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By Anne HartImagine, if you can, a

breathtakingly beautiful nautilus shell. And then imagine that it’s yours, to do with as you want. What would be your choice? Put it on a shelf and look at it occasionally? Consign it to a bank vault?

The choice was easy for local artist, woodworker and marine archaeologist Jim McNutt.

He crafted a table from Tennessee white oak, fi n-ished it in shades of ocean

blue, embedded the shell in the tabletop and added tentacles he carved from African Padauk wood that

originated near where the shell was found in Mada-gascar, the island in the In-dian Ocean off the coast of southeast Africa.

The table is just one of countless works of art Mc-Nutt has created in more than 40 years as a wood-

Jim McNutt: local Renaissance man creates priceless works of art

Wood artist and marine

archaeologist Jim McNutt

points out the crystallized

chambers of a 200-million-

year-old nautilus shell.

McNutt designed and built

the table to showcase the

fossil. Photo by A. Hart

worker. But woodwork-ing is just one of the many talents of this Renaissance man.

His interest in marine archaeology has led him to the depths of the ocean in

To page A-3

By Sandra ClarkA bridge replacement and road

improvements to Westland Drive during the next six months will require lane and road closures at various times along the road be-tween South Northshore Drive and Morrell Road, according to a city release.

The project includes replacing the box culvert bridge on Westland Drive just east of Craigland Court, channel improvements and utility relocations – along with roadway improvements on Westland Drive near Rotherwood Drive.

An improved drainage chan-nel along Westland Drive should minimize fl ooding near Craigland Court. Some 1,000 feet of the channel will be widened. To improve traffi c safety, the new drainage channel will be shifted farther north, away from the westbound travel lane of West-land Drive, in order to provide a 10-foot shoulder along Westland Drive from Craigland Court to Craig Road.

One-lane closures between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. are expected along sections of Westland Drive

throughout the duration of the project.

In addition, Westland Drive will be completely closed to through traffi c between Sou th Northshore Drive and Morrell Road for 60 days beginning Monday, May 11, to allow for the replacement of the box culvert bridge. The detour route for the road closure will be Northshore Drive to Morrell Road to Westland Drive.

To discourage cut-through traf-fi c on neighborhood streets, tem-porary speed humps will be in-stalled on Craig Road, Sherwood

Drive and Stone Mill Drive.The Mulch Company has

withdrawn its request for use on review, scheduled to be heard April 9 by the Metropolitan Plan-ning Commission.

Judy Horn, secretary of the Council of West Knox County Homeowners, said the request was withdrawn as of March 24 by a letter from Mark Graham of En-gineering Consultants.

The Mulch Company had agreed to buy land adjacent to Creekside Nurseries on S. North-shore near Tooles Bend.

Bridge replacement closes Westland Drive

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Jo Majors and her grandchildren, Trevor Smith and Caroline Smith, along with Matthew Ballard of Florida, sample bread from the store’s grand opening

bread-breaking. Photo by Wendy Smith Story on page A-2

IN THIS ISSUE

Meeting SeymourActor Ethan Hawke makes

his documentary-directing debut with “Seymour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful les-sons from his subject.

Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he wanted to compose music and write books.

➤ Read Betsy Pickle on page A-8

UT: Stop brandingWhen the talk turns to

branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron.

➤ Read Bill Dockery on page A-5

‘65 Vols had no place to go

The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed.

In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and fi nished in Portland, Ore.

➤ Read Marvin West on page A-4

Women of Central Baptist host Tu Dia

Last weekend, after lis-tening to a talk about health from Alexis Andino, dozens of women fl ocked to tables to make crafts, apply makeup or have their nails done.

Volunteers from Roane State Community College’s mas-sage therapy program offered complimentary massages while children were entertained in the Central Baptist Church of Bearden gym.

➤ Read Wendy Smith on page A-7

Fashionistas!Imagine, if you can, a room-

ful of grown men squirming in their seats and giggling like a bunch of teenagers, while winking and grinning at each other and poking fun at the apparently-now-obsolete button-down shirts and pleated trousers many of them are wearing.

Mercy!

➤ Read Anne Hart on page A-10

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By Wendy SmithLynda Caldwell of Farra-

gut loves everything about Whole Foods Market, and she’s more than happy to talk about it. She arrived at 7:30 a.m. for last week’s 8:45 a.m. bread-breaking, which was held in lieu of a traditional ribbon-cutting. The new store is at 6730 Pa-per Mill Drive.

She likes the chain’s fo-cus on sustainability, re-cycling and having “no garbage in food.” Her home-town of Annapolis, Md., has a store, and she’s shopped at other Whole Foods loca-tions across the country.

“This is the biggest day of my life,” she said as she fi lled her cart.

She’s not the only fan. The line for the grand open-ing stretched across the parking lot. Musicians and cloggers entertained the crowd while they waited.

Tasaha Delaney was near the front of the line. She’s shopped at Whole Foods in Atlanta, and she’s glad to live just eight minutes from the Knoxville store. She likes the fresh produce and baked goods.

A.D. Baxter was just ahead of her. He likes Whole Foods because it’s clean and has a wide variety. It’s a nice place to shop as well as good place to sit down and have a cup of coffee, he says.

Rumors of a local Whole Foods store have circulated since 2011. The company opened its fi rst store in Aus-tin, Texas, in 1980. Accord-ing to the company website, there were less than a half-dozen natural food super-markets in the U.S. at the time. The chain now has over 360 stores.

Paul Urban, team leader here, introduced an enthu-siastic group of team mem-bers. The store has 170 em-ployees, 152 of them from Knoxville.

Specialty team leader Ceteka Holder staff s the Whole Foods

growler station at the store’s grand opening. A Maryville na-

tive, she’s worked in Atlanta for the past 10 years. She’s thrilled

to return to the area. Photos by Wendy Smith

He also explained some of the store’s innovative offer-ings, like a growler station and a restaurant – Rocky Top Pizza and Tap. Both the res-taurant and the growler sta-tion, which offers 32-ounce and 64-ounce bottles, serve local brews. As soon as wine makes it into Tennessee gro-cery stores, Rocky Top will also offer wine.

The store held a local vendor fair before it opened in order to be able to offer local goods, he said.

Urban announced that Whole Foods is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank. Customers paid $5 for a store tour before the offi cial opening, and the company rounded proceeds up to donate $10,000 to

Second Harvest during the grand opening.

Knoxville Mayor Mad-eline Rogero said that Whole Foods has been on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Com-panies to Work For” list since the list’s inception. The store, along with REI, which opened last fall, have turned an under-utilized property into a destination, she said.

Ethel and Bill Castilaw were two of the fi rst Whole Foods customers. They’d shopped at Whole Foods in Baton Rouge and were im-pressed with the selection of natural foods with no ad-ditives. They’re qualifi ed to give advice. They’ve been married 55 years.

“You are what you eat,” said Bill.

Cloggers from Southern Sounds Studio enter-

tain the crowd before the opening of Knox-

ville’s fi rst Whole Foods Market.

On Saturday, a life-size Easter Bunny will be visiting Smart Toys and Books for breakfast with the children, but real, live bunnies have been heralds of his arrival all week.

O’Hare Port opened Saturday at the book and toy store, 9700 Kingston Pike in Franklin Square. The “airport” fea-tures bunnies of all sizes and colors for children to watch and pet through the wire. Watching the bunnies is free. Breakfast with the Easter Bunny, with four seatings on April 8, is $12 per child. Info: http://smarttoysandbooks.com

Bunny timeat Smart Toys and Books

Bunny kisses

Haddie Lebenschus, 3, seems particularly fond of a fl uff y white

bunny at Smart Toys and Books. Photos by Nancy Anderson

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lesson in history

Civil War presenter Gerald Augustus (below) and his wife,

Sandra, (at left) present a program for those attending the

Knoxville Symphony League’s Elegant Dining on March 12

at Crescent Bend House & Gardens.

The Knoxville Symphony League’s Elegant Dining series is a fundraiser for the orchestra. Hosts

for the dinner at Crescent Bend were Char Taylor, Debby Fox, Connie Graham, Judy McLean and

Patsy Ellis. Photos submitted

Jim McNutt From page A-1

search of sunken relics that feed his passion for ancient wood, especially if it has an interesting story attached. For along with his other tal-ents, McNutt is a skilled sto-ryteller. Every piece of wood he owns comes with its own piece of history.

He has even written a book about marine salvage, detailing his and others’ ad-ventures under the sea.

“Quest for Shipwrecks” was published in 1997. It has had several updates, with another due out soon. It is a fascinating look at maritime commerce beginning in the fourth century B.C., and the resulting maritime salvage business. It is illustrated with photographs, ancient and current maps and Mc-Nutt’s own sketches of his oceanic searches.

Those searches have tak-en him from South Amer-ica to Belize to Mexico and back home to the Tennessee River, which contains riches in wood from sunken ships dating to the Civil War and before.

Along the way, other in-terests have been piqued. McNutt has lived in and explored Mayan caves in

Belize, and he is currently working on a forestry pro-gram in Cuba, which has be-come a favorite place to visit.

“The Cuban people are wonderful, warm and friendly,” he says. “They are also wonderful artists. There are beautiful southern yellow pine and teak planta-tions there, and the Cubans could be great woodworkers if they just had the equip-ment.

“I would love to develop small woodworking opera-tions for them.”

McNutt says his own in-terest in wood began when he was young and working with his dad, local home-builder Allen McNutt.

“Back then, the trades-men, carpenters, would frame a house, trim it and then build in the cabinets. I was amazed they could do all that work right on site.

“And then I fell in love with some walnut lumber in a sawmill and made a bench and really fell in love.”

McNutt went to the Ar-rowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg to learn advanced furniture design and to the Penland School in Burnsville, N.C., to study

wood. He apprenticed for a time and did a bit of logging and sawmilling, which led to drying his own lumber and selling wood to others.

All of that resulted in a business in hardwood fl oor-ing and cabinetry. McNutt’s artistry in 126 different vari-eties of wood is now seen in fl ooring, cabinetry, furniture and other examples of his creativity in private prop-erties, in the commander’s quarters on a Navy nuclear submarine out of Norfolk, Va., in a hotel in Canada, at the Eastern Airlines desk in the Miami airport and on the teak deck of an 85-foot sea trawler traveling the Ca-ribbean off of Belize.

He has built a boat for himself and is about to em-bark on construction of an-other – a log cabin that will sit atop two huge pontoons sitting ready in his lumber-yard awaiting a launch date.

McNutt’s business, Wood-stream Hardwoods, is a delight in itself. It’s a great place to do some exploring and learn about wood from a master.

McNutt will open his business to the public as part of Dogwood Arts DeTour 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 11.

There will be music, food, door prizes, demonstrations and an opportunity to visit with the artist.

Woodstream Hardwoods is at 3636 Division St., just off the west side of Liberty Street between Sutherland Avenue and Middlebrook Pike.

Info: www.woodstreamhardwoods.com or 524-0001.

COMMUNITY NOTES ■ Council of West Knox County Homeowners meets 7:15

p.m. each fi rst Tuesday, Peace Lutheran Church, 621 N. Cedar

Bluff Road. Info: www.cwkch.com/.

■ Historic Sutherland Heights Neighborhood Association.

Info: Marlene Taylor, 951-3773, taylor8246@bellsouth.net.

■ Lyons View Community Club meets 6 p.m. each second

Monday, Lyons View Community Center, 114 Sprankle Ave.

Info: Mary Brewster, 454-2390.

■ Third and Fourth District Democrats meet 6 p.m. each

fourth Tuesday, Bearden Public Library, 100 Golf Club Road.

Info: District 3, Suzie Coff ey, 691-1075; District 4, Rosina

Guerra, rosinag@earthlink.net or 588-6260, or Chris Foell,

foellmc@aol.com or 691-8933.

■ West Knox Lions Club meets 7 p.m. each fi rst and third

Monday, 8529 Kingston Pike. Info: http://knoxvillewestknox-

lionsclub.org/.

■ West Hills Community Association. Info: Ashley Williams,

313-0282.

By Wendy SmithThe Knoxville Museum of Art opened

its current facility 25 years ago to the day last Wednesday. A luncheon held in honor of the anniversary paid homage to those who helped bring the vision for the museum to life.

Many of the 224 luncheon attendees were involved in the project in 1990, said KMA executive director David But-ler. The 53,000-square-foot building was named for Jim Clayton, the largest donor in the ambitious $11 million fund-ing campaign, who was in attendance.

The museum had some tough times after it was completed because there weren’t enough funds left to operate it, Butler said. Since then, it has grown into a beautiful facility.

