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Legislative majority presents challenges
for HaslamBy Betty Bean
During the 2012 national elec-tions, there was talk about a Repub-lican War on Women. In 2013, Ten-nessee’s 108th General Assembly widened the battle into a multi-front confl agration, hitting hot-button themes that u sed to work so well as wedge issues when the GOP was in the minority. Now that they are a supermajority, the only signifi cant obstacle in their way is Gov. Bill Haslam, a cautious man not inclined to extremes.
Showdown No. 1: Medicaid expansion. These lines were drawn when the United States Supreme Court left Medicaid expansion up
to the states. Some Republican gov-ernors (Rick Scott of Florida, Jan Brewer of Arizona) have opted in; others (Rick Perry of Texas, Scott Walker of Wisconsin) have opted out. Haslam is being heavily lobbied by the state’s major hospitals, who want to offset looming Medicaid cuts with billions of federal dollars avail-able under the new law.
Showdown No. 2: It may not rise to the level of war, but few school boards or PTAs support diverting public money to private schools via vouchers. Haslam supports vouch-ers, but his bill is limited to 5,000 needy students in failing school dis-tricts during the fi rst year, and grad-ually increases thereafter. Cultural conservatives favor a competing bill to make vouchers available in all dis-tricts immediately.
Showdown No. 3: Some call
Going to extremes Haslam’s workers’ compensation reform initiative a War on Work-ers. Others call it a War on Lawyers. Whatever it’s called, there isn’t much daylight between Haslam and the most conservative elements of his party, who share a common distaste for organized labor and trial lawyers. This one will create a state agency run by a Haslam-appointed admin-istrator to hear workers’ compen-sation cases, replacing courts and lawyers. It will negatively impact col-lections from fee offi ces as a revenue source for county governments.
Showdown No. 4: Clerks hate this Stacey Campfi eld-sponsored bill because it will force them to shoulder half of the burden of notifying credi-tors when garnished debtors change jobs. Senate Bill 243 will make work for clerks, but will be far worse for debtors, who will be subject to con-tempt of court if their creditors aren’t notifi ed – re-establishing debtors’ prisons in Tennessee.
Showdown No. 5: The War on Vanderbilt, Part 2, is too good to skip. Last year, Haslam vetoed a bill out-lawing Vanderbilt University’s “All Comers” rule, which requires stu-dent groups to allow any interested student to join. Social conservatives complain that this rule violates the rights of religious organizations to keep undesirables out, but Haslam came down on the side of keeping the state out of the business of pri-vate institutions.
The issue is back this year, in the form of Sen. Mae Beavers’ bill re-quiring the state to de-certify the po-lice forces of private institutions that violate the civil rights of religious organizations.
Haslam’s 2012 veto stood because he waited until the General Assem-bly concluded its two-year session, too late for legislators to override it. The 108th session won’t end until 2014.
By Wendy SmithKnox County Commission vot-
ed to ban digital billboards last month after receiving a fl urry of emails against the showy signage. It was a major victory for Scenic Knoxville, and a handful of wom-en who serve on the organization’s board are foot soldiers in the bat-tle against the billboard.
Marsha Grieve has been part of the organization since it formed in 2008. After deciding that bill-boards were not a “fact of life,” she chose to invest her time.
“I, like a lot of people, always hated billboards. But I had no idea that I could do anything about it. I realized, as a group, we could get something changed.”
Joyce Feld, president of Scenic Knoxville, had experienced life without billboards. She moved here from Hawaii, where there are none. While she could have chosen to be involved with “a thousand wonderful causes,” she felt drawn to this one.
“I want to live in an attractive city. I think it’s important,” she says. “My involvement is partly selfi sh – I’m fi ghting for the kind of city where I want to live.”
Margot Kline, president of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners, is concerned with anything that affects quality of life and property values in West Knox. She’s lived here since she was a child, and remembers how
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The billboard busters
Margot Kline, Joyce Feld and Marsha Grieve were among those
who led the fi ght against digital billboards in Knox County. The
county’s recent ban on the fl ashy signs is due to the hard work of
the entire Scenic Knoxville board and the community’s willing-
ness to speak up, they say. Photo by Wendy Smith
a billboard placed in the heart of Fountain City 30 years ago took away the small-town appeal of the area – and angered residents.
The women were able to channel the community’s frustration with billboards in general, and digi-tal billboards in particular, into
one voice that was heard by Knox County Commission. Before the Feb. 25 vote, they knew that four commissioners were on their side, but they also knew that two were on the fence. When they asked the constituents of those commission-ers to speak up, they did.
Scenic Knoxville got its mes-sage out through an email list and got community organizations, like garden clubs and neighborhood associations, on board. They also created a Facebook page to keep followers informed. There has been overwhelming public sup-port against digital billboards, says Feld.
In additions to concerns about aesthetics, Grieve, Feld and Kline think the billboards, which change every few seconds, are un-safe. In the U.S., there is little data about drivers having accidents around the signs, but research in other countries has resulted in the banning of digital billboards, says Feld.
“Their nickname is ‘weapons of mass distraction.’”
There are currently 11 digital billboards in Knox County, and they will remain. Six more got permits during the moratorium but now will not be built, says Grieve.
Commissioner Richard Briggs originally proposed that all new billboards and electronic message centers (EMCs) be banned along with digital billboards, but discus-sion of new static billboards and EMCs has been deferred.
Grieve, Feld and Kline would like for all new billboards to be banned. But they are not anti-
Susan Davis at work in the
Andrew Johnson Building Photo by S. Clark
By Sandra ClarkIt’s got a principal and 20
teachers. It’s got a website, and it’s even got a PTA. It already has several Partners in Education. It just needs a name.
Deadline is Friday, March 22, to submit a vote or sug-gestion for the name of the new southwest sector el-ementary school which will open in August 2013. Prin-cipal Susan Davis has al-ready received 500 submis-sions at [email protected]/. (That compares favorably with the 100 or so suggestions for the
L&N STEM Academy.)“There’s a lot of support
for this school and real ex-citement in the community,” said Davis. She’s working out of an offi ce at the Andrew Johnson Building until the school is fi nished.
The school is located on Thunderhead Road in the Northshore Town Center off Northshore Drive at Pellis-sippi Parkway. The school zone, adopted in December after extensive public meet-ings, includes an area west of Pellissippi and south of Far-ragut.
Students will come from
‘All great schools’ Kindergarten roundup
Registration for children entering kindergarten or fi rst grade at the new southwest sector school (if not current-ly attending a Knox County school) will be 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the caf-eteria at West Valley Middle School.
Packets may be picked up in advance at area elementary schools. Details are available on KCS website at www.knox-schools.org/.Farragut Primary, Farragut
Intermediate, A.L. Lotts
To page A-3
and Blue Grass elementary schools. Zone lines were im-pacted for Cedar Bluff and Hardin Valley as well.
Davis recalled a comment made by a parent: “They’re all great schools.”
She said the kids are ea-ger to know the school’s cul-ture. “Do you have Pajama Day?” asked one. “Can we have pizza (in the cafeteria),” asked another.
“It didn’t take them long to connect,” said Davis.
Fifth graders will help es-tablish customs for the new school. “They will have proj-ects from day one,” said Da-vis. “Working together on a project will help them bond.”
To page A-3
NEIGHBORHOOD BUZZ
IN THIS ISSUE
Meet BartBart Watkins is a busy guy.
He owns Liz-Beth and Co. Fine Art Gal-lery, which he founded with his mother over 20 years ago in his grandmoth-er’s basement. He co-founded
Art in Public Places with Eddie Mannis eight years ago to in-spire both the community and visitors with sculpture. He and his wife have a small child and another on the way.
➤ See Coffee Break on page A-2
Miracle MakerSince she was a child, Far-
ragut High School teacher Wanda Lacy has had a pas-sion for math.
“I love it. I love how things connect,” Lacy said.
Because of that love, she changed her course of study in college from engineering to teaching.
➤ See Sara Barrett’s story on A-9
Oakwood lives onNancy Irvine of West Knox-
ville was just out of UT when she began teaching 1st grade at Oakwood School in 1954. She’s been sad to watch the building decline over the years, and is pleased that it’s coming back to life.rk.
➤ See story on page A-3
PlanET comesto Farragut
The Town of Farragut will host a PlanET “Meeting in a Box” after the regularly scheduled Farragut Municipal Planning Commission meet-ing at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive.
Throughout March, PlanET is hosting a public-participa-tion series focusing on how the people who live, work and play in the fi ve-county region of An-derson, Blount, Knox, Loudon and Union counties think the region should grow. This is the third round of community input since November 2011 to explore community members’ priorities and look at options for growth as new people and new jobs come to the area.
The FMPC meeting and PlanET presentation are open to the public. For more info, visit www.planeasttn.org.
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Bart Watkins is a busy guy. He owns Liz-Beth and Co. Fine Art Gallery, which he founded with his mother over 20 years ago in his grandmother’s basement. He co-found-ed Art in Public Places with Eddie Mannis eight years ago to inspire both the community and visitors with sculpture. He and his wife have a small child and another on the way.
In addition, Watkins has this other little business, called Power Source Technologies Inc., which is develop-ing the extremely effi cient internal combustion Legacy engine. He currently holds four patents, and has been rec-ognized by the National Transportation Research Center.
This week, he’s most distracted by Art in Public Places, which is technically a Dogwood Arts Festival exhibit, al-though the sculptures stick around for a year. Over the next week, 20 sculptures will be removed and replaced by 20 more, a feat that requires big trucks and a crane. Liz-Beth is also printing this year’s fi ne art print, “Tennessee Dream” by Alex Smith.
It’s worth the trouble because of the effect that art has on the community.
“It’s about inspiring creativity. It makes a better envi-ronment for everybody,” he says.
Liz-Beth will offer Art in Action, a glass-blowing and pottery demonstration at the gallery at 9211 Parkwest Blvd. on Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, in con-junction with the Dogwood Arts Festival. The free event is open to the public.
What is your favorite quote from TV or a movie? “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times
when one only remembers to turn on the light.” – “Har-ry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabana”
What are you guilty of? Forgetfulness. I get so focused on what I’m doing that
I forget the day-to-day stuff.
What is your favorite material possession?An original Jim Gray oil painting. Jim gave it to me
himself.
What are you reading currently?“Wind Through the Keyhole” by Stephen King.
What was your most embarrassing moment?I was late my fi rst day of class at UT. The class was
full so I had to go room-to-room until I found a desk and
then I had to drag it back to the class room. It was not a good start to the day.
What are the top three things on your bucket list? I’ve checked off skydiving and scuba diving, so travel-
ing the world is the only one left.
What is one word others often use to describe you?Tenacious … I never quit.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wish I could remember names better. I am awful at it.
What is your passion? Seeing the engine I am working powering a vehicle.
With whom, living or dead, would you most like to have a long lunch?
(Columnist and political commentator) Charles Krau-thammer.
Other than your parents, who has had the biggest infl u-ence on your life?
My wife. She has changed my life for the better since the moment I met her.
I still can’t quite get the hang of … Twitter.
What is the best present you ever received in a box?Jimmy Buffett tickets. My wife, Ashley, gave me a par-
rot head weekend for Christmas last year and it was great.
What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?Keep your family close and work hard.
What is your social media of choice?Facebook.
What is the worst job you have ever had? I have been lucky enough to have always worked for
myself and I love it.
What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon and why?
I still like them and my current favorite is the “Clone Wars.”
What irritates you?Hypocrisy.
What’s one place in Bearden/downtown that everyone should visit?
The sculptures in Krutch Park.
What is your greatest fear?Not being there for my family when they need me.
If you could do one impulsive thing, what would it be?Grab my wife and go to Las Vegas for a wild weekend,
but since we have two babies, that’s not likely to happen any time soon.
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Nancy Irvine of West Knoxville was just out of UT when she began teaching 1st grade at Oakwood School in 1954. She’s been sad to watch the building decline over the years, and is pleased that it’s coming back to life.
World War II veteran Sam
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about his experience with
HonorAir.
Oakwood School will live on
“I have such fond memo-ries of this place,” she said as she looked around dur-ing a Knox Heritage tour of the building, which is being renovated as an assisted liv-ing facility.
The building was hardly new when Irvine began her teaching career. The origi-nal structure was built in 1914, with additions made in 1946 and 1955. It closed in 1995, and since then, neglect brought down the roof as well as the neighborhood.
When Ethiel Garlington of Knox Heritage took Rick Dover of Family Pride Corp. on a tour of the school, it was in “awful shape,” says Dover. But he could see that the lay-out was good for senior liv-ing. The resulting project is a $6 million injection into the county’s economy, the re-turn of the building to the tax rolls, new jobs, and quality care for 45 seniors.
Kim Trent, executive di-rector of Knox Heritage, is optimistic about the future of other vacant schools, since Superintendent Dr. Jim Mc-Intyre is from Boston and is “used to dealing with historic
Members of the Sierra Club’s Harvey Broome Group hike Pine Ridge Trail in Mt. Rogers National
Recreation Area in Virginia. Photo submitted
Former Oakwood School teacher Nancy Irvine is presented
with a door prize by Becky Hancock at a Knox Heritage tour of
the building. Photos by Wendy Smith
Drama Robeson is present-
ed with the DAR Women in
American History Award by
Eleanor Meisenheimer. Both
are members of the Andrew
Bogle chapter of DAR.
properties.” She hopes the school board will follow this advice:
“When a building is no longer being used, go ahead and let it go to someone who can use it.”
The members-only tour of Oakwood School was a cel-ebration of Knox Heritage’s accomplishments as well as an effort to recruit new mem-bers. Only six percent of the preservation organization’s budget comes from public funds, and the rest comes from donations, says assis-tant director Becky Hancock.
■ Hitting the trailSpring is almost here,
and the Sierra Club’s Harvey Broome Group hopes to coax hikers of all experience levels onto the trail, and water, with a slew of outings.
