baptist Church at which longtime pastor Harold Middlebrook gave his fi nal sermon as the pastor. In addition to former Mayor Brown and this writer at-tending, council member George Wallace and his wife, Stephanie, attended. To their credit, both were very engaged in the service and took copious notes.

Martin was Brown’s deputy when he was mayor. Also attending were Vice Mayor Nick Pavlis, council mem-bers George Wallace, Duane Grieve, Nick Della Volpe, Finbarr Saunders and Marshall Stair, along with the city’s community relations director Tank Strickland. Also attend-ing were former state Rep. and council member Bob Booker (now director of Beck Cultural Center), state Rep. Joe Armstrong and retired pastor Harold Middlebrook.

■ Randy Boyd, Knox-ville entrepreneur and un-paid higher education ad-viser to Gov. Bill Haslam for the past year, wraps up his time in Nashville in early February.

■ Mayor Tim Bur-chett is getting his fund raising for re-election started on Tuesday, Feb. 18, with a $100 a couple event at the Lighthouse on Baum Drive from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Invitations will go out two weeks before the event. Burchett does not have an opponent at this time and appears to be a sure bet for a second and fi nal term as county mayor.

■ Neil McBride lost his seat on the TVA board today when Presi-dent Obama not only failed to reappoint him but also did not name anyone else.

The 9-member board goes to eight members which will save the pay for one – $50,000 plus travel.

If the President contin-ues to ignore expiring TVA board appointments, then two more vacancies will occur in 2014 including the chair, Bill Sansom, president of H. T. Hack-ney Co. and former state transportation commis-sioner. Barbara Haskew of Chattanooga also departs.

They will go off the board the end of this year although their terms actu-ally end in May unless re-nominated and confi rmed.

Mediating the tire store warsWhen is a managing real

estate broker responsible for the action of an affi li-ate broker? Pretty much al-ways, according to the state Court of Appeals.

In a decision fi led Dec. 23, the court overturned a decision by Knox County Chancellor Mike Moyers to dismiss Mary Bea Corbitt from a lawsuit involving Reid R. Crumpton and Kelly Beeler Tire Service.

Moyers had granted sum-mary judgment to Corbitt, who was managing broker for Heath Shuler Real Es-tate LLC in October 2004 when Plaintiff Crumpton entered into a contract to purchase real estate that in-cluded a house and business from Kelly and Patsy Beeler. Patricia Grissom was the af-fi liate broker for the trans-action.

Crumpton was damaged, he said, when a 5-year non-compete agreement was not included with all copies of the contract. He sued every-one in sight.

Corbitt asked to be dis-missed, saying she was not personally involved in the plaintiff’s purchase and had no knowledge of the trans-action, therefore could not

be held liable for the actions of the affi liate broker.

In an opinion written by Judge G. Michael Swiney, the court said Tennessee law created a duty on the part of the managing broker, and Corbitt failed to show that she met the standard of care suffi cient to satisfy her duty. The court reversed the summary judgment and re-manded the case for further proceedings.

Corbitt argued: “My du-ties as managing broker at Heath Shuler Real Estate did not include involvement in the day-to-day activities or review of the routine con-tracts of independent con-tractor realtors affi liated with the brokerage.”

Judge Moyers said to hold a managing broker respon-

sible for “possible misrep-resentation or negligence of her affi liate brokers” would create a strict liability for managing brokers for the negligent or intentional torts of their affi liates.

The appellate court held “by simply and purpose-fully remaining ignorant of the substance and details of an affi liate’s transactions,” a managing broker could “completely escape her stat-utory duty and any liability.”

In the Crumpton case, the court held, the manag-ing broker’s liability, if any, arises from a breach of her own statutory duty – not from the actions of the af-fi liate broker.

It’s an interesting case with several well-known participants.

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Big stories for 2014:

■ 384 fi les are misplaced in the Criminal Court Clerk’s offi ce and three dozen citizens are herded off to jail. Clerk Joy McCroskey goes on cruise.

■ Ruthie Kuhlman, Herb Mon-cier and Brian Hornback get stranded on a desert island. Together. Republicans every-where rejoice ... and lay odds on which will survive.

■ Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones gets the endorsement of former Sheriff Tim Hutchison. Hundreds of heretofore-un-decided GOP primary voters start wearing those Bobby Waggoner armbands that read: “Wagg 4 (star).”

■ Competition for who can draw the most public pen-sions accelerates when ace reporter Snidely Whiplash dis-covers a former city teacher working as a bailiff for the Sheriff ’s Offi ce after a retire-ment job in city government.

■ Ahh, public employment. Where some make little and many make much.

■ Doug Harris, in voting to extend Superintendent Jim McIntyre’s contract until Dec. 31, 2017, mentioned that he serves some 50,000 meals a day. Wow! And there’s a CEO job open just up the road at Ruby Tuesday.

■ Stacey Campfi eld is working on gun bills, mentioning on his blog that he’s remorse-ful about allowing cities and counties to opt out of state

law. “A citizen should know what is and what isn’t a state crime statewide,” he said.

■ Stacey also noted his resem-blance to Jason Garrett and

said he’s not a can-didate for coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

■ With Cheri Siler joining Dr. Richard Briggs in trying to

oust Campfi eld, one could call it the race of the red-haireds versus the no-haired.

■ Human capital just ain’t what it used to be. When Superin-tendent Jim McIntyre hired

former KPD guy Gus Paidousis to head up school security and boosted its ranks to 100 or so, who vetted those hired? We had a guard arrested re-cently for indecent exposure at Tyson Park. Somebody get that guy a petition to run for county commission!

■ Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey turned heads with his Christmas greeting in which he cel-ebrated that dates are being set for executions. Finally, it’s about time and joy to the world, you-all.

■ Mike McMillan has as much chance of being school super-intendent on Dec. 31, 2017, as does Jim McIntyre. So what was that extension really about? It boosted the buy-out by $225,000.

Jason GarrettAP photo/Tim Sharp

Betty Bean

Good-bye apathy.Hello involvement.There was very little in-

terest in local politics last year and most city council incumbents ran unopposed. Election Day was greeted with a collective yawn.

But if the growing list of potential candidates for county offi ces who had picked up nominating peti-tions by Dec. 31 is any in-dication, 2014 will be very different. There are county commission seats, fee offi ces and judgeships up for grabs, as well as races for sheriff and attorney general. The deadline to return complet-ed petitions is Feb. 20.

School board races ap-pear to be generating the most interest, and the ques-tion there is whether teach-ers can sustain the passion they demonstrated in No-vember and December and translate it into political clout in the May primary. If they do, the election will become a referendum on James McIntyre and his educational philosophy.

By New Year’s Eve, 16 potential candidates had picked up petitions for fi ve school board races. Incum-

2014: Referendum on McIntyre?

Amber Rountree

bents Lynne Fugate, Pam Trainor and Gloria Death-ridge, all of whom voted to extend McIntyre’s contract to late 2017, are drawing op-position.

Watch for new opponents to sign up to run against fi rst-term 9th District board member Trainor, who was elected with strong support from teachers.

This year will be a differ-ent story. In addition to the district’s menu of perpetual candidates, her potential opponents include at least two former educators – Jim McClain (a former principal, school board member and a former Trainor supporter) and Larry Clark (a retired teacher and county com-missioner who now works for the sheriff as a bailiff).

Trainor’s most inter-esting opponent could be fi rst-time candidate Amber Rountree, a school librar-ian and outspoken critic of McIntyre’s heavy reliance

on data-gathering and high stakes testing.

Rountree said she will fi nd new employment if she is elected.

“My understanding is that as an employee of the board, I would probably not be able to hold my teaching position,” she said. “But my degree is in library science, which is more versatile and not as tied to working in a public school environ-ment. My gut instinct is to go ahead and do it. I think we need to see some change – pro-active, not reactive change. I’m going to run a very grassroots campaign.”

She has set up a Twitter account (@vote4rountree) and chosen a slogan –“Growing Great Schools”– and a logo – a tree.

Patti Bounds, a veteran teacher at Brickey-McCloud Elementary School and longtime Powell resident, may run in school board District 7 where term-limit-ed county commissioner R. Larry Smith is a candidate. Incumbent Kim Severance, who also voted to extend McIntyre’s contract, is not seeking re-election.

Bounds plans to retire from Knox County Schools at year’s end. She teaches kindergarten.

Another teacher, Cheri Siler, will be picking up a petition next week to run in the Democratic primary for state senate for the 7th Dis-trict, the seat now held by Republican Stacey Camp-fi eld. She will be the guest of honor at a fundraiser at Central Flats and Taps 5-10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30. Her mother, Donna Edwards, will serve as her campaign treasurer, and contribu-tions can be mailed to Cheri Siler for State Senate, 5507 Shannondale Road, Knox-ville, TN 37918; or through her Facebook page (Cheri Kay Siler) or her campaign website, Cherisiler.com.