The anniversary also marked the completion of KMA’s Anniversary Cam-paign, which raised $12 million. Funds covered a comprehensive renovation of the building, construction of the North Garden and the creation of a dedicated

KMA turns 25

Caesar Stair, an early supporter

of the Knoxville Museum of Art,

reminisces with Rebecca Massie

Lane, who directed the museum

from 1981 to 1989 as it transitioned

from the Dulin Gallery of Art to the

KMA. Photos by Wendy Smith

KMA staff members Sharon Hudson and

Margo Clark greet guests arriving for the

museum’s 25th anniversary luncheon.

art acquisition fund.Butler feels the museum is coming to

the end of a year-long celebration that included the renovation, the unveiling of Richard Jolley’s glass and steel installa-tion and the Southeastern Museums Con-ference.

KMA board of trustees member Geof-frey Wolpert agreed that the museum has had an incredible year that has resulted in a tangible energy.

“The museum has become an icon for the potential of Knoxville.”

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Data currently used to expedite help for those ex-periencing homelessness could be used to prevent homelessness as well, ac-cording to Lisa Higginbo-tham of Knoxville Homeless Management Information System (KnoxHMIS).

KnoxHMIS, adminis-tered by the UT College of Social Work Offi ce of Re-search and Public Service, is an online database used by 18 social service agencies that serve those who are homeless or at risk of be-coming homeless. Clients of any of the partnering agen-cies can give permission to have their information entered into the database, which expedites referrals to other agencies. Notes from case managers can also be included in each profi le.

At a recent meeting of the Mayor’s Roundtable on Homelessness, Higginbo-tham, a KnoxHMIS data analyst, proposed the cre-ation of a community dash-board that would show what

Marvin West

The NCAA basketball tournament has changed some through the years. Perhaps you have noticed.

In 1965, a mere 50 years ago, it involved 23 teams. They played in Bowling Green, Ky.; Lubbock, Texas; Philadelphia; Lexington; Manhattan, Kan.; Provo, Utah; College Park, Md. and fi nished in Portland, Ore.

The event, such as it was, may have taken in enough money to pay travel ex-penses. There was no March madness.

Twenty-three teams? Then, as now, NCAA com-mittees could not count. Some regions had play-in

Basket Vols of ’65 had no place to go

games to a conventional 16-team bracket.

Vanderbilt, representing the Southeastern Confer-ence, defeated DePaul and lost to Michigan. The Com-modores were good. They had Clyde Lee and a 15-1 league record. The loss was at Tennessee.

Ray Mears’ Volunteers were good, too: 20-5 over-

all, best UT record in 17 years, second in the SEC with no place to go.

A.W. Davis, 6-7 and a fl exible, leathery 185, was an all-American, eventually so chosen in a stormy U.S. Basketball Writers Associa-tion meeting (Marvin West, Southeast selector). The theme was elementary.

“Doesn’t matter how good UCLA is. Vote again! We’re not leaving this room until Arvis Watsell Davis is on the team.

“Yes, that is his name. Now you know why he goes by A.W.”

Davis was the fi rst Vol so honored.

That Tennessee team had a strong sophomore forward, Ron Widby, crafty Larry McIntosh, senior point guard Pat Robinette and a reincarnation of Tar-zan who hung out near the basket.

Howard Bayne was a splendid athlete, tight end physique, fearless, natu-rally combative, borderline belligerent and sometimes mistaken for an intimida-tor. He, Widby and Davis were signifi cant factors in the Vols’ outrebounding op-ponents by an amazing av-erage of 16.7 per game.

Howard was not a great scorer and worse on free

throws. Robinette hit 89.7 percent. You don’t want to know Bayne’s percentage.

I thought Tennessee at Kentucky was the game of the year. The Vols had wal-loped the Wildcats by 19 in Knoxville. The rematch was more exciting.

Tennessee, trailing by a point, gained possession with 17 seconds remaining. Mears’ designed play called for Widby or Davis to shoot.

Pat Riley overplayed Da-vis. The ball went to Widby. He missed. Davis got the long rebound and passed up a jump shot in favor of a drive and the hope of get-ting fouled.

A.W. got close, put the ball up and was fouled – but there was no whistle. Keep in mind that the game was

at UK. Bayne rebounded and put it back up, but it wouldn’t go down.

Eventually, the Vols willed the ball into the bas-ket, but time had expired. Kentucky won, 61-60. Three big blue fans were carried out on stretchers.

That Tennessee team probably wasn’t going to win the national championship, but it was tournament wor-thy and very entertaining.

The NCAA got something right in growing the tour-nament format. Maybe, in time, Tennessee will have another team deserving of an opportunity. It probably won’t have an A.W. Davis or Ron Widby. There are no more Howard Baynes.Marvin West invites reader reaction. His

address is westwest6@netzero.com.

Fighting homelessness with numbers

progress has been made and goals that still need to be met.

The online dashboard would give the community access to reports that could be generated from the col-lected data, like perma-nent housing placements, recidivism rates and the utilization of beds in shel-ters, transitional housing and permanent supportive housing.

Higginbotham thinks community access to the data could help the city’s ef-forts to end homelessness.

“The database will give us insight as to where we are and to set benchmarks as to where we need to be so we

can work collectively.”Michael Dunthorn of the

city’s offi ce on homelessness says data play an important part in assessing current efforts, and the dashboard would give the community an opportunity to keep tabs on what’s working.

Knoxville Mayor Mad-eline Rogero formed the roundtable, made up of leaders from local social service agencies and min-istries, in 2013 to create a plan to address the prob-lem of homelessness. City Council adopted the City of Knoxville Plan to Address Homelessness, which draws from successful compo-nents of previous efforts, federal requirements and public input, a year ago.

KnoxHMIS is cited as a key component of the plan.

Dunthorn is encouraged by progress made by part-ner agencies since the plan’s adoption. The Helen Ross McNabb Center has opened a small apartment build-ing for homeless veterans,

and will soon open another. The Knoxville/Knox County Homeless Coalition is work-ing to address a shortage of housing for homeless families. An upcoming KUB program will allow cus-tomers to round bills up to the nearest dollar to help fi nance weatherization of affordable housing, which often comes with unafford-able utility bills, he says.

During the roundtable, Family Promise of Knoxville executive director Mary Le-Mense spoke favorably of the information provided by KnoxHMIS but said she’d like to see more people in-volved in the effort to fi ght homelessness. She hopes to double the number of fami-lies served by the organiza-tion by its 10th anniversary this summer.

Family Promise is seek-ing faith-based organiza-tions that can provide over-night accommodations for four families for a week, four times a year. Info: 584-2822.

Reporters add fi ve sensesThe newspaper club at

Sarah Moore Greene is alive and well.

Last week we added the fi ve senses to the fi ve Ws to round out our story-telling.

Ruth White distributed an apple to each reporter, asking each to describe the apple adequately to pick it out of a barrel afterwards.

“Round and red won’t get it,” she said.

Then we went outside. Kids were challenged to see, hear, smell, touch and may-be taste something.

We spotted a bird’s nest, and we heard a neighbor’s dog and a buzzing bee. We smelled wildfl owers and tasted an herb that might

have been thyme.We noticed a huge retain-

ing wall that was built to protect the root structure of a towering tree (that none of us could identify).

Teacher April Lamb thumbed her smart phone, promising a tree ID “when the leaves come out.”

Then back inside to write our reports and eat an apple (after Ruth squirted hand sanitizer, of course).

Safari Bahati tackles fi ve senses at once. Photo by Jayden Arthur

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There was little news to be had at Mayor Madeline Rogero’s re-election shindig last week, and she looked damned happy.

When the talk turns to branding, you can be damn sure somebody is about to get burned. And the hide that gets charred won’t be on the cowboy wielding the branding iron.

Branding is at the fore-front of the latest controver-sy plaguing the University of Tennessee Athletic Depart-ment, which ann ounced last fall that it would do away with the Lady Vols logo for women’s sports programs. Only the basketball pro-gram would be allowed to continue that identity.

Fan response was pre-dictable: They hated it. One Bristol supporter of the Lady Vols bought a full-page ad in the Knoxville News Sentinel calling on the public to de-mand that the school pre-serve the Lady Vols name for all women’s sports.

Under pressure from the News Sentinel, the Athletic Department cinched up its jock strap and released emails with Nike that re-veal the worldwide manu-facturer of athletic gear had played a major role in UT’s decision to end the Lady Vols distinction. About the same time, Joe DiPietro, the president of the UT System, told the UT Board of Trust-ees that branding decisions were none of their busi-ness. In the meantime, the women’s basketball team has continued its record of accomplishment, while the men’s team – well, they’re again in the market for a head coach.

Farragut’s state Rep. Ryan Haynes announced his candidacy for chair of the Tennessee Republican Party immediately follow-ing the resignation of Chris Devaney, who is leaving with a group doing humani-tarian work in Haiti.

Haynes’ new jo b to create ripples

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raise funds for a political party while the Legislature

is in ses-sion. Addi-tionally, the state party sometimes adopts posi-tions that the Legis-lature does not support. However,

two lawmakers have done both jobs in the past. They are Beth Harwell and Jim Henry, who is now in the Haslam Cabinet.

The job is to raise money for campaigns, speak to GOP groups across the state and serve on the Republi-can National Committee. It is very time-consuming.

Haynes’ resignation creates a domino impact locally: a new chair for the legislative delegation and a new state rep. Knox County Commission will choose an interim legislator to serve for 100 days until a special election is held, just as was done when Jamie Woodson resigned and Becky Duncan Massey was ultimately elected.

This could come as soon as mid-April if Haynes is chosen April 11 and resigns shortly thereafter. The commission would have to wait a few weeks to allow persons to apply and a special meeting to be called to choose the new state representative.

Possible candidates include Jason Zachary, who carried Farragut in his race for Congress last August (but may have to move to establish residency) and former Farragut Mayor Eddy Ford.

Other names are certain to emerge if Haynes is elected chair and then resigns.

■ Today marks the 41st birthday of Knox Heritage and the fi rst an-niversary of its move to the historic Westwood House on Kingston Pike.

Led ably by Kim Trent, KH will host an open house today (April 1) at West-wood.

■ The search com-mittee for MPC director holds its fi nal interview today of the three fi nalists and is expected to recom-mend whomever the two mayors tell them that they want.

The mayors are repre-sented on the six-member search committee by Bill Lyons for Rogero and Dean Rice for Burchett.

Lyons insisted the meet-ings be closed to the public.

Ryan Haynes

Put down the branding iron

In 2012, the UT Offi ce of Communications and Mar-keting introduced its “BIG ORANGE, BIG IDEAS!” branding initiative. After that, every web page and publication had to have that slogan stenciled on it some-where. Every news release had to be stamped with the BO/BI verbiage, whether it fi t the facts or not. And all of it had to be papered over with the selected colors and type stylings that were cru-cial to the new UT brand.

The students weren’t fooled. A Facebook page sprang up immediately, pointing out that the Big Or-ange/Big Ideas word mark looked suspiciously like the signage on the front of Big Lots Inc., the Fortune 500 retailer. Some advocated a counter-meme – “Big Or-ange, Big Deal.”

Oak Ridger Lindsay Lee, who in 2013 became the university’s fi rst Rhodes Scholar of the 21st century, suggested “Big Orange, B.S.” and wrote, “. . . the ad-ministration does not invest in its students but instead cares more about selling us collectively as a commodity. . . . So instead of refl ecting who we are, this motto just mocks us.”

Nonetheless, the changes continue. The “Power T” logo is being retooled and as of June 1, 2015, will refer to all activities of the uni-versity’s Knoxville campus, whether athletic or academ-ic. Surveys have shown the Power T is the single most recognized icon for UT.

At its best, a brand emerges organically from the values an institution lives by and the experiences it makes possible for its stu-dents and faculty. Which explains why UT might be trying to graft glib slogans and new logos onto its cur-rent public identity.

This is, after all, the uni-versity that has systemati-cally scrapped the nation’s premier program in wom-en’s sports, the machine Pat Summitt put together that has shown the rest of the world how to marry athletic and academic excellence.

The same university that has been successfully sued over fi rings that, time and again, were the product of administrators’ bad deci-sions. And again, that has demonstrated a callous dis-regard for students, parents

and fans who have invested emotion, energy and money into the university and its activities.

Stir in misbehaving male athletes and butt-chugging frat boys and the slogan that would emerge can’t be printed in a family newspa-per.

It’s time to take the branding iron off the fi re and quit trying to take own-ership of athletic and aca-demic excellence we have yet to earn. If UT admin-istrators can do that, they might fi nd that – beneath all the slogans and stencils, the brands and marketing – the University of Tennessee is a fi ne academic institu-tion, where dedicated and highly qualifi ed scholars and researchers offer stu-dents an education that will make them the match for any graduates in the world.

If our young people want to seize what UT offers them, they can gain tools and intellectual resources that will witness to the best qualities of the university and our state.

That’s all the branding we need.