The new schedule, which includes 21 day hikes, nine back-packing expeditions
and fi ve canoe and kayak fl oats, is available under “outings” at www.tennessee.sierraclub.org/broome. Any-one can participate, but advance registration is re-quired.
Most of the outings are within 50 miles. Out-of-state destinations include Mt. Rog-ers National Recreation area in Virginia and Shining Rock Wilderness Area in North Carolina.
Twelve of the day hikes are part of the club’s Take-a-Hike program, which is for those who want to incorporate hiking into their lifestyle. The hikes start at four miles and build throughout the year. The pace is slow, and naturalist Mac Post provides commentary about fl ora and fauna.
“We look at a lot of stuff,” Post says.
Outings chair Ron Shrie-ves recommends that Take-a-Hike participants have
enough conditioning to be able to walk four miles on a graded path.
■ Vets speak to DARWorld War II veteran
Sam Hardman and Korean War veteran Jack Slaughter spoke to the DAR’s Andrew Bogle chapter last week
about their participation in HonorAir Knoxville.
Hardman, 94, partici-pated in HonorAir’s second fl ight in 2007. Since then he has spoken for the organi-zation, which sends World War II and Korean War veterans to Washington, D.C., for a day to visit war
memorials and Arlington National Cemetery. Hono-rAir’s student ambassa-dor program was recently named after Hardman.
“My experience with HonorAir has been so mar-velous. I’ve been able to send off every fl ight,” he says. “It is one of my passions.”
Slaughter served in the Navy for four years begin-ning in 1951. He participat-ed in the most recent Hono-rAir fl ight in October.
“It was an honor to be chosen for that trip,” he said.
Edie Clemons of the An-drew Bogle chapter served as a guardian on a 2011 fl ight. She was moved by the way the veterans, many of whom are infi rm, stood taller when they visited the memorials. The 14th Hono-rAir fl ight is on April 24.
The chapter also in-stalled a new slate of of-fi cers at the meeting, and Drama Robeson was pre-sented with the DAR Wom-en in American History Award.
‘All great schools’ From page A-1
The new school will have a safety patrol and a student council. The students will help select school colors and a mascot.
If left to Davis, they might be named the “trotters” or “stampede.” That’s because she grew up on a farm and continues to raise horses in East Knox County. Her hus-band is Jimmy Kyle Davis, a local lawyer and former state representative. Their son and daughter-in-law recently de-livered their fi rst grandchild, a girl who is “opinionated.”
Davis quoted the motto: “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” That’s her mantra for the new school which she hopes will be low-stress.
“There are a lot of layers (in whole child education). There’s the academic, the so-cial and the emotional. I want
both teachers and students to be respected and valued.
“Then we will excel.”
PartnersAlready area businesses
have volunteered to be Part-ners in Education, including Publix, Dr. Kristin Knierim, Dr. Bob Overholt and Wen-dy’s. “We’ve got great built-in partnership opportunities (in the Northshore Town Cen-ter),” said Davis.
The Knox County Council PTA stepped up to form a par-ent group.
Sandra Rowcliffe, county president, said forms were sent to parents at the four schools from which students were re-
The billboard busters From page A-1
business, Grieve says. They just think that beautiful communities are also pros-perous. They point to Far-ragut, which hasn’t allowed new billboards for 31 years and has strict sign policies.
“Business owners hated it, but now they’ve reaped the rewards,” Kline says.
Turkey Creek and down-town Knoxville are two other areas that have been
commercially successfulwithout billboards or tallsigns, they say.
People don’t rely on signsthe way they used to, Grievesays. She now uses her cell-phone to fi nd the lowest priceon gas rather than signs.
“The old-school sayingis ‘the bigger the sign, themore customers.’ But notall business owners believethat anymore,” she says.
zoned. These interest forms were distributed by principals, and a nominating committee for offi cers has been named. Lisa Cole at [email protected] is the chair.
Staff Davis has hired about
half of the staff, or 20 teach-ers, who transferred from schools which will lose stu-dents. The balance will be hired during the school sys-tem’s open transfer period.
According to the school’s website, these teachers have joined the faculty at
the new school:Kindergarten: Ruthe
Lindsey, Stephanie Settle-myre, Carrie Sweet
1st Grade: Ann Davis, Mary Porter, Lana Shieh, Jessica Thompson
2nd Grade: Courtney Maynard, Cindy Smith, Ju-lie Williamson
3rd Grade: Rachel Foust, Jessica Greer, Jami Welden
4th Grade: Allyson Mabry, Callie Painter, Lois Sparks, Lisa Tarantino, An-drea Veler
5th Grade: Grace Brown, Kelly Keen.
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City Council this week will consider approving the sale of two lots in Harrill Heights acquired in 1973 for fl ood control to state Rep. Bill Dunn, who says he’ll be present, even though he’ll have to drive over from Nashville after his Tuesday afternoon committee meet-ings and return the next morning for Wednesday’s legislative session.
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Jamie Rowe stands with the city’s notifi cation that land in
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Plan to sell fl oo d-prone land draws oppositionCity Council to decide on $1,500 deal to Dunn
Dunn says he intends to plant a garden on the lots, which he bought for $1,500 in a sealed bid process.
Fountain Citians Jamie Rowe and Carlene Malone oppose the sale of land set aside for fl ood control adja-cent to a sinkhole in a low-lying area with no surface drainage.
City Engineering director Jim Hagerman says Dunn’s gardening plans won’t pose a signifi cant threat to the sinkhole, and that the lots will be restricted to prohibit any other use.
“We didn’t initiate (the sale), but we don’t have any problems with it from a technical perspective,” Hagerman said.
“Any risks to the sinkhole drainage are so small that we don’t see it as a prob-lem. As long as it’s a limited amount of tilled space the risks to that sinkhole’s abil-ity to drain are microscopic. Many other things in that sinkhole basin are more risky than that – yards,
NOTES ■ Trustee John Duncan will
speak to the Halls Republican
Club 7-8 p.m. Monday, March
18, at the club’s new meeting
place: the Boys and Girls Club,
1819 Dry Gap Pike.
■ Charme Knight, candidate
for District Attorney General,
will speak to the Powell Re-
publican Club 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, March 21, at Shoney’s on
Emory Road at I-75.
■ Lincoln Day Dinner will
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Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero say they like each other, and a few weeks ago they were dancing together at the John T. O’Connor pancake breakfast. Recent events, however, suggest a slightly different take on how close they really are.
Dancing mayors
From a personality and ideological standpoint it would be hard to fi nd two more different persons.
Burchett loves non-stop campaigning and press-ing the fl esh. He prefers Wright’s Cafeteria to the City County Building. He often takes on issues as-sociated with the underdog. Carter School is being built because Tim Burchett made it happen. Burchett is po-litically very conservative and Rogero is much more moderate to liberal, having been an Obama delegate last year.
He won the higher property tax battle with the school board, Chamber and school superintendent by digging in his heels and threatening a veto if county commission enacted a tax.
Burchett often operates on impulse, while Rogero is much more cautious in temperament and planning.
She has won over much of the Chamber in her fi rst 15 months in offi ce – de-spite their lack of trust when she ran, feeling she was too close to unions.
The extended closure of the Henley Street Bridge has caused further hard-ship to Chapman Highway merchants. Burchett was the fi rst to champion their cause with a well-publicized trip to Nashville where he met with the local legisla-tive delegation and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey. All these businesses are located in the city. Rogero was not with him on that trip.
Weeks later the city an-nounced support of mea-sures to help the merchants. One suspects Vice Mayor Pavlis was instrumental in getting Rogero to make a public announcement as he represents South Knoxville on city council and wanted to be more public in backing measures to assist the mer-chants. It is unusual when the county mayor takes the lead on an issue within the city, although he can argue correctly that the city is part of the county which he serves.
Soon after Rogero be-came mayor, the Gloria Ray pay scandal became public. While both she and Bur-chett called for Ray’s res-ignation, they did not do it in a joint news conference, although their news confer-ences were only hours apart in the same building on the same day.
The offi ces of Rogero and Burchett are on the 6th fl oor of the City County Building and no more than 300 feet apart, but when it comes to joint announce-ments they are miles apart on timing and scheduling while in agreement on content.
Burchett is fi rst out of the box on many issues.
■ The next governor of Pennsylvania could be the sister of longtime 4th and Gill resident Nancy Young, wife of activist Jeff Talman. She is Democratic U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, who represents a congres-sional district in southeast-ern Pennsylvania and part of Philadelphia.
A former state senator and public health advocate by education, she is 64 and would be the fi rst woman to be governor of Pennsylva-nia. Gov. Tom Corbett has popularity ratings below 40 percent and looks vulner-able to any credible Demo-cratic nominee in 2014.
■ Chattanooga’s new mayor is former 8-year state Sen. Andy Berke who won with 72 percent of the vote and takes offi ce April 15. Three members of the current 9-member city council were defeated, and two more face runoffs as no one got 51 percent of the vote in those districts.
One of the winners was Chris Anderson, who becomes the fi rst openly gay person to be elected to public offi ce in Tennessee.
He defeated the incum-bent by tagging him as a rubber stamp for outgoing Mayor Ron Littlefi eld who had many 5-4 votes on the council and saw his popu-larity drop.
Anderson’s website is www.andersonforcitycouncil.com.
■ Sam Anderson, former Knox County school board chair and longtime city Parks and Recreation director, has been hired by superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre as a part-time special assistant to help in-ner city schools meet state standards.
He will work 16 hours a week. Anderson is highly respected and will give McIntyre solid advice.
He might even help the superintendent out of the current school security controversy.
trees, cars – anything in there has some microscopic, incremental risks.
“If you took out all the houses and just put a bunch of trees in, maybe the debris from the trees would clog it. There has to be a balance between human use and the natural system,” he said.
Malone, who dedicated most of her discretionary funds to fl ood control in this area during her decade on City Council, says Hager-man’s reasoning stuns her because sedimentation is the biggest threat to sink-holes. She called the prop-erty sale “As bad an idea as I have seen.
“How is this surplus property?” Malone asks.
“This is property fulfi ll-ing the purpose for which it was purchased. For 1,500 bucks they’re willing to risk destroying a sinkhole? Do the risk analysis. That’s the only way to drain that area, and if it fails it will fl ood more homes.
“Unbelievable. We just bought a bunch of houses (in East Knoxville) because a sinkhole failed, and we haven’t learned our lesson? Just leave it alone. … It’s not a question of if; it’s a ques-tion of when.”
Dunn lives near the lots, has a degree in agriculture and says he wouldn’t do anything to hurt the neigh-borhood where he has lived for more than 40 years.
He says he went through the proper channels, and the $1,500 he bid was more than city offi cials expected – “So nobody can accuse me of getting a sweetheart deal.
“The garden will be good for the neighborhood and it will be good for the city to put this property back on the tax rolls,” he said.
Rowe, whose property backs up to the lots Dunn wants to buy, says the tax take will be miniscule, and
is beside the point anyway.“When the city pur-
chased those homes and lots, city engineering said there wasn’t any way to lessen the fl ooding there, so to consider selling this land back to citizens is not some-thing I really understand.”
The Maynardville methodShall we laugh or cry?Knox County Mayor Tim
Burchett, who advocates transparency for everyone but himself, met surrepti-tiously with “eight or nine” commissioners last week to dissuade them from support of a requested $219,000 to start equipping and hiring 58 armed school security guards.
This is the same Tim Bur-chett who found an almost identical amount to “audit” school security. And it is the same commission that vir-tually threw money at Jim McIntyre last month.
You read their quotes in The Other Paper: “a ploy to get more money,” said Mike Brown. “The mayor said they have a pot load of mon-ey,” said R. Larry Smith, apparently confusing “boat-load” and “pot full.”
We’re spending almost $2 million annually for school security. Let’s buy some locks and rely on the
Sheriff’s Offi ce and KPD to provide the security we need. That’s their job.
Meanwhile, up in May-nardville, where money is harder to fi nd, an innova-tive principal has hit upon a neat idea.
Melanie Maples, princi-pal at Horace Maynard Mid-dle School, wrote a letter to her parents and staff, ask-ing each family to donate $10 toward a goal of $7,000. That’s the quote from the Union County Sheriff’s Of-fi ce for 16 cameras that link to the E-911 Center.
In two weeks, Maples had raised $3,600 and is well on her way to getting the secu-
rity her school needs.Melanie is related to my
old friend and Republican stalwart L.D. Monroe. He should be proud.
Technology grantTwenty-eight schools ap-
plied to be one of “9 or 10” to get one-to-one technology for students and teachers next year.
Winners are expected to be named by month’s end. There must be a mix of high, middle and elemen-tary schools, as well as geo-graphic diversity.
It’s a committee on which I do not want to serve.
But I’m proud of every school whose faculty opted to take the pledge to use the technology.
Here are the applicants:High schools: Bear-
den, Carter, Central, Farra-gut, Fulton, Hardin Valley Academy, Karns, Powell, South-Doyle and West.
Middle schools: Cedar Bluff, Farragut, Gresham, Halls, Holston, South-Doyle, West Valley.
Elementary schools:Bearden, Bonny Kate, Brick-ey-McCloud, Corryton, Far-ragut Intermediate, Halls, Karns, Mooreland Heights, Norwood, Sequoyah and Sterchi.
Hey, 28 schools. You are all winners!
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One of the most frequent questions I am asked is:
“What is the biggest dif-ference in your community today from the way it was 60 years ago?”
From a technological standpoint, the telephone would have to be high on my list of answers.
Today, smartphones do everything from take pic-tures to allow you to check email. They have a lot of other capabilities that I have yet to learn how to use. Moreover, these devic-es have created a vocabu-lary, such as “texting,” that Webster’s Dictionary has yet to include in its compi-lation of English words. It
is hard to go to any public place without seeing peo-ple of all ages with their eyes fixed on their phone, completely unaware of the world around them.