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Marvin West

Down goes Gibbs Hall, well, soon. The old athletic dorm and Stokely Center will be mere memories as Tennessee clears the way for progress – parking garage, new dorm and three prac-tice fi elds for football.

This dorm was built in ’64 and named in a knee-jerk reaction to the death of assistant basketball coach Bill Gibbs, 35. He was lost on the morning of Feb. 3 that year, when a commuter plane crashed on takeoff in Gainesville, Fla.

An entire generation may not have known or cared about Bill Gibbs. I did. That was one of the worst days in 60 years of newspaper life.

The basketball Vols were in Florida for a Mon-day night game. Gibbs was the advance scout who

Down goes Gibbs Hall

had charted the Gators on Saturday. He gave his re-port to Ray Mears and the team at the Sunday walk-through. The next day he would be moving on to see a future foe.

When I heard about the crash, I read tea leaves. Bill wasn’t at the hotel so he al-most certainly was on the fl ight. I hurried to the airport. There were no survivors. I got around enough police tape to see the wreckage from a dis-tance but couldn’t confi rm anything with authorities,

no matter how I asked the same questions.

This was another time in the news business. It was important to be fi rst but more important to be accu-rate. Of course I wrote the story but the combination of personal hurt and profes-sional frustration made for a bad-hair day.

Gibbs Hall became a fo-cal point in my many years of covering the Volunteers. Access to athletes was far more open then and I con-ducted almost daily inter-views in the dorm lobby, after practice and after din-ner, without Haywood Har-ris or Bud Ford arranging or monitoring conversations.

Steve Kiner and I once talked for two hours in his room – about life, obliga-tions, responsibilities, ex-

pectations. The linebacker was struggling. I was a young husband and father and Sun-day school teacher. I thought I had all the answers.

It was an unforgettable ex-perience. We remain friends.

Kiner and Gibbs Hall – he was guardian of an adopted stray dog named Rabies. I believe it slept under his bed. He and other Vols smuggled in meat scraps. Maids and janitors didn’t notice.

Kiner and Gibbs Hall – he once walloped basketball giant Rupert Breedlove over a table dispute in the dining room and had to skip a few meals as punishment.

Tim Townes, very small freshman safety, was mis-identifi ed in the dining room by assistant coach Bob Davis: “Son, this is the football section. Wrestlers sit over there.”

Gus Manning persuaded Tom T. Hall and part of his band to stop one evening as

cultural enrichment for the Volunteers. That was the fi rst time I heard “Water-melon Wine.”

Joe Louis came to see and be seen. I tried but the former heavyweight boxing champion didn’t say much.

Bernard King lives on in Gibbs memories. Greg Phil-lips was second-team foot-ball but fi rst in electrical engineering. He was study-ing late when loud music interrupted concentration. He took a walk, found the sound and asked the bas-ketball star to turn it down. King said OK.

Greg went back to books, heard more music and made another trip. Sorry about that. And there was peace and relative quiet.

Phillips seemed more de-termined on the third trip. When Bernard opened the door, Greg picked him up and dumped him onto the stereo. It broke. It is good

for all of us that King didn’t.Police, now and then,

visited Gibbs Hall. Eventu-ally doors were locked. That didn’t prevent the occasion-al girl incident.

The dorm was a focal point as recently as January 2010, after the sudden departure of a famous football coach. From a second fl oor window, somebody screamed, “Go to hell, Lane Kiffi n.”

John Ward delivered the most famous dorm mention, Vol Network, 1967, from the campus of Mississippi State. One fi ne guard hit free throws with seven seconds left in the third overtime to clinch the SEC champi-onship. The big trophy be-longed to the Volunteers.

Ward said: “Wrap it up, tie it in orange and white, and send it to Bill Justus, care of Gibbs Hall, Knox-ville, Tennessee!”(Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com)

January and February can be gloomy, cold and damp. Up in Vermont they call this time of year “stick season.” Aptly named – just look at the hillsides of bare limbs and twigs – all you see are sticks.

Winter birding

Dr. Bob Collier

This is prime season for watching familiar yard-bird friends at our bird feeders.

So why would someone even consider going out on a cold damp morning into a world of sticks and stems to look at birds, espe-cially since there’s nothing out there but a few cardi-nals and chickadees, and a bunch of little brown spar-rows that all look alike, and are nearly impossible to see anyway?

Well, now, that’s a good question, but it has some good answers (or I wouldn’t have asked it in the fi rst place). For one thing, just getting outside in the win-ter, birds or no birds, is something everyone should try.

Once you’ve been out and about in the winter and found that you can survive, and even be comfortable, it tends to grow on you. You will discover that all those trees and bushes and grassy fi elds that were there in the summer are still out there – they just look different. Even though they’re bare and brown, they are full of bird food. All those weeds and fl owers have produced zillions of seeds, and the sumacs and grapes and poi-son ivy vines still have dried fruits and berries. And on most days throughout the winter, lots of tiny, tasty in-sects are out and about on all that vegetation.

This adds up to a lot of food for the scores of spe-cies of birds that choose to winter here with us. They’re all busy making a living, foraging through the short winter days, often too busy to pay much attention to a nearby, nosy birdwatcher.

They’re generally easier to see and observe with-out all those pesky leaves on the trees and bushes, and you often have time to really watch some of the harder to spot ones, like the sparrows, and really get to know them.

We know there are a lot of them out there – Christ-mas counts have shown 80 or more species on a single day. In a good place, you’ll be amazed at the numbers of species and individual birds that you can see.

We have no end of good winter birding opportuni-ties in these parts. Think of Tommy Schumpert Park

and Halls Community Park. Without baseball or soc-cer, these parks are usually peaceful, quiet, birdy plac-es. Having nearby streams, good open fi eld, brushy, and forest-edge bird habitats, plus nice walking terrain and even paved walking paths, they make winter birding easy and fun. We spent a couple of hours at Schump-ert Park on the morning of Dec. 19 and came up with 25

species of birds, including four species of sparrows and a surprise fl yover by three sandhill cranes. Nice, easy, pleasant birding.

In the winter, any place with water seems to offer a higher concentration of bird life. Even as small an area as the duck pond in Fountain City often comes up with a surprise wild duck or gull.

Places a little farther out such as Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery on the Clinch River in Clinton, the Song-bird Trail along the river below Norris Dam and the

Norris State Park above the dam, Cove Lake State Park at Caryville, and Fort Loud-oun Dam and the lake above it up through Knoxville, all offer the usual as well as un-expected water- and shore-type birds all winter.

With a little more time, birders try a bit farther afi eld, looking for birds that wouldn’t ordinarily be ex-pected to be here.

Word recently got around that a couple of short-eared owls had been seen hunting over the tall-grass meadows of Cade’s Cove. Short-eared

owls nest in northern Can-ada and the Northwest, and in winter down through the middle of the U.S. They are rare for us East Tennesseans to get to see.

And so on Friday after-noon, Dec. 20, three of us set out for the Cove. The hills and fi elds were lovely, and traffi c nearly nonexistent. We set up our birding scopes on a grassy elevation along Hyatt Lane. Sure enough, as dusk approached, there they were, fl ying like big feath-ered moths back and forth over the fi elds. One was even

kind enough to perch in a leafl ess tree and pose for us for over 30 minutes.

The owls were accompa-nied by three owl-like hawks called northern harriers. We also saw wild turkeys and deer. And then, across the road came a fat, shiny mama bear with three cubs! It was a scene that will stay with us for a while.

Winter birding is a great alternative to the couch or the mall with the woods mosquito- and tick-free, and alive with birds to learn from and enjoy. Good birding!

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The paint crew that’s working upstairs doesn’t know who he is.

“He’s the nice guy who hired us to paint,” they say with grins and shrugs. They agree to Google him when they get home.

In this age of 15-min-ute, viral video fame, Doc Severinsen isn’t known to everyone. His friendly de-meanor and down-to-earth nature make him seem like a regular guy. But anyone who grew up watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson instantly recognizes the iconic bandleader.

When a 30-plus-year friendship with fellow trumpeter Cathy Leach blossomed into romance a few years ago, Doc moved to Maryville to be near her.

The two work together on many musical projects. They’ve appeared in Knox-ville churches in programs of “jazzed-up” gospel mu-sic. There’s always a rustle of excitement when Doc’s lanky, jean-clad fi gure strides to the front.

“People might be sur-prised to fi nd out that I

Carol Zinavage

Carol’s Corner

The doctor is in

Cathy Leach and Doc Severinsen discuss renovations for their farmhouse in Blount County.

don’t really dress ‘like that,’” he says, referring to his well-known habit of wear-ing fl amboyant clothes. He still glitzes it up for concert tours, but “I don’t own any suits. All I own is jeans, work shirts and cowboy boots, so if I play in church, I’m going to be wearing that.”