Madeline Rogero announces for re-election. Photo by Chad Tindell

City races shaping up as snoozefest

eternity, and history tells us there will surely be other candidates:

Among those who are be-ing talked about, the least likely to make a run to suc-ceed Rogero is her deputy, Christi Branscom, who has never run for offi ce before, my FCP said.

City Council member George Wallace is up a wee notch from Branscom, in-terest-wise. “Potential inter-est,” said the FCP. “Never say never.”

Marshall Stair, who at 36 is the youngest council member, is a tad more in-terested than Wallace, FCP said.

Stair said he’s learned a lot in his fi rst term, but he’s got a lot going on in his life – a new house in Old North Knoxville, a serious girl-friend – and he just doesn’t yet know what he’ll want to do in 2019.

“When all you have to go home to is a can of soup and a TV, it’s a lot easier to go to all those neighborhood meetings,” he said. “Poli-tics is a risky business. You spend a lot of time applying for a job you don’t know if you’re going to get – so the reality is, I just don’t know.”

Nick Pavlis, who repre-sents South Knoxville and UT and serves as vice may-

or, is halfway through his second term (he also served two terms as an at-large council member 1995-2003) and has confi rmed his inter-est in serving as mayor in the past. He’s no less inter-ested today.

“Everybody expects you to say, ‘I don’t know,’ but absolutely, I’ll consider it. I will have served 16 years, and nobody else will have that experience.”

But he issued a warning that 2019 is a long way away.

“I will have been out of offi ce for two years. There are two ways of looking at that – you can have time to build a good campaign, but you can also lose your base. It’s like old Randy Tyree says, will I still have the fi re in the belly to do it? I’ll be 65, which is not over the hill but not a spring chicken ei-ther, so we’ll have to wait to see what unfolds.”

Meanwhile, Inskip resi-dent and R. Larry Smith ally Jennifer Mirtes has taken out a petition to run for the Fifth District council seat, making Mark Campen the only incumbent facing a potential opponent so far this year.

While that’s nice for the mayor, uncontested races (a guaranteed second term seems to be an unintended by-product of term limits) make life hard for reporters.

One of the most interest-ing things about Rogero’s campaign kickoff at The Standard, a repurposed building on West Jackson, roughly across the street from the late, lamented former McClung Ware-house complex, was looking around the crowded room and wondering if the next mayor was there.

Odds are s/he was.I checked in with one of

my favorite city politicos, and here’s how he handi-capped the fi eld, in terms of interest – but keep in mind that four years is half an

Clearly, Haynes was alerted to the Devaney res-ignation as he announced within hours of Devaney’s statement. Haynes is close to House Speaker Beth Harwell, and it seems obvi-ous he would not be seeking the position without her blessing along with Gov. Bill Haslam’s support.

Haynes, if elected at the April 11 state executive committee meeting, would be the youngest person to serve as state chair of the GOP at 29 (he turns 30 May 8) and would be the fi rst Knox Countian to serve since Susan Richardson Williams did when Lamar Alexander was governor.

Devaney was only re-elected over Joe Carr in November, so his early departure is a surprise.

Carr represented the very conservative and anti-Haslam elements of the party.

Incumbent governors of either party have never failed to install their choice as the party chair, but ultimately it is up to the 66 members of the committee to choose the new leader. Haynes will have to work all 66 over the next two weeks to prevail. They will not simply take direction from the governor.

Haynes has an excellent reputation as a legislator who handles complex bills and is well liked by his colleagues. He is articulate and energetic.

After his fi rst election in 2008, he has not had serious opposition from his West Knox County district. Haynes is chair of the Knox County delegation.

He is viewed as having leadership potential in the House, but that will end if he is elected chair as he has said he will resign to work full-time. The job pays over $100,000 a year.

As a state representative it would be legally awkward if not actually illegal to

GOSSIP AND LIES ■ Betty Bean can’t help herself, and it’s part of her charm.

■ When she noticed this blog post: Some time back the Roane

County Commission decided to allow a plague to be hung on the

Roane County Courthouse that declares, “In God We Trust.” The

plague is self funded by contributions generated...

■ She re-posted it on KnoxViews.com, eliciting several pretty funny

comments, including this one: “In vaccines we trust.”

■ Sadly, blogs don’t have editors (or sometimes writers).

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Human Animal Bond in Tennessee (HABIT) volunteer Jen Wright and her dog, Vegas, visit with fi fth grader Aleighia Sluder, kin-

dergartner Travis Catousse, Tennessee’s Department of Education commissioner Candice McQueen and fi fth graders Michael

Townes and Onika Reddish. Photos by S. Barrett

McQueen visits Pond Gap

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Dr. Candice McQueen, newly-appointed commis-sioner for Tennessee’s De-partment of Education, stopped by Pond Gap El-ementary School last week before addressing the com-munity at the Downtown Marriott.

Commissioner McQueen toured the school with state and county representa-tives, media professionals and school faculty. Three students were selected by school administration to share with McQueen what they love most about their home away from home.

Students in Hilary Hudson’s third-grade class at Sequoyah Elementary School

were asked to choose an historical fi gure about whom to write a report.

Several students also dressed as their topic on the day of the presentations.

Emme Stapp was intrigued by Queen Elizabeth I’s interesting family history,

and Mazie Mitchum enjoyed learning about Amelia Earhart’s career as a pilot.

Eavan Gardner chose to write about Annie Oakley because she performed in Buff alo Bill’s Wild

West Show, similar to a circus, and Eavan thinks circuses are cool. Britton Carver chose to pres-

ent Daniel Boone’s life story after learning that he may have once wrestled a bear. Lauren Siler

presented Queen Victoria’s life story because she became queen at such a young age.

Jack Felton channels Wilbur

Wright, Beatrice Weisfeld

portrays King Tut, Kate Legg

dresses as Eleanor Roosevelt

and Charlie Frost presents his

homage to Henry Ford.

Fifth graders Onika Red-dish, Michael Townes and Aleighia Sluder welcomed McQueen to Pond Gap with a handmade banner and gift bag containing a UT T-shirt. McQueen was quick to say she attended the other UT: The University of Texas.

Although some may as-sume that fi fth graders would be star-struck by so many VIPs visiting their turf, Onika, Michael and Aleighia led the parade with McQueen at their side, calmly answering her ques-tions along the way.

As one of Knox County’s “community schools,” Pond Gap incorporates a myriad of community resources to enhance the school program.

“We can’t meet our goals in isolation,” said McQueen.

Talent show hosts Lucy Gordon, Reagan Lawrence and Logan

Waller present the event banner. The fi n ale was a dance perfor-

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tening to a talk about health from Alexis Andino, dozens of women fl ocked to tables to make crafts, apply make-up or have their nails done. Volunteers from Roane State Community College’s massage therapy program offered complimentary massages while children were entertained in the Central Baptist Church of Bearden gym.

This is the fourth year the church hosted Tu Dia, or Your Day, for Hispanic women. The day of pamper-ing and education is a way for the church to reach out

to the community in a tan-gible way, said Joyce Wyatt. She spent years as a mis-sionary in Spain and South America and has a heart for ministering to Knoxville’s Hispanic community.

Guests were treated to a healthy snack while watch-ing a cooking demonstra-tion by Jennifer Waller of the Knox County Health Department. Members of the Tu Dia board also pre-sented a panel discussion on this year’s theme, “For a Time Such as This.”

“We hope to enable them to press toward being the women God wants them to be,” said Wyatt.

Veronica Douglas pampers Heriberta Hernandez during Central Baptist Church of Bearden’s fourth annual Tu Dia.

Central Baptist reaches outto Hispanic women

Joyce Wyatt and Sandra Green of Central Baptist Church of

Bearden spend time with a small Tu Dia attendee.

New April date for ‘Living Fully’Two days of free seminars for adults of all ages is now

scheduled for April 10 and 11 at Central Baptist Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Drive. Dates were changed due to inclem-ent weather.

The second annual Living Fully seminar will offer 50-minute sessions on a wide variety of topics. Cooking, gardening, health, computer and genealogy classes will be offered. The event is free and the community is invited.

The seminar is 6-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 11. Registration takes place at the beginning of each day. Light snacks will be served. For more information, contact Joyce McClellan at 450-1000, extension 100, or visit www.cbcbearden.org.

FAITH NOTES

■ Beaver Ridge UMC, 7753 Oak

Ridge Highway, will celebrate

its 200th anniversary 9 a.m.

Sunday, May 3, with special

services and activities.

Everyone invited. Info/

schedule: -690 1060 or www.

beaverridgeumc.org.

■ Christ Covenant Church,

12915 Kingston Pike, will

hold Holy Week Prayer and

Communion Service, 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 2. Easter

morning worship services will

be 8:15, 9:30 and 10:50. Info:

www.christcov.org.

■ Church Women United

Knoxville-Knox County will

meet 10 a.m. Friday, April 3, at

Shiloh Presbyterian Church,

904 Biddle St. Seasonal music

will be provided by harpist

Anne Jackson. Info: 525-3701.

■ Concord UMC, 11020 Roane

Drive, will off er a Music and

Creative Arts Camp from 9

a.m.-4 p.m. July 13-17 for kids

who have fi nished fi rst through

sixth grades. Cost: $125. Sign-

ups continue through April.

■ New Covenant Baptist

Church, 10319 Starkey

Lane, will host The Watoto

Children’s Choir from Africa

presenting a new choir pro-

duction, “Oh What Love,” 7

p.m. Thursday, April 2. All

performances are free and

open to the public. Info: Am-

ber Sakis at Design 4 Media,

813-849-0076 or amber@

design4.org.

■ Oak Ridge District United

Methodist Women (UMW)

and Knoxville District UMW

will host the Social Action

Workshop, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 11, at First

Farragut UMC, 12733 Kings-

ton Pike. Registration: $10,

includes lunch. Mail check

made out to Knoxville District

April Fool’s Day is one of our older “holidays.” It began when Constantine was emperor of Rome, in the fourth century. Ac-cording to stories, some of his jesters told the emperor that they would be a better emperor than he! The emperor (to his credit) was amused rather than angered.

He decreed that one jester, named Kugel, would be “emperor” for a day.

Kugel, as emperor, passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day. The custom was apparently a big hit, and it stuck.

There were times, how-ever, when laughter got God’s favored people into trouble!

Abraham had been promised descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens. However, his wife, Sarah, was child-less, and long since past the age of childbearing.

Scripture tells us that “the Lord appeared to Abraham” (Genesis 18: 1) in the guise of three men. Abraham was a good host, and he offered them water to wash their hands

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

(1 Corinthians 3: 18 NRSV)

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and dusty feet, and food to eat.

One of the men (an-gels?) asked Abraham, “Where is your wife?” Abraham said, “There, in the tent.” The stranger said, “I will return to you, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.”

Sarah, eavesdropping just inside the tent fl ap, laughed out loud. The angel took offense at her incredulity, and rebuked her, saying, in essence, “Did, too!”

Zechariah and Eliza-beth also found that the Lord’s messengers didn’t play jokes. Zechariah argued with the angel who predicted Eliza-beth’s pregnancy, claim-ing that his wife was too old. For his disbelief, he was struck dumb for nine months!

God, it seems, doesn’t do April Fool’s tricks!

Jennifer Waller of the Knox County Health Department’s

Healthy Weight program oversees food preparation in the

kitchen. Photos by Wendy Smith

UMW by April 3 to: Nancy

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■ Second Baptist Church,

777 Public Safety Drive,

Clinton, will host Jennifer

Rothchild Fresh Grounded

Faith Area-wide Women’s

Event from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, May 1-2.

Tickets: 457-2046. Info: www.

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■ St. James Episcopal Church,

1101 N. Broadway, will hold

the following Easter services.

April 2: Maundy Thursday

Holy Eucharist and Stripping

of the Altar, 7 p.m. April 3:

Good Friday Liturgy, noon

and 7 p.m.; Stations of the

Cross, 1 and 3 p.m. April 5:

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‘Seymour: An Introduction’Actor Ethan Hawke makes his doc-

umentary-directing debut with “Sey-mour: An Introduction,” and he seems to have absorbed powerful lessons from his subject.

Pianist Seymour Bernstein was a star on the concert stage who decided at his peak to stop performing because he had other things he wanted to do. He was, and is, a teacher, and he want-ed to compose music and write books.

“Seymour” is primarily a series of conversations and reminiscences, but Bernstein’s gentle voice and inspira-tional philosophy are mesmerizing. Hawke stays out of the way and lets the teacher teach.

It turns out that Bernstein is a powerful exception to the disparag-ing maxim: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. You watch him teach students at home and in a master class and see how his words work almost like magic.

The fi lm’s messages about discipline and living life hit home no matter what profession the viewer pursues. “Sey-mour: An Introduction” is time well spent – and the soundtrack fi lls in with beauty to seal the deal.

Rated PG. Opens Friday at Downtown West.