Some time back, a TV station ran a clip on a woman who was leaving an office building in New York with her eyes fixed on her phone and walked into a fountain in front of the building. And that re-minded me of a personal experience several months ago when I was turning left from Smith Road onto Kingston Pike.
It had been raining and the road was slick. A woman talking on her
phone failed to notice the light had changed and that I was out in the middle of the road. She applied her brakes very hard and her car turned around once before jumping the curb at CVS Pharmacy and ended up in its entrance heading north towards Kingston Pike. But the most phe-nomenal thing was she still had the phone at her ear.
In Old Concord, the ad-vent of the wireless tele-phone was still decades in the future, but we did have a pioneering feature: tele-conferencing. Our phone system was operated by the Hammond family, and it was a family operation.
The evolution of
the telephone
Mrs. Retha Hammonds operated the switchboard from the bedroom of their home and her husband, Sim, maintained the land lines. If you lived out in the country, you had to buy your own telephone pole. Otherwise, Sim just strung the line through trees or along fence rows.
Actually, this worked well except when the wind blew, which caused some static on the line. All of Concord was on six- to eight-person “party lines,” as they were called. I can remember that our phone usually rang in the early morning, and although each person on the line had their separate ring, everyone picked up and joined in the conversa-tion. My mother knew each of our neighbors by their voice, and sometimes there would be several talking at the same time.
The in-house equipment was a wood box affixed to the wall with an extended mouthpiece and a separate ear piece. It had a crank on
the side which had to be turned to reach Mrs. Ham-monds, who then routed you through to the person you were calling.
Several days ago, I was serving as a docent at the Farragut Folklife Museum and had the pleasure of conducting a tour for a Boy Scout troop. Of all the items featured in the mu-seum, the one that drew the most attention was an old wooden box telephone. Many acted as if they had never seen such a piece of equipment and were anx-ious to take pictures of it with their smartphones.
During the early ’80s and ’90s, we owned a ser-vice-type firm and proba-bly had one of the first por-table phones in our area. The equipment consisted of a briefcase with a crank not too different from our phone in Old Concord. You called the mobile opera-tor who put you through to your party. It required a high antenna on the car and there were many “dead spots” where the service
was not available. There can be little doubt
that the advancement in communications has had a positive impact on pro-ductivity. With the advent of space satellites and GPS systems, it would be hard for anyone born in the past 20 years to comprehend just how far we have progressed.
But I still think there is something nostalgic about our old wooden telephone, and it seemed to serve the public well in an era when the pace of life was much slower. And while I can re-member pots boiling over on the stove while someone was talking on the phone, I don’t recall that we ever walked into decorativefountains or put people’s life in peril by talking on the phone when driving.
The noted German physicist Albert Einstein once said, “When technol-ogy replaces humanity, then we will become a na-tion of idiots.”
I wonder how he would feel about that if he were alive today.
By Jake MabeScott Bacon and Mary
Kerr couldn’t have found a better name for a memo-rial scholarship than the one named in memory of Barney Thompson.
Each year since Thomp-son’s death due to compli-cations from pancreatic cancer in April 2007, Knox County Schools Partners in Education (PIE), which Bacon and Kerr over-see, through the primary sponsorship of the Knox-ville Area Association of Realtors, awards a $500 scholarship named for Thompson to one graduat-ing senior from each Knox County high school. Funds are also provided through donations from individ-ual Realtors and monies
raised from PIE’s annual Dine Out for Education event
Thompson was a teacher and coach at South High School. He entered the real estate profession in 1980, continuing to teach aspir-ing Realtors. An educa-tion room at the Knoxville Area Association of Real-tors’ complex is named for Thompson. He was also the PIE advisory board’s (the program was initially known as Adopt-A-School) only treasurer until his death.
“I was at Coca-Cola and was the Adopt-A-School president when we went to see the Association of Re-altors,” Bacon says. “That’s when we started the as-sociation with Barney.
Barney Thompson Photo submitted
Scholarship continues Thompson’s work
He jumped on board and asked if he could also be a part of the advisory board because he was passionate about kids. He was so good at keeping the Association involved and was a good treasurer.”
Kerr jokes that “for the
longest time, members of the (PIE) board didn’t think there was a Barney. Because of his job, he often couldn’t make it to month-ly board meetings. But he was very loyal about fax-ing over the treasurer re-ports every month. And he would come to our spring luncheon, and when we started having our kickoff luncheons in August, he would come to those.”
Several Realtors have remained active PIE mem-bers due to Thompson’s in-fluence. Kerr remembers a serendipitous meeting she and Bacon attended that paid big dividends for the school system.
“They were having a Re-altors Trade Expo at the Knoxville Expo Center. We
went because he told us to go and that we’d have a free booth. We thought, ‘How is this going to benefit the school system?’”
Well, that happened to be the year the school system’s coupon book’s main sponsor dropped out, leading to a new relation-ship with SunTrust Bank. The annual school cou-pon book sale (The Origi-nal Knox County School Coupon Book) is the PIE’s main fundraiser for the year. Another company at the expo also donated $1,500 to the school sys-tem, helping to purchase playground equipment for Fort Sanders Educational Development Center.
Barney Thompson Me-morial Scholarship appli-cations are available from any high school guidance counselor or can be down-loaded by visiting www.
knoxschools.org and click-ing on the Partners in Edu-cation link. Applications must be turned in to a stu-dent’s guidance counselor by Wednesday, April 10.
The awards ceremony will be held for the second of what is planned to be a yearly event May 9 at the Knoxville Area Associa-tion of Realtors complex, in – where else – the Bar-ney Thompson Education Room.
“We just think it’s a fit-ting way to honor a guy who did so much,” Bacon says. “We’re thankful to the Association for provid-ing funding and a Associa-tion member and Barney’s widow, LaRue, pick a win-ner as well.”
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NEWS FROM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE
Family Missions DaysCAK is offering four
different opportunities to serve the community in the next few weeks. “And the second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:31. Visit www.cakwarriors.com/renewal for details on how to get involved.
Summer CampAs you make summer
plans, check out CAK’s summer camp schedule. CAK offers a variety of athletic, academic and arts camps throughout the summer months. For more information, visit www.cakwarriors.com/camps.
Legacy Dinner Invite CAK is calling all
students, parents, board members, teachers, etc. — past and present — to attend the 2013 Legacy Dinner at The Foundry. Tickets are $35/each and must be purchased by Fri-day, March 22. Visit www.cakwarriors.com/legacy to get your tickets today! See invite below
Join us as we celebrate CAK’s 35th Anniversary and
look ahead toward the future!
Ernie Trebing (CAK’s original Headmaster), Scott Sandie (Current Superintendent),
Bob Neu (Future Head of School) and a number of other special guests
will be in attendance.
You don’t want to miss this great evening!
All reservations must be received by Friday, March 22.
www.cakwarriors.com/legacy
You’re invited ... CAK’s 2013 Legacy Dinnerg
With a win over Grainger County in the state sectional game on March 2, the CAK girls basketball team ad-vanced to the state tourna-ment for the fi rst time in school history. It was a goal that the Warriors had set very early on in the season and in spite of some obsta-cles, including the season–ending injury to sophomore Brianna Bryant, CAK was headed to Murfreesboro.
“What a great feeling,” CAK coach Steve Denny said. “This program has come so far and these girls have worked so hard, it was great to be able to cut down those nets and move on to the next round.”
CAK beat Cannon County in the quarterfi nals before losing to Macon County in the state semi-fi nals.
“It wasn't exactly how we wanted it to end, but hats off to Macon County, they're a good team." Coach Denny said. "This was a great experience for us to get to state and get a win under our belt.”
The Warriors were led by point guard Anna Hammer and 6-foot-6 center Chey-enne Hooper. Sophomore
CAK girls basketball reaches new heights
forward Kelsey Naler, junior forward Kaycee Heitzman and freshman guard Taylor Dodson were also key contributors. CAK’s rotation also included junior guard Amy Cross and senior for-ward McKenzie Riley.
CAK returns all five
starters for next season, and anxiously awaits Bry-ant’s return to the court.
“We stood in the locker room, circled up arm-in-arm, and said, ‘remember this feeling. Keep your chin up. We’re coming back,’ ” Denny said.
(Top row, L-R) Coach Betsy Bushuiakovish, Brianna Bryant, Anna Hammaker, Cheyenne Hooper, Kaycee Heitzman, Coach Steve Denny, Kelsey
Naler, Kaylee McClanahan, Coach Karen Garner, Coach Pam Walker (Front, L-R) Amy Cross, Rachel Roop, McKenzie Riley, Taylor Dodson
Sold-out crowd for the game on Saturday, March 2.
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CAK Café MorningsFor Prospective Families
Elementary (PreK-5) April 3
Middle (6-8) April 10
High School (9-12) April 17
(9 a.m. in the School’s lobby)
Tour the Facility; Visit with Administrators;
Enjoy a cup of coffee!
Now accepting applications for 2013-14!
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A member of the Watoto
Children’s Choir enjoys the
show.
A children’s choir from Africa will be in Knox County this month with concerts set in area churches. The visit is part of a six-month U.S. tour that launched in January.
The Watoto Children’s Choir will be at New Cov-enant Baptist Church, 10319 Starkey Lane, Far-ragut, 7 p.m. Thursday, March 21; Faith United Methodist Church, 1120 Dry Gap Pike, 6 p.m. Sat-urday, March 30; and Rogers Memorial Bap-tist Church, 520 College Street, 10 a.m. Sunday, March 31.
All performances are free and open to the public.
Each child in the choir has lost one or both parents. They live in Watoto Children’s Vil-lages where they receive the care and nurturing they need to grow up as productive citi-zens of their own country.
With vibrant original Af-rican music, dance routines and life-transforming sto-
Watoto Children’s Choir coming to town
The Watoto Children’s Choir rehearses in Uganda before start-
ing a tour of the United States. This choir will perform in Knox
County during March.
faith
WORSHIP NOTES
Community Services
■ First Farragut UMC, 12733
Kingston Pike, will sponsor a
Mobile Pantry food giveaway
Saturday, April 6, in the
sanctuary to local neighbors
in need, beginning at 9 a.m.
and continuing until all food
has been handed out. Any area
residents who are in need of
help are encouraged to come
to the church to receive food.
Used children’s clothing, in
good condition, will also be
given away.
Easter services ■ Farragut Presbyterian
Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd.,
will hold the following Easter
Services: Palm Sunday, March
24: Children will process in
with palms during the 11 a.m.
service; Maundy Thursday,
March 28: Communion and
Service at 7 p.m. in the church
Sanctuary; Good Friday,
March 29: Good Friday prayer
service at noon; Great Easter
Vigil, Saturday, March 30: 7:56
p.m., starting with a bonfi re at
sunset; Easter: Two services,
8:30 and 11:30; choir and
instruments. Info: 966-9547 or
www.fpctn.org.
Special services ■ Farragut Presbyterian
Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd.,
will host Farragut Feast, Faith,
Fellowship on Wednesday,
March 20. A soup supper will
be served at 6 p.m., followed
by study and prayer. Info: 966-
9547 or www.fpctn.org.
Youth services ■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak
Ridge Highway, is accepting
registrations for Preschool,
Parents Day Out and T-N-T
Summer programs. To register:
531-2052 or email imacindo@
beaverridge.com. Info: 690-1060
or www.beaverridgeumc.com.
Steve Humphreys, executive
director of Focus Group Min-
istries Photo by Wendy Smith
By Wendy SmithThere are approximately
20,000 inmates in Ten-nessee state prisons, says Steve Humphreys, ex-ecutive director of Focus Group Ministries.
“Ninety-seven percent of them will get out and come live in your neighbor-hood. What kind of person do you want to live there?”
Those recently released from prison are called “re-turning citizens,” and many are set up to fail by the system. Humphreys told attendees at Compassion Coalition’s quarterly Salt and Light Luncheon about a father who got behind on child support payments while in prison. When he was released, his driver’s license was taken away because he’d failed to pay child support. Because of that, he wasn’t able to work and pay child support.
Such circumstances contribute to 65 percent of Tennessee prisoners returning to jail within three years. But that’s bet-ter than the national re-cidivism rate of 75 percent, Humphreys said.
He is a former CPA who didn’t feel like he had much in common with inmates until a family member was convicted of murder. When Humphreys visited his relative in jail, he saw prisoners visiting with their children, grandchildren and girlfriends.
“You know what? They looked just like me.”
Focus programs include mentoring, life skills classes and a fatherhood initiative that not only keeps families from falling apart, but helps
A helping hand for ‘returning citizens’
them grow stronger whenthey are separated throughincarceration, he said.
Members of the faith com-munity can serve prisonersby teaching life skills, likehow to balance a checkbookand how to be an employee.They can also help returningcitizens get established afterthey are released.
Humphrey is co-chairof the East Tennessee Re-entry Collaborative, calledNew Start Resource Center,which is scheduled to openin Knoxville in July. Thecenter, located at 826 N.Broadway, will offer servicereferrals to newly releasedinmates for necessities likehousing, employment andhealth care. Humphreysis looking for volunteersfrom the faith communityto work with teams that arealready in place.
All returning citizens facechallenges, but sex offendersface special diffi culties dueto stigma and rigorous hous-ing guidelines. Humphreyscompared them to “the leastof these” referred to in Mat-thew 25:40.
The fourth annual NewsTalk 98.7 Radio-thon on March 6 to ben-efit Knox Area Rescue Ministries successfully raised $30,000 for those who receive shelter, food and other services at KARM.
Former KARM clients joined Hallerin Hilton Hill from 6-10 a.m. and Phil Williams 3-7 p.m. They contrasted com-pelling stories of previ-ous life experiences on the streets with their lives today. Volunteers answered calls from the phone bank established in the Cumulus Broad-casting studios.
KARM serves nearly 1,000 meals daily and
NewsTalk boosts KARM
Phil Williams and Hallerin
Hill
shelters more than 400 men, women and chil-dren every night. Info: www.karm.org.