Both stay busy with in-dividual projects. Cathy, who was the KSO’s princi-pal trumpeter for 31 years, plays with “Stiletto,” an all-female brass ensemble. The group does master classes and concerts all over the country. Their CD, featur-ing Doc as special guest, is available on Amazon.com.

Doc’s quintet, the San Miguel 5, features music with a Latin fl air, including Span-ish guitar. He also leads The

Doc Severinsen in front of his Bount County farm-

house, built in 1840. Photos by Carol Zinavage

Doc Severinsen Big Band, which he says is “the fi nest big band I’ve ever worked with.” And, of course, he’s of-ten featured on his own. This past weekend he appeared with the Milwaukee Sympho-ny in a series of four concerts over three days.

At 86, he’s fi t, healthy and up to such a punishing sched-ule. “I’ve still got the mojo,” he says of his desire to per-form and delight audiences.

One current joint project isn’t at all musical. The cou-ple are restoring a rambling Blount County farmhouse built in 1840. “I am still try-ing to fi nd my way around this place!” laughs Doc.

Cathy’s looking forward to getting all the rooms squared away. The busy pro-fessor of trumpet and direc-tor of undergraduate studies at the UT School of Music sees great potential. “One

room will be my ‘cave’ where I can practice and work on sewing projects. And that’s Doc’s room at the end of the hall,” she says, gesturing to-ward a room literally stacked with trumpets.

In fact, there’s at least one trumpet somewhere in every room of the house.

Both enjoy cooking in the spacious farm kitchen, look-ing at the mountain views and caring for dogs Gracie

Doc (center) jokes

with the paint crew,

Herman DuBose

and Rob Rathbun,

as Cathy looks on.

Doc likes the resonance of the stairwells in

the UT music building.

and Muñeca.On a recent week-

day, they were headed for UT – Cathy to teach and Doc to practice. He enjoys practicing in the stairwell near Cathy’s offi ce because of the resonance. Those lucky enough to be in the building enjoy hearing that big bright sound, undiminished in over 70 years of playing.

“The trumpet is won-derful,” says Doc. “It’s the king of musical in-struments – that’s why they put trumpets on the highest level when you see an orchestra, because they’re the majesty!

“But you can be hu-miliated beyond de-scription. Playing the trumpet will keep you humble. About the time you think you’ve got it made, it’ll reach right up and bite you in the rear!

“If you’re not having such a good day and you don’t feel like you’re playing your best, you’ve just got to keep at it. I get kicked off the horse every darn day in my own practice.

“But you’ve got to get right back on. And I do!”

Stay tuned. Next week we’ll hear about Doc’s musical upbringing and his memories of Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show.Send story suggestions to news@

ShopperNewsNow.com.

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LynnPitts

See? This is a problem. What the author of 2 John may have said to the com-munity of faith we will never know, because it was said and not written. If it had been written, we would likely have it recorded in Scripture.

In much the same way, I have an issue with e-mails. Don’t get me wrong. I appre-ciate e-mail as much as the next person. It is quick and effi cient and quite handy.

However, there are ad-vantages to getting a letter in the mail. Let me explain.

We have, in the family archives, several letters my grandfather wrote to the young lady he would eventu-ally marry – my grandmoth-er Belle. She was well and truly named; Papa claimed forever that she was the pret-tiest girl who ever came out of Union County. His letters to her were elegant, humble, and very proper: in them, he called her “Miss Petree.” (It was a different time: as long as she lived, when she spoke of him to friends and neigh-bors, she referred to him as “Mr. Dunn.”)

I also have one letter written to Belle by one of her 10 brothers. It was a letter of admiration and ap-preciation. I have consid-ered giving it to one of his direct descendants, but so far, have (selfi shly) kept it.

Mother still has all of the correspondence she ex-changed with Daddy before they were married. She was working at Miller’s Depart-ment Store and he was in school at Lincoln Memo-rial University. Those let-ters are fi led, in order, in a cedar keepsake box. I have not read them, considering them private and personal.

When my brother was born (not long before the end of World War II), Daddy sent telegrams to relatives announcing the birth. At least one of those documents was sent back to Daddy and Mother as a keepsake. It gave Warren’s

The Written WordAlthough I have much to write to you, I would rath-

er not use paper and ink; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

(2 John 12 NRSV)

name, date of birth, birth weight, then remarked, “Mother and son are fi ne; father’s condition question-able.” That telegram is still in the family archives.

When I was born three years later, Daddy made long distance phone calls. It was the new technology, very up-to-date. However, I have al-ways felt a little cheated, be-cause I didn’t have a telegram I could hold in my hand. I don’t know what Daddy said in those phone calls, and I would love to know!

We also have all of the war correspondence from Daddy’s younger brother, who fought in the South Pa-cifi c, and who was in a fox-hole on Okinawa when he learned of Warren’s birth.

All of these are documents of a different time, of a differ-ent world. They are, however, historical documents, even if they are a family history and not of great importance to anyone else. They are a little chunk of our story, and that is, after all, what history is all about: story –

yours, mine, ours, our country’s, our world’s, our universe’s story.

I encourage you to fi nd out your story, your history. Ask your parents and your grandparents to tell you their stories. Check out old family Bibles; look at the pages be-tween the Old and New Tes-taments; frequently there are pages there on which to record births, marriages, and deaths. Go to the Mc-Clung Historical Collection, 601 Gay Street. It is part of the Knox County library sys-tem, and an unimaginable wealth of genealogical infor-mation. Go to Ancestry.com.

Learn your stor y!

By Wendy SmithThe Second Annual

FaithWalk, “Knoxville Steps Up for HIV,” was held downtown recently. Approximately 85 people participated in the walk, which benefi tted Samaritan Ministry, the National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS and Smoky Moun-tains Lions Charities. The event was hosted by Immac-ulate Conception Catholic Church.

FaithWalk is an attempt to engage the faith and HIV/AIDS communities, says Wayne Smith of Samaritan Ministry of Central Baptist Church of Bearden.

In many ways, life has improved for HIV patients. Patients are less likely to

Central Baptist members Laura Smith, Eli Stryk, Ted Stryk,

Larkin Bristow, Kent Bristow, Stacey Bristow and Maria Bristow

walk on Gay Street during FaithWalk. Photos submitted

Central Baptist Church of Bearden Minister of Missions Mark

Moreland plays a drum during FaithWalk.

Greer Roberts participates in

the recent FaithWalk, which

was held in conjunction with

World AIDS Day.

FaithWalk steps up for AIDS awareness

struggle fi nding jobs and housing, he says. “People have a better understanding of how you get HIV.”

But he still hears stories of local patients who expe-

rience bias from hospitals and family members. “Peo-ple still die from it, and pa-tients still suffer from isola-tion and stigma. We’re not where we need to be.”

By Sherri Gardner HowellThe faithful at Church of

Divine Mercy did not lounge around in front of the televi-sion on New Year’s Day – at least not between 8:30 and 10 p.m.

Eager to celebrate the new year in their new church building, approxi-mately 75 people joined in fellowship at the church off Carmichael Road in West Knoxville.

The Catholic church for those who want to hear mass in Vietnamese has been around for more than 15 years but now has its own church building.

Father Hoan Dinh swings the thurible over the communion

sacraments at the Church of Divine Mercy. Photos by Sherri Gardner Howell

Celebrating with worship

Kayla Vinh, a student at Catholic High School, talks with Father

Hoan Dinh about her altar responsibilities before the New

Year’s Day service begins at the Vietnamese church.

Kien Nguyen is ready for the

New Year’s Day service at

Church of Divine Mercy.

Meet JimileeJimilee is a beautiful 9-year-

old domestic short hair mix

waiting for a forever home.

Her adoption fee has also

been reduced to $10 for the

holidays. Jimilee has been

spayed, updated on vacci-

nations and microchipped.

She can also be seen at

Young-Williams’ Division

Street location.

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Candy Cane Cottageat Rocky Hill

Piper Woodall, Adriane Crocker and Michael Messer pick out

gifts for their pets at Rocky Hill Elementary School’s annual

Candy Cane Cottage held in the gym. Students at the school

shopped with their families and friends during the event. All

proceeds went towards the school’s benevolence fund and

community outreach program. Photos by S. Barrett

Harrison Atkins, 3 1/2 years

old, shakes a snowball orna-

ment while shopping with his

mom.

Volunteer Jennifer Quinley takes pictures for the school

yearbook while Candy Cane Cottage chair Wendy Mangum

takes a much deserved break with room parent coordinator

Deborah Noe.

Sammy Anderson, Cameron Kriesher and Garrett Estes show the toys they picked out at the

Candy Cane Cottage.

A select group of middle school band students from all over East Tennessee were chosen as members of this year’s regional junior clinic. The clinic is considered try-outs for two regional bands, Gold and Silver.

West Valley Middle School had 21 students who tried out, some of whom were hand-picked by their instructors. Half made the Gold band and half made Silver.