– Betsy Pickle

Renowned pianist Seymour Bernstein talks with director Ethan Hawke during the fi lming of

“Seymour: An Introduction.”

Walker’s last fi lm“Furious 7,” the only movie opening in wide release on Friday, will show actor Paul Walker’s fi nal

performance. Walker died Nov. 30, 2013, in a car crash unrelated to fi lming. In this entry in the

action-adventure series, Dominic (Vin Diesel) has to reassemble the crew when the brother (Ja-

son Statham) of the international terrorist they defeated last time starts killing them one by one.

They also must keep a deadly computer program from falling into the wrong hands. Dwayne

Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Ludacris, Lucas Black and Kurt

Russell also star.

Serving music guides pianist-composer through life

work on them.“I was never aware that I was practicing

per se. I only became aware that music was something that I loved more than anything else and that in order to serve it, I had to make myself better than I was.”

Bernstein, who started teaching piano himself at 15, still has students. The lack of music programs in schools bothers him.

“I think our educational system is ter-ribly fl awed,” he says. “Music should be a prime subject that all students must learn. That’s how it was in Ancient Greek times. There were four subjects they felt humans could not develop without, and one of them was music.”

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By Betsy PickleAfter actor Ethan Hawke met renowned

pianist-composer-teacher Seymour Bern-stein at a dinner party, he became so fas-cinated with Bernstein that he decided to make a documentary about him. “Seymour: An Introduction” is the result.

Bernstein says he never set any boundar-ies with Hawke.

“Absolutely not at all,” he says in a tele-phone interview.

“I just was very fl attered that he wanted to make a documentary on me,” says Bern-stein. “I did wonder why he wanted to do it. I kept asking all the time, ‘What’s so special about me?’ ”

It turned out that Hawke had read Ber-nstein’s 1991 book, “With Your Own Two Hands: Self-Discovery Through Music,” and it affected him as he was contemplat-ing his life and work.

“It was the thesis of my book that inter-ested him,” says Bernstein. “The thesis is in the documentary, namely, a passion for an art form can actually infl uence your life and not just the art form.”

Bernstein earned rave reviews for his performances and then shocked the music world when he retired from performing at 50.

“One of the reasons why I retired from performing is because I wanted to compose and also write,” says Bernstein, who’ll turn 88 on April 24. “And if I was practicing eight hours a day and also teaching, I didn’t have time to do that. So when I felt that I was able to perform the way I wanted to, I thought it was time to call it to a halt, and I’ve been happier ever since.”

Bernstein grew up in Newark, N.J., with three older sisters. There was no music in the house until he was given a piano as a young boy.

“No one ever had to tell me to go over to the piano to practice,” he says. “However, they did tell me to go out and play with my friend.”

He believes his discipline was (and is) genetic.

“I was just devoted to the piano from the earliest possible time on,” he says. “It was a sense of honor to me. If I was going to reproduce these masterpieces in an ac-ceptable fashion, I simply had to do a lot of

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY ■ Broadway at the Tennessee: “Guys and Dolls” at the Ten-

nessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St. Performances: 8 p.m. Friday; 2

and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: Tennessee Theatre box offi ce,

684-1200 ext. 2; Ticketmaster.com; 800-745-3000.

■ “SHREK: The Musical, Jr.,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 109

E. Churchwell Ave. Performances: 7 p.m. Friday; 1 and 5 p.m.

Saturday. Info/tickets: http://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com;

208-3677.

FRIDAY ■ Spring Shout Out, 6 p.m., The Concourse, 940

Blackstock Ave. Featuring: Warclown, Tears to Embers,

Among the Beasts, The Creatures In Secret. Info: http://

internationalknox.com.

■ EOTO with ill.Gates will perform, 9 p.m., The International,

940 Blackstock Ave. Info: http://internationalknox.com.

SATURDAY ■ The Atlas Moth and Generation of Vipers will perform,

7 p.m., The International, 940 Blackstock Ave. Info: http://

internationalknox.com.

■ Madam Chloe’s Red Hot Cabaret, 9 p.m., The Concourse,

940 Blackstock Ave. Info: http://internationalknox.com.

SUNDAY ■ Jeff Sipe Trio will perform, 8 p.m., Barley’s Taproom and Piz-

zeria, 200 East Jackson Ave. Info: 521-0092.

By Carol ShaneMany tributes have al-

ready been paid to Lus-ter William “Bill” Brewer, Pellissippi State Community College music department head and choral conductor, who died on March 18. We, too, wish to pay respects to this – in the words of one of his choristers – “radiant soul.”

Over the years, I ran into Bill many times. Most of all, I remember his joyous love of music. I didn’t know him well, and that’s my loss.

But others did.Perry Ward, a former

Metropolitan Opera bari-tone who now teaches mu-sic at UT Chattanooga, was blindsided by the loss of a job in 2009. “One of the fi rst phone calls I had was from Bill Brewer,” he remembers. “ ‘Perry? It’s me, Bill. I’m calling to see what I can do to help my friend.’

“He was so positive and encouraging; I couldn’t help but feel better as we talked.” Brewer offered Ward a job at PSCC the next fall.

“I can’t really say I worked ‘for’ him; he wasn’t that kind of boss. I worked with him for two years. I will never forget what he did for me, and I can only hope I have the chance to pay it forward.”

Perry’s wife, Tracy, teach-es music at Sequoyah Hills Elementary School. Years ago, after a personal crisis, “I didn’t have any self-con-fi dence left and didn’t want anyone to notice me. When

Cappuccino’s reopens with new menu

When the New Year start-ed, chef Frank Aloise hit the ground running. As the new chef at Cappuccino’s, the res-taurant adjacent to Copper Cellar West, 7316 Kingston Pike, he had a new menu to prepare.

That menu is now ready, and Cappuccino’s features a lineup of Italian dishes with an Aloise fl air. Appetizers feature aran-cini (rice croquettes in a trio of sauces), and house-made sausage with peppers and on-ions. Pasta dishes range from traditional lasagna and pasta and meatballs to braised beef ravioli and cheese and spin-ach manicotti. Shrimp, veal, chicken and beef are all on the entrée menu. Guests will also fi nd a redesigned dining room.

Open at 5 p.m. daily, Cap-puccino’s is part of the Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants, which includes Calhoun’s, Copper Cellar, Smoky Moun-tain Brewery, Chesapeake’s and Cherokee Grill.

Singer and writer Leslie Massengill Cutshaw with Bill Brewer – friend, conductor and mentor to

many – at a 2011 Knoxville Choral Society concert Photo submitted

Music well made

I fi nally emerged, the Knox-ville Choral Society was the fi rst thing I tried.

“Bill was the one who au-ditioned me. He was so kind and supportive. I can’t tell you what a boost that gave me!

“Bill had a knack for making people feel good about themselves, in an honest way that really made you believe in yourself. And he seemed to do that when you needed it the most.”

Diagnosed with throat cancer less than two years ago, Brewer continued to teach and conduct while

receiving treatment, and was in fact on a choir tour of Portugal just before he died. “It was ‘typical Bill’ to have gone on with his students even though he was ill,” says KCS member Leslie Mas-sengill Cutshaw. “He loved making music, and he es-pecially loved the people he made music with, students and peers alike.”

Though medically cleared for travel, Brewer had to return home before the tour was fi nished, going into the hospital where he eventually died.

Soprano Kathleen Spill-

ane, private voice teacher at PSCC, had taken a hiatus from teaching in order to homeschool her daughter. But “Bill welcomed me back to the voice faculty with open arms.

“I was feeling very vul-nerable as I was living with a cyst on my vocal cord and singing was diffi cult at the time. Bill introduced me to his ENT surgeon and a year later I was singing again.”

News-Sentinel mu-sic critic Harold Duckett notes, “Bill’s singers always seemed to perform well for him because they wanted

him to look good as the con-ductor as much as for them-selves.”

Tina Swaggerty Collins, organist at Ball Camp Bap-tist Church and KCS mem-ber, agrees. “You could see the sparkle in his eyes when he talked about his choirs. There was always laughter in a rehearsal, because Bill laughed through his life.”

But even more, she says, “there was a continual, abid-ing love.” Brewer helped her through a time of grief in her own life. “Bill pulled me

aside after rehearsal, took my hands in his and told me I had found the ‘beauty of where I belonged’ and it was only a matter of time until once again my heart would be fi lled ‘with love as the only song.’”

Last Saturday the KCS paid tribute to Bill Brewer at its annual Young Classi-cal Musicians concert.

Cutshaw says, “The thought that has kept com-ing to me about Bill: Life well lived, music well made, people well loved.”

By Mystery DinerSometimes the best things

come in plain boxes. No one will give The Soup Kitchen high marks for presentation or plating, but the soup is divine!

The Soup Kitchen has two Ten-nessee locations: one in Cedar Bluff at 9222 Kingston Pike and one in Oak Ridge. In business for more than 30 years, The Soup Kitchen believes simplicity and fresh ingredients are the name of the game, although some of the soups are anything but simple in concept. I remember once tasting a soup called Butternut Bisque that almost made me abandon my favorite.

Almost. Here’s the thing with The Soup Kitchen: the menu changes daily. My absolute favor-ite is the Beer and Cheddar soup. When they have it, I get it, no matter how tempting a Butternut Bisque or Georgia Peanut might look.

Though the menu changes, the quality of the soup doesn’t. I have yet to choose a soup I didn’t like, and, if nothing tickles my fancy that day, I fall back to chili.

The Soup Kitchen’s homemade breads and desserts are enough to bring repeat customers on their own. The breads, soups, sandwiches and salads are made fresh each day. I love the pimento

The plating isn’t fancy at The Soup Kitchen, but the fl avors are delicious.

This Italian pasta soup went well with the half a homemade pimento

cheese sandwich. Photo by Mystery Diner

The Soup KitchenItalian Pasta Soup and Pimento

Cheese Sandwich

cheese on cheese bread. Each day, the restaurant offers eight soups, four to six homemade breads, plus the salads, sandwiches and desserts.

The Beer and Cheddar wasn’t on the menu when Mystery Din-er visited, so I tried the Italian

Pasta. It was delicious, fi lled with good-for-you vegetables in a rich and savory tomato broth. The pasta didn’t overwhelm, which is what I like. Paired with a pimento cheese sandwich, it was a hearty meal and, alas, I had no room for dessert!

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Emily Miller

business

By Shannon CareyThe Farragut Chamber

welcomed two members with ribbon-cuttings last week: Profi le by Sanford and Kendall Investigations.

■ Profi le by SanfordProfi le, a weight loss and

fi tness program, combines individual lifestyle coaching with meal planning. And the facility’s stylish décor and fun staff are energizing, too.

“We form a meal plan around your lifestyle,” said manager Donna Tay-lor. “Our staff is incredibly highly trained.”

Radio personality Kim Hansard was on hand to tell attendees about her experi-ence as a Profi le client.

Profi le by Sanford is lo-cated at 113 Lovell Road near Costco.

Info: 337-8176 or Profi le-Plan.net

■ Kendall InvestigationsKendall Shull, founder of

Kendall Investigations, is a retired FBI agent with ex-

By Anne HartImagine, if you can, a

roomful of grown men squirming in their seats and giggling like a bunch of teenagers, while winking and grinning at each other and poking fun at the ap-parently-now-obsolete but-ton-down shirts and pleated trousers many of them are wearing.

You could have witnessed this strange behavior fi rst-hand if you had been at Friday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Bearden as the males gathered there learned their dreams of sar-torial splendor are pretty much outdated and incor-rect.

And what did the women in the audience do? Most were doubled over with laughter at the behavior of the men.

Mercy!It was all in good fun,

but it must be mentioned that any solemnity whatso-ever belonged solely to the speaker, a young woman named Emily Miller who, mature beyond her years, maintained her decorum while her audience basically fell apart.

And it must be noted that none of the unusually rowdy behavior was actually the fault of the speaker. She was merely trying to educate the uneducable.

An independent per-sonal stylist with high-end men’s clothier J. Hilburn, Miller calmly and maturely discussed current fashion trends in menswear while on a large screen behind her

Vicki Mosebach and Julie Predny chat with radio personality

Kim Hansard about her experience with Profi le by Sanford. Pho-tos by S. Carey

Investigator Allyson Beckman and offi ce manager Renee Barletta join Kendall Investigations

owner Kendall Shull and his wife, Nancy, in celebrating the ribbon-cutting.

By Anne HartWhen it comes to guiding

others toward good health, Julie Massey will tell you with her trademark huge smile that she’s “an educa-tor, not a dictator.”

She proves it in her new book, “Health is a Habit.” In it she provides a roadmap to healthy living and lets the readers decide whether to take the trip.

The book is the culmina-tion of Massey’s more than 25 years of consulting and teaching health education through workshops, semi-nars, lectures and consulta-tions for corporations, small businesses, universities and colleges.