CrossCurrents
LynnHutton
Marvin West
Butch Jones is a confident coach. He is convinced his way will work. He says his system is infallible if players buy in. I say the market is open. Step right up.
Butch would have us believe he is f lexible and adaptive to available talent. You won’t hear another word about those who departed early for the NFL. Well, you may hear congratulations if they are drafted high.
Coach Jones’ focus is clearly forward. He will not dwell on what is missing or how chaotic was Sal’s sad defense.
Spring practice is not half over but I already know Butch has a positive, passionate personality. He thinks the Vols can and will make the necessary adjustments and have an improved look come September.
Jones needs a quarterback who can protect the football and throw it to the correct color shirt. History says a mobile quarter-back adds to offensive effi ciency.
We’re not talking about a
In need of a mobile quarterback
sprinter who takes the snap and goes f lying toward the corner. Tennessee can get by without a Tim Tebow comparable who runs over people if there are no open-ings.
All Butch needs is a smart guy who can read defenses and con-vert third and three if eight of the bad guys drop into coverage.
I suppose it would help if the QB was a threat to do something other than throw deep on second and seven.
Junior Justin Worley and redshirt freshman Nathan Pe-terman have the immediate op-portunity to demonstrate the necessary skills. In August they
will be compared to newcomers Joshua Dobbs, Riley Ferguson and Charlie High.
Since there is a system change, experience may not be decisive.
Worley is 6-4 and 213. Nimble and f leet? Not exactly. Jones and associates recruited Peterman as a fit for their Cincinnati power spread – if that is what they run.
Dobbs has credentials. Fer-guson is a warrior. High brings awesome stats. All five are intel-ligent.
Mobile quarterbacks are the in-thing. Even the pros have caught the fever and are taking the gamble. Alas, the odds of in-jury do go up with open-field ex-posure. See RGIII.
Tennessee has a great dual-threat quarterback just down the hall from Jones’ office. Con-dredge Holloway could throw or go. After him were Jimmy Streater and Heath Shuler and Tee Martin.
Before the Artful Dodger, col-lege football had such famous
multi-talented people as Archie Manning and Gary Beban. They are in the hall of fame.
The NFL created the pro-style quarterback. Peyton Man-ning and Tom Brady are perfect examples. They run only if their life is at risk.
With the occasional sack count-ing off, Peyton’s career rushing to-tals at UT were minus 181 yards. Casey Clausen was minus 130. Tyler Bray fi nished at minus 207. Erik Ainge was minus 227. Let me say this gently: They were not run-ners.
So, how much mobility does Butch Jones need? Prime pay-off will still come from sound protection and accurate pocket passes. The ability to throw on the run adds an important di-mension. Pulling it down and moving on is another. The read option is a weapon.
From the shotgun, running attacks are hampered without the threat of a mobile quarter-back. So, how much is enough?
Keeping us and defenses guessing is Jones’ goal.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His address
The things one learns when chasing trivia!
I have been watching jonquils for several days now. Their sunny yellow, trumpet-shaped heads have been announcing spring all this past week, and I smile when I see them.
But this year I am also remem-bering: remembering a spring when I lived deep in the country (a mile from my own mailbox). One spring day, on a walk with Hasso, the German shepherd, I discovered an anomaly in the woods: an open space with jon-quils surrounding the remains of an old foundation.
A rush of jonquilsArise my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is
past, the rain is over and gone. The fl owers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
(Song of Solomon 2: 10b-12 NRSV)
The house was gone, the woman was gone, but her f low-ers remained.
I remember every spring: that ghost of a house, those happy, fragile fl owers, and the woman I never knew. Every time I see jon-quils growing in some odd place, some forlorn bit of ground far from any house or garden, I think of her, and wonder if the beauty she planted (and no doubt loved and enjoyed) continues to fl ower – to beautify a small, hidden corner of the world. I hope they are still there, standing testament to her industry and careful love.
Even if a young woman and her dog were the only ones who ever saw.
Because I love words at least as much as jonquils, I looked up the derivation of their name, and discovered it is from the French word jonquille, which means rush. (Aha! I thought. That’s what they get for being in such an all-fi red hurry to bloom in the
spring! But I was wrong!)They are named for rushes
(think: bulrushes) because they have hollow stems. (There are worse rationales for naming a fl ower, I’m sure, but I can’t think what it might be!)
By that time, I was off on an-other tangent: what might be the collective noun for a whole bunch of jonquils? I was disappointed to learn (at least according to my fab-ulous and useful book of collective nouns) that there is none.
At which point, I decided I would create one: a rush of jon-quils!
There! My very own collective noun! Rush, because of the deri-vation of their name, but also be-cause of their tendency to hurry spring!
So, the next time you see a “rush” of jonquils, let it remind you that spring is almost here, and these yellow heraldic trumpets are announcing its coming f or all they are worth.
A state House commit-tee March 6 created a new nine-member board with the authority to override charter school decisions made by a local school board. An ear-lier version of the bill, which applied only to Nashville and Memphis, called for the state Board of Education to appoint a single state “autho-rizer.” The recent bill desig-nates a board, with the gov-ernor and the speakers of the state House and Senate each appointing three members. The law will apply statewide. The new board will consider a charter school only after a lo-cal school board has reviewed it.
Impetus for the bill arose last year when the Metro Nashville school board defi ed a state Board of Education directive to approve a char-ter in West Nashville run by Great Hearts Academies, a Phoenix-based charter school system. The current bill is promoted by Nashville mayor Carl Dean.
SOS opposes this bill. It amounts to an unfunded mandate since the nine-mem-ber board could require a lo-cal system to accept a charter school they might have reason to oppose. The school system, however, would be required to fund the school from its current budget if their deci-sion were overruled. As well, we are concerned about chal-lenges facing a school admin-istration made to work with a charter school it had not ap-proved.
Also, let your legislators know your opposition to electing school superinten-dents. Knox County Commis-sion tabled a resolution but the effort is apparently still alive at the state level. We urge you to join SOS in op-posing it by contact your state senators and representatives.
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I stood long, looking at what was left of someone’s home. I drank in the beauty and peace-fulness of the place, and won-dered about the person (a wom-an, I presumed) who had knelt in the dirt and placed bulbs there to make her yard a living wonder.
ries, the tour is indicative of the new generation of leaders
emerging out of Watoto. Info: www.watoto.com/.
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‘Hello hospital’ at A.L. LottsKatie Andersen gives a big
thumbs up to let East Ten-
nessee Children’s Hospital
practicum student Sarah
Beasley know she could
hear her own heartbeat.
Students received a visit
from Beasley recently to
learn about what happens
to a child during a trip to
the hospital. Photos by S. Barrett
Ryan Davidson and Trey Nugent search for their heartbeats
with stethoscopes from East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.
Charli Gwinn gets suited up like a physician by Sarah Beasley
from East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. Other activities in-
cluded watching a video on a child’s experience at the hospi-
tal, feeling an arm cast and looking at X-rays.
Aloni Hogans and
Allana Whiticar display
the fi nger casts they
received.
A.L. Lotts Elementary School kindergartners Isaiah
Staff ord-Hedge and Asher Harness pretend to ad-
minister medication to Zoe the cat.
Volunteers neededfor robotics competition
The third an-nual Smoky Mountain Regional Challenge for robotics will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 29-30, at the Knoxville Convention Center. More than 50 teams from Tennes-see and surrounding states will compete for a spot in the champi-onship to be held in St. Louis at the end of April.
Volunteers are needed. If interested, visit www.tnfirst.org or www.usfirst.org, or call L.J. Robinson at 388-5708 or email [email protected].
SCHOOL NOTES
SPORTS NOTES
Pancakes for dessert
Blue Grass Elementary School 1st graders Brooke Ogle,
Surya Ponnuchamy and Jessica Gregg hang out with Tu-
pelo Honey Café executive chef Brian Sonoskus before he
cooks sweet potato pancakes with peach butter for their
class. He passed out the recipe to the kids for their fami-
lies to enjoy. “I feel about my food like the Grateful Dead
feel about their music,” he said. “Once it’s out there, it’s
really out there.” Photos by S. Barrett
Blue Grass Elementary School 1st graders Dillon Sims and
Brock Johnston prepare to dig in to their sweet potato pan-
cakes. Info: www.tupelohoneycafe.com.
Sacred Heart ■ Kindergarten open
house will be held 9-11
a.m. Wednesday, March 20,
for parents of upcoming
kindergarten students.
Info: Joni Punch, 558-4136
Sequoyah Elementary
■ PTA will meet 10:45-11:45
a.m. each second Wednes-
day in the library. All parents
are encouraged to attend.
West Hills Elementary
■ Box Tops for Educa-
tion from General Mills’
products and Labels for
Education from Campbell’s
products are being col-
lected to purchase supplies
for the school. Labels can
be dropped off in the
silver collection box at the
front of the school or can be
mailed to: West Hills Elemen-
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Drive, Knoxville, TN 37909.
Info: email Jill Schmudde at
■ Baseball tournament,
open to all – Tball, 6U coach
pitch and 8U-14U – will be
held Friday through Sunday,
March 22-24, at Halls Com-
munity Park. Info: 992-5504
■ CYF Warriors Tackle Youth
football has openings for
the 7-, 8- and 9-year-old
teams for the 2013 season.
Rosters are limited. All prac-
tices at CAK. Equipment will
be distributed in April. Info:
Jeff , 765-2119.
■ Chris Newsom Memorial
Classic baseball tourna-
ment, drafted rec teams
only: T-ball, 6U coach pitch
and 8U-14U; Monday through
Sunday, April 1-7, Halls Com-
munity Park. Info: 992-5504
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A dream job for Wanda LacyBy Sara Barrett
Since she was a child, Farragut High School teacher and math department chair Wanda Lacy has had a passion for math.
“I love it. I love how things connect,” Lacy said.
Because of that love, she changed her course of study in col-lege from engineering to teaching.
“I don’t think you ever graduate from high school thinking you want to teach. But somewhere along the line, I just knew that I had to teach. I changed my major to math education.”
The University of Tennessee graduate says she does not see her work as a job.
“I come to school every day, I do not come to work. I love my kids. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
Lacy has been named Knox County Schools’ high school Teacher of the Year for 2013. This is the sec-ond time in her career that she has received the honor.
Having begun teaching at Farra-gut High School in 1983, Lacy took an extended leave of absence to be-gin work on a Ph.D. in education. But her love of teaching pulled her back to the school. She still values the experience and research she gained during her leave, and she credits it for much of her current teaching method.
Lacy starts each lesson with a Power Point presentation before she breaks the class into small groups. She said it has taken a number of years to get a good working order to the idea, but says, “I think I’ve fi-nally arrived with groups.”
Lacy steps back from the spot-light during group work to become more of a facilitator.
Each group contains students from opposite ends of the learn-ing spectrum, similar to running a business. One student is desig-nated group leader and everything is presented to the class from the
team as a unit. “We have great students at Far-
ragut.” Lacy said she enjoys the diversity
of the students and how well they get along with one another. She also teaches in the school’s math academy, where students who have a genuine interest in math-related
careers are paired up with mentors
in those career fields from the community. “Everybody has
a passion about some-thing.”
Since she started teaching cal-culus in 2007, 97 percent of Lacy’s students have earned at least one semester of college credit by taking the course during high school.
“That’s the goal in my class. Can we get you college credit?”
Without getting to know her students personally though, Lacy
said it would be impossible to help them learn. If they are struggling with other classes, they can come to her as a whole to reschedule a test for a chapter. She has an open-door policy and wants each student to feel comfortable coming to her with an issue.
After they graduate college, many students return to visit Lacy. After catching up, she always asks each one what she could do differ-ently to improve upon her teach-ing method. And she always takes their advice seriously.
In addition to her work with her students, Lacy is a lead teacher at Farragut High, and she conducts evaluations for other teachers in the department. She considers her-self a proponent of the teaching evaluation program. She thinks it allows teachers to find room for improvement on their methods, and although she says she may have initially been a bit hesitant to
buy into the idea, she now thinks it’s made her a better teacher.
“It’s easy to say something doesn’t work. But you’ve got to try it first. You have to be open to change.
“These students don’t want to see (their teacher) as someone who will make them come in and sit down and be quiet. They want to see you as someone who wants them to be successful.
“When they walk back in from college, I want them to say ‘Thank you Ms. Lacy, I am successful.’ Be-cause that’s what we all want, is to be successful.”
When she’s not teaching or do-ing something related to it, Lacy spends time with her husband, Ray, and their two daughters and four grandchildren. She has al-ready found a fan of math in her 9-year-old grandson, whom she tu-tors in geometry.
Farragut High School juniors Maddie Strnad, Lam Tran and Akshay Soni review a recent test with math department chair and teacher Wanda Lacy, who is the Knox County Schools 2013 High School Teacher of the Year. Photo by S. Barrett
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By Sandra ClarkDennis Koontz, owner of Con-
solidated Insurance Services, says he would trust Sandy Loy with any project.
“He holds himself very ac-countable, both in his character and profession-ally. We’re very good friends. I would trust Sandy Loy with anything I have. If someone
wants a quality project, I would highly recommend Sandy and Construction Plus.”
Koontz partnered with Sandy on the Koontz Loy Taylor (KLT) Offi ce Complex in West Knox-ville in November 1998. He also worked with Construction Plus when he moved into the Brookville Building No. 1 near Northshore Towers.
“Sandy has probably more cre-dentials than any other commer-cial contractor in this town,” says Koontz. “He has degrees (archi-tect and engineering), 30 years experience, and was the fi rst Cer-tifi ed Construction Manager in the area.
“He is meticulous and is very hands-on on every project that he does. Customers are cared for properly and get their money’s worth. His goal is to give you a quality product within budget and on time.”
Koontz cited the recently completed $2 million project for Cherokee Health Systems in Morristown. “He built it in 60 days. That’s just astounding. They worked 24/7 and fi nished on time and on budget.”