Students from West Valley who participated in this year’s junior clinic band are (front) Nikhil Patel, Ben Collins, Morgan Post, Colin

Patton, Gage Pagodin; (second row) Emily Chung, Hibah Javed, Josh Duzan, Megan Malone, Caris Morgenegg; (third row) Justin

Edaugal, Audrey Plescia, Kelsey Shockley, Samantha Raymond, Sheyenne Johnson; (fourth row) Ethan Gossage, Aaron Lively,

Tyler Chan, Travis Roberts, Garrett Coppock, Brandon Jacoby. Not Pictured is Ryan Petersen. Photo submitted

Band students raise the bar

Sara Barrett

Participants who made the cut performed at Oak Ridge High School on Dec. 7, the bands’ only perfor-mance.

Musical selections for both Gold and Silver includ-ed a range of classical mu-sic, and the bands had only a day and a half to rehearse together before the offi cial performance.

Jennifer Jacoby, moth-er of WVMS student and Gold band member Bran-don Jacoby, said in general band helps build character, but being in the regional bands kicks things up a notch.

“(Regional band) gives them a whole new taste of music and a whole new ap-preciation of the arts,” said Jacoby.

“They’re more challenged than in the regular band program. Music in general is a totally unique experi-ence, and it exposes them to an experience away from testing. It is very rewarding for the kids to work so hard and perform the pieces re-gionally.”

Bearden High ■ The school store needs

volunteers for the 7:4 5-8:30

a.m. shift. Info: email Katie

Walsh at krw1066@comcast.

net.

West High School ■ Students and parents inter-

ested in the International

Baccalaureate program are

invited to attend an informa-

tion session followed by

a brief tour of the school

Fridays at 2 p.m. To register

or see available dates, visit

wesths.knoxschools.org and

click on the prospective

students link. Info: email

Sarah Bast, sarah.bast@

knoxschools.org.

By Betty Bean The last day of school

before the Christmas break, the big crowd in the

Vine Mid-dle School auditorium was get-ting rowdy while wait-ing for the K w a n z a a celebration to begin. C o s t u m e d

dancers, poets and players scrambled up to the stage as the decibel level rose. The master of ceremonies took the microphone and asked for attention. He wasn’t playing.

Remarkably, the crowd hushed.

Afterward, Reggie Jen-kins explained how he knew what to do:

“A few people asked me to try to help calm the crowd down, and for me, it’s just the way I was raised – kind of like when I was growing up in church. Even if nobody’d been in my ear, I was going to say something because a lot of people put their heart and soul into that program and sometimes you just have to remind folks of where they are, who they are and what they represent.”

A graduate of the Uni-versity of Tennessee with degrees in math and sta-tistics, Jenkins learned the value of hard work and respecting his elders from his father, who owned a barbershop.

“I watched how he ran the shop – ‘Come in, take your hat off, pull your pants up.’ He was like the com-munity father,” said Jen-kins, whose volunteer work has made him well known at Vine and other schools in the heart of the city.

His day job is in sales, but his heart is in the work he does with young people – primarily with boys – as ex-ecutive director of UUNIK Academy, a mentoring pro-gram for young African-American males. The name is an acronym for the seven principles of Kwanzaa, which promote unity and responsibility among fam-

ily, friends and community.“I have always had a

passion for young people,” Jenkins said. “I worked in the school system for three years after I gradu-ated, and after that at the YMCA. I always dreamed of having my own after-school program – so many youth programs are just babysitting and don’t get a lot of these young people ready for the world. I just really wanted something where children were really getting something.”

He started UUNIK Academy in September 2003. It operates 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays.

UUNIK Academy spon-sors College Careers Week for Vine students in February, a “Calling all Males” citywide conference in the fall and a “Calling all Females” confer-ence in the spring.

“My 5-year goal is to run Monday through Saturday. We work on academics, en-richment and counseling. We teach them how to cor-rectly act out and come up with solutions. We go on field trips and try to find out what their talents and interests are, outside of athletics. We deal with cul-tural enrichment, history, and build on that for self esteem and self respect. We emphasize personal etiquette.”

Parenthetically, Jenkins helps kids whose career dreams involve profession-al athletics work on backup plans.

“I break that reality down,” he said. “I’m not going to deter them, but I inform them that in the past 40 years, only one person from Knoxville (Elston Turner) has made it to the NBA and only 15 to the NFL.”

Jenkins and his wife of 17 years, Kamesha, have a 7-month-old son, Jabari.

UUNIK Academy

teaches respect,

discipline

To contact Reggie

Jenkins, go to http://

uunikacademy.org or

email uunik.academy@

gmail.com or call 865-

384-4475.

Jenkins

Shannon Dishner vol-

unteers at the Candy

Cane Cottage while her

daughter, Zoey, shops

for the family.

SCHOOL NOTES

Union County Arts to host dulcimer playersSarah

Morgan

Mountain dulcimer play-er and singer Sarah Morgan will perform with ham-mered dulcimer player Dan Landrum in an informal concert at Union County Arts in Maynardville at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31. Res-ervations are required and can be made by calling Mor-gan at 865-278-3975.

This is the art center’s fi rst “house concert” that is planned for the upstairs gal-lery with room for about 30 people.

Landrum’s hammered dulcimer playing has taken him from street performing in Chattanooga to Olympic ceremonies, presidential in-augurations, and onto ma-jor stages in the Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden. He’s often a fea-tured soloist with recording star Yanni.

He also publishes a quar-terly magazine, Dulcimer Players News.

Morgan, a Sharps Chapel resident, is the 2012 Na-

tional Mountain Dulcimer Champion, having won the honor at age 18. She has also won multiple titles includ-ing Mid-Eastern Regional Mountain Dulcimer Cham-pion, Kentucky State Cham-pion and Southern Regional Champion.

This month, Morgan will instruct at Dulcimer U, a winter workshop at Western Carolina University, and will perform concerts in Asheville and Johnson City.

– Libby Morgan

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for the stroke of midnight for members of the Rotary Club of Knoxville on New Year’s Eve. Approximately 50 members gathered in the back room at Naples restau-rant at 5 p.m. so they could be ready to count down to the New Year – at 6 p.m.

“We welcomed in the new year with a toast to our Ro-tary partners in Hungary,” explains Townes Osborn. “This is our 11th annual New Year’s Eve party at Na-ples. Every year we toast our international partner clubs in Hungary and South Af-rica. The toast to Hungary is at 6 p.m., when it is a new year there.”

The party has given birth to the Unicum Society,

named for the traditional drink that is found in most Hungarian homes. “Uni-cum is an elixir that every home in Hungary keeps on hand because it helps one digest the rich Hungarian food,” says Osborn, adding, “but the taste of Unicum is an ac-quired taste.”

The toast isn’t easy for newcomers as the Rotarians take a drink of Unicum and yell, “Egeszegedre,” which roughly means “Cheers! Here’s to your health” in Hungarian.

The Hungarian connec-tion has a serious side. The club has partnered with the Hungarian Rotary Club in Mateszalak for 18 years on humanitarian projects. In

October, for example, Ro-tary Club of Knoxville col-lected $5,000 to send to the Mateszalak club for them to

buy Christmas gifts for the children in a near-by orphanage.

Knoxville Rotary also partners with two clubs in South

Africa, and they toasted the New Year in their honor as well. The toast was with Amarula, which goes down much smoother, says Os-born.

A new toast was added this year to the Hungarian portion of the celebration. It is a mixture of the Unicum, which is made by the Zwack company, and Jack Daniel’s whiskey. “We call it Zwack Jack,” says Osborn, “and when we drink it, we raise

Happy New Year … at 6 p.m.

The Rotary Club of Knoxville packed the back

room at Naples for a special New Year’s Eve cel-

ebration honoring the club’s international ties.

Getting ready to toast a new year in honor of their sister club in Hungary are Rotary Club of Knox-

ville members Doug McKamey, Mack and Cheryl Gentry and Bob Parrott. Photos submitted

a toast to world peace. It’s a symbolic mixture of our two

cultures and how we have gotten to know one another

as we work together on hu-manitarian projects.”

Farragut West Knox Chamber ready to meet/greetAfter a brief break at the

end of December, the Farra-gut West Knox Chamber of Commerce has a full sched-ule of networking events and ribbon cuttings on the

list for January. Members and prospective members are invited to bring a stack of business cards and join in the fun. Check www.far-ragutchamber.org for more

information.Thursday, Jan. 9, 5 to

6:30 p.m. – Networking at Milestones Event Center / Click Funeral Home, 11909 Kingston Pike.

The old post offi ce and bait shop on Knox Lane behind the Fountain City McDonald’s are gone.

Coming soon is Speedy Cash, a title and install-ment loan company, being built by HL Construction.

Nancy Whittaker

Back to work after holidays

Last week I met the folks at Bluewater Laundromat, 3721 N. Broadway. This “fu-turistic” laundromat claims the largest Speed Queen washers in Tennessee.