Among an impressive list of clients are the Hyatt Cor-poration, Martin Marietta and the U.S. Offi ce of Per-sonnel Management.

A certifi ed health educa-tion specialist, Massey is the founder of Integral Health Options. She has a bach-elor’s degree in psychology, a master’s in guidance and counseling and has pub-lished numerous articles on health management.

She says her goal in writ-ing the book “is to educate,

motivate and support indi-viduals who will create their own healthy lifestyle.”

“Health is a Habit” is dif-ferent from many health-related books on the mar-ket. It’s relatively short. The information it contains is concise, easy for just about anyone to understand, and organized so that it isn’t necessary to read the entire book to get to what’s of par-ticular importance to any individual reader.

In other words, it’s the ideal self-help book for any-one who wants to improve a specifi c aspect of their health – or all of it.

Want to stop smoking? In just a few short pages, learn the easiest ways to do that, including some clever meth-ods to trick yourself into beating the habit.

Are you concerned about getting better nutrition? Massey offers helpful sug-gestions ranging from how to choose healthy options on a restaurant menu to map-ping grocery store aisles. She points out that healthy foods (fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat and grains) are always on the perimeter of the store; processed foods

in the center. Avoid the mid-dle of the store and you’re already on the way to better health.

The book also deals with stress (coping with or avoid-ing) and learning creative ways to exercise, to avoid sleep deprivation, to prac-tice good dental health and to beat addiction.

Each chapter closes with the words: “Healthy choices create healthy hab-its. Healthy habits create heathy lifestyles.”

Massey says target mar-kets for the book are gov-ernment groups and corpo-rations. “Healthy employees reduce absenteeism, reduce costs for overtime and sick days, increase reten-tion and create an overall healthy environment for all concerned. Employers can brand the book and give it to their employees to sup-port healthy workers and their families.”

“Health is a Habit” is available in paperback and can be purchased from Amazon or by contacting Massey at ubewell@ama-zon.com. Info: healthisa-habit.net and integral-healthoptions.com.

Julie Massey signs copies of her new book at a recent event as Sandra Kay Goss, Lucy Gibson and

LaVance Davis, from left, look on. Photo by A. Hart

Julie Massey’s new book

showcases healthy habitsChamber welcomes Profi le, Kendall

Fashion trends buff alo Rotarians

fl ashed photo after photo of spif f i ly-at-tired hunky guys – each a p p r o x i -mately 19 years old.

A n d while Miller was offering good advice about to-

day’s styles, the men in the room held it together for a time, but then they started looking each other over to see who fi t the images on the screen. The answer? No one. That’s when things started getting dicey.

Turns out button-down collars are out, pleated trousers add 15 pounds to your appearance and your shirt cuff must fall no more or less than1/4 to 1/2 inch from the bottom of the jack-et sleeve.

Oops! J. Hilburn’s clothing is

custom-made for the indi-vidual client. Every yard of fabric, every inch of thread has been designed only for a specifi c client. You won’t see yourself across the room at the next business meeting or social gathering in J. Hil-burn clothing.

And to give them credit, the guys weren’t impolite to Miller. Several went up to her to thank her for her pre-sentation and her admirable attempt to educate those who were, after all, dressed for “casual Friday.” At least that was their story.

Info: 567-1902 or em-ily.miller@jhilburnpartner.com.

By Bonny C. Millard Several local Rotarians

recently traveled to Zimba-bwe and South Africa to ob-serve projects of their inter-national counterparts, and they were inspired to build relationships through those projects.

Rotary Club of Knoxville president-elect Sandy Mar-tin talked of a preschool in a South African township where she was amazed by the spirit of Thelma, who operates the school and makes sure that the pover-ty-stricken children are de-veloping literacy skills.

Thelma runs the school she and her husband found-ed, despite dealing with her own personal tragedies. Her husband, son and mother were killed in a car accident that she miraculously sur-vived several years ago.

“Thelma was my ‘aha’ moment in Rotary,” Martin said. “Her attitude was won-derful.”

In addition to educating the children, Thelma also feeds them a healthy break-fast and lunch, Martin said.

Martin was part of a Rotary team organized by

Pictured at Victoria Falls are (sitting) Allen Pannell, Townes Osborn, Whitney Ray-Dawson, Bob Marquis, Sandy Martin, Jennifer

Sepaniak, David Martin; (standing) Jim Holleman, Leslie Baugues and Channing Dawson. Kathryn and Breese Johnson were on

the trip but not pictured.

Rotarians learn in ZimbabweTownes Osborn that em-barked in mid-February for 15 days. The other members of the Zsa Zsa (Zimbabwe and South Africa) team were Bob Marquis, Leslie Baugues, Jim Holleman, David Martin, Whitney Dawson, Channing Dawson, Jennifer Sepaniak, Kathryn Johnson, Breese Johnson and Allen Parnell.

The Zsa Zsa team trav-eled in conjunction with a group of medical personnel, which included other Rotar-ians, who went to Zimbabwe to provide the country’s fi rst medical trauma training and to establish a nursing school in Bulawayo.

Rotarian Phil Mitchell developed and coordinated that project. Mitchell, a na-tive of Zimbabwe who lives in Knoxville and is a prac-ticing physician, knew the needs of his homeland and wrote a Rotary grant to un-derwrite the project.

During its stay, the team met with the Rotary Club of Bulawayo South and later with Stanford Rotary Club and Knysna Rotary Club, both in South Africa.

“Over the years, we’ve learned that the long-term success or sustainability of any project is greatly im-proved if the members of the two clubs know one an-other,” Osborn said.

While in Zimbabwe, the team toured a government run clinic for HIV/AIDS patients and a program for children living with HIV/AIDS called Zimkids. The group traveled to a village in the Kezi district, about two hours outside of Bulawayo, to see an earthen dam that had been breached, leaving villagers without water to grow food.

Osborn said the govern-ment has no money to re-pair the dam, so Bulawayo Rotarians want to collabo-

rate with the Knoxville club and apply for a Rotary Glob-al grant.

In addition to touring local Rotary projects, the group went to Matoba Hills, a World Heritage site. They viewed the grave of Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhode-sia (now Zimbabwe), who is buried at the top.

After leaving Zimbabwe, the group stayed at the Mo-saic Farm Sanctuary, owned by Knoxvillians Kathryn and Breese Johnson, at Stanford, South Africa. The sanctuary has 25,000 acres and is located next to a pre-serve.

“Everyone on the trip felt inspired, and their under-standing of what Rotary is able to do in the world grew exponentially,” Osborn said. “We returned with a list of 15 projects that our club could conceivably support. We’re already planning a second trip in 2017.”

perience undercover and as head of the FBI’s polygraph program. In 2001, he and his family moved to Knox-ville.

Kendall Investigations offers a full range of private investigator services, in-cluding background checks and polygraphs.

Right now, Shull is pro-moting the fi rm’s security guard service, which offers both armed and unarmed guards. Shull started the service when First Baptist

Church of Concord asked him, as a member of the church, to provide security.

With a staff of highly trained guards, many of whom are ex-military, Ken-dall Investigations counts three local campuses of Lin-coln Memorial University, and many other businesses, as clients.

Kendall Investigations is located at 11167 Kingston Pike, Suite 3.

Info: 966-1494 or kend-allinvestigations.com

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NEWS FROM GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE

Meet Lily Duncan

By Angelia NordhornWhat do hiking, 3-D printing,

Budapest, auto-diesel mechanics and theology camp have in com-mon? Not March Madness, but Win-terim at Grace Christian Academy! From March 9-13, upper school students at Grace had the opportu-nity to travel, intern with local busi-nesses, or take elective courses on campus. Students who enjoy travel-ing could either choose to tour New York City, explore four cities in Cen-tral Europe, or take mission trips to places such as Honduras and Haiti. Upperclassmen interned at medical facilities, charities, UT Athletics, media outlets, and engineering and architectural fi rms. Senior Morgan

Cleveland interned with Sharla Mc-Coy, a media relations icon, in Nash-ville. “Mrs. McCoy works with art-ists such as Garth Brooks, The Band Perry, and Carrie Underwood. It was awesome to see the other side of ra-dio and gain wisdom from someone in the music industry.” Students who took on-campus classes were able to select from law enforcement, foren-sic science, hunter safety, driver’s education, teacher education, cook-ing and children’s ministry, just to name a few. For the past twelve years, Grace Christian Academy stu-dents have been blessed to explore, experience and expand their educa-tion outside the traditional class-room setting.

Clay Keaton with Jim LaPinska at Northwestern Mutual

Winterim at GCAAndy Pomeroy at Knoxville Pediatrics Associates

Lily Duncan (center) with sister Sarah Beth and mom Susan

David Comfort at One Life Church

Abbey Parrot at Sarah C. Photography

By Susan Wallace, motherI would like to take a mo-

ment and introduce you to Lily Duncan. She is a freshman at Grace Christian Academy and has been selected as the Girl of the Year for the Knoxville chap-ter of The Lymphoma and Leu-kemia Society.

Lily was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on September 30, 2013. This type of cancer attacks the white blood cells and platelets in your blood stream. The di-agnosis was a shock to Lily and her family and left her asking “why did God choose to place this burden on me?” With the love and support of family and friends who rallied to her side and committed to pray for Lily and her family each day, Lily battled this disease and is now in remission.

Her initial treatment lasted nearly 8 months and required Lily to visit the Hematology and Oncology Clinic at East Tennessee’s Children’s Hospi-tal several times each week for chemotherapy treatment. Lily was very weak and unable to

attend school. She dealt with many side effects. One of the most diffi cult times during treatment was when Lily lost her hair. Prior to her treatment, Lily had long curly hair, which she was known for. Friends and strangers alike complimented her on her hair, so losing some-thing she so closely identifi ed with was devastating.

Lily thought of herself as an average teen just going through the motions of life and never believed she was strong enough to go through something like this. She learned by relying on her faith and the committed prayers of others, God could ac-complish anything!

After months of hard work over the summer, she was able to return to school last fall as a freshman and is enjoying “regular days” as a “normal teen.” Lily was selected by her classmates to be the freshman candidate for Homecoming queen. This was a huge honor and a major accomplishment as it marked the one-year point for Lily’s remission. It was amaz-ing to see the difference a year made!

Lily enjoys spending time with friends and family. She is an avid shopper and is labeled a “fashionista” by those who know her. She participates in the upper school Ensemble at GCA and is grateful to be back to her life as a teen and student.

Lily considers herself blessed. She has an awesome family and a great support sys-tem. She credits her Lord, Je-sus Christ and the prayer and support of so many for where she is today. She in currently in the fi nal stage of her treat-ment and will receive her fi nal chemotherapy on January 22, 2016.

You can watch a brief video of Lily’s journey on YouTube by searching 2015 Girl of the Year Lily Duncan. If you would like to get involved and show your support go to www.mwoy.org/tn. To learn more about ALL go to www.lls.org.

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Pain can change you. It can drain you of your energy and rob you of your quality of life.

Cindy Tullar became a person she hardly knew when pain from a pinched nerve gripped her body. Always en-ergetic and always living life with a positive attitude, she found herself becoming more and more with-drawn as that pain took over more and more of who she was.

“I was in so much pain, I was so sick to my stomach, I was aching all the time,” Tullar says, “I wouldn’t go out.” She says depression began to close in around her because the pain was always in control, never under control.

The pain began to affect her work at Druid Hill Golf Course in Fairfi eld Glade. She had loved taking care of golf carts and meeting new friends on the course.

“I had to quit working be-cause I was in so much pain,” Tullar says. “That broke my heart.” It had been a perfect re-tirement pastime, until last fall.

“I don’t know how I did it,” Tullar says of her pinched nerve. “But I had a stiff neck in Septem-ber.” Tullar says the pain went away but then returned with a vengeance in October.

While Tullar was trying to en-tertain guests in her home, she couldn’t turn her neck to the left or the right. The pain began to worsen. It shot down into her shoulder, then it moved to her fi ngers, which began to go numb.

Tullar made an appointment with her physician, and he prescribed over-the-counter pain medication. That didn’t seem to help much, so she also saw a doctor at Fairfi eld Glade who administered medication in a shot. Still, there was no signifi cant relief. He recommended an MRI and x-rays.

Tullar returned to her physician feeling worse than ever, suffering in pain and also suffering from frailty. The pain had made her so sick that she couldn’t even eat regularly.

Tullar remembers exactly what she said that day when she was sitting in the doctor’s offi ce at the end of her rope.

“We have to do something,” she had said. “I just can’t live like this anymore.”

After the MRI and x-rays, Tullar’s doc-tor told her she needed to see a neuro-

surgeon. It was up to her to choose who would handle her case.

A friend of a friend had recently suffered a pinched nerve and very highly recommended a neuro-surgeon at the Fort Sanders Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery.