JBF & AssociatesDr. Jerry Fussell is now
retired and a consulting en-gineer for JBF & Associates on Pellissippi Parkway. Dur-ing his career, Dr. Fussell performed en-gineering work on safety and
reliability for complex engi-neering systems worldwide, in-cluding nuclear power plants.
He says he was “not entirely happy” when he built Phase I of
25th anniversaryConstruction Plus Inc. is celebrating its 25th year in 2013. In
January we interviewed offi ce manager Glenda Tipton, who has
worked with owner Sandy Loy for 15 of those years. This month
we’ve talked with several clients about their experiences.
Clients praise Construction Plus
Jerry Fussell
Covenant Presbyterian
Panther Sark Offi ce Building built for Dr. Jerry Fussell in 1991 and 1998. Con-
struction Plus Inc. is now restoring the building back to “as-built” quality
with new infrastructure technology for energy management and security.
his offi ce complex. So he hired Sandy Loy and Construction Plus Inc. for Phase II, a proj-ect twice the size of Phase I. Six years later, he went back to Sandy for Phase III. Now JBF & Associates has contracted for $1 million worth of renova-tions, and Sandy is doing that as well.
“If I were going to describe his organization, I would say he has a value-driven company where things like reliability, quality, customer service and respect would be the values that drive him,” Fussell says.
“In dealing with Sandy, he has been reasonable, fair, hon-est and always gives more than anyone has a right to expect. He and I, in all these years, have stayed friends.”
Sandy was not satisfi ed with the doors at one point and went around and hand-rubbed every door himself, Fussell recalls. Sandy expects detail work.
“If I ever noticed an issue, he would already have taken care of it by the time I noticed it.”
“Sandy does value engineer-ing and gets the cost down without sacrifi cing quality or function,” says Fussell. “He’s very diplomatic. He never com-plained and just did his job.
“I believe he surrounds him-self with quality people who do good work. If it doesn’t meet his standards, he’ll redo it.”
Cherokee Health Systems
Jeff Howard, chief fi nan-cial offi cer for Cherokee Health
Systems, says his company fi rst worked with Sandy Loy on a project in Englewood. “We liked his approach. He was a good fi t, and we’ve kept him.”
Construction Plus Inc. is cur-rently working for Cherokee to renovate a building for a new clinic on 5th Avenue in Knox-ville. The company built a Crisis Stabilization Unit in Morris-town and is getting ready to add a second fl oor there.
“I like the approach of the construction manager in which he’s basically working for us. The
KLT Offi ce Complex
chemistry is really good. He un-derstands how we think about the project, and I know he’s going to be looking out for our good.
“We have very high expec-tations of the people we work with. The relationship we have, it’s like he’s part of our company. We just feel like it’s that kind of relationship,” said Howard.
“We trust him. There are mul-tiple instances in which he has found savings. We respect that in a contractor. Building u p the cost is not a motivator with Sandy.”
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Curt Jawdy chaired the
building committee for Cov-enant Presbyterian Church, a project entrusted to Con-struction Plus Inc. Jawdy says:
“Sandy Loy built a new fa-cility for our church and did a top-notch job. Working with a church building committee is always a challenge and Sandy handled it perfectly.
“We worked through sev-eral revisions to get the ‘vi-sion’ and the budget aligned. He stayed on top of the proj-ect throughout, even provid-ing excellent follow-up after we moved in. We would work with Construction Plus again in a heartbeat.”
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Bearden Elementary School 1st graders Mimi Hamby and Abby
Clark discuss their methods for creating art during a reception
for the school’s fi rst exhibit at the Bijou Theatre. BES students’
artwork will be on display through the end of April in the up-
stairs gallery. Info: 522-0832. Photo submitted
Breakfast challenge winners at SESSequoyah Elementary School’s breakfast challenge winners for February received a free breakfast with three Knoxville fi refi ght-
ers from Hall 9. Pictured are (front) students Haylie Davis, Andy Jin and Laylo Usmonova; fi re captain Ted Dyer, student Kate Trent
and principal Alisha Hinton; (back) SES cafeteria manager Sarah Sudduth, fi refi ghter Cory Dodson, students Addison Kirby and
Leilani Carden; physical education teacher Becca Russell and fi refi ghter Brian Irwin. Students who eat breakfast at the school are
entered into a monthly drawing to win the free breakfast with a special guest. Photo submitted
Spoleto at Sequoyah Elementary
Sequoyah Elementary
School 3rd grader Mary
Reagan Bollig and her
little brother, kindergart-
ner Jones Bollig, get ready
to perform the theme
song from the television
show “The Addams Fam-
ily” with fellow classmates
during Spoleto.
Sequoyah Elementary
School kindergartner J.
Adams enjoys dinner with
his family in the school
cafeteria before perform-
ing “Rocky Top” on his
guitar during the school’s
annual Spoleto art festi-
val. He’s been playing for
about two years. Photos by S. Barrett
The 11U RBI Rangers won the USSSA “That’s a Winner” baseball tournament. Team mem-
bers are: (front) Christian Bailey, Jimmy Runyan, Baker Whitfi eld, Mason Patel, Ian Camp-
bell; (back) Logan Harbin, Cameron Fisher, Ethan Morton, Lukas Cook and Gehrig Ebel. Not
pictured is Matt Schultz. The team is coached by Chris Whitfi eld, Jason Garrett and Chris
Cook. Photo submitted
RBI Rangers win tournament
Sequoyah Elementary School
5th graders Harrison Williams,
Isabel Petre and Tess DeBord
pour some refreshments dur-
ing dinner in the cafeteria.
A-12 • MARCH 18, 2013 • BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS business
Woods joins Rodefer MossEmily Woods has joined Rodefer Moss & Co. as
marketing coordinator.Previously, Woods was the special
events coordinator for law fi rm McK-enna Long & Aldridge in Atlanta.
While pursuing her undergraduate degree from UT, Woods was a long-term public relations intern with the Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. She is the events co-chair for the UT Young Alumni Council. She is a volun-teer with Mission of Hope.
Anne Hart
Home Federal Bank president Dale Keasling and executive vice president Debra Smith congrat-ulate scholarship recipients and Bearden residents Adam Keck and Christina Alley.
In addition to being all-around good citizens, the folks at Home Federal Bank apparently believe in “rais-ing up” their own future employees.
Home Federal awards scholarships
The bank has awarded more than $175,000 in scholarships to UT students in the College of Business
Administration since 1995.Two of this year’s win-
ners are Bearden residents Adam Keck and Christina Alley, both seniors who are studying accounting.
Future Home Federal employees? Bank president Dale Keasling says, “We’re honored to support these students as they prepare for their careers ahead. The education they are receiv-ing now will soon benefi t the entire business commu-nity.”
Four others received this year’s Home Federal scholarships, which totaled $9,000.
Vendor call for barbecue event
Spots are still available for vendors for the upcom-ing Rocky Top Hummin’ & Strummin’ BBQ Cookoff West Knox Rotary is spon-soring May 3-4 on the cam-pus of the Episcopal School of Knoxville.
The event is sanctioned
by the Kansas City Barbeque Society, the offi cial sanction-ing body of barbecue compe-titions internationally, and is expected to draw thousands of visitors who will watch as barbecue cooks from across the country compete for $10,000 in prizes and a spot at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbecue, held annually in
October in Lynchburg, Tenn.Those interested in be-
ing a vendor should con-tact Rotarians Todd Wolf at 567-3277, Scott Boling at 588-7685 or go to www.westknox v i l lerotar y.org and click on the barbecue button at the top of the page.
Sponsorships are also available. Sponsors will be
recognized on such items as T-shirts and in print advertis-ing based on the level of con-tribution. Sponsors will also receive tickets to VIP events – again, based on participation.
To learn more about be-coming a sponsor, contact Dick Hinton at 804-9007, Tom Daughtrey at 809-4931, Gary Johnson at 603-9597 or go to the website.
Friday hours for the coo-koff will be 6-10 p.m. Satur-day’s will be noon to 5 p.m. Bands will play both days, and there will be a variety of other activities, including ice cream eating and barbe-cue wing eating contests.
Tickets are $15 for both days and $10 per day if pur-chased separately. All prof-its will go to the Interact Club at ESK and to other local and global projects of West Knox Rotary.
Gov. Bill Haslam has proclaimed the barbecue a Tennessee State Champi-onship Event.Contact: [email protected]
By Anne HartRandy Davis spends his
life surrounded by females – more than 600 of them in fact – and they all have his full attention.
At the top of the list are his wife, Rita, and their daughters, Samantha and Alli. The rest are of the bo-vine variety – they’re dairy cows who live on the 1,200 acre Davis Brothers Dairy farm, just outside of Phila-delphia, Tenn., that Randy and Rita started and have nurtured and grown over the past 27 years.
Davis is a graduate of Tennessee Wesleyan Col-lege and is the current president of the Tennessee American Dairy Associa-tion and a board member of both the Southeast Unit-
ed Dairy Industry Asso-ciation and the Tennessee Dairy Promotion Commit-tee. He spoke at a recent meeting of West Knox Ro-tary.
He told the group that in the 1950s there were 10,000 dairy farms in Ten-nessee. By 1995, that num-ber had dropped to 1,200. Today there are less than 400 dairy farms in opera-tion across the state.
Davis said he didn’t start out to be a dairy farmer. A native of Loudon County, he was at first a school teacher and bas-ketball coach. But then he and his wife leased a small dairy and started milking 20 cows. In 1998, they be-gan farming fulltime.
Today, their daughters,
Randy Davis signs a book to be donated to the library at Pond Gap Elementary School. West Knox Rotary Club gives a book to the school in honor of each speaker at the club’s weekly meetings. Photo by A. Hart
Dairy farming ain’t what it used to be!
both of whom are gradu-ates of Virginia Tech, and the husband of one daugh-ter and the fiancée of the other, also college gradu-
ates, all work on the farm, along with 11 other em-ployees.
Davis told the group that “PETA (People for the
Ethical Treatment of Ani-mals) has nothing to worry about on our farm. Our girls pay our bills, and they are well treated.” The cows are even visited by a nutri-tionist twice a month.
He said the average cow lives 14 years and produces about 300,000 pounds of milk in a lifetime. It costs about $9 a day to feed each animal and each produces about $17 in milk daily.
Davis said modern farmers are extremely en-
ergy conscious. “We col-lect manure and re-use it as fertilizer. We use solar power, and what we don’t use we sell back to the grid. We provide employment, economic value and a great product.”
The Davis farm is still family-owned, despite be-ing a huge operation that ships a tractor trailer full of milk daily to Mayfield, which packages and sells the product under its brand.
BUSINESS NOTES ■ Andy Lorenz, vice president
of Messer Construc-tion Co., was ap-pointed by Mayor Madeline Rogero as the licensed general contrac-
tor representative on the Building Board of Adjust-ments and Appeals, serving through Jan. 1, 2018. If the city’s Building Official rejects methods or materials for a project proposed by a builder, appeals of the rejec-tion are brought before this 7-member board.
■ Young Professionals of
Knoxville is accepting ap-plications for new members. “Ideal candidates are rising stars in their field who desire an opportunity to give back and make a difference,” said president Cameron Puckett. Applications are due by April 26. Info: www.ypknox.com/.
■ Home Federal Bank will contribute $10,000 toward the purchase of Food City gift cards which will be distributed through the YMCA and YWCA to families in need for the Easter holiday. This is the third year for Home Federal’s Eats for Easter program. Food City discounts the cards to make the gift go further.
■ UT Medical Center was one of nine businesses to earn the Achievement Award from the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence. TNCPE is a statewide quality program patterned on the Baldrige Performance Excel-lence Program, the national standard for recognizing organizational excellence.
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THE THIRD ANNUAL
Springtime is here! Warmer weather, fragrant blooming trees, and perennial fl owers signal the start of
this wonderful season with Easter not far behind. To celebrate this season, Bobby Todd is hosting the third annual “Spring Sip and See” on Friday and Saturday, March 22 & 23 from 10 to 5 daily in Historic Downtown Sweetwater.
Bobby and Todd have just returned from another gift and antique market, and the store is stocked full with wonderful spring merchandise for your soul, home, and garden. After an incredibly busy holiday season, Bobby Todd has again transformed…..this time into a springtime shopper’s dream, just in time to freshen up your home. Unique home accessories, whimsical Easter decorations, classic outdoor statuary, and colorful scarves are just a sample of the items you will see.
Also just in is a shipment of antique furniture and accessories that blend in seamlessly with the new pieces, just like they will in your own home. Bobby and Todd have been traveling to numerous antique markets and auctions to fi nd unique treasures at incredible prices. Value is just as important as the look at Bobby Todd.
To add even more fun to the “Spring Sip and See,” please wear your favorite spring hat or Easter bonnet to receive 15% off all regular non-sale merchandise purchased on Friday and Saturday only. All customers wearing Spring hats or Easter bonnets will also have the opportunity to enter our “Best Spring/Easter Hat” contest with the winner receiving a $100.00 Bobby Todd gift certifi cate.
Bellini’s and Southern peach tea will be served along with Sweetwater Valley Cheese and sweet treats. Be sure to sample the drinks, register to win wonderful door prizes
and look for many sale items throughout the store. Wehope you make the BobbyTodd “Spring Sip and See” a part of your springtime tradition. Please feel free to bring your spouse and friends….and by all means, don’t forget your hats!
If you like Christmas time at Bobby Todd, you are going to love the fresh look at Bobby Todd for spring.
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In 2010, Baby Boomers be-gan to reach the age of 65, and in the next few decades the number of elderly citizens in Tennessee will skyrocket.
As they age, many who aren’t ready to leave their home for an institutional setting or to live with relatives can remain in their home with the help of an in-home caregiver.
A new com-pany called Comfort Care has been launched in Knoxville that provides quality and com-passionate care for elderly fam-ily members and loved ones who prefer to remain in the comfort of
their own home, despite circum-stances that make it diffi cult for them to do so.