The washing machines range from the “double,” which holds 20 pounds of laundry, to a 100-pounder which holds the equivalent of 10 loads of laundry.

These are the biggest washers I’ve seen.

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■ Rossini at Fountain City BPALarry Rossini, direc-

tor of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center, will speak at the Fountain City Business and Professional Association at noon Wednesday, Jan. 8, in the fellowship hall of Central Baptist Church. He will discuss business check-up, new license require-ments and new micro loan opportunities.

Lunch is $10, fi rst come fi rst served.

■ Williams getsregional honorRebecca Williams, direc-

tor of sales and market-ing at the Knoxville Conven-tion Center, was named Supplier of the Year by the East Tennessee

Meeting Professionals.

A Knoxville native, Williams is a UT graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

■ Tuggle promotedKen Tuggle has been

promoted to Rural/Metro bat-talion chief in Knox County.

Tuggle began working for Rural/Metro Fire

Department in 1998 as a reserve and was hired as a full-time fi refi ghter in 2000.

■ Mitchell promotedMesser Construction Co.

has pro-moted Brian Mitchell to project manager in the Knox-ville offi ce. He was previously a project engineer.

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Next March, First Ten-nessee will celebrate its 150th anniversary. We’re planning an array of events to honor our customers, em-ployees and communities. It’s not every day that an in-stitution reaches that mile-stone, and we want to show our pride in our history. Galas, historical displays,

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signs and banners, an ad-vertising campaign, a book and more will proclaim that First Tennessee is Tennes-see’s bank, as it has been for 150 years.

First Tennessee is the largest bank headquartered in the state, and thanks to our customers, we’re staying number one. First Tennes-see has the leading market share for all of Tennessee, according to the latest Fed-eral Deposit Insurance Corp. fi gures. Our deposits grew faster than the market statewide and in each of our three regions in Tennessee.

Such success might not have been foreseen when we were founded. But through the years we expanded into most markets in the state. In East Tennessee, mile-stones included the acqui-sition of United American Bank in 1983 and Valley Fidelity Bank in 1991. Most recently we completed the conversion of Mountain Na-tional Bank to First Tennes-see, giving us an expanded presence and new options

for our customers.Our legacy of trust and

service gives us perspective. First Tennessee was found-ed when the American Civil War was raging, and we’ve served customers through World Wars and social up-heaval, through the Great Depression and the Great Recession. First Tennessee has been a part of the state’s history. We’ve provided fi -nancial services, jobs and community investment. We’re First Tennessee and we put Tennessee fi rst.

We are very proud of our strong presence in East Ten-nessee. We will continue to invest in the communities we serve, supporting edu-cation, economic develop-ment, health and the arts. When our communities prosper we do too. That’s been our guiding principle for 150 years and will be into the future. At First Ten-nessee, we’re ready for our next 150 years of serving customers, one opportunity at a time.Pam Fansler is president, East Tennessee Region, First Tennessee Bank.

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The Moxley Carmichael MethodBy Cynthia Moxley

Many East Tennesseans are planning for the New Year, setting resolutions to save money, lose weight, kick a bad habit or cross

a few items off bucket lists.Jan. 1 marks a time for

planning in the public rela-tions industry as well. At Moxley Carmichael, we’ve been working with clients for weeks to prepare for 2014. Our clients have big goals and need plans to achieve them.

We recommend prepar-ing a strategic communications plan for the year that outlines not only your company’s objectives but also the strategies and tactics you’ll use to get your messages out and en-hance your reputation.

Whether we’re working with businesses in health care, professional services, educa-tion, consumer goods or nonprofi t, we start with a few key areas. Any local business can benefi t from focusing on these recommen-dations as we kick off 2014.

Branding: What is your brand? Is it con-sistent? Recognizable? Effective? Consider gathering your executive team for a brand-ing session focused on defi ning – or redefi n-ing – your brand. Make sure your strategy is effective in representing your organization to customers, potential customers and other stakeholders.

Digital presence: How are you using technology and digital media to promote your business? Examine your website, blog, email marketing and social media pages. Do they refl ect your brand and use consis-tent messaging? Companies are expanding their digital presence in 2014 with strategic

moves like adding a mobile-friendly website or using Facebook advertising.

Media and presentation training:When you talk to local news outlets or civic groups about your business, how effective will you be? Take time to train key staff to serve as successful spokespersons whose messages resonate – while also providing value so they’re invited back.

Crisis communication: Update your crisis plan so your team is ready to handle emerging situations. Fast, accurate and effec-tive communication is critical in overcoming a crisis if your organization faces one in 2014.

In 2013 Applebee’s fi red an employee for posting a photo to Reddit showing the sales receipt of a pastor who refused to pay the automatic 18 percent gratuity the restaurant had added, and thousands fl ooded Apple-bee’s Facebook page in her support.

Applebee’s posted impersonal responses and was accused of deleting negative com-ments and blocking users. This defensive approach angered customers and tarnished Applebee’s reputation.

In contrast, when an insensitive tweet about President Obama’s grandmother was accidentally posted to the KitchenAid ac-count instead of the employee’s personal Twitter page, the head of the KitchenAid brand started tweeting 15 minutes later to apologize and assure followers that the staff-er would no longer tweet for KitchenAid.

The immediate, honest approach was well received, and damage was minimized.

With our top PR tips, you can enter 2014 with a purpose and a plan. We love doing business in East Tennessee, and we know those who work and own companies here share that love. We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.

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By Rachel M. Hannon, Grace Christian Academy

teacherThe coming of a new year

traditionally brings a time for refl ection and resolution. It is a stepping stone in one’s life: an opportunity to appreciate the blessings and accomplishments of the past and determine to make the future better. The lists of New Year’s resolutions are often long, but contain a common theme of personal improvement. Most of us resolve to lose weight, exercise or learn something new.

As a classroom teacher of high school freshmen and seniors, I wonder how teenagers view the new year. First, one has to understand the signifi cance of a new year for a high school student. To them, it is more of a transition than an end. The school year is half over. The pressures

of midterm exams are past and students have had several weeks to relax. With the start of a new semester everyone has a perfect grade in every subject. Students are focused on the distant approach of summer, knowing that May represents the end of the year for them. Perhaps the best analogy shared by one student is that New Year’s is like halftime. You know where you stand based on the fi rst half, but you now have an opportunity to pull ahead or stage a comeback.

For seniors, the new year is the beginning of the end. It is now time to complete the FAFSA (Federal Student Aid

Form), commit to a college and make concrete plans for the future. This time of year brings a sense of excitement as an

important chapter in their lives is about to close. It is also a time of anticipation of having to face the unknown. Ultimately, the

start of the year allows an opportunity to fi nish strong. One senior stated that now is the “time to go as hard as you can. It’s a chance to start proving who you really are.”

When asked about their resolutions, the responses of my students were varied. However, there was one underlying theme. While adult resolutions focus on self-improvement, the vast majority of my students’ resolutions concerned others. To the students, New Year’s is an opportunity to

decide to do something different, make improvements and correct mistakes. For them, this is a time to improve relationships with parents, siblings, classmates and the Lord. Many teenagers resolved to do something good—give of their time, encourage a friend or help someone in need.

It seems adults can learn a lot about what really matters from a teenager. Looking at our list of resolutions and plans, maybe it is time for us to look out and up instead of in. As one student put it, “A new year means a new start, a fresh beginning. The old year is gone, and no matter what you do, you can’t get it back. The good times, the bad days, the experiences, are in the past. New Year’s is a time to refl ect,to laugh, to cry, but also to move on.”

NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

By Shannon MorrisIn the spirit of Christmas

cheer, a handful of our middle school students had the opportunity to spread some peace, love and joy to a group of students from Huntsville , TN., on Dec. 5.

For the last four years, stu-dents at Grace Christian Acad-emy have been involved in a co-operative effort with Mission of Hope to assist children from im-poverished backgrounds during the Christmas season. This year, a group of eight students from the Middle School Worship Arts

class, along with four staff mem-bers, went to Huntsville School to help in this annual project.

Once the students arrived on-site, they helped unload the delivery truck and unpacked dozens of boxes of toys, which were designated by age group. The gymnasium at Huntsville was fi lled with more than toys, as the GCA students performed two short programs for the kids during the day. In addition, the students played games with the children, led the boys and girls in the singing of Christmas carols, and spent time encouraging each child as they met with them and

spoke to them. GCA staff and students, along

with other volunteers, walked with the Huntsville students through the Christmas “store,” giving these children the op-portunity to choose two toys. It was a tremendous opportunity to interact with students, some of whom have come from a very diffi cult background. It was an inspiring way to kick off the Christmas season and to show the love of Jesus to our neighbors north of us through a spirit of giving. We look forward to tak-ing part in Mission of Hope again next year!