“So I called my doctor and said, ‘how about Dr. Joel Nor-man at Fort Sanders?’ ” Tullar recalls. “They made an ap-pointment and I went.”

Tullar’s expectations were met and exceeded. Dr. Nor-man made her feel completely comfortable, and she was im-

pressed with the way he seemed to genuinely care about his pa-

tients. He also let her choose her course of treatment to relieve the

pinched nerve. He gave her the option of physical therapy or minimally invasive surgery.

Tullar had taken stock of her sit-uation and knew it was time to do whatever was necessary to end the pain for good.

“I couldn’t sleep because I was in so much pain. It was getting worse

and worse. I had to quit playing golf. I had to quit working – it was consistent pain all the time. I had no relief at all. I had lost 15 pounds. I couldn’t eat. I was getting sicker,” Tullar says.

Taking all this into account, Tullar knew surgery was the right choice. She also knew Norman was the right surgeon.

“He’s great,” Tullar says. “I was comfortable when I wentinto surgery and after I came out.”

Tullar prepared herself for the surgery by research-ing minimally invasive spine surgery on the Internet andwatching online videos of the procedure performed by sur-geons in other parts of the country. She knew exactly whatNorman was going to do, and she was encouraged when shesaw video testimonials from patients who said their painhad been relieved.

“I was excited,” Tullar says. “It wasn’t scary for me, atall.”

Dr. Norman made a relatively small incision on the right side of Tullar’s neck, removed a disc, inserted a plate andscrews, and then replaced the disc with a cadaver bone.

While Tullar was expecting the surgery to work, shewasn’t prepared for the incredible level of success she expe-rienced at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.

“As soon as I woke up, my pain was gone,” Tullar says.“And then the surgical nurse told me I could start movingmy neck.” Tullar had assumed she would need some sort of neck brace and that her neck would be immobile for a while.

“Nope,” she laughs. “I was moving my neck that night,right away.”

The recovery was seamless. Tullar was off her medica-tion after two days, and she was outside going for a walk by the end of the week. After two weeks, Tullar was walking nine holes, and at the end of two months, she was back to the game she loves.

“I’m playing golf,” Tullar says enthusiastically. “I’m do-ing great. I’m working out, and I am so happy!”

Tullar is already recommending the surgery to others,because it made such a dramatic change in her level of painand her quality of life.

“When you’re in as much pain as I was, it affects your whole life,” Tullar says. “Dr. Norman is a great surgeon, andhe really cares about patients.”

When she thinks about how far she’s come and how much pain she used to be in, it still amazes her. “I woke up, my pain was gone,” Tullar says, still excited about what minimally invasive surgery did for her. “My life is so much better now!”

For more information about the Fort SandersCenter for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, visitfsregional.com/minimallyinvasive, or call 865-541-2835.

HEALTH & LIFESTYLESB April 1, 2015

NEWS FROM FORT SANDERS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center is a regional referral hospital where other facilities

REGIONAL EXCELLENCE.

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Cindy Tullar’s energy and positive outlook

are back after minimally invasive cervical

fusion at Fort Sanders Regional Medical

Center.

Getting back to life

Dr. Joel Norman performs a procedure at the Center for Mini-

mally Invasive Spine Surgery at Fort Sanders Regional.

Turning headsMinimally invasive cervical fusionA compressed nerve can be a lot

more than just a pain in the neck. It can be debilitating, especially when over-the-counter medica-tion and even prescriptions don’t seem to help.

If the pain shoots down your shoulder and arm, severely limits your mobility and begins to affect your everyday life, it may be time to consider other options. It’s be-coming more and more common for patients in this predicament to opt for cervical fusion at Fort Sanders Center for Minimally In-vasive Spine Surgery.

“A cervical fusion involves plac-ing screws and rods into the bones in the neck, in order to stabilize them,” explains neurosurgeon Joel Norman, MD. “This procedure is often performed along with a de-compressive surgery to remove overgrown bone, or a bulging or herniated disc.”

Norman says the most common approach is an “anterior cervical

discectomy and fusion.” This in-volves making a small incision in a skin fold in the front of the pa-tient’s neck, with minimal disrup-tion to the underlying muscles, ac-cessing the front of the spine.

“The abnormal intervertebral disc is removed with decompres-sion of the pinched nerves and a bone graft spacer is inserted,” Nor-man says. “A special metal plate is then placed across the front of the spine and secured with screws into the surrounding bone.”

It may seem a little backward for a surgeon to enter the front of the neck when the pain feels like it’s coming from the back side. Nor-man says there’s a reason for that.

“Performing a decompression and fusion of the cervical spine from an incision in the back of the neck is possible, and some-times necessary,” Norman says, “but that approach often results in more muscle spasm and neck pain in the postoperative period.”

The entire opera-tion takes just about an hour from start to fi nish. Some of Norman’s patients are able to go home the day of surgery. Best of all, pain re-lief from the pinched nerve is almost im-mediate.

Norman says this type of operation isn’t likely to help someone who is suf-fering from general neck pain. This par-ticular procedure is ideal for pa-tients who suffer pain that radiates down into the arm or hand. That type of pain usually comes from a pinched nerve, and the relief of the pain comes when this procedure decompresses the nerve.

Norman says Fort Sanders Re-gional is the right place for this procedure.

“Fort Sanders has a commit-ment to excellent patient care, and a demonstrated excellence in neurosciences and neurosurgi-cal expertise,” Norman says. “We have a specialized team of surgical technicians and nurses involved in the care of our patients from the time they enter the hospital until the time they walk out.”

Norman says the members of this team are committed to pro-viding the best patient care andapplying their expertise to eachindividual treated at Fort SandersRegional Medical Center. Learnmore by visiting fsregional.com/minimallyinvasive, or call 865-541-2835.

B-2 • APRIL 1, 2015 • BEARDEN Shopper news

Mother Nature seems to be teasing us with the promise

of spring … at fi rst, little tan-talizing bits for a day or so, and then weeks of fi ts and starts. In addition to the deliciously warm sunshine we’re beginning to feel, there are, more and more, the sights and sounds of spring, with seemingly miraculous things going on behind all of them.

Take the spring peep-ers, for example. Tiny frogs, the size of your thumb. They spend the winter hi-bernating under logs and leaf litter, showing no signs of life, sometimes frozen solid. Then at the fi rst hint of spring, there they are in every puddle and ditch, peeping by the thousands, sometimes with snow and ice still around the edges of their wetland.

And just like the peep-ers, everything else out there seems to be champ-ing at the bit, eagerly wait-ing to burst forth into song or blossom. Our cardinals and tufted titmice have been singing for weeks. Their spring hormones kick in when the days be-gin to reach some mysti-cal length, snow or not. And for thousands of years now, they seem to have gotten along pretty well with the way things have been set up.

From a perspective of many, many years, I have come to regard the many

happenings of spring as nothing short of miracu-lous. When you stop and think about it, just the fact that birds can fl y is miracu-lous, and a lot of them do it spectacularly well. The little shore bird called the red knot, a world champion of fl yers, comes 7,000 miles each spring from its win-tering grounds in southern South America to nest and raise its young in the tun-dra of far northern Canada.

Our ruby-throated hum-mingbirds, very tiny creatures compared to the red knot or even a robin, f ly non-stop across the Gulf of Mexico each spring to show up at our hummingbird feeders and raise their young in our neighborhoods. Mi-raculous? Consider this: All these countless miles of travel are guided by amaz-ing skills built into their little bird brains. They can navigate by the position of the sun, compensating automatically for the time of day. They f ly by night, guided by the stars. Clouds and fog? They have the wired-in ability to navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field, a feat a human could do only with an airplane and a sophisticated guid-ance system.

And then – a fall miracle to follow the spring ones

– this year’s young birds head south, on their own, guidance systems in opera-tion, to a place they’ve never been: the wintering areas from which their parents headed north earlier in the year.

Of course bats can fl y, too, and they’re really good at it. And so can thousands of bugs and butterfl ies. So birds don’t have exclusive rights to fl ying.

Birds can claim exclusive bragging rights to a couple of other miraculous things, though: feathers and sing-ing. Those amazing, com-plex structures, the feath-ers, give the birds all those really neat spring colors, and they keep them warm and enable them to fl y. But singing? Well, frogs and ka-tydids sing, but not melodi-ous songs like a robin or a wood thrush.

Right now, the robins, car-dinals, titmice and mocking-birds are going at it for hours every day, soon to be joined in the chorus by a very vocal bunch of migrants. Now, I’m sure that most of you know that they aren’t singing just to entertain us humans.

Miraculous spring

NATURE NOTES | Dr. Bob Collier

They’re actually singing to establish their individual nesting territories and to at-tract a mate.

Presumably the best singer gets the best ter-ritory and the best mate. It happens that, years ago, I got a very good mate, but I’m re-ally thankful that the pro-

cess didn’t depend upon my singing. We humans have worked out a somewhat dif-ferent system for courtship, but the birds’ remarkable system is one that fi lls our springtime with music.

One thing that not every-one realizes: Each species of birds has its own specifi c song or set of songs, recog-nizable in the fi eld. Most good birders have learned to “bird by ear.” They know which of their feathered friends is around just by lis-tening to the songs around them. It’s also very helpful when the bird in question is high in a leafy tree, or tucked into some dense un-derbrush.

Some folks are a lot bet-

ter than others at remem-bering and recognizing bird songs and calls. Some gifted few can remember thou-sands of them. But everyone can learn a bunch of the fa-miliar ones – robin, cardi-nal, bluebird, mockingbird – and then progress from there, a few at a time. Bird-ing by ear opens up a whole new dimension for enjoying the outdoors, being able to know who’s around you by just listening.

There are lots of other springtime miracles hap-pening now. Bloodroots will come up through the snow, and bloom for us along the Norris Riverbluff Trail even when it’s really too chilly for us to want to go out. They are being joined by a dozen other spe-cies of beautiful little early spring fl owers, including a few thousand trout lilies carpeting the fl oor of the woods.

And how about those but-terfl ies? People have regard-ed the caterpillar’s strange transformation into a spec-tacular spring butterfl y as miraculous for centuries. We still don’t understand the details, but it is defi -nitely a wonder of nature.

Those tiny Eastern tailed blues and little white moths are already fl itting about on warm, sunny afternoons, and the heavy-hitters like silver-spotted skippers and tiger swallowtails will be along soon.

Speaking of insects, thousands of tiny gnats, fl ies, caterpillars and inch-worms are emerging, just in time to feed the waves of warblers, vireos, swifts and swallows, even now on their way up from South and Central America to Sharp’s Ridge, Norris Songbird Trail, and your backyard. The birds will eat literally tons of them. It all seems to work out in miraculous fashion. And we all need to take a lot of care to let it keep on happening.

The annual Sharp’s Ridge spring bird walks are here again, on the last three Thursdays of April and the fi rst Thursday of May. We start at 8 a.m. from the parking area at the old rangers’ residence. There will be experienced birders and novices alike, and hopefully you can start your day with a scarlet tan-ager, or half a dozen spring warblers. Join us!

Just like the peepers, everything else out there seems to be chomping at the bit,

eagerly waiting to burst forth into song or blossom.

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THROUGH FRIDAY, APRIL 3Duck-Duck-Goose consignment event, 10 a.m.-

8 p.m., Knoxville Expo Center, 5441 Clinton High-way.

THROUGH TUESDAY, APRIL 21Online registration open for the Wildfl ower

Pilgrimage, to be held Tuesday-Saturday, April 21-25, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Registration fees: $75 for two or more days, or $50 for a single day; students, $15 with valid student ID. Info/to register: http://www.springwildfl owerpilgrimage.org or 436-7318, ext. 222.

THROUGH MAY 20Applications accepted for the Great Smoky

Mountains Trout Adventure Camp for middle school girls and boys, sponsored by the Tennessee Council of Trout Unlimited to be held June 15-20 at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Info/applications: http://www.tntroutadventure.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1“Books, Libraries and the Digital Future”

lecture, 4 p.m., Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Blvd. Free and open to the public. Presented by Robert Darnton, Carl Pforzheimer University Professor and university librar-ian, Harvard University.

Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Pellissippi State Community College Hardin Valley Campus, Goins Building College Center, 10915 Har-din Valley Road. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

FRIDAY, APRIL 3Opening reception for Art Market Gallery April

Featured Artists: Marilyn Avery Turner and Gray Bearden, 5:30 p.m., 422 South Gay St. Info: 525-5265; artmarketgallery.net; facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 3-4Flea market at Westview Tower, 7823 Gleason

Drive. Art, crafts, household and unique items.

SATURDAY, APRIL 4Easter Weekend Breakfast, 6:30-10:30 a.m.,

Beaver Ridge Lodge #366, 7429 Oak Ridge Highway. Cost: free with a donation to the Beaver Ridge Charity Fund.