Services include comprehen-sive, around-the-clock compan-ion care for anyone, of any age, who needs it.
Care advisor Jeannie Bates says, “Comfort Care has a unique understanding of the issues to-day’s families face, struggling to
fi nd time for even the most basic activ-ities amidst ev-er-busier lives.
“Finding experienced, compas-sionate and affordable caregivers can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. Keeping individuals engaged in life mentally, emotion-
Comfort Care off ers in-home care services
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ally, physically and socially can make a difference in their well-be-ing. At Comfort Care, we call this philosophy Total Care.
“It gives our clients a healthier and more meaningful quality of life. We customize a care plan that focuses on improving the health and well-being of those entrusted to our care. Our clients count on us for outstanding care and just about anything else they need, anytime, anywhere, so they and their loved ones can get the most out of life.”
Comfort Care case manager Melanie Everett understands the need for competent and compas-sionate caregivers. She says:
“Comfort Caregivers are pro-fessional and well-trained.
“What truly puts them above other in-home caregivers, how-ever, is their natural gift for car-ing for others. They have a heart for in-home service, and Comfort Care has a thorough screening and interviewing process to identify
them from those less devoted.“Only those who pass this
process go on to complete train-ing to deliver our special brand of home care, and become Com-fort Caregivers.
“Our Comfort Caregivers pass extensive background checks and complete continuing education. They’re bonded and insured, carry certifi ed ID and are covered by Workers’ Compensation insurance to protect our clients and their families. Also, because our in-home caregivers are Comfort Care employees, we take care of their payroll taxes and insurance.”
For more information or a free, no obligation needs as-sessment, you can call 865-922-3030 or visit online at www.caretn.com. Service is afford-able and all insurance plans are accepted or easy payment plans can be arranged.
By Anne HartIf any West Knox Rotarians had
thoughts of nodding off for a few moments after a hearty lunch at Buddy’s Banquet Hall last week, they were quickly disabused of the notion when eighth graders from the Episcopal School of Knoxville (ESK) took to the fl oor.
From rousing renditions of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” and “Rocky Top” played on banjo and guitar to moving re-creations of cha-pel talks, the young people strutted their stuff to enthusiastic response from an appreciative audience.
In making the introductions, Rotarian Kevin Foley, who is also ESK’s middle school director and Latin teacher, described the school as a very special place. He said that when he and his family moved here,
“We came to ESK, not to Knoxville. It is a place that walks the talk of the community.”
Foley said the school that started in a one-room portable building moved in 2000 to its sprawling West Knoxville campus where there are 350 students today. All students take art and have the opportunity to study world languages, including Mandarin Chinese.
Each eighth-grade student par-ticipates in a capstone project,” Fol-ey said, adding that it is “sort of like a science fair.”
Those year-long projects were on display for the Rotarians, along with some chapel talks.
Teddy Colocotronis described the promise he made to himself to complete the challenging swim course at a summer camp he at-
Eighth graders from the Episcopal School of Knoxville present the program at a recent meeting of West Knox Ro-tary. They are: Teddy Colocotronis, Bevin Coburn, Eli Fox, Erin Wallace, Chandler Buhl and Madison Howell with middle school director Kevin Foley. Photo by Charles Garvey
ESK students shine
at Rotary
tended in North Carolina. He fi nally did it.
Madison Howell told about her year’s work with The Clinch River Raptor Center, and Erin Wallace gave a slide presentation on her work with found art made from re-cycled materials.
Bevin Coburn reprised her cha-pel talk about her lifelong experi-ence with fear.
“Fear is the only thing in life that can destroy you,” she said. She told of her dread of many things, which ended when she rode the roller coaster at Universal Studios
with her Dad – three times. “There is nothing better than fi nding that one thing in life that scares you and doing it anyway.”
For a roomful of Rotarians, there is nothing better than a group of bright young people offering hope for the future.
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Leaving the hospital is just the first step in recovering from a heart attack, heart surgery or angioplasty. Cardiac patients often need to strengthen weakened heart muscles and learn heart-healthy practices. Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center heart patients are referred to the hospital’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatient Program. The three-month program offers exercise sessions and health classes to establish lifestyle changes that help reduce the patient’s risk of further heart disease.
“Cardiac Rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary treatment plan which involves medication, nursing, exercise physiology, nutrition and psychology. We know it’s difficult to make lifestyle change, so we try to provide people support so they can change,” explains cardiac rehab nurse case manager Brenda Leuthold.
Patients exercise three times each week while hooked to a heart monitor. They also attend different classes on nutrition, stress management and medications.
“It’s long enough to help form healthy habits,” says Leuthold.
After completing the rehab program, patients are invited back to the center to continue exercising. The center has exercise bikes, step machines, treadmills and free weights.
“It’s a wonderful support group for anybody that’s had heart disease or heart procedures,” says Leuthold. “We have a lot of great outcomes.”
HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB March 18, 2013
NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
serving our patients for more than 25 years
Fort Sanders Center for Advanced Medicine1819 Clinch Avenue, Suite 108
Knoxville, TN 37916
CardiologistsBrian J. Adams, M.D.
Thomas M. Ayres, M.D.Jeffrey M. Baerman, M.D.
Lee R. Dilworth, M.D.George M. Krisle, M.D.
Daniel M. Slutzker, M.D.
Joseph S. Smith, M.D.Joshua W. Todd, M.D.David E. Wood, M.D.
For more information please call (865) 546-5111 or visit knoxvilleheartgroup.com.
0094-0082
Heart attack is no laughing matter Helen “Snooky” Ward of
Knoxville loves making peo-ple smile. She and her hus-band, Dallas, are professional clowns, entertaining crowds at local baseball games, com-munity events and parties. But heart disease is no laughing matter to Ward.
On Father’s Day in June, Ward had her second heart at-tack and second cardiac stent procedure in seven years. Ward says even though she felt “heavy chested,” she didn’t think she was having a heart attack.
“I was at church that morn-ing and thought I’d pulled a muscle,” she remembers. “Lat-er in the afternoon, the pain went to my neck and jaw area, and I couldn’t breathe.”
Ward finally went to the Fort Sanders Emergency Room that evening and was quickly diagnosed with a heart attack. “It wasn’t a blockage, but my heart vessels were badly con-stricted,” she says.
Ward’s cardiologist, Dr. Mike Ayres with Knoxville Heart Group, placed a stent in her cor-onary artery and recommended that after her heart healed for a couple weeks, she attend the Fort Sanders Cardiac Rehabili-tation Outpatient Program, also known as “CROP.”
“I did heart rehab at Fort Sanders seven years ago and knew that was where I wanted to go,” says Ward. “Fort Sand-ers has always been our hos-pital. My daughter was born there.”
Over the next three months at CROP, Ward took part inhealth classes and exercise ses-sions designed to strengthen her heart muscle.
“They had me doing the treadmill, bikes, steps, weights and the arm machine,” says Ward. “I feel so much better all over. I find myself wanting to take a walk at home now.”
That’s a big deal for Ward,who was a self-described “couch potato.” Since undergo-ing cardiac rehab at Fort Sand-ers, she has lost weight and says she has more energy than ever. “I get up and do things now. I’m motivated to keep ex-ercising.”
Ward, who has now complet-ed CROP, is continuing to pur-sue a healthier lifestyle. “I’m eating healthier and feel good. It’s a great program. The staff cares and really takes pride inhelping people like me!”
For more information about the Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatient Program at Fort Sanders Regional,
call 865-541-1250 or go to fsregional.com/cardiovascular.
Get heart healthy!Physical exercise and a heart-healthy diet are keys to
preventing and recovering from heart disease, according to the American Heart Association. Some more heart healthy recommendations:
■ Don’t smoke
■ Maintain a healthy weight
■ Get daily moderate exercise
■ Eat a healthy diet, low in saturated fats, processed sugar and sodium, and high in fi ber
■ Eat fi ve fruits and vegetables each day
■ Know your numbers for blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, and manage high levels with medication if necessary
Exercise your heart at Fort Sanders Cardiac Rehab Center
For more information about the Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatient Program at Fort
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The exercises and
healthier habits
Helen has learned
at the Fort Sanders
Cardiac Outpatient
Rehabilitation
Program gives her
more energy when
she “clowns around”
with husband Dallas.
At right, Helen “Snooky”
Ward lost 19 pounds while
participating in the Cardiac
Rehabilitation Outpatient
Program (CROP) at Fort
Sanders Regional.
B-2 • MARCH 18, 2013 • SHOPPER-NEWS
Photo by Ruth White
Surin of ThailandCo-workers gather at Surin of Thailand to enjoy great food and great service
during lunch. Natalie Johnson, Doris J. Mers and Amanda Bonneau are served
lunch by Ashley Zimmerman. Surin of Thailand features authentic Thai cuisine,
sushi, full martini bar and patio. They have been serving the Bearden community
for two years and have locations in Atlanta and Birmingham where they have
been awarded Best Thai restaurant. Stop by their location on Bearden Hill at
6213 Kingston Pike and enjoy half price sushi 5:30 p.m. to close each day.
Hours of operation are 11:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. weekdays for lunch, and dinner
hours are 4:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday; 11:15 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11:15 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Sunday. Info: 330-0007.
Darling D.J.D.J. is Young-Williams
Animal Center’s spotlight
animal of the week. He is
an 11-month-old domestic
short hair. His adoption
fee has been sponsored
through the Furry Friends
program. Come meet D.J.
at Young-Williams’ Division
Street location. Hours are
noon to 6 p.m. daily. Check
out all of Young-Williams’
adoptable animals online at
www.young-williams.org or
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By Theresa EdwardsThe Strang Senior Center
celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a party featuring enter-tainment by the Early Bird Special Band.
“When Irish eyes are smil-ing, surely they steal your heart away,” sang Kathy Hu-ber who is 100 percent Irish. “We are from the old coun-try,” she said.
The band played a mix-ture of Irish songs, the good old Tennessee Waltz, and familiar oldies like “Hang on Sloopy” which brought a roomful of smiles.
Bob Coyne of Caregivers Educational Seminars gives musician
Kathy Huber an authentic Irish black fl ute. Photos by T. Edwards of TEPHOTOS.com
Elaine Kirkpatrick, Nancy Burdine, Sara Lee Costigan and Judy
Reid applaud.
Gwen Burke
Elizabeth Bishop
St. Patrick’s party
at Strang
They will be in concert again 7 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at the Grove Theater at 123 Randolph Road in Oak Ridge. Admission is $10.
Bob Coyne gave away sev-eral Irish-themed door prizes to lucky winners at Strang.
Caregivers Seminar April 4
Bob Coyne will present afree educational seminar forcaregivers 10 a.m. Thursday,April 4, at the Strang SeniorCenter.
Preregister by calling 670-6693. Space is limited to 20participants. Donations willbe accepted to help covercosts.
“Caring for a loved onewhose health is in decline isa deeply meaningful way toexpress your love and yourloyalty. But you will defi -nitely struggle with your roleas a caregiver, a 24/7 com-mitment,” Coyne says, whoknows from experience ofcaring for his ailing wife 5 1/2years before she passed away.
My mother-in-law had astroke suddenly in Septem-ber, and Coyne has been veryhelpful to my family with hisknowledgeable advice andcompassionate friendship.
Knox County juvenile court judge Tim Irwin requested donations of stuff ed animals from the community for children who come
to his courtroom. GFWC Ossoli Circle’s Ossoli in Action Committee donated 116 of them. Pictured with Irwin (in back) are Ossoli
members Nancy Carmon, Betsy Gardner, Georgia Seagren, Roberta Pedigo, Minga Barnes, Lexa Hooten, Sue Whittle, Mary Nelle
Robbins and Ann Dural. Photo submitted
Ossoli in Action helps local children
Carol Zinavage
Carol’sCritter Corner
This week we mourn the passing of a special soul.
Mali Glazer and Daisy Photo by Allan Glazer
A big heart
She wasn’t very big, but she helped more people in her brief life than most of us do in our long ones. She brought joy to everyone who knew her.
Her name was Daisy, and she was a Shih-Tzu/Chihua-hua mix. A week ago Thurs-day in that split second before her harness was fas-tened for a walk, she darted out the door and was hit by a car. She didn’t survive.
The folks at Shannon-dale Healthcare Center are particularly sad. Daisy was “their” girl. She showed up every Wednesday for the past three years to spread her special kind of therapy.
Daisy was a HABIT (Hu-man Animal Bond in Ten-nessee ) dog.
HABIT dogs receive no special training, but they do undergo evaluation. HAB-IT program administra-tor Karen Armsey says she looks for a certain tempera-ment.
“You can teach a dog how to walk on a leash and how to obey commands, but HABIT dogs have to enjoy people, and you can’t teach that. Daisy had the right temperament from the get-go. She just melted every-one’s heart.”
Daisy’s owner, Mali Glaz-er, who is understandably heartbroken these days, re-members their fi rst visit to HABIT in 2010, when the little dog was not yet a year old. The evaluation team took Daisy into a closed room where they proceeded to expose her to all manner of nursing home apparatus-es: wheelchairs, walkers, lift chairs. They tried to scare her by dropping lunch trays and making other sudden noises. Nothing fazed her.
After 45 unperturbed minutes, the team brought the animal back to her own-er with the warning, “You’re lucky to get your dog back, lady, because we all want to adopt her.”
Paulette Beaulieu, Shan-nondale’s director of activi-ties, says, “Daisy was very important to us. She was so sweet and the residents just loved her – she was a joy.”
Beaulieu recalls that resi-dents who were unrespon-sive in everyday life would light up at the sight of Daisy. Glazer remembers that on her fi rst day, “she walked into that place and just took over.”
The little canine thera-pist loved cuddling. She seemed to know who needed her most at any given time. She provided comfort and joy not only to the residents of Shannondale but also to their families. One staffer remarked that she was “the best HABIT dog we’ve ever had.”