Grace middle schooler Dexter Reasons (right) helps a stu-dent at Huntsville School choose items from Mission of Hope. Photo by Teri Rash

Grace students help Mission of Hope

Soccer balls for HaitiBy Julie Pointer

Why would a group of 72 third graders willingly choose to eat black beans and rice in-stead of pizza? If it means be-ing able to provide soccer balls for kids in Haiti who have noth-ing to play with, it’s an easy choice for the 3rd graders at Grace Christian Academy.

The Thursday before Thanksgiving, GCA 3rd grad-ers brought in their $4 like they always do to pay for their pizza lunch, but this day they gave their money to provide for kids in Haiti. They were able to talk to a college student from Haiti to learn more about his coun-try. They experienced a typi-cal Haitian meal to replace the normal pizza lunch.

The 3rd grade classes are excited about the partner-ship they have developed with Blackmon Pediatrics and Har-vest Field Ministries this year to provide supplies for a joint

mission effort in Haiti. In Sep-tember, they collected boxes of medical and dental supplies for the clinics in Haiti.

After the Friends and Fam-ily Campaign at GCA, in which students began asking for do-nations to help fund the new playground at Grace, their thoughts turned to their part-ners in Haiti. Students realized that children there did not have anything to play with, so they stepped up to meet the need. Sixty-one MacGregor soccer balls were purchased with do-nations from “Have a Ball for Haiti.” Many students brought in above and beyond the $4 they were asked to donate. They were so excited when the balls arrived and they got to see all that their sacrifi ce had provid-ed for others.

When asked if their sacrifi ce that day was worth it, the re-sponse from most was, “When can we do it again?”

Grace 3rd graders Lillie Peterson and Ian Setzer enjoy a lunch of rice and beans instead of pizza to help buy soccer balls for children in Haiti. Photos by Kim Giles

Grace 3rd graders Jake Blankenship, Gracie Coff ey, Hayden Whitehead, Marlee Giles, Pierce Browning, Maggie Blackmon, Sydney Thompson and Ian Setzer hold soccer balls that will be sent to children in Haiti.

New Year’s refl ections

Grace teacher Rachel Hannon (standing) chats with students Madison McMullen, Shelby Green, Lori Lower, Morgan Jackson and Miranda Pratt. Photo by S. Morris

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Prostate cancer survivor John Hungerford enjoys a daily walk with the family dog, Gertrude. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Hungerford researched a treatment that was right for him and that led him to Thompson Cancer Survival Center.

Treatment for prostate cancer leads retired professor to Thompson Cancer Survival Center

As a retired professor of indus-trial engineering, John Hunger-ford of Knoxville, 74, is used to taking a methodical, scientifi c ap-proach to solving problems. When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in April 2006, Hungerford used the same logic to make deci-sions about his treatment.

“I used all that good training to plot my treatment plan,” said Hungerford. “But at fi rst, I had kind of a sense of panic about the whole process. You think you have to do something right away.”

But Hungerford’s cancer was in an early stage, giving him some time, and, like many prostate can-cers, was relatively slow growing. “At fi rst you think, ‘I’m going to die.’ But then you fi nd out that’s not the case if the cancer’s not aggres-sive. Yes, you’re going to die, but not necessarily from that,” he said.

Hungerford attended a prostate cancer support group at the Can-cer Support Community of Knox-ville – formerly called the Well-ness Community. “I found that group amazingly helpful because a lot of men had a good reservoir of technical knowledge,” he said.

Hungerford considered many current treatment options for prostate cancer.

“Then I heard about this alter-native at Thompson Cancer Sur-vival Center, called tomotherapy. It’s basically a very focused kind of radiation that is limited to the cancerous cells and a small area around them,” he said.

Tomotherapy delivers radiation slice-by-slice, a tiny bit at a time, as opposed to hitting the entire prostate at once.

Hungerford went to the Thomp-son Cancer Survival Center in the summer of 2006 and met Dr. Dan-iel Scaperoth, a radiation oncolo-gist.

“Right from the outset I liked Dr. Scaperoth,” said Hungerford. “He was very straight-forward with me and answered all my questions

Weighing your options for prostate cancerOf all the cancers, prostate is one of the slowest

growing. If caught early, patients typically have plen-ty of time to decide on the best treatment option for

their particular situation.“People can die of prostate

cancer, but it’s also very treat-able and, for the most part, cur-able,” said Dr. Daniel Scaperoth, a radiation oncologist at Thomp-son Cancer Survival Center.

Each of the treatments cur-rently available for prostate surgery has a similar success rate, with a variety of side ef-fects. In general, they fall into two main categories: radiation or surgery.

“Usually men will go to a urologist or radiologist and get a couple of different opinions,” said Scaperoth. “There are support groups in town, and men will share their stories about what went well and what didn’t go well.”

“And the decision depends a little bit on age,” he added. “Younger patients in their 50s and 60s will lean a little toward surgery because they can always add radiation later. People over 70 might lean more toward radiation.”

There are so many options it can be diffi cult to choose, Scaperoth said. If it’s an early stage of dis-ease, men can even choose not to do anything at all.

“Watchful waiting is also OK, with active surveil-lance of PSA levels,” Scaperoth said. PSA, prostate specifi c antigen, is a blood test that can detect the disease at an early stage. “The PSA test is what gives you lot of options,” said Scaperoth.

The American Urological Association recom-mends that men talk to their physicians about when to have a first PSA screening and how often they should be screened after that. In general, men ages 55 to 69 should be screened every two to four years.

“It’s really something you should talk to your doctor about, based on your own risk factors,” said Scaperoth.

Prostate cancer treatment choicesSurgery – Removal of the prostate either with an open incision

or with a less invasive robotic system that uses several smaller inci-sions. The risks of surgery would include infection and anesthesia problems and a slightly higher risk of incontinence afterward.

Radiation – Radiation treatment is done either from the outside, bombarding the prostate with radiation beams, or from within the prostate, by implanting radioactive seeds inside the prostate. Tomotherapy is one type of external radiation, which applies the radiation in thin, precise slices. Risks of radiation would include a higher irritation to the bowel and rectum than surgery. Seed implants can cause swelling that can cause diffi -culty urinating.

Cryosurgery – A technique for freezing and killing abnormal cells, cryosurgery is being tested for very early stage cancers. It is a one-time procedure performed under anesthesia.

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to my satisfaction. I felt like he was in it for the patient’s benefi t, and he was trying to respond to what the patient needed. There was a

great deal of honesty between him and me.”

He said the Thompson Center impressed him as well.

“From the time my wife and I went to Thompson, we had a good feeling about the place,” he said. “It’s a light and airy atmosphere,

and the people were the same way.I just had a really good feelingabout it.”

Starting in mid-July, Hunger-ford had 39 tomotherapy treat-ments, one per weekday, until the end of summer.

“They do precise CT (computed tomography) scans to locate the prostate,” he said. “There’s nopain. I was just lying there maybe20 to 30 minutes each time. You don’t really feel anything, actu-ally.”

“Toward the end of the treat-ment series you feel a little bit offatigue,” said Hungerford. “The last couple of weeks I felt slug-gish and slow, like I was walkingthrough mud.”

But over the weeks, Hunger-ford’s PSA tests showed that the cancer was being destroyed. A PSAtest is a blood test that detects theprostate specifi c antigen, an indi-cator of cancer.

“I’d say the treatment was verysuccessful,” he said. “My PSAlevel started coming down to well below where it needs to be, andI’m pleased with that,” he said. “Ihaven’t had any problems since.”

Hungerford said he would rec-ommend Thompson Cancer Sur-vival Center to anyone facing pros-tate cancer treatment.

“The personnel are just great,and the technicians that workedwith me when I was going through treatment were terrifi c too. Every-one was so helpful,” he said.

Hungerford said his wife, Ruth,met friends in the waiting roomeach time they went for treatment.

“She’s outgoing and got to knowmost of the people in the waiting room, and we’ve stayed friends with a lot of those people aftertreatment. It was really kind of neat to have that social aspect, un-anticipated,” he said.

“I thought the care was out-standing, and it’s been that way ever since,” said Hungerford. “I’vebeen treated really well.”

Dr. Daniel Scaperoth

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BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. – It’s about 11 on the Monday morning of a holiday week, and Jeremy Burke is un-packing books.

MY TWO CENTS

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Bay Saint Louis, Miss., still shows scars from Hurricane Katrina. Photos by Jake Mabe

He runs a small book-store here in this charming city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that still bears scars from Hurricane Katrina.

“This Christmas was better than last year, which was better than the year before,” Jeremy says of his store, and that seems to sum up the city’s resolve.

I scan the shelves, fi nd-ing an award-winning book

‘Ring out the false, ring in the true’

The menu at Purple Banana

Everybody knows your name (or at least your game) at The Blind Tiger.

Owner Jeremy Burke (far right) chats with a customer at Bay Books, the bookstore he co-owns with Kristen Tusa.

about the town’s triumph over tragedy, a marvelous Molly Ivins and a discarded ex-library book that looked like it needed a home. I’m a sucker for a stray.