SUNDAY, APRIL 5The Vegetarian Society of East Tennessee

meeting, 6 p.m., Tennessee Valley Unitarian Univer-salist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Program: class on egg alternatives by Linda Wade. Potluck supper follows. Cost: $4. Info: bobgrimac@gmail.com or 546-5643.

MONDAY APRIL 6Blount Mansion History Supper, 6 p.m., The

Grill at Highland’s Row, 4705 Old Kingston Pike. Speaker: James R. Knight. Topic: John Bell Hood and the Civil War in Tennessee. Info/RSVP: 525-2375 or info@blountmansion.org.

Making Continuous Bias-Cut Binding Strip Class, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Hobby Lobby, 6580 Clinton Highway. Cost: $24. Info: Monica Schmidt, 406-3971, monicaschmidt.tn@gmail.com, myquiltplace.com/profi le/monicaschmidt.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, APRIL 6-7Auditions for “The Lion King Jr.” 6:30 p.m.,

Studio ETC, 180 W. Main St. in Morristown. Look-ing to cast approximately 25-30 students ages 6-18. For casting breakdown of roles available: www.studioetc.org. Info: 423-318-8331 or www.etcplays.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 7Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love,

Loss and What I Wore,” 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Tellico Commu-nity Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of fi ve women of various ages. Info: Don Morton, dmorton3@charter.net.

Lewis Nash in concert, 8 p.m., the Square Room on Market Square. Presented by the Knoxville Jazz Festival. Info/tickets: 688-6096 or www.knoxjazzfest.org.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7-8AARP Driver Safety class, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Ameri-

can Red Cross, 6921 Middlebrook Pike. Info/to register: Carolyn Rambo, 382-5822.

Faculty Senate Book Sale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Pellis-sippi State Community College Magnolia Avenue Campus, Lobby, 1610 E. Magnolia Ave. Community is invited. Funds raised go to student scholarships. Info: www.pstcc.edu or 694-6400.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9Auditions for the upcoming production of “Love,

Loss and What I Wore,” 2-4 p.m., Tellico Community Playhouse, 304 Lakeside Plaza, Loudon. The cast is composed of fi ve women of various ages. Info: Don Mor-ton, dmorton3@charter.net.

CERAMIC TILEINSTALLATIONFloors, Walls & Repairs33yrs. experience, excellent work

Call John: 938-3328

HAROLD’S GUTTER SERVICE

Will clean front & back, $20 & up. Quality work, guaranteed.

(865)288-0556

Home Maint./Repair

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218-WEST(9378)

Transportation

Automobiles for Sale

BUICK PARK AVENUE Ultra 2003. 113Kactual miles, white, w/lthr., likenew. $4650. (865)661-1865.

CADILLAC CTS 2007. Loaded. Exc.cond. Garaged. 75k mi, silver. $11,900. (865)588-6860; 399-8792

CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2004. V6, AT, leather, new tires, 1 owner, smokerfree, $6000. (865)523-8736.

CHEVROLET IMPALA - 2013. LT 41K miles, all power, remote start. Sharp! $9850. Call (865)522-4133.

DODGE MAGNUM RT- 2005. 1 owner, 114K mi., blue, new tires, exc. cond. $9,000. (865)924-9616.

FORD FUSION 2006. SEL, Sedan V6, fully loaded, runs perfectly. $4755. Call (865) 640-5404.

FORD MUSTANG GT CONV. 2002, loaded, gar. kept, exc. cond. 40K mi.,

$8,700, Best Offer. (865)394-9684.

MAZDA TRUCK - 2005. Manual, 6 cyl, rwd, extended cab, split rear window, bed liner, CD player, wellmaintained - one owner 56,300 mi., $13,500. (865)414-1639.

Sports and Imports

AUDI A4 - 2004. 1.8 T Quatro, silver w/leather, 4 dr sedan, AT, garaged,good cond. $2650. (865)938-1732.

HONDA ACCORD EX 2014. AT, New car warr., 600 mi., dual climate, power sts, SR, fully equip., beautiful crys-tal black fin. $23,995. (865)382-0365.

HONDA CIVIC - 2002. Sunroof, loaded,air, 129k miles. Fin. avail. $4450.(865)308-2743.

HONDA CIVIC 2001, AT, AC, 4 dr., super nice car. $3990. 865-308-2743 (865)308-2743.

MAZDA MX-5 MIATA - 2007. 6 speed, true red, black interior, Grand tour-ing, PRHT, retractable hard topconvertible, MP3, leather heatedseats, premium wheels, garage kept, excellent condition. 40,598 mi., $15,500. (865)740-3541.

MGB Roadster 1976 Red w/red/black int., restored eng. & int., new tires, wheels, radio, 4 spd. w/OD, $9,750. 423-923-0966, 423-345-3049.

SUBARU BAJA 2003. Immaculate cond., AWD, pwr sunrf, leather, prem. stereo, CD. Below avg mi., NADA $8300. A steal for $7600. 1st person to see will buy. Guaranteed! (865)282-9815. Must sell.

VOLKSWAGEN GTI - 2013. Red w/blkint; Autobahn pkg - leath, sunrf,prem audio; blk whl; many VW acc. 14,000 mi., $24,900. (865)776-0146.

4 Wheel Drive

HONDA RIDGELINE RTL- 2011. 4WD Crew Cab w/Navi, grey/grey, low miles, warranty, clear title,

$17,500 mi., $9700, dgsberry@gmail.com (877)443-4978.

LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER - 2004. White Range Rover HSE with Tan Interior. New Tires and all service done at the dealer. Very Cleanlike new!!! 104,040 mi., $11,500. (865)622-2255.

Sport Utility Vehicles

CHEVROLET SUBURBAN - 2008. LT,Z71 pkg, 4x4, loaded, lthr., 2nd row bucket seat, 106K mi., white w/blk. int., private seller, $21,000.

865-382-0064 (865)382-0064.

Sport Utility Vehicles

FORD EXPLORER - 1993. V6, AT, 4WD, every day driver, $2900. (865) 216-5387.

GMC Terrain 2014, 5,000 mi, all power,aluminum wheels, bluetooth,$18,900. 865-660-9191

HONDA PILOT Touring 2011, loaded,exc. cond., 45K mi., $21,500.

423-295-5393.

Trailers

UTILITY TRAILERSAll Sizes Available

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Vans

CHEV. G20 CONV. VAN - 1988. new transm., new tires, runs exc., lots of extras. $2200/b.o. (865)408-9701.

CHEVROLET C30 - 1995. Cargo Van,shelving, ready to work. $3,000.(865)216-5387.

HONDA ODYSSEY EXL- 2012. EXL, sun-roof, lthr., exc cond. 40K mi., $19,900 423-295-5393

Classic Cars

CHEVROLET CAMARO - 1978. RallySport LT, 350 mtr, AT, runs & drives. $1500. (865)216-5387.

FORD HARD TOP 1966 VICTORIA. Compl. restoration. 300 mi. onrebuilt eng. $15,000. (865)333-0615.

MGB - 1977$1500.

865-705-6123

Commercial Vehicles

FORD F700 1983, - dump flat bed w/sides, gas mtr., needs some work. $1500. (865)216-5387.

FREIGHTLINER 2000 - Mid Roof, 1999 East Covered wagon,

1 owner, exc. cond. $36,500/b.o. (865)922-8694

Auto Parts & Acc

Nitto M/T 35x12.50R20LT Trail Grap-pler, 800 mi, 4 @ $350 ea. 239-200-5191

Recreation

Boats/Motors/Marine

18’ BOW RIDER 8-pass., only 38 hrs,215 HP, Challenger 180 SE, gorgeous, w/trailer. $12,750. 865-250-8079.

2007 21’ WAR EAGLE - center consolealum. boat, 115HP Yamaha, 2 cycle & trailer, new Hummingbird 859 CI HD Sonar GPS, new boat cover, lots of strg,12/24 motor guide elec. trolling motor, extra jet drive, exc. cond. $12,000 obo. 865-809-0167 or 681-9992.

2009 18’ TRACKER Tournament V-18 w/90 HP Mercury OptiMax, 24 volt MinnKota Maxxum foot control elec. motor, 2 Hummingbird 788ci graphs. This is virtually a new boat, motor & trailer (10 hours or less). Runs strong & smooth. Health issues. $15,995. 865-740-9300

BAY BOAT - Exc. cond. 23’ Rang-er, 230C, twin 200 HP Johnsons, $15,000. New alum. trlr, $5000.(865)333-0615.

Boat 2000 Four Winns 268 Vista, exc shape, radar arch, full canvas, low hrs, on lift, reg. gas, Tellico Village. $35,000. Alan, 423-371-9050.

Boats/Motors/Marine

TRITON 2000 - 21 ft., 225 HP Mercury mtr., garage kept,

exc. cond. $19,760. (865)966-2527.

Campers & RV’s

2005 Winnebago Sightseer 29R, V-10 Ford on a workhorse chassis & Alli-son trans., 2 new flat screen TVs & sound bar, 2 slides, dinette & sleep-er sofa, queen bed in rear, sleeps 6, plenty of bsmt storage, awnings on all windows. Super nice. Mint cond. 42K mi. $43,900. 423-851-1152

2013 MONTANA HIGH Country 36’ 5thwheel, deeded resort lot, East of Gat-linburg. $73,000. 3 slide outs, smoke/pet free, has not been towed. RV is in pris-tine condition, Lot has new asphaltparking and a new large concrete and flagstone patio. 865-964-8092.

CAR TOW DOLLY - 2015, all cars/pu Swivels, tilts, never used, new ret.

$2750. 1st $1050 cash. 864-275-6478

COACHMAN 2004 - 23’ travel trailer, sleeps 6,

exc. cond. $8,635. (865)966-2527.

DUTCHMAN TOY HAULER 2005, 32 ft. Good condition,

lots of room. Call 865-776-1991; 865-992-3547.

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or call 865-681-3030

SUNNYBROOK 2002 - 2 dr. camper, good cond.

$4000 obo. (865)966-5028.

Motorcycles/Mopeds

- 2010 Harley Davidson FLHXSECVO. This Harley Davidson is a limited-production version of thepopular Harley-Davidson hot-bagger. Powered by the 110 cubic inch V-twin engine. Loaded with chrome and Spiced Rum paint withgold leafing. This bike has severaladded features, the Harley David-son LED headlamp, Harley Davidson ipod interface with relocation kit,7” speakers and amp. Road pegs, Kuryakyn Crusher exhaust pipes with Trident Tips, leather Mustang lid covers, V-stream windshield.Tires have 2000 miles on them, CVO brass key, Harley Davidson cover. Currently has 16,699 miles and is in excellent condition, 865-209-7636 serious inquiries only.

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2009 Ultra Clas-sic, 1250 mi, $4500 in upgrades.$15,800. (423)404-2862.

HD ROAD KING CLASSIC 2007, Odometer has 11,500 mi., Like new.

$10,750. Call (865) 208-2290.

YAMAHA V STAR 650 CLASSIC - 1998, Runs well, babied & gar. stored, New

tires, only 11,143 mi. Windshield, saddlebags, back rest & helmet incl.

$3,250 obo. (865)310-0794.

YAMAHA V-STAR 1300 - Exc. shape. Low mi. 2007.

$5850. (616)260-6584.

Jobs

Driver/Transport

DRIVERS: CDL-A - 1 yr exp. Earn$1200+ per week. Guaranteedhome time. Excellent benefits &bonuses. $100% no-touch, 70% D&H. Call 855-842-8498.

Garage Sales

North

GARAGE SALE - Wed. Apr 1 through Fri, Apr 3, 9am-4pm, and Sat, Apr4, 9am-1pm. 4220 Solomon Drive. Lots of stuff! Great prices! NO ear-ly sales. Rain or shine!

Merchandise

Antiques

WANTED - Military antiques and collectibles

865-368-0682

Building Materials

1 new metal bldg. 120’ L x50’ W, com-plete, never erected. 9’ sidewalls to 14’ center walls. 865-803-3633

5 New Rolltop Metal Doors: (1) 16’x14’H, (2) 14’x8’H, (2) 14’x14”H.865-458-5164

Cemetery Lots

2 PLOTS AT SHERWOOD - MemorialGardens in the Garden of Victory.$3500/both. (865)919-0755

CEMETERY LOTS - 4 lots LynnhurstCemetery. Monument rights. $8,000, (865)922-5227

HIGHLAND Memorial, Gospels Sec. 2lots side by side, $1200 each. 865-588-0567

Heavy Equipment

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

8’wx9’hx40’Store tools, equipment, feed, cars,

etc. $1395-$1795. 966-9400 x 412

Household Goods

3 KNITTING MACHINES - Serger &Sewing Machines. Best offers. 865-335-3465 (865)984-5411

Lawn & Garden

JOHN DEERE LT155 Riding Mower, scraper blade & bagger. 15 HP,Kawasaki eng., 38” cut. 850-8672

Metal Buildings

GROUND LEVEL CONTAINERS

8’wx9’hx40’Store tools, equip., feed, cars, etc.