Glazer puts it in a nut-shell:
“She was a tiny dog with the heart of many dogs.”
So, here’s to a sweet soul that came in a very small package. And blessings upon all HABIT dogs. Info: http://w w w.vet.utk.edu/habit/index.php. Send your interesting animal stories to
BEARDEN SHOPPER-NEWS • MARCH 18, 2013 • B-3
CONTINUINGThe 66th annual Student Art Competition
continues through March 19 at Ewing Gallery, Art & Architecture Building, 1715 Volunteer Blvd. Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday.
“Fieldwork,” an installation by Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson, continues through March 23 at the UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St. Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.
The WDVX 2013 Spring Fund Drive concludes March 24. In addition to special guest hosts and artists, there will be a drawing for the Ultimate Festival Pass (including Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Merlefest, Forecastle, Rhythm ’n’ Bloom Festival and Jammin’ with Hippie Jack). Info: www.wdvx.com.
The Arts & Culture Alliance is presenting two shows through March 28 at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. “March Brushstrokes: Tennessee Artists Association Juried Show” features original art by more than 40 Tennessee artists. “Body Language” is a juried exhibition of drawings of the human figure by nearly 25 local artists. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.
Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St., will feature recent works by jeweler Kristine Taylor of Knoxville and photographer Ronald Sullivan of Oak Ridge through March 31. Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
The New Play Festival presented by the Tennessee Stage Company will feature a fully staged performance of “Online Fighting” by Harrison Young at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St. Showtimes: 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $15 ($12 students and seniors).
“Splendid Treasures of the Turkomen Tribes from Central Asia,” an exhibit of more than 50 handcrafted items of elaborate silver, gilt jewelry, carpets and textiles from the Turkomen tribes of Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, will be on display through Sunday, May 12, at the Frank H. McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Drive, on the UT campus. Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Info: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.
11th Annual KARM Dragon Boat Festival early-bird registration is open through April 15, at $750 for community and corporate teams. After April 15, cost is $850. The festival is June 22 at The Cove at Concord Park. Info: www.karm.org/dragonboats.
“Becoming a Volunteer State: Tennessee
in the War of 1812” is on display through Sunday, May 19, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. The exhibit from the Tennessee State Museum commemorates the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the role Tennessee played in the war. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
MONDAY, MARCH 18GFWC Ossoli Circle will meet: 9:45 a.m. coffee;
10:30 a.m. “Public Issues” by state Sen. Becky Duncan Massey; 11:30 a.m. “Near-Death Issues” by Joyce Leo; 12:30 p.m. lunch, at the Ossoli clubhouse, 2511 Kingston Pike.
Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave., offers Hike-a-Thon: Discovery Hike with Samantha at 10 a.m. All ages.
“Job Help Mondays” will be held 1-3 p.m. Mondays throughout March at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Reference librarians will help with job applications, online forms and setting up email addresses for people seeking employment. First come, first served.
GriefShare, a support group for people grieving the death of a loved one, will be held 6-7:30 p.m. at Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, 3700 Keowee Ave. The group will meet weekly through March 18. Info: 522-9804 or www.sequoyahchurch.org.
Tennessee Shines will feature Canadian cowboy singer Daniel Romano and singer-songwriter Jason Lee Wilson & rockabilly cohort Dennis Marlowe at 7 p.m. at the WDVX studio at the Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 S. Gay St.; broadcast on WDVX-FM, 89.9 Clinton, 102.9 Knoxville. Tickets: $10, available at WDVX and www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door, while supplies last. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Children 14 and under accompanied by a parent are admitted free.
TUESDAY, MARCH 19The Parkinson Support Group (PK Hope Is
Alive) of East Tennessee will meet 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Kern UMC Family Life Center, 451 E. Tennessee Ave., Oak Ridge. Topic: “Take Charge Fitness Program.” Light lunch served. Info: Karen Sampsell, 482-4867 or [email protected].
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19-20
Human Rights Week at UT features “Freed From Death Row: A Story of Wrongful Conviction” at 7 p.m. March 19 in the Hodges Library; and “Reproductive Health as a Human Right” at 7 p.m. March 20 in the UC Shiloh Room. Info: [email protected].
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20American Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook
Pike, offers weekly information sessions on nurse assistant, EKG and phlebotomy training 10-11 a.m.
Info: 862-3508.Books Sandwiched In, a lunch-and-learn series,
will be held at noon at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St. Author Jay Erskine Leutze will discuss his own book, “Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle To Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail.”
“How To Get a Show,” a workshop to help artists increase their chances of success getting into group and solo shows, will be held 12-1 p.m. at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St. R.L. Gibson, xerography artist, blogger and editor of ArtAndDeadlines.com, will lead the presentation. Cost: $5 (free for Arts & Culture Alliance members).
Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave., offers Hike-a-Thon: Bouldering Hike with Sabrina at 10 a.m. All ages.
Raw Food Trucker Dave Conrardy will speak at 6:30 p.m. at Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 616 Fretz Road. Cost: $15. Info or preregister: [email protected].
THURSDAY, MARCH 21AARP Chapter #3006 will meet at 11:30 a.m. in
the social hall of the Church of the Good Samaritan, 425 N. Cedar Bluff Road. Noon buffet lunch: $3. Program: vocalist Kathy Huber.
The East Tennessee Technology Access Center, 116 Childress St., will hold a free open house 4-7 p.m. Dignitaries will perform a ribbon cutting at 5 p.m. ETTAC connects persons with disabilities to technology that allows them to work, learn, play and live more independently and productively. RSVP: 219-0130.
The Jackson Avenue Streetscape Project will be the subject of a public meeting at 6 p.m. at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay St.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 21-22The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will
perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St., with pre-concert chats at 6:30 p.m. Guest conductor Kelly Corcoran and guest guitarist Ana Vidovic will join KSO for Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Other selections include de Falla’s Three Cornered Hat Suite No. 2; Turina’s Danazas Fantasticas and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol. Tickets: $24-$85. Call 291-3310 or visit www.knoxvillesymphony.com.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22The Freight Hoppers old-time string band will
perform at 8 p.m. at Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave. Tickets: $14 at www.knoxtix.com, 523-7521 or at the door.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 22-24The Smoky Mountain Quilters’ 2013 Quilt
Show will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. March 22-23 and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. March 24 at Cooper Athletic Center, Maryville College.
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Homes 40CHEAP Houses For Sale
Up to 60% OFF 865-309-5222
www.CheapHousesTN.com LAKE HOUSE
$429,000 Watts Bar Lake 6 bedrooms, 3 1/2
baths. Fully furnished. Level lot w/docks &
boathouse 706-618-3770
For Sale By Owner 40a
FIND YOUR HAPPY PLACE! Thousands of Upgrades
to my Courtyard Townhome. Renewed
and refinished throughout -- new wood floor, leaded
glass door, and more. Wooded view near community garden.
Was a perfect lifestyle home for me where I could entertain, my
band could play, close to nightlife and shopping, yet built and located for great quiet and
privacy. $2,000 buyer referral bonus. $106k. May include furnishings.
719 Idlewood Lane near Bearden H.S.
865-405-5354!
North 40nFtn City. 3 BR, 2 BA, garage. Underground storm shelter. $119,900. FSBO 865-377-9533
South 40s
ON THE RIVER Sevierville, 3100 + SF on 1.31 acres, 3 BR, 3 1/2 BA, all walk in
closets, granite, Pella windows, stone FP,
hrdwds., master BR, 16x24, Low Price. Call Charles, 865-368-3490
Cemetery Lots 494 LOTS, Lynnhurst Cemetery, $1,800 ea.
OBO. Will sell separately. 865-688-3356
Greenwood Cemetery, 1 lot, Interment Crypt, Garden of Mem. $2600. 770-564-3675
Real Estate Wanted 50
WE BUY HOUSES Any condition. Quick closing. 865-712-7045
WE BUY HOUSES Any Reason, Any Condition
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Real Estate Service 53Prevent Foreclosure
Free Help 865-268-3888
www.PreventForeclosureKnoxville.com
Commercial Prop-Sale 601 ACRE on Hardin
Valley with ware-house & office, $250,000. 865-806-3274
***Web ID# 219707***
Investment Prop-Sale 61CENTRAL FLORIDA, 32 ac lakefront lodge. RV spots, marina, 52 lot Mobile home park. Ready to go. $985,000 cash. 352-793-7057
Wanted To Buy 63
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Comm. Prop. - Rent 66CA$H for your House! Cash Offer in 24 Hours
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Comm. Prop. - Rent 66RETAIL/OFFICE
SPACE FOR LEASE Rockwood, TN,
300-1800 SF available, great location.
Call 865-617-5893.
Apts - Unfurnished 711BR, 1BA APT. North,
$415 mo., $200 dep. Freshly remodeled. 865-660-2710 9-5pm.
1 BR North $475, W/D conn, water furn, stove,
frig., no pets, dep, 1 yr. lease 865-604-7537
KENSINGTON FOREST APTS. 455 Tammy Dr. Powell, 938-4200
BELLE MEADE APTS. 7209 Old Clinton Pk. Knoxville, 938-4500
CREEK WOOD APTS. 612 4th St., Lake City,
TN, 426-7005 Call to receive info.
about being placed on a waiting list. This
institution is an equal opportunity provider
& employer.
Apts - Furnished 72WALBROOK STUDIOS
251-3607 $140 weekly. Discount
avail. Util, TV, Ph, Stv, Refrig, Basic
Cable. No Lse.
Houses - Unfurnished 74FTN CITY 2BR, 1BA,
washer/dryer incl., $600/mo. + dep. & lease. 865-688-8443
Condo Rentals 76130 HAWTHORNE
Oaks Way, Powell, TN 2BR, 2BA, 1 car gar.
condo, all 1 level, $700 mo. $500 dep. No pets, no smoking. 865-947-2655. ***Web ID# 216570***
Manf’d Homes - Sale 852002 Clayton 16x80 in
Louisville. 2BR, 1BA, new cent. unit & roof, $12,000. 256-565-8199.
Trucking Opportunities 106OWNER OPERATORS w/Tandem Axle Trac-tors. Dedicated Auto Part Runs. Pickup in Morristown, TN to Trenton, MI. Great
Pay, Benefits, Home-time! CDL-A, 18mos
Exp. 22YOA. Clean MVR.
800-723-6046 x227
General 109
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
EXPERIENCED
LANDSCAPER
Needed for
Cedar Bluff area. Must have valid driver license,
good record and vehicle. Must pass drug and
background check.
CALL TODAY:
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Business For Sale 131RESTAURANT
BUSINESS FOR SALE Rockwood TN,
All equipment to open grill/pizza style
restaurant for sale in place, ready for new concept. Attractive
lease terms on building, great location
Call 865-617-5893.
Store Equipment 133bCOMMERCIAL
RACKING & SHELVING. All types. 865-250-1480.
***Web ID# 217020***
Dogs 141AUSTRALIAN
SHEPHERD Pup-pies for sale, $200 each. 865-247-6384
Australian Shepherd puppies, great family pet, reg., 931-433-8578; 931-205-5702
***Web ID# 221703***
BEAGLES Adults, $35 each.
Hunting Stock. 865-882-0363, 865-809-4832
BOSTON TERRIER Pups, CKC, S&W, 2 M, $400 ea. 6 F $450 ea 865-765-5668; 925-1536
***Web ID# 221740***
Dachshund Mini pups, AKC, Blk/tan, choc/tan, red. $280 & up. Family raised. 865-712-2366
***Web ID# 220121***
DACHSHUNDS, AKC Mini, Eng. Cream LH, M/F $800. Also adults. 865-804-4122
***Web ID# 220145***
ENGLISH BULL Dog Puppy, NKC, 3 mo. old. Shots UTD. $800. 443-324-4326
MALTESE AKC, beautiful pups, 1st shot/wormed, cute & playful. 865-705-4777
Dogs 141LABRADOR (ENGLISH) Puppies AKC Reg. Born 2/9/13. 1 choc. fem., 3 blk fem. $400 ea. 1st S & W, 276-870-8080 or 423-552-1652 [email protected]
***Web ID# 220086***
LABRADOR PUPPIES, 4 M, 3 yellow, 1 blk, AKC. 1st shot. Born 1/26/13. $300. 423-972-3206
***Web ID# 220471***
LABS, Yellow, purebred, 11 wks. old. Shots, wormed, parents on site. $225. 423-833-7688. ***Web ID# 220600***
Min. Schnauzers, AKC reg., salt & pepper, DOB 12/29/12. $400. Call/text 423-519-2905
Rottie Pups German Ch. bldlnes, stud avail. www.tennrottweilers.
com. 404-433-7371. ***Web ID# 220067***
ROTTWEILER PUP AKC German bldln, 1 boy left, 6 wks $500. 865-659-8272
***Web ID# 221701***
ROTTWEILER Puppies, Ch German bldlnes, 6 wks, 1st shots, parents on prem. 423-663-7225
SHELTIE PUPPIES, AKC, ch. bldlns, beautiful Sable & wht, M & F, ASSA Mem-ber. 865-719-2040.
***Web ID# 221341***
Pet Supplies 144ALARGE DOG CAGE,
pd. $218, asking $85. Med cage $45. Both exc cond. 247-6206
Free Pets 145
ADOPT! Looking for an addi-tion to the family?
Visit Young-Williams Animal Center, the official shelter for
Knoxville & Knox County.
Call 215-6599 or visit
knoxpets.org
Lawn-Garden Equip. 190SCOTTS MADE BY
John Deere, 19 HP, 42" cut. $475. Phone 865-257-8672
***Web ID# 220152***
Machinery-Equip. 193175 Crawler loader,
multi purpose bucket, eng. 106 hrs, $16,500. 865-567-8080
***Web ID# 221510***
BOBCAT ATTACH., 72" BRUSHCAT BUSHHOG new, $5500 b.o. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 217006***
Bucket Forks & sweeper for Cater-pillar IT Machine. Phone 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 216989***
TV/Electronics 197HAM ANTENN A.