Jeremy knows my friend, writer Rheta, and says, “I keep telling her she needs to write another book.”

On the wall are some words by resident DP Dagle, read on NPR in 2011:

“The Soul of Bay St. Louis isn’t hard to fi nd if you know what you’re looking for in downtown BSL.

“Geographically, it’s off Highway 90, and is most active between Carroll and Union, centered around main street (sic) overlooking the Gulf. Metaphorically, it’s located between Bloody Mary Mornings and Sunday strolls in seersucker suits, centered around Southern Living overlooking a trou-bled past and a promising future.”

The Big Easy, Gulfport and Pass Christian attract

the attention, so naturally I fell in love with BSL. About the only thing out of place is a cacophonous casino, the best part of which is a big fi -let and a photo of Bob Hope.

If you look carefully amid the cranes and the con-struction, you can fi nd the art galleries, inns, board-walks and bars.

Everybody knows your name (or at least your game) at The Blind Tiger, which overlooks the bay. It’s busy, so I eat at Purple Banana, a place that boasts that its customers are good guess-ers. Good for business, I guess.

Willie Nelson comes on the radio, singing Sinatra.

“When I was 17, it was a very good year…”

I smile, both at that voice and the incredible incredu-lousness of Willie working his way through the words of that rhyme. As usual, he pulls it off to perfection.

Who knows whether 2013 was a good or a lean year or an in-between year, so I thought of Tennyson.

“Ring out the old, ring in the new/Ring, happy bells, across the snow; the year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”“Pull Up A Chair” with Jake Mabe at jake-mabe.blogspot.com.

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Antiques Classics 260Corvette Convertible

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Imports 262TOYOTA Camry 2012, 42K mi., $2,000 down, take over pymnt. 865-

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Sports 264Ford Mustang 1998

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Flooring 330

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MONDAY, JAN. 6Job Resources Group meeting, 8:30-10:30

a.m., Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive.Newly Bereaved casual workshop by Amedisys

Hospice of Knoxville, 5:30 p.m., Cozy Joe’s Café, 2559 Willow Point Way. Free. To preregister: Sarah Wim-mer, 689-7123 or 1-866-462-7182.

Beginning Tai Chi class, open house, 7-8:30 p.m., Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Classes taught by the Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA. Info: 482-7761 or www.taoist.org.

Ossoli Circle meeting, Ossoli Clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike. 9:45 a.m., coffee; 10:30, program: “His-tory of Jews in America” by Mimi Pais and husband Art; 11:30, business meeting followed by lunch. Visi-tors welcome. Info: 577-4106.

TUESDAY, JAN. 7Caregiver Support Group meeting, 10 a.m.-

noon, Room E-224, Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive. Guest speaker: Yvonne Marsh, CPA. Refreshments provided. Info: 675-2835.

Newly Bereaved casual workshop by Amedi-sys Hospice of Knoxville, 5 p.m., Panera Bread, 4855 Kingston Pike. Free. To preregister: Sarah Wimmer, 689-7123 or 1-866-462-7182.

“Computer Workshop – Introducing the Computer,” 5:30 p.m., East Tennessee History Cen-ter. Info/register: 215-8700.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Big,” 2 and

7 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

“Video Pioneers: A History of Early Televi-sion,” A Brown Bag Lecture by Julian Burke, noon, East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay St. Free. Info: 215-8824 or www.EastTNHistory.org.

Bonny Kate Chapter Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution meeting, noon, Second Methodist Church, 1524 Western Ave. Speaker: Lisa Duncan, director of Dogwood Arts Festival.

THURSDAY, JAN. 9Knoxville Children’s Theatre auditions for

“Charlotte’s Web,” KCT, 109 E. Churchwell Ave. Audi-tions by appointment: email Dennis Perkins, dennis@childrenstheatreknoxville.com, with name, age, gender and preferred audition time

Artist in Residence Biennial opening recep-tion 7-9 p.m., Ewing Gallery, UT Art & Architecture Building. Works by Patricia Treib, Michael Berryhill, EJ Hauser and Jaya Howey will be on display through Feb. 6.

New session DivorceCare For Kids (DC4K) for ages 5-12, 6:30-8 p.m. Fellowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike. Meets each Thursday for 13 weeks.

DivorceCare, 6:30-8:30 p.m. each Thursday, Fel-lowship Church, 8000 Middlebrook Pike.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 9-10Call for artists for “Open Art Show 2014: Alche-

my – the Magic of Art and Flowers,” a juried art and standard fl ower show. Applications and fees accepted: 8 a.m.-7p.m. Thursday; 8 a.m.-noon Friday. Applica-tion/info: www.townoffarragut.org/artsandculture or Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.

The Streamliners Swing Orchestra in concert,

7 p.m., Relix Variety Theate, 1208 North Central St. Presented by The Tennessee Valley Jazz & Blues Founda-tion. Admission: $15.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 9-12Dare To Be Square Tennessee, old-time square-

dance calling, dance and music, 7 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Weekend pass: $50. Evening dances open to the public: $5-$10 at the door. Calling and dancing workshops Friday and Saturday. Info/registra-tion: www.jubileecommunityarts.org/dtbstn, 522-5851, dtbstn@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 11Auditions for “The Secret Garden” by The Word-

Players. For appointment: 539-2490. Info: www.word-players.org.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Georgi Schmitt, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Miss Lynn, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

SUNDAY, JAN. 12Epworth Monthly Singing, 6:30 p.m., Laurel The-

ater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Info: Claudia Dean, 673-5822.Regal Classic Film Series featuring “The Princess

Bride,” 2 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Down-town West Blvd.

MONDAY, JAN. 13Job Resources Group meeting, 8:30-10:30 a.m.,

Concord UMC, 11020 Roane Drive.Muslim Journeys: Points of View – “In the

Country of Men” fi rst of fi ve scholar-facilitated reading and discussion program debut, 6-8 p.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive.

Ossoli Circle meeting, Ossoli Clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike. 9:45 a.m., coffee; 10:30, program by Dr. Fred Bedelle Jr., author and former Superintendent of Knoxville City Schools; 11:30, book study by Wayne Zurl followed by lunch. Visitors welcome. Info: 577-4106.

TUESDAY, JAN. 14Harvey Broome Group of the Sierra Club, 7

p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Paul and Barbara Akers will cover Appalachian Trail Through Hiking and a Top 5 Gear “Show and Tell.”

Computer Workshops - Word 2007 II, 2 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Requires “Introducing the Computer” or equivalent skills. Info/to register: 215-8700.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 14-28Pilates class, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Farragut Town Hall,

11408 Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Simon Brad-bury. Cost: $30. Deadline to register: Monday, Jan. 13. Info/to register: 966-7057 or Farragut Town Hall.

TUESDAYS, JAN. 14-FEB. 18Yoga class, 9-10 a.m., Farragut Town Hall, 11408

Municipal Center Drive. Instructor: Betty Kalister. Registration deadline: Friday, Jan. 10. Info/to register: 966-7057 or Farragut Town Hall.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15Martin Luther King Jr. Week Interfaith

Prayer Service, noon, Peace and Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church, 1723 Washington Ave.

Time Well Spent: Inspiration at Lunch featur-ing photographer and mixed-media artist Kelly Hider, noon, The Emporium, 100 S. Gay St. The Arts & Culture Alliance event is free; brown-bagging is welcome.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “The Princess

Bride,” 2 and 7 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

THURSDAY, JAN. 16Free budget classes, The Good Samaritan Cen-

ter of Loudon County, 119 “A” St., Lenoir City. Classes provided by CredAbility. Info/to register: Karen Bowdle, 986-1777, ext. 12.

Sneak preview of “Las Marthas” documentary, 7 p.m., East Tennessee PBS studio, 1611 E. Magnolia. The fi lm will make its television debut 10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17.

“Research and Practice in Mass Grave Exhu-mations: Current International Projects at the Anthro-pology Research Facility,” a lecture by Dawnie Steadman of the UT Anthropology Department, 7:30 p.m. McClung Museum. Free.

FRIDAY, JAN. 17“Kidz Night Out” for ages 5-13, 6-9 p.m., Farragut

Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Cost: $30, fi rst child; $25 each additional child. Registration dead-line: Wednesday, Jan. 15. Info/ to register: 966-7057 or Farragut Town Hall.

Martin Luther King Jr. Week: Gallery of Art Tribute, 5-7 p.m., Community Forum, 6:30 p.m., Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Ave. In conjunction with the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 18P.R.A.Y. Conference for women, 8:30 a.m.-12:30

p.m., West Park Baptist Church, 8833 Middlebrook Pike. Led by national speaker and author Debbie Taylor Wil-liams. Cost: $10. Registration deadline: Jan. 12. Info/to register: www.westparkbaptist.org.