$1395-$1795 966-9400 x 412

Musical

GRETSCH COUNTRY GENTLEMAN -Guitar, $3500. Grodin Freeway gui-tar $375; Fender 212R amp, $275.(865)806-1252

Tools

GENERATOR - BIG 8500 watt, 2015,Honda elec. start. Batt. & wheel kit incl. Never used. New retail $4995. Wholesale $3750. 1st $1850 cash.

864-275-6478

Announcements

Adoptions

ADOPT: A loving couple longs to adopt your newborn into a home filled with unconditional love, warmth & security. Expenses paid. Kim &

Werner @ 1-888-416-5056

ADOPTION LOVING, professional couple eager to add to our growing family. Our warm, nurturing home is waiting to welcome your baby.

Expenses paid. Anne & Colin.1-877-246-6780 (toll-free)

ADOPTION:Loving couple promises your baby a

secure home. Denise & Nick. 1-888-449-0803

Financial

Consolidation Loans

FIRST SUN FINANCE1ST LOAN FREE

We make loans up to $1000. We do credit starter & rebuilder loans. Call

today, 30 minute approvals. See manager for details.

865-687-3228

Real EstateSales

Manufactured Homes

I-40 (3 min from Exit 412). 16x80 $9741. Needs repairs. Setup in small park. Cash or 50% down. 865-386-7451 M-F

Mobile Homes/Lots

VOLUNTEER VILLAGE Pool, Club house.

Lots -- $99/mo. (865)250-4205

For Sale By Owner

CHARMING HOME PRICED TO SELL - 1966 Clove, 3BR, Don’t miss this move-in ready ranch home with a desirable open floor plan. Locat-ed at the end of a private street,this home features a walk-in, tiled shower in the master bath, newenergy-efficient windows and vinyl wood floors throughout the main living areas. Located 7 minutesfrom downtown and UT campus.Comes with:

*Stainless kitchen appliances *Front load washer and dryer *Freshly painted walls

*Maintenance-free vinyl siding *Large covered front porch and

open back deck. (865)385-6837.

Lots/Acreage for Sale

5 1/2 ACRE LOT with lake view on Norris, in Sharps Chapel, Pinnacle Point. $25K. (601)297-8312.

Real EstateRentals

Apartments - Unfurn.

$0 DEPOSIT!! - 2BR Garden Apts. w/all amenities include SALT Pool & W/D conn.

Close to Ftn. City. Call Tayna, 865-688-7531.

Professionally managed by Garland Management Co.

2 BR POWELL - Special 1/2 Rent NOW.Water paid, all appls, no pet fee,$570 mo. 384-1099; 938-6424.

BROADWAY AND TOWERS62 AND OLDER

Or Physically Mobility Impaired1 & 2 BR, util. incl. Laundry on site.

Immediate housing if qualified.Section 8-202.

865-524-4092 for appt.TDD 1-800-927-9275

KENSINGTON FOREST APTS. - 404 Tammy Dr.

Powell, 938-4200BELLE MEADE APTS. 7209 Old Clinton Pk.,Knoxville, 938-4500CREEK WOOD APTS.

612 4th St., Lake City, TN 426-7005Call to receive info. about being

placed on a waiting list. This institution is an

equal opportunityprovider & employer.

MONDAY PLAZA - 1BR & STUDIOS AVAIL. ON THE STRIP. Starting at

$395 mo. For more info (865)219-9000

NORWOOD MANOR APTS. Accepting Applications 1, 2, & 3 BR. On busline Equal Housing Opportunity 865-689-2312

SOUTH KNOX/UT/DOWNTOWN - 2BR, 700 Sq. Ft. APT, Call about our $299 move in special! 865-573-1000.

WEST - GREAT location & schools, 2BR, 2 BA, W/D conn, $650/mo. $500DD. No pets. More. 865-588-3433

Homes Unfurnished

COUNTRY SETTING - 10 min. from Halls, Hwy 33, 4BR, 3BA, FP, 2 car gar.on an acre lot. $1000 mo. + $1000 DD.

865-776-3621. No Pets

WEST - Fox Run Subd. Exec home 4BR, 2.5 BA, lrg kit., fam rm, LR, DR,office, fncd level backyard. 865-803-7978

Duplx/Multplx UnFurn

WEST - Newly rentivated, granite counter tops, spacious 2BR, 2BA,

family room & fireplace, W/D Conn, $875 mo., 1 year lease, (865)216-5736

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Commercial Property /Sale

701 NORTH CHERRY ST.6,000 SF, $175,000.

865-544-1717; 865-740-0990

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LEGAL NOTICEThe Board of MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF

FARRAGUT, at its meeting on THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 adopted the following ordinance on second and fi nal reading:

1. Ordinance 15-02, an Ordinance to amend the text of the Farragut Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance 86-16, as amended, pursuant to authority granted by section 13-4-201, Tennessee Code Annotated, by amending Chapter 3. Specifi c District Regulations, Section XII. General Commercial District (C-1), F., Mixed Use Town Center, Subsection 2. B., by providing for a drive through under certain conditions.

Home Maint./Repair

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Garage Sales

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ESTATE SALE at 7900 Greenwell Rd, Halls. Fri Apr 3, 8a-6p and Sat Apr 4, 8a-? Antiques, furn,

HH items, misc.

ACTION ADS922-4136 or 218-WEST(9378)

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health & lifestyles

Covenant Health supports expansion of BIG and LOUDIn order to meet the high demand for the BIG and LOUD

program in East Tennessee, Covenant Health has paid to bring 10 new LSVT- certifi ed therapists on staff. Additionally, more software was purchased to serve the growing numbers of patients receiving treatment. Covenant Health now has 29 staff therapists trained in LSVT.

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Big & Loud & growingWith an estimated 10 million people

worldwide living with Parkinson’s disease and 60,000 Americans diagnosed with it each year, it’s little wonder that the clinical-ly proven BIG & LOUD program continues to grow in popularity.

So popular, in fact, that Covenant Health encourages its physical, occupational and speech therapists from throughout the system to obtain the required certifi cation to meet the growing demand. Currently, Covenant has 29 therapists certifi ed – and two more in training – to teach either BIG or LOUD at eight clinics throughout East Tennessee.

“The waiting period for an appointment is down now because Covenant Health has been training as many therapists as we can,” said Janel Bell, a therapist at the Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West who received her certifi cation last fall.

“When I went to my course, there were

three physical therapists from Fort Loudon Medical Center in Lenoir City and a couple from LeConte Medical Center in Sevier-ville. Covenant Health has done a good job of seeing that we have enough therapists for that one-on-one training.”

Bell is such a believer in the program that she urges physicians to refer patients as soon as they’re diagnosed rather than waiting. As evidence, she points to Char-lie Harkleroad, the White Pine pastor who came into the program soon after his diag-nosis in September.

“Charlie is young and very active – that’s the time we need to be able to teach some-one these exercises – not wait until they are on a walker or in a wheelchair. It defi nitely still can help no matter what stage they are, but if we can get patients doing the exer-cises sooner it can slow the progression of Parkinson’s down. The sooner that we can

Charles Harkleroad

and therapist Janel

Bell practicing

some BIG

movements.

Praises for BIG & LOUDPastor says program gives tools to fi ght Parkinson’s

It was a very awkward posi-tion for a preacher, and there was no doubt that it would raise more than a few eyebrows.

But there he was – Pastor Charlie Harkleroad standing in a laundry basket!

As strange as it may seem, there was a reason for it – the senior pastor of Leadvale Missionary Baptist Church in White Pine was working on his golf swing. Honest.

It was one of the more creative tasks cooked up by occupational therapist Janel Bell to help the 65-year-old pastor slow the pro-gression of the Parkinson’s dis-ease that was causing his gait to slow, joints to stiffen, arm to trem-ble, balance to wobble, writing to shrink and voice to weaken.

“It was getting progressively worse,” said Harkleroad, who said he fi rst thought his unnatural arm swing was because of a shoulder surgery four years ago. “Even my congregation started noticing. I’ve been with them for 14 years so they notice small changes.”

Diagnosed last September by Fort Sanders Regional Neurolo-gist Dr. Timothy Braden, Har-kleroad was referred to Parkwest Therapy Center at Fort Sanders West where he went through a four-week, 16-session therapy program called BIG & LOUD.

BIG & LOUD sprang from the acclaimed Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) technique estab-lished in 1987 and named after a Parkinson’s patient in Arizona.

The hour-long sessions (and homework that comes with them), which seek to improve the motor skills Parkinson’s patients lose be-cause of a lack of dopamine, help recalibrate the brain through a regimen of exaggerated motions and speech.

According to Bell, each BIG ses-sion features seven standard exer-cises in which the goal is not only to get the maximum range of mo-tion for a particular move, but to also get maximum effort from the patient. “So we have to rate this motion on a scale of 0 to 10, and our target is for them to be work-ing at an 8 or above,” said Bell. “So if they get the motion to full range

some exercises for rising from a low sitting posi-tion without using his hands. Going to a grandchild’s basketball game might be exer-cises to maneuver the bleachers.

L i k e w i s e , homework is a large com-ponent of the LOUD pro-gram. “LSVT focuses on teaching strat-egies on how to be loud,” said Tonya Connell, the LSVT-certi-fi ed speech language pa-thologist who

works with patients in the LOUD portion of the program. “There are several ways we do that, but pa-tients don’t have to learn them all at once.

“We give them homework each day – specifi c tasks for them to practice: loud speaking, conver-sations with people in public who

don’t know you have Parkinson’s,phone conversations at work,etc.,” added Connell. “We don’tjust focus on the rote exercises wedo here but conversation – tell meabout your business, tell me aboutthis, pretend I’m a client, that kindof thing. From day 1, they are get-ting assignments to practice out-side the clinic.”

Although 89 percent of Parkin-son’s patients will develop speechproblems ranging from low vol-ume to monotone speech and vocaltremor, denial about those issuesis just as common, said Connell.“Most patients feel like they aretalking loudly enough – it’s justthat everyone else needs a hearingaid,” she said, adding that “only 4percent will seek treatment.”

“The primary thing was thesoftness of my voice, and I had notnoticed it,” said Harkleroad. “I toldTonya – and I still believe it – ‘Tome, I sound like I’m yelling.’ Butthat’s the new norm, and that’swhat I’m trying to get accustomedto. The congregation had noticedit some but when I’m on a speakersystem and a headset mic, even if Ispeak too softly, the sound peoplecan keep that up. But I have noticeda difference in the projection.”

The LOUD program utilizesa software program in which thepatient can actually see their voiceon a computer screen as they talk.A graph shows the undulations inspeech and pitch.

“Part of the program workson strengthening vocal musclesand breath endurance by hold-ing speech sounds as long as pos-sible,” Connell explained. “Thereare also exercises that requirethe patient to try to make low andhigh pitches in effort to strength-en and teach control of changingvocal pitch so patients lose themonotone voice quality.”

“I had made up my mind that Iwas going to do whatever was nec-essary,” said Harkleroad. “I likechallenges, and that’s the way I ap-proached it: It was a challenge andI’ve got to see what I can do with this.I can’t combat Parkinson’s by myselfbut if I’ve got some tools to work withand learn what they are, then maybeI can slow things down.”

teach people what they can do, it will help them stay on a good regimen and keep their movements BIG.”

“I saw people every time I came in that were struggling more than I was,” said Har-kleroad. “I guess that was my motivation. I didn’t want to get to that point.”

Ask about BIG & LOUD programs at

Parkwest Medical Center, Fort LoudonMedical Center, Cumberland Medical Cen-ter, Fort Sanders Therapy Center in Powell, Patricia Neal Outpatient Therapy Center at Roane Medical Center, LeConte Therapy Center in Sevierville and Methodist Medi-cal Center in Oak Ridge or visit us online at www.covenanthelath.com/therapycenters.

and it’s not an 8, then we crank up the complexity of it.”

“Amen!” exclaimed the preacher in agreement before adding, “They make work fun because I consider what I was doing work!”

In addition to the exercises each visit, patients also must perform fi ve functional tasks that they would do in their daily lives. “Those are things that they have told me, ‘This is how Parkinson’s is affecting me,’” said Bell. “So I look at all the things they tell me, and we sit down and list the fi ve things that are most important in their life because these will become something that they use every day. Sit-to-stand is always one of those fi ve because everyone does that every day.

“Then, they always have a car-ryover task. Every day I would give him a task and he would go home and try to work just that little piece. I always try to make it, ‘What are you going to be doing between now and tomorrow?’ ”

Because Har-kleroad’s day might include pre-paring for a sermon, his carryover assignment might be to practice writing his sermon notes large enough that he can see them from the podium. Working with chil-dren’s activities might include