Vertical. All Bands. New - never used. $300. 865-977-9024.
Misc. Items 203DESTROYIT COMM.
PAPER & Card-board shredder, 16", $1500. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 206716***
RESTAURANT SEATING PACKAGE
140 seats, booths & tables, used, great
cond. Contact @[email protected]
Household Furn. 204HIGH END office
furn. from banks closed by the FDIC. Buy individual pcs. or complete office sets. 931-622-3942
KING SIZE Sleep Number Bed on stand with drawers $700. 865-573-6891
Coins 214WE BUY OLD COINS
& CURRENCY, ESTATE ITEMS,
865-297-3804.
Medical Supplies 219DALTON ELECTRIC
wheel chair/scooter lk new, holds 300 lbs $700/bo. 865-661-6408
West 225w
ATTN: VENDORS Sign up now
for our annual Ed Spring Fling Rummage Sale April 6, 9am-Noon
$25 to rent a space
Benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters
Edfinancial Services @ Windsor Square
120 N. Seven Oaks Dr. Call 865-342-5128 for
Info or to rent a space
Boats Motors 2321987 25' Century
Mirada cabin cruise boat & trailer, sleeps 4, will trade for
vehicle or smaller boat or jet ski. $5,500. Located on Douglas Lake. Call 864-414-8832
***Web ID# 222448*** ODYSSEY 2007
PONTOON BOAT, 22', Evinrude 115, exc. cond., new
trailer, many access. $17,500. 865-922-1105,
865-607-5912 ***Web ID# 220326***
Boats Motors 232TRACKER 1999
HOUSE BOAT, bought new, 32 ft, always in covered slip, new enclosure in front, galv. trlr, exc. shape. $18,900. 865-660-3602.
***Web ID# 220344***
Motor Homes 237
CAR TOW DOLLY 2013, all cars, pickups, swivels & tilts. Never used. New retail $2750;
1st $1050 cash. 864-275-6478
HOLIDAY RAMBLER Endeavor 37 ft, 1999. Kit. & LR slide. Die-sel. Loaded. Gar. kept. $45,000. 865-908-0858 ***Web ID# 218132***
WINNEBAGO DIESEL 2010, 18 mpg, low mi, great cond. Loaded. Road ready, health forces sale. $65,900/b.o. 865-254-4423 ***Web ID# 222329***
Motorcycles 238
AMERICAN IRONHORSE 2007 JUDGE CUSTOM,
Price reduce to $16,000, gar. kept, immaculate cond., only 5,175 mi., custom purple lights
& front end with inverted fork, new tires, 15K worth
of custom upgrades, 45K bike now only $16,000, Won't last long! Please call
865-776-9594 or email [email protected] ***Web ID# 221556***
Cushman Eagle 1959, elec. start, new mo-tor, tires, brakes, etc. Ride anywhere. $2800. 865-368-9828 bef. 8p
***Web ID# 219053***
DUCATI 2006 Multistrada 620. Yellow, excel-lent cond. 14,300 mi. 865-209-7150
HARLEY-DAVIDSON FLSTFI 2004 FatBoy Softail, $8500. Copper w/blk leather boss bags, hwy bars, & W/S. Very good cond. Only 26,500 miles. 865-607-3320.
HONDA VALKRYIE 2001, 1k mi, black, needs misc. parts. Bought new. $6000/bo. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 216968***
KAWASAKI VULCAN 2004, 2000. 2053cc, V-Twin $1K under bk. Adult owner. Mustang Seat, never dropped, all records. NO FREE RIDES / TRADES! $4750. M-F 865-250-7239. Aft. 5, S/Su/Days.
Auto Auctions 250Korry Farm Wagon
Mod. 6072, new floor-ing, ext. tongue, new deck $700/bo. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 217026***
Autos Wanted 253A BETTER CASH
OFFER for junk cars, trucks, vans, running
or not. 865-456-3500
Auto Accessories 254NEW & used truck beds,
tail gates, fr./rear bumpers, many makes. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 216995***
RAM Pickup ARE fi-berglass bed cover 2002-2009 Dodge Truck short bed fits 6'3" box. Cost $1240; $500. 865-250-1480
Trucks 257FORD F150 King Ranch 2010, 4x4, apprx. 35K mi., bdlnr, new tires. $36,500 obo. 786-797-0104 ***Web ID# 221383***
4 Wheel Drive 258CHEV. AVALANCHE
2007 LT, 4 WD. Sil-ver birch met. w/leather. All power, rear DVD, phone, satel-lite, CD, 92,500 mi. Pristine cond. $21,500. 865-687-3084
***Web ID# 220624***
Dodge Laramie pkg 2006 Mega Cab, 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, AT, 83K mi, cosmetic dmg left side. Bought new $12,000 obo w/most parts to fix. 865-250-1480 ***Web ID# 217016***
Ford Excursion 2005, Eddie Bauer, 4x4, 60k mi, 6.0 diesel front end dmg, $9500/bo. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 217014***
TOYOTA LAND Cruiser FJ40 1972. $3000. Phone 865-599-0123.
Antiques Classics 260AC COBRA REPLICA
1964, 351 Windsor, 5 sp., Jag rear, Wilwood disc brakes, many extras. Exc. cond. 931-707-8510
***Web ID# 221925***
CHEVROLET TRUCK Pro Street 1969, dark blue, all
tube chasis, 454 Roller motor, 9" Ford w/4 link suspension, chop top, all custom leather int. New 20" wheels on rear, 18's on front, Ready for
show or drive. $27,500 obo. 423-312-8256.
***Web ID# 218488***
CHEVY CAMARO 1984, red, auto. shift kit & choke, $1,600 firm. 865-579-4675
***Web ID# 216724***
Antiques Classics 260MUSTANG 1964 1/2
convertible, restored 289 HP, $24,500 neg. Call 865-458-1934.
PORSCHE 928S, 1985, no rust, runs & drives good $3500. 865-898-4200 [email protected]
Sport Utility 261CHEV BLAZER 2002,
4x4, leather, power, 99K mi, $4800. 865-934-7796
***Web ID# 220168***
Imports 262JAGUAR 2000 S-type,
3.0L, 82k mi, silver & black, $4500 obo. 865-250-1480
***Web ID# 216972***
SCION XB 2005, 45k mi, gray w/blk cloth, exc. cond. 1 ownr. $8800. 688-9709
***Web ID# 222248***
Sports 264CHEVY CORVETTE Z06, 2001, 20,451 mi.
New tires, blk, all orig. Serious calls only
$22,900. 423-836-0900
Domestic 265CADILLAC Eldorado
1998, beautiful, exc. in/out, $5,000. 865-689-4984, 865-850-2822
***Web ID# 218650***
EXCLUSIVE FOR MERCEDES BENZ
2005 to 2013 all models Remote Starters,
works on your factory remote. Prices vary on different models.
Call for pricing.Other Accessories avail.
MERCEDES ONLY. West End Motor Co. 8729 Oak Ridge Hwy
Knoxville, TN 865-250-1480
FORD FUSION Hybrid 2010, black on black, loaded, $14,500. 865-621-5868
***Web ID# 219066***
FORD FUSION SEL 2009, 21,600 mi, 1 owner, V6, spoiler, pwr SR, all pwr, 6 disc CD, loaded, leather and heated seats, alloys, white w/suede int., warr. $17,500/b.o. 865-755-0664
***Web ID# 219903***
LINCOLN MARK VIII 1998, 1 owner, 96k mi, exc. cond. $4800. 865-531-8454.
***Web ID# 219994***
Cement / Concrete 315STEVE HAMNER
CONCRETE & BLOCK 25+ yrs exp. Drive-ways, sidewalks, all types pours, Versa-lock walls, excavat-ing. Call 363-3054.
Fencing 327AAA FENCING Re-
pairs & More. You buy it, we install it! Call 604-6911.
FENCE WORK Instal-lation & repair. Free est. 43 yrs exp! Call 973-2626.
Flooring 330CERAMIC TILE in-
stallation. Floors/ walls/ repairs. 33 yrs exp, exc work! John 938-3328
Guttering 333HAROLD'S GUTTER
SERVICE. Will clean front & back $20 & up. Quality work, guaran-teed. Call 288-0556.
Handyman 335CARPENTRY, PLUMBING,
painting, siding. Free est, 30+ yrs exp!
Call 607-2227.
Lawn Care 339ASK US! NO JOB
TOO BIG OR SMALL! Lawnwork, excavat-ing, haul away your
junk. Give us a call at 363-3054 OR 548-0962
STRIPER LAWNCARE Affordable rates with a professional touch! Mowing, weed-eating,
blowing, mulching, pruning, cleaning. We are a cut above the
rest! 382-3789
Roofing / Siding 352
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NEWS FROM PARKWEST, WEST KNOXVILLE’S HEALTHCARE LEADER • TREATEDWELL.COM • 374-PARK
health & lifestyles
Designed for lifeEngineer fi nds hope in award-winning heart valve
Ted Bernard is the kind of guy who appreciates a thoughtful, efficient design.
So when the retired electrical engi-neer f lipped open his Popular Science magazine last November and saw its 25th Annual Best of What’s New, he was impressed. For there, bigger than life itself was the Edwards Lifescience Transcatheter Heart Valve listed as the publication’s “Grand Award” win-ner in the health category.
“The picture made it look king-sized,” he recalled. “I tried to figure out how they get that thing down to the size they needed to fit it into the heart. But it looked like a super de-sign that should work like a clock.”
Bernard’s appraisal of the heart valve was more than just an engi-neer’s passing interest in the marvels of modern medicine – he was still waiting to hear whether that artificial valve would become his own lifeline.
Diagnosed with severe aortic ste-nosis, the 87-year-old was left gasp-ing for breath whenever he’d walk from one end of his Knoxville home to the other. “I couldn’t get up and work in the yard and garden and stuff because I would just puff and pant,” said Bernard. “That’s why all my f lower beds here grew up in weeds and I didn’t have much of a garden either for the same reason – I just didn’t have the strength to take care of them.”
Time, he was told by cardiologist Dr. Ravi Mehta, was running out and the traditional remedy – open-heart surgery – was not an option.
His only hope, Mehta told him, was to see if he would qualify for Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), a procedure in which the diseased aortic valve is replaced with a collapsible prosthetic fashioned from the valve of a cow. The valve, designed by the California-based Ed-wards Lifesciences and approved by the Food and Drug Administration, can collapse to the diameter of a pen-cil and is guided to the heart through a catheter usually inserted into the femoral artery through a small inci-sion in the groin.
TAVR is so rare in the United States (less than 10 percent of aortic valve replacements) it’s available at only about 150 hospitals nationwide. Parkwest Medical Center was first in Knoxville to offer it.
“Dr. Mehta said, ‘We’ve got to do something. If you go on like you are right now, you’ll live probably one year, maybe two years. But that’s it.’ ”
Even his own son, a general prac-titioner in Topeka, Kan., concurred with the prognosis. “My son said ba-sically the same thing, that anybody over 85 who has a major job done on their heart is going to have a very, very poor outcome.”
And so, Ted Bernard began making final preparations.
“I was getting everything done,
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working toward death within a year because they didn’t think I would last that long,” Bernard said. “After I talk-ed to Dr. Mehta and my son, I figured I’d better get busy and get everything lined up.”
But those plans changed when Ber-nard received word that TAVR sur-gery would be an option.
“I tore that page out of Popular Sci-ence and took it with me to see the doctors. I showed them that article and said, ‘Look! Put this in me – I need it!’ ” he said with a laugh.
There was, however, a roadblock – or perhaps more accurately, a detour – ahead.
Meeting individually with mem-bers of the TAVR team – Dr. Thomas Pollard, Dr. Chadwick Stouffer, Dr. Nicholaos Xenopoulos and Dr. Mike Ayres, Bernard was told that his femoral artery had a few twists and turns (“funny corners” as he called it) that would make the usual route
to the heart’s aorta not only difficult, but increase the risk of blood clots or stroke.
It was decided an alternative route, known as a “transapical approach,” would be required, a path taken by 14 of 39 TAVR patients at Parkwest.
According to the Society of Thorac-ic Surgeons, a transapical approach is a technique in which the surgeon makes an incision just below the fifth rib and then delivers the prosthetic valve through a needle puncture di-rectly into the bottom of the left ven-tricle of the heart.
“The heart never knows anything is going on,” said Bernard. “They just went right through it, straight up to the aortic valve, put the replacement in and then pulled back out. The heart never knew they were there.”
Bernard, however, could tell things were decidedly better after his Dec. 17 surgery. “I went in on Monday morning, and around 2:30 or 3:30
that afternoon, Dr. Stouffer came outand told my wife that it was a suc-cess,” said Bernard. “I was put into aroom and I stayed in there until Fri-day morning when I went home.”
Today, Bernard says, he feels like a new man.
“I feel fine, I feel great! I feel 15 or 20 years younger – it’s amazing!” heexclaimed. “Here, I go into the hos-pital for less than a week, and whenI get out, and I can move around anddo things that would’ve completelykilled me a week before. The differ-ence is just amazing.”
What’s more, Bernard said, he feels so much better that, instead of plan-ning for his passing, he’s planning forliving.
“This surgery really changed my plans,” Bernard said. “Of course, nowthat I’ve got 90 percent of the stufflined up, I don’t have to worry aboutit. Now I’ll be able to spend my timeworking in the f lower bed and mygarden.”
He’s well on his way because there,sitting on his end table next to thePopular Science article about theaward-winning heart valve, is an-other magazine that’s caught his eye– the Burpee seed catalog has arrivedand spring can’t be far behind.
“I was getting everything done, working toward death within a year because they didn’t think I would last that long.” Ted Bernard
Ted Bernard displays the page he tore from his Popular Science that featured
the prosthetic valve he received via Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement at
Parkwest Medical Center.