Farragut Skate Date, 4-6 p.m., Cool sports: Home of the Icearium, 110 S. Watt Road. Info: 218-4500.

YWCA Race Against Racism, 11:30 a.m., YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Info: www.ywcaknox.com.

Wallace Coleman concert, blues harmonica, 8 p.m., Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14 (dis-count for JCA members, students and seniors); at www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 and the door.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Charlene Ellis, 11 a.m., Cedar Bluff Branch Library, 9045 Cross Park Drive. Info: 470-7033.

Saturday Stories and Songs: Laurie Fisher, 11 a.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

Introductory Internet Genealogy, 1 p.m., East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Preregistra-tion, a valid email address and good Internet searching capabilities required. Info/to register: 215-8809.

Certifi ably Organic, 10:30 a.m., Farragut Branch Library, 417 N. Campbell Station Road. Presented by Knox County Master Gardener Stephanie Sayres and her husband, Tom. Free and open to the public.

SUNDAY, JAN. 19Piano-trumpet concert featuring pianist Ryan

Fogg and trumpeter Glenda Cloutier, 5 p.m., American Piano Gallery Recital Hall, 11651 Parkside Drive. Free.

MLK Week: A Night With the Arts featuring the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 6 p.m., Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay St. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

Regal Classic Film Series featuring “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” 2 p.m., Downtown West Cinema 8, 1640 Downtown West Blvd.

Shakespeare Out Loud: Richard II, 2 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Info: 215-8750.

MONDAY, JAN. 20MLK Week: annual parade, lineup 8:30 a.m.,

step-off 10 a.m. from YWCA Phyllis Wheatley Center, 124 S. Cruze St. Info: www.mlkknoxville.com.

MLK Week: Memorial Tribute Service, 11:45 a.m., Greater Warner Tabernacle AME Zion Church, 3800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Info/parade registra-tion: www.mlkknoxville.com.

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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK

health & lifestyles

Amy Carr did everything right.She took good care of herself;

and she’d had annual mammo-grams for eight years. Yet there she was, sitting in a medical offi ce after having an ultrasound, facing the re-alization that she may have breast cancer.

She says the doctor had been very comforting and explained that what the results showed could be an infection mimicking cancer.

“But my mind was racing, and I immediately began thinking about my husband and kids,” Carr says.

It was just too much to take in. She fainted.

“The nurses were right there with a Sprite, fans and cold towels,” she laughs.

Carr, now 49, is a living and breathing example of why every woman should take ownership of her health and listen to her own body. If she hadn’t, she might not be alive today.

Carr says she noticed a bumpy patch of skin on her breast in March 2011, just a couple of months after having a clear mammogram. When it was still there after her family’s spring break vacation, she reluc-tantly scheduled an appointment with her physician.

“He’s going to think I’m a worry-wart,” Carr says of her thoughts at that time. However, when her phy-sician saw that bumpy patch of skin, he was immediately concerned.

“He knew what he was looking at,” Carr says. “His response was, ‘I’m very concerned. I’m going to send you to where I send all my tough breast patients.’ ”

An ultrasound followed at Park-west Comprehensive Breast Center, then an MRI at Parkwest Medi-cal Center. At fi rst, all indications were that Carr had cancer in her left breast, but further testing revealed cancer in both breasts.

Biopsies showed that Carr had Infi ltrating Ductal Carcinoma, one of the most commonly diagnosed breast cancers. She had stage III on the left side, stage II on the right. A PET scan at Thompson Cancer Sur-vival Center later revealed that the cancer had also reached her lymph nodes on the left side.

Breast cancer had already struck Carr’s family twice in her lifetime, so she had always taken the threat seriously and was judicious about annual mammograms. She’d even taken the initiative to undergo ge-netic testing, which showed she did not have the gene that would make her most vulnerable.

Still, long months followed as Carr went through the process that has become so familiar to so many, undergoing treatment and surgery for breast cancer. Carr held on tightly to her faith in God and to her family. She continued to work,

stayed involved in the day-to-day lives of her husband and children, and continued to sing in her church choir.

Carr was determined to walk in faith, not fear.

In the middle of the time period during which she underwent che-motherapy, Carr performed a song written by her music minister titled “Trust.” To show their support, the ladies of the choir wore scarves on their heads, just like Carr, and the men donned pink ties and shirts.

“It was an emotional day, an ex-perience that my family and I will never forget,” Carr says.

Carr endured two separate, six-month rounds of chemotherapy during her 18 months of treatment; however, she says she never looked at chemo as poison. She never hesitated about having the double mastectomy either. “The fear of living with cancer in my body was much greater than the fear of living without ‘my girls,’ ” Carr says of her breasts.

But the process of fi ghting can-cer can exhaust even the heartiest of souls. She remembers a low point

ment. It was an incredible time of refl ection, gratitude and celebra-tion.”

“Now, I just take my little white pill every day and return to Thompson Oncology Group every three months for blood work,” Carr explains. “If it resur-faces somewhere, I know they will do everything in their power to stop it again.”

Oncologist Daniel Ibach, MD, says having Carr as a patient in-spired everyone who came into contact with her at Thompson West, where she received her chemotherapy.

“Cancer is a fi erce battle, with scary, life threatening situations, but it is in the trenches of the war against cancer that heroes shine, and Amy Carr is truly one of those heroes.”

Carr had endured multiple sur-geries, chemotherapy, antibiotics and radiation. It was a hard fought battle, but she won. “I truly felt like God was showing me how to truly live, not how to die.”

Dr. Ibach says his staff was in-spired by Carr not only through her cancer treatment, but by how she openly leaned on her faith in God to get her through it. “I would leave the room inspired,” he says, “and she was the one going through che-motherapy.”

Carr says she learned so much on her journey that now she’s writing a book about it. When she talks to other cancer patients, she encour-ages them to be authentic, the best version of themselves they can be.

“Yes, I had a wig that I wore, but there were also times that I wore bandanas and ball caps,” Carr says.

“That’s when I learned some won-derful things,” she explains. Other survivors would notice her, introduce themselves and share their own sur-vival stories and encouragement.

“I want others to realize that there are many things cancer can-not take from you and to embrace the support from others,” Carr says. “No one should ever face a trial like this alone. I’m so thankful for my family and friends who walked this road with me.”

“I can honestly now say that I am thankful for the journey,” Carr says with a smile. “When I speak to ladies groups or churches, I remind them that it’s in the valley that the most beautiful lilies grow!”

while recovering from surgery in October 2011. It was Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“Everything on TV was pink,” says Carr. She hadn’t asked to be part of this pink world of breast cancer and wasn’t ready to be a part of this sisterhood. Messages were everywhere about the importance of early detection and having mam-mograms, something that she’d done without fail.

“I was confused and a little an-gry when I thought about how I had just had a clear mammogram, yet the cancer was there, and had been there for probably nine to 12 months,” Carr says. “I encourage women now to ask for an ultra-sound.”

Then, at a post surgery appoint-ment with her oncologist, Carr received news that seven of the 11 lymph nodes removed from her left side still tested positive for cancer. Six more months of a different che-mo would be in her future.

As if that were not enough, Carr had also developed a serious infec-tion in her chest wall, and the anti-biotics she was self-administering

through her port were not helping. Carr ended up having three more surgeries within 30 days. Lab re-sults fi nally revealed she had a very rare type of infection that would re-quire six months of a different type of antibiotic.

From January to June 2012, Carr took chemo and antibiotics every day, more than 2,500 pills in all. She then began 35 radiation treatments at Thompson Cancer Survival Center downtown over the summer. Carr had her fi nal treat-

ment Sept. 11, 2012.Through it all, Carr had con-

tinued her full-time job as a social worker, and she had stayed actively involved in the lives of her fam-ily and friends. She only stopped singing in the choir for a short time while recovering from surgery.

Cancer had been unable to defi ne her life. With the long journey be-hind her, she was ready to celebrate. When October 2012 came, Carr felt very differently about Breast Can-cer Awareness Month.

“I not only accepted being part of the pink sisterhood, I now em-braced it,” Carr says. “Twelve of my friends and family even joined me in doing the Komen Race for a Cure, just weeks after my last treat-

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“I felt like God was showing me how to truly live, not how to die.” – Amy Carr, cancer survivor

“Cancer is a fi erce battle, with scary, life threatening situations, but it is in the trenches of the war against cancer that heroes shine, and Amy Carr is one of those heroes.” – Daniel Ibach M.D.

Diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer (both breasts at the same time), Amy Carr refused to let cancer defi ne her life. She continued to sing even while going through chemotherapy.

Members of the choir at Carr’s church donned scarves and the color pink in a show of support as she sang “Trust,” a song written by the church minister of music. Carr now tells her story to various groups, telling women “it’s in the valley that the most beautiful lilies grow.”

To celebrate her recovery, Carr (short hair, pink headband, behind the

poster) and a dozen of her friends and family members participated in the

Komen Race for the Cure in 2012.